许多国家在基础教育发展战略中，都把英语教育作为公民素质教育的重要组成部分，并将其摆在突出的地位。精品小编准备了高一下册英语期中考试卷，具体请看以下内容。

Ⅰ.听力(本题共两节,　20小题，共35分)

第一节 (共15小题：每小题2分，满分30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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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，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1段对话，回答第1—3题。

1. Why is art important according to the woman?

A. It’s a way to earn money.

B. It’s a way to change history.

C. It’s a way to know about culture and history.

2. Where is the special exhibition?

A. It’s on the third floor.

B. It’s on the fifth floor.

C. It’s on the sixth floor.

3. What can we know about the man?

A. He has much taste in art.

B. He knows little about art.

C. He is very interested in art.

听第2段对话，回答第4—6题。

4. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Mother and son.  B. Seller and buyer.    C. Teacher and student.

5. What does the boy want to do?

A. He wants to buy some books.

B. He wants to borrow some books.

C. He wants to ask some strange questions.

6. What does the man like reading?

A. Travel     B. History     C. Action.

听第3段对话，回答第7—9题。

7. What is the speaker?

A . doctor    B. A teacher   C. A tour guide.

8. Which is the most popular sight in Washington?

A. The Georgetown.   B. The White House   C. The National Museum.

9. What can tourists see in Georgetown?

A .  A lot of new buildings .

B. A lot of big restaurants.

C. A lot of good small shops.

听第4段对话，回答第10—12 题。

10. What does the man want to do?

A. Sell a house to the woman.

B. Buy a house for the woman.

C. Help the woman rent a house.

11. Which one does the woman want?

A. The expensive one

B. The one with furniture.

C. The one with a large kitchen.

12. Where are the two speakers?

A. In a car.   B. In an office.  C. At a bus station.

听第5段对话，回答第13—15题。

13. How old was Jimmy?

A. Five   B. Seven.   C. Eleven.

14. Why did Jimmy’s mother give him a notebook?

A. Because she wanted to encourage Jimmy to study hard.

B. Because she wanted to make Jimmy get out of his bad habit.

C. Because she wanted to make Jimmy become an honest child.

15. What can we know about Jimmy?

A. Jimmy was too young to spell many words.

B. Jimmy didn’t want to write words in the note book.

C. Jimmy didn’t study hard and he could spell a few words.

第二节 听取信息  (共5小题;每小题1分，满分5分)

听下面一段独白，请根据题目的要求，从听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡标号为16—20的空格中。对话读两遍。答题时间为60秒。

Requirements 1. Fill out a form.

2. Pay     16     dollars a year.

Cost   Pay one dollar for each       17    .

Keeping time       18     are three to five days.

New movies are (19) _______ days.

Advantage   Provide a free video tape for each of the members (20)________.

Ⅱ. 语言知识及运用(共两节，满分35分)

第一节　完形填空(共10小题;每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Have you just been fired? Are you feeling like a failure? Don’t be sorry about that. Cheer yourself up and spread your wings. Perhaps another much better opportunity is awaiting you.  21 sometimes you don’t realize it, you’re asking to be fired.

Dan Zawacki was a happy camper, selling computers for Honeywell. One holiday he was  22  creative gifts and then a good idea occurred to him — sending dinners, live lobsters (龙虾) — to his favorite customers. He  23   them himself with butter and put them in the trunk of his car between the computers and started delivering. It was a huge  24 .  As a result, one of his customers suggested they go into the lobster business together. Dan laughed. Still, this landlocked computer salesman  25  get the idea of lobsters out of his mind. Why not turn this into a hobby and make a few extra dollars? While on a job assignment in Chicago, he  26  a local radio station to give him a few plugs (插座) in 27  for some lobsters. Unfortunately, his boss heard his salesman selling lobsters, not computers. No surprisingly, Dan was let go. After returning the company’s car, he started to think maybe this was a  28.  Playing with his phone that night, Dan tried dialing 1-800-LIVE-LOB. The  29  was available, and Dan the Lobsterman was born. Today, 20 years later, Dan is still selling dinners, through his company, Lobster Gram.  And he couldn’t be happier.

Many people who have been fired have found ways back to fulfilling careers. And they all learned that the pain and humiliation (羞辱) are temporary (暂时的). So do not be afraid to move 30   and try your wings. Gather your support system. Persevere! Firing doesn’t mean your life is over. It might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you.

21   A. Because    B. When   C. Though    D. If

22   A. searching for     B. making up   C. giving away    D. thinking up

23  A. packaged   B. sold   C. tied     D. placed

24  A. matter   B. business  C. failure    D. success

25  A. couldn’t          B. mustn’t   C. shouldn’t        D. wouldn’t

26  A. permitted   B. hoped   C. persuaded        D. suggested

27   A. change        B. exchange   C. place            D. need

28   A. thing          B. sign   C. pity    D. pleasure

29   A. amount     B. figure   C. note    D. number

30  A. back        B. aside    C. away     D. on

第二节：语法填空(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31-40的相应位置上。

As settlers moved to California ___31     the mid-nineteenth century, they became

concerned about the lack of rapid _____32    (communicate) with the eastern United States. Because of the dangers and hardships of ___33   (cross) the West, mail often did not arrive. Therefore the most important mails _____34    (send)  via Panama, ____35    took a month or more. In 1860 a stagecoach company decided to meet the problem by beginning the Pony Express. The company hired __36   bravest riders and bought the fastest horses __37   (use) as relay(替换) teams between Missouri and California, and the company promised __38     mails would be sent in ten days. The company established two hundred stations along the route at which riders could rest and change horses. In less than two years, __39  , telegraph lines were completed and the Pony Express was ___40     longer needed.