广西钦州市高新区高一英语上学期入学考试试题(2)

34. What does the underlined word“that” in Para 1 refer to(指代)?

A. discussing how Penny will pay for it.

B. discussing if they will buy the necklace.

C. finding out what housework Penny can do at home.

D. making sure if Penny’s father will agree to pay for i t.

35. How many times does Penny’s father ask her for the necklace?

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A. Once.

B. Twice.

C.Three times.

D. Four times.

36. According to the story, Penny probably feel in the end.

A. sad and worried

B. anxious and sorry

C. relaxed and excited

D. surprised and happy

37. We can infer from the passage that Penny’s father wants to tell her that ___________.

A. it’s not easy to get something valuable

B. to give means to receive something better

C. pocket money should be earned with effort

D. nothing can be achieved without effort

C

We can’t remember clearly since when we started to take our mobiles to a dinner table. This happens a lot, especially when we eat out. Once a dish comes, instead of lifting our

chopsticks, we take out our mobiles and click. Later, we post the photos onto Weibo or Wechat, waiting to be “liked.”Then we check our mobiles from time to time du ring the meal, to see whether we get “liked” or not. We just cannot leave our mobiles for simply a meal.

Does that sound familiar to you? Do you do that often? If not, how do you feel when others do that when having dinner with you?

A recent study suggests that what we are used to doing is not that good. Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant. To test this, some researchers did an experiment. Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food. It turned out that the m ore photos they took, ▲ . So, why not stop taking photos and just enjoy the food ahead of you?

Besides the scientific result, there are also some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals. After po sting the photos onto the Internet, one will be unable to control himself and check his mobile many times. “Does everyone accept my photo? I hope a lot of people like it!” It seems like your mobile secretly calls your

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name all the time, even when you are with real people.

So, next time you go out to have dinner with your family or friends, how about not taking photos of food? Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you. T rust me, it will be a wonderful time.

38. From the passage, we know people like to first before meals recently.

A. talk with their friends

B. take photos of the dish

C. have a taste of the dish

D. check their mobile phones

39. Which of the following can be put in the ▲ in Paragraph 3?

A. the less cheerful they became.

B. the more interested they were in the food.

C. the less delicious the food seemed to them.

D. the more “liked” they got on Weibo or Wechat.

40. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 4?

A.People often treat mobiles as real people.

B. People regard mobiles as their secret friends.

C. People often make phone calls when they get together.

D. People pay more attention to mobiles than to real people.

41. Which of the following statement is the writer’s opinion?

A. We take out our mobiles and click when a dish comes.

B. We check our mobiles from time to time during the meal.

C. Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant.

D. Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food.

D

Once in a small village, a farmer borrowed some money from a moneylender. The moneylender, old and ugly, liked the farmer’s beautiful daughter very much. It was already time to pay back, but the farmer couldn’t. So the moneylender suggested that he would give up the farmer’s debt(债) if he was able to marry his daughter. Both the farmer and his daughter were frightened.

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The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty money bag. Then the girl would have to pick one pebble from the bag. If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and the moneylender would lose both the girl and the money. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be put into prison(监狱).

On that day, all the villagers were standing on a pebble path. As they talked, the moneylender picked up two pebbles. After putting them into the bag, he asked the girl to pick a pebble. But the girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag.

Thinking for a moment, the girl reached her hand into the moneybag and took out a pebble. Without looking at it, she let it drop onto the pebble path and it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.

“I’m sorry. Now let’s look into the bag for the pebble left.” t he girl said. All the villagers laughed happily, and the moneylender went away sadly.

42. The moneylender most possibly felt ______ when the girl dropped the pebble.

A. relaxed

B. excited

C. nervous

D. hopeless

43. What would most probably happen in the end?

A. The girl became the moneylender’s wife.

B. The moneylender got back his money.

C. The farmer was finally put into prison.

D. The moneylender gave up his debt.

44. Which word can best describe the girl in this passage?

A. Clever.

B. Honest.

C. Lovely.

D. Strict.

45. Which of the following can we learn from the passage?

A. Honesty is important for all of us.

B. All the pebbles are the same.

C. Girls can be very brave in life trouble.

D. Never borrow money from moneylenders.

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