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桂林市第十八中学14级高一下学期期中考试卷英语

注意：

1、本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，满分150分。考试时间：120分钟。答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名和考号填写或填涂在答题卷指定的位置，将条形码张贴在指定位置。

2、选择题答案用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案；不能答在试题卷上。

3、主观题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔在答题卷上作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内的相应位置上，超出指定区域的答案无效；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案。

第Ⅰ卷

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

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. When does the conversation probably take place?

A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.

2. How does the man feel now?

A. Thirsty B. Tired. C. Hungry.

3. How much does the woman have to pay?

A. 67 dollars. B. 58 dollars. C. 145 dollars.

4. How do the speakers get to the hospital?

A. By bus. B. On foot. C. By taxi.

5. What will the woman do?

A. Clean the sitting room. B. Do some gardening. C. Make a snowman.

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、7题。

6. What did the man probably see?

A. A scary movie. B. A funny movie. C. A boring movie.

7. What will the man do tonight?

　　A. See another movie. B. Go to the bookstore. C. Help Jim with his math.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. How long has the man been teaching in this new school?

　　A. For a month. B. For two months. C. For three months.

9. What does the woman want to do?

　　A. Find a highly paid job. B. Give up her present job. C. Teach English as the man.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. In which city did the man spend most time?

　　A. Beijing. B. Tianjin. C. Shanghai.

11. How many foreign languages can Jack speak?

　　A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.

12. What does the man think he should do?

A. Spend more time traveling in China.

B. Find a job in an international company.

C. Work hard to have more opportunities.

听第9段材料，回答第l 3至l 6题。

13. How long did the man stay in America?

A. Three years. B. One year. C. Three months.

14. How much can an experienced babysitter get in America?

　 A. $5 or $7 an hour per kid. B. $8 or $12 an hour per kid. C. $10 or $30 an hour per kid.

15. Why does the woman need money?

　 A. To finish her studies. B. To travel to America. C. To get an MP5 player.

16. What will the woman help the man do?

　　A. Babysit his children． B. Cut grass. C. Clean the house.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

l7. What is the speaker’s major?

　　A. Physics. B. Photography. C. Geography.

18. What is the speaker going to do next week?

　　A. Paint from nature． B. Take pictures. C. Observe trees.

19. What does the speaker think of the class?

A. Fun. B. Easy. C. Boring.

20. What is the speaker’s dream?

A. To have her own studio. B. To travel around the world. C. To have a good camera.

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。

A

The Hunger Games is a book by an American author Suzanne Collins. It came out in 2008 and has sold millions of copies. You can buy it in 26 different languages.

The story happens in the future, after the destruction(毁灭) of North America. There are twelve districts governed by the rich Capitol.

The Capitol organized the Hunger Games every year. One boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 in each of the twelve districts are chosen to fight. Only one person will live. The whole country must watch the games on television.

The story is about Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen-year-old girl. Her younger sister, Prim, is chosen, but Katniss volunteers to go instead. She has to fight with a boy named Peeta.

Where did the idea for The Hunger Games come from? One night in 2003, Suzanne Collins was watching TV. At that time, there was a war between the US and Iraq. The only programs she could find on TV were “reality” programs and news about the war. Suzanne says that the two things started to mix together in her head and she had the idea for The Hunger Games.

Some parents in the US have complained about the violence in the book. But Suzanne says she is very worried about how much violence we see on TV nowadays. Suzanne is also worried about the amount of reality TV we watch. “We put too much of our lives on TV,” she says. “and we care less for people because of this.” She says that writing about death and violence in the story was the hardest thing for her to do and she hopes it will make people think about what they watch in the future.

21. The Hunger Games are organized for those aged______________.

A. 6-10 B. 11-15. C. 12-18 D. 20-25

22. Suzanne got the idea for The Hunger Games when she was ___________.

A. watching TV B. taking a shower

C. playing a game D. reading a book

23. We can learn from the text that ____________.

A. Suzanne doesn’t think people put too much of their lives on TV

B. some parents don’t think The Hunger Games is a good book

C. The Hunger Games is only popular with kids

D. there are ten poor districts in the story

B

Are you carrying too much on your back at school? You’re not alone. Back experts in the USA are worried about that young students are having back and neck problems because they are carrying too much in their backpacks.

“It hurts my back when I run,” said Ebelin Reyes, a student in Virginia. “It’s hard to get up the stairs with my backpack because it’s too heavy.” Students have to carry heavy backpacks on their backs for a whole week’s study. Ebelin is one of them. They have regular backpacks with two straps (背带) to carry them, but a number of students with heavy loads(负荷) have switched to rolling backpacks. The backpacks have wheels and can roll on the ground. Shirley Park’s backpack weighs 10 kilos, and she said, “I’ll change to a rolling backpack because I am starting to have back pain.”

How much is too much? Experts say that students should carry no more than 10% to 15% of their own body weight. A few students have had a good idea to lighten the load: less homework.

Doctor’s suggestions:

① Lighten the load. Take home only the books the students need that day.

② Wide straps are better. They can send out weight over your shoulders and be sure to wear backpacks with two straps.

③ The heaviest things should be packed closest to the back.

④ Bend both knees when you pick up the pack, don’t just bend over the waist.

24. From what Ebelin Reyes and Shirley Park said, we know______.

A. students like to carry heavy backpacks

B. students have to do a lot of homework

C. backpacks with wheels are bad for students

D. students have no time to play because of heavy backpacks

25. The underlined word “switch to” means_______.

A. use for B. watch C. catch up D. begin to use

26. According to the experts, it’s better for a student of 40 kilos to carry a backpack of _____ at most.

A. 10 kilos B. 8 kilos C. 6 kilos D. 7 kilos

27. The main idea of the passage is about _______.

A. the problems made by rolling backpacks

B. the advantage of backpacks

C. the best backpacks for students

D. how to lighten students’ backpacks

C

Mark Twain was a great writer. He was from the USA. He was born in 1835. He was also a famous speaker. He was famous for his sense of humour. Many people liked to listen to him talk because he liked to tell some interesting stories to make people laugh all the time.

　　One day Mark Twain was going to a small town because of his writing. Before he was going to leave, one of his friends said to him that there were always a lot of mosquitoes in the town and told him that he’d better not go there. Mark Twain waved (摇动) his hand and said, “It doesn’t matter. The mosquitoes are no relatives of mine. I don’t think they will come to visit me.”

After he arrived at the town, Mark Twain stayed in a small hotel near the station. He went into his room, but when he was just about to have a rest, quite a few mosquitoes flew about him. The waiters felt very sorry about that. “I’m very sorry, Mr Mark Twain. There are too many mosquitoes in our town.” One of them said to him.

Mark Twain, however, made a joke, saying to the waiter, “The mosquitoes are very clever. They know my room number. They didn’t come into the wrong room.” What he said made all the people present laugh heartily.

But that night Mark Twain slept well. Do you know why? That was because all the waiters in the hotel were driving the mosquitoes away for him during the whole night.

28. That day Mark Twain went to the town _____.

A. to see one of his friends

B. because he wanted to do something there for his writing

C. because he was told there were a lot of mosquitoes there

D. to see one of his relatives

29. The waiters felt sorry because _____.

A. they did something wrong to Mark Twain

B. their hotel was too small

C. the room was not very clean

D. there were quite a few mosquitoes in Mark Twain’s room

30. All the people present laughed heartily because _____.

A. the mosquitoes were very clever and they didn’t come into the wrong room

B. the mosquitoes knew Mark Twain’s room number

C. Mark Twain gave the waiters some nice presents

D. Mark Twain made a joke

31. From the story we know _____.

A. no mosquitoes troubled Mark Twain in the night

B. the owner of the hotel told the waiters to look after Mark Twain well at night

C. Mark Twain didn’t have a good rest that night

D. there were not mosquitoes in the hotel any longer

D

There have always been a lot of commonly believed but false ideas about being fat and doing exercise. Some people believe that they can’t help putting on weight as they get older, while others hold that if they stop exercising, their muscles will turn into fat. Here are some more myths:

I’ll never lose weight-I come from a fat family

Wrong! While we can’t change the body type we are born with, we can’t blame our genes for making us fat. There’s plenty