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1、 肇东一中 2015-2016 学年度下学期高一英语期中试题全卷满分 150 分，时间 120 分钟第一卷 选择题 共 70 分 第一部分: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。AGreen is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants
2、.Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished. A greenhorn is someone who has no experience. who is new to a situation. But in the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose home had not yet developed. A
3、century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today-a person who is new in a job.Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the e
4、arly nineteen hundreds. A person, with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.The green-eyed monster is not a nightening creature from
5、 outer space, It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play Othello. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out w
6、ith someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.In most places in the world, a green light is a signal to move ahead. A green light on a traffic signal means your car can continue on. In everyday speech, a green light means approval to con
7、tinue with a project.1 . How many expressions including green are mentioned in the passage?A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.2. What does a greenhorn mean now?A. A person who has rich job experience. B. A soldier who has not yet any experience in battle.C. A young cow or ox whose horns have not yet
8、 developed.D. A person who is a green hand without any experience.3. Which expression can be used if your friend is good at growing plants?A. A green thumb. B. A green light. C. A greenhorn D. The green-eyed monster.4. What will make you suffer from the green-eyed monster?A. You meet a frightening g
9、 creature. B. You watch the play Othello;C. Your girlfriend dates with your friend. D. You get a pay raise. BAs any plane passenger will confirm, a crying baby is almost impossible to ignore, no matter how hard you try. Now scientists believe they may have worked out why. A babys cry pulls at the he
10、artstrings(扣人心弦) in a way while other cries dont, researchers found.Researchers found that a babys cry can trigger unique emotional responses in the brain, making it impossible for us to ignore them-whether we are parents or not. Other types of cries, including calls of animals in great pain, fail t
11、o get the same response-suggesting the brain is programmed to respond specifically to a babys cry.A team of Oxford University scientists scanned the brains of 28 men and women as they listened to a variety of calls and cries. After 100 milliseconds two parts of the brain that respond to emotion lit
12、up. Their response to a babys cry was particularly strong. The response was seen in both men and womeneven if they had no children.Researcher Dr Christine Parsons said, “You might read that men should just notice a baby and step over it and not see it, but its not true. There is a special processing
13、 in men and women, which makes sense from an evolutionary(演变的) view that both men and women would be responding to these cries.” The study was in people who were not parents, yet they are all responding at 100ms to these particular cries, so this might be a fundamental response present in all of us
14、regardless of parental status.Researcher Katie Young said it may take a bit longer for someone to recognize their own childs cries because they need to do more “fine-grained analysis”. The team had previously found that our reactions speed up when we hear a baby crying. Adults performed better on co
15、mputer games when they heard the sound of a baby crying than after they heard recordings of adults crying.5. A babys cry is difficult to ignore because it _.A. keeps on crying B. cries harder than adultsC. causes people great pain D. makes people feel strong emotions6. The underlined word “trigger”
16、in Paragraph 2 probably means “_”A. remove B. avoid C. cause D. Cure7. What may Christine Parsons agree to?A. Almost everyone makes certain response to a babys cries.B. A crying baby makes no sense to people without children.C. Men pay less attention to a crying baby than women.D. Parents can hardly recognize their
