福建省南安市柳城中学2022-2023学年高一下学期4月期中英语试题

柳城中学2022-2023学年下学期期中考

高 一 英 语 试 题

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节 (共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分)

 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. Where is the woman going next?

A. To Building H.            B. To the science library.        C. To the south campus library.

2. When does the woman plan to pick up the man?

A. At 8:00.                  B. At 8:15.                   C. At 8:30.

3. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At home.                 B. In a restaurant.              C. In a supermarket.

4. What does Eric think of his new classmates?

A. They are distant.           B. They are impolite.           C. They are talkative.

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. The flight.                B. A vacation.                 C. The sunset.

第二节 (共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分)

听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。

6. What do we know about David?

A. He hurt his leg yesterday. 

B. He is the organizer of the picnic.

C. He is looking forward to the picnic.

7. What will the man probably do next?

A. Ring up David.          B. Pick up David.             C. Put off the picnic.

听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。

8. How does the woman describe her neighbor?

A. Noisy.                     B. Nice.                       C. Cold.

9. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She lives in the convenient surroundings.

B. She likes living in the country.

C. She can’t sleep in the flat.

听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。

10. Where will the woman go?

A. To an airport.               B. To a subway station.             C. To a train station.

11. Why does the man suggest the woman use public transportation?

A. It’s more convenient.         B. She has much luggage.           C. Her destination is far away.

12. How soon will the next bus come?

A. In about three minutes.        B. In about five minutes.            C. In about eight minutes.

听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。

13. What is the man doing today?

A. Playing soccer.              B. Watching soccer on TV.           C. Going to a soccer game.

14. What is the weather going to be like?

A. Sunny.                     B. Cloudy.                        C. Rainy.

15. When did Tina begin to play soccer?

A. Three years ago.             B. Seven years ago.                 C. Eleven years ago.

16. What is Tina’s dream?

A. To play in the Olympics.       B. To attend college.                C. To get a scholarship.

听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. What is special about the farm?

A. It produces traditional clothes. 

B. It lies in the American countryside.

C. It shows country life in the late 19th century. 

18. What does the speaker advise people to do?

A. Wear sports shoes.            B. Try using the tools.              C. Experience farm work.

19. What can children do on the farm?

A. Admire special clothes.        B. Walk dogs.                     C. See farm animals.

20. What is the purpose of the talk?

A. To welcome new staff.         B. To explain some rules.            C. To attract more visitors.

第二部分：阅读(共两节，满分50分)

第一节 (共15小题;每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

You might have heard a lot about ancient towns and ancient cities in China. Here, we list several of the most beautiful ancient villages in China.

Baoshan Stone City, Yunnan Province

Baoshao Stone City was built on a huge mushroom-shaped rock, and only has about one hundred houses. The houses are laid out in an orderly way, built on the rock, and linked by stone steps. The Naxi people there still lead an original life and grow crops in terraces; you can experience the colorful culture of the Naxi ethnic group there.

Tuvas Village in Kanas, Xinjiang

Kanas Tuvas Village is near the mysterious Lake Kanas. The small village is located in a valley, and only has about 80 houses. These Swiss-style wooden houses are all surrounded by wooden fences. Tuvas is an ancient minority group. They traditionally lived as hunter-gathers. You can visit a local family, go herding with the locals and experience the peaceful ancient village life.

Jiajiu Tibetan Village, Danba, Sichuan Province

Jiaju Tibetan Village is known as the “Tibetan fairyland”. It stands on a mountain slope, and consists of about 140 houses. These unique houses are all built with crown-shaped roofs, red caves, and white walls, which make the houses look like little castles among the forest.

Xijiang Miao Village, Guizhou Province

If you’re interested in the Miao Minority, Xijiang Miao Village can be a great destination for deepening your understanding of Miao history and culture. It’s the largest Miao village in China, and now has 1432 households with a population of over 5000, of which 99.5% are Miao ethnic group. It’s also famous for the houses built on stilts of different heights.

21. What can you do in Kanas Tuvas Village?

A. Hike in terraces. B. Go hunting with the locals.

C. See houses of a foreign style. D. Learn about houses built on stilts.

22. Where can you admire the houses like castles?

A. In Jiaju Tibetan Village B. In Baoshan Stone City

C. In Kanas Tuvas Village D. In Xijiang Miao Village

23. What do the villages mentioned in the text have in common?

A. They were secret to the outside world in the past.

B. They were originally built to defend their homeland.

C. They are the ethnic（少数民族的） villages with unique architecture.

D. They are still cut off and difficult to access nowadays.

B

Jack London, one of America’s major writers of adventure tales, was born in California in 1876. During his life, London worked at many jobs. His broad life experiences would become the background for his writing.

London loved to read. As a teenager, he spent many hours educating himself at the Oakland, California, public library. He attended college at the University of California at Berkeley, but he stayed for only six months. He thought Berkeley was “not lively enough” and wanted to do something more exciting.

London wrote stories about working people and the hard times they had making a living. He knew their problems first hand. He worked as a sailor, farmer, factory employee, railroad worker, and gold prospector, to name just a few of his many jobs.

London grew up near the waterfront in Oakland. He loved the water. When he was fifteen years old, he bought a small sailboat called a sloop. Later he sailed to Japan on a schooner, which is a much larger sailing boat. Like many people of the time, London caught the Klondike Gold Rush Fever. In 1897, he headed for Alaska. He didn’t find gold, but he discovered something even more valuable. He discovered that people enjoyed listening to the stories he made up with his vivid imagination. London entertained the miners with story after story. Later, using his experiences during the Gold Rush, he created many more colorful stories.

London resolved to live a full, exciting life. He once said, “I would rather be a superb meteor(流星), every atom of me in magnificent（壮丽的） glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.” Each day, he pushed himself. Once London determined that he was going to be a writer, nothing could stop him. His goal was to write at least one thousand words every day. He refused to stop even when he was sick. In eighteen years, the writer published fifty-one books and hundreds of articles. He was the best-selling and highest-paid author of his day. Many people also considered him to be the best writer. White Fang and The Call of the Wild are his most famous stories and are about surviving in the Alaskan wilderness. Readers can enjoy Jack London’s energy and his talent for telling wonderful stories each time they open one of his novels.

24. Why was Jack London able to write on many topics?

A. He pushed himself to reach goals.           B. He had a variety of experiences and jobs.

C. He was drawn to the Klondike Gold Rush.    D. He was the best-selling and highest-paid author.

25. What prevented Jack London from finishing college?

A. That he was hired to sail to Japan.          B. That he traveled to Alaska in 1897.

C. That he spent much of his time writing.      D. That he was not interested in college life enough.

26. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph indicates that Jack London______.

A. is expert at universe.                    B. aims high and strive to succeed.

C. is excited about life if the wildness.        D. face a choice between life and death.

27. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A. To support the statement that London was the “best writer?.

B. To describe life during the klondike Gold Rush.

C. To provide information on Jack ‘s life.

D. To identify books written by Jack London.

C

What will life in the future be like? Will it be much better than it is now? And what will we be able to do in 10, 20 or 30 years’ time?

Genetic engineering (基因工程) may help us make the perfect human. Babies may grow up to play basketball like Yao Ming or look like Cecilia Cheung. Also, we may be able to bring the dead back to life. Maybe people will be able to meet and talk with their dead family members.

Over the next 20 to 50 years, it will become harder to tell the difference between humans and machines. Perhaps we will be able to make copies of ourselves, so we will appear to be alive long after we are dead. People may be able to find ways of putting the life of a person into a new body.

Nanobots (纳米机器人) will be important. We will use them when we are sick. For example, when we have a stomachache, we will swallow (吞下) a nanobot and it will travel through our stomach, taking a video of what’s happening there. The video will help the doctor cure us.

In the future, computers may have their feelings. They may be able to think better than us. We may be more and more interested in computers and the internet, spending all our time in front of computers. Perhaps we will forget our real needs. Perhaps we will become super couch potatoes weighing 250 kg!

28. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

A. What genetic engineering is. B. Why we use genetic engineering.

C. How to bring the dead back to life. D. How genetic engineering can help humans.

29. We can know from the story that nanobots can carry _________ to help doctors.

A. a computer       B. a camera        C. medicine          D. water

30. According to the last paragraph, computers may be able to ________.

A. have feelings B. talk like human beings

C. talk with dead people D. cure sick people

31. Which of the following is TRUE according to the story?

A. We will no longer be interested in our own lives in the future.

B. Computers and robots will take the place of humans.

C. Humans may get fatter in the future.

D. We will no longer need doctors and teachers.

D

There have been several incidents at concerts and other events in recent years where people died because of unsafe crowd conditions and stampedes(蜂拥). This may leave some people thinking there’s little you can do to survive a stampede. Indeed, it’s a frightening situation to be in and circumstances may make it impossible to escape. But crowd-safety experts say there are several strategies that could help you avoid a potentially fatal outcome.

The key to staying safe in a crowd begins as soon as you arrive at the location says Randy I. Atlas, a safety consultant based in Fort Lauderdale. Namely, he advises people to take note of where the nearest exits are. It’s a piece of common-sense advice that Atlas applies not just at big events, but even when entering almost any room.

If there’s a sudden panic(恐慌) and crowds begin to push in a certain direction, your instinct(本能) may be to fight back and push the opposite way. But that could be a big mistake, Atlas warns. If you go against the flow, you increase your chances of getting tripped and knocked down. Another risk, according to experts: If you fight the crowd, you will tire yourself out quickly in a situation where you need all the energy you can gather.

Another potential way to handle the situation is to protect yourself and allow the crowd to move past you. Look for “a solid structure to stand behind such as a pillar, a wall, a car or even a lamppost” says Bart Whitaker, an event-management professional.

In many stampede events, people die from asphyxiation(窒息)—they are simply crushed to the point they can’t breathe. But a possible way to avoid this is to place your arms in front of you, almost in a boxer-like posture. That could give you some very valuable breathing room, which is a simple pose, but surprisingly effective and possibly life-saving.

On the whole, the best way is to stay away from the crowd and avoid coming along for the ride.

32. What does the writer think of a stampede?

A. No one can survive it. B. It’s nothing serious.

C. It can leave a place in ruins. D. It can become disastrous.

33. What should we first do for safety in a crowd?

A. Arriving early at the spot. B. Coming along for fun.

C. Knowing where to leave most quickly. D. Pushing through the crowd to the middle.

34. What does Alta advise people to do in case of a big crowd?

A. Stop feeling panic. B. Go with the flow.

C. Follow their instinct. D. Gather all their energy.

35. How can people really avoid a stampede?

A. Staying away from it.                         B. Standing with both hands raised.

C. Finding a hard thing for protection.              D. Giving themselves some breathing room.

第二节 (共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分12.5分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn... . The ways to connect with of us on social media are limitless.  ____36____  Here’s what not to do.

People are extremely particular when it comes to sharing pictures on social media. So, don’t post pictures of people without their permission. While you may not think posting the picture is a big deal, the other person may disagree. ____37____ It will help you avoid upsetting your loved ones.

Just got a new job? Bought a new car? You have got promoted? Or maybe you decided you’re moving? Don’t tweet or post your news to the world before sharing it with your loved ones. A love relationship largely depends on safety and security and the chance to get inside information is an important part of that.   ____38____  

Social media is public. ____39____  It’s possible to accidentally hurt loved ones by oversharing. Every relationship is different, so talk to your loved ones before sharing anything you doubt may be borderline too much. Oversharing is one of several habits that destroy trust in relationships.

____40____  If you’re upset and you have the urge to post something that may come off as mean, put down your phone, computer, or tablet and express your anger in another way. It is recommended that you use social media as a tool to spread positivity, such as birthday posts or meaningful articles.

A. Just ask before you do that.

B. Don’t view social media as only bad.

C. Never use social media when you’re mad.

D. These signs confirm that your relationship is rock solid.

E. You shouldn’t be sharing private information with the world.

F. In many ways, social media has made our world a better place.

G. However, don’t let your online life negatively affect your real life.

第三部分：语言运用(共三节，满分50分)

第一节 完形填空 (共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

For my high school graduation present, my family decided to fly to Ecuador (厄瓜多尔). On the ____41____ abroad, my mom shared the idea of Packing for a Purpose, a non-profit organization that helps travellers to support local schools and other community projects. I ____42____ to try it. I’m now a month away from ____43____ High School, so I understand the importance of ____44____. I decided to donate to the project supported by Ecuador Freedom Bike Rental Company, which has helped very generously (慷慨地) with delivering ____45____ to schools in the remote villages of Ecuador.

The donation process was a new ____46____ for me, so I talked to my parents about my ____47____. The thought I came up with was to ____48____ a GoFundMe page to raise money so that I could ____49____ all of the supplies I needed.

It was a very _____50_____ process, and you can share it just by email. Once the _____51_____ gets out, everyone is willing to help. When I _____52_____ the money I needed, I started shopping and got some great deals. Then, I _____53_____ all of these supplies in an old suitcase, so I could leave it at Ecuador Freedom Bike Rental. It went very smoothly.

It was such a rewarding (值得的) experience. I would certainly _____54_____ Pack for a Purpose because it is so easy to receive donations, go out and get supplies. It also has such a great _____55_____ on people in need.

41. A. home B. trip C. train D. ship

42. A. refused B. pretended C. frightened D. decided

43. A. graduating B. attending C. accepting D. building

44. A. examination B. technology C. education D. travelling

45. A. supplies B. lectures C. medals D. rescues

46. A. schedule B. suggestion C. experience D. course

47. A. idea B. topic C. hope D. dream

48. A. refer to B. set up C. work out D. put on

49. A. apply B. attract C. send D. afford

50. A. easy B. hard C. major D. formal

51. A. sound B. laughter C. message D. light

52. A. wasted B. received C. donated D. spent

53. A. sold B. downloaded C. explored D. packed

54. A. recommend B. exchange C. improve D. recognize

55. A. trap B. effect C. opinion D. track

第二节 选词填空(共5小题; 每小题1分，满分5分)

根据下列句子语境从所给此块中选择合适的的词块填空，所给词块中有两个多余。注意：请在答题卡上把所选词块涂黑，在横线上直接写出该单词不得分。

56. We can see a horse running _________like a missile across the sky.
57. I think you’re _________the fact that performers often sing with very high voices.

58. He__________ the composition until his death in 1827.
59. He is __________one of the greatest composers in the history of music.
60. It was only________the ongoing support of his wife,parents and friends that he eventually found the will      to live again.

第三节 语法填空题  (共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Let’s appreciate three famous paintings—The Starry Night，The Scream and The Empire of Light.The Starry Night was painted 61._________Van Gogh while he was staying at a home for the 62._________(mental) ill at the time.The Starry Night is now one of the world’s most famous 63.__________ (painting)．The Scream was painted by Edvard Munch,64._________shows a thin figure with an expression of fear—the figure ’s mouth is letting out a 65._________(power) scream.In his diary，Munch talked about 66.______inspired him.He and his two friends 67._______(walk) down the road when something inspired him.Many experts say that The Scream 68.________(connect) to Munch’s mental health problems.The Empire of Light was painted by Magritte，who painted the same scene twenty-seven times between 1953 and 1954.This painting shows 69._________ mysterious scene.Magritte’s view is that art should shock the viewers and challenge their sense of reality.The Empire of Light has produced different reactions in viewers.However，Magritte thought that the change between day and night in the paintings was 70.________(surprise)．

第四部分：读后续写(满分20分)

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The story started when the Marches were driving home on a cold winter evening.

It was almost 11:00 pm. They were waiting at a red traffic light when they spotted a middle-aged man walking across the road. He dragged his leg, wrapped up his overcoat and hurried by, looking tired and depressed.

The couple felt a need to give him a hand. Then they pulled over and offered him a lift. The man felt surprised at first but soon he accepted their offer and showed his appreciation.

On the way home, they had a chat. They learned the man called Bill was a security guard of a company, which was on the other side of the city. Every day it would take him about 3 hours to travel there by public transportation and the same time back home. The long trip left him only time for work and sleep. Sometimes if he missed the last bus, just as that day, he would have no time to sleep. He had had a car, but because of several hardships in his family, he had to sell it for money.

The Marches didn’t return until they sent Bill to his home. That might have been the end of the story, but they couldn’t take Bill’s 6-hour daily trip and his hardship off their minds. His experience reminded the couple of their own previous struggles in their early life. Short of money, they counted every coin to cover the cost. In order to support life, they walked to the office in the distance, despite hot or cold. Hopelessness and disappointment clouded their life. This time, they thought the trip with Bill wasn’t over.

续写要求：

1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The Marches thought of ways to raise money.

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Then they handed the keys of the car to Bill.

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