www.ks5u.com兰州市五十三中20172018学年第一学期期中考试卷高一年级 英语 班级 姓名 总分 本试卷共120分，共7页。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。注意事项：1.答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚 2.选择题必须使用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题必须使用0.5毫米黑字迹的签字笔书写，字体工整，笔迹清楚。3.请按照题号顺序在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。 4.保持卡面清洁，不要折叠、不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。第一部分 阅读理解（共一节，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。AWith the rapid development of Internet, Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published Thursday.The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the internet for information, and 55.1 percent to read news on the internet. About 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail. The average times spent surfing the net and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29hours, respectively.Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percent read online news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an interest in the entertainment opportunities online. Up to 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages from the internet.Yet the survey found that television is still the dominant mass medium. Seventy-nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as important as TV.Five major web sites in the Chinese language, namely Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million, second to that of the United States.1. Which of the following is not TRUE.A. Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV.B. There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the internet.C. There are more Chinese people using the internet for information compared with those reading news on the internet.D. There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the internet.2. The survey shows that .A. Most of the people reported read online news.B. Only 10.4% reported use the internet to send and receive email.C. Less than half of the people use the internet for enter fain-ment.D. All of the people reported like to play games on-line.3. Which will you choose if you want to chat with your friends on the internet?A. TVB. QQ C. SinaD. telephone4. The underlined word “exceeded” means .A. increased byB. risen C. increased to D. decreasedBOn the evening of May 21, 1995, a medium-height man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xian with his bicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel hall before though they lived in “the kingdom of bicycles.” Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xian on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India. When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years , he was on the Silk Road in Xian and his early dreams were coming true. Robert Friedlanders next destinations (目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.5. Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order, . A. China, India, and Pakistan B. Pakistan, China, and India C. India, China, and Pakistan D. China, Pakistan, and India 6. The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander coming to the hotel because . A. he asked to see the manager B. the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him C. the manager had to know about all foreign guests D. he entered the hall with a bike7. Friedlander can be said to be . A. clever B. friendly C. hardworking D. strongminded 8. What made Friedlander want to come to China?A. The famous sights in Xian .B. The stories about Marco Polo .C. His interest in Chinese silk.D. His childhood dreams about bicycles .CNowadays, being in an age of fast travel, the world seems a smaller place- and to some people, a less exciting place, Fifty years ago only English people seldom spent holidays abroad, People who didnt travel thought of other countries as very far away and different. For example, people thought the French all eat garlic(大蒜), the Italians all eat spaghetti(细条实心面). and the Americans all drink Coca Cola, These definite(明确的) ideas of other nationalities are called stereotypes(陈规老套) . But do we have the same stereotypes today? People travel more, we all watch the same TV programmes, and ideas travel quickly too. Nowadays everyone eats garlic and sp