1、广东省广州市部分学校2021-2022学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题汇编阅读理解广州市第二中学南沙天元学校2021-2022学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷第一节（共15小题;每小题2. 5分, 满分37. 5分）阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。ABirthdays at the Canadian Childrens Museum The perfect place for a memorable birthday party!Celebrate at the Canadian Childrens Museum with creative and fun-fil
2、led activities designed to excite the interest of children aged 3 to 12. The party includes:One hour in a private party room;Admission to the museum;Unlimited time in the Childrens Museum (until closing);One hour animation（动画片）Only with the Scene-Stealers and Around the World themed party. Payment i
3、s due in full upon registration. Registration is required at least two weeks in advance. Scene-Stealers Ages 3 to 8Step into the spotlight（聚光灯）with a behind-the-scenes trip to the Canadian Childrens Museum Theatre. The Director will help you warm up with some theatre games, and teach you some stage
4、skills to get you ready for the audience!Cost:$190 for up to 10 kids and 2 adults;$10 for each extra child. Around the WorldAges 4 to 7Take an unforgettable trip around the world to try Japanese origami（折纸艺术）and learn a traditional Mexican dance! This unforgettable journey through the International
5、Village is packed with fun and creative activities for young adventurers. Cost:$190 for up to 10 kids and 2 adults;S10 for each extra child. DIY Party Ages 5 to 12DIY Party includes Museum admission, and one hour of free time in one of the Museums party rooms. A great choice for parents looking to p
6、lan their own activities!Cost:$100 for up to 10 kids and 2 adults; $8 for each extra child. 1. What should You know about celebrating birthdays at the Canadian Childrens Museum?A. It is for kids aged 3 to 7. B. It provides animation in all parties. C. It should be booked ahead of time. D. It is requ
7、ired to be within one hour in the museum. 2. What can you do at a Scene-Stealers party?A. Make a new movie. B. Learn some stage skills. D. Practice traditional paper-making art. C. Visit the International Village. 3. How much should a couple pay if they bring 12 kids to a DIY Party?A. $100. B. $116.
8、 C. $190. D. $210.BA robot created by Washington State University (WSU)scientists could help elderly people with dementia（痴呆）and other limitations live independently in their own homes. The Robot Activity Support System, or RAS, uses sensors installed in a WSU smart home to determine where its resid
9、ents are, what they are doing and when they need assistance with daily activities. It navigates（定位）through rooms and around obstacles to find people on its own. provides video instructions on how to do simple tasks and can even lead its owner to objects like their medication or a snack in the kitche
10、n. RAS combines the convenience of a mobile robot with the activity detection technology of a WSU smart home to provide assistance in the moment, as the need for help is detected, said Bryan Minor, a postdoctoral researcher in the WSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Currently,
11、 an estimated 50 percent of adults over the age of 85 need assistance with every day activities such as preparing meals and taking medication and the annual cost for this assistance in the US is nearly $2 trillion. With the number of adults over 85 expected to triple by 2050, researches hope that te
12、chnologies like RAS and the WSU smart home will relieve some of the financial strain on the healthcare system by making it easier for older adults to live alone. RAS is the first robot researchers have tried to incorporate into their smart home environment. They recently published a study in the Jou
13、rnal Cognitive Systems Research that demonstrates how RAS could make life easier for older adults struggling to live independently. While we are still in an early stage of development, our initial results with RAS have been promising, Minor said. The next step in the research will be to test RAS per
14、formance with a group of older adults to get a better idea of what prompts, video reminders and other preferences they have regarding the robot. 4. How does RAS serve elderly people?A Through sensors. B. Through objects. C. Through a mobile robot. D. Through their daily activities. 5. What can we kn
15、ow about RAS?A. It is the first robot used in daily life. B. Its function remains to be tested. C. It can locate people and do any task. D. It can cook for owners on its own. 6. Whats Minors attitude toward the future of RAS?A. Doubtful.B. Negative.C. Optimistic. D. Uncertain. 7. What can be a suita
16、ble title for the text?A. Elderly people leave the nursing home. B. Smart Home Tests first elder-Care robot. C. RAS, the first robot to make home smart. D. Older adults have benefited from RAS. CGreenhouse gas emissions would rise if all farms in England and Wales went organic. Though the emissions
17、of each farm would go down, much more food would have to be imported, as the amount they would produce would decrease greatly. The key message from my perspective is that you cant really have your cake and eat it, says Laurence Smith, now at the Royal Agricultural University in the UK, who was part
18、of the team that ran the numbers. Smith is a supporter of organic farming and says there are a lot of merits of the organic approach, but his analysis shows that organic farming has downsides too. Farming and changes in land use, such as cutting down forests, are responsible for a third of all green
19、house gas emissions. That means reducing farming emissions and the land needed for farming is required to limit further global warming. Smith and his colleagues found that emissions per unit of food are, on average, 20 per cent lower for organic crops and 4 per cent lower for organic animal products
20、. However, organic harvests per hectare（公顷）are also lower on average. For wheat and barley, for instance, harvests are just half of those of conventional farms. This means 1.5 times as much land would be needed to grow the same amount of these foods. The estimated increase in emissions varies greatl
21、y, depending on where the extra farmland comes from. If only half comes from turning grassland into farms, the increase could be as low as. 20 per cent. If grassland that would otherwise have been reforested is turned into farmland, emissions could nearly double. This doesnt necessarily mean people
22、should stop eating organic produce, says Smith. People might choose organic food for other reasons, such as to reduce their pesticide exposure (though contrary to popular belief, organic farmers do use pesticides) or for the sake of wildlife. Going 100 per cent organic could also harm global biodive
23、rsity. The extra land used for farming would mean the land available for wildlife would be smaller and more fragmented（碎片化的）. Smith says the best option may be to use some organic and conventional farming methods at the same time. 8. Why may greenhouse gas emissions increase if a country goes organi
24、c?A. Organic farms take longer to build. B. The agricultural output will increase greatly. C. The emissions of each farm unit will increase. D. Greater demand for imported food will be created. 9 What does the underlined word merits in Paragraph 2 probably mean?A. Changes. B. Challenges. C. Advantag
25、es. D. Differences. 10, What did Smith and his colleagues find?A. Organic harvests per unit are greater than traditional harvests. B. Organic farming needs more farmland to feed a country. C. Global warming could be brought under control. D. Land was not used in a responsible way. 11. What is Smiths
26、 proposal?A. Stopping using pesticides. B. Eating less organic produce.C. Going back to traditional farming. D. Adopting mixed farming methods. DStill dressed in their sleepwear, Dian Turners kids couldnt wait to get outside. But they didnt go farthey stopped at the footpath outside their Melbourne
27、home, armed with a box of chalks（粉笔）. Max, seven, and Lenny, four, have been away from their friends since coronavirus（新冠病毒）physical-distancing rules came into force and the Victorian school holidays were brought forwards a week. Theyre just two of the many children who have been spending their shut
28、down time drawing rainbows（彩虹）and encouraging messages like “Were all in this together across Australia. “It was something for the kids to make them feel connected to other people, because obviously theyre feeling a little bit uncertain about staying at home and what this means, and not being able t
29、o go to the playground and the park, Ms Turner said. Ms Turner first saw the idea when she was added to a Facebook group called the Rainbow Trail, which documents children and their parents drawing rainbows for others to spot. Ms Turner, a lawyer who has been spending much of her time working from h
30、ome amid the shutdown measures, said it was something positive to talk about with the family. Youre not breaking any of the social-distancing rules but its something that you can do and you can be happy and show that theres a connection. University of Melbourne public health researcher Lisa Gibbs sa
31、id it was important to provide children with age-appropriate ways to make them feel active and capable during the pandemic. Its easy in times of danger, which essentially this is, to be so concerned with protecting children, which obviously is of great importance, Professor Gibbssaid. But in protect
32、ing children we can sometimes treat them as vulnerable（脆弱的）, which makes them feel useless. So these sorts of activities are really helpful in providing a sense of agency in children that they can make a contribution to others. Professor Gibbs said in times of disaster, two patterns were very common
33、 community mobilization（动员）, where people banded together, and community deterioration（恶化）, where social supports fell apart. So what these activities from children are doing is really contributing to social mobilization, she said. And people respond really positively to childrens messages, because
34、they Spread joy. 12. What did Max and Lenny do during the shutdown time?A. They held a party. B. They drew rainbows in pencil. C. They gave their neighbors courage with art. D. They played some sports games on the footpath. 13. What did Ms Turner say about the idea of Rainbow Trail?A. It is benefici
35、al. B. It is time-wasting.C. It should be further developed. D. It may break social-distancing rules. 14. How may children feel when being protected according to Gibbs?A. They are safe. B. They are careless. C. They are incapable. D. They are valuable. 15. What does Gibbs think of childrens messages
36、?A. They help to build social connection. B. They are hard to understand. C. They will cause pollution. D. They lack creativity. 广东省广州市第七中学2021-2022学年高二下英语期中考试英语试题第一节 (共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。A4 Popular Places to Go This WinterHarbin, ChinaChina Harbins winter is for th
37、e brave ones-the average temperature is 1.8F-but those who brave the cold will be rewarded with experiencing one of the worlds largest winter festivals. 2021 marks the 37th Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (January-March), when massive frozen structures rise and are lit up, trans
38、forming the city into a winter wonderland.Lyon, FranceParis may be called The City of Light, but every December, light takes center stage in Lyon, Frances third-hugest city. Thats when the annual Festival of Lights (around December 8) takes over, with light installations (装置) that transform the city
39、s streetscapes into modem works of art. The city is also home to two Christmas markets (one in La Croix-Rousse; the other at the Place Carnot; through December 25).Lima, PeruPerus capital Lima is home to the worlds highest number of cooking schools per person. Aside from its delicate dining, the cit
40、y also has great cocktail bars where you can taste classic or contemporary takes on the Pisco Sour. Combine that with the oceanfront setting and temperatures in the 80s, and youll understand why Lima should no longer be ignored this winter.Vermont, USWinter in Vermont means skiing and snowboarding.
41、Many resorts (度假胜地) have greatly upgraded their snowmaking abilities as part of a $15 million statewide program that replaced many outdated snow guns with new, low-energy models. These new machines will also improve the quality of snow surfaces and lengthen the season, meaning this will be one of th
42、e best winters for skiing and riding in Vermont in recent memory.16. What similarities do the first two places have?A. They are decorated with lights. B. They offer snow sculptures.C. They have three-day festivals. D. They are extremely cold.17. Which provides a good chance to buy a Christmas gift?A
43、. Harbin. B. Lyon. C. LimaD. Vermont18. Whats a new to the resorts in Vermont?A. Skiing and snowboarding. B. A longer winter.C. Cooking schools. D. Updated equipmentBArchitecture is amazing. It has changed the way I look and interact with the world and my environment. It has trained me to be hyper-s
44、ensitive (过度敏感) to the built environment, to recognize problems and find solutions that an untrained eye would never notice.As much as I love this profession, it is very easy to get lost in architecture. I get so focused that I have forgotten about everything else. Lucidly my passion for cycling kep
45、t me sane (清醒的) while I was becoming an architect I faced a lot of obstacles and challenges taking a bicycle ride across the United States. Looking back, cycling across the America was actually one of the smartest things I ever did.I have actually bicycled across the continental USA twice. East to w
46、est. Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean, both times. Bicycling across America isnt as hard as you think.I rode alone on my first trip in 2005 from Virginia Beach to the coast of Florence, Oregon. In the end it was 4,547 miles over the course of 77 days.I left for the second trip in 2007 with my two bes
47、t friends from Bar Harbor, Maine to Portland Oregon, which was a 4,886-mile ride over 90 days. At that time, I fell in love with the idea of leaving the east coast behind, starting a whole new life and career in a new city. I ended up in Portland. After arriving in town on a bike, I eventually found
48、 a job, a place to live and an amazing dog.I share all this not to convince anyone to go biking across America, but only to shore how doing this has changed my life. Architecture has given me a wonderful life and career but it isnt everything. Thankfully I have also been very passionate about my friends, traveling, bicycles, punk rock, technology, the interact, my dog, and even yoga. My architecture background has definitely sweetened my relationship with all those things.Becom
