安徽省六安市舒城县2016-2017学年高一英语上学期周考试题（五）（无答案）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。 A Where can you go to listen to important people talk about important subjects? BigThink.com is a new website that allows Internet users to discuss certain topics with world experts (专家). Subjects discussed on BigThink include the environment, music and questions about happiness and personal identity. The website has been called a YouTube for thinkers. Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins created BigThink.com. They said that people needed an international place to communicate with each other and discuss the important issues (话题) of our times. On the BigThink website, when you click on a subject, you will find a video of a person talking about his or her ideas. For example, you can listen to United States Senator Ted Kennedy talking about education and other things. Besides, you can read the comments and questions written by other visitors to the website. More than one hundred experts have expressed their ideas on the website. BigThinks creators (创建者) started the website by first getting famous people to agree to be videoed. They began by interviewing several well-known professors from Harvard University. Then they used the names of these professors to gain the trust of others and get them to take part in the project. The website says BigThink belongs to everyone. Its motto (格言) is: We are what you think. So, go online and start thinking big.1BigThink.com was created to _.A. discuss important people B. show Internet users funny videosC. introduce the latest IT knowledge and help Internet users solve problemsD. offer Internet users the chance to communicate with experts2If you visit BigThink.com, you can _.A. listen to your favorite music B. chat with thinkers face to face onlineC. communicate with people worldwideD. get an online education3Why did the creators of BigThink.com start interviewing famous people? A. To get their agreement to be videoed.B. To gain their trust for the website.C. To attract peoples attention to the website.D. To use their names in discussions.4Whats the text mainly about?A. How to set up ones own website.B. A brief introduction to BigThink.com. C. What to do on BigThink.com.D. The importance of sharing ideas with others.B The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listenWe have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to usWe are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physicallyDiet products significantly weaken us psychologicallyOn one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foodsDiet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale（秤）insteadAll we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labelsOn another level, diet products have greater psychological effectsEvery time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we dont have to work to get resultsDiet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggleThe danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they causeDiet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrientsDiet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder productsDiet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerousNow that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying themLosing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicalsOnce we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological and physical harm that comes from using them5From Paragraph 1, we learn that _Adiet products fail to bring out peoples potentialBpeople have difficulty in choosing diet productsCdiet products are misleading peopleDpeople are fed up with diet products6One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _Atry out a variety of diet foodsBhesitate before they enjoy diet foodsCpay attention to 舒中高一英语 第1页 (共8页)their own eating habitsDwatch their weight rather than their diet7In Paragraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means _Alosing weight is e