江西省崇义中学2020-2021学年高一上学期期中考试（B卷）英语试卷
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2020－2021学年上学期期中考试
高一年级英语试题
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. Where did the woman go?
A. The office. B. The doctor's. C. The railway station.
2. What does the man suggest doing?
A. Repairing the car. B. Going to the gas station. C. Getting a ride with somebody.
3. What does the man mean?
A. Baseball is the most boring sport. B. Baseball is more interesting than any other sport.
C. Baseball is his favorite sport.
4. What does the man do?
A. A waiter. B. A teacher. C. A salesman.
5. Who is the owner of the stapler(订书机)?
A. The woman. B. The man. C. Somebody else.
第二节(共1 5小题；每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独自后有几个小题，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，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。
6. How long has the man been in China?
A. One week. B. Two months. C. Two years.
7. When will the speakers have dinner together?
A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Sunday.
听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。
8. Who will come to the airport to meet the woman?
A.The Managing Director. B. Her doctor. C. The secretary.
9. What is the most probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Friends. B. Boss and secretary. C. Husband and wife.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。
10. What topic do the speakers discuss?
A. Learning a foreign language. B. The learning material.
C. The pronunciation.
11. What does the woman think of the Spanish course?
A. Easy. B. Difficult. C. Just so-so.
12. What advice does the man give to the woman?
A. To catch the speaker's every word. B. To find out the key words.
C. To ask for repetition.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。
13. Why does the woman come to see the man?
A. To return a book. B. To invite the man for dinner. C. To ask for help.
14. How is the book according to the woman?
A. Boring. B. Interesting. C. Just so-so.
15. Where does the conversation take place probably?
A. In the library. B. At the door. C. In the shop.
16. What will the woman do next?
A. Talk with the man. B. Give the man a lift. C. Buy some food.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。
17. What did Susan Sontag write in her books?
A. Poetry. B. Essays. C. Dramas.
18. How many languages have Susan Sontag's works been translated into?
A. 17. B. 20. C. 32.
19. Why was Susan Sontag different from other social critics?
A. She has never appeared on TV. B. She appeared in films.
C. She wrote many love stories.
20. What do we know about Susan Sontag?
A. She was considered one of the most influential liberal thinkers.
B. She was a common social intellectual.
C. She set up 15,000 libraries.
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。
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The Strangest Jobs in the World
You may be tired of a 9-to-5 job. Or you may be looking for something different to do. You won’t believe what some of these people do for a living. Check out these strangest jobs and tell us if you could handle doing any of them.
Watching Paint Dry
This may be one of the most boring jobs in the world. The paint company hires people to watch paint dry. They need to take note of the changing colors and have to examine the changes under a microscope(显微镜) as well as on the walls.
Iceberg(冰山) Mover
This job appeared after the Titanic tragedy(悲剧) in 1912. Iceberg movers remove icebergs and prevent any further accidents. Using satellites and airplanes, the movers search the seas for icebergs. And if any are found, they pull the iceberg to an area where it won’t be in the way. Pulling an iceberg can take up to 72 hours. This is because the boat needs ten hours to reach a speed of just one mile per hour.
Luggage Organizer
There are many camp activities for children in New York. Mothers are now inviting luggage organizers to pack their kids’ bags. To hire an organizer costs around US $250 an hour. It can take up to four hours to be fully packed and ready. US $1,000 to pay somebody to pack your kids’ bags, is it worth it?
21. What is the aim of the job of an iceberg mover?
A. To be in memory of the movie Titanic. B. To test the speed of boats pulling icebergs.
C. To do a search for life in the sea. D. To prevent any more accidents on the sea.
22. What kind of job is the job of watching paint dry?
A. It is very boring and needs patience.
B. Its salary is higher than other jobs.
C. The employees only need to watch the colors.
D. Many creatures are examined under a microscope.
23. What can we learn about the job of luggage organizer from the text?
A. It is suitable for children to do. B. It is an easy job.
C. It is a full-time job. D. It is expensive to hire one organizer.
B
We had promised to do it for years. We would pack a car with cold chicken and drive south like we used to. But we never had a proper time to do it, somehow. My aunt Edna’s heart was failing. Aunt Juanita had to care for my uncle at home, and my mother, Margaret, did not leave home unless blown away from it by tornadoes(龙卷风). So I was surprised a few years ago when my 72-year-old mother told me to pick up all of them for the trip.
I found the three sisters in the yard, with suitcases in their hands. Edna packed some food including two gallons of potato salad for the two-day trip from Jacksonville, Alabama.
As I drove, they talked of childhood, dirt roads where the dark closed in like a cover on a box, and a daddy who chased(追赶) the bad things away as soon as he walked in. When we arrived in Montgomery, they had ridden a horse named Bob, cooked a dead chicken named Mrs. Rearden, and fished beside a little man named Jessie Clines. As we drove across Mobile Bay they were remembering their mama and a groundhog that lived under the floorboards.
I wanted them to see the sunset from the Fairhope pier, and as we rolled down the bluff(陡坡), I heard them go quiet. But the sunset was just a light to see. They were looking at the roses, which were flowering in a circle the size of a baseball field. There were more than 2,000 of them. My mother, who never even liked roses much, said, “Oh, my God.” Juanita looked as if she were about to cry. “So beautiful,” she said again and again. She stayed in the rose garden for a long time, till the sun disappeared totally. She saw the Fairhope roses six times on this trip. The last time, because she was tired , we sat in the car.
A year later, I spoke at Edna’s funeral(葬礼). For the first time, I knew what I wanted to say in my mind, but the words crashed together inside my head and I lost the fine things I really wanted to say. Her daughters just hugged me, one by one, and thanked me for the roses.
24. Where did their trip start?
A. Mobile Bay. B. Fairhope pier. C. Montgomery. D. Jacksonville.
25. What did the sisters do when the author drove?
A. They looked back on the past. B. They fished with Jessie Clines.