高一英语同步试题第十二周

一. 阅读理解：（１×２０＝２０％）

A

Elizabeth had great trouble in finding a school to attend. No medical schoolwould accept
a woman student. So she studied by herself at first. She was helped by a fewdoctors who did believe that women should have the same chance to work as mendid. In 1847 she asked to be accepted at a small medical school in New York.Largely as a joke, the school accepted her. The teachers and pupils were allmen.They waited for Elizabeth to make a fool of herself and then go away. ButElizabeth felt she could learn anything a man could learn. And she proved it.No one laughed at her. The jokes stopped. But none of the towns- people wouldspeak to her. They thought she was wrong to study medicine. As astudent,Elizabeth helped treat sick poor people during her summer holidays. Shefound out that she had much more to learn as she tried to help them. "Imust learn more," she said, "there is so much work to be done amongthe sick. Somehow I must get other women to help me!" That autumn shereturned to school. Elizabeth Blackwell became a doctor in 1849. She was thefirst woman in the United States to become a doctor.

1. At first it seemed that it was impossible for Elizabeth to find a school toattend because ＿＿.

a. there were no medical schools in her hometown in those days

b. Elizabeth wanted to teach herself medicine at home

c. a few doctors helped her to study medicine

d. most people of her day didn‘t think that women should have the same chanceto work as men did

2. A small medical school in New York accepted Elizabeth because ＿＿＿.

a. she asked to be accepted many times

b. she was good at telling funny jokes

c. the school didn’t take the matter seriously

d. the teachers and pupils wanted to have a try

3. Some time later, no one in the school laughed at her because ＿＿＿.

a. she did an experiment to prove that she was quite right

b. she stopped telling jokes and began to work hard

c. they thought she was wrong to study medicine

d. Elizabeth proved to be a success as a medical student

4. Elizabeth began to help treat sick poor people ＿＿＿.

a. as soon as she graduated(毕业) from the medical school

b. when she was still a medical student at that school

c. when the weather was very hot in the summer

d. as she found out that she had much more to learn

5. Choose the best title for the passage from the following.

a. The First Woman Doctor in the USA

b. Elizabeth Became a Doctor after Years of Hard Work

c. Elizabeth---Pioneer in the Study of Medicine in America

d. Women Should Have the Same Chance to Work as Men

B

Small children often laugh at a lame(跛子) or blind person, or at someone who isn‘t dressed as well as theyare. But as they grow up, they learn not to hurt people’s feelings by laughingat their problems. They learn to laugh at other things. Most important, theylearn to laugh at themselves. Suppose you‘re playing a game. You make a silly(愚蠢) mistake and lose. Do you becomeangry? Or can you laugh at yourself and hope to do better next time? Supposeyou’re at a special dinner. You break a dish. Why keep worrying about howclumsy(笨拙) youlooked?Why not laugh it off andenjoy yourself anyway? If you can, it‘s a goodsign you’ve really grown up.

1. This article is mostly about ＿＿＿.

a. why laughter is good for your body

b. what you should laugh at

c. when babies learn to laugh

d. where you may laugh

2. The most important thing is to learn how to laugh at ＿＿＿.

a. jokes b. picture c. children d. yourself

3. The writer shows how laughter could help you not to ＿＿＿.

a. make a mistake b. lose a game c. become angry d. try again

4. Next the writer shows how laughter could stop you from ＿＿＿.

a. breaking dishes b. worrying c. enjoying yourself d. growing

5. If you find a new skill(技术) hard to learn, you should probably ＿＿＿.

a. laugh at your own slowness b. keep trying till you learn it

c. give up and never try again d. Both a and b

C

It was during a weekend. Mum gave me two tickets for a film and told me she wastoo busy with the endless housework to go with me. She told me to keep themoney if I could sell the extra ticket. I was very happy, of  course. Atthat time, a ticket only cost 20 fen. But to me, a little girl of 12,20 fenseemed quite a lot. I reached the cinema in a great hurry. Holding the ticketin my hand. I began to look for buyer.A handsome young man noticed me and theticket in my hand. He came towards me with a big smile."You‘ve got anextra ticket?" "Yes," I nodded. "That’s great. Say, howmuch?" "Twenty fen." "Oh," he thought for a while andthen took out a ten-yuan note from his wallet. "I‘m very sorry, but I’veonly got this note." Seeing I was confused(迷惑), he added, "Then, how about waiting for a while and I‘ll giveyou the money after I have changed it in the cinema’s store?" Without muchthinking, I agreed. Then we went to the cinema together. He walked fast. Icould hardly keep up with him. By and by, he left me farther and fartherbehind. Soon he disappeared in the crowd. I stood there without knowing what todo.Suddenly I seemed to realize( 意识到 ) the handsome young fellow had cheated(欺骗) me. He had saved twenty fen, butlost his honour. It seemed to be a funny or even ridiculous(可笑的) experience(经历).But it did cast a dark shadow(影子) on my young mind.

1. When do you think the story probably happened?

a. On Monday. b. On Tuesday. c. On Saturday. d. On Thursday. 　

2. The sentence "20 fen seemed quite a lot to me" suggests(暗示) that ＿＿＿.

a. the writer did not have much pocket money

b. the writer cared much for the money

c. 20 fen could buy a lot of things

d. the writer had never had as much money as that

3. The man took out a ten-yuan note from his wallet, for ＿＿＿.

a. he thought the writer would be happy at the sight of the note

b. he really had nothing but the ten-yuan note

c. he was not sure if the writer would sell him the ticket

d. He knew the writer was not able to give him back the change

4. How did the writer realize that she was cheated?

a. The man walked too fast for her to keep up with.

b. The man went to the crowd and was not seen again.

c. The man asked her to wait for a while.

d. The man said that he only had a ten-yuan note.

5. Which is the best title for this passage?

a. An Unpleasant Experience.

b. An Interesting Experience.

c. A Sad Experience.

d. A Terrible Experience.

D

In old days divers used to go down into the sea looking for ships that had sunkbecause they hoped to find gold and jewels. Now divers still search forvaluable things in sunken ships, but they also try to bring to the surface theships themselves ot parts of them. The value of different kinds of metals(金属) has increased greatly over thepast twenty or thirty years and even though a ship has been under the sea formany years, it may be worth a great deal. One famous sunken ship is the"Lusitania", which sank off the southern coast of Ireland in 1915with a l