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河南省天一大联考
2017-2018
学年高一
下学期阶段性测试（四）
英语试题
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A
Kitchen Products Thai Will Make Your
Life a Lot Easier
?
Hanging Trash Bag.
Speaking
of
clever
bap
that
will
change
your
world,
how
many
times
have
you
cut
off
loads
of
vegetables and tried to
clean up the messy waste, only to make half of it
accidentally drop on the floor?
This
hanging trash bag attachment
(
附件
) makes
clean-
up super easy, so you?ll never
end up with smelly
chopped
(
切碎的
) onions all over your
floor again.
Available on Amazon, $$
6.99
?
Dream Farm Supoon
How many times have you struggled for
just that last little bit of something out of a
jar or dish? This
all-purpose cooking
spoon helps scraps (
刮擦
) the
edges of any pan, bowl, or strangely-shaped
container
with zero effort, so you?ll
always get that last bit, every time.
Available on Amazon, $$20.40
?
Flex Pot
Clip
For those of us who?d
rather not balance our serving spoon or wooden
spoon on the edge of the pot
unstea
dily, or rest it on
the counter where it?ll definitely make a mess,
allow me to introduce you to the
Flex
Pot Clip. Attach it to the edge of your pot so you
can keep your counters clean and your hands free.
It?s heat
-resistant and
dishwasher safe!
Available
on Amazon, $$7.88
?
Reusable Silicone Lids
These are useful to cover your food
before putting it in the fridge if you often have
leftovers. These
silicone lids are
flexible, reusable, arid airtight, allowing you to
leave your food right in its original dish or
bowl and keep
it fresh for
days. They?re clear, eco
-friendly, and
super easy to store, since they hardly take
up any space. Available on Amazon,
$$15.97
21. What is the use of the
Hanging Trash Bag?
A. To reduce waste
of food.
B. To make
containers clean.
C. To collect kitchen
waste.
D. To make food
easy to store.
22. Where can you fix a
Flex Pot Clip?
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A. On the edge
of a pot.
B.
In a dishwasher.
C. On the counter.
D. In a comer.
23. Which of
the following products can make the food remain
fresh?
A. Flex Pot Clip.
B.
Hanging Trash Bag.
C. Dream Farm
Supoon.
D.
Reusable Silicone Lids.
B
Cassie Warren and Jesse Jones will
always have a great story to tell I heir kids
about the kindness of
strangers and how
one stranger in particular made their welding
planning that much sweeter.
A
few
weeks
ago,
as
Warren
was
addressing
wedding
invitations
for
her
upcoming
wedding,
she
mistakenly used an old address
for her aunt
and uncle in
nearby Eugene, Oregon.
But
when a stranger
received I
he misa
ddressed mail, she didn?t just
throw it in the garbage like many people would
have done.
Instead, she returned the
invitation, along with a sweet note and $$20 as a
wedding present.
The sender also wrote
“Live long and prosper” on the comer of the
card
---wo
rds from “Star
Trek”,
probably
because
the
young
couple?s
wedding
invitation
shows
Jesse
holding
a
light
knife
from
“Star
Wars” and Cassie
holding a wand (
魔杖
) in a nod
to the “Harry Potter” books.
The generous stranger also included
$$20, probably as a little gift for the wedding.
The young couple
put
the
money
to
good
u
se
by
going
out
to
dinner
with
a
friend
who
wouldn?t
be
able
to
attend
the
wedding.
Warren said that
she was at first confused by the returned wedding
invitation. “But after I saw the
note,
I was just surprised and blessed that she/he would
do that for a s
tranger,” Warren said.
“Jesse was
confused al first, too-he
wondered why someone had sent us money, then I
read the message to him, and
he was
shocked and grateful.”
Warren and Jones still don?t know the
name of the kind stranger, but Warren sent a
thank
-you note to
the same
address to let the sender know how much her/his
generosity was appreciated. The young couple
plan to marry in June and thanks to the
kindness of a stranger, their marriage is already
off to a sweet start.
24. What caused
the story to happen?
A. A stranger?s
honesty.
B. A genuine email.
C. A
wrong address.
D. Jones?s carelessness.
25. How did the stranger deal with the
invitation?
A. She
gave it
to Jesse?s aunt.
B. She accepted it immediately.
C. She ignored it completely.
D. She responded to it
kindly.
26. How did Warren feel on
receiving the returned wedding invitation?
A. Thankful.
B. Puzzled.
C. Relaxed.
D.
Angry.
27. What can be the best title
for the text?
A. A Sweet Wedding
B.
A Kind Neighbor
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C
. Stranger?s
Kindness
D. A Happy Young Couple
C
According
to
the
Guinness
Book
of
World
Records,
a
Sitka
Spruce,
growing
on
New
Zealand?s
southernmost
island,
is
the
loneliest
and
most
distant
tree
on
Earth.
Not
only
is
it
the
only
tree
on
Campbell Island, but the
nearest other tree can be found over 200
kilometers away.
Located
(
位于
) about
700 km
south of
Bluff, Campbell
Island is
one of
the
harshest places
in the
world. With strong
winds blowing almost all year round, less than 600
hours of sunshine and only 40 days
per
year without rain, it ? s not exactly a perfect
place to live.
It is
believed that this Sitka Spruce was planted by
Lord Ranfurly, a former governor of New Zealand,
sometime between 1901 and 1907.
According to some sources, he realized that the
environment was too
bad, so he took the
first step to cover it in forest. His idea was
never going to work because of the terrible
climate of the area.
Apart
from being the loneliest tree on Earth, the Sitka
Spruce of Campbell Island has a series of other
particularities. First of all, its
shape makes it look more like a huge cauliflower
(
花椰菜
) than a tree. This
is believed to have been caused by the
repeated cutting every year, for decades. Luckily,
no one has been
cutting the tree down
over the last six decades and it has grown to a
height of over 10 meters.
Another
interesting thing about the world?s loneliest tree
is that, though it is over 100 years old, it has
never produced cones
(
球果
), which suggests the
tree has remained in a permanently young state.
The Sitka Spruce of Campbell Island was
recently in the news for helping researchers make
sure that
the Earth has entered an
entirely new age, the Anthropocene
(
人类世
).
Who knew a
lonely tree growing 200 km away from its nearest
cousins could be so interesting?
28.
What makes the Sitka Spruce set a world record?
A. Its height.
B. Its old age.
C.
Its special shape.
D. Its
location.
29. W
hat does the
underlined word “harshest” in paragraph 2 probably
mean?
A. Farthest.
B.
Hardest.
C. Loneliest.
D. Hottest.
30. Why did Lord Ranfurly plant Sitka
Spruces on the Campbell Island?
A. To
improve this place.
B. To experiment with the tree.
C. In memory of his achievement.
D. To help with
researchers
?
study.
31. What affected the shape of the
Sitka Spruce according to the text?
A.
Strong winds.
B. Animals?
eating.
C.
People
?
s cutting.
D. Poor soil.
D
For most people, Friday, which happens
to be the 13
th
, means little
more than the start of a weekend.
However, to million people worldwide
who suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia
(
周五
13
恐惧症
), the
combination of the day and number
brings had luck. While no one knows for sure how
it began, there are
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many theories.
Experts think it starts with the fear
of the number 13. The number 13 suffers from its
position after 12,
which is regarded as
a complete number. After all, there are 12 months
in a year, 12 gods of Olympus, and
so
on. This has caused the belief that 13 is
incomplete and, therefore, unlucky.
The
number?s bad name is worsened by the fact
that several unfortunate incidents are
linked with 13.
One
example
is
NASA?s
Apollo
13
mission
(
任务
).
The
seventh
manned
mission
in
the
Apollo
space
program, launched
(
发射
) at 13:13, never landed
on moon. For some people, the mission failed
because of
the number 13.
If
you
are
among
those
who
can
“
Shake
It
Off
”,
yo
u
are
in
great
company.
Taylor
Swift
is
not
affected by the
number, who says, “I was
bo
rn on the 13th. I turned 13 on Friday
t
he 13th. Every time I?ve
won an award
I?ve been
seated in either
the 13th seal or the
13th row. Basically, whenever a 13 comes up
in my life, it
?
s
a good thing.”
The fear of
Friday
appears to
come mainly
from
ancient
religion.
It was the day
Jesus
was
killed.
Though the date was not the 13th, it
happened after the Last Supper, which had 13
guests.
When
the
date
and
day
meet,
people
suffer
from
anxiety.
Construction
and
shipbuilding
workers
easily become
nervous, which often leads to more accidents.
This, of course, further adds to their anxiety.
It
is
reported
that
businesses
lose
more
than
$$800
million
because
many
people
avoid
traveling
or
shopping on this day.
32. In
which part of a newspaper might the passage come
from?
A. Society and Culture.
B.
Wealth and Finance.
C. Health and
Fitness.
D. Arts and Entertainment.
33. Why was Apollo 13 mission
mentioned?
A. To prove
people?s fear of 13.
B. To show the cause of the failure.
C. To point out the bad luck caused by
13.
D. To give
examples about the bad name of 13.
34
What does t
he underlined part “Shake It
O
ff
” in paragraph 4 probably
mean?
A. Appreciate it.
B. Defend it.
C. Imagine it.
D. Gel rid of
it.
35. What can we know about
paraskevidekatriaphobia from the last paragraph?
A. Its origin.
B. Its effect.
C. Its cause.
D. Its
solution.
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Building the thinking habit is
important because it helps you live with a purple.
How can we build the
thinking habit?
Here are some tips.
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