2015---2016 学年第一学期第一次阶段考试（辅导班）

英语

命题人：高鸿 审题人：李建 班级 姓名

第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15题：每小题2分，总分30分）

A

It was one of those terribly hot days in?Baltimore. Needless to say, it was too hot?to do anything outside. But it was also scorching in our apartment. This?was 1962, and I would not live in a place with an air conditioner for another ten years. So my brother and I decided to leave the apartment to find someplace indoors. He suggested we could see a movie. It was a brilliant plan.

??? Movie theaters were one of the few places you could sit all?day?and—most important —sit in air conditioning. In those days, you could?buy?one ticket and sit through two movies. Then, the theater would show the same two movies again. If you wanted to, you could sit through them twice. Most people did not do that, but the manager at our theater. Mr. Bellow did not mind if you did.

??? That particular day, my brother and I sat through both movies twice, trying to escape the heat. We bought three bags of popcorn and three sodas each. Then, we sat and watched The Music Man followed by The Man Who Shot?Liberty Valance. We’d already seen the second movie once before. It had been at the theater since January, because Mr. Bellow loved anything with John Wayne in it.

We left the theater around 8, just before the evening shows began. But we returned the next day and saw the same two movies again, twice more. And we?did?it the next day?too. Finally, on the fourth day, the heat wave broke.

Still, to this?day?I can sing half the songs in The Music Man and recite half of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart’s dialogue?from?The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! Those memories are some of the few I have of the heat wave of 1962. They’re really memories of the screen, not memories of my life.

1.In which year?did?the author first live in a place with an air conditioner?

A. 1952?????? B. 1972??????? C. 1962? D. 1982

2. What does the underlined word “It”in Paragraph 3 refer to??A.??The Man Who Shot?Liberty Valance?? B. The theater.???C. The Music Man ??? D.?The heat

3.What do we know about Mr. Bellow??

A. He loved children?very?much.????? ? B. He was a movie star.?

C. He sold air conditioners.?????????????? D. He was a fan of John Wayne.

4.Why?did?the author and?his/her brother see the same movies several times?

A. The two movies were really wonderful.? B. They wanted to avoid the heat outside.

C. The manager of the theater was friendly. D. They liked the popcorn and the soda at the theater.

B

Have you ever dreamed of visiting a planet in the Milk Way? While the trip sounds exciting, it would take years and years to reach your destination. So in the future, bedtime for astronauts may?be more than a few hours of regular shut-eye. They would have to sleep for years.

European researchers are now conducting hibernation experiments. The study?may?help them understand whether humans could ever sleep through the years it would take for a space?flightto distant planets. "If there was an effective technology, it could make deep-space?travel?a reality," said Mark Ayre of the European Space Agency last month.

What seems like?science?fiction is not completely unlikely. Researchers have been able to use chemicals to put living cells into a sleep-like state where they don't age. They have now moved on to small, non-hibernating mammals like rats.

A major challenge is the fact that cells can be very simple systems, whereas body organs are far more complex.

"It's like moving?from?a simple Apple?computer?to a supercomputer," said Marco Biggiogera, a hibernation researcher at Italy's University of Pavia.

Just like bears and frogs, the hibernation of human beings would cause a person's metabolism (新陈代谢) to lower so they would need less energy.

Medical research, however, is just half of a space flight hibernation system.

There is the challenge of designing a suitable protective shelter. Such a shelter would provide the proper environment for hibernation, such as the proper temperature. It would also have to monitor (监控) life functions and serve the physiological needs of the hibernator.

According to Ayre, the six-person Human Outer Planets Exploration Mission to Jupiter's moon (木星的卫星) Callisto, could be an opportunity to use human hibernation. The mission aims to send six humans on a five-year?flight?to Callisto, where they will spend 30 days, in 2045.

5. European researchers are conducting hibernation experiments to ________.

A. ensure astronauts to get a complete sleep?

B. find the secret of some creatures

C. make preparations for the journey to Jupiter’s moon Callisto

D. know if man can sleep for years

6. The sentence?“What seems like?science?fiction is not completely unlikely”?means ______.

A. Science fiction is people’s imagination.

B. Science fiction is imaginative, but it can be realized.

C. Things seem impossible?may?come true.

D. Things described in?science?fiction are sure to become true.

7. The passage implies that ________.

A. putting living cells into a sleep-like state is full of failure

B. Biggiogera is confident with the experiment

C. human’s hibernation needs no energy

D. medical research is the key to space?flight?hibernation system

8. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Six humans to fly to Callisto?? B. Human hibernation improves?health

C. Space travel attracts people??? D. Deep sleep for deep space?travel

C

Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a ealthy?Massachusetts?slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”

For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a?lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With?his?help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.

While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the newMassachusetts?constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in?Massachusetts?to do so under the new constitution.

Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but?her?legacy lived on in her?many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.

Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the?Massachusetts?cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: “She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither?read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.”?

9. What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?

A. She was born a slave??????????????????? ? B. She was a slaveholder

C. She had a famous sister??????? ?D. She was born into a rich family

10. What did Mumbet learn?from?discussions about the new consititution?

A. She should always obey her owners’ orders B. She should be as free and equal as whites

C. How to be a good servant?????????????????????????? D. How to apply for a job

11. What?did?Mumbet do after the trial?

A. She chose to work for a lawyer???????????????????B. She found the NAACP

C. She continued to serve the Ashleys?????????? ?D. She went to live with?hergrandchildren

12. What is the test mainly about?

A. A story of a famous writer and spokesperson B. The friendship between a?lawyerand a slave

C. The life of a brave African American?woman?

D

What will power your house in the future? Nuclear, wind, or solar power? According to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, it might be leaves -but artificial ones.?????Natural leaves are able to change sunlight and water into energy. It is known as?photosynthesis?(光合作用). Now researchers have found a way to imitate this seemingly simple process.???? The artificial leaf developed by Daniel Nocera and his colleagues at MIT can be seen as a special?silicon chip?(硅片) with?catalysts?(催化剂). Similar to natural leaves, it can split water into hydrogen?and oxygen when put into a bucket of water. The hydrogen and oxygen gases are then stored in a fuel?cell?(电池), which uses those two materials to produce electricity, located either on top of a house or beside the house.???? Though the leaf is only about the shape of a poker card, scientists claimed that it is promising to be an? inexpensive source of electricity in developing countries. "One can imagine villages in India and Africa not long from now purchasing an affordable basic power system based on this technology," said Docera at a conference of the American Chemical Society.???? An artificial leaf is not a new idea. The first artificial leaf was invented in 1997 but was too expensive?and unstable for practical use. The new leaf, by contrast, is made of cheap materials, easy to use and highly stable. In laboratory studies, Nocera showed that an artificial leaf?prorotype(原型) could operate?continuously for at least 45 hours without a drop in activity.???? The wonderful improvements come from Nocera's recent discovery of several powerful new,?inexpensive catalysts. These catalysts make the energy?transformation?(转换) inside the efficient with water and sunlight. Right now, the new leaf is about 10 times more efficient at carrying out photosynthesis than a natural one. Besides, the device can run in whatever water is available; that is, it?doesn't need pure water.?This is important