广东省惠阳高级中学学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题.docx

1、广东省惠阳高级中学学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题广东惠阳高级中学20152016学年度第一学期中段考试高二英语试题2015.11.本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分135分-最终成绩按总分150分进行折算，折算公式：最终成绩（150分）=卷面成绩（总分135分）1.112，四舍五入取整数计分。考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1、 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。2、 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在答题卡相应的位置。3、 全部答案应在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。4、 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。第I卷第一部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）第一节 （共15

2、小题，每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项 （A 、B 、C 和 D ）中 ，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AWhat will our future look like? People have always been wondering about this question. Go on reading this text and you will know what will happen in the next fifty years.How can we know what the future will look like? To be able t

3、o understand the future, you must know the past. What has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but we humans are driven by the same basic needs as we were 150 years ago. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.What i

4、nventions have really made a difference in the last 150 years? In the past years, the inventions that have affected most people around the world for everyday living are the telephone, electricity, radio, television, computer, the car and the ability to communicate through the Internet. Then we of co

5、urse have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster transports etc. In general, human beings have been working hard in the last 150 years to make the inventions so that they will be able to get control of the time and the world. Since there is still much to do in this

6、 area, this will be the focus at least for the next 150 years.Why do we need to predict the future? Predicting the future is important for two reasons: first we need to start to think about what kind of what kind of future we would like for ourselves and to pass on to the next generation, and then w

7、e need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give the best result in the future.1. What does the author try to tell us in the second paragraph?A. Humans will no longer enjoy food in the future.B. The world will be completely changed tomorrow.C. The world is quite different from what

8、 it was.D. Our basic needs will not change in the future.2. Our past inventions have made _.A. our daily life more stressfulB. it easy for us to liveC. us work less timeD. our work easily done3. What will humans do in order to keep the world under control? A. To focus on making more inventions.B. To

9、 produce more cars for transportation.C. To spend more time working on the Internet.D. To work much harder to achieve their goals.4. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?A. What result well receive in the future.B. The decisions we make for our future.C. The two reasons of predicting the futu

10、reD. The importance of predicting the future.BCELL PHONES ARE THE NEW CIGARETTESWhen you sit down, you pick it out. When you are in yourcar, you reach for itWhen youre at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with it Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No,

11、its the third most addictive thing in modern life, the cell phoneAnd experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people tocurb their desire to hugit more tightly than mostof their personal relationships With its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, its air of complexity, the cell p

12、hone connects us to the world even as it disconnects usfrompeople three feet awayIn just the past couple of years, the cell phone has challenged individuals, employers, phone makers and counselors（顾问）in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined The costs are becoming even more evident, and

13、 I dont mean just the monthly billDrChris Knippers, a counselor at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a socialproblemnot much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality So

14、unds extreme, but weve all witnessed the evidence: the person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in thecar, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way homefromschool, avoiding contact

15、with kids all around him Is it just rude, or is it a kind of unhealthiness? And pardon me, but how is this improving the quality of life? Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, notes that cell-phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gulf of personal separa

16、tionHe points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss theirmostimportant personal business withDespite the growing use of phones, e-mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we dont have as many friends as our parents. “Just as more infor