江西省新余市第四中学2023-2024学年高一上学期期末考试英语试卷(无答案)

高一上学期英语期末考试卷
考试时间120分钟 试卷满分150分
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三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后, 你都有10秒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. What does the woman think of the blue shirt
A. It’s beautiful. B. It’s ugly. C. It’s big.
2. What’s the time now
A.5:15 pm. B.5:45 pm. C. 6:00 pm.
3. What did the woman buy for her mother
A. Earrings B. A necklace. C. A coat.
4 Where does the conversation take place probably
A. In a taxi B. On a train. C. On a bus.
5. Which subject is Emily good at
A. English B. Maths. C. Physics.
第二节 (共15小题, 每小题1.5分, 滴分22.5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。听每段对话或独白前, 你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、7题。
6. What do the speakers want to do
A. Rent a place. B. Decorate an office. C. Sell their artworks.
7. What can be said about the Johnson Building
A. It is near a river. B. It is quite high. C. It is creative.
听第7段材料, 回答第8至10题。
8. Wry is the woman coming to change her shirt
A. It’s wan out. B. It’s small. C. It’s the wrong style.
9. What color shirt did the woman buy yesterday
A. Green. B. Blue. C. Black.
10. What does the man say about the woman
A. She looks beautiful in green.
B. She should change a shirt in a larger size.
C. She should try on some shirts in different styles.
听第8段材料, 回答第11至13题。
11. What does Lucy say about her math teacher
A. He’s experienced. B. He’s impatient. C. He’s strict.
12. Who is Lucy’s favorite teacher
A. Her English teacher. B. Her math teacher. C. Her art teacher.
13. Where is Lucy’s art teacher from
A. America B. Canada. C. England.
听第9段材料, 回答第14至17题。
14. What did the man get this time
A. The gold. B. The silver. C. The bronze.
15. How did the man feel at the second fence
A. Quite excited. B. Rather tired. C. Absent-minded.
16. What happened at the water jump
A. The man came off the horse.
B. The water made the horse nervous.
C. Something in the crowd upset the horse.
17. What will the man do tomorrow
A. Run in another race. B. Be on a TV show. C. Visit a friend.
听第10段材料, 回答第18 至20题。
18. What does the speaker say about the dolphin
A. It is man’s most intelligent friend. B. It is man’s favorite animal. C. It is man’s largest friend.
19. How many dolphin themes were there at the exhibition
A. About 150. B. About 100. C. About 750.
20. Who is Pandora
A. An organizer B. A reporter. C. A dolphin.
第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节, 满分50分)
第一节 (共15小题: 每小题2.5分, 满分37.5分)
English is changing faster than ever due to technology and the growing popularity of social media. Do you long to keep up with the times If so, here are some old-fashioned words you should remove from your vocabulary list.
1. Whippersnapper
As an alteration of the term “snippersnapper”, the word first appeared in the 17th century, expressing our ancestors’ annoyance at ill-mannered children. In its more contemporary version, the word relates to a young person who is too confident and does not show enough respect to older people.
2. Tape
Are you born in the 1980s If so, you may still be using the term “tape” when speaking of recording music or TV shows. Today, though digital media has made data storage on magnetic tape a thing of the past, this old linguistic habit still exists.
3. Dungarees
What we know as “jeans” today were once called “dungarees” to refer to trousers made of denim. The term comes from a kind of cheap and rough cloth imported from Dongari Killa, India. When manufacturers began importing the cloth from Genoa in Italy, this kind of trousers got a new name, “jeans”. So don’t be surprised if you catch your grandpa saying “dungarees”.
4. Stewardess
lo the earlier age of air travel, female crew members serving airline passengers were called stewardesses it wasn’t until more men entered the field and the development of women’s rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s that the word fell out of use. “Stewardess” was replaced by a More gender-neutral term, “flight attendant”.
21. Who can be described as a whippersnapper nowadays
A. A narrow-minded kid B. An ill-mannered elder.
C. A bad-tempered woman. D. A self-centered young man.
22. Which of the following words has become outdated due to the development of technology
A. Whippersnapper. B. Tape C. Dungarees D. Stewardess
23. Which column does this passage belong to
A. Language B. Technology C. Finance D. Fashion.
B
Last month, a group of university student volunteers from Wuhan, Hubei province, arrived at the home of a couple who have been married for more than 60 years.
The group was taking part in a programme launched in 2015 aimed at helping elderly couples fulfill their dreams of having special wedding photos taken. Zhang, 20, a freshman at Wuhan University of Engineering Science, is among the students taking part in the institution’s volunteer project, Dream Fulfillment Plan.
The project’s founder, Yu Jinwen, 35, a teacher at Wuhan University of Engineering Science, said that as of last month, the volunteers bad taken wedding photos for more than 1,000 couples. They also interviewed their subjects and recorded their love stories.
The project was inspired by Yu’s regret at not having a good photo of his grandfather, who died in 2010. The family searched hard but was unable to find a quality shot. In desperation, Yu had to use the photo on his grandfather’s ID card as a portrait. In 2014, Yu led students applying to launch a volunteer service project, and came up with the idea of taking good photographs for the elderly free of charge.
“When these couples were young, there was no opportunity to take wedding photos. We can help them by taking special shots to bring back good memories of their younger days,” Yu said. Initially, he found it difficult to acquire wedding dresses and photographic equipment. However, one of his former classmates, who owned a wedding photography company in Wuhan, donated more than 70 secondhand wedding dresses to the project. Yu formed the first team, which consisted of 15 volunteers.
The project, which has grown over the years, now comprises 13 groups with a total of 590 volunteers. They have worked in 356 communities and rural areas across 43 cities in 13 provinces nationwide, gaining recognition and appreciation for their work. In 2021, the project won the silver prize at the sixth Chinese Youth Volunteer Service Project Competition.
24. What is the purpose of Dream Fulfillment Plan
A. To offer opportunities to students to find jobs.
B. To help elderly couples realize their wedding photo dream.
C. To make Wuhan University of Engineering Science known.
D. To encourage more university students to do voluntary work.
25. What motivated Yu Jinwen to launch the project
A. His wish in childhood. B. His passion for photography.
C. Lack of good photos for his late grandfather. D. The encouragement of his teachers.
26. What does the last paragraph mainly focus on
A The member of the project B. The achievements of the project.
C. The promising future of the project D. The support given by the public.
27. What is the main idea of the text
A. Student volunteers help elderly couples tum the clock back
B. Wuhan University of Engineering Science launched a project.
C. Taking good wedding photos for elderly people is no easy task.
D. Wedding photos for elderly people become more and more popular.
C
Going vegan or vegetarian is one way to decrease your diet’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions (排放)—but it isn’t the only way. A recent Purdue University study suggests that smaller changes can make a difference too, while improving your health.
After analyzing the 2010 grocery purchases of more than 57,000 U.S. families, Purdue researchers found 71 percent could reduce their food carbon footprint by making some changes. One is to sip the unhealthy snacks. Avoiding foods with high calorie is important and low nutritional value can reduce the total carbon footprint of U.S. family food consumption by nearly 10 percent. Items like candy, soda, and packaged snacks take more ingredients and more processing, which translates to higher environmental impacts.
Another effective way to reduce your carbon emissions is to avoid bulk buys. Households of one or two people may end up with food waste when they try to save money with bulk buys. Before you buy supersize, consider whether a three pound jar of peanut butter will go bad before it’s used up.
The researchers of the study also suggest consuming fewer ready-made foods. One average microwave meal may not have a very large carbon footprint. But buying them regularly can add up to high emissions because ready-made foods are sold in large quantities, which makes their carbon footprint significant, the study found.
By making the above changes, the U.S. could cut more than a quarter of emissions from household food consumption, the researchers say. That’s about 36 million metric tons — about what 6.6 million households generate in a year of electricity use. “Collective action can make a huge impact,” says study co-author Hua Cai.
28. Why does the author mention being a vegetarian in Paragraph 1
A. To encourage us to become vegetarians
B. To introduce the findings of a recent study.
C. To illustrate the impact of greenhouse gas emission.
D. To tell readers it’s not a good way to help the environment
29. How many methods are suggested by the study to reduce our food carbon footprint
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.
30. What do the underlined words “bulk buys” in Paragraph 3 probably mean
A. Buying things in quantity. B. Buying things of low quality.
C. Buying things out of date D. Buying things of low price.
31. What might Hua Cai mean by saying “Collective action can make a huge impact”
A. We should collect some materials to make a difference.
B. We should take measures quickly to make a difference
C. We should make efforts together to make a difference.
D. 4We should avoid all unhealthy food to make a difference.
D
A museum in France found out recently that over half of their paintings were fakes (赝品). The museum was created to show the works of the painter Etienne Terrus, but over 80 of 140 paintings were by other people.
Etienne Terrus was born in Elne in 1857, and died there in 1922. Terrus visited Paris, but unlike many other painters at the time, he did not move there. Instead, he spent a lot of time near Elne and painted scenes from the area. Terus is important to the people of Elne because of this tie.
The Terrus Museum has been collecting artwork by Terrus for almost 20 years. Most of the art works have been bought in the last few years. The museum spent about $190,000 to buy paintings, drawings, and watercolours. Some pieces of art have also been given to the museum.
The museum recently closed for about 4 months while the building was being renovated. As they were getting ready to re-open the museum, people from the museum asked Erie Forcada to help them figure out how to organize the paintings.
Mr. Forcada studies art history. As he looked at the works of ant that the museum had, it didn’t take him long to find out that something was wrong. Some paintings didn’t look at all like Terrus’s work or were painted on the wrong kind of canvas. Some paintings showed buildings that had been built a long time after Mr. Terrus died. Several paintings had the name of the artist written in ink on the painting. Mr. Forcada said, “On one painting, the ink signature was wiped sway when I passed my white glove over it. Over 80 of 140 paintings were by other people.”
Mr. Forcada says that problems like these are more common for small museums like the Terrus Museum Unlike big museums, small ones don’t have enough money to pay experts to check out artwork carefully. The good news for the Terrus Museum is that experts say that almost 58 of their Terrus paintings art real.
32. Why does tienne Terrus mean a lot to the people of Elne
A. He was born there. B. His paintings were breathtaking
C. He created many works from Elne’s scenes. D. He differs from other painters of his time.
33. How did the museum obtain most of the paintings
A. They were mainly purchased. B. Some painters donated them
C. The staff painted them. D. They were renewed from the old ones.
34. What does the underlined word “renovated” in Paragraph 4 probably mean
A. Destroyed. B. Constructed. C. Moved. D. Repaired
35. What is the best title for the text
A. Etienne Terrus Was a Born Landscape Painter
B. Over Half of a French Museum’s Paintings Are Fakes
C. Some Experts Proved the Ant Works Not Real
D. Small Museums Lack Money to Buy Paintings
第二节 (共5小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分12.5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佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
The summer I was ten, my mother decided to bring us to the world of art. My brother and I were not very excited when we realized what my mother meant. What she meant was not that we could take drawing classes or painting classes but that we would have to spend one afternoon a week with bet at the Fine Arts Museum. That was not so bad—what really troubled me was that before each visit to the museum, she made us read about artists and painting styles 36 way, who wants to spend the summer thinking about artists when you could be with your friends at the swimming pool
First we had to read about ancient Egyptians and their strange way of painting faces and then go to look at them at the museum. 37 Later we bad to learn about artists in the Middle Ages who painted people wearing strange long clothing. We had to look at pictures of fat babies with wings and curly hair and with no clothes on Dying around the edges of paintings. 38 On our last visit to the museum, something happened when I saw a painting by a woman called Mary. 39 The colors were soft and gentle, and you could tell by the mother’s expression how happy she was just to be with the child. I could hardly take my eyes away from that painting! 40 It was really worth looking at so many paintings to find a painter who could interest me so much.
A. In it, a woman was reading to a child.
B. That felt almost as bad as being in school
C. The two paintings were so similar to each other!
D. I wanted to see every painting Mary had ever made!
E. I was immediately attracted by the strange way of painting faces.
F. Staring at those pictures, I still couldn’t see what was so great about art.
G. Unusual styles of art always attracted my brother, but I was not interested.
第三部分 语言知识运用 (共两节, 满分30分)
第一节 (共15小题: 每小题1分, 满分15分)
I had come to visit my parents on their 50th Wedding anniversary. In the hospital, Dad lay unconscious. Mom was 41 Dad, “Come on Bob. You’re a Marine (海军陆战队士兵). Marines never give up!” Two months later Dad 42 . But things were 43 .
In the past, my father would always work out the 44 in a newspaper at record speeds. Now he had trouble telling time, and the 45 days of all was when he opened his 46 and asked me to count the 47 he saved.
Dad looked at me with the innocence of a child who could not 48 a five-dollar bill from a fifty. I 49 the money in the box and the total came to $300. Dad 50 three times but got confused and finally gave up. That evening. Mom said determinedly, “We couldn’t just sit by. Let’s start from explaining the 51 of the clock.”
The next day Dad asked Mom about the time. Mom said, “You tell me. The big hand is on the six and the little one is on the five.” Dad failed for the first time. But Mom continued to explain it. It wasn’t easy but Dad finally succeeded. 52 Dad figured out puzzles in the newspaper with our assistance.
After Dad fully recovered, we 53 in a big way on their delayed 50th wedding anniversary. When I raised my glass in honor of the happy couple, it was the 54 of two old Marines I 55 .
41. A. challenging B. amusing C. encouraging D. comforting
42. A. pulled through B. turned over C. came out D. broke away
43. A. interesting B. different C. similar D. familiar
44. A. stories B. puzzles C. reports D. advertisements
45. A. happiest B. busiest C. saddest D. biggest
46. A. account B. purse C. clock D. shoebox
47. A. newspapers B. shoes C. time D. cash
48. A. tell B. earn C. withdraw D. receive
49. A. saved B. sorted C. spent D. invested
50. A. tried B. succeeded C. failed D. explained
51. A. label B. brand C. face D. spring
52. A. Meanwhile B. However C. Consequently D. Frequently
53. A. suffered B. posed C. competed D. partied
54. A. responsibility B. determination C. ambition D. generosity
55. A. changed B. envied C. toasted D. lacked
第二节 (共10 小题: 每小题1.5 分, 满分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。
Chinese jump rope, also known as tiaopijin, is a children’s game. One reason for its 56 (popular) is the fact that although the. moves can be quite 57 (challenge), the game itself is very simple. There’s no need for players 58 (buy) expensive equipment since what they need is only a rope.
The game 59 (begin) in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the West adopted the game. The game is 60 (typical) played in a group of at least 3 players with a rope about 16 feet 61 length tied into a circle. Two players face each other 62 (stand) 9 feet apart, and position the rope around their ankles so that it is tightly stretched. The third player stands between the two sides of the rope and tries to perform a series of moves without making 63 error.
There are many jump patterns, most of 64 are accompanied by a song. This is sometimes called the “first level”. The jumper tries to complete the chosen pattern. If the moves 65 (complete) successfully, then the rope is moved farther up and the series is repeated.
第四部分 写作 (共两节, 满分40分)
第一节 (满分15分)
假定你是高一学生李华, 你的美国笔友Peter 对你的高中生活很够兴趣, 想知道你高一上学期的情况和寒假的打算, 请你给他写一封回信, 要点如下:
1. 介绍高一生活;
2. 寒假的打算;
3. 感谢关心, 表达祝愿。
注意: 1. 词数80 左右;
2. 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯;
3. 开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数。
第二节 (满分25分)
阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。
I always wondered how people would react if I tried to approach a stranger for help in a busy place like a street comer or in a bustling mall. I personally have hurried past a stranger who tried to catch my attention in a busy place.
Yesterday I bad a taste of being stuck in such a desperate situation where you only hope of help would have to come from a total stranger.
I was in a busy shopping mall buying a large piece of luggage. After the purchase in one of the large and expensive shops, I picked up my phone from my pocket to call my driver waiting in the parking lot and my phone was dead.
I then requested the shop assistant selling me the luggage, which was not cheap at all, if she could ring the number of my driver for me. She replied, still all smiles, “I’m sorry Sir, but it is the shop policy that we cannot use mobile phones while working in the shop.”
As I was wondering what kind of policy that was, I saw a nice-looking teenage boy coming toward me. Remember my wife’s interesting theory that beautiful people are more likely to give you a hand when you’re in trouble, I thought I might have a chance. But before I could say a word, he walked past me. It turned out he simply didn’t see me.
I waited in the mall but it seemed nobody bothered to look at me. Disappointed and tired, I got out of the shop on to the busy street in front. I stood there with people rushing by, looking at their faces to see if they will show kindness to me. 1 began wondering how many times I had reacted to strangers like the shop girl and the teenager.
注意:
1. 续写的短文词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Para. 1 That was when I saw a young mother with her two kids
Para. 2 Finally a man wearing a cheap T-shirt and dirty jeans seemed to notice me.