高一英语下学期期末考试模拟 第一部分 听力（共两节）
第一节(共5小题)
请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。
1. How does the woman feel about her project? A. Satisfied. B. Worried. C. Disappointed. 2. Where will the man probably go this fall? A. Paris. B. Florida. C. New York. 3. What are the speakers probably talking about? A. A painting. B. A plane. C. A bird. 4. What will the woman do next? A. Buy some food. B. Do some cleaning. C. Send out the invitations. 5. What do the speakers decide to see? A. A concert. B. A movie. C. A play. 第二节( 共15小题)
请听下面5段对话或独白, 选出最佳选项。 请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What does the woman plan to do on Saturday afternoon? A. Play tennis. B. Prepare for a party. C. Collect her grandparents. 7. What relation is Andrew to the man? A. His relative. B. His work mate. C. His flat mate. 请听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. What does the man want to buy? A. Laptops. B. Cameras. C. Music players. 9. How much will the man pay for each product? A. $80. B. $95. C. $100. 10. When can the woman deliver the products?
A. In about two weeks. B. In about three weeks. C. In about four weeks. 请听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
14. What is the man’s answer to the first question? A. A. B. B. C. C. 12. What will the man probably do before a long trip to a foreign city? A. Talk to his friends. B. Book the hotels. C. Make a detailed plan. 13. What does the man like to do? A. Swim. B. Play basketball. C. Play volleyball. 请听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. When did the woman go to the Windsor Castle? A. On Saturday. B. On Sunday. C. On Monday. 15. How long did the woman stay in Cambridge? A. For half a day. B. For a day. C. For two days. 16. Where was the woman probably on Tuesday noon? A. At Trafalgar Square. B. At Tower Bridge. C. At Buckingham Palace. 17. What did the woman enjoy doing most during her holiday? A. Shopping for gifts. B. Taking a boat trip. C. Seeing the changing of the guard.
请听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. What is on the first floor? A. Sports clothes. B. Sports facilities. C. Toilets. 19. When does the Sports Express close on Mondays? A. At 6 pm. B. At 7 pm. C. At 8 pm. 20. Who are the listeners probably? A. Customers B. Managers. C. New staff.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节）
第一节（共10小题） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
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As a student astronomer scanning the skies with homemade instruments a quarter of a century ago, Didier Queloz spent months doubting the data that led him to an inescapable conclusion: He’d just discovered the first planet outside Earth’s solar system(太阳系).
The Swiss scientist had spent much of his PhD research refining techniques to detect so-called exoplanets(系外行星), which until one night in October 1995 had previously only existed in the world of science fiction(科幻小说).
Queloz and his advisor Michel Mayor, who were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their pioneering work in October 2019, had already overcome a number of obstacles(障碍) in their search. They’d carefully constructed their own equipment at the Haute-Provence Observatory at the foot of the French Alps.
The planet they’d discovered, known as 51 Pegasi b, was too big. “The planet that we found was extremely strange and it’s not at all the way you would have expected a planet to be,” Queloz said. “I remember many discussions I’d had with Mayor and trying to prove that it was not a planet but in the end we always circled back and said that that’s the only explanation.”
The exoplanet was roughly the size of Jupiter, yet was more than 20 times closer to its star than Earth is to the Sun.
Sara Seager, planetary scientist and astrophysicist at mat, who was a graduate student at Harvard when Queloz and Mayor made their discovery, thought of a huge public argument at the time. She said, “People resisted it, and rightly so in science — you couldn’t see the planet, you didn’t have a photo of one, you were just seeing the star, the effect on the star, so people wanted to put that effect(down) to something else.”
Queloz said the team’s discovery took time to be recognized because before the research exoplanets were strange within the astronomy community. Today, thanks to their pioneering work, there are more than 4,000 known exoplanets and billions of stars thought to be orbited by them. 21. What was Queloz’s contribution to astronomy? A. He invented astronomical instruments. B. He was a pioneer in exploring exoplanets. C. He was the first to find the stars near Jupiter.
D. He collected valuable data about the solar system.
22. What can we learn from Queloz’s words in Paragraph 4? A. He was unsatisfied with the finding. B. He disagreed with Mayor on the finding.
C. He firmly believed the finding all the time. D. He proved the finding by careful reasoning.
23. What do the underlined words “resisted it” in Paragraph 6 mean? A. Tried to tolerate it. B. Refused to accept it. C. Asked about it curiously. D. Considered it very important.
B
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It can already be difficult to say a scientific word like “deoxyribonucleotide(脱氧核糖核苷酸)” let alone spell it out in sign language — but that’s why this young student is being praised for inventing new ways for deaf scientists to communicate.
Liam Mcmulkin, who was born deaf, went to the University of Dundee, Scotland, to study life sciences in 2015. Like most first - year students, Mcmulkin was worried about not being able to keep up a college workload. Since he was the only deaf student at the university, he also feared that he would have trouble keeping up with the course lectures.
Though there are some British Sign Language(BSL) translations of scientific vocabularies, they become fairly limited for college-level communication. As Mcmulkin continued studying at university, he became more and more frustrated by how his translator would be forced to spell out long complex(复杂的) words.
“Watching the interpreters(译员) for a one-hour lecture is very tiring,” Mcmulkin said. “There are a lot of new words and scientific words are often very long. Sometimes the interpreter would be finger spelling for ages and I had to watch it. We would make up new signs which meant it was easier next time, but it also meant I had to learn new signs, which was very tiring.”
After some painful days, Mcmulkin finally resolved to develop a whole new set of BSL words for himself and future life sciences students. To date, he has created over 100 new signs for scientific words that have been officially recognized in formal BSL, which is used by about 87,000 people across the UK.
“Liam’s effort to create new signs is very important to the future of the life sciences,” said Dr. Marios Stavridis, Principal Investigator at the School of Life Sciences. “If you imagine having to finger spell highly technical terms while sitting in a lecture or having a quick conversation with a colleague(同事), you can appreciate how difficult it has been for Liam. With these signs, Liam and other deaf students will be able to access science on a whole other level.” 24. What was Liam worried about when he first arrived at university? A. He would be laughed at by others. B. He couldn’t two well in his studies. C. He had chosen a wrong main subject. D. He wouldn’t have interpreters to help him. 25. What made Liam feel tired during the lectures? A. The interpreters’ too fast finger spelling.
B. The interpreters’ inability to create new signs. C. The interpreters’ failure to use signs correctly. D. The interpreters’ limited signs for scientific words.
26. What does Dr. Marios Stavridis think of Liam’s invention? A. It needs testing among deaf students. B. It will do good to deaf students’ studies.
C. It will encourage other similar creations. D. It sets a good example to college teachers.
C
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The divisive campaign likens obesity(肥胖) to smoking. Cancer Research UK’s latest
campaign is at the centre of an online discussion about fat shaming. The campaign sees the word “obesity” appear on the front of cigarette packets in place of brand names and health warnings.
In a blog post, Cancer Research UK explains the thinking behind the divisive ads by showing that obese people outnumber smokers two to one, and that heavy weight causes more cases of certain cancers than smoking. “The campaign compared smoking with obesity to show how
policy(政策) change can help people form healthier habits, not to compare tobacco with food,” the charity says.
But despite Cancer Research UK’s reasoning, the campaign has quickly brought a strong public reaction. Web developer Ken Lynch described the campaign as a “new low” in a widely shared post on Twitter. This sweet has led to a series of back-and-forth replies, where people either voice their dislike of the campaign or defend it. A common idea running through the response(回复) is that Cancer Research UK is fat shaming obese people.
The discussion cent res on the confusion around who Cancer Research UK is aiming its campaign at. In a sweet, user Ann coated says that the ads will cause “nothing but harm” to obese people. But the charity insists that it isn’t changing the ads. Instead, it wants to use them to go after the government in order to bring about a policy change that will halve childhood obesity rats by 2030, and place restrictions on ads for junk food on TV and online.
In the blog post, Cancer Research UK’s prevention expert Linda B auld added: “There isn’t a silver bullet to reduce obesity, but the big fall in smoking over the years partly thanks to advertising and environmental bans — shows that government-led change works. It was needed to cut sky-high smoking races, and now the same is true for obesity.”
27. What was Cancer Research UK’s original idea behind its campaign? A. To warn obese people not to smoke. B. To use “obesity” as a cigarette name.
C. To show obesity is more serious than smoking. D. To start a discussion about obesity and smoking.
28. What was most people’s attitude to Cancer Research UK’s campaign? A. They doubted it. B. They supported it. C. They were against it. D. They cared little about it. 29. What does the “policy change” in the text refer to? A. Cutting obesity rats. B. Respecting obese children. C. Producing more healthy food. D. Reducing the production of cigarettes. 30. What does Linda Bauld mainly talk about in the last paragraph? A. The government's decision to reduce obesity. B. The similarity between obesity and smoking.
C. The government’s experience in cutting smoking races. D. The role of government action in reducing obesity. 第二节(共5小题)
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。
It’s everybody’s worst nightmare(噩梦). You're traveling abroad, and you’ve lost something important. Maybe it’s your wallet or your passport? Maybe it’s scour $10,000 ring? What should you do? Fear not. If you lost it in Japan, at least, you have a pretty good chance of getting it back.
According to the BBC, 83% of cellphones lost in the city of Tokyo finally found their way back into the pockets of their frightful owners last year. 31 that’s all because Japan has an amazing lost-and-found system.
In Japan there are about 6,300 “koban”, small police stations that are usually within walking distance. 32 In 2018, over 4.1 million lost items worth about 3 billion yen were returned to police through the koban.
33 The Amended Lost Property Act provides for both carrots and sticks to encourage the return of lost items. The 2007 law offers a reward(奖励) of 5-20% of a lost items value. And the stick? These returns are required by law, and those who don't return the lost items will be punished.
Japanese officials believe the power of the system has much to do with Japanese civic culture 34 Their behavior is reinforced by police and schoolteachers alike. Former police officer Toshinari Nishioka explained what happens when a child turns in a lost item: “Even if it’s only one or five yen, the officer will take it seriously and tell him: ‘You did a great job.’ The police officers’ job isn’t just about cracking down on criminals(罪犯). 35” A. In Japan, it is a lesson that begins at a young age.
B. In a city of 9.2 million people, that seems unbelievable!
C. Most people who find lost items will turn them in to a koban. D. Schoolchildren are taught to use the koban from an early age. E. They also try to increase the good acts of the local community. F. Japanese lawmakers have built a legal system for lost and found.
G. If the owners are not found within three months, the item can go to the finder.
第三部分 语言运用（共两节）
第一节(共20小题)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
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It is rightly said, “Miracles(奇迹) start to happen when you give as much power to your dreams as you do to your fears.” Dreams are 36. It is only when you dream big with all your heart you will be 37 to achieve big. Just like others, I have also had a 38 from an early age. I want to become a famous 39 have never been very when it comes to verbal communication. I do not like to be 41 even when someone says something me. I 42 to remain quiet during such situations. It is not that I cannot reply back, as mentioned “I choose” not to do so 43 I am a peace-loving person. 44, it is not good to hide feelings as it can lead to stress.
I always felt an urge to 45 and free myself from these feelings when I was alone and soon I 46 that a good way to express 47 is through writing. I 48 writing and found out that I am actually good at it. It is hard for me to 49 my feelings verbally. However, it is quite 50 for me to pen them down. Writing for me has now become a way of 51. I keep recording all my feelings and this keeps me 52 It has become more of a passion(热爱) for me and I now 53 to turn it into my profession. Besides writing bits and pieces about the happenings in my life, I also 54 writing stories and
2019-2020学年江苏省高邮市第一中学高一下学期期末考试模拟英语试题(1)
