2020年春季鄂东南省级示范高中教育教学改革联盟学校期中联考高一英语试卷命题学校：孝感高中命题教师：马娟吝冬梅郑舒文谢惠娟审题教师：谢惠娟柯云考试时间：2020年05月30日晚上19:00—21:00试卷满分：150分第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。
录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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’s the weather like now?A.Sunny.B.Cloudy.C.Rainy.2.What’s the relationship between the speakers?A.Teacher and student.B.Customer and saleswoman.C.Doctor and patient.3.Where are the speakers now?A.In Manchester.B.In Blackpool.C.In Paris.4.Why did the woman quit his job?A.Because it wasn’t challenging.B.Because it wasn’t full at all.C.Because it didn’t pay well.5.What are the speakers talking about?A.Air condition.B.A future plan.C.Health condition.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6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6.What was wrong with the woman?A.She fell off a tree.B.She was hit by a car.C.She hurt her leg.7.Where does the conversation take place?A.In a park.B.In a hospital.C.In their house.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8.What is the main purpose of the man’s visit to the United States?A.To go sighting-seeing.B.To attend a conference.C.To pay a visit to a friend.9.What’s the man’s job?A.A worker.B.A policeman.C.A photographer.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10.How long will the woman stay in London?A.For half a year.B.For two days.C.For a year.11.What will the girl probably do next Monday?A.Take an examination.B.Hand in her book report.C.Put a timetable on the notice board.12.What does the man think of the girl in class?A.Active.B.Quiet.C.Impolite.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13.Where did the woman want to go on Sunday?A.To the History Museum.B.To the Military Museum.C.To the Middle Street.14.Why didn’t the woman see any ancient Chinese paintings?A.There was no display.B.They arrived there late.C.The museum didn’t open.15.Which bus did the woman take to the Middle Street?A.No.15.B.No.23.C.No.30.16.How does the man feel about the woman’s experience?A.Shameful.B.Terrible.C.Joyful.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.What is“Survival Holidays”?A.An activity for training children.B.A holiday for educating children.C.An idea for challenging children.18.Why do so many parents like“Survival Holidays”?A.To learn how to look after children.B.To give their children a change in life.C.To have children experience country life..19.What does the speaker think about parents today?A.They’ve spent too much time playing.B.They’ve been too far away from nature.C.They’ve cared too much about children.20.Why should children learn about the skills?A.To keep them safe in nature.B.To survive in difficult times.C.To help them in everyday life.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10小题；每小题 2.5分，满分25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。
AA handwritten letter by a little boy asking Santa for a“very good dad”has captured hearts worldwide.The boy,known only as“Blake”in the letter,wrote,“Dear Santa,We had to leave our house.Dad was mad. We had to do all the chores.Dad got everything he wanted.Mom said it was time to leave and she would take us to a safer place where we don't have to be scared.”“Blake is a7-year-old boy in one of our shelters,and his mom found this letter in his backpack...”Posted by SafeHaven of Tarrant County on Wednesday,December18,2019.“I'm still nervous.I don't want to talk to the other kids,”he continued.“Are you going to come this Christmas? Can you bring a dictionary,and a compass and a watch?”The most heart-wrenching part of the letter was the last line that read,“I also want a very very very good dad.Can you do that too?”Officials with SafeHaven of Tarrant County,a group seeking to help end domestic(家庭的)violence,posted Blake’s letter to its Facebook page.Now,some of the child’s wishes have come true.All of the gifts he asked for have been donated by people in the community.Though SafeHaven received more than10,000gifts this year,they want to shine a light on the bigger issue of domestic violence.“To us,it was kind of a story that we’ve heard all the time,”Kathryn Jacob,the organization’s president and CEO,told Today.“Like tonight,we have73kids in the shelter.”“Blake is just one of many.”21.The little boy asked Santa for a“very good dad”because_________.A.his dad was too strict with himB.he was forced to do all the choresC.he was ill-treated by his dadD.his dad didn’t buy him any gifts22.What do we know about SafeHaven?A.It has received a lot of concern so far.B.It provides services for homeless children.C.It posted Blake’s letter without permission.D.Part of its goal is to earn money.23.What is Kathryn Jacob’s purpose by saying the words in the last paragraph?A.To advertise their shelter.B.To introduce their shelter.C.To tell more information about Blake.D.To draw attention to domestic violence.BSince September about11m hectares of Australia have been in flames.This year’s fires are the worst on record,with at least26people dead,about half-billion animals burned alive,and over2300homes destroyed. Australians of all species are suffering the most.But the fires have serious consequences for the rest of the world, too.New Zealand,one of Australia’s closest neighbors,is feeling the effects of the bushfires.The most important effect of the fires might be on the country’s glaciers,about which Helen Clark,New Zealand’s former prime minister,tweeted:“Australian bushfires have created haze（烟雾）in New Zealand with particular impact on the South Island yesterday and now spreading more widely.Impact of ash on glaciers is likely to speed melting（融化）.”Melting glaciers could open up a future none of us wants to suffer.There’s no such thing as weather that happens in isolation.As a recent Forbes article reports,fires have the potential to not only block visibility（能见度）for airplanes,grounding them,but to create pockets of hotter or colder air,or create situations where the weather is increasingly less stable（稳定的）—although no one is yet certain how far from the Australian continent those effects might wander,or how harmful they may prove to be.In addition to coal,Australia also exports all kinds of agricultural products—like beef and wool—particularly to Asian countries including China and Japan.But what happens when the land it uses to grow all that food and fiber is destroyed by fire?Obviously,no more goods to export,which creates a huge problem in the international supply chain.Thanks to globalization,pretty much no country eats only the food it grows.What happens to the global food supply as agricultural land in Australia and other export nations burns to a crisp?24.What can we learn about the Australian bushfires?A.They’ve left most of Australian land in flames.B.They’ve speeded the melting of glaciers.C.They will certainly create hotter air.D.No one is certain how harmful their effects will be on climate.25.What’s the author’s attitude towards the future of the global food supply?A.Doubtful.B.Objective.C.Concerned.D.Indifferent.26.What is the best title for the text?A.The Effects of the Australian Bushfires on Climate ChangeB.Australian Bushfires:a Big Disaster to the CountryC.What the Australian Bushfires Mean for the Rest of the World?D.Why the Australian Bushfires Affect the Rest of the World?CFor two centuries,the famous University of Cambridge debating society has hosted many prominent figures, from world leaders to scientists to comedians.On Nov21,the Cambridge Union hosted another extraordinary guest—a non-human debater called Project Debater.Designed by IBM,Project Debater is a machine that uses Artificial Intelligence(AI)to form a spoken argument.It can even listen and answer to opposite statements,much like a real person.In the Cambridge test debate,it argued the topic:AI will ultimately（最终）do more harm than good.Before the debate,more than1,100arguments for the positives and negatives of AI were submitted（递交）to the IBM website.The machine then analyzed these sources and formed the basis of its arguments in minutes.Project Debater then showed off its AI by arguing for both sides of the debate.Over a four-minute speech,it argued first that,“AI can only make decisions that it has been programmed to solve,while humans can be programmed for all situations.”In support of AI,it then argued that AI would create new jobs and“bring a lot more efficiency”to the workplace.This isn’t the first test for Project Debater.In June2018,the machine went back-and-forth for20minutes against champion debater Harish Natarajan.According to New Scientist,on both occasions,Project Debater repeated points and didn’t always sufficiently （充分地）support them.Speaking to Cambridge Independent,Noam Slonim,the project’s lead engineer,said,“The AI is not perfect, but it’s going in the right direction.”The team hopes to improve the AI by researching why humans find certain arguments more persuasive than others.They also hope the test might provide well-informed viewpoints for society, governments and private companies.27.What does the underlined word“prominent”mean in paragraph one?A.Intelligent.B.Outstanding.C.Well-educated.D.Creative.28.According to the passage,Project Debater.A.can make decisions for all situationsB.argued with itself in the Cambridge test debateC.can always find enough evidence to support its ideaD.defeated champion debater Harish Natarajan in June201829.What does Noam Slonim think of the AI?A.It’s not so beneficial to humans.B.It will defeat humans in time.C.It remains to be improved.D.It will ultimately do more harm than good.30.This passage above can be most probably read in_________.A.a newspaperB.a guidebookC.a textbookD.a research paper第二节（共5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。