河南省三门峡市外国语高级中学2020-2021学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题
2020--2021学年上期2023届高一期中考试
英语试卷
本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
第I卷
第一部分 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
Washington DC Family Vacation Package
Take your whole family to the nation’s capital for the Washington DC Family Vacation Package so you can enjoy three nights’ lodging in the DC area.
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Three Nights’ Lodging in your choice of over 92 hotels.
Grand Tour of Washington DC
DC After Dark
Prices Starting at:
Ages 19 and Up: $246.00 Ages 12-19: $84.00 Ages 3-11: $69.00 Ages 0-2: $54.00
The package also includes the Half-Day Grand Tour of Washington DC and the DC After Dark experience.
The Half-Day Grand Tour of Washington DC is sure to provide some unforgettable memories to your entire family. This tour lasts about four hours and includes sights of famous buildings such as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and more. Then, set off upon the DC After Dark tour. This tour allows visitors to see the most famous DC spots with beautiful night lights. Just a few of these buildings include the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the US Capitol Building, the Washington Monument, and more.
Don’t forget that your package also takes care of three nights’ lodging, so you always have a comfortable place to return to at the end of the day. DC has many lodging options inside and just outside the city to ensure that everyone can find a place that fits their preference!
- What can you do in the Washington DC Family Vacation Package?
A. Spending four hours there. B. Enjoying the daytime activities only.
C. Having limited hotels to choose from. D. Appreciating the landmarks of the DC.
22. How much do a couple taking a baby along need to pay for the package?
A. $ 546. B. $561. C. $ 237. D. $ 222.
23. Where is the passage from?
A. A magazine. B. A travel brochure. C. A website. D. A newspaper.
B
Craig Blackburn, a father and car fan, built a Batmobile for his son’s hope for using the vehicle to brighten the lives of sick children. And now he hopes to use it for more than just his son’s hope after seeing the children’s reaction to the Batmobile.
Based on the number of failures he had seen in car groups, he estimated that only about one in 50 attempted constructions was actually finished and he realized what an incredible chance he had.
Mr. Blackburn started the project at the beginning of 2018 after hearing a friend in the US was doing the same thing. It started with importing an outer shell overseas, before picking brains of a friend who had a background as a worker in a car factory to gain knowledge of how to build the car. With the help of his friend, Mr. Blackburn built the Batmobile in 18 months with the cost reaching six figures.
Mr. Blackburn hoped to add a flamethrower (喷火器) onto the back of the vehicle and said he had thought about building the more recent Batman Tumbler from the series film Dark Knight. Though Mr. Blackburn encountered plenty of difficulties to get over during the construction, in September 2019, the car made its first show at the Carnival of Flowers in Toowoomba, before being used by Blackburn’s son for his hope.
“It was great. It was so good to see the kids’ and adults’ expectation of seeing the Batmobile.” Mr. Blackburn said. As a result, the car lovers hope to make the car work on the roads as soon as possible, so he can visit sick children and take them out with his son.
24. What is Craig Blackburn’s original purpose of making the Batmobile?
A. To realize his son’s dream.
B. To donate it to sick children.
C. To pay his respects to the film Dark Knight.
D. To show off at the Carnival of Flowers in Toowoomba.
25. How did Blackburn feel about the car-making at first?
A. Hopeful. B. Uncertain. C. Impossible. D. Confused.
26. How did Blackburn’s friend help him?
A. By offering him financial support. B. By making an outer shell for him.
C. By sharing the knowledge of building cars. D. By telling him the background of the car factory.
27. What is the car lovers’ expectation of the Batmobile?
A. It can be displayed around the world. B. It will be driven soon on the roads.
C. It can change the lives of sick children. D. It will appear in the next film about Batman.
C
Imagine you’ve just arrived in a new place and don’t know anybody yet. Someone smiles at you. You smile back. Your heart leaps because you realize this person could be a potential new friend. Your imagination runs wild, dreaming of all the fun times you’ll have together, chewing the fat over coffee, lunch and dinner.
You become so excited that in the first few minutes of talking you tell him/her everything — what you had for breakfast, how nervous you’re to be in this new place, and how you felt when your favorite goldfish died. But then you suddenly realize you’ve gone too far and that there’s no going back. You’ve committed the biggest social crime in the books — you over-shared.
Researchers have found over-sharing your personal information too quickly is a kiss of death to new friendships. A recent article highlights that it’s possible to establish a close bond with someone in as little as 45 minutes but this is only possible when the connection is built gradually by each person sharing a little bit more of themselves in turn. This theory was tested in an agreement called “Fast Friends” created by Arthur Anon, a professor from New York. In it, two people were put in a room together with three sets of 12 questions. The questions must be taken in order, with each person taking turns to answer them.
Questions in the first set were mild and only slightly personal, like “Would you like to be famous?” But questions in the next set were more personal, like “What’s your most terrible memory?” The final set of questions was deeply personal, like “When did you last cry in front of another person?” As Anon told, “If you disclose too much too fast, you put someone off.” It’s important that a relationship is built on mutual benefit and for each person to be talking. A key sign you’re over-sharing is when you’re the only one talking.
To be close to someone, it’s also necessary that you’re both willing to open up, but it’s important that each person gives the other space and time to do so. Giving away mutual information gradually is a good choice.
28. To establish a close relationship with someone, you should __________.
A. talk as much as possible B. share everything with him/her
C. be the only one talking D. give him/her space and time
29. The underlined part in Paragraph 1 most probably means __________.
A. Drinking tea or coffee B. Talking happily and relaxedly
C. Eating the fat meat D. Laughing happily
30. According to the passage, which of the following questions is deeply personal?
A. What is the weather like in your hometown?
B. What is your dream in the senior high school?
C. What do you think of our national football team?
D. Do you remember the situation you felt stupid before your friends?
31. Which can be the best title for the passage?
A. Take Turns to Share Between New Friends. B. Share Everything With Friends.
C. Be Talkative While Making New Friends. D. Be Friendly to a Potential New Friend.
D
The tons of plastic we’re dumping in the oceans is finding a new home—the stomachs of our beautiful marine animals. Yet another reminder of this fact washed ashore in Eastern Indonesia this week. A large amount of waste, including drinking cups and flipflops, was found in the stomach of a whale that died off the coast near Kapota Island.
The 9.5metre sperm whale (抹香鲸) was found by rescuers from the Wakatobi National Park. “The whale had swallowed 5.9 kilograms of plastic waste containing 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, and more than 1,000 other kinds of pieces of plastic,” park chief Heri Santoso told the reporter.
“Although we have not been able to deduce the cause of death, the facts that we see are truly awful,” said Dwi Suprapti, a marine species conservation coordinator at WWF Indonesia. She said it was not possible to determine if the plastic had caused the whale’s death because of the animal’s advanced state of decay (腐烂). But this is only the latest.
Four Asian nations—Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand—account for 50% of the plastic waste in the oceans, according to a report by environmental campaigner Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment. The Philippines is second to Indonesia when it comes to putting away plastic waste in the oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science in January. Of the 3.2 million mismanaged waste it produces every year, 1.29 million ends up in the ocean. A report released earlier this year stated that the amount of plastic in the ocean is likely to increase.
32. What can we know about the sperm whale?
A. Its stomach is the home of plastic waste.
B. It died of swallowing lots of plastic waste.
C. It was the first whale to eat plastic waste.
D. It had eaten much plastic waste before its death.
33. Which can best replace the underlined word “deduce” in Paragraph 3?
A. Figure out. B. State. C. Approve of. D. Contain.
34. Which country in Asia dumps the most plastic waste into the oceans?
A. Thailand. B. Indonesia. C. Vietnam. D. Philippines.
35. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Philippines puts away 1.29 million tons of plastic.
B. A sperm whale was found dead near Kapota Island.
C. Much dumped plastic waste was found in a dead whale.
D. We should take measures to reduce the waste in whales.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Sharks have lived in the world’s oceans for millions of years. A shark has an extremely good sense of smell. It can find small amounts of substances in the water, such as blood, body liquids and chemicals produced by animals. These powerful senses help them find their food. 36. ________
Sharks grow slowly. About forty percent of the different kinds of sharks lay eggs. 37.________ Some sharks carry their young inside their bodies as humans do. Some sharks are not able to reproduce until they