山西省忻州二中高一英语上学期期中试题.doc

2020学年上学期期中试题高一英 语第 Ⅰ 卷 (选择题,共55分)第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节：（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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AAmerican eat breakfast and lunch quickly if it is not a social, business or family occasion. The evening meal is usually longer and a time for families to gather together. Rushing through daytime meals is part of the fast pace in America. Another reason for rushing through daytime meals is that many people eat in restaurants that are usually crowded with people waiting for a place so that they, too, can be served and return to work on time. So each one hurries to make room for the next person. As with busy people everywhere there is a real difference between meals that are eaten in a hurry and those that can be enjoyed slowly with friends.1.What is not mentioned in the passage? ______A.What time Americans eat dinner B.Where Americans eatC.The reason why Americans eat in a hurry D.Which meal Americans eat slowly2..Americans hurry at meals because ______A.they are not used to eating slowly B.they do not like eating outdoorsC.they don‘t have enough time for meals in the daytimeD.they don’t like to eat slowly during their work time3.According to the passage the least busy time to eat in a restaurant would probable be ______A.during the busy time B.at lunchC.at dinner D.at either breakfast or lunch4.The passage suggests that the Americans ______A.like eating with friends B.don‘t take a sleep after lunchC.don’t eat much at lunch D.eat dinner less slowly than lunch5.According to the passage Americans ______A.often hurry in the evening B.are always late for their workC.eat slower for social and business reasons D.never eat in restaurant in the eveningBCars are the most important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor he doesn‘t feel really poor when he has a car.Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably doesn’t know how much the car was going to affect American culture. The car made the United States a nation on wheels. And it helped to make the United States what it is today.There are many reasons that the car became so popular in the United States. First of all, the country was a large one and Americans like to move around in it. The car provides the most comfortable and cheapest from of transportation. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.The second reason that cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed an efficient and inexpensive from of public transportation. Long distance trains have never been as common in the United States as they are in the other parts of the world. Nowadays there is good system of air service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently.The third reason is the most important one. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don‘t like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don’t like to have to follow an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to plan their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.The gas shortage has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real solution will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much gas.6.Most Americans feel they are poor when they ______A.are out of work B.don‘t have enough foodC .have no cars D.have no money7..Henry was the first to ______ cars.A.find out B. produce C.sell D. find8."a nation on wheels" means ______A.the nation is producing the best cars in the worldB.everyone in this country owns a carC.there are more cars than trains in the countryD. cars play a very important role in people’s life9.With a car people can go ______ easily.A. where B.to any place C.to anywhere D.any place10.The real solution to the gas shortage problem is ______A.to make less cars B.to develop train serviceC.to develop a good transportation system D.to make gas-saving carsCPeople have smoked cigarettes for a long time now. The tobacco used to make cigarettes was grown in what is now part of the United States. Christopher Columbus, who discovered America, saw the Indians smoking, and soon the dried leaves were transported (运输) to Europe where smoking began to catch on. In the late 1800s, the Turks (土耳其人) made cigarettes popular.Cigarettes smoke contains at least two harmful substances (物质), tar and nicotine, Tar, which forms as the tobacco bums, damages the lungs and therefore affects breathing. Nicotine, which is found in the leaves, causes the heart to beat faster and increa。