1、 1 嘉峪关市一中嘉峪关市一中 20172017- -20182018 学学年年第二学期期末考试第二学期期末考试 高二英语试卷高二英语试卷 （考试时间：100 分钟 试卷满分：120 分） 第一部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 40 分) 第一节 (共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Welcome to our website. Here are some magazines to recommend this week. Cover Price: $56.00 Sale Price: $25.00 Al
2、arm celebrates independent thinking in music, art, film and fashion through in-depth writings. Each issue of Alarm features interviews, reviews and life stories of famous people in the artistic world. It also provides the latest news on famous bands, artists, film makers and fashion trends. Cover Pr
3、ice: $47.40 Sale Price: $12.00 Alternative Press celebrates music and youth culture. It features the latest music news and releases, and includes interviews with new bands as well as famous bands. The magazine is written for fans of electronic, industrial, punk, underground, rock, experimental and o
4、ther musical types. It also offers columns about new technology, book reviews and film reviews. Cover Price: $39.92 Sale Price: $12.00 Sound Vision is for people with a great interest in music and video. It is also for people who want to know how to reproduce video. The magazine tests new technology
5、 and explains how to buy and use music equipment. Cover Price: $23.70 Sale Price: $12.00 Complex is a lifestyle magazine. It covers everything with hip-hop culture. Articles cover music, fashion, film and sports. It also has a buyers guide to the hottest gear, clothes and gadgets. Complex combines t
6、wo magazines into one. It is not only a lifestyle magazine but also a product guide. 1. Alarm would most probably attract people who love reading _. A. reviews of novels B. simple humorous stories C. serious writings on music D. stories written by famous artists 2 2. What discount can you get if you
7、 buy Alternative Press on the website? A. About 38% B. About 55% C. About 70% D. About 75% 3. Which magazine will suit a hip-hop fan? A. Complex. B. Alarm. C. Alternative Press. D. Sound & Vision. B I dropped out of college after my freshman year. Three years later, I quit a dead-end job and returne
8、d college. I saw school as my way out. But I quickly found myself facing the same roadblocks that had caused me to quit before: I was confused with college-level algebra and a heavy workload of reading and writing assignment. Moreover, I was unsure of my career direction. I was ready to drop out aga
9、in. Then a smartly-dressed woman walked confidently to the front of my English composition class. “Look at you! Look at each and every one of you,” she said. “Youre here to change your lives for the better. And youre going to make it!” I cant remember the rest of the speech, but it changed the cours
10、e of my college career and my life. Mrs. Smith didnt know me from any of the other 40 faces in her classroom, but I felt she speaking directly to me. Having trouble keeping up with the workload? Break it down into small pieces, and set up a schedule that suits you. If college algebra is too difficul
11、t, drop back to introductory college math. As for English composition, she gave us writing assignments we could relate to. “Go for the best, kid. Youre worth it,” shed say. I graduated from that college and went on to get my bachelors degrees. Today, as a college instructor, each fall when I stand i
12、n front of a new class, I think of Mrs. Smith and how much teachers can affect their students. She couldnt have known it when she gave that pep talk, but she made a huge difference in my life. 4. Why did the author want to quit school again? A. He wanted to return to hid former job. B. He decided on
13、 his future career. C. The academic pressure seemed unbearable. D. Many changes took place in his life. 5. How did Mrs. Smith help the author? A. She made him feel relaxed. B. She helped him with algebra. C. She talked to him directly. D. She brought him courage and faith. 6. What can we infer about
14、 the author? 3 A. He learnt to be a better teacher. B. He didnt finish his college education. C. He became Mrs. Smiths favorite student. D. He didnt understand the writing assignments. 7. What can be the best title for the text? A. Always believe in yourself. B. Never quit before trying. C. Experien
15、ce is worth valuing. D. A lady changed my life in time. C In the story of “The Crow and the Pitcher”（乌鸦和水罐）from Aesops Fables （伊索寓言）, a thirsty crow drops stones into a narrow jar to raise the low level of water inside so he can take a drink. Now scientists have evidence to back up that story. New C
16、aledonian crows actually do understand how to make water displacement work to their advantage, experiments showed. The results suggests that the birds are, at least in some aspects, as smart as first-graders, according to the study. Researchers, led by Sarah Jelbert at the University of Auckland in
17、New Zealand, presented six crows with tubes filled with water. Inside the tubes, a worm or pieces of meat on a piece of wood was floating, just out of reach of the crow. In front of the tubes, the researchers arranged a bunch of heavy rubber erasers that would sink, and light plastic objects that wo
18、uld float. The crows found out that they could drop the heavy objects into the tubes in order to raise the water level and get their snack. However, the birds handled awkwardly in experiments in which they could choose to drop objects in either a wide tube or a narrow tube to get snack, the research
19、ers said. Dropping objects into the narrow tube would lift the water level by a greater amount and put the treat within reach after just two drops. In contrast, it took around seven drops to raise the snack to the same level in the wide tube. The crows obviously didnt realize this, and most of them
20、went for the wide tube first. Previous studies showed that chimps and human children can solve similar tasks. In a 2011 study, chimps and kids found out that they could put water into a tube to reach a peanut that was floating in a small amount of water at the bottom. 8. What does the text focus on?
21、 A. Aesops prediction. B. Crows intelligence. C. The development of crows. D. Human-animal communication. 9.How did the crows get the worm in a tube in Sarahs experiment? 4 A. By dropping in the heavy erasers. B. By removing the plastic objects. C. By standing on the wood. D. By breaking the tube. 1
22、0.What does the underlined part “the treat” in paragraph 4 refer to? A.the tube. B.The object. C. the snack. D.The water 11.What did the experiment with wide and narrow tubes show? A.Crows are sensitive to surroundings. B.Crows have the ability to recognize shapes. C.Crows are cleverer than chimps a
23、nd children. D.Crows understand water displacement incompletely. D “No pains, no gains.” gives the impression that we ought to be suffering while we study. It seems that the only way to know if were putting in enough work is how much hardship we bear. We are totally taken up with study, shutting our
24、selves away for a big exam. Is that necessarily true? When we havent taken the time to come up with another idea, we just shut ourselves in a room with a book. Its no surprise that we find revision boring and difficult. Just as children learn from playing, we can learn from doing, or at least from s
25、tudy techniques that interest us, rather than make us switch off. Shutting ourselves away can make us learn to hate studying, leading to a situation where instead of being able to concentrate on our work, we are troubled by how unfair it is that we must study. This can be part of a vicious cycle(恶性循环) that traps us into ineffective revision, your poor progress fueling further annoyance. Thankfully, working in the company of other people really helps fight against that. We just need to learn how to deal with distractions. Its not necessary to a
