湖北省黄冈中学2015年春季高一年级期末考试英语试题

考试时间：150分钟 满分：120分

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 略

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

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第一节（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。

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Have you ever wondered how a popular food or dessert was first created？ Read on and find out about several of them.

Chewing gum—Although ancient Greeks，Mayans，and early American settlers chewed sap（树液）from trees, the first commercial chewing gum was made and sold by John B. Curtis in 1848. In 1850, Curtis began selling flavored gums.

Pizza—In Italy in the early 1700s, flat breads, called pizzas, were made without toppings.These tasty，filling breads were sold to the poor in Naples.When Maria Carolina, the queen of Naples, tasted one, she persuaded her husband, King Ferdinand IV, to allow this peasant dish to be made in the royal kitchen.Almost 200 years later，during her travels around the country, Italy’s queen Margherita saw Italian peasants eating pizza breads.She had a taste and fell in love with pizza. She ordered the most famous pizza cook of the day, Raffaele Esposito, to create for her a pizza made of tomato, basil, and cheese to look like the colors of the Italian flag. This remains the basis of the American version of the pizza. The ice-cream-cone—In 1904, Italo Marchiony got a patent(专利) to produce ice-cream cones. The same year at the ST. Louis World’s Fair, a Syrian waffle(华夫饼) seller Ernest Hamwi heard that a nearby ice-cream seller had run out of dishes to serve his cream. Hamwi rolled some of his

waffles into a cone(圆锥) shape and offered them to his neighbor, who put ice-cream in the cones and sold them. This first fully eatable, portable(便捷的) treat was a hit with customers immediately.

M&Ms—During the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, Forrest Mars, Sr., saw soldiers eating pieces of chocolate covered with a hard sugary coating, which kept the chocolate from melting in the sun. Using this idea, Mars developed M＆Ms in 1941. In 1954, Mars ntroduced M&Ms Peanut Chocolate Candies, along with the now famous slogan, “The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand.”

21．Who helped to create the American version of Pizza？ A．John B．Curtis and Maria Carolina. B．Maria Carolina and Ernest Hamwi. C．Raffaele Esposito and Margherita. D．Ernest Hamwi and Forrest Mars, Sr. 22．Why did the ice-cream become popular？ A．It was a cone—shape.

B．It looked like the Italian flag. C．It was eatable and could be taken away. D．It was covered with a hard sugary coating. 23．What does the slogan of M&Ms mean？

A．The chocolate is not easy to melt in the sun. B．The chocolate can not be held in your hand. C．The chocolate is made by hand. D．The chocolate tastes delicious. 答案与解析：

答案： 21—23 C C A

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Most of us remember our teachers well. Three successful Americans talk about the teachers who encouraged them.

Kevin Henkes is an excellent author and illustrator whose books include Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, The Year of Billy Miller, and Kitten’s First Full Moon, which won the Caldecott medal. “I grew up in the school days of silent hallways and desks in neat，evenrows. One day, our forth-grade teacher allowed the class to move the desks out of rows intogroups of four. It might seem like a small thing now, but it taught me that you could do things differently; you could think outside the box. That teacher helped me view my world differently. Good teachers can change lives.”

Katherine Applegate has won many awards for her books, including the Newbery Medal for The One and Only Ivan. She also created

the Animorphs series with her husband, Michael Grant.“My sixth-grade teacher in Michigan sensed that 1 wanted to write，so one day she sent me home to write about the word‘blue’in as many ways as possible. Because of that，for the first time in my life, I thought of myself as someone with special skills as a writer, someone who was unique. My teacher’s actions said‘I see something special in you.’”

In his role as U.S.Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan is in charge of the department that collects data and directs research on America’s schools.“My high school English teacher was amazing. She challenged us to express our ideas clearly in class and in our writing. There was no such thing as a bad question. She wanted to hear from us and encouraged us to speak up and express ourselves. She pulled things out of me that I didn’t know I had inside. I think that is the genius of good teachers.” 24．What does the underlined part“think outside the box” in paragraph 2 probably mean？

A．To think in a careful way. B．To think for quite a long time.