高一英语下学期期中试题7Word文档格式.docx

1、3、考试结束，监考人员将答题卡按座位号、页码顺序收回。卷（共两大题，满分60分） 阅读理解（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。A4-Day Classic Beijing TourThe 4-day classic Beijing tour is designed for tourists who come to visit China for the first time. It covers the most popular and typical places in Beijing, ful

2、ly displaying the scenery, culture, history, local lifestyles and features, food and drinks, business, etc. for you.Day 1: Arrival in BeijingYour guide meets you at Capital Airport, and helps you check in at your hotel.Enjoy Beijing Duck as welcome dinner. Accommodation: Beijing downtownDay 2: The G

3、reat Wall & the Summer PalaceStart your day at the most famous part of the Great Wall, the Badaling Great Wall. Leave the downtown for the Great Wall at 8 am. Since it is a long drive to the Great Wall （about 2 hours riding）, have a break at the Jade Museum on the way. Lunch will be enjoyed in a loc

4、al restaurant. In the early afternoon come back to the city and have a sightseeing tour of the Summer Palace.Recommended Activity: Beijing Opera Show （Liyuan Theatre, 19:30-21:10 every evening）Accommodation:Day 3: Beijing city sightseeing & Local experienceYour guide meets you at the hotel at 8 am a

5、nd set out for the days touring: Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. After visiting the two sites, have a break and get ready for lunch.Hutong visit: see some traditional arts of the old Beijing, such as paper cutting and kite making, and visit a local family. Accommodation:Day 4: Beijing Olymp

6、ic sitesVisit the Olympic sites: Birds Nest, Water Cube and Olympic Park, witnessing the fast developing modern China. Enjoy some free time after visiting the sites.After lunch, it is shopping time and then the tour is over.1. This advertisement is aimed at _.A. experts who study history and cities

7、B. foreigners who are new to ChinaC. kids who were born in other cities D. people who are interested in touring2. If a tourist wants to enjoy Beijing Opera, he should _.A. go to Liyuan Theatre in the evening B. visit the Summer Palace on the first dayC. go sightseeing in Beijing Hutong D. live and e

8、at downtown in Beijing3. What does this tour company think can show Beijing is a fast developing modern city?A. Beijing Capital Airport. B. Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.C. Birds Nest, Water Cube and Olympic Park. D. The Great Wall & the Summer Palace.BIn 2015, Youyou Tu, an 85-year-old Ch

9、inesepharmaceutical （制药的） chemistand educator was awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her newtreatment ofmalaria（疟疾）. Malaria is caused by a single-cell parasite （寄生虫） carried by mosquitoes that causes severe fever. Traditional Chinese medicine uses sweet wormwood （qinghao） to treat fe

10、ver. In the 1970s, after studies of traditional herbal （草本） medicines, Tu managed to getartemisinin （Qinghaosu）, and drugs based on it have led to the survival and improved thehealth of millionsof people. Because of Tu, thefirst ChineseNobel winner in physiology or medicine, Chinese medicine has ste

11、pped into the spotlight again and attracted worldwide attention.However, the fact unknown to us all is that for a long time, westerners have been doubtful about the effects of traditional Chinese drugs made of medicinal herbs. In the past few years, traditional Chinese medicine has gone throughstric

12、t scientific scrutiny （审查） worldwide.To prove and increase the effects of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese mainland has poured huge amounts of money into hard research on this field. While Hong Kong has been working hard to make itself the world leader in related research. Taiwan has made a pla

13、n to change itself into a traditional Chinese medicine technology center. Research into traditional cures is also hot in universities and other organizations outside Asia. These efforts to discover the secrets of traditional treatments could produce benefits for sufferers of diseases that have puzzl

14、ed both Western and traditional Chinese medicines.4. Which of the following statement is NOT correct?A. If bitten by mosquitoes, one is likely to come down with malaria. B. It was because of her invention of artemisinin that Youyou Tu got the Nobel Prize. C.Westerners will pay more attention to Chin

15、ese medicine after Tu got the Nobel Prize. D. In the places outside Asia researchers are also interested in the traditional Chinese medicine. 5. What can be inferred from the last sentence of the last paragraph? A. Chinese medicine does a better job than western medicine in curing certain puzzling d

16、iseases. B. Chinese medicine has the potentials for curing certain “incurable” diseases. C. The best way of curing a patient is to combine both Chinese and western medicines. D. Traditional Chinese medicine is too mysterious to understand. 6. What do you think the text mainly talks about?A. One of t

17、he Greatest Discoveries in Medicine B. The First Chinese Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or MedicineC. The Return of Traditional Chinese Medicine D. The Competition Between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine 7. What do you think is the authors attitude towards the future of Chinese m

18、edicine?A. positive B. negative C. neutral D. criticalCEvery people uses its own special word to show its ideas and feelings. Some of these expressions are commonly used for many years. Others are popular for just a short time. One such American expression is “Wheres the beef?” It is used when somet

19、hing is not as good as it is said to be. In the early 1980s “Wheres the beef?” was one of the most popular expressions in the United States. It seemed as if everyone was using it at the time.Beef, of course, is the meat from a cow, and no food is more popular in America than a hamburger made from be

20、ef. In the 1960s a businessman named Ray began building small restaurants that sold hamburgers at a low price. Ray called this “McDonalds”. Ray became one of the richest businessmen at last in America.Other business people watched his success. Some of them opened their own hamburger restaurants. One

21、 company called “Wendys” said its hamburgers were bigger than those sold by McDonalds or anyone elses. The Wendys Company began to use the expression “Wheres the beef?” to make people know that Wendys hamburgers were the biggest. The Wendys television advertisement showed three old women eating hamb

22、urgers. The bread that covered the meat was very big, but inside there was only a bit of meat. One of the women said she would not eat a hamburger with such a little piece of beef. “Wheres the beef?” she shouted in a funny way. The advertisement for Wendys hamburger restaurants was a success. As we

23、said, it seemed everyone began using the expression “Wheres the beef?”8. _ started McDonalds restaurant.A. McDonald B. Ray C. Wendy D. Three old women9. Other people wanted to open hamburger restaurants because they thought _.A. they could sell hamburgers at a low price B. beef was very popular in A

24、mericaC. they could make a lot of money D. hamburgers were easy to make10. Wendys made the expression known to everybody _.A. by a television advertisement B. with many old women eating hamburgersC. while selling bread with a bit of meat in it D. at the McDonalds restaurant11. We can learn from the

25、passage that the expression “Wheres the beef?” means that _.A. the beef in hamburgers is not as much as it is said to be.B. the hamburgers are not as good as they are said to be.C. Wendys beef is the biggest one in American restaurant.D. something is not as good as it is said to be.DWhen her five da

26、ughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity （团结）. To show this, she picked up one chopstick, taking it as one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, taking them as a family. She showed the girls it was hard to

27、 break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didnt have much money. They moved their fam

28、ily to San Francisco. There they joined Dannys mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her da

29、ughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

30、 Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elisabeth explains, Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.

31、”With three generations of Ans working together, now the Ans business makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.12. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A. How to Run a Corporation WellB. Strength Comes from PeaceC. How to Achieve a Big Dream D. Family Unity Builds Success13. What can we infer about the Ans daughters?A. They went out to work for thems