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1、兰州一中2018-2019-2学期高一年级5月月考英语第I卷第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共10 小题；每小题2分，满分20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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。AMother Teresa (August 26, 1910-September 5, 1997) was a great woman, who did a lot to improve the social condition of mankind. Due to her contribution in serving the society, she
2、 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize aged 69.She was brought up in a Catholic family. When she was only seven, she lost her father. Even as a young child, she was interested in the life of missionaries (传教士). At the age of 18, she decided that she would become a nun. She left her home and went to join
3、 the Sisters of Loreto. It was the first step that she made towards providing services for mankind.On the 7th of October in the year 1950, Mother Teresa received Vatican permission to start the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, the mission of which would be to take care of the needy, the homeless
4、, and people who were shunned by the society. Then it had a number of branches all over the country. The journey of Mother Teresas Missionaries of Charity started with the setting up of homes for the Dying.In the year 1983, Mother Teresa suffered from a serious heart attack, while she was in Rome. H
5、owever, she recovered. But, later in 1989, she again got an attack. Her health went worse and in the year 1991, she suffered from pneumonia. Taking her health problems into consideration, Mother Teresa decided to resign (辞职) from the post of head of the order.A secret vote was conducted in which all
6、 the nuns voted for the stay of Mother Teresa except herself. So, she agreed to continue serving as head of the Missionaries of Charity. Day by day her health was getting worse. On September 5, 1997, exactly nine days after her 87th birthday, this great soul departed for heaven.1Why did Mother Teres
7、a devote her life to the religious life?ABecause her parents had a deep influence on her.BBecause she wanted to provide services for others.CBecause she thought the life of missionaries simple.DBecause she came to know the Sisters of Loreto.2Which of the following words can replace the underlined wo
8、rd shunned ?ACared.BConcerned.CIgnored.DAffected.3Why did Mother Teresa decide to resign from her post?AShe realized she couldnt fully serve the people in need.BShe was only worried about her health condition.CShe wished to lead a more comfortable life.DShe knew a heart attack would take her life aw
9、ay at any time.BGenetic engineering, in its broadest definition, means to control a species so that a particular trait is increased in the population. A trait is how an organism (有机体) looks or acts or what it does. Having brown eyes is a trait. Flying in circles is a trait. Climbing trees is a trait
10、.The earliest forms of genetic engineering occurred on farms. People selected seeds from plants that had more fruit production or tastier leaves than other plants of their types. Then they chose to save the seeds from the best of that group to sow the next year. So, year by year, the farmers produce
11、d better and better crops. This type of activity probably has been going on since mankind first settled in villages and began making a life for themselves in one location, about 12,000 years ago!The same sort of thing would have also happened with animals. For example, people chose to eat the animal
12、s that didnt have favorable traits and let the animals with the favorable traits reproduce. It was thousands of years before mankind figured out how plants and animals reproduce themselves. With this knowledge, people could pollinate (授粉) plants by hand or keep a pair of animals together in order to
13、 deliberately cause an increase in a favorable trait.It was only in the last 250 years that scientists began figuring out chromosomes (染色体) and genes and the role they play in the way one generation passes its traits on to the next. And its only been in the last 30 years that scientists have been ab
14、le to cut out specific genes from one organism and put them in another. It is this 30- year-old technology that is described by the narrow definition of genetic engineering. Mankind has long been able to have a deliberate impact on the world around him. He now possesses the tools to deliberately imp
15、act himself. Some people are afraid of what might be done with that power.4The text is mainly developed by _.Aasking questionsBexamining differencesCmaking comparisonsDgiving examples 5Paragraph 2 mainly talks about _.Athe spread of genetic engineeringBthe advantage of genetic engineeringCthe origin
16、al application of genetic engineering Dthe popularity of genetic engineering6The underlined word “them” in the last paragraph refers to _.Aspecific genes Bspecial traitsCchromosomes Dscientists7What can we learn about genetic engineering from the last paragraph?AIt has a history of 250 years by the narrow definition of genetic engineering.
