高二英语下学期期中试题2.docx

1、高二英语下学期期中试题2甘肃省静宁县甘沟中学2014-2015学年高二英语下学期期中试题第一部分：阅读理解共两节，满分40分第一节共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。A Dear Highlights, My sister is always in a bad mood, which gets me in a bad mood. What should I do? Tessa, Virginia It can be hard to be around someone who is in a bad mood. Since yo

2、u cant change another persons mood, try to focus on what you can control: your own mood and reaction. You might find it easier to stay in a good mood if you leave your sister alone when she feels grumpy (脾气暴躁的). The next time she is in a bad mood, go to a quiet place in your house. Read, exercise, d

3、raw, listen to music do something that makes you feel happy. Your parents might have some good suggestions for you, too. Dear Highlights, I play soccer, but sometimes I play badly. How can I do better? Jarom, Utah To be good at anything, determination and practice are important. Listen closely to yo

4、ur coach, watch other players, then practice, practice, practice! Professional athletes continue to practice their sports each day, knowing that if they start to get lazy, they wont keep or develop their skills. In addition to practicing with teammates, you can work on drills on your own. Learning m

5、ore about the sport may help too. Your coach can likely direct you to some good resources on skills development. Dear Highlights, I was moved up a grade a few years ago. Now, almost everyone in my previous grade asks me why. It wouldnt be a problem, except some boys ask over and over just to be anno

6、ying. What do I do? Allison (by e-mail) If youre sure that they are trying to be annoying, you might respond with something humorous. For example, you could say something like “They told me that the lunch lines would be shorter.” Use the situation to turn annoying questions into something to laugh a

7、bout. 1. What should Tessa do when her sister gets bad-tempered?A. Accompany her.B. Change her mood. C. Try some happy things. D. Leave her in a quiet place. 2. When talking about Jaroms problem, Highlights especially stresses the importance of _.A. determination B. practice C. team spirit D. the co

8、achs help 3. Whats Allisons problem? A. She cannot get along well with her classmates. B. Some boys in her class annoy her on purpose. C. She is fed up with being asked the same question. D. Her friends cannot accept that she moved up a grade. 4. What can we learn from the answer to Allisons questio

9、n?A. Laughter is the best medicine. B. He who laughs last laughs longest.C. A sense of humor makes you easy-going. D. Humor can ease the tension in many situations.B On Monday, my classmates and I heard that our astronomy teachers mother had died. We were surprised that he was still teaching in scho

10、ol. My best friend was telling me that the teacher was trying to forget the pain of losing his mother and trying to be strong in the middle of teaching. The teacher was such a warm-hearted person and we figured that we should give him a lot of love and good cheer. That night after school, my best fr

11、iend and I thought about our teacher as well as his beloved mother and then we came up with an idea. When we went back to school yesterday, we gave him cheer-up cards which we had taken time to decorate with flowers, hearts and peace signs. As we handed the cards to him, we could both see the light

12、in his eyes. The smiles on his face showed how much he appreciated what we did for him. The whole atmosphere was very warm and loving, and its hard to express in words. This morning, when we both went to see the teacher again, he was so happy, and gave us both a hug. This made us feel that we just m

13、ight have made his day, and that he was going to be okay. With that, I want to remind you to take the time to smile at the ones you love, be extra generous with hugs, kisses, things of that lovely nature! Life is so precious (宝贵的), so let us be happy and enjoy the gift of life.5. What made the autho

14、r and her best friend surprised?A. Their teacher never cared about his mother. B. Their teacher didnt ask for leave.C. Their teacher tried to forget his mother.D. Their teacher loved teaching so much.6. The cheer-up cards include all of the following EXCEPT _.A. smiles B. flowers C. hearts D. peace

15、signs7. What can be the best title for the text?A. Extra care for a teacher going through a difficult time B. So much help from my astronomy teacherC. How a teacher helps the students out of trouble D. Love can change everything in the worldC Half the worlds population could face a shortage of food

16、by 2100 due to climate change, a new report by US scientists warns. Rapid global warming is likely to reduce crop production in the tropics and subtropics (热带和亚热带地区), according to Professor David Battisti of the University of Washington. The most extreme summers of the last century will become commo

17、n, he says. We must immediately create crops that can bear heat and drought if we are to adapt (适应) in time, he writes in Science journal. “The stresses on global food production from temperature alone are going to be huge,” said Mr Battisti. “And that doesnt take into account water supplies stresse

18、d by the higher temperatures.” He worked with Professor Rosamond Naylor on Food Security and the Environment, to examine the influence of climate change on the worlds food supplies. They predict there is a greater than 90% probability that by 2100, the average growing-season temperatures in the trop

19、ics and subtropics will be higher than any temperatures recorded there to date. “We are taking the worst of what weve seen historically and saying that in the future it is going to be a lot worse unless there is some kind of adaptation,” said Professor Naylor. “This is a powerful reason for us to in

20、vest (投资) in adaptation, because it is clear that this is the direction we are going in terms of temperature and it will take decades to develop new food crop varieties that can better bear a warmer climate.” In the tropics, the higher temperatures could be expected to cut production of the primary

21、food crops by 20-40%, the researchers said. Rising temperatures are also likely to reduce soil moisture (湿度), cutting production even further. Three billion people live in the tropics and subtropics now, and their number is expected nearly to double by the end of the century. “You are talking about

22、hundreds of millions of additional people looking for food because they wont be able to find it where they find it now,” said Professor Battisti. Crop failures would not be limited to the tropics, the scientists concluded. 8. According to Professor David Battisti, what should be done to deal with cr

23、ops reduction caused by global warming?A. To plant more crops.B. To develop new crops.C. To control population growth.D. To improve farming technology.9. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 5 refer to?A. To reduce the temperature.B. New food crop variety.C. To invest in adaptation.D. S

24、ome kind of adaptation.10. We can know from the text that _.A. the number of people living in the tropics is reducingB. temperatures will rise most in the tropics C. crop failures will be a global problemD. new food crop varieties will be developed soon11. The text intends to tell us that _.A. our w

25、orld is becoming warmer and warmerB. high temperatures may cause food shortagesC. the consequences of global warmingD. the ways to adapt to high temperaturesD In the far, far future, bicycles and perhaps skates may be run by jet power, and a new thing to ride may be a small flying saucer (飞碟). Imagi

26、ne a race between them! There may be telepathy helmets (心灵感应帽) that send thought waves from your brain to that of your friend miles away. You just think a thought and your friend knows it! You can have secrets with each other that nobody else can turn in on! What about the food of the future? Scient

27、ists think that much of it will be artificial made in factories from such surprising things as coal, limestone, air, and water. The artificial food will be healthful because all the things that you need to live a long and healthy life will be put into it. The future hospitals will probably have “bod

28、y banks” that can give you almost any new part you need to keep on living. People of the future may live to be a lot older than 100 years. What about highways of the future? Well, a very small child probably will be able to drive a car. Nobody will need to steer (驾驶). Electric signals will hold each

29、 car on the right road to get wherever the “driver” wants to go. And it probably will be impossible for cars to smash together. Controls that wont even have to be touched will make all speeding cars miss each other or will put on the brakes. Driving cars will be as safe as being at home. But maybe t

30、he most wonderful surprise in the future will be weather control. Cities may have giant plastic domes (圆顶罩) over them to keep out snow, rain, or storms. When you plan a picnic in a park, you wont have to worry about rain. It will rain only when the “weatherman” thinks it is necessary to fresh the ai

31、r inside the city. All other days will be fair and warm. The future should be a wonderful time in which to live and the time we are living in now is also a wonderful future to the people who lived 100 years ago.12. The underlined word “that” (in Paragraph 2) refers to _.A. telepathy helmet B. the br

32、ainC. thought wave D. the secret13. What can we learn from the passage?A. With telepathy helmets, we can share our thoughts without any word.B. The artificial food made from coal and limestone tastes the most delicious in the future.C. There will be “body banks” instead of hospitals in the future.D. Plastic domes themselves can automatically control the weather.14. With the future highways, _