重庆市2020-2021学年高一英语上学期期末考试试题

重庆市20202021学年高一英语上学期期末考试试题

注意：本试卷包含Ⅰ、Ⅱ两卷。第Ⅰ卷为选择题，所有答案必须用2B铅笔涂在答题卡中相应的位置。第Ⅱ卷为非选择题，所有答案必须填在答题卷的相应位置。答案写在试卷上均无效，不予记分。

一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共分）

A

Many actors in the world are not confident enough to refuse an offer from Steven

Spielberg. Maybe that was why Juliette gave him a choice. She said she'd be happy

to be in Jurassic Park as long as she could play a dinosaur. Of course he turned her

down and it was probably a good thing. It's difficult to imagine Juliette tearing

people apart with her teeth. However, her decision doesn't seem to have done her career

any harm. She has gone on to make a string of hits, including The Unbearable Lightness

of Being, The English Patient (for which she won an Oscar) and Chocolat.

It is not so easy to be successful in the United States for other foreign stars.

Aaron is a good example. While some of his films have been popular in the US, they

have usually been French films that traveled. One possible exception was Green Card,

directed by Peter Weir, where he plays a French immigrant (移民) who goes through

a fake wedding in order to stay and work in the United States. This is a predictable

but sweet romantic edy which typecasts (使模式化) its lead actors in terms of national

stereotypes (陈规陋习). While some reviewers were kind, others shredded both the film

and Aaron's performance.

1. What do we know from Paragraph 1?

A. Juliette tore people apart with her teeth.

B. Juliette refused an offer from Steven Spielberg.

C. Juliette was not confident to play in Jurassic Park.

D. Juliette exactly wanted to play a dinosaur for Steven Spielberg.

2. What do we know about Aaron? A. He is an American actor.

B. He is an immigrant from France.

C. Most of his films are French.

D. His films were made in America, but well received in France.

3. What is the meaning of the last sentence of the passage?

A. All of his films are impressive.

B. His films are quite interesting.

C. His films are popular in America.

D. Not all reviewers like his films.

B

According to a new US study, couples who expect their children to look after

them in old age should hope they have daughters because daughters are twice as

attentive as sons overall.

The research by Angelina Grigoryeva, from Princeton University, found that,

while women provide as much care for their elderly parents as they can manage, men

do as little as they can to get away with and often leave it to female family members.

Her analysis of the family networks of 26,000 old Americans concluded that

gender (性别) is one of the most important things that decide whether or not people

will actively care for their elderly parents.

In a paper presented at the annual conference of the American Sociological

Association in San Francisco, she concludes that simply having a sister makes men

likely provide less care. Using data from the University of Michigan Health and

Retirement Study, a study which has been tracking a crosssection of over 50s for the

last decade, she calculated that women provide an average of 12.3 hours a month of

care for elderly parents while men offer only 5.6 hours.

"Sons reduce their relative caregiving efforts when they have a sister, while

daughters increase theirs when they have a brother." "This suggests that sons pass on parent caregiving responsibilities to their

sisters."

In the UK, the 2011 Census (人口普查) showed that there are now around 6.5

million people with caring responsibilities, a figure which has risen by a tenth in

a decade.

But many are doing so at the risk of their health. The census showed that those

who provide 50 hours or more of care a week while trying to hold down a full time

job are three times more likely to be struggling with ill health than their working

counterparts (同事) who are not carers.

4. According to the finding of the research, from which of the following families

will the old probably enjoyed the best care?

A. The parents with two sons.

B. The parents with one daughter.

C. The parents with two daughters.

D. The parents with one daughter and one son.

5. How did the researchers e to the conclusion?

A. By giving out some questionnaires.

B. By tracking some of the American families.

C. By doing some research on a nursing home.

D. By analyzing some of the American family networks.

6. What can we know from the passage?

A. Angelina led the study of Health and Retirement Study.

B. Angelina analyzed various data and researches to get the finding.

C. Caring responsibilities are a heavy burden to most Americans.

D. Most male families will not take on the responsibility of looking after the

old.

7. What is implied in the last paragraph?