【月考试卷】四川省成都外国语高级中学2017-2018学年高二10月月考英语试卷Word版含答案

成都外国语学校2017---2018学年度上期10月考试

高二英语试卷

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African Safari

Essential information you need to know before booking your African Safari in Southern Africa – These tips will enhance the experience that you have.

Things to Consider Before Booking an African Safari

1) Book in Advance

African Safaris are now hugely popular and good safari camps often get booked out more than a year in advance, especially during the high season from July through to October.

2) Choosing which game park

Different parks have different topography and weather patterns – this greatly affects animal movements at different times of the year. If you want to target certain species of animals, then some parks are better than others for certain species.

3）Choosing which lodge or safari camp

A typical safari camp has between 10 and 20 beds, it is an intimate safari experience and very personalized. However, there are also hotels in some places, either inside or just outside a national park, which can sleep anything up to 300 people.

4）Guiding

The quality, experience and knowledge of the game at any Safari camp is almost the most important factor to consider. Good guides can transform your experience from ordinary to exceptional.

5）What’s the Best Time of Year to go on Safari

Understandably as the seasons change so does the safari experience. It is highly advisable to find out the best time of year for the safari area that you are intending to visit. Prices will change

dramatically between the high and the low season, so good deals are to be had in the low season but it is important to know the difference, as your experience will be vastly different.

6）The Price

Going on safari is not cheap whichever way you do it, but the price range can be enormous. Unfortunately, safaris in most cases are a case of “you pay for what you get”.

7）Fly-in safari or not

Using small charter planes is sometimes an absolute necessity for camps in remote areas, where road transfers are just not practical or viable. These flights can increase the overall cost of the safari substantially but generally they are worth it and allow you the flexibility to visit a variety of safari camps in different locations.

8）Use an Agent

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1. Which is a determining factor in choosing a Safari camp?

A. Means of transport.

B. Weather patterns.

C. Game guides.

D. Accommodation.

2.Which of the following is FALSE about African Safari?

A. The more money you pay, the better experience you’ll get.

B. You can have a good price but same experience if you travel in low season.

C. If you visit different camps in remote areas, flights may be unavoidable.

D. All the parks don’t have the same species of animals.

B

How many things can you see in the night sky? A lot! On a clear night you might see the Moon, some planets, and thousands of sparkling stars.

You can see even more with a telescope. You might see stars where before you only saw dark space. You might see that many stars look larger than others. You might see that some stars that look white are really red or blue. With bigger and bigger telescopes you can see more and more objects in the sky. And you can see those objects in more and more detail.

But scientists believe there are some things in the sky that we will never see. We won’t see them with the biggest telescope in the world, on the clearest night of the year.

That’s because they’re invisible. They’re the mysterious dead stars called black holes.

You might find it hard to imagine that stars die. After all, our Sun is a star. Year after year we see it up in the sky, burning brightly, giving us heat and light. The Sun certa inly doesn’t seem to be getting old or weak. But stars do burn out and die after billions of years.

As a star’s gases burn, they give off light and heat. But when the gas runs out, the star stops burning and begins to die.

As the star cools, the outer layers of the star pull in toward the center. The star squashes into a smaller and smaller ball. If the star was very small, the star ends up as a cold, dark ball called a black dwarf. If the star was very big, it keeps squashing inward until it’s packed toget her tighter than anything in the universe.

Imagine if the Earth were crushed until it was the size of a tiny marble. That’s how tightly

this dead star, a black hole, is packed. What pulls the star in toward its center with such power? It’s the same force t hat pulls you down when you jump – the force called gravity. A black hole is so tightly packed that its gravity sucks in everything – even light. The light from a black hole can never come back to your eyes. That’s why you see nothing but blackness.

So the next time you stare up at the night sky, remember: there’s more in the sky than meets the eye! Scattered in the silent darkness are black holes – the great mystery of space.

3. According to the article, what causes a star to die?

A. As it gets hotter and hotter, it explodes.

B. It collides with other stars.

C. It can only live for about a million years.

D. As its gases run out, it cools down.

4. Which of the following statements is NOT a fact?

A. Black holes are dead stars.

B. There is nothing as mysterious as a black hole.

C. Black holes are invisible.

D. Black holes have gravity.

5.Which of the following is NOT a feature of a black dwarf?

A. It is usually bigger than a white dwarf.

B. It is dark.

C. It is smaller in size than a common star.

D. It is cold.

6. Why can’t you see light when you look at a black hole?

A. For most black holes are so far away.

B. As the star’s gases burn, it stops giving off heat and light.

C. As a star cools, its outer layers pull in toward its center.

D. The gravity of a black hole is so strong that it sucks the light inward.

C

In life, we will succeed and fail often for reasons that are entirely out of our control. For instance, we can be incredibly nice and love someone deeply, and they may not love us back. We can work harder than anyone else in the office and still not be promoted to management. We can eat healthy food, exercise and stay away from alcohol and cigarettes, and still get sick.

The bottom line is that life is not fair.

That is a tough pill to swallow for many of us. As a result, some people shut down after being hit by even one unfair blow from life. They can’t handle the fact that our efforts don’t always get the results that we expect. But if we let life’s unfairness defeat us, we will never receive the beautiful blessings (幸事) that life has in store for us.

For example, my first marriage ended in divorce. To me, it felt very unfair. I had worked hard to be a good wife and mother. However, no matter what I did, I could not make the relationship work.

I could have been shut down by that experience. I could have decided that if one person didn’t appreciate me as a wife, then no one would. I could have given up. But I knew that I wanted to be married. I knew that I wanted to ex perience traditional family life. So I didn’t let one seemingly unfair experience stop me from believing that I could one day be happily married. And then one day, I met this kind, thoughtful, generous man with whom I now have a wonderful friendship and ma rriage. But that wouldn’t have happened if I had decided to give up after one failed marriage.

What I’ve learned over the years is that we can do all the things that deserve a good outcome, but get bad things in return instead.

When we are faced with lif e’s seeming unfairness, our faith needs to jump in. When life

doesn’t go according to plan, we have to let go of the outcome that we are looking forward to and keep trying, working hard and doing the right thing. Please don’t be discouraged. Accept that li fe is neither fair nor straightforward. And by knowing that if we remain confident, we can drive our unfair experiences away and use them for our benefit.

7. We can learn from the first three paragraphs that ______.

A. life doesn’t often turn out the way we expect

B. the author thinks life should reward us for our efforts

C. unsatisfactory results simply mean your effort is not enough

D. people should focus on the process rather than the outcomes

8. The author wrote about her unsuccessful marriage to ______.

A. complain about the unfairness of her life and marriage

B. tell readers how she met her second husband and became happily married

C. express how proud she is for not being shut down by a blow from life

D. show that we need to have faith and continue working for our goals

9. When we encounter unfairness in life, the author suggests we ______.

a. do nothing but accept them

b. be confident with ourselves

c. keep doing what we should do

d. find out what has gone wrong

A. ab

B. ad

C. bc

D. cd

10. The author wrote the article mainly to ______.

A. share her experiences of unfairness in life

B. tell us how to deal with life’s seeming unfairness

C. tell us that life has beautiful blessings in store for us

D. explain why life seems neither fair nor straightforward

D

Americans are not famous for self-deprivation(剥夺), but experts say we consistently fail to get a good night's sleep. The recommended daily requirements should sound familiar: eight hours of sleep a night for adults and at least an hour more for adolescents. Yet 71 % of American adults and 85% of teen s do not get the suggested amount. “Sleep is sort of like food.”says Robert Stickgold, a cognitive (认知的）neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School But, he adds，there's one important difference: “You can be quite starved and still alive, and I think we appre ciate how horrible that must be. But many of u s live on the edge of sleep starvation and just accept it”

Part of the problem is that we are so used to being sleep deprived and coping with that condition that we no longer notice how exhausted we really are. In 2003, sleep expert David Dinges at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine tested the effects of restricting sleep to eight, six, or four hours a night for two weeks. During the first few days, subjects sleeping less than eight hours admitted to being tired and lacking alertness. But by Day 4, most people had adapted to their new baseline sleepiness and reported feeling fine—even as their cognitive performance continued to decline- Over time, they became so exhausted that they had difficulty concentrating on even the simplest tasks. “The human brai n works only capable of about sixteen hours of wakefulness a day，” says Dinges. “When you get beyond that, it can't function as efficiently accurately or well.”

In the real worlds people overcome their sleepiness by drinking coffee or taking a walk. But then they find themselves nodding off in meetings or worse, behind the wheel, Those short snatches of unconsciousness are what researchers call microsleep, a sure sign of sleep deprivation, “If people are falling asleep because ‘the office was hot' or ‘the meeting was boring, 'that's not coping with sleep loss. I would argue that they're affecting their productive capability, says Dinges.

What most people don't realize is that the purpose of sleep may be more to rest the mind than to rest the body. Sleep helps strengthen memory, improve judgment, promote learning and concentration, boost mood, speed reaction time and sharpen problem solving and accuracy. According to Sonia Ancoli-Israel, a psychologist at the University of California who’s done extensive studies in the aging population, lack of sleep may even resemble the symptoms of dementia (痴呆). In recent findings, she was able to improve cognitive function in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's simply by treating their sleep disorder. “The need for sleep does not change a lot with age,” says Ancoli-Israel, but often because of illness es and the medications, “the ability to sleep does.”

If you lack sleep, there’s plenty you can do to pay back your sleep debt. For starters，take your mom's advice, and get to bed early. If you can’t manage to sleep longer at night, try to squeeze in a midday nap. Timothy Roehrs, director of research at the sleep Disorders and Research Center at Henry Ford Hospital advises against oversleeping on weekend mornings to make up for a workweek of deprivation; later rising can make it even harder later to get a full night s rest.

According to Dinges, the most common reason we deprive ourselves of sleep is work. But consider that in giving up two hours of bedtime to do more work, you are losing a quarter of your recommended nightly sleep and gaining just 12% more time during the day. What if you could be 12% more productive instead? If mental sharpness is your goal, the answer is clear: stop depriving yourself, and get a good night's sleep.

11. We can learn from Dinges' experiment that .

A. people tend to ignore the decline in mental sharpness

B. people get easily used to lack of sleep in less than 4 days

C. sleeping less than 8 hours won't cause physical discomfort

D. people can keep themselves awake for only sixteen hours

12. In Paragraph 3, the author shows that a person who is sleep deprived .

A. remains productive by drinking coffee or taking a walk

B. fails to cope with sleep loss through nodding off

C. engages in microsleep to maintain productivity

D. fells asleep due to the high temperature and boredom

13. According to psychologist Sonia Ancoli-Israel, .

A. the elderly don't need as much sleep as they used to

B. the ability to sleep is not affected by medications

C. sleep deprivation may look like the symptoms of dementia

D. people wi th Alzheimer’s cannot be treated for sleep disorders

14. What's the author's attitude to people’s acceptance of sleep deprivation?

A. Supportive.

B. Ambiguous

C. Cautious

D. Worried

15. What is the author’s purpose in writing this article?