【2019最新】高一英语上学期期末考试试题高一英语试卷第二部分阅读理解（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。

AAmericans like to travel on vacations. Today more and more travelers in the United States are spending nights at small houses or inns instead of hotels. They get a room for the night and the breakfast for the next morning.Staying at a bed-and-breakfast inn is much different from staying at a hotel. Usually the cost is much less. Staying at an inn is almost like visiting someone’s hom e. The owners are glad to tell about the area and the interesting places to visit. Many vacationists say they enjoy the chance to meet local families.21. Where do more and more travelers in the USA like spending nights? ________.A. At hotelsB. In the open airC. In their carsD. At small houses or inns22. How many years have the bed-and-breakfast places been popular in the USA?________.A. For five yearsB. For one yearC. For five to ten yearsD. For ten years23. American travelers like staying at bed-and-breakfast inns because ________.A. these inns are cheapB. these inns are smallC. they can meet and talk with the local peopleD. both A and CBCold weather can be hard on pets, just like it can be hard on people. Sometimes owners forget that their cats are just as used to the warm shelter (住所) as they are. Some owners will leave their animals outside for a long period of time, thinking that all animals are used to living outdoors. This can put their pets in danger of serious illness. There are things you can do to keep your animal warm and safe.Keep your pets inside as much as you can when the weather is bad. If you have to take them out, stay outside with them. Whenyou’re cold enough to go inside, th ey probably are too. If you must leave them outside for a long time, make sure they have a warm, solid shelter against the wind, thick bedding, and plenty of non-frozen water.If left alone outside, dogs and cats can be very smart in their search for warm shelter. They can dig into snow banks or hide somewhere. Watch them closely when they are left outdoors, and provide them with shelter of good quality. Keep an eye on your pet’s water. Sometimes owners don’t realize that a water bowl has frozen and their p et can’t get anything to drink. Animals that don’t have clean and unfrozen water may drink dirty water outside, which may contain something unhealthy for them.24. What do we learn about pets from Paragraph 1? ________.A. They are often forgotten by their ownersB. They like to stay in warm placesC. They build their won sheltersD. They are used to living outdoors25. Why are pet owners asked to stay with their pets when they are out in cold weather?_______.C. To know when to bring them insideD. To keep them from eating bad food26. If pets are left on their own outdoors in cold weather, they may ________.A. get lost in the wildB. run short of clean waterC. dig deep holes for funD. make the water in the bowl dirty27. What is the purpose of this text? ________.A. To give practical adviceB. To solve an argumentC. To tell an interesting storyD. To present a research resultCOnce when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus (马戏表演). Finally there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they didn’t have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean. The children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents. The children were excitedly talking about the clowns, elephants and other acts they would see that night. One could sense they had never been to thecircus before.The father and the mother were ahead standing, proud as they could be.The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He proudly responded, “Please let me buy eight children’s tickets and two adult tickets.”The ticket lady told him the price.The man’s wife lowered her head and there was no longer a smile on the man’s face.The father leaned a little closer and quietly asked, “How much did you say?The ticket lady again told him the price.The man obviously didn’t have enough money. How could he turn around and tell his eight kids that he didn’t have enough money to take them to the circus.Seeing what was going on, my dad put his hand into his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground. (We were not rich in any sense of the world!) My father reached down, picked up the bill, tapped the man on the shoulder and said, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.” The man knew what was going on. He looked straight into my dad’s eyes, took my dad’s hand in both of his and pressed tightly onto the bill, and withhis lips trembling and tears streaming down his cheeks, he replied, “Thank you, thank you , Sir. This really means a lot to me and my family.”My father and I went back to our car and drove home. We didn’t go to the circus that night, but we didn’t go without.28.Why did the smile on the man’s face disappear after he spokewith the ticket lady? ________.A. He had lost his moneyB. His children were noisyC. The tickets were sold outD. The tickets were too expensive29.We can infer from the text that the writer’s father didn’t give the money to the father directly because ________.A.he didn’t want to hurt the man’s pride and respectB.he wanted to make the father feel ashamedC.he was not very willing to help the manD.he wanted to pretend to be very wealthy30.We can conclude from the last sentence of the story that________.A.they had never gone to the circus ever sinceB.they felt it a pity that they didn’t go to the circusC.they felt they would be scolded for their behaviorD.they didn’t feel bad though they didn’t go to the circus31. What’s the best title of the text? ________.A. A pity of mineB. Something bad as a childC. A $20 billD. Relationship among peopleDHave you read this before? 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. That is the 90/10 Principle. You really have no control over 10% of what happens to us, but you determine the other 90%.Let’s use an example. You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You severely scold your daughter and she breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you blame your wife for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt.Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and she misses the bus. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at the school and your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye.Why did you have a bad day? Did the coffee cause it? Did your daughter cause it?Here is what could have and should have happened.Notice the difference? Two different scenarios（剧情）. Both started the same. Both ended different.32. From the text, what happens after the coffee incident? ________.A. The couple have an argumentB. The mother gets to work lateC. The father has a traffic accidentD. The daughter finishes breakfast soon33. The author use the example ________.C. to give advice on self-controlD. to show the importance of harmony34. The underlined word “wedge” in Paragraph 4 can probably be replaced by ________.A. improvementB. advantageC. disadvantageD. wound35. According to the text, ________ leads to the different endings.A. your coffeeB. your familyC. your reactionD. your experience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。