1、北京市部分学校北京市部分学校2019-2020 学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题分类汇编学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题分类汇编阅读理解阅读理解北京师大附中北京师大附中 2019-2020 学年高一上学期期末英语试题学年高一上学期期末英语试题阅读下列短文，从每题所给的阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ANew Jersey Botanical Garden MembershipIts easy to join New Jersey Botanical Garden (NJBG) Membership or renew yourmembe
2、rship online, by phone or by mail.And its so important to the Botanical Garden! Yourmembership dollars help to improve the Garden, and provide educational and recreational (娱乐的)activities for the general public. Thank you for your support!To join or renew, please click on the appropriate section and
3、 membership category below forsafe and convenient online payment processing by PayPal.If you prefer to join by phone or mail, call the NJBG office at (973) 962-9534 or downloadand send in our membership brochure (AdobeAcrobat PDF file).Join NJBG TodayMembership CategoryIndividualDual (两人共用)StudentAn
4、nual Dues$35$60$25Special: Save $5 withBiennial Dues(两年会费)$60$100$40Renew Your MembershipMembership CategoryIndividualDualStudentAnnual Dues$30$50$25Special: Save $5 withBiennial Dues$50$80$40The Botanical Garden started life as Skylands, a large area in the grand manner. It is famousfor a 44-room T
5、udor Revival granite mansion (公馆) designed by John Russell Pope. Skylands has96 acres of formal and naturalized gardens and is surrounded by over 1,000 acres of meadows (草坪) and woodlands. Purchased by the State in 1966 and officially named as the New JerseyBotanical Garden in 1984, the gardens cont
6、ain approximately 5,000 species and varieties of treesand flowers.For you, the NJBG is an exciting and beautiful place to visit where you may enjoy eachseasons best. Members enjoy special events, festivals, lectures, and rewarding educationalopportunities for both city and country gardeners.Your NJB
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8、 purchase Rohslers Allendale Nursery & Florist, (201) 327-315615% off your purchase21. The NJBG membership dollars can be used to _.A. offer further educationB. update online paymentC. provide better serviceD. protect the environment22. To join NJBG membership, you can call its office at _.A. (2
9、01) 327-3156B. (201) 652-7540C. (973) 962-9534D. (973) 638-761323. To renew the one-year membership for your parents, you need to pay _.A. $50B. $60C. $80D. $10024. New Jersey Botanical Garden _.A. was officially named in 1966B. was designed by John Russell PopeC. invites members to organize activit
10、iesD. gives members discounts for their purchaseBRobotic PuppyRoll over, sit and fetch arent commands normally given to a robot, but the smart toycompany WowWee has developed a new way of owning a puppy.CHIP (Canine Home Intelligent Pet) is a robotic dog with blue LED eyes and pointy ears andcan sit
11、, shake, dance and make all types of dog noises. It also has tracking capabilities to helplocate its owner. “The beauty about CHIP is that it has its own thing going on,” said Sufer, CTO atWowWee. “It has its own life and own kind of intelligence. Even if youre not around, its alwaysdoing something.
12、”CHIP uses wheels to get around and is loaded with sensors (传感器) that give it a 360-degreeview to find its ball. The pup is Bluetooth enabled, which connects to a wristband worn by itsowner. The wristband, similar to a watch, displays icons (图标) for different commands such as athumb-up, which allows
13、 you to give your pup a digital belly rub. With its owner wearing a smartwristband, it can even follow him around the room.“We worked on CHIP for about five to six months,” Davin Sufer, told dailymail. com, “Wetypically come up with a concept, model and product and get it on shelves within a year.”
14、Thecompany plans to start shipping units by next fall, which will allow them to load up the roboticdog with sensors and add many more animated responses per-owner interactivity.The high-tech toy company made its debut (处女作) in 2004 by releasing the 1.5 footRoboSapien, which sold millions of units. M
15、iP, which hit shelves last year, is a seven-inch-tallrobot covered in white with black accents. Users can direct it, change its emotions and make itdance to any song on your iPad. Its loud, fast and active.About 15 years ago, a company called ToyQuest developed the first ever electronic roboticdog T
16、ekno, the Robotic Puppy. The company sold over seven million units in the first seasonand 40 million more during its original four years of production. Tekno was built with over 160emotions and instructions, but most importantly offered consumers a quick look into the future.25.According to Sufer, t
17、he amazing characteristic of CHIP is that _.A. it is loaded with special sensorsB. it can make all kinds of dog noisesC. it has quick response to the commandsD. it can do something without instructions26. CHIP can follow its owner with the help of _.A. a watchB. a smart wristbandC. pointy earsD. blu
18、e LED eyes27. From the passage, we can know_.A. CHIP can be bought in the store nowB. WowWee introduced its first product last yearC. Tekno provided the bright future of the robotic puppyD.MiP is the first company to develop the robotic puppyCCollege students constantly hear the praises of education
19、. We have all become used tobelieving that a college education is always a guarantee of an easier life. I was nine years oldwhen my fourth-grade teacher presented me with a task, to write down all of the things I wanted inmy life. I filled my paper with things like: own a big house and have servants
20、; be rich and have agood job. The next day my teacher handed back my paper and in red ink she wrote: “GO TOCOLLEGE.” For a long time, I was convinced that once I obtained an education, BAM! Lifewould be easier.However, education cannot promise all wishes, dreams, and desires. Society must reject the
21、foolish idea that a college educations main purpose is to satisfy our desires and secure success.Like most challenging things, education is a gamble (赌博) in which results depend entirely onpeoples ability to look past their wants to see the realism and reason behind their wants.For instance, my firs
22、t year of college, I took a sociology class. In class, we were taught thatThird World countries were poor. We learned that our quality of life would be almost impossiblefor an average person in those countries. I began to examine my own desire to be rich. To alwaysgo after money felt selfish when kn
23、owing others had none at all. Learning about other societysfinancial situations forced me to look beyond what I wanted.Through the process of education, everything once desired is tested. Wanting something nolonger is enough; its more important to examine why we want it and whether we really want it
24、.When my desire for money changed, everything changed. I stopped longing for money-drivencareers and stopped valuing the people who had them. I began to examine the things I purchasedand my reason for wanting them.Education is a tool to be used to develop and advance our desires, so we can discover
25、thethings that are truly significant in life. Education is a source to expand our society to see beyondthe superficial (表面的) appeals and the “quick fixes”, leaving the belief of an effortless lifebehind in order to desire a meaningful one.28. The authors fourth-grade teacher probably agreed that _.A
26、. the author was an ambitious studentB. the author should set more realistic goalsC. a college student would lead an easier lifeD. a college degree was the key to the authors dreams29. Why does the author mention her sociology class?A. To share her learning experiences with readers.B. To support her
27、 new understanding about education.C. To express her sympathy for people in Third World.D. To stress the importance of taking a sociology course.30. With a college education, the author _.A. envied rich peopleB. lost interest in careerC.desired more material thingsD. stopped always seeking more weal
28、th31.Whats the main idea of the passage?A. College education promises an effortless life.B. College education tests and guides our life desires.C. College education offers solutions to social problems.D. College education turns young people into gamblers.DRunning on EmptyFor almost a century, scient
29、ists have assumed, tirednessor exhaustionin athletesoriginates(起源于) in the muscles. Precise explanations have varied, but all have been based onthe “Limitations Theory”. In other words, muscles tire because they hit a physical limit: theyeither run out of fuel or oxygen or they drown in harmful by-p
30、roducts(副产品).In the past few years, however, Timothy Noakes from the University of Cape Town, SouthAfrica, has examined this standard theory. Tiredness, he argues, is caused not by signals springingfrom overtaxed muscles, but is an emotional response which begins in the brain. The fundamentalnature
31、of his new theory is that the brain paces the muscles to keep them well back from the edgeof exhaustion. When the brain decides its time to quit, it creates unbearable muscle tiredness. This“Central Governor” theory remains controversial, but it does explain many puzzling aspects ofathletic performa
32、nce.Arecent discovery that Noakes calls the “lactic acid paradox” made him start researching thisarea seriously. Lactic acid is a by-product of exercise, and the increase of it is often mentioned as acause of tiredness. But when research subjects exercise in certain conditions created artificially,t
33、hey become tired even though lactic acid levels remain low. Nor has the oxygen content of theirblood fallen too low for them to keep going. Obviously, something else was making them tirebefore they hit either of these physiological limits.Noakes conducted an experiment with seven cyclists. It has lo
34、ng been known that duringexercise, the body never uses 100% of the available muscle fibres(纤维). The amount used varies,but in some tasks such as this cycling test the body calls on about 30%. His team found that astiredness set in, the electrical activity in cyclists legs declinedeven when they were
35、 making agreat effort to cycle as fast as they could.To Noakes, this was strong evidence that the old theory was wrong. “The cyclists may havefelt completely exhausted,” he says, “but their bodies actually had considerable reserves that theycould theoretically tap by using a greater amount of the re
36、sting fibres.” This, he believes, is theproof that the brain is regulating the pace of the workout to hold the cyclists well back from thepoint of extreme tiredness.32. Which of the following is supported by “the Limitations Theory”?A. Tiredness is caused by signals from brain.B.Athletes feel tired
37、when they use up all their energy.C. The body uses 100% of the muscle fibres in exercise.D.Athletes become tired though lactic acid levels remain low.33. Noakes has found out that _.A. muscle fibres control athletesmovementsB. Lactic acid levels remain high in cycling testC. mental processes control
38、 the symptoms of tirednessD. different exercises use different amount of muscle fibres34. It is likely that both theories accept that _.A. lactic acid is produced in muscles during exerciseB. the oxygen content in blood may rise after sportsC. tiredness is a harmful by-product of exerciseD. the ener
39、gy in human bodies can be balanced35. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?A. The description of a new test.B. The explanation of the theory.C. The puzzling evidence of a study.D. The whole process of the research.北京市中关村中学北京市中关村中学 2019-2020 学年第二学期高一年级期末练习英语试卷学年第二学期高一年级期末练习英语试卷第三部分：阅读理解（共第三部分：阅读理解（共 15 小
40、题，小题，30 分）分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ALove, joy, and the warm feeling of pulling together to get through tough times dont cost athing. But gifts do cost money. So, whats a poor family to do?When Christmas season rolled around, I told my mother that the only thing I wanted was a
41、pogo stick ( 弹 簧单高跷). However, my mother told me they were too expensive and that wesimply couldnt afford one.On a Saturday afternoon a couple of weeks before Christmas, my mom and dad told me weneeded to go to Sears to pay our credit card bill. While my mother and I were paying the bill, mydad said
42、, “Ill be right back I need to see something in the tool department. ” A little later, mydad came back with a long box. I remember wondering at that moment if there was a pogo stick inthat box.When we got home, my dad put the box in the garage (车库). While my parents were busywith their chores, I qui
43、etly walked out to the garage and found the box. I hoped a pogo stick wouldbe insidebut when I opened it, there was just an old broom. And so it looked like Christmasmorning would be disappointing.But after all the wrapping paper was cleaned up, my dad said he needed to tend to somethingin the garag
44、e. When he came back in, he was carrying a beautiful pogo stick. I couldnt believe it!My parents probably got quite a laugh from the trick they played on me.Although we didnt have much money, my parents gave me the most important gift of all:lots of love. My dad worked hard to provide for us and my
45、mother knew how to stretch a dollar.That was over 60 years ago and I still think about those wonderful Christmas memories every yearduring the holiday season. My parents were the best and I will never forget all the joy theybrought into my life.51. Why did the authors mother refuse to give him a pog
46、o stick?A. Theyre dangerous for kids to play with.B. They didnt have enough money to buy one.C. She had already bought him another gift.D. He already had too many pogo sticks.52. How did the author probably feel before he opened the box?A.Amazed.B. Disappointed.C. Hopeful.D. Doubtful.53.According to
47、 the author, what was the most valuable gift he received from his parents?A. His pogo stick.B. Their unconditional love.C. The ability to get through tough times.D.All the great memories of Christmas.BParking in the CBD of any Australian city is expensive, hard to come by and often anunavoidable hea
48、dache.But Rylan Kindness, a 16-year-old entrepreneur (企业家) from Brisbane, thinks he mighthave the answer to this problem.It was after Rylan realized his parents were spending hours to try and find parking deals inthe city that he came up with the idea for a centralized system. This system shows user
49、s the bestprice for parking in the area they want and offers users a daily deal with a discount.Rylan now doubles as a high school student and the CEO of Parking Deals Australia, a rolehe took on four months ago when he launched the business from his bedroom.Parking Deals Australia isnt even Rylans
50、first business. When he was barely 11, Rylan cameup with an idea to sell wholesale (批发的) scooter parts (儿童滑板车配件) online, purely becausehe just wanted some extra money. On the side, hes succeeding in other passions as well.And despite Rylan clearly being a high-achiever and having a knack ( 诀 窍 ) for bus
