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1、2021-2022学年度第二学期期中考试高一英语（满分：130分时间：120分钟）第一部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分375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。AHere are four beach destinations for you to take a unique vacation in the sunshine.Zanzibar, TanzaniaWhether youre dining at restaurants directly on the sand or lis
2、tening to live music, the islands of Zanzibar are rich with culture. The Stone Town features narrow stone streets meant for bicycles. It/s a great place to buy produce and creative goods while taking in the Arabian architecture. You can sail into the sun on wooden boats, do yoga on the white sand or
3、 go diving.Sardinia, ItalySardinia is well known for its natural settingsmainly the beaches and the volcanic Monte Urtigu. With boat tours, hidden beaches and valley adventures featuring flowing waterfalls, water activities are everywhere. But the island has plenty of other experiences as well. Go w
4、ine tasting, learn to bake bread or take a historical tour of local archeologic alites.Bodrum, TurkeyFor a truly unique beach experience, visit Bodrum in Turkey. The ancient city is home to historic baths, hot springs, ancient ruins and underwater archeology museums. This area is also ideal for raft
5、ing trips, sea fishing and more. There is also a lot of wildlife living on the island and in its surrounding waters.Tenerife, SpainTenerife is big on water sports and adventures, offering things like jet skiing, sailing and diving with dolphins. This area is home to various museums like the Museo Mu
6、nicipal and the local museumof natural history. Dont forget to visit the local temples, ruins and gardens.1. What makes Zanzibar special?Mary has the time to spend a day with her parents.（用适当的词【答案】invited. Occasions are quite rare填空）【答案】when57 . He smiled（charm） and put out his hand.（所给词的适当形式填空）【答案】
7、charmingly58 .这家餐厅收了我们40元的酒水钱。The restaurant 40 yuan the wine.【答案】.charged.us.for.商家利用了这些节日庆典，每年都赚一大笔。With businesses these, they earn a large sum of money everyyear.【答案】.taking（2）. advantage （3）. of （4）. celebrations.得知家人都安全是一个很大的欣慰。It was that my family were all safe.【答案】. a.great.relief.to.know第二
8、节：（满分25分）59 .为促进学生“五育”全面发展，你校本学期正开展一系列的劳动实践课程，包括蔬菜种植、 手工制作、家电维修等等，颇受学生的喜爱。请你以My Favorite Hands-on Course”为题目，写 一篇短文向校英文报投稿，内容包括：1 .你喜爱的劳动实践课程；.你对参加劳动实践课程的感受；2 .你对课程改善的建议。注意：1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。My Favorite Hands-on Course【答案】My Favorite Hands-on CourseIn response to the call of nationwide lab
9、or education, a series of hands-on courses are launched this term in our school, ranging from planting vegetables to making traditional handicrafts.Sewing is one of my favorite courses, where I obtained a fundamental knowledge of essential life skills such as sewing a button, knitting a scarf, and m
10、aking a cushion by operating the sewing machine. It was surely a rewarding and fulfilling experience, which not only enriched our extracurricular life but also helped us acquire practical basic working capabilities for livelihood and form the good habit of laboring.The hands-on courses have won wide
11、 popularity among students and exerted a positive effect on the personal growth of everyone involved. If possible, an exhibition could be held to demonstrate students/ well-designed works and display their creativityA. Its hot springs.B. Its stone streets.C. Its historical ruins.D. Its open-airconce
12、rts.2. What can a tourist do in Bodrum?A. Visit the volcano.B. Explore underwater museums.C. Enjoy the local wine.D. Experience valley adventures.3. If you enjoy diving with sea animals, which is the best choice?A. Zanzibar.B. Sardinia.C. Bodrum.D. Tenerife.【答案】1. B2. B3. DBAs Internet users become
13、more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remember less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.In a recent study Professor Betsy Sparrow c
14、onducted some experiments. She and her researchteam wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood t
15、hat the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find th
16、e information on the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder （文件夹）. Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location （位置）better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called transact
17、ive memory （交互记忆）”According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a
18、 later date. This doesnt mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.4. The passage begins with two questions to.A. introduce the main topicB. show the authors attitudeC. describe how to use the InternetD. explain how to store in
19、formation5. What can we learn about the first experiment?A. Sparrows team typed the information into a computer.B. The two groups remembered the information equally well.C. The first group did not try to remember the formation.D. The second group did not understand the information.6. In transactive
20、memory, people.A. keep the information in mindchange the quantity of informationB. organize information like a computerremember how to find the information7. What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrows research?A. We are using memory differently.B. We are becoming more intelligent.C. We
21、 have poorer memories than before.D. We need a better way to access information.【答案】4. A5. C6. D7. ACBorn in California and representing the United States before switching to China, teenager Gu Ailing will be most likely to be one of the faces of the 2022Beijing Winter Olympics.The 17-year-old is a
22、freeskier （自由式滑雪运动员）and grade-A student with an American father and Chinese mother. She grew up and still lives in the United States, but in June 2019 she made the “quite difficult“ decision to compete for China. She wrote on Instagram that she was /zproud of my heritage and equally proud of my Amer
23、ican upbringings （培养）As for the decision to compete on behalf of China, she said it is “valuable opportunity to help inspire millions of young people in China where my mom was born/Gu graduated from a San Francisco high school last year and is focusing on her Beijing 2022 training. It is reported th
24、at She scored 1, 580 points out of a maximum 1,600 in the SAT （美国大学入学 考试）,and has been offered a place at Stanford.Gu started on the snow at the age of 3, was competing in national competitions at 9 and won her first World Cup event at 15. She won two gold medals and a silver for China at the 2020 Y
25、outh Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. On Jan. 30th, 2021. Gu made her debut （首次亮相）at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado and won two golds and a bronze.“My goal is to win Olympic gold. she told the official Olympic website. Its the top achievement. And that would be rewarding for all the work that
26、 I/ve done to achieve greatness in the sport.” 8. What do we know about Gu Ailing?A. She grew up in China.8. She decided to compete for China.9. She will graduate from a high school.10. She is an average student.9. Which of the following words can best describe Gu Ailing?A. Clever and ambitious.B. M
27、odest and hard-working.C. Helpful and knowledgeable.D. Creative and confident.10. Whats the main idea of the fifth paragraph?A. Gu Ailing won her first World Cup event at 15.B. Gu Ailings training when she was young.C. Gu Ailings achievements as a freeskier.D. Gu Ailing learned to do snow sports in
28、China.11. Whats the best title of the passage?A. Gu AilingAn American FreeskierGu AilingA Stanford GraduateB. Gu Ailing-An Olympic ChampionGu AilingA talented Chinese Freeskier【答案】8. B9. A10. Cll. DDA study of 27,000 men showed those skipping （不吃）breakfast were at a greater risk of heart problems. T
29、he British Heart Foundation said breakfast helped people resist （抵制）sugary snacks before lunch.The men, aged 45-82, were studied for 16 years. During that time there were more than 1,500 heart attacks or cases of deadly heart failure. Howeveo people who skipped breakfast were 27% more likely to have
30、 heart problems than those who started the day with a meal. The researchers took into consideration other lifestyle risk factors （因素）such as smoking and exercise.Researcher Dr Leah Cahill told the BBC: The take-home message is to eat in the morning when you wake up, preferably within an hour. The re
31、sults show that something is better than nothing, but its always better to have something healthy and balanced.”She said the timing of the meal seemed to be key and waiting until lunch rather than “having breakfast“ may be straining （损伤）the body over time. This could be increasing the risk of high b
32、lood pressure and fatness which could in turn damage the heart. Dont skip breakfast/ Dr Cahill suggested.Victoria Taylor an expert with the British Heart Foundation, said: These researchers only lookedat men aged over 45, so we would need to see further research to prove that breakfast has the same
33、effect on the heart health of other groups of people. What we do know is that a healthy breakfast can make that mid-morning biscuit less tempting, as well as giving you another opportunity to widen the variety of foods in your diet. Cereals （谷类食品）with low fat milk are a good way to start the day. Tr
34、y a banana or dried fruit on top and youll be on your way to a fine day before youve even left the house/ 12. What does the text mainly deal with?A. The effects of snacks on the health of the heart.B. An interview by the BBC on peoples lifestyles.C. What a healthy and balanced diet should contain.D.
35、 The relationship between breakfast and a healthy heart.13. Dr Leah Cahills suggestion is that we should.A. fix the time for each meal we eat in a daymake sure our breakfast is always balancedB. eat our breakfast immediately after getting uphave breakfast within an hour after waking up14. The underl
36、ined word “tempting“ in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to B. valuableB. valuableA. attractiveC. obviousD. familiar15. According to Victoria Taylor;.A. men over 45 are more likely to get heart diseasesfresh fruits like bananas are necessary for a healthy breakfastB. its healthy to eat some
37、biscuit between breakfast and lunchthe researchers should have covered other age groups in their study 【答案】12. D13. D14.A15. D第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该 项涂黑，选项中有两项为多余选项。Music is an international language that is beautiful to people all over the world. It seems to
38、be a natural need for us. 16Music plays a significant role in education. Studies have indicated that music physically develops the part of the brain known to be involved with language. 17 Therefore the development of one promotes the growth of the other; and musical training not only develops a chil
39、ds language skills but also promotes the learning of a second language. Music also causes improvement in brainpower. The thought patterns that are formed while studying music may help improve the ability to learn other subjects.18 First, music is beneficial with its ability to reduce stress. And str
40、ess is associated with many illnesses, which can be prevented with stress reduced. When people are very stressed, there is a tendency to avoid listening to music. 19 But as we know, productivity increases when stress is reduced.Additionally, music can have positive influence on mood, and many people
41、 will turn to certain songs to improve their moods. The main reason behind this phenomenon is that music has the ability to express ones feelings better than any other medium. 20 It also increases self-confidence. A. So how does it help us?B. The two are so closely related.C. Lets see how people enj
42、oy music.D. Perhaps it feels like a waste of time.E. The key is to choose the right type of music.F. Music has some sort of psychological effect.G. Good music also makes us remember the moments when we were happy.答案16. A17. B18. F19. D20. G第二部分语言知识及应用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下而短文，从短文
43、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。Around twenty years ago I was living in New York 21 I had a lot of experience and a Masters degree, I couldnt find 22 work.I was driving a school bus to make ends meet and 23 with a friend, for I had lost my flat. I had 24 five interviews with a compa
44、ny but they said I did not get the job. Z/Why has my life become so 25?” I thought painfully.As I pulled the bus over to 26 a little girl, she handed me an earring 27 I should keep it 28 somebody claimed （认领）it. The earring was painted black and said /ZBE HAPPY”.At first I got angry. Then it hit meI
45、 had been giving all of my 29 to what was going wrong with my 30, rather than what was right! I decided to make a 31 of fifty things I washappy with. Later; I decided to 32 more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for me from a director at a large 33. She asked me if I would give a
46、 lecture on stressmanagement to 200 medical workers. I said yes.My 34 there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of 35 that I completely changed my life.21 A. XsB.IfC.ThoughD.When22. A.successfulB.extraC.convenientD.satisfying
47、23. A.livingB.travellingC.discussingD.working24. A.attendedB.prepared forC.asked forD.held25. A.busyB.hardC.seriousD.short26. A.wave atB.look forC.call onI）.drop off【答案】21. C22. D23. A24. A25. B26. D27. B28. C29. A30. C31. B32. A33. C34. D35. B27.A.orderingB.sayingC.promisingD.showing28.A.as ifB.or
48、elseC.in caseD.now that29.A.attentionB.feelingsc.strengthD.interests30.A.opinionsB.educationc.lifeD.experiences31.A.bookB.listc.checkD.copy32.A.addB.turnc.keepI).connect33.A.restaurantB.factoryc.hospitalD.hotel34.A.planB.choicec.tourD.day35.A.sayingB.thinkingc.sleepingD.waiting第二节：语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形