湖北省宜昌市第一中学2015-2016学年高一英语上学期期末考试试题

宜昌市一中2015年秋季学期高一年级期末英语试卷本试卷分四部分。

全卷满分：150分，考试用时120分钟。

第I卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案划在试卷上，录音结束后，你有两分钟的时间将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. How did the man travel?A. By car.B. By train.C. By air.2. What does the man want to do before leaving?A. Send some e-mails.B. Have breakfast.C. Buy a train ticket.3. What does the woman mean?A. She forgives the man.B. She is still angry with the man.C. She has forgotten what the man said.4. What should Betty do according to the man?A. Eat seafood.B. Have a good rest.C. Exercise more.5. Who won the tennis match yesterday?A. Mark.B. Sally’s brother.C. Sally.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。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Husband and wife.B. Neighbors.C. Colleagues.7. What name does the woman want to give the baby?A. Robert.B. Albert.C. Lawrence.听第7段材料，回答第8至第10题。

8. When does the conversation take place?A. In the morning.B. In the afternoon.C. In the evening.9. What’s the man’s health insurance number?A. 2658A.B. 88564802.C. 5559008.10. What’s the man’s problem?A. His back hurts.B. He has a fever.C. He has a stomachache.听第8段材料，回答第11至第14题。

11. What does the man say about the hotel?A. The food was great.B. He was surprised about the fridge.C. The beds were not very comfortable.12. When is the pool open?A. At six o’clock in the morning.B. At five o’clock in the afternoon.C. At eight o’clock in the evening.13. How much should the man pay?A. $ 116.B. $ 130.C. $ 160.14. How will the man pay for the bill?A. By credit card.B. By traveler’s check.C. In cash.听第9段材料，回答第15至第17题。

15. What are the speakers doing?A. Visiting a college.B. Attending a party.C. Attending a club.16. Where was the woman born?A. In Germany.B. In America.C. In Britain.17. What does the man invite the woman to do next Monday?A. Visit a museum.B. Have dinner with him.C. See an exhibition.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Who is the speaker?A. An air hostess.B. A tour guide.C. An airline clerk.19. What should Mr. Jones do when he checks in?A. Show his ticket and passport and weigh his luggage.B. Open his luggage and have it checked.C. Check in his hand luggage first.20. What is the speaker talking about at last?A. The departure tax(离境税).B. The arrival time.C. The seat number.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15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。

AI work part-time in a supermarket across from a building for the elderly. These old people are our main customers, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man walked up to my register（收款机）with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash,had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He asked if we could let him have the food on trust. He promised to repay me the next day.I couldn’t help staring at him, I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if luck had gone his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world, I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up. “If a nything, ”he looked more pitiable. “Charge it to me” was all he said.What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy. Compassion(同情), on the other hand, is caring in action. I thanked the second man but told him that was not allowed either, then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself. I reached into my pocket because these two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion.21. The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits ________.A. promised to obey the store rulesB. forgot to take any money with himC. hoped to have the food first and pay laterD. could not afford anything more expensive22. The writer followed the store rules because ________.A. he wanted to keep his present jobB. he felt no pity for the old gentlemanC. he considered the old man dishonestD. he expected someone else to pay for the old man23. What does the writer learn from his experience?A. wealth is more important than anything else.B. Helping others is easier said than done.C. experience is better gained through practice.D. Obeying the rules means more than compassion.BA new United Nations report shows that fish farming may soon be the world’s most important provider of fish. The Food and Agriculture Organization says fish farming is growing at a rate of 6.6 percent a year.Fish farming now produces forty-six percent of the world’s supply of fish. That represents a fort y-three percent increase from 2006. The report also said fish farming earned more money in 2008 than traditional fisheries.In fish farming, fish are raised in tanks or small bodies of water called ponds. They are also raised in cages or nets in oceans, lakes and rivers. The report says increased fish farming has helped people around the world eat record amounts of fish. The FAO says each person ate an average of almost seventeen kilograms of fish last year.However, the FAO says the current(当前的) yearly wild-fish harvest of ninety million tons shows no improvement. Decreasing numbers of fish and stronger catch limits have reduced the possibilities for catching wild fish. The FAO report says about thirty-two percent of world supplies are overfished. It says these supplies of fish need to be rebuilt at once.Some scientists have criticized fish farming. They say the nets and cages permit fish diseases and pests to spread. Some fish farming critics doubt whether fish farming can keep growing at the current rate. But Wally Stevens of the trade group Global AquacultureAlliance says the industry must continue developing to feed growing populations. Mr. Stevens says a one hundred percent increase in fish farming over ten years is necessary to keep providing for people at the current level. He notes that fish farming creates jobs and wealth, especially for people in coastal areas of China.24. We learn that since the year 2006, fish farming has been ______.A. earning more money than traditional fisheriesB. producing 46% of the world’s supply of fishC. growing at a rate of 6.6 percent each dayD. developing rapidly around the world25. According to Paragraph 3, thanks to fish farming, people around the world are able to ______.A. eat much bigger fishB. eat much healthier fishC. eat more fish than beforeD. buy more kinds of fishes26. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?A. Catching wild fish no longer brings benefits.B. There is no futu re for the market of wild fish.C. It costs too much to rebuild supplies of fish.D. It is harder to catch wild fish than before.27. What does Wally Stevens think of fish farming?A. It must develop fast to supply a growing population.B. It cannot keep growing at the current rate.C. It is not a good way of raising fish.D. It doesn’t have disadvantages at all.C“The Lord of the Rings”, one of the best sellers in the new millennium（千年）, was made up of three parts——“The Fellowship of the Ring”, “Two Towers”, and “The Return of the King”. Millions upon millions of people have read it in over 25 different languages, but fewer know about the author and the history of the composition of the creative masterwork.John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in South Africa in 1892. His parents died when he was a child. Living in England with his aunt, Tolkien and his cousins made up play languages, a hobby that led to Tolkien’s becoming skilled in W elsh, Greek, Gothic, Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon.After graduating from Oxford, Tolkien served in World War I. In 1917, while recovering from trench fever, he began composing the mythology for The Rings. As a professor of Anglo-Saxon in 1930s at Oxford, Tolkien was part of an informal discussion group called the Inklings, which included several writers. The group was soon listening to chapters of Tolkien’s imaginative work “The Hobbit”.Hobbit was a name Tolkien created for a local people that could best be described as half-sized members of the Eng lish rural class. Hobbits live in hillside holes. One of them, Bilbo Baggins, looks for treasures with a group of dwarves（侏儒）. On the way, he meets the twisted, pitiful creature Gollum, from whom he sees a golden ring that makes the holder invisible.One of Tolkien’s students persuaded her employer, publisher Allen & Unw in, to look at a draft（草稿）. The chairman of the firm, Stanley Unwin, thought that the best judge for a children’s book would be his ten-year-old son. The boy earned a shilling for reporting back that the adventure was exciting, and “The Hobbit” was publish ed in 1937.It sold so well that Unwin asked for a continuation. Over a dozen years later, in 1954, Tolkien produced “The Lord of the Rings”, a series of books so creative that they hold readers—new and old —after their publication.28．What can we learn from the text?A．“The Lord of the Rings” didn’t sell well in the last millennium.B．People know better about Tolkien himself than about his works.C．Tolkien was quite familiar with Old English.D．Tolkien knew very well about different kinds of local languages in Africa. 29．What can we learn about “Hobbit” that Tolkien created in his works?A．Hobbit was a race living in English downtown areas.B．Hobbit was a local people who were very tall and strong.C．Hobbit was a social group of people who lived in old castles.D．Hobbit was a group of people who were mostly dwarves.30．Which of the following helped most in making “The Hobbit” published?A．One of Tolkien’s students.B．Stanley Unwin’s son.C．Allen & Unwin. D．Bilbo Baggins.31．Which of the follow ing shows the right order of Mr J.R.R.Tolkien’s life experience?a．He had his “The Hobbit” published.b．He became a member of the lnklings.c．He served in World War I.d．He became an undergraduate at Oxford.e．His work “The Lord of the Rings” ca me to the world.f．He moved to England to live with his aunt.A．f-d-b-c-a-e B．f-d-c-b-a-e C．f-c-d-b-e-a D．d-f-c-a-b-eDResearchers said that waitresses who wear red get up to 26 percent extra in tips than they would wearing other colors. However, the team finds that the sexes tip very differently—with the bigger tips coming only from male customers.No matter what color they wear, female diners will give the same kind of amounts for service every time. Yet men, whether they realize it or not, add anything between 15 and26 percent more to a waitress in red than they would if it was the same waitress wearinga different color.The test was simple. Take 11 waitresses in five restaurants over a six-week period and ask them to wear the same kind of T-shirt every day but change the colors. Previous research has suggested waitresses could earn more if they acted charmingly or wore more make-up than their colleagues. But this study, by the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, only changed the color of the T-shirt. Every other aspect from make-up to behavior remained the same.When wearing either black, white, green, blue or yellow T-shirts, the size of the tips from both male and female customers was almost identical. But when they wore red, the size of the tips went up by between 15 and 26 percent from male customers, yet stayed the same from female ones.A total of 272 restaurant customers were studied by researchers Nicolas Gueguen and Celine Jacob for the international journal of the tourism industry.Even as a T-shirt, it shows just how much the color red is thought, by men, to increase the physical and sexual attractiveness of woman, said the researchers.The researchers wrote: As red color has no negative effect on women customers, it could be in their interest to wear clothes at work.32. The underlined word “identical” in Para. 4 probably means____________________.A．different B．similar C．the same D．small33. According to the passage, in the research by the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research waitresses could earn more by _________________.A．wearing red T-shirts B．putting on attractive make-upC．changing the color of T-shirts D．behaving themselves34. Which of the following is right according to the passage?A．Bright color can increase the physical and sexual attractiveness of women.B．Waitresses in red make no difference to female customers.C．Make-up makes no difference to man customers.D．Whether male customers tips more or not depends on service.35. What is the main idea of the passage?A．People tip differently if waitresses wear different make-up.B．Waitresses who wear red get more tips than they would wearing other colors.C．Male customers are more interested in the red color.D．Red color has no negative effect on female customers.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。