广东省深圳市福田区红岭中学2019-2020学年高一上学期期中英语试题

红岭中学2019—2020学年度第一学期第一学段考试

高一英语试卷

（说明：本试卷考试时间为120分钟，满分为150分）

第I卷

第一部分 阅读理解（共19小题；共45分）

第一节 阅读理解 （共14小题；每小题2.5分，共35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目涂黑。

Every Wednesday, I go to Cantata Adult Life Services, a local retirement community in Backfield, Illinois, US, with my classmates to do community service.

After my very first visit to Cantata, my life changed forever. That may sound a bit dramatic, but volunteering with the elderly has changed my views on life. Our visits last about an hour, and we bring 25-30 students every time. We play board games and cards with the residents while we’re there.

You can watch all the movies and TV shows you want about “life back then”, but nothing compares to talking to the people who were actually there. Just hearing their stories has touched me in a way I never thought possible.

Even the residents who don’t have amazing memories make the experience satisfying. I remember visiting Mrs. Robinson. She couldn’t recall much about her past, but she told me she’d never forget how kind I was just to listen to her “rambling (漫谈)”. It made me realize that it’s the little things that make life worth living. That’s something I won’t forget anytime soon.

For me, it feels great to be a source of happiness, a smile on a bad day or a listening ear for old memories. And at the end of the day, that’s all that matters. It’s easy to feel like you don’t have anything in common with the elderly – especially when you’re a teenager. But that’s not true at all.

I hate to be overly cliched (陈词滥调的) here, but age really is just a number. As young adults, it’s important for us to realize this sooner rather than later. We can learn a lot from the elderly, and they can often benefit from teenagers too.

1. What do the volunteers do according to the passage?

A. They share everything with the residents.

B. They play board games and cards with the residents.

C. They watch the residents play games.

D. They buy gifts for the residents.

2. According to the writer, what is the most important thing that volunteers can do for the elderly?

A. Playing with them.

B. Benefiting from them.

C. Helping them.

D. Being there with them.

3. What does the writer want to tell us by writing this passage?

A. We don’t have anything in common with the elderly.

B. Age is just a number.

C. It is important to help the elderly.

D. Young adults and the elderly can benefit from each other.

B

Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical setting is to efficiency and comfort when we work. College classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical thinking.

We are in the 21st century, but step into almost any college classroom and you will step back in time at least a hundred years. Desks are normally in straight rows, so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates. The assumption (设想) behind such an arrangement is obvious: Everything important comes from the teacher.

With a little imagination and effort, unless desks are fixed to the floor, the teacher can correct this situation and create space that encourages interchange among students. In small or standard-size classes, chairs, desks and tables can be arranged in different ways: circles, U-shapes, or semicircles. The primary goal should be for everyone to be able to see everyone else.

Arrangement of the classroom should also make it easy to divide students into small groups for discussion or problem-solving exercises. Small classes with moveable desks and tables present no problem. Even in large lecture halls, it is possible for students to turn around and form groups of four to six. Breaking a class into small groups provides more opportunities for students to interact with each other, think out hard, and see how other students' thinking processes operate --- all these are the most important elements in developing new modes of critical thinking.

In course that regularly use a small group format, students might be asked to stay in the same small groups throughout the course. A colleague of mine allows students to move around during the first two weeks, until they find a group they are comfortable with. He then asks them to stay in the same seat, with the same group, from then on. This not only creates a comfortable setting for interaction but helps him learn students' names and faces.

4. The final purpose of arranging desks in circles or U-shapes is ________.

A. for teachers to divide students into small groups.

B. to make it possible for students to interact with each other.

C. for teachers to find out how students think.

D. to give students more opportunities to practice speaking.

5. The expression "step back in time at least a hundred years" is intended to convey that _______.

A. college classrooms often remind people of their past.

B. critical thinking was encouraged even a century ago.

C. desk arrangement in a classroom was quite different from that a hundred years ago.

D. today's arrangement of college classroom space has little difference from past's.

6. The way of arranging desks in straight rows indicates that __________.

A. students can be easily prevented from cheating during tests.

B. it is convenient for teachers to monitor students.

C. teachers play a significant role in a classroom.

D. it is good for students to concentrate on listening to teachers

C

Your glasses may someday replace your smart phone, and some New Yorkers are ready for the switch. Some in the city can't wait to try them on and use the maps and GPS that the futuristic eyewear is likely to include.

"I'd use it if I were hanging out with friends at 3 a.m. and going to the bar and wanted to see what was open," said Walter of Fort Greene.

The smart phone-like glasses will likely come out this year and cost between $250 and $600, the Times said,

possibly including a variation of augmented (增强的) reality, a technology already available on smart phones and tablets (平板电脑) that overlays information onto the screen about one's surroundings. So, for example, if you were walking down a street, indicators would pop up showing you the nearest coffee shop or directions could be plotted out and come into view right on the sidewalk in front of you.

"As far as a mainstream consumer product, this just isn't something anybody needs," said Sam Biddle, who writes for Gizmodo.com." We're accustomed to having one thing in our pocket to do all these things," he added, "and the average consumer isn't gonna be able to afford another device (装置) that's hundreds and hundreds of dollars."

Google publisher Seth Weintraub, who has been reporting on the smart phone-like glasses since late last year, said he is confident that this type of wearable device will eventually be as common as smart phones.

"It's just like smart phones 10 years ago," Weintraub said. "A few people started getting emails on their phones, and people thought that was crazy. Same kind of thing. We see people bending their heads to look at their smart phones, and it's unnatural," he said. " There's gonna be improvements to that, and this a step there."

7. One of the possible functions of the smart phone-like glasses is to __________.

A. program the opening hours of a bar.

B. supply you with a picture of the future.

C. provide information about your surroundings.

D. update the maps and GPS in your smart phones.

8. The underlined phrase "pop up" in the third paragraph probably means "__________".

A. develop rapidly

B. get round quickly

C. appear immediately

D. go over automatically

9. According to Sam Biddle, the smart phone-like glasses are __________.

A. necessary for teenagers

B. attractive to New Yorkers

C. available to people worldwide

D. expensive for average consumers

10. We can learn from the last two paragraphs that the smart phone-like glasses __________.

A. may have a potential market

B. are as common as smart phones

C. are popular among young adults

D. will be improved by a new technology

D

Spring is coming, and it is time for those about to graduate to look for jobs. Competition is tough, so job seekers must carefully consider their personal choices. Whatever we are wearing，our family and friends may accept us, but the workplace may not.

A high school newspaper editor said it is unfair for companies to discourage visible tattoos (纹身), nose rings, or certain dress styles. It is true you can’t judge a book by its cover, yet people do “cover” themselves in order to convey (传递) certain messages. What we wear, including tattoos and nose rings, is an expression of who we are. Just as people convey messages about themselves with their appearances, so do companies. Dress standards exist in the business world for a number of reasons, but the main concern is often about what customers accept.

Others may say how to dress is a matter of personal freedom, but for businesses it is more about whether to