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1、英 语 试 题命题人：张祝源 审题人：朱法敏第一部分：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）A It happened at 7:12 p.m. on December 20, 2013. I was fanning my face with a plane ticket after racing to the gate at a flight at Chicagos OHare airport, not noticing the young man running to catch up with me. He ran in front of me and
2、 said, “Excuse me, do I know you?” My heart fluttered for this, a loyal reader. I smiled. “Well.” I said, “Who do you think I am?”“Elaine?”I shook my head. “Connie.”“Oh,” he said. His eyes rested on my head. “Its your hair,” he said. “You look younger from behind.”Silence, except for the sighs from
3、the travellers who forgot to pretend they were not listening. At the very moment when I hoped exactly no one knew who I was, a woman said, “I look forward to reading this essay Connie.”Had this happened right after I turned 50, I might have spent the entire flight sitting in my sitting in my seat ho
4、lding a mirror and combing (梳理) my hair. Five years into this adventure, I laughed and put the mans observation on Facebook.It takes a little time to accept that the world is onto us. Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison said in a speech at Oberlin College last year that each of us sees ourselves at a c
5、ertain age, frozrn in time, which may explain why my hair still brushes （拂过）my shoulder. Inside, Im 27.When I was 30, I read Gail Godwins novel The Finishing Scholl. One particular passage says, “There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can tell just by looking at them at what point they became
6、their final selves. However, the other kind keeps moving, changing. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive.”Life was hard, and then it got better. Fifty was hard, but 55 feels just right.1. Hearing the first words of the young man, the author felt . A. embarrassed （尴尬的） B. frigh
7、tened C. annoyed D. excited2. After the event at the airport, the author . A. took it calmly B. cut her hair short C. dressed up smartly D. had a hard time on the plane3. We can infer from the text that the author . A. admires the young people for their liveliness B. expects more surprises from her
8、life C. refuses to accept the fact of aging D. misses the good age of 304. Whats the best title for the text? A. Trouble at a certain age B. Life in the middle ages C. An unusual flight experience D. The changing world around usB.You probably know frogs（青蛙） hop （双足跳）. But did you know that theres a
9、tiny frog in the Pacific Northwest that bellyflops（肚子先着水）? Its called tailed frog.Dr. Rick essner, who has been studying tailed frogs for the past few years, says, “Ive looked at thousands of jumps and have never seen them land on their feet like other frogs.” Most of the time, tailed frogs land on
10、their stomachs and then bring their back legs in to prepare dor another jump.Essner first noticed these frogs because of the way they swim. Other frogs kick both of their back legs at the same time. But when a tailed frog swims, it pushes first with one leg and then the other.To try to find out why
11、tailed frogs bellflop, Essner and other scientists collected and filmed different kinds of frogs. They found that all of the frogs start their jumps the same way: they stretch（伸出）their legs. The change comes in midair（半空中）and in landing. Tailed frogs cannot move their back legs as quickly as other f
12、rogs do. Maybe they dont need to. Tailed frogs live around water and quickly jump into the water to escape danger.Early frogs developed around watery areas and could jump quickly into the water to escape danger. Scientists think those frogs blended in with（与融合在一起）the green plants on the side of the
13、rocky streams, just like todays tailed frogs. “I would guess that other animals would have problems detecting them,” explains Essner. When they did find those early frogs, the frogs could jump into the stream. They didnt need to continue hopping.Tailed frogs and other kinds of frogs went their separ
14、ate ways about 200 million years ago. Tailed frogs stayed by streams. Other kinds of frogs moved to places where new hopping skills allowed them to survive.5. Whats special about the tailed frog? A. It has a long tail. B. It jumps on one foot. C. It starts its jump differently. D. It lands different
15、ly from other frogs.6. Why do tailed frogs bellyflop? A. They have never left the water to live. B. They have trouble in stretching out their legs. C. Their back legs cant catch up while jumping. D. Their front legs develop better than the back ones.7. The underlined word “detecting” in paragraph 5 means “ .” A. eating B. killing C. using D. discovering8. When coming across an enemy, the tailed frog would . A. jump into the water for protection B. hop around quickly C. hide in the green plants near th
