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辽宁省实验中学、大连八中、大连二十四中、鞍山一中、东北育才学校2017-2018学年 高一下学期期末考试英语试题 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） A Around this time a few years ago, it was common to see videos of friends on social media having a bucket of icy water thrown on them. Known as the “ice bucket challenge”, it was created as a way to raise money for the medical condition ALS. But now, there’s a new challenge and this time, no water is involved. What is it? Well, think of a fruit that you’d never normally sink your teeth into. Perhaps you’ve got it: a lemon. While we enjoy using lemons to add flavor to dishes, very few of us would actually eat one as we’d eat an apple or an orange. But the horrible taste is the precise reason why the “lemon face challenge” is taking off. Participants bite into a lemon, taking a selfie as they do it before posting the photo online. The fun is all about expression people make as all that citric acid (柠檬酸) hits their taste buds (味蕾). Every expression seems to say, “This is worse than freezing water.” The serious side to this trend is the good cause it’s all in aid of. The challenge aims to raise awareness of a rare brain cancer that affects young children. It was started by Aubregh Nicholas, an 11-year-old US kid. She was diagnosed with this rare brain cancer herself in September 2017, but has since raised almost $50000 to cover her medical expenses thanks to the challenge. If a challenge is going to raise publicity and contributions from people, it has to be something interesting and original. That way the ice bucket challenge took off in 2014 and it explains why so many people are now sharing their lemon faces. There are a lot of stories about the downside of social media these days. The charity challenges, however, show how online culture can unite the world and bring help to the people who most need it. 21. Why is the icy bucket challenge mentioned m the article. A. to show how charity gained its popularity online. B. to introduce a similar challenge that raises money for charity. C. to attract people’s attention to a rare disease. D. to prove its popularity around the world. 22. Compared with the pre-Internet charity, what is the advantage of online charity? A. It raises more money than ever before. B. It is started by the people who suffer rare diseases. C. It brings people together easily and quickly. D. It causes little doubt among people. 23. What does the underlined phrase “take off’ in the last paragraph mean? A. go away suddenly B. become successful and popular D. take a break C. remove your clothes 24. What is the author’s attitude towards online charity? A. positive B. indifferent B Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a bill into law that largely limits trade on Sundays, saying it will benefit family life. The legislation (立法), worked out by the government and the Polish trade union, is expected to draw protests from large western supermarket chains that are the main target of the law. A large part of their profit is earned on weekends. As of March 1, shops and markets are closed on two Sundays per month, in 2019 only one Sunday a month will be open for shopping; and starting in 2020, there will be no Sunday shopping with a few exceptions. Duda praised the law as giving children a chance to be with parents and giving shop workers some needed time off. He also said big traders will need to adjust their practices to the new system and asked them for “understanding”. But critics say some of them make employees work long hours for modest pay. “A family should be together on Sundays,” Olszewska said after buying some food at a local Biedronka, a large discount supermarket chain. She said that before she retired she served cold cuts in a grocery store, and was grateful she never had to work on Sundays. There are some exceptions to the ban. For instance, gas stations, cafes, pharmacies and some other businesses are allowed to keep operating on Sundays. C. negative D. ambiguous Anyone breaking the new rules faces a fine of up to 100,000 zlotys ($ 29,500), while repeat offenders may face a prison sentence. Polish trade union appealed to people to report any violators to the National Labor Inspectorate, a state body. 25. Who will get some loss from the bill according to the passage? A. The polish President Andrzej Duda. B. Some large western supermarket chains. C. All the markets in Poland. D. Some common Polish families. 26. What can we infer from Paragraph 4? A. Children had no time to play with their parents before. B. Duda paid great attention to the shop workers. C. Some workers will work extra hours on weekdays. D. All the businesses will make adjustments to the bill. 27. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Family life will be more important than shopping in Poland. B. More and more western supermarket chains will leave Poland C. The supermarket employees will have no job on Sundays in Poland. D. Sunday shopping will be limited by the government in Poland. C Everyone experiences tiredness at work sometimes. At some point (usually around 2:00 pm), you find yourself ready for a nap (打盹). Your energy changes naturally throughout the day. Productivity expert Chris Bailey examined this motivation, focus and energy levels for 21 days and found that all three tend to spike between 7:00 and 8:00 am, 11:00 and 12:00pm, and 6:00 and 7:00 pm. In addition to all those highs, he also noticed time when focus, energy, and motivation were nowhere to be found. Chris was tired at work. Your peak time productivity time may be different from Mr. Bailey’s, but the overall shape of your energetic graph would still look like a series of zigzags (锯齿). The amount of sleep you have, the food you eat, and how you exercise are a few of the factors that cause rises and falls in your energy level. We can fill up on coffee and sugar as much as we want, but we are fighting a natural downturn in energy when we do this. Your tiredness may seem like an inconvenience, but it’s really your