临泽一中2018-2019学年第二学期期末试卷
高二英语
（考试时间：90分钟 试卷满分：120分）
测试范围：人教选修7 和选修8。
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
The World's Greatest Bookstores
Cafebreria El Péndulo, Mexico City, Mexico
Part café, part coffee house, part bar and part bookstore, Cafebreria El Péndulo is located in Mexico City. Books line the shelves from the ceiling to the floor, and live plants add lots of green. The store is famous for a huge pendulum(钟摆) hanging from its ceiling.
Stanfords, London and Bristol, England
Established in 1853, Stanfords boasts(自夸) that it offers the world's largest selection of travel books and maps. It also sells travel accessories. Look for the enormous National Geographic Map of the World in the flagship store in London; it was created in 2003 to celebrate the store's 150th birthday. Rizzoli, New York City, New York
For almost a half century, Rizzoli has been considered one of the best independent bookstores in the U.S. It specializes in illustrated(带插图的) books about fashion, photography, decoration design, cooking, architecture and other subjects, along with Italian, Spanish, French and English literature. Take a master class in flower design, attend a lecture and book signing, or drop in for a cooking show or book launch party. El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Often described as one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores, El Ateneo is housed in an historic theater much as it was when the theater opened in 1919. After customers browse the shelves, they can drink coffee and listen to music from a stage hidden in red curtains where tango dancers once performed. While most of the store’s
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books are in Spanish, they are available in a range of subjects. 1. What is Cafebreria El Péndulo known for? A. The huge pendulum
B. The larger shelves
D. Its interesting location
C. The green plants in it
2. Which bookstore is best for buying a tourist handbook? A. Rizzoli. C. El Ateneo.
B. Stanfords.
D. El Péndulo.
3. What main subject are books in Rizzoli about? A. History. Literature.
B
As the parent of two teenagers who have played multiple sports over the years,
B. Cartoon.
C. Lifestyle.
D.
I’ve seen the good, the bad, the ugly and the absolutely cruel. I realize
However, when I think about the value of sports and why my kids continue to play
sports teach kids lessons to become successful adults. Through sports, kids learn how to work in teams, how to take risk, how to challenge themselves to be better, and how to behave when they lose—and when they win.
Whether kids play soccer, baseball, football, or cheer, they learn they are part
of a team where one person depends on another. When my son plays baseball, he’s not the only one who needs to play well; he depends on his defense to make the plays in the field. When my daughter plays tennis, she depends on her partner to cut off the ball at the net and win the point, and the tennis team depends on each person in order to win the overall match. Sports also teach children to trust and respect the decisions of someone who understands how the entire team needs to work in order to succeed.
Sadly, though, youth sports have suffered from the “winning isn’t everything;
it’s the only thing” attitude. They have become too much of a reflection of professional sports. Winning is a happy result, but the lessons from losing are even more important. When my daughter loses tennis match, her coach reminds her that you learn more from losing than from winning. Losing makes you focus on improving your skills and your strategy. We’re going to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them.
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I believe that participating in youth sports is much more than building a sound
body winning a scholarship to college. Sports are the best way to shape and build more self-motivate and happier children and help them become more self-motivated and happier adults.
4. What is the authors attitude to youth sports?
A. Critical. D. Unclear.
B. Positive.
C. Doubtful.
5. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?
A. What sports the author’s kids take.
B. What the authors
kids do in sports.
C. How sports benefit the authors kids.
D. How the authors
kids continue to play sports.
6. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Teenagers don’t have to win every time. B. Winning is the only goal for teen players. C. Teenagers should work together to succeed. D. Winning is not the most important in sports.
7. What is the best title for the text?
A. Youth Sports Build Better Adults B. Teenagers Suffer from Youth Sports C. Losing Brings More than Winning Does
D. Teenagers Perform Better than Adults in Sports
C
We want to share a surprising new finding: People like getting thank you notes. OK, it’s not that surprising. But what did surprise two psychologist as they attempted to get to bottom of why so few people actually send thank-you notes is that many people totally miscalculate(错误估计) the effect of an appreciative email. They underestimate（低估） the positive feelings it will bring. They also overestimate how insincere the note may appear and how uncomfortable it will make the recipient（接受者） feel, their study found. But after receiving thank-you notes and filling
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out questionnaires about how it felt to get them, many said they were \scoring the happiness rating at 4 of 5. The senders typically guessed they’d score a 3.
The 100 or so participants in each of the four experiments were asked to write a short \letter\to a person who had affected them in some way. The letters included appreciation to fellow students and friends who offered guidance through the college admissions process, job searches and tough times. In lab experiments, it took most subjects less than five minutes to write the letters.
Numerous studies had documented a range of benefits to individuals who express gratitude, so then the question researchers turned to was — what’s holding people back? Along with underestimating the value of sending a note to another person, many seemed to be concerned with how much their writing would be read carefully. As it turned out, most recipients didn’t care how the notes were phrased, they cared about warmth, researchers found. Participants were also judged to be abler at writing than they expected. The study found that many subjects were concerned that recipients would feel awkward upon receiving the compliment-filled(充满恭维的) letters, which recipients rarely did. Wouldn’t those concerns deepen without a good excuse for sending it? Perhaps. But that should not undermine the broader finding: People tend to undervalue the positive effect they can have on others for a tiny investment of time.
8. What is the main purpose of the study?
A. To revalue the proper influences of thank-you notes. B. To research the right ways to write appreciative emails. C. To study the reasons people like getting thank-you notes. D. To find why most people won’t write to express gratitude.
9. What can we infer about participants of the experiments from paragraph 3? A. They are retired people. students.
C. They are college professors. workers.
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B. They are mostly
D. They are white-collar
10. Which of the following best explains \？ A. Relieved.
D. Embarrassed.
B. Indifferent.
C. Overjoyed.
11. What stops most people from writing thank-you notes? A. It takes too long to write such letters. B. They have trouble phrasing the letters. C. They think nobody will read the letters. D. They don’t know how to express gratitude.
D
Nowadays, social media like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are
becoming increasingly popular. People have completely made social media part of their daily lives. As a result, many people have developed an Internet personality.
The Internet personality I am talking about is the one we shape on our social
media sites. We are always posting information about ourselves for other people to know even when it can be completely untrue. Some people even go so far as to spend money in buying flowers or “likes” or buying a very expensive camera for their friends to take photos of them. I find it unbelievable. The time and energy spent on these silly things can only make us want to be accepted by more people.
Social media are also a modern cause of depression: People see the perfect lives
of others and consider their own imperfect lives as bad. Even kids deal with this. They don’t realize that the reason why they struggle to love themselves is that they spend all day receiving untrue information.
I find that many people spend more time and energy in making sure that their online
personality is worth accepting than caring for their real presence. So many times I have seen confident and beautiful girls on social media. But in the real world, they are extremely shy. They hardly talk to anyone and spend all their time using the phone.
Social media have gone so far as to even negatively affect marriages. This is
because of the fact that there are now “Instagram husbands”—people whose use is to take perfect photos of their partners throughout the day. They spend a lot of time
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2018-2019学年甘肃省张掖市临泽县第一中学高二下学期期末考试英语试题 Word版
