广东省普宁市华美实验学校2018-2019学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题附答案

1、广东省普宁市华美实验学校2018-2019学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题第一部分：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, 从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AFrance The France company that spread a Europe-wide cheating of food supply by passing off（冒充）750 tons of horse-meat as beef was allowed on Monday to restart production of minced meat, sausages and ready-to-eat meals. But the company will no longer be allowed to stock frozen meat, Agriculture Minister Stephane Foll said. United Kingdom A new virus that broke out

2、 in the Middle East last year and killed five people is well adapted to infecting（感染）humans but could practically be treated with drugs that improve the immune(免疫)system. “The virus is from the same family as the common cold and as SARS.” a scientist from Oxford on Tuesday. South Africa Olympian runner Oscar Pistorius broke into the door of a small bathroom where his girl friend was bathing after a shouting match on Valentines Day, hitting her three times, a South African prosecutor(检察官) said on

3、 Tuesday as he charged the sports star with planned murder. Egypt Former Egyptian prime minister and presidential(总统的) candidate Ahmed Shafiq was referred to the Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday over corruption（腐败）and money laundering charges, the official News Agency reported. Shafiq has left Egypt for the United Arab after losing the presidential race.1. According to the passage, the French company_. A. spread a virus across Europe. B. sold 750 tons beef as horse-meat. C. restarted production o

4、f frozen meat. D. was again allowed to produce sausages.2. The planned murder took place in _. A. Egypt B. America C. South Africa D. The United Kingdom3. This passage is taken from the section of _in a newspaper. A. Nation B. World C. Sports D. ScienceBPopeye the Sailor(大力水手) first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach（菠菜） to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more sp

5、inach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many peoples diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten

6、 times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needsfolic acid. It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.4. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?A. They though

7、t spinach made them strong.B. They thought Popeye was funny.C. Spinach had a lot of iron.D. People liked folic acid.5. In the 1890s, a research group told people that spinach_.A. made Popeye strong B. was a green vegetableC. had less iron than other green vegetablesD. had more iron than other green vegetables6. The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from_.A. ironB. folic acidC. spinachD. exercise7. Folic acid is _.A. something in foodB. a vegetableC. dangerousD. a certain

8、kind of spinachC At first, the earths surface layer (层) was made up of huge blocks of hard, solid rocks. Then slowly, the rocks broke up into smaller and smaller pieces. Finally stones, pebbles (卵石) and grains of sand were formed. Many sorts of plants and animals lived and died on the surface of the earth. Their remains mixed up with the stones, pebbles and formed soil. The outmost layer of the earth is soil.There are many ways in which large pieces of rock break into smaller ones. Wind, water,

9、heat and cold help to break up rocks. When winds blow grains of sand against a large rock for a long time, the softer layers of the rock are slowly worn away. These leave holes and cracks in the rock, which become bigger and finally the rock breaks up into smaller pieces.The moving water of streams and rivers also helps to break up rocks. As the water moves along, it carries with it small pieces of rock. These rub the larger ones. Thus, the larger rocks are worn down to smaller pieces.The heat of the sun is also helpful to breaking up rocks. When the sun shines, the rocks become very hot. If these rocks are suddenly cooled, they may crack. Ice also plays a part in making soil. Water in the cracks can turn into ice in cold w

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