河南省淇滨高中2020-2021学年高一上学期第二次周考英语试题 Word版含答案（无听力部分）

淇滨高中2020-2021学年上学期第二次周考 高一年级英语试卷 时间：100分钟 总分：150分 第二部分　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。 A Xiaofan, a smart boy from Shenzhen, used to have difficulty in getting up on time, and his alarm clock was of no use at all. It made him very upset. One day, he had a good idea. Xiaofan went to a shop and bought a tape. Back home, he started to record what he wanted. After that, he took out a tool box and connected his tape player with the new tape to his alarm clock. A special alarm clock was born. At a certain time in the morning, the tape player would play soft music with a low and sweet voice of a young girl, “Wake up, please.” Five minutes later, the tape player would play again, and it might be loud music. At the same time, he could hear a recording of his parent, “Wake up at once, or you’ll be late!” Several days later, Xiaofan got used to the sound of the recordings. After the recordings, he was still sleepy, and even felt asleep again. That was terrible! So he went to the library and borrowed plenty of books home to deal with his problem of getting up late. He made it! With the help of what he had learned from the books, he put a mechanical（机械的）arm at the end of the bed. Now if Xiaofan still doesn’t get up at last, the arm in the bed will “beat” him, and even make him out of the bed. The special bed with a mechanical arm helps Xiaofan a lot, but it is not sold in stores. 21. _____ used to be Xiaofan’s problem in the morning. A. Playing soft music B. Making a new bed C. Falling asleep D. Being difficult to get up on time 22. Xiaofan went to the library to _____. A. return some books B. write a book C. borrow many books home D. read plenty of books there 23. Now if Xiaofan still doesn’t get up at last, _____. A. the alarm clock will ring again B. the arm in the bed will “beat” him C. he will hear a recording of his parent D. the tape player will play a recording of a young girl 24. From the passage, we can know that Xiaofan is _____. A. creative B. outgoing C. lazy D. careless B Ferdinand Magellan (1480—1521) was a Portuguese explorer. In 1519, he led the voyage to sail around the world. It was also the first voyage to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Magellan gave the Pacific Ocean its name, which means “peaceful sea” in Portuguese. However, Magellan himself was killed in a battle before the voyage was finished. Only one of his ships, Victoria completed the journey. Laozi lived in the 6th century BC. It is believed that he wrote the Daodejing. This book is popular in both the East and the West, and it is still widely read today. Many people have found inspiration (鼓舞人心的话) in this book. There are many famous sayings in the Daodejing. One of them is, “A journey of a thousand li begins with a single step.” Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist mathematician and astronomer. He di ... ...