河南省商丘市第一高级中学高一英语上学期期末考试试题

1 商丘一高2014-2015学年第一学期期末考试试题

高一英语试卷

注意：

1.本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分，共150分；考试时间100分钟；

2.第I卷的答案请用2B铅笔涂在答题卷上；第II卷请用0.5毫米黑色签字笔写在指定位置上；

3.交卷时只交答题卷。

第I卷（三部分，共105分）

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节 20小题；每小题3分，满分60分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分）

阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项中, 选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

A

Henry Ford was the first person to build cars which were cheap，strong and fast．He was able to

sell millions of models because he could produce them in large numbers at a time；that is，he made a

great many cars of exactly the same kind．Ford’s father hoped that his son would become a farmer，but the young man did not like the idea and he went to Detroit（底特律）where he worked as a mechanic（机械师）．By the age of 29，in 1892，he had built his first car．However，the car made in this way，the famous “Model T” did not appear until 1908，five years after Ford had started his great motor

car factory．This car showed to be well-known that it remained unchanged for twenty years．Since Ford’s

time，this way of producing cars in large numbers has become common in industry and has reduced the

price of many goods which would otherwise be very expensive．

21．Henry Ford was the man to build _____ cars．

A．strong and slow B．cheap and long

C．fast and expensive D．cheap and strong

22．Ford was able to sell millions of cars，because_____．

A. he made lots of cars of the same kind B. his cars are many

C. he made many great cars D. both A and B

23．The young man became a mechanic，_______．

A．which was against his father’s will

B．which was against his own will

C．which was his father’s will

D．which was the will of both

24．The “Model T” was very famous_____．

A．before 1908 B．between 1982 and 1908

C．after 1908 D．before 1892

25．Ford built his own car factory

A． in 1913 B．in 1908 C．in 1903 D．in 1897

B

A woman from Japan, who had visited major businesses and investment companies in New York City, was

telling a friend about her trip to the US. "I studied English before I left home. But I still was not

sure that people were speaking English."

Her problem is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere.

They have a language of their own. Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of

their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie

industry. One such saying is get your act together. 2 When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry. He may shout, "Stop making mistakes.

Get your act together." Or, if the employer is calmer, he may say, "Let us get our act together." Either

way, the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually

means to develop a calm and orderly plan of action.

It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and

made a lot of mistakes. The director may have said, "Calm down, now. Get your act together." Word expert

James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s. He says the Manchester Guardian newspaper

used it in 1978. The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act

together.

Now, this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet. One company even called its

yearly report, "Getting Our Act Together."

26. Paragraph 1 is written mainly to .

A. tell us the Japanese woman's English is poor

B. tell us it is important to grasp spoken English

C. lead to the subject in the whole passage

D. tell us traveling in the US is very difficult

27. The reason why the woman was not sure that people were speaking English was that .

A. they speak too fast to follow

B. they have some special words and expressions of their own in their field

C. they didn't want the woman to learn their experience

D. they are from theater and movie industry

28. We can infer that the saying "get your act together" .

A. began from movie industry

B. was created by word expert James Rogers in the 1970s

C. was first used by the Manchester Guardian newspaper

D. is used commonly in businesses and investment companies at present

29. The best title for the passage is .

A. Different Countries, Different Languages

B. The Experience in the US

C. How to Learn English Well

D. The Word and Its Story: Get Your Act Together

C

India has many festivals, with some celebrations that last for weeks. However, none of them come

even

close to Holi, India’s most colorful and fun festival. Celebrated on the day following the full moon,