英语属于印欧语系中日耳曼语族下的西日耳曼语支，并通过英国的殖民活动传播到世界各地。精品小编准备了高一级英语上册上学期期中考试题，具体请看以下内容。

第Ⅰ卷  听力(共3节，满分20分)

一.听力

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。

1. When does the plane take off?

A. In the morning.   B. In the afternoon.    C. In the evening.

2. When will the two speakers meet?

A. At ten thirty.   B. At eleven.     C. At eleven thirty.

3. Where are the two speakers talking?

A. On the phone.   B. On the bus.     C. At Ken’s dormitory.

4. What does the woman think students should learn today?

A. The knowledge in the textbook.  B. The advanced technology.

C. More practical things such as housework.

5. Why did the woman fail the exam?

A. Because she didn’t take the exam.  B. Because she cheated in the exam.

C. Because she did not go through the textbook.

第二节(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

听下面4段材料。每段材料后有几个小题，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。听每段材料前，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。每段材料读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. What does the man probably do?

A. He is a student.    B. He is a teacher.    C. He is a worker.

7. How long does it take the woman to finish the work?

A. All night long.    B. Thirteen minutes.   C. Thirty minutes.

8. What is the woman going to do tonight?

A. Help the man with the work. B. Do math homework.   C. See a film.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What is “the 21st Century”?

A. It is a magazine.  B. It is a book. C. It is a TV program.

10. What can we know about “the 21st Century” from the conversation?

A. It sells well.  B. Not so many people know about it.

C. It cannot help students work hard.

11. What will the woman probably do after the conversation?

A. Buy “the 21st Century” from a bookstore.   B. Borrow it from the man.

C. She won’t read it.

听第8段材料，回答第12-13题。

12. What is the man doing now?

A. He is fishing.   B. He is preparing for fishing. C. He is taking photos.

13. What’s the woman’s hobby?

A. She likes making home movies. B. She likes fishing. C. She likes taking photos.

听第9段材料， 回答第14-15题。

14. How does the woman feel at the beginning of the conversation?

A. Happy.     B. Sad.      C. Tired.

15. What does the man suggest the woman do?

A. Have a relax.    B. Have a cigarette.   C. Have a talk with him.

第三节(共5小题，每小题1分;满分5分)

听下面五句话，根据听力内容，补全句子，每句读两遍。(答案写在答题卷相应番号后横线上，每空一词。)

16. The screens also show photographs, text and information from websites. They’re _________!

17. Ms Shen wants to help us __________ our spelling and handwriting.

18. The school year is divided into two semesters. We have a long summer __________.

19. When she asks you to do something, you do it __________!

20. And a few students even __________ liking her.

第II卷  英语知识运用(共两节，满分 30 分)

二.单项填空(共 10 小题，每小题 1 分;满分 10 分)

21. — How about Thursday morning? Say, 10 o’clock?

— OK.        I’ll be expecting you then.

A. Is that right?   B. That’s settled.   C. How are you doing?  D. No way!

22. I don't mind ______ by bus, but I hate ______ in queues.

A. traveling; stand  B to travel; to stand  C traveling; to stand  D traveling; to standing

23. You should _______ yourself out of their quarrels.

A. prevent       B keep       C put      D take

24. What great changes! It’s years since I ____ Chengdu last time.

A.  had left   B. left  C.  have left  D. had been left

25. — I went to see a film yesterday.

— Oh, did you?       .

A. So I did        B. I did so         C. So do I          D. So did I

26.The questions the reporter asked sometimes were ________ and they made me ________.

A.embarrassed;embarrassing     B.embarrassing;embarrassed

C.embarrassed;embarrassed      D.embarrassing;embarrassing

27. One of the engines of the plane was out of order and the bad weather ________ the difficulty.

A. added to  B. added up     C. added up to     D. added

28.After the new technique was introduced，the factory produced ________ cars in 2005 as the year before.

A.more than twice B.as twice as many  C.twice as many as  D. more than twice as many

29. Though the policemen got ______ after looking for the murderer in the city for a whole day, they felt excited when finding an _______ knife by the lake.

A. exhausting; abandoning   B. exhausted; abandoned

C. exhausted; abandoning   D. exhausting; abandoned

30. Rather than          on a crowded bus , he always prefers          a bicycle

A. ride;ride      B. riding; ride         C. ride; to ride       D. to ride; riding

三、完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1分，满分20分)

第一节：

When I was in the third grade, I was chosen to be the princess in the school play. For weeks my mother had helped me practise my lines(台词). But once on the stage, every word    31   from my head. Then my teacher asked me to change my role to be a narrator (解说者) for the play.    32   I didn’t tell my mother what had happened that day, she noticed my    33   and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the garden.

It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions (蒲公英) popping (炸开)   34    the grass in bunches (束). I watched my mother bend down by one of the bunches. “I think I’ll dig up (挖光) all these weeds (野草),” she said. “From now on, we’ll   35   have roses in this garden.”

“But I like dandelions,” I protested(抗议). “All flowers are   36   —even dandelions !”

My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. “And that is   37   of people, too,” she added.

When I   38   that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her the truth. “But you will be a wonderful narrator,” she said, remind(提醒) me of how much I loved to read stories’ aloud.

Thanks to my mother’s encouragement, I got to know everybody had his or her own    39   in the world. I felt 40 of the role in the play.

31. A. developed    B. left              C. failed          D. disappeared

32. A. If            B. Because          C. Though        D. Since

33. A. difficulty         B. mistake           C. danger           D. unhappiness

34. A. through          B. past              C. between           D. behind

35. A. hardly           B. only              C. still             D. also

36. A. harmless         B. healthy            C. beautiful          D. fresh

37. A. true             B. kind             C. same            D. clever

38. A. remembered      B. realized         C. explained         D. promised

39. A. honor           B. progress         C. value             D. interest

40.A. sad              B. proud            C. serious            D. lucky