安徽省滁州市定远县重点中学学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题.docx

1、安徽省滁州市定远县重点中学学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题安徽省滁州市定远县重点中学2020-2021学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、阅读选择 All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer.Sports change with the season. People play different games in winter and summer. Games and sports oft

2、en grow out of peoples work and everyday activities. The Arabs use horses or camels in much of their everyday life; they use them in their sports, too.Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all

3、countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or

4、 games all the time.People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become good friends. Sports help to train a persons character (性格). One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace (优雅).1According to this p

5、assage, which of the following isnt true?ASports help to train a persons character.BPeople swim only because there are a lot of rivers in their country.CPeople from different countries may not be able to understand each other before a game.DSports and games can develop the friendship between peoples

6、 all over the world.2The writer didnt tell us in this passage that _.Abasketball was invented in AmericaBsports change with the seasonsCgames and sports often grow out of peoples work and everyday activitiesDfootball is played all over the world3From this passage we can see that _.Asports and games

7、are unimportant things that people doBsports and games should be treated (对待) only as amusement (娱乐活动)Csports and games are only useful to the oldDnone of the above is true Traveling with kids is 90 percent reminding yourself to live in the moment and 10 percent making up your mind to never again le

8、ave your house.I have an uncanny ability to forget this as soon as we return home from a trip and Ive finished washing piles of dirty clothes in our luggage and cleaning all the messy caused by the kids. Extremely tired and annoyed, I would actually begin to miss the place we just left!Family travel

9、 is like childbirth, I suppose. Painful, loud, messy, sort of awful, actually, but also wonderful. And you remember only the wonderfuluntil youre back on a plane and your kids are fighting over who gets the aisle seat. Then you remember the bad stuff.Last weekend, my kids and I flew to Texas for a t

10、rip we would have nothing to complain(抱怨) aboutbig hotel, wonderful view.And yetwe found things to complain about. The pool was bigger in that other hotel! Why do you get to shower first? They call this coffee?! Luckily, Ive learned to put my metaphorical coat of armor (盔甲) on as soon as we land som

11、ewhere, and it forces complaints to bounce off me and land in a pile at my feet.For three days, genuine fun was had and annoying complaints were heard and ignored. Until it was time to catch a plane and fly home.Unfortunately, our flight was canceled. We spent hours finding a hotel room. We hit the

12、hotel pool before bed and swam well into the night, my kids making up songs and laughing so hard at their silly lyrics (歌词) and their crazy good fortune to be swimming at 10: 30 on a school night.And that was when it hit me that family travel is all those things I said before but its also a lot more

13、. Its taking your kids to parts of the world that will open their eyes and finding that actually, yours need opening too. Its remembering that joy and memories are where you make them, not where you find them.4The underlined word “uncanny” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to .Aunknown. Buncertai

14、n.Cunexpected. Dunusual.5According to the passage, family travel is like childbirth in that .Athey both cause financial trouble and pain.Bthey are both hard as well as rewarding.Cchildhood memories come flooding back when they travel.Dboth of them need many preparations.6By saying “Ive learned to pu

15、t my metaphorical coat of armor on” in Paragraph 5, the author means that_ .Ashe tries to deal with the complaints more wisely and properly.Bshe turns those annoying complaints into a means to educate kids.Cshe has improved her language skills when handling the complaints.Dshe has succeeded in escap

16、ing kids fighting thanks to the armor.7From the authors experience in the passage, we can NOT learn that .Afamily vacation benefits her kids as well as her.Bjoy and memories should be created rather than discovered.Cthe most unforgettable memory for her is about the complaints.Dshe has to spend some

17、 time on housework after the family vacation. The worlds top automakers are increasingly offering more electric vehicle models. This growth is expected to continue， with more people choosing to hit the road with clean-running electric- powered cars.Environmentalists have praised the automakers for t

18、aking major steps to limit harmful pollutants linked to worldwide climate change. But electric vehicles are also known for not producing another kind of pollutionnoise. They run on batteries instead of fuel， and can operate in silence.While many people might consider this a good thing， quiet cars ca

19、n also cause problems. The main danger is that people walking in areas around electric vehicles face a greater risk of being hit if they cannot hear the cars coming.Governments in the United States and Europe have recognized this problem. So， they have set requirements for manufacturers to add warni

20、ng sounds to vehicles operating on electricity.The U.S.Department of Transportation finalized its rules a year ago. The rules require electric and hybrid (混合能源) vehicles to be equipped with some kind of warning sound when moving at speeds up to 30 kilometers per hour. The rules are aimed at preventi

21、ng injuries among people walking or riding bicycles and to protect the blind.So what kinds of sounds can we expect to hear from the next generation of electric vehicles? One of the easiest solutions would be for carmakers to simply reproduce the sound a car would make if it actually did run on fuel.

22、 But many industry officials believe this would be a mistake.They say this would not support the electric vehicles true identity. It would also limit great possibilities to link the cars sound to a whole new image, which could help increase sales.Frank Welsch is head of technical development at Germ

23、anys Volkswagen. He said that finding the perfect sound mix is not an easy process. “The electric vehicle sound is its identity,” he said. “It cannot be too annoying. It cannot sound like anything we had in the past.”An official from Mercedes-Benz said the sound was designed to provide a safe warnin

24、g without annoying passengers inside the vehicle. He said the goal was to create a car that remains completely quiet on the inside, but fills the sound requirements and supports the models image on the outside.It might seem strange to think that part of our automotive future is currently being devel

25、oped in the same kinds of recording studios used by musicians. But that is exactly what is happening.8The underlined words “hit the road” in Paragraph 1 probably mean_.Aclean a road Bstart a tripCavoid an accident Dreduce noise pollution9The first two paragraphs are mainly intended to_.Aintroduce th

26、e topic of the passageBlist the advantages of automobilesCprovide some facts about electric carsDstress the importance of saving energy10Sounds are added to electric cars to_.Alimit pollutants Bincrease salesCprevent injuries Dmake cars smarter11What would be the best title for the passage?AElectric

27、 Car Sounds Promote Sales to a Large DegreeBRecording Studios Will Create Sounds for All Electric CarsCGovernments Call on People to Design Electric Car SoundsDElectric Cars Need Creative Sounds to Replace Engine Noise Having a smart phone may not be as smart as you think.They may let you surf the I

28、nternet,listen to music and take photos wherever you arebut they also turn you into a workaholic（工作狂）,it seems.A study suggests that,by giving you access to emails at all times,the smart phone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Experts found that British people work an additional 460 hou

29、rs a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.The study shows the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours,but 2 more hours is spent responding to or sending work emails,or making work calls.Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their norma

30、l working day checking work emails. Some workers say they are on call almost 24 hours a day. Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night.The average time for first checkin

31、g emails is between 6 a.m and 7 a.m, with more than a third checking their first email in the period, and a quarter checking them between 11p.m.and midnight.Ghadi Hobeika,marketing director of Pixmania,said:“The ability to access millions of Apps has made smart phone invaluable for many people.Howev

32、er,there are disadvantages.Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week,and smart phones mean that people cannot get away from work.The more frequently in contact we become,the more is expected of us in a work capacity.”12With a smart phone the average UK working day is .A11 to 12 hours B9 to 10 hoursC8 hours D2 hours13We can lear