深圳科学高中 2019-2020 学年第二学期网课质量检测试题 高一英语

深圳科学高中2019-2020 学年第二学期网课质量检测试题

年级：高一科目：英语

考试时长：90 分钟卷面总分：135 分

第一部分阅读理解(共15 小题; 满分35 分)

第一节（共10 小题; 每题2.5 分，满分25 分）

阅读下列三篇短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Wedding cakes have their roots in ancient Rome, when marriage ceremonies ended with a wheat cake broken over the bride’s head for luck. The British people brought this tradition one step further, throwing the bread at the bride to show best wishes. In the medieval days, all the baked goods were piled high (the higher the better) and the couple attempted to kiss over the pile. If the pile remained well without falling off, they were assured a lifetime of happiness.

In the 1600s, a French chef was quite shocked by the uncouth piling custom and recommended a more elegant piling system. However, this tasteful practice didn’t become popular until later. In some places, it was thought that eating a pie ensured couples would have a happy life together.

In the 17th century “bride pie” became popular. Within it was a glass ring which was used in a similar way to the bouquet (花束) today: whichever woman found it was meant to be next in line to get married.

The popularity of tiered wedding cakes came as a result of a baker’s student in late 18th-century London. A man called William Rich fell in love with his boss’s daughter. He was impressed by the shape of St Bride’s church.So when he asked the girl to marry him, he wanted to surprise her with a large, beautiful cake of that shape.

It was the wedding of Queen Victoria in 1840 that really set the fashion for weddings — the dresses and cakes both became big and white. Sugar was then cheaper and it became much easier for working-class families to follow the fashion. During the Second World War, there were limited wedding cake options for the average people. Colorants (着色剂) made fruit cakes look colorful or cardboard cakes were rented and the real, smaller cake was put inside.

1.In medieval times, how would a new couple pray for happiness?

A.By breaking a cake together.

B.By throwing the bread at each other’s head.

C.By offering the wedding guests some baked goods.

D.By kissing successfully without knocking over the baked food.

2.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “uncouth” in Paragraph 2?

A.Funny.

B. Careful.

C. Rude.

D. Difficult.

3.According to the last paragraph, people during World War Two .

A.reduced some wedding celebrations

B.enjoyed having cheap wedding cakes

C.could mainly afford white wedding cakes

ed some tricks to make wedding cakes look better

B

Yellowstone’s wolves are back, helping restore parts of the ecosystem that changed greatly a century ago. But Yellowstone is still not 100% back to normal and it may never be.

The park completely changed after humans killed all the gray wolves in Yellowstone in the mid-1920s due to predator control efforts. Elk (麋鹿) herds increased rapidly over the next 70 years, damaging large amounts of land and trees such as willows and aspens. Fewer trees sent the songbird population into decline. Beavers ( 河狸) lost their food source and the wood to build their dams. The lack of those dams caused streams to be damaged, destroying the conditions which willows need to grow.

Today, nearly 25 years after wolves were reintroduced into the park, the top predators are helping parts of the ecosystem bounce back. Yellowstone’s partial recovery has set off a heated debate.

“You put the predator back, which is great, but conditions have changed so much that putting the predator back is not enough to bring the ecosystem to the former conditions,” said Tom Hobbs, an ecology professor.“There’s not a quick fix for mistakes. Maintaining undamaged ecosystems may be simple, but after you’ve lost some of the parts, repairing them is a big project,” Hobbs said.

Most ecologists agree that Yellowstone has recovered some. When Doug Smith, Yellowstone National Park’s wolf biologist, first arrived in 1994, some willow and aspen trees only came up to his knees. “Now I can’t see through it,” he said. “It’s like a forest.”

Despite all the disagreements, most ecologists say removing predators today would be a mistake. “The way ecosystems put themselves back together after such a problem is still something that scientists are trying to understand,” Bill Ripple said. “The lesson is — let us not make the same mistake as they did 70 years ago.”

4.What happened after Yellowstone’s wolves were killed?

A.The elk population declined.

B.Willow trees became even fewer.

C.Beavers caused damage to streams.

D.Humans continued to kill other predators.

5.What might Tom Hobbs agree with?

A.Wolves are unable to restore ecosystems.

B.Protecting the ecosystem is easier than fixing it.