源清中学2023-2024学年高一上学期期中考试
英语试卷
第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)
注意，听力部分答题时请先将答案标在试卷上，听力部分结束前你将有两分钟的时间将答案转徐到答题卡上，
第一节(共5小题：每小题1.5分，共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、短段对话仅读一遍。
1.What will Dimid probably do next
A. Call his dad. B.Check his room. C.Write a report.
2.What is the final holiday plan of the woman's family
A.Going surfing. B.Going cycling. C.Going hiking.
3.What are the speakers mainly talking about
A.A city. B.A postcard. C.A business trip.
4. What is the woman doing
A.Trying on a blouse. B.Having an interview. C.Choosing a handbag.
5.Whar's wrong with the man
A.He has a cold. B.He hurts his head. C.He coughs badly.
第二节(共15小题：每小题1.5分，共22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有2至4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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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。听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6.Where are the speakers probably
A.In a hotel. B.At an airport. C.In a car.
7.How does the man like tomorrow's plan
A.Disappointing. B.Boring. C.Exciting.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
8.What did the woman help do in Ghana
A.Teach children at a school. B.Build houses for the locals. C.Care for wild animals.
9.What is the contact number of the volunteer programme
A.212-831-72/2, B.212-831-7172. C.212-831-7372
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
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10.When was the interview supposed to start
A.At 7:40 a.m. B.At 8:00 a.m. C.At 8:20 a.m.
11.Why was Bruce stopped by the boss
A.He failed to answer the,question well
B.The boss had to attend a meeting.
C.Someone called the boss.
12.What did the boss ask Bruce to do
A.Set out earlier next time.
B.Come again three days later.
C.Leave his personal information.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
13.Where does Sally want to ge
A.The zoo. B.The London Eye. C.The Covent Garden.
14.What is Billy interested in
A.Boats. B.Operas. C.Paintings.
15.What does the man advise the woman to do in Oxford Street
A.Do some shopping. B.Enjoy an opera. C.Visit her parents.
16 What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A.Mother and son. B.Guide and visitor. C. Husband and wife.
听下面一段独白、回答以下小题。
17.What is Ham interested in.
A.Collecting glass bottles. B.Building special houses. C.Making things out of bottles.
18.Why did Ham decide to build the special house
A.Because of his kids' encouragement.
B.Because of his second son's death.
C.Because of his eldest son's birth.
19.What makes the house more interesting
A.It costs much less. B.It is very strong. C.It's the only one in the world.
20.What did Ham do about the house
A.He donated it to an art gallery.
B.He decorated it and lived in it.
C.He used it as a wedding present.
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，共37.5分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg,born around the year 1400 in Germany,is widely regarded as the inventor of the printing press.Before about 1450,most books were copied by hand.This made them extremely time-consuming to produce and expensive to buy.But in 1455 Gutenberg developed a machine which could print multiple copies of the same book.Gutenberg did not achieve financial success as a result of his breakthrough,but his invention helped to spread knowledge across Europe and was a major factor in the Renaissance.
Louis Braille
Born in France in 1809,Louis Braille became blind at the age of three in an accident that occurred in his father's workshop.When he was ten,he earned a place ata special school for blind children in Paris.In 1821,Charles Barbiera,a former soldier,visited the school and talked about a code that he'd invented which allowed soldiers to share information on the battlefield without speaking.Impressed by this idea,Louis worked on his own code to help the blind read.The code that Louis invented has become standard throughout the world.
Samuel F.B.Morse
Samuel Morse,born in 1791 in Massachusetts,USA,started his career not as an inventor but as a painter.He had great artistic talent and soon became well-known forhis portraits,but he also had a passion for new technology.In 1832,while travelling home by sea from Europe,he overheard a conversation about the newly-discovered electromagnet(电磁铁),and this gave him the idea for a new form of communication—the electric telegraph.Although other inventors had developed similar machine,Morse's worked better and he got the patent in 1854.
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell,a pioneer in the field of telecommunications,was born in 1847 in Edinburgh,Scotland.Perhaps because of his mother's hearing problems,Bellhad a particular interest in the education of deaf people.This led him to invent the microphone.Bell was not the only inventor working in this field,but his lawyer managed to secure(获得)the all-important patent which gave Bell ownership of the idea.
21.According to the passage,what do the four people have in common
A.All of them had several failures before their success. B.All of them had a miserable life in the beginning.
C.All of them are pioneers in their own areas. D.All of them made a big fortune in their lives.
22.Who had another career before starting to invent
A.Johannes Gutenberg B.Samuel F B.Morse. C.Louis Braille. D.Alexander Graham Bell
23.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage
A.Louis Braille was inspired by a military invention.
B.Johannes Gutenberg had a dirficult time during his education.
C.Samuel F.B.Morse helped to educate people in many countries.
D.Alexander Graham Bell suffered a terrible injury at a young age.
B
In 1984,I was a painfully insecure teenage girl from a dysfunctional(关系异常的)family,depressed,underweight,and rejected by my classmates.My only comfort was to be the stage manager at our school.
One day,actors from the famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival came to perform for the school.One of them was Barry Kraft,and he was unlike anyone I'd ever met.As Iran around backstage helping him,he treated me with friendliness and respect that he would show for friends in his living room.
He showed up at our drama class and asked everyone to narrate a monologue (独白).To my shock,he took me aside after class and said,"Your monologue was the best.That was really very good.”
I made it through graduation and got accepted to college.That summer,I traveled with a friend to see Mr.Kraft perform.During one performance,I gathered up my courage and dropped him a note during the break,saying I was visiting and if helooked he could see us.Almost immediately I regretted sending the note.I thought it was the most presumptuous(冒失的)thing I had ever done.
At the end of the show,he was waiting for me!He smiled broadly and gave me a hug.Then he said,“Would you like to visit backstage ”And off we went.Every time we met someone,he introduced me and said,"She's a very good performer who was a huge help to me at her school visit.”
It is difficult to describe how important this man's attention was to me.A successful actor doesn't have to give a depressed teenager the time of day,but he did far more.My confidence had just increased 800 percent.I am now a happily married professional,and whenever I notice a teenager in need,I remember Barry Kraft.He saw a teenager in need of attention and support,and he.took the time to help.So now I take the time,too
24.What do we know about the author
A.She was loved by her parents. B.She felt left out by her classmates.
C.She suffered terribly from stage fright. D.She was troubled by the issue of overweight.
25.Which of the following can best describe Barry Kraft
A.Friendly and considerate B.Intelligent and patient. C.Committed and generous. D.Confident and energetic.
26.What can be inferred from the last paragraph
A.The author will continue with her education. B.Barry Kraft will team up with the author.
C.Barry Kraft inspired the author to study drama. D.The author will make efforts to assist teenagers.
27.What's the purpose of the text
A.To introduce a famous actor. B.To encourage people to overcome difficulties.
C.To share the author's experience and its impact on her. D.To explain the reason why the author loves stage management.
C
The cultures of the East and the West are really different from each other a lot.This is because the culture systems are two separate ones on the whole.
The origin of the Eastern culture is mainly from two countries:China and India.Both of the two cultures are developed by rivers —the Yellow River in China and the Hindu River in India.They helped the two cultures develop for centuries and form their own styles.
When the two mother rivers gave birth to the Eastern culture,another famous culture was up on the Mesopotamian plain-the Mesopotamian Civilization.This civilization later on developed into the cultures of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.And these two are well-known as the base of the European culture.Like the Chinese culture,the European culture also crossed waters.When the British settled down in America,their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean.So the American culture doesn't have much difference from the European culture.
At the same time,some other differences add to the cultural differences.Take the language system for example,in the East,most languages belong to the pictographic(象形的)language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Iatin system.Other causes like human race differences count as well.What's more,due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and the West,the two cultures seldom commumicate until recent centuries.So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.
The differences are everywhere.They are obvious and make people's ways of thinking and their views of the world different.But different cultures make the world of the 21st century more colorful.The cultural difference should not be the obstacle(障碍)to the civilization of human beings.It ought to be the driving force of our going farther.
28.What is the text mainly about
A.The origin of cultures. B.Culture differences. C.Language systems. D.The colorful world.
29.Why is the American culture similar to the European culture
A.Both of the two cultures have a very long history.
B.They have the same mother rivers as the Chinese culture.
C.The early settlers from Britain brought their culture to America.
D.Both the British and the American live along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
30.Which of the following can replace the underlined word "interference"in Paragraph 4
A.Influence. B.Difference. C.Confidence. D.Environment.
31.Where is the passage most likely from
A.A diary B.A guidebook C.A novel. D.A magazine.
D
Researchers have developed a new method for training people to be creative.This new method,based on narrative(叙述的)theory,helps people be creative in the way children and artists are by making up stories that imagine alternative(不一样的)worlds,change perspective(角度)and produce unexpected actions.
“The narrative method works by recognising that we're all creative.”said Angus Fletcher,who developed the method and is a professor of English and a member of the Ohio State University's Project Narrative."We as a society completely undervalue the creativity of kids and many others because we are addicted to the idea that some people are more creative than others."
The narrative method of training for creativity uses many of the techniques that writers use to create stories.One is to develop new worlds in your mind.For example,employees al a company might be asked to imagine a world in which all their customers arc like that.Another technique is perspective-changing.An employer might be asked to answer a problem by thinking like another member of their team.“Creativity isn't about guessing the future correctly.It's about making yourself open to imagining completely different possibilities."Fletcher said."When you do that you can respond more quickly and flexibly to the changes that do occur."
Fletcher and his team are also continuing to work with new organizations,such as the Worthington Local School District in Ohio.
“It's better to hire another group of people and then train them to be creative.That creates a culture which recognises that there are already creative people in yourorganisation you aren't taking advantage of.”he said."This new method of training creativity could only have come from Ohio State University's Project Narrative,which is itself proof of the power of creativity."
32.What may make the narrative method workable according to Fletcher
A.Creating alternative stories. B.Changing new perspectives.
C.Arranging unexpected asks. D.Being aware of our creativity.
33.How does the author develop Paragraph 3
A.By using examples. B.By making comparison. C.By answering questions. D.By quoting techniques.
34.What result is expected of training creativity
A.To develop a culture gradually. B To react to changes quickly.
C.To create possibilities freely. D.To predict the future correctly.
35.What is the most suitable title for the text
A.Ways Can Be Adopted to Inspire Creativity B.The Power of Creativity Has Been Found
C.Anyone Can Be Trained to Be Creative D.A Way Is Found to Recognise Creative People
第二节(共5小题；每小题2.5分，共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。
Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning,and put the blame on the alarm clock.In fact,the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resetting your body clock.36_________ Here's how to make one.
●37_________ In order to make a change,you need to decide why it's important.Do you want to get up in time to have breakfast with your family,get in some exercise,or just be better prepared for your day Once you are clear about your reasons,tell your family or roommates about the change you want to make.
● Rethink mornings.Now that you know why you want to wake up,consider-arranging your morning activities.If you want time to have breakfast with your family,save some time the night before by setting out clothes,shoes,and bags. 38_________ That's a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.
●Keep your sleep /wake schedule on weekends.If you're tired out by Friday night,sleeping in on Saturday could sound wonderful.But compensating on the weekends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following week,a recent study found.39_________
●Keep a record and evaluate it weekly.Keep track of your efforts and write down how you feel.After you've tried a new method for a week,take a look at your record.40_________ If not,take another look at other methods you could try.
Get a sleep specialist.
Find the right motivation
A better plan for sleep can help
And consider setting a second alarm,
E.If the steps you take are working,keep it up.
F.Stick to your set bedtime and wake-up time,no matter the day.
G Reconsider the 15 minutes you spend in line at the cafe to get coffee.
第三部分语言运用(共三节，满分40分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题1分，共15分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When I entered Berkeley,I hoped to earn a scholarship.Having been a Straight-A student,I believed I could 41_____ tough subjects and really learn something.One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne.I was really interested in the ideas he 42_____ in class.
When I took the first exam,I was 43_____ to find a 77,C-plus,on my test paper,44_____ English was my best subject.I went to Professor Jayne,who listened to my 45_____ but remained unmoved.
I decided to try harder,although I didn't know what that 46_____ because school had always been easy for me.I read the books more carefully,but got another 77 again,I reasoned with Professor Jayne.Again,he listened 47_____ but wouldn't change his mind.
One more test before the final exam.One more 48_____ to improve my grade.So I redoubled my efforts and,for the first time,49_____ the meaning of the word“thorough(深入细致的)”.But my 50_____ did no good and everything went as before.
The last hurdle was the final.No matter what grade I got,it wouldn't cancelC-pluses.I might as well kiss the 51_____ goodbye.
I stopped working hard.I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would.The night before the final,I even 52_____ myself to a movie.The next day I decided for once I'd have fun with a test.
A week later,I was surprised to find I got an A.I hurried into Professor Jayne's office.He 53_____ to be expecting me.“If I gave you the A-plus as you expected,you wouldn't continue to work as hard.”
I stared at him,54_____ that his analysis and strategy were correct.I had worked my head off,as I had never done before.
I was speechless when my course grade arrived:A-plus.It was the only A-plus given.The next year I 55_____ my scholarship(奖学金).I've always remembered Professor Jayne's lesson:you alone must set your own standard of excellence.
41.take B.discuss C.cover D.get
42.A.saw B.presented C.stressed D.admired
43.A.shocked B.worried C.scared D.anxious
44.A.but B.so C.for D.or
45.A.stories B.discussions C.debates D.arguments
6 A.reflected B. meant C.improved D.affected
47.A.angrily B.patiently C.happily D.unfriendly
48.A.choice B.step C.chance D.measure
19.A.memorized B.considered C.accepted D.learned.
50.A.ambition B.confidence C.effort D.method
51.A.scholarship B.course C.degree D.subject
52.A.helped B.favored C.treated D.relaxed
53.A.happened B.proved C.pretended D.seemed
54.A.remembering B.realizing C.supposing D.guessing
55.A.received B.missed C.demanded D.Revised
第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分)阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
There are many world-famous sports stars.But I'd like to show my 56(admire)to Lang Ping.Lang Ping used 57_______ (be)a player,who brought honor and glory to her country and then 58_______ (become)a coach.When preparing for the 2015 World Cup,one of the best players got 59_______ (injure)and the team captain was seriously ill.The team was at a risk of 60_______ (fall)apart.61_______ ,Lang Ping didn't lost heart.She faced difficulties 62_______ (brave)and finally the
team won the world champions.After the match,she said the secret 63_______ her team's success was their persistence and determination.64_______ she said really makes sense.Nothing is 65_______ (important)than your courage and determination if you want to succeed.
第三节单词拼写(共10小题；每小题1分，共10分)根据首字母或者汉语提示填入适当单词，使句子意思完整。
66.The noise outside my room made me a___________ ,and I couldn't concentrate on my reading at all.
67.The teacher often tells me that I can be anyone I want as long as I'm c___________ of myself.
68.They are now in great need of help.So,your support will certainly make a d___________.
69.It is strongly r___________that you should limit the amount of fat in your diet.
70.Even when parents no longer live together,they continue to be r___________for their children.
71.Finding time for both studies and extra-curricular activities is a big challenge,so I need to make a workable s___________ .
72.Teenagers who are a___________to the Internet are more likely to suffer from depression.
73.Despite my hard work,I still failed the English exam,which left me feeling e___________disappointed.
74.C___________with a volcano,hurricane or earthquake,we humans are so weak.
75.Obviously,Chinese a___________did very well in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou and won 201 gold medals.
第四部分写作(共两节，满分30分)
第一节：应用文写作(15分)
假设你是Sam,收到了一封署名为Worried的求助信，信中该同学向你叙述了自己的困扰：最近比较容易发脾气(lose one’s temper),使正常的学习和生活受到了影响。请你用英文给该同学写一封回信，内容要点如下：
(1)表示理解并给予安慰；
(2)提出建议并说明理由。
注意：1.词数80左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
第二节：读后续写(15分)阅读短文，根据所给情节续写一个段落，使之构成·个完整的故事、
Ali and his younger sister,Zahra,lived with their parents in a poor neighborhood. Their mother was very sick and their father was struggling to find a job,and they had only a little money with which to buy food.As they had not paid the rent for several months,the landlord was breathing down their necks(盯着他们).
One day,Ali took Zahra's shoes to a shoe repairman to be fixed,but he lost them on the way home.It wasn't until he got home that he realized he had lost the shoes.He was afraid that his parents would be angry and disappointed,so he begged his sister to keep it secret.Zahra agreed and the two decided to share Ali's running shoes.Zahra's school hours were in the morning,so she would wear them first.After school,she would rush back and give them to Ali.He could then run to his school,which began in the afternoon.Although he ran as fast as he could,Ali often arrived late and was warned by the school.
Ali heard about a long distance race that was held for the boys in the city.When he learned that the third prize was a new pair of shoes,he decided to take part.He ran home excitedly and promised his sister that he would win her the new shoes.
The day of race arrived.Ali had a strong start,but halfway through the race he began to get tired and his legs began to ache.Getting more and more tired he thought only of Zahra and his promise to her.Dreaming of the new shoes he would win for his sister gave him strength.and he stayed right behind the two fastest runners,determined to finish third.Suddenly,as the finish line drew near,another runner collided(碰撞)with Ali from behind and he crashed to the ground.
注意：
1.续写词数为100左右；
2.续写部分分一段，开头语己为你写好：请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Ali looked up and saw the other boys rushing ahead.
源清中学2023-2024学年高一上学期期中考试
英语试题
答案：
听力：ABBAC/ BCCAB/BCBAA/CCBAC
阅读：CBA/BADC/BCAD/DABC
七选五：CBGFE
完形填空：ABACD/BBCDC/ACDBA
语法填空：56.admiration 57.to be 58.became 59.injured 60.falling 61.However 62.bravely 63.to 64.What 65.more important
单词拼写：66. annoyed 67.confident 68.difference 69.requested 70.responsible 71.schedule 72.addicted 73.extremely pared 75.athletes
写作略
