黑龙江省大庆实验中学2024-2024学年高二英语下学期第二次网上
周测试题（2.22-23）
说明:本试卷满分70分，时间40分钟。 第一部分: 阅读理解 (共两节，满分26分) 第一节：（共8小题，每题2分，满分16分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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This story happened when I was in Saint Lucia with my family. My sister, Diana,
who also happens to be my best friend and one of the funniest and kindest people I know, went blind in one eye about 9 years ago. Diana sometimes feels concerned about the way her eye looks now. The pupil (瞳孔) is no longer black; it’s sort of “glows” in photos. Diana recently purchased a special contact lens (隐形镜片) that makes her eye look like it did before it changed color, but she doesn’t wear this lens often because it becomes quite painful after about an hour.
One night during our holiday, a hotel photographer was taking pictures of the
guests as they entered the area set up for dinner. Diana casually said if she had known there was going to be pictures taken to capture this special memory, she would have worn her contact lens so her eye wouldn’t be so shiny in the picture.
The next day, I was sitting with Diana and her husband Ted. While we were talking,
the photographer who had been at the dinner the night before, handed her a photo, leaned in and quietly said, “I matched the color of your eyes in the picture.”
As he walked away, my sister happily said to me and Ted, “Look! He fixed my
eye!” The photographer stopped. He turned around and walked back to our table. He put his hand on Diana’s shoulder, leaned in again and gently said, “Just to be clear: I didn’t fix your eye. There isn’t anything wrong with your eye. I simply matched the color.”
Her eyes filled up with tears. It was very healing for her heart to hear these
beautiful words. It didn’t take much time and made so much difference. It helped her change the way she feels about herself.
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I have always loved the quote: “The world is full of good people. If you can’t
find one, be one!” Your acts of kindness can impact the world in profound ways! 1. My sister bought a contact lens in order to ______. .
A. avoid the pupil being too bright and shiny B. show off the beautiful color of her pupil C. protect her eye from the strong sunlight D. keep the pupil comfortable
2. Diana felt _______ when she knew there was a photo taken for the dinner.
A. excited B. proud
C. regretful D. shocked
3. Tears welled up in Diana’s eyes because_______.
A. she felt her eyes were so painful B. she was touched by the photographer
C. she was hurt by the gesture of the photographer D. she felt so sad that she didn’t wear her lens
4. From the passage we can conclude that the photographer was _______.
A. confident
B. easy-going C. creative
D. considerate
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Both honeybees and ants are social insects that live in groups called colonies. They survive by means of their collective intelligence. Their decision-making power is distributed throughout the group; that is, no one ant or bee makes decisions for the group. Instead, they work together. As Deborah M. Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University, says, “Ants aren’t smart. Ant colonies are.” The same is true for bee colonies. Although bees and ants are quite different physically, they have a lot in common in terms of their social behavior. Specifically, honeybees and ants have similar roles within the colony, both have communication systems, and both have the capacity for learning.
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Ants communicate by using chemicals called pheromones, which can alert others to danger or to a food source. For example, when worker ants find a promising source, they let the rest of the colony know how to find it by leaving a trail of pheromones on the way back to the colony. The other ants pick up the message using their sense of smell. Bees, on the other hand, use movement to communicate with each other. Worker bees send messages to each other by means of a “dance”. Different speeds and movements send different messages. For example, when worker bees called scouts go out to find a new home for the colony, they return and do a dance for the other worker bees that indicates the location of the new home and how suitable it is. The faster the scouts dance, the better the new location is.
Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning. One Chinese study found that bees can be trained to learn and remember a route to a food source. The researchers also found that bees can be taught to recognize hidden objects and use the concepts of “sameness” and “difference” to accomplish certain tasks. Ants take this one step further. Recent American research has shown that ants not only have the ability to learn, but also can teach their foraging (觅食) skills to other younger ants.
They observed that older ants accompany young ants in search of food and teach them the route and how to avoid obstacles.
As we can see, the social behavior of honeybees and ants is quite similar. Both coordinate complex actions and accomplish crucial survival tasks by cooperating in groups consisting of many individuals. Unintelligent as they may be as individuals, as groups they often show amazing brilliance as they go about their everyday activities.
5. What do ants and bees have in common?
A. They live in similar-sized colonies. B. They make use of collective intelligence.
C. They have small leadership groups that make all decisions. D. They use the same methods to communicate with each other. 6. What does the speed of a bee’s dance indicate?
A. The quality of a new colony location.
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黑龙江省大庆实验中学2024学年高二英语下学期第二次网上周测试题(2.2223)
