甘肃省兰州第一中学2016-2017学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题

兰州一中2016-2017-1学期期中考试 高 一 英语 说明:本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分。满分100分,考试时间100分钟。答案写在答题卡上,交卷时只交答题卡。 第I卷(选择题) 第一部分: (共三节,满分50分) 第一部分:阅读理解 第一节(共10小题;每小题2分,满分20分) 阅读下面短文, 从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。 A In 1975, George Carlin appeared on a popular TV show, Saturday Night Live, with his famous words about blue food. “Why is there no blue food? I can’t find blue food—I can’t find the flavor of blue! I mean yellow is lemon; orange is orange and red is cherry. Where is the blue food?” Well, Carlin pretty much has it right—there is not no blue food, but there’s certainly not a lot of it. Fresh-picked blueberries are blue, though they become purple when they are turned into jam. The blue in blueberries—like the purple in grapes and red in tomatoes—is found in nature. But it isn’t a hot color for food. People don’t seem to prefer blue food. Some diet programs even suggest that those determined to lose weight should make their food blue. Eating, in part, begins with our eyes. Chares Spence—an experimen