高一第二学期期末考试英语试题含答案解析.docx

1、高一第二学期期末考试英语试题含答案解析20182019学年下学期高一年级期末考试英语试题第一节 （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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AElephant ReserveCountry: ThailandThis is a working vacation at a wildlife centre. Anyone can become a volunteer if he/she agrees to help the elephant keepers with tasks.Daily tasksGather the elephant

2、s at 6:30 am. Take them to look for food in the forest. Clean the enclosure(围场). Swim with the elephants in the lake in the afternoon. If volunteers want to relax after work, they can watch satellite television.How this vacation helpsIf these elephants hadnt been rescued they would still be living o

3、n the streets of Bangkok. The rural environment is much better for them than the urban environment where there is lots of pollution.Your Comment“I love working with these huge gentle animals.”Gorilla safari(观赏野兽的旅行)Countries: Kenya, Rwanda and UgandaDepartures(出发): 23 departures per month from Aug.

4、to Dec.Extras: permit 220If youre lucky, youll see lions, elephants and rhinos during this safari. The highlight(最好的部分) of the trip is the opportunity to see gorillas in the mountain forests. However, you must be in good health if a gorilla caught a cold, it would be extremely harmful to its whole f

5、amily.How this vacation helpsThere are only about 600 gorillas left in the world as human activity has reduced the area where they can live. When you buy a permit this will pay for the protection of the national park.Your comment“Ill surely go back as soon as I have enough money!”Polar bear watching

6、Area & Country: Arctic, CanadaDepartures: sixty trips between Oct. 1Nov.19.Every October and November groups of polar bears gather in Hudson Bay. As they are normally lonely creatures, this is unusual. The bears wait for the ocean to freeze so that they can hunt for seals, so this is the perfect opp

7、ortunity to see them. Extra activities include dog sledding(狗拉雪橇) and a night trip to see the Northern Lights.How this vacation helpsIf the Arctic ice cap melts due to global warming, polar bears will be in danger. We give a share of our profits(利益) to the charity that protects polar bears.Your comm

8、ent“These terrible bears get all the liquid they need from their food.”1. What will elephant volunteers do?A. Sweep the enclosure of elephants. B. Take food for elephants at 6:30 am.C. Watch satellite television on elephants. D. Wash elephants in the lake in the afternoon.2. What do we know about th

9、e Gorilla safari?A. You can find gorillas in Kenya and Canada. B. You will get a cold in the mountain forests.C. Visitors need to pay $220 to see gorillas. D. There are about 10 trips to visit gorillas.3. Whats the aim of these activities?A. To help build more national parks. B. To help protect the

10、wild animals.C. To help deal with the pollution in cities. D. To help solve the problem of global warming.BJon Pedley is making a big change. He is giving up his life as a successful businessman for life of helping others. He is trading his beautiful farmhouse in England for life in a mud hut it Uga

11、nda, East Africa.Pedley admits that he has not always led a very positive life. At times he drank too much and got in trouble with the law. “Ive always put the pursuit(追求) of money in front of everything else. As long as I was all right, I didnt care who I was hurting,” says Pedley.But a visit to Ug

12、anda in 2007 gave Pedley a new outlook(观点) on life. He was amazed at what he saw and how much the people there appreciated the work he was doing. “I worked there for a few days and these people who have nothing thanked me by giving me bags of potatoes, which are a fortune for them,” he said.Now Pedl

13、ey is selling his business, his $1.5 million farmhouse, and his expensive car and moving into a hut made of mud and boards in a small Ugandan village. There he will help run an organization that hopes to improve the quality of life for people in the village of Kigazi. He will help to build schoolroo

14、ms for children and tanks to hold clean water for villagers. Today, people in Kigazi must walk two miles to a hospital, so Pedley will help to build doctors offices, too.Pedleys organization will also work with English teenagers who are in trouble. The teens will be sent to a “camp” in Uganda that P

15、edley will run. The teens will live in mud huts and help to build water, health and education facilities(设备) for kids in Kigazi, many of whom have lost their parents due to poverty or disease. Pedley hopes the teens will see a side of life that might help them turn around their own lives and set the

16、m on a new and more positive path.4. Which of the following can best describe Pedleys life in the past?A. Positive. B. Colorful.C. Independent. D. Selfish.5. What will Pedley do in the small Ugandan village?A. Grow potatoes with the local people B. Teach English in the local school.C. Assist village

17、rs with construction work. D. Help to attract more tourists to the village.6. Why will Pedley work with English teenagers who are in trouble?A. To encourage them to make friends with locals.B. To encourage them to live a more positive life.C. To train them to become doctors in the future.D. To make

18、them learn about different cultures.7. What can be a suitable title for the text?A. From a millionaire to living in a mud hut B. A life-changing adventureC. A rich man becoming homeless D. A grateful businessmanCWhile the start of a new school year is always exciting, this year was even more so for

19、some elementary school students in Auckland, New Zealand. They became the worlds first kids to be “taught” by a digital teacher, Will. Before you start imagining a human-like robot walking around the classroom, Will is just an avatar(化身) that turns up on the students desktop, tablet, or smartphone s

20、creen when called.Thanks to a digital camera and microphone, the avatar not only responds to questions the kids may have ,but also picks up non-verbal signals. For example, if a student smiles at Will, he responds by smiling back. This two-way communication not only helps draw the students attention

21、, but also allows the programs developers to monitor their involvement(参与) and make changes if needed.Vectors Chief Digital Officer, Nikhil Ravishankar, believes that Will-like avatars could be a novel way to attract the attention of the next generation. He says, “Using a digital human is a very pop

22、ular method to deliver new information to people, and I have a lot of hope in this technology as a means to deliver rich and educational experience in the future.” Greg Cross, the Chief Business Officer for Soul Machines, states that kids who have grown up in this digital time adapt(适应) to new techn

23、ology quickly, and he hopes to develop the idea of digital humans in the area of educate further.The program, in place since August 2018, has been a great success so far. However, no mater how popular it becomes, Will is unlikely to replace human edueators any time soon. For one, the avatars knowled

24、ge base is severely limited. But more importantly, even the smartest digital avatars could never predict and react to all the unexpected situations that educators have to deal with on a daily basis. However, it could come in handy as a “personal teacher”, providing kids with one-on-one help on the s

25、ubjects or even topics.8. What is mentioned about Will in the first paragraph?A. He is a human-like robot teacher.B. He is the first robot teacher in the world.C. He is a digital teacher teaching in a school.D. He will walk across the classroom to you when called.9. In what way does the digital teac

26、her help the students?A. By taking part in discussion. B. By changing teaching methods.C. By communicating with students. D. By monitoring students behavior.10. What is Greg Crosss attitude toward the digital teacher?A. Supportive. B. Doubtful.C. Uncaring. D. Dissatisfied.11. What can be inferred ab

27、out the digital teacher from the last paragraph?A. It has entered many homes as kids private teacher.B. It will teach in class in place of human educators.C. Its good at handling unexpected situations.D. It remains to be improved.DMillions of Americans sit behind a computer screen, chained to their

28、desk all day because the vast majority of stable, high-paying professions(职业) are “office jobs”. However, having a successful career does not require you to sit behind a desk and plug away at a computer all day.In fact, there are a large number of non-desk jobs in a variety of industries that are gr

29、owing and offering workers a direct path to the middle class, according to a new analysis of labor market information from CareerBuilder. While most of the highest-paying non-desk jobs are medical professions that require a doctoral or professional degree, there are 170 non-desk professions that pay

30、 $15 per hour or more, do not require a bachelors degree(学士学位) for a typical entry-level position, and have seen at least 6 percent job growth over the last four years.“The US workforce has gradually changed to office-based work because of the rise of the professional service economy and productivit

31、y gains associated with information technology,” Rosemary Haefner, Vice President of Human Resources Officer at CareerBuilder, said in a statement. “But some of the healthiest areas of job growth year after year are in middle-skill professions that dont require workers to sit in front of computer mo

32、nitors and phones for 40 hours a weel.”Here are the top-paying jobs that dont require you to work at a desk in various kinds none of which require a four-year college degree and their hourly salary(工资) and growth rate since 2010: professional assistants(助理) : $26.57, 14 percent; elevator repairers: $37.81, 6 percent; mechanical engineering technicians: $25.19, 10 percent; and electromechanical(电动机械的) technicians: $24.68, 8 percent.While they tend to pay less than traditional offic