山西省大同市第一中学2018-2019学年高一上学期第一次月考英语试题（图片版）

学剩回 学科网( ZXXK COM)-名校独家资料 独家授权,侵权必究! 2018-2019-1高一年级阶段性考 英语 试(10月) 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中 答题卡上将该项涂黑。(共15小题:每小题2分,满分3分/·选出最佳选项,并在 English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the worlds books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary perhaps as many as two million words However, let's face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. ut when we explore its paradoxes(探讨它的矛盾, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don' t fing, grocers don' t groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth. shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese- so one moose, two meest How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next human beings. That's why, when stars are out, they are visible(能看见的, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it 英语(第1页共10页) 本试题已获得学校官方授权学科网独家版权,侵权必究! 学剩回 学科网( ZXXK COM)-名校独家资料 独家授权,侵权必究! Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while- then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (hE 1) sometimes deeply into both families Americans a