福建省厦门市双十中学2020-2021学年高一英语上学期期中试题.doc

福建省厦门市双十中学2020-2021学年高一英语上学期期中试题

福建省厦门市双十中学2020-2021学年高一英语上学期期中试题

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福建省厦门市双十中学2020-2021学年高一英语上学期期中试题（含解析）
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分20分)
第二部分 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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Ai-Petri Bridges, Crimea
The views of the Crimean coast from the top of 1,234-metre high Ai-Petri Mount are amazing. The hanging bridges built in recent years can reach the top of the mount. If just walking across the bridges is not dangerous enough, it also happens to be one of the windiest places in the world. It is said that the bridges blow from side to side as wind speeds reach 170 kilometres per hour for 125 days of the year. It’s also very foggy, so you may not be able to see clearly!
U Bein Bridge, Myanmar
This five-metre-high, 1.2-kilometre wooden footbridge does not look as dangerous as the others, but do not be fooled. It was built in the 1850s and it’s certainly feeling its age! Some of the old wood is not as strong as it used to be. It is easy to lose your footing. Although there is no handrail (栏杆), large numbers of tourists cross it every day. When the tourists arrive in the evening to watch the beautiful sunset, this bridge could become the most dangerous of them all!
The Trift Bridge, Switzerland
At 100 metres high and 170 metres long, this is one of the highest bridges in the world. Built in 2004, the bridge is hidden among the high Swiss Alps. You wouldn’t have wanted to walk across the bridge before its repair in 2009. But if you have the courage to cross this bridge, you’d better do it quickly!
The Hussaini Hanging Bridge, Pakistan
In the mountainous area of Northern Pakistan, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge helps travelers cross the Borit Lake. However, you will not feel too confident when you get close to this bridge. It’s one of the oldest bridges in Pakistan and many locals use it every day to travel to work and school — imagine losing your homework over the side of this bridge! It’s made from rope, with a few pieces of wood that have large gaps (空隙) between them. Step carefully!
1. What can we learn about U Bein Bridge?
A. It’s very popular at sunset.
B. It’s safest for people to cross.
C. It’s the oldest bridge in the world.
D. It’s made from rope without handrails.
2. One may not enjoy the views clearly on ________.
A. U Bein Bridge B. Ai-Petri Bridges
C. The Trift Bridge D The Hussaini Hanging Bridge
3. What do the bridges mentioned in the text have in common?
A. All require serious repair.
B. All top highest in their country.
C. All have a history of one century.
D. All require plenty of courage to cross.
【答案】1. A 2. B 3. D
【解析】
本文为一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了四座著名的大桥。
【1题详解】
推理判断题。根据U Bein Bridge, Myanmar中的When the tourists arrive in the evening to watch the beautiful sunset, this bridge could become the most dangerous of them all!(当游客们在傍晚来观赏美丽的日落时，这座桥可能会成为最危险的一座桥!)可推断，乌本桥在日落时很受欢迎。故选A。
【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据Ai-Petri Bridges, Crimea中的It’s also very foggy, so you may not be able to see clearly!(而且雾很大，所以你可能看不清楚！)可知，在Ai-Petri桥上，人们可能无法清楚地欣赏景色。故选B。
【3题详解】
推理判断题。根据Ai-Petri Bridges, Crimea 中的If just walking across the bridges is not dangerous enough, it also happens to be one of the windiest places in the world.(如果只是走过桥还不够危险的话，它碰巧也是世界上风最大的地方之一)；U Bein Bridge, Myanmar中的When the tourists arrive in the evening to watch the beautiful sunset, this bridge could become the most dangerous of them all!(当游客们在傍晚来观赏美丽的日落时，这座桥可能会成为最危险的一座桥！)；The Trift Bridge, Switzerland中的But if you have the courage to cross this bridge, you'd better do it quickly!(但如果你有勇气过桥，你最好快点！)；The Hussaini Hanging Bridge, Pakistan中的It’s made from rope, with a few pieces of wood that have large gaps (空隙) between them. Step carefully! (这是由绳子，几块木头，有很大的空隙。每一步都要很小心！)可推断，四座桥的共同点是都具有危险性，需要足够的勇气才能越过。故选D。
B
We thought we had it all---a beautiful house, three healthy children and one more on the way, two cars, a couple of four-wheelers for entertainment---and we loved it. Then, the market turned and my husband’s job at a construction company was gone. The company was closing down for good.
We both started looking for jobs right away, but there weren’t any to be found. With each passing day we were getting increasingly worried and we continued to work together in order to pull our family through. The more we pulled together, the closer we got. I felt feelings of admiration for my husband that I hadn’t felt in years.
That’s why it was so hard for me to watch him blame himself for our present situation. I continually asked him to stop, but he seemed to want to punish himself for not having a job.
Finally, one afternoon I pulled him aside and said, “We have four healthy children. That's what's important. That makes you a rich man.” “But what if we lose the house? They’ll hate me---you’ll hate me,” he replied.
I smiled at him and put my hands on both sides of his face to make him look me in the eye.
“No matter where we live I will be happy---as long as I have you.” I smiled again. In all the struggling together I had found that deep love for him that I had on the day we said I do”.
I could see his shoulders and neck relaxed. He held me close and we were able to talk and plan and dream together in a way that we hadn’t for quite some time. It was a turning point for us as a couple and a family.
We are still struggling for our better life, but I consider us well-off because we have something that money can’t buy and no one can take away from us.
4. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph means that ________.
A. they became closer as they struggled together
B. they hoped to find jobs in the same company
C. both of them had the courage to face difficulty
D. they were trying to make their relationship closer
5. Why was it hard for the author to watch her husband blame himself?
A. She thought she should be blamed.
B. She thought he had tried his best.
C. She thought he would get a job someday.
D. She thought it would remind her of sad memories.
6. Which of the following can best describe the couple’s present life?
A. Bitter but quiet. B. Comfortable and easy.
C. Hard but happy. D. Well-off and relaxing.
7. The best title of the text might be ________.
A. We Have It All B. We Find It Again
C. A Perfect Couple D. A Hard Time
【答案】4. A 5. B 6. C 7. A
【解析】
【分析】本文是记叙文。文章讲述了作者的家庭因为丈夫失业而生活变得艰辛，但是他们却拥有最大的幸福。
【4题详解】
词句猜测题。划线句前一句提到“we continued to work together in order to pull our family through.（我们继续一起努力，让我们的家庭渡过难关）”；划线句后的一句提到“I felt feelings of admiration for my husband that I hadn’t felt in years.”在和丈夫共同渡过难关的过程中，作者产生了对丈夫从未有过的爱慕之情，夫妻关系也更亲密。由此可以猜测，划线句意思为“生活越艰难，他们变得越亲密”。故选A。
【5题详解】
细节理解题。丈夫一直找工作， 但是没找到，于是丈夫责怪自己；文章第三段中提到“I continually asked him to stop”，作者让丈夫停下来，是因为作者觉得丈夫已经尽了自己的力，不应该责怪丈夫。故选B。
【6题详解】
推理判断题。根据文章最后一段中作者对丈夫所说的话“No matter where we live I will be happy--as long as I have you. （不管我们住在哪里，我都会很快乐——只要有你在。）”以及“In all the struggling together I had found that deep love for him that I had on the day we said ‘I do’(在努力的过程中，我发现了自己对他深深的爱，就像我们说‘我愿意’的那天一样)”。尽管作者和丈夫生活艰难，但是作者深爱着丈夫。只要丈夫在，就觉得幸福。由此可以推断，他们现在的生活虽然艰辛，但是他们觉得幸福。故选C。
【7题详解】
主旨大意题。文章讲述了丈夫失业后，生活虽然艰辛，但是作者觉得自己拥有一切。文章第四段中提到作者所说的话“We have four healthy children. That's what's important. That makes you a rich man.”，作者认为有健康的孩子是最重要的，就觉得富有；文章倒数第三段中提到作者对丈夫说的话“No matter where we live I will be happy--as long as I have you.”，作者觉得只要有丈夫在，就觉得幸福。由此可知，文章的标题应为“We Have It All（我们拥有一切。）”故选A。
C
New research suggests that dogs might be able to help save diseased citrus trees.
A group of scientists trained dogs to use their sense of smell to detect a crop disease called citrus-greening. The disease has affected orange, lemon and grapefruit trees in the American states of Florida, California and Texas.
The dogs can detect the disease weeks to years before it appears on tree leaves and roots, the researchers report. A study on their findings was published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The report says using dogs is also faster, less costly and more exact than having people collect hundreds of leaves for lab analysis.
Timothy Gottwald is a researcher with the U. S. Department of Agriculture and a co-writer of the study. He told The Associated Press, “This technology is thousands of years old-the dog’s nose. We’ve just trained dogs to hunt new prey.”
Citrus-greening is caused by a bacteria (细菌) that is spread by a tiny insect that feeds on the leaves and stems of citrus trees. Once a tree is infected (感染), there is no cure. The disease has also hurt citrus crops in Central and South America and Asia. In one experiment involving grapefruit trees in Texas, trained dogs were correct 95 percent of the time in telling the difference between newly infected trees and healthy ones. “The earlier you detect a disease, the better chance you have at stopping an epidemic (流行病) by removing infected trees,” Gottwald said.
Matteo Garbelotto studies plants at the University of California, Berkeley. He says the new research shows that dogs can detect an infection well before current methods. Garbelotto has been involved in similar research but had no part in the new study.
Laura Sims is a plant scientist with Louisiana Tech University. She praised the steps taken to find out if the dogs were detecting the bacteria itself or a plant’s reaction to an infection. To do that, the researchers infected different kinds of unrelated plants with the bacteria in a laboratory. The dogs were still able to pick out the infected plants.
Gottwald said, “You’ve seen dogs working in airports, detecting drugs and explosives. Maybe soon you will see them working on more farms. ”
8. According to the research, trained dogs can ________.
A. help infected trees recover from diseases B. recognize a crop disease in its early stage
C. cause fruit trees to grow faster than usual D. reduce the cost of planting some fruit trees
9. What does the underlined part “new prey” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Infected plants. B. Fruit trees. C. Tiny insects. D. Favourite foods.
10. Why did the researchers do experiments on unrelated plants?
A. To further prove the findings. B. To explore the plant diseases.
C. To present different opinions. D. To discover a plant’s reactions.
11. How does Gottwald feel about the future use of this new method?
A. Doubtful. B. Positive. C. Indifferent. D. Curious.
【答案】8. B 9. A 10. A 11. B
【解析】
【分析】这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了受过训练的狗狗能嗅到影响柑橘树的作物病害，这也许能够帮助拯救患病的柑橘树。
【8题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段中“The dogs can detect the disease weeks to years before it appears on tree leaves and roots, the researchers report. (研究人员报告称，在这种病害出现在树叶和树根部数周甚至数年之前，狗狗就可以探测到它。)”可知，受过训练的狗狗可以在农作物疾病的早期就将其识别出来。故选B项。
【9题详解】
词句猜测题。根据第二段中“A group of scientists trained dogs to use their sense of smell to detect a crop disease called citrus-greening. (一群科学家训练狗狗利用它们的嗅觉来检测一种叫做柑橘绿病的农作物疾病。)”和第五段中“Citrus-greening is caused by a bacteria (细菌) that is spread by a tiny insect that feeds on the leaves and stems of citrus trees. Once a tree is infected (感染), there is no cure. (柑橘变绿是由一种微小昆虫传播的细菌引起的，这种昆虫以柑橘树的叶子和茎为食。一旦树被感染，就没有治愈的方法。)”由用受过训练的狗狗可以找出患病的农作物，可知，划线词new prey指的是“受感染的植物”。故选A项。
【10题详解】
推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中“She praised the steps taken to find out if the dogs were detecting the bacteria itself or a plant’s reaction to an infection. To do that, the researchers infected different kinds of unrelated plants with the bacteria in a laboratory. The dogs were still able to pick out the infected plants. (她对为证明狗狗是否可以检测该种病菌以及检测植物对感染的反应所采取的步骤表示赞同。为了做到这一点，研究人员在实验室里用细菌感染了不同种类的无关植物。这些狗仍然能够分辨出受感染的植物。)”可知，研究人员要在无关的植物上做实验是进一步证明这些发现。故选A项。
【11题详解】
推理判断题。根据最后一段“Gottwald said, “You’ve seen dogs working in airports, detecting drugs and explosives. Maybe soon you will see them working on more farms. ”(Gottwald：“你见过在机场工作，在探测毒品和炸药的狗狗。也许很快你就会看到它们更多的在农场工作。”)”可知，Gottwald对这种新方法的未来应用是积极的。故选B项。
D
It’s nothing new that you can find many files or services you can download or use from the Internet. The question is: Is downloading legal or not? In most cases the answer is negative, because sharing and downloading are illegal. Of course, you can find files for legal downloading, but you have to pay for them.
It seems innocent if you click on the download mark, but it isn’t. It should be compared with stealing in a store. Would you steal a magazine an MP3player or a car? Downloading from the Internet is a theft, and sharing files, once you have stolen them, only makes it wore. For example, if everybody only downloaded, movies wouldn’t make money and the studios wouldn’t invest millions of dollars to make new ones.
Many people may think it better, easier and cheaper to do downloading. I think, that is the main reason why Internet users prefer sharing something to buying them. In the modern world we love convenience and what could be more convenient than getting music, films and games without having to leave your house? You don’t need to pay for what you get, there is no registration, and you don’t have to wait until shops open or the CD/DVD you want is posted to you. However, you could be in big trouble if you are caught. You could go to prison as a result of acting unlawfully, but so far only a tiny amount of people have been charged for downloading illegally. The majority of people who download illegally, and use the files for their personal use, will not get in trouble. And that's why it’s important for people to understand what the long-term consequences are if they don’t want to pay for their music, films and TV. Will film and music companies still spend millions of pounds every year if they have no chance of making a profit? The answer is plainly “no”.
Finally I would like to say that the Internet offers a lot of services for money, but people will always try to get them for free. To summarize my thoughts, I’d like to highlight that illegal downloading is both unfair towards producers and dangerous for those who practice this kind of activity. You have to decide whether to buy or download.
12. Many people download files free from the Internet because ________.
A. they follow others’ examples to do such things
B. they don’t think they may be charged by the producer
C. they think everything on the Net can be shared by others
D. they think it is legal, convenient and easy
13. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?
A. Downloading helps movies become more popular.
B. Downloading free files is as illegal as stealing.
C. Sharing files on the Internet is dangerous.
D. Sharing files on the Internet can make a profit.
14. What does the underlined word “highlight” in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Stress. B. Explain. C. Admit. D. Deny.
15. What is the author’s purpose of writing this text?
A. He advises readers to download legal files.
B. He asks readers to limit the amount of free downloading.
C. He wants to make it clear that downloading for free is against the law.
D. He tells readers how to avoid being charged for downloading.
【答案】12. D 13. B 14. A 15. C
【解析】
【分析】本文是议论文。文章主要论