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1、广东省深圳市宝安区2016-2017学年高一英语下学期期中试题I. 阅读（共40分）第一节 阅读理解（每题2分，共30分）AThe latest fashion in kitchen is the food steamer. All the stores are selling them; everyone wants one. Steaming is one of the simplest and healthiest ways of cooking food. However, that cooking time is usually longer than with other meth
2、ods. In case youre thinking of buying a steamer, Ive done a survey about the steamers available on the market to help you decide which will suit you best Folding SteamerThe simplest and least expensive is the folding stainless-steel (不锈钢) version. Advantages: This is a good, basic design which sits
3、inside a variety of different shapes of pans with the water under it; a ring in the center allows for easy lifting and its easy to cleanDisadvantages: It only holds small dishes. Also, if you put too much water in the pan, it will boil up through the vegetables and they will be watery. If you put to
4、o little water in and let it get dry, you will burn the pan and get strange-smelling vegetablesSteaming PanThis is a three-layered black Teflon-coated version with a lid and two double-handled steamers, which sits on the oven ring. The brand I bought is called Nutritious LivingAdvantages: This is an
5、 excellent steamer, lightweight, easy to clean, and of all the steamers Ive tried, this cooks the fastest. Fish and chicken can be cooked on the bottom with rice or vegetables on the top. Its easier to storeDisadvantages: Water can boil away until the pan is dry, but if you make sure you fill the pa
6、n up to the suggested level and do not overcook the food, this should not happenYou cannot see the food cooking from the top. It doesnt supply a dish for cooking riceFor serious users of steamers, I recommend having one of each version. If you just want to try it, get the folding stainless-steel typ
7、e.1Why did the author carry out the survey?ATo inform people of different steamersBTo run an advertisement for steamersCTo find out a suitable steamer to buyDTo learn how to cook with steamers2What can we learn about the folding steamer?AIt comes in different kinds of shapes and sizesBIt is designed
8、 for large familiesCIt is able to clean itselfDIt is easy to lift3The Nutritious Living steamer_Ais more difficult to storeBprovides a dish to cook rice withCcooks different foods at the same timeDcooks fish and chicken faster than vegetables4According to the author, you should_Ause steamers to save
9、 cooking timeBbuy a steamer with dishes suppliedCdo a survey before choosing a steamerDbuy a folding steamer if you want to tryBHuman beings have used tools for a very long time. In some parts of the world you can still find tools that people used more than two million years ago. They made these too
10、ls by hitting one stone against another. In this way, they broke off pieces from one of the stones. These chips of stone were usually sharp on one side. People used them for cutting meat and skin from dead animals, and also for making other tools out of wood. Human beings needed to use tools because
11、 they did not have sharp teeth like other meat eating animals, such as lions and tigers. Tools helped people to get food more easily.Working with tools also helped to develop human intelligence. The human brain grew bigger, and human beings began to invent more and more tools and machines. The stone
12、 chip was one of the first tools that people used, and perhaps it is the most important. Some scientists say that it was the key to success of mankind.Since 1960, a new kind of tool has appeared. This is the silicon chip - a little chip of silicon crystal. It is smaller than a finger nail, but it ca
13、n store more than a million bits of information. It is an electronic brain. Every year these chips get cleverer, but their size gets smaller, and their cost gets less. They are used in watches, calculators and intelligent machines that we can use in many ways. In the future we will not need to work
14、with tools in the old way. Machines will do everything for us. They will even talk and play games with us. People will have plenty of spare time. But what will they do with it?Human beings used stone chips for more than two million years, but human life changed very little in that time. We have used
15、 silicon chips for only a few years, but life is changing faster everyday. What will life be like twenty years from now? What will the world be like two million years from now?5From paragraph 1, we can know_.A. why early human beings cut skin from dead animalsB. how early human beings discovered the
16、 toolsC. what early human beings used the tools forD. what food early human beings stored6The stone chip is thought to be the most important tool because it _.A. was very important to the development of mankindB. led to the invention of machines in the early timeC. developed cooking abilities of mankindD. was one of
