内蒙古集宁一中2024-2024学年高二3月月考
英语试卷
本试卷满分为120分，考试时间100分钟 第I卷（选择题 共70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）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
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Service Trips for High School Students
Are you a high school student who loves to be outdoors and is eager to experience new challenges, learn new skills and meet new people? Learn all about the world of building and maintaining hiking trails, and experience it in a safe, teamwork-oriented environment in various locations across the state. WTA offers first-time participants country trips and returning students have the option to go on trips in the back country(边远地区).
Front Country Trips
Our front country trips provide opportunities for people to experience projects near the ocean, in the scenic Cascade Mountains and in northeast Washington. All our trips provide you with experienced crew leaders, a great project, some camping tents, sleeping bags and all your meals for the week.
Advanced Back Country Trips
On these trips you will be backpacking to the work site and will have a chance to advance your trail and leadership skills under the supervision of a WTA crew leader. Approval from a previous crew leader is necessary.
Trip Details
In 2014, trip fees for WTA members will be $195 for the first trip and $145 for each additional trip. Non-members will pay an additional $40 for their first trip and can be qualified to be members in the second trip. Due to the popularity of our trips, please submit your payment and
application within two weeks of signing up for a trip. If a trip is full and you would like to be added to the waiting list, please call us at 206/625-1367 or email trail-teams@wta.org.
Scholarships
We believe no student should have to stay at home this summer because he or she can’t afford to go outside. Thanks to donations from members and supporters, WTA is proud to announce that we are able to offer a limited number of scholarships. Application deadline: March 1, 2014.
2014 Youth Volunteer Vacation
You must be 14 to 18 years old to go on one of our Youth Volunteer Vacations. We always recommend that volunteers go on a one-day trip before attending a Youth Vacation to understand what the work will be like for a week.
1. If you are going on Front Country Trips, you can’t go on trips ________. A. near the ocean B. in the back country C. in the Cascade Mountains D. in northeast Washington
2. How much will you have to pay for your second trip if you’re not a WTA member? A. $145 B. $185 C. $195 D. $235 3. After choosing a trip, you ________. A. will naturally become a WTA member
B. can cancel your trip and get all your money back C. will be added to the waiting list
D. must submit your payment and application within two weeks 4. You must be lucky enough to obtain a scholarship if you ________. A. apply before March 1, 2014 B. donate a little money to WTA C. support WTA by advertising D. volunteer in your high school 5. From the text we can learn that 2014 Youth Volunteer Vacations ______. A. will be the last activity of the year B. are more popular than people say
C. are open only to 14-to18-year-old children D. offer a one-day trip for training
B
In Antarctica, the long dark winter gives way to summer, ice begins to melt, and the sun stays in the sky all night long.
Into this brightly lit world, the large gray head of a seal(海豹) appears through a crack in the ice. The seal takes several deep breaths, and then she opens her mouth and turns her head from side to side. With her teeth, she scrapes（刮掉）off bits of ice. Seals are mammals, and they need to breathe air. So seals use their teeth to make sure their breathing holes stay open.
The seal makes the hole bigger. When she can fit her large body through it, she jumps out onto the ice—she is getting ready to have a baby. On the ice shelf, the seal gives birth to a pup(小海豹). The pup is about three feet long and is covered with thick fur that protects it from the cold wind. The pup drinks its mother’s milk and grows quickly. Under the seal’s skin is a thick layer of fat called blubber, which keeps the seal warm in the frozen world.
When the pup is about two weeks old, it begins to dive with its mother. They slide through the breathing hole into the water below the ice, where the pup learns to swim, diving deeper and deeper. In order to stay underwater, it must learn to hold its breath and control its heart rate.
Below the ice, the sun shines brightly through the hole. Finding the opening to breathe is easy, but getting back onto the slippery ice can be difficult for a young seal. With practice and its mother’s help, the pup soon feels at home both on the ice and under it.
The young seal spends more and more time below the ice, where it learns to hunt for food. The mother shows her pup how to catch fish, squid and octopuses. These are important lessons. When the pup is about two months old, it will have to feed itself. When the pup becomes an adult, it will swim farther out in search of food，but it will always live on or under the ice.
6. What do you learn about the summer in Antarctica? A. It is not dark at all at night.
B. There is no ice on the sea.
C. It is often rainy and windy. D. Days are longer than nights. 7. What keeps the seal warm in the cold sea? A. Milk. B. Blubber.
C. Skins. D. Hearts.
8. We can infer that octopuses are a kind of_______. A. large predator B. body fat
C. sea ice
D. sea creature
C
Robots that can chat, find misplaced glasses, draw aeroplanes and play with your children are attracting thousands of visitors during an expo in Tokyo as Japan adapts to changes in society.
Robots, such as the sound, sensitive Chapit, answer simple questions and even joke with people to help them fight loneliness and stay alert in old age.
Japan has one of the world’s fastest-ageing societies and the government predicts that by 2050 the proportion of people over 65 will reach 40 percent. “Many older people in Japan live alone and have no one to talk to, ”said Kazuya Kitamura representative of the expo organizer. “Communication robots accompany people and don’t mind listening to the same stories over and over again. ”
Matsumoto’s “Personal Mobility Robot”, equipped with four cameras and a sensor to recognize the user's centre of gravity, is designed to help elderly move around without pressing buttons, using joysticks(操纵杆) or rotating wheels as in traditional wheelchairs.
The robot can also help find misplaced glasses by identifying them with a sensor.
Other robots, such as the award-winning “DiGRO” can support busy parents who have little time to play with their children. The robot can use the Internet to find a simple image and then draw pictures, keeping children company while parents work.
While Chapit, a relatively simple robot, managed to attract a corporate partner, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, a professor at the University of Tokyo, struggling to attract sponsors for more expensive projects.
“We have developed a robot that can assist many people, but we still haven’t found a sponsor,” said Matsumoto, who added that the cost of the machine, if mass-produced, would be comparable to that of a car. “In the current economic environment there are few companies willing to invest in such a costly project,” he said.
9. It can be inferred from the text that ________. A. many children lack love from parents
B. robots helpful to the old will be in great demand C. robots are the most useful to children D. robots do better than people in healthcare
10. It is difficult to find sponsors for robots because _______. A. Japan is suffering economy depression B. The robots are of poor design C. The production of robots costs a lot D. The future market is worrying
11. What is the author’s attitude towards the robots referred to ? A. Unsatisfied
B. Doubtful
B. Favourable D. Regretful
D
When Columbus “sailed the ocean blue in 1492” he wasn’t looking for America. He was searching for a route from Spain to China; America just got in the way.
The Spanish were after the riches of Asia: silk, dates, spices. Until later adventurers discovered how to sail to the Far East, trade with China depended on the Silk Road. The trade between China and Europe brought huge wealth, so the Spanish had a strong desire to find a new way to the East. Eventually a way appeared; as sea traffic developed from the 17th Century onwards, the overland route diminished. Now China is seeking to revive(复兴) the Silk Road and is preparing to invest 4 trillion pounds in new roads, rail links, oil pipelines and other basic facilities. It is hoped that goods can be shipped westwards by land far more quickly and economically than by sea.
But the plan is also to attract more tourists. Actually, China does pretty well for tourists already; it’s the world’s fourth most visited country. Two cities—Beijing and Shanghai—possess the tourism business, with significant interest in destinations such as Xi’an and Chengdu. While Beijing is modern, cities such as Lanzhou and Dunhuang have one foot planted firmly in old China.
Other places featured include Xi’an, the former capital of China, where you can come face to face with the Terracotta Army built to protect China’s first emperor in the afterlife. From Lanzhou tour members take the train to Jiayuguan, China’s western gateway and a key location on the Silk Road.
[英语]内蒙古集宁一中2024-2024学年高二3月月考
