高一英语第二学期期末测试试题
斗鸡中学
第一部分:听力(共两节,满分30分)
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分,满分7.5分) 请听下面5段对话,选出最佳选项。 1. How does the man feel about his job? A. He doesn’t care much about it. C. He hates working overtime. 2. What is the woman going to do? A. Ask Tom to send an invitation. C. Invite Tom to the party. 3. What does the woman mean? A. Jane is looking for a summer job. B. Jane is packing for the summer vacation. C. Jane is eager to go home for the summer vacation. 4. Why is the woman excited? A. She has got a driver’s license. C. She is going to a foreign country. 5. What does the man think of Picasso?
A. He thinks that he is the greatest Spanish painter. B. He doesn’t consider him the best Spanish painter. C. He is sure that he can become famous.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5分) 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. For which day does the man book a room finally? A. March 20th.
B. March 12th.
C. March 22nd.
B. She has sold a lot of tickets. B. Get the Johnsons’ address.
B. He enjoys it very much.
7. How much will the man pay for the room?
A. 80 dollars. B. 88 dollars. C. 96 dollars.
请听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。 8. What can we know about the boy? A. He has got a headache. C. He has got a heart problem.
9. What does the mother ask the boy to do? A. Go to the hospital.
B. Stay in bed.
B. He has got a fever.
C. Go to buy some medicine. 10. What does the boy want to do? A. Watch TV.
B. See the doctor.
C. Go to school.
请听第8段材料,回答第11至14题。 11. What is the man going to do in the evening? A. Take an exam.
B. Study.
C. Look for a job.
12. What exam will the man take? A. The entrance exam. C. The final exam.
13. What does the man think of the coming exam? A. Easy.
B. Harder than the last one.
B. The mid-term exam.
C. Too difficult to pass.
14. What does the man think of the present job? A. It is not the best one. C. It’s the worst one in the world. 请听第9段材料,回答第15至17题。
15. Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. At the station.
B. At the post office.
C. At the airport.
B. It’s the best one in the world.
16. Which country will the letter be sent to? A. England.
B. Japan.
C. Canada.
17. How will the letter be sent?
A. By air mail. B. By registered mail. C. By express mail.
请听第10段材料,回答第18至20题。
18. Why did Mr Hill’s chickens lay hardly any eggs in the summer? A. It was too cool in his chicken house. B. It was too wet in his chicken house. C. It was too hot in his chicken house. 19. What did Mr Hill do to earn more money? A. He put air conditioning into his chicken house. B. He bought more chickens.
C. He put more food into his chicken house. 20. What do we know from the text? A. Mr Hill was very poor.
B. Mr Hill didn’t want to put air conditioning into his house. C. Mr Hill couldn’t afford to put air conditioning into his house. 第二部分:英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节:语法和词汇知识(共15小题;每小题1分, 满分15分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 21. —______ How can we get to the Five-star Hotel?
—Go straight ahead till you see the tall building at the end of the road. —Thanks very much. A. Help!
B. Look out! D. How are you?
C. Excuse me.
22. The ______ speaker kept us ______ at the meeting.
A. amusing; amused C. amused; amused
B. amused; amusing D. amusing; amusing
23. —How much do you ______ mending a pair of shoes? —Only one dollar, sir. A. cost for
B. charge
C. charge for
D. cost
24. Don’t ______ me in your quarrel. I have nothing to do with it. A. involve
B. touch
C. contain
D. introduce
25. —What is your favorite ______ of sports clothing?
—Nike. A. equipment C. theme
B. amusement D. brand
26. They _____ this estimate ______ the figures for the last three years. A. are based; with C. are based; on
B. based; according to D. based; upon
27. Not only ______ the book, but he remembered what he had read.
A. he had read C. he read
B. did he read
D. was he reading
28. Valentine’s Day is a day named ______ Valentine who was a priest in the third century Rome. A. of
B. with
C. after
D. by
29. The trick to marketing is to find out your customers and take steps to ______ their needs. A. have
B. give
C. feel
D. meet
30. After graduation, he ______ in a school in the west of China. A. volunteered to teach
B. was volunteered teaching D. volunteered teaching
C. was volunteered to teach
31. A new amusement park in our city has opened with ______ computer techniques. A. up-to-date C. near-sighted
B. man-made D. peace-loving
32. I stood in the middle of the room, staring at the toys, and in my imagination, the toys _________. A. got close to life C. came to life
B. brought back to life D. were close to life
33. How about the two of us ______ to the newly-opened theme park in our city this afternoon? A. going
B. to go
C. go
D. will go
34. ______ will win in the race? A. Do you suppose who C. Do you suppose whom
B. Whom you suppose D. Who do you suppose
35. The person in charge of the meeting asked the people present to sit ______ together and
listen _______. A. closely; close C. close; close
B. close; closely D. closely; closely
第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
Sumo wrestlers (相扑选手) are usually big, heavy men. The biggest sumo wrestler of all the time is Koni-shiki, who now 36 about 230 kg. Born in Hawaii, he was 37 a big boy. When he was a teenager, some people 38 he go to Japan and become a sumo wrestler.
Although he took their advice, at first it was a 39 life. “I had to clean the toilets and 40 the rubbish (垃圾),” Konishiki remembered, “I knew I had to 41 to life in Japan. I said to myself, ‘I 42 learn Japanese.’ Soon I could 43 it quite well.”
Konishiki’s career started 44 , and he was soon upgraded to a higher rank. But despite his 45 he soon had health problems. The doctors told him that he should 46 some weight. “I started dieting. I 47 to do it. But I did it too 48 ,” he said, “I lost some of my strength, too.”
He lost a lot of fights, and then his parents got 49 in a car crash. “I must go and 50 them,” he thought. Though it was only three days 51 a big tournament (锦标赛), he flew back to Hawaii. Despite his 52 , they were not badly injured.
When he returned, he knew that he had to do well. The newspapers said, “Konishiki must win, 53 he will go down in rank.”
Though he had many problems, Konishiki won 14 of his 15 fights, and won the Emperor’s Cup. He was so 54 that he cried. “You ought not to show your feelings,” he said, “but I couldn’t 55 it.” 36. A. means 37. A. always
B. measures
C. weighs
D. has D. once D. suggested D. rich D. empty D. lead D. may
B. hardly C. sometimes C. considered
38. A. promised 39. A. real 40. A. sell 41. A. adapt 42. A. would
B. allowed B. hard B. bring
C. comfortable C. take
B. respond B. can
C. devote C. must