高一下册期末英语试题.docx

1、高一下册期末英语试题高一英语下学期期末考试卷 考试时间：90 分钟 满分：150 分本试卷分第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II 卷（非选择题）两部分。第 I 卷（共 100 分）第一部分：听力（略）第二部分 阅读理解（满分 40 分）第一节 （共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）AResearchers recently found that hackers took control of 300，000 home routers (路由器). Once your home router has been controlled, hackers could redirect your

2、network to malicious( 恶意的) websites controlled by hi-tech thieves who could then steal your online bank details and other sensitive data. However, there are some simple steps you can take to protect your router.Say no to 12345 passwordsFirst, never leave your router open without a password and make

3、sure you change both your Wi-Fi and router login passwords from the default( 默 认 ) ones they come with. If the password is discovered, this could give someone access to the router setup, which could allow them to change your router settings, including viewing any security keys.Dont broadcast itMake

4、sure you dont show up in other peoples wireless network scans. Know your network name so you can easily enter it into any devices you want to access that network. Other people do not need to know your network name. To prevent outsiders from seeing your network name and attempting to join your wirele

5、ss network, turn off broadcasting in your router settings.Invite only pleaseOne way you can ensure no one else joins your network without your permission is to enable your router to only allow certain devices to connect, and ban all others. To do that you can filter by Media Access Control (MAC) add

6、ress.Turn it offThis is a simple piece of advice that can go a very long way in keeping your router safe. Simply turn off your router when youre not using your network. If youre at work all day and no ones home, why keep it running?Build a firewallThe firewall built into your router prevents hackers

7、 on the Internet from getting access to your PC, so its always worth enabling it to help add an extra layer of security. However, it does nothing to stop people within range of your Wi-Fi signal from getting onto your networkand as said, a router in the wrong place means your Wi-Fi signal could reac

8、h pretty far.For further protection, you should run software firewalls on the individual PCs on your network.21. If you use the default password, A. your home router will be linked to some bad websitesB. you will find its very convenient to surf the InternetC. your home router will be changed for ne

9、w settingsD. you will fail to use your own login password22. What should be done to shelter your wireless network?A. To build a firewall into your router.B. To think out a complicated login password and use it.C. To shut off your router when you find it not safe.D. To switch off broadcasting in your

10、 router settings.23. The purpose of the passage is to tell A. how to keep your Wi-Fi network secureB. how to deal with your home router properlyC. how to locate the hackers on the InternetD. how to prevent others from joining your networkBA pair of ladies gloves rests at the bottom of my dresser dra

11、wer. The gloves are old and worn surely older than me and tell many tales.They belonged to my grandmother. A cousin said she had found a load of Grandmas gloves and asked if I would like a pair. When the package arrived, I pulled the gloves out of the plastic in which they originally came from the d

12、epartment store. They looked as though they had been carefully looked after, even after many years of being worn. Theyre small, but so was my grandma small but strong. She was a woman who needed strong hands for preparing bread dough ( 面团), cooking dinner and cleaning wooden floors.Being gentle wasn

13、t all that useful for raising nine children, or feeding ahungry group of workers fresh from the field of her farm. The hands that slid into those gloves had tended the sick, weeded gardens and washed countless dirty dishes. There was a time when women of every social and economic class wore gloves w

14、hen they went out. Gloves were part of the dress code of the day theyre everywhere in our old black and white photos. The gloves in my drawer put a lovely cover on the hands that fed the homeless people who wandered through the countryside during the Depression and occasionally appeared at my grandm

15、as kitchen door. They were the same hands that bid farewell to two sons going off to war and held the flag presented in honor of the one who didnt make it home. Grandma was a mighty woman.The story goes that she chased away a young man whom she considered an unsuitable suitor(求婚者) for one of her dau

16、ghters with nothing but her bare hands and a broom. He later became a son-in-law(女婿).I remember being a small girl and seeing those hands grip(紧握) the wheel of a car so huge she could barely see over it. And when it came to playing the piano,my grandmas hands raced up and down the keys faster than y

17、our eyes could see them. She could play any song she heard, from hymns to jazz.These old gloves arent worth a lot of money, but theyre certainly priceless tome.24. When the author received the package from her cousin, she .A. didnt know what was insideB. put it at the bottom of her drawer right away

18、C. was disappointed to see a pair of worn glovesD. thought of the life stories of her grandmother25. According to the article, the authors grandmother .A. was warm-hearted to help the homelessB. was a gentle woman at raising childrenC. hated doing housework very muchD. didnt care about her appearanc

19、e at all26. The underlined word mighty is closest in meaning to .A. strong B. patient C. modest D. brave27. We can infer from the article that .A. Grandma regretted sending her sons to warB. Grandma wasnt satisfied with her son-in-law at firstC. the author learned to play the piano from GrandmaD. th

20、e author would hand the gloves down in memory of GrandmaCAs a kid, I was always around animals and enjoyed it. After my senior year of high school, we started renting a farm. Then I went away to Rhode Island School of Design to become an architect. After about two and a half years, I decided that wa

21、s not quite what I wanted to do. I felt I wanted to be an architect and had a hobby farm, but why not just had a farm and made it my career?Its an exciting business. I have been thinking that a lot of people dont realize whats involved with dairy farming. We took some trips to some advanced farms ou

22、t in New York when we first started. It really changed my attitude of what you can do. You can be a successful businessperson with a lot of challenges, and those challenges are part of what makes it very exciting. Its not just milking cows. Theres nutrition and finances and a lot of big daytoday dec

23、isions.Well, land is the biggest obstacle( 障 碍 ). We must secure enough land. Wedont just need the land for the animals; we also need it to hand out the manure( 粪肥 ) from the cows. And theres a real balance there, a real recycling. You take the feed, you give it to the cows, the cows give you milk,

24、but they also give you a lot of manure, and the best thing to do is to put it back on the land. You need 2 acres per cow basically, a cow and its young babies.28. What major might the author choose when she studied at university?A. Computer Science.B. Languages and Literature.C. Architecture Design.

25、D. Science of Animals.29. What work is included in the dairy farming according to the passage?A. Taking trips around the farm to enjoy life.B. Milking cows and making some decisions.C. Playing with the cows around the farm.D. Designing architect for the dairy farm.30. Whats the biggest challenge did

26、 the author face?A. Huge amount of money.B. Quantities of workers.C. High qualified milk cows.D. Finding enough land.31. Which one is the best title for this passage?A. Building a Successful Dairy BusinessB. Famous Farmers around the WorldC. High Qualified Milk CowsD. The Architecture DesignerDPeopl

27、e have different ways of dealing with a common cold. Some take over-the-counter medicines such as aspirin while others try popular home remedies( 疗 法 ) like herbal tea or chicken soup. Yet here is the tough truth about the common cold: nothing really cures it.So why do people sometimes believe that

28、their remedies work? According to James Taylor, professor at the University of Washington, colds usually go away on their own in about a week, improving a little each day after symptoms peak, so its easy to believe that its medicine rather than time that deserves the credit, USA Today reported.It st

29、ill seems hard to believe that we can tackle much more serious diseases yet are powerless against something so common as a cold. Recently, scientists came closer to figuring out why. To understand it, you first need to know how antiviral (抗病毒的) drugs work. They attack the virus by attaching to and c

30、hanging the surface structures of the virus. To do that, the drug must fit and lock into the virus like the right piece of a jigsaw puzzle, which means scientists have to identify the virus and build a 3-D model to study its surface before they can design an antiviral drug that is effective enough.T

31、he two cold viruses that scientists had long known about were rhinovirus A and B. But they didnt find out about the existence of a third virus, rhinovirus C, until 2006. All three of them contribute to the common cold, but drugs that work well against rhinovirus A and B have little effect when used

32、against C. This explains most of the previous failures of drug trials against rhinovirus, study leader Professor Ann Palmenberg at University of WisconsinMadison, US, told Science Daily.Now, more than 10 years after the discovery of rhinovirus C, scientists have finally built a highly-detailed 3-D model of the virus, showing that the surface of the virus is, as expected, different from that of other cold viruses. With the model in ha