2020-2021学年北京市石景山区高三（上）期末英语试卷一、阅读理解（本大题共14小题，共28.0分）
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Since 1993，Chicken Soup for the Soul has been a socially conscious company that combines storytelling with making the world a better place. We tell the stories of all people through our efforts, always with an eye to furthering unity and understanding, and an appreciation for our differences.
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Facts & Figures
• The Chicken Soup for the Soul book series of over 250 titles has sold more than 110 million copies nationwide. Our books have been translated into 43 languages, have been published in over 100 countries,and have sold more than 500 million copies worldwide.
• In 2004，Chicken Soup for the Soul launched Pet Food, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul,which today can be found in over 5，000 independent pet specialty stores.
• In 2008，Chicken Soup for the Soul became the best-selling trade paperback series of all time.
• In 2013 Kerner Entertainment agreed to produce a film based on Chicken Soup for the Soul.
1.From the passage we can know that Pet Food is ______ .
A. a series of stories between pets and people
B. a sort of value delivered by the pet lovers
C. a kind of food sold in pet specialty stores
D. a set of recipe books for pet owners
2.The "facts & figures" shows that Chicken Soup for the Soul ______ .
A. has developed into a film company
B. has made the world a better place
C. has achieved worldwide success
D. has experienced ups and downs
3.We probably find this passage ______ .
A. in a travelling guide
B. in a science report
C. on the Internet
D. on a poster
B
When Elvis Presley died on August 16th, 1977，radio and television programs all over the world were interrupted to give the news of his death. President Carter declared a day of national mourning. Carter said："Elvis Presley changed the face of American popular culture …He was unique and irreplaceable". Eighty thousand people attended his funeral. The streets were jammed with cars, and Elvis Presley films were shown on television, and his records were played on the radio all day. In the year after his death,one hundred million Presley LPs （密纹唱片）were sold.
Elvis Presley was born on January 8th, 1935，in Tupelo,Mississippi. His parents were very poor and Elvis never had music lessons, but he was surrounded by music from an early age. His parents were very religious, and Elvis regularly sang at church services. In 1948，when he was thirteen,his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. He left school in 1953 and got a job as a truck driver.
In the summer of 1953，Elvis paid four dollars and recorded a song for his mother's birthday at Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio. Sam Phillips heard Elvis and asked him to record "That's All Right." Twenty thousand copies were sold. He made five more records for Sun. Then in
July 1955，he met Colonel Tom Parker,who became his manager in November. On January 10th, 195
6，Elvis recorded "Heartbreak Hotel"，and a million copies were sold. In the next fourteen months, he made another fourteen records, and they were all big hits. In 1956，he also made his first film in Hollywood.
In March 1958，Elvis had to join the army. He wanted to be an ordinary soldier. When his hair was cut, thousands of women cried. He spent the next two years in Germany,where he met Priscilla Beaulieu,who became his wife eight years later on May 1st, 1967. In 1960，he left the army and went to Hollywood where he made several films during the next few years.
By 1968 many people had become tired of Elvis. He hadn't performed live since 1960. But he recorded a new LP "From Elvis in Memphis" and appeared in a special television program. He became popular again, and went to Las Vegas, where he was paid seven hundred fifty thousand dollars for four weeks. In August of 1977，he died from a heart attack. He had been working too hard, and eating and drinking too much for several years. He left all his money to his only daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.
4.The first song Elvis recorded was ______ .
A. a hit overnight
B. played on the radio
C. sold well in Las Vegas
D. a gift for his mother's birthday
5.How did Elvis begin his career？______
A. By attending church services.
B. By meeting Colonel Tom Parker.
C. By recording "Heartbreak Hotel".
D. By getting recognized by Sam Phillips.
6.From the passage, we can know that ______ .
A. Elvis learnt music from his father
B. Elvis once lost his popularity in the 60s
C. Elvis became a drinker when he got a job as a truck driver
D. Elvis's hair was cut in the army because of his wrongdoings
7.Why did Elvis gain great respect after his death？______
A. He had great musical talent.sort out the facts
B. He achieved success in all his records.
C. He won unexampled recognition in live performance.
D. He contributed to the development of American pop culture.
C
The UK's first fully solar-powered home, which removes the need to ever receive a gas or electricity bill again, has gone on sale, but it will cost you £1.2 million.
The timber-framed home in Great Glen, Leicestershire, contains a number of "zero-carbon features" including solar electric energy, triple glazing and rainwater storage. It is entirely heated by underground water-filled tubes that are warmed by solar energy from rooftop panels. The house was designed and
built by Caplin Homes and covers two acres of land. The design and construction, down to the materials, were used specifically for their low carbon footprint. The solar panels on the roof of the five-bedroom house are called hybrids because they collect both electrical and thermal energy. Solar walls preheat incoming air, and an Earth Energy Bank （EEB）and heat pump can store heat, and get it back for use when temperatures drop. The south-facing triple-glazed windows are said to also improve the house's energy management during the winter.
All the technologies are regulated by a control system, which monitors the inside and outside temperatures, how much energy is being received by the solar panels, and the heat levels in the EEB domestic hot water tank. Due to its low energy design, the Solar House is expected to only require heat from the EEB for about 10 weeks of the year.
For £1.2 million,buyers also get two garages. Estate agent （房地产经纪人）Anthony Fox said the possibility of no utility bills was a big draw for potential owners：the idea is that your bills pretty much disappear and the house is self-sustaining and self-sufficient. That was a big aspect for most of the people who came to have a look around. "We had a lot of interest on the open day. There were some strong considerations to buy there and then. Everyone was very keen to learn how the house worked." He added.
8.Which is true about the UK's first fully solar-powered home？______
A. It is directly heated by rooftop panels.
B. It has a set of heat-storage devices available.
C. Its walls can keep cold air from coming in to store heat.
D. The triple-glazed windows collect electrical and thermal energy.
9.What is mainly talked about in paragraph 4？______
A. The monitoring of the temperature.
B. The function of the control system.
C. The amount of the received energy.
D. The significance of the new technologies.
10.What's a big attraction for potential buyers according to Anthony Fox？______
A. No gas or electricity bill.
B. Two additional garages.
C. The reasonable price.
D. The unique structure.
D
Over the past half-century, scientists have settled on two reasonable theories related to baby talk. One states that a young child's brain needs time to master language. The second theory states that a child's vocabulary level is the key factor. According to this theory, some key steps have to occur in a logical sequence before sentence formation occurs.
In 2007，researchers at Harvard University, who were studying the two theories, found a clever way to test them. More than 20，000 internationally adopted children enter the U.S. each year. Many of them no longer hear their birth language after they arrive, and they must learn English more or less the same way infants（婴儿）do. International adoptees don't take classes or use a dictionary when they are learning their new tongue. All of these factors make them an ideal population in which researchers
could test these competing theories about how language is learned.
Neuroscientists Jesse Snedeker, Joy Geren and Carissa Shafto studied the language development of 27 children adopted from India between the ages of two and five years. These children began learning English at an older age than US natives and had more mature brains. Even so, just as American-born infants, their first English sentences consisted of single words. The adoptees then went through the same stages as typical American-born children, though at a faster clip. The adoptees and native children started combining words in sentences when their vocabulary reached the same sizes, further suggesting that what matters is not how old you are or how mature your brain is, but the number of words you know.
This finding-that having more mature brains did not help the adoptees avoid the baby talk stage-suggests that babies speak in baby talk not because they have baby brains, but because they have only just started learning and need time to gain enough vocabulary. Before long, the one-word stage will give way to the two-word stage and so on. Learning how to chat like an adult is a gradual process.

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