精品解析：广东省广州市白云中学2022-2023学年高一上学期期末英语试题

广州市白云中学2022学年度上学期期末测试 高一英语 2023.01 注意事项： 1.本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。共130分，考试时间120分钟。 2.答第I卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目等按要求填涂在选择题答题卡上;答第Ⅱ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、班别、准考证号、考室号等填写在密封线左边的空格内，并在答卷右上角填上座位号。 3.第Ⅰ卷的答案必须答在选择题答题卡上;第Ⅱ卷用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔按各题要求答在答卷相应位置上。 4.考试结束时，将选择题答题卡和第Ⅱ卷答卷一并交回，试卷和草稿纸自己带走。 第一部分阅读理解(共两节，满分50分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分，满分37.5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。 A I read an interesting article recently about how music played an important role in helping two elders in a nursing home find each other. They were listening to a waltz on the radio and began dancing with each other! Music is around us all the time — it’s on the radio, television, and in movies and commercials (商业广告). Music can soothe you and make you happy or sad. I hear music in grocery stores, in lifts and just about everywhere I go. I grew up with music. My mom used to do housework listening to the FM radio when it was all classical music. My dad liked the dance bands that included Sammy Kaye, Guy Lombardo, Glenn Miller and Jan Garber. Many of these bands broadcast live on the radio from dancehall sin Chicago. My great grandfather, Joseph Bapst, played in a brass band in the 1870s and 80s. My great uncle, George Keller, played the trumpet (小号) in the band, as did my dad and mother. My great aunt taught piano and had a degree in music. So I really didn’t have a choice when it came to music and a career. For me, it was music! My love was marches (进行曲) and band music. American March King John Philip Sousa said that a good march could make a man with a wooden leg get up and march! In 1948, the Cities Service Band of America went on radio and played a half-hour live band concert every Monday night at 8:30 on NBC. Conductor Paul Lavalle led a band made up of the best musicians in the New York City area. In 1949, I asked my dad to get a television set. He said, “We don’t need one.” Well, at the end of the 1949 season, the Cities Service Band announced that beginning in September, they were going to appear on telev