**==(本文系转载自网络，如有侵犯，请联系我们立即删除)==** 雅礼中学2016级高一第一学期期中考试
英语试题卷
时量：120分钟 满分：150分
听力-颜可 阅读-陈崟,罗静波 七选五,改错-周江林 完型,单句填空-胡业芳 作文-赵伟超
审题-董梦园，黄琼
第Ⅰ卷
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，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 答案是C。
1. What gift will the woman probably get for Mary?
A. A schoolbag. B. A CD. C. A movie ticket. 2. What is the man doing? A. Watching TV. B. Enjoying a party.
C. Looking for his clothes.
3. What does the man mainly do in his spare time? A. He plays sports. B. He plays the piano. C. He learns a language.
4. Which flavor is the most popular?
A. Strawberry. B. Chocolate. C. Lemon. 5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A movie they just saw. B. A favorite actor. C. Weekend plans.
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，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、7题。
6. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Former classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Old teammates. 7. What is the woman more interested in now?
A. Playing tennis. B. Playing the piano. C. Playing basketball. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What caused the woman’s problem? A. She’s been studying late into the night. B. She feels nervous about her classes.
C. She cannot sleep at night.
9. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Take some medicine. B. Get more fresh air. C. Get more sleep. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. When did the library open? A. Last week. B. Yesterday.
C. The day before yesterday. 11. What is true about the library? A. It’s tall.
B. It’s very modern.
C. The computer lab is on the second floor. 12. Why didn’t the man sign up for a library card? A. He didn’t have enough money. B. He didn’t take his student card.
C. The library was far away from his home.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What time should the bus have come? A. At 8:00. B. At 8:15. C. At 9:15. 14. What did the woman do in the library? A. She finished her school project.
B. She borrowed a book on kings and queens. C. She searched for some books but got nothing. 15. Where was the woman at 3:00 p.m.?
A. At home. B. On a bus. C. In a bookstore. 16. Why did it take the woman a long time to get home? A. She walked all the way.
B. The bus broke down halfway.
C. She went to a bookstore on the way.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. Why can’t the speaker go to work today? A. Her son is sick.
B. She isn’t feeling well.
C. She has to go to her son’s school.
18. What does the speaker ask Raman to do? A. Order lunch for ten people. B. Get in touch with the trainer. C. Book a meeting room.
19. What is the relationship between the speaker and Raman?
A. Boss and secretary. B. Trainer and trainee. C. Partners. 20. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In the office. B. On the phone. C. In a coffee shop. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
－A－
All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help themto live longer.
Sports change with the season. People play different games in winter and summer.
Games and sports often grow out of people’s work and everyday activities. The Arabs use horsesor camels in much of their everyday life; they use them in their sports, too.
Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, hasspread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with manyrivers.
Some sports or games go back to thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing,for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are quite new. Neither one is ahundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game theyoften become good friends. Sports help to train a person’s character. One learns to fight hard but fightfair, to win without pride and to lose with grace (体面). 21. What does the writer NOT tell us in the passage? A. Sports change with the season. B. Basketball was invented in America. C. Football is played all over the world.
D. Games and sports often grow out of people’s work and everyday activities. 22. Why do people all over the world enjoy sports? A. Because sports are interesting.
B. Because sports help to train a person’s character.
C. Because sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer. D. All of the above.
23. Sports and games can help people from different countries ______. A. to be enemies B. to understand each other better C. to be partners D. to dislike each other 24. What can we learn from this passage? A. Sports and games are useful to the old. B. Sports and games should be done for fun..
C. A lot of new sports will be invented in the future.
D. Sports and games are unimportant things that people do.
－B－
“Teenager” is the new term being used in the UK to describe kids at either 8-12 or 10-13 years old.
More and more companies are beginning to create products and services for teen agers. The Disney company sells music and film to teenagers and their parents. You can get everything from branded lunchboxes and mobile phone covers, to monthly fan magazines and clothing. It’s all about sales, which suggests that teenagers must have more money, freedom and influence upon their parents than they’ve ever had before.
Most kids in the UK today get more pocket money than kids did a decade ago. Parents have more money to give their kids than previously, since parents are having fewer children. In addition, the divorce rate in the UK is continually rising and parents spend less time with their children than they used to, so many parents try to compensate (弥补) by buying presents for their children. It’s a bad habit for both parents and kids to get into, but parents are under constant pressure from commercial marketing and the requests of their children.
UK kids today are very media and computer-literate (熟练的). A lot of kids have a TV, if not a