浙江省杭州市萧山区第八高级中学2018_2019学年高一英语上学期期末模拟试题201901090358.doc

1、1浙江省杭州市萧山区第八高级中学 2018-2019 学年高一英语上学期期末模拟试题试卷满分：120 分 考试时间：100 分钟第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 20 分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题纸上。第 1 节（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 5 分）1.Whats the date today?A. May 30th B. May 31st C. June 1st 2. Where was the boy last Monday?A. In his school B. In Europe C. In China3. How muc

2、h does one adult ticket cost?A. 60 dollars B. 40 dollars C. 30 dollars4. What does the woman think of the roast duck?A. Great B. Bad C. Just so-so5. What does the man mean?A. He is not the one to blame.B. He will be responsible for it.C. He will be more careful next time. 第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分

3、）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罝。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。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 题。6. Where does this conversation take place?A. On a plane B. In a restaurant C. In a hotel 7. What will the woman bring to the mans son?A. Warm water B.

4、Hot coffee C. Orange juice听下面一段对话，回答第 8 至第 10 题。8. What is Ann worried about?A. Losing the job B. Failing to find a job C. Missing the promotion9. What will the woman do this weekend?A. Go to a movie B. Work overtime C. Have a good rest10. What do we know about Ann?A. She likes her job B. She works

5、very hard C. She will be a manager.听下面一段对话，回答第 11 至第 13 题。11. When did the painter start painting?A. In 1985 B. In 1953 C. In 194612. What is the painting mainly about?A. Some hikers B. A walking route C. An old tree13. How much does the man pay at last?2A. 300 pounds B. 350 pounds C. 380 pounds 听下面

6、一段对话，回答第 14 至第 17 题。14. Why does the woman want to change their car?A. It uses much gas B. It is not big enough C. It is too old to go well15. How long has the car been used?A. For one year B. For two years C. For three years.16. What does the man think of the womans suggestion?A. Unbelievable B. In

7、teresting C. Reasonable 17. What are the two speakers going to do later?A. Buy a new car B. Go for a picnic C. Sell the old car. 听下面一段独白，回答第 18 至第 20 题。18. How do people in China order food?A. According to pictures in the menu. B. According to words in the menu.C. According to the waiters descriptio

8、ns.19. When do people usually start to order?A. After sitting immediatelyB. After several minutes talk.C. After finishing drinking. 20. What cant you see at the dinner table in China?A. Beer B. Hot water C. Cold water. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节 满分 30 分）第 1 节（共 10 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 20 分）阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，

9、选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将其涂黑。AIs It Bad to Cross Your Legs When You Sit?Crossing your legs is an extremely common habit; most people dont even notice that theyre doing it when they sit down. While you may find it comfortable to sit with one knee crossed over the other, it might be causing health problems that

10、you are not aware of.A study published in Blood Pressure Monitoring stated that sitting with your legs crossed can increase your blood pressure. The reason this happens is because the blood in your legs has to work against gravity to be pumped back to your heart, crossing one leg over the other incr

11、eases resistance, making it even harder for the blood to circulate. This causes your body to increase your blood pressure to push the blood back to the heart. You wont feel any immediate effects, but if you sit for long periods of time its important that you take note of how long you have your legs

12、crossed for. You shouldnt have your legs crossed for more than 15 minutes, and its important that you get up and walk around at least once every hour.Crossing your legs can also lead to neck and back pain. Ideally, its best for our bodies to sit with our feet planted flat, hip width apart, on the fl

13、oor, 3but its not easy to maintain perfect posture all day at the office. When you sit with your legs crossed your hips are in a twisted position, which can cause one of your pelvic bones to rotate. Since your pelvic bone supports your neck and spine, this can cause pressure on your lower and middle

14、 back and neck. You also might notice that when you sit with your legs crossed for long periods of time your feet and legs get tingly or have the feeling of being asleep. This is because when one leg sits on top of the other it causes pressure on the veins and nerves in your legs and feet. It can ca

15、use numbness and/or temporary paralysis in the legs, ankles, or feet. While the feeling of discomfort may only last a minute or two, repeatedly crossing your legs until they feel numb can cause permanent nerve damage.So next time you sit down, try to get yourself in the habit of sitting with both of

16、 your feet on the floor. Not only will it help your posture and stability, but it will also save your health in the long run.21. According to para 2, we can infer that_A. its no big deal to cross our legs for less than 15 minutes.B. we will feel uncomfortable at the moment we cross the legs.C. we sh

17、ould take a walk every hour after sitting still.D. crossing legs while sitting makes it harder to circulate our blood. 22. How many health problems can be caused by crossing legs according to the text?A. 2 B3 C.4 D. 523. Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?A. B C. D. BMicr

18、osoft has developed a new smartphone app that interprets eye signals and translates them into letters, allowing people with motor neurone disease to communicate with others from a phone.The GazeSpeak app combines a smartphones camera with artificial intelligence to recognize eye movements in real ti

19、me and convert them into letters, words and sentences.For people suffering from ALS（渐冻症）, also known as motor neurone disease, eye movement can be the only way they are able to communicate.“Current eye-tracking input systems for people with ALS or other motor impairments are expensive, not stable un

20、der sunlight, and require frequent re-calibration and substantial, relatively immobile setups,” said Xiaoyi Zhang, a researcher at Microsoft who developed the technology.4“To ease the drawbackswe created GazeSpeak, an eye-gesture communication system that runs on a smartphone, and is designed to be

21、low-cost, stable, portable and easy to learn.”The app is used by the listener by pointing their smartphone at the speaker. A chart that can be stuck to the back of the smartphone is then used by the speaker to determine which eye movements to make in order to communicate.The sticker shows four grids

22、(网格) of letters, which each correspond to a different eye movement. By looking up, down, left or right, the speaker selects which grids(网格) 24the letters they want belong to. The artificial intelligence algorithm is then able to predict the word or sentence they are trying to say. Zhangs research, S

23、martphone-Based Gaze Gesture Communication for People with Motor Disabilities, is set to be presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May.23. Which of the following is the correct order of how the app works?a. The sticker puts forward four grids of letter.b. The listerner

24、points the phone at the speakerc. The speaker uses a chart to determine which eye movement to make.d. The users use their eye movements to select the grids of letters they want to choose.A. bacd B. bcad C. bdca D. Bcda25. Which of the following is not the advantage of Gazespeak?A. Unsteady B. Easy t

25、o take C. Easy to learn D. Inexpensive26. Which can be the best title of this text?A. A Helpful Communicator For ALSB. Smartphone App Helps ALS Sufferers Speak With Their EyesC. The Greatest communicative App For ALSD. Smartphone-based Gaze Gesture communicationC“We Found Out a Tornado Was Coming. S

26、econds Later, It Blew Away Our House .The tornado last 4 minutes, to us, it felt like a lifetime”. By Carolyn Blanton as told to Juliana LaBianca. On the day the tornado hit, there was no indication severe weather was on its waythe sky was blue and the sun had been out. And we were just doing our da

27、ily routines. No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. Pink insulation flew into the room from a trapdoor to the attic, and the wind began to roar through the house, most

28、 likely through blown-out windows and the door to our garage. We had three 5flights of steps to navigate to get to the relative safety of the first floor. Because the closet down there is wedged underneath a brick staircase, it seemed like the sturdiest place in our town house to wait things out.I d

29、idnt know how or if we would make it down the steps. It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. I gripped the banister and tried to move forward, but this intense pressure held me in place. In those seconds of practical stillness, I could hear everything aroun

30、d me rattling. Everything was moving.As we reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Shards of glass that looked like crushed ice flew everywhere. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch whipped through the doorframe. It flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been one ste

31、p up, it would have impaled us.We got close to the staircase landing only to hear the loud ripping sound of our garage door coming off. The back wall of the house followed suit and tore off into the darkness outside.By the time I reached the closet, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. J

32、immy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldnt get inside himself because of the wind. I gripped Jimmys arm as the tornado sucked the door openwe never did get it fully shutand tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees and scalp were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. If I had

33、let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house and into the bay.“Hold on! Hold on!” he yelled. But there was nothing in this closet to hold on to. We use it to store Christmas decorations.All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought

34、he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldnt believe it was over. Jimmy said hed go outside to check. “No,” I said. “Dont leave me. Dont leave me.”Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses

35、 in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured.27. All of the following accidents happened, except_A. the power cut off B.the wind roared C. the front door blew out D. crushed ice flew everywhere28. Why

36、the author did not feel any pain in that moment?A. Because she focused all her attention on her husbands safety at that time.B. Because the wounds caused by the glass were not painful at that moment.C. Because the author was too frightened to feel the pain at that moment.D. Because her husband helpe

37、d to treat the wounds at that moment.629. What can best describe the authors feelings after the tornado?A. frighted B. lucky C. worried D. surprised30. Where can we most probably find the article?A. In a story book B. In a science magazine C. In a newspaper D. In a guide book第 2 节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分

38、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。选项中有两项为多余选项。How to Enjoy Life As a TeenThe “best years of your life“? Maybe not, but you can learn to make the most of your high school days.1. Learn to appreciate small things. Whether its having a computer, having friends, having a good supply of food, a bed to sl

39、eep on, family that loves you, having a decent education or simply being born in this world. 31 . Be happy, and life will reward you. Remember that these are the last few years you will be able to enjoy yourself without having to worry about the responsibility of an adult, but make sure you prepare

40、yourself for when you do become one. 2. Go for it! If you have a special girl/guy you want to ask out, dance with, etc. just ask! You probably wont be rejected but if you are, remember that there will always be someone else that likes you for who you are. 32 . About 90% of the girls or guys you talk

41、 to will like you back, only about 10% probably will reject or badmouth you.3. 33 . There is nothing more satisfying than seeing your hard work pay off in the form of As and Bs (but mainly As). This also sets you up to get into a college you want to go to, which in turn prepares you for a career you

42、 will enjoy, improving your quality of life in the future. Youll get cheap car insurance as well if you have at least a B or A average.4. You can pursue interests you enjoy. Video games, for example, are good if youre the type who can get into that kind of thing. 34 . Use your “hobby time“ to either

43、 A) Volunteer (to gain practical skills for college apps, job resumes, and scholarships) B. Learn an instrument, or get into something else in the creative field like painting or dance, because this is the time to start developing and uncovering passions that might otherwise lie dormant.5. Work at a

44、 job you can enjoy. Working is a great way to gain experience and to meet other people. When you do get out of college, interviewing companies will look at your prior work experience. This will look great on your resume. If you cant find work, especially in this hard economic time, volunteer or make

45、 your own job.6. 35 Youll still be going to games for free like the jocks if you are in pep band, and you have as many opportunities to meet new people as the jocks. Band and choir sometimes involves going on trips, and are great memories to 7have for high school and college. If you are not good at

46、either music or sports, you can join other activities, start other hobbies, or get a job.A. You should also find a hobby that is meaningful or practical.B. Participating in clubs, activities, and sports increases your chances of meeting new friends.C. Choose your friends wisely.D. Dont go to sleep t

47、hat night wishing you would have asked them.E. Remember that the point of life is for you to enjoy it.F. Keep your grades upG. If you are not good at sports, join a band or choir第三部分 语言应用第 1 节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）I was walking around in a Big Bazar store doing a shopping, when I saw a Cas

48、hier talking to a boy about 5 or 6 years old. The Cashier said, “Im sorry, but you dont have enough money to buy this 36 .” Then the little boy 37 me and asked, “Uncle, are you sure I dont have enough money?”I counted his cash and nodded The little boy was still 38 the doll in his hand. Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to. “Its the doll 39 my sister loved most and wanted so much . I wanted to 40 her for her Birthday. I have to give the doll to my mommy 41 she can give it to my sister when she goes there.” His