北京市海淀区中国人民大学附属中学2022-2023学年高一上学期期中英语试卷

人大附中2022~2023学年度第一学期高一年级期中练习 英语

说明：本试卷共3道大题44道小题，共10页，考试时间90分钟。

第一部分 知识运用(共两节，30分)

第一节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，共15分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It started with a dogwood (山茱萸) tree.

I was in Ohio when my mother died on a cold day in February, and everything was ____1____. A few weeks into my grief (悲痛), my uncle suggested planting a tree in ____2____ of her. He had visited my parents many years ago during a California spring. They drove down a neighborhood street lined with blooming dogwood trees and ever since, the ____3____ of a dogwood reminded him of my mom.

We planted the dogwood in May. Its gray trunk (树干) was as thin as my mother’s arms. It lay in the ____4____ much like her ashes would settle on the rocky soil of the Rocky Mountains five years later.

Planting a living thing to honor her hard life that ended too soon soothed (抚慰) my heart. This tree would be a symbol of her, something I could ____5____ despite all I’d lost.

My mother could make anything ____6____. She had not just green thumbs but green hands and a nature that could raise anything but herself.

As a young adult, I was never good at cultivating—opportunities, relationships, and flowers. Because of distance and poor health, my relationship with my mom never got the chance to blossom as I’d hoped.

But my mom’s dogwood grew. Its ____7____ pushed into the hard soil; its white blossoms exploded like stars every June. This tree gave me hope that life goes on in spite of the past.

Soon I began buying other plants. Without explanation, these plants suddenly thrived under my care. And I grew, too, learning how to tend to them. So many lessons that nature already knew, that my mother must have known but didn’t have time to ____8____, I applied to my own life.

A part of me believes this is my mother’s gift she gave to me after she passed away—the ability to encourage and celebrate ____9____ where there was none, to make flowers appear out of the dirt. It is her reminder to find the good in whatever I’m _____10_____, and a promise that wherever she is, it is beautiful.

Though she has been gone for more than 14 years, I can still find her in my garden.

1. A. cold B. colorless C. false D. amazing

2. A. need B. favor C. memory D. celebration

3. A. existence B. sight C. height D. wonder

4. A. air B. heaven C. water D. ground

5. A. sign up for B. adapt to C. hold on to D. catch up with

6. A. grow B. rise C. melt D. appear

7. A. branches B. seeds C. roots D. leaves

8. A. share B. draw C. learn D. judge

9 A. tradition B. holidays C. victory D. life

10. A. taken B. handed C. reminded D. convinced

第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，共15分)

A

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

To solve the problem of hunger between the two main meals of the day, the Duchess came up with an idea. She invited some of her friends ____11____ (join) her for an afternoon meal. The meal ____12____ (hold) between four and five o’clock. It included cakes and ____13____ (sandwich). Tea was served ____14____ (wash) down the food.

B

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Zhang Tian’s first year is almost over. What made him feel ____15____ (satisfy) was that his students achieved great progress in English learning. Besides teaching, he also brought great changes to the village, ____16____ included rebuilding the playground and setting up the library. The village is like his second home now. ____17____ he had only intended to stay for one year, he now feels ready to stay for another year.

C

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

This is a public service announcement. Audiences are reminded to turn off the phones or put them on silence. Please do not cheer or talk loudly during the time ____18____ the ball is in play or if a player is serving. Wait for the point or game to end before ____19____ (stand) up or leaving your seat. When taking photos during the match,

please turn off your flash. Please do not throw ____20____ onto the court.

第二部分 阅读理解(共三节，44分)

第一节(共13小题;每小题2分，共26分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Have you ever been really hungry, but there wasn’t much to eat in your kitchen? Did you throw together a bunch of stuff you had on hand and were pleasantly surprised when it tasted good? You aren’t alone. Some of our favorite foods were created by accident. Here’s a sample menu of some familiar foods that never would have happened if someone hadn’t created them by mistake.

POTATO CHIPS

One of the world’s favorite snacks is the result of a complaint. In 1853, a man was eating dinner at Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York. He ordered fried potatoes, a popular side dish. But when they came out of the kitchen, he didn’t think they were crispy enough. He sent them back to the kitchen, where Chef George Crum was so angry at having his cooking criticized that he sliced the potatoes really thin, put lots of salt on them, and fried them. Not only did the diner love them, but everyone else did, too. They soon became a specialty of the restaurant.

TOFU

Tofu, or beancurd, is made by curdling (使凝结) fresh soya milk, pressing it into a solid block, and then cooling it. Tofu was accidentally invented in China 2,000 years ago, when a cook added seaweed to soya milk, which made it curdle. This is the same process that is used for making cheese. Like cheese, tofu is a great example of how really messing up a recipe can create something unexpectedly good.

CHEESE PUFFS

Did you ever wonder who thought up cheese puffs? The company that invented them wasn’t even trying to make food for people. It was trying to make animal feed. In the 1930s, the Flakall Company of Wisconsin made animal food from small, flaked pieces of grain. One day, an employee, Edward Wilson, watched workers pouring cornmeal (谷粉) into the flaking machine, wetting it to keep it from clogging (堵塞). Because the machine was very hot, the wet cornmeal came out of it in puffy ribbons that hardened when they hit the air, Wilson took some of the ribbons home, added oil and flavoring to them, and voila! Cheese puffs!