乌鲁木齐市第四中学2018-2019学年度下学期阶段性诊断测试
高一年级英语期中试题
（考试时长：100分钟）
一、阅读理解（共15小题；每题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题所给的四个选项（A、 B、 C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
Have you ever been to a music festival? Well if you live in the UK, the answer is probably yes. The number of festivals has grown greatly over the last few years and now there are around 200 every summer. So let’s look at the history of four famous festivals.
The Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary(当代的) performing arts held most years in Somerset, in the south-west of England. There are a rock and pop stage, a jazz stage, the Avalon stage, a theatre comedy stage, a cinema tent, a dance tent and a circus(马戏团). The festival started in1970and about 120,000 people go to it every summer.
The Reading Festival is truly world-class with rock and pop bands(乐队) appearing from all over the world, particularly(尤其) the USA. About 80,000 music fans go to Reading every August Bank Holiday. The festival first came to its present site on the banks of the River Thames in Reading in 1971, when it moved from Plumpton in Sussex. It is still on the same site over 47 years later! WOMAD stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance and was the idea of rock musician Peter Gabriel to promote(宣传) world music. The WOMAD Festival started in 1982 and takes place in July at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury in Wiltshire, and you can see different bands and musicians from all over the world. The festival welcomes over 26, 000 visitors each year.
The one-day Monsters of Rock Festival at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes was first held in 1980 and gave visitors the chance to hear the very best of hard rock and heavy metal. There were no festivals between 1996 and 2003 as a result of changing musical fashions, but now it has returned and grown into a two-day festival with a campsite for the 30,000 people who go there in summer days.
1. Which festival draws the largest number of fans every year?
A. The Reading Festival. B. The WOMAD Festival.
C. The Glastonbury Festival. D. The Monsters of Rock Festival. 2. What can we learn about the Reading Festival?
A. It mainly attracts rock music fans. B. It is especially popular with local bands. C. It is named after the place where it is held. D. It has been held in the same site since it started. 3. What do the four festivals have in common?
A. All last five days. B. All are held in the summer.
C. All take place every year. D. All are held near the River Thames.
B
Maggie had never experienced an earthquake before, only prepared for it. As long as she could remember, preparing for an earthquake was routine(常规的) at school. Her family as well had made plans in the event of a natural disaster. Earthquakes are so much more common on the West Coast of the United States.
Today Maggie was home alone. Maggie knew her mom would be driving home on the busy freeway, thinking about preparing supper for Maggie’s dad. Maggie’s dad would arrive at the airport. He was coming home from a two-week business trip.
Maggie arrived home from school at the regular time. She was taking some biscuits from the kitchen cupboard, when she felt it. First just a tremor(微震), then the violent shaking. Maggie quickly ran under the large, wooden table in the dining room. The sounds of breaking glass and the crashing(坠落声) of many things were frightening. But the table remained undamaged, and Maggie hid herself in fear.
After what seemed like a century the earthquake appeared to be over. Maggie could hear the sound of water rushing below her in the basement. The smell of natural gas was present in the air. Maggie knew where the main water valve(阀门) was located. Dad had shown her where it was and how to turn it off. Slowly and carefully she came out from under the table. The once tidy home was now almost unrecognizable. As Maggie reached the open basement door she could see the steps were still in good condition. She carefully made her way down into the dark basement. While still on the steps she felt the water rising and rising. Suddenly Maggie felt a lot of pain as a large ceiling beam(天花板梁) hit her head and shoulder. She fell onto some storage boxes… 4. What do we know about Maggie and her family?
A. They lived in earthquake country. B. They seldom prepared for an earthquake. C. They had experienced an earthquake before. D. They got an earthquake warning that morning. 5. What was Maggie doing when the earthquake took place?
A. She was about to clean her home. B. She was about to enter her home.
C. She was looking for something to eat. D. She was preparing supper for her family. 6. Why did Maggie go to the basement?
A. To close the basement door. B. To find some storage boxes.
C. To turn off the main water valve. D. To check where the rising water came from. 7. What’s the text mainly about?
A. Maggie’s first trip to the West Coast. B. Maggie’s first earthquake experience. C. How Maggie survived a natural disaster. D. How Maggie prepared for an earthquake.
C
These days, it seems like everyone wants to go out into space and live on new planets. Ratherthan depend on another pre-existing planet, could we make a new, proper planet ourselves?
To start with, if we d want to be living on it, we should find a good place in space to put the new planet. We’d want it to be in a habitable zone, meaning the planet should be at the right distance from its star to make sure there would be perfect temperatures and most importantly, liquid(液态的) water.
We’d also need the right materials to make the planet. Our Earth is made up of many different elements(元素). If we made our own new planet we’d probably want it to have similar elements and a similar structure(结构) We’ d also want enough water to form some oceans.
But even if we get all of the materials creating a new planet like Earth could have many troubles. It might be something more like a huge space station. It would be pretty expensive if we wanted it to be super big.
We would probably also need a lot of food since there s going to be many scientists and astronauts out in space working on this project!
According to NASA, each astronaut uses about 0. 83 kilograms of food per meal, including 0.12 kilograms of packaging(包装) material. Without the weight of the packaging material, we’d need about 780 kilograms of food just to feed one astronaut for a year.
Putting all these together could make it possible to make our own planet one day! In reality,