江苏省宿迁市泗阳县桃州中学2020-2021学年高一上学期第一次调研测试英语试题

江苏省宿迁市泗阳县桃州中学2020-2021学年高一上学期第

一次调研测试英语试题

学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

In the United States, 30 percent of the people have a “weight problem”. To many people the cause is obvious (明显的): they eat too much. But scientific evidence (证据) does little to support this idea. Going back to America of 1910, we find that people were thinner than today, yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used machines much less, and didn’t watch televi sion.

Several modern studies, moreover, have shown that fatter people don’t eat more on average than thinner people. A 1979 study of 3,545 London office workers showed that fat people eat less than slim (苗条的) people.

Studies also show that slim people are more active than fat people. A study by a research group at Stanford University found the following interesting facts:

The more the man ran, the greater loss of the body fat.

The more they ran, the greater increase in food intake.

Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat. 1．Nowadays many Americans have the problem that ______.

A．they are too slim B．they work too hard

C．they are too fat D．they lose too much body fat 2．According to the passage, how many people in 900 Americans have a “weight problem”? A．150. B．300. C．600. D．270.

3．The Americans in 1910 ________.

A．ate more food and had more physical activities B．ate less food but had more physical activities

C．ate less food and had less physical activities D．had more problems

While a man was passing by an elephant, he suddenly stopped. The elephant was held by only a small rope. The farmer ties the rope to the elephant's front leg. No chains, no cages. The man was very confused. He wanted to know why the elephant didn't run away.

He visited the farmer and asked why the elephant just stood there and didn't run away. "Well," the farmer said, "when it was very young and much smaller, we used the same size rope

to tie it. At that age, the rope was strong enough to hold it. Of course it couldn't run away. When it grew up, it still believed the rope could hold it. So it never tried to run away."

The man was very amazed. In fact, the grown-up elephant could run away at any time. But it didn't run away just because it believed it couldn't. As a result, it was stuck right there.

We have such problems in our life. Sometimes we don't think we can deal with the problems. Sometimes we fail to deal with them. It's not wise to stop struggling. See? Failure is part of learning. We should never give up the struggle.

4．The farmer held the elephant by ________.

A．making a chain to tie the elephant B．making a cage for the elephant C．tying a rope to the elephant's front leg D．tying a rope around the elephant's body 5．When the elephant grew up, the farmer used ________ to hold it.

A．a stronger rope B．a smaller rope

C．the same size rope D．a longer rope

6．The grown-up elephant couldn't run away because ________.

A．no one came to save it B．the elephant couldn't run fast

C．it was not strong enough D．it believed it couldn't

7．The writer wants to tell us ________.

A．not to stop struggling B．to give up the struggle in life

C．to learn from the farmer D．to learn from the elephant

Everybody, at some point in their lives, has experienced failure. It could be something as simple as not getting the job you wanted, or getting fewer marks even after hard work. But what makes you is not your failure, but how you get back up after being hit.

Once, a young school boy was caught in a fire accident in his school and was assumed that he would not live. His mother was told that he was sure to die, for the terrible fire had destroyed the lower half of his body. Even if he were to survive, he would be lame throughout his life.

But the brave boy did not want to die nor did he want to be lame. Much to the amazement of the doctor, he did survive. But unfortunately from his waist down, he had no motor ability. His thin legs just hung there, lifeless. Eventually he left the hospital. But his determination to walk was unshakable. At home, when he was not in bed, he had to stay in a wheelchair. One day, he threw himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him. He reached the fence, raised himself up and then began dragging himself along the fence,