洛陽市2018-2019高一上學(xué)期期末英語試題和答案

1、洛陽市2018-2019學(xué)年第一學(xué)期期末考試高一英語試卷參考答案AWe always knew our daughter Kendall was going to be a performer of some sort. She entertained people in our small town by putting on shows when she was only three or four. She sang like a little angelWhen Kendall was five, she was clearing her throat frequently. We t

2、ook her to our local hospital where she was diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome(圖雷特名宗合 征)It was pretty destructive because other children made fun of her, and sadly, even a teacher laughed at her. She only had one or two friends, but that was okay because they were - and continue to be -real, the kind

3、 who stick by her, no matter what. Through all this Kendall continued to sing and entertain. Remarkably, her tics(抽 才畜)disappeared when she sang.When Kendall was sixteen, we thought she was pretty much out of the woods. However, a terrible accident happened. At a birthday party, Kendall hopped (H t

4、)on a friend for a piggyback ride. Kendall few over his back and landed on the Moor-on her neck. An ambulance rushed her to the hospital where she spent the next week, paralyzed( )from the neck down. However, her biggest concern wasnt whether she would walk again, but whether she would be able to au

5、dition (i T)for American Idol. Her friend brought a microphone and every day, Kendall tried hard to practise singing. It was more important for her to pick up that mic than a spoon or fork.On the day Kendall auditioned for American Idol -only three months after her accident -we cried tears of joy. A

6、nd our tears turned into shouts when she was given a golden ticket to Hollywood.Kendall is eighteen now, living every day to its fullest and having some good success.21. How did some of Kendalls friends react to her disease?They made fun of her.They laughed at her.They were always there for her.They

7、 gave whatever she wanted.Whats the authors attitude towards Kendall?She believes Kendall can make it big some day.She worries Kendall s illness will worsenShe feels sorry for not having found a better treatment.She is always keen on charity.In what order is the passage developed?PlaceTimeSpaceImpor

8、tanceFrom the passage, we can infer Kendall is a girlwith a strong mindwho has long-time fanspopular among classmateswho prefers music to sportsBArt is very important to kids. Here are some reasons:Art helps children with their physical development. For example, when kids work with play dough(R K )

9、they can lean to better control their fingers. Drawing helps develop hand and finger muscles that are needed to properly hold and use a pencil.Art activities also help childrens social and emotional development. Children leain about themselves and others through art activities. Taking part in art ac

10、tivities really helps them build self-esteem(自尊).It teaches them about their uniqueness while allowing them to express happiness, joy and-pride.Finally, art is important because it allows children to be creative. Through taking part in art activities, they ,11 learn to think and design things and ma

11、ke them.Since art is so important to kids, parents should make it an everyday activity. Luckily, they can do that. Even if you dont have a lot of things that help kids take part in art activities at home, it1 s really easy to set up a low-cost easel (圓架)in your- home. For toddles children who have o

12、nly recently learnt to walk would want to include very basic things such as finger point, play dough and fat crayons. For preschoolers(children who are no longer babies but are not yet old enough to go to school), youll want to add things like paint brushes, an easel, glue, tape and scissors. As the

13、 kids get older and start exploring their creativity, parents will start -adding more things to the art supplies.Its extremely important for parents to make art activities open-ended because we don* t want to limit childrens creativity. Children have their own thoughts and ideas of how things should

14、 look and they come to art with their own special experience. Open-ended art activities are good for childrens development abilities. They build feelings of independence, confidence and eagerness to learn through open-ended activities.How is art helpful to children?It makes them love schoolIt encour

15、ages them to do housework.It improves their gradesIt helps them develop physicallyWhat can we learn from Paragraph 5?Parents should prepare everything for art at homeToddlers need glue, tape and scissors for art activities.It*s not hard to get children to join in art activitiesA low-cost easel is no

16、t good for toddlersIn the authors opinion, open-ended art activities are A. just suitable for preschoolersuseful to everyonelimited to childrens creativitygood for kids in many waysFor whom is the passage intendedTeachersParentsStudentsArtistscLondon s Kew Gardens reopens its Temperate House, the wo

17、rld *s largest Victorian glasshouse.For the first time in its history, the Grade I-listed stnjcture was restored to bare metal and modernized. More than 5, 280 liters of paint was used, enough to cover four football fields, an 15, 000 panes of glass was replaced. The house opened to the public on Sa

18、turday, May 5.The large greenhouse is now home to an arranged collection of different plants from areas of temperate（溫帶的）climates around the world - areas sometimes described as the Goldilocks zone of the planet, where plants are safe from coldness.These include some of the rarest（稀有的）and most threa

19、tened species（物種），for which the botanic（植物的）garden is a final shelter（避護(hù)所）.Among the more thanl z 00 different species of temperate plants is the extremely rare South African cycad Encephalartos woodji, a plant that has disappeared from the wild and is now found in botanic gardens and private collec

20、tions.This tree has been named the loneliest plant in the world ，because only male plants remain -each a clone of the specimen at Kew, which was collected in the middle of the 19th century. Some plants contain both male and female parts, but this species requires a female to produce seeds.Lead garde

21、ner Scott Taylor, who is overseeing the Temperate House collection stressed the importance of having an insurance population of one of the worlds most endangered plant.uWe have ail important job to keep all of these tilings going, Mr. Taylor said. HFor some plants, they are down to a few in the wild

22、 -a wildfire, an earthquake, and theyre gone”Where may you find South African cycad Encephalartos woodji?In any of London s gardensIn a personal collection of temperate plantsIn the laboratory of cloning plantsIn the wild in LondonWhy does Scott Taylor think the trees are endangered?There aren*t suc

23、h male trees any moreThere aren*t female trees any moreBecause of the overhunting of the trees D. Because of the difficulty in producing. 31. What would be the best title for the passage? A. The Grade I-listed Structure Was Completed B. The World s Largest Glasshouse Reopens C. How to Build a Greenh

24、ouseHow to Protect the WildlifeDPlaying video games for hours on end may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic（腹腔鏡檢查的）doctor one day f a new study has shown. Reorganization of the brain s cortical（皮質(zhì)的，皮層的）network in young men with experience of playing video games gives them an advantage not o

25、nly in playing the games but also in performing other tasks requiring visuomotor （視覺眼肌運動）skills. Researchers from the Centre for Vision Research at York University in Canada compared a group of 13 young men in their twenties, who had played video games at least four hours a week for the past three y

26、ears, to a group of 13 young men without that experience. The subjects were placed in a functional magnetic resonance iniaging(FMRI) machine and asked to complete a series of increasingly difficult visuomotor tasks, such as using a joystick or looking one way while reaching another way.By using high

27、 resolution brain imaging(MRI), we were able to actually measure which brain areas were activated at a given time during the experiment, H said Lauren Sergio, associate professor. HWe tested how the skills learned from video game experience can transfer over to new tasks, rather than just looking at

28、 brain activity while the subject plays a videoThe finding that using visuomotor skills can reorganize how the brain works offers hope for future research into the problems experienced by Azheimefs patients, who struggle to complete the simplest visuomotor tasksLead author Joshua Granek added that,

29、in future, it would be interesting to study if the brain pattern changes are affected by the type of video games a player has used and the actual total number of hours he has played, and to study female video gamers, whose brain patterns in earlier studies were different from those of males.What do

30、the underlined words The subjects ” in Paragraph 1 refer to?The 13 young gamersThe 13 young men not interested in gamesThe people involved in the studyThose having trouble with visuomotor tasks.What is different for video gamers according to the passage?The lifestyle.The names of the gamesThe study

31、they join inThe work of brain areas.How did the researchers carry out the research?By studying how experienced skills work on new tasks.Only by watching the brain activity.By playing video gamesBy reorganizing how brain network works at different timesWhat does the passage mainly talk about?The adva

32、ntages of playing video gamesThe effect of watching videosThe ways to deal with AlzheimerThe research into brain diseases第二節(jié)（共5小題:每小題2分，滿分10分）根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項 為多余選項。Many people think that winter is boring because it is very cold, 36, There are many things you can do in winter. Som

33、e people are even excited that winter is coming, because they have prepared themselves for the activities which they can enjoy and mostly they are thinking of extreme sports on ice. 37 But for those who have not experienced snow yet and who want to see some, theyd better look for the best places tha

34、t they visit for winter.Usually, people who belong to areas that do not snow look for places where they can spend and enjoy winter well. Among the places are Canada, New Zealand and Korea. Therere also some sports that you can enjoy. But if you are in areas that really snow, then you are fortunate e

35、nough because you dont have to go somewhere else. 38However, many people are afraid of the cold weather. They would like to go somewhere else to escape the heavy snow, 39.it sunny there and you can also relax at the nice beaches. Water sports are also a great choice, so you can still have an excitin

36、g holiday. What is also good about the Caribbean is that you can choose from more than 365 beaches that they are proud of. It is an absolute destination during winter for sun lovers.Furthermore, if you are thinking of other sunny places to visit, why not tryPortugal, Italy, Spain and the south of Ch

37、ina? 40, At the same time, try dropping by some parts of Europe and tour around for great sights and fantastic weather. Another place where you can enjoy the sunny weather during winter is Australia because when it*s winter here, it*s summer there.A. But it is not always the caseB They also have wor

38、ld-famous beachesThen there is no need for you to travel elsewhereIt depends on what people think of the weatherThat would be exciting especially for adventurous peopleYou can just simply go out and do anything related to snowand then the Caribbean would be a perfect choice for holiday第三部分英語知識運用（共兩節(jié)

39、，滿分45分）第一節(jié)完形填空（共20小題:每 小題1.5分，滿分30分）閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項（A、B、 C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑.This Christmas I was 4A what to give my father. My dad is a（an） 42 person to buy for because he never wants anything. I 43 my phone to read a text message from my mom saying that we were leaving for Christ

40、mas shopping for him when I came across a 44 on my phone that I had locked. The message was from my father. My eyes 45 on a photo of a flower taken in Wyoming, and underneath a poem 46 William Blake. The flower 47 against the bright blue sky, inspired me .My dad had been reciting those words to me s

41、ince I was a kid. That may even be the 48 why I love writing .1 decided that those words would be my gift to my father.I 49 , telling my mom to go without me and that I already 50 my gift. I sent the photo of the cream-colored flower to my computer and 51 the poem on top of it. As I was arranging th

42、e 52 another poem came to mind, my dad recited it as much as he did the other. I typed that out as well and searched 53 for a background to the words of it. The poem was 54 around dreaming, and after searching I found the perfect picture. The image was 55 with blues and greens and purples, twisting

43、together to create the theme and wonder of a 56 , As I watched both 57 passing through theprinter, the white paper coloring with words that shaped my 58, I felt that this was a gift that my father would truly appreciate.Christmas soon arrived. The minute I saw the look on my dads face 59 he unwrappe

44、d those swirling black letters 60,1 knew I had given the perfect gift.41. A. complainingC. offering3B. wonderingD. concluding42. A. boringB. calmC. hardD. ordinary43. A. pulled throughB. put upC. put downD. pulled out44. A. messageB. virusC. hackerD. concept45. A. hangedB. fellC. cameD. took45. A. a

45、tB. byC. onD. for47. A. fightingB. njnningC. holdingD. standing48. A. permissionB imaginationC.reasonD. suggestion49. A. tried outB. got onC came offD. called back50. A. createdB.boughtC receivedD sent51. A. typedB. wroteC. speltD. read52. A. chartsB.shadesC. foldsD. details53. A. forthB. InsideC. o

46、nlineD. back54. A. focusedB. advisedC. explainedD. located55. A. mixedB. fixedC.endedD. painted56. A. talentB. dreamC.sceneryD. tradition57. A. writersB. giftsC. albumsD. poems58. A. impressionB. happinessC. childhoodD. feature59.A. asB. ifC. becauseD. since60. A. carefullyB. elegantlyC noblyD. powe

47、rfully閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入1個適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。Welcome to What s Your Rhythm. In todays program, We are going to discussBeijing Opera. It s a 61 (nation )treasure of China. The art dates back 62 the late eighteenth century and it 63(combine )acting, talking, singing, music, dancing and acrobatics(雜技).Actors

48、play one of four 64 (role): sheng, male roles; dan, female roles; chou roles and jing, roles with brightly painted face masks. Each role has 65(it) own and acting styles. In the early days, most often Beijing Opera 66(perform)on open-air stages in markets, streets, teahouses or outside temples. The

49、music had to be performed loudly and the performers had to sing with sharp voices in order to be heard over the crowds. Slowly this kind of_67 (sing )became a special style of Beijing Opera. Beijing Opera used to be performed on open-air stages 68 were lit only by oil lamps. As 69 result, the costumes in Beijing Opera are often very bright colors. If the costumes 70(be) not in bright colors, the crowds would not be able to see them clearly.第四