02-学易金卷：2020-2021学年高一英语上学期期中测试卷（译林牛津版）

高一上学期期中考试（二） 英语 考试范围：xxx；考试时间：100分钟；命题人：xxx 注意事项： 1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息 2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上 第I卷（选择题） 第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分） 第1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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Flowers make people happy. And while that might seem obvious，there hasn’t been much research to prove the point until now. Some new studies by Rutgers University scientists support the idea strongly，and the experts go on to assume that flowers have flourished on this planet，with their beauty evolving in recent thousands of years，partly because humans are so attached to them. In a test，bunches of flowers were sent by florists to 113 men and women in a retirement community. All 113 got flowers and a notebook，but some got them earlier and received a second bunch when the others got theirs. By now you can guess the outcome. The more flowers，the more smiles. The results of the studies got the scientists to thinking about how the flower industry of today has evolved into growing things that serve no other purpose than emotional(情感上的) satisfaction. Nature won’t even pollinate(授粉) many of the domesticated flowers. Just among roses，there are so many types created by humans that，clearly，flowers aren’t what they used to be. But it’s likely that our collective hand has played a role longer than you might think. Geneticist(遗传学家) Terry McGuire suggests that nature’s prettier flowers got to survive and develop well because people didn’t destroy them when they cleared for agriculture. Instead，they grew them and have been doing so for over 5,000 years. “Because they’re a source of pleasure，we take care of them. In that sense they’re like dogs. They are the pets of the plant world，” McGuire says. Here is one way that might have worked： “Many species of flowers that are now planted used to grow only when the ground was disturbed，” McGuire explains. “As humans moved into agricultural settings，these flowers would have been weeds.” “These flowers might have been tolerated because of their beauty. The seeds wou