岷县一中2018-2019学年度第二学期期中考试试题 高二英语
命题人：张富财 审题人：桑建栋
第I卷
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、D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
News China
Circulation (发行量): 1 Year, 12 Issues Cover Price: $47.88 Price For You: $19.99
Product Description: News China is the English edition of China Newsweek. The magazine covers the latest Chinese domestic news in politics, business, society, environment, culture, sports and travels, etc. It is the first comprehensive news magazine for readers interested in China.
Better Life
Circulation: 1 Year, 12 Issues
Cover Price: $44.55 Price For You: $15.00
Product Description: Designed for those who have a strong interest in personal lifestyle, Better Life is America’s complete home and family service magazine. It offers help with food, recipes, decorating, building, gardening, family health, money management, and education.
Apple Seeds
Circulation: 1 Year, 9 Issues
Cover Price: $44.55 Price For You: $33.95
Product Description: Apple Seeds is an award winning magazine filled with stories for kids aged from 7 to 9. The cover is very soft, providing durability (耐用性) that allows each issue to be enjoyed for many years to come. Besides, there is a big surprise for you—it’s being sold at a more favorable discount than usual.
Humor Times
Circulation: 1 Year, 12 Issues
Cover Price: $36.00 Price For You: $11.95
Product Description: Humor Times is for those who love to laugh! Full of cartoons and humor columns, it shows up in your mailbox once a month and keeps you smiling all year round! In today’s world, you need a reason to laugh. So let’s find it in Humor Times.
1. What kind of people may buy News China?
A. People who have an interest in personal lifestyle of the Chinese. B. People who are interested in China’s politics, business and culture. C. People who want to enlarge the knowledge of their kids. D. People who have a strong sense of humor and love to laugh. 2. Better Life can help you in _________. A. beautifying your house
B. finding interesting stories for your kids C. ordering food from restaurants D. learning about sports and travels 3. What do we know about Apple Seeds?
A. It offers the biggest discount among all the magazines. B. It can be purchased as an award for your children. C. The soft cover enables it to be read and kept long. D. The magazine is going to surprise you for many years.
B
I was desperately nervous about becoming car-free. But eight months ago our car was hit by a passing vehicle and it was destroyed. No problem, I thought: we’ll buy another. But the insurance payout didn’t even begin to cover the costs of buying a new car—I worked out that, with the loan (贷款) we’d need plus petrol, insurance, parking permits and tax, we would make a payment as much as ￡600 a month. And that’s when I had my fancy idea. Why not just give up having a car at all? I live in London. We have a railway station behind our house, a tube station 10 minutes’ walk away, and a bus stop at the end of the street. A new car club had
just opened in our area, and one of its shiny little red Peugeot was parked nearby. If any family in Britain could live without a car, I reasoned, then surely we were that family.
But my new car-free idea, sadly, wasn’t shared by my family. My teenage daughters were horrified. What would their friends think about our family being “too poor to afford a car”? (I wasn’t that bothered what they thought, and I suggested the girls should take the same approach.) My friends, too, were astonished at our plan. What would happen if someone got seriously ill overnight and needed to go to hospital? (an ambulance) How would the children get to and from their many events? (buses and trains) People smiled as though this was another of my mad ideas, before saying they were sure I’d soon realize that a car was a necessity.
Eight months on, I wonder whether we’ll ever own a car again. The idea that you “have to” own a car, especially if you live in a city, is all in the mind. I live—and many other citizens do too—in a place that has never been better served by public transport, and yet car ownership has never been higher. We worry about rising car costs, but we’d be better off asking something much more basic: do I really need a car? Certainly the answer is no, and I’m a lot richer because I dared to ask the question.
4. The author decided to live a car-free life partly because ______. A. the cost of a new car was too much B. the traffic jam was unbearable for him C. most families chose to go car-free D. he was hurt in a terrible car accident
5. What is the attitude of the author’s family toward his plan?
A. Optimistic. B. Unconcerned. C. Supportive. D. Disapproving.
6. What did the author suggest his daughters do about their friends’ opinion? A.Take their advice. B. Argue against it. C. Leave it alone. D. Think it over.
7. What conclusion did the author draw after the eight-month car-free life? A. A car-free life does not suit everyone. B. Life cannot go without a car. C. His life gets improved without a car. D.Life without a car is a little bit hard.
C
Every year from March to October, Christian Moullec，also known as “Birdman，” takes to the skies aboard his adapted light aircraft. However, the 58-year-old Frenchman’s daily 30-minute flight is not just to enjoy the impressive views，but to guide flocks (鸟群）of lesser white-fronted geese (小白额 雁）through safe migration paths which the birds can teach future generations.
His deed began in 1995 when he noticed their declining population in the wilds of Lapland, Sweden. To prevent their numbers from dropping further, Moullec tried to get the threatened species to follow him along migration routes that would protect them from bird hunters.However, getting grown geese to follow his lead proved challenging. As young geese imitate and follow whomever they view as their parent, Moullec decided to raise the geese from birth.
To help raise funds and awareness of his job to protect not just the geese but birds worldwide, Moullec often allows paying tourists to join him on the 30-minute-long flights aboard his aircraft. In addition to the trained birds flying alongside them, visitors，who come from as far as a 15-hour plane flight away, are treated to a variety of crane and geese species as well as breathtaking views of castles and cities.
He often brings his camera along for the flights，capturing photos not just for their beauty, but for what they describe. Moullec believes the use of agricultural chemicals has done harm to wild European birds, with more than a third disappearing in the last 30 years. “It’s a disaster，” he said. “My beautiful images with flying birds should be used to tell this story. ”
8. Why does “Birdman” always fly to the sky on his aircraft? A. To observe geese along their migration routes.
B. To follow geese through safe migration paths. C. To take visitors to operate his adapted aircraft. D. To guide geese fly safely during the migration. 9.What do we know about “Birdman”？ A. He is a nature lover. B.He is a bird watcher. C. He is a volunteer pilot. D.He is a bird hunter.
10.What does Moullec often take photos in his flights for? A. Recording the use of agricultural chemicals. B. Showing serious damage caused by chemicals. C. Describing his experiences with flying birds. D. Capturing the beautiful views of birds and cities. 11. What can be a suitable title for the text? A. Birdman Guides Flocks to Learn to Fly. B. Birdman Finds Birds Disappearing. C. Birdman Helps Flocks Safely Migrate. D. Birdman Protects Birds From Hunters.
D
In 2015，a man named Nigel Richards memorized 386, 000 words in the entire French Scrabble Dictionary in just nine weeks. However，he does not speak French. Richards’ impressive feat（成就，功绩） is a useful example to show how artificial intelligence works—real AI. Both of Richard and AI take in massive amounts of data to achieve goals with unlimited memory and superman accuracy in a certain field.
The potential applications for AI are extremely exciting. Because AI can outperform humans at routine tasks—provided the task is in one field with a lot of data—it is technically capable of replacing hundreds of millions of white and blue collar jobs in the next 15 years or so.
But not every job will be replaced by AI. In fact, four types of jobs are not at risk at all. First, there are creative jobs. AI needs to be given a goal to optimize.
甘肃省岷县第一中学2018-2019学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷
