精选高二英语下学期周练试题1承智班Word文档格式.docx

1、1People go to Michelin-starred restaurants in order to_.A. appreciate car tires. B. escape from workC. see the new robot chefs D. enjoy delicious meals2What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. British scientists B. Household wivesC. Cooks at restaurants D. The robot chefs arms

2、3Which kind of food CANT the robot chef cook at present?A. Sushi B. Beef C. Bread D. Sandwich4What can we infer from the passage?A. Hands of a robot chef can perform exactly like a cook.B. It is uncertain when the robot can cook all kinds of food.C. Michelin-starred restaurants are suitable for many

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8、this hit, but is the 3D really necessary?Please click here for more information.（以下是A种题型）5Where is the text probably taken from?A. A book review. B. A popular website.C. A science report. D. A fashion magazine.6What is the underlined word doc short for?A. Document. B. Dock.C. Documentary. D. Doctor.

9、7Who is the leading actress of the coming comedy?A. Jennifer Peedom. B. Agyness Deyn.C. Billy Crystal. D. Meg Ryan.8What might be the topic of the film When Harry Met Sally?A. Love. B. Sports.C. Work. D. Family.9What is the writers attitude towards the 3D effect of The Peanuts Movie?A. Active. B. Un

10、sure.C. Unknown. D. Definite.They baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert （警觉）. Twenty centimeters from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it. She stares at it carefully. A researcher removes the card and replaces it by anothe

11、r, this time with the spots differently spaced. As the cards change from one to the other, her gaze（凝视） starts to lose its focus until a third, with three black spots, is presented. Her gaze returns: she looks at it for twice as long as she did at the previous card. Can she tell that the number two

12、is different from three, just 24 hours after coming into the world?Or do newborns simply prefer more to fewer? The same experiment, but with three spots shown before two, shows the same return of interest when the number of spots changes. Perhaps it is just the newness? When slightly older babies we

13、re shown cards with pictures of objects （a comb, a key, an orange and so on）, changing the number of objects had an effect separate from changing the objects themselves. Could it be the pattern that two things make, as opposed to three? No again. Babies paid more attention to squares moving randomly

14、 on a screen when their number changed from two to three, or three to two. The effect even crosses between senses. Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots became more excited when they then heard three drumbeats than when they heard just two; likewise （同样地） when the researchers started with drumb

15、eats and moved to spots.10The experiment described in Paragraph 1 is related to the babys .A. sense of sight B. sense of touchC. sense of hearing D. sense of smell11Babies are sensitive to the change in_.A. the size of cards B. the colour of picturesC. the number of objects D. the shape of patterns1

16、2Why did the researchers test the babies with drumbeats?A. To reduce the difficulty of the experiment.B. To carry their experiment further.C. To see how babies recognize soundsD. To keep the babies interest.13Where does this text probably come from?A. Science fiction. B. Childrens literature.C. A sc

17、ience report. D. An advertisement.Tu Youyou together with William Campbell and Satoshi Omura won the 2015 Nobel Prize for their work against parasitic diseases. Irish-born Campbell and Japanese Omura won half of the prize for discovering a new drug, avermectin, that has helped the battle against riv

18、er blindness and lymphatic filariasis, as well as showing effectiveness against other parasitic diseases. The Chinese scientist Tu Youyou, an 85-year-old female scientist, was awarded the other half of the prize for the discovery of artemisinin（青篙素）, a drug cure for malaria（疟疾） that has saved millio

19、ns of lives all over the world, especially in the developing world.When the news broke that Tu won the Nobel Prize, there were cheers as well as doubts. It also has highlighted differences in prize-awarding practices between China and the West. Some said the achievement was the result of collective

20、efforts by lots of Chinese scientists, so it was unfair to award the prize only to Tu. Indeed, Chinese science awards are mainly presented to projects, instead of individual scientists. But Western awards tend to honor individual scientists who are the first to come up with a new idea or method. Li

21、Zhenzhen, a researcher of the China Academy of Sciences said that the West believes that the advancement of science comes from individuals creative minds.In 1969, Tu started to hold a government project aimed at eliminating malaria. Tu and her teammates experimented with 380 extracts in 2,000 candid

22、ate recipes before they finally succeeded in getting the pure substance qinghaosu, later known as artemisinin. In 2011, Tu was awarded the Lasker Debakey Clinical Medical Research Award, commonly referred to as “Americas Nobel Prize”. （278 words）14Why Tu Youyou could be awarded the Nobel Prize for ?

23、A. Because she discovered the avermectin, a drug cure for malariaB. Because she contributed to the traditional Chinese medicineC. Because she discovered the artemisinin which shows effectiveness against other parasitic diseasesD. Because she has saved millions of lives for the discovery of artemisin

24、in.15What is the difference in prize-awarding practices between China and the West?A. Chinese science awards are mainly presented to individual scientists, instead of projectsB. Chinese believes that the advancement of science comes from individuals creative mindsC. Western awards tend to honor indi

25、vidual scientists who are the first to come up with a new idea or methodD. Western awards are presented to both individual scientists and projects16How old was Tu Youyou when she was awarded the “Americas Nobel Prize”.A. 85 B. 81 C. 46 D. 3917What is the best title of the passage?A. Why Tu Youyou co

26、uld be awarded the 2015 Nobel prizeB. Why Tu received the “Americas Nobel Prize”.C. Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize for the discovery of artemisininD. The difference in prize-awarding practices between China and the West二、完形填空Think about a time you went someplace that you had never been before. It seemed as if it was very and it took a really long time to get there. Then you noticed that thtrip did not seem to take nearly as long, it was exactly the same distance. Scientists have studied these common obser