甘谷一中2020第二学期高一第一次月考月考英语试卷第卷第一部分 阅读理解（版权所有：百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上 将该项涂黑。AA Guide to FreshmanFood ServiceThe URS Cafeteria opens from 7:00am to 8:00pm. It serves all kinds of snacks, drinks, ice cream and meals. You can pay with your cash or ID cards. You can put your cash into your ID cards at the Front Desk. Even if you do not buy your food in the Cafeteria, you can still use the tables to enjoy meals, to have your meetings with your friends and even to study.TransportationThe URS Express is a shuttle service. The shuttle transports students between campus and the shopping center, leaving from the Mattson Center. Operation hours are between 9:00am and 3:00pm, Saturdays only. Round trip fare is $2.Academic SupportAll students have access to the Writing Center on the upper floor of Douglas Hall. Qualified volunteers will work with you on written work, grammar, vocabulary, and other academic skills. You can sign up for an appointment on the sign-up sheet outside the door, two 30-minute appointments per week maximum. The service is free of charge.Relaxation and HealthThe Globe, located in the bottom level of McMillan Hall, is available for relaxing, studying, cooking and eating. Monthly activities are held here for all international students. Hours are 10:00am to 10:00pm, closed on Sundays.The Fitness Center is on the top floor of Douglas Hall, it is committed to physical, emotional and social health. A doctor and nurse is available if you have health questions or need immediate medical help or personal advice. The cost is included in your medical insurance. Hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:30pm.1. What can you do in the URS Cafeteria?A. Add money to your ID card and play chess B. Have meals with your friendsC. Buy drinks and enjoy concerts D. Do your homework and watch TV2. What can the URS Express do for the students?A. To provide students with campus tours B. To take students to the Mattson CenterC. To transport the students to and from the stores D. To carry the students to the lecture halls3. Whom can you get help from for your writing?A. The professorsB. VolunteersC. TrainersD. Classmates4. When and where can you cook for yourself?A. The Douglas hall, SundayB. The Globe, WednesdayC. The URS Cafeteria, FridayD. The Mcmillan Hall, SundayBThe air we breathe is so freely available that we take it for granted. Yet without it we could not survive more than a few minutes. For the most part, the same air is available to everyone, and everyone needs it Some people use the air to live on while they sit around and fed sorry for themselves. Others breathe in the air and use the energy it provides to make a magnificent Jife for themselves.Opportunity is the same way. It is everywhere. Opportunity is so freely available that we take it for granted. Yet opportunity alone is not enough to create success. Opportunity must be seized and acted upon in order to have value. So many people are so anxious to “get in” on a “ground floor opportunity”, as if the opportunity will do all the work. That is impossible.Just as you need air to breathe, you need opportunity to make it. It takes more than just breathing in the fresh air of opportunity, however. You must make use of that opportunity. That is not up to the opportunity. That is up to you. It doesnt matter what “floor” the opportunity is on. What matters is what you do with it.5. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?A. Introduce the topic of the passage. B. Compare air to opportunity.C. Present the relationship between human and air. D. To show the importance of air.6. Which of the following may be used as the tittle of the passage?A. Air and OpportunityB. Seize the OpportunityC. How to SucceedD. Breathe the Fresh Air7. The author wants to advise us to.A. breathe in the air B. sit around and feel sorryC. be up to the opportunity D. make use of the opportunity and act on immediatelyCThere are many different voices on charity donations recently. Chen TianQiao, one of the Chinese billionaires, gave away $115 million to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to help promote brain research. Chen has been interested in the brain research, believing it can advance the industries of artificial intelligence and virtual reality. However, this huge donation has caused heated discussions among Chinese scholars and internet users.Many criticized him for giving money to a foreign university rather than domestic institutes for brain research, which are developing fast and are catching up with the US in just a few years. RaoYi, a biologist at Peking University, even said the donation was a typical mistake.Others, however, support his choice. They believe Cal