2016-2017学年度封丘一中2月月考卷(普通用卷)

 

封丘一中高二下学期开学英语考卷

第一部分:阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 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ABCD中选出最佳答案,并在答案卷上将其涂黑。

A

You may think, salt is just a simple cooking element we put in our food for a little extra taste. But salt is much more than that.

Without salt our muscles would not move. Our nervous systems would not operate. Our hearts would not beat. Salt means life. But do not think rubbing salt into the wound will help. Doing that would be painful and not heal the wound. To rub salt into the wound is an idiom that means to purposefully make a bad situation worse.

Those who lived near the ocean or other natural sources for salt were lucky. Those people did not have to trade for salt. In fact, people used salt as a method of payment in many parts of the ancient world. The word "salary" comes from the word "salt".

Salt also played an important part in population movement and world exploration. Explorers understood that if they could keep food fresh, they could travel longer distances. So they used salt to preserve food and explored the world. Salt meant movement. Salt also changed the way nations fought. With preserved food on ships, nations could sail to distant lands and then attack people there.

Salt meant power. Salt was so important that, according to food historians, it was traded pound-for-pound for gold. Today, people still use the expressions "to be worth one’s salt" or" worth one’s weight in salt". The expressions describe a person who is useful and valuable. A person might also be called the salt of the earth. That description means he or she is dependable and trustworthy. The phrase comes from the Christian Bible. Jesus called his loyal followers or disciples(信徒) the salt of the earth. But one of these disciples was not so loyal. The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci shows Judas spilling a bowl of salt. Spilled salt is a sign of bad luck and trouble. And trouble was exactly what Judas gave Jesus.

In 2200 BC, the Chinese emperor Xia Yu created one of the first-known taxes. He taxed salt. And Egyptians preserved dead bodies with salt, creating mummies. Today in India, salt is still a symbol of good luck.

1.Salt played an important role in world exploration in that. A .muscles would not move without salt B. people used salt as a method of payment C. salt was used to store food for a long time

D. nervous systems and hearts would not work without salt 2.According to the passage, we can know that.

1

A .the first-known tax was born in India

B .the word "salary" has no connection with "salt"

C. to rub salt into the wound means to give others a hand D. the salt of the earth refers to a good and honest person

3.The underlined word "betrayed" in Paragraph 6 can be replaced by"________". A. brought up B. put up with C. went against D .stood by 4.What might be the best title for the passage?

A.Salt Is More than a Four-letter Word B. All Kinds of Use of SaltC .The History of SaltD .The Salt of the Earth

B

Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary

consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on goes forward at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction. For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute without least consideration; he does so with skill and polish(完美): “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size. It happens to be the color you mentioned.” Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right color and may be the right size but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.

Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only “having a look round". She is always open to persuasion: indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a tiresome process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

5.According to the passage, a man’s shopping is based on _______. A .his money B .his hobbies C. his need D .his friends 6.Why does a lady welcome suggestions from anyone while buying a dress? A. Because she wants to buy a dress that everyone thinks suits her.

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