………精品文档…推荐下载………. 2017-2018学年第1学期高二英语期中考试题
（笔试答题时间120分钟，满分135分；）
第I卷 第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节:话题语篇（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、 B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Hummingbirds (蜂鸟) are very small birds. This small bird is quite an acrobat (杂技演员). Only a few birds, such as kingfishers and sunbirds, can hover, which means to stay in one place in the air. But no other bird can match the flying skills of the hummingbird. The hummingbird can hover, fly backward and fly upside down!
Hummingbirds got their name because their wings move very quickly when they fly. This causes a humming sound. Their wings move so fast that you can’t see them at all. This takes a lot of energy. These little birds must have food about every 20 minutes to have enough strength to fly. Their favorite food is nectar (花蜜). Nectar is the sweet water deep inside a flower. Hummingbirds use their long, thin bills to drink from flowers. When a hummingbird drinks nectar, it hovers in front of a flower. It never touches the flower with its wings or feet.
Of all the birds in the world, the hummingbird’s colors are among the brightest. Some are bright green with red and white markings. Some are purple. One kind of hummingbird can change its color from reddish-brown to purple to red!
The hummingbird’s nest is special, too. It looks like a small cup. The inside of the nest is very soft. This is because one of the things the mother bird uses to build the nest is the silk from a spider’s web (蜘蛛网). 1. What is special about hummingbirds?
A. They are the only birds that can hover. B. They have excellent flying skills. C. They can walk on water. D. They can fly very high. 2. Hummingbirds got their name from _____.
A. their food B. their small bodies C. the sound they make D. the color of their wings
3. What can we infer from Paragraph 3? A. Hummingbirds’ markings are dark. B. A kind of hummingbird has one color. C. The hummingbird is one of the prettiest birds. D. Some hummingbirds change their colors for protection. 4. According to the text, a hummingbird’s nest is _____. A. difficult to find B. hard and strong
C. made by the father bird D. built partly from spider silk
B
We just love giving cards in Britain. If there’s a special occasion coming up, there’s no doubt that we’ll be there, card in hand, to celebrate it. And this isn’t just for birthdays; we also give cards when people are ill or when they have got a new job. And even if you forgot somebody’s birthday, there are even “sorry it’s late” cards. So you can pretty much find a card for any occasion.
Before coming to Italy I had never even considered that our love for card giving might not be shared by other countries. In fact, my workmates told me that hardly anyone sends Christmas cards in Italy and that they actually don’t really give birthday cards either! Unbelievable! In the UK, if a close friend or family member didn’t get me a card I’d feel upset! However, the only place you can buy cards in Italy is in a shop which sells school things. In comparison, we have whole shops that sell them in the UK and we even have different types of card shops.
Although cards can take up your time, from choosing the perfect one, to thinking up the personal message inside, I think it’s a really nice gesture. And especially with Christmas cards, it adds to that festive feeling. When I sit down to write countless cards to friends and family, I get that little bit happier that it will be Christmas soon! Especially when I see my own Christmas cards, proudly sitting on my desk wishing me a very merry Christmas.
Of course, the problem comes when they’re no longer needed, when Christmas is over. It makes me sad just to throw them all away, so I try and hang on to my favorite ones.
5. According to Paragraph 1, in the UK card giving _____.
A. is very popular
B. is changing people’s lives C. is mainly carried out on birthdays D. is more common between family members 6. After arriving in Italy, the author found that _____. A.
Italians
seldom
send
cards
，。，。，。，。， ，B. cards are sold in card shops
C. the relationship between people is bad D. card giving is losing its attraction slowly
7. Which of the following may the author agree with? A. Self-made cards make Christmas happy. B. Giving cards doesn’t take up any time. C. Throwing cards away is a bad gesture. D. There is no need to save every card.
8. What’s the author’s attitude towards card giving? A. He supports it. B. He doubts it.
C. He disagrees with it. D. He is uninterested in it.
C
People are always looking for lost cities and occasionally one is found:
Borobudur in Indonesia, for example. But perhaps some of the places people look for never existed — or did they? Here are just a few famous mythical (传说中的) cities. El Dorado
El Dorado is a story that began in 1537, when Spanish explorers found the Muisca people in the mountains of what is now Colombia. They heard the story of a man who covered himself with gold and dived into a lake. Then people began to talk of El Dorado — ‘the golden man’. Soon people started to think of El Dorado as a place, too — a city of gold and amazing riches. Nowadays, the name ‘El Dorado’ is still used to mean ‘a place where you can get rich quickly’. Atlantis
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