高三英语期中考试卷

兰州市第五十七中学2014—2015学年度第一学期期中考试卷

高三年级英语

本考试卷满分为120分，考试用时100分钟

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40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，并写在答题卡上。

A

If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak. When you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way.

When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong.

If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents may be blamed, and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people can't read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write so they have to remember things; they cannot write then down in a little notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories, so their memory are being exercised the whole time.

So if you want to have a good memory, learn from these people: Practise remembering.

1. One has a poor memory mainly because________.

A. his father or mother may have a poor memory

B. he does not use his arms or legs for some time

C. his memory is not often used

D. he can’t read or write

2. If you do not use your arms or legs for some time, _______.

A. they will become weak and won’t become stronger until you use them again

B. you can’t use them any more

C. they will become neither stronger nor weaker

D. they will become stronger

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Your memory works in the same way as your arms or legs.

B. Don’t learn how to read and write if you want to have a better memory.

C. A good memory comes from more practice.

D. Your memory, like your arms or legs, becomes weak if you don’t give it enough chance for practice.

4. Some people can’t read or write, but they usually have better memories, because_________.

A. they have saved much trouble

B. they have saved much time to remember things

C. they have to use their memories all the time

D. they can’t write everything in a little book

B

It was a village in India. The people were poor. However, they were not unhappy. After all, their forefathers had lived in the same way for centuries.

Then one day. Some visitors from the city arrived. The told the villagers there were some people elsewhere who liked to eat fr og’s legs. However, they did not have enough frogs of their own, and so they wanted to buy frogs from other places.

This seemed like money for nothing .There were millions of frogs in the fields around, and they were no use to the villagers. All they had to do was catch them. Agreement was reached, and the children were sent into the fields to catch frogs. Every week a truck arrived to collect the catch and hand over the money. For the first time, the people were able to dream of a better future, but the dream didn’t last long.