www.ks5u.com集宁一中高一年级第二学期第一次月考英语试题 本试卷满分为120分，考试时间为100分钟 第I卷（选择题 共70分）第一部分：阅读理解（共二节，满分40分）第一节 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。（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分） A The Dragon Boat Festival is a funny Chinese holiday. Its always on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Usually, thats around June or July. It is celebrated in memory of a Chinese patriotic(爱国的) poet named Qu Yuan. Both children and adults like this holiday. On the Dragon Boat Festival, first, there are dragon boat races. Dragon boats are very long. They are painted in bright colors. In each boat, there are many people rowing(划船). There is also somebody beating a drum(鼓). To win the race, a person in the boat must grab(夺取) the flag at the finish line. The winners of the races get big trophies(奖品) and money. Races take place all over China. For example, there are races in rivers and streams in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Many people go to these places to watch the races. Many other people watch the races on television. Second, people eat Zongzi(a kind of rice dumpling) on the Dragon Boat Festival. In making Zongzi, people can add sugar, peanuts, eggs or meat. It is a very delicious food.1. When is the Dragon Boat Festival?A. Every May fifth.B. On the fifth day of the fifth month of the solar calendarC. On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.D. Between May and July.2. Dragon boats _.A. have electric motors.B. are very long and painted in bright colors.C. are full of drums. D. Between May and July.3. People can watch Dragon Boat races _.A. on TV. B. by rivers C. every month D. Both A and B 4. On the Dragon Boat Festival. People eat _.A. moon cakes B. Zongzi C. noodle D. steamed stuffed bun(包子) B People are so busy these days that many people have no time to cook.This becomes a problem, because most families love home cooking! The food tastes good and warm, and a family meal brings everyone together. In some families, meals are often the only times everyone sees one another at the same time. Another reason people enjoy home cooking is that it is often a way of showing love. A parent who makes some cookies is not just satisfying a childs sweet tooth. She or he is sending a message. The message says, “I care about you enough to spend an hour making cookies that you will eat up in 15 minutes if I let you.” There is also something about the smell of home cooking. The smell of home cooking pleases people of all ages. It makes most of us feel good and loved, even if we are the ones doing the cooking! Next time when you smell a cake making, stop for a moment and pay attention to your mood(心情).5. Why do fewer people cook now?A. They are lazy. B. They are too busy.C. Many people dont like cooking. D. They dont like family meals.6. A parent spends an hour making cookies _.A. just to satisfy her or his childs sweet tooth.B. only to send a message.C. to let a child eat up in 15 minutes. D. often to show her or his love.7. The writer thinks the smell of home cooking_.A. makes us happy. B. makes us be interested in cooking.C. makes us pay attention to our mood. D. makes us love others. 8. Whats the main idea of this passage?A. Family meals are important. B. How to make cookies.C. People are too busy to cook. D. Homemade cookies taste better. C Suddenly another thought went through Kates mind like an electric shock. An express train was due to go past about thirty minutes later. If it were not stopped, that long train, full of passengers, would fall into the stream. “Someone must go to the station and warn the stationmaster,”Kate thought. But who was to go? She would have to go herself. There was no one else. In wind and rain she started on her difficult way. Soon she was at the bridge that crossed the Des Moines River, a bridge also built of wood, just like the bridge across Honey Creek. The storm had not washed this away, but there was no footpath across it. She would have to cross it by stepping from sleeper(枕木) to sleeper. With great care she began the dangerous crossing, sometimes on her hands and knees, hardly daring to look down between the sleepers into the wild flood waters below. If she should slip, she would fall between the sleepers, into the rapidly flowing stream. At last-she never knew how long it had taken her-she felt solid ground under her feet. But there was no time to rest. She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left. Unless she reached the station before the express did, many, many lives