1、1朔城区一中高一年级第二学期开学检测考试朔城区一中高一年级第二学期开学检测考试英语英语时间：时间：100 分钟分钟分值：分值：150 分分A. 阅读理解阅读理解 （每小题（每小题 3 分，满分分，满分 45 分）分）AI used to walk around the store with my parents and beg them for something. Iremember the sight of all the bright bags of chips and candies I asked my mom to buyfor me. I cannot remember a ti
2、me when I didnt beg for something at the store. I hadno real knowledge about the value of money.When I was about twelve years old, my dad always rejected my begging and toldme “you can waste all the money you want when you have a job”. l listened to himwhen he said that. Since I wanted so many thing
3、s and my parents werent going tobuy them for me, I decided I was going to get a job as soon as I was old enough.Butbefore I could legally(合法地)get a job, I babysat to make some money.I rememberthe feeling of getting new money in my pocket.A few years later, I went to high school. One spring day, I sa
4、w people handingout flyers (传单)in the school dining hall. One of them gave me a flyer. I put it in myschoolbag and when I got home, I looked. It said at the top:“Looking for a summerjob? Be a lifeguard!” I started to think about the money I could make, so I applied.Soon I got an email, inside which
5、I was invited to a meeting the following night. Iwent to the meeting and learned all about the training.After being trained for several months, I finally started the job and made somemoney. The more money I made, the less I wanted to spend. Instead ofwasting mymoney on useless things, I started savi
6、ng up. I finally came to the realization thatmoney meant so much more to me because I was the one working for it. Because Ivalue my money, I now have 3,300 dollars in the bank.21.What did the author like to do when he was very young?A. Babysit to make a little money.B. Collect things he was interest
7、ed in.C. Ask his parents to shop for him.D. Beg for something in the street.22.What happened to the author before he finally started the summer job?A. He hosted meetings.B. He received training.C. He called to apply.D. He trained other people.23. What is probably the authors spending habit now?AHe j
8、ust buys what he really needs.B. He often buys gifts for his parents.C. He doesnt buy things for himself.D. He likes to buy unnecessary things.24.What does the underlined “rejected” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?A. Allowed. B. Refused. C. Punished. D. Reduced2BThe smilodon(剑齿虎)died out probably about
9、 ten thousand years ago. Although itis also known as the saber-toothed tiger, it is not a close relative of the modern tiger.The more scientists study the two big cats, the more differences they find.Tigers are not sociable animals. They generally travel by themselves. The smilodon,on the other hand
10、, probably lived in groups. Tigers run fast while hunting their prey(猎物). But the smilodon, with much shorter tails than todays tigers, did not have hebalance to run at top speeds. It probably caught its prey by hiding quietly untilananimal came near.Another main difference between todays tiger and
11、the smilodo is the size of teeth.The smilodon is known as a saber-toothed cat because of two huge teeth that grewfrom the top of its jaw(颌).These teeth grew up to nearly 18 cm long and were easilybroken and damaged. The smilodon probably used the teeth to bite(咬) into soft partsof its preys body, su
12、ch as its stomach. A modern tigers teeth are much smalle, butthey are stronger.The smilodon lived in North and South America from about two million years agountil about ten thousand years ago. Tigers of course, still exist today and live ineastern and southeastern Asia. No one knows for sure why the
13、 smilodon disappeared.25.Why was the smilodon slower than tigers?A. Because of its big body.B. Because of its living habits.C. Because of its huge teeth.D. Because of its shorter tail.26. What caused the smilodon to disappear according to the text?A.Is of living places.B. Human activitiesC. No exact
14、 reason.D. Natural disasters.27. What can we infer from the text?A. The smilodon died out about 1,000 years agoB. The smilodon was not sociable.C. Tigers are more likely to get their prey than the smilodon.D. People have known the importance of protecting tigers.28. What could be the best title for
15、the text?A. Why the smilodon died outB. The smilodon and the tigerC. How to protect modern tigersD. The study of the smilodonCWith smart phones and e-readers becoming more common, some worry that thedays of paper books are numbered. But as a recent survey showed, traditional booksare still popular a
16、mong readers.Industry research company Nielsen found that7 percent more paper books weresold in the UK in2020 compared to the previous year, while sales of their digital rivalsdeclined(下降)by 4 percent. It was the sixth year in a row that e-book sales had fallen.Nielsens survey, surprisingly, found t
17、hat it is young people who preferredphysical books to e-reader versions.In another study conducted in 2016 by the youth research agency Voxburner inthe UK, more than 60 percent of 16-to-24-year-olds said they preferred print books toe-books. The most popular reason given was: “I like to hold the pro
18、duct.”3Steve Bohme, research director at Nielsen Book Research UK, explained thatyoung people were using books as a break from their daily connections to electronicdevices( 设 备 )and social media. “We are seeing that books are a respite( 缓 解 ),particularly for young people who are so busy digitally,
19、he said.And it is not just young people in the UK who prefer print books. The story is thesame in other countries.According to a study, 92 percent of college students prefer paper books toe-books, of more than 420 university students from the United States, Slovakia, Japanand Germany.The main reason
20、s were that when reading e-books, students are easily distracted.Some also ended up with headaches or painful eyes.In addition, print books can bring a very different reading experience-a sense ofaccomplishment when finishing reading.29. What is the meaning of the underlined word “numbered in Paragr
21、aph 1?A. AddedB. Analyzed.C. Completed.D. Limited.30. What can we know from what Steve Bohme said?A. The life of young people is full of digital devices.B. Its better to read books hen having a rest.C. Young people are too busy to have time for a rest.D. Young people prefer print books due to their
22、lower costs.31. Why have e-book sales fallen?A. E-books make reading experience uncomfortable.B. E-books provide young people with fewer books.C. E-books are far more expensive.D. E-books give people a sense of failure.DIf youve ever ridden in a car with more than one other person, you will knowthe
23、importance of calling “Shotgun!”before getting in the car. Most people prefer tosit in the front passenger seat. It offers extra leg room. There are even rules aboutwhen and how you call out the word “shotgun. But why do people call the frontpassenger seat “shotgun? Why not just “the front seat?The
24、origin of this expression took place in the old West, although no one actuallycalled the front seat “shotgun” back then. Carriage drivers would often bring alongsomeone and let him sit next to them and carry a weapon, usually a shotgun. Theassistant(辅助的) driver who sat in the front seat. just next t
25、o the driver, acted as abodyguard to keep bad men who got in their way off.Years later, as more and more Americans fell in love with westerns(西部电影),theexpression found its way into Hollywood movies and pop culture. The 192l shortstory The Fighting Fool by Dane Coolidge describes a character in the s
26、tory as“ridingshotgun for Wells Fargo. Probably its most famous appearance in western was inJohn Waynes movie Stagecoach, where his co-star George Bancroft says, “Im goingto Lordsburg with Buck. Im going to ride shotgunNow, of course, our concern about riding shotgun has nothing to do withprotecting
27、 valuable things. No matter where you sit, pay attention to how you get out4of the car.32.What does the underlined word “Shotgun” in Paragraph l refer to?A. Akind of gun.B. The most famous western film.C.Akind of popular sports car.D. The seat next to the driver.33. Why did the assistant carriage dr
28、iver bring a shotgun?A. To show their pride in themselves.B. To keep the carriage running in the right way.C. To protect everyone in the carriage from danger.D. To get animals off their way.34. How did the phrase “ride shotgun get popular?A. Through movies.B. Through the Internet.C. Through bad men.
29、D. Through assistant drivers.35. Whats the authors purpose n writing thtext?A. To tell us a story in Hollywood movies.B. To show us where to sit in a crowded car.C. To show us the most dangerous times in the old days.D. To tell us some things about “shotgun”.二七选五二七选五（每小题（每小题 3 分，满分分，满分 15 分）分）Much o
30、f the work in todays world is accomplished （完成） in teams. Most peoplebelieve the best way to build a great team is to gather a group of the most talentedindividuals.36Companies spend millions hiring top business people. Istheir money well spent?37They focused on football, basketball and baseball. Th
31、e results aremixed. For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a goodmethod, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above thatlevel, the teams performance begins to decline. Interestingly, this trend isnt evidentinbaseball,whereadditionalindividu
32、altalentkeepsimprovingtheteamsperformance.To explain this phenomenon, the researchers explored the degree to which agood performance by a team requires its members to coordinate（协调）their actions.38In baseball, the performance of individual players is less dependent onteammates. They conclude that wh
33、en task interdependence is high, team performancewill suffer when there is too much talent, while individual talent will have positiveeffects on team performance when task interdependence is lower. If a basketball staris, for example, trying to gain a high personal point total, he may take a shot hi
34、mselfwhen it would be better to pass the ball to a teammate, affecting the teamsperformance. Young children learning to play team sports are often told, There isno I in TEAM.39Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some playersmay make less effort. Just as in a game of
35、tug-of-war （拔河比赛） , whenever a personis added, everyone else pulls the rope with less force.40. An A-team may require a balancenot just A players, but a few5generous B players as well.A. Its not a simple matter to determine the nature of talent.B. Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attract
36、ing top talentC. The group interaction and its effect drew the researchers attention.D. Stars apparently do not follow this basic principle of sportsmanship.E. Several recent studies examined the role of talent in the sports world.F. Building up a dream team is more complex than simply hiring the be
37、st talent.G. This task interdependence distinguishes baseball from football and basketball.三三. 完型填空完型填空（每小题（每小题 2 分，满分分，满分 40 分）分）In my forties, I suffered from cancer. As a non-smoker who ate healthy foodand 41 daily, all I could think was: Why me?My 42 of the long journeyahead-surgery, and chemoth
38、erapy(化疗)一 prevented me seeing a(n) 43 side.Several months later, my neighbor Greg 44 a high place and wasparalyzed(瘫痪)from the waist down. I could imagine his 45 . In a matter ofseconds, he went from being an active young man to being helpless. I thoughtabout 46 him, but I didnt know if he liked my
39、 company.Later that fall, I was 47 to go for a short walk. But chemotherapy hadsapped(消耗) the last of my energy. 48 , Id turned around to go back home whenGreg drove by, waving with a 49 on his face. I was 50 to see he could drive a truck5l as a disabled man.I worked up the 52 to ask him how he was
40、doing. He answered, “Im notgoing to 53 . At first, I just felt my life was over. But one day, my dad had a 54with me. He said, Son, you need to 55 what you can do in- stead of what youcant.Dads 56 changed my life. The list of things I could still do was much 57than the things I couldnt. I got my lif
41、e back on track.Gregs inspiring 58 started me down the path of acceptance. From then on, Ino longer felt 59 about my hair loss. I realized that a positive 60 gives you powerover your situations.4l.A. hungB. exercisedC .playedD. worked42.A. expectationB .imaginationC .happinessD. fear43.A.brightB. di
42、fficultC. possibleD. easy44.A. got toB. knocked intoC. flew offD. fell off45.A. disappointmentB. troubleC. sadnessD. discouragement46.A. checkingB. pleasingC. visitingD. protecting47.A. determinedB. requiredC. orderedD. persuaded48.A. ConfusedB. ExcitedC. FrightenedD. Depressed49.A. goalB. smileC. n
43、eedD. tear50.A. pleasedB. satisfiedC. shockedD. anxious51.A.partlyB. safelyC. fastD. near52.A. courageB. urgeC.awarenessD. curiosity53.A. stopB. refuseC. complainD. lie54.A. meetingB. quarrelC. discussionD. conversation55.A. talk aboutB. focus onC. think ofD. make sure656.A.ruleB. requestC. adviceD.
44、 lecture57.A. longerB. largerC. moreD. better58.A. lessonB. storyC. lifeD. image59.A. worriedB. astonishedC. delightedD. surprised60.A. effortB. decisionC. attitudeD. reply三、语法填空三、语法填空(每小题每小题 1.5 分分，满分，满分 15 分分)Last October, a 5-year-old boy called Charlie got hungry and tried to call Mesa,Arizona M
45、cDonalds to deliver a Happy Meal to him. He thought their number61(be)911 and the Emergency Services dispatcher took his request. Whathappened next is beautiful.Mesa Police Officer Scott Valdez62(send)to go to Charlies home. Onthe way. he stopped at McDonalds and bought63 Happy Meal for littleCharli
46、e.When Officer Valdez arrived at Charlies home, he checked to make sureCharlie was safe, and then gave him his Happy Meal,64(meet)thefamily in the process. Charlie was at first afraid that he was65 trouble.But in no time, he and Officer Valdez became66 (friend),and the officerexplained to Charlie wh
47、at 91l actually does, and the right ways67(get) Happy Meals. Charlie was thankful and pleased to share his Happy Meal withhis sister.We were so appreciative of68 Officer Valdez handled thesituation, said Charlies mother Kim.“He taught Charlie a69(value)lesson that day, not only how to use 91170 (pro
48、per ), but alsohow to treat others with love and kindness.四短文改错四短文改错.（满分（满分 10 分）分）My friend Tony and I always walks home together after school. Last Monday,however, something happened in our way back.We are walking that day when we heard the loud cry behind us. Looking around,we were surprising to
49、see a woman lying on the ground. It seemed that she wasinjured bad. We hurried to her, but a man came over to stop us from helping thewoman. Some girls walking by even laughed us. We got very angry with the peoplewho were cold to the women. Then the man asked us to turnaround and we saw a mancarrying a video camera on her shoulder. They were just making for a film!五写作五写作（满分（满分 25 分）分）假定你是李华，请你代表学校给外教 Smith 先生写封邮件，邀请他参加晚会并请他在晚会上表演节目。要点如下:1.时间:1 月 6 日晚 7:00 开始,持续两小时;2.地点:学校大礼堂;3.内容:自拟(至少 3 项)。注意:1.词数 100 左右;2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
