2015---2016 学年第一学期第一次阶段考试

英语

命题人：高鸿 审题人：李建

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

Close your eyes for a minute and imagine what life would be like if you had a hundred dollars less. Also imagine what it would be like spending the rest of your life with you eyes closed. Imagine having to read this page, not with your eyes but with your finger-tips.

With existing medical knowledge and skills, two-thirds of the world’s 42 million blind should not have to suffer. Unfortunately, rich countries posses?most?of this knowledge, while developing countries do not.

ORBIS is an international non-profit organization which operates the world’s only flying teaching eye hospital. ORBIS intends to help fight blindness worldwide. Inside a DC-8 aircraft, there is a fully-equipped teaching hospital with television studio and classroom. Doctors are taught the latest techniques of bringing sight back to people there. Project ORBIS also aims at promoting peaceful cooperation(合作) among countries.

? ORBIS tries to help developing countries by providing training during three-week medical programs. ORBIS has taught sight-saving techniques to over 35,000 doctors and nurses, who continue to cure tens of thousands of blind people every year. ORBIS has conducted 17 plane programs is?China?so far. For the seven to ten million blind in China ORBIS is planning to do more for them. At the moment an ORBIS is working on a long-term plan to develop a training center and to provide eye care service to Shanxi Province. ORBIS needs your help to continue their work and free people?from?blindness.

?? For just US $38,you can help one person see; for $380 you can bring sight to 10 people; $1,300 helps teach a doctor new skills; and for $13,000 you can provide a training programe for a group of doctors who can make thousands of blind people see again. Your money can open their eyes to the world. Please help ORBIS improve the quality of life for so many people less fortunate than ourselves.

1.The first paragraph is intended to ______.

A. introduce a new way of reading B. direct the public’s attention to the blind

C. advise the public to?lead?a simple life D. encourage the public to use imagination

2.ORBIS aims to help the blind by ______.

A. training doctors and nurses???????????????? B. teaching medical students??

C. running flying hospitals globally?????????? ?D. setting up non-profit organization

3.What does the author try to do in the last paragraph?

A.??Show sympathy for the blind??????????????? B. Make an advertisement

C. Promote training programs???????????????? D. Appeal for donations????

4.What can be the best title for the passage?

A. ORBIS in?China???? ?B. ORRIS?Flying?Hospital??

?C.??Fighting Blindness????? ?D. Sight-saving Techniques

B

Although being famous might sound like a dream come true, today’s star, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine. They are at the center of much of the world’s attention. Paparazzi (狗仔队) camp outside their homes, cameras ready. Tabloids (小报) publish thrilling stories about their personal lives. Just imagine not being able to do anything without being photographed or interrupted for a signature.

According to psychologist Christina Villareal, celebrities — famous people — worry constantly about their public appearance. Eventually, they start to lose track of who they really are, seeing themselves the way their fans imagine them, not as the people they were before everyone knew their names. “Over time,” Villareal says, “they feel separated and alone.”

The phenomenon of tracking celebrities has been around for ages. In the 4th century B.C., painters followed Alexander the Great into battle, hoping to picture his victories for his admirers. When Charles Dickens visited America in the 19th century, his sold-out readings attracted thousands of fans, leading him to complain (抱怨) about his lack of privacy. Tabloids of the 1920s and 1930s ran articles about film-stars in much the same way that modern tabloids and websites do.

Being a public figure today, however, is a lot more difficult than it used to be. Superstars cannot move about without worrying about photographers with modern cameras. When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their “story” alive forever.

If fame is so troublesome, why aren’t all celebrities running away from it? The answer is there are still ways to deal with it. Some stars stay calm by surrounding themselves with trusted friends and family or by escaping to remote places away from big cities. They focus not on how famous they are but on what they love to do or whatever made them famous in the first place.

Sometimes a few celebrities can get a little justice. Still, even stars who enjoy full justice often complain about how hard their lives are. They are tired of being famous already.

5. It can be learned from the passage that stars today___________ .

A. are often misunderstood by the public B. care little about how they have come into fame

C. spend too much on their public appearance D. can no longer have their privacy protected

6. What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?

A. The problem faced by celebrities has a long history.

B. Great heroes of the past were generally admired.

C. Well-known actors are usually targets of tabloids.

D. Works of popular writers often have a lot of readers.

7. What makes it much harder to be a celebrity today?

A. Huge population of fans B. Inadequate social recognition.

C. Lack of favorable chances. D. Availability of modern media..

8. What is the author’s attitude toward modern celebrity?

A. Sincere. B. Skeptical. C. Sympathetic. D. Disapproving.

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

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

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

A. She should always obey her owners’ orders B. How to apply for a job

C. How to be a good servant?????????????????????????? D. She should be as free and equal as whites

11. What?did?Mum bet 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?her grandchildren

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. A trial that shocked the whole world

? D

Common phrases like “ no pains, no gains” give the impression that we ought to be suffering while we study. It’s almost as though the only way to know if we’re putting in enough work is the sense of hardship we bear.

When we haven’t taken the time to come up with another idea, all we know how to do is shut ourselves in a room with a book. It’s no surprise that we find revision boring and difficult. Just as children learn from playing, we can learn from doing, or at least from study techniques that interest us, rather than make us switch off.

Shutting yourself away can make you learn to hate studying. This leads to a situation where instead of being able to concentrate on your work, you are troubled by how unfair it is that you must study.

When you hate your work it’s very difficult to make yourself star, or approach it with any kind of structure or enthusiasm. This can be part of a vicious cycle(恶性循环) that traps you into ineffective revision, your poor progress fuelling further annoyance.

Just being around other people really helps fight against feelings of loneliness and, thankfully, it’s perfectly possible to work in the company of other people. We just need to learn how to deal with distractions(使人分心的事).

It’s not necessary to avoid all company, just idle(懒散的) company. Studying in the same room as someone who is ironing or working out is perfectly possible. People who are bored and looking to be distracted, however, are terrible to work around. They constantly try to keep others in conversation.

It’s also a good idea to avoid the