重庆育才中学高 2022级2019-2020学年上学期
周末英语测试(一)
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)
第二部分 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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Only about one third of American seniors (老年人) have correct habits, according to the
Health Organization. Here are some findings and expert advice.
1. How many times did you brush your teeth yesterday?
Finding: A full 33% of seniors brush their teeth only once a day.
Step: Remove the 300 types of bacteria in your mouth each morning with a
battery-operated toothbrush. Brush gently for 2 minutes, at least twice a day.
2. How many times did you wash your hands or bathe yesterday?
Finding: Seniors, on average, bathe fewer than3 days a week, And nearly 30% wash
their hands only4 times a day - half of the number doctors recommend.
Step: We touch our faces around 3,000 times a day-often inviting germs (病菌) to enter
our mouth, nose, and eyes. Use toilet paper to avoid touching the door handle. And,
most important, wash your hands often with hot running water and soap for 20 seconds.
3. How often do you think about fighting germs?
Finding: Seniors are not fighting germs as well as they should.
Step: Be aware of germs. Do you know it is not your toilet but your kitchen sponge (海绵) that can carry more germs than anything else? To kill these germs, keep your sponge
in the microwave for 10 seconds.
21. What is found out about American seniors?
A. Most of them have good habits.
B. Nearly 30%of them bathe three days a week.
C. All of them are fighting germs better than expected.
D. About one third of them brush their teeth only once a day
22. Doctors suggest that people should wash their hands______.
A. twice a day
B. three times a day
C. four times a day
D. eight times a day
23. Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. We should keep from touching our faces.
B. There are less than 300 types of bacteria in the mouth.
C. A kitchen sponge can carry more germs than a toilet.
D. We should wash our hands before touching a door handle.
24. The text probably comes from ______.
A. a guide book
B. a popular magazine
C. a book review
D. an official document
B
Louis Armstrong was born on 4th July in New Orleans, Louisiana. He grew up without a
father and he and his sister were raised by his grandmother. When he was 11. Louis dropped out of
school. He formed a quartet with three other boys, and they sang in the streets to earn money.
He also used to get into trouble. He was put into prison and sent to 1ive in a home for
troubled boys. He talked the band director into 1etting him join the band, and that's where he
1earned to play the cornet (短号), an instrument very much like the trumpet (喇叭).
Louis Armstrong became one of the greatest jazz cornet players that ever lived. He was also
an accomplished composer and singer. His nickname was originally Satchel- mouth, because some
people said his mouth was 1ike a satchel (挎包) where he could hold so much air to blow the
trumpet. But one day someone called him “Satchmo" instead of "Satchel mouth". Louis liked it,
and the name stuck. Louis became famous for playing the comet in clubs and on riverboats.
He was best known for his ability to improvise, which means to make up music as he plays it.
He also sang "scat", which was a style of music in which the singer sings meaningless words
instead of real lyrics. Over his career, Louis played in many recordings, and appeared in television
shows and movies.
25. How did Louis Armstrong make money when he was eleven?
A. By playing the comet. B. By stealing money in the streets.
C. By singing in the street. D. By playing the trumpet in a band.
26. What kind of instrument did Louis Armstrong play?
A. He played the guitar. B. He played the drum.
C. He played the cornet. D. He played the trumpet.
27. After getting to know about Louis Armstrong, we can draw the conclusion that.
A. he was cleverer than other boys B. he was talented in music
C. he was good at making up music D. he was gifted with playing instruments.
C
When it comes to generation gap (代沟), we usually think of different tastes in music, or
games. But now the generation gap is handwriting. After one teacher in Tennessee discovered that
she had students who couldn't read what she was writing on the board, she posted it on the Internet
saying that handwriting should be taught in schools.
Others who are against it argue that handwriting has become out of time in our modern world.
Typed words have become a main form of communication. Once a practical skill, handwriting is
no longer used by most of Americans It is no longer taught in schools, and some claim that the
time that it would take to teach it could be put to better use, for example, by teaching the technical
skills.
But even in today's world there are still plenty of reasons to pick up a pen and write on the
paper. In America, signatures (签字) by hand are still often requested, for example, signing for a
registered letter and buying a house. And original signatures are much more different to fake (伪
