高一英语下学期期末试卷（答题时间：100分钟满分：120分）Ⅰ. 单项选择(每小题1分，共15分)1.Being able to afford drink wouldbe comfort in those tough times.A. the; theB. a; aC. a; 不填D. 不填; a2. Many people expect that credit cards will eventually __ ___ paper money for almost everything.A. tradeB. exchangeC. replaceD. reduce3. Whoever breaks the law will not escape ___ __.\A. punishingB. being punishedC. to punishD. to be punished4. Honesty is a kind of quality and that’s what it takes to ________ with others successfully.A. sayB. reportC. communicateD. tell5. Don’t ________ anything to others for it is still under discussion.A. give awayB. give outC. give upD. give off6. _______ _no point in beating around the bush. Let’s_______ _.A. It’s; come straight to the pointB. There’s; come to the pointC. This is; get to the pointD. That is; reach the point$7. The newcomers found it impossible to ___ __themselves to the climate sufficiently to make permanent homes in the new country.A. suitB. adaptC. fitD. match8. The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see ___ __the next year.A. carry outB. carrying outC. carried outD. to carry out9. The moment the 29th Olympic Games ____ __open, the whole world cheered.A. declaredB. have been declaredC. have declaredD. were declared10. Every day each of us makes decisions that involve __ ___a chance.）A. to takeB. takingC. be takenD. in taking11. _____ ___the website of the Fire Department in your city, and you will learn firefighting.A. Having searchedB. To searchC. SearchingD. Search12. There’s no _ ____to what you can do if you try.A. numberB. wonderC. limitD. matter13. You are not permitted __ ____in public places.A. spittingB. spitC. to spitD. spits[14.—I will come to attend your lecture at 10∶00 tomorrow.—I’m sorry, by then my lecture will have ended and I ___ ___my guests in my office.A. is being metB. will meetC. will be meetingD. will have met15.—May I help you You seem to be having some problems.—, thanks. I think I can manage.A. All rightB. No problemC. It’s all rightD. There’s no way、Ⅱ. 完形填空（每小题1分，共20小题，共计20分）Mobile phones are everywhere. It seems that no one can 16 without one. Mobile phones are a great way to stay 17 with friends and family. 18 it is important to remember that there are certain 19 when you should not be using your phone, the most important of these being during 20 .There is no reason 21 you should feel the need to have your mobile phone during class. Aren’t you at school to 22 If you are in class, you should not be 23 your friends text messages or taking phone calls.In America students would never be 24 to use their mobile phones during class. If you were to send or 25 a text message you would probably be kicked out of class. It is OK to have your mobile phone with you, you just need to remember to turn it 26 . It is very disturbing to hear a lot of tones and 27 during class.As a teacher in China, I have to deal with students 28 mobile phones everyday. I have told my class to turn off their phones, 29 many students do not listen. The desire to be connected all the time seems to be 30 than the desire to learn.It’s easy to understand why it is so tempting(诱惑人的)to have your phone on during class. It seems so 31 to just send a short text message; it’s not 32 anyone, is it But you may actually be hurting yourself when you do this. Sending a text message also 33 your attention away from what’s 34 in class, you may miss 35 important. The next time you think about sending a message in class you should think again. 16. A. survive B. act C. study D. peak17. A. friendly B. close C. connected D. natural^18. A. Instead B. However C. Sometimes D. Finally19. A. times B. days C. hours D. weeks20. A. shopping B. meeting C. rest D. school21. A. when B. that C. why D. where22. A. play B. learn C. help D. fight23. A. sending B. writing C. posting D. retaining24. A. hoped B. wished C. allowed D. encouraged25. A. keep B. help C. take D. receive@26. A. on B. in C. out D. off27. A. ringing B. sound C. voice D. shouts28. A. thinking B. using C. considering D. bringing29. A. and B. so C. but D. then30. A. faster B. stronger C. lower D. easier31. A. cheap B. hard C. easy D. brave32. A. hurting B. meeting C. knowing D. killing33. A. pays B. puts C. breaks D. takes。

34. A. coming on B. going through C. going on D. coming by35. A. everything B. something C. anything D. nothingⅢ. 阅读理解（每小题2分，共20小题，共计40分）AI’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, lookingat the ink bottle, pens and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,”she said again, “is for Elizabeth.”I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.(They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface”.As years passed and I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.I posted the letter and waited for her answer, none came.My hope turned to disappointment, then little interest and, finally, peace it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to Mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.Now the present of her desk told me, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside — a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded(折叠) and refolded many times.Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose, Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.36. The writer began to love her mother’s desk ___ ____.A. after Mother diedB. before she became a writer—C. when she was a childD. when mother gave it to her37. The passage shows that ___ ____.A. Mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughterB. Mother was too serious about everything her daughter had doneC. Mother cared much about her daughter in wordsD. Mother wrote to her daughter in careful words38. The under lined word “gulf”in the passage means ____ ___.A. deep understanding between the old and the young{B. different ideas between the mother and the daughterC. free talks between mother and daughterD. part of the sea going far in land39. What did Mother do with her daughter’s letter asking for forgivenessA. She had never received the letter.B. For years, she often talked about the letter.C. She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in all her life.D. She read the letter again and again till she died.】40. What’s the best title of the passageA. My letter to MotherB. Mother and ChildrenC. My Mother’s DeskD. Talks between Mother and meBComputer programmer David Jones earned ￡35, 000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18.He works for a small firm in Liverpool, where most young people of his age are finding jobs. David’s biggest headache is what to do with his money. Though he has high payment, he cannot drive a car, or get credit cards(信用卡).David got his job four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels(普通成绩) and working for a time in a computer shop. “I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs.”he said.·“I suppose ￡35, 000 sounds a lot but I hope it will come to more than that this year.” He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother ￡20 a week as he lives with his parents. But most of his spare time is spent working.“Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school,” he said. “But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway. I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement(退休) is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear.”41. Why is David so different from other young people of his ageA. He earns an extremely high payment.B. He has got a job.C. He lives at home with his parents.D. He does not go out much.42. David’s greatest problem is that _________________.：A. he can’t be treated as an adult by the bankB. he doesn’t make as many games as he wishesC. he doesn’t know what to buy with the moneyD. he is too young to drive a car43. He was employed by the company because _________________.A. he had worked in a computer shopB. he had written some computer programsC. he is clever and works hard at his lessons}D. he had learnt to use computers at school44. He left school after taking six O-levels because _________________.A. he was afraid of getting too old to start computingB. he did not enjoy schoolC. he wanted to work with computersD. he wanted to earn a lot of money45. Why does David think he might retire earlyA. He thinks computer games might not always sell so well.）B. He wants to stop working when he is a millionaire.C. One has to be young to write computer programs.D. He thinks his firm might close down.CGood evening. Tonight’s broadcast brings together music from different corners of the world. The records we have chosen for you are from classical(古典的)Western music, Indian music, pop and a Negro spiritual. In this broadcast we shall study the language of music. We shall try to find out how music says what people feel. You will hear a Beethoven piece, a composition(乐曲) for the sitar(锡塔琴), and songs sung by a pop group and some black Americans. It will be natural if you like one more than the others. I shall be trying to explain why they are all good music.The feeling in each of these 4 musical compositions is sadness. You can find sadness in words, in paintings, and in music. The word “music” comes from the Greek word “muse”. The muses were goddesses(女神)of the arts. It is like the spoken language, but uses sounds differently. In the spiritual and the pop song you will hear voices. The words are part of the musical composition. In the other pieces you will hear only the piano or the sitar.I will comment(评论)after each record is played. Music is now heard everywhere, in shops and buses and at home. We shall be trying to find out more about how music works. It is worth making the effort. Only then can we say why one piece of music is good and another bad.46. The underlined word “spiritual” in “Negro spiritual” probably means _______.|A. songB. poemC. sentenceD. article47. The first paragraph in this article mainly shows us _________________.A. that music is popular in the worldB. some American songsC. some Beethoven piano piecesD. why people like music48. The feeling of the famous musical compositions of the world given in the text is _______.A. happyB. sadC. strangeD. surprising；49. The English word “music” looks like the Greek word “muse” because ______________.A. English and Greek are the same languageB. English comes from GreekC. the word “music” is from the word “muse”D. Greek was used earlier than English50. The writer wishes us to spend time and energies to _________________.A. study and know something more about musicB. sing more popular songs in the world[C. hear more pop musical compositions in the worldD. write more encouraging compositionsDOnce upon a time, there was a lovely vegetable field, on which grew a very thick tree. Both the vegetables and the tree gave the place a wonderful appearance, which was the joy of the garden’s owner. What no one knew was that the vegetables in the field and the tree couldn’t stand each other. The vegetables hated the tree’s shadow, because it left them only just enough light to survive. The tree, on the other hand, hated the vegetables because they drank nearly all the water before it could get to him, leaving him with just enough to survive.The situation became so extreme that the vegetables got totally fed up and decided to use up all the water in the ground so that the tree would dry up. The tree answered back by refusing to give the vegetables shadow from the hot midday sun, so they both began to dry up. Before long, the vegetables were really thin and the tree’s branches were drying up.Neither of them thought that the gardener, on seeing his vegetable field becoming worse, would stop watering it. When he did that, both the tree and the vegetables really learned what thirst was. There seemed to be no solution, but one of the vegetables, a small courgette(小胡瓜), understood what was going on, and decided to deal with it. Despite the little water and the unbearable heat, the little courgette did all he could to grow, grow. He managed to grow so big that the gardener started watering the field again. The gardener wanted to enter that beautiful big courgette in some gardening contest.They should really learn how to live in harmony(和谐)with those around them, doing the best they could. So they decided to work together, and help each other instead of fighting, using both the shadow and the water in the best combination to grow good vegetables. Seeing how well they were doing, the gardener now gave the best of care to his vegetable field, watering it better than any other field for miles around.【51. From the passage, we can learn _____________________.A. the gardener was very lazyB. the tree and vegetables grew very well at firstC. the tree and vegetables got along well with each other at firstD. the gardener was satisfied with his work on the garden52. The vegetables and the tree fought for _____________________.A. living spaceB. the gardener’s attentionC. attending the contestD. their own good:53. What drew the garden’s owner’s attention to the field againA. Some gardening contests.B. The fight between plants.C. The big and beautiful courgette.D. The wonderful appearance in the garden.54. What was out of the expectation of the tree and vegetablesA. That the gardener stopped watering them.B. That the courgette understood what was happening.|C. That they could live together.D. That they could take part in the contest.55. How can one live in harmony with others according to the passageA. By learning to stop being angry with others.B. By learning to be thankful.C. By respecting others and oneself.D. By working together and helping each other.。