河北省定兴第三中学2015-2016学年高一上学期第一次月考英语试题

定兴三中高一第一次月考英语试题 （考试时间：120分钟 分值：120分 命题人：田永辉） 第I卷（共70分） 第一部分：阅读理解（共2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、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May 27, 1907. Her mother, Maria Carson, had been a schoolteacher. She loved books. She also loved nature. She showed Rachel the beauty of nature. She also taught Rachel a deep love for books. As a quiet child, Rachel liked to read and write stories. At a very early age, she decided she wanted to be a writer some day. Her story first appeared in a children’s magazine when she was ten years old. Her first book, Under the Sea Wind came out in 1941. In 1948, Miss Carson began working on another book, The Sea Around Us. She always researched carefully when she wrote. She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us. When the book came out in 1951, it won the National Book Award. It was No. 1 on the best seller list for more than a year. The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous.Rachel Carson’s most famous book, Silent Spring came out in 1962. In this book, she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides (杀虫剂) like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline because it would kill them as well. Finally, in November 1969, the United States government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years. Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist (环保主义者) and writer. She will be remembered by the world. 1. Rachel Carson had a deep love for nature and books because of _______. A. her father B. her mother C. her schoolteacher D. her brother 2. Rachel decided that she wanted to be a writer when ________. A. she was very young B. she was in college C. she became a teacher D. she became famous 3. The Chinese meaning of the word “decline” in this passage is probably “ ________”. A. become larger B. become smaller C. be unchanged D. b