高二英语
时间:100分钟 分数120分 范围:必修5和选修6第1第2模块
注意：选择题答案用2B铅笔填涂到答题卡上，非选择题答案用0.5MM碳素笔做在答题卡上，不得超出边框。 第一部分:听力（略）
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节,满分35分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分,满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中（A B C和D）中选出最佳选项。
A
A painting of a famous artist could cost several million dollars in the market. This is why many artworks —even those that are housed inside highly guarded museums—go missing. Here is a list of some of the most famous paintings that were lost, stolen or destroyed.
Vincent Van Gogh's Poppy Flowers
This artwork was housed at the Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo. It was first lost in 1977, but was recovered 10 years after. The second time this same Vincent Van Gogh painting was stolen was in August of 2010. The painting is estimated (估价) to be worth something between $50 and $55 million. Pablo Picasso's Le Pigeon Aux Petits
Stolen on May 20, 2010, this painting by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso is worth $28 million. It was stolen at the Museed' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, along with five other artworks. However the thieves threw the painting away in a trashcan when they were caught. But that container was emptied before the authorities got there. It was feared that the painting was already destroyed. Paul Cezanne's View of Auvers Sur Oise
Lost on December 31, 1990 this artwork that used to be on exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford was stolen the night before the city's Millennium celebration. The thieves planned the robbery in time with the fireworks exhibition during peak of the celebrations. This artwork is estimated to be worth $5 million.
Govert Flinck's Landscape with an Obelisk
Stolen on March 8, 1990 this artwork was at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston.
This painting by Govert Flinck was previously believed to be a Rembrandt creation. A huge cash reward of $5 million will be given to the person who can provide information leading to the recovery of the painting.
21.In which of the following cities was Le Pigeon AuxPetits stolen?
A. Cairo B. Paris C. Oxford D. Boston
22.Who was mistakenly thought to create Landscape with an Obelisk?
A. Pablo Picasso. B. Paul Cezanne C. Govert Flinck D. Rembrandt
23.What can we infer about the four artworks mentioned in the text?
A. They are given an approximate price. B. They are stolen when on exhibition. C. Some of them are lost nearly 30 years. D. Some of them have been found so far.
B
Alone in his studio, while a radio plays classical music, master violinmaker Bob Childs holds a flat piece of spruce (云杉木) in his hands and taps it with his finger. He listens. Tap! Tap! Tap! He listens again. It will take him some 200 hours to create a violin worthy of some of the greatest musicians in the world. But the wood must sound right to him—must sing to him —from the very start. \bell-like sound,\beginning.\
After spending a lot of time with this piece of wood, he will create a living instrument—one that will long outlive (比……活得久) any of its players. This masterpiece will go to someone in the world-famous Boston Symphony Orchestra, or New York Philharmonic, or perhaps a violinist in Germany or Scotland who's waited on his list for at least a year to get it. Childs has made 140 violins in 38 years.
In his tiny third-floor workshop in Cambridge, a city in Massachusetts, Childs sits at a small desk surrounded by tools of varying shapes and sizes, with the smell of freshly cut maple and spruce. Holding the beginnings of a violin that he will eventually sell for about $18,000 up to a window flooded with light, he carefully carves the wood.
It has taken years for Childs to develop his eye. He first started working in Maine for a self-taught violinmaker. He then worked with some of the top craftsmen (工匠) in the world before moving to Philadelphia; there he repaired the violins for Philadelphia Orchestra musicians and started to create ones with distinctive sounds and qualities. \orchestra members,\violins and Amati violins—all the great makers. I learned from the masters and was able to create my own brand.\
24.What is Childs doing in Paragraph 1?
A. Learning classical music. B. Repairing a really good violin. C. Selecting wood for a new violin. D. Appreciating a great musician's violin.
25.What can we infer about Childs from Paragraph 2?
A. His violins are in high demand. B. He makes violins very quickly. C. His violins are sold at low prices. D. He often plays in famous orchestras.
26.Where did Childs first begin to make violins in his own style?
A. In New York. B. In Philadelphia.
C. In a city in Maine. D. In a city in Massachusetts.
27.What is the purpose of the text?
A. To advertise some first-class violins. B. To introduce a great American violinmaker.
C. To describe the process of creating a violin. D. To show the secret behind the success of Bob Childs.
C
Movies are a great means of entertainment for many. There are some advantages of watching movies. Comedies, for example, help reduce your blood pressure. Laughter for 15 minutes during a film makes your blood vessels (血管) wider. Besides, when you watch a sad movie, you're more likely to come away from it thinking about loved ones and feeling happy about what you have.
Watching movies can make you creative. A study shows that young children, who watched the use of magic in Harry Potter, score significantly higher in a creative thinking test than children who watched something else.
Moreover, movies are very useful for strengthening people's mental health. They enable people to take time to really relax and temporarily forget about their daily concerns and problems.
However, watching movies aren't always beneficial. Studies have shown that some people get real pleasure out of being scared by horror movies, but in various ways they may be risking their physical and mental health without even knowing it. When you watch a tense scene in a movie, your heart rate and blood pressure increase. Meanwhile this change in your brain chemistry reminds you of times when you were in a similar state, even if you have no idea you even had those memories. So if something horrible happens to you, being scared again by a movie can unintentionally make you experience it once more.
Scientist, politicians and parents have debated for decades if being exposed to movie violence leads to actual real-life violence. Overall the answer to that is probably still up in the air, but a new study seems to prove that watching aggression on screen can contribute to being a bully in real life, even if it is just in the short term. In conclusion, certain movies play a positive role, but not all movies do. It depends completely on the subject of the movie. So it's always advisable to choose the movies concerning something positive.
28.How does watching sad movies benefit us according to the text?
A. It rids us of unhappy memories. B. It makes us content with our lives. C. It reduces our risk of illness. D. It develops our creativity.
29.What does the underlined part \
A. Meaningless B. Attractive C. Obvious D. Uncertain
30.What does the author advise us to do to reduce the passive effect of movies?
A. Make a wise choice of what to watch. B. Enjoy movies with more companions. C. Try our best to watch movies less often. D. Raise our ability to tell right from wrong.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项
Why We Still Need to Read Dickens
Walk into any bookstore，and you can hardly avoid bumping into Charles Dickens.Many of Dickens's works still sell well today. 31 As someone who teaches Dickens，the question of why we still read him is often on my mind. 32 One day nearly 10 years ago，however，when I was giving a lecture，I was telling the students that for Victorian readers，Dickenss writing was
a \33 \read this stuff?\，\teaches you how to think，\，and for years I told myself answers，but never with complete satisfaction.We read Dickens because he is not just a man of his own times，but also a man for our times.We read Dickens because we can learn from experiences of his characters almost as easily as we can learn from our own experiences. 34 But these are not exactly the reason why I read Dickens.My search for an answer continued until one day a text message came from a
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