广东省汕头市潮南区2016_2017学年高一英语下学期期中试题

广东省汕头市潮南区2016-2017学年高一英语下学期期中试题第I卷（满分95分）第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分55分）第一节（共15小题；第小题3分，满分45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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AThe Museum:The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world’s most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator(时事评论员). The only surviving London home of Dickens (from 1837 until 1839) was opened as a museum in 1925 and is still welcoming visitors from all over the world. On four floors, visitors can see paintings, rare editions, manuscripts(手稿),original furniture and many items relating to the life of one of the most popular and beloved personalities of the Victorian age.Opening Hours✧The Museum is open from Mondays to Saturdays 10:00—17:00; Sundays 11:00—17:00.✧Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time.✧Special opening times can be arranged for groups , who may wish to book a privateview.Admission Charges: Adults: £5.00; Students: £4.00; Seniors: £4.00; Children: £3.00; Families: £14.00( 2 adults & up to five children)Group Rates: For a group of 10 or more, a special group rate of £4.00 each applies. Children will still be admitted for £3.00 each.Access: We are constantly working to improve access to the Museum and its collection. Our current projects involve the fitting of a wheelchair ramp（波道）for better access, a customer care kit and an audio tour for visitors with impaired(受损的)vision. Our Handling Sessions are also suitable for the visually（视觉上地）impaired. The Museum has developed an online virtual（虚拟的）tour through the Museum. Click here to visit all the rooms in the Museum online.Hire the Museum: The Museum can be hired for private functions, performances soirees(社交晚会)and many other social occasions.Find Us: The Museum may be reached by using the following buses:7,17, 19, 38, 45, 46, 55, 243. And by these underground services: Piccadilly Line; Central Line. For a map, please click here. The British Museum and the Foundling Museum are within walking distance.1. The passage is probably from a(n)________.A. bookB. announcementC. newspaperD. website2. If a family with two adults and five children go to the Museum together, they will save___________ compared to going there separately.A. £25.00B. £ 14.00C. £ 9.00D. £11.003. The passage is written to _______.A. offer readers some information about the Charles Dickens Museum.B. inform readers about the history of the Charles Dickens Museum.C. persuade readers to visit the Charles Dickens Museum.D. tell readers how to make use of the Charles Dickens Museum.BA French billionaire used to have a rough time when he was young. Later he carved out a career for himself in the field of drawing sales. Within ten years, he had become a young media tycoon (大亨）in France. He died of cancer in 1998.A French newspaper published his will after his death, in which he claimed: “I was a poor guy. Before I reach the threshold (门槛) of heaven, I leave my secret of how to become rich to the world. Anyon e who can answer the question “What is the most absent for the poor?” will have discovered my secret of becoming rich. He will have my congratulations. My deposit of one million francs in the private safe of my bank will be the prize for his wisdom in unco vering the riddle of poverty.” Many people responded to the publicized will. The answers, as one might imagine, were various. The majority of them thought the most absent for the poor was money. Some stated that what the poor most needed was opportunity. Still others thoughtthat the poor needed skills to make money. The rest of the answers claimed that poverty could be attributed to the absence of help, love, attractiveness, name-brand clothes, and even a presidency of a state.On the first anniver sary of the billionaire’s passing, his lawyer and representative opened his private safe in the bank; the secret of getting rich was unfolded. The billionaire believed that the most absent of the poor was the ambition of getting rich.It was a nine-year-old girl who hit the nail on the head. Why did she regard “ambition” as the most absent for the poor? The day she was officially awarded the one million francs, she said: “Every time my elder sister brought her boyfriend home, she always warned me not to be ambitious. Not to be ambitious! So, I thought perhaps ambition was something that brought what you wanted.”4. According to the passage, which of the following is true about the French billionaire?A. He died of cancer in 1998 and left nothing.B. Later on, he took up drawing as his career.C. Within a decade, he had became a young media tycoon in the world.D. He did not have a happy life when he was young.5. What will the winner get if he finds out the billionaire’s secret of becoming rich?A. The b illionaire’s francsB. The billionaire’s private safe.C. The billionaire’s ambitionD. All of the billionaire’s possessions.6.What did most people think of the most absent for the poor?A. HelpB. MoneyC. OpportunityD. Ambition7. From the passage, we can infer that the little girl find the secret__________.A. with her sister’s helpB. just on purposeC. quite by accidentD. not mentionedCGreat white sharks! Just hearing that name makes many people’s h air stand on end.In reality, these big fish have more to fear from us than we do from them. For many years, people killed countless great white sharks in the waters around the United States.But thanks to conservation (保护) efforts, great whites are making a comeback in the U.S. Two recent studies show that the population of these sharks is rising along the east and west coast.Why is the growing population of a killer fish something to celebrate? “When you fish too m any of them, you start to lose balance in the environment,” says shark researcher Tobey Curtis. As the biggest killer, sharks help keep the populations of fish, seals, and other creatures they eat from growing too large.In spite of their importance, great white sharks had long been hunted for their meat and their fins (鳍). Then, in 1997, the U.S. government passed a law that didn’t allow the hunting of great whites. Afterwards, the numbers of these sharks in the U.S. waters started to increase.The law wasn’t the only thing that has helped great whites. Conservationi sts have also played a part in the sharks’ comeback. The research group OCEARCH is using a method called tagging (加标签) to help change people’s attitudes about great white. They let the public follow each shark as it travels the world’s oceans. OCEARCH also gives each tagged shark a name to help people form a closer connection with the big fish.The group’s most well-known shark is named Katharine. She was tagged last year near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since then, thousands of people have tracked Kathari ne’s movements on Twitter and the OCEARCH website.This helps people see sharks in a new way. Chris Fischer, the founder of OCEARCH believes learning to appreciate great whites will encourage people to do more to protect them.8. The underlined part “makes many people’s hair stand on end” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by_____.A. worries many peopleB. bores many peopleC. interests many peopleD. frightens many people9. The main purpose of the passage is to _____.A. introduce an experiment resultB. inform us that great whites are making a comebackC. make an advertisement for OCEARCHD. remind us that big killers are dying out10. The law passed in 1997 _____.A. let scientists downB. needed to be changedC. seemed very helpfulD. made people like great whites11. Katharine’s example is used to show that _____.A. great whites are in fact lovely animalsB. the OCEARCH website has a lot of visitorsC. OCEARCH help people get closer to great whitesD. the number of great whites is growing quicklyDEver since Donald Trump was elected the president of the US, the entire Trump family has been put under a microscope(显微镜).In China, the spotlight has been mainly focused on Trump and his daughter Ivanka. She is described on WeChat as an extremely influential role model with stunning beauty, a successful career, and a happy family.She leads a dream life that a million girls would kill for. Yes, she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. But she got where she is by herself.There’s always going to be articles that say people born into wealthy families are better looking and have a better family background than you, but these people do work harder than you.Are you a loser if you were raised in an ordinary family? Should you feel guilty that you sleep eight hours a day because Ivanka sleeps five? If you just want to keep a stable（稳定的） nine-to-five job, does it mean you are not ambitious? How about if you don’t work out or eat healthy, does that mean you will not find your Mr. or Miss Right?There is a tendency in media nowadays to encourage elitism(精英主义).They are trying to brainwash young people into thinking that they should investa large amount of time and money in bodybuilding and appearance. They encourage lifestyle makeovers: wine tasting classes and expensive trips overseas. They make you believe that if you do as they say, you can improve the quality of your life and join the elites (社会精英).But what’s the downside of being ordinary? Do you really need to go to the gym five days a week unless you are a gym maniac(热衷者)? Do you need to take hundreds of selfies and Photoshop the selected ones to post on WeChat? Do you really need to break your neck and sacrifice to earn your first pot of gold only to worry constantly about how to enter high society later?Don’t let the idea of elitism get to you. Everybody has a right to the life they want. Human beings should not be judged as a success or failure based on whether they are a part of the elite or not. As long as you lead a happy and comfortable life, why bother to chase（追逐）after other people’s shadows? Choose your own life path and go for it.12. Why does Ivanka become a hit online?A. She gets what she has through personal efforts despite rich origin.B. She lives such a dream life that a million girls would like to kill her.C. She together with her family has a lot of investigation（投资）.D. She is a role model frequently seen among ordinary people.13. Which of the following are considered as a life belonging to the elites?①Polish and post carefully- selected selfies on WeChat;②Break your neck to earn your first pot of gold;③Spare no effort to improve physical appearance;④Sign up for wine tasting classes and oversea trips;A. ③④B. ②④C.②③D. ①④14. Which attitude towards life would the writer probably agree with?A. Life is like a dogsled team. If you aren’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.B. Life is not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.C. There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.D. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.15. It can be inferred from the text that _____.A. Ivanka sleeping five hours a day makes the majority of people guilty.B. Keeping a stable (稳定的) nine-to- five job will be thought of as a loser.C. Improving the quality of life will promote one’s social status（地位）.D. The writer holds an disapproving attitude towards encouraging elitism in media. 第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白的最佳选项。