江西省2019学年高一下学期第一次月考英语试卷【含答案及解析】(1)

江西省2019学年高一下学期第一次月考英语试卷【含答案及解析】

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1. A cafe in Virginia, America, has come up with a method to convince

customers to be more polite.

A sign advertises different costs for a cup of coffee depending on how polite

the customer is when ordering. The prices are listed with the typical phrases

a customer might use when placing their order. They include: “Small coffee”

at $5, “small coffee please” at $3 and “hello, one small coffee please” at

$1.75.

A passer-by took a photo of the sign and posted the image online. This isn’t

the first time that a coffee shop has attempted to teach customers a lesson.

The Petite Syrah cafe in Nice, on the French Riviera, charged customers €7

for “a coffee”, but a more affordable €4.25 for “a coffee please”.

Fabrice Pepino, manager of Petite Syrah, explained the reason: “It started

as a joke because at lunchtime people would come in very stressed and were

sometimes rude to us when they ordered a coffee.” He added: “I know people

say that French service can be rude but it’s also true that customers can be

rude when they’re busy.”

The American cafe will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of the Petite

Syrah cafe as the original coffee shop proved a success in changing customers’

behaviors. Pepino said that he had noticed a huge difference in the behaviors

of his customers after a few days of the sign being on show.

1. If a customer orders a coffee politely, the cafe will ________.

A. present him/her a gift as a reward

B. charge him/her less money

C. offer him/her the coffee for free

D. teach him/her a good lesson

2. It can be known from the passage that ________. A. the cafe in Virginia is the first coffee shop to do so

B. people don’t believe the strategy because it is a joke

C. the French cafe made the rule just for fun at first

D. both French service and French customers are rude

3. What do you know about the strategy of the Petite Syrah cafe?

A. It is useless. B. It is boring.

C. It is unacceptable. D. It is effective.

2. A 7.0-magnitude(震级)earthquake attacked Kumamoto, Japan on April 15th,

2016, less than two days after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked the same area.

The smaller 6.2-magnitude quake on April 14th killed nine people and injured

hundreds more, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. With these two and the

memories of the huge 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami(海啸)that destroyd

northeast of Japan in 2011 not far from people’s minds, what is it about this

part of the world that makes it so active in earthquakes?

First of all, Japan is along the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, which is the

most active earthquake area in the world. This “ring” is actually an

imaginary U-shaped zone that follows the edge(边缘)of the Pacific Ocean, where

many of the world’s earthquakes occur.

“The earthquake in Kumamoto seems to have been caused by the collision(碰撞)between the Philippines Sea Plate(板块)and the Eurasia Plate,” said Paul

Caruso, a geophysicist of the USGS. While Japan is no stranger to earthquakes,

the 7.0-magnitude earthquake is one of the largest ever recorded in this part

of southern Japan, Caruso told Live Science. “The second largest was probably

on March 20, 1939 --- there was a magnitude of 6.7 in this area,” he said.

“Not all earthquakes cause tsunamis,” Caruso said. In general, there are

three key elements that can produce a dangerous earthquake-tsunami

combination, he added. First, the earthquake must be at least 7.0-magnitude.

Second, the quake’s epicenter(震中)has to be under the ocean, Caruso said.

And finally, the earthquake hasn’t to be too deep.

“We have quakes around Fiji all the time, but those are sometimes 640

kilometers underground, so they aren’t going to cause a tsunami,” he said.

The one in Kumamoto was about 10 km underground but the epicenter was on land,

Caruso said.

“There are lots of large aftershocks,” Caruso told Live Science. “And of

course, after a large earthquake, buildings are often weakened as a result.

Additional damage can be expected. ” People living in the area should expect

more shaking in the coming days, according to Caruso. “We can say for certain

that there are going to be more aftershocks in this area,” he said. “Exactly when and how big they’re going to be is difficult to say, though. No one can

predict that.”

1. The earthquake happened on April 15th in Kumamoto ________.

A. was the largest one that ever happened there

B. caused the movement of the Philippines Sea Plate and the Eurasia Plate

C. was the first one that reached the magnitude of 7.0 in Japan