河北省衡水中学2017-2018学年高一下学期期中考试
英语试题
本试卷满分150分，考试用时120分钟。 注意事项：
1、答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。
2、选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。
3、非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。
4、考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。 第一部分:听力(共两节,满分20分）
第一节 （共5小题；每小题1分，满分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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. 1. Where is the woman going?
A. To a bank. B. To a shop. C. To a park. 2. What time does the restaurant close?
A. At 11:00 p.m B. At 9:30 p.m C. At 9:00 p.m 3. Where dose the woman want to get married?
A. In a church. B. In the open air. C. In a country house. 4. What dose the woman think of the decision to build a new hospital?
A. It is a waste of time. B. It is a waste of money.
C. It should have been built earlier. 5. What is the woman doing?
A. Asking for permission. B. Making a complaint. C. Ordering a dish.
第二节（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15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;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至7题。 6. Who is the man talking to?
A. His teacher? B. His classmate. C. A bookstore clerk. 7. What will the young man do next?
A. Read the book again. B. Hand in his essay. C. Rewrite his essay.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. What does the woman say about cutting grass?
A. She likes it very much. B. She is unable to do it. C. Mr. Darcy already did it.
9. What is the second thing the man suggests? A. Delivering newspapers. B. Cutting grass. C. Doing babysitting.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What is the woman doing?
A. Selling books. B. Doing a survey. C. Discussing her reading habits. 11. What kind of books doe the man like best?
A. Historical novels. B. Adventure stories. C. Biographies. 12. Where does the man get most of his books?
A. From his friends. B. From the library. C. From online bookstores. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What is the woman looking at?
A. A map of the city. B. A list of restaurants. C. A schedule of activities. 14. What season is it?
A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Autumn. 15. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. At a concert. B. In the street. C. In a restaurant. 16. Why is the man happy?
A. He likes helping visitors. B. He just went to a concert in the park.
C. He will take a walk with the woman. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What is the speaker?
A. A broadcaster. B. A singer. C. A songwriter. 18. Which of the following may be included in BCD International programs? A. News of music libraries. B. Stories about the good old days. C. Various kinds of classical and pop songs.
19. Which program gives the ideas behind the pop songs?
A. The History of Pop. B. About the Big Hits. C. The Road to Music.
20. Which word best describes native speakers’ understanding of English pop songs? A. Impossible. B. Unnecessary. C. Difficult.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Four books that will inspire you to travel around the world
There's truly nothing like travel when it comes to gaining perspective（远景）and exposing yourself to other cultures. To get you in the adventuring mood, we asked Amazon Senior Editor Chris Schluep to help us come up with a list of books that transport readers to another time and place. Below, see his list of four books that will inspire you to travel the world. For more information, please click Amazon. com. SEATTLE: Where You'd Go, Bernadette? Price: $16.73
Maria Semple's first novel is not exactly a love story to Seattle, but if you read it you just might want to come here to see if people are really as self-involved as the characters in her book. What really shines through is the strange storytelling and the laughs. Buy it on Amazon. ITALY: Beautiful Ruins Price: $16.29
This book written by the popular author Jess Walters is a love story that begins on the Italian Coast in the early 60s and eventually appears on the screen in Hollywood. With the settings of the background from Italy to Edinburgh to Los Angeles, you will find yourself longing to go as well. Buy it on Amazon. ENGLAND: Wolf Hall Price: $15.57
You can't travel to Thomas Cromwell's England without a time machine, but reading Hilary Mantel's prize-winning novel is the next best thing. It will make you long to see the ancient buildings and green grass of the English countryside, much of which is still there. Buy it on Amazon.
NANTUCKET: Here's to Us Price: $17.16
Elin Hilderbrand has built a writing career out of writing about her hometown island of Nantucket. Her latest is Here's to Us, which, perhaps not surprisingly, is a great beach read.
21. Whose book has been made into a film according to the text? A. Hilary Mantel’s. B. Jess Walters’. C. Maria Semple’s. D. Elin Hilderbrand’s.
22. What can you buy if you have only $32?
A. Beautiful Ruins and Where You’d Go, Bernadette. B. Where You’d Go, Bernadette and Wolf Hall. C. Beautiful Ruins and Wolf Hall. D. Wolf Hall and Here’s to Us.
23. What do the four books have in common? A. They have the same price. B. They have the similar content. C. They have the similar background. D. They have the same place of sales.
24. Where does the text probably come from?
A. A website. B. A magazine. C. A newspaper. D. A textbook.
B
World Book Day falls on April 23 every year．It was set up by the United Nations Educational,Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) in 1995 to encourage people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of reading．It is also the day to honor great writers，for example，William Shakespeare，born or dead on that day．
Many countries celebrate World Book Day．Take UK as an example．On that day，millions of school children can buy books of special price，a much lower price than usual，in any bookstore．It has been done every year since 1998．World Book Day is also celebrated in China. Our Former Premier Wen Jiabao, a bookworn, who does lots of reading every day, has called on people to do more reading. He suggested that young people should spend more time reading．\change the world, but people can change the world by changing themselves through reading,” he said．
Why do people like reading? One big advantage is that reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent. Also, reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and technology. Besides, reading gives us information about other cultures and places of the
world. When we read, we may find many things that are unfamiliar to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. What’s more, reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language like English．
\（Bacon，1597 ). Books，magazines，newspapers and other kinds of materials can help us to know more about the outside world and perfect us．So it is necessary for us to spend time on reading every day．
25．World Book Day was set up in order to encourage people to .
A. buy more books B. do more reading
C. learn foreign languages D. know more about science
26. In the UK， what will school children do on World Book Day?
A. They will give away some books to those poor families’ children. B. They will go to the library in order to read as many books as possible. C. They will buy books of much lower price than usual in any bookstore. D. They will organize some activities in memory of William Shakespeare. 27. How many advantages of reading are mentioned in the passage?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five. 28. The underlined words “ a bookworm” in Paragraph 2 probably mean . A. a person who loves reading B. a person who likes reading C. a person who loves collecting D. a person who likes buying books
C
I had the honour of being elected chief of my tribe（部落). With the title came great responsibility. It was my job to make peace with the Maori Tamaki tribe, whose village we visited. Their soldiers jumped from a boat and faced us down with fierce crying, wide-open eyes and much noise of sticks. They laid a big leaf on the ground. As the head, I was forced to accept this peace offered by picking it up, then touching noses with their chief. “Kia ora” , he said, welcoming us into the woodland home of his people.
My “ tribe” was my New Zealand tour group, who had forced me into being their leader. We’d been warned that the ceremony was a serious occasion and that to laugh or even smile would be considered rude to the Tamaki. After that it was non-stop fun as they showed their ancient customs and I received instruction in performing the haka, the war dance by the All Blacks rugby team.
Then they pulled our dinner of lamb, beef and vegetables out of the ground. It had been slow-cooked in the heat just below the surface in the geothermal (地热的) area of North Island, a Maori tradition known as a hangi that goes back an extremely long period of time.
Obviously, this form of it is put on for tourists and it was hugely enjoyable. The journey back to