2020学年甘肃省会宁县第一中学高一上学期期中考试英语试题

会宁一中2019-2020学年度第一学期期中考试

高一英语试题

（满分：120分时间：100分钟）

命题人：审题人：

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。

第Ⅰ卷

注意事项：

1.答第Ⅰ卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2.选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号框涂黑。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分阅读理解（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。

A

One day Mr. White gave his wife ten pounds for her birthday — ten new pound notes. So Mrs. White went out shopping. She waited for a bus, got on it and sat down next to an o1d 1ady. After a while, Mrs. White noticed that the old lady’s handbag was open. Inside it, she saw a wad（叠）of pound notes exactly like the ones her husband had given her. So she quickly looked into her own bag —the notes had gone! Mrs. White was sure that the o1d lady next to her had stolen them. She immediately thought of calling the police. But as she disliked making a fuss（小题大作）, she

decided to take back the money from the old lady’s hand bag and say nothing about it. She looked around to make sure nobody was watching. Then she carefully put her hand into the o1d lady’s bag, took the notes, and put them into her own handbag.

When she got home that evening, Mrs. White showed her husband the beautiful hat she had bought.

“How did you pay for it?” Mr. White asked.

“With the money you gave me for my birthday, of course” she answered.

“Oh? What’s that, then?” he asked, as he pointed to a wad of pound notes on the table.

1. Why did Mr. White give his wife ten pounds?

A. For a new hand bag.

B. For new notes.

C. For her husband's birthday.

D. For her birthday.

2. What did Mrs. White use the money given by her husband for?

A. A new handbag.

B. Stealing from an old 1ady.

C. Nothing.

D. Going shopping.

3. What did Mrs. White decide to do when she found another ten pounds in

her neighbor’s handbag on the bus?

A. She wanted to call the police.

B. She decided to talk with the o1d lady.

C. She decided to take away her own money.

D. She decided not to tell the 1ady and take the money away.

4. Which of the following sentences is wrong?

A. Mrs. White actually stole her money by herself.

B. Mrs. White in fact became a thief then.

C. Mr. White gave his wife some new pound notes for her birthday.

D. The money was still at Mrs. White's home.

B

In Britain in the 1890s there was a postcard “craze(热潮)”. People formed clubs and collected and exchanged postcards. Even Queen Victoria

had her own private collection.

When Edward was the king, the British had a cheap and good postal system. If anyone wanted to tell a friend that they were coming for tea in the afternoon, they would send a postcard in the morning. “Drop me a card” was as common then as “give me a ring” as now.

In 1902 an important step was taken. The government said that half of the side that was used for the address on the postcard could be used for messages, and the whole of the other side could be used for a picture. It was then that the simple postcard, as we know now, was created.

5. In Britain in the 1890s, _______.

A. people were interested in sending cards

B. people were interested in playing cards

C. people were interested in collecting postcards

D. people were interested in buying postcards

6. “Give me a ring” in the passage means _______.

A. send me a gold ring

B. send me a card

C. give me a telephone call

D. give me a bell ring

7. Which statement is TRUE?

A. Postcards were not used in the 19th century.

B. It was not until 1902 that the simple postcard as we know was created.

C. Postcards were used only for collection in the 1890s.

D. There was no message on the old postcard.

8. Choose the best title for the passage.

A. Postcards Old and New

B. Postcard Clubs in the 1890s

C. Creation of the Present Postcard

D. Postal System in Britain

C

I used to think education was the most important thing in my life.