2017合肥一六八中学自主招生英语试卷

合肥168中学2017年面向全省自主招生考试《科学素养》测试英语试卷

第一部分阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从每小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳答案，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑．

A

A jobless man wanted very much to be an “office boy” at Microsoft．The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. “You have passed the test.” he said. “Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the form to fill in and the date when you may start.” The man answered. “But I don't have a computer, neither an e-mail.”“I'm sorry,” said the HR manager. “If you don't have an e-mail, that means you are not living. And anyone who isn't living can’t have the job.”

The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do with only $10 in his pocket. He thought and thought. Then he went to the supermarket and bought 10 kilos of tomatoes. He sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he had 20 dollars. He repeated the operation three times, started to go early every day, and returned home late. Shortly, he bought a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles (运货车队). Five years later, the man was one of the biggest food retailers (零售商) in the US．

One day, one of his friends asked him for his e-mail. He said, “I haven't got one.”His friend couldn't believe his ears. “Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?” The man thought for a while and replied, “Yes, I would have been an office boy at Microsoft!”

1．What did the man do for the test?

A．He sent e-mails． B．He did the cleaning．

C．He sold computers． D．He filled in forms．

2．The man was refused to get the job because he ．

A．disliked such a job B．didn't pass the test

C．didn't have an e-mail D．knew nothing about computers

3．The man after he left Microsoft．

A．went to look for another job B．asked for food from door to door C．thought of an idea to make money D．bought a computer and got an e-mail 4．What does the story want to tell us?

A．Computers are very important in our daily life．

B．Everyone can make a lot of money with only $10．

C．The HR manager didn't find the ability of the man．

D．Nothing in the world is impossible if we work hard．

B

Most people may not think that there are any problems with watermelons（西瓜），but some Japanese sellers do．There is often wasted space when they store watermelons, because round watermelons do not sit nicely on shelves．But some clever farmers have solved the watermelon problem．They make their watermelons grow in square glass boxes

with four feet so the watermelons become square rather than round．The only problem now is the price．The square watermelons cost about 80 dollars each．

Many people know the saying, “Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you．”Well, today the poem needs to be changed to “Roses are red, roses are blue!” Australian scientists have just recently discovered that when they put a chemical from a blue flower into a rose, they can create a nearly 100% blue rose．Some of scientific inventions are beautiful, not just useful!

Since the mid-1990s, many Chinese farmers have had wonderful rice harvests. For many years, Chinese scientists have been working on developing new kinds of stronger rice and now they have produced a new kind, called super rice. Super rice not only can protect itself against insects(昆虫)and diseases, but it also produces more than any other kind of rice．Today farmers can grow almost one and a half times more rice than they could grow in the past．

Doctors might be able to use vegetables to fight cancer now．US scientists have discovered a way to put a chemical into tomato plants while they are growing．When cancer patients eat the tomatoes, the tomatoes will fight the cancer in their bodies．These cancer-fighting vegetables are not yet for sale, because scientists have not finished testing them．If study finds no problems with the tomatoes, then patients can begin to use this easy and delicious new treatment．

5．The square watermelons look like ________.

A． B． C． D．

6．Who find a way to make blue roses?

A．Chinese scientists B．Australian scientists

C．American scientists D．Japanese farmers

7．Which of the following is true?

A．Super rice can stay safe from insects．

B．Blue roses are more beautiful than red ones．

C．The tomatoes can fight many kinds of diseases．

D．The square watermelons cost less than ordinary ones．

8．The main idea of this passage is _______.

A．how scientists discover new plants

B．how science makes plants produce more

C．how science has changed plants and people's lives

D．how technology makes our world more beautiful

C

I’ve been living in China for a while—long enough to feel the long-term deterioration(退化)of my own native language ability, as well as those of my fellow English speakers. This deterioration can take different forms,one of which is the non-standard use of the words. Below I give some of the common ways to show how Chinese environment badly influences the native speaker’s language ability.

Net bar: In Chinese, they’re called “网吧”. This is fine. We generally call them “Internet café” in English. The Chinese seem to think that “网吧” should be