浙江省杭州市2019年浙大附中（丁兰）高二年级第一学期英语期中卷（无答案）
2019学年第一学期浙大附中（丁兰校区）高二年级期中考试
英语试卷
选择题部分
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节 （共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
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I started reading Shakespeare when I was nine, after my grandfather, an actor, sent me a copy of Romeo and Juliet. The story and the language attracted me. I found out about Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) and started volunteering for them when I was about 10. When I was 13, I managed to run a film project with SGCNZ.
I’m home-educated and a part-time correspondence student (函授生) as well. We have a drama group made up of quite a few people who are also home-educated. I’ve also joined Wellington Young Actors, a youth theatre company. There are many similarities and differences between being home-educated and attending a five-day programme. I love hearing other students’ reactions when meeting them and share my different ways of experiencing the world with them. While explaining the way I learn can be a challenge, I love helping people to understand there isn’t just one way of learning.
Being home-educated has offered me the freedom to have an individualized education and to pursue my passions. My education has always been about making those focuses but I do lots of the same things as people who attend five-day programs do. Shakespeare is a great approach to lots of things around English, history and the arts. I think something you learn when you perform is connection. You have to have a connection with your fellow actors, with the audience and with Shakespeare. I learn this from actually being on stage and from taking part in different Shakespeare festival programs.
I believe it’s the emotion in Shakespeare that makes it relevant today. You can be reading something that was written 400 years ago and be able to see parts of your life in the work as it shows you how to understand the world and explore a lot of different ideas. 21. What can “a five-day program” be? A. film project. C. School education.
B. A reading activity. D. Stage performance.
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22. Why does the author choose home education? A. To be different from others. C. To enjoy more personal freedom. 23.What do we know about the author? A. A famous young actor. C. a home education writer. Keys: CBD
B
People have grown taller over the last century, with South Korean women shooting up by more than 20cm on average, and Iranian men gaining 16.5cm. A global study looked at the average height of 18-year-olds in 200 countries 1914 and 2014. The results show that while Swedes were the tallest people in the world in 1914, Dutch men have risen from l2th place to claim top spot with an average height of 182.5cm. Larvian women, meanwhile, rose from 28th place in 1914 to become the tallest in the world a century later, with an average height of 169.8cm. James Bentham, a co-author of the research says the global trend is likely but once you average over whole populations, genetics plays a less key role,” he added.
But while height has increased around the world, the trend in many countries of north and sub-Saharan Africa causes concern, says Elio Riboli of Imperial College. While height increased in Uganda and Niger during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among 18-year-olds.
“One reason for these decreases in height is the economic situation in the 1980s,” said Professor Alexander. The nutritional and health problems that followed the policy of structural adjustment, he says, led to many children and teenagers failing to reach their full potential in terms of height.
Bentham believes the global trend of increasing height has important implications. “How tall we are now is strongly influenced by the environment we grew up in,” he said. “If we give children the best possible start in life now, they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.” 24. What can be learned from Paragraph I?
A. The increase in women’s height is much bigger than men’s in the last century. B. The last century has seen a great increase in people’s height in most countries. C. Genetics plays a key role in the increase of people’s height in the last century. D. Dutch and Swedes are ranked first and second in height in the world nowadays. 25. The underlined word “reversed” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by __________.
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B. A loyal program volunteer. D. A devoted Shakespeare-lover. B. To better focus on his passions. D. To improve his academic performance.
浙江省杭州市2019年浙大附中（丁兰）高二年级第一学期英语期中卷（无答案）
A. slowed down. C. changed to the contrary.
B. gone upwards. D. come to life again.
26. According to the text, James Bentham suggests that __________. A. The economic situation of some countries should be improved. B. Environment protection should be attached great importance to. C. The global trend of increasing height should be closely watched. D. Children’s proper nutrition and healthcare should be guaranteed. Keys: BCD
C
Smile! It makes everyone in the room feel better because they, consciously or unconsciously, are smiling with you. Growing evidence shows that an instinct for facial mimicry (模仿) allows us to empathize with and even experience other people’s feelings. If we can’t mirror another person’s face, it limits our ability to read and properly react to their expressions. A review of this emotional mirroring appears on February 11 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
In their paper, Paula Niedenthal and Adrienne Wood, social psychologists at the University of Wisconsin, describe how people in social situations copy others’ facial expressions to create emotional responses in themselves. For example, if you’re with a friend who looks sad, you might “try on” that sad face yourself without realizing you’re doing so. In “trying on” your friend’s expression, it helps you to recognize what they’re feeling by associating it with times in the past when you made that expression. Humans get this emotional meaning from facial expressions in a matter of only a few hundred milliseconds. “You reflect on your emotional feelings and then you generate some sort of recognition judgment, and the most important thing that results in is that you take the appropriate action—you approach the person or you avoid the person,” Niedenthal says. “Your own emotional reaction to the face changes your perception of how you see the face in such a way that provides you with more information about what it means.” A person’s ability to recognize and “share” others’ emotions can be prevented when they can’t mimic faces. This is a common complaint for people with motor diseases, like facial paralysis (瘫痪) from a stroke, or even due to nerve damage from plastic surgery. Niedenthal notes that the same would not be true for people who suffer from paralysis from birth, because if you’ve never had the ability to mimic facial expressions, you will have developed compensatory ways of interpreting emotions.
People with social disorders associated with mimicry or emotion-recognition damage, like autism (自闭症), can experience similar challenges. “There are some symptoms in autism where lack of facial mimicry may in part be due to limitation of eye contact,” Niedenthal says.
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Niedenthal next wants to explore what part in the brain is functioning to help with facial expression recognition. A better understanding of that part, she says, will give us a better idea of how to treat related disorders.
27. According to the passage, facial mimicry helps __________. A. experience one’s own feelings clearly B. change others’ emotions quickly C. respond to others’ expressions properly D. develop friendship with others easily
28. We can know from Paragraph 4 and 5 that __________. A. people with motor diseases may also suffer from autism B. people born with facial paralysis may still recognize emotions C. people with social disorders can’t have eye contact with others D. people receiving plastic surgery have difficulty in mimicking faces
29. According to Niedenthal, the next step of the study will focus on __________. A. how we can treat brain disorders B. what can be done to regain facial mimicry C. how our brain helps us with emotional mirroring D. what part of our brain helps recognize facial expression 30.The passage is written to __________.
A. discuss how people react positively to others’ smiles B. draw people’s attention to those with social disorders C. introduce a new trend in facial expression recognition D. explain how emotional mirroring affects people’s empathy Keys: CBDD
第二节（共5题，每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 A new urban sport, parkour, is hitting the streets. It has evolved from obstacle course training into a fitness option for young people. In parkour, the outside world is the gym! __________ The goal of parkour is a direct route from one place to another. You meet an obstacle, you overcome it.
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Mark Toorock, who teaches the techniques of parkour at his fitness gym, says that parkour is a method to train the body and mind using obstacles as the medium. He says that this new sport is demanding and takes years to master. __________
But Toorock, who used to be a martial arts expert, says that everyone can benefit from learning the basic skills involved in parkour like running, jumping and crawling (爬行). These are the things that humans used to have to do all the time. __________ The original idea of parkour was to return to running and jumping as basic elements in moving from one place to another.
Georges Hebert, a French navy officer, was so impressed by the effortless athleticism of African tribes that he devised a training method based on running, climbing, jumping, balancing and throwing. The word parkour comes from parcours de combatant, the French term for a military obstacle course. __________ Dr Kenneth Kao explains that the sport of parkour is not extreme – it is the environment which is extreme and dangerous. Being outside, jumping off railings and flipping over park benches can be quite frightening, so parkour courses in gyms concentrate on practicing all the individual moves to make everything easier. However, that is not real parkour because it’s indoors with a fixed obstacle. The goal for everyone is to go outdoors.
A. Gyms provide thick floor matting (垫子) for rolling and rubberized boxes for jumping over. B. The bridges, buildings and railings (栏杆) of each and every city are the equipment. C. Every action in parkour is natural, so everyone must have the ability to move in this way. D. Parkour was introduced into china in recent years and has gained popularity.
E. But today, due to modern transport, these basic skills are no longer used on a regular basis. F. The French word for people who participate in the sport is traceurs or traceuses. G. Beginners should realize that they won’t be jumping over buildings any time soon! Keys: BGEFA
第三部分：语言应用（共2节，满分45分） 第一节 完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 I had reached the age of twenty-eight. Still, I ___36___ whether the letter from my past would make it to me, all these years later. It was a ___37___ writing task from when I was eighteen. The teacher collected our letters to our ___38___ selves in self-addressed envelope with stamps and promised to ___39___ them ten years later. But since so much time had passed, would he even ___40___?
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