云南省大理州宾川县第四高级中学高一英语月考试题.docx

1、云南省大理州宾川县第四高级中学高一英语月考试题宾川四中20152016学年高一年级下学期4月月考试卷 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Have you ever heard of e-books? E-books are electronic books. They are no larger than an ordinary book, with a screen on which you can read. How does the e

2、-book work? First, you call up websites on your computer and select books that you want. There are thousands of books provided by different websites on the Internet. Then download the books you like on to your e-book. You can download about 10 books at a time. Now you can just sit back and enjoy you

3、rself reading. Compared with ordinary books, e-books have many advantages. First of all, e-books save space. You can put as many as 10 books into a thing no bigger than a pocket radio and then carry it everywhere. You can renew reading materials in your e-book as many times as you like. With the dev

4、elopment of e-book technology, probably an e-library will appear. Then you just take your e-books there and download what you want to read. You no longer need to worry about whether your books are over-due or not.根据短文内容，选择可以完成句子的最佳答案。21. E-books are _.A. electronic books B. no larger than an ordinar

5、y bookC. very popular in big city D. A, B and C22. First, you _.A. call up websites on your computer B. read books that you wantC. turn on your e-book D. download the books you like23. You can download _ books at a time.A. two B. ten C. twelve D. twenty24. E-books _.A. save space B. save moneyC. loo

6、k like a pocket radio D. carry i BIts hard to imagine life without the Internet. How greatly it has changed our lives in the past 15 years since it was widely used. At the same time, however, the Internet has also caused some traditions to fall away (消失).E-mail is quicker and cheaper. Getting a hand

7、written letter from a friend has become a rare (稀有的) pleasure.Who would like to pay 60 yuan for 12 songs in a plastic case if you can find music in the Interact for free? When almost any fact can be found within seconds through Google and Baidu, personal memory becomes less important. The Web can re

8、member it for us.When was the last time you watched the world out of a window? When was the last time you read a favorite book once again? When was the last time yousatin the cinema with your family? More and more people lose themselves in the Internet. They show less interest and spend less time in

9、 the outside world.Youve spent the past few years talking with your friends on QQ, or reading about his or her QQ square, so meeting a friend is no longer as important as it once was.Have you ever found yourself doing homework with one eye on a QQ Space window?A growing number of people say the Inte

10、rnet is stopping young people from fixing their attention on anything for a long time.When you surf the Internet, it feels like something youre enjoying and nobody knows it. But when you realize just how many people are watching your every move, it might just make you mad. Many people have realized

11、their personal information can be found easily in the Internet even they dont want to.25. According to the passage, the Internet has been widely used since _ ago.A. 12 years B. 14 years C. 15 years D. 60 years 26.We can learn from Paragraph 5 that people spend more time these days.A. surfing the Int

12、ernet B. going to the cinemaC. reading favorite books D. watching the outside world27. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. Personal memory becomes more important.B. People get fewer handwritten letters from their friends now.C. You have to pay if you want to find some music in

13、 the Internet.D. Internet can help young people fix their attention on anything.28. From the passage we can learn that the writer _ when some traditions are falling away.A. doesnt care B. seems happyC. feels interested D. is worried C Everyone has heard of the San Andreas fault（断层）, which constantly

14、 threatens California and the West Coast with earthquakes. But how many people know about the equally serious New Madrid fault in Missouri?Between December of 1811 and February of 1812, three major earthquakes occurred, all centered around the town of New Madrid, Missouri, on the Mississippi River.

15、Property damage was severe. Buildings were almost all destroyed. Whole forests fell at once, and huge cracks（裂缝） opened in the ground. The Mississippi River completely changed character, developing sudden fast-moving currents. Several times it changed its course, and once it appeared to run backward

16、s. Few people were killed in the New Madrid earthquake, simply because few people lived in this area in 1811; but the severity of the quake is shown by the fact that the shock waves rang bells in church towers in Charleston, South Carolina, on the coast. Buildings shook in New York City, and clocks

17、were stopped in Washington, D.C. Scientists now know that Americas two major faults are different. The San Andreas fault is a horizontal (水平的) boundary between two major land masses that are slowly moving in opposite directions. California earthquakes result when the movement of these two masses sud

18、denly leans (倾斜) forward. The New Madrid fault, on the other hand, is a vertical（垂直的）fault; at some point, millions of years ago, rock was pushed up toward the surface, probably by volcanoes under the surface. Suddenly, the volcanoes cooled and the rock collapsed, leaving huge cracks. Even now, the

19、rock continues to settle downwards, and sudden sinking motions start earthquakes in the region. The fault itself, a large crack in this layer of rock, with dozens of other cracks that split off from it, extends from northeast Arkansas through Missouri and into southern Illinois. Scientists who have

20、studied the New Madrid fault say there have been numerous smaller quakes in the area since 1811; these smaller quakes indicate large ones are probably coming, but the scientists say they have no method of predicting when it will occur.29. The New Madrid fault is _. A. responsible for forming the Mis

21、sissippi River B. a fault in the flat position C. a fault caused by rocks moving directly upward D. a worse fault than the San Andreas fault30. Which of the following is NOT true about the New Madrid fault? A. Not many people were killed in the quakes in 1811. B. Bells were rung in church towers in

22、Charleston to inform the coming quakes. C. The quakes stopped the clocks in Washington, D.C. D. The quakes were caused by sudden sinking motion.31. It can be concluded from the passage that _. A. it is probably as dangerous to live in Missouri as in California. B. the New Madrid fault will eventuall

23、y develop a mountain range in Missouri C. in the future California will become an island D. California will be broken into small pieces by an eventual earthquake x.k.b.132. The author suggests that_. A. earthquakes occur only around fault areas B. horizontal faults are more dangerous than vertical o

24、nes C. vertical faults are more dangerous than horizontal ones D. faults are cracks on the earths surface caused by past movements of the earths land masses D In the famous fairy tale, Snow White eats the Queens apple and falls victim to a curse; in Shakespeares novel, Romeo drinks the poison and di

25、es; some ancient Chinese emperors took pills that contained mercury, believing that it would make them immortal, but they died afterward. Poison has long been an important ingredient in literature and history, and it seems to always be associated with evil, danger and death. But how much do you real

26、ly know about poison?An exhibition, The Power of Poison, opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, intended to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison. The exhibition will continue until August, reported The New York Times.The museum tour starts in a rai

27、nforest setting, where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars, frogs and spiders. Golden poison frogs, for instance, arent much bigger than a coin, but their skin is covered in a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves, and a single frog has

28、enough venom to kill 10 grown humans.The exhibition also features interactive activities. In an iPad-based game, visitors are presented with three puzzling illnesses and asked to identify the poisons based on symptoms. In one case, for example, a pet dog is found sick in a backyard and visitors have

29、 to figure out whether it was the toad (蟾蜍), the leaky batteries in the trash or the dirty pond water that did it.“Poisons can be bad for some things, Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the museum, told NBC News. Yet they can also be good for others.This is what visitors learn from the last p

30、art of the exhibition, which displays how poisons can be used favorably by humans, including for medical treatment.The blood toxins of vampire bats, for example, can prevent blood from clotting (凝结), which may protect against strokes. A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against c

31、ancer, which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol. One chem ical in the venom of Gila monsters can lower the blood sugar o f its victims, so it has been used to treat diabetes.The benefits from natural poisons are not limited to just medicine. Believe it or not, many s

32、ubstances that we regularly take in chili, coffee and chocolate, etc. owe their special flavors or stimulating effects to chemicals that plants make to poison insects.33. By mentioning Snow White and Romeo at the beginning of the story, the author intends to _. A. draw readers attention to the topic of the article B. show that poison is always linked with evil