西昌市2020-2021学年高一上学期期中考试
英语试题
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分
第一节（共5小题;每小题1分，共5分）
20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. When will the speakers get to New York? A. At 8:10.
2. Who is the man probably? A. The girl’s father. A. To see Andy. A. Beijing.
B. The girl’s teacher. B. To take a holiday. B. Hainan.
C. A computer seller. C. To be on business. C. Gansu.
3. Why is the man going to London?
4. Where may Cathy visit during the summer vacation? 5. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The woman gets an A on her final exam. B. The man will buy an MP4 for the woman. C. The final exam is coming. 第二节
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
B. At 8:30.
C. At 8:50.
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。 A. In Florida. A. Friends.
B. In Chicago. B. Teacher and student.
C. In Indiana. C. Strangers.
6. Where was the man born?
7. What is the relationship between the speakers?
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 A. 25 days.
A. To broaden vision.
8. How many days has the man got for his vacation?
B. 10 days.
B. To relax.
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C. 15 days.
C. To visit friends.
9. Why does the man go to Hawaii for his vacation with his family? 10. Where is the woman going this summer?
A. Egypt. B. Canada. C. The United States.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 A. Health. A. American.
B. Restaurants. B. Chinese.
C. Foreign food. C. Italian.
11. What are the speakers mainly talking about? 12. What is the woman’s nationality? 13. Why are westerners fat? A. They lack of exercise. B. They like eating fat and sugar. C. Their food contains some fiber and salt.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 A. Terrible. A. Study.
B. Just so-so.
B. Have some snacks. B. Do more sports. B. Learn new things.
C. Delicious. C. Play cards.
C. Teach him to play the bridge. C. Play games.
14. What does the girl say about the food? 15. What does the girl plan to do?
16. What does the boy advise the girl to do? A. Study more. A. Watch TV.
17. What does the boy do in the evenings?
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 A. A place for cowboys and cowgirls to pasture. B. A place for children to play in winter. C. A fun place for the whole family.
18. What do we know about Cactus City Wild West Park?
19. What can we learn from the passage? A. The park is open from April to October. B. The ticket is six dollars for children. C. There are free buses to the park on weekdays. 20. When does the Wild West show begin? A. At 10:00 am on weekdays. B. At 2:00 pm on weekends. C. At 2:30 pm every day.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
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A.
With a continuous 1,300 kilometer-long coastline and beautiful beaches, Wales is a popular holiday destination in the United Kingdom. Most Welsh people live in south Wales in the capital city, Cardiff, and two other big cities: Swansea and Newport.
Language
The official languages of Wales are English and Welsh, and “Wenglish” is a Welsh-English dialect (方言). Everyone speaks English, but if you go to school in Wales you have to learn Welsh until you are 16. Street signs are written in Welsh and English, and villages, towns and cities have an English name and a Welsh name. The Welsh language is one of the oldest languages in Europe and around 20 percent of people in Wales speak Welsh.
Sports
The Welsh enjoy watching and playing sports, especially rugby and football. The modern Millennium Stadium in Cardiff can hold 74,500 people and is where you go if you want to watch a football or rugby match or a concert.
Water sports are popular in Wales. You can go surfing or wakeboarding (尾浪滑水). If you like unusual sports, visit the small town of Llanwrtyd Wells. Every year in this town there is a man versus horse marathon (马拉松) and a bog snorkelling (沼泽潜水) competition.
Food
There are lots of sheep in Wales, so people eat a lot of lamb (羊羔肉). Typical Welsh dishes include “cawl”, which is lamb stew (炖羊肉), sausages and “rarebit”, which is a type of cheese on toast. There are also Welsh cakes, which are small, sweet, round cakes with dried raisins (葡萄干) inside.
Symbols
If you ever go to Wales, you will see dragons everywhere; red dragons are a symbol of Wales. Other symbols include the leek (a long, green vegetable) and the daffodil.
21. What are the official languages of Wales? A. English
B. English and Welsh D. Welsh B. Swansea
C. English and Wenglish A .Millennium Stadium C. Newport A. a dairy
22 .Where can you go if you want to watch a rugby and football match?
D. Llanwrtyd Wells. B. a novel
23. The passage may be taken from _________? C. a guidebook
D. a science magazine
B.
When I woke up on Aug 4, 2016, there was only one thing on my mind: what to wear. A billion thoughts appeared through my brain in the closet (衣橱). Not only was it my first day of high school, but it was my first day of school in a new state; first impressions are everything, and it was important for me to impress the people who I would spend the next four years with.
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After carefully hunting my closet, I proudly came out in a dress from Target. The soft cotton was comfortable, and the specially designed shoulders added a little of fun. Yes, this cloth was the one. An hour later, I felt powerful as I headed toward room 1136. But as I entered class, my jaw dropped to the floor.
Sitting at her desk was Mrs Hutfilz, my English teacher, wearing exactly the same dress as me. I kept my head down and tiptoed(踮着脚尖) to my seat. I made it through my simple introduction speech until Mrs Hutfilz stood up, jokingly saying that she liked my style. Although this was the moment I had been afraid of from the moment I walked in, all my anxiety surprisingly melted away, and the students paid attention as I shared my story. My smile grew as I laughed with the students. After class, I stayed behind, talked to Mrs Hutfilz and make a humorous and real communication.
Looking back four years later, the ten minutes I spent afraid of giving my speech were really not worth it. My first period of high school certainly made the day unforgettable in the best way and taught me that Mrs Hutfilz has a brilliant sense of style!
24. Why did the author pay great attention to her clothes on the first day of high school? A. She followed her father’s advice. B. She was unconfident about herself. C. She cared too much about her appearance. D. She wanted to make a good impression. 25. Which of the following statement is TRUE? A. It was her first day of primary school. B. She was satisfied with her first day dress.
C. Her teacher was unhappy because she wore the same dress with her. D. She made a conversation with her English teacher in class. 26. How did the author probably feel after noticing her teacher’s dress? A. Angry. C. Proud.
B. Confused. D. Embarrassed.
27. What is the author’s purpose in writing the article? A. To share a memorable experience. B. To explore the troubles with dressing. C. To introduce her stylish English teacher. D. To stress the importance of first impressions.
C.
There was one farmer who had a fine olive orchard（橄榄园).He was very hard-working and the garden always did well under his care. But he knew that his three sons looked down on the farm work, and were only interested in getting rich quickly.
When the farmer was old and felt that he would die, he called his three sons to him and said, “My sons, there is a pot of gold hidden in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.” The sons tried to get him to tell them the exact place where the gold was hidden, but he said nothing more.
After the farmer was dead，the sons went to work to find the gold. Since they did not know where the hiding-
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place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one end of the orchard，and to dig until one of them should find the gold. They dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the orchard to the other, round the tree roots and between them. But no gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have stolen it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his intelligence. The three sons were quite disappointed to have all their work for nothing.
The next olive season, the olive trees in the orchard bore more fruit than they had ever given. When it was sold, it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.
And when they saw how much money had come from the orchard，they suddenly understood what the wise father had meat when he said, \"There is a lot of gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it. 28. What did the farmer leave for his sons when he died?
A. A pot of gold
B. A large house
B. C. An apple orchard
D. An olive orchard
29. Why did the father’s son begin to work in the orchard?
A. Because they liked farm work
B. Because farm work was very exciting.
D. Because someone put a pot of gold in the orchard.
C. moved
D. interested
C. Because they wanted to find gold. A. excited
30. After they dug up all the soil of the orchard, the farmer’s sons were very________.
B. disappointed
31. Which of the following has the similar meaning of the old farmer’s words?
A. The keys to your wealth were in your hands C. One is never too old to learn.
B. When in Rome, do as the Romans do D. Two hands are better than one.
D.
“Look how stupid he is!\" a 7-year-old said to her dad Daniel Funke, pointing to a picture of a famous person on the Internet. The photo showed the man writing his name with his pen turned upside down.
Of course, the photo was not the original one. It had been changed to look like him using the pen the wrong way. Funke quickly pointed out the mistake, and his daughter got an on-the-spot education in fake(假的) news. By then, however, many people had already shared it on social media.
“The pitfalls of sharing misinformation and fake news can be very serious,\" says Laeeq Khan, who heads the Social Media Analytics Lab at Ohio University in Athens. Sharing something that’s not true can cost people their lives, he says. Last year, people in India used a messaging app, WhatsApp, to spread fake stories about a kidnapping ring (绑架团伙). The lies caused violent attacks in which people died.
Fake news stories hurt people in other ways, too. For example, fake reports lead some parents to refuse vaccines (疫苗) for their children. Yet without vaccines, children can get serious diseases or even die.
“About seven in 10 Americans were telling us that fake news has a big influence on the confidence in our government,” says Jeffrey Gottfried. He’s a journalism and media-research expert at Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. Researchers there did a survey in the United States about the influence of made-up news. About half the people in the survey said they had shared misinformation online. Most of them said they didn’t realize it at the time.
Besides causing serious results, sharing a fake story makes it harder for people to tell what's real. And when people find out a story is not real, they may not trust other information from a person who spread it. Therefore, it's
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important to do fact-checking before sharing news stories. 32. What is the purpose of the first two paragraphs?
A. To bring up the topic of the text. B. To tell an interesting news story. C. To provide the main idea of the text. D. To list people's popular online behavior.
33. What does the underlined word \"pitfalls” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Mistakes.
B. Problems.
C. Advantages.
D. Possibilities.
34. What did the survey done by Pew Research Center find?
A. About 30% of online news wasn't real. B. Made-up news spread faster than expected. C. Made-up news had a bad influence on children. D. Many Americans shared fake news without knowing it. 35. What is the attitude of the author to the fake news?
A. Positive
B. Unclear
C. Worried
D. Supporting
第二节 (共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
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。 根据短文内容, 从短文后的七个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。
Everybody yawns (打哈欠) – from unborn babies to great-grandparents. But why, exactly, do we yawn?36. __________.
One theory (理论) is that when we are bored or tired, we just don’t breathe as deeply as we usually do. 37. __________ .Therefore, yawning helps us bring more oxygen into the blood and move more carbon dioxide out of the blood.
Yawning, then, would be an action that we can’t really control to help us control our oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. Sounds good, but other studies have shown that breathing more oxygen does not make us yawn less. 38. __________. Hmmm. Now what?
39. __________. Stretching (拉伸) and yawning may be a way to relax muscles and joints, increase heart rate, and feel more awake.
Other people believe that yawning is a protective way to redistribute (重新分配) the oil-like substance called surfactant that helps keep lungs from drying up. So, if we didn’t yawn, according to this theory, taking a deep breath would become harder and harder – and that would not be good!
But there is one idea about yawning that everyone knows to be true:40. __________. If you yawn in class, you’ll probably notice a few other people will start yawning, too. Even thinking about yawning can get you yawning. How many times have you yawned while reading this article? We hope not many!
A. It seems to spread B. Yawning seems to be common
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C. No one knows for sure, but there are many theories
D. Another theory is that yawning stretches the lung and lung tissue E. This theory indicates yawning, like a deep breath, helps us feel fresh F. Likewise, breathing more carbon dioxide does not increase yawning
G. As this theory goes, our bodies take in less oxygen because our breathing has slowed
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
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。 My husband grew up on a farm. After I knew more about farm life, I 41 to go back to the way he grew up. In 2015 we started to 42 the perfect little farm. It was a year-long process. In 2016, we moved to a little 43 with a small orchard(果园) of about eighty apple trees. We have a good size garden where we 44 as much of our own produce as possible.
We've been on our farm one year now. And I must say it's pretty 45 .
As a homeschooling mom, I love any chance we have to 46 .Over the past year, my children have learned so much about healthy food and how our food 47 our bodies.
Knowing how 48 it is to grow good food, we have all developed a deeper appreciation for what we 49 . Tomatoes are not just tomatoes. It's planting, watering, picking and preparing. An egg is not just an egg. It's daily 50 for a chicken.
I focus(集中注意)on my children. But I must 51 that I've been learning just as much as my children by 52 on a farm. Growing up I didn't have any assigned(分配的)family 53 . My mom did everything. In one year, with the help of my husband, I've 54 my-comfort area and started helping with duties I 55 thought I would be able to do.
I 56 that I get to keep learning right along with my children. We are doing this 57 . My goal this year is to research how to keep a chemical-free orchard. We were so 58 this past a to invite lots of friends over to 59 from our orchard, knowing that the apples had not been sprayed(喷药) at all.
I never want to 60 learning. And I don't think I ever will here. 41. A. decided 43. A. city
B. refused B. show off B. village B. keep B. finally B. learn B. simple B. care B. prove
C. continued C. search for C. house C. provide C. really C. discuss C. enters
D. agreed D. hear about D. farm D. discover D. quickly D. wait D. destroys D. boring D. amusement D. progress D. admit
42. A. look after 44. A. grew 45 A. nearly 46. A. play 47. A. controls 48. A. hard 50. A. training 51. A. hope
B. influences B. agreement
C. interesting C. appreciation C. practice C. agree
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49. A. excitement
52. A. living 54. A. chosen 55. A. also 56. A. love 57. A. alone. 58. A. lucky 59. A. try
60. A. enjoy
B. depending B. stories B. left
B. almost B. promise B. together B. nervous B. work B. mind
C. walking C. plans C. never C. wish C. too C. pick C. finish
C. remembered
D. teaching D. duties D. reported D. even D. regret D. again D. happy D. relax D. stop
53. A. traditions
C. surprised
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1分，满分10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。
In the state of Oaxaca. Mexico, you'l1 find the lively town of San Martin Tilcajete. The town is rooted in 61. (it) ancient Zapotec culture. The Zapotec people have been living in the area for 62. (century).
Look around, and you'll see 63. (amaze) colorful wooden animal carvings. These figures are called tonas, and creating them is a Zapotec tradition.
But slowly, Zapotec culture is dying. Young people are leaving Oaxaca 64. (find) work in larger cities. As 65. result, fewer people have the knowledge and skills 66. (need) to make tonas.
An organization called Jacobo y Maria Angeles hopes to change that. It teaches kids as young as five how to grow in the area.
After school, kids come to Jacobo y Maria Angeles to learn the craft 68. teachers, or masters. Some of the masters have been making tonas for 50 years. In these workshops, kids learn about the copal tree. They learn to “see” an animal in a piece of wood before it's carved. Then the kids 69. ( give) a tona to decorate(装饰).
Some of these students might one day become masters. Those who do will help protect Zapotec culture through teaching the young people the ancient craft of 70. (make) tonas.
make tonas. The carvings take time and skill to create. They're made of soft wood from copal trees, 67.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分20分)
第一节 短文改错（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的次。 删除：把多余的用斜线（\\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第l1处起）不计分。
I started running at a early age, as both of my parents ran, and they encouraged me join them. I started by go a
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fifteen-minute run through the park close to that I lived. I usual ran in the mornings because of it meant that I got my daily exercise done early and had the rest of the day to do what I wanted to do. Six months ago, I took part for a big race, a run to raise money to help homeless people. I manage to come within the top ten runner out of thousands of people. I felt such proud to have completed it.
第二节 书面表达(满分15分)
假定你是高一（1）班的李华，在学习英语的过程中遇到了困难，请给English Weekly的编辑写一封求助信。
要点如下：1.自我介绍；2.遇到的困难；3.希望得到的建议和帮助。 注意：1.词数100词左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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参考答案
听力：1-5CACBC 6-10BCBBA 11-15CBBAC 16-20ABCBB 阅读理解： A：BAC
B：DBDA
C: DCBA
D：ABDC
七选五：CGFDA
完型填空：41-45 ACDAC 46-50 BBACB 语法填空：
61. its 62. centuries 66. needed 改错
67. which
63. amazing 64. to find 65. a 68. from
69. are given 70. making
51-55 DADBC 56 -60 ABDCD
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runners 作文：
Dear Editor,
I am Li Hua, a student from Class One, Senior One. I have some difficulty in learning English and hope you can give me some useful advice. There is always a long list of new words in my book that I have never learned before. It’s a hard job for me to remember the spelling of them and even the Chinese meanings. Therefore, I can’t understand what the English teacher says in class. I get worried and afraid that I will fall behind on English. Could you help me, please?
Best wishes!
Yours， Li Hua
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录音原文
Text 1
W: When will we arrive in New York?
M: Let me see. It’s eight thirty now. I think our plane will land in twenty minutes. Text 2
M: Do you want to have a computer? W: Oh, I would like to.
M: Well, if you can get high scores in your final examinations, I will buy you one. Text 3
M: Next week I will leave for London on business.
W: Take Andy’s address with you, in case you have time to see him. Text 4
M: Hi, Cathy, the summer vacation is just around the corner. How will you spend the long holiday?
W: I am planning a trip to the southern part of China. I have been expecting the trip for quite a long time. Text 5
W: Dad, can I buy an MP4 player?
M: No, you can’t, unless you get an A on your final exam.
Text 6 (第7题为推断题) M: Hot today, isn’t it?
W: Yes, it is. I wish that it would rain and cool off.
M: Me too. This is unusual for May. I don’t remember it ever being so hot and dry in May before. W: You are from Florida, then.
M: Not really. ⑥I was born in Chicago, but I’ve lived here for ten years now. W: My mother and I have just moved here from Indiana. M: Pretty cold in Indiana, isn’t it?
W: Yes. That is why we moved. But we didn’t know that it would be so hot here. We should have gone to California. Do you think that we’ve missed the bus, by the way? M: No, it’s always a little late. Text 7
W: When are you going to take your vacation?
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M: ⑧I’ve got a ten-day vacation starting from July 25th. W: Where are you going? M: To Hawaii.
W: That sounds like a good place. Is your family going?
M: Yes. ⑨We plan to climb the mountains, go fishing, swimming, and wind surfing, just to relax. My wife is taking a whole bunch of books to read. W: Your children must be all excited about it.
M: Yes, they are. They’re already crossing out days on the calendar. Are you going to Europe again this summer? W: ⑩No, not this time. We’re going to visit some old friends in Egypt. M: Are you going by ship or taking a flight? W: We’re going by air. Text 8
M: ⑪It seems that quite a number of restaurants serve foreign food. W: Yes, American, French and Italian foods are quite popular in China.
M: ⑫Maybe China’s opening to the world has helped to change your diet and taste.
W: ⑫Maybe. But most food in Western countries is high in fat, sugar and salt. They’re not good for people’s health. Are there any Chinese restaurants in your hometown? M: Plenty. The meals are very good. Many westerners like Chinese food.
W: Most of the Chinese people like vegetables and fruit because they’re rich in fiber and low in sugar and fat. I think a healthy diet should contain some fat, some fiber and a little salt.
M: You’re right. ⑬Westerners eat too much fat and sugar. That’s why many of them are fat. Text 9
W: ⑭This food is terrible. I can’t even finish my dinner.
M: I know. You think with all the money we pay for room and board, the university could offer a better food service. Where are you heading next?
W: ⑮I’m going over to the student center to play some bridge. M: Are you spending your time on a card game? W: Not just any card game. It’s one of the most strategic. M: So I’ve heard about it. Don’t you play with a partner? W: Yeah. Four people play, two against the other two.
M: You know, I’ve heard that bridge is habit-forming. ⑯You should be careful not to play so much that you don’t get your studying done.
W: Don’t worry about me. I only play on Thursdays after dinner, and sometimes when they need a fourth player. If you like, I could teach you.
M: Thanks. But I have a pretty heavy workload this term. ⑰I already spend my evenings learning things I don’t really know.
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Text 10
M: Hey, there, cowboys and cowgirls, for a real exciting day in the Wild West, come to Cactus(仙人掌)City Wild West Park. Yes, bring the children along to see a real old-time pioneering town. Shoot guns and ride horses down the road. We’re open April through September, seven days a week from 10 am to sundown. Only twelve dollars for adults and ⑲six dollars for children. Or buy a family ticket at 24 dollars. ⑳What’s more, every Saturday and Sunday we have a real Wild West show. Performances start at 2 pm and last for two and a half hours. That’s well worth the money. There are free buses to the park throughout the day every Saturday and Sunday from Cactus City Center. ⑱There’s a lot of fun waiting for all the families at the Cactus City Wild West Park.
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