新人教版英语高一上单元测试-12月考

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”. A. he was feeling better than ever B. he wasn‟t a healthy man C. he was feeling worse than before D. he will be well again 59. From the last sentence of the passage, we learn the man_______ before the doctor told him not to smoke more than one cigarette a day. A. was a heavy smoker B. didn‟t smoke so much C. didn‟t smoke D. began to learn to smoke 60. Which of the following is NOT true? A. The doctor usually tests his/her blood pressure when a person is ill. B. The man told the doctor he couldn‟t remember things. C. The man thanked the doctor. D. The man didn‟t follow the doctor‟s advice. B It doesn‟t matter when and how much a person sleeps , but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That‟s what all doctors thought , until they heard about Herpin. Herpin, it was said , never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves. Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised . Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw him sleeping. In fact , he did not even own a bed. He never needed one. The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a fortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94. 61. The main idea of this passage is that_____ A. large numbers of people do not need sleep B. a person was found who actually didn‟t need any sleep C. everyone needs some sleep to stay alive D. people can live longer by trying not to sleep 62. The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting_____ A. to cure him of his sleeplessness B. to find that his sleeplessness was not really true C. to find out why some old people did not need any sleep D. to find a way to free people from the need of sleeping 63. After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Al herpin_____ A. needed some kind of sleep B. was too old to need any sleep C. needed no sleep at all D. often sleep in a chair 64. One reason that might explain Herpin‟s sleeplessness was _____ A. his mother‟s injury before he was born B. that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habit C. his magnificent physical condition D. that he hadn‟t got a bed 65. Al Herpin‟s condition could be regarded as ______ A. a mon one B. one that could be cured healthy D. a rare one C As a teenager in 1972, Bill Gates once said that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 20. Only 15 years later he was a billionaire. And by 1992, as head of the Microsoft pany, he became the richest man in American with assets (资产 ) of about US$ Billion. Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on 28, October 1956. He first started to play with the puter at the age of 13 at his school. At that time, puters were very large machines. Operators were required to learn plex puter languages before the machines could be used. Even then, a great deal of time and effort was needed to perform the simplest functions. Before long Gates was an expert at working the school‟s puter. After his graduation from secondary school, Gates was accepted by the three top universities in the USAPrinceton. Harvard and Yale. He chose Harvard and began classes there the next autumn, majoring in maths. But he spent as much time in the puter laboratories as he did in the lecture halls. By 1975, Gates and a partner, Paul Allen, had developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it. BASIC was a success because until it came along there had been no efficient way of getting puters to carry out instructions. Although he had not yet。