安徽省巢湖市柘皋中学20162017学年高一英语上学期第一次月考试题

柘皋中学2016/2017学年度上学期高一英语试卷

第一部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

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Today almost everyone knows computers and the Internet. If I ask you "What is the most important in your life? "maybe you will say "Computers and the Internet."

The first computer was made in was very big but it worked slowly. Today computers are getting smaller and smaller. But they work faster and faster. What can computers do? A writer has said, "People can't live without computers today."

The Internet came a little later than computers. It is about twenty-five years later than computers. But now it can be found almost everywhere. We can use it to read books, write letters, do shopping, play games or make friends.

Many students like the Internet very much. They often go into the Internet as soon as they are free. They make friends on the Internet and maybe they have never seen these friends. They don't know their real names, ages and even sex(性别）.They are so interested in making the "unreal friends" that they can't put their hearts into study. Many of them can't catch up with others on many subjects because of that.

We can use computers and the Internet to learn more about the world. But at the same time, we should remember that not all the things can be done by computers and the Internet.

1. The Internet can not be used for .

A. studying

B. thinking

C. shopping

D. playing

2. When the computer was invented, it was .

A. large and worked quickly

B. small and worked slowly

C. small but worked quickly

D. large but worked slowly

3. The Internet was born is about .

A. 1960

B. 1980

C. 1971

D. 1985

4. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Few students like going into the Internet.

B. Students use the Internet to make "real friends".

C. Students don't know the friends on the Internet very well.

D. These "unreal friends" often meet each other.

B

"Bad luck always comes in three" and last Saturday seemed to prove it. After trouble with the car and the television, we spent the evening waiting for the next trouble. Shortly after dinner we both smelled smoke. My wife, who was often careless when cooking, ran to the kitchen but returned looking puzzled. I rushed up the stairs to see smoke coming from under our bedroom door. I went t o the bathroom and tied a wet cloth over my face. Then I returned to the bedroom, opened the door and crawled(爬) in-there would be less smoke at floor level. With one hand reaching out in front of me I advanced carefully feeling for the switch to turn off the electric blanket. At that moment I heard the bell of a coming fire engine. Thank goodness my wife had not been wasting her time.

5. The wife rushed into the kitchen beca use .

A. she was afraid the smoke was caused by her carelessness

B. she left something in the kitchen

C. the smoke came out of the kitchen

D. things in the kitchen were easy to cause fire

cause of the fire might be .

A. electricity

B. the kitchen

C. the fire

D. bad luck

can guess that when the husband was upstairs trying to stop the smoke, .

A. the wife was downstairs doing nothing

B. the firemen saw the smoke and came

C. the wife telephoned the firemen

D. they were in great danger

8. The passage wants to express that .

A. "THREE" is an unlucky number

B. an unlucky person will only have trouble three times