1、1雅礼中学 2016 级高一第一学期期中考试英语试题卷时量：120 分钟 满分：150 分第卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19.15 B. 9.18 C. 9.15答案是 C。1.
2、What gift will the woman probably get for Mary?来源:学科网A. A schoolbag. B. A CD. C. A movie ticket.2. What is the man doing?A. Watching TV. B. Enjoying a party. C. Looking for his clothes.3. What does the man mainly do in his spare time?A. He plays sports. B. He plays the piano. C. He learns a language
3、.4. Which flavor is the most popular?A. Strawberry. B. Chocolate. C. Lemon.5. What are the speakers talking about?A. A movie they just saw. B. A favorite actor. C. Weekend plans.第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）来源:Z they use them in their sports, too.3Some sports are so interesting that people everyw
4、here go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.Some sports or games go back to thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example, has a very long history. But basketball an
5、d volleyball are quite new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become good friends. Sports help to train a persons character. One learns to
6、 fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace (体面).21. What does the writer NOT tell us in the passage?A. Sports change with the season.B. Basketball was invented in America.C. Football is played all over the world.D. Games and sports often grow out of peoples work and ever
7、yday activities.22. Why do people all over the world enjoy sports?A. Because sports are interesting.B. Because sports help to train a persons character.C. Because sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer.D. All of the above.23. Sports and games can help people from diff
8、erent countries _.A. to be enemies B. to understand each other betterC. to be partners D. to dislike each other24. What can we learn from this passage?A. Sports and games are useful to the old.B. Sports and games should be done for fun.C. A lot of new sports will be invented in the future.D. Sports
9、and games are unimportant things that people do.B“Teenager” is the new term being used in the UK to describe kids at either 8-12 or 10-13 years old.More and more companies are beginning to create products and services for teen agers. The Disney Company sells music and film to teenagers and their par
10、ents. You can get everything from branded lunchboxes and mobile phone covers, to monthly fan magazines and clothing. Its all about sales, which suggests that teenagers must have more money, freedom and influence upon their parents than theyve ever had before.Most kids in the UK today get more pocket
11、 money than kids did a decade ago. Parents have more money to give their kids than previously, since parents are having fewer children. In addition, the divorce rate in the UK is continually rising and parents spend less time with their children than they used to, so many parents try to compensate (
12、弥补) by buying presents for their children. Its a bad habit for both parents and kids to get into, but parents are under constant pressure from commercial marketing and the requests of their children.UK kids today are very media and computer-literate (熟练的). A lot of kids have a TV, if not a computer,
13、 in their bedrooms. They can get much more information about life and the world. They may have experienced a lot in life as well, since 24% of UK kids live in single-parent families, so people now say that “kids are getting older younger”. With such maturity (成熟) at such a young age, its no wonder t
14、eenagers are able to influence their parents and have more freedom than previous generations.UK teenagers never used to be worried about spending money on clothes. Thats changed. Now, they are much more fashion conscious (有意识的) and concerned about their image. Many teenagers outgrow (年长而不再4需要) the b
15、right colors and fashions of their teenage years and go for something darker and more rebellious (叛逆的).Surely none of the above is a good thing. The UK government is certainly concerned, and for that reason has strict laws preventing companies from clearly marketing their products and services at ch
16、ildren.25. Why are more products and services created for teenagers?A. Because children have more money to buy them.B. Because it is better to study music from an early age.C. Because children education is becoming more important.D. Because more companies are creating products and services.26. Teena
17、gers have more freedom due to the following facts EXCEPT that _.A. they become mature at a younger ageB. they have a lot of experiences in lifeC. they know more information than kids beforeD. their parents cannot influence them any more27. What is the purpose of the passage?A. To teach a new word “t
18、eenager”. B. To introduce a new phenomenon (现象).C. To advise parents to care about their kids. D. To blame todays young people.C We once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class.“You could win prizes,” our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. She passed
19、 out sheets of construction paper while continuing, “The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster.”We studied the board carefully. Some of us looked with one eye and held up certain colors against the blackboard, rocking
20、the sheets to the right or left while we conjured up our designs. Others twisted (揉搓) their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. We had plans for the ten-dollar grand prize, each and every one of us. Im going to spend mine on candies, while another practiced looki
21、ng serious, wise and rich as if he would hopefully be announced (宣布)winner.Everyone in the class made a poster. Some of us used parts of those fancy (华丽的) paper napkins, while others used nothing but colored construction paper. Some of us used big designs, and some of us preferred to gather our art
22、tidily down in one corner of our poster and left the space in order to draw the viewers attention to it. Some of us would wander (游荡) past the good students desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. It was yet another grown-up trick (把戏) of the sort they seemed
23、especially fond of, making all of us believe we had a fair chance, and then alwaysalwaysrewarding the same old winners.I believe I drew a sailboat, but I cant say that with certainty. I made it. I admired it. I determined it to be the very best of all of the posters I had seen, and then I turned it
24、in.Minutes passed.No one came along to give me the grand prize, and then someone distracted (使分心) me, and I probably never would have thought about that poster again.I was still sitting at my desk, thinking. What poster? When the teacher gave me an envelope with a ten-dollar bill in it and everyone
25、in the class applauded for me.28. What was the teachers requirement for the poster?A. It must appear in time. B. It must be done in class.C. It must be done on a construction sheet. D. It must include the words on the blackboard.29. The underlined phrase in paragraph 3 most probably means _.来源:Z 。xx
26、。k.Com5A. formed an idea for B. made an outline for C. made some space for D. chose some colors for30. After the teachers words, all the students in the class _.A. looked very serious B. began to play gamesC. thought they would be rich D. began to think about their designs31. We can infer from the p
27、assage that the author _.A. enjoyed grown-up tricks very much B. loved poster competitions very muchC. felt surprised to win the competition D. became wise and rich after the competitionD Not long ago, people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five or six months old. Yet do
28、ctors in the United States say babies begin learning on their first day of life.Scientists note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mothe
29、r. This is how babies learn to connect and communicate with other human beings.One study shows that babies can learn before they are born. The researchers placed a tape recorder on the stomach of a pregnant (怀孕的) woman. Then, they played a recording of a short story. On the day the baby was born, th
30、e researchers attempted to find if he knew the sounds of the story repeated while in his mother. They did this by placing a device (设备) in the mouth of the new born baby.The baby would hear the story if he moved his mouth one way. If the baby moved his mouth the other way, he would hear a different
31、story. The researchers say the baby clearly liked the story he heard before he was born. They say the baby would move his mouth so he could hear the story again and again.Another study shows how mothers can strongly influence social development and language skills in their children.Researchers studi
32、ed the children from the age of one month to three years. The researchers attempted to measure the sensitivity (体恤) of the mothers. The women were considered sensitive if they supported their childrens activities and did not interfere (干涉) unnecessarily. They tested the children for thinking and lan
33、guage development when they were three years old. Also, the researchers observed the women for signs of depression (抑郁).The children of depressed women did not do as well in tests as the children of women who did not suffer from depression. The children of depressed women did poorly in tests of lang
34、uage skills and understanding what they hear.These children also were less cooperative (合作的) and had more problems dealing with other people. The researchers noted that the sensitivity of the mothers was important to the intelligence development of their children. Children did better when their moth
35、ers were caring, even when they suffered from depression.32. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the factor that influences intelligence development in babies?A. The environment. B. Mothers sensitivity. C. Their movement. D. Education before birth.33. What is the purpose of the e
36、xperiment in which newborn babies heard the stories?A. To prove that babies can learn before they are born.B. To prove that babies can learn on the first day they are born.C. To indicate early education has a deep effect on the babies language skills.D. To show mothers can strongly influence intelli
37、gence development in their babies.34. Which group of children did the worst in tests of language skills?A. The children of depressed mothers who cared little for their children.B. The children of women who did not suffer from depression.6C. The children of depressed but caring mothers.D. Children wi
38、th high communication abilities.35. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Scientific findings about how babies develop before birth.B. Scientific findings about how intelligence develops in babies.C. Scientific findings about how the environment has an effect on babies intelligence.D. A study show
39、s babies are not able to learn things until they are five or six months old.第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。As the old saying goes, laughter is the best medicine. (36)_ However, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects i t has on the human body. Th
40、ey have found that laughter really can improve peoples health.(37)_ People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, makes the heart beat quicker and
41、makes people breathe deeper; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. (38)_Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment, doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to diff
42、erent radio programs. (39)_ The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemical in the brain which reduces both stress and pain.来源:学科网(40)_ They try to improve their patients condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patien
43、ts do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial (有益的) effects similar to those caused by laughter.A. Therefore, people are taught to laugh.B. Laughter is closely related to good health.C. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.D. Until recently,
44、few people took the saying seriously.E. Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body.F. As a result, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics.G. The group that tolerated the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program.第三部分 英语知识运
45、用（共两节，满分 45分）第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A 、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Dear Seth,You are only three years old, and at this point in your life you are not able to understand this letter. But some day when you (41)_, I hope you will find something (42)_ in what I
46、am going to share with you.Life can be (43)_. There will be people in your life who wont be very nice. Theyll (44)_ you because you are different, (45)_ for no good reason. You will also face heartbreak and might be (46)_ by those you love. I hope you dont have to face these too much, but such thing
47、s (47)_.Be open to life anyway. Youll find cruelty and (48)_ in your journey through life, but dont let that (49)_ you from finding new things. Dont retreat (退却) from life, and dont (50)_ or wall 7yourself off. Be open to new things, new experiences, and new people. Youll (51)_ many times, but if yo
48、u allow that to stop you from trying, you will (52)_ many chances. Do remember failure is a stepping stone to (53)_.You will meet many people who will try to do (54)_ than you, in school, in college and at work. Theyll try to have nicer cars, bigger houses, nicer clothes, and so on. To (55)_, life is a competition. However, I believe life is a (56)_. If you always try your best to (57)_ others, youre wasting your life. Learn to enjoy your life (58)_ and you will make it a journey of (59)_,of learning, and of love.Finally, know that I love you and always will. You are (60)_
