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2016-2017学年高二上期第二次月考英语学科试卷第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

AThis is not a diet. It's a simple way to lose weight. And you don't even have to give up the food you love or join a gym. You just follow some habits that thin people have. Keep them, and you'll become thin.A. Wake-upWhen you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, bend forward until you feel sore in your back. It will burn about 10 calories. B. Start with soupWhen you have a meal, order a clear soup, and have it before having the main food. In this way, you'll feel fuller, so you'll eat less when the main food comes.C. An apple (or more) a dayApples are full of fiber and water, so your stomach will want less. The study shows that people who eat at least three apples a day lose weight.D. Stand up and walk aroundEvery time you use the mobile phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit on average two and a half hours more each day than thin people. This skill is very important as standing up and walking around will burn 50 or more calories.Use these skills, and you will have a big weight loss.21. We should have soup first so that _______.A. it can help burn some caloriesB. our stomach will want lessC. it will provide us with enough waterD. we won't need any main food22. Which of the following may the writer NOT agree?A. You have to join a gym if you want to lose weight.B. Eating apples every day is good for people's health.C. It's good to walk around while talking on the mobile phone.D. Sitting upslowly without using your hands helps burn calories.23. In which part of a newspaper would you most probably read the passage?A. Art.B. Teaching.C. Health.D. Family.BMemory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really made a conscious（自觉的）effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.Memory “trick” work s the other way as well. Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber（理发师）shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office. We always seem to find something funny and amusing（有趣的）in incidents caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. Stories abou t absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. There are times when “trick” of our memory c an cause us great trouble.24. If you want to have a good memory, .A. you should force yourself to remember thingsB. you should try hard to remember thingsC. you should never stop learningD. you should make a conscious effort of practice and exercise25. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?A. Th e writer remembered unlocking the front door.B. One night the writer forgot having locked the front door.C. The writer remembered to lock the door.D. One night the writer forgot to lock the front door.26. From the sentence “We never get tired of hearing new ones”, we can infer that .A. absent-mindedness happens not only to professors but to many other peopleB. we don’t want to know anyt hing more about absent-mindedness of professorsC. we will never get tired of listening to new stories about absent-mindednessD. we enjoy hearing new stories about absent-mindedness of professors27. The best title f or this passage is .A. How to Get a Good MemoryB. “Tricks” Of MemoryC. Forgetfulness and Absent-mindedness is DangerousD. Get Rid of Absent-mindednessCThe loneliest chimp(黑猩猩) in the world just got the best surprise---a hug from a new friend. Ponso has been by himself for nearly three years, finding himself alone after his wife and children died on the island where they were abandoned by a medical testing company many years ago.For years a nearby villager named Germain has been Ponso’s only company, visiting him so often to bring bananas and bread---the chimp’s only source of food on the tiny island. It was clear how much Ponso missed companionship when he was recently visited by Chimpanzee Conservation Centre Director Estelle Raballand. The chimp immediately embraced Estelle Raballand in a huge hug and laughed as she reached out for him, with his smile from ear to ear.For those who know Ponso’s backstory, his immediate ease and trust in humans might be surprising. Ponso was one of 20 chimps, all between the ages of 7 to 11 years old, relocated to an island off the Ivory Coast after being used for testing. After the tests were completed in 2005, the lab reportedly transferred the chimps to a string of islands, occasionally dropping off food and water because there was none in the chimps’new homes.Disease and hunger soon left only Ponso, his mate and their two children standing. But at the end of 2013 they died within days and Ponso is now completely alone.A group called SOS PONSO is trying to raise money for the poor lonely chimp, already achieving its goal of $20,000 ----all of which will be used for Ponso’s care.28. What do we know about the chimp Ponso?A.He was deserted by his family.B.He found many sources of food.C.He came to the island for a test.D.He suffers from loneliness greatly.29. How did Ponso feel about the visit of Estelle Raballand?A.Excited.B. Frightened.C. Embarrassed.D. Confused.30. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?A.The chimps’ new settlements.B.How Ponso came to the island.C.Why Ponso was used for a test.D.The medical test about chimps.31. What can be inferred from the text?A.Germain won’t visit Ponso anymore.B.A new lab will be built on the island.C.Many people show concern for Ponso.D.More chimps will be brought to the island.DLife in the ClearTransparent animals let light pass through their bodies the same way light passes through a window. These animals typically live between the surface of the ocean and a depth of about 3,300 feet—as far as most light can reach. Most of them are extremely delicate and can be damaged by a simple touch. Sonke Johnsen, a scientist in biology, says, “The se animals live through their life alone. They never touch anything unless they’re eating it, or unless something is eating them.”And they are as clear as glass. How does an animal become see-through? It’s trickier than you might think.The objects around you are visible because they interact with light. Light typically travels in a straight line. But some materials slow and scatter(散射) light,tracks. Both scattering and absorption make an object look different from other objects around it, so you can see it easily.But a transparent object doesn’t absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, Light can pass through it without bending or stopping. That means a transparent object d oesn’t look very different from the surrounding air or water. You don’t see it—you see the things behind it.To become transparent, an animal needs to keep its body from absorbing or scattering light. Living materials can stop light because they contain pigments(色素) that absorb specific colors of light. But a transparent animal doesn’t have pigments, so its tissues won’t absorb light. According to Johnsen, avoiding absorption is actually easy. The real challenge is preventing light from scattering.Animals are built of many different materials—skin, fat, and more—and light moves through each at a different speed. Every time light moves into a material with a new speed, it bends and scatters. Transparent animals use different tricks to fight scattering. Some animals are simply very small or extremely flat. Without much tissue to scatter light, it is easier to be see—through. Others build a large, clear mass of non-living jelly-lie(果冻状的) material and spread themselves over it .Larger transparent animals have the biggest challenge, because they have to make all the different tissues in their bodies slow down light exactly as much as water does. They need to look uniform. But how they’re doing it is still unknown. One thing is clear for these larger animals, staying transparent is an active process. When they die, they turn a non-transparent milky white.32.According to Paragraph 1, transparent animals _______.A. stay ingroupsB. can be easily damagedC. appear only in deepocean D. are beautiful creatures33.The underlined word “dead” in Paragraph 3 means __________.A. silentlyB. graduallyC. regularlyD. completely34.One way for an animal to become transparent is to ________.A. change the direction of light travelB. gather materials to scatter lightC. avoid the absorption of lightD. grow bigger to stop light35.The last paragraph tells us that larger transparent animals ________.A. move more slowly in deep waterB. stay see-through even after deathC. produce more tissues for their survivalD. take effective action to reduce light spreading第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分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。