海南中学高一英语上册期终考试试题

   Several of today’s big-name coaches are all about Carr’s retirement age. Nick Saban turns 59 this month. Jim Tressel is 57. Frank Beamer is already 63. None of them seems to be slowing down.
   So when, I ask Carr, is the right moment to leave such a great job?
   He thinks. Finally, he says, “When you love it and can still walk away from it. That’s the right moment.”

36.  Lloyd Carr stopped working as a coach because he _______.
A. was too old                 B. was injured seriously   
C. had other things to experience  D. followed others’ examples
37. The underlined word “intoxicating” in Paragraph 3 probably
means ______.
  A. exciting   B. disappointing   C. surprising   D. puzzling
38．It can be inferred from the text that Lloyd Carr ________.
A. was always free after retirement
B. was a failure as a football coach
C. missed the time when he coached
D. enjoyed his retirement life very much
39. The author is most probably ________.
   A. a football player         B. Lloyd Carr’s assistant
   C. a retired coach           D. a sports reporter
B
Let’s say you took violin lessons all through elementary school, but you haven’t got the instrument out of its case for years. Were all those lessons a waste of your parents’ money because you didn’t become a violinist?
   Even though it has been a long time since you played the violin, a new study shows that as little as one year of music training can have a positive impact (影响) on your brain that will last the rest of your life.
   In an experiment, researchers compared children who had taken music lessons to those who hadn’t. Laurel Trainor, who studies music and the mind, discovered that the musically-trained children had better brain responses in certain sound recognition exams. Trainor’s findings show the possibility that musical education can actually improve the brain’s hearing cortex(大脑皮层). “The study’s results show that music training affects attention and memory, and helps children develop learning skills. In this way music training might lead to better learning across a number of fields,” Trainor said in a statement. The effects of music education are even more obvious on children with difficulty in reading and writing and other language-related disabilities.
    So, whether you can play a good piece of music or not, it’s likely that your years of music lessons have prepared your brain for all the speeches, emails, and adult conversations that are part of your life today. We should help make sure that children today have the same opportunities for music, and help out by volunteering with or donating instruments to your school’s music education department.

40. Compared with children who haven’t taken music lessons,
musically-trained children _______.
   A. sing better             B. do better in exams 
    C. recognize sounds better    D. response more quickly
41. According to the study, we know musical education can _____.
A. change the structure of the brain
B. improve children’s learning skills
C. help children focus their attention
D. provide more memorizing methods
42. What can we learn from the text?
A. Adults should also take some music lessons.
B. The author has taken violin lessons when he was young.
C. Even a day’s music training can affect the human brain.
D. Music training can also help children with certain disabilities.
C
The bar-tailed godwit(斑尾鹬) has just broken its own record for the world’s longest non-stop flight, including humans in planes, according to a report made by Lund University Press. The bird can fly non-stop for eight days, while the most impressive man-made airplane can only remain in the sky for 82 hours without a stop.
   The bar-tailed godwit’s journey, from Alaska to New Zealand, covers over 6,835 miles. It completes this trip twice a year, in autumn going to New Zealand, and in spring back to Alaska. The tireless bird ends the trip without stopping once for food or rest. All other birds can only finish trips that are twice as short as what the bar-tailed godwit travels.
   One reason for the bar-tailed godwit’s success is that it has made the best use of its fuel, which is only 0.41 percent of its body weight over each hour of any given long flight. Hedenstrom, a professor from Lund University, says, “This figure is extremely low compared with other birds.” The bird also has a special body shape that helps it fly easily. It stores body fat and protein to manage its trips. It also travels fast, compared to other birds and animals.

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