2017-2018学年度高一第一次月考 英语试卷 第I卷 第一部分：听力部分（略） 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节：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。 A Do you know that vegetables can grow in the climates they are not used to？Cool climate vegetables like asparagus(芦笋) are now able to be grown in places as hot as Hawaii.In Hawaii，marine(海的) engineers have been able to actually let you believe such vegetables that they are living in cooler climates.In that way they grow faster and taste better.What these engineers have been using is very simply cold sea water.How did they use it They place pipes in the soil and cold water flowing through them cools the earth.This causes plant grow and enables gardeners in tropical climates(热带气候) to grow crops from cooler climates. Also some of these pipes are exposed to the air and they make the air “wet” and thus water the gardens. What especially makes people happy about this process is that nothing to the natural conditions is being used.Another new use for cold ocean water is to cool buildings. Engineers believe that for example the entire west coast of the United States could be air conditioned using sea water. 21．What does the new system enable the gardeners to do A．Water the field with sea water. B．Grow asparagus in hot places. C．Grow cool climate vegetables in hot areas. D．Cool the soil. 22．Sea water mentioned in the passage is mainly used to_____. A．water the farms B．water the gardens C．cool the air D．make the earth cool 23．What is the report mainly about A．How to grow vegetables in hot areas. B．How to grow crops in tropical climates. C．How to cool the soil. D．How to use sea water. 24．It can be inferred from the passage that_____. A．sea water can act as an air conditioner B．asparagus are only grown in hot places C．the writer wants to tell us something about scientific advance D．sea water has many advantages B Education is not an end，but a means to an end.In other words，we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them.Our purpose is to fit them for life. In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all—whether rich or poor，clever or stupid—one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation.But we can already see that free education for all is not enough；we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees.They refuse to do what they think “low” work，and in fact，work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries.But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor，we can live without education but we die if we have no food.If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses，we should get terrible diseases in our towns... In fact，when we say that all of us must be ed ... ...
