1、- 1 -重庆市外国语学校（四川外国语大学附属外国语学校）2018-2019 学年高一英语上学期半期考试试题注意事项：1. 本试卷分第卷（选择题，1 至 8 页）和第卷（非选择题，9 至 10 页）两部分；考试时间 120 分钟；满分 130 分。2. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。3.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号等填涂在答题卡指定的位置。第卷选择题部分第一部分听力（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，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 5 分）听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题
2、，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. What happened to the woman?A. She ate something strange. B. She missed a lunch meeting. C. She forgot about the dinner event.2. Where will the woman go for spring break?A. To Hawaii. B. To Texas. C. To Alaska3. What
3、will the woman do next?A. Clean up her mess.B. Buy the flower pot.C. Pay for something she broke.4. Which dog does the man want?A. An adult male. B. A female puppy. C. An adult female.5. Why is the man so upset?A. His book is damaged.B. Someone checked out the book he wants.C. The woman wont let him
4、 borrow the book.第二节 (共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 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. Who is the man?A. A hotel clerkB. A hotel guest.- 2 -C. An elevator repairman.7. Which discount will the w
5、oman receive?A. A free dinner. B. 20 % off her hotel room C. A reduced price on drinks听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。8. What might the speakers do in Warsaw?A. Go hiking. B. Visit a museum. C. See a baseball game.9. How long will the speakers stay in Krakow?A. For a week. B. For five days. C. For three days.听
6、第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10.How long has the man been working there?A. A few years. B. A few months. C. Since yesterday.11.What did other people say about the man?A. He was very nice to them.B. He ordered them around.C. He drank too much coffee.12.Who is the woman?A. A new employee. B. The mans boss. C
7、. The mans assistant.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13.What do we know about the womans father?A. He lives in Arizona.B. He loves photography.C. He wants the woman to follow her interest.14.Where does the man want to go to school?A. The University of Washington.B. Brown University.C. Clark College.15.What w
8、ill the man likely major in?A. History. B. Business. C. Photography.16.What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Classmates. B. Interviewer and interviewee.C. College advisor and student.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17.What will the weather be like this weekend?A. Sunny. B. Rainy. C. clear.18.When
9、 will the weather be the warmest?A. Over the weekend. B. Next week. C. Today.19.What is happening at the studio?A. A big event.- 3 -B. A truck show.C. A wine making class.20.Who is Martha Kelly?A. A famous musician.B. The director of the station.C. One of the stations first employees.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分
10、 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。AStudent Accommodation-Choose your best home!The college offers four basic accommodation options. Here is some information to help you make your choice.CAMBOURNE HOUSESelf-catering, student residence, located in the t
11、own centre about 2 miles from the main College campus. Up to 499 students live in 6, 7 and 8 bedroom flats, all with en-suite shower rooms. Rent is 64 per week, including bills (not telephone). Broadband Internet connections and telephones, with communal kitchen/dining and lounge areas. Parking spac
12、e is available, with permits costing 60 per term.Phone: 07456389012STUDENT VILLAGEFeatures 3, 4, 5and 7 bedroom, self-catering shared houses for 250 students close to the main College campus. Rent is 60 per week inclusive of bills (except telephone). Parking is available with permits costing 90 for
13、the academic year.Phone: 07881206570HANLEY HOUSEA second, modern, self-catering residence in the town centre for 152 students. Eighteen rooms per floor with communal kitchens, lounges, bathrooms and toilets. Rent is 53 per week including bills (not telephone). There is no space for parking nearby.Ph
14、one: 07113705337GLENCARRICK HOUSEA privately-owned and managed student residence is the town centre above a multi-storey car park, close to a major nightclub and housing 120 students. Rooms are allocated by the College Accommodation Service. Rents range from 58.50 to 68.50 for a single en-suite room
15、 or larger en-suite room respectively. A small extra charge is made for electricity.Phone: 0799487702821. Which accommodation is inconvenient for car owners?- 4 -A. CAMBOURNE HOUSE B. STUDENT VILLAGEC. HANLEY HOUSE D. GLENCARRICK HOUSE22. Tom wants to have access to the Web, so he should call _.A. 0
16、7881206570 B. 07994877028 C. 07113705337 D. 0745638901223. Which is NOT TRUE about GLENCARRICK HOUSE?A. It does not belong to the College.B. Students have to share bathrooms.C. It has the fewest students.D. Students have to pay extra money for electricity.BNew York was darker than I expected, and, i
17、n spite of the cleansing rain, dirtier. Raindrops pounded the streets, caught the silver glow of street lamps, and then disappeared into the darkness. I was disappointed by the darkness and fixed my hopes on the promise of light deep within the raindrops. Two days later, I leaned against the wall of
18、 our apartment building on McKibbin Street wondering where New York ended and the rest of the world began. It was hard to tell. There was no horizon(地平线 ) in Brooklyn. Everywhere I looked, my eyes met a vertical maze of grey and brown straight-edged buildings with sharp corners and deep shadows.A gi
19、rl came out of the building next door, a jump rope in her hand. She looked at me shyly; I pretended to ignore her. She stepped on the rope, stretched the ends overhead as if to measure their length, and then began to skip, slowly. At one moment, she turned her back to me; then she faced me again and
20、 smiled. I smiled back, and she hopped over.“ Tu eres hispana?” she asked, as she whirled (旋转) the rope in lazy arcs（弧形）.“No, I m Puerto Rican.”“Same thing. Puerto Rican, Hispanic. Thats what we are here.” She skipped a tight circle, stopped suddenly, and handed the rope in my direction. “Want a tur
21、n?”“Sure.” I hopped on one leg, then the other. “So, if you are Puerto Rican, they call you Hispanic?”“Yeah. Anybody who speaks Spanish.”I jumped a circle, as she had done, but faster. “You mean, if you speak Spanish, you are a Hispanic?”“Well, yeah. No I mean your parents have to be Puerto Rican or
22、 Cuban or something.”“Okay, your parents are Cuban, lets say, and you are born here, but you dont speak Spanish. Are you Hispanic?”“I guess so,” she said. “It has to do with being from a Spanish country. I mean, you or your parents, like, even if you dont speak Spanish, you are Hispanic, you know?”
23、She looked at me uncertainly. I nodded and returned her - 5 -rope. But I didnt know. Id always been Puerto Rican, and it hadnt occurred to me that in Brooklyn Id be someone else.24. How did the author feel about New York?A. It was attractive B. It was stressful C. It was mysterious D. It was vast25.
24、 How did the author react to the girl at first?A. She didnt notice her.B. She acted as if she knew the girl.C. She turned a blind eye to her.D. She acted as if she didnt see her.26. What did the author and the girl talk about?A. The value of moving to an international city.B. The power of language t
25、o fit in a society.C. The characteristics that an immigrant has.D. The standards that define a group of people.27. What is the authors attitude towards her Spanish background?A. indifferent B. ashamed C. faithful D. supportive CEncouragement and praise can come in many forms, and some ways are bette
26、r for child development than others. Researchers at the University of Chicago and Stanford University who studied mother-child interactions over the course of several years found that the type of praise children receive affects their attitudes toward challenges later in life.Specifically, praise tha
27、t came with feedback about their behavior and the choices that toddlers(学步儿童) made helped them to cope better with difficult experiences five years later, compared with compliments(赞扬) that focused more on the child himself, like “Youre a good boy.” The study, which appears in the journal Child Deve
28、lopment, is the first major study of praise and childhood development done outside of a lab setting.“This is something we suspected would be the case based on a lot of experimental research, and its exciting to see it paly out in the real world,” says Elizabeth Gunderson, an assistant professor of p
29、sychology at Temple University, “Praising the efforts and actions of the kid is going to be more beneficial in their long-term persistence and desire to be challenged and work hard in the future.”Such “process praise” includes comments which emphasize the childs actions, while “person praise” includ
30、es comments which focus on a childs inherent (内在的) qualities. These differences arent new in the field of psychology, but exactly how they affect childrens development hasnt always been clear.Based on the results of the study, researchers found that the children who - 6 -grew up with more process pr
31、aise were more open to challenge, and were able to identify more ways of overcoming difficult problems. They were also more likely to say they could improve intelligence with hard work. While person praise didnt seem to have any negative effect on the children, the study suggests that process praise
32、 teaches children that their talents and abilities can be developed, while person praise sends the message that their abilities are fixed and not easily changed.28. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Encouragement and praise have good effects on children.B. Different kinds of praise have
33、different effects on children.C. Researchers have different attitudes toward childrens development.D. Researchers encourages more mother-child interactions.29. What does underlined “it” in the third paragraph refer to?A. An experimental research. B. A lab setting.C. The study. D. The journal Child D
34、evelopment.30. Which of the following belongs to “process praise”?A. Youre smart. B. Youre looking sharp!C. We are so proud of you. D. You tried so many times and made it!31. What is the main idea of this passage?A. Praise is good for childhood development.B. Process praise is more beneficial in the
35、 long run.C. Person praise is better than process praise.D. Praise is more beneficial than punishment.DUpon checking Facebook this morning, I was blown away by my News Feed that consisted almost entirely of the same message posted and reposted by my Facebook friends. In addition to posting this mess
36、age, many of my Facebook friends followed what the viral(病毒性的) message said to do.At first, I thought it was awesome to see so many people wanting to participate and I even considered taking part myself. After careful consideration, I decided not to. It remains unclear where this idea even came from
37、 and no sources validate this information. Is it not necessary to first check if the information is true and not just a rumor(谣言)？In my opinion, viral activism(行动主义) on social media is surely great for attracting attention about an issue, but it just rises suddenly in popularity and dies out quickly
38、. On the outside, it may look like true activism but in reality, this activism is paper-thin-“slacktivism,” as I call it.Participating in social activism on Facebook does not do much more than help people construct a “socially aware” image of themselves and give them the sense that they are actually
39、 making a difference. Sometimes people can make and impact by taking part in viral activism on social media, even if it is a small impact; however, they most often do not.- 7 -Social media activism is merely an acceptable starting point for someone to participate in a cause they truly believe in. Th
40、ere is much more that can be done. I realize that people have busy lives and that one may not have the time or money to contribute to a cause. If this is you, do what you can; if that means sticking to activism on social media, make sure you fully understand the cause you are supporting, truly belie
41、ve that your post can help, and are not just doing it because it is popular.32. What does the underlined part “blown away” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A. Puzzled B. Shocked C. Scared D. Disappointed33. Why did the author give up taking part in viral activism on social media?A. He was not interested
42、 in it. B. He was tired of such things.C. He was not sure about its truth.D. He was sick of following the trend.34. What does the author mainly talk about in the third and fourth paragraphs?A. Viral activism on social media is useful to draw attention.B. Viral activism on social media is of great he
43、lp.C. Viral activism on social media makes little difference.D. Viral activism on social media is true activism.35. What advice does the author give?A. Do something really helpful B. Learn how to recognize rights and wrongs.C. Take part in social activism actively.D. Believe that your post can help.
44、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。选项中有两项为多余选项。When you choose your dream college, size matters. The size of a school really can change your experience.Lots of students are unsure about a variety of factors when they consider which college might represent a good fit for them, bu
45、t they believe they know exactly what they want when it comes to college size. Those colleges with larger campus are favored and admired by most students. 36 . Here are a few of the less-obvious reasons a smaller school might be a good fit:The professors actually do the teaching.37 .That means there
46、 arent graduate students on campus, and more importantly, graduate students many of whom have no interest in teaching wont be teaching any of your classes.More focused and direct feedback(反馈).Youve heard the expression “Youre just a number.” Think about the homework and tests that need to be graded
47、in a class with 450 students. 38 . But at small schools, class sizes are smaller, and professors will have more - 8 -time to read a students work.39 .Students at small schools are able to develop relationships with professors more easily, since there is a smaller amount of students. Most professors
48、know their students names and count on them to take part in their research.Less red tape.Its just easier to get things done at a small school. 40 . One of the biggest frustrations at large schools is that important classes become full quickly, forcing students to either take them over the summer or
49、stay an extra semester.A. Most small colleges only teach undergraduate degrees.B. Relationship development.C. Research chances.D. Its great to see students make a 180-degree turn after theyve had the chance to visit some small colleges.E. Teachers there dont have much time to offer advice on every students piece of work.F. Professors and administrators have more flexibility, and there are fewer regulations.G.
