山西省洪洞县高一英语上学期期中试题.pdfVIP

洪洞一中 2016-2017 学年高一第一学期期中考试 ( 英语 ) 试题 满分： 150 分 时间： 120 分钟 第一部分：听力（ 1-20 略） 第二部分：阅读理解（共 20 小题，每小题 3 分，满分 60 分） 第一节 （共15 小题；每小题 3 分，满分 45 分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑。 A About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman! There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky manmaysee everything in shades of green － a strange world indeed. Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones” ( 圆锥细胞） . These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods ”（棒条体） , but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color. Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes （蚊子） prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible （看 不见的） colors around us. 21. The passage is mainly about