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1、高一上学期期中考试（三）英语考试时间：100分钟；总分：120分注意事项：1答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息2请将答案正确填写在答题卡上第I卷（选择题）第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30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。AAre you getting enough protein（蛋白质）? The question provides its own answer: If you are worrying about the amount of protein in your diet, then y
2、ou are almost certainly eating more than enough.You merely need to visit a western supermarket today to see that many people regard protein as some kind of excellent medicine one food companies are profitably adding to anything they can. “When the Box says Protein, Shoppers say Ill take it” was the
3、headline of a 2013 article in The Wall Street Journal.The intensity of our protein obsession can only be understood as part of a wider series of diet battles that go back half a century. If we now thirst for protein as if it were water, it may be because the other two macronutrients fats and carbohy
4、drates have each in turn been made to seem poisonous (有毒的) in the public mind.In the current nutrition wars, protein has emerged as the last macronutrient left standing. David L. Katz, an American doctor and public health scholar who is the director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center sai
5、d, “First they told us to cut fat. But instead of whole grains and lentils, we ate low-fat junk food.” Then food marketers heard the message about cutting carbohydrates and sold us protein-enriched junk foods instead.For decades now, there has been a tendency to think about what we eat and drink in
6、terms of nutrients, rather than read whole ingredients in all their complexity. A combination of diet fads and clever marketing has got us here. It doesnt matter whether we fixate on “low fat” or “low carbohydrates” or “high protein” we are making the same old mistakes about nutrition in a new form.
7、1How does the author begin the article?ABy raising a question.BBy giving an assumption.CBy describing a phenomenon.DBy illustrating a typical case.2How many kinds of macronutrients does food provide us with according to paragraph 3?ATwoBThreeCFourDFive3What is the authors attitude towards protein ac
8、cording to the text?ACold.BCrazy.CSensible.DCritical.BImagine a cat that does not need someone to clean up after it keeps an older people company and helps them remember to take their medicine. That is the shared dream of the toy maker Hasbro and scientists at Brown University in Providence, Rhode I
9、sland. The researchers received a $ 3-million-dollar from the National Science Foundation for a special project. They want to find ways to add artificial intelligence, or AI, to Hasbros “Joy for All” robotic cat.The cat has already been for sale for two years. Though priced at over 1,000 dollars, it
10、 sold quite well. It was meant to act as a “companion”(陪伴) for older people. Now the project is aimed at developing additional abilities for the cat. Researchers are working to decide which activities older adults may need the most. They hope to make the cat perform a small number of activities very
11、 well. Such activities include finding lost objects and reminding the older people to take medicine or visit their doctor. They also want to keep the cost down to just a few hundred dollars.It is an idea that has appealed (有吸引力) to Jeanne Elliott. Her 93-year-old mother Mary Derr lives with her in S
12、outh Kingstown. Derr has dementia (痴呆). The Joy for All cat that Elliot bought this year has become a true companion for Derr. The cat stays with Derr and keeps her relaxed while Elliott is at work. Elliot said a robotic cat that helps her mother to remember to take her medicine and be careful when
13、she walks would be greater.The researchers are trying to learn how the improved cats will complete helpful activities and how they will communicate. They say that they do not want a talking cat, however. Instead they are trying to design a cat that can move its head in a special way to successfully
14、communicate its message. In the end, they hope to create an exchange between the human and the cat in which the human feels the cat needs them. By doing so, the researchers hope they can even help prevent feelings of loneliness and sadness among elderly people.4Whats the purpose of the project?ATo r
15、educe the pain of the elderly.BTo increase the sales of a medicine.CTo help make the robotic cat smarter.DTo invent a robotic cat for the elderly.5What can we know about the cat?AIt will be on sale in two years.BIt may be cheaper in the future.CIts abilities will be made simpler for the elderly.DIt
16、can tell the activities that older adults need the most.6What does the example in Paragraph 3 show?AThe cat gives much help to the elderly.BThe cat works well to talk with the patient.CThe cat can make the dementia patient less painful.DThe cat should be designed to satisfy patients need.7What can we infer from the last paragraph?AEach family c
