江西省赣州市20xx-20xx学年高一下学期第二次5月月考英语试题word版含答案(1)

江西省赣州市20xx-20xx学年高一下学期第二次5月月考英语试题word版含答案(1)内容摘要：

e was eight. B. Lin was excited for professional games and did a good job at the beginning. C. Before Lin there was no ChineseAmerican NBA players. D. Lin is the most outstanding player in NBA. D. What’s your opinion on spicy food? Some people cannot handle even the smallest amount of chili(辣椒 ) in their dinner while others can’t get enough of it. Scientists have long been puzzled by why some people love chili and others loathe it. Plenty of research has been done on the subject, dating as far back as the 1970s. Previous results showed that a love of chili is related to childhood experiences, and cultural influences affect our taste buds, too. But the latest study has found that a person’s love of spicy food may be linked to his or her personality more than anything else, CBC News reported. “We have always assumed that liking drives intakewe eat what we like and we like what we eat. But no one has actually directly bothered to connect these personality traits with intake of chili peppers,” said Professor John Hayes from Pennsylvania State University, who led the study. But before you look at the study, you should first know that “spicy” is not a taste, unlike sour, sweet, bitter and salty. It is, in fact, a burning sensation that you feel on the surface of your tongue. This got scientists thinking that maybe a love of spicy food is brought about by people’s longing for thrill, something they usually get from watching action movies or riding a roller coaster. In the study, 97 participants, both male and female, were asked to fill out questionnaires about certain traits of their personality, for example. Whether they like new experiences or tend to avoid risks. They were then given cups of water with capsaicin(辣椒素 ), the plant chemical that makes chili burn, mixed into them. By paring the answers to questionnaires and what participants said they felt about the spicy water. Researchers found that those who most tended to enjoy action movies or take risks were about six times more likely to enjoy the spicy water. Interestingly, we used to believe that the reason some people can withstand spicy food is that their tongue have bee less sensitive to it. However, this latest study has found otherwise. It’s not that it doesn’t burn as badly, it’s that you actually learn to like the burn,” Hayes explained. 32. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “loathe” in the second paragraph? A. adapt to B. fear C. put up with D. dislike 33. What did Professor John Hayes and his team discover from their study? A. what we eat actually helps to develop our personalities. B. Those trying to avoid risks tend to be less interested in spicy food. C. Males are more likely to enjoy spicy food than females. D. People are wrong to treat spicy as a kind of taste rather than a feeling. 34. Why do some people like spicy food according to the recent study? A. Because their taste buds have bee less sensitive. B. Because they want to challenge themselves. C. Because they love the burning sensation. D. Because the more they try spicy food, the less it burns. 35. What’s the main idea of the passage? A. That a person enjoys spicy food depends largely on the personality. B. What he or she likes to eat mainly decides on his or her personality. C. His or her childhood experiences decide on his or her personality. D. His or her cultural background decides on his or her personality. 第二节 (共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分 ) 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。 选项中有两项为多余选项。 Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would admit that their spoken English is poor. Whenever I speak to a Chinese student, they always say, “My spoken English is poor.” 36 I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English. First, they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary. 37 However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if you choose a positive attitude. Others will follow you as long as you use the words that you know. 38 Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and nervous. Yet students should remember that their goal should be FLUENCY NOT ACCURACY. Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules for grammar and using them to get your message across. But to talk to someone in English, as quickly and well as you can, even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense, but it doesn’t matter. 39 The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening. You have one mouth but two ears! All the hearing is necessary for you to start speaking. Fourth, most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive(主动的 ) language learners. Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English they passively wait for speaking opportunities to e to them and wonder why their English always remains poor. 40 A. The person you are speaking to will understand you and make allowances for any mistakes he hears. B. They may try to avoid making similar mistakes next time. C. However, their spoken English does not have to remain “poor”! D. Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary. E. If you have this proactive outlook, then you will see English opportunities wherever you go. F. Second, they are afraid of making mistakes. G. The second reason lies in the reluctance of using what has just been learned. 第三部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分 45 分 ) 第一节 完形填空 (共 20 小题；每小题 分，满分 30 分 ) 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。 Lang Lang is a worldclass young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight。