- 1 - 乌市七十中学乌市七十中学 2018201820192019 学年第二学期期中考试学年第二学期期中考试 高一英语试卷高一英语试卷 考试时间：120 分钟 总分：100 分 （B） Did you know if your pulse rate rises above 100 bpm, youre deemed too emotional to think rationally? You probably let feelings cloud your judgment more often than you know. Goleman explains how you can avoid letting your emotions rule you and make better decisions in life. 1What kind of people does the Blinkist app best suit? 一、阅读理解 第 I 卷（选择题) （A） ASuccessful investors. BRich businessmen. CPeople who have little time for reading. DStudents who love books. （本题 6 分） When Warren Buffett, the most successful investor, was asked about the secret to his wealth and success, he revealed that he read every day, 500 pages, to be precise. Unfortunately, if youre already working 95, you might not have the time to read at all, let alone an entire book a day. But what if you could get the benefits of reading without sacrificing all of your free time? You can! With the Blinkist app, you get the key learning in minutes, not hours or days. Our experts transform these books into quick, easy-to-understand insights. Start with the 5 most-read books. 1. Thirteen Things Me ntally Strong People Dont Do by Amy Morin 12 min reading time 147k reads Do you struggle to get over your failures? Getting over these can have a profound influence on your everyday life. Morin shares how her most successful patients overcame these difficulties. 2. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie 19 min reading time 238k reads Ever wond ered why you cant stop worrying about something? By defining the source of your stress, you can get over it once and for all. Carnegie came up with a formula - 2 - that helps you handle any overthinking situation. 3. How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen 13 min reading time 137k reads Are you making the right trade-offs (权衡) in life? While career achievements can be satisfying, neglecting your family and friends can be bad in the long-run in ways you cant even imagine. 4. Finding Your Element by Ken Robinson 13 min reading time 62.4k reads Everyone has a passion. If you dont know what yours is, it just means you havent discovered it yet. Find out how you can break free of societys strict rules and find your calling in life. 5. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman 16 min reading time 318k reads - 3 - 2Which book has been read by the largest number of people? AHow to Stop Worrying and Start Living. B How Will You Measure Your Life? C Finding Your Element. D Emotional Intelligence. 3Which book offers advice to people who feel stressed? AThirteen Things Mentally Strong People Dont Do. BHow to Stop Worrying and Start Living. CHow Will You Measure Your Life? DFinding Your Element. （C） （本题 12 分） Learning Chinese could be one of the most important decisions you ever make. Chinese is becoming the language to learn in the 21st century. With the worlds largest population and a rapidly growing middle class, China stands to become the engine of the worlds economy in the coming years. This will make learning Chinese very important for people in many industries, or for those of us who wish to visit China or learn from its culture and history. There is an ongoing effort to modernize the writing system and standardize the language. An increasing number of people learning Chinese are learning the Mandarin, so unless you absolutely need to learn another dialect (such as Cantonese), be sure you are studying Mandarin. For native English speakers Chinese is one of the most difficult and most different languages to learn. T he vocabulary is wholly unfamiliar and unlike anything we know. In addition, in the Chinese tone system, words are spoken in rising or falling tones, which help to distinguish between them. Furthermore, there is the Chinese writing system- a collection of thousands of individual ideograms (表意文字), or symbols, which represent a word or an idea. These ideograms have no phonetic value-that is to say, we cant tell how the word is pronounced by how it is written. There is a method to present written Chinese in a phonetic script called pinyin. If you are learning Chinese, youll be working with this pinyin system, but the beauty of the tra ditional writing system shouldnt be passed up. All these factors make learning Chinese difficult for us. Yet, for a determined learner, theres always a way to overcome it. 4Learning Chinese is becoming more and more important, because . AChinese engines are very welcome BChina has the worlds largest population Cthere are more and more rich people in China DChina has become important to the world economy 5From the text we can learn that . Athe author thinks Chinese is as difficult as English Bthe author is interested in the Chinese language and its culture Cforeign languages can play a great role in industrial development - 4 - Das long as the pinyin system is learned well, one