深圳市高级中学2017－2018学年第二学期期中测试
高一英语
命题人：高二英语备课组 审题人:封晓玲
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，第Ⅰ卷第1至第8页，第Ⅱ卷第8至第10页。全卷满分150 分：第Ⅰ卷85分；第Ⅱ卷65分。考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：
1、答题前，考生将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目涂写在答题卡上。
2、答第Ⅰ卷时，每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动用橡皮擦干净后，再涂其它答案，不能答在试题卷上。
3、答第Ⅱ卷时，使用黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡指定区域书写，要求字体工整，笔迹清晰。 4、考试结束，监考人员将答题卡按座位号、页码顺序收回。
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分 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
The Healthy Habits Survey shows that only about one third of American seniors have correct habits. Here are some findings and expert advice. 1. How many times did you brush your teeth yesterday? Finding: A full 33% of seniors brush their teeth only once a day. Step: Remove the 300 types of bacteria in your mouth each morning with a battery-operated toothbrush. Brush gently for 2 minutes, at least twice a day. 2. How many times did you wash your hands or bathe yesterday? Finding: Seniors, on average, bathe fewer than 3 days a week. And nearly 30% wash their hands only 4 times a day---half of the number doctors recommend. Step: We touch our faces around 3,000 times a day---often inviting germs（病菌）to enter our mouth, nose, and eyes. Use toilet paper to avoid touching the door handle. And, most importantly, wash your hands often with hot running water and soap for 20 seconds. 3. How often do you think about fighting germs? Finding: Seniors are not fighting germs as well as they should. Step: Be aware of germs. Do you know it is not your toilet but your kitchen sponge（海绵）that can carry more germs than anything else? To kill these germs, keep your sponge in the microwave for 10 seconds.
1. What is found out about American seniors? A. Most of them have good habits. B. About one third of them brush their teeth only once a day.
C. All of them are fighting germs better than expected. D. Nearly 30% of them bathe three days a week.
2. How often do doctors suggest that people should wash their hands? A. Twice a day. B. Four times a day. C. Three times a day. D. Eight times a day. 3. Where does the text probably come from? A. An official document. B. A guide book. C. A popular magazine. D. A book review.
B
After four silent years, British singer Adele Adkins finally introduced herself to the world again with Hello, the opening song from her third album 25, which came out on November 20, 2015.
Although Adele is a very successful singer now, music wasn’t always what she saw herself doing. At age 10, when she saw her grandmother’s pain over the death of Adele’s grandfather, she pictured herself as a heart surgeon.
“I wanted to fix people’s hearts,” she told the UK music website i-D, remembering the childhood interest she’d had in biology classes until she found out that her real talent was for singing.
“Adele didn’t go to medical school, but many would agree that she still has healing（治愈）powers. Her songs find the kind of memory every listener holds somewhere in their heart. This kind of feeling is what people have always liked in Adele,” said The Telegraph. “She writes a pop diary, sharing the simple secrets of her heart.”
Most successful pop stars make albums at a fast pace, but not Adele. After her second album 21 won the 2012 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, she made it clear with her label（标签） that she would spend “four or five years” making her next album. She told magazine. “I won’t come out with new music until it’s better than 21.”
Instead of seeking fame, Adele remained silent and moved to the countryside. In her free time, she loved to watch TV series Teen Mom, American Horror Story, and The Walking Dead.
Living life as normally as possible is important to the singer’s art. “Nobody wants to listen to a record from someone who’s not living in the real world,” Adele told i-D. “So I live a low-key life for my fans.”
4. What does the text mainly tell us?
A. The secrets of Adele’s success in music. B. The popularity of Adele’s album 25. C. The reason for Adele’s becoming a singer. D. The healing powers of Adele’s music.
5. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Adele wasn’t interested in music at first. B. Music wasn’t very important in Adele’s life.
C. Adele wasn’t good at music at the beginning. D. Music wasn’t all Adele wanted to be devoted to. 6. Why doesn’t Adele want to make albums at a fast pace?
A. To win the Grammy Award. B. To live a low-key and real life. C. To guarantee the music quality. D. To share the secrets as a musician. 7. What can we know about Adele?
A. She has kept a diary since childhood. B. Her works are based on the real life. C. She moved to the countryside before 2012. D. Her album Hello will come out on November 20.
C
Grown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced ever since. A man who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can still swim as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away. A mother who has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” or remember the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears. it.
In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, and bicycle riding long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but overlearn.
The multiplication tables（乘法口诀表）are an exception to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood.
The law of overlearning explains why cramming（突击学习）for an examination, though it may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to pass the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little overlearning, on the other hand, is really necessary for one’s future development.
8. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1?
A. People remember well what they learned in childhood. B. Children have a much better memory than grown-ups.
One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as follows: once we have learned something, extra learning attempts or tries to increase the length of time we will remember
C. Poem reading is considered a good way to learn words. D. Stories for children are very easy to remember. A. By presenting research finding. B. By setting down general rules. C. By making a comparison. D. By using examples.
A. Commonly accepted rules. B. The multiplication tables. C. Things easily forgotten. D. School subjects.
A. It’s helpful only in a limited way. B. It causes failure in college exams. C. It’s possible to result in poor memory. D. It increases students’ learning interest.
D
A new keyboard can tell whether you are its owner. The keyboard records information about the
9. How does the author explain the law of overlearning?
10. What does the word “they” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
11. What is the author’s opinion on cramming?
typing pattern and sends it to a computer program. The program then checks to see if the pattern matches the right user. If not, an alarm sounds, and the computer locks the typist out. It locks out anyone else, even if the person knows password. What’s more, this device needs no batteries. It harvests all the energy it needs from the action of your typing. Besides, the keyboard is also self-cleaning and the keys are free of damage from water, oil and dirt.
The keys of the new keyboard are made of the same inexpensive plastic that might be found on any other standard keyboard. But instead of being smooth, the keys have millions of tiny plastic nanowires（纳米线）on their surface area to every key, increasing the effective contact area between the plastics and fingers. This ensures that there’s enough power to run the keyboard as someone types.
Liming Dai, a scientist, did not work on the new keyboard, but he thinks the design could be important in getting better performance from a variety of devices. “It could also be applied to a touch screen, for instance,” Dai says. “Then smart phones and notepads could harvest energy from the action of someone typing or drawing.”
“Future work might make the keyboard even more useful” Dai adds. “A later design might build tiny capacitors（电容器）onto the nanowires,” he suggests. Capacitors are little devices that temporarily store electric charges. Those might then power LEDs to light a keyboard in the dark.
Zhonglin Wang is a co-designer of the new keyboard. His team has built a working model of the keyboard. “If a company decides to fund（投资）its production, this keyboard could be in stores in as little as two years,” says Wang.
12. How does the new keyboard tell whether you are its owner?
A. By checking the right user’s passwords.
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