高一新生入学考试英语试题卷

20XX级高一入学摸底考试

英语试卷

选择题部分（共75分）

第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）

完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意。然后从16～35各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项涂黑。

Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact 16 she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished 17 a driving offence (犯规，犯法).

Then one day she nearly 18 her record. A police car 19 her, and the policemen in it saw her 20 a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed 21 that she would be punished.

__22_ Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was 23 old to drive a car, and that the 24 why she had not stopped at the red 25 was most probably that her eyes had become weak 26 old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was 27__, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was 28 and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 29 a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.

When she had 30 done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed 31 the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your 32. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”

The judge took the 33 and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was 34_, and her record 35 unbroken.

16. A. which B. when C. that D. this

17. A. about B. on C. to D. for

18. A. kept B. won C. missed D. lost

19. A. watched B. caught C. followed D. discovered

20. A. pass B. go C. run D. rush

21. A. sure B. indeed C. certain D. perhaps

22. A. Before B. While C. Until D. When

23. A. so B. very C. too D. quite

24. A. cause B. reason C. matter D. trouble

25. A. light B. lamp C. sign D. one

26. A. with B. because C. for D. of

27. A. speaking B. saying C. talking D. telling

28. A. holding B. getting C. carrying D. bringing

29. A. took B. brought C. picked D. chose

30. A. almost B. hardly C. successfully D. successful

31. A. both B. all C. neither D. either

32. A. time B. turn C. chance D. job

33. A. thread B. glasses C. task D. needle

34. A. broken B. passed C. solved D. studied

35. A. was B. kept C. seemed D. remained

第二部分：阅读理解(共一节; 20小题，每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

A

The Taj Mahal (泰姬陵) is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the world and the finest example of the late style of Indian architecture. It is at Agra in northern India. It lies beside the River Jumna in the middle of gardens with quiet pools.

The Taj Mahal was built by the Mogul emperor (皇帝) Shah Jehan, who ruled India in the seventeenth century. It is in memory of his favorite wife, Arjumand Banu Bagam, known as Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631. The building, which was completed between 1632 and 1638, was designed by a local Muslim architect (建筑师) Ustad Ahmad Lahori. The whole building, with gardens and gateway structures, was completed in 1643. The Taj Mahal stands at one end of the garden tomb with marble (大理石) path. The room is softly lighted by the light that passes through double screens of carved marble set high in the walls. The building now is kept in good condition.

The Taj Mahal took 22 years to build. Shah Jehan planned a similar building, but in black instead of white, to lie on the other side of the river. But before it could be built, Shah Jehan was imprisoned (监禁) by his son and buried next to his wife in the Taj Mahal.

36. The Taj Mahal was built for____ .

A. Mumtaz

B. Shah

C. Ustad Ahmad Lahori

D. Both Mumtaz and Shah

37. Why do you think Shah Jehan was buried next to his wife?

A. His own tomb hadn't been built.

B. He hoped to be buried there.

C. King and Queen should be buried together.

D. He loved Mumtaz all his life.

38. The passage mainly tells us____ .

A. why the Taj Mahal was built

B. the love story between Shah and Mumtaz

C. some information about the Taj Mahal

D. how the Tai Mahal was built

39. From the passage we can learn that____ .

A. the Taj Mahal looks more beautiful than before.

B. the Taj Mahal doesn't exist now.

C. the Taj Mahal wasn’t completed built.

D. the Taj Mahal has become a place of interest.

40. The passage is probably taken from the _____ part of a magazine.

A. Advertisement

B. Travel

C. Society

D. Business

B

What can we learn from the special, very successful people in the world who make the impossible possible?

Lesson 1: Ways of creative thinking are needed

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of college. They prefer to teach themselves because they like to develop their own ways of thinking. They think standard ways of teaching might stop people from being creative and having new ideas.

Lesson 2: The answer might not be what you expect

Find your answers from fact s—not start with an expectation of what you will find. Stephen Jacobsen from Northwestern University believed what he was taught: that water on Earth came from icy comets(彗星) or planets which hit into Earth.

However, by studying a special rock, he discovered that it acts like a sponge(海绵). This suggests that Earth's water may have come from inside, driven to the surface to form the oceans, by geological activity.

“I had a pretty hard time making others believe it,” he said. “But thinking about the fact that you may the first person to see something for the first time doesn’t happen very often. When it does, it’s amazing.”

Lesson 3: A little luck goes a long way