2023-2024学年河北省石家庄市石家庄市第二中学南校区高一上学期第一次

2023-2024

学年河北省石家庄市石家庄市第二中学南校区高一上学期第一次月考英语试题

Holidays

Holiday News

Vacancies(

空位

) now and in the school holidays at a country hotel in Devon. This

comfortable, friendly home-from-home lies near the beautiful quiet countryside, but just a

drive away from the sea. The food is simple but good. Children and pets are welcome.

Reduced prices for low season.

The Snowdonia Centre

The Snowdonia Centre for young mountain climbers has a mountain climbing lesson. The

beginners’ costs are

￡

57 for a week, including food and rooms. Equipment is included except

walking shoes, which can be hired at a low cost.

You must be in good health and prepared to go through a period of body exercises. This could

be the beginning of a lifetime of mountain climbing adventure.

The World Sea Trip of a Lifetime

Our World Sea Trip of 2008 will be unlike

any holiday you have ever been on before.

Instead of one hotel after another, with all its

packing and unpacking, waiting and

traveling, you just go to bed in one country

and wake up in another.

On board the ship, you will be well taken care

of. Every meal will be first-class and every

cabin like your home.

During the trip, you can rest on deck(

甲板

),

enjoy yourself in the games rooms and in the

evening dance to our musical team and watch

our wonderful play.

You will visit all the places most people only

dream about — from Acapulco and Hawaii to

Tokoy and Hong Kong.

For a few thousand pounds, all you’ve ever

hoped for can be yours.

1. What can you do if you like to go on holidays with pets?

A

．

Choose the holiday in Devon.

B

．

Go to the Snowdonia Centre.

C

．

Join the World Sea Trip of 2008. D

．

Visit Acapulco and Hawaii.

2. In what way is the Snowdonia Centre different from the other two holidays?

A

．

It provides chances of family gatherings.

C

．

It offers a sports lesson.

3. What is special about the World Sea Trip of 2008?

A

．

You can have free meals on deck every day.

B

．

You can sleep on a ship and tour many places.

C

．

You will have chances to watch and act in a play.

D

．

You have to do your own packing and unpacking.

If you walked into a cinema recently, the chances are that you would have felt surrounded by

superhero movies. It seems like a new one is released every week. However, once upon a time, there

weren't any superhero films. All that changed with the release of the first Superman movie in

December, 1978.

The first Superman comic book came out in 1938, and it changed the comic industry. Before

Superman, nobody wore a cape (

披肩

) and nobody had a big logo on their chest. He wasn't the first

superhero, but he started the so-called "Golden Age of Comic Books" and his look became the

archetype (

原型

) of all superheroes.

Why did people take to Superman? One of the keys is "wish-fulfillment", his creator Jerry Siegel

told CurtainUp. com. Indeed, Superman reflects many of the values and characteristics that people

admire.

Superman lives as Clark Kent, a news reporter. However, he can become the superhero whenever he

needs to. He can fly, lift any object, see through walls and melt steel with his eyes. He is selfless. He

chooses to help the people of the Earth by fighting injustices against them.

Over the years, Superman has had different types of enemies and situations, usually related to the

problems people faced. When there was a lot of organized crime in cities in the 1930s, Superman

fought bad people. When young men went off to fight Nazi Germany, Superman's motto became

"truth and justice". And after World War II (1939-1945), when African-Americans were terrorized

by violent hate groups, Superman fought against racism.

Today, Superman enjoys global popularity. We all work or study and care about our families and

friends. We see problems that we can't change. Through all of these, we struggle to do our best and

also to find personal happiness. Superman is the guy we wish we could be. He can save the world

and still get Clark Kent to work on time.

4. Why do people like superman?

A

．

The image of superman is cool.

B

．

It has always been a cultural tradition.

B

．

It provides customers with good food.

D

．

It offers comfortable rooms.

C

．

Superman is popularized by news reporters.

D

．

People wish to be powerful enough to solve hard problems.

5. What can we infer from paragraph 5?

A

．

Superman's mission changes with times.

B

．

Superman's archetype is a news reporter.

C

．

Superman has the power to solve all problems.

D

．

Superman went to Germany to fight Nazi in World War II.

6. What does the underlined word “these” in the last paragraph refer to?

A

．

Superman's heroic deeds.

B

．

Superman's extraordinary abilities.

C

．

What happens in people's daily life.

D

．

What people see in superhero movies.

7. Which of the following does the author support?

A

．

Superheroes do exist in our life.

B

．

All problems in society should be solved.

C

．

People find themselves expressed through Superman.

D

．

Superhero movies need promotion to be more popular.

A human heart is so much more than an organ. No one says they left their pancreas (

胰

腺

) in San

Francisco, for example, or that two kidneys (

肾脏

) beat as one. Yet most of us believe that two

hearts can beat as one, and that the heart reveals our real emotions. Now there’s some evidence that

such folk wisdom is true.

When people listen to the same story — each alone in their own home — their heart rates rise and

fall together, according to a new study published last month in Cell Reports. Professor Lucas Perra,

a senior author of the study, said, “It’s the story that drives the heart.”

This finding corresponds with a mountain of research showing that our brains synchronize (

同步

)

when we interact in the same location or participate in the same activity. The new study goes one

step further; it tests whether our heart rates become synchronized while taking in the same narrative

— even though we’re not in the same room nor even listening at the same time as other listeners.

Marcel Proust wrote at the turn of the 20th century, “the heart does not lie.” Data tells us much the

same: The heart’s connection to the brain is so tight that when we hear the same story, our heart

rates synchronize. Subjects in the same group produced synchronized heart rate patterns that rose

and fell at roughly the same times during the narrative.

The results are“heartwarming,”said .“Heart rate correlation (

关联

) between subjects does

not require them to actually be interacting, or even be in the same place. It’s not the interaction

between people but the story itself that does the trick.”

The point, he said, is that when we listen to the same radio program or watch a Netflix show, our

hearts beat together, showing that “we’re not alone.”

8. What does the underlined expression “folk wisdom”refer to in the first paragraph?

A

．

Kidneys beat like hearts.

C

．

A human heart conveys feelings.

B

．

Hearts are important organs.

D

．

Organs have close links with emotions.

9. What can we learn from the new study in Cell Reports?

A

．

People like listening to the same story in separate places.

B

．

Human’s brains synchronize when driven by different stories.

C

．

People tested in the same group have the same heart rates.

D

．

The same story can make listeners have the same heart rates.

10. What’s the author’s purpose of writing this article?

A

．

To report a research finding.

C

．

To tell readers a moving story.

B

．

To argue against an opinion.

D

．

To call for immediate action.

11. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A

．

The Way Human Hearts Work

C

．

The Heart’s Connection to Brain

Getting a high grade in an exam depends partly on how much you can remember. So, improving

memory is essential to success in studying. But is there anything that we can do about it? One

solution might be walking backwards.

According to a new study published in the Journal of Cognition, walking backwards, whether doing

it really or just imagining it, can boost (

增强

) the brainpower in the short term.

In the study, 114 volunteers were asked to watch a video in which a woman had her bag stolen. Then

they answered 20 questions about the details shown in the video. Ten minutes after watching the

video, the volunteers were divided into three groups. The first two groups were told to move

forwards or backwards 10 meters while the third group was asked to stay still on the same point. The

researchers found that the backwards-walking group got two more correct answers on average than

the other two groups. This suggests that a relationship between the concepts (

概念

) of time and

space is essential to the way our minds form memories.

When we walk backwards, everything we learn becomes strange to us. "This forces the brain to

think in a different way—it's a rewiring and changes the focus," US neuropsychologist (

神经心理学

B

．

The Same Story, the Same Heartbeat

D

．

The Importance of Heart Rates

家

) Christine Weber told Forbes. It almost always means that our brain needs to be more active and

alert in the limited time. Naturally, our short-term memory will be improved significantly.

Apart from improving our memory, walking backwards also plays an important role in physical

health, especially fitness. A study published in Journal of Biomechanics in 2012 found that

backward walking puts less strain and requires a smaller range of movements from the knee joints

(

膝关节

). Thus, there's less pressure and pain in the knees.

In addition, walking backwards, compared to forward walking, is more challenging. It requires you

to use muscles and movements that you probably rarely use, making it a perfect way to change your

exercise routine for greater fitness gains. Meanwhile, by making people put in extra effort, it

naturally burns more fat and calories.

12. Which group of people perform best in the memory test?

A

．

The staying-still group.

C

．

The imaginary-walking group.

B

．

The forwards-walking group.

D

．

The backwards-walking group.

13. In what way does walking backwards benefit people's health?

A

．

It can make people slim.

C

．

It can strengthen people's joints.

14. What do we know about backward walking?

A

．

It follows our exercise routine.

B

．

It limits people's thinking time.

C

．

It directs our focus to important details.

D

．

It makes people's brain more active and alert.

15. What's the writer's purpose in writing paragraph 4?

A

．

To add another aspect of the topic.

B

．

To support the result of the research.

C

．

To sum up the main idea of the passage.

D

．

To provide some background information.

Four Ideas for Better Sleep

Most teens need 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night. But many teens have trouble sleeping. Lack of

sleep can affect everything from our emotions to how well we focus on tasks like driving. 16 And it

may be linked to weight gain in some people. How can we get the sleep we need? Here are some

ideas:

Be active during the day.

B

．

It can reduce peopled stress.

D

．

It can make people more energetic.