河北省邢台市学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题Word下载.docx

1、 VeronaAn astonishing beautiful scenery shines in Lake Garda in Verona, the medieval worlds richest city-outstandingly unique Venice. For centuries, Italy has drawn visitors in search of culture and romance, with few countries comparable to its art, music, design, scenery, food and wine.Full-day exp

2、loring beautiful Lake Garda both on land and by boat.Six nights in a four-star hotel, including local breakfast and dinner.Lake Como & Alpine RailwaysThis wonderful wintertime break includes a visit to beautiful Como Town, with its breath-taking views. Take a journey on the scenic Bernina Express Ra

3、ilway to famous St. Moritz, and explore Comos shores.Enjoy the magic of Italys romantic lake and discover the lakeside Como Town.Five nights accommodation at the three-star Hotel Bazzoni.Lake Garda TripLake Garda, Italys largest lake, has attracted visitors for over a century with its wonder-ful sce

4、nery-clear blue waters. Explore its colourful, and historic lakeside towns, and you will enjoy all this beautiful scenery that Lake Garda offers.Seven nights in one of our carefully chosen hotels on Lake Garda.Return flights from your chosen airport to Italy.1How long does Lake Garda Trip last?AAbou

5、t four days. BAbout five days.CAbout seven days. DAbout six days.2What is special in Lake Garda, Venice & Verona?AFour nights living in hotel. BOffering local dinner.CExploring Lake Garda by ship. DOffering return tickets.3Which trip will be the best one to take in cold weather?AAncient &.Baroque. B

6、Lake Garda,Venice & Verona.CLake Como & Alpine Railways. DLake Garda Trip. I am Duncan Bannatyne. I am a successful businessman with a chain of health clubs and hotels.I also appears on the BBC series Dragons Den,where I judge new business ideas. The only thing I enjoyed at school was maths. I had t

7、he ability to add up, but my maths teacher didnt have much time for me because I couldnt write down how I got the answers. I hated things like English-I slightly had difficulty in reading. I was hopeless at sport, too. I could see that the kids who went to high school had better toys than me so I ma

8、de up my mind to do as well as I could, so that I could pass the exam and get into the best school. I worked very hard, and then I made it. I was the only one in the family who did, so my parents were so proud of me.I started delivering newspapers when my mother said I couldnt have an ice cream beca

9、use we were too poor. When I went to the newsagents （报纸杂志店），the owner told me that there was no need for a delivery boy. I said that my mother would like her paper delivered. But he told me, “Thats one person. I need 100.”At last, I knocked on 150 doors. When the ice cream van（箱式货车）came around again

10、, I had enough money to buy ice creams for my whole family.When I left school, I didnt use my business skills for fifteen years. I was in the Navy and then worked as a garage mechanic. It was always in my mind, though. When I was twenty nine, I was on a beach in the Channel Islands with my girlfrien

11、d and we decided to go back to the mainland and make money. Believe it or not, my first company was Duncans Super Ices which expanded from a single ice cream van to a large group of ice cream vans.4What can we know about Duncan from paragraph 1?AHe did well in reading.BHe was good at maths and sport

12、.CHe was admitted to the best high school.DHis parents were not satisfied with his performance.5Why did Duncan deliver newspapers when young?ATo buy ice creams.BTo set up his first company.CTo get some working experience.DTo improve his calculating skills.6What made Duncan try his best to study at s

13、chool?AWanting ice creams. BWanting better toys.CHelping his mother. DMaking money.7What can we learn from the text?ADuncan made a fortune in the Channel Islands.BDuncan attended Dragons Den to make himself well-known.CDuncan didnt start a business until he went back to the mainland.DDuncan persuade

14、d over 150 households to have their newspapers delivered. Something makes your throat strange. It night be a piece of dust or some food that went down your breathing tube by mistake or mucus（黏液）that dropped down from your nose. You cough.Sometimes you cough on purpose because you want to clear your

15、throat. Other times you dont have to cough. Cough are useful. They clear your main breathing tube, the same way you clear a straw when you blow through it.If you have mucus or dust or food in your throat, a cough will help to clear it out. But if you have an infection, a cough wont make it go away.

16、Thats why, sometimes, you keep coughing. If you do a lot of coughing, your stomach and chest muscles might ache from extra exercise.Every cough happens in the same way: Firstly, you take a breath so that you have air in your lungs. Secondly, you close your throat and tighten up some of the muscles i

17、n your chest, getting them ready for the big push.Coughs make an exploding sound because of the air that is pushed out of your lungs through closed lips in the back of your throat. These vocal cords（声带）are forced open by the air causing the explosion that we call a cough. They are the same vocal cor

18、ds that make the noise when you sing or talk; you sound like you because of your vocal cords.You can tell who is talking by the sound of a persons voice, but its hard to tell who is coughing by the sound of the cough. People with high voices sometimes have low coughs. People with low voices sometime

19、s have high coughs. Thats because the sound of a cough depends upon how much air is blown out and whether or not the vocal cords are swollen from an infection.8What is the first step of a cough?ASending out air. BBreathing in air.COpening the mouth. DClosing your throat.9What can we learn from the t

20、ext?ACoughs are bad for ones health.BCoughs can cure an infection.CA lot of coughs can make your chest muscles ache.DPeople with high voices always have high coughs.10What is the main function of cough?AClearing your throat. BCleaning your nose.CPreparing for singing a song. DMaking an exploding sou

21、nd.11What makes the sound of a cough different?AThroat. BBreathing tubes.CThe amount of air blown out. DThe voices of people. Scientists have recently discovered a major habitat where live more than 1.5 million Adelie penguins（企鹅）near the Antarctic Peninsula. Based on direct ground counts and comput

22、er counts, the researchers found a total of 751,527 pairs of Adelie penguins on the Danger Islands in the Weddell Sea on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Adelie penguins discovered here is more than the rest in the other places of Antarctic Peninsula, which was published in the journal

23、Scientific Reports.Moreover, the number represents the first complete census of Adelie penguins in the Danger Islands, the researchers added. “Until recently, the Danger Islands wasnt known to be an important penguin habitat.” Heather Lynch, an ecologist from Stony Brook University who led the study

24、, said, “These super habitats have gone undiscovered for decades partly because the islands themselves are distant and the dangerous waters that surround them.” The Danger Islands appears to have avoided recent loss in penguin population documented on other parts of the Antarctic Peninsula.Another s

25、tudy published earlier suggested that more than 70 percent of king penguins may disappear by the end of the century as a result of global warming and overfishing. As the Danger Islands is likely to remain important islands for many penguins under climate change, scientists believe it deserves specia

26、l consideration in the design of Marine Protected Areas in this area. “Now that we know how important this area is for penguin, we can better move forward designing Marine Protected Areas and managing the fishery,” said Lynch.The idea of building the Marine Protected Areas, which covers 1.8 million

27、square km of the Weddell Sea and around the Antarctic Peninsula, was first put forward by the European Union and supported by nongovernmental organization Greenpeace. In January, a global campaign has been started in the vast fishing-free zone to better protect wildlife.12What can we learn from para

28、graph 1?AResearchers knew the number of penguins only by computers.BThere are 751,527 pairs of penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula.CResearcher may have never been to the Antarctic Peninsula.DThe Danger Islands may be fit for penguins to live on.13What does the underlined word “census” in paragraph 2

29、 mean?APopulation count. BLiving condition.CBirth. DDesert.14Why are there many penguins on the Danger Islands?AThe Danger Islands is unknown for humans.BThere is little climate change there.CMany people are protecting penguins.DThe Danger Islands is free from being disturbed by humans.15What can we

30、 know from what Lynch said?AHalf of king penguins will die out in the future.BThe Antarctic Peninsula neednt become Protected Areas.CBecause the Danger Islands is dangerous, it becomes a super habitat.DThe number of penguins discovered here is the largest in the Antarctic Peninsula.二、七选五Why do Chinese like drinking hot water?In Western countries, drinking hot water isnt common. 1617.A British man, who has been in Beijing for over five years, visited local cafe during his trip in England. H