高一年级英语半月考试卷 测试时间：90分钟 总分：100分 第一部分 听力（略） 第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分50分) 第一节 (共15小题；每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A The 2021 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards The awards contest (奖) is to encourage people to explore peace and the human spirit. There are three age categories (类型): Adult (19&over), Youth (13-18), and Youth (12&under). The yearly contest is open to people worldwide. Your poems must be unpublished (未发表的), and in English. Deadline All entries (参作品) must be submitted (提交) by July 1, 2021. Entry Fee Adults--$15 Youth (13-18) --$5 Youth (12 & under) --no fee Notes 1.You may submit up to three unpublished poems. At most 30 lines per poem. 2. Include name, address, email, telephone number, and age in the upper right-hand corner of each poem. For the Youth (12 & under) category, please also include your school’s name and your teacher’s name. 3. Title each poem. 4. Please keep copies of all entries as we will be unable to return. 5. Email your entries to: cwarner@napf.org and Click here to pay our entry fee online; or send your entries and entry fee to Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 1622 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Awards Adult Winner --$1,000 Youth (13-18) Winner --$200 Youth (12 & under) Winner --$200 Winners will be announced by October 1, 2021 on our website. Winners will be notified by email and/or mail. Past years’ winning poems can be found here. 21. What can we learn about the contest A. It includes two categories. B. It is held every three years. C. It only accepts poems in English. D. It is open to people aged 12 and over. 22. To enter the contest, a 12-year-old boy must _____ . A. pay an entry fee of $5 B. write a poem of at least 30 lines C. submit his entry by October 1, 2021 D. include his teacher’s name in his entry 23.What will an adult winner get A. $200 in prize money. B. $1,000 in prize money. C. A collection of this year’s winning poems. D. A collection of past year’s winning poems. B Food expressions are popular with language learners. They combine two things important to every culture: food and language. Today we are going to talk about potatoes！ Whether you like them boiled, baked or fried – potatoes are what we call a staple (主食). This means they are a kind of basic food that you can build on. You can cover them in butter, salt and pepper or sour cream and herbs. And for people who eat pork, you have not lived until you have eaten a baked potato topped with cheese and bacon! We have a potato expression to describe a person like that: simple, basic, common. If someone is a “meat-and-potatoes”kind of person, they prefer eating simple meals such as – well, meat and potatoes. They are not interested in complex, expensive food. They are unpretentious. Men are often described by this expression. When I hear about a “meat-and-potatoes” man, I picture a big, beefy guy. He likes ... ...
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