人教版新课标高一英语必修一期中测试卷1

高中英语必修一期中测试卷1

第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第1节:(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

A

People need to relax and enjoy themselves. One way they can have a good time is to watch a baseball game or another sports event. Even thousands of years ago, groups of people gathered to watch skilled athletes(运动员).

Over 2,000 years ago in Greece, some days in the year were festival days. These were holidays when people stopped their work and enjoyed themselves. During festivals, people liked to watch athletes take part in races and other games.

The most important festival was held every four years at the town of Olympia. It was held in honor of the Greek god Zeus. For five days, athletes from all corners of Greece took part in the Olympic Games.

At the Olympic Games, people could watch athletes run, jump and so on. They could also watch exciting races, which included a relay race between two teams in which a lighted torch(火炬) was passed from runner to runner.

The Olympic Games were thought to be so important that cities throughout Greece which were at war with one another had to stop fighting. During the time, people were allowed to travel to the Games safely.

Thousands of people came to the Olympic Games from cities in Greece and from its colonies(殖民地) in Africa, Asia, and Italy. They met as friends to cheer their favorite athletes and to enjoy themselves.

1. What did people do at the Olympic Games?

A. They fought for their freedom.

B. They just talked to friends.

C. They cheered good athletes.

D. They tried to find friends.

2. Where did people at the Olympic Games come from?

A. Greek cities.

B. Africa and Asia.

C. Italy.

D. All of the above.

3. If Greek cities then were fighting, people ______.

A. couldn’t go to other cities freely

B. could see what each other do

C. win the right to join in the Olympics.

D. respect the Greek god Zeus

4. The best title for the passage can be ______.

A. Greece at war

B. Together for the Olympic Games

C. Stop fighting

D. Greek people

5. What is this passage mainly about?

A. How Greek started the Olympic.

B. What was the Olympic in the ancient.

C. what People did in the Olympic.

D. When and where the Olympic started

B

One day a student went to see his teacher. He had been given an important position and now was coming to say goodbye to his teacher. The old man asked him how he would live among high officials. The student answered, “ I will be all right. I have prepared a hundred high hats, one for each official I will meet. I am sure I will succeed.” The teacher got angry on hearing this. “What?” he cried. “Is this what ten years of my teaching has made of you? Nothing but flatterer(拍马屁的人)?” “Excuse me, honored(尊敬的) master,”the student rose to his feet and apologized hurriedly. “But you have always been absorbed in your studies and don’t know how vulgar(庸俗的) the world has come to be. There are few men in the world who are above flatterers like you.” “There is something true in what you said,” the teacher nodded, smiling with one of the student’s “high hats” on.

6. The student came to say goodbye to his teacher because_____________.

A. he had got hundred hats to sell

B. he had got a fairly high position in society

C. he wanted to see his parents in his home town

D. he moved away to another city

7. The student would live among high officials by___________.

A. selling hats to them

B. making a hundred hats for them

C. flattering them

D. serving them

8. The teacher was angry with__________.

A. himself B .the society C. his student D. high officials

9. The phrase “rose to his feet” means________.

A. stood up

B. kicked with his feet

C. became quite excited

D. raised his feet

10 The teacher____________.

A. liked to be flattered as well

B. really knew nothing about the vulgar world

C . was in need of a high hat

D. was satisfied with the new hat

C

When you walk along a street in a big city in the United States, you may see clocks in most stores. Radio announcers give the correct time during the