1、高一下学期期末英语试题及答案下关一中 20172018 学年高一年级下学期期末考英语试题试卷满分 150 分 考试时间 120 分钟第 I 卷（选择题，共 100 分） 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 30 分） 做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试 卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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. What does the man lik
2、e to drink?A. Tea. B. Coffee. C. Water.2. What does the man usually do on Sunday afternoons?A. He goes shopping.B. He works in the garden.C. He reads the newspaper.3. When will the match begin, according to the man?A. At 2:30. B. At 3:00. C. At 4:00.4. What will the man do next?A. Go to the movies.B
3、. Keep on studying.C. Check out some books.5. Who is the girl talking to?A. Her dentist. B. The police. C. A vet.第二节 （ 共 15 小题；每小题 15 分，满分 225 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. Where does th
4、e woman want to go?A. To a school. B. To a car factory. C. To a bank.7. How can the woman get there?A. Go along the road, turn left and go straight.B. Go along the road, turn right and go straight.C. Turn around and go along the road.听第 7段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What did the man do in Mr. Turner s shop last
5、 week?A. He bought a suit.B. He ordered a suit.C. He returned a suit.9. What will the man do in the afternoon?A. Go to the shop.B. Call Mr. Turner.C. Attend a meeting.听第 8段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What will Millie s mother receive for her birthday?A. A shirt. B. A skirt. C. A small cake.11. Who will coo
6、k the special dinner?A. Millie s fatherB. Millie s friend. C. Millie.12. Where will the speakers go this afternoon?A. To a bakery. B. To a grocery store. C. To a gift shop.听第 9段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What month is it now?A. January. B. February. C. June.14. Where will Lily spend Spring Festival?A. In
7、the city center.B. In her hometown.C. In the man s hometown.15. What does Lily think of the festival?A. Boring. B. Ordinary. C. Interesting.16. What s the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Friends. B. Brother and sister. C. Co-workers.听第 10段材料，回答第 17至 20 题。17. What day is it today?A. Sun
8、day. B. Monday. C. Tuesday.18. What should people be sure to do today?A. Stay inside.B. Wear sunglasses.C. Take an umbrella.19. How much rain will come tomorrow?A. Only a little. B. None at all. C. Quite a lot.20. What might the weather be like on Friday?A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Stormy.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，
9、满分 40 分） 第一节 （共 15小题；每小题 2分，满分 30 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C,和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题 卡上将该项涂黑。AVancouver is located in the southwest corner of Canada in the province of British Columbia. Vancouver is the largest city in the province and the third largest in Canada. It covers an area of 113 sq km. It is surr
10、ounded by water on three sides and overlooked by the Coast Range. Its climate is one of the mildest in Canada. Temperaturesaverage 3C in January and 18C in July. Vancouvers most rainfall occurs in winter.Archaeological evidence shows that coastal Indians had settled the Vancouver area by 500 BC. Bri
11、tish naval captain George Vancouver explored the area in 1792. Vancouver was founded as a sawmill settlement called Granville in the 1870s. The city was united in 1886 and renamed after Captain Vancouver.As the main western terminus of Canadas transcontinental highway and rail routes, Vancouver is t
12、he primary city of western Canada, as well as one of the nations largest industrial centres.The Port of Vancouver is Canadalsargest and most various port, trading more than $43 billion in goods with more than 90 trading economies annually. Port activities generate 69,200 jobs in total with $4 billio
13、n in gross domestic product （GDP） and $8.9 billion in economic output.Vancouver is a major tourist place. In addition to the citys scenic location, visitors enjoy beautiful gardens and world-famous Stanley Park, one of more than 180 city parks, and a combination of natural forest and parklands near
14、the city centre.21. Which of the following description about Vancouver is NOT true, according to the passage?A. Vancouver is the third largest city in Canada.B. Vancouver is a city located on water.C. Vancouver is not far from the Coast Range.D. The largest industrial centre in Canada lies in Vancou
15、ver.22. According to the passage, originally Vancouver is the name of .A. a British man who explored the cityB. a sawmill settlement called GranvilleC. the leader who controlled the areaD. a transcontinental highway23. The passage mainly tells us .A. the Port of Vancouver, the largest one in CanadaB
16、. how Vancouver got its nameC. Vancouver s historyD. a brief introduction of the city of VancouverBJohn Smith was a writer, who wrote detective stories for magazines,though he n ever dealt with crim in als. One eve ning he could not finish an end for a story. He sat in his study, but he had no ideas
17、. So he decided to go to the cin ema.Whe n he came back, he found that he had had a visitor. Some one had broke n into his house. The visitor had had a drink, smoked several of his cigarettes and had read his story. The visitor left him a n ote.“Ihave read your story and I don tthink it is very good
18、. Please read my suggestionsand you can finish it. By the way, I am a thief. I mot going to steal anything toni ght. But if you become a successful writer, I will retur n. ”John read the thief s suggestions. Then he sat down and wrote the rest of the story. He is still not a successful writer, and h
19、e is wait ing for his “visitor ”goes out in the eve ning, he always leaves a half-fi ni shed story in his study.24. Joh n went to the cin ema because .A. he was too tiredB. he wan ted to look for a thiefC. he could not finish his story and hoped to get some ideasD. he wan ted to enjoy himself in the
20、 ci nema25. The visitor came to John s house in ordertoA. steal someth ing B. read the storyC. have a drink D. visit the writer26. The visitor .A. stayed in John s house for a nightB. took some of John s things awayC. left Joh n some adviceD. was a good frie nd of Joh n s27. Joh n would like to .A.
21、have a talk with his visitorB. get more ideas from the visitorC. make friends with the visitorD. catch the visitor and take him to the policeCJust 50 years ago Manx seemed to be on the point of disappeari ng. f you spokeManx in a pub on the island in the 1960s, it was considered provocative and you
22、were likely to find yourself in a fight, ” BeaalStowell, a 76 ? year? oldislander whohas written a Manx? Ianguage novel, The Vampire Murders, and presents himself in a radio show called Manx Radio spread ing the Ian guage every Sun day.The Ianguage itself is similar to the Gaelic tongues spoken in t
23、he islands neighbours, Ireland and Scotland. A century ago, “ Moghreymie ”would have been commonly heard instead of“ Good morning ” on the island.“In the 1860s there were thousands of Manx people who couldnt speak English, says Stowell. “But only a century later it was considered to be so backward t
24、o speak the language that there were stories of Manx speakers getting stones thrown at them in the towns. I learnt it myself from one of the last surviving native speakers back in the 1950s. ”Recession in the mid? 19th century forced many Manx people to leave the island to seek work in England. And
25、parents were not willing to pass the language down through the generations, with many people believing that to have Manx as the first language would affect job opportunities overseas.There was a fall in the language. By the early 1960s there were perhaps as few as 200 who spoke the tongue. The last
26、native speaker, Ned Maddrell, died in 1974. UNESCO pronounced that the language died out in the 1990s.Now there is even a Manx language primary school in which all subjects are taught in this language, with more than 60 pupils attending it. Manx is also taught in other schools across the island.28.
27、If you spoke Manx in a pub on the island in the 1960s, you would .A. be attacked B. be praisedC. be ignored D. be encouraged29. What does “ Moghrey mie ” mean according to the passage?A. All the best. B. Congratulations.C. Never mind. D. Good morning.30. Which of the following about Brian Stowell is
28、 TRUE?A. He is a teacher from Ireland.B. He wrote a novel in English.C. He works at a radio station.D. He learned Manx in the 1950s.31. What is the passage mainly about?A. The Manx language.B. The life of Manx people.C. The Manx Island.D. The Manx language schools.DUS private rocket company SpaceX h
29、as announced that two private citizens have paid to be sent around the Moon. The mission is planned for late 2018. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said, This gives humans an opportunity to return to deep space for the first time in 45 years.The two unnamed people will fly aboard a spaceship which is set for it
30、s first unmanned test flight later this year. The co-operation of Americas NASA space agency had made the plan possible. Mr. Musk said, The two passengerswill travel faster and further into the solar system than any before them. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel i
31、nto space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration.We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. The first mission would be unmanned, and the next one with crewexpected in the second quarte
32、r of 2018, the rich businessman and inventor said, The first passengers are entering this with their eyes open, knowing that there is some risk here. Theyre certainly not childish, and well do everything we can to reduce that risk, but its not zero.The space tourists would make a circle around the Moon, scanning the lunar surface and then going well beyond. H
