贵州省贵安新区第三高级中学高一英语下学期期中试题

贵安三中2015-2016学年度下学期半期考试试题

英语

本试卷分第l卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分，共计120分。考试结束后，将答案卡交回即可。注意事项：

1．答第l卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案前，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号框,不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节阅读下列列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑（每空两分共30分)．

A

Once a man wanted to know what makes hell(地狱) and what makes heaven. So he asked the Lord about it. The Lord said to the man, “Come, I will show you what the hell is like.” They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot(锅) of meat. Everyone was pretty hungry. Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle(把手) so much longer than their own arms that it could not be used to get the meat into their own mouths. They were feeling terrible.

“Come, now I will show you what the heaven is like.” The Lord said after a while. They entered another room. There was also a large pot of meat. A group of people were sitting around the pot. The people also have the same long-handle spoons. But there everyone was happy and well-nourished.

“I don’t understand, ”said the man. “Why are people happy in the heaven while people in the hell were terrible and everything was the same?”The Lord smiled. “Ah, it is simple,”he said. “Here in the heaven people have learned to feed each other.”

1. The man went to the Lord ______

A. to get a chance to go to the heaven

B. to ask for some money

C. to know about hell and heaven

D. to eat some meat in heaven

2 .The people in the hell felt terrible because ______

A. they were too poor B .they didn’t know what happiness was

C. there was no food in the hell

D. they couldn’t eat food

3 What did the man think of people in the heaven?

A . They had a happy life.

B They were hard-working.

C They were lucky to be in heaven.

D It was wrong for them to enjoy themselves alone

4. The underlined word “well-nourished” mea ns ______ in Chinese.

A. 互助的

B. 幸灾乐祸的

C. 不可思议的

D. 滋养的

5 What’s the best title for this passage?

A Rich and Poor

B Hell and Heaven

C Man and Lord

D Long-Handle Spoons

B

In the last 500 years, nothing about people---not their clothes, ideas, or languages---has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate（巧克力） drink was made from the seeds of the cocao(可可) tree by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500's. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent（依赖的） on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the "Potato Famine（土豆荒）" of 1845-1846, and thousands more were forced to emigrate.（移居） to America.

There are many other foods that have traveled from south America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world's largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400's.

According to an Arabic story, coffee was discovered w hen a goat keeper named Kaldi noticed that his goats were eating the red fruits on a coffee tree. He tried one and experienced the "wide-awake(彻底清醒的)" feeling. One-third of the world's population now starts the day with it.

6. According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?

A Foods.

B Clothes

C Languages.

D Ideas

7. Chocolate drink was first invented in ________while coffee was first invented in _____

A: South America; Ethiopia B: Spain; Brazil

C: Spain; the Old World D: London; Rent

8. Thousands of Irish people were forced to live in America mainly because__________

A they were so dependent on potato that they refused to eat anything else.

B they could easily get potato in America.

C the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing the potato.

D the potato harvest was bad.

C

Mark Twain was a great writer. He was from the USA. He was born in 1835. He was also a famous speaker. He was famous for his sense of humour. Many people liked to listen to him talk