2014-2015学年度第二学期 模块测试高一英语

第I卷　共70分

第一部分?? 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）

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You’re cooking your favourite dish, and the phone rings. You are busy chatting with your friend and suddenly remember you haven’t put the salt in. You think, well, it’s just about done but I’ll add the salt now, anyway. So you put in the salt shortly before you take the dish off the stove to serve it. As you’re eating, you think it tastes a lot saltier than usual. Does it really or is it just your imagination?

That’s the question. If you want something to taste salty, when is the best time to salt it: before you eat it?

To get to the answer let’s consider the most basic thing about tasting. Before you can taste anything it must reach your tongue. That’s obvious enough, but it has a lot to do with the seasoning(调味) of food. Generally speaking, the more tasty particles(微粒) that reach the taste buds(味蕾), the stronger the taste. Salt buried in a lump(团，块) of food will likely be swallowed untasted. And that’s where a lot of it ends up if you salt the food early in the cooking process.

Salt added later in cooking tends to remain on the surface of the food, so more of it reaches your taste buds, and thus the food tastes saltier. Think of potato chips with their salty surfaces. One ounce of chips has about the same amount of salt as a slice of wheat bread. Which tastes saltier?

So, the answer to the question of when to salt to get the saltiest taste is: the later the better.

A result of this is that since you get a saltier taste by adding it later, you can use less salt. This can be helpful to those trying to cut back on salt: put it later and you don’t need as much.

1. What is mainly discussed in this text?

A. How to cook a tasty meal. B. The amount of salt in a dish.

C. How to cook a salty meal. D. The best time to salt a dish.

2. If you want to save salt and get a saltier taste, you’d better put in the salt ______.

A. before you cook your meal B. halfway you cook your meal

C. at the end of cooking D. just before taking the dish off the stove

3. What is the writer’s advice when a person wants to cut back on salt?

A. Salt the food early in the cooking process.

B. Eat more potato chips with salty surfaces.

C. Add the salt later in the cooking process.

D. Use the seasoning of food as much as possible.

4. Which of the following is true according to the text?

A. The earlier you put salt in, the saltier the food will be.

B. If you want your dish saltier, you should put salt in it before cooking.

C. Salt put in the food later will soon get into the inside of the food.

D. To reduce the quantity of salt, you should put salt later into the food.

B

It is important to know another language and how to communicate without words when you are in another country. Before saying anything, people communicate with each other by using gestures（手势）. However, many gestures have different meanings, or no meaning at all, in different parts of the world.

In the United States, nodding your head up and down means “yes”, while in some pats of Greece and Turkey, it means “no”. In the southeast of Asia, it is a polite way of saying “I heard you”.

Today in the USA, when someone puts his thumb up, it means “Everything is all right.” However, in Greece it is bad. Also putting your clasped（紧握的）hands up above your head means “I am the winner.” It is the sign which players often make. In Russia it is the sign of friendship.

In the USA, holding your hand up with the thumb and index finger（食指）, and the other three straight means “Everything is OK.” In France, it means “You are worth nothing.”

It is also important to make eye communication. If you look down when talking to an American, he or she may feel that you are shy, or you are trying to hide something.

Besides these, you should also know there are some topics that can not be talked about, such as age, weight and marriage. You can talk about the weather, work, sports, food, where one lives and news of the day.

5. Which of the following is true?

A. People all over the world only communicate by words.

B. Many gestures either have different meanings or no meanings at all.

C. Gestures are the most common way to communicate.

D. People can talk about anything in another country.

6. Putting the thumb up should not be used in _____.

A. Greece B. the USA C. England D. China

7. What does this sentence mean “….your action can speak louder than your words” ?

A. What you do is better than what you say.

B. You are better understood by your gestures than through your words.

C. You try your best to be polite.

D. What you say is better than what you do.

8. The main idea of the passage is that when you are in another country, _____.

A. it is important to know the language.

B .it is important to know what you talk about to a foreigner.

C. to know how to communicate without words is as important as to know the language.

D. to communicate through gestures is more important than to know the language.

C

Young Mister Smith had an idea for his employer. It was an idea for saving money for the company by increasing prices. At the same time, Smith suggested that the company sell goods of less value.

If his employer liked the idea, Smith might be given more pay. Perhaps he might even get a better job with the company.

Business had been very slow. So Mister Smith’s employer thought a few minutes about the idea. But then she shook her head. “I am sorry, Smith,” his employer said. “It just will not wash.”

Now, the meaning of these English words should be, “It will not get clean.” Yet, Smith’s idea did not have anything to do with making something clean. So why did his employer say, “It will not wash?”

Most word experts agree that “it will not wash” means it will not work. In the nineteenth century in England, the expression came to mean an undependable statement. It was used mainly to describe an idea. But sometimes it was used about a person.

Happily for the young employee Smith, his employer wanted him to do well in the company. So the employer “talked turkey” to him. She said, “Your idea would be unfair to our buyers. Think of another way to save money.”

A century ago, to talk turkey meant to talk pleasantly. Turkeys in the barnyard (仓院) were thought to be speaking pleasantly to one another. In recent years, the saying has come to mean an attempt to teach something important.

Mister Smith thought of a better idea after his employer talked turkey to him. He was given an increase in pay. So if your idea “will not wash,” try “talking turkey” to yourself and come up with a better idea.

9. What’s the main purpose of the passage?

A. To give some advice on office work.

B. To explore the meanings of two expressions.

C. To share Mister Smith’s personal experience.

D. To tell about the development of the English language.

10. Which of the following words can best describe the employer in the passage?

A. Hard-working. B. Unlucky. C. Honest. D. Cold-blooded.

11. Why did the employer refuse Mister Smith’s idea?

A. The idea would cost her much money.

B. She knew Smith played a trick on her.

C. She herself wanted to get a better job.

D. The idea would do harm to customers.

D

Have you ever taken a test that you thought you could have passed easily, only to make some silly mistakes that really hurt your grade? More than a few students have done that. And some seem to do it over and over again.

There are several problem areas that can cause students to goof up or do poorly in a test that they could have passed.

Some students can become overconfident in their knowledge of the subject matter. They think they know the material better than they actually do. It is easy for students to misjudge their own knowledge, and when they realize that they don’t know the material, it is too late.

What happens more often, though, is that some students feel they are smart enough to be able to guess their way through a test. So they don’t bother studying the material. They are overconfident in their ability to figure things out.

In either case, overconfidence can result in lower grades in tests. Does this apply to you?

Another thing that can happen is that students underestimate (低估) the difficulty of the test. They expect an easy test, but the teacher throws in a real tough test that they haven’t prepared for. Sometimes the teacher may cover material in the test that students weren’t expecting. That can happen, especially if you weren’t paying attention in class.

Finally, there are students who don’t feel that getting a good grade is important to them, so they don’t bother to study or even try to do well. Such students may be trying to punish their parents, have a poor image of themselves, or are just plain foolish. Hopefully, you are not one of these students.

12. The writer believes that many students ______.

A. are afraid of exams

B. make careless mistakes

C. hate homework

D. lack confidence

13. What does the underlined phrase “goof up” mean?

A. Be overconfident. B. Be nervous.

C. Make silly mistakes. D. Make wrong choices.

14. According to the writer, who will be most unwilling to try his best in a test?

A. Edward, dissatisfied with his parents.

B. John, expecting an easy test for him.

C. Dobby, believing he is the smartest in the class.

D. Peter, being overconfident about his ability.

15. What would be discussed in the paragraph that follows?

A. The causes of overconfidence.

B. The causes of a poor self-image.

C. Ways to prepare for a test.

D. Ways to avoid goofing up a test.

第二节：（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

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