河南省汝州市实验中学2018_2019学年高二英语上学期期末模拟试题2.docx

汝州市实验中学2018-2019年高二上期末模拟试题英语试卷第卷（共70分）第一部分 阅读理解(共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分)第一节 阅读下面四篇文章，然后从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出每个问题的最佳选项，并将答题卡上相应题目的答案标号涂黑（本节共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）ADear Interested Pre-Applicant,On January 4,2017,The Housing Authority of Cook County (HACC) will begin accepting pre-applications for one (1) bedroom standard and (1) bedroom Uniform Federal Accessibility Standard units (UFAS) at the following Affordable Housing Community.North Suburban Housing215 W.Miner in Arlington Heights,IL & 9238 Gross Point Road in Skokie,ILNote:Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards unitsThese apartments are all one bedroom,one bathroom units that include accessible features such as lower cabinets in the kitchen as well as grab bars and a shower seat in the bathroom.These units also have wider doorways for easier access for wheelchairs and walkers and accessible controls for heating and air conditioning as well as the shower set at a height that is easier for a wheelchair user to reach.To qualify for the wait list opening:The head of household or co-head/spouse must be eligible for one of following preferences:a person 62 years of age or older OR a person 18 years of age or older with a disability;The annual income for a one-person household cannot exceed(超过) $32,340 and the annual income for a two-person household cannot exceed $36,960;Household will be required to pay rent equal up to 30% of their annual income.Please note that the HACC will only accept the first 300 completed pre-applications.Beginning January 4,2017,Wait List Pre-Applications will be available at the following locations during noted business hours:HACC Wait List & Leasing Department175 West Jackson Blvd.Suite 350 Chicago,IL 60604,Fax(312) 542-4752North Suburban Housing Offices:215 W.Miner In Arlington Heights,IL 60005 OR9238 Gross Point Road in Skokie,IL 60077Business Hours For All Offices:Monday to Friday,8:30 am to 4:30 pm,Closed WednesdaysImportantIf you or anyone in your household is a person with a disability and requires a specific accommodation or seeks assistance with the completion of the pre-application,please contact the housing authority via any of the methods listed above,or call (312) 542-4786.Please contact our office with any further questions at (312) 542-4788.Sincerely,Wait List and Leasing Department21.What does the underlined word “eligible” probably mean?A.Qualified. B.Affordable. C.Responsible. D.Prepared.22.According to the letter,you cant apply for the housing if .A.you are over 62 years old B.you earn less than $32,340 a yearC.you are under 18 years old D.you are a disabled middle-aged man23.If you have any further questions about the pre-application,you can .A.write to HACC B.call (312) 542-4788C.Fax (312) 542-4752 D.visit HACC personally24.What can we learn from the letter?A.The HACC will accept all the pre-applications.B.The pre-application must be completed by yourself.C.Wait List Pre-Applications will be available at any time.D.The apartments have special designs for disabled people.BAt your next meeting, wait for a pause in conversation and try to measure how long it lasts.Among English speakers, chances are that it will be a second or two at most. But while this pattern may be universal, our awareness of silence differs dramatically across cultures.What one culture considers a confusing or awkward pause may be seen by others as a valuable moment of reflection and sign of respect for what the last speaker has said. Research in Dutch and also in English found that when a silence in conversation stretches to four seconds, people start to feel uneasy. In contrast, a separate study of business meetings found that Japanese people are happy with silences of 8.2 seconds nearly twice as long as in Americans meetings. In Japan, it is recognized that the best communication is when you dont speak at all. Its already a failure to understand each other by speaking because youre repairing that failure by using words. In the US, it may originate from the history of colonial (殖民地) America as a crossroads of many different races. When you have a complex of difference, its hard to establish common understanding unless you talk and theres understandably a kind of anxiety unless people are verbally engaged to establish a common life. This applies also to some extent to London. In contrast, when theres more homogeneity, perhaps its easier for some kinds of silence to appear. For example, among your closest friends and family its easier to sit in silence than with people youre less well acquainted with.25. Which of the following people might have the longest silence in conversation? A. The Dutch. B. Americans. C. The English. D. The Japanese.26. What might the Japanese agree with in a conversation? A. Speaking more gives the upper hand. B. Speak out what you have in your mind. C. Great minds think alike without words. D. The shorter talking silence, the better.27. What can we learn from the text? A. A four second silence in conversation is universal. B. Its hard for Americans to reach a common agreement. C. English speakers are more talkative than Japanese speakers. D. The closer we and our family are, the easier the silence appears.28. What does the underlined word “homogeneity” in the last paragraph mean? A. similarity. B. contradiction. C. diversity. D. misunderstanding.CAfter successfully banning plastic bags, officials around the world are turning their attention to something we use for only a few minutes and dispose of without a second thought plastic straws. According to , over 500 million plastic straws, enough to fill 127 school buses, are used just in the US each day! Too small to recycle, they choke sea creatures, pollute the sea and even enter our food chain through fish. Now, thanks to social media campaigns, the urgency to ban plastic straws is finally gaining enough attention.In February 2018, Queen Elizabeth II announced that plastic straws are banned in all royal estates including cafes and gifts shops. The royal house also decided to reduce the usage of single-use plastics such as cups, plates, and so on. UK airports followed shortly after, and, in mid-April, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced a ban on all single-use plastics, including straws, and urged other Commonwealth countries to do the same.More recently, on May 17, Vancouver became the first major Canadian city to impose a straw ban in restaurants. Scotland also plans to be rid of plastic straws by 2019. In the US, the officials of Miami, Seattle, Davis, San Louis Obispo, and Malibu are imposing similar measures by banning the use of plastic straws in restaurants and cafes.Many companies are also joining the fight to get rid of plastic waste. Starting this month, all 1,300 US locations of McDonalds have switched to paper straws and will only provide them to customers upon request. San Francisco-based Pizza Express, which is moving to recyclable straws by summer 2018, was encouraged to make the change after receiving a letter from a five-year-old customer requesting them to stop using plastic ones.Just as Diana Lofflin, founder of StrawF, puts it, “Giving up plastic straws is a small step and an easy thing for people to get started on. From there, we can move on to larger projects.”29.What does the underlined word “dispose of” probably mean?A.make use ofB. throw awayC. hand inD. put out30.What draw peoples attention to the urgency to ban plastic straws?A.Dead sea creatures B. Social media campaigns B.Millions of plastic straws D. Officials around the world31.Who announced the plastic straw ban first according to the passage?A.Queen Elizabeth II. B. Spokesmen of UK airports.B.British Prime Minister.D. Officials of Vancouver.32.What can we know from Diana Lofflins words?A.We should focus on larger projects now.B.We should stop using all plastic products now.C.It is meaningful for us to stop using plastic straws.D. It is quite difficult for us to stop using plastic straws.DShopping for and choosing clothes is challenging enough. But imagine if you were unable to use your arms to do anything, or used a wheelchair.The conditions are reality for four people who became the “customers” of 15 students at Parsons School of Design at the New School this year. The students spent their spring term creating clothing to fit their customers unique requirements as part of a class run by Open Style Lab, a nonprofit organization whose aim is to design functional and fashionable clothing for people with disabilities.“Disability overlaps (关联、一致) with aging and universal design,” said Grace Jun, the director of the program. “We need to see it as part of our life cycle. Its something that we need to not only see from a human rights standpoint but also for its economic value.”“Im always looking at me being the problem and the clothing as being OK,” said Kieran Kern, who gets around in a wheelchair. When Ms. Kern approached Open Style Lab, she was looking for a coat that would be easy to put on with the limitations of a weaker body. Her team came up with a design with a circular rod (杆) that runs through the collar and allows Ms. Kern to swing the coat across her back with one hand.“The idea of having a coat that sees the parts that make me as just parts and not as a problem that I need to solve was really liberating in an identity sense,” Ms. Kern said. “Because generally, when you have a different body, you dont really see yourself.”“I think the challenges the students faced throughout the course had a lot to do with the exchange of ideas,” Ms. Jun said. “They were able to understand that no two people with a disability are alike. Being able to design uniquely means you have to have a collaborative (合作) process. Were designing with each other, not for.”33. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A. aging. B. disability. C. design. D. The program.34. What did the students find challenging according to Ms. Jun?A. Creativity in fashion design. B. Interpersonal communication.C. Making clothing part of a wearer.D. Meeting the needs of the disabled.35. What would be the best title for the text?A. Open Style Lab B. A new fashion industryC. Disability is no longer a problem D. Designs that do more than meet the eye第二节 任务型阅读 根据短文内容，从下面7个选项中选出5个填入空白处，并在机读卡上将正确答案的标号涂黑。（共5题，每小题2分，满分10分）Spreading smiles at BirchwoodWhen Ava McCarver was in kindergarten, her class visited a nursing home (疗养院). Ava learned that many of the residents (住户) there receive few visitors. 36 “I asked my mom if I could visit them,” she says. Soon, Ava and her mom became volunteers at Birchwood Health Care Center.That was six years ago. 37 She enjoys hanging out with Mary, Shirley and other residents during her twice-monthly visits. “I paint their nails, and I talk to a lot of them,” she says. Sometimes she helps lead craft (手工艺) projects. Other times they play card games. “Its good for the residents to see little kids,” Ava says. “That makes them really happy.” 38 She has raised money for the nursing home by making refrigerator decorations and selling them at a craft fair. She has also collected used puzzles from garage sales and donated them to Birchwood.Ava wrote a book called The Squirrel Family. In the book, two squirrels raise a family and eventually move into a place called Birchwood where they live happily. 39 Ten stores in her city agreed to display the books, along with a can to collect money. Avas project raised about $750. Birchwood used that money to buy furniture for the residents.Ava says she enjoyed the look of “pure joy” on a residents face after a hug from her. Thats why she started visiting Birchwood to bring happiness to others. 40 “Its really fun,” she says. “They have good stories, and I enjoy my time there.”A. She decided to take action.B. But she has gained happiness for herself, too.C. Since then, Ava has made many friends at Birchwood.D. Ava used her book to raise money for the nursing home.E. Birchwood needs more volunteers for its craft project.F. Ava has found some creative ways to help her friends at Birchwood.G. Avas book has achieved a great success and earned a large amount of money for her.第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I am a worrier. I worry from the moment I wake to the moment I sleep.Around a year ago, I found my worries 41 me clown and down. I needed a way to reduce my 42 and make them disappear. Then a brilliant idea occurred to me. Instead of worrying about whatever 43 itself to my consciousness at any given moment, and unless I had a 44 and urgent worry to deal with, Id 45 myself to worrying about imaginary things. This new system 46 me quite well for a while 47 the day last month when the captain of the plane I was travelling on failed in his landing 48 at Shannon Airport, because there was a problem with the landing gear（起落架）. We 49 for a while. Then the captain announced the issue still couldnt be solved and that the crew would take us through the 50 for an emergency landing.Suddenly my mothers voice was in my head: In the 51 of an emergency, put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye. I laughed silently at my mothers joke and I wondered why I wasnt 52 .I suddenly realized I was experiencing a complete and total absence of worry, as there was absolutely nothing I could do to 53 the problem with the plane.As the runway rose to meet our planes 54 underbelly（下腹部）and the firefighters 55 to meet us, I felt a strange and beautiful 56 . And as the plane landed perfectly-because, as it 57 ,the problem was with a sensor and not with the landing gear- and people 58 and hugged one another, I realized I wasnt a 59 at all. The absence of worry I had just experienced was 60 an absence of any possibility of control. So Im a control freak, wanting to control everything. And now Im terribly worried about that.41. A. took B. dragged C. put D. calmed42. A. joys B. hop C. sorrows D. fears43. A. presented B. recommended C. contributed D. committed44. A. secret B. constant C. abstract D. specific45. A. expose B. reduce C. restrict D. attach46. A. served B. treated C. inspired D. instructed47. A. since B. after C. until D. before48. A. test B. attempt C. rescue D. adventure49. A, taxied B. dived C. swung D. circled50. A. requirement B. procedure C. preparation D. arrangement51. A. gesture B. event C. memory D. light52. A. thrilled B. amazed C. terrified D. discouraged53. A. identify B. change C. accept D. explore54. A. sick B. serious C. soft D. flat55. A. fled B. marched C. raced D. approached56. A. excitement B. nervousness C. calmness D. astonishment57. A. ruled out B. brought out C made out D. turned out58. A. cheered B. responded C. wept D. complained59. A. fighter B. worrier C. loser D. commander60. A. naturally B. strangely C. relatively D. actually第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入适当的词(1-2个)或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。Many people agree that going to a museum is a good way of learning about ancient treasures. However, others may find 61 boring to spend hours there. 62 , how to make museums and their lifeless collections more appealing is a tough question worth 63 (attach)importance to. Luckily, National Treasure, a TV program which began to air on Dec. 3, 2017, sheds light on ways to inspire interest in museums and their collections.Aiming to make ancient relics(遗迹)to come 64 (live), the program presents treasures 65 different artistic methods including dramatic performances and storytelling, 66 fully explain the history behind each cultural relic, so that audiences can not only understand how to appreciate the beauty of cultural relics 67 also know the civilization and the spirit of Chinese culture. In fact, such programs that promote traditional ancient relics 68 (become) popular in recent years. For example, a 2016 documentary featuring the Forbidden Citys cultural relics