天水市一中2018级2020~2021学年度第一次考试试题
英 语
第Ⅰ卷 （选择题 共70分）
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，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Deciding to get her money's worth out of the wedding dress on which she spent over $1,000, an Australian woman has been wearing her wedding dress, a year after her wedding.
43-year-old Tammy Hall adopted a new lifestyle-anti-consumerism (反消费主义) lifestyle in 2016, after a trip to India opened her eyes to how much we as a society consumed. She decided not to buy any new clothes or footwear for a whole year after she returned home to Adelaide, in Southern Australia, and she made it.
But last year, as her wedding day approached, she faced a dilemma. She wanted to look good on the most important day of her life, but how could she spend a small fortune on the wedding dress she would only wear on that day?
\tells PA Real Life. The first time I wore it after the wedding was to vote in the Australian election in early 2019,\the 43-year-old adds. \then, it's been to all sorts of places. Wearing it on a crowded train was especially funny, but I've worn it to do housework, to football games and to the gym.\
Hall says that she has gotten some strange looks from people, but no annoying comments. Anyway, she doesn't really care, because she knows she has to hit the goal she has set and wearing the dress multiple times is the most reasonable way she could think of to make the most of her wedding dress.
Hall now plans to wear her wedding dress on a trip to Iceland that she and her partner will take next summer.
1．Why did Tammy Hall adopt a new lifestyle? A．To adapt herself to Indian life. C．To save money for her next trip.
B．To cut down her consumption. D．To get prepared for her wedding.
2．What did Tammy Hall do to get her money's worth out of her wedding dress?
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A．She brought fun to people with it. C．She wore it repeatedly in daily life. 3．What can we infer about Tammy Hall?
B．She tried to wear it to earn money. D．She got it exchanged again and again.
A．She is determined to turn her ideas into practice. B．She values her wedding dress less than her trips. C．She has been struggling to make the ends meet. D．She has influenced people's lifestyle widely.
B
Once a circle missed a wedge (楔子). The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. Finally it found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.
In some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish(滋润) his soul with the dream of something better. He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had.
There is wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and does not feel like a failure for doing so. There is wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy(悲剧) and survive — he or she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.
Life is more like a baseball season, when even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. Our goal is to win more games than we lose. When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it, we will have achieved wholeness that others can only long for.
4．Which may be an example of being whole? A．A person has everything. B．A person accepts his or her limitations.
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C．A person loves someone and is loved.
D．A person feels blue for dropping unrealistic goals. 5．How is a baseball season similar to life? A．Easy come, easy go.
B．Failure is the mother of success.
C．Energy and persistence conquer all things. D．Some battles you win and some battles you lose. 6．How does the author clarify his idea?
A．Mainly by comparing. B．Mainly by reasoning. C．Mainly by informing. D．Mainly by arguing. 7．What can be the best title for the passage?
A．Pursue perfection in life B．Be whole in life C．Life without mistakes is whole D．No pains, no gains
C
The connection between people and plants has long been the subject of scientific research. Recent studies have found positive effects. A study conducted in Youngstown，Ohio，for example, discovered that greener areas of the city experienced less crime. In another，employees were shown to be 15% more productive when their workplaces were decorated with houseplants.
The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)have taken it a step further changing the actual composition of plants in order to get them to perform diverse，even unusual functions. These include plants that have sensors printed onto their leaves to show when they’re short of water and a plant that can detect harmful chemicals in groundwater. ＂We’re thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the things that we use every day,＂explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT.
One of his latest projects has been to make plants glow(发光)in experiments using some common vegetables. Strano’s team found that they could create a faint light for three-and-a-half hours. The light，about one-thousandth of the amount needed to read by，is just a start. The technology, Strano said, could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps.
In the future，the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in a one-off treatment that would last the plant’s lifetime. The engineers are
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2021届甘肃省天水一中高三上学期第一学段考试英语试题
