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1、厦门双十中学20212021学年第一学期高一年期中考试英语试题命题人：张璐 审题人：金鑫 本卷须知：1 .答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2 .请认真阅读答题卡上的本卷须知，在答题卡上与题号相对应的答题区域内答题，写 在试卷、草稿纸上或答题卡非题号对应答题区域的答案一律无效。不得用规定以外的笔和 纸答题，不得在答题卡上做任何标记。3 .答复选择题时，选出每题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。 如需改动，用橡皮榛干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。4 .考试结束后，将答题卡交回。第一节（共5小题；每题L5分，总分值7.5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从
2、题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最 正确选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来答复有关小 题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What will the man do at 8:00?A. Work in the office.B. Have dinner with Mike.C. Go out with the woman.2. What does the woman dislike about the shirt?A. The color. B. The design. C. The price.3. What are the speakers main
3、ly talking about?A. Garys works.B. Garys application.C. Garys list of samples.4. What did the man plan to do on March 1st?A. Attend some classes.B. Call the travel agent.C. Go to the mountains.5. Why does Amy plan to go to Rome?A. To work. B. To travel. C. To study.第二节（共15小题；每题L5分，总分值225分）听下面5段对话或独白
4、。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个 选项中选出最正确选项，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。 听下面一段对话，答复第6和第7两个小题。6. What course wont the girl attend?A. African music. B. Business. C. Basic Spanish.7. On which days does the girl have advanced piano classes?A. Mondays. B. Tuesdays. C
5、. Thursdays.听下面一段对话，答复第8至第10三个小题。8. Who is the man probably?A. A travel agent. B. The woman5s friend. C. A hotel receptionist.9. Where will the woman probably go?A. France. B. Spain. C. Greece.10. What do we know about The Hotel Playa?A. It is a five-star hotel. B. It has its own beach. C. It has a
6、swimming pool.听下面一段对话，答复第11至第13三个小题。11. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a shop. B. At home. C. At a TV station.12. What does Bob like doing?A. Playing tennis. B. Taking photos. C. Riding bikes.13. What did the woman dream of being?A. A shop owner. B. A bank clerk. C. A tennis player.听下面
7、一段对话，答复第14至第17四个小题。14. How long has Louise been working at the center?A. About six months. B. About one year. C. About two years.15. How did Louise feel when she started working at the center?A. Excited. B. Nervous. C. Confident.16. What is the most fruitful part of the job?A. Seeing children have a
8、 lot of fun.B. Thinking of new things for children to do.C. Helping the less able children achieve more.17. What does Louise say about working at night?A. Its unfair for her to do it.B. Its something that she enjoys.C. Its a necessary part of the job.听下面一段独白，答复第18至第20三个小题。18. What organizations used
9、 to have a lot of power?A. Newspapers and publishers.B. Universities and libraries.C. Digital companies.19. Why do many city people prefer e-books?A. They are cheaper.B. They are moreportable.C. They are more available.20. What can we learn about Borders Group?A. They were bought by a tech company.B
10、. They used to have more than 600 stores.C. They made billions of dollars this year.第二局部 阅读理解（共两节，总分值35分）第一节（共10小题；每题2.5分，总分值25分）阅读以下短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最正确选项。AAsubscription to TIME for Kids includes the following:Key articles available at two reading levels; select articles available atthree re
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14、 following resources may help you locate additional funding from government programs and grants.21. How much should you pay if you are ordering 500 subscriptions for a whole year ?A.$1600B. $1780C. $3200D. $ 3560Subscribers of TIME for Kids will get the following EXCEPT.A.key and select articlesB. t
15、eachers* guidesC.digital materialsD. school fundsThis passage is most likely intended for.A.teachersB. parentsC. studentsD. childrenBVegetable gardens may not be as visually pleasing as the variety of flowers, but Floridians looking to save some green by growing their own salad fixings can soon do s
16、o without fear. Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed a law that bans local governments from carrying orders against homeowners from raising veggies in their yards.The law, which takes effect July 1, puts an end to that particular power of towns and cities across the state to prohibit vegetable gardens
17、 for aesthetic （审美的）purposes.The issue became a cause after a couple living in Miami Shores Village opposed the decision of a $ 50 a day fine for growing vegetables in their front yard, as theyd done for years.Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll fought City Hall in a case that wound its way
18、 up the states court system, with judges consistently ruling against their money-saving and health-conscious project.After the Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Miami Shores right to control design and landscaping standards, the couple replaced their vegetables with pink flamingos （红鹳花）.Their
19、cause was not lost, however. State lawmakers proposed and passed a law that effectively voids the court rulings, with Rob Bradley, who sponsored the bill, reportedly calling the villages action a “vast overreach.The lawmaker noted the difficulty that many families experience getting fresh and afford
20、able food, calling bans against vegetable and fruit gardens ridiculous.About a third of all households in the U. S. grow some of their own food, according to the National Gardening Association. The group says a 600-square-foot garden that costs around $ 70 a year to keep can grow 300 pounds of fresh
21、 produce worth about $ 600 annually.22. Why will some Floridians plant salad fixings?A. To protect the environment.B. To beautify their home.C. To build their own gardens.D. To cut daily expenses.23. What can be known about the couple from the passage?A. They started a public health-conscious campai
22、gn.B. They never gave in to the Miami Shores demand.C. They paid a $50 daily fineto Miami Shores Village.D. They were not backed by the Florida Supreme Court.24. What does Rob Bradley think of the couples action probably?A.Ifs sensible. Bits ridiculous.C. Ifs ambitious.D.Ifs costly.CA study of more
23、than five million books, both fiction and non-fiction, has found a markeddecline in the use of emotional words over time. The researchers form the University of Bristol used Google Ngram Viewer, an online databasefor finding the frequency of terms in scanned books, to look for more than 600 particul
24、ar words identified as representing anger, dislike, fear, joy, sadness and surprise.They found that almost all of the categoriesshowed a drop in these mood wordsover time. Only in the category of fear was there an increase in usage.“It is a steady and continuous decline/7 said Dr Alberto Acerbi. He
25、assumed that the result might be explained by a change in the position occupied by literature, in a crowded media landscape. “One thing could be that in parallel to books the 20th century saw the start of other media. Maybe these media-movies, radio, drama-had more emotional content than books.”Alth
26、ough both joy and sadness followed the general downwards trend, the research, published in the journal PLOS One, found that they also exhibited another interesting behavior: the ratio （比率） between the two varied greatly, apparently mirroring historical events.During the Roaring Twentiesthe joy-to-sa
27、dness ratio reached its highest point that would not occur again until before the recent financial crash.Then, in 1941, the ratioplunged at the height of World War II.Nevertheless, the researchers held a reserved opinion about their claim that their result reflected wider social trends. In the paper
28、, they even argue that the opposite could be true.6CIt has been suggested, fbr example, that it was the suppression （压抑）of desire in ordinary Elizabethan English life that increased demand fbr writing filled with romanceperhaps,“ they conclude, “songs and books may not reflect the real population an
29、y more than catwalk models reflect the average body. The study was carried out by way of.A. scanning the books with an online scannercounting the number of words in the booksB. searching digitized texts for emotional wordsanalyzing different topics of the books25. Which of the following is one of th
30、e research findings?A. Usage decreased in all the categories of mood words.B. Usage of most mood words kept falling over time.C. The decline was caused by the rise of other media.D.The unfavorable position of literature led to the decline.26. What does the underlined word plunged“ probably mean?A. i
31、ncreasedB. changedC. dropped D. twistedThe researchers suspect that.A.their research result reflected wider social trends.B. their research result wasthe contrary of social trends.C. there was a suppression of desire in Elizabethan English life.D. catwalk models reflect the population better than so
32、ngs and books.第二节（共5小题；每题2分，总分值10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正确选项。选项中有两项为 多余选项。One morning I looked out of my study window and saw it was a fine day: not even a single cloud.But later on,hard at work at my desk, I heard a loud drumming noise. Turning to the window, I saw the sky was now the color of
33、 charcoal （木炭）.Rain began to fall; two minutes later the rain became hail （冰雹）；at some point, the hail became snow.31 Its extremely variable. Go ahead with your picnic in the local park by all means, but dont assume that because the sun is shining now, it will be when you open your pack of sandwiche
34、s. 32The weather in Britain is by no means always bad. It can just seem a lot like a person who has a lot of mood swings.This is one of the biggest reasons why the British talk so often about the weather: its handy. Wherever there are strangers standing or sitting close together, and talk cannot be
35、avoided, the conversation focuses on the weather: 33/z or “What shocking weather weve been having!，z The unreliability of the weather is something that every Brit can agree on. 34Thus, the weather9s unpredictability is actually a plus for the British. Even those with different opinions on everything
36、 else in the world, such as the current argument in the UK about membership of the European Union, can talk about the weather without it leading to a shouting match. 35Long live rainstorms in mid-July!A. The English often talks about weather.B. Yes, the weather has been good, hasnt it?C. That makes
37、it a safe topic of conversation.D. Youd better take an umbrella, just in case.E. This story will give you some idea about weather in Britain.F. Strangers will choose to talk about the weather to break the ice.第二局部 语言运用共两节，总分值45分第一节（共20小题；每题L5分，总分值30分）“Whats all this tree-planting for? n I was asked
38、when I began writing about restoring（修复）a piece of land I had 36 in Somerset. The truth is, I just love trees. And I am not 37 /Asi get older, all I really 38 is to plant trees Prince Charles says in a BBC programmein which he is 39 in the wood he planted on the day Prince George was born.We have in
39、herited40 and wonderful trees in our cities and villages. They were planted, or self-sown, years, even centuries ago. We take them for granted, 41 the creatures living among them, remain in ignorance of the 42 trees are doing us（cleaning the air, for example） and cut them down for 43. Yet we keep a
40、feeling of 44 for them. This may account for the 45 the government faced in 2021 when it sought to sell off publicly owned woods, and for the wide support the Woodland Trust （a tree-protecting charity） 46.Trees need 47, which is why I, a city-resident, bought my Somerset woodland in 1999. At that ti
41、me, climate change was already well proved, 48 my hopes of planting long-lived oaks and pines gradually49 anxiety about their chances. Tree diseases new to the UK, wind, drought and flood were all putting them at 50.But I did not 5 things to move so fast. The woodland is good, and the new trees are
42、growinglike mad,but the creatures are 52 . The rabbits have disappeared（due to some disease, perhaps?） and the owl hasmoved. The bees and butterflies are stillthere but in smaller 53. If this can happen inmy woodthat is 54 pesticides （杀虫 剂）and herbicides （除草剂）,it surely indicates we need to give nat
43、ure the chance to restore its own 55. Meanwhile, I love my wood, and tree-planting has also done wonders for restoring my balance between town and country.36. A. visitedB. purchasedC. allocatedD. returnedA. richB.ashamedC. aloneD.ready37. A. object toB. give awayC. take upD. long for 39. A. filmedB.
44、 stuckC. commentedD. discovered 40. A. sacredB. delicateC. matureD. fragrant 41. A. raiseB. observeC. ignoreD. abuse 42. A. honorB. goodC. harmD. justiceA. developmentB. entertainmentC. protectionD. restriction43. A. trustB. sadnessC. betrayalD. affectionA. approvalB. oppositionC. survivalD. dilemma
45、44. A. attractsB. urgesC. requiresD. lacksA. spaceB.supportC. companyD. nutrition45. A. sinceB. forC. yetD. soA. caught up withB. gave way toC. broke away fromD. got rid of 50. A. riskB. a distanceC. easeD. a loss51. A. prayB. wantC. allowD. expectA. in placeB. in orderC. in declineD. in question52.
46、 A. sizesB. numbersC. placesD. spacesA. eager forB. fit forC. free ofD. full of 55. A. frictionB. virtueC. tensionD. balance 第二节（共10小题；每题L5分，总分值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。Technological changes brought dramatic new options to Americans living in the 1990s.During this decade new forms of ente
47、rtainment, commerce, research, and communication 56(become) commonplace in the U. S. The driving force behind much of this change was an innovation 57(popular) known as the Internet.The Internet was developed during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. In the case of an attack, military advisers
48、suggested _58 advantage of being able to operate one computer from another terminal. In the early days, the Internet was used mainly by scientists to communicate with other scientists.One early problem faced by Internet users was speed. Phone 59(line) could only transmit information at a limited rate. The development of fiber-optic。匕纤)cables allowed billions of bits of information 60(receive) every minute. Companies like Intel developedfaster microprocessors, so personal computers could process the incoming signals more 61(rapidly).In the early