2017-2018學(xué)年上海市虹口高級(jí)中學(xué)高一上英語(yǔ)期中考試(含答案)

1、虹口高級(jí)中學(xué) 2017 學(xué)年第一學(xué)期 高一年級(jí) 英語(yǔ)學(xué)科 期中考試 II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions : After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word, for the other b

2、lanks, use one word that best fits each blank. One of the first questions young children ask is “ Why? ” It is human nature to want 17 _ (find) out why things are the way they are. You can find out “Why” by turning the question into a hypothesis (假設(shè)) for _ 18 _ experiment. _ 19 _ example, suppose yo

3、u have been trying to grow tomato plants, but insects keep destroying 20 . Someone tells you that 21 _ (put) large strips of colored cloth around the plants will keep insects away. Your question might be tain colours of “cloDthokceerp insects away? ” Then you dbegin your experiment. The first step w

4、ould be to place different-colored strips of cloth around all of the plants except one. Then, as regular intervals, you would observe and record and note_22 the plant had any insect damage or not. This experiment may prove that the answer to your question is “-cNol,oirteids not different strips of c

5、loth _ 23 _ keep away insects. O”r you may find that answer is “ Yes,certain insects are kept away by blue cloth, but not yellow cloth. ” _ 24_ you have found, you are well on your way to understanding how you can use scientific thinking to solve a problem in you own life. Section B Directions: Comp

6、lete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. acndeiXaUy E dettmctwn C.dwappear D. efiwhve AB explore AC. bappier AD. imnWii建 BC iueation BD refogmtaon CD. rfwnrd ABC signifies ally Alfred Nobel Rests in

7、Peace People like Martin Luther King Jr,Nelson Mandela,Aung San Suu Kyi,Kofi Annan丄ech Walesa and Mother Teresa n have become famous all around the world.A nd what do they have in com mon? They are all winners of the Nobel Pease Prize.But none of them would have received their prize and the 25 it br

8、ings if it had not bee n for one Swedish man Alfred Norbel. When Alfred joined the Norbel family compa ny,it had bee n develop ing explosives for many years,Aifreds father,lmma nu el,had started the family fortune by worki ng for the Russia n army to produce landmines and seam in s,which are bombs t

9、hat are put un der the ground or in the sea,a nd _ 26 when people move over them.But the family made even more money by manu facturi ng in tro-glyceri ne,which was an 27 but evry dan gerous explosive. One day Aifred arrived home to find that his 20-year-old brother Emil had been killed in a nitro-gl

10、ycerine explosion.Alfred became determined to invent a safer explosive.The result was dynamite,which became an 28 success all over the world. Alfred Norbel always wan ted dyn amite to be used for peaceful mean s.A nd whe n it was used to blast a path for the Panama Canal in 1914 he could nt have bee

11、n _29_ .Unfortun ately,in the same year,the First World War started,a nd,whe n it en ded four years later,dy namite had bee n used to take away the lives of thousa nds of young men. Alfred had always hated war and co nsidered it to be _ the horror of horrors and the greatest of all crimes see his _

12、30 _ inven ti on being used in this way made him very sad. Sometime later Alfreds older brother Ludwig died.one newspaper _ 31 _ printed Aflreds obituary in stesd of his brothers. The obituary described Alfred as a man who had become rich by inventing a weap on of mass _ 32 _ . When Alfred read this

13、 review of his life,he was wery unhappy and decided to do something about it.He decided that he would use the gread fortune that he had made to _ 33 _ people who had been working to promote good in socirty.The five awards he created were for physics,chemistry,medicine,literature and,most 34 ,peace.T

14、he Norbel Peace Prize was awarded to the pers on who had done the most,or the best,work to promote frien dship betwee n coun tries,to adolish armies and to hold and promote peace conferen ces. III. Reading Comprehension Section A Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four wor

15、ds or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. In the past, American families tended to be quite large. Parents _ 35 _ five or more children were common. Over the years, the _ 36 _ of the family has decreased. One reason for this is an incr

16、ease in the _37 _ of living. On the average, children attend schools for more years than they used to, making them _ 38 _ dependent on their families longer. Moreover, children nowadays are better _ 39 _ and have more money to spend on _ 40_ . The parents usually take the responsibility for all the

17、expenses. Meanwhile, families are less close than they used to be. More and more American mothers _ 41_ away from home. The break up of the family occurs when the parents _ 42_ . A lot of children in the U. S. live part of their young lives with only one parent. Broken families usually result in pro

18、blems for children and parents alike. Children blame themselves when their parents separate. They grow up feeling _43 as they are moved back and forth between parents. Usually one parent is responsible for raising the children. These single parents must care for the children s e and psychological _4

19、4 _ while also supporting them financially. This is very demanding and _ 45 _ very little time for the parent s own personal _ 46_ . Single parents often marry other single parents. In this type of family, unrelated children are _ 47_ to develop brother or sister relationship. The situations of many American