河北省尚义县第一中学2020-2021学年高一第一学期期中考试英语试卷

尚义一中2020—2021学年度第一学期高一年级期中考试

英语

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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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

If you wish to become a better reader, here are four important things to remember about reading rate:

●Knowing why you are reading or what you are reading to find out will often help you to know whether to read rapidly or slowly.

●Some things should be read slowly throughout. Examples are directions for making or doing something, arithmetic problems, science and history books, which are full of important information. You must read such things slowly to remember each important step and understand each important ideas.

●Some things should be read rapidly throughout. Examples are simple stories meant for enjoyment, news letters from friends, piece of news from local, or home-town, papers, telling what is happening to friends and neighbors.

●In some of your reading, you must change your speed from fast to slow and slow to fast, as you go along. You will need to read certain pages rapidly and then slow down and do more careful reading when you come to important ideas which must be remembered.

1. The underlined word “rate” in the first sentence means .

A.fast

B. slow

C. speed

D. skill

2. Which should be read slowly according to the passage?

A.Stories for enjoyment

B. Arithmetic problems

C. Letters from friends

D. News from hometown newspapers

3. How fast should we read?

A.The faster, the better.

B. The more slowly, the better.

C. Neither too fast nor too slow.

D. It depends on what we are reading.

4. According to the passage which of the following is NOT true?

A. Read slowly when you are reading something important to you.

B. Read fast when you are reading something unimportant to you.

C. Read the materials that you are interested in slowly.

D. Read the materials that you are interested in fast.

B

Students in many countries are learning English. Some of these students are small children. Others are teenagers. Many are adults. Some learn at school, others by themselves. A few learn English by learning the language over the radio, on TV, or in film. One must work hard to learn

another language. Why do all these people want to learn English? It is difficult to answer this question. Many boys and girls learn English at school because it is one of their subjects required for study. They study their own language and maths and English; some people learn it because it is useful for their work. Many people learn English for their higher studies, because at college or university some of their books are in English. Other people learn English because they want to read newspapers or magazines in English.

5. People learn English .

A.at school

B. over the radio

C. on TV

D. not all in the same way

6. Different kinds of people want to learn English .

A. together with other subjects

B. for different reasons

C. for their work

D. for higher studies at colleges

7. From this passage we know that .

A. We can learn English easily

B. English is very difficult to learn

C. English is learned by most people in the world

D. English is a useful language but one must work hard to learn

8. Which of the following is right?

A. We don’t need to learn any foreign languages.

B. We can do well in all our work without English.

C. English is the most important subject in schools.

D. We should learn English because we need to face the world.

C

In one way of thinking, failure is a part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The “spider story” is often told. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web(蜘蛛织网). The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times without success. On the seventh time he made it and went on to spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart and to have gone on to defeat the English... Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one.

So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top from yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?

Second, is the goal(目标) you're trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about his question, “If I do succeed in this, where will it get me?” This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn't be doing anyway.

The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it's a part of life. Learn to “live with yourself” even though you may have failed. Remember, “You can't win them all.”

9. This passage deals with two sides of failure. In paragraph 1, the author talks mainly about ______ .

A. the value of failure

B. how people would fail

C. famous failures

D. the cause of failure

10. The underlined phrase “made it” means ______ .

A. succeeded

B. failed

C. gave

D. got

11. The author tells you to do all things except ______ .

A. to think about the cause of your failure

B. to check out whether your goals are right for you