广东省茂名市电白区2024-2025学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题 Word版

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2024—2025 学年度第一学期期中考试

高一英语

(满分：130 分时间：120 分钟)

第一部分阅读(共两节，满分 50 分)

第一节阅读理解(共15 小题;每小题 2. 5 分，满分 37. 5 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，并在答题卡上将

该项涂黑。

A WONDERFUL NIGHT AT CHANGSHA AQUARIUM(海洋馆)

Have you ever seen sea animals at night? What do they do? Eat? Sleep? Swim? Let’s go and enjoy the happy

time. Time: 6:30 p. m.~8:30 p. m. on Saturday.

Tour A

6:30p. m.~7:00 p. m.

Tour B

7:00 p. m.~7:30 p. m.

Tour C

7:30 p. m.~8:00 p. m.

Tour D

8:00 p. m.~8:30 p. m.

Walking with the penguins Playing with the seals Feeding the fish Taking pictures with the dolphins

*You can enjoy dinner at our restaurant under the water from 6:00 p. m. to 6:30 p. m.

*You can’t eat anything while you are watching the sea animals.

*Each tour costs 15 yuan. You can buy the tickets at the gate of the aquarium.

*You can decide which tour you will join after you arrive at the aquarium.

1. If you want to enjoy 4 tours, how much will you pay for them?

A. 15 yuan. B. 30 yuan.

C. 45 yuan. D. 60 yuan.

2. What can’t you do while you are watching the sea animals?

A. Feed the fish. B. Eat food.

C. Take pictures. D. Walk with the penguins.

3. How long can you enjoy the activities at the aquarium at most in one night?

A. Half an hour. B. One hour.

C. One and a half hours. D. Two hours.

From a young age

I would climb up and down for fun. My first introduction to gymnastics was through

my older sister Arielle, who used to be a gymnast. She taught me how to do my first cartwheel(侧手翻). By the end

of the week, I was teaching myself one-armed cartwheels and my sister said to my mom, “You need to put this kid

in gymnastics.”

At about age 9, I realized that I wanted to pursue the Olympic path. I was used to the public eye, but the

Olympic stage was different. The Olympics teach you to act in a certain way and to be disciplined(守纪律的). They

teach you to be a mature young lady, and you grow up fast.

When I started this journey, I never knew what it actually took to get to the Olympics. I thought it was:

Training. I had to quit a normal kind of life for gymnastics, but I didn’t mind. I moved from Virginia Beach to Iowa

to get a different coach. I sacrificed my privacy. Gymnastics was what I was going to eat, breathe and sleep with. It

takes a lot to be an Olympic athlete. You may have a talent, but the people who work harder than you will overtake

you.

Throughout my career, a lot of people have doubted me. When someone tells you that you can’ do it,

especially when there are many people, you start to believe it. It took me years to figure out how great I was at

gymnastics. Fear held me back when I hurt my leg in 2011, but I told myself that I had a talent and that I was going

to use it. I went to the world championships and got a team gold.

I won three gold medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and helped

Team USA win gold at the 2011 and 2015 World Championships. My mom used to say, “Inspire a generation.” It’s

one thing when you say it, but I never thought that I would be a pioneer and that people would draw inspiration

from my story.

4. Why did the author’ sister suggest putting her in gymnastics?

A. Because she was talented in gymnastics.

B. Because she needed to decide her future career.

C. Because she was too noisy to stay at home.

D. Because she had fallen in love with gymnastics.

5. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 3?

A. She left school at an early age.

B. She devoted great efforts to training.

C. She thought talent was necessary.

D. She dreamed of being famous one day.

6. What did the author learn from others’ doubt?

A. Failures were unavoidable.

B. She had to improve her skills.

C. She should be confident in herself.

D. What others thought was not important.

7. What does the author mainly talk about in this passage?

A. Her childhood experiences.

B. Her road to success.

C. Her passion for the Olympics.

D. Her performance in gymnastics.

Listening to birds and water can lower stress and improve mood, study finds. Researchers have long known

there are benefits from being in nature. Living around trees can help you live longer. Walking in the woods is good

for your mood. Being near water can have positive effects on your well-being.

A new study finds that natural sounds offer health benefits too. There is plenty of evidence that spending time

in natural areas is good for our health — but typically this research is done from a visual perspective, but we are

curious what the role is of sounds we hear in these spaces.

Some examples they found reported in those studies included decreased pain, lowered stress, improved mood,

and better cognitive (认知的) function. With these results in hand, they then listened to audio recordings from 251

sites in 68 national parks across the United States.

The sites with the most natural sounds and the lowest man-made sounds were located in Alaska, Hawaii, and

the Pacific Northwest and were far from urban areas. Only three locations with high natural sounds and low noise

pollution were within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of urban areas.

However, despite human-made noises being heard most of the time at sites in urban locations, birds were still

heard about 60% of the time and geophysical sounds like wind and rain heard about 19% of the time.

Not all natural sounds deliver the same benefits, the researchers found. For example, they discovered that the

sounds of water had the largest impact on improving positive emotions and health outcomes, while bird sounds

ease stress and annoyance. And the sounds of both birds and water were heard more than 23% of the time in the

national park recording sites.

Interestingly, there was also some evidence that natural sounds have benefits over silence. There was also

evidence that more different types of natural sounds — more types of birds singing rather than just one type of bird

— have benefits over fewer sounds.

8. What does the new study focus on?

A. The effect natural sounds have on health.

B. The harm man-made sounds do to health.

C. The benefits natural sounds bring to the environment.

D. The effect nature has on people from visual perspective.

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