【全国百强校】湖南省长沙麓山国际实验学校2019-2020学年高一寒假第二次检测英语试题(无答案)

⾼⾼寒假阶段性检测(⾼) ——英语试题
命题⾼：
时量：90分钟满分：100分
第⾼部分阅读理解（共两⾼节，满分40分）
第⾼节（共15⾼题；每⾼题2分，满分30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。

A
One of the latest trends（趋势）in American Childcare is Chinese au pairs. Au Pair in Stamford, Conn., for example, has got increasing numbers of request for Chinese au pairs from zero to around 4, 000 since 2004. And that’s true all across the country.
“I thought it would be very useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age,” Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son. “I would at least like to give him the chance to use the language in the future.” After only six months of being cared by 25-year-old woman from China, the boy can already understand basic Chinese daily expressions, his dad says.
Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in Minnesota with an American husband, had another reason for looking for an au pair from China: She didn’t want her children to miss out on their roots. “Because I am Chinese, my husband and I wanted the children to keep exposed to (接触) the language and culture. ” she says.
“Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom, ” says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of Children. “But parents must unders tand that just one year with au pair is unlikely to produce wonders. Complete mastery demands continued learning until the age of 10 or 12. ”
The popularity if au pairs from China has been strengthened by the increasing numbers of American parents who want their children to learn Chinese. It is expected that American demand for au pairs will continue to rise in the next few years.
1.What does the term “au pair” in the text mean?
A.A mother raising her children on her own.
B.A child learning a foreign language at home
C.A professor in language education of children
D.A young foreign woman taking care of children.
2.Li Drake has her children study Chinese because she wants them .
A.to live in China some day
B.to speak the language at home
C.to catch up wit other children
D.to learn about the Chinese culture
3.What can we infer from the text?
A.Learning Chinese is becoming popular In A merica,
cated women do better in looking after children
C.Chinese au pairs need to improve their English skills.
D.Children can learn a foreign language well in six months.
B
October 15th is Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap.
Experts say people around the world wash their hands but very few use soap at so-called extremely important moments. These include after using the toilet, after cleaning a baby and before touching food.
Global Handwashing Day is the idea of the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap. The goal, they say, is to create a culture of handwashing with soap. The organizers say all soaps are equally effective at removing disease-causing germs(细菌). They say the correct way to wash is to wet your hands with a small
amount of water and cover them with soap. Rub it into all areas, including under the fingernails. Then, wash well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth.
The Partnership says soap is important because it increases the time that people spend washing. Soap also helps to break up the dirt that holds most of the germs. And it usually leaves a pleasant smell, which increases the chances that people will wash again.
It also says that washing hands with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any medicine. It could help reduce cases of diarrhea( 痢疾), which is the second leading cause of child deaths, killing more than one and a half million children a year, by almost half.
Parents and caretakers play an important role in teaching children to wash their hands. Handwashing can become a lifelong healthy habit if you start teaching it at an early age. Building handwashing skills takes time. At first, your child will need regular reminders of how and when to wash hands. It is especially important to remind children to wash their hands after using the bathroom, before eating, after touching pets, after playing outside, and after coughing, sneezing, or blowing their nose. But once handwashing becomes a habit and a regular part of your child’s day, they will practice it throughout their lives. You can find ways to make it fun, like making up your own handwashing song or turning it into a game.
4.What does the author intend to tell us in the passage?
A.To keep healthy by washing hands.
B.To wash hands with soap.
C.To take action to wash hands.
D.To wash hands often.
5.Which of the following is the right way to wash hands?
a . Washing hands well under running water .
b.Covering hands with soap.
c.Drying hands.
d.Rubbing hands with soap.
e.Wetting hands.
A.a-c-b-e-d
B.e-d-a-b-c
C.a-c-b-d-e
D.e-b-d-a-c
6.According to the paragraph 5, diarrhea is a disease
A.kills half of the kids in the developing countries a year
B.causes the greatest number of child deaths
C.can be prevented to some degree by washing hands with soap
D.can't be cured without washing hands
7.According to the last paragraph, which of the following is not true?
Parental help is a key factor to cultivate the children’s habit of handwashing.
Kids can develop the habit of handwashing automatically.
Handwashing for kids can be fun.
Handwashing correctly is not easy for kids.
C
To some, it's a dream job—eating delicious meals for free and then writing about them. But for some food critics, their eyes aren't the only thing that gets wide with yet another feast.
Karen Fernau, a food writer for The Arizona Republic, said when she first started her job, she began to gain weight. "I always looked forward to lunch before this job, then all of a sudden lunch was all day every day," she says. Nine years later, keeping her weight steady and her health intact (完好⽂损的) is a daily battle. If she knows she will be going to a tasting at a bakery or eating a four-course meal, she usually eats fruits or salads throughout the day. Now she is always keeping track of what's in the food she eats and she says most people don't even look at or consider it.
At one tasting task alone, she says, upward of 1,000 calories is often added to her day. That's about half of the recommended total calories per day for the average adult.
But even though she's thought of a special eating method, Fernau says sticking to it is a daily battle. And food editors, writers and critics across the country couldn't agree more. "When I'm at home or not eating for work, it's healthy food to the extreme," says Phil Vettle, who's been a restaurant critic for the Chicago Tribune for 19 years.
Vettle, who eats dinner at four restaurants each week, says unlike most professions, he has no right to choose. "If I'm going out to eat, I can't choose the healthiest thing on the menu. I have to eat when they're bringing me.” While Vettle exercises when he can, Joe Yonan, a food editor at The Washington Post, has strengthened his exercise habits since he started the job two years ago. Yonan says he realized early on that he was gaining weight and immediately hired a personal trainer to meet with three times a week, on top of his cardio ( 有氧的) training three to five times a week.
Still, it's a struggle that many Americans might envy. After all, it's one thing to get your calories from
lobster(龙虾)tails or a delicate(可⽂的)chocolate cookie and quite another to get them from sodas and fast-food burgers.
8.What does the underlined sentence mean in Para.1?
A.The food critics are always impressed by the delicious food in the restaurant.
B.The food critics are shocked to learn they have to have one more feast.
C.There is a wide variety of choices for the food critics to choose from.
D.The food critics eat delicious food, which also tends to result in gaining weight.
9.What can we learn about the job of being a food critic?
A.They enjoy free and delicious dishes and make comments on them.
B.They only work for local magazines and newspapers .
C.Once they become food critics, they tend to stay in the job.
D.Their excellent sense of taste makes them qualified for the job.
10.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.No matter whether the food is expensive or not, the gaining of calories is the same.
B.The calories that lobster tails and chocolate cookies contain are less harmful.
C.Americans envy those food critics since they enjoy delicate and tasty food.
D.Everybody should take the calories in their food carefully.
11 . What's the main idea of the passage ?
A.A job offering free meals may not be as desirable as it sounds to be.
B.Dishes in the restaurant usually contain too many calories.
C.Eating fruits and vegetables every day is the best way to lose weight.
D.Food writers work hard to maintain their health and weight.
D
If you’ve done a lot of traveling, you’ve probably noticed that the bookstores at airports all look pretty similar. They’ve all got familiar logos, the walls of inviting plane snacks, and the towers of new hardcover books. Chances are you’ve wanted to grab one of those books for the plane ride and, if you’ve got a long flight. However, those hardcover books are a little pricey. Is it worth it to buy, for the sake of relieving the midair boredom?
Yes it is—because of a cool program that these bookstores have in place. These similar airport stores are all owned by the company Paradies Lagardère, and all of those stores take part in what’s called the “Read and Return program.” It’s exactly what it sounds like. Whenever you buy one of those books, you’ve got six months to finish it and bring it back to the same, or another, Paradies Lagardère location. When you do that, you get half your money for the original purchase back. Awesome, right?!
So, if you’re going on a trip, buy that book you’ve been dying to read, and read it on the plane or over the course of the trip. When you go back to the airport for the return trip, bring the book back with you and get half the money back. That money’s now yours again, to use however you want. Your boredom on the flight back is cured. And it gets better: the book you gave back will be re-sold for half price!
There are two things you do need to make sure of. You have to bring back the receipt to get your money back, and I just use it as a bookmark! Also, the book needs to be in decent condition. But if it’s not, they’ll still take the book back, and donate it! But other than that, this program couldn’t be easier. In a way, it’s like a buy- one-get-one-half-off deal for books. Or get two books for the price of one-and-a-half.
12.Why do all the bookstores at the airports look the same?
A.Because they all have familiar logos and delicious snakes.
B.Because they are all located at airports.
C.Because they sell almost the same books.
D.Because they belong to a parent company.
13.What is the best of way of keeping the receipt according to the author?
A.Putting it in your wallet.
B. Using it as a bookmark
C. Attach it to your book.
D. Leaving it to the cashier.
14.Which of the following is true?
A.You can't get your half money back if the book is stained with coffee.
B.Reading books is a great way to improve yourself according to the passage.
C.If you brought a book for 20$ and returned it, the next person would get 10$ back when returning it.
D.If you purchased a book at the airport of Los Angles, you could return it at the airport of New York.
15.What is the author's attitude toward the program?
Positive B. Critical C. Neutral D. Indifferent
第⾼节（共5⾼题，每⾼题2分，满分10分）
根据短⾼内容，从短⾼后的选项中选出能填⾼空⾼处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Every animal sleeps, but the reason for this has remained foggy. When lab rats are not allowed to sleep, they die within a month. 16
One idea is that sleep helps us strengthen new memories. 17 We know that, while awake, fresh memories are recorded by reinforcing (加强) connections between brain cells, but the memory processes that take place while we sleep have been unclear.
Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that connections between neurons(神经元) in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day. 18
Now we have the most direct evidence yet that he is right. 19 The synapses in the mice taken at the end of a period of sleep were 18 per cent smaller than those taken before sleep, showing that the connections between neurons weaken while sleeping.
If Tononi’s theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night`s, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information — our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.
Their research also suggests how we may build lasting memories over time even though the synapses become thinner. The team discovered that some synapses seem to be protected and stayed the same size. 20 “You keep what matters,” Tononi says.
A.We should also try to sleep well the night before.
B.It’s as if the brain is preserving its most important memories.
C.Similarly, when people go for a few days without sleeping, they get sick.
D.The processes take place to stop our brains becoming loaded with memories.
E.That’s why students do better in tests if they get a chance to sleep after learning.
F.“Sleep is the price we pay for learning,” says Giulio Tononi, who developed the idea.
G.Tononi’s team measured the size of these connections, or synapses, in the brains of 12 mice.
第⾼部分英语知识运⾼（共两节，满分45分）
第⾼节完形填空（共20⽂题；每⽂题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下⽂短⽂，从短⽂后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填⽂空⽂处的最佳选项。

For a long time Gabriel didn’t want to be involved in music at all. In his first year s of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at music students, 21 across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, 22 at school for practice hours 23 anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to 24 music, as he hated getting to school extra early.
25 , one day, in the music class that was 26 of his school’s standard curriculum, he was playing idly（随意地）on the piano and found it 27 to pick out tunes. With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually 28 doing it. He tried to hide his 29 pleasure from the music teacher, who had 30 over to listen. He might not have done this particularly well, 31 the teacher told Gabriel that he had a good 32 and suggested that Gabriel go
into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there 33 him. There he decided to give the cello（⽂提琴）a 34 . When he began practicing, he took it very 35 . But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was 36 to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.
This 37 , of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, 38 his heavy instrument case across the campus to the 39 looks of the non-musicians he had left 40 .
第⾼节（共10⾼题；每⾼题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下⽂短⽂，在空⽂处填⽂1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook. Making Chinese 41 (dish) is seen as especially troublesome. Many westerners 42 come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap 43 can be to eat out. I still remember 44 (visit) a friend who’d lived here for five years and I 45 (shock) when I learnt she hadn’t cooked once in all that time.
While regularly eating out seems to 46 (become) common for many young people in recent years, it’s not without a cost. The obvious one is money; eating out once or twice a week may be 47 (afford) but doing this most days adds up. There could be an even 48 (high) cost on your health. Researchers have found that there is a direct link between the increase in food eaten outside the home and the rise in 49 (weigh) problems.
If you are not going to suffer this problem, then I suggest that the next time you go to your mum’s home 50 dinner, get a few cooking tips from her. Cooking food can be fun. You might also begin to notice the effects not only on your health but in your pocket.
第三部分写作书⾼表达（满分15分）
光明中学英语俱乐部最近在招聘英语⽂的组织者，假设你是李华，你的朋友王磊想申请成为英语⽂的组织者，请按下列要点写⽂封推荐信：
1.他擅长英语⽂语，参加过许多英语动；
2.他有信⽂做好这项⽂作；
3.他申请成功后的打算。

注意：1.词数不少于120;
2.可适当增加细节，以使⽂⽂连贯。

Dear Sir/Madam,
Yours truly,
Li Hua。