高一英语上学期期末考试模拟试题
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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Choosing a vacation place your kids would love is quite a headache. Here are some highly preferred fun vacation places for you, which would make sure your entire family has fun together.
Hersheypark
Hersheypark, the “Chocolate Town” of USA, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, is now a main theme park with sixty rides. The amazing water rides, family rides，live concerts and shows make Hersheypark a perfect place for the young children. It also has a water park known as the “The Boardwalk at Hersheypark” and a zoo.
Old Orchard Beach in Saco, Maine
The Old Orchard beach, where there is the amazing sand, water, rides, some fried food, and great fun games, can keep your kids busy and happy. Besides, there are downtown shops with great beach food.
Snowbird Resort in Snowbird, Utah
As a great place for those who enjoy the snow, Snowbird Resort allows families to enjoy many activities in the winter months, such as snowboarding and ice skating. The live music concerts are held year round.
Hilton Waikoloa Village in Waikoloa, Hawaii
This is actually a fun vacation place when you are looking out for a getaway with your kids. Hilton Waikoloa Village is the place to go if you would like to have your children enter for Camp Menehune. Looking for the chance to feed birds is an exciting experience. However, an activity that your kids would enjoy most is the communication with dolphins. 21. What can visitors do in the Snowbird Resort? A. Visit a water park. B. Taste great beach food. C. See many lovely dolphins.
D. Enjoy ice skating with their families.
22. Where can visitors go if they want to have their children attend Camp Menehune? A. Hersheypark.
B. Hilton Waikoloa Village. C. Old Orchard Beach.
D. Snowbird Resort.
23. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text? A. To show some theme parks in the world.
B. To tell about the traditional relaxing holidays. C. To advertise the best vacation places in winter. D. To introduce several fun vacation places for families.
B
Whatever life threw at us each year, our family had one tradition at Christmas: our dog Pepper opened our presents for us.
Last year, everyone made it home for a Christmas get-together. However, it couldn’t feel perfect because Pepper’s health was becoming worse. Her life had already been longer than we expected—she was fourteen—and yet her mind was still sharp. Her love for life made us feel better. But her body could not keep up with her mind.
Probably it was Pepper’s last Christmas, so we decided to make sure she would enjoy it. On Christmas Eve, we each prepared presents for her.
Soon, Pepper selected her first Christmas gift. She turned the present, just as she was a young dog once more. She pulled the paper off the dog treat before she chewed（咀嚼）it slowly. Our family was so happy.
Pepper saw the remaining three presents, and then turned to Mom as if asking, “May I open another?” “Go ahead, girl!” Mom encouraged.
For the next few minutes, Pepper opened each of her Christmas presents. While she did, she reminded us of the joy of being together. Our family felt as a whole—not because we were in the same room or city, but because our love brought us together.
Pepper passed away after Christmas. Her peaceful passing made us tearful. Her passing was also a celebration of life, because she gave my family so much love and laughter.
I still treasure Pepper’s final Christmas gift. She taught me that no matter where we each spend the holidays, the smallest act of sincere giving can unite our family through our love.
For me, that knowledge is the longest-lasting gift of all. 24. Why did the author think the Christmas wasn’t perfect last year? A. Pepper was in poor health. B. Pepper died on Christmas Eve. C. He didn’t get a Christmas gift. D. His family didn’t feel as a whole.
25. How many Christmas gifts did Pepper get last year? A. One.
B. Two.
C. Three.
D. Four.
26. What does the underlined phrase “the longest-lasting gift” in the last paragraph refer to? A. The life lesson the author learned from Pepper. B. The Christmas present for the dog. C. The holiday spent with family. D. The friendship with the dog.
27. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. Enjoying the Happiness of Making Friends B. The Importance of Helping Others C. Celebrating Christmas D. The Power of Love
C
An Indian movie about two sisters has become a huge hit in China. The Hindi language film, called Dangal, has earned almost $ 170 million in China since its release there on May 5.
Much has been written about why Dangal has enjoyed such big success in China. Some people say one reason is that the film’s star and producer, Aamir Khan. He is famous in India’s Bollywood film industry. Two of his earlier films were also big hits in China.
Khan’s popularity was clear after he got more than 600,000 followers on the Chinese social media service Sina Weibo within two months of joining. But he is not the only reason that the film strongly connects with audience across China. Media has pointed out how it shows similarities between parental systems in China and India.
Dangal is based on the true story of a man who enjoyed the sport of wrestling（摔跤）. He competed as a wrestler, but never could achieve his lifelong dream: winning a gold medal. As a father, he wanted his son to win the medal. But his wife only gives birth to daughters. So he finally decides to train them to be world-class wrestlers.
The movie is more serious than most Bollywood productions, which tell happy love sorties and include colorful music and dance performances.
Edward Chan is a Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He says the strict way of parenting film is something people in China can easily relate to. “1 think the father role dscribed by the movie in India is quite similar to the culture, especially the traditional culture in China. ”
The Chinese government-supported Global Times newspaper pointed that movie critics（评论家）in China did not like Dangal. Most of them agree with the fact that the father in the film was forceful in pushing
his daughters to become wrestlers. But the film Dangal is really aimed to educate children to work for their dreams.
28. What’s the main reason for the father teaching his daughters to wrestle? A. He wanted them to realize his goal. B. He wanted to punish them. C. Few women took this sport. D. He loved them very much.
29. What do most Chinese movie critics agree? A. The truth of the whole story was doubtful.
B. The father’s behaviour in the film Dangal was cruel. C. Indian films often have a bad influence on Chinese parents. D. The film Dangal was against the Indian traditional culture. 30. What can we learn from the text? A. Most films from Bollywood are serious. B. Daughters perform worse in sport than sons.
C. Indian parents’ roles are similar to those in China in some way. D. The films produced by Aamir Khan is not popular with Chinese. 31. What does the author think of Dangal? A. It’s unsuccessful. C. It’s educational.
B. It’s unknown.
D. It’s relaxing.
D
Traffic Light Reading is one of students’ favorites! And it’s so simple. Here’s what to do: Take three pens in different colors, most suitably red, orange and green But it’s not too important as long as teachers and students are both clear on the colour code they’re going to use.
Students read a text, not worrying too much about how much they understand. Teachers can ask them to re-read when students are paying attention to vocabulary. Start by underlining the words that they understand completely（including names, numbers etc）in green.
Then students re-read the text and underline the words that look familiar—they maybe know them but aren’t too sure about them. You guessed it: in orange.
Finally, students read the text a third time underlining the words they clearly don’t understand in red. Sometimes, teachers might want to set students a limit for how many red words they underline, telling them only to underline the words that they believe are seriously blocking their understanding of the text as a whole. Generally, however, students are pleasantly surprised by how few words are red and how many