阿左旗高级中学20172018学年第二学期期末考试高一英语试卷第一部分：阅读理解1-15题。（每小题2分，满分30分）AMonthly Talks at London Canal MuseumOur monthly talks start at 19:30 on the first Thursday of each month except August. Admission is at normal charges and you dont need to book. They end around 21:00.November 7th The Canal Pioneers, by Chris Lewis. James Brindley is recognized as one of the leading early canal engineers. He was also a major player in training others in the art of canal planning and building. Chris Lewis will explain how Brindley made a positive contribution to the education of that group of early “civil engineers”.December 5th Ice for the Metropolis, by Malcolm Tucker. Well before the arrival of freezers, there was a demand for ice for food preservation and catering, Malcolm will explain the history of importing natural ice and the technology of building ice wells, and how Londons ice trade grew.February 6th An Update on the Cotsword Canals, by Liz Payne. The Stroudwater Canal is moving towards reopening. The Thames and Severn Canal will take a little longer. We will have a report on the present state of play.March 6th Eyots and AitsThames Islands, by Miranda Vickers. The Thames had many islands. Miranda has undertaken a review of all of them. She will tell us about those of greatest interest.Online bookings:www.canalmuseum.org.uk/bookMore infor:www.canalmuseum.org.uk/whatsonLondon Cannal Museum12-13 New Wharf Road, London NI 9RTwww.canalmuseum.org.ukwww.canalmuseum.mobiTel:020771308361.When is the talk on James Brindley?A.February 6th.B.March 6th.C.November 7th.D.December 5th.2.What is the topic of the talk in February?A.The Canal Pioneers.B.Ice for the MetropolisC.Eyots and AitsThames IslandsD.An Update on the Cotsword Canals3.Who will give the talk on the islands in the Thames?A.Miranda Vickers.B.Malcolm Tucker.C.Chris Lewis.D.Liz Payne.BLanguage is always changing.In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the language does not change either.The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary.Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew.For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all the new plants and animals they found.In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies.Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too.There are several major(主要) language families in the world.Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divide them differently.The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language.About 3 percent of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families.4.The early language had _.A.a lot of problemsB.words and easy grammarC.words but no grammarD.grammar but not many words5.In the next few hundred years we can expect language to _.A.stay exactly the sameB.change a great dealC.change only a littleD.ask more words and drop some grammar6.What this article shows is that _.A.languages change fastB.languages really dont want to changeC.language really with changes in societyD.Spanish and English changeCI am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my passion stand in the way of being a good parent.I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓言)mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.So heres what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure (休闲); it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.Its so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. Its so easy to exist instead of to live. I learnt to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination.I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part,by telling others what I had learned.By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a de