同安一中高三英语期中试题

C. Various less expensive medicines.D. Nursery for newly-born babies

D

When building houses, people used to think about not only the climate of the areas but also the building materials and the fashions for their houses. However, since electricity became more and more expensive, people began to pay much more attention to the energy they could get for their houses and the new ways they could find to protect their houses from both cold and heat.

Now, houses of an old yet new type have been widely built. In some parts of the world, people share their houses with their livestock(家畜).During cold weather, they gather their cows, goats, or other animals and keep them on the first floor of their houses. The reasons are that the animals can be protected from the cold and that they can help to heat the houses as well. The body heat given off by the animals rises to the second floor of the houses, where people live. By sharing their houses with their livestock, people gain a source of heat.

People who live in or near cities do not usually keep livestock. However, home builders use the fact that heat rises. This natural law can be used in building houses in these areas. Instead of keeping livestock on the first floor, builders fill it with large rocks. As they are open to the sun’s rays during cold weather, these rocks take in heat. They also give off the heat, and, of course, the warm air rises into the living areas of the houses. So these houses are energy-saving.

House-building becomes a great challenge(挑战)to building designers and energy engineers. They try to meet this challenge by learning from old traditions and by using modern technology. And someday in the future, people will be able to live in more energy-saving houses.

68.What did people begin to consider as electricity was no longer cheap?

A.The climate of their areas. B.The energy for their houses.

C.The fashions for their houses. D.The building materials for their houses.

69.People in some areas gain a source of heat by _________.[

A.keeping their livestock downstairs

B.protecting their livestock from the cold

C.sharing their houses only with their cows

D.living on the second floor with their livestock

70.The underlined words “natural law” in the third paragraph refer to the fact that ________.

A.heat raises the temperature in the houses B.heat goes in the upward direction

C.heat goes up if temperature is raised D.heat increases the temperature of rocks

71.From the passage, we can conclude that __________.

A.people will no longer consider building materials in the future

B.energy-saving buildings will become more popular in the future

C.almost all people will move into the houses heated by large rocks

D.energy engineers will devote themselves only to modern technology

E

The young people who talk of the village as being “dead” are talking nothing but nonsense, as in their hearts they must surely know.

No, the village is not dead. There is more life in it now than there ever was. But it seems that “village life” is dead. Gone for ever. It began to decline about a hundred years ago. When many girls left home to go into service in town many miles away, and men also left home in increasing numbers in search of work, and home was where work was. There are still a number of people alive today who can remember what “village life” meant in the early years of the present century. It meant knowing and being known by everybody else in the village. It meant finding your entertainment in the village of within walking distance of it. It meant housewives tied to the home all day and every day. It meant going to bed early to save lamp oil and coal.

Then came the First World War and the Second World War. After each war, new ideas, new attitudes, new trades and occupations were revealed(展现)to villagers. The long-established order of society was no longer taken for granted. Electricity and the motorcar were steadily operating to make “village life” and “town life” almost alike. Now with the highly developed science and technology and high-level social welfare(福利)for all, there is no point whatever in talking any longer about “village life.” It is just life, and a better life.

Finally, if we have any doubts about the future, or about the many changes which we have seen in our lives, we have only to look in at the school playground any mid-morning; or see the children as they walk homeward in little groups. Obviously these children are better fed, better clothed, better educated, healthier, prettier and happier than any generation of children that ever before walked the village street.

72. By saying that village is not dead, but village life is dead, the writer suggests that _________.

A. those young people who talk of the village as being dead are wrong

B. the two statements are against each other

C. village life today is rather uninteresting

D. village life today is no longer like what it used to be

73. As is suggested in paragraph 2, villagers in the past __________.

A. lived a simpler life than villagers today

B. knew fewer people than villagers today

C. found it difficult to enjoy themselves.

D. like to wash themselves with cold water

74. The expression“there is no point whatever in talking about”in paragraph 3 means that ______.

A. there is no end to the talking about.

B. it is harmful to talk about.

C. it is meaningful to talk about.

D. it is meaningless to talk about.

75. What does the writer think of the village life today? _________.

A. Dead. B. Worse. C. Better. D. Unclear.

76.The red lamp is often used as a danger ______(信号).

77._______(就个人而言), I consider reading an interesting thing

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