【英语】广东省普宁市华美实验学校2018-2019学年高一下学期期中考试试题

广东省普宁市华美实验学校2018-2019学年高一下学期期中考试

英语试题

第一部分：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, 从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

France

The France company that spread a Europe-wide cheating of food supply by passing off（冒充）750 tons of horse-meat as beef was allowed on Monday to restart production of minced meat,

sausages and ready-to-eat meals. But the company will no longer be allowed to stock frozen meat,

Agriculture Minister Stephane Foll said.

United Kingdom

A new virus that broke out in the Middle East last year and killed five people is well adapted

to infecting（感染）humans but could practically be treated with drugs that improve the immune(免疫)system. “The virus is from the same family as the common cold and as SARS.” a scientist from

Oxford on Tuesday.

South Africa

Olympian runner Oscar Pistorius broke into the door of a small bathroom where his girl

friend was bathing after a shouting match on Valentine’s Day, hitting her three times, a South

African prosecutor(检察官) said on Tuesday as he charged the sports star with planned murder.

Egypt

Former Egyptian prime minister and presidential(总统的) candidate Ahmed Shafiq was

referred to the Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday over corruption（腐败）and money laundering

charges, the official News Agency reported. Shafiq has left Egypt for the United Arab after losing

the presidential race.

1. According to the passage, the French company_________.

A. spread a virus across Europe.

B. sold 750 tons beef as horse-meat.

C. restarted production of frozen meat.

D. was again allowed to produce sausages.

2. The planned murder took place in _________.

A. Egypt B. America C. South Africa D. The United Kingdom

3. This passage is taken from the section of _________in a newspaper.

A. Nation B. World C. Sports D. Science

B

Popeye the Sailor(大力水手) first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that

cartoon ate lots of spinach（菠菜） to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to

buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach

became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to

eat the vegetable.

Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true.

Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.

People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made

a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that

spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone

accepted it.

Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong

a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid. It is

interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic

acid that made Popeye strong all along.

4. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

A. They thought spinach made them strong.

B. They thought Popeye was funny.

C. Spinach had a lot of iron.

D. People liked folic acid.

5. In the 1890s, a research group told people that spinach______.

A. made Popeye strong

B. was a green vegetable

C. had less iron than other green vegetables

D. had more iron than other green vegetables

6. The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.

A. iron B. folic acid C. spinach D. exercise

7. Folic acid is ______.

A. something in food B. a vegetable

C. dangerous D. a certain kind of spinach

C

At first, the earth’s surface layer (层) was made up of huge blocks of hard, solid rocks. Then

slowly, the rocks broke up into smaller and smaller pieces. Finally stones, pebbles (卵石) and

grains of sand were formed. Many sorts of plants and animals lived and died on the surface of the

earth. Their remains mixed up with the stones, pebbles and formed soil. The outmost layer of the

earth is soil.

There are many ways in which large pieces of rock break into smaller ones. Wind, water, heat

and cold help to break up rocks. When winds blow grains of sand against a large rock for a long

time, the softer layers of the rock are slowly worn away. These leave holes and cracks in the rock,

which become bigger and finally the rock breaks up into smaller pieces.

The moving water of streams and rivers also helps to break up rocks. As the water moves

along, it carries with it small pieces of rock. These rub the larger ones. Thus, the larger rocks are