福建省莆田市仙游县度尾中学2019-2020学年高一期末考试英语试卷含答案

英语试卷

第I卷

第一部分：听力（省略）

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

Have you ever seen a horse with toes(脚趾)?Millions of years ago,horses had many toes. They had four toes on each front foot.They had three toes on each back foot.The horses were smaller than cats.

These small horses lived in the forest.Their many toes helped the horses run over the soft wet ground.

It was very hot in the forest.But the weather changed.It became cold.Many trees couldn’t live in cold weather.The trees died and fell.Open field took the place of forests.The sun made the ground dry and hard.

Horses began to change too.They began to get bigger.This took a long time.On the dry hard land,horses needed only their middle toes for running.Their middle toes became hard. After a long time horses had only one hard toe on each foot.We call this hard toe a hoof(马蹄).

1.Long ago,the horse had four toes on each of its_____.

A.front foot

B.back foot

C.foot

D.hoof

2.The cats were_____the horses at that time.

A.smaller than

B.as small as

C.bigger than

D.as big as

3.From the passage,we know that_____.

A.the weather stays the same the whole year all over the world

B.when the weather changed,animals began to change too

C.cats were bigger in the past than they are today

D.horses have never changed

4.On the dry hard land_____.

A.horses needed a lot of room for running

B.horses needed more than four toes for running

C.horses needed only their middle toes for running

D.horses needed a lot of food for running

5.Now each horse has_____on its feet.

A.four toes

B.three toes

C.one toe

D.no toe

B

My mother is fifty-five years old.She retired(退休)just two months ago.After that,she was bored and didn’t know what to do every day.She was kind to us before,but recently she had a chip on her shoulder.She often quarreled with my brother and me without any reason. Also,relations between my parents became difficult.My mother got into trouble and didn’t know how to deal with it.My brother thought of a good idea to solve the problem.He bought her a new smart phone and taught her how to use WeChat(微信).My mother’s life changed a lot from then on.No matter where she went and whatever she did,she always used it.She took photos with her new smart phone and always shared her photos in her friend circle to express how happy she was.As a result,she often did something by mistake.She often forgot to turn off the gas and the food she was cooking usually got burnt.My father tried to stop her,but it didn’t work.

This afternoon,my mother prepared to make dumplings for dinner.She took a lot of pictures in order to post them into her friend circle.After dinner,we took out our smart phones and waited for the photos she had taken.To our surprise,we didn’t find any pictures of her dumplings.At last,my father couldn’t help asking her,“Why don’t you share your delicious dumplings in your friend circle today?My mother looked embarrassed and said,“_________”“Oh,my God!I have to spend more money buying a new one!”cried my brother.

6.The underlined words"had a chip on her shoulder"most probably mean________.

A.had a pain in her shoulder

B.got angry easily

C.liked eating potato chips

7.My brother bought a smart phone for my mother because_____.