甘肃省兰州第一中学2024-2025学年高一下学期期中考试英语试卷

兰州一中 2024-2025第二学期期中考试

高一英语

命题人；施多东    审题人：赵辉

说明：本试卷分第1卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。答案写在答题卡上，交卷时只交答题卡。

第I卷选择题(共95分)

 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。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 do we know about Jack?

    A. He had a pleasant trip to Wuhan.
B. He hoped everything went well in Wuhan.
C. He spent an unforgettable winter this year in Wuhan

2. What does the woman think of the movie?

   A. It's amusing.                                       B. It's exciting.                           C. It's disappointing.

3. What did the woman do yesterday?

   A. She went cycling.                               B. She did some running.           C. She photographed a sunrise.

4. Where does this conversation take place?

A. In a classroom.                                  B. In a museum.                          C.In a hospital.

5. What does the man do?

   A. He's a popular accountant.                 B. He's a new media player.        C. He's a computer gamer.

第二节(共15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。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. What is likely to blame for the. woman's feeling sick?

A. The flu.         B. Food poison.  C.Lack of sleep

7. What's the probable relationship between the speakers?
    A. Teacher and student.      B. Classmates  C. Doctor and patient

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

 8. What does the woman suggest?

   A. Going swimming.                               B. Keeping the room damp.  C. Cleaning the air conditioner.

9. What does the woman use to keep cool in summer?   

A. The ceiling fan.                                     B. Air conditioning.  C. Frozen water bottles.

10. Where are the speakers now?

  A. In the man's house.                               B. In a studio.                               C. In a nearby store.

 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What did the speakers do just now?

   A. They went to a concert.                  B. They went to the movies.  C They visited an exhibition.

 12. How did the man get the tickets?

    A. He got them from his sister. 

B. He bought them at a higher price.

C. He bought them in the ticket office.

 13. What selective course did the man choose?                

A.Marketing.                                           B. Accounting.                              C. Fashion design.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

 14. When did the woman begin to have sports in the gym?

  A. Half a year ago.                                B.About two months ago.   C. Three months ago.

15. What is the benefit to take physical exercise?

  A. Easing the negative emotions.  B. Gaining weight.    C. Keeping in good shape.

16. What is the woman's attitude towards regular sports?

  A. Supportive                                            B. Objective.                           C.Cautious.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What can we say about focaccia?

  A. It's popular in Italy.                           B. It's difficult to buy.               C. It's made of tomatoes.

18. When did the world's first real pizza shop open?

A. In 1738.                          B. In 1830.                C. In 1889.                                        

19. What was Raffaele Esposito most probably?

  A. A historian.                                        B. A politician.                          C. A cook.

20. Who opened the first American pizza restaurant?

  A. Queen Margherita.                               B. Gennaro Lombardi.               C. King Umberto I.

第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分50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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

     Like many others, Animal Lovers League (ALL) all started with a love for animals. ALL is a charity and home  to over 500 dogs and cats. It encourages the public to adopt (领养) instead of buying animals and tries to help the animals at ALL find loving families.

    Tasks that the founders, Cathy and Mohan, as well as volunteers carry out to care for the animals include feeding them, taking sick animals to hospital and bringing them for checkups.

    The adoption process at ALL:

    STEP 1 Contact us

    Learn more details about our animals for adoption, or view them on our website www.animallover sleague.com.

    For dog adoptions, please WhatsApp Catheryn at 9753 3320.

    For cat adoptions, please WhatsApp Mohan at 9670 8052.

      STEP 2 Meet our furry kids

      Get a chance to play with our furry kids, one-on-one, to find your perfect match!

All adoption visits are by appointment(预约) only. No walk-ins are allowed.

     STEP 3 Homestay

     We will interview you and do a home visit to ensure you are able to take care of our kids.

     After that, you will go through the adoption initiation (开始) process with a 2-week homestay to see if our furry baby is able to get used to the environment of your home and if you can follow the lifestyle of having a furry kid to care for.

    STEP 4 Successful adoption

    You will be asked to fill in an adoption form upon the completion of this process.

    We will keep in contact with you to check up on your progress.

    No adoption fees are required as we do not put a price on the lives of our furry kids.

 21. What do we know about Animal Lovers League?                               

  A. It focuses on taking care of animals.  B. It offers professional medical treatment to animals.

 C. It is home to some endangered animals  D. It was set up to stop the buying and selling of animals.

22. What is the purpose of STEP 2？                                 

  A. To give people some detailed information about the animals at ALL.

    B. To ask people to provide a home for the animals at ALL.

    C. To Teach people how to get along with animals at ALL.

    D. To invite people to get close to the animals at ALL.

 23. What should people do at the end of the adoption process?

   A. Give some money to ALL.                                  B. Complete an adoption form.

   C. Attend an adoption interview.                     D. Do some volunteer work for ALL.

B

     Stephen Hawking, the most famous physicist of his time, has passed away at the age of 76.

    Hawking was known worldwide for working to explain subjects like the beginnings of the universe and the complexities of black holes. He was diagnosed with a disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS (肌萎缩侧索硬化), at age 21. At the time, doctors predicted he would only live a few years. But he proved them wrong by surviving for more than 50 years more and continuing his scientific work.

    In his 2013 book, My Brief History, Hawking wrote about first learning of the illness: "I felt it was very unfair why should this happen to me?” He added, "At the time, I thought my life was over and that I would never realise the potential I felt I had." "But now, 50 years later, I can be quite satisfied with my life," he wrote.

    A sign of his being admired came in October 2017, when Cambridge put Hawking's 1966 thesis on the Internet for the first time. Demand for the thesis was so high that it caused the university's website to go down.

    Hawking said belief in a God who intervenes(介入) in the universe "to make sure the good guys win or get rewarded in the next life" was wishful thinking. "But one can't help asking the question: Why does the universe exist?" he said in 1991. “I don't know an operational way to give the question or the answer, if there is one, a meaning. But it bothers me."

     Hawking was a big supporter of human space travel to the Moon and Mars. He said such missions would help unite humanity in a shared purpose of spreading the human race beyond Earth. "We are running out of space and the only places to go to are other worlds. It is time to explore other solar systems. Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave the Earth," he said last year.

24. What is Hawking's attitude towards life when just diagnosed with ALS?

  A.Optimistic.                             B.Hopeless.                           C. Indifferent.                    D.Confident

25. What bothered Hawking?  

  A. The existence of the universe.                                            B. The intervene of God in the universe.
C. The rewards that good people get in the next life.             D. The crash of the Internet.

26. Why is Hawking in favour of human space travel to other solar systems?

  A. We have used up all the space. 

B. We have explored the Moon and Mars for a long time

  C. It can help spread the human race beyond Earth.  

D. It is a way to save the Earth.

27. What can be a suitable title for the text?    

  A. Stephen Hawking Supports Human Space Travels     B. Stephen Hawking Is Famous for Black Holes

C. Stephen Hawking Is a Worldwide Famous Physicist  D. Famous Physicist Stephen Hawking Died at 76

C

 Think about what you like to wear on the weekend. There's a good chance that you like to put on a pair of blue jeans. At any moment, about half of the world's population is wearing jeans. But according to a new study, our love for jeans may be bad for earth. The cloth used to make jeans might be putting some sea animals in danger. Every time we wash our jeans, small bits of it will flow out of our washing machines and into the world's rivers, lakes and seas.

    You might wonder. Isn't the cloth made of something natural? How can it become a danger to nature? Well, when making jeans, the cloth is treated with many types of man-made chemicals. Scientists aren't yet sure how the chemicals in the cloth might harm animals.

    In the study, the scientists also washed jeans to see how many bits of the cloth on average each pair would drop per wash. The answer was worrying: about 50,000. Not all of them make their way into the environment. Wastewater treatment plants hold back 83 to 99 percent of them. This may sound pretty good. However, one percent of 50,000