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1、 2018-2019学年江西省南康中学高一上学期第二次月考（期中）英语 试题第一部分 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AYour Nose KnowsIf I were to ask you to shut you
2、r eyes and I gave you a piece of apple to eat, would you be able to tell me what it is just by tasting it? Of course, you could. Your tongue is covered with tiny “taste buds” which help you know what different foods taste like. Do you know that foods would taste different if you did not have a nose?
3、This experiment shows how important your nose is when you taste things.What You Need:a friend to helpsmall pieces of any food like carrot, orange, banana whatever you have handysmall pieces of apple, raw potato, and (if you are brave) onionWhat You Do:There are actually three different experiments,
4、You and your friend should take turns trying them on each other.Experiment 1:Have your friend close her eyes and open her mouth. Give her a piece of the food and ask her to taste it. Then, ask her what she thinks it is. She will probably guess correctly.Experiment 2:While your friend has her eyes cl
5、osed, give her a piece of raw potato. At the same time, hold a piece of apple right under her nose. Ask her to eat the potato (but dont call it by name) and tell you what she thinks it is. She will say it is a piece of apple! You can even do it the other way around : Have her eat a piece of apple wh
6、ile smelling a piece of potato, and she will think she is eating a raw potato, or, perhaps, she wont be able to name what she is eating.Experiment 3: (for the brave)Take a piece of raw onion. You dont have to close your eyes this time. Squeeze your nose closed with your other hand so that no smell c
7、an get into your nose. Now take a small bite of the onion. Surprise! As long as you hold your nose, you will not be able to taste the onion,The Science SecretYou already know the science secret. Your nose and your tongue work together to make food taste the way it does. Your tongue, however, can tas
8、te only certain flavors like salty, bitter, sour, and sweet. All of the other “tastes” are actually “smells”, and you need your nose to “taste” them.Oh, and you might use this science secret the next time you are told to eat something you dont like the taste of. If you hold your nose while you eat i
9、t, you wont “taste” it at all.21. What is this text mainly about? A. Why some things smell better than others. B. How smell changes the way people see. C. How smell affects the way food tastes. D. Why different foods can smell the same.22. In Experiment 2, what should you do when you hold the piece
10、of apple under your friends nose? A. Ask her to close her eyes. B. Hand her a piece of onion. C. Have her guess the food. D. Tell her to eat a piece of potato.23. The most likely reason why Experiment 3 is called “for the brave” is that _?A. You keep your eyes open. B. You have to eat a raw onion. C
11、. You have to squeeze your nose. D. You do the experiment alone.24. Where is the text most likely taken from? A. A science magazine. B. A news report. C. An advertisement. D. A menu.BWhen I was young, my mother didnt have the money to send me to school, but she thought it was important for me to kee
12、p up with education. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself. But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning.We need every one of you to develop your talents and your skills so that you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If
13、you quit（离开；放弃） on schoolyou re not just quitting on yourself , you re quitting on your country. No ones written your destiny(命运) for you ,because you write your own destiny. You make your own future. Thats why today I m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education and do everythi
14、ng you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time reading a book.But whatever you decide to do , I want you to commit to（使致力于） it. I want you to really work at it. I know that sometimes you get that sense from T
15、V that you can be rich and successful without any hard workthat your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. No ones born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work. Youre not a good athlete the first time you play a new sport. You dont hit every note the first time you sing a song. Youve got to practice.25. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. The writers home was very rich. B. The writer was born in a poor family.C. The writer didnt like reading books. D. The wri
