1、湖北省麻城市三中学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案2015年麻城市三中高一期中考试英语 时间： 120分钟 分值： 150分 命题人： 何乐为 审题人：洪玉秀 注意事项： 1本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。2答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。3.全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。第I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
2、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称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. Where will the speakers hold the party?A. In a hotel.B. In a restaurant.C. In a garden.2. What does the womans son want to be?A. A baseball player.B. A professor.C. A dentist3. What does the girl advise the boy to do?A. See a doctorB.
3、Rest his handC. Take some medicine.4. What time will the train leave?A. At 6:20B. At 5:20C. At 6:405. What will the girl do tonight probably?A. Go to bed early.B. Watch the football game.C. Repeat her work.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，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你
4、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至7题。6. How long is the film Transformers 4?A. For two hours and a half.B. For two hours.C. For nearly three hours.7. What will the speakers do before swimming?A. Watch the film Transformers 4.B. Watch the film Godzilla.C. Buy some science f
5、iction.听第7段材料，回答第8 、9题。8. What present will the speakers buy for their mother?A. A hat.B. A skirt.C. A scarf.9. Who will cook the dinner?A. Their mother.B. The girls friend.C. Jeffs friend.听第 8段材料,回答第 10至 12题。10. What do we know about people in Athletic Express?A. They are kind.B. They are busy.C. T
6、hey are lazy.11. How many rooms are there in Total Fitness.?A. Three.B. Four.C. Five.12. What will the man do in Total Fitness?A. Take the kickboxing class.B. Take the Tai Chi class.C. Take the aerobics class.听第 9段材料,回答第 13至 16题。13. Where is the girl now?A. In the US.B. In Britain.C. In Thailand.14.
7、 What wont the girl do in Thailand?A. Learn diving.B. See a bridge.C. Go shopping.15. How long has Adrienne been Glorias neighbor?A. For one year.B. For two years.C. For three years.16. What has Gloria collected?A. 50 kimonos.B. 100 stamps.C. 50 Japanese coins.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. How long are scho
8、ols summer holiday?A. For about a month.B. For about six weeks.C. For about eight weeks.18. What do we know about the boarding house?A. It is a traditional place to live in.B. It doesnt offer meals.C. The service is good.19. Who were the first to climb many of the great mountains?A. Chinese.B. Engli
9、shmenC. Americans.20. How do people travel across the channel?A. By plane.B. By car.C. By boat.第二部分阅读理解 （共两节，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，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。 ANow is the best time for Hong Kong shopping lovers, as most shops and markets are having their seasonal s
10、ales. With the same amount of money, you can find different kinds of goods in this city. Women, young and old, rarely resist the attraction of this shopping paradise(乐园) at this time of year. Lovers will surely have an exciting Christmas and New Years Eve celebrations at the Time Square or in the we
11、stern styled bars. Spending your holiday in Hong Kong will be easy too, as several packing tours are available from CZL Travel Service, with four-day tours for less than 15,000 Yuan.Tour Package 1(3,200 Yuan): a 4-day tour including three nights accommodation(住宿), science helicopter flight, night fe
12、rry tour of Victoria Harbor and shuttle bus to the park to view the city at night.Tour package 2 (1,880 Yuan): a 4-day-shopping tour including three nights accommodation ,tour to Golden Beach and the Vex work Museum, shuttle bus to the Peak and shopping opportunities.Tour package 3 (1,480 Yuan): a 4
13、-day-DIY- tour including three nights accommodation in a four-star hotel and total freedom to do what you want , when you went.21. According to the text , if you want to visit the Victoria Harbor at night with the tour guide, you can choose your package_. A. 1 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1&222. If you are a shoppi
14、ng lover and you want to go to the Golden Beach, youd better choose Tour package _. A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 1&323. This advertisement probably was shown _A. on New Years Day B. at ChristmasC. between New Years Day and Christmas D. before Christmas and New Years DayBWater goes around and around Earth in a
15、never ending journey called the water cycle（循环）. The sun heats up lakes, oceans, and other wet places on Earth. When the water gets warm enough, it changes into vapour. Plants also give off lots of water vapour. Some of this water vapour cools off high in the sky and becomes clouds. Then it falls ba
16、ck to Earth in a new place as rain or snow. This cycle happens over and over again. The ground can absorb water like a sponge (海绵). If you could see this groundwater, it wouldnt look like a lake or river. The groundwater is mixed in with the rocks and sand that lie in layers(层) below Earths surface.
17、 Groundwater moves along slowly. How slowly? Maybe 1.5 kilometres in one century. Some of this water has been underground for thousands of years. And once groundwater is pumped out of the ground from a deep well（井） by people, it may take hundreds of years for another water to take its place. 24.In w
18、hich order does water go around Earth? a .Fall down as rain or snow. b. Heated up by the sun on lakes, oceans and other wet places. c. Cool off high in the sky. d. Form clouds. e. Change into vapour. A. d a c b e B. b e c d a C. c a e b d D. b c e d a25. The groundwater seems to_. A. be just on the
19、ground B. be pure water like that in a lake or river C. exist in rocks and sand D. flow along like rivers or streams26. The underlined word “pumped” in the passage can be replaced by_. A. run B. pushed C. drawn D. picked27. What conclusion（结论） can we draw from the passage? A. Groundwater can be quic
20、kly replaced by other water once pumped out. B. Groundwater is very valuable. C. Groundwater has nothing to do with human beings. D. Groundwater travel in an unknown way.CEducation is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them
21、. Our purpose is to fit them for life.In some modem countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countrie
22、s a far larger number of people with university degree; they refuse to do what they think “low” work; and, in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more impo
23、rtant than that of a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our townsIn fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we
24、 must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that is very bad to be ashamed of ones work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to soci
25、ety.28.The writer of the passage thinks that _.A. education can settle most of the worlds problemsB. free education for all probably leads to a perfect worldC. free education wont help to solve problemsD. all the social problems cant be solved by education29.The writer wants to prove that _.A. our s
26、ociety needs all kinds of jobsB. our society needs free education for allC. a farmer is more important than a professorD. work with hands is the most important30.The purpose of education is _.A. to choose officials for the countryB. to prepare children mainly for their future workC. to let everyone
27、receive education fit for himD. to build a perfect world31.The passage tells us about _ of the education.A. the means B. the system C. the value D. the typeD. Ive loved my mothers desk since I was just tall enough to sit above the top of it. Mother sat writing letters. Standing by her chair, looking
28、 at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be a most wonderful thing in the world.Years later, during her final illness, Mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,” she said again, “is for Elizabeth.”I never saw her angry, never saw
29、her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed in action. But as a young girl. I wanted to have heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional (易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface (表面)”.As years passed and I had my own family. I
30、loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.My hope turned to disappointment, then little interest and, finally, peace it seemed that nothing happened. I couldnt be sure that the lette
31、r had even got to Mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.But the present of her desk told me, as shed never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside a photo of my father and a one-paper letter, folded and refolded many times. It was my letter.“In any way you choose, Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.”32The writer began to love her mothers desk_. Aafter Mother died B
