甘肃省天水市一中学年高二上学期第二次学段考试英语试题 Word版含答案doc.docx

1、甘肃省天水市一中学年高二上学期第二次学段考试英语试题 Word版含答案doc天水一中2014级2015-2016学年度第一学期第二学段考试英语试题命题： 李卓桥 张莉莉 审核： 陈万生 杨 平 （满分：120分 时间：100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、考号填涂在答题卡相应的位置。3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。4. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。第I卷（选择题）第一部分 阅读部分(共2节，满分40分)第一节 阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D选项中

2、，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AChocolate is good for your heart, skin and brain. Usually, people think that chocolate is bad for their health. They describe chocolate as “something to die for” or say “death by chocolate”. Now they should bite their tongues! Evidence is showing that some kinds of chocolate are

3、 actually good for you in the following ways:A happier heartScientists at Harvard University recently examined 136 studies on cocoa the main ingredient in chocolate and found that it does seem to strengthen the heart. Studies have shown heart benefits from increased blood flow. These benefits are th

4、e result of cocoas chemicals, which seem to prevent both cell damage and inflammation(炎症)。Better blood pressureIf yours is high, chocolate may help. Jeffrey Blumberg from Tufts University recently found that people with high blood pressure who ate 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate per day for two weeks s

5、aw their blood pressure drop quickly.Muscle magicChocolate milk may help you recover after a hard workout(锻炼). In a small study at Indiana University, people who drank chocolate milk between workouts did better on a tiredness test than those who had some sports drinks.Better for your skinGerman rese

6、archers gave 24 women a half-cup of special cocoa every day. After three months, the womens skin was moister and smoother. The research shows that chocolate helps protect and increase blood flow to the skin, improving its appearance.Brain gains.It sounds almost too good to be true, but research sugg

7、ests that chocolate may improve your memory, attention span, reaction time, and problem-solving skills by increasing blood flow to the brain.1.Whats the meaning of “bite their tongues” in the first paragraph?A. Stop talking. B. Speak up. C. Think of it. D. Listen to it.2.Whats the meaning of the und

8、erlined sentence in the fourth paragraph?A. Sports drinks are better than chocolate milk.B. sports drinks can make people easy to be tired.C. Drinking milk can keep you energetic at work.D. we should drink chocolate milk between times when we work hard.3.Whats the best title for this passage?A. Choc

9、olate, a Healthy Food B. More Chocolate, Less HealthC. Chocolate and Blood Pressure D. Advice on Eating ChocolateBShort and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. Football, tennis, Cricketanything with a round ball, I was useless. he says now with a laugh. But ba

10、ck then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in Englands rural Devonshire.It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind

11、 on building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgways school of Adventure

12、in Scotland, where he learned about the older mans cold-water exploits（成就）. Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.Journeys to the Pole arent the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dism

13、issed his dream as fantasy. John Ridgway was one of the few who didnt say, You are completely crazy, Saunders says. In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter（遭遇）with a polar bear a

14、nd pushed his body to the limit.Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and hes skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of

15、 Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.4. The turning point in Saunderslife came when _A. he started to play ball gamesB. he ran his first marathon at age 18 C. he got a mountain bike at age 15D. he started to receive Ridgways training5. We

16、 can learn from the text that Ridgway _.A. won his fame for his voyage across the AtlanticB. built up his body together with SaundersC. hired Saunders for his cold-water experienceD. dismissed Saunders dream as fantasy6. What do we know about Saunders?A. He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole

17、.B. He once worked at a school in Scotland.C. He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.D. He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.7.The underlined word “Intrigued” in the third paragraph probably means_.A. Excited B. Fascinated C. Delighted D. Convinced 8. It can be inferred

18、that Saunders journey to the North Pole _.A. was accompanied by his old playmatesB. made him well-known in the 1960sC. was supported by other Arctic explorersD. set a record in the North Pole expeditionCThere is no doubt that for a long time college education has been accepted. All high school gradu

19、ates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who dont go. But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half ou

20、r high school graduates are attending, those who dont fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere(妨碍；干扰) with each others experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the fierce competitio

21、n so as to get admitted into graduate schools. Others find no stimulation (激励) in their studies, and consequently have to drop out, which is often encouraged by college administrators. Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves-they are spoiled and they are expecting too much.

22、But thats a condemnation(指责) of the students as a whole, and doesnt explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cant absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But d

23、isappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds,either.9. Whats the main idea of the first paragraph, _.A. people have great expectations for college education.B. people still have a low opinion of college education.C. the author thinks youngst

24、ers should all go to college.D. people now no longer challenge college education.10.The reason why more young people drop out of college is that _.A. they can start selling shoes and driving taxis.B. they are no longer motivated in their studies.C. they compete for admission to graduate schools.D. c

25、ollege administrators force them to do so.11.Who contributes to campus unhappiness?A. young students who are all spoiled and expecting too much.B. our society that cant offer enough jobs to college graduates.C. young people as well as our society are to blame for all this.D. our society that has not

26、 enough jobs for high school graduates.DIncreasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high c

27、ost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative expe

28、riences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers most of them arent nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2012 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those

29、 surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldnt. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2015 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites

30、the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.The problem is that most people dont kn

31、ow the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But thats risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative(权威的), so itd hard to know if what youre reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the N

32、ational Cancer Institute.12. According to the text, an increasing number of American _.A. are suffering from mental disordersB. like to play deadly games with doctorsC. turn to Internet pharmacies for helpD. are skeptical about surfing medical websites13. Some Americans stay away from doctors because they _.A. are afraid to face the truth of their healthB. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctorsC