第二学期期末考试 高二英语试卷
第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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Diary of a Do-it-Yourself Book
This book based on Greg Hefley's own \exciting way．In the book, kids will be asked: What was the best dream you have ever had? The worst thing you have ever eaten? The best secret you have ever heard? This Do-It-Yourself Book is unique and special because it has blank pages for readers to write their own stories and keep their own diaries．
Author: Jeff Kinney List Price: $10．95
Price: $6．57 Buy it on Amazon．com． You save: $4．38（40%） Train to Somewhere
Marianne, heading west with fourteen other children on a train, is sure her mother will show up at one of the stations along the way. Stop after stop goes by, and there is no sign of her mother in the crowds that come to look over the children. No one shows any interest in adopting shy Marianne, either. But that is all right. She has to he free for her mother to claim her. Then the train stopped at its final stop, a town called Somewhere...
Author: Eve Bunting List Price: $6．95
Price: $6．95 Buy it on Amazon．com． You save: $0．00（0%） Chinese Children's Favorite Stories
This volume of beloved Chinese stories contains a delightful selection from the store of Chinese legend. Discover many delightful animal characters as well as Change and Guan Yin. Retold for an international audience, the stories with beautiful pictures will give children aged six to ten in other countries a chance to learn about both the tradition and culture of China.
Author: Mingmei YipList Price:$18．95
Price: $12．89 Buy it on Amazon．com． You save: $6．06（32%） The Way Science Works
The perfect introduction to show how science explains the world around us! Eye-opening experiments and extraordinary photography bring science to life．Discover science in action from the principles that explain everyday facts to the theories behind the
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technology in today's fast-moving world. Full of facts about famous scientists, technology news and more．
Author: Robin Kerrod List Price: $24．99
Price: $16．49 Buy it on Amazon．com． You save: $8．50（34%） 1．Amazon．com gives no discount on .
A．Diary of a Do-It-Yourself Book B．The Way Science Works C．Chinese Children's Favorite Stories
D．Train to Somewhere
2．Chinese Children's Favorite Stories is written for____,
A．Chinese children aged 6 to 10 B．teenagers in other countries C．foreign children aged 6 to 10 D．junior students in other countries 3．Whose book would you like to read if you are interested in science and technology? A．Jeff Kinney's． B．Robin Kerrod's． C．Mingmei Yip's． D．Eve Bunting's．
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Geography once played a big role in how we chose our friends, but that is changing fast. In the past, it could be difficult to keep up a relationship with someone from the next town, not to mention someone from a different state or country. These days the Internet has made it easier than ever to meet friends online, whether those friends live right down the street or halfway around the world.
In fact，this ability to bring together different people from different walks of life is one of the great advantages of the Internet. If you have always wanted to meet friends online from around the world, all you need to do is log on and search. The process of meeting new friends online can be a fun new adventure, and many people have found a great number of friends from all over the world using the power of the Internet.
In many ways the ability to meet friends online is an extension (延伸) of the pen pals we used to have as kids. Back then we would wait patiently by the mailbox for those pen pal letters to arrive. And on the other side of the world, our special friends would anticipate the same kind of thing to happen. The Internet age has taken that pen pal age to a wholly new level, making it easier than ever to meet friends. With just a click of a mouse you can meet friends online from faraway lands, sharing stories and experiences or just spending some time chatting together.
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A number of websites have made it even easier to meet friends, and those with an interest in this can definitely check those websites out. These specialized websites allow people from around the world to quickly and easily meet friends online with just a click of a mouse.
4．According to the passage, with the help of the Internet, people now ________.
A．keep up a relationship with others more easily B．can do more adventures than they used to C．totally needn’t meet friends by writing letters D．can make more close friends than ever
5．What does the underlined word “anticipate” in the passage probably mean?
A．Expect.
B．Check. C．Accept. D．Worry.
6．The third paragraph mainly tells us ________.
A．it is difficult to find a pen pal B．pen pals have now been out of date C．to be a pen pal, you should be patient D．meeting friends online is faster than usual 7．We can learn from the passage that ________.
A．writing letters to pen pals is no longer popular B．meeting friends online is convenient and fast C．websites make people know each other better
D．there are many countries which we have never heard of
C
Born on September 24, 1896, F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary, “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary. ”
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This Side of Paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel The Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was his novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quickly brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
8. How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage? A. 5.
B. 6.
C. 7.
D. 8.
9. Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking. b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise. d. The Great Gatsby won high praise. e. He failed to reorder his life. f. He joined the army and met Zelda.
A. f－c－e－a－b－d B. b－e－a－f－c－d C. f－d－e－c－b－a D. b－f－c－d－e－a 10. We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald . A. had made some money when he net Zelda in Alabama B. was well educated and well off before he served
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C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital 11. What is this passage mainly about?
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life. B. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels. C. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife. D. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s contribution.
D
Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of 50. In fact, they say by the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were when they were 18 years old. The findings came from a survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of 18 and 85. The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress. Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of 24 and 25. The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
The study also showed that men and women have similar feeling patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.
Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their feelings. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.
The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not
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新疆2024学年高二英语下学期期末考试试题
