江苏省无锡江阴市2019-2020学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题

14.

Who will Andy pass the stick on to?

A. Pete.

B. Robbie.

15.

Which college are the speaks from?

A. Lancaster College.

B. Ashgrove College.

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C. On Sunday evening.

C. He watched TV..

C. Teacher and student.

C. A CD player.

C.$$50.

C. By credit card.

C. Dave.

C. Highland Park College.

16.

What event will the man complete in at 4 pm?

A. The long jump

：

B. The high jump.

C. The 100-meter race.

17. When will the woman take part in an event?

A. At 3 pm.

B. At 1:30. ?

C. At 5 pm.

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至第

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三个小题

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1 8. Who can enjoy special shows on Saturday?

A. Children under 10.

B. Children over 11.

C. Children under 15.

19.

What is the speed of Adventure World's rides except Splashdown?

A. 75 km per hour.

B. 45 km per hour.

C. 30 km per hour.

20.

What is the purpose of the speech?

A. To introduce the history of Adventure World.

B. To attract people to visit Adventure World.

C. To tell the improvement of Adventure World.

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第一节

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10

小题；每小题

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廿 ，满分

25

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（

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B

、

C

和

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Jayce

began

noticing

when

he

was

in

kindergarten

（幼儿园）

that

he

looked

different

from

his

classmates. They had two arms. He had only one.

with

questions: 'Why am I different? Why me?'

because she had never found those answers herself.

One day, Lewis came home from her job and turned on the TV happening to watch a news story about

an eighth grader from Washington, Trashaun Willis. He became an Internet hit after posting videos of his

slam dunks

（灌篮），

and like Jayce, he lost most of his left arm. Lewis called Jayce, in. To her surprise,

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Jayce was immediately attracted by the videos.

At the time, it seemed that watching Trashaun would simply be an inspiring moment for Jayce

—

he

saw a role model with a similar problem. If it had stayed just like that, Lewis would have been happy enough.

But little did she know that a family friend, Jack had already reached out to the local newspaper to help set

up a meeting with Trashaun to encourage Jayce to live more optimistically

（乐观地）

.

The boys met at Washing Middle School on a Saturday afternoon several months later, and they became

friends at once. Instead of spending the whole day feeling sorry for themselves, they had a lot of fun. They

rode bikes around the school, took photos, played hide-and- seek and shot basketball on the court. They talked

about their lost arms. Trashaun told Jayce,

you and do not let others' words shake your confidence

（自信）

Since that meeting, Lewis has seen a noticeable change in her son. As for Trashaun, his relationship

with Jayce made him look forward to helping more kids.

Jayce's life.

21.

How did some classmates treat Joyce in kindergarten?

A. They looked at Jayce in surprise.

C. They studied with Jayce carefully.

22.

Why was Jayce attracted by the video?

A. The boy in the videos was good at dunking.

B. He liked slam dunks very much just like the boy in the video.

C. The boy in the video with only one arm touched him.

D. He knew the boy in the videos very well

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23.

Jack arranged the meeting with Trashaun for Jayce, because he

____________ .

A. meant to express pity for Jayce.

B. would like to make friends with Trashaun.

C. hoped to help Jayce become more self-confident.

D. wanted Jayce to learn slam dunks from Trashaun.

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B. They played with Jayce happily.

D. They made fun of Jayce on purpose.

B

Scientists have long known that humans are built for endurance

（耐力）

.Now, a new study shows

people's hearts are also bettered for endurance

—

though how much depends on whether we run, farm, or

stay put on the sofa.

To get to the heart of the matter, researchers examined the hearts of more than 160 adult men from four

groups: long-distance runners, sedentary

（

久坐的）

adults, highly trained football player, and the Tarahumara,

native American farmers famous for their running ability.

When researchers compared the thickest of the heart's ventricles

（心室），

they found there were clear

differences. Endurance runners and farmers had larger, longer ventricles with thin walls, which could help

pump

（输送）

more blood for a long time, the researchers report today in the

Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences.

The football player, whose training was short, high- intensity (

高强度的）

exercise,

had shorter, wider ventricles with thicker walls. So did the sedentary humans.

Because high- intensity activity causes blood pressure to increase for a short amount of time, such shorter

ventricle, thick walls, and rounder shapes are good for the football players, researchers say, by making sure

enough blood is pumped to the brain. But even without those pressures, a couch potato lifestyle seems to

result in the same kind of thickening.

But sedentary readers shouldn't feel heartbroken

—

the researchers said that changes in heart shape are

likely reversible

（可逆转的），

with more endurance activities.

24.

What was the aim of the research into hearts?

A. To work out why humans are built for endurance.

B. To make out what kind of ventricle is the healthiest.

C. To figure out whether hearts are bettered for sedentary adults.

D. To find out how endurance activities can make our hearts better.

25.

Jimmy is a computer engineer who has to work for long hours on computer. Which of the following

ventricle and walls may suit him according to the passage?

；

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26.

What will the passage talk about following the last paragraph?

A. Introduction to endurance activities.

C. Damage happened to sedentary adults.

B. Benefits of heart shape.

D. Diets on reversible health.

C

Newspapers, magazines, even online articles offer reading materials for people. But strictly speaking,

reading

means

reading

books.

Since

reading books

seems

to

be

going

out

of

date,

it

has

raised

people's

concerns

（担心）

.

The yearly national reading survey

（调査）

shows people's reading habits have rarely changed over

the past several years. The survey says about 59 percent of the adults in China read books, with one adult, on

average, reading 4 or 5 books a year. This means a large number of people don't read at all and that those

who do so only read a few books a year. A worrying fact is that even students don't seem to be reading books

as they spend more time and energy watching videos online.

There are many reasons why fewer people read books today. To begin with, given the fast-changing

social atmosphere, many people tend to spend time on hobbies other than reading. Also, many parents don't

care much about reading, and so they fail to educate their children and grandchildren to love reading books.

Therefore, parents should create a good atmosphere that would encourage their children to read books. The

lack of public libraries might answer for the falling number of readers. China has less than 3,300 public

libraries, compared with

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…

相比）

more than 160,000 in the United States. And unlike countries such

as the US and Britain which help read among communities, China lacks a good public service system to offer

books to readers.

In order to encourage people to read more books, publishers should publish books that not only have

rich contents but also attract more readers to read. Besides, schools could set some special days for theme-

based reading in order to encourage students to read more books. Companies or social societies could also

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