安徽铜陵一中高一下期中考试英语试卷

2020-2021学年安徽铜陵一中高一下期中考试英语试卷学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________一、阅读选择阅读下列短文，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。

Christmas Eve was tomorrow. I hoped one of the packages that held a camera had already been placed under the Christmas tree. It was the only thing I wanted. I had been_______to my parents. I love taking photos. My bedroom walls are covered with photos I had taken with my mom’s old camera. I’m always trying to capture(捕捉) those perfect moments in which you can hear the laughter or touch the beautiful scene, but my camera has always seemed to fall short.I knew Mom had put a few presents under the tree this morning, so I went on a hunt in my mom’s room. I opened the door and found my Christmas present was lying unwr apped on the floor — a big pink cat. I felt so disappointed.Mom seemed to notice that, and she tried to cheer me up. “Stacy, I got your present today. I am so excited to surprise you!” “I can’t wait,” I said. The next day I couldn’t wait any longer.I needed to tell her.”Mom, may I talk to you for a second?”“Sure, dear. What do you need to talk about?” she asked.And so it came — how upset I was that I was getting a cat.“Stacy, that cat is for your sister Julia!” she said with a smile.“Then what am I getting?” I asked.She just smiled. “You’ll have to wait and see.”Next morning, I happily got into the living room and sat next to the tree. I pulled out the box with my name on it and opened the wrapping paper to find…My camera! “Thank you!” I said t o both Dad and Mom.Dad picked up the camera and took a picture of Julia, Mom and me. It has become one of my favorite pictures. Just on that Christmas morning, I took lots of photos with my camera — my little sister making a face, my parents giving me a soft smile — and all of these photos have come to mean one thing to me: LOVE.1．The underlined phrase “dropping hints” in Paragraph 1 means ________.A．talking often B．sending presentsC．suggesting indirectly D．taking pictures2．Why did Stacy feel disappointed at first?A．Her mother couldn’t understand her at all.B．Her mother didn’t buy her any Christmas gift.C．She mistook her sister’s Christmas gift for hers.D．She didn’t find her present in her mom’s room.3．We can learn from the passage that ________.A．her mother bought Stacy a big pink catB．her mother knew what gift Stacy wantedC．Stacy thought it’s OK to have an old cameraD．Stacy finally got her gift on Christmas Eve4．What would be the best title for the passage?A．A Christmas gift as wishedB．Love is more important than giftsC．A wonderful ChristmasD．Love cannot be boughtIt does not come as a surprise that Dubai has a growing problem with “tragic”. The local rulers have explored all the conventional ways to get traffic moving again，including higher prices for parking，fuel and insurance. But at a recent conference in Hamburg, Hussain Lootah said that the city may adopt a more strict approach: setting an income level for vehicle ownership.Mr Lootah’s approach is unlikely to be copied widely, but mayors of other big cities around the world are starting to think about taking severe actions of their own, including complete car bans in inner cities．But the efforts may not be enough to reduce traffic and pollution. The problems will only get worse: the number of vehicles sold globally each year will grow from around 80 million today to more than 100 million by the end of the decade, according to IHS Automotive.There are already a handful of car-free communities around the world．But these are typically small and often tourist destinations that seek to create a throwback(后退;返祖遗传) in time, such as Sark Island, in the English Channel. The largest car-free urban area is probablyVenice, where it is impossible to build roads and bridges to link the more than 100 small islands the city sits on.Yet pedestrian malls(步行街) and other car-free zones keep popping up in cities around the world. Some cities are considering ways to limit central city access to “green” machines, such as battery-electric vehicles. Hamburg is perhaps the furthest along.Such extreme plans may fly in a city such as Hamburg. But in many other cities the political resistance even to less far-reaching measures is hard to overcome. Michael Bloomberg, New York’s former mayor, tried twice t o introduce a jam charge for much of Manhattan, but his plans were rejected by state lawmakers.5．From Paragraph 1, we know that ________.A．Dubai government tries to improve its local incomesB．Dubai government tries to solve traffic problemsC．Dubai government tries to reduce prices for parkingD．Dubai government tries to offer insurance to locals6．It is still hard to reduce traffic problems, because ________.A．Mr Lootah’s approach will be copied widely.B．mayors take gentle measures toward them.C．more vehicles will be sold globally each year.D．complete car bans in inner cities are not made.7．What causes Venice to be the largest car-free urban area?A．Its natural geographical characteristics.B．Its too many tourist destinations.C．Its reduced number of cars.D．Its government law on car free.8．What can we learn from Paragraph 4?A．People can only walk in central city.B．All vehicles can be used in central city.C．Hamburg may not adopt “green” machines.D．“Green” machines can be accessible in central c ity.Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you’re unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means(方式) to meet your desires but alack of desires — not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but tha t you don’t have enough tastes.Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities(能力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk toomuch._________________________________________.Your house of life ought to be a mansion(豪宅) , a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm(热心,热情) adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of hamburgers and eggs when you’re hungry.Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but someone who likes a library.Music like Mozart’s and Bach’s shouldn’t be absen t. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you’ve brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, played a bit.Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.9．The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that ________. A．though materially rich, they never seem to be satisfiedB．though materially rich, they remain spiritually poorC．though their house is big, they prefer a simple lifeD．though their house is big, it seems to be a cage10．It can be learned from the passage that ________.A．more money brings more happinessB．art is needed to make your house beautifulC．literature can enrich your spiritual lifeD．sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness11．What would be the best title for the passage?A．Interest and EnthusiasmB．Secret of WealthC．Rest and RefreshmentD．House of LifeSometimes ideas do not appear when you are concentrating your attention and mysteriously appear when you are not. Modern science recognizes this as a result of incubating(酝酿) the problem in your subconscious(潜意识), yet can’t account for why it occurs.When you quit thinking about a subject and decide to forget it, your subconscious mind doesn’t quit working. Your thoughts keep making associations(联想,联系). This is why you’ve experienced suddenly remembering names, getting solutions to problems you’ve forgotten about, and ideas out of the blue when you are relaxing and not thinking about any particular thing.You may try solving a problem with your subconscious mind by writing a letter to it. Now let go of the problem. Don’t work on it. Forget it. Do something else. This is the incubation stage when much of what goes on occurs outside your focused awareness, in your unconsciousness. Open the letter in two days. The answer might magically pop into your mind.An advertising agency was under pressure to come up with a marketing campaign. Bert, the creative director, wrote the following letter which he addressed to his subconscious mind. Secret Expert,I need to come up with a new marketing program to introduce a new season of television shows. I’m interested in some kind of campaign that will capture the audience’s attention more than one time. Is there something people need that we can advertise on? What kind of products, foods and services should we investigate? I need your idea about a fresh approach to advertising.Thanks, BertBert mailed the letter to himself and when he read what he had written, he got his brainstorm, which was to advertise on “eggs”. Somehow an association between “foods”, “need” and “fresh approach” inspired the thought of using “fresh eggs to advertise.” He arranged to put the ad for the television shows on eggs — some thirty million.The consumers look at a single egg at least a few times, when they buy the eggs at the store,when they transfer(转移,传递,转送) them to the refrigerator, and when they crack them open. It’s unlike any other ad medium in the world, because you’re looking at it while you are using it.12．You remember names though you are not thinking about them because your subconscious mind ________.A．stops working B．is still workingC．is full of names D．improves your memory13．During the incubation stage, your focused awareness ________.A．doesn’t workB．controls your thoughtsC．waits for an answerD．leads to you being unconscious14．Which of the following was included in Bert’s letter to his subconscious mind? A．What he wanted it to do.B．When he would need its help.C．What product could be advertised.D．How the solution could be found.15．In what way did the ad put on eggs help?A．It greatly increased the sales of eggs.B．It helped Bert to get a brainstorm.C．It made sure that consumers could get fresh eggs.D．It made the TV shows known to people repeatedly.二、七选五根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。