2017-2018学年崇明区高一上英语期末

崇明区2017学年第一学期期末考试试卷

高一英语

Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions：After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Good teacher helps during hard times

Mrs. Freeman is a teacher ___17___ I will never forget. I truly believe my teenage years were the ___18___（hard）time of my life. At that time, as a girl, I hated it ___19___ my parents asked me directly about my problems, ___20___ made me very uncomfortable. I remember those times ___21___ Mrs. Freeman would take me aside and talk to me. He had a special way of drawing out ___22___ the problem was. Every time he talked with me, I felt better.

She had a way of making her classes enjoyable. We always got the highest marks ___23___ math in our grade with her teaching. If there was a big sports game on the radio, we would drop ___24___ that we were doing and he would put the game on so that we ___25___ all enjoy it. That’s just the way ___26___ ______ she treated us.

Teenagers often hear things on TV or from adults about global problems that can frighten them. Now it is terrorism, but back in my teenage years, it was the Cold War. It worried me so much ___27___ I thought each day could be my last. Mrs. Freeman knew ___28___ troubled her students, ___29___ she opened the subject up for discussion. He gave us a way ___30___（express）our greatest fears and helped us understand war and politics.“One can still feel afraid ___31___ ______ ______ brave he is,”we were told.

When I think back to those special days, I am glad ___32___ he helped me through such a difficult time in my life.

Section B

Directions：Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. past B. potential C. traditional D. start E. fascinating F. book G. skip H. performances I. harvest J. expensive Exploring Greece Greece is the birthplace of Western civilization. The Olympic Games began in Greece. Democracy（民主）and modern medicine got their ___33___ in Greece, too. Many of the words you’ll read in this article come from the Greek language. A trip to Greece is a trip into centuries ___34___. But Greece isn’t just museums and historic sites. It’s a place for fun and great food, too!

Greece is not a small country, so it may be hard to decide what to do during your stay. Here are a few suggestions for some fun and popular activities.

 Go to the beach! Greece has more than 15,000 kilometers of coastline in total. There are plenty of ___35___

white sand beaches with clear blue water to choose from.

 Check out a show. Greece is famous for its ___36___ theater, song and dance. Dora Stratou Dance Theatre

is a living museum that sits on the hill opposite the Acropolis. They put on daily ___37___ during the summer in their garden theater.

 Return to nature. If you go at the right time of year, you can help with the olive（橄榄）___38___! Get your

hands dirty, and learn about the production of this famous Greek food.

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Experience Greek hospitality（好客）for yourself, and ___39___ the big city hotels. Instead, ___40___ your stay at a smaller location. Guesthouses and B&Bs are often less ___41___ and just as nice. Places like these will bring you closer to the Greek community.

Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions：For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

There is a common belief among parents that schools are no longer interested in spelling. But this is not quite true. ___42___, in all the schools where I have taught, spelling has been considered as a basic skill. There are, ___43___, quite different ideas about how to teach it, or how to ___44___ students’ general language development and their spelling ability, which means how to encourage a child to express himself ___45___ in writing without holding him back with spelling.

If spelling becomes the only point of his teacher’s ___46___, clearly a bright child will be likely to “play safe”. That is to say, he will write only the words which he can ___47___ correctly. That’s why teachers often encourage the early use of dictionaries and pay attention to the content（内容）___48___ technical abilities.

I was once ___49___ to read on the bottom of a piece of writing with quite a lot of food for thought. “ This work is terrible! There are far too many spelling mistakes.” A teacher who said this might be ___50___ the pupil’s technical abilities in writing, but it was also a(n) ___51___ thing for the teacher who had not noticed the content of the composition, which ___52___ some beautiful expressions of the child’s deep feelings. The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the ___53___, but if the teacher mainly focused on the child’s ideas, an expression of the above ______ with the composition would give the pupil more hope to seek improvement.

42. A. Unfortunately B. Strangely C. Actually D. Surprisingly 43. A. therefore B. moreover C. however D. otherwise 44. A. balance B. discover C. know D. use 45. A. correctly B. carefully C. slowly D. freely 46. A. skill B. interest C. knowledge D. ability 47. A. spell B. recognize C. read D. say 48. A. other than B. including C. rather than D. except for 49. A. pleased B. shocked C. interested D. excited 50. A. amused at B. familiar to C. happy with D. unsatisfied with 51. A. sad B. amusing C. hard D. tricky 52. A. developed B. contained C. overused D. copied 53. A. mistakes B. experience C. improvement D. expressions . A. encouragement B. agreement C. comparison D. disappointment

Section B

Directions：Read the following passage. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

（A）

Do you know where J.K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books? She wrote the first books in a coffee shop. Was it because she felt more creative when working there? The answer might be yes!

Scientists from the University of Illinois found that moderate noise can make people more creative, the New

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York Times reported.

Scientists did tests on students, who were divided into four groups and were asked to do certain tasks involving creative thinking. But each group did the task with different volumes of background noise. They found that students did best when working under moderate noise—70 decibels（分贝），which is about the same volume of background noise in a café. Students did worse in low noise（50db），which is the volume of a quiet room. They did the poorest when in a high-noise（85db）environment, which is the noise level in a factory. Moderate noise can distract people just enough so that they think more creatively.“It helps you think outside the box,”Raci Metha, a lead researcher in the study, said to the Business Standard.

On the one hand, working in a very quiet place can strengthen our focus, but it also stops us from thinking abstractly.

“This is why if you are too focused on a problem and you can’t solve it,”said Metha,“You leave it for some time and then come back to it and you get the solution.”

However, the scientists said that when you need to do detailed things, like proofreading a paper, a quiet place is better than a noisy one.

55. The passage mainly tells us __.

A. moderate noise is good for creative thinking

B. scientists can create moderate noise for better work C. J.K. Rowling likes to write stories in a coffee shop

D. one can work most efficiently under a moderate noise level 56. Moderate noise is the noise that is _____. A. very low B. either very low or very high C. very high D. neither too low nor too high 57. Working in a very quiet place can help people _____. A. think abstractly B. focus on their work C. think outside the box D. get solutions more easily

（B） Winthrop Galleries Exhibition Schedule August 9 – September 21 Gallery Ⅰ：Selections from the Permanent Collection August 16 – September 21 Gallery Ⅰ：Nene Humphrey: Matrix August 27 – October 2 McLaurin Gallery: Interior Design October 1 – November 15 Gallery Ⅰ: Across Generations: Catawba Potters and Their Art October 1 – November 22 Gallery Ⅰ: Discovering America: Finding many Faces December 3 – February 7 Gallery Ⅰ and Ⅰ: Art and Design Faculty Exhibition February 14 – April 4 Gallery Ⅰ: Katherine Kadish: Paintings Gallery Ⅰ: Cordelia Williams: The Extraordinary Adventures of Camilla and the Fairy Cat 第 3 页 / 共 6 页

Winthrop Galleries is located in Rutledge Building. Hours are Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Sunday 1:00 – 4:30 p.m. The Gallery is closed on Saturdays. Hours for McLaurin Gallery are Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 58. The above information is aimed at ______. A. college students B. business people C. art teachers D. the general public 59. The Faculty Exhibition on Art and Design is open ____. A. from December 3 to February 7 B. from October 1 to November 22 C. from August 27 to October 2 D. from February 14 to April 4 60. McLaurin Gallery is open ____. A. every day B. only at weekends C. only on workdays D. six days a week

（C）

Why do some people eat lots of fries and sweets and never put on a pound? They may fidget a lot, say researchers at Mayo Clinic.

Michael Jensen and two colleagues at the clinic instructed a group of 16 volunteers to eat lots of delicious, high-fat meals. The volunteers were also instructed to become couch potatoes and do no sports. After eight weeks some of the volunteers gained a lot of weight; the others gained hardly a pound.

The researchers discovered that the differences in weight gain were not due to difference in the volunteers’ metabolism - all the chemical processes that occur in the body. Men and women with high metabolisms burn more calories（卡路里）and store less fat than those with lower metabolisms.

The scientists concluded that the only possible explanation for the differences between the volunteers was fidgeting, by which they meant routine physical activities, such as shifting positions in a chair, crossing or uncrossing legs, sitting up straight to maintain proper posture, and getting up to stretch or take short walks. The technical name for it is non-exercise activity thermogenesis（生热作用）（NEAT）.

The volunteers who gained the least amount of weight had higher levels of NEAT than those who gained a lot of weight, said the researchers.“When people overeat, NEAT switches on in some people to“waste”this extra energy,”said Jensen.“Every little bit of activity helps,”he added,“even if it doesn’t seem like much.”

61. The passage mainly deals with the relationship between ___ and body weight. A. food B. sports C. movement D. metabolism 62. The experiment done by the researchers find that ______.

A. any little amount of body activity leads to the burning of calories B. doing exercise helps one to maintain weight even if he eats a lot C. young children tend to be thin because they usually fidget a lot D. high-fat food is the most important cause of weight gaining 63. What can be concluded from the passage? A. Overeating is not necessarily bad. B. Too much energy is harmful to health. C. Fidgeting is a good habit in any case. D. We can rely on fidgeting to maintain weight.

Section C

Directions：Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. Veterans Day honors the living. B. And Congress decided to change the name of Armistice Day into Veterans Day. C. Some, however, went to France to work as nurses in battlefield hospitals. D. The history of Veterans Day relates to World War Ⅰ. 第 4 页 / 共 6 页

E. But soon everyone knew that World War Ⅰ would not be the war to end all wars. F. It played a special part in American military history. November 11 is Veterans Day in the United States. A \"veteran\" is anyone who has served in the armed forces. ______ A separate holiday, Memorial Day in May, honors those who died in military service.

___65___ Many people at the time called it \"the war to end all wars.\" The United States entered the fighting in Europe in 1917. But the U.S. armed forces were small. So the government began to draft（征募）men. More than 13 million reported for duty. Many women joined the armed forces, too.

World War I ended when Germany surrendered（投降）at 11 o'clock in the morning on November 11, 1918 – in other words, at the 11th hour of the 11th month. The following year, President Woodrow Wilson signed a declaration（声明）to observe November 11th as Armistice Day in the United States to honor people who had served in the U.S. armed forced during the war.

In 1926, Congress（国会）made Armistice Day a national holiday. ___66___ In all, more than 4,000,000 Americans served in the armed forces during the first World War. And 16 million would serve during the second one.

Armistice Day in 1945 was a special day in the United States. Most of the men and women who had served in the war were home because of the surrender of Germany and Japan. ___67___

Ⅱ. Translation

Section A

Directions：Complete the following sentences according to the Chinese. 68. With our joint efforts, ________________ sooner or later. 在我们的共同努力下，我们的梦想迟早会实现的。 69. Although she was short of money, ___________________ 尽管手头拮据，她还是买下了她喜欢的那件大衣。

Section B

Directions：Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 70. 互联网必将给我们的生活带来更多的影响。（sure） 71. 你能在下周前完成这么高要求的任务吗？（capable）

72. 你用纸做的那朵花看起来太真了，我都很难把它跟那些真的花区分开来。（apart）

Ⅱ. Writing

Directions：Write an English composition in 80-100 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 曾有一首歌这样唱道：“感谢明月照亮了夜空，感谢朝霞捧出了黎明，感谢春光融化了冰雪，感谢大地哺育了生灵：感谢母亲赐予我生命，感谢生活赠友谊爱情……”仔细考虑一下，你当下最想感谢谁/什么？并围绕这个话题写一篇作文，内容包括： ➢ 你感谢的对象；

➢ 感谢他/她/它的理由；

➢ 你准备用何种方式感谢他/她/它。

参

17. who 18. hardest 19. if/ when 20. which 21. when 22. what 23. in 24. everything 25. could 26. in which 27. that 28. what 29. so 30. to express 31. no matter how 32. that

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33. D 34. A 35. E 36. C 37. H 38. I 39. G 40. F 41. J

42. C 43. C 44. A 45. D 46. B 47. A 48. C 49. B 50. D 51. A 52. B 53. A . D

55. A 56. D 57. B 58. D 59. A 60. C 61. B 62. A 63. D

. A 65. D 66. B 67. A

68. our dream will come true.

69. she still bought that coat which she liked.

70. The internet is sure to have a great influence on our life.

71. Are you capable of finishing such a demanding task before next Monday.

72. The flower you made with paper look so real that it’s hard for me to tell it apart from those red flowers.

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