2016学年高一上学期期末考试卷(七)

2016学年高一上学期期末考试卷（八）第二部分：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。

AWelcome to the Story County Family. It is a community service center that helps parents and other people in our community. There are different kinds of services. The following is a list of them. If you need any of the services, please call us. Our phone number is 800-89976543.21. The center provides ________ kinds of services?A. fiveB. sevenC. nineD. ten22. What is the name of the community service center?A. Community Family ServiceB. Story County FamilyC. Entertainment CenterD. Health Center23. If you want to look for information on where to spend your holidays with yourclassmates at the weekend, which kind of service had you better choose?A.Before and After School ChildcareB. Children with special needs.C. Out-of-school Activities.D. Summer Activities.BKeeping pets was a popular online game among teenagers three years ago. Here is a report on it in a newspaper written at that time.“More than 30 students in our class have kept pets online.” said Zhao Min, a student from Changsha, who also keeps pets online.Liu Yue from Beijing keeps pets on . This girl says it is great fun. She thinks that she has also learned how to take care of others. If one doesn’t feed and care for the pet, it becomes unhappy and unhealthy. So keeping an online pet means spending a lot of time online. This makes many parents worried.Song Xin from Shanghai has been keeping a penguin(企鹅) on since last year. He says his parents know about the penguin and think it is okay.If students can keep the balance between studying and playing, it’s not bad for them to keep pets online.24. How many examples are mentioned in the passage?A. Three.B. Four.C. Five.D. Six25. What does Liu Yue think of keeping pets online?A. It’s not interesting at all.B. It is great fun.C. It’s not good for her study.D. It wastes time.26. What is Song Xin’s parents’ attitude(态度) toward his keeping pets online?A. They don’t allow her to do so.B. They don’t want her to do so.C. They ask her to do so.D. They let her do so.27. What does the passage mainly talk about?A. How to keep pets online.B. It’s good to keep pets online.C. Keeping pets online is bad for children’s studies.D. Keeping pets online is popular among teenagers.CTwo men were sitting together in a plane. They were on a long journey. One of the men was a businessman. The other was a farmer. They sat without talking for awhile, then the farmer said, “Let’s do something to pass the time.”“What do you want to do?” the businessman asked. “We can ask each other riddles.” The farmer said, “You start.” “Let’s make the rules first,” the businessman said. “That’s not fair. You are a businessman with much knowledge. You know more things than I do. I am just a farmer.”“That’s true.” The businessman said. “What do you want we should do?” “If you d on’t know the answer to a riddle, you pay me $100. And if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $50.” The farmer said. The businessman thought about this, then he said, “OK. That’s fair. Who will go first?”“I will,” The farmer said. “Here is my riddle. Wh at has three legs when it walks, but only two legs when it flies?” The business man repeated（重复）the riddle, “What has three legs when it walks, but only two legs when it flies? Mm, that’s a good one. I’m afraid I don’t know the answer.” He gave the farmer$100, then said, “Tell me the answer. What has three legs when it walks, but only two legs when it flies?” “I don’t know.” The farmer said and gave him $50.28．The story happened ____________.A. on a farmB. in a shopC. between two passengersD. before a long plane journey 29．What does the word “riddle” mean in this story?A. A difficult question to find the answer to.B. Something to help to make rules.C. Something to win money.D. a kind of game in doing business.30．Why did the businessman agree to give more money if he lost?A. He thought he knew more than the farmer.B. He made much more money than the farmer.C. He was interested in making riddles.D. He was better at playing riddle games.31．Which of the following is NOT true?A. The two men made rules for their riddle.B. The farmer was much cleverer than the businessman.C. The two men made their riddle game more interesting by paying it for money.D. The businessman knew the answer to his riddle.DMillions of years ago dinosaurs (恐龙) lived on the earth. In the days of dinosaurs the whole earth was warm and wet. There were green forests and they could find enough to eat. Later, parts of the earth became cold and dry and the forests there died. Then dinosaurs could not find enough to cat. This must be one reason why dinosaurs died out.We can guess another reason. New kinds of animals came on the earth. Some had big brains and were fast and strong. They could kill dinosaurs. There may be otherreasons that we don’t know about yet. Scientists are trying to make more discoveries(发现) about dinosaurs.Dinosaurs were of many sizes and shapes (形状). Some were as small as chickens while some were about 90 feet long.There were also terrible fights between dinosaurs. They might have happened more than 100 million years ago. Though there was no man to see any of the fights, we can be told by the animal’s footprints (足迹) that fight did take place. 32．According to the passage, dinosaurs did exist（存在）only ______on the earth.A. for billions of yearsB. more than 100 million years agoC. millions of years agoD. when it was warm and wet somewhere 33．One reason why dinosaurs died out is that______.A. there were too many dinosaursB. parts of the earth became cold and dryC. they couldn’t find enough to eatD. other animals ate their food34．One more reason may be that ______.A. new kinds of animals came on the earthB. some fast and strong animals with big brains could kill themC. some dinosaurs were as small as chickensD. some big dinosaurs died in the fights35．We can see from this passage ______.A. scientists are trying to make some dinosaursB. dinosaurs are dangerous enoughC. scientists know nothing about dinosaursD. dinosaurs are worth studying第二节（共5小题：每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。