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1、诸暨中学2015学年第二学期高一年级英语期中试题卷 第一部分:阅读理解 (共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)。阅读下列材料，从每题所给的选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项答案涂黑。AWhen other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she o
2、vercame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “ Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.Liz Murray，a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of wi
3、llpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life.
4、 Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “ What drove me to live on had s
5、omething to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others such as a saf
6、e living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her fa
7、ther, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they loved me all the time.”Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.1The main idea of the passage is _ .A. how Liz managed
8、 to enter Harvard UniversityB. What a hard time Liz had in her childhoodC. why Liz loved her parents so muchD. how Liz struggled to change her life2In which order did the following things happen to Liz ? a. Her mother died of AIDS. b. She worked at a petrol station. c. She got admission into Harvard
9、 University. d. The movie about her life was put on. e. She had trouble about finding a place to sleep.A. b, a , e , c, d B. a , b , c , e , dC. e , d, b , a , c D. b , e , a , d , c3What actually made her go towards her goal?A. Envy and encouragement.B. Willpower and determination .C. Decisions and
10、 understanding.D. Love and respect for her parents.4When she wrote “What drove me to live on I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that _ . A. she had little experience of social life. B. she could hardly understand the society.C. she would do something for her own life. D.
11、she needed to travel more around the world.BFour people in England back in 1953, stared at Photo 51,It wasnt mucha picture showing a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showed the shape of DNA The discovery brought fame and fortune to scienti
12、sts James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, was left out.Her name was Rosalind Franklin.” She should have been up there,” says historian（历史学家） Mary Bowden.” If her photos hadnt been there, the others couldnt have come up with the structure
13、.” One reason Franklin was missing was that she had died of cancer four years before the Nobel decision. But now scholars（学者）doubt that Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitors At Cambridge University in the 1950s, Watson and Click tried to make mod
14、els by cutting up shapes of DNAs parts and then putting them together. In the meantime, at Kings College in London, Franklin and Wilkins shone X-rays at the molecule(分子). The rays produced patterns reflection the shape.But Wilkins and Franklins relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated team
15、work of Watson and Crick, Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant .But the college actually employed her to take over the DNA project.What she did was produce X-ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of their early models was inside out. And she was not shy about saying so.
16、That angered Watson, who attacked her in return, “Mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. Clearly she had to to go or be put in her place.”As Franklins competitors, Wilkins, Watson and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the little group of researchers, says historian Pnina Abir-Am. In 1962 at the Nobel Prize awarding cer
