第一节：单项填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

21.—I knocked over my coffee cup. It went right over keyboard.

—You shouldn’t put drinks near computer.

A.the, / B.the, a C.a, / D.a, a

22.—I’m thinking of the test tomorrow. I’m afraid I can’t pass this time.

— ! I’m sure you’ll make it.

A.Go ahead B.Good luck C.No problem D.Cheer up

23.The young man acted strangely during the interview. He made a bad

on the employer.

A.expression B.impression C.effect D.opinion

24.The house rent is high. I have to pay as I used to.

A.as five times much B.as much four times

C.much as four times D.four times as much

25.Usually when the teacher steps into the classroom at the bell, everybody

things ready for class.

A.gets B.has got C.will get D.is getting

26.Yesterday I bought a new bike, was very reasonable.

A.which price B.its price

C.the price of which D.whose the price

27.The work we’re doing is quite difficult, so your support will certainly .

A.make any difference B.make a difference

C.be very different D.be of some difference

28.Early settlers (定居者)in this land found great difficulty to the hard living conditions.

A.to fit B.fitting C.to settle D.adapting

29.They often quarrel each other and don’t have much ——______ common.

A.about, on B.with, on C.with, in D.on, in

30.We’re just trying to reach a point both sides will sit down together

and talk.

A.where B.that C.when D.which

31.He hurried to the booking office only that all the tickets had been sold out.

A.to tell B.to be told C.telling D.told

32.—Why didn’t you tell him about the meeting?

—He rushed out of the room I could say a word.

A.before B.until C.when D.after

33.The big wind damaged many houses and business buildings; , it caused 20 deaths.

A.or else B.therefore C.after all D.besides

34.—I’ve made not a single mistake this time.

— in the exam.

A.You should never be too careful.

B.You should be more careful.

C.You shouldn’t be more careful.

D.You shouldn’t be so careful.

35.Most of us know we should cut down on fat, but knowing such things isn’t much help when it shopping and eating.

A.refers to B.speaks of C.bases on D.comes to

第二节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~55各题中所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Last year I was put into a lower-level math class at school. The reason had nothing to do with my math 36 . I was blind. The school decided that it would be better for me to 37 at a lower level because it took me a great deal longer to 38 the homework.

The only problem in this class was that I was surrounded by 39 students. These were boys who didn’t do well in school. Their home life was 40 different from mine, and they were constantly (经常地) in trouble 41 the school.

I remember sitting at my desk one morning, 42 what I had gotten into. We had already finished our lesson for the day, and 43 of the boys began to talk about what they had done at the past weekend. I tried not to 44 , but it was really impossible not to. 45 the teacher was in the room, that didn’t stop my classmates from 46 the parties they had been to, and how drunk they had been.

One Tuesday morning, I went to a 47 . There was a speaker talking to us about 48 for our enemies. I began to think about this and prayed for (为……祈祷)the boys in my class. I had forgotten that they weren’t good boys; they were just 49 .

When I heard their voices in class, I would pray, “Dear God, please 50…”As time went on, my classmates became more than just 51 boys to me. There was something growing inside my heart, something that wasn’t there before. They began to feel like 52 , and I was learning to love them in a way I never thought possible.

I now see that praying is such a 53 act. When I pray for those around me, it also blesses my 54 , and it changes my ideas of others. I realize I need God’s blessings to 55 the world through my loving eyes. The prayers I said for others turned out to help me the most.

36.A.skillsB.researchC.problemsD.knowledge

37.A.playB.learnC.teachD.progress

38.A.copyB.go overC.shareD.finish

39.A.wiseB.foolishC.naughtyD.friendly

40.A.clearlyB.hardlyC.onlyD.terribly

41.A.inB.ofC.onD.with

42.A.doubtingB.planningC.wonderingD.imagining

43.A.the restB.the otherC.allD.none

44.A.considerB.listenC.cryD.appear

45.A.Even thoughB.WhenC.No matterD.As though

46.A.celebratingB.discussingC.joiningD.throwing

47.A.partyB.shopC.meetingD.club

48.A.scolding(指责)B.praisingC.workingD.praying

49.A.lostB.missingC.goneD.disappointed

50.A.punishB.blessC.offerD.save

51.A.warm-heartedB.humorousC.troublesomeD.simple-minded

52.A.a teamB.strangersC.brothersD.a family

53.A.powerfulB.foolishC.strongD.romantic(浪漫)

54.A.learningB.mathC.lifeD.mind

55.A.touchB.seeC.feelD.forget

第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

A

A man from Sri Lanka on Friday broke the Guinness world record for the longest time spent watching TV. He finished with 69 hours and 48 minutes.

Suresh Joachim did his TV viewing in the lobby of WABC-TV as part of the “Guinness World Record Breaker Week ” on the TV talk show “Live With Regis and Kelly”.

After passing the previous record of 50 hours and 7 minutes Thursday, Joachim continued until about 7 am Friday.

Sitting on a brown leather couch, he watched nothing but ABC shows.

“I’m going to be a little tired of watching TV after this,” Joachim told reporters by phone during a brief break.

Rules of Guinness for the couch potato honor, allow for a five-minute break every hour and a 15-minute break every eight hours. The viewer must be constantly looking at the screen.

The hardest part, Joachim said on Live With Regis and Kelly, was “I couldn’t watch the people” —the many, waving passers-by on the street outside the ABC studio.

Joachim, who lives in Toronto but comes from Sri Lanka, now holds more than 16 Guinness records, including the longest duration balancing on one foot (76 hours, 40 minutes) and bowling for 100 hours. He does it, he says, to raise awareness of suffering children.

56.Which paragraph shows the main idea of the passage?

A.The first paragraph. B.The last paragraph.

C.The second paragraph. D.The sixth paragraph.

57.How many days had Joachim spent when the new‘couch potato’record was made?

A.One week. B.Two days.

C.Four days. D.Nearly three days.

58.Which of the following phrases can replace the underlined word “constantly”?

A.All the time. B.At times.

C.Some time. D.Once upon a time.

59.What’s the biggest challenge for Joachim when he did his TV viewing?

A.That Joachim could eat nothing.

B.That Joachim couldn’t watch the people outside the ABC studio.

C.That Joachim felt very tired.

D.That Joachim didn’t have any time for a break.

B

Reading is very important to help you learn English. To learn as much as you can from reading, you need to read different kinds of English. This book provides not only different kinds of English but also a good way to check your reading ability.

There are four parts in the book:

Part 1 is Messages: In this part somebody wants to send information in writing to somebody else. There is a test on timetables and a test on text messages.

Part 2 is People: In this part all the tests are about people. For example, there is an informal letter between friends. There is formal English in biography (传记). There is a job application(申请表) as a model to help with your writing, as well as testing your reading.

Part 3 is Places: In this part, too, many different kinds of English are shown, some informal and some formal. There is the informal English of a holiday postcard. There is also the formal English in a letter of complaint(抱怨).

Part 4 is Things: You will find some descriptive writing in this part. There are descriptions of clothes and of a computer.

You can do these tests in any order you like, or you can do all the tests with a formal or informal text.

I enjoyed writing this book and I hope you enjoy using it.

60.We can find the introduction to a product in .

A.Part 1 B.Part 2 C.Part 3 D.Part 4

61.Which of the following is most probably written in informal English?

A.A letter of complaint.

B.A computer hand book.

C.A letter to a friend.

D.A story of president.

62.The passage is most probably written for .

A.test-designers B.students C.test-takers D.teachers

63.Which of the following is the best title for the book?

A.Test your reading ability

B.Help with your writing

C.Learn different kinds of English

D.Practice English in different ways

C

Looking back on my childhood, I believe that naturalists are born and not made. Although we were all brought up in the same way, my brothers and my sisters soon gave up their flowers and insects. Unlike them, I had no ear for music and languages. I was not an early reader and I could not do mental arithmetic (算术).

Before World War I we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the dim(暗淡的) memory of the house we lived in, of my room and my toys. Nor do I recall clearly the large family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who gathered next door. But I do have a crystal(水晶)clear memory of the dogs, farm animals, local birds, and above all, insects.

I am a naturalist, nor a scientist. I have a strong love for the natural world and my enthusiasm (热情) has led me into varied investigations (调查). I love discussing my favorite topics and enjoy burning the midnight oil reading about other people’s observations and discoveries. Then something brings these observations together in my mind. This has resulted in my publishing 300 papers and books.

But curiosity(好奇心), a keen (敏锐的)eye, a good memory and enjoyment of the animal and plant world do not make a scientist. A scientist, up to a point, can be made. A naturalist is born. If you can combine the two, you get the best of both worlds.

64.The first paragraph tells us the writer .

A.was interested in flowers and insects in his childhood

B.lost his hearing when he was a child

C.didn’t like his brothers and sisters

D.was born into a naturalist’s family

65.The writer can’t clearly remember his relatives probably because .

A.he didn’t live very long with them

B.the family was very large

C.he was too young when he lived with them

D.he devoted himself to observing nature

66.It can be inferred from the passage that the writer was .

A.a scientist as well as a naturalist

B.not a naturalist but a scientist

C.only a born naturalist

D.first of all a scientist

67.According to the writer, a born naturalist should first of all be .

A.good at maths B.full of enthusiasm

C.knowledgeable D.self-disciplined(自我约束)

D

To reach the world’s richest country, you don’t need to set out for the Middle East, but for the South Pacific, to a tiny dot just south of the equator, called Nauru. Only 8.2 square miles in size, the whole of this county can be seen form the air as the plane comes into land. The blue South Pacific Ocean reaches for thousands of miles in all directions, the nearest piece of land Ocean Island 200 miles to the east.

Nauru is so small that the plane lands in what is best regarded as the capital’s main street. The seaward side of the runway has traffic lights at each end to stop cars when planes are landing. The tiny bus station outside the airport is crowded with well-fed and brightly clothed Naurans with their modern cars.

With Naurans now getting an average of $44,500 a year, the island’s 60,000 people seem to have little to worry about. A trip to the island’s central hump (隆峰) tells a slightly different story.

The hump with a great deal of phosphate (磷酸盐) round is Nauru’s wealth. When Nauru gained freedom from the British government in 1968, about 40 million tons of the earliest 100 million tons of phosphate were left. Since it has taken out another 10 million tons, the rest is only enough for another 20-25 years.

68.The best title for the passage should be .

A.Wealth and population of Nauru

B.The most beautiful country in the world

C.A small island surrounded by the South Pacific Ocean

D.A small but rich island country

69.It can be inferred from the passage that .

A.Nauru has not build a runway in the airport yet

B.Nauru is not large enough to build a runway of the plane

C.the Naurans are not rich enough to build a runway of the plane

D.no cars run on the main street

70.From the last sentence of the passage we can learn that the writer wants to tell us

A.why Naurans are so rich

B.something more about Nauru

C.something for Naurans to worry about

D.how the British robbed Nauru of their wealth

71.How many tons of phosphate will probably be taken out in Nauru per year?

A.2,000,000 to 2,500,000 tons.

B.2,800,000 to 3,500,000 tons.

C.1,200,000 to 1,500,000 tons.

D.400,000 to 500,000 tons.

E

Pets are no strangers to the White House. Many of America’s Presidents have been animal lovers. In recent times, White House pets have been tame (温顺的) dogs and cats. Long ago, however, presidential pets, like our nation itself, were wild!

In 1806, President Thomas Jefferson lived in the White House. Passersby often caught sight of his pet bears. Explorers had discovered these fierce (凶猛的)bears, caught a pair of small ones, and sent them to Jefferson. While the President was excited about his bears, his enemies in Congress constantly laughed at his pets, calling the White House “The President’s Bear Garden”.

By 1825, the bears were long gone from the White House scene. The building was home to President John Quincy Adams and his crocodile (鳄鱼). The green beast actually belonged to General Lafayette, a French hero who had helped the United States win the Revolutionary War. When Lafayette asked Adams to keep the crocodile for him, the President couldn’t refuse.

When President Martin Van Buren moved into the White House in 1837, he brought his tigers with him. At least, Van Buren said the tigers were his. The Sultan of Oman had sent the tigers when Van Buren was elected, so Congress argued(争辩说)that the cats belonged to the American people. A fight over the tigers continued for months. In the end, Congress sent someone to seize the tigers and put them in a zoo.

Twenty years later, President James Buchanan received another valuable gift when he was in his first year in the White House. This time the King of Siam sent several elephants! Buchanan had no desire to share his building with the big creatures, so he sent them to the zoo. Buchanan did, however, keep another gift — a pair of birds. They were a fitting symbol of presidential power.

72.According to the passage, we can infer that .

A.the pets the Presidents raised were all huge ones

B.the pets the presidents owned were all their favorite ones.

C.the Presidents kept the pets not only at home but in the zoo

D.the Presidents’ pets were not only cared about by their families

73.How did the Presidents mentioned get their unusual pets?

A.They got them in the forest.

第四部分：写作

第一节：短文改错

I’d like to tell you something about my hometown. I lived in86.

Wuhu where is not a very big town. It has a population of around87.

250,000. It is in the Changjiang River, and is famous for the Hanglang88.

Mountain, the Tao Xin Shui Yun or the He Ping Sheng Tai Park.89.

Of course it isn’t as beautifully as Beijing or Shanghai. But the air here90.

is a lot of cleaner and better. There are a few factories in my hometown,91.

and not many, so there is little pollution. But there are a lot of hotels92.

and restaurants in the town. In summer the town is full of travelers.93.

My father decides to open a small shop to sell gift. But he is short94.

of money. He hopes that he can lend some money from the bank.95.

B.They bought them at the market.

第二节：书面表达

你校学生会欲在校内聘一位同学任校报英文版的编辑，请你以“An English editor wanted”为题写一则招聘启事。内容要点如下：

1.该工作主要包括：

1)从英文报刊杂志及互联网上选择适合学生的文章;

2)选择、编辑同学们的来稿。

2.要求：

1)乐意奉献出一些业余时间为同学们服务;

2)英文与美术皆好，能熟练使用电脑;

3)感兴趣的同学请在本周与学生会联系。

注意：1.词数100左右(文章开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数);

2.不要逐字翻译，注意短文的通顺连贯。

An English editor wanted

Our school newspaper is looking for an editor for its English edition.

Students’ Union

C.The pets were given to them by others.

高一英语期末参考答案

单选：21～35 BDBDB CBDCA BADAD

完型：36～55 ABDCA DCABA BCDAB CDACB

阅读：56～75 ADABD CBAAD CBDBC CDCDD

单词拼写：

76.interrupting 77.cultural 78.damage 79.limited 80.preparation

81.teenagers 82.traditional 83.Environmental 84.characters 85.emergency

短文改错：

86.live 87.where→which/that 88.in→on 89.or→and 90.beautiful

91.去掉of 92.and→but 93.√ 94.gifts 95.lend→borrow

作文：

Our school newspaper is looking for an editor for its English edition. The job mainly includes two parts: One is to choose proper English articles from other newspapers, magazines or the Internet for students. The other is to pick out the better form students’ articles in our school and edit them for use.

We hope that he/she could meet the following requirements: First, he/she is willing to devote some of the spare time to serving the others. Second, it’s necessary for him/her to be good at both English and art. Besides, the ability to use the computer is necessary as well.

Those who are interested in the job, please get in touch with the Students’ Union this week.

Students’ Union