成都外国语学校2017-2024学年度下期期中考试
高二英语试卷
命题人: 赵芳 肖山 审题人: 张嵘 注意事项:
1、本试卷分第Ｉ卷 （选择题）和第Ⅱ卷 （非选择题）两部分。 2、 本堂考试120分钟，满分150分。
3、 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、学号填写在答题卡上并使用2B铅笔填涂。
4、 考试结束后将答题卡交回。
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）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
City College
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All high school graduates and anyone 18 years of age or older, with or without a high school diploma, are suitable for admission. Individuals under the age of 18 who possess a high school diploma are also suitable for admission.
HOW TO ENROLL IN CREDIT COURSES
New and readmitted students must complete and hand in a credit admissions application form available online at .
BEFORE YOU REGISTER:
●Learn about your skill level in English and Math through our assessment service; ●Attend an orientation (新生报到会) to hear about support services; ●Meet with a counselor (adviser) to select your courses;
●Find out if you are required for attending the entrance examinations. HOW TO ENROLL IN NONCREDIT COURSES
Courses in Noncredit Programs are free of charge (no enrollment fee). For information on how to enroll in noncredit courses, click here. PARKING
Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to use public transit. Click here for Parking Regulations. SERVICES
City College services include a bookstore, cafeteria, health center, tutoring center, career and transfer center, counseling, financial aid, library, learning resource center, student government offices, campus police, disabled students programs and more.
1. Which kind of the following people could not be admitted to City College? A. A high school graduate B. An adult without a high school diploma
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C. Anyone who possesses a high school diploma D. A sixteen boy without a high school diploma
2. What do we know about the entrance examinations from the passage? A. All new and readmitted students must take the examinations.
B. Those who are poor in English and Math must take the entrance examinations. C. Not all the new students are required to take the entrance examinations. D. The entrance examinations are free of charge. 3. Where can this passage be found? A. In a college news report. B. In a newspaper advertisement. C. In a tour guide. D. On an education website.
B
Spending money on time-saving services reduces stress and boosts (增进) happiness, according to a new research, but shockingly, few of us do it.
Whillans, a professor at HBS said, “Buying time helps to protect us from the stress in our lives caused by time pressure, and the feeling that we don’ t have enough minutes in the day to complete our tasks.’’
The effect was clearest in the Canadian experiment, in which 60 working adults were given $40 to spend in two different ways. One weekend, they were told to spend the money on a material purchase—a gift for themselves. The next weekend, they were instructed to spend the $40 on anything that saved them time, from paying the neighbor’s kid to run errands (跑腿) to taking a Uber instead of a bus.
“On the day they made the time-saving purchase, they felt happier, in a better mood, and lower feelings of time stress than on the day they bought a material purchase” said Whillans.
The biggest surprise to the researchers was how few people would spend money on time-saving services. When they asked 98 working adults how they would spend a “windfall” of $40, only two percent named a purchase that would save them time.
“One reason,’’ said Whillans, “is that we’re very bad at remembering how much we hate doing certain tasks once the suffering has passed. That makes us less likely to take active steps to avoid that over burdened feeling in the future.” But another possible cause is good old-fashioned guilt. “If you feel guilty about getting someone to clean your house for you, then you might get less happiness from outsourcing that task,” said Whillans, or you might just be less likely to spend your money in that way. ’’
4. In the Canadian experiment, the participants _________ . A. were divided into two groups B. were given $ 40 every two weeks
C. were asked to give money to a neighbor’s kid D. were asked to spend the money in different ways
5. According to the author, what can make people less time-stressed? A. Paying much for a concert ticket. B. Taking a regular bus to get to work.
C. Employing someone to clean the garden. D. Buying themselves an expensive present.
6. When it comes to spending money on ‘‘buying time”, ________ . A. no people would like to do it
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B. a small percentage of people choose to do it C. more people will do it if extra money is given
D. most people like the idea but don’t practice it in life
7. What do the underlined words “that overburdened feeling” in Paragraph 6 refer to? A. The good old-fashioned guilt.
B. The feeling of spending money on goods.
C. The stress of having someone clean your house.
D. The discomfort when completing tasks we hate doing.
C
German artist HA Schult is an unusual artist who uses trash to make sculptures. “We are living in the time of garbage,” says Schult. “I created a thousand sculptures of garbage. They are a mirror of ourselves.” Here, Schult was talking about his 1,000 trash sculptures in the form of humans. He first exhibited them in 1996 in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
“They are social sculptures,” he explains. “They are not only sculptures for the eyes. They are sculptures to spread the idea that we live in a time of garbage.” So far, Schult’s social sculptures have been on show in Paris, in Moscow’s Red Square, on the Great Wall of China, and in the desert next to the Giza Pyramids near Cairo.
HA Schult’s work is unforgettable. Although his work has had a big influence on the art world, Schult remains modest about his creations: “Artists have to learn every time. We are not important. All that counts is the time in which we are living.”
Trash art has been around for years. But it seems that only the popular artists are regarded as true artists when working with trash. Why can’t common people be considered artists when they use the same things and change them into some form of personal art? Maybe it’s because we all have our own preset ideas of what art is and isn’t, or who artists are or should be.
You can be an artist like Schult if you try. Look at used metal cans. What might be done with them? Imagine them in any number of new uses, or imagine them simply as an art form. What about boxes or clothing? Boxes can usually serve as new storage containers and houses for pets. And clothing? Imagine taking old clothes and turning them into hats or hanging organizers. 8. What do we know about Schult’s sculptures? A. They served as garbage containers. B. They reflected environmental issues. C. They were first shown in Paris, France. D. They were to raise economic awareness.
9. HA Schult’s artistic works also get the message across that an artist must__________. A. be socially responsible B. be as modest as possible C. make garbage recyclable D. take diverse artistic forms
10. According to the last 2 Paragraphs, the author probably agrees that __________. A. it takes talent to be a trash artist B. preset ideas are important to artists C. trash art can't be seen as a real art form D. average people can also make trash artists
11. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
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2024届四川省成都外国语学校高二下学期英语期中考试
