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1、 江苏省盐城市2021-2021学年高一上学期英语期末考试试卷一、阅读理解1. (2019高一上盐城期末)阅读理解 My Year Abroad This month in Travelers Corner there are three teenagers experiences inyear-abroad programmes. Mariko Okada - Tokyo My year abroad in the United States was afantastic experience. Im not a shy person, and I was very comfortable
2、speakingto everyone. So I got lots of speaking practice. I also learned lots ofinteresting things about American culture. When I got home, my friends all saidthat I had improved so much! I hope to go back again in the future. Carla Fonseca - Rio de Janeiro I spent last year studying English inLondon
3、. Im from a small town, and London is a very big city. Sometimes I feltit was too big. There were so many people to talk to, but I always felt badabout my English. I missed my family, and I really missed my two cats. Myroommate was always using our telephone, so I hardly had the chance for a nicelon
4、g talk with my parents. I think it was a good experience for me, but Imglad to be home! Alvin Chen - Hong Kong Studying in New Zealand was an interestingexperience for me, but it was also lots of hard work! I had English classes sixhours a day, five days a weekwith lots of homework. I also kept a di
5、ary of myexperience. I like to write, and I wrote two or three pages in my diary everyday. On Saturdays, my home stay family took me to lots of interesting placesand showed me so many wonderful things about the culture. Im really glad Iwent!（1）All the three teenagers went abroad _.A . to have a holi
6、dayB . to visit friendsC . to study EnglishD . to find a job（2）Who didnt really enjoy the stay in a foreign country very much?A . Carla.B . Mariko.C . Alvin.D . None of them.（3）Travelers Corner is most probably _.A . a sports club newsletterB . a science documentaryC . a news websiteD . a travel mag
7、azine2. (2019高一上盐城期末)阅读理解 Being an astronaut sounds cool, doesntit? In space, they get to do some pretty amazing things, like floating (漂浮) in zero gravity(重力). However, there are also plenty of thingsthat astronauts cant do because of their weightless environment(环境), and thats verysad. Whats worse
8、, they cant even let their sadness show -because itsimpossible to cry in zero gravity. Of course, astronauts can still producetears. But crying is much more difficult in space, reported The Atlantic in January. Without gravity；tears dont flowdownward out of the eyes like they do here on Earth. This
9、means that when youcry in space, your tears have nowhere to go they just stick to your eyes. In May 2011, astronaut Andrew Feustelexperienced this during one of his spacewalks. Tears, he said,dont fall off your eye.They just kind of stay there. Besides making your vision(视觉) unclear, this canalso ca
10、use physical pain. Back on Earth, tears are supposed to bring comfort tothe eyes. But thats not the case in space. The space environment dries outastronauts eyes, and when tears suddenly wet the eyes, it can cause painrather than comfort. My right eye is painful like crazy. Feusteltold his teammate
11、during the walk. Since gravity doesnt work in space,astronauts need some extra help to get rid of the tears. Feustel chose to rubhis eyes against his helmet to wipe the tears away. Another choice is to justwait When the tears get big enough they simply break free of the eyeand float around, astronau
12、t Ron Parise told The Atlantic. There are lots of small things thingslike crying that we are so used to on Earth, we usually take them forgranted, until they become a problem in a totally different environment, likespace. There, astronauts cant talk to each other directly. They also cant eator drink
13、 in normal ways. They cant even burp (打嗝), because there is no gravity to holdthe food down in their stomach. If they do burp, they just end up throwing up (呕吐) everything in their stomach, according to the UK National SpaceCenter. Thus, perhaps its only space explorers whocan honestly say, Gravity,
14、 youre the best.（1）What can we know from paragraphs 2 and 3?A . Astronauts are unable to feel sad in space.B . Tears produced in space dont flow downward.C . Astronauts produce fewer tears in space.D . Tears produced in space flow down more slowly.（2）What effect do tears have on astronauts?A . They
15、cause physical pain.B . They bring comfort to them.C . They make their vision clearer.D . They float around and cause trouble.（3）What can the astronaut do to get rid of the tears?A . Get the tears big enough to break away from his eyes.B . Rub his eyes by hand to let the tears float around.C . Get the tears big enough to fall off his eyes.D . Rub his eyes against his helmet to let the tears float forward.（4）Whats the second-to-last paragraph mainly about?A . Things that humans cant do without gravity.B . Suggestions on how astronauts can stay comfortable in space.C . Other ba
