山西省忻州市第二中学2019-2020学年高一下学期期末考试英语题（原卷版）.docVIP

英 语 试 卷 本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分，共 8 页。第I卷为选择题，共100分；第II卷为非选择题，共50分。全卷共150分，考试时间120分钟。 第I 卷（选择题，满分100分） 第一部分：阅读理解 （共20小题；每小题3分，满分60分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Thousands of years ago, people didnt live in cold places because they didnt know how to keep themselves warm. Later they learned to make clothes. When an animal was killed, they made use of its skins to cover their bodies. The skins kept them warm. Nature is peoples good friend. It once helped people find fire, when lightning(闪电) hit a forest and started a fire. People took some of this fire to their homes. The fire kept them warm, and also frightened wild animals. Soon people found the food cooked tasted much better, so they began to use the fire to cook food. But people still didnt know how to make a fire. When they got a fire from the forest they tried to keep it burning. If it went out, they had to wait for years. But later they found different ways to make fire. For example, they made fire by burning wood or knocking two pieces of stones. Today its easy for people to make fire because they have matches, lighters and different kinds of heaters. They can make fire at any time they need. 1. Once people lived only in hot places because they did not know how to _____. A. kill animals B. take fire from forest C. keep themselves warm D. make matches 2. People use animal skins _____in those days. A. for food B. to make fire C. for burning D. to warm themselves 3. People later learned how to use fire to ______. A. cook food B. kill animals C. cut off an animal’s skin D. burn wood 4. People later learned to make fire by burning _____. A. stones B. wood C. dry leaves D. animal skins ? B The City of the Future To find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher at a university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think how they would run a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025. Here are some of the ideas they had