1123上海市浦东新区2017-2018学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题

（本试卷满分

100

分。考试时间

90

分钟）

I

卷（共

73

分）

I. Listening Comprehension 20%

Section A

10%

Directions:

In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end

of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the

questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read

the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question

you have heard.

1. A. Repairing the radio.

C. Chatting with friends.

2. A. In a hospital.

C. In a restaurant.

B. Listening to the broadcast

D. Playing cards.

B. At a bank.

D. At a post office.

B. One was not interesting.

D. One was too expensive.

B. Customer and boss.

D. Husband and wife.

C. About 7:45.

D. About 8:00.

3. A. One was probably sold out.

C. One was too old.

4. A. Teacher and student.

C. Doctor and patient.

5. A. About 7:15.

6. A. It’s excellent.

C. It isn’t great.

B. About 7:30.

B. It is not much better than others.

D. It is the greatest.

B. The man is always late.

D. They aren’t going to be on time.

B. Ted takes Liz for a holiday.

7. A. The man should learn to slow down.

C. They should slow down.

8. A. Liz is on business tour.

C. Ted is gone for a holiday.

9. A. She will type it next time.

B. She would rather work on it.

C. It took her an entire week to type it.

D. She isn't quite satisfied with it.

D. Ted usually gives Liz a ride.

10. A. The woman really doesn’t know.

B. The we

ather won’t affect the result of the game.

C. The team will lose the game.

D. The team will be defeated because of the weather.

Section B 10%

Directions:

In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked two or three

questions

on

each

of

the

passages.

The

passages

will

be

read

twice,

but

the

questions

will

be

spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and

decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. To prepare to leave.

C. To pack a suitcase.

12. A. Clothes.

C. Pets.

B. To look out of the window.

D. To watch the TV news.

B. Diary.

D. Wedding photos.

B. Rainy.

D. Windy.

13. A. Sunny.

C. Cloudy.

Questions 14 through 15 are based on the following passage.

14. A. Even your friend can’t buy alcohol for you in England.

B. The traffic in England keeps to the left.

C. Dropping litter in the street is not allowed.

D. Anyone

under 16 years of age mustn’t buy cigarettes or tobacco.

15. A. To prepare people for international travel.

B. To carry out the laws of different kinds.

C. To give advice to travels to England.

D. To tell people the punishment for breaking laws.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary 19%

Section A

10%

Directions:

After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and

grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of

the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Steel, concrete

（混凝土）

and glass are common materials in any skyscrapers. But more high

buildings

are

now

using

wood.

In

the

last

four

years,

Australia,

Norway,

England

and

Canada

(16)______ (build) wooden skyscrapers. The latest one is in Sweden, (17) ______ new, 19-storey

wooden hotel called “Sida vid Sida” (side by side).

Why are wooden skyscrapers chosen ahead of concrete (18) ______?

Wood (19) ______ (use) in many Chinese buildings for thousands of years, but is it strong

enough for skyscrapers?

“There are a whole bunch

of new materials made out of wood (20) ______ are structurally able

to build big buildings,” material expert Dr. Michael Ramage told CNN.

Architects

< br>（建筑师）

use woven

（编制的）

wood to make sure it is. They put layers of wood

across one another coated with special glue (21) ______ (create) a very strong material.

Wood also lasts a long time and doesn’t rot

（腐烂的）

(22) ______ it is well looked after.

Many examples

can be found, one of (23) ______ is the rooftops of Beijing’s Forbidden City.

Ramage

also

said

bamboo

(24)

______

be

cut

in

special

ways

to

make

it

far

(25)

______

(strong).

Section B 9%

Directions:

Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be

used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. enjoyable

F. maintained

B. polite

G. unable

C. seating

H. listening

D. fortunately

I. aware

E. producing

J. smoothly

It is not unusual for us to gather with our nearest and dearest on the weekends. But do you

know

that

holidays,

much

like

relationships,

can

be

“made,

(26)

______

and

broken”

through

conversations?

Deborag

Tannen,

a

Georgetown

University

linguistics

（语言学）

profess or,

believes so. She offers suggestions to improve communication at the holiday table

and beyond.

Let’s take a look.

A round dining table is best for (27) ______ a lively conversation because everyone faces one

another.

Avoid

(28)

______

grandparents

at

the

ends

of

a

rectangular

table,

even

though

it

is

the

traditional place of honor. Elderly people may feel lonely there because they will be (29) ______ to

hear or keep up with a conversation.

Women prefer to face each other and make eye contact when they talk. Men might look around

at oth

er things. “Guys may be more relaxed keeping staring on the TV

,” says Tannen. “They’ll still

be (30) ______, though.”

Be (31) ______ that people have different ways of talking. Each person has a different sense of

tone, rhythm, timing and how long of a pause is normal in a conversation. Pay attention to people

who seem left out. If you feel you are doing all the talking, hold back to give others a chance to join

in. If you feel you aren’t getting a chance to speak, try pushing yourself to start talking befo

re it

seems natural or (32) ______.

Some

families

find

that

gatherings

go

more

(33)

______

if

they

participate

in

an

outdoor

activity. Going to a park for a walk may be more (34) ______ than sitting around chatting.

III. Reading Comprehension

34%

Section A

10%

Directions:

For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B,

C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

How many of you drink Cola? Nearly everybody. Did you know that cola started out not as a

soft drink but as a cure for headache back in the late 1800’s? John S. Pamberton, a druggist from

Atlanta, had experimented for many months trying to find a

35

for the common headache. He

worked in his backyard, mixing and heating different mixtures of oils and flavors

（香料）

36

he

found

one

that

seemed

to

work

well.

Pamberton

bottled

the

mixture

and

began

selling

it

in

drugstores

as

a < /p>

concentrated

（浓缩的）

s yrup

（糖浆）

that

the

customer

had

to

37

with

water before drinking. The invention of Cola came about quite by accident. One day, a customer

came into a drugstore complaining of a headache and

38

a bottle of cola syrup. He wanted to

take

it

39

.

So

he

asked

the

clerk

to

mix

the

medicine

while

he

waited.

The

clerk,

40

walking to the other end of the counter to get plain water,

41

mixing the syrup with soda

water. The customer agreed, and after drinking it,

42

how good it tasted. The clerk continued

offering

the

mixture

and

it

grew

in

43

.

Today

this

kind

of

Cola

is

sold

in

most

countries

around the world. And although they no longer

44

the ingredients to kill headache, they are

still very refreshing.

35. A. reason

36. A. as

B. mixture

B. until

C. source

C. after

D. remedy

D. since

37. A. fill

B. mix

C. eat

D. milk

D. asked for

38. A. left for

39. A. right away

B. accounted for

C. applied for

B. for nothing

C. sooner or later

D. back home

D. as well as

D. enjoyed

D. wondered

D. history

D. contain

40. A. in addition to

B

. instead of

41. A. admitted

42. A. told

C. except for

B. preferred

B. proved

C. suggested

C. remarked

C. confusion

C. ensure

43. A. surprise

44. A. support

Section B 16%

B. popularity

B. provide

Directions:

Read

the

following

passages.

Each

passage

is

followed

by

several

questions

or

unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the

one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

Another

person’s

enthusiasm

（热情）

was

what

set

me

moving

toward

the

success

I

have

achieved. That person was my stepmother.

I was nine

years old when she entered our home in the countryside of Virginia. My father

introduced me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fell

ow who is well known for

being

the

worst

boy

in

this

county

and

will

probably

start

throwing

rocks

at

you

no

later

than

tomorrow morning.”

My stepmother walked over to me, raised my head slightly upward, and looked at me right in

the eye. Then she looked a

t my father and replied, “You are wrong. This is not the worst boy at all,

but the smartest one who hasn’t yet found a way to give out his enthusiasm.”

That statement began a friendship between us. No one had ever called me smart, My family

and neighbors had built me up in my mind as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.

She changed many things. She persuaded my father to go to a dental school, from which he

graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father’s career coul

d

be more successful and my brother and I could be better educated.

When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand typewriter and told me that she believed

that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, and I saw how it had already improved our

lives. I accepted her belief and began to write for local newspapers and finally reached the goal she