成都外国语学校2016-2017学年度上期期末考试高一英语笔试试卷第Ｉ卷（选择题共70分）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。

AThe strange world of bugsSaturday, April 18, 2 pmDiscover the amazing group of shapes, sizes, and behaviors in the insect world, and learn how insects haveinfluence on our lives for better and for worse--from helpful pollinators to annoying bloodsuckers ! Kids can meetlive bugs.Sun powered housesSaturday, April 25, 2 pmFind out how the Cornell University Solar team will design, build and operate an energy-efficient, solar-powered house as part of a national competition. Families will learn about the advantages of solar energy and take part in a fun, practical activity. Special school vacation week programMonday, April 13-Friday, April 17, 2 pmLearn how seeds grow into plants. Kids can cut up a seed to find all its parts, make a special book showing the parts of a bean seed, and plant flower and vegetable seeds to take home. This program will be offered at 2 pm every afternoon, Monday--Friday, during school vacation week.Spring into scienceSaturday, March 21, 2 pmSpring into science with Sciencenter educator John Alvarez del Cas tillo. Find out howthe rhythms of the seasons influence plants and animals. Even chickens rely on day length to regulate egg production!“Did you eat?”Saturday, March 14, 2 pmLearn what owls eat with Sciencenter educator John Alvarez del Castillo. Families will cut up real “owl p ellets”--the fur, bones, and other inedible parts of an owl’ s diet !1. Why did students of the Cornell University design a sun powered house?A. To save energy for the university.B. To take part in a competition.C. To provide house for poor family.D. To prove the use of solar energy.2. What activity should you join to learn the role of seasons?A. The strange world of bugs.B. Special school vocation week program.C. Spring into science.D. “Did you eat”.3. To join in Special school vacation week program, you will learn .A. how insects are related to our lifeB. what chickens reply on to lay eggsC. what birds eat every dayD. how seeds grow into plants4. The advertisement is intended for .A. a science centerB. a summer campC. a travel organizationD. a TV programBAlthough Ripton Rosen was a white boy living in a luxurious penthouse, he liked to play baseball with hisblack teammates of the same street. Ripton sometimes invited the boys to his home to play video games. As timewent on, several of them became frequent visitors to the 16th-floor penthouse. In time, the group developed into five regulars: Will and Kindu, Philippe Medina, Juan Carlos Robinson and Carlos Suarez.“In the beginning, it was just a lot of kids moving all over the place,"says Michael, Ripton’s father. Thingsthen began changing in small ways. When the Rosens realized Carlos wasn’t attending school because he didn't have suitable clothes, they bought him some. Then one night, they took the group to a bookstore after a Chinese dinner and realized there were other needs. “The boys had no interest in books at all,”Michael says. Back at the penthouse, he insisted they sit down to read aloud and start a half-hour reading period before video games or television ever day.Slowly the five black boys became a necessary part of the Rosen family. Housework was assigned, including cleaning, loading the dishwasher and walking Mr Jenkins, the family dog.The boys’ own families were puzzled by what was happening. “My mom didn’t believe me when I told her about the penthouse,”says Kindu.“She thought I was involved with something bad.”Juan Carlos’ mother, Esther Ruiz,wondered,"Why would the Rosens be doing this?"But as time went on, she noticed changes in her son. “He was getting responsible. The Rosens are the best".5. The Rosens bought Carlos some clothes so that .A. he would study harderB. he would feel comfortableC. he could go to schoolD. he could serve the family6. The underlined words “other needs”in Paragraph 2 probably refer to the needof .A. knowledgeB. textbooksC. cataloguesD.paperwork7. We learn from the passage that the Rosens .A. devoted themselves to fighting discriminationB. knew a lot about how to encourage childrenC. regarded friendship as the most important thingD. treated the black boys with great kindness8. The passage is constructed to confirm the fact that .A. parents are expected to treat other children as generously as possibleB. children ought to be encouraged to make friends with each otherC. all men are created equal, and there should be no racial divisionD. everyone is likely to be grateful for whatever kindness others have shownCIn some ways, the United States has made some progress. Fires no longer destroy 18,000 buildings as they did in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, or kill half a town of 2,400 people, as they did the sa me night in Peshtigo, Wisc onsin. Other than the Beverly Hill Supper Club fire in Kentucky in 1977, it has been four decades since more than 100 Americans died in a fire.But even with such successes, the United States still has one of the worst fire death rates in the world. Safety experts say the problem is neither money nor technology, but the indifference of a country that just will not take fires seriously enough.American fire departments are some of the world's fastest and best-equipped. They have to be. The United States has twice Japan's population, and 40 times as many fires. It spends far less on preventing fires than on fighting them. And American fire -safety lessons are aimed almost entirely at children, who die in large numbers in fires but who, against popular beliefs, start very few of them.Experts say the error is an opinion that fires are not really anyone's fault. That is not so in other countries, where both public education and the law treat fires as either a personal failing or a crime. Japan has many wood houses; of the 48 fires in world history that burned more than 10,000 buildings, Japan has had 27. Punishment for causing a big fire can be as severe as life imprisonment.In the United States, most education dollars are spent in elementary schools. But, the lessons are aimed at too limited a number of people; just 9 percent of all fire deaths are caused by children playing with matches.The United States continues to depend more on technology than laws or social pressure. There are smoke detectors in 85 percent of all homes. Some local building laws now require home sprinklers (喷水装置). New heaters and irons shut themselves off if they are tipped.9. The reason why so many Americans die in fires is that _____.A. they took no interest in new technologyB. they did not pay great attention to preventing firesC. they showed indifference to fighting firesD. they did not spend enough money on fire equipment10. It can be inferred from the passage that______.A. fire safety lessons should not be aimed only at American childrenB. American children have not received enough education of fire safety lessonsC. Japan is better equipped with fire equipment than the United StatesD. America's large population leads to more fires11. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?A. There has been no great fire in the USA in recent 40 years that leads to high death rate.B. There have been several great fires in the USA in recent 40 years that lead to high death rate.C. There has been only one great fire in the USA in recent 40 years that led to high death rate.D. The fire in Kentucky in 1977 made only a few people killed.DThere are many people you are well advised to treat kindly: Your child’s teacher, your husband or wife, your boss and so on.Until now, that best-behavior-required list has not included your Uber driver, or for that matter, taxi drivers. Old thinking: Hey, they’re here to serve me. I don’t have to make a special effort to be nice to them.Dangerously wrong.A recent New York Times story told the instructive tale of a Uber passenger, HusseinKanji, who says he’s really not sure how he made his driver angry. All he knows is that his driver-generated rating went way down and the wait for a Uber car became hours instead of minutes.Beware, Uberians: If you’re feeling angry when you slide into the back seat and you give your driver the silent treatment, your reputation may get damaged in thedriver-generated ratings. If you’re among the people one Uber driver desc ribed as “generally negative”, watch out.Uber isn’t the only front on this battlefield. The ability to rate someone’s service is one of the successes of the Internet. It helps everyo ne weed out people with bad attitudes and worse habits.These ratings should cut both ways. A while back, the auction site eBay made many of its sellers angry when it started preventing them from giving negative ratings to buyers. Until then, sellers and buyers had threatened each other with negative reviews. Too many negative reviews could get you thrown off.Then eBay shifted the balance of power to buyers. Sellers can still write a bad comment, but the overall rating cannot be anything but positive. Thus eBay has become a place where all is for the best. Think positive!We know that being nice to people all day can be exhausting. We’ve also seen people who shout at those who don’t measure up to their expectations for service.Uber is reportedly about to come to Chicago. It is a welcome competitor here because it fits the needs of customers in a new way. We know Uber is a two-way street. But drivers who get too picky may end up with no passengers.Everyone, behave.12. In general, people think of Uber drivers as people who ______.A. they can take advantage ofB. they don’t have to be nice toC. are required to be on their best behaviorD. need better treatment from customers13. Negative driver-generated ratings mean that ______.A. customers have to wait for a longer time when using Uber carsB. drivers are too slow to pick up customersC. Uber drivers can refuse to work for certain customersD. customers have done damage to Uber cars14. The example of eBay in the article is probably meant to show that ______.A. in the Internet age, buyers have always had the advantage of ratingsB. the power of ratings should be given to both sides of a serviceC. the main reason why eBay has become a successful auction siteD. controversy between customers and sellers has only come about recently15. The author has written this article to ______.A. show that when using services like Uber, your behavior directly affects the service you getB. prove that giving and receiving bad ratings can influence your lifeC. suggest that tools like Uber and eBay can reflect what kind of person you areD. stress that both customers and service providers should be generally respectful and positive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项。