1、辽宁省大连海湾高级中学学年高二英语上学期第一次质量检测试题辽宁省大连海湾高级中学2021-2020学年高二英语上学期第一次质量检测试题总分:120分 时间:100分钟 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分35分)第一节(共10小题;每小题2.5分,满分25分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。A Choose Your OneDay Tours !Tour ABath & Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge37 unt
2、il 26 March and 39 thereafter.Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum. Stonehenge is one of the worlds most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.Tour BOxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University S
3、t Marys Church Tower and Anne Hathaways house32 until 12 March and 36 thereafter.Oxford: Includes a guided tour of Englands oldest university city and colleges. Look over the “city of dreaming spires (尖顶 ) ” from St Marys Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespe
4、are wonder.Tour CWindsor Castle & Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace34 until 11 March and 37 thereafter.Includes a guide tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VIIIs favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle (entrance fees not included). With 500 years of histor
5、y, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze(迷宫)where it is easy to get lost!Tour DCambridge including entrance fees t
6、o the Tower of Saint Mary the Great33 until 18 March and 37 thereafter.Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.21.Which tour will you choose if you want to see Englands oldest university city?A. Tour A. B. Tour B. C. Tour C. D. Tour D.22.W
7、hich of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March?A. Windsor Castle & Hampton Court.B. Oxford & Stratford.C. Bath & Stonehenge.D. Cambridge.23.Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction?A. It used to be the home of royal families.B. It used to be a wellknown maze.C. It is the oldes
8、t palace in Britain.D. It is a worldfamous castle.BWhat would you like to be when you grow up? A teacher? A doctor? An astronaut? What do you need to do to achieve your dream job? Perhaps you think that studying well and then going on to work hard will get you successful career you want. We are cons
9、tantly taught that our hard work will eventually pay off.But a government survey has shown that hard work is not the only thing that will help you to move up the ladder. Two thirds of people believe that who you know matters more than what you know when it comes to social activity. So are the connec
10、tions that you have more important than your education?76% of the people in the survey believed that family background is important in influencing your chances of success. They believe that if you are privileged from birth, you are more likely to have a successful career, especially if your family i
11、s wealthy.Even if you dont have a privileged background, the people you know can still make a difference to your career. Networking is a skill which is encouraged by many career advisers. Some companies run networking workshops to try and encourage staff to meet other people, to communicate and buil
12、d relationships. Its a valuable skill.But the survey also showed something quite interesting. Although most people believed that networks are more important than education, many people put their own career success down to talent, rather than background. 41% of the people said that their parents inco
13、me had influenced their life, but at the same time, another 41% believed that they had achieved their own success.So which is more important, what you know or who you know? It seems that by working hard and making lots of connections, the answer may be that both are very important.24.Which of the fo
14、llowing is closest in meaning to the underlined part?A. Practice makes perfect B. Nothing is impossibleC. Hope for the best D. No pains, no gains25.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. 76% of the people think social relationship is most important.B. 41% of the people believ
15、e parents income is most important.C. 76% of the people think family background ranks first.D. 41% of the people believe they gained their own success.26.From the passage we can infer that the writer writes the article to _.A. stress the importance of educationB. challenge the traditional beliefC. m
16、ake lots of social connectionsD. encourage people to work hard27.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. The Way to Success B. Keep Your Dream in MindC. A Wealthy and Smooth Career D. A Survey on Peoples Dreams CLong before iPhone, the cigarette was the companion of choice for re
17、stlessness. And long before Facebook and WeChat, it was tobacco that promised to better your social life. Now, quitting smartphones has become the new quitting smoking. Of course, technology does not yellow your teeth, cause disease or lead to cancer. But some individuals are so concerned that devic
18、e addiction is damaging their mental health. In order to reduce their dependence, even in Silicon Valley, people are turning off the messages that constantly buzz for their attention, banning smartphones from the bedroom and, curiously, changing the colors on their screens to a less tempting scale o
19、f gray. The big tech companies will have to work out how to respond to this new generation of quitters. Facebook is the first to go public with its attempt, hoping its recent move can make the social network more homely. Last year the tech industry got a bad name -Big Tech-with unfortunate echoes of
20、 other industries that have faced fierce opposition, including Big Tobacco. Like them, the tech industry has to reduce concern from a new generation of activist shareholders (股东) that are questioning its role in the world. These campaigns are never as fierce as those faced by Big Tobacco. In the 199
21、0s, socially responsible investors refused to put money in tobacco stocks. It is far difficult for investors to challenge Big Tech and hard to separate the good these companies do in the world-connecting old friends and giving space for people to share their ideas-from the bad. In the meantime, stop
22、ping using technology remains problematic. In The World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech, Franklin Foer argues that tech should be seen in a similar way to junk food: a convenience that some reject for more continuing nutrition. So we need to do more to turn the tide. In the same way
23、 that public service announcements made smoking around your children taboo (禁忌), we can warn parents against losing themselves in their smartphones while taking care of kids. We can also create no-smartphone zones at dinner. Eventually smartphones could be banned from all public places and help us g
24、ive our attention to the people around us instead.28.How did people keep close relationships with others in the past? _ A. By smoking. B. By drinking. C. By phoning D. By dining out.29.Why is the tech industry called Big Tech? _ A. It plays a bad role in the world. B. It is as big as Big Tobacco.C.
25、It has an unfortunate name. D. It is a giant in Silicon Valley.30.Which can be the best title for the passage? _ A. Creating a No Smartphone Life B. Smartphones Enrich Our Social LifeC. Smoking Does Greater Harm Than Smartphones DoD. Quitting Smartphones Is the New Quitting Smoking第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分1
26、0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。选项中有两项为多余选项。For some people, the warmest memories from childhood come from being read a great story. 31 It develops childrens language skills and increases their ability to succeed in school and, later, work. A new report by the American Academy of Pediatrics says rea
27、ding aloud is so important that parents should start as soon as their children are born and continue to read aloud even after their children can read by themselves. They say parents should also point to and talk about pictures in books for infants(婴幼儿). 32 The company Scholastic is a major U.S. publ
28、isher of childrens books. Every two years, Scholastic publishes a report on American reading attitudes and habits. The 2015 report says only 31 percent of children in the U.S. read a book for fun almost every day. 33 One is simply to have books in the home. Elizabeth Lyttleton, the mother of three,
29、is lucky. Her mother once wrote and illustrated childrens books, so the family always have plenty to read. She says all her children learn from booksbut in different ways. 34 Researchers from the Scholastic company found that 80% of children surveyedof all agessay they love being read to. And childr
30、en ages 6 to 11 whose parents do not read to them anymore say they miss it. 35 Of all the 6 to17-year-old in the Scholastic study, more than 90% said their favorite books are the ones they chose for themselves.A. The Scholastic report also suggests permitting children to choose their own books. B. S
31、cholastic also identifies some ways to develop a love of reading in a child. C. A book does not have to be serious to be good for kids. D. For young children, parents should ask questions about the book. E. Do children still read for fun?F. Another way to develop a reading habit in children is to re
32、ad to them.G. But reading to children does more than create warm memories.第三部分 语言运用(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,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。One day, while I was walking to work, I decided to bring some flowers that I had picked from my garden that morning. On the way, I 36 a stranger and presented the flowers to him with a smile card. 37 by the sense of joy I felt from giving flowers to another person, and maybe _3
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