绵阳东辰国际学习2018年初升高自主招生英语试题(含答案)

2018年绵阳东辰国际学校高中招生考试

英语试题

（考试时间：65分钟满分：70分）

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第一节：阅读理解（共10个小题；每题2分，共20分）

A

Global warming is happening all around us. This experiment helps you learn how a greenhouse works, and how gre enhouse gases influence the earth’s atmosphere.

What Y ou Need:

? Two thermometers

? A notebook

? A pencil or pen

? A clear container

? A watch or clock

? A sunny area

What Y ou Do:

1. Put the thermometers in direct sunlight. Let them sit in the sun for three

minutes.

2. Draw two columns, “Thermometer A” and “Thermometer B”, in the notebook.

3. After the three minutes, read and record the time and temperatures in the

notebook.

4. Place one of the thermometers in the container and close it tightly.

5. Record the temperatures of the thermometers every ten minutes.

6. Discuss how the container influences the temperature.

What’s Going On?

The temperature outside the container is changing, as the warm air mixes with the passing cooler air. The air inside the co ntainer can’t mix with the air outside — it just gets warmer as the sunlight heats it up. A greenhouse works in a similar way: sunlight creates heat that can’t get out of the glass.

1. What do you need in the experiment?

A. A dark room.

B. A paper box.

C. Some water.

D. Two thermometers.

2. How often do you record the temperatures of the thermometers?

A. Every five minutes.

B. Every ten minutes.

C. Every fifteen minutes.

D. Every twenty minutes.

3. What can you learn from the experiment?

A. When the glass breaks.

B. Why the sunlight is helpful.

C. How a greenhouse works.

D. What the temperature changes.

B

Every people uses its own special words to show its ideas and feelings. Some expressions are commonly used for many years. Others are popular for just a short time. One such American expression is “Where’s the beef?” It is used when something is not as good as it is said to be. In the early 1980s “Where’s 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 beef. In the 1960s a businessman named Ray Kroc began building small restaurants that sold hamburgers at a low price. Kroc called his restaurants “McDonald’ s”. Ray Kroc became one of the richest businessmen in America.

Other business people watched his success. Some of them opened their own hamburger restaurants. One company called “Wendy’s” said its hamburgers were bigger than those sold by McDonald’s or anyone else’s .The Wendy’s Company began to use the expression “Where’s the beef?” to make people know that Wendy’s hamburgers were the biggest. The Wendy’s television advertisement showed three old women eating hamburgers. 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. “Where’s the beef?” she shouted in a funny way. The advert isement for Wendy’s hamburger restaurants was a success .As we said, it seemed everyone began using the expression “Where’s the beef?”

4．Other people wanted to open hamburger restaurants because they thought_______.

A．they could sell hamburgers at a low price B．hamburgers were easy to make

C．beef was very popular in America D．they could make a lot of money

5．Wendy’s made the expression known to everybody _______.

A．with many old women eating hamburgers

B．by a television advertisement

C．while selling bread with a bit of meat in it

D．at the McDonald’s restaurant

6．We can learn from the passage that the expression “Where’s the beef?”means_______.

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．something is not so good as one says

D．Wendy’s is the biggest

C

We usually assume that plants always stay quiet and never speak. Grass doesn’t cry when you cut it; flowers don’t scream when they’re picked. But this view of the world couldn’t be more wrong. Plants talk to each other all the time. Their language is one of chemicals.

Over the years, scientists have found that different types of plants, from trees to tomatoes, send compounds into the air to help neighboring plants. But exactly how plants receive and act on many of these signals is still a mystery.

Scientists from Kyoto University in Japan looked at tomato plants that had been bitten by insects. To start with, they grew plants in two plastic bags connected by a tube. One plant had been bitten by insects. The other was not bitten.

They found that when insects bite plant leaves, the plants don’t sit quietly. They release a chemical called “hexvic” into the air. Humans can’t detect it, but these

chemicals carry a smell that neighboring plants can detect. This way, neighboring plants become aware of the danger and begin to release more “hexvic” to protect themselves.

The same scientists continued their experiment by placing insects on the plants that had not been bitten. The plants were able to kill nearly 50% percent of the invaders , much more than their neighbor.

It was surprising that the plants that had not been bitten didn’t send the chemical until they received a warning message from their infested neighbor, the scientists said. These findings could be used to help farmers with pest control.

7. From the first two paragraphs, we know that__________.

A. Plants don’t talk to each other

B. people see the w orld in an incorrect way

C. plants talk to each other by sending chemicals

D. communication among plants is no longer a mystery.

8. What does the underlined word “invaders” in Paragraph 5 refer to ?

A. scientists

B. insects

C. hexvic

D. tomato plants

9. Which of the following is TRUE according to the study?

A. Tomato plants are easily bitten by insects

B. Plants won’t send out chemicals until they are attacked

C. Hexvic can help plants kill all the insects near them

D. The smell of hexvic is a kind of warning message

10. What’s the best title of the passage? ___________________

A. Plants’ Smell

B. Plants’ Language

C. Plants’ Chemicals

D. Plants’ Invaders