1、- 1 -唐县一中奥赛试验部高一下学期第一次考试英语试题本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。请按要求把答案涂、写在答题卡规定的范围内， 超出答题框或答在试题卷上的答案无效。满分 120 分，考试时间 120 分钟。第卷（选择题；共 80 分）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 20 分）做题时，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，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
2、小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What day is it today?A. Sunday. B. Wednesday. C. Thursday.2. What color does Tom probably like?A. Blue. B. Red. C. White.3. Who understands Chinese?A. The man. B. The woman. C. Mary.4. What are the speakers talking about?A. The difficulty of the driving exam.B. Where to take t
3、he driving exam.C. How long they will wait for the exam.5. How many eggs does the man need for the small cake?A. Five. B. Ten. C. Fifteen.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 ABC 三个选项中- 2 -选出最佳答案，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各小题，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
4、，回答第 6、7 题。6. What is the man asking for?A. A shirt. B. A skirt. C. A dryer.7. What will the man do later?A. Have a meeting. B. Have a job interview. C. Check the room in the hotel.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Where is the man going?A. Miami. B. Dallas. C. Thailand.9. What suggestion does the woman provide
5、?A. Going to Dallas alone. B. Canceling the flight. C. Packing up a smaller luggage.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Where are the speakers probably?A. At the office. B. At the restaurant. C. At home.11. How long will the woman keep on a diet?A. 1 week. B. 6 months. C. 1 year.12. What is the most importan
6、t thing for the woman?A. Eating salad only. B. Drinking tea. C. Eating things without too much sugar.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Where is the man going?A. New York. B. London. C. Seattle.14. What time is it now?A. 3:35pm. B. 3:30pm. C. 3:25pm.15. How much can a cup of coffee cost on the train?A. 30.
7、B. 20. C. 15.16. Why doesnt the man take the train at 3:30pm?- 3 -A. He thinks the food on the train is so expensive.B. He is late for the train.C. He doesnt want to go to New York finally.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What can be the topic while eating in America?A. School life. B. Religious belief.
8、C. Political news.18. What is impolite if you visit an American family?A. Bring food as required. B. Arrive 3 minutes later. C. Arrive early.19. What is polite if you visit an American family?A. Wear formal clothes. B. Keep silent when you are eating. C. Bring gifts when you are invited.20. What can
9、 probably happen if you are invited to a meal?A. Inform the hostess that you will be late.B. Help the hostess get the meal ready.C. Take off your shoes.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 Proudly reading my words, I glanced around the
10、room, only to find my classmates bearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes. Confused, I glanced toward my stone-faced teacher. Having no choice, I slowly raised the report I had slaved over(辛苦做得), hoping to hide myself. “What could be causing everyone to act this way?” Quickly, I fla
11、shed back（回想） to the day Miss Lancelot gave me the task. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington, whose name I had never heard of before. As I searched the name, it became evident（明显的） that there were two people having the same - 4 -name who look
12、ed completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, while the other led some sort of army across America. I stared at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice: flip (掷) a coin. Headsthe commander, and tails（反面）the peanuts
13、guy. Ah! Tails, my report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver. Weeks later, standing before my classmates, I was totally lost. Oh well, I lowered the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his repor
14、t, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American Revolution.” The whole world became quiet! How could I know that she meant that George Washington? Obviously, my grade was terrible. Heartbroken but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to Miss
15、Lancelot, but she insisted: No re-dos; no new grade. So I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months later, I smiled when the headmaster informed me of my choice to skip (跳过) the sixth grade. Justice（公平）is sweet! 21. Why was the author confused about the task? A.
16、He was unfamiliar with American history. B. He followed the advice and flipped a coin. C. He forgot his teachers instruction. D. He didnt know why the teacher gave such a task.22. The underlined word “burning” in Para. 3 probably means _. A. excited B. ashamed C. ready D. eager 23. In the end, the a
17、uthor turned things around _. A. by redoing his task B. through his own efforts C. with the help of his grandfather D. under the guidance of his headmaster BHow would you like to learn more without having to study more? Heres how:1. Get to bed and go to sleep. Your performance, attention, and the ab
18、ility - 5 -to concentrate are damaged by lack of sleep. Teenagers need nine to 10 hours of sleep a night for best performance.2. Feed you head. The brain runs badly if it doesnt get enough fuel. That means protein(蛋白质)and complex carbs(复合碳水化合物 )eggs and wheat bread for breakfast, say, rather than su
19、gary cereal(含糖的麦片粥 ) and orange juice. The biggest mistake teens make is not to have breakfast or to go for sugar, which raises blood sugar levels.3. Body exercise is brain exercise. Body exercise really improves brain performance, perhaps because it increases blood flow, or perhaps because it reduc
20、es stress and anxiety. Twenty minutes of activity a day that raises your heart rate will do great good.4. Learn now what you want to remember for the rest of your life. Teenage brains are much better at remembering things than the brains of young children or adults. Scientists arent sure why. Whatev
21、er the reason, the teenage years are the time to learn new languages and master other lifelong skills.5. Learn the power of risk-taking. Adults are always worried about the downside of teenage risk-taking, and its true that teenagers are more likely than adults to get themselves in trouble by drinki
22、ng and driving. But the fact that the parts of the brain that drive people to try new, risky, and exciting things appear to be more developed in teenagers can be a huge advantage. Pick certain challengersdifficult sports, a hard job. Mastering a performance art, traveling overseas and the teenage br
23、ain is able to deal with them. They have this power theyre given to go out and do it without fear.6. Learn what you love. Because emotional(情感的) systems develop fast in teenager brains, teenagers learn things theyre interested in quickly and well. Their brains give them tools like attention on the p
24、roject.24. According to the passage, teenagers should have _ for breakfast.A. sugar and bread B. sugar and orange juice C. wheat bread and eggs D. wheat bread and orange juice25. Body exercise plays a part in all the following EXCEPT_.- 6 -A. reducing blood pressure B. raising heart rateC. making pe
25、ople less anxious D. reducing stress26. The underlined word “downside” in the passage probably means _.A. excitement B. power C. benefit D. disadvantage27. It can be learned from the passage that _.A. teenagers need less sleep than adultsB. teenagers should be forbidden to drive C. scientists know w
26、hy teenagers have a good memoryD. teenagers learn quickly when they are fond of somethingCYou may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. The spelling of English has always been a problem but it was more of a problem in the days before a dictionary. Then people could
27、 spell words in different ways which you might find interesting. But it made reading English much more difficult. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasnt made until the time of the late Qing Dynasty. Thr
28、ee men did most of the important early work on dictionaries: Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and James Murray. These men spent nearly all of their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries. For them, it wasnt only a job; it was a wonderful journey of discovery. The largest dictionary in the
29、 world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short. The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen, he
30、left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a place built in the garden behind his house to do his work. Part of it was one metre underground. In winter it felt like a barn, he had to wear
31、a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five - 7 -oclock and worked several hours before breakfast. Often he would work by candle light into the evening. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still ad
32、ding words for the letter A! Then others went to work with Murray, including his two daughters. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished it. It included more than 15,000 words in twelve books. And you thought your English dictionary w
33、as big!28. Which of the following is TRUE according to the reading?A. People didnt know how to spell words in the days before a dictionary.B. Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and James Murray did all the work on dictionaries.C. Collecting words for the dictionary is an easy job.D. Oxford University dec
34、ided to edit its new dictionary in 1879.29. It took Murry _ years to complete the letter A.A. five B. less than five C. more than five D. ten30. We can infer _ from the last paragraph.A. James Murry taught himself while working.B. The Oxford English was finished in ten years.C. When the Oxford Engli
35、sh Dictionary was finished, Murray had passed away.D. Murrys daughters helped him to complete the dictionary.31. What can we learn from the text?A. English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries.B. People spelled the words in the same way before an English dictionary was made.C. The la
36、rgest dictionary in the world is the most popular one.D. An English dictionary like the kind we use today wasnt made until the time of the late Qing Dynasty.DMy teacher, Mr.August J.Bachmann, was the most influential teacher I ever had.- 8 -I had gotten into trouble in his class: Another student had
37、 pushed me for fun, and I became angry and began to hit him. Mr.Bachmann stopped the fight, but instead of sending me to the office, he sat me down and asked a simple question, “Penna, why are you wasting your life? Why arent you going to college？”I didnt know anything about colleges or scholarships
38、. No one had ever considered that a fatherless boy from the poorest neighborhood had a future. That day，instead of rushing off for lunch, he stayed and explained possible education options to me. At the end of our talk, he sent me to see a secretary who had a child at a state college. This was in 19
39、62 at Emerson High School in Union City, New Jersey.Well，55 years have passed, and what have I done with the knowledge he gave me? I gained a PhD from Fordham University when I was only 29.I taught English and social studies and then moved up the chain of command from teacher to principal(校长).Ive sa
40、t on the board for Magnet Schools of America and represented that organization at the United Nations. Ive won a number of great educational awards. But where would I be if a truly caring teacher had not taken the time out of his lunch period to speak to me? It was without question only his confidenc
41、e in me that helped me forward.I have repaid his kindness hundreds of times by encouraging misguided youngsters to aim higher. If I have saved any children, it is because of him. If I have been a successful educator, it is because I had a great role model in Mr.Bachmann.32. The writer _ before Mr.Ba
42、chmann talked to him.A. was an active boy B. was an aimless boyC. liked making troubles in class D. would get punished by his teachers33. Which of the following best describes Mr.Bachmann?A. Fair. B. Confident. C. Inspiring. D. Humorous.34. How did Mr.Bachmann influence the writer?- 9 -A. He set the
43、 writer on the right path. B. He was strict with the writer.C. He helped the writer with his study.D. He tried to set a good example to the writer.35. What does the writer think of his achievement?A. He is very proud of himself.B. He feels his effort gets paid off at last.C. He owes his achievement
44、to Mr.Bachmann.D. He thinks it an honor to be a successful 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填入空白处的最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Color is fundamental in home designsomething youll always have in every room. A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating
45、 rooms youll love to live in. Do you want a room thats full of life? Professional? Or are you just looking for a place to relax after a long day? _36_, color is the key to making a room feel the way you want it to feel.Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designer
46、s approach this important point. _37_, they can get a little complex(复杂的). But good news is that therere really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium （中等的）ones, and the large ones._38_. Theyre the little spots of color like throw pillows,
47、 mirrors and baskets that most of us use to add visual（视觉的）interest to our rooms. Less tiring than painting your walls and less expensive than buying a colorful sofa, small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable.Medium color choices are generally furniture p
48、ieces such as sofas, dinner tables or bookshelves _39_ . They require a bigger commitment than smaller ones, and they have a more powerful effect on the feeling of a space.- 10 -The large color decisions in your rooms concern the walls, ceilings, and floors. Whether youre looking at wallpaper or pai
49、nt, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant._40_ .A. While all of them are usefulB. Whatever youre looking forC. If youre experimenting with a colorD. Small color choices are the ones were most familiar withE. Its not really a good idea to use too many small color piecesF. So it pays to be sure, becaus
