高一英语下册期中考试试卷试题

　　2. Personal charm on the air.

　　3. Relevant experience.

　　For job possibilities, please email your CV, demos and preferably photograph to job@cri-k. The CV should include such information as your citizenship, age, academic degree, working experience, contact numbers and, if you are already in China, type of visa. Thanks.

　　21. What’s the purpose of the passage?

　　A. To advertise a website. B. To attract some talents.

　　C. To introduce a radio station. D. To introduce a company.

　　22. To apply for the positions above, one must____.

　　A. work long hours B. have related working experience

　　C. have team spirit D. live in English-speaking countries

　　23. Which of the following positions require irregular work hours?

　　A. Video reporters&News presenters B. News presenters&Biz News Reporter

　　C. Biz News Reporter&Copyeditors D. Copyeditors&Music DJs

　　B

　　I am a music store owner. One day, when I was cleaning the instruments in my store, I saw an old man come in. His short steps dragged on the carpet. “Is 77 too old to learn the banjo (班卓琴)?” he asked.

　　“You can learn to play it well,” I replied, holding back my doubts. My mind told me I was giving false encouragement. I reached the instructor’s schedule and gave the rates, the available time and the additional information that he would need. To my surprise and delight, the old man, Carl, began banjo lessons three days later with my most patient teacher.

　　With nothing to do at home but practice, Carl made surprising progress. After breakfast he practiced for his required half hour. While waiting for lunch he picked up his banjo again for just a couple of minutes. Since TV was difficult for him to see and hear, he often played the banjo in the evenings. Carl was always early for lessons so it was a surprise that he didn’t arrive one Tuesday.

　　The next morning I listened to the answering machine with sadness. “Carl’s in hospital,” the voice recorded.

　　Two months later, I shared the newspaper obituary with the banjo teacher. We both shed tears for a surprisingly clever banjo student.

　　Several months later, a woman came into the store carrying a plant. “This is for Carl’s banjo teacher,” she said. “I’m his wife, Mary.”

　　“Why did Carl want to play the banjo?” I asked. Mary took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “Carl was at some show when he was 10 years old. He came close to the stage to watch the performers. When they were packing up their instruments, the banjo player said to Carl, ‘You want to see this up close?’ Carl climbed up on the stage and from then on he wanted to play the banjo.” Carl had waited 67 years to realize a dream! Mary gave the plant to Carl’s banjo teacher. “Thank you for the best six months of his life,” she said.

　　24. How did Carl learn to play the banjo well?

　　A. By working hard. B. By taking short cuts.

　　C. By asking his wife to help him. D. By finding the best teacher.

　　25. From Paragraph 2, we can know the author ______.

　　A. was unwilling to help Carl B. was giving true encouragement

　　C. didn’t want to encourage Carl D. encouraged Carl though he had doubts

　　26. The underlined word “obituary” in Para.5 means a notice that _______.

　　A. announces somebody has died B. announces somebody is needed

　　C. announces a good piece of news D. announces a jpgt for somebody

　　27. Why did Carl want to learn banjo?

　　A. He wanted to become a banjo performer.

　　B. He wanted to make his dream of his young age come true.

　　C. His wife encouraged him to learn it.

　　D. He wanted to spend the last best six months of his life.

　　C

　　Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. While the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.

　　It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random(随机地) from population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.

　　Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.

　　28. Which best describes the writer’s point in Para.1?

　　A. Intelligence is given at birth.

　　B. Intelligence is developed by the environment.

　　C. Intelligence is fixed at birth, but is developed by the environment.

　　D. Some people are born clever and others born stupid.

　　29. It is suggested in this passage that __________.

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