洛阳市2018-2019高一上学期期末英语试题和答案

洛阳市2018-2019学年第一学期期末考试高一英语试卷参考答案AWe always knew our daughter Kendall was going to be a performer of some sort. She entertained people in our small town by putting on shows when she was only three or four. She sang like a little angelWhen Kendall was five, she was clearing her throat frequently. We took her to our local hospital where she was diagnosed with Tourette`s Syndrome(图雷特综合征)It was pretty destructive because other children made fun of her, and sadly, even a teacher laughed at her. She only had one or two friends, but that was okay because they were - and continue to be -real, the kind who stick by her, no matter what. Through all this Kendall continued to sing and entertain. Remarkably, her tics(抽搐)disappeared when she sang.When Kendall was sixteen, we thought she was pretty much out of the woods. However, a terrible accident happened. At a birthday party, Kendall hopped (H t )on a friend for a piggyback ride. Kendall few over his back and landed on the Moor-on her neck. An ambulance rushed her to the hospital where she spent the next week, paralyzed( )from the neck down. However, her biggest concern wasn't whether she would walk again, but whether she would be able to audition (i T)for American Idol. Her friend brought a microphone and every day, Kendall tried hard to practise singing. It was more important for her to pick up that mic than a spoon or fork.On the day Kendall auditioned for American Idol -only three months after her accident -we cried tears of joy. And our tears turned into shouts when she was given a golden ticket to Hollywood.Kendall is eighteen now, living every day to its fullest and having some good success.21. How did some of Kendalls friends react to her disease?A. They made fun of her.B. They laughed at her.C. They were always there for her.D. They gave whatever she wanted.22 What's the authors attitude towards Kendall?A. She believes Kendall can make it big some day.B. She worries Kendall 's illness will worsenC. She feels sorry for not having found a better treatment.D. She is always keen on charity.23. In what order is the passage developed?A. PlaceB. TimeC. SpaceD. Importance24. From the passage, we can infer Kendall is a girlA. with a strong mindB. who has long-time fansC. popular among classmatesD. who prefers music to sportsBArt is very important to kids. Here are some reasons:Art helps children with their physical development. For example, when kids work with play dough(R K ) they can lean to better control their fingers. Drawing helps develop hand and finger muscles that are needed to properly hold and use a pencil.Art activities also help children`s social and emotional development. Children learn about themselves and others through art activities. Taking part in art activities really helps them build self-esteem(自尊). It teaches them about their uniqueness while allowing them to express happiness, joy and-pride.Finally, art is important because it allows children to be creative. Through takingpart in art activities, they 'll learn to think and design things and make them.Since art is so important to kids, parents should make it an everyday activity. Luckily, they can do that. Even if you don' t have a lot of things that help kids take part in art activities at home, it ' s really easy to set up a low-cost easel (画架) in your- home. For toddles children who have only recently learnt to walk would want to include very basic things such as finger point, play dough and fat crayons. For preschoolers(children who are no longer babies but are not yet old enough to go to school), you'll want to add things like paint brushes, an easel, glue, tape and scissors. As the kids get older and start exploring their creativity, parents will start -adding more things to the art supplies.It's extremely important for parents to make art activities open-ended because we don' t want to limit children`s creativity. Children have their own thoughts and ideas of how things should look and they come to art with their own special experience. Open-ended art activities are good for children`s development abilities. They build feelings of independence, confidence and eagerness to learn through open-ended activities.25. How is art helpful to children?A. It makes them love schoolB. It encourages them to do housework.C. It improves their gradesD. It helps them develop physically26. What can we learn from Paragraph 5?A. Parents should prepare everything for art at homeB. Toddlers need glue, tape and scissors for art activities.C, It's not hard to get children to join in art activitiesD. A low-cost easel is not good for toddlers27. In the authors opinion, open-ended art activities areA. just suitable for preschoolersB. useful to everyoneC. limited to children's creativityD. good for kids in many ways28. For whom is the passage intendedA. TeachersB. ParentsC. StudentsD. ArtistsCLondon 's Kew Gardens reopens its Temperate House, the world 's largest Victorian glasshouse.For the first time in its history, the Grade I-listed structure was restored to bare metal and modernized. More than 5, 280 liters of paint was used, enough to cover four football fields, an 15, 000 panes of glass was replaced. The house opened to the public on Saturday, May 5.The large greenhouse is now home to an arranged collection of different plants from areas of temperate( 温带的)climates around the world - areas sometimes described as the Goldilocks zone of the planet, where plants are safe from coldness.These include some of the rarest(稀有的) and most threatened species(物种)，for which the botanic(植物的) garden is a final shelter(避护所). Among the more than1，00 different species of temperate plants is the extremely rare South African cycad Encephalartos woodji, a plant that has disappeared from the wild and is now found in botanic gardens and private collections.This tree has been named "the loneliest plant in the world ", because only male plants remain -each a clone of the specimen at Kew, which was collected in the middle of the 19th century. Some plants contain both male and female parts, but this species requires a female to produce seeds.Lead gardener Scott Taylor, who is overseeing the Temperate House collection stressed the importance of having an insurance population of one of the worlds mostendangered plant.“We have an important job to keep all of these things going, "Mr. Taylor said. "For some plants, they are down to a few in the wild -a wildfire, an earthquake, and they`re gone”29. Where may you find South African cycad Encephalartos woodji?A. In any of London's gardensB. In a personal collection of temperate plantsC. In the laboratory of cloning plantsD. In the wild in London30. Why does Scott Taylor think the trees are endangered?A. There aren't such male trees any moreB. There aren't female trees any moreC. Because of the overhunting of the treesD. Because of the difficulty in producing.31. What would be the best title for the passage?A. The Grade I-listed Structure Was CompletedB. The World's Largest Glasshouse ReopensC. How to Build a GreenhouseD. How to Protect the WildlifeDPlaying video games for hours on end may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic(腹腔镜检査的) doctor one day， a new study has shown. Reorganization of the brain＇s cortical(皮质的，皮层的) network in young men with experience of playing video games gives them an advantage not only in playing the games but also in performing other tasks requiring visuomotor (视觉眼肌运动)skills. Researchers from the Centre for Vision Research at York University in Canada compared a group of 13 young men in their twenties, who had played video games at least four hours a week for the past three years, to a group of 13 young men without that experience. The subjects were placed in a functional magnetic resonanceimaging(FMRI) machine and asked to complete a series of increasingly difficult visuomotor tasks, such as using a joystick or looking one way while reaching another way.By using high resolution brain imaging(MRI), we were able to actually measure which brain areas were activated at a given time during the experiment, " said Lauren Sergio, associate professor. "We tested how the skills learned from video game experience can transfer over to new tasks, rather than just looking at brain activity while the subject plays a videoThe finding that using visuomotor skills can reorganize how the brain works offers hope for future research into the problems experienced by Azheimer's patients, who struggle to complete the simplest visuomotor tasksLead author Joshua Granek added that, in future, it would be interesting to study if the brain pattern changes are affected by the type of video games a player has used and the actual total number of hours he has played, and to study female video gamers, whose brain patterns in earlier studies were different from those of males.32. What do the underlined words The subjects " in Paragraph 1 refer to?A. The 13 young gamersB. The 13 young men not interested in gamesC. The people involved in the studyD. Those having trouble with visuomotor tasks.33. What is different for video gamers according to the passage?A. The lifestyle.B. The names of the gamesC. The study they join inD. The work of brain areas.34. How did the researchers carry out the research?A. By studying how experienced skills work on new tasks.B. Only by watching the brain activity.C. By playing video gamesD. By reorganizing how brain network works at different times35. What does the passage mainly talk about?A. The advantages of playing video gamesB. The effect of watching videosC. The ways to deal with AlzheimerD. The research into brain diseases第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。