1中山一中 2015-2016 学年度第一学期第一次段考高二 英语试题第一部分第一部分 阅读理解阅读理解（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，并在答在答题卡上将该项涂黑题卡上将该项涂黑。AHow many men do housework? Recently a European commission tried to find out peoples ideas and reactions to the womens movement. As part of their survey, they asked many men and women the question,” Who does the housework? ” The men answered very differently from the women!The housework they asked people about were: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish(丹麦的) men helped in the house. But only 15% of Italian men said they did the housework; many of them said they never helped at all!But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 38% of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most truthful husbands. Their answers were the same as their wives answers.Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience? Write and tell us what you think.1. The survey was carried out in .A. Britain B. Italy C. Denmark D. Europe2. The subject for the survey is .A. how many boys do the housework B. who does the housework at homeC. how many women do the housework D. who are more diligent, wives or husbands3. From the passage we can see that .A. there were more husbands who did the housework than wivesB. husbands did half of the housework all the timeC. there were more wives who did the housework than husbands2D. wives did almost all the housework at home4. More husbands help in the house than husbands.A. British; Danish B. Italian; Danish C. Danish; British D. Italian; BritishBBrenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl. She had one big dreamto play the drums in a band. But one big problem lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to a lot of old people. Many of them are sick. She knew that the sound of beating drums would really get on their nerves. So, she had tried playing in the strangest places: a basement, a kitchen, and even in a shower. But there was always someone it would annoy.One day, while watching a science documentary on TV, she heard that sound cannot travel in space, because theres no air. At that moment, Brenda Bongos decided to become a sort of musical astronaut.With the help of a lot of time, books and work, Brenda built a space bubble. This was a big glass ball connected to a machine which sucked out all the air inside. All that would be left inside was a drum kit（成套设备） and a chair. Brenda got into the space suit she had made, entered the bubble, turned on the machine, and played those drums like a wild child.It wasnt long before Brenda Bongos came very famous. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Shortly afterwards she came out of the bubble and started giving concerts. Her fame spread so much that the government suggested that she be part of a unique space journey. Finally, Brenda was a real musical astronaut, and had gone far beyond her first ambition of playing drums in a band. Years later, when asked how she had achieved all this, she thought for a moment, and said: If those old people next door hadnt mattered so much to me, I wouldnt have found a solution, and none of this would have ever happened. 5Why did Brenda try to play in the strangest places?A. Because she didnt want others to hear her play B. Because she didnt mean to disturb others.C. Because she didnt have her own room D. Because she didnt like her neighbors.36Brenda started to give concerts .A. after she practiced in her space bubble B. when she became part of the unique space journeyC. after she became a real musical astronaut D. when people came to see her in the space bubble7Brenda became famous because .A. she was good at music and science B. she became a real musical astronautC. she invented a special way of practice D. she played well and had a talent8It can be inferred from the text that: “ “.A. He laughs best who laughs last B. Its never too old to learnC. Two heads are better than one D. One good turn deserves anotherCFour people in England back in 1953, stared at Photo 51. It wasnt mucha picture showing a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showed the shape of DNA .The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, was left out.Her name was Rosalind Franklin. “She should have been up there,” say