辽宁省沈阳市第一二〇中学学年高一英语上学期第二次质量试题Word格式文档下载.docx

1、AIt was at least two months before Christmas when nine-year-old Almie Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle. As Christmas drew nearer, her desire for a bicycle seemed to die, or so we thought. We bought some lovely dolls, and a doll house. Then, much to our surprise on December 2

2、3rd, she said that she “ really wanted a bike more than anything else”.It was just too late, with all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last minute gifts, to take the time to select the “right bike” for our little girl. It was Christmas Eve around 9:00 pm. Almie and her six-year-o

3、ld brother, Dylan, lay comfortably in their beds. Now we could only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child. “What if I make a little bicycle out of clay（黏土）and write a note that she could trade the clay model for a real bike” her dad asked. “This is an expensive item and she is suc

4、h a big girl, it would be much better for her to pick it out.” So he spent the next four hours painstakingly （尽心地） working with clay to make a tiny bikeOn Christmas morning, we were excited for Almie to open the little heart-shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Fin

5、ally, she opened it and read the note aloud. “Does this mean that I trade this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?” Beaming, I said, “Yes,” Almie had tears in her eyes when she replied “I could never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made me. Id rather keep this than get a real bike.” A

6、t that moment, we would have moved heaven and earth to buy her every bicycle on the planet!21. In the end, Almies parents failed to buy her a new bicycle as a Christmas gift because A. her desire for a bicycle disappeared graduallyB. they thought dolls were more suitable for her than a bikeC. she pr

7、eferred the bike made of clayD. her parents had no time to select a “right bike” for her22. What can be inferred from the last sentence of the text？ A. The parents were happy and encouraged.B. The parents felt comfortable and relaxed.C. The parents were moved and felt proud of the girl.D. The parent

8、s felt disappointed and sorry for the girl.23. What is the best title for the text?A. A Clay BikeB. A Great and Considerate FatherC. A Lovely Little GirlD. An Unforgettable Christmas EveBNowadays, people all over the world have various ways of dealing with a common cold. Some take over-the-counter（非

9、处方的）medicines such as aspirin while others try popular home remedies（治疗）like herbal tea or chicken soup. However, here is the tough truth about the common cold: nothing really cures it.Then why do people sometimes still believe that their remedies work? According to James Taylor, a professor at the

10、University of Washington, colds usually go away on their own in about a week, improving a little each day after symptoms peak, so its easy to believe its medicine rather than time that deserves to be praised, USA Today reported.To many of us, it still seems hard to believe that we can deal with more

11、 serious diseases yet are powerless against something as common as a cold. Recently, scientists came closer to figuring out why. To understand it, you first need to know how antiviral（抗病毒的）drugs work. They attack the virus by attaching to and changing the surface structures of the virus. To do that,

12、 the drug must fit and lock into the virus like the right piece of a jigsaw（拼图）, which means scientists have to identify the virus and build a 3-D model to study its surface before they can develop an antiviral drug that is effective enough.The two cold viruses that scientists had long known about w

13、ere rhinovirus（鼻病毒）A and B. But they didnt find out about the existence of a third virus, rhinovirus C, until 2020. All three of them lead to the common cold, but drugs that work well against rhinovirus A and B dont work well when used against C.“This accounts for most of the previous failures of dr

14、ug trials against Thinovirus,” study leader Professor Ann Palmenberg at University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, told Science Daily.Now, more than 10 years after the discovery of rhinovirus C, scientists have finally built a highly-detailed 3-D model of the virus, showing that the surface of the virus i

15、s, as expected, different from that of other cold viruses.With the model in hand, hopefully a real cure for a common cold is on its way. Soon, we may no longer have to waste our money on medicines that dont really work.24. What does the author think of popular remedies for curing a common cold? A. T

16、hey are really quite effective.B. They are slightly helpful.C. They still need to be improved.D. They actually dont work.25. How do antiviral drugs work?A. By identifying the viruses and breaking them up directly.B. By reshaping the top layers of the target cold viruses.C. By attacking the viruses o

17、ne after another like finishing a jigsaw.D. By absorbing different kinds of cold viruses at the same time.26. What can we infer from the passage?A. The surface of cold viruses looks quite similar.B. Scientists have already found a cure for the common cold.C. Knowing the structure of cold viruses is

18、the key to developing an effective cure.D. Scientists were not aware of the existence of rhinovirus C until recently.27. What is the best title for this passage?A. Drugs against cold virusesB. Helpful home remediesC. No current cure for common coldD. Research on cold virusesCMy brother Stanley died

19、last January from cancer, and I spent a lot of time with him in hospital over his last few months. I witnessed the care he received and, at the time, I thought it was poor. It shocked and hurt me. While Stanley was sick, I was a medical student. I therefore had an investment （投入） in the medical prof

20、ession. It gave me an insiders view of the care Stanley received, when most people spending time with a very sick loved one only have an outside view. However, as I see now, it made me judge the care that his doctors and nurses gave him too harshly （严厉地）. We experienced long waits in emergency depar

21、tments, and doctors were unsure of the particulars of Stanleys case. We waited around for doctors to arrive, but they seldom turned up. But worst of all was Stanleys senior doctor. Near the end, he announced coldly that there was nothing left to try. “All the options have been used,” he said. And wi

22、th that, he departed （离开）, never to be seen again. All this affected the way I thought about my studies. Did I want to work in a field where people treated patients as if they were numbers on a chart? After Stanley passed away, I finished my studies and graduated with all the rest of the students in

23、 my year. They went on to get jobs in hospitals, while I took a year out. I simply couldnt face working in medicine. Eventually, I applied for and got a position as a cancer doctor in a busy clinic in a big city. Now I was a cancer doctor myself, and I often had to tell patients bad news. It is a te

24、rribly difficult thing to inform someone that they have a grave illness. I also found that I couldnt always answer patients questions. They would want to know whether they could be cured, or how long they would live for, but it wasnt always possible to say. It was then that I understood what a diffi

25、cult job health providers do. It made me think back to my encounters with doctors and nurses when Stanley was sick. Perhaps what I had thought was unprofessionalism or coldness was just a reflection of the demanding nature of the work. I began to see my patients as Stanley, and myself no longer as h

26、is sister, but one of his caregivers. Now I was in their shoes the people who spend every day caring for others.I still miss Stanley horribly, but at least now the anger has gone.28. Why was the author upset in hospital?A. It was too late to cure her brother.B. The care given was far below her expec

27、tations.C. The treatment was too painful for the author to bear.D. She couldnt help the doctors with her medical knowledge.29. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to _.A. the insiders view of the careB. the care her brother receivedC. the authors medical professionD. the authors long stay

28、 in hospital30. The author wrote this article mainly to _.A. give advice on how to become a doctorB. stress the importance of being a caregiver in daily lifeC. share how she became a doctor after her brothers deathD. explain how her attitude toward being a caregiver changed第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内

29、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.When we eat potato chips, its often difficult to stop until the bags empty. We open a bag of chips, and before we know it, theyre all gone. So why cant we control ourselves when it comes to eating this salty snack? 31 Scientists at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medica

30、l Center in Boston, US, found that certain neurons （神经元） can make us want to eat salt. The neurons take note of whether our bodies are short of sodium （钠）, the main part of salt. 32 To come to their conclusion, the scientists did experiments on mice. They found that when mice lack sodium, their body

31、 produces a chemical. 33 More research showed that adding salt to meals makes people enjoy their food more, which may cause us to continue eating even if were full. Scientists from Deakin University in Australia asked healthy people to eat the same food for lunch for four weeks. 34 At the same time, the scientists measured how much these people ate. They also asked the people how they felt about each meal-if they felt happy or were still hungry after eating, for example. The results showed that salt made people consume 11 percent more food than usual. 35“But when we add