1、2010-2011福建南安一中高一下学期期末英语试卷与答案 单项选择 * He left _any of his friends _ him _. A with; seeing; of B without; seeing; off C without; see; / D with; see; out 答案： B _ the normal condition, he can read 150 words a minute. A Below B Under C With D In 答案： B _ abroad for two years, the two astronauts went back
2、home last year. A Educating B Educated C Having been educated D being educated 答案： C - Its more expensive to live in the city than to live in the country, I think. - _ . Living in the city brings people better conditions, though. A Thats all right. B Im sorry to hear that C That is really necessary
3、D I couldnt agree more. 答案： D 完型填空 Nowadays, any traveler might be treated as a terrorist (恐怖分子 ) by the immigration (入境 ) officers in the USA. We returned from Iraq and landed safely. My heart 16 when I was asked to the back room by the immigration officer. My 17_, with his very American last name,
4、 had no trouble at all. In fact, I am 18_ American born and raised, but they werent quite ready to let me in yet. The only reason was 19_ they thought my name looked like the one of 20_ whos on their wanted list (通缉令 ) and I had to wait till they checked me out 21_ Washington. Time passed 22_ . One
5、hour, one hour and a halfI could not wait any longer and 23_ my cellphone out to call the friend I had planned to meet that evening. An officer 24_ over. “No Phone!” he said, “For all we know you could be calling terrorists and giving them 25_.” Oh, my God! I was just a university professor. I had n
6、o 26_ but to put my phone away. My husband and I were getting hungry and 27_. I wanted to cry, to 28_ onto a chair and shout: “I am nothing but an American professor!” After two hours in the back room, without explanation and 29_, I was allowed to go after he gave me a piece of paper with a(n) 30_ o
7、n it and told me I could write to the department if I wasnt 31_ with the treatment. He also 32_ that nothing could stop it from happening again. I shared my experience with my friends and the 33_ was I should change my name. But name is personal, like the town you were born in. Even though I had a t
8、roublesome experience at the airport, which made me realize being American could ever be so 34_, like my father, Ill keep the 35_. 【小题1】 A ached B beat C sank D rose A son B daughter C friend D husband A still B also C already D never A that B because C why D whether A everyone B anyone C someone D
9、all A with B to C through D of A quickly B carefully C dangerously D slowly A put B pulled C used D caught A went B came C cried D rushed A news B truth C information D reply A response B voice C choice D face A silent B tired C comfortable D clear A sit B run C jump D lie A expressions B words C th
10、anks D apologies A address B name C number D map A sad B disappointed C happy D angry A added B spoke C talked D argued A advice B result C way D agreement A easy B long C hard D high A experience B name C story D passport 答案： 【小题 1】 .C 【小题 1】 .D 【小题 1】 .B 【小题 1】 .A 【小题 1】 .C 【小题 1】 .A 【小题 1】 .D 【小题
11、 1】 .B 【小题 1】 .D 【小题 1】 .C 【小题 1】 .C 【小题 1】 .B 【小题 1】 .C 【小题 1】 .D 【小题 1】 .A 【小题 1】 .C 【小题 1】 .A 【小题 1】 .A 【小题 1】 .C 【小题 1】 .B 阅读理解 Most British telephone cards are just plain green, but card collecting is becoming a popular hobby in Britain and collectors even have their own magazine, International
12、 Telephone Cards. One reason for their interests is that cards from around the world come in a wide variety of different and often very attractive design, There are 100, 000 different cards in Japan alone, and there you can put your own design onto a bank card simply by using a photograph or a busin
13、ess card. The first telephone cards, produced in 1976, were Italian. Five years later the first British card appeared, and now you can buy cards in more than a hundred countries. People usually start collecting cards because they are attractive, small and light, and they do not need much space. It i
14、s also a cheap hobby for beginners, although for some people it becomes a serious business. In Paris, for example, there is a market where you can buy only telephone cards, and some French cards cost up to 4,000 pounds. The first Japanese card has a value of about 28,000 pounds. Most people only see
15、 cards with prices like these in their collectors magazine. 【小题 1】 The passage is mainly about _. A the history of phone cards. B phone card collecting as a hobby C reasons for phone card collecting D the great variety of phone cards 【小题 2】 When did people in Britain begin to us e phone card A In 19
16、71. B In 1975 C In 1976. D In 1981. 【小题 3】 The main reason for most people to collect phone cards is that _. A they find the cards beautiful and easy to keep B they like to have something from different countries C they want to make money with cards D they think the cards are convenient to use 【小题 4
17、】 The writer mentions a market in Paris in order to show that _. A card collecting is popular among young people B French and Japanese cards are the most valuable C People can make money out of card collecting D Card collectors magazines are very useful 答案： 【小题 1】 .B 【小题 1】 .D 【小题 1】 .A 【小题 1】 .C Ev
18、erybody knows that words can carry messages. People communicate with words. Books, magazines, TV， radio and films all help us to know what is going on in the world and what people are thinking about. Do you think you can communicate without words A smile on your face s hows you are happy or friendly
19、. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are sad. When you put up your hand in class, the teacher knows that you want to say something or ask a question. You shake your head, and people know you are saying “No”. You nod and people know you are saying “Yes”. Other things can also carry messages. For
20、 example, a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the wall of your school helps you to find the library. Signs on doors tell you where to go in or out. Have you ever noticed there are a lot of signs around you and you receive messages from them all the time People can c
21、ommunicate in many ways without words. For example, an artist can use his drawings to tell about beautiful mountains, seas and many other things. 【小题 1】 Choose the best title for this passage. A Ways for Communication. B The Best Way for Communication. C The Only Way for Communication. D Words Can C
22、arry Messages. 【小题 2】 How can people communicate with each other A With words only B Only without words. C Either with words or without words. D Just by using different kinds of signs. 【小题 3】 Which of the following is NOT a way for communication without words A A cry for help B A smile on your face
23、C Making a face D Nodding your head 答案： One day newly wedded Nancy lost her ring while helping to plant potatoes. Friends were called and the field was searched long but in vain(徒劳 ). Later, when the potatoes were harvested, Everyone looked out for the ring but it remained lost. Another year came ro
24、und and all the farmers working in the field kept their eyes open. The following year was the same. And year after year, whoever had business in the field always had Nancys ring in his mind. Then the farm changed hands but it went no farther than to cousins. So the memory of the lost ring remained a
25、live until thirty-eight years had passed. Then came a spring day when a man was ploughing the field behind a pair of horses. Even after thirty-eight years he still looked out for the ring, a nd knew just which part of the field Nancy had lost it in. At this time, when he came there, he found it .He
26、picked it up, put it carefully into his pocket, left his horse, and ran all the way down to the village and placed it into Nancys hand. 【小题 1】 How did Nancy come to lose her ring A She lost it while helping to harvest tomatoes in the field B She lost it while watering the plants in the field. C She
27、lost it while working in the field. D She lost it while helping to plant potatoes in the field. 【小题 2】 Why did people keep looking for the ring even after the farm changed hands A It was a very expensive ring B They all wanted to solve the mystery. C They all loved Nancy. D Everybody wanted to have
28、this ring. 【小题 3】 What did the ploughman do after finding the ring A He picked it up and put it in his pocket. B He ran back to tell everybody in the village. C He placed it in a secret spot. D He returned it to the owner. 【小题 4】 . What can you infer from the story A The ring was invaluable. B Peopl
29、e on the farm were honest and helpful. C The rings disappearance was the work of supernatural power. D Nancy no longer expected that her ring would be found again. 答案： 【小题 1】 .D 【小题 1】 .C 【小题 1】 .D 【小题 1】 .B Every culture has a recognized (公认的 ) point when a child becomes an adult, when rules must b
30、e followed and tests passed. In China, although teenagers can get their ID cards at 16, many only see themselves as an adult when they are 18. In the US, where everyone drives, the main step to the freedom of adult life is learning to drive. At 16, American teens take their driving test. When they h
31、ave their license, they drive into the grown-up world. “Nobody wants to ride the bus to school,” said Eleanor Fulham, 17. She remembered the pressure, especially from kids from richer families. “Its like youre not cool if you dont have a car, ” she said. According to recent research, 41% of 16 to 19
32、-year-olds in the US own cars, up from 23% in 1985. Although, most of these cars are bought by parents, some teens get part-time jobs to help pay. Not all families will buy cars for their children. In cities with subways (地铁 ) and limited parking, some teenagers dont want them. But in rich suburban
33、(郊区的 ) areas without subways, and where bicycles are more for fun than transportation, it is strange for a teenager not to have a car. But police say 16-year-olds have almost three times more accidents than 18 and 19-year-olds. This has made many parents think carefully before letting their kids dri
34、ve. Julie Sussman, of Virginia, decided that her son Chad, 15, will wait until he is 17. Chad said he has accepted his parents decision, although it has caused some teasing (奚落 ) from his friends. “They say that I am unlucky,” he said. “But Id rather be alive than driving, and I dont really trust my
35、 friends on the road either.” In China as more families get cars, more 18-year-olds learn to drive. Will this become a big step to becoming an adult 【小题 1】 The story is mainly about _. A the recognized point between childhood and adulthood B American teens want to drive a car when they turn 16 C whe
36、ther teenagers should have a car D the fact that its safer for teens to drive a car at an younger age 【小题 2】 Which of the following is not one of the reasons that kids want to have a car A With a car, it would be easy to move around. B A great number of teenagers have cars. C Having a car would mean
37、 more excitement. D Parents support for kids to have a car at an early age. 【小题 3】 .Which of the following is not true A Some of Chads friends have cars. B When deciding whether to buy a car for their kids, safety weighs heavily on many parents mind. C In the US, 16 is consid ered the point between
38、childhood and adulthood. D More kids from cities own cars than those from the countryside. 【小题 4】 The word “license” in Paragraph 2 means closest to _. A driving permit B ID card C learners permit D test result 答案： 【小题 1】 .B 【小题 1】 .D 【小题 1】 .D 【小题 1】 .A If you want to stay young, sit down and have
39、a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of out brains are not getting enough exercise, and as a result, we are growing old unnecessarily soon. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why quite healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be l
40、osing their ability to think and reason at a rather early age, and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down. With a team of researchers at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain sizes of a thousand people of different ages with different jobs. Computer technology helped the
41、 researchers to get most exact measurements of the sizes of the front and side parts of the brain, which have something to do with thinking and feeling, and decide the human character. As we all know, the back part of the brain, which controls task like eating and breathing, does not contract(萎缩 ) w
42、ith age. Contraction of front and side parts, as cells(细胞 ) die off, was seen in some people in their thirties, but it was still not found in some sixty and seventy-year-olds. Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple way to prevent the contraction-using the head. The findings show t
43、hat contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than those in the towns. Those with least possibility, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White-collar workers doing the same work day after day in government offices are, however, as possibl
44、e to have contracting brains as the farm workers, bus drivers and shop assistants. 【小题 1】 The team of doctors wanted to find out _. A at what point people grow live longer. B how to make people live longer C the size of certain peoples brains. D which group of people are the busiest 【小题 2】 Their res
45、earch findings are based on _.c A an examination of farmers in northern Japan B using computer technology C examining the brain sizes of different people D tests given a thousand old people 【小题 3】 The doctors tests show that _. A our brains contract as we grow older B one part of the brain does not
46、contract C sixty-year-olds have better brains than thirty-year-olds D contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country 【小题 4】 According to the article, _ are growing mentally old earlier. A engineers B office clerks C professors D researchers 【小题 5】 The most possible conclusion of the
47、 article is that _. A most of us should take more exercise B its better to live in the towns C the brain contracts if it is not used D the more one uses his brain, the sooner he becomes old 答案： 【小题 1】 .A 【小题 1】 .B 【小题 1】 .D 【小题 1】 .B 【小题 1】 .C 阅读填空 第一节 :阅读下面短文，根据以下提示： 1)汉语提示； 2)首字母提示； 3)语境提示，在每个空格内填
48、入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。 For many of todays advertisers,_(重复 )old 【小题 1】 _ ideas is not a successful a_(方法 ).They realise 【小题 2】 _ that it does not matter how_(吸引的 )the idea 【小题 3】 _ l_with the product ismost people know that the 【小题 4】 _ main p_of the advertisement is making 【小题 5】 _ c_spend money.Instead,these advertisers look for 【小题 6】 _ other ways to make people n_the
