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2018届高一下期英语半期考试试卷
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）
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 will the woman do in the summer vacation?
A. Visit her uncle. B. Do some reading. C. See some friends. 2. How did the man feel at the woman's words?
A. Disappointed. B. Surprised. C. Frightened. 3. What does the woman mean by saying “soon”?
A. She will see her sister soon. B. She thinks her sister got married so soon. C. She will get married soon.
4. How long can the man probably stay at the room?
A. For one night. B. For three years. C. For only a short while. 5. What do we know about the woman?
A. She doesn't want to lend the man any money. B. She lost some money because of a hole in her pocket.
C. She always runs out of her money quickly. 第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分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，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间来阅读各个小题，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. What does the man think of Chinese Opera?
A．Terrible. B．Just so so . C．Wonderful. 7. What do we know about the woman?
A．She doesn't like talking with the man. B．She doesn't agree with the man . C．She thinks Chinese Opera has no charm to appreciate. 听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. What do we know about the woman's neighbor?
A．He just moved in recently. B．He is very rude. C．He goes to sleep very early. 9. Why did the woman's neighbor press the woman's doorbell at midnight last night? A．Because he had an urgent problem. B．Because he wanted to make troubles. C．Because he wanted to stop the woman blowing her trumpet （喇叭）. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Where does the conversation take place?
A．In China. B．In America. C．In Canada. 11. What do we know about the man?
A．He can write in Chinese very well. B．He has been to China twice. C．He has taken Chinese course for a year.
12. Which place has the woman visited in New York?
A．Some nearby parks. B．The Horseshoe Curve. C．A zoo. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What 's the woman's job in the company?
A．A manager B．An art designer C．A secretary.
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14. Why does the woman come to work early?
A．She wanted to see the department manager. B．She wanted to make a phone call. C．She wanted to leave her boss a good impression. 15. What 's the rule of the company?
A．Everyone should keep his or her desk neat（整洁的）.
B．No one should use anything that doesn't belong to him or her. C．No one should make personal phone calls during office hours. 16. What can we infer form the conversation? A．It's the woman's first day in the company.
B．The woman will be fired if she doesn't clock her time card in and out.
C．Department managers have the right to chat over the phone during office hours. 听第10段材料，回答第17至18题。
17. Where will the swimming competition be held?
A．At the school swimming pool. B．At the Jackson Sports Center. C．At the New Town Swimming Pool. 18. At what time will Grade 7 gather?
A．9：30 B．9：35 C．9：45
19. Which of the following is TRUE according to the speaker?
A．Students don't have to bring cold drinks. B．Students can get their lunch for free. C．Students have to pay for the bus ride. 20. What is the announcement about?
A．The schedule of the competition. B．The location of the Sports Center. C．The arrangements for the day.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15个小题；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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A
Jane Warner’s husband, Jack, was sent to prison for two years for stealing. While he was in prison, Jane had a very difficult time. because She had two children, but no job. And her husband, of course, couldn’t make any money either. The only small amount she had was from the government.
“I don’t know how we will manage,” she wrote to her husband in prison. “I get only enough money to pay the rent. There isn’t enough money for food. I think I’ll have to plant vegetables in the garden. They’ll grow quickly. We can live on vegetables.”
The garden was quite large, and much of it was covered with grass.
When Jack Warner received his wife’s letter, he replied to her immediately. “Don’t dig up the garden,” he wrote. “That’s where the money I stole is hidden.”
All letters written by the prisoners were read by one of the guards before they were mailed. When the guard read Jack’s letter, he took it to the head guard. When the head guard read it, he called the police. He told them what Jack had written to his wife. And the police immediately went to Jack’s house. They took forks and shovels with them. They dug up the garden, looking for the money, but they found nothing.
When they had gone, Mrs. Warner wrote to her husband. “The police came today,” she wrote. “and they dug up all the grass. What should I do?” Her husband wrote back very soon, “Plant the vegetables.”
21. Jane got a little money from .
A. her husband B. the government C. the police D. the prison 22. Jane had a very difficult time because .
A. she had two children B. the couple had no jobs C. she had to pay the rent D. she hadn’t enough money
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23. Where did Jack hide the money?
A. In the garden B. In the prison C. In the letter D. Somewhere unknown 24. The passage shows that Jack was very .
A. smart B. lazy C. stupid D. careless
B
Check out our tsunami（海啸） facts and learn some interesting information related to these great walls of water that can cause so much destruction. Find out what causes tsunamis and read about some notable recent examples of tsunamis that have occurred around the globe.
Tsunamis are huge waves of water that are usually caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. As a tsunami approaches the shore, water may move back from the coast. If it is shallow enough, the water may be pulled back hundreds of meters. If you are in the area, observing this is a good indication that a tsunami is on the way.
Regions in tsunami danger zones often have warning systems in place to give people as much time to evacuate（撤离）as possible.
When tsunamis hit shallow water (often near the coast), they slow down but increase in height.
An earthquake in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia in December 2004 caused a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in 14 countries.
In March 2011, the Tohoku earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan caused a tsunami that was a major factor in the death of over 15,000 people.
The tsunami waves created by the Tohoku earthquake reached heights of over 40 meters（131feet）in some areas, wiping out coastal towns and causing a number of nuclear accidents.
The Japanese word “tsunami” literally means “harbour wave”.
Tsunamis are sometimes referred to as tidal（潮水的）waves but this term has fallen out of favour because tsunamis are not related to tides.
25. How many reasons are mentioned in the passage that may cause tsunamis?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four. 26. which of the following shows a tsunami is coming soon?
A. An earthquake takes place. B. The water marches towards the coast. C. The water near the shore is pulled back. D. The water near the shore is very shallow. 27. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The word “tsunami” is from British English.
B. The term “tidal wave ” is used more often than “ tsunami ”. C. Sone nuclear accident happened after Indonesia tsunami.
D. More people died in Indonesia tsunami than in Tohoku tsunami. 28. The passage is developed mainly by __________.
A. listing the facts B. giving some examples C. providing some numbers D. making some conclusions
C
A recent research at University of Florida has showed the secret of sticking to（坚持）an exercise program.
If you are outgoing and like being with people, you may get bored quickly when exercising alone. Try aerobics（增氧健身法）. You need communication, and working out with others makes you keep going. Besides, regular classes will improve your ability to take in and use oxygen. As a result, your heart and lungs will work well.
If you are well-organized and appreciate you own time, you’ll prefer to choose your own exercise program. Try gym which challenges you, work with weight-lifting which builds your body shape, or do the cycle that is great for fat-burning.
If you push yourself to do well at work, you’ll like competing against others. Try team sports. Ball games will give you something to aim for. The games will provide overall（全面的）training and your health condition will improve, reducing the risk of having diseases.
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If things are getting on top of you, choose a kind of exercise that reduces the pressure in the body. Try a relaxing class. Lying at full length is a great way to let stored-up physical pressure out. Such a way also makes the body suppler（柔韧的）, which makes the risk of injury lower during the activity.
29. What is the advantage of having regular exercise classes?
A. People will enjoy more fresh air B. People will become more outgoing C. People will improve their breath D. People will have fewer heart diseases 30. The underlined words “the cycle” in Paragraph 3 means .
A. a king of gym B. a kind of challenge C. a kind of medicine D. a kind of exercise 31. What exercise may reduce the risk of getting hurt?
A. Regular exercises B. Weight-lifting C. Ball games D. Relaxing classes 32. This passage is mainly about .
A. different ways to do exercise B. different choices of exercise C. different secrets of exercise D. different types of exercise
D
Mark Twain was a great writer. He was from the USA. He was born in 1835. He was also a famous speaker. He was famous for his sense of humour. Many people liked to listen to him talk because he liked to tell some interesting stories to make people laugh all the time.
One day Mark Twain was going to a small town because of his writing. Before he was going to leave, one of his friends said to him that there were always a lot of mosquitoes in the town and told him that he’d better not go there. Mark Twain waved his hand and said, “It doesn’t matter. The mosquitoes are no relatives of mine. I don’t think they will come to visit me.”
After he arrived at the town, Mark Twain stayed in a small hotel near the station. He went into his room, but when he was just about to have a rest, quite a few mosquitoes flew about him. The waiters felt very sorry about that. “I’m very sorry, Mr. Mark Twain. There are too many mosquitoes in our town.” One of them said to him.
Mark Twain, however, made a joke, saying to the waiter, “The mosquitoes are very clever. They know my room number. They didn’t come into the wrong room.” What he said made all the people present laugh heartily.
But that night Mark Twain slept well. Do you know why? That was because all the waiters in the hotel were driving the mosquitoes away for him during the whole night. 33. Why did Mark Twain go to the town?
A. To make a speech. B. To see one of his friends.
C. To see one of his relatives. D. To do something for his writing. 34. Why did the waiters feel sorry?
A. Their hotel was too small. B. The room was not very clean.
C. They did something wrong to Mark Twain. D. There were quite a few mosquitoes in the room. 35. Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. Mark Twain didn’t have a good rest that night. B. No mosquitoes troubled Mark Twain in the night. C. There were not mosquitoes in the hotel any longer.
D. The owner of the hotel looked after Mark Twain well at night. 第二节 （共5个小题；每小题2分，满分10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。
36 People who don’t read newspapers are sometimes called non-readers. Generally, non-readers are low in education, low in income, either very young or very old. What’s more, non-readers are more likely to get away from the crowd. 37 .
Why don’t these read daily papers? They say that they don’t have the time; they have no interest
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