黑龙江省尚志市尚志中学2018-2019学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题

高一英语试题

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷 (非选择题) 两部分。

第I卷

第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，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和D）中，选出最佳选项答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

On school days, students get out of bed at 7 a.m. They wash their faces and eat breakfast. The simplest breakfast is a bowl of dried cereal(麦片) with fruit and milk.

 Then they dress, brush their teeth, comb(梳理)hair, put their books in a backpack, and go to school. Nearly all students walk or take a yellow school bus. Very few ride bicycles. When they arrive at 8:30 a. m. they meet their friends and talk about their interesting things.

At noon or 12 o’clock, the students eat lunch at school. The usual lunch must have some meat, vegetable, fruit, bread, and a drink. However, students prefer hot dogs and hamburgers. American children like to have a small piece of cake after the meal.

Students do not have a short sleep in the afternoon. After lunch, they go to the schoolrooms until 3 o’clock. They take classes for six hours each day and then return home.

Parents allow their children to play or watch TV until supper at 6 p.m.. After supper, they do their homework. Sometimes there is a family activity. Children can be with both parents after dinner.

On the weekend, there are two days for activities. Students will spend Saturday shopping with their friends or take a four-hour trip with their family to visit Grandparents or go to a park for a picnic. On Sunday, most families go to church in the morning and have a large dinner at 1.p.m.. Often friends or grandparents will join the family. It is a good way to end the week for parents and children before the next week when school and work begin again.

1. The following is the simplest breakfast except________

A. fried cereal   B. fruit     C. bread     D. milk

2. How many hours do American children spend in school every day?

A. Six hours     B. About six hours and a half     C. Eight hours   D. About nine hours

3. What do American students do on Saturday?

A. They go shopping with their friends or go to visit grandparent.

B. They go to a park for a picnic.

C. They go to church with their parents.   D. Either A or B.

4. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. On school days, students get up at seven in the morning.

B. After morning classes, students go home for lunch.

C. Students do not have a short sleep in the afternoon..

D. The day’s classes end at three o’clock

 

B

 Once upon a time, there was a beautiful bird, which was very curious about hell. When she was little, her mother always told her that if she didn’t master the flying skills, she would go to hell. She was so curious about hell that she always asked others what hell looked like, but no one was sure, because none of them had ever been there. Some said hell was a place full of water, and others told her that hell was full of burning fire. However, the bird knew they were lying. She wanted to find out what hell was.

 When other birds were learning flying skills, she always hid herself and watched them. She thought in this way she could go to hell and see what hell looked like. However, she spent so little time learning flying skills that one day she was caught by a little boy. The little boy gave her to his grandpa in the countryside as a gift. The old man liked her very much. He made a delicate cage and put her in it. The bird was very worried because she thought she couldn’t find out what hell was like staying in this small cage. However, she couldn’t escape. Day after day, she just stayed in the cage, watching other birds flying. She lost her freedom and she became sadder and sadder.               At last, she became ill. The old man finally opened the cage, but she was too weak to fly. Lying on the ground, she thought of the question that she ever asked all the time.

 “What does hell look like?”

 “Hell is a small well-decorated cage.” Before she closed her eyes forever, she finally answered that question herself.[来源:Z,xx,k.Com]

5. What does the underlined word “master” in the first paragraph mean?

 A. Miss.   B. Finish.   C. Follow.   D. Learn well.

6. Why did the bird hide herself when other birds were learning flying skills?

 A. Because she was lazy.

 B. Because she didn’t like learning flying skills. [来源:Zxxk.Com]

 C. Because she thought she could go to hell by doing this.

 D. Because she thought she didn’t have to learn flying skills.

7. According to the passage, the bird at last found that ___________.

 A. hell was a place full of water.   B. hell was a place full of burning fire

 C. there was no hell        D. hell was a small well-decorated cage [来源:学科网ZXXK]

C

 In the past ten years，many scientists have studied the differences between men and women．And they all got the same answer：The sexes （性别） are different，because their brains are different．And this，the scientists say，makes men and women see the world in different ways．

Boys，for example，generally are better than girls at mathematical （数学的） ideas．Boys also generally are better than girls at the kind of hand and eye movements

necessary for ball sports．Girls，on the other hand generally start speaking earlier than boys．And they generally see better in the dark than boys and are better at learning foreign languages．

What makes men and women better at one thing or another？The answer is the brain．The brain has two sides connected by nerve（神经） tracks．The left side generally is used for mathematics，speech and writing．The right side is used for artistic creation and the expression for emotions．In men and women，different areas in each side of the brain develop differently．In boys，for example，it's the area used for mathematics．In girls，it is the area used for language skills．Another interesting difference is that the two sides of a man's brain are connected by smaller nerves than the two sides of a woman's brain area．

8．　   　 men and women think differently．

A．The different brains make              B．Sex makes

C．The different experiences make         D．The influences of society make

9．According to the article，girls are generally better than boys at　   in your school．

A．mathematics        B．physics      C．English       D．Chemistry

10．Which of the following is true？　   　

A．The left side of brain in boys generally develops better than that in girls．

B．The left side of brain in girls generally develops better than that in boys．

C．Men are better than women in all things．

D．The area in girls used for language skills develops better．

11．In men and women the number of nerves connecting the halves of brain　   　．

A．is the same      B．is different      C．is zero       D．Not mentioned．

 

D

 It’s a popular belief that a fish’s memory lasts for only seven seconds. It may seem sad to think that they don’t remember what they’ve eaten or where they’ve been, and they don’t recognize you or any of their friends --- every moment in their life would be like seeing the world for the first time.

 But don’t be so quick to feel sorry for them. A new study has found that fish have a much better memory than we used to think. In fact, certain species of fish can even remember events from as long as 12 days ago.

 In the study, researchers from MacEwan University in Canada trained a kind of fish called African cichlids to go to a certain area of their tank to get food. They then waited for 12 days before putting them back in the tank again.

 Researchers used computer software to monitor the fish’s movements. They found that after such a long break the fish still went to the same place where they first got food. This suggested that they could remember their past experiences.

 In fact, scientists had been thinking for a long time that African cichlids might have a good memory. An earlier study showed that they behaved aggressively（挑衅地）in front of certain fish, perhaps because they remembered their past “fights”. But