广东省广州中学2024-2025学年高一下学期期中英语试题

 

广州中学2024学年第二学期期中考试

高一英语试卷

 第一部分阅读(共两节，满分52.5分)

第一节(共15小题,每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Best English Language Lab Software

With technology advancement, digital English language lab software has found its way into the classrooms. There are some great multimedia media language labs available today. Let's explore the most popular kinds of English language lab software.

Spears Language Lab

It is designed for students who want to develop excellent English communication skills They can achieve better results with the in-built practice exercises featured in this software. Plus, it enables teachers to watch and check on each student.

Open Sim

Open Sim allows the teachers to create an interactive virtual classroom where learners can creatively learn language skills. The software will take you into the world of creative learning, where you will learn things while playing some interesting games.

Words Worth

This software is suitable for adult language learners. It helps build professional-level skills in the language and allows learners to build a strong base for wide vocabularies and high levels of spoken English. There are lessons such as pronunciation practice and listening comprehension that provides a professional-level learning experience.

ODLL

ODLL software is perfect for those who absorb and recall information best by seeing. It is designed especially for cooperative learning. it allows the students to communicate with each other or host a virtual classroom section using the lab setting. The platform offers video streaming facilities from You Tube, DVD, and other digital sources.

1. What can we know about the Spears Language Lab?

A. It focuses on improving students' writing skills.

B. It gives students extra practice exercises as a gift. 

C. It allows teachers to know how well students do. 

D. It offers the chance to talk with language experts.

2. Who may Words Worth he best suited for?

A. Joanna, a 30-year-old woman, who works in a British company

B. Edwin, a 41-year-old man, who wants to go sight-seeing in the UK.

C. Annie, a 10-year-old girl, who learns English as a second language.

D. Mike, an 18-year-old boy, who has just graduated from high school.

3. What do Open Sim and ODLL have in common?

A. Both can create a virtual classroom.

B. Both have in-built practice exercises.

C. Both require learners to have IT skills,

D. Both are designed by the same company.

B

In my childhood, whenever I was being unreasonable, or questioning whatever direction my mother was giving, she would say "I'm the momma and you're the baby." End of discussion. Until one day she asked me to do something for her and I said, “No. You're the momma; I'm the baby." It gave her a good laugh.

But, at 31, I'm realizing the situation might be changing. She's the momma; I'm the baby. But I'm also something else now. More will be asked of me to take care of her. My mother is getting older.

The realization hit me during a recent visit home. In my memory, our house wasn't spotless, but I'd call it tidy. Weekends were for cleaning. Yet during this visit I was taken aback by piles upon piles of mail and papers and junk. A fridge full of spoiled food. A mountain of clothes begging to be located. Was it always this way? When did she become a hoarder(囤积者)? A symptom of aging?

But my mother would like you to know something: She is not a hoarder. She spoke frankly with more self-awareness than I expected about life and time and happiness. “The time that I have to go through those things would be my weekends. Do I want to spend my Saturday afternoon going through all the junk? Or do I want to go hang out with my friends? I think the latter. I don't want to spend one minute of my free time doing anything that doesn't bring me joy," she says.

It's not that my mother has no worries about aging, but she came to terms with it long before. "Trey, you could spend so much time worrying about things that aren't perfect. Then time passes by, and they're never going to be," she continues. “I think happiness is a moment- to-moment, day-to-day kind of thing. It's not something you hold on to. I

still think I'm cool- that might be in my head, but so what."

4. What was the author's tone in his response to Mom in paragraph !?、

A. Unwilling.    B. Pleased. C. Serious. D. Sympathetic. 

5. What made the author think Mom was a hoarder at first?

A. Her refusal to donate old stuff.     B. The mess in Mom's house. 

C. Her preference for an economical life. D. The fading of Mom's health. 

6. Why didn't Mom tidy the house on weekends?

A. She had plans with her friends.

B. She was too old to do it on her own.

C. She desired a pleasant time for herself.

D. She had trouble sorting out the junk.

7. Which of the following may best describe Mom?

A. Kind but old-fashioned.  

B. Confident but untidy. 

C. Hardworking and funny. 

4. positive and adaptable. 

                                                       C

Many of us hold on to little complaints that may have come from an argument, a misunderstanding, the way we were raised, or some other painful events. Stubbornly, we wait for someone else to reach out to us - believing this is the only way we can forgive or rekindle a friendship or family relationship.

A friend of mine recently told me that she hadn't spoken to her son in almost three years. She said that she and her son had had a disagreement about his wife and that she wouldn't speak to him again unless he called first. When I suggested that she be the one to reach out, she said, “I can't do that. He's the one who should apologize." After a little gentle encouragement, however, she did decide to be the first one to reach out. To her amazement, her son was grateful for her willingness to call and offered an apology of his own. As is usually the case, when someone takes the chance and reaches out, everyone wins.

Whenever we hold on to our anger, we turn “small stuff (问题)”into really "big stuff” in our minds. We start to believe that our positions are more important than our happiness. They are not. lf you want to be a more peaceful person you must understand that being right is almost never more important than allowing yourself to be happy. The way to be happy is to-let go, and reach out. Let other people be right. This doesn't mean that you're wrong. Everything