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1、1 / 18【2019【2019 最新最新】精选高二英语下期末考试试题精选高二英语下期末考试试题 3(1)3(1)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。 AWelcome to our website. Here are some magazines to recommend this week.Cover Price: $56.00Sale Price: $25.00Alarm
2、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 Price:
3、$47.40Sale Price: $12.00Alternative 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 other mu
4、sical types. It also offers columns about new technology, book reviews and film reviews.Cover Price: $39.92Sale Price: $12.00Sound 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 and expla
5、ins how to buy and use music equipment.Cover Price: $23.70Sale Price: $12.002 / 18Complex 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 two maga
6、zines 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 novelsB. simple humorous storiesC. serious writings on musicD. stories written by famous artists2. What discount can you get if you buy Alternativ
7、e 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. BI dropped out of college after my freshman year. Three years later, I quit a dead-end job and returned college. I saw school a
8、s 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 again. Then a smartly-dresse
9、d woman walked confidently to the front of my English composition class. “Look at you! 3 / 18Look 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 course of my college car
10、eer 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 difficult, drop back to intr
11、oductory 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 in front of a new clas
12、s, 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 his future career.C. T
13、he 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 4 / 18algebra.C. She talked to him directly. D. She brought him courage and faith.6. What can we infer about the author?A. He lear
14、nt 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. Experience is worth valuing. D. A lad
15、y changed my life in time. CIn the story of “The Crow and the Pitcher”(乌鸦和5 / 18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 Caledonian crows actually d
16、o 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 New Zealand, presented six
17、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 would float. The crows found
18、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 researchers said. Dropping objects i
19、nto 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. 6 / 18The crows obviously didnt realize this, and most of them went for the wide tube
20、 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?A. Aesops prediction. B.
21、 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?A. By dropping in the heavy erasers. B. By removing the plastic objects.C. By standing on the wood. D. By breaking the tube.10.What does the underlined part
22、“the treat” in paragraph 4 refer to? A.the tube. B.The object. C. the snack. D.The water11.What did the experiment with wide and narrow tubes show?A.Crows are sensitive to surroundings. B.Crows have the ability to recognize shapes.7 / 18C.Crows are cleverer than chimps and children. D.Crows understa
23、nd 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 ourselves away for a big exam. Is
24、 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 study techniques that interest u
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