河南省开封高中2021届高一下学期第三次质量检测

河南省开封高中2021届高一下学期第三次质量检测

英语试卷

第I卷（选择题）

第一部分听力理解（略）

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、 C 和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

The Ig Nobel Prizes praise research that makes you laugh and then think.The winners are allowed to make a one-minute speech with time kept by an eight-year-old! Every year，in Harvard's Sanders Theatre，people watch the winners step forward to accept their prizes.These are physically handed out by real Nobel laureates (获得者)．Let's have a look at some of them.

The Empty Bladder (膀胱) Experiment

Four researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology found that animals above 3 kg empty their bladders in about 21 seconds.What is the purpose of this study? The researchers hope this will help solve urinary (泌尿的) problems in animals.

The Science of Eggs

A team of Australian scientists managed to get hard-boiled egg whites to become raw again.While it sounds silly，this research could have a serious influence on cancer (癌症) research. The Fascination with Animals

Charles Foster and Thomas Thwaites from the UK shared the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize in Biology.Thomas chose to live like a goat and wrote about his experience in “GoatMan：How I Took a Holiday from Being Human”．Charles，on the other hand，spent some time in the wild，trying out the lives of many animals.He felt it gave him a chance to explore the world around us with more of our senses.

Colors & Horseflies

A team from Hungary，Spain，Sweden and Switzerland won the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics.They studied why horseflies have less interest in white-haired horses.The team used handmade horses covered in glue.They found that dark colors attracted more flies because of how sunlight reflected (反射) off them.To the food searchers，it was a sign of food.This finding could explain the white coats of zebras too.

21.Who give the Ig Nobel winners their prizes?

A．Eight-year-olds. B．Harvard professors.

C．Nobel Prize winners. D．Nobel Prize organizers.

22.What did Charles Foster and Thomas Thwaites have in common?

A．They shared the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics.

B．Both their experiments centered on animals.

C．They did their research in the same place.

D．Both their experiments explored human senses.

23.What does the underlined part “food searchers”refer to?

A．Zebras. B．Horseflies.

C．Handmade horses. D．White-haired horses.

B

My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining (走得快).But at last, one night, I forgot to wind it up (上发条）and it stopped running. The next day I stepped into the jeweler’s to set it by the exact time, and the head of the shop started to set it for me. Then he said, “She is four minutes slow — regulator (调节器）wants pushing up.” I tried to stop him —tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time. But no; he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed.

My watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. Finally I took it to the watchmaker to be regulated. He forced the watch open, and then said it wanted cleaning and oiling, besides regulating. After this, my watch slowed down to an unbearable degree. I began to miss trains and my dinner.

At last, I took this instrument to another watchmaker. He said the kingbolt was broken. To tell the truth, I had no idea what the kingbolt was. He repaired it, but what the watch gained in one way it lost in another. It would run awhile and then stop awhile, and so on.

So I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker. While I waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance (熟人)—a steamboat engineer of older days, and not a good engineer, either.

“She makes too much steam and...” he said.

I gave him a heavy blow on the head and ran away.

My uncle William used to say that a good watch was a good watch until the repairers got a chance to look at it. And he used to wonder what became of all the unsuccessful repairmen, and shoemakers, and engineers, and blacksmiths; but nobody could ever tell him.

24.What did the author say about the jeweler?

A. He made a mistake.

B. He had a quick mind.

C. He had a hearing problem.

D. He was a quiet repairman.

25. After being cleaned, oiled and regulated, the author’s watch.

A. kept perfect time

B. gained faster and faster

C. was unbelievably slow

D. ran awhile and stopped awhile

26. Why did the author hit the watchmaker on the head?