内蒙古呼和浩特市2016-2017学年高一英语下学期期中试卷(含解析)

2016—2017学年度第二学期期中考试

高一年级英语试卷

（卷面分值：120分，考试时长：100分钟）

一.阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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。

A

Pete Sparks was a sensitive (敏感的) boy. So sensitive that even his hair was

ticklish (怕痒的). You only had to touch his hair a little bit and he would start

laughing. When this ticklish laughter started, no one could make him stop.

Pete tried everything to control his ticklishness, but nothing worked. So he

began to feel sad for being different.

One day in the street, he met a special clown. The clown was very old and could

hardly walk, but when he saw Pete in tears, he went to cheer him up. It didn’t take

long to make Pete laugh. Later Pete told him about his ticklish problem, and he asked

the clown how such an old man could carry on being a clown.

“I have no one to take my place,” said the clown. “I have a very serious

job to do.” Pete looked at him, surprised. “Come, I’ll show you,” said the clown.

So the clown took Pete to many hospitals full of children who were sick. As soon

as they saw the clown, their faces changed completely and lit up with a smile. Their

short while spent with the clown changed everything for them. That day was even more

special, because in every show Pete’s laughter would end up with the kids lying

on the floor, dying with laughter. When the visit came to an end, the old clown said

to Pete, “Now do you see why I can’t retire (退休), even at my age?”

That was how Pete became a clown, and took the special old man’s place. From

that day on, the fact that Pete was different actually made him happy, thanks to

his special gift (天赋).

1. Pete wanted to change because he wanted to _____.

A. make a difference

B. just be a normal boy

2 C. make everyone happy

D. just be a special clown

2. The clown took Pete to the hospitals in order to _____.

A. treat his ticklishness

B. encourage him to be a clown

C. show him the meaning of his job

D. know whether Pete had told a lie

3. What does the story teach us?

A. Practice makes perfect.

B. Everyone is born useful.

C. Well begun is half done.

D. Where there is life, there is hope.

【答案】1. B 2. C 3. B

【解析】文章大意：本文讲述了Pete 一个敏感的男孩，以至于他的头发都很怕痒，只要碰到一点他的头发，他就会开始大笑，直到遇到小丑，向Pete 展示了自己的工作，Pete 把自己的不同当做天赋，成为了一名小丑。

1. 细节理解题，根据：Pete tried everything to control his ticklishness, but nothing

worked. So he began to feel sad for being different.可知Pete 尝试了许多去改变自己的怕痒，但是没有任何效果，他开始为自己的不同感到悲伤。故选C。

2. 细节理解题，根据“I have no one to take my place,” said the clown. “I have a

very serious job to do.” Pete looked at him, surprised. “Come, I’ll show you,”

小丑说：没有人可以取代我，我的工作非常严肃， Pete 是非常惊讶的，所以小丑就带着 Pete去了医院。以及“Now do you see why I can’t retire (退休), even at my age?”由此可知，小丑向让 Pete 知道自己的工作的意义，故选C。

3. 推理判断题，根据：That was how Pete became a clown, and took the special old man’s

place. From that day on, the fact that Pete was different actually made him happy,

thanks to his special gift，Pete 成为了一名小丑，取代了老人的位置，从那天起，Pete

的不同使他变得开心，这一切都对亏了他的特殊天赋，由此可知，每个人都有自己的特殊天赋，都是有用处的，故选B。

B 3 Reporter: Why did you start this new website for Alcott Middle School?

Sarah: Three months ago, my mom was complaining about how she never hears about

the days our school ends early until after the fact. She works late and sometimes

she has to ask our neighbor at the last minute to pick me up after school. It happened

several times, and she was frustrated that there wasn’t better notification (通知) from the school.

Reporter: Didn’t your school already have a website with that information?

Sarah: We had a website. But there wasn’t much information on it, and nobody

was in charge of keeping it up to date (包含最新信息的). I asked my teacher if our

class could update the school calendar. That seemed pretty easy.

Reporter: Was it?

Sarah: Yeah, and it was kind of fun. So then we asked the principal (校长) if

we could redo the whole site. He said okay, so we went to work. We discovered websites

that taught us how to make our site look better and added more hot links that people

could click to get more information about a subject. We posted photos from basketball

games. Our class even started a blog about what’s going on at school. Then we

persuaded the teachers to create their own pages.

Reporter: So what’s next?

Sarah: A few friends and I started a small Web design business. We’re asking

other schools if they’ll employ (雇用) us to set up a site like the one we created.

Reporter: Wow! That’s pretty enterprising (有事业心的) for a 13-year-old.

Sarah: I guess so. But it doesn’t seem like work when you’re doing something

you enjoy.

4. How did Sarah’s mom feel about her school three months ago?

A. Hopeful. B. Thankful.

C. Dissatisfied. D. Uninterested.

5. The underlined part “in charge of” is closest in meaning to _____.

A. in keeping with B. in touch with

C. in need of D. in control of

6. Sarah set up the new school website _____.