河北阜城中学2014-2015学年高一1月月考英语试题 (Word版含答案)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、Ｂ、Ｃ和Ｄ）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。(30分)

A

Frogs are animals that can live both in water and on land. There are more than 5,000 kinds of frogs on the earth. The earliest known frogs lived about 190 million years ago and the frogs today still look the same. Here are some fun things that you might not know about frogs. Enjoy!

The Biggest and the Smallest Frogs

Some frogs can be very big. The biggest kind of frog is the Goliath Frog in West Africa. Its body can be nearly 30cm long, about the size of a large cat. The Gold Frog and the Poison Frog are the smallest frogs in the world. They are less than 1cm long. Though the Poison Frog is very small, it is not weak at all. It is dangerous. Any animal that eats it will die very soon.

The Best Jumpers

Frogs are very good at jumping. They developed jumping legs so that they would not be eaten by other large animals. Using their big strong legs, more frogs can jump over 20 times their own length. It is like a person jumping over about 30--48. The Australian Rocket Frog can even jump over 2m, which is 50 times its body length (5.5cm). That might be the reason why frogs are called the best jumpers on the earth.

The Cryogenic Animal

Some frogs like the Common Wood Frog have a special ability to live in very cold places. When the temperature goes down, they become ice frogs. 2/3of their body water freezes. Their hearts stop, and their breathing stops too. You may think they are dead, but in fact they are not. Maybe we humans can learn the way that the frogs do

for medical purpose.

21.The earliest frogs lived about ________ million years ago.

A. 20

B. 30

C. 50

D. 190

22. The Gold Frog is one of the ________ frogs on the earth.

A. smallest

B. biggest

C. strongest

D. weakest

23. ________ can jump over 2m.

A. The Goliath Frog

B. The Common Wood Frog

C. The Poison Frog

D. The Australian Rocket Frog

24. What will happen to a Common Wood Frog at very low temperature?

A. It will die very soon.

B. It will be an ice frog.

C. It will become dangerous.

D. It will become very small.

25. What is the best title of the passage?

A. The best jumper -- frogs

B. The living habit of frogs

C. Funny things about frogs

D. The biggest frogs

B

Perhaps the most extraordinary (奇特的)building put up in the 19th century was the Crystal Palace (水晶宫) which was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Crystal Palace was different from all the other buildings in the world, for it was made of iron and glass. It was one of the biggest buildings of all the time and a lot of people from many countries came to see it. Plenty of goods were sent to the exhibition from all parts of the world. There was also a great deal of machinery on show. Though in those days, traveling was not as easy as it is today, steamboats carried thousands of visitors across the Channel from Europe. On arriving in England, they were taken to the Crystal Palace by train. There were six million visitors in all, and the money from the exhibition was used to build museums and colleges. Later, the Crystal Palace was moved to the South London. It remained one of the most famous buildings in the world until it was burnt down in 1936.

26.The Crystal Palace was built up________.

A. in the 1950s

B. in the 1900s

C. shortly before 1851

D. before 1951

27. People from many countries came to the Crystal Palace mainly to________.

A. buy goods

B. visit an exhibition

C. travel

D. enjoy the Crystal Palace itself

28. What happened to the Crystal Palace in 1936?

A. It caught a terrible fire.

B. It disappeared suddenly.

C. It was moved away to the south of London.

D. It was rebuilt.

29.The Crystal Palace was famous to all because________.

A. it is the biggest building in the world then

B. so many visitors had been there

C. it was made of iron and glass

D. it was burnt down at last

30.The writer________.

A .thought the Crystal Palace very useful

B. think highly of the Crystal Palace

C. wanted the Crystal Palace to be rebuilt

D. was one of the visitors who had visited the Crystal Palace

C

Once there was a baby eagle living in a nest on a cliff(山崖). The baby eagle loved his nest. It was warm, soft and comfortable. And even better, he had all the food and love that his mother could give. Whenever the baby eagle was hungry, his mother would always come just in time with the delicious food he liked.

He was growing happily day after day. But suddenly his world changed. His mother stopped coming to the nest. He was full of sadness and fear. He thought he would die soon. He cried, but nobody heard him.

Two days later his mother came with some nice food. The baby eagle was wild with joy. But his mother put the food at the top of the mountain and then looked down at her baby. The baby eagle cried out. “Mom, why did you do this to me? I’m hungry. Don’t you know I will die if I have nothing to eat?

“Here is the last meal I give you. Come and get it by yourself,” his mother said. Then she flew down and pushed the baby eagle out of the nest.

The baby eagle fell down, faster and faster. He looked up at his Mom, “ Why do you abandon me?”He looked down at the earth. The ground was much closer. Then something strange happened. The air caught behind his arms and he began to fly! He wasn’t moving to the ground any more. Instead, his eyes were pointed up at the sun. “You are flying! You can make it!” His mother smiled.

31. Which of the following is TURE about the baby eagle’s life before his mother