1、辽宁省大连市高一上学期期末考试英语试题第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。ACarol: I started playing the cello（大提琴）when I was about eight or nine. It was great playing the cello because I was in youth orchestras and we went abroad to do tours. But anyway, when I got to univer
2、sity, I stopped playing. Well, there just wasnt time and there were so many other things to do. Luckily, I took it up after my 25th birthday and joined a band.Daniel: When I was little, I thought Id end up learning the guitar like my father, but then I decided that I wanted to have my own instrument
3、, so I chose the trumpet（小号）. Im in the school jazz band and Id like to be a musician when I grow up, but my dad says its difficult to make a living from music. But I dont want to be a lawyer like him. Its so boring.Carmen: Nobody likes living near someone like me because when I practice, I make a l
4、ot of noise! But you have to keep practicing, dont you? Otherwise it gets more and more difficult. The trouble is, in the summer, when its hot, I have to open the windows, so the whole street gets to hear it if Im not careful. I love playing the drums and I play in a fantastic band.Vince: Ive played
5、 the guitar for as long as I can remember, but when I was trying to make it as a musician after school, I used to play in the Underground in London to make a bit of extra money. I kept on playing, but I ran a restaurant to make a living. When I get any spare time I still play. Ive got a few friends
6、who like music too and we have formed a band.1. Why did Carol once give up playing the cello?A. She couldnt go abroad to play. B. She turned to other instruments.C. She found it boring to play it all day. D. She couldnt spare any time to play it.2. What do we know about Daniel?A. He plays the trumpe
7、t in the school band. B. He is good at playing the guitar.C. His father pushes him to be a lawyer. D. His father gives him a lot of help.3. What is the trouble that Carmen is facing?A. She cannot play well in public.B. Playing the drums bothers others.C. The street is so noisy in the summer.D. Its h
8、ard to keep practicing in the summer.4. Why did Vince start restaurant business?A. To make a living. B. To form a band.C. To make friends. D. To share music.BWinslow Homer was a famous American painter. Since Art History class in college, I had always admired his works and I was lucky to see a large
9、 exhibition of his works when I was in my early 30s.It was at this event that I bought a print of his painting, “Snap the Whip”. It always hung in my classroom until I retired from teaching.I thought it truly captured the freedom and fun of childhood. In the painting, a group of young boys are playi
10、ng a game arm in arm on grass ground in front of a farm house. They are jumping and laughing wildly with great joy. One of the boys is falling down to the ground. They are not even wearing shoes!During my last year of teaching, there was a young woman in her first year of teaching right next door to
11、 me and we got to be good friends. She had been an art student before taking up education. Her eyes were drawn immediately to this print when she entered my room. So on my last day of teaching, after the students had left, I took the painting off the wall and walked next door and gave it to her.She
12、was really surprised, but very glad to have it. I was delighted that she liked it and all the students she would have would treasure it as much as I had. We found the perfect place for it on one of her walls and hung it together. I was happy that she brought back this wonderful memory for me.5. Why
13、did the author admire the painting “Snap the Whip” so much?A. He had a deep love for children and students.B. It was bought from a famous American painter.C. It had also drawn the attention of the young woman.D. He appreciated the freedom and fun in the painting.6. What is the painting about?A. The
14、nature of children. B. Homeless children.C. Hard-working farmers. D. The pleasure of working.7. What does the underlined word “captured” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?A. Caught. B. Controlled. C. Recognized. D. Influenced.8. How did the author feel when seeing the painting hung in the womans room?A.
15、Regretful. B. Painful. C. Pleased. D. Proud.CSharing E Umbrella, a new umbrella sharing company based in Shenzhen, China, recently announced that it had lost most of the 300,000 umbrellas since it set up.Chinas sharing economy has been growing rapidly, with companies offering anything from bicycles
16、and basketballs to phone batteries for people to rent. Customers make a small deposit（押金）and get to use the thing for a daily cost, with a fine put in place for every day if they fail to return the product in time. Its a simple business model, and market data shows that people see sharing as a cheap
17、 and convenient way to cut down waste.Zhao Shuping founded the Sharing E Umbrella, an umbrella sharing service, in April. By the end of June, he had already started in 11 major Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou. While picking up the umbrellas was simple, as they were made ava
18、ilable（可得到的）at bus and subway stations, the return system turned out to be a different matter. “Umbrellas are different from bicycles,” Mr. Zhao told Chinese news site . “Bikes can be parked anywhere, but with an umbrella you need something to hang it on.”So instead of bothering to return the umbrel
19、las back to a station, a lot of people just took them home, and Sharing E Umbrella has reportedly lost track of most of the 300,000 umbrellas. Considering that borrowing umbrellas requires a 19 yuan deposit, with a fee of 0.50 yuan per half an hour usage, Zhao says that he suffers a loss of 60 yuan
20、per lost umbrella, so the company is now in the red, but he is not ready to stop it just yet. Zhao announces that Sharing E Umbrella still plans to roll out（推出）30 million nationwide by the end of the year.9. What do we know about Sharing E Umbrella?A. It makes people learn to help each other.B. It n
21、eeds people to make a small deposit first.C. It developed faster in the western countries.D. It produces more waste and causes disorder.10. What problem did Sharing E Umbrella meet after it was founded?A. The company had no money to produce umbrellas.B. Umbrellas are not allowed to hang anywhere.C.
22、Lots of customers didnt give the umbrellas back.D. People refuse to pay deposit for the umbrellas.11. How much did his company lose if an umbrella was lost?A. 0.5 yuan. B. 19 yuan. C. 60 yuan. D.120 yuan.12. We can infer from the last paragraph that .A. Zhao has found a way to get the umbrellas back
23、B. Zhao will continue his umbrella sharing serviceC. Most of Zhaos companies have been closedD. Sharing E Umbrella is a failure for ZhaoDMore than 135,000 UK drinkers will die from cancer caused by alcohol（酒精）by the year 2035, researchers say. A study by Sheffield University and Cancer Research UK s
24、hows that alcohol will cost the NHS (National Health Service)53 billion over the next ten years including 2 billion on cancer.Although alcohol is known to cause many types of cancer including breast and throat, most people dont realize the relation between alcohol and cancer. A survey of 2,100 Brito
25、ns by the researchers earlier this year found nine in ten did not connect drinking with cancer. The researchers used a computer model to work out the numbers of alcohol-related cancer deaths, hospital admissions（入院）and total costs to NHS over the next 20 years.The study shows that a fifth of men and
26、 1 in 10 women have alcohol every daymany of these are middle-aged and middle class. Researchers are very worried about this group as they believe cancer may be caused by drinking over long periods. The study shows that even if the cost stays as it is, alcohol-related cancer deaths will rise from 6,
27、299 in 2015 to 7,097 in 2034. Alcohol will lead to 891,299 hospital admissions, up from 802,118 in 2015, and 65,005 will be caused by cancer.Earlier this year Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies studied carefully the alcohol guidance（指导）for the first time in thirty years. She told people there w
28、as no safe level of drinking and advised them to drink no more than 14 units a week. But researchers say this guidance isnt enough and want the government to increase a little price per unit of alcohol.13. What can we learn from the text?A. Alcohol will be the main cause of cancer deaths.B. More peo
29、ple will get away from the habit of drinking.C. The computer model can help researchers to cut down costs on cancer.D. Most people are not clear about the relation between alcohol and cancer.14. What is the researchers hope for the government?A. To continue to support the study.B. To put up the pric
30、e of alcohol properly.C. To control alcohol-related cancer deaths.D. To study the alcohol guidance carefully.15. What may be the best title for the text?A. A Recent Study about CancerB. The Cost of the NHS on AlcoholC. The Discovery of the Causes of CancerD. Alcohol-related cancer over the Coming Ye
31、ars第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。It is easy to keep your spirits bright when life is going along smoothly and good news seems to turn up at every turn. It is an entirely different picture when life goes off course or bad news appears. The question then becomes: How do
32、 we keep our spirits bright throughout the different stages of life? 16 . Get Enough SleepIt wasnt until I became a mother that I realized how important a good nights sleep truly is. 17 . Sleep is such an amazing gift to recharge and start. Back to Basics（基本）When I feel tired with too much to do, I love to put on my shoes and get outside for a run. 18 . Getting back to basics can include things like:
