铜陵一中高一年级五月阶段考试
英 语
考试时间：90分钟 满分：100分
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 (共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分)
听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What’s the time now?
A. 10:10 B. 10:00 C. 9:50 2. What lesson do many Swiss students take after school?
A. Badminton lessons. B. Tennis lessons. C. Music lessons. 3. What is Elizabeth like?
A. Considerate. B. Generous. C. Honest. 4. Why does the man’s aunt come to his city?
A. To attend a meeting. B. To deliver a speech. C. To visit the library.
5. What is the woman going to do?
A. Get her car repaired. B. Take a driving test. C. Apply for a driving course.
第二节(共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。
6. What does Jenny usually have for breakfast in China?
A. Pancakes. B. Dessert. C. Bread.
7. Where is Jenny probably from?
A. China. B. Canada. C. America. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. What happened to the man?
A. He suffered from sunburn. B. He had a food allergy. C. He had a high fever.
9. What did the man’s family do at the weekend?
A. They did some sunbathing. B. They had a picnic. C. They went camping.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What happened to the man?
A. He was involved in a traffic accident. B. He lost his new bicycle. C.He failed in the midterm exam. 11. What is the man worried about?
A. His broken arm. B. The coming exam. C. The heavy traffic. 12. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a classroom. B. In the street. C. In a hospital. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. How does the man find the woman’s name?
A. Ambiguous. B. Strange. C. Interesting. 14. Why does the woman use the name George?
A. To be easily remembered. B. To simplify her lifestyle. C. To be treated equally.
15. What does the woman do?
A. A scholar. B. A journalist. C. A manager. 16. Which aspect will the man avoid when judging people?
A. Sex. B. Income. C. Appearance. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. When is the festival?
A. 4 November. B. 5 November. C. 15 November. 18. What did Guy Fawkes and his companions want to do?
A. Take charge of the country. B. Set political prisoners free. C. Destroy the Houses of Parliament.
19. What happened to Guy Fawkes and his companions finally?
A. They were put in prison. B. They were killed. C. They escaped from the UK.
20. How do children traditionally deal with the models called “guys” ?
A. Burn them. B. Decorate them. C. Throw them away. 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
“Your forehead is bleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on my forehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned away from my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame.
“I washed the blood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of them again. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldn’t wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayer mark that was applied during major religious ceremonies.
As a teen, I refused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPod in case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired of having to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as I outwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday that excited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, the prettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I often found myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I was two-faced.
But with age came the intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outer identities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I was exposed to books like
Jhumpa Lahir’s The Namesake. I began to realize that a person’s culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of the world could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. With this understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity was something to be proud of.
Now looking in the mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where the tilak belongs. “It’s not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“It’s a prayer mark, a tilak.”
21. What did the author do after hearing the young boy’s words?
A. He complained to his mother. B. He removed the red prayer powder. C. He hid himself from his classmates. D. He stopped his forehead from bleeding. 22. What was the author’s attitude towards Indian culture when he was a teen?
A. Supportive. B. Unconcerned. C. Contradictory. D. Disapproving.
23. According to Paragraph 4, The Namesake ____.
A. is mainly about culture B. made the author hate his name C. was written by Priyanka Chopra D. inspired the author to attend McNair 24. What do the author’s words in the last paragraph imply?
A. He misses his childhood very much. B. He has pity on the four-year-old boy. C. He is very patient with young children. D. He has gladly accepted the Indian culture.
B
After my pubic lectures on evolution（进化）, someone in the audience asks, “Are we still evolving?” People want to know if humans are getting taller, smarter, better looking or more athletic. My answer is truthful but disappointing: We’re almost certainly evolving, but we don’ t know in what direction or how fast.
We’ve seen some evolution in our species over the past few millennia (千年), but it was detected by reconstructing history from DNA sequences. For example, we know that during the past 10,000 years, several populations of humans — those keeping sheep, cows or goats for
milk— gained the ability to digest dairy products. This trait was useless in our earlier ancestors who, after babyhood, never encountered milk.And in the past 3,000 years, Tibetans have acquired genetic adaptations that allowed them to develop well in their high-altitude, low-oxygen home. But these well-documented changes are limited to particular populations, so the evidence for recent evolution of our entire species, remains not much.
The authors of “Evolving Ourselves” disagree. Not only, they claim, are we evolving faster than ever, but we’re doing it to ourselves. Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans argue that humans have controlled evolution — not just in our own species but virtually in all species: “For better or worse, we are increasingly in charge. We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution: the future of life is now in our hands.”
According to the authors, we’ve replaced natural selection with what they call “unnatural selection.” Overfishing, for example, has reduced the average size of many fish species, for taking the biggest fish selects in favor of those that reproduce when younger and smaller.
Yet while there’s no doubt that we’re changing the planet, the claim that we’re completely changing evolution on the planet does not follow. Let’s take those fish that are evolving to reproduce smaller and younger for example. This phenomenon has been documented in many species that we eat, but this is just a minuscule fraction(极小的一部分) of the30,000 known species of fish.
The authors speak with baseless assurance about how our species is evolving in response to nearly everything. When they claim, for example, our ingestion (摄取) of drugs and exposure to chemicals mean that “our children’ s brains are evolving fast,” they are abusing the word “evolution.” Our children’s brains may be changing fast in response to the new pharmacological (药理学的) environment, but change alone is not evolution. 25. The two examples in Paragraph 2 are given to_________. A. show in what direction humans evolve B. explain the importance of DNA sequences
C. illustrate the evidence for evolution of our entire species is not enough