（2020）新北师大版高中英语必修第二册高一上学期期末考试英语试题分类汇编：阅读理解.doc

1、1北京市部分区北京市部分区2020-2021 学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题分类汇编学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题分类汇编阅读理解阅读理解北京市顺义区北京市顺义区 2020-2021 学年高一上学期期末英语试题学年高一上学期期末英语试题三、阅读理解（共三、阅读理解（共 20 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2 分，共分，共 40 分）分）第一节第一节 阅读短文，从各题阅读短文，从各题 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出符合文章意义的最四个选项中选出符合文章意义的最 佳佳选项。选项。ATrying to find the perfect present is about as easy as trying

2、 to read someones mind. Fewpeople will actually tell you what they want for a special occasion and most of the time your lovedones will insist that they dont need or want anything! So, what to do? Here are some tips thatcould help.Start EarlyStarting your shopping early can have many advantages. For

3、 instance, it gives you enoughtime to come up with ideas for what you should buy your friends or family members. Moreover,the closer it gets to holidays, the higher the prices go up. So, save your money by being an earlybird.Make a ListHere, you can write down everything your friends or family membe

4、rs love. This can includefood, hobbies, experiences, and more. Then try to determine how to use this information to find agift that perfectly suits them. If you are lucky, you should be able to find good ideas in one ofthese lists.Think outside the BoxOften, the reason why you get stuck(卡住) for gift

5、 ideas is that you only focus on the samekind of presents. If you are still coming up empty, it is time to get creative. You can findsomething your friends or family members can use every day. When in doubt, you can simply putsmaller presents together to make up a larger, more meaningful gift.Gift a

6、n ExperienceIn case you are still feeling a little stuck, go ahead and find something that the two of you2can do together. It may be a class, or anything else where you can enjoy each others company(陪伴). In short, you will be able to give them the gift of friendship.27. If you want to save money, yo

7、u should_.A. start earlyB. make a listC. gift an experienceD. think outside the box28. You can write down the followings in your list except_.A.foodB. hobbiesC. good ideasD.experiences29.We often get stuck for gift ideas because_.A. we dont have enough money to buy giftsB. we have a long list of gif

8、ts to choose fromC. we only focus on the same kind of presentsD. we dont have enough time to come up with good ideas30. To enjoy each others company,you can_.A. talk to your family membersB. find something that you can do togetherC. put smaller presents together to make up a larger giftD. write down

9、 everything your friends or family members love31. The passage is mainly about_.A. the advice on shoppingB. tips on reading someones mindC. the experience during a special occasionD. the guide to becoming the perfect gift giverBIm a 34-year-old man, married, live in a nice house, and have a successf

10、ul career as aneducational consultant(顾问). But my life was not always so great. My learning disability mademy school days very challenging from an early age. I went to a special school where I got plentyof extra help. Still, I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools.My life improved re

11、markably when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to3express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually got good at making things withclay(黏土). Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still besmart and well express myself with clay.

12、And my confidence came along.I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start. Isoon noticed it wasnt a talent thing; it was practice. So I did it more.After about five years ofclimbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you

13、 fall in love withsomething and do it all the time, you will get better at it.Later I decided to apply my previous experience to learning how to read and write. Everyday I practiced reading and writing, which I used to avoid as much as possible.After two hardyears, I was literate(有读写能力的).Having gone

14、 through the long process with art, rock climbing, and reading and writing, nowIve got to a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into an area that is totallyunknown, hard, but interesting.32. What did the author think of his school days?A. Great.B. Successful.C. Challenging.D. Fri

15、ghtening.33. What gives the author confidence?A. Rock climbing.B. Reading and writing.C. Extra help in a special school.D. The art of making things with clay.34. What did the author learn from rock climbing?A. Live and learn.B. Practice makes perfect.C. Everyone has his own strengths.D.Agood beginni

16、ng makes a good ending.35. How long did it take the author to become literate?A.About five years.B. Two years.C. 34 years.D. Unknown.36. What kind of person is the author?4A. Determined.B. Interesting.C. Talented.D. Hard.CYou spend a third of your life asleep, a certain part of which involves dreami

17、ng. But mostoften, you dont remember any of your dreams.While the exact reason of why we can hardly recall our dreams is not fully known, scientistshave gotten some insight into memory processes during sleep, leading to several ideas that mayexplain our forgetfulness.You are awake, but is your hippo

18、campus(海马体) awake? When we fall asleep, not all thebrains regions go offline at the same time. Researchers have found one of the last regions to go tosleep is the hippocampus, a structure in brain that is important for moving information fromshort-term memory into long-term memory.“If the hippocampu

19、s is the last to go to sleep, it could very well be the last to wake up,” saidThomasAndrillon, a neuroscientist at Monash University in Melbourne,Australia. “So, you couldhave this window where you wake up with a dream in your short-term memory, but since thehippocampus is not fully awake yet, your

20、brain is not able to keep that memory,” Andrillon toldLive Science.While this might explain why dream memories are so fleeting, it doesnt mean that yourhippocampus has been inactive throughout the night. In fact, this region is quite active duringsleep, and appears to be storing and caring for exist

21、ing memories to strengthen them, instead oflistening for incoming new experiences.Sometimes your dreams are just not memorable? Do you remember what you were thinkingabout this morning when brushing your teeth? Our minds wander(游离) all the time, but we getrid of most of those thoughts as unimportant

22、 information. Dreams, especially ordinary ones, maybe just like daydreaming thoughts and believed by the brain to be too useless to remember. Butdreams that are more vivid, emotional and coherent(连贯的) seem to be betterrememberedperhaps because they cause more awakening, and their organized story mak

23、es themeasier to store.If you are interested in improving your dream recall, there are a few tricks to try. One is5drinking water before bed, because it will make you wake up at night to use the bathroom. Thesemiddle-of-the-night awakenings are frequently accompanied by dream recall. Repeatedlyremin

24、ding yourself that you want to remember your dreams may increase your chances, and sodoes keeping a dream journal, some studies have suggested. Upon waking up, hang on to thatfragile(脆弱的) dream memory: keep your eyes closed, stay still and replay the dream memory,until your hippocampus catches up an

25、d properly stores the memory.37. What can we learn about dreams from the passage?A. Dreaming means processing memory during sleeping.B. Dreams come from your hippocampus.C. Dreams are sometimes useless for us to remember.D. We need special trainings to recall our dreams.38. You can remember your dre

26、ams when you wake up probably because_.A. you are forgetful and poor in remembering thingsB. your dreams are vivid, emotional and coherentC. your hippocampus is active in receiving new informationD. your brain needs to start up to move dreams into long-term memory39. What does the underlined word “f

27、leeting” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?A. Inactive.B. Short-lived.C. Significant.D. Slight.40. Which of the following CANNOT help you to recall a dream?A. Improve the ability of your hippocampus to catch up information.B. Keep reminding yourself of the need to remember your dreams.C. Record what you

28、can remember in your dreams upon awakening.D. Think back on the things in your dreams directly after you wake up.41. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To tell the importance of dreams.B. To explain our forgetfulness in dreams.C. To present some methods to recall dreams.D. To analyze how our

29、 brain deal with information.6北京市丰台区北京市丰台区 2020-2021 学年高一上学期期末考试英语试卷学年高一上学期期末考试英语试卷第一节第一节(共共 15 小题小题;每小题每小题 2 分分, 共共 30 分分)阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AEcoCentralThis website is all about looking after the earth. There are facts about different animals, aswell as informa

30、tion about forests, deserts and oceans. You can upload your own videos onto thesite for everyone to see.TeenPressThis is one of the best sites on the web for teenagers who love writing. You can share yourwork with others, and there are message boards where you can chat about things that are importan

31、tto you.ChannelTyentyOn this site you can watch a daily news program and search for information about big newsstories. There are also videos on different subjects, articles about famous bands, games andcompetitions.Inside-the-CoverFinding out about your favorite writers is easy on this site. There a

32、re lots of interestingarticles and information about the latest books. You can read blogs by well-known writers and postquestions to them. And you are likely to get replies from them.Tune-inThere are millions of songs on this website for you to download or listen to online. You cansave your favorite

33、 songs in your own list. i youre in a band, you can record your music and uploadit. The website is large, but the menus are easy to use.ScienceZoneTheres lots of information on his site about maths, chemistry and biology. You can visitsome of the worlds most famous museums, or watch wildlife via web

34、cams. There are also somevery cool games, such as Save the Planet.21. TeenPress is a website for teenagers who_.7A. are interested in musicB. enjoy writingC. like watching the newsD. care about the earth22. On Inside-the-cover, you can _.A. share your articlesB. take writing classesC. learn about th

35、e latest booksD. answer the writers questions23. If you like visiting online museums, which website Is bust for you?A. EcoCenlral.B. Tune-in.C. ChannelTwenty.D. Scien1ceZone.24. The author writes the passage to _.A. introduce websites to teenagers.B. teach teenagers to design websitesC. encourage te

36、enagers to create websitesD. compare different websites for teenagersBMost people make a donation (捐赠)if they want to help those in need. But Eddie Izzard, a47-year-old British man, did something completely different. He decided to raise money byrunning 1,100 miles. And he managed to raise more than

37、 200,000!It would take most people at least two years if they were crazy enough to try and mil such adistance. But Eddie Izzard? It took him just 51 days. In less than two months, he ran 43marathons!When asked how he felt, he said that he was planning to sleep for a week”. He thanked thepeople who h

38、ad come to support him and joined him on his journey.And how long did he have to train for all this? Well, amazingly, only five weekshe wasnteven particularly fit when he decided to put himself in for this journey.And what a journey it was! He lost several of his toenails (脚趾甲)and had blisters (水泡)a

39、llover his feel. He had to take ice baths for his legs at the end of each day to help stop his legsinflating (肿胀)lo twice the size of an elephant.Ever experts arc impressed with what he has achieved. Andy Dixon, editor of Runners World,says, Covering 26 miles in a day at whatever speed for 43 runs,

40、its demanding. A 5-hourmarathon is a fairly decent pace. Its a great achievement.So how did he do it? Well, he ran slowly at first. Ten hours a day to begin with and, as he gotfitter, he got faster. In the end he was finishing in just over five hours. But fitness alone was notenough. What was more i

41、mportant was the fact that Eddie Izzard wanted to make a difference to8other peopled lives. What Eddie Izzard did was so special that the documentary of his run hasbeen made into an inspiring film: Believe! Youve got to believe you can be something else.Thats why I keep going. Eddie says in the film

42、.25.Eddie Izzard rail 1,100 miles to _.A. keep fitB. win the prizeC. collect moneyD. express thanks26.Eddies running journey was _.A. painfulB. excitingC. dangerousD. pleasant27.What can we learn from the passage?A. Fitness leads to Eddies success.B. Eddies story has been made into a film.C. It took

43、 Eddie 51 days to prepare for the running.D. Eddie finished the running with the experts help.28. Which of the following words can best describe Eddie Izzard?A. Smart and helpful.B. Inspiring and honest.C. Patient and hard-working.D. Caring and strong-willed.CMagical boxIn the 1994 film Forrest Gump

44、, theres a famous saying, “Life is like a box of chocolates; younever know what youre gonna get.” The surprise is part of the fun. Now blind box toys arebringing the magic of surprise to online shopping.A blind box toy is hidden inside uniform packaging (统一的包装)and cannot be seen fromthe outside. You

45、 dont know what will be inside, although the toys typically come from pop culture,ranging from movies to comics and cartoons.Blind boxes have caught on since they were first introduced from Japan to China in 2014.According to a 2019 Tmall (天猫)report, the mini-series of Labubu blind box, designed by

46、HongKong-born Kasing Lung, was named Champion of Unit Sales with 55,000 sold in just 9 secondsduring the Singles Day shopping event. Most customers for these magical mystery (神秘)boxesarc young people aged 18 to 35.According to the report, blind box toys arc popular partly because of their cute appea

47、rances.The typically cute cartoon figurines (小 塑 像)conic in very small sizes, making them suitable for9display almost anywhere. There is another main reason why people buy blind boxes one afteranother. Fear of the unknown is always a part of the box-opening process,” said Miss Cao, 24,who loves buyi

48、ng blind boxes. Speaking to Sina News, she said, “Until you open all the boxes,you cannot know what it is inside.”Opening a blind box is a delightful little surprise for our boring daily lives, something smallbut fun to wait for each day, week or month. When people open this simple little box, they

49、may bedisappointed, but the uncertainly is part of the fun. People will open more blind boxes and hopefor a belter outcome.When someone remakes the film Forrest Gump, dont be surprised if he says, “Life is like ablind box .29. What can we learn about blind boxes?A. People buy blind boxes when they f

50、eel bored.B. The toys in blind boxes come from pop culture.C. Blind boxes are designed by a Hong Kong artist.D.All of blind boxes were sold out on Nov. 1l, 2019.30. What feature of blind boxes attracts people most?A. Small size.B. Uniform packaging.C. Professional design。D. Mystery and uncertainty.3