1成都市高2013级高中毕业班第一次诊断性测试英 语 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）AWe have most friends at the age of 26 after having spent the first quarter of our lives building up our friendship circle, a new research has claimed.The research into friendship shows that our social circle peaks at 26 years and seven months, at which we typically have five close friends. Women are most popular at 25 years and 10 months, with men hitting the friendship highest point a little later at 27 years and three months.The research, by Forever Friends, shows that a third of adults (36%) meet their closest friends while at school, with a fifth (22%) saying they meet them at work.Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter now also play a major role in building new friendships. The research points out that 25 to 34-year-olds make 22 friends via Facebook, compared to 18 to 24-year-olds who make 12, and 35 to 44-year-olds who make just four.Forever Friends relationship coach Sam Owen says: “It is no coincidence that over a third of us meet our best friends at school. It is a key time in our lives when friendships are growing through sharing notes, giving gifts, seeing each other regularly and laughing a lot. As adults we can often forget how powerful these small things are and how the little things can make a difference. ”Later in life we find ourselves losing friends. Over half of us lose friendship through moving, while 36% say that over time they grow apart from close pals. Having children also causes 19% to drift away from childhood friends.With growing pressures being put on friendships these days, it s important to make time for our friendships.21. How many friends can a 20-year-old college student make via Facebook?A. 4. B. 12. C. 18. D. 22.22. In Paragraph 5, the author is trying to tell the readers .A. how important making friends is B. that friendship is not easy to keepC. how much has been done to keep friendship D. that friendship at school is important23. The underlined phrase “drift away from” in Paragraph 6 means .A. make sense of B. lose contact withC. feel sorry for D. make up with24. This passage is most probably taken from .A. Facebook or Twitter B. an advertisementC. a textbook D. a newspaperBOne afternoon in November 1918, Moina Michael hurried through the streets of New York. She wore a bright red silk poppy (罂粟花)on her coat collar and carried a bouquet of 24 smaller poppies. World War I was going on overseas, and Moina was determined to do her part.Moina was a teacher at University of Georgia when the war broke out. She planned to do more than making socks or sweaters for the Red Cross. She wanted to encourage the soldiers before they left for war. Moina traveled to New York to care for soldiers at the medical center at Columbia University. There was nothing she enjoyed more than sitting and chatting with the soldiers. She looked at the photos of their families and brought fresh flowers to brighten the rooms when the weather outside turned grey.Earlier that November morning, she found a well-known poem in a magazine, which began , “In Flanders fields , the poppies blow between the crosses (十字架 ) , row on row”Moina had read the poem before. She knew that John, a Canadian physician, wrote it while treating soldiers on the battlefields of Flanders in Belgium. The poem, remembering the dead, always touched her. But that morning, Moina was struck by the last verse and pictures. Soldiers with sad eyes stared at a battleground full of white crosses and bright red poppies. “Remember US,” the soldiers seemed to be speaking to her.Moina thought about the soldiers at the medical centerhow they had left their families and homes to protect the 2freedom she enjoyed each day. To Moina, they were heroes. Silently, she made a promise. She would always wear a red poppy to remember the soldiers.25. Which of the following can best replace the underlined phrase “do her part” in Paragraph 1?A. join the army B. become a doctorC. make her own efforts D. be a Red Cross member26. Where did Moina make her promise?A. In Canada. B. In Belgium.C. At Columbia University. D. At University of Georgia.27. Moina considered the red poppy as .A. the logo of the medical center B. the city flower of New YorkC. a memorial flower for soldiers D. a symbol of University of Georgia28. John wrote the poem .A. in hope of a bright future B. in memory of the dead soldiersC. to treat the soldiers on the battlefields D. to show Moins love for the soldiersCFrom sleeping standing up to shutting down half of their brain, animals have some strange sleeping habits.Now some of these unusual habits, from napping giraffes to birds ihat sleep whileflying, have been shown in a chart. This chart shows that little brown bats are verylethargic, sleeping for around 19. 5 hours per day.This long period of sleep is thought to be a way of conserving energy and it means brown bats only hunt for a few hours each night when their insect food is ava