人教版高中英语必修三高一下中期考试英语测试题

南充市李渡中学高一下中期考试英语测试题

命题人：唐淑蓉审题人：胡诗含

（满分150分，考试时间120分钟）

第I卷

第一部分：听力（共两节，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

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。

A

Do you like shopping? Or does the thought of wandering round the shops fill you with terror? For some of us，shopping is an enjoyable way of spending our spare time and our money. For me．it's something I would rather avoid．Thank goodness for the Internet! It's more convenient to buy CDs，electrical items，even food，from the comfort of your sofa．But that’s not the only reason：price is an important factor．We can buy goods and services cheaper online. But sometimes the problem is knowing what to buy．This has led to a type of shopping called “showrooming”．

Showrooming is something I've done．I will go to a shop to see，touch and try out products but then go home and buy them online at a knock-down price．I'm not alone in doing this．Research by a company called Foolproof，found 24％of people showroomed while Christmas shopping in 2013．

Amy Cashman，Head of Technology at TNS UK，says the reasons for this new shopping habit are that “people are lacking time，lacking money and they want security about the products they are buying．”She explains that consumers are not only shopping online at home but they are using the Internet in store or on their smartphones to shop around．But does this mean technology will kill shops? Certainly shops will change．They will have to offer more competitive prices or encourage people to buy more by giving in-store discounts or free gifts．

We mustn’t forget that buying in a shop means you can get expert advice from the sales assistant and you can get good aftercare．It’s good to sp eak to a real human rather than look at a faceless computer screen but at least by showrooming，you get the best of both worlds!

21．What does showrooming mean in the text?

A．Trying in shops and buying online．B．Showing products in a room．

C．Buying something in a store．D．Shopping on the Internet．

22．What can be inferred from Paragraph 4 ?

A．Online shops will disappear．B．Free gifts will surely promote sales．

C．Shops need necessary changes．D．Shops will be replaced by online shops．

23．The author's attitude towards showrooming is

A．critical B．neutral C．supportive D．casual

B

Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York—he in computers, she in special education. "Teaching means everything to us," Tim would say. In April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life's purpose.

Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure(小手册) describing Imagination Library, a program star ted by Dolly Parton’s foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer's home town of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire," Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk, "as a reminder". Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imagination- library .com.The program had been opened up to