四川省绵阳南山中学2022-2023学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题

绵阳南山中学 2023 年春季高 2022 级

半期考试英语试题

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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。

例：How much is the shirt?

    A. ￡19.15.            B. ￡9.18.          C. ￡9.15.

答案是C。

1. Which color will the speakers paint the wall?

A. Green.       B. Pink.     C. Blue.

2. What has happened to Bob?

A. He has fallen ill.

B. He has been late for work.

C. He has gone for a business trip.

3. How much will John pay for the tour?

A. Nothing.     B. $10.      C. $20.

4. Where are the speakers?

A. In a school.     B. In a taxi.     C. On a plane.  

5. What are the speakers talking about?

A. Which pool they like.        

B. Where they like to swim. 

C. What in nature they both like.

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. Who is in this photo?

A. Helen.       B. Mike.     C. Tina.

7. Where do the man’s grandparents come from?

A. Manchester.     B. Ankara.        C. London.

听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。

8. Who is probably the man?

A. A student.       B. A teacher.       C. A parent. 

9. What will the woman do next?

A. Attend a lecture.    B. Ask a question.   C. Offer more information.

听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。

10. Where is the woman?

A. In a post office.      B. In the street.      C. In the Madison Building.

11. What is good news for the woman?

A. The meeting is put off.

B. She is near her destination.

C. The man finds the address online for her.

12. What should the woman do?

A. Go down the Bleacher Street.

B. Turn right at the Gerard Street.

C. Cross the road to the post office.

听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。

13. Why does the man come to see the woman?

A. To express thanks.  B. To have a meal.      C. To tell her about an event.

14. How does the man feel about his job?

A. Regretful.     B. Satisfied.      C. Tired.

15. What do we know about the man?

A. He is a cook. 

B. He is interested in cooking.

C. He helps with the festival for the first time.

16. What does the woman ask about the festival?

A. Food types.    B. The position.    C. The end time.

听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. What will the listeners do at the Santa Clara Convention Center?

A. Watch games.    B. Play football.    C. Have a meeting.

18. How is the group travelling?

A. By bus.     B. By car.        C. On foot.

19. What will make the listeners excited?

A. Lunch.        B. Players.     C. Games.

20. What is the purpose of the talk?

A. To introduce a stadium.

B. To attract more visitors.

C. To explain travel arrangements.

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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Do you ever want your kids to read by themselves so you can save the trouble to read them bedtime stories? If so, the following four learning apps may be of some help to you.

Learn With Homer

Price: Free

Skill: Comprehension, Phonics (拼读法)

Grade level: Pre-K, K

Device: iPad

It's a learn-to-read app for kids aged 3 to 6 that includes drawing, voice recording and stories. This app can be helpful for kids who have speech production problems and language organization problems.

Inspiration Maps

Price: $9.99

Skill: Comprehension, Writing

Grade level: 4th and above

Device: iPad

Inspiration Maps is a mind-mapping tool that helps kids visually organize ideas. They can create maps, organizers, and text outlines. Outlines can be changed to maps, and maps can be changed to outlines.The Lite version (简化版本), which is free, lets kids create up to five mind maps.

Aesop's Quest

Price: $0.99

Skill: Comprehension

Grade level: 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Device: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Aesop's Quest, based on Aesop's Fables, is a learning game where the student must remember parts of a story to complete a level. At the end of each story level, the student is rewarded with tests. After solving the tests, the story is complete and the child can continue to the next story.

LightSail

Price: Free

Grade level: Pre-K, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 4th and above

Skill: Comprehension

Device: iPad

LightSail is an e-reading platform that helps teachers support their students' independent reading. Students can use LightSail to check out texts from their schools' online libraries. As students progress through a book, questions appear to check their comprehension. As students complete these assessments, they earn prizes.

21. Which apps are accessible to people for free?

A. Inspiration Maps and LightSail.

B. Learn With Homer and LightSail.   

C. Aesop's Quest and Inspiration Maps.

D. Learn With Homer and Aesop's Quest.       

22. What can we know about the four learning apps?

A. Kids can draw at most 10 mind maps on Inspiration Maps.

B. Students must know all the Fable stories to better use Aesop's Quest.

C. Learn With Homer can mainly help kids with the language problems.

D. LightSail can serve as a tool to check students’ ability to understand texts.

23. Who is the passage probably intended for?

A. School kids’ Parents.                 B. App designers.  

C. High school students.                D. iPad salesmen.  

B

While Romano’s classmates were beginning their college life, the 19-year-old Croatian young man had different dreams. In Croatia, taking a gap year is not as common as in other countries, but Romano decided to take a break for a year or two after high school and try volunteering in Africa.

Upon arrival in Arusha, Tanzania, Romano found a volunteering project through an organization. Now he helps poor children and teaches them English and math. These children are not abandoned. They come from low-income families and any help is welcome. There is no soap or running water in the school, and to learn English, the children depend on volunteers because there are not enough qualified teachers.

“They don’t have much, they are poor, but honest and happy, because they are not aware that there may be something better out there for them. As I was lecturing, I saw the materials they used for learning: worn-out pencils, one eraser for 20 children, torn and printed notebooks, and not to mention clothes and shoes. I will only tell you that uniforms are worn to conceal their clothing and thus to hide material inequality,” says Romano, who was therefore encouraged to launch a charity action to collect donations for children’s necessities.

Romano believes that every child has the right to the basics, including education. It is for this reason that he wants to help these little ones. “Even though I was aware of it before, I realized how privileged I am in life just because I was born on another continent. I learned to appreciate more what I have and manage without the basics. As a result, I met a different culture, tested my limits and looked at things from a different perspective—a gratitude perspective,” concludes Romano, hoping that little by little, both he and other volunteers will contribute to positive change through their work.

24. What did Romano do as soon as he reached Arusha?

A. Volunteer to teach the local children.

B. Make Preparations for his college life.    

C. Improve the local educational program.

D. Help to train the less-qualified teachers. 

25. What can be inferred about the children that Romano teaches?

A. They are too poor to be happy.  

B. They all have an incomplete family.

C. They have no local English teachers. 

D. They know little about the outside world.

26. Which word can replace the underlined word “conceal” in Para. 3?

A. Show.     B. Rid.    C. Mask.      D. Advertise.

27. What did Romano learn from his experience?

A. All children should have access to everything.

B. He should treasure more his life and feel grateful.

C. Adults should try our best to make the world better.

D. He should work hard in college to be more powerful.

C

Opera and cinema have much in common: as a matter of fact, they use music, theater, dance and other art forms at once. Cross-referencing and inspiration for each other have led to several interesting experiments.

Cinema, connected with opera, is very attractive for a long time. Opera has been used both as a setting and as a subject for cinema. From comic films to action films, opera scenes appear in a variety of genres(体裁). Whatever the film, scenes set in or around the opera tend to represent the most exciting moment in the plot.

Cinema is also capable of mixing the visual elements of the opera: cameras can catch facial expressions from close or far, special visual effects can be added digitally, and montage (蒙太奇) can change the meaning of a scene. Far from replacing the operatic experience, opera-based films provide a different, complementary take on operas: they become a genre of its own, which has been called the “opera-film”.

Adaptation of films into operas is quite a new development of the operatic world. It is, however, a quickly growing genre: more and more film-based operas are being produced. In the same way popular novels were chosen in the 19th century as plots for operas, nowadays composers turn to popular or relevant screenplays to attract the audience.

In the future, cinema and opera are highly likely to become more and more closely connected. While opera is fighting for relevance in the 21st century with new music produced, and cinema is slowly losing its leading role to high-quality on-demand TV, the two media can work together to give rise to new forms of art, combining their advantages to create something that can become larger than the sum of their parts.

28. What can be learned about opera-based films?

A. It represents a new genre of films.    B. It focuses on visual experiences.  

C. It has unique settings and subjects.    D. It appears in a variety of genres.

29. What makes it likely for a film to be adapted into an opera?

A. Its characters.    B. Its setting.    C. Its subject.    D. Its popularity.

30. What can be inferred about cinema and opera from the last paragraph?

A. The two should develop their own advantages in their ways.

B. The two should cooperate to make something new and bigger.

  C. Cinema should take the lead in producing high-quality products.

D. Opera should work harder to become a new way of art in the 21st century.

31. What is the text mainly about?

A. The replacement of opera by cinema.

B. The advantages of cinema over opera.

C. The interaction between cinema and opera.

D. The similarities between cinema and opera.

D

In May 2021, a hole was found in a robotic arm aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The main cause was believed to be a piece of space junk. While thankfully no astronauts were injured, it has refocused attention on the growing problem of orbital debris (残骸).

It’s easy to forget that just seventy years ago the Moon was the only thing orbiting the Earth. On January 1st, 2021, there were 6,542 satellites in orbit. Actually, only over half of them were active. That’s a lot of useless metal rushing around the planet at 28,000 kilometers per hour.

Jan Wörner, the former European Space Agency Director General, put it this way, “Imagine how dangerous sailing the high seas would be if all the ships ever lost in history were still moving around on top of the water.” In fact, even the smallest pieces can cause huge amounts of damage.

The problem is very bad and getting worse. There are now about half a million pieces of debris about one centimeter wide or larger and 100 million pieces of debris above one millimeter across. Yet only 27,000 pieces are actively tracked.

Space is only going to get more crowded, with the number of satellite launches set to increase by five times in the next ten years. In January 2021, 143 satellites were launched into space on a single SpaceX Falcon rocket alone. And 12,000 more are to be put in orbit by Starlink over the next five years. All this greatly raises the chances of crashes.

Better control of new launches would help as right now it’s a bit of a free-for-all. Increased tracking of existing space junk could also help because active satellites can be moved off a crash course—yet dead satellites are sitting ducks and there’s nothing we can do to prevent a crash. That’s why many are calling for a clean-up job. A space debris removal task called ClearSpace-1 will be launched in 2025 and attempt to deorbit (使...脱离轨道) the upper stage of a rocket left in space back in 2013.

32. What can we learn about space junk?

A. It can be recycled for other uses. 

B. It has injured astronauts in space.

C. It first appeared over seventy years ago.

D. It threatens the safety of space activities.

33. What mainly makes the space junk problem worse?

A. The high speed of orbital debris.

B. The complex procedures of debris clean-up.

C. The large amount of untracked space debris.

D. The ineffective functions of clean-up facilities.

34. How did the writer present the serious situation of space junk?

A. By listing numbers.          B. By offering solutions. 

C. By explaining the causes.   D. By stressing the efforts.

35. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Orbital Debris: What Results in It?

B. Satellite Launches: The More the Merrier?

C. Space Junk: Is It a Disaster Waiting to Happen?

D. Satellite crashes: Who Should Be Responsible?

第二节 （共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Children start out as natural scientists, eager to look into the world around them.    36.    . There's no need for a lot of scientific terms or expensive lab equipment. You only have to share your children's curiosity. 

Listen to their questions. I once visited a classroom of seven-year-olds to talk about science as a job. After my sharing, a boy raised his hand and asked me some questions, “Have you ever seen a grasshopper eat? When I try eating leaves like that, I get a stomachache. Why?”    37.   

Give them time to think. Studies over the past 30 years have shown that, after a question, adults typically wait only one second or less for an answer.     38.        When adults increase their “wait time"to three seconds or more, children give more logical, complete and creative answers.

____39.    Once you have a child in a science discussion, don't jump in with “That's right” or “Very good”. These words work well when it comes to encouraging good behavior. But in talking about science, quick praise can signal that discussion is over. Instead, keep things going by saying,“That's interesting”or “I’d never thought of it that way before," or coming up with more questions or ideas.

Show rather than tell. Real-life impressions of nature are far more impressive than any lesson children can learn from a book or a television program. Let children look at their fingertips through a magnifying glass (放大镜).     40.   

A. Do not interrupt.

B. Watch your language.

C. There is no time for a child to think.

D. Helping them enjoy science can be easy.

E. This began a set of questions that lasted nearly two hours.

F. So in this way we don’t need to develop their interest in science.

G. And they'll understand why you want them to wash before dinner.

第三部分  语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I was extremely sad. My six-month-old daughter, Sienna, had lost her father before she’d even got to   41.   him. I had no idea how I was going to raise her   42.  . I had to work out how to start   43.   my life.

Then one day my mind wandered back to a few years earlier, when I had   44.   boxing at my local gym. I had really   45.   the exercise and it had given me something to focus on. So I picked up the phone and called my old boxing coach, Stu.

I was   46.   when I turned up for my first training. But my fears soon died down once I started hitting the pads (软垫). As I built up my strength over the following months, I felt the weight of the world slowly lifting off my   47.  . Five months later, Stu scheduled my first boxing match.

Bouncing around the ring, I felt as though William and Sienna were   48.   me on. I was really excited when I was announced as the   49.  . That encouraged me to study to become a fitness trainer myself.

When I   50.   a job at a Maori health and well-being organization, I wanted to introduce boxing   51.   so I could help others lift their spirits.

  52.  , my classes have been a huge success. More than three years have passed since we lost William and I   53.   miss him every day. I often talk to Sienna about him. She’ll always know who her father was and how much he   54.   her.

I have no doubt that boxing saved my life and made me a better mother. If teaching other people boxing can help them on their journey from darkness to light, it’s well worth the   55.  .

41. A. accept   B. know     C. forgive    D. recognize

42. A. alone   B. together    C. safely     D. well

43. A. imagining  B. recording   C. living          D. rebuilding  

44. A. taken up  B. given up   C. fought against   D. called off

45. A. hated   B. supported   C. enjoyed    D. played

46. A. nervous  B. surprised   C. happy    D. proud

47. A. legs   B. hands   C. arms     D. shoulders

48. A. taking   B. forcing   C. cheering    D. passing

49. A. captain  B. winner   C. coach     D. judge

50. A. got   B. lost    C. searched       D. quit

51. A. teachers  B. schools   C. classes    D. teams

52. A. Surely   B. Thankfully  C. Hopefully    D. Strangely

53. A. already  B. sometimes   C. yet     D. still

54. A. loved   B. satisfied   C. respected    D. missed

55. A. visit   B. loss    C. fight     D. money

第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In 2015, a Chinese woman scientist became a household name. She is Tu Youyou, who rose to fame overnight for winning    56.    Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. She is also the    57.    (one) Chinese scientist to receive the award in natural sciences.

    58.    （bear) in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province on 30 December 1930, Tu Youyou studied at Beijing Medical College (now Peking University Health Science Centre) from 1951 to 1955. Then, she     59.    (begin) to work at China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences as a chief researcher. In 1969, she worked     60.    the leader of a research team aiming to discover a treatment for malaria. By 1972, she had managed     61.    (extract) qinghaosu from a Chinese herb, which is very    62.    (effect) in fighting malaria. Fourteen years later, she obtained a New Drug Certificate for qinghaosu, issued by the Ministry of Health of China.

With the help of Chinese herbs, Tu, along with her team, has defeated malaria,     63.    claimed thousands of lives in the past. In 2019, because of her great     64.    (contribute), she was nominated on the list of “The Greatest Person of the 20th Century” and since then, she     65.    (respect) highly for her great devotion to medicine research and remarkable achievements in science.

第四部分  写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 （满分15分）

你是南山中学学生李华。本周迎来第104个五四青年节。你校拟就当代中学生应有的责任担当举行一次讲座。你校交流生Tom对此很感兴趣。请你给他发一封邀请信，邀请他和你一起参加讲座。要点如下：

1. 讲座的时间和地点；  2. 讲座的目的；    3.讲座的主要内容。

注意：

1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

参考词汇：五四青年节：Youth Day

Dear Tom,

    How is everything going? ________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节 （满分25分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Ali and his younger sister, Zahra, lived with their parents in a poor neighborhood. Their mother was very sick and their father was struggling to find a job, and they had only a little money with which to buy food. As they had not paid the rent for several months, the landlord was angry.

One day, Ali took Zahra’s shoes to a shoe repairman to be fixed, but he lost them on the way home. It wasn’t until he got home that he realized he had lost the shoes. He was afraid that his parents would be angry and disappointed, so he begged his sister to keep it a secret. Zahra agreed and the two decided to share Ali’s running shoes. Zahra’s school hours were in the morning, so she would wear them first. After school, she would rush back and give them to Ali. He could then run to his school, which began in the afternoon. Although he ran as fast as he could, Ali often arrived late and was warned by the school.

Ali heard about a long distance race that was held for the boys in the city. When he learned that the third prize was a new pair of shoes, he decided to take part. He ran home excitedly and promised his sister that he would win her the new shoes.

The day of race arrived. Ali had a strong start, but halfway through the race he began to get tired and his legs began to ache. Getting more and more exhausted he thought only of Zahra and his promise to her. Dreaming of the new shoes he would win for his sister gave him strength, and he stayed right behind the two fastest runners, determined to finish third. Suddenly, as the finish line drew near, another runner collided (碰撞) with Ali from behind and he fell to the ground.

Paragraph 1:

Ali looked up and saw the other boys rushing ahead. ___________________

Paragraph 2:

Filled with delight, Ali walked home quickly. _________________________