高一第一次考试英语试卷

嵩阳高中2015级下学期第二次周考

命题人蔺亚莉

I.阅读理解（20题40分）

第一节：阅读短文并选出正确答案

A

Have you ever been sad because of failure? Please remember, for often, achieving what you set out to do is not the most important thing.

A boy decided to dig a deep hole behind his house. As he was working, a couple of older boys stopped by to watch. “What are you doing？”asked one of the visitors. “I want to dig a hole all the way through the earth！”the boy answered excitedly. The older boys began to laugh, telling him that digging a hole all the way through the earth was impossible. After a while, the boy picked up a jar. He showed it to the visitors. It was full of all kinds of stones and insects. Then he said calmly and confidently, “Maybe I can't finish digging all the way through the earth, but look at what I've found during this period！”

The boy's goal was far too difficult, but it did cause him to go on. And that is what a goal is for —to cause us to move in the direction we have chosen, in other words, to cause us to keep working!

Not every goal will be fully achieved. Not every job will end up with a success. Not every dream will come true. But when you fall short of your aim, maybe you can say, “Yes, but look what I've found along the way! There are so many wonderful things having come into my life because I tried to do something！”It is in the digging that life is lived. It is the unexpected joy on the journey that really makes sense.

21. The older boys laughed at the boy because he was thought to be ________.

A. brave

B. Impolite

C. foolish

D. warm­hearted

22. Why did the boy show the jar to the older boys?

A. To drive them away.

B. To show what he had found in digging.

C. To show how beautiful the jar was.

D. To attract them to join him in the work.

23. What can be learnt from the fourth paragraph of the text?

A. No dream can come true.

B. All work will end successfully.

C. Goals shouldn't be set too high.

D. Goals will make us work harder.

24. The best title for the text should be ________.

A. Joy in the Journey

B. A Boy Dug a Hole

C. No Pains, No Gains

D. Failure Is the Mother of Success

B

Have you wondered about the amount of time we spend talking about food and been surprised? We are always asking questions such as“Have you ever eaten？”and“What did you have for lunch？”Yet, if you travel from one country to another, you might find that other nations think differently about food. People plan to think that what they eat is normal and what everyone else eats is strange. In most parts of Asia, for example, no meal is complete without rice but in England, rice is the exception and people prefer to eat potatoes, in the Middle East, bread accompanies every meal.

Eating, like so many things we do, becomes a habit that is difficult to change. The Americans seem to like drinking lots of orange juice and coffee; the English prefer to drink tea four or five times a day; the Australians prefer to drink a lot of beer; the French, like wine every day.

People in different countries also like eating different kinds of meat and even within countries, different regions will have different likes and dislikes, especially in large countries like China and the former Soviet Union. In Hang Kong and the south of China, some people enjoy eating snakes but in the north of China, most people refuse to eat them. The French think that horse meat is delicious but most English people are terrified at the thought of eating it. The New Zealanders eat a lot of lamb and mutton, but never goat. The Japanese say that they do not like eating lamb and mutton because of their smell, but that they really enjoy eating raw fish more than anything else.

So it seems that there is often very little common sense about what is nicest to eat or drink in different parts of the world although we may talk on the subject of food for hours. However, as people everywhere enjoy eating what they have always eaten, there seems very little point in trying to change traditional eating habits.

25 The topic people spend a lot of time talking about is ________.

A. lunch

B. Breakfast

C. dinner

D. food

26. Bread is necessary in every meal in ________.

A. the Middle East

B. America

C. England

D. Asia

27. In England, people prefer to eat ________.

A. rice

B. Potatoes

C. corn

D. bread

28. English people like eating horse meat，do they?

A. No, they do.

B. Yes, they do.

C. No, they don't.

D. Yes, they don't.

C

Christmas Traditions

The Origin of Christmas

Since about 400 AD，Christmas Day has been celebrated on 25th December. This date was the old mid­winter festival in pre­Christian times，around the time of the longest night and the shortest day. Christmas in the 21st century has many traditions：Christmas trees，cards and presents.

Presents and shopping

Shops can make about 60 per cent of their year's income in the three months before