高二上学期英语期中考试试卷第52套真题

高二上学期英语期中考试试卷一、阅读理解1. 阅读理解Here is a list of some of the best museums for children in America.Please Touch Children’s MuseumThis museum lies in Philadelphia. It offers Alice in Wonderland exhibits where young children can play with giant flowers and have tea parties. Kids can also play on musical instruments and babies can crawl on lily pads, which make musical sounds.The Children’s Museum of IndianapolisThis museum lies in Indiana. It holds a fair share of dinosaur fossils . There are many fossils like the T. Rex, Bucky and many others in an 8,000-square-foot area. Around 10,000 man-made objects, including a 55-ton steam engine and a 33-foot tall water clock, are there in the 365,000-square-foot area. It also offers activities like dinosaur building, camps and classes featuring space themes and other educational programs.Boston Children’s MuseumThis museum lies in Massachusetts. The exhibits here are of health, art, science, culture and environment. In this museum, children also learn about Japanese culture. Activities like Play Lab, New Balance Climb and The Recycle Shop bring out the creativity in children.National Museum of PlayThis museum, which lies in Rochester area of New York, has a wide collection of dolls, games, toys and other home crafts dating back to the 19th century. Here, educational tours include stories of machines and other toys. Kids can walk in Sesame Street exhibit and cook food at play or TV studios.Children’s Museum of HoustonThis museum lies in Texas. Termed as the best playground for mind, this museum offers scores of activities for kids of every age. It even offers free family adventure events where families with their kids are encouraged to work on math activities and games. Children also learn about broadcasting activities and preserving ecosystems.（1）One who has interest in environmental protection can choose to visit .A . National Museum of Play or Children’s Museum of HoustonB . Boston Children’s Museum or Children’s Museum of HoustonC . Please Touch Child ren’s Museum or Boston Children’s MuseumD . The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis or National Museum of Play（2）While visiting National Museum of Play, you can take part in .A . dinosaur buildingB . New Balance ClimbC . playing with giant flowersD . cooking food at play or TV studios（3）Who might be most interested in this passage?A . ParentsB . StudentsC . TeachersD . Researchers2. 阅读理解I think it was October, 1982. A friend had business dealings in the city ofReno, Nevada, and I was asked to accompany her on an overnight trip. While she conducted her business, I was aimlessly wandering down Virginia Street，heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had an urge to speak to someone on the street to share that beauty, but I couldn’t make eye cont act with anyone. Quickly I slid into a department store and asked the lady behind the counter if she could come outside for just a minute. She 1ooked at me as though I were from some other planet and said, “Well…” Surprisingly, she followed me out.When s he got outside I said to her, “Just look at that sunset! Nobody out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone.”For a few seconds we just 1ooked. Then I said, “God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world.” I thanked her for com ing out to see it and sharing the beauty.Four years later my situation had changed considerably. I had come to the end of a twenty-year marriage. I was alone and on my own for the first time in my life. One day, while my clothes were going around, I picked up a Unity Magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in similar circumstances. She had come to the end of a marriage, moved to a strange community, and the only job she could find was one she disliked: cosmetic sales in a department store. We had a lot in common.Then something happened to her that changed everything. She said a woman came into her department store and asked her to step outside to look at a sunset. The stranger had said, “God’s in his heaven and all’s right withthe world.”, and she had realized the truth in that statement and that she simply had not been seeing it. From that moment on, she turned her life around.（1）Why did the writer slid into a department store?A . She found it was boring with nobody talking to her.B . She wanted to buy something for her friend.C . She wanted to find somebody sharing the beautiful sunset.D . She thought it was her responsibility to share the natural beauty with others.（2）What does the sentence “God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world” mean?A . We should be optimistic in the face of uncertainty.B . We should believe in God who can help us when we are in trouble.C . We should never hold the belief that God can change our life.D . We should be independent and enjoy ourselves in spite of difficulties.（3）What do you think finally changed the writer’s attitude towards life?A . The old magazine she came across.B . The encouragement from the woman.C . The sunset they enjoyed four years ago.D . The woman’s story.（4）What may be the best title for the text?A . Depending on yourselfB . Sharing beautyC . Struggling every dayD . Never giving up halfway3. 阅读理解One of India’s to p engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its boarding houses, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging wasaffecting students’ performance, making them lonely and even suicidal.Authorities at the best Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai said students had stopped socializing and many were late for morning classes or slept through them. “Now, a student doesn’t even know who lives two doors away from him because he is so busy on the Internet,” said Prakash Gopalan, dean of Studen t Affairs. “The old dormitory culture of companionship and socializing among students is gone. This is not healthy in our opinion.”IIT-Mumbai, with about 5,000 students, is one of the seven IITs across India which are considered to be among the finest engineering schools in the world. They are also a talent pool for global technology giants. But their hard courses, tough competition and lonely campus lifestyle have taken an effect on students. Depressive and dysfunctional lifestyles are known to be common among IIT students, and at least nine have committed suicide in the past five years. Students have unlimited free Internet access in their boarding houses to help them in their studies, but many also use it to surf, chat, download movies and music, blog and for gaming.“Starting Monday, Internet access will be banned between 11 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. at IIT-Mumbai’s 13 boarding buildings to encourage students to sleep early and to try and force them out of their shells.” Gopalan said. But the move has not gone down well with students who say they hate their lives being regulated. “Now they will say we need to listen to a lullaby to go to sleep.” said Rajiv, an electronics student.（1）According to the text, the students addicted to the Internet inIIT-Mumbai are likely to ______.A . perform well in studiesB . participate in social activitiesC . know their classmates betterD . feel lonely and even suicidal（2）The underlined word “dysfunctional” in Paragraph 3 most probably means “______”.A . unpopularB . meaningfulC . abnormalD . exciting（3）What measures have been taken in IIT-Mumbai?A . Students must go to bed before 11 p.m.B . Students are forbidden to surf the Internet on campus.C . Students have unlimited free Internet access in their dormitories.D . Internet access is unavailable in deep night in boarding buildings.（4）We may infer from the last paragraph that ______.A . all electronics students hate the banning orderB . some students complain about the banning orderC . there is no Internet access on the IIT campus ever sinceD . more students prefer listening to music to surfing the Internet4. 阅读理解Pigeons may only have a brain the size of a thimble , but it appears that pigeons can categorize and name objects in the same way human children learn new words.A new study from the University of Iowa has shown that the birds are capable of learning to categorize 128 different photographs into 16 basic categories.Scientists taught three pigeons to sort out different kinds of dogs or types of shoes, for example by using a particular symbol in exchange for a reward. When they were shown black and white pictures of previously unseen dogs or shoes, the birds were able to correctly match these with the corresponding symbols.The scientists behind the project say this is a similar approach taken by young children when they are first learning words for objects. However, the researchers said it took their birds around 40 days to perfect the task of learning just 16 categories.Professor Edward Wasserman, who led the work, said: “Our birds’ rate of learning appears to have been quite slow. Would children learn faster than pigeons? Almost certainly. However, our pigeons came to the experiment with no background knowledge at all. Thus, the more relevant comparison group may be newborn babies, who indeed take 6–9 months to learn their first words.”Writing in the journal Cognition, the researchers said their experiment was a very simple mirror of the way children are taught words —by their parents pointing to pictures and asking them to name the object.Pigeons are known to be smarter than many birds. Professor Bob McMurray, who also took part in the study, said the results showed that human learning is not as unique as was previously believed.He said: “Children ar e facing a huge task of learning thousands of words without a lot of background knowledge to go on. For a long time, peoplethought that such learning is special to humans. What this research shows is that the ways in which children solve this huge problem may be shared with many species.（1）What’s the main idea of this passage?A . Pigeons and young children take a similar approach to learn words.B . Pigeons are known to be smarter than newborn babies.C . Pigeons recognize objects in the same way children learn words.D . Pigeons are unique as they can learn like humans.（2）Why does the writer think newborn babies are the more relevant comparison group?A . They don’t have any background knowledge.B . They learn relatively slow.C . Pigeons and newborn babies learn at a similar speed.D . Young children are smarter.（3）From the passage, we can learn that .A . learning without background knowledge is unique to humansB . many species may be able to learn without background knowledgeC . pigeons are able to solve many huge problemsD . pigeons are known to be the smartest birds（4）The passage is intended to .A . introduce pigeonsB . prove a factC . support an opinionD . report a study二、任务型阅读5. 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。