2022-2023学年黑龙江省齐齐哈尔市第八中学高一下学期期中考试英语试题含答案

齐市第八中高级中学校2022-2023学年高一下学期期中考试 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，并标在相应的位置。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.Why is Ann so upset?

A.She failed one of her exams.

B.She is worrying aboutother lessons.

C.She has notimeto do hermath homework.

2.Whatdoesthe manwant to dowith the shelf?

A.Throw it.B.Cleanit.                C. Paint it.

3.Whatwill the man probably doto staywarm?

A.Use a blanket.B.Turn on theheater.        C. Drink some chocolate.

4.Howoftendoesthe man eat out？

A.Everythree days.B.Everytwo days.          C. Every day.

5.What is the speakers’opinion about the painting?

A.It's simple.B.It's colorful.C.It'sgreat.

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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6、7题。

6. What is the law about?

A Not keeping dogs at home.

B Not having dogs in the streets

C Not building dog parks in the city

7. Who should clean up the waste according to the woman?

A. Dog walkers.B. Volunteers         C. Street cleaners.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What will the speakers probably do this afternoon?

A. Buy a cell phone.    

B. Visit the man's brother.  

C. Have the teachers’ meeting.

9. What did the man do last night?

A. He sent his brother a text.

B. He went to his brother's.  

C.He left his brother a voicemail.(语音信箱)

听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。

10. What kind of handbag did the woman lose?

A. A black leather one.      B. A black cloth one.      C. A blue cloth one.

11.How much money was there in the woman's handbag?

A.700 dollars.      B. 700 pounds.         C. 800 dollars.

12. How can the man contact the woman?

A. By emailing her.       B. By calling her.         C. By visiting her.

听第9段材料,回答第13至16题

13. How much is the monthly rent of the flat now?

A.$625.         B.$725.           C.$825.

14. What makes the man interested in the flat?

A. Its big size.        B. The kind neighbors.         C. Its convenience.

15. What does the man have to prepare himself?

A. A table.           B. Chairs.             C. Beds.

16. When will the speakers meet?

A. This Friday.B. This SaturdayC Next Monday.

听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。

17. Who is making the announcement?

A. The student government.

B. The school newspaper.

C. The football team.

18. What is the announcement mainly about?

A. Some events at school

B. Some groups at school

C. Some sports teams at school.

19. How many new teams are added this year?

A. Two.             B. Three.             C. Four.

20. Which of the following goes to see shows？

A. The swim team.        B. The art club.C. The music club.

第二部分 阅读理解（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

Here are four books online, aiming to strengthen spoken and writing skills for English-language learners.

Arnie the Doughnut

Suggested grade level:lst-2nd

Arnie looks like an average doughnut(甜甜圈)made byone of the best bakeries in town.Still, a doughnut is just adoughnut, right? WRONG! Click to see what happens.

Themes in the story:Imagination,Humour,Friendship

Brave Irene

Suggestedgradelevel:lst-2nd

Brave Irene is a dressmaker’s daughter. One day, Irenevolunteers to send the dress made by her mum to the palaceon time, in spite of the snowstorm. Click and see how sheovercomes difficulties.

Themes in the story:Courage,Overcoming difficulties

The Empty Pot

Suggested grade level:lst-2nd

The Chinese Emperor announces a test to choose the country’s next king. The child who raises the best flowers from a seed given by the Emperor will be the one. Ping is unable to get his seed to come out, but Ping’s empty pot is the best of all. Why?

Themes in the story:Honesty,Learning from failure

 Clark the Shark

Suggested grade level: kindergarten-2nd

Clark is a shark who loves life,but his enthusiasm(热情) is too much for his friends, so his teacher helps him find a way to tone it down. Finally, Clark knows how to get along with his friends.

Themes in the story: Self-Control, Manners, Friendship

21. What can children learn from Brave Irene?

A. How to make friends.

B.How to learn from failure.

C.How to face difficulties

D. How to control themselves.

22. Which of the following books is about honesty?

A. Arnie the Doughnut.         B. The Empty Pot.

C. Brave Irene.                D. Clark the Shark.

23. What is special about Clark the Shark?

A. Its themes include friendship.

B. It tells us how to overcome difficulties

C. It aims to improve children's writing skills.

D. It is suitable for kindergarten children.

B

During a school trip to India, our group was scheduled to do home stays in a village. My host family had a young dog in training to be their guard dog. He was skinny and timid（胆小的），chained up in the hot gravel（砾石）yard without water，and no one was nice to him. I could tell he was going to have a terrible life,and my heart ached for him.

Since I had lost my husband to cancer just three months before, the sadness at seeing this dog attached to that greater sadness. When we left the village the next day, I could not stop thinking about Jimmy,the dog. Upon arriving home, I asked one of the travel arrangers to call the family who owned him,and ask if I could buy their dog. They were happy to sell him．Next he needed a rabies（狂犬病）shot，and 30 days，before being able to travel.

Three months after I had met Jimmy,I returned to India to pick him up. When I was being driven to the village it struck me that I had only met him for only a couple of hours, and that was three months ago. He might not remember me, or trust me. As we drove into the village and I walked into the yard, I saw him. He had grown quite a bit since our last meeting.With some worry I called his name,“Jimmy?”He turned around, with ears back, mouth smiling, tail wagging,he ran toward me and threw himself on the ground so that I could scratch（挠）his belly.

He was overjoyed,and so was I. His new life was a big transition（转变）for both of us at first，since he had never been in a car, or a house, and was afraid of men,afraid of sticks (the men would beat him with sticks),afraid of dogs,and only ate Indian food.Jimmy has been my dog now for six years,and not a day goes by without my loving Jimmy.

24.What was the author doing when she first came to India?

A.She wanted to meet Jimmy.

B.She was on a school trip.

C.She was doing a survey there.

D. She wanted to forget her sadness.

25.What made the author determine to buy the dog?

A. Her late husband also had a dog.

B.No one was nice to the dog in his family.

C.The dog's hard life added to her sadness.

D.She couldn't accept other dogs after the first meeting.

26.What can we infer from the third paragraph?

A. The dog's condition was worse than three months ago.

B.The dog's reaction was beyond the author's imagination.

C.The author expected the dog to recognize her immediately.

D.The author was afraid that the dog wouldn't leave the Indian family.

27.What did Jimmy's arrival mean to the author?

A. The dog started a safe and comfortable life.

B.She no longer worried about the dog's hard life.

C.She could give the dog care as much as she could.

D. The dog's company brought her life to normal.

C

One of the most deeply-rooted myths in parenting is the so-called Mozart effect, which says that listening to music by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart can increase a child’s intelligence. The idea has been promoted by advocates(拥护者) for arts education and by retailers(零售商) who sell special recordings of Mozart’s works for infants(婴儿) and toddlers(学步的儿童). Some pregnant women have even gone so far as to play Mozart recordings on headphones pressed against their bellies（肚子）.

So, if you have kids or you’re expecting to have them, how seriously should you take the Mozart effect? Will the child who has no access to Mozart s music when born live a life of mediocrity(平庸)? Relax. There is no scientific evidence that listening to Mozart improves children’s cognitive abilities.

The whole idea came from a small study done in 1993, which found that college students who listened to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K 448) showed slight improvement in a test of spatial reasoning(空间推理). This finding was later turned into something unrealistic by the musician and entrepreneur(企业家) Don Campbell, who in 1997 published the best seller The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit. Campbell’s claims about the amazing power of Mozart s music was repeated endlessly in the media and sped up the enthusiasm for Mozart-based enrichment activities.

Since then, scientists have examined the claim that Mozart improves intelligence and found no evidence for it. The original experiment with college students was reviewed in 1999, and the increase in the students’ spatial skills was found to be negligible. In 2007 the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research commissioned a team of experts to examine the scientific literature regarding Mozart and child development, and they found no reason to believe that it promoted intelligence.

28. Who might be in favor of Mozart effect?

A. People who are opposed to arts education.

B. Musicians who admire Mozart very much.

C. Businessmen who sell toys and infant food.

D. Pregnant women who want to make their children cleverer.

29. What sped up people’s behavior of listening to Mozart’s music?

A. People have benefited a lot from listening to Mozart s music.

B. Don Campbell successfully sold Mozart s music recordings.

C. The media repeatedly stressed the the amazing power of Mozart s music.

D. A small study showed Mozart’s music could make students much smarter.

30. What does the underlined word “negligible” in the last paragraph mean?

A. obvious. B. little. C. strong. D. sudden.

31. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To introduce the Mozart effect.

B. To correct a misunderstanding in parenting.

C. To stress the importance of listening to music.

D. To show parents how to make children smarter.

D

The livestreaming and fast delivery industry have attracted so many young people that the industrial sector is short of manpower. “My advice is to encourage more young people to work in the factories and less in the express delivery sector,” Zhang Xinghai, a deputy to the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature(立法机关), said during the ongoing NPC annual session.

Zhang wants more young people to work in the factories so that China’s manufacturing (制造业) sector continues to flourish.

Whatever job young people do is a matter of choice, but the manufacturing sector is facing a labor crunch (短缺) for too many people prefer jobs in other sectors.

A survey conducted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in the third quarter of 2021 found that of 100 jobs that were facing a manpower crunch, 58 were in the manufacturing sector. By 2025, the shortage in 10 key manufacturing industries could be as high as 30 million.

It is time some strong measures were taken to attract people back to the factories. This can be done by raising the salaries of factory workers.

According to a survey in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, the annual income of express delivery workers in the city is more than 100,000 yuan ($15,831). In contrast, the average monthly salary of those doing blue-collar jobs in Guangdong in 2020 was just 7,108 yuan, or about 84,000 yuan a year. That gap surely needs to be reduced.

Besides, the legal rights and interests of those doing blue-collar jobs need to be better protected. Express delivery workers can decide when they want to work, but factory workers have to work whenever the factory demands.

Therefore, the authorities should protect factory workers’ rights to weekends, 8-hour working schedules and paid leave.

Also, the promotion and salary growth structure of factory workers must be clearly defined. In a word, to attract young people back to the factories, it is necessary to make blue-collar jobs more attractive.

32．What can we infer from Zhang Xinghai’s words?

A．The future of the express delivery sector is hopeless.

B．Working in factories in China are attractive to young people.

C．Most young people are unwilling to work in the manufacturing sector.

D．Working as a delivery man is quite easy for young people.

33．What does Paragraph 4 mainly tell us?

A．A lot of jobs in China are facing a labor crunch.

B．Employment rate in China will be dramatically increased by 2025.

C．There are 10 manufacturing industries facing manpower shortage in total.

D．The industrial sector is facing a severe labor shortage.

34．Which is NOT the reason for manpower shortage in factories?

A．Flexible working hours. B．Lower incomes.

C．Undefined promotion structure. D．Unprotected legal rights.

35．What is the author’s attitude towards the current situation of manufacturing industry?

A．Indifferent. B．Concerned. C．Unclear. D．Neutral.

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。

Family isn't always blood.They're thepeople in your life who appreciate having you——the ones who encourage you to make progress inhealthy ways.  ___36____

●Free yourself from negative people.

Relationships should help you, not hurtyou. Choose friends who you are proud to know,who you admire, who love and respect you.____37____When you free yourself from negativepeople,you free yourself to be YOU-and beingYOU is the only way to truly live.

●Give people you don't know a chance.

____38_____If you givethem a chance,everyonehas something amazing to offer.So appreciate thepossibility of making new relationships. Trustyour judgment.Be ready to learn;be ready for achallenge;be ready to meet someone who mightjust change your life forever.

●_____39_____

Treat everyone with kindness and respect.Any good relationship is based on sincerity andrespect. Treat everyone with the same level ofrespect you would give to your grandfather andthe same level of patience you would have withyour baby brother. People will notice yourkindness.

●Forgive people and move forward.

Don't live your life with hate in your heart.You will end up hurting yourself more than thepeople you hate. ____40_____ It means you're letting goof the pain, and instead choosing to learn fromthe incident and move on with your life.Remember, the less time you spend hating thepeople who hurt you, the more time you'll have tolove the people who love you.

A.Be kind to your family.

B.Show everyone kindness and respect.

C.We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

D.They will make your day a little brighter.

E.However,you should find ways to change yourlife.

F.Here are fourtipsto help you find thesespecial relationships.

G.Generosity doesn'tmean you're erasing thepast,or forgetting what happened.

第三部分 语言运用（共两节， 满分30分）

第一节 （共15小题； 每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，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。

Have you ever seen a movie in which abuilding was burned down or a bridge wasdestroyed? Have you seen films in which twotrains crashed or a ship __41__ into the ocean?If so,you may have wondered how these thingscould happen without___42___the actors andactresses in the film.

The man who knows the ___43___is thespecial-effects man. He has one of the mostimportant ____44___ in the film industry. He may beordered to ___45___ a flood or make a battlefieldexplosion. But he may also be told to make a___46____ effect which is much less exciting, butjust as important to the success of the film.

In a ___47_____of one movie there was a bigglass bowl filled with water in which small fishwere swimming. The director of the movie ___48___the fish to stop swimming suddenly so that theyseemed to stare at an actor. Then the director desired the fish to ___49____staring and to swim.But fish couldn't be ordered to do anything. Itwas quite a___50___.

The special-effects man thought about theproblem for a long time. The result was an ideaof __51___ the fish with the harmless use ofelectricity. First he applied electricity to the fishbowl, causing the fish to be absolutely__52___.Thenhe rapidly reduced the amount ofelectricity,allowing the fish to be free. Thus hegot the humorous effect the __53___wanted.

In other parts of film-making there are alsospecial-effects men who have developed __54__skills in creating certain kinds of effects. JimWhite,who has been a special-effects man forthirty-two years, is best known for his __55__ofexplosions.

第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In recent years,___56___ increasing number of people start tolearn Chinese.＂There’s a nice Chinese saying: sprouting up（大量冒出）like bamboo shoots after thespring rain, and that's ___57___(real) what it is like," says a professor of Asian Studies.

Maya Lance,14,from Houston in America,___58____(learn) Chinese at school for morethan 3 years.Her mother says,"Learning Chinese is difficult and costly, ___59____ I believe itcan help her in some way in the future, like employment. We all know China is the second__60___(large) economy now and is on its way to number one. "

The Confucius Institutes may also have played a role in the rapid development of the Chineselanguage．First established（设立）in 2004 by China，they aim ___61____(spread) the Chineselanguage and Chinese culture around the world.There are now more than 500 Confucius Institutes atcolleges and universities all over the world, ___62___(offer) a variety of language classes andcultural tours to students and the public.

Students could also ___63____(draw) to Chinese because, as the official language of Chinaand one of the four official languages of Singapore, it is the most popular language in the world. This isone of the ___64____(reason) that Agata decided to learn Chinese. "I thought if I learn Chinese,I could communicate with a billion more people ___65____speak it," she says.

第四部分  写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

假定你是李华。你得知《中国日报》正在举办以Discover Beautiful China为主题的照片和小视频征集活动。请你给你校外教Paul写一封邮件，内容包括：

1．告知他此活动，并建议他参加；

2．说明有关活动的一些情况（主题、要求等）；

3．祝他获奖。

注意：1．词数80左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Paul,

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sincerely yours ,

Li Hua

第二节（满分25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。

My sister Megan always felt a little afraid while babysitting at the Quinns'house. It was set back from the road by a long,winding driveway, and theyard was filled with so many pine trees that she couldn't see any of theneighbors' lights.

On this particular night, the snow was falling heavily outside. The girlsbegged her to read them their favorite story, and afterward they fell asleep.Megan settled on the sofa to watch an old movie on television.

Around ten o'clock, a loud knock on the door surprised her. Megan spiedthrough the peephole and saw a middle-aged man standing in the entryway.

“Who is it?”she asked.

“Your brother Ben.”

Megan realized the man had mistaken her for his sister. She replied,“MrsQuinn can't come to the door right now." She thought of our mother's warning:Never open the door for a stranger while you're babysitting.

"The truth is I'm babysitting,"she said through the screen. The wordswere out of her mouth before she remembered our mother's second warning:Don't advertise that you're alone. Megan quickly added, "Mrs Quinn will behome soon."

“It's awfully cold out here. Can I wait inside?" the man asked.

Megan hesitated. “Couldn't you come back in a little while?”

"I drove all the way from Newport. I don't have anywhere else to go,”theman smiled. “Please let me in. I promise I won't bother you."

"Mrs Quinn left a number for me to contact her," Megan said."I'll call her and see what she says."

The smile vanished from the man's face. "You're going to leave me outside to freeze to death in the meantime? Wait until she finds out you wouldn't let me in! You'll be in so much trouble!" With the words he left.

Megan trembled. Maybe it was true. Maybe she would get in trouble.What if Mrs Quinn asked her why she didn't let her brother in? How could Megan explain that he was downright rude? Would Mrs Quinn think she was not mature enough to babysit? Maybe she'd never call her again.

注意：

1．续写词数应为150左右；

2．开头已给出。

Paragraph 1:

A little after eleven, Mrs Quinn came back. _____________________________________

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Paragraph 2:

Mrs Quinn frowned, “My brother? I don't have a brother!”_______________________

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