渤海高中2018-2019学年度第二学期期中考试
高二英语试卷
考试时间：100分钟 试题满分：120分 考试范围：必修1 注意事项：1. 答卷前，务必将姓名，考号填写在答题纸上并贴好条形码。
2. 答题时，务必将客观题答案在答题纸上涂黑，主观题写在答题纸上。否则无效。 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A,B,C和D四个选项中选出最佳答案，并在答题纸上涂黑。
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Frogmore House has been a royal<皇室的> place since the 18th century and is today used by the Royal Family for private entertaining. It is especially linked with Queen Charlotte, the wife of George Ⅲ, and her daughters, whose love of botany and art is reflected<反映> throughout the house.
Unfortunately, parts of a visit to Frogmore are unsuitable for
wheelchair-users. For information about access, please telephone 020 7766 7324. Frogmore House and Garden
18, 19, 20 May 10:00—17:30 (last admission<准进入> 16:00) 28, 29, 30 August 10:00—17:30 (last admission 16:00) Please telephone 020 7766 7305 for admission prices. Summer Opening for Pre-booked Coach Groups
3 August—30 September every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10:00—15:00.
Adult: ￡ 10.50 Over 60/Student (with valid ID): ￡ 8.80 Child (under 17): ￡ 5.80 Child (under 5): Free Price includes a guided tour of the house. Private Evening Tours
17:30—19:00. ￡ 25.00 per person. Price includes a guided tour, a copy of the official guidebook and a glass of champagne（香槟酒）.
The minimum（最小的） group size for all visits is 10 people.
Please note that there is no access for private cars. To make a group booking, please telephone 020 7766 7315.
For more information including BSL (British Sign Language) interpretation, please telephone 020 7766 7326.
1. When can you enjoy a visit to Frogmore House and Garden? 英语试卷 第１页（共8页） A. At 9:00 on 19 May. B. At 18:00 on 20 May. C. At 13:00 on 28 August. D. At 17:30 on 31 August.
2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A. A person in wheelchair can easily get access to all parts of Frogmore. B. Price for Private Evening Tours includes a guided tour. C. A child of six years old can get free admission.
D. You are permitted to go through the entrance in your car.
3. If a visitor to Frogmore knows little about English Sign Language, he or she can dial ＿ for help.
A. 020 7766 7324 B. 020 7766 7305 C. 020 7766 7315 D. 020 7766 7326
B
A typical school day in the UK starts around 8：30 am. This is often even earlier elsewhere in the world，with students sitting down to their first lesson at 7：30 am in the US. The average teenager ideally needs eight to nine hours’ sleep each night，but in reality a lot of teenagers struggle to get this much. A lot of problems arise because our sleep patterns are not fixed，and they change as we grow.
So a later school start time could help to solve this problem，by ensuring teenagers to get their eight plus hours of sleep and react properly to their body’s natural rhythms. There has been a general shift over the past 25 years to shorten the school day. This is not at the cost of teaching time (which has remained constant) but at the cost of natural breaks，which has led to reduced lunch time and lesson breaks.
Later start times could help teens’ grades and health. This is mainly because it makes the management of children easier. Supervising(监管) hundreds of children
“playing” requires effective staffing. And there is always the fear that behavior worsens during breaks. So the theory goes that having them in class and strictly supervised must be better.
But this means that students barely have enough time to absorb what they were doing in maths before suddenly they are thrust into ancient history. And teaching staff also transit from one class to another，with hardly a rest or time to refocus.
Clearly rethinking the school day could benefit everyone involved. Anyway，it could also lead to better achievement in teenagers and less of a struggle for parents in the mornings. For teachers，it could also mean a less stressful day all around—and what could be better than that?
4．How do schools often shorten the school day?
A．They increase more holidays. B．They reduce the teaching time.
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C．They properly adjust children’s natural rhythms. D．They reduce children’s lunch time and lesson breaks.
5．What’s the purpose of the children’s short lesson breaks according to the text? A．To reduce children’s excitement.
B．To make children quickly take in what they learned. C．To supervise children more easily. D．To make children behave better in class.
6．What can we learn about later school start time from the text?
A．It will add to the teachers’ pressure. B．It has always been there for 25 years.
C．It benefits the students only. D．Parents may support it. 7．What can be the best title for the text?
A．The Benefits of a Less Stressful Day B．How to Solve Teenagers’ Sleep Problem C．The Benefits of Later School Start Time D．The Reasons Why Teenagers Sleep Differently
C
As a child, I was generally happy, singing and dancing to my favorite songs, smiling and laughing with my friends and family. But as far back as second grade, I noticed a “darkness” about me. I didn’t enjoy participating in many things.
In middle school things in my life began to get even worse. I began withdrawing from everything I once enjoyed. I was always tired. Everything was horrible. Finally, midway through eighth grade, I was told I had a chemical imbalance, diagnosed (诊断) with clinical depression, and had to take medicine. It took months for me to feel the effects of the medicine.
When I began to feel happy again is when I realized that I had to take the responsibility for getting better myself, rather than relying on medicine. Aristotle said, “To live happily is an inward power of the soul,” and I believe that this quote describes what I had to do to achieve happiness. Happiness is a journey. Everyone seems to need different things to be happy.
“The essentials (要素) to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for,” a quote from William Blake sums up what I believe people need to realize to be truly happy in life. People need love; I feel they need their family and their friends more than anything else in the world. People need work to do, something to make them feel they are making a
difference in the world. People need to know that more good is to come in the future, so they continue to live for “now” instead of constantly worrying about the bad that could come. Love and hope are happiness.
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8. From Para. 2 we know that the author . A. was found clinical depression in Grade Seven B. spent months recovering from the clinical depression C. hated going to sleep as he couldn't sleep well D. suffered a great deal from clinical depression 9. Who helped the author to be happy again?
A. The author's friends. B. Aristotle.
C. The author himself. D. The author's friends.
10. Which of the following about being truly happy is unnecessary in the author's opinion?
A. Love. B. Ambition. C. Hope. D. Work. 11. What may be the best title for the text?
A. Happiness Is Love B. The Essentials to Happiness C. Everyone Needs to Be Happy D. Ways to Overcome Shortcomings
D
Neil Jordan, a conservation biologist, has come up with a novel method for protecting cattle from African lions: paint eyes on their behinds. The lions will think their intended prey（猎物）has seen them and will give up, since they've lost the element of surprise.
This psychological trickery has been called \strange as it sounds. The eye-like patterns on butterfly wings are known to prevent preying birds and woodcutters in Indian forests wear masks on the backs of their heads when working to discourage hungry tigers.
The inspiration for the iCow strategy came while Jordan was based in a village in Botswana, when two lionesses were killed by local farmers to revenge their cattle's death. The African lion is a vulnerable species, with numbers dropping from over 100,000 in the 1990s to about 30,000 today. Much of that decline is due to these kinds of revengeful killings because farmers have no effective strategies for protecting their herds.
\and carefully to their prey, get close, and jump on them unseen,\he said. When Jordan was watching a lion follow an antelope one day, he noticed the lion gave up the hunt once the antelope spotted it.
So he joined one of the local farmers on a 10-week trial study, painting eyes on one-third of a herd of 62 cattle. When the cattle returned each night, they took a head count to see how many had survived. Only three cows were killed by lions during this period-all without the painted eyes on their behinds. And all the painted cows survived. However, Jordan warned that so far this is just a
辽宁省大连渤海高级中学2018-2019学年高二英语下学期期中试题
