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1、届上海市各大高中学校高二英语试题分类专题汇编阅读理解C篇学生版精确校对珍藏版One【2018届上海市上海中学高二英语摸底考试题】Section BDirections：Read passage A, B, C and D. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the pas

2、sage you have just read.CIn 1917 Orville Wright predicted that“the aeroplane will help peace in many ways in particular I think it will have a tendency to make war impossible.” Earlier in 1904, American journalist John Walker declared, “As a peace machine, the value of the aeroplane to the world wil

3、l be beyond computation.” This wasnt the first grand promise of technology. In that same year Jules Verne announced, “The submarine(潜艇)may be the cause of bringing battle to a stoppage.”Alfred Nobel, sincerely believe his dynamite(火药) would be a war obstacle: “My dynamite will sooner lead to peace t

4、han a thousand world conventions(公约).” Similarly, when Hiran Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, was asked in 1893, “Will this gun not make war more terrible?” He answered, “No, it will make war impossible.” Gugliemo Mareconi, inventor of the radio, told the world in 1912. “The coming of the wireles

5、s time will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.” General James Harbord, chairman of the board of RCA in 1925, believed, “Radio will serve to make the concept of Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men a reality.”David Nye, a historian of technology, adds to the list of inventions

6、imagined as abolishing war forever and leading to universal peace the hot-air balloon, poison gas, land mines and laser guns.It is not that all these inventions are without benefitseven benefits toward democracy. Rather, its the case that each new technology creates more problems than it solves. “Pr

7、oblems are the answers to solutions,” says Brian Arthur.Most of the new problems in the world are problems created by previous technology. These problems are nearly invisible to us. Every year 1.2 million people die in automobile accidents. The technological transportation system kills more people t

8、han cancer. Global warming, environmental poisons, nuclear terrorism, and species loss, are only a few of the many other serious problems troubling people.If we embrace(拥抱) technology we need to face its costs.44. What will new inventions do according to the first two paragraphs?A. They will increas

9、e wars. B. They will lead to peace.C. They will serve people. D. They will break conventions.45. What invention was considered to make war silly by its inventor?A. The radio. B. The aeroplane. C. Dynamite. D. The machine gun.46. What does the author list so many inventions?A. To show peoples creativ

10、ity. B. To appreciate their benefits.C. To contradict the original ideas. D. To prove grand promises.47. What does the author hope to tell us about new technology through the text?A. It will experience many tests.B. It will bring about huge costs in the world.C. It provides answers to many problems.

11、D. It presents more problems than it solves.Two【2018届上海市南洋模范中学高二英语摸底考试题】Section BDirections:Read the following three passages.Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that fits best according to

12、the information given in the passage you have just read.CCultural Center Adds Classes for Young AdultsThe Allendale Cultural Center has expanded its arts program to include classes for young adults.Director Leah Martin announced Monday that beginning in September,three new classes will be offered to

13、 the Allendale community.The course titles will be Yoga for Teenagers;Hip Hop Dance: Learning the Latest Moves;and Creative Journaling for Teens: Discovering the Writer Within.The latter course will not be held at the Allendale Cultural Center but instead will meet at the Allendale Public Library.St

14、aff member Tricia Cousins will teach the yoga and hip hop classes.Ms.Cousins is an accomplished choreographer（舞蹈教师）as well as an experienced dance educator.She has an MA in dance education from Teachers College,Columbia University,where she wrote a thesis on the pedagogical（教学法的）effectiveness of dan

15、ce education.The journaling class will be taught by Betsy Milford.Ms.Milford is the head librarian at the Allendale Public Library as well as a columnist for the professional journal Library Focus.The courses are part of the Allendale Cultural Centers Project Teen,which was initiated by Leah Martin,

16、 Director of the Cultural Center.According to Martin,this project is a direct result of her efforts to make the center a more essential part of the Allendale community.Over the last several years,the number of people who have visited the cultural center for classes or events has steadily declined.Pr

17、oject Teen is primarily funded by a generous grant from The McGee Arts Foundation,an organization devoted to bringing arts programs to young adults.Martin oversees the Project Teen board,which consists of five board members.Two board members are students at Allendales Brookdale High School;the other

18、 three are adults with backgrounds in education and the arts.The creative journaling class will be cosponsored by Brookdale High School,and students who complete the class will be given the opportunity to publish one of their journal entries in Pulse,Brookdales student literary magazine.Students who

19、 complete the hip hop class will be eligible to participate in the Allendale Review,an annual concert sponsored by the cultural center that features local actors,musicians,and dancers.All classes are scheduled to begin immediately following school dismissal,and transportation will be available from

20、Brookdale High School to the Allendale Cultural Center and the Allendale Public Library.For more information about Project Teen,contact the cultural centers programming office at 988-0099 or drop by the office after June l to pick up a fall course catalog.The office is located on the third floor of

21、the Allendale Town Hall.64.Which of the following statements is correct?A.Tricia Cousins will teach two of the new classes.B.The new classes will begin on June 1.C.People who want a complete fall catalogue should stop by the Allendale Public Library.D.The cultural centers annual concert is called Pu

22、lse.65.According to Leah Martin,what was the direct cause of Project Teen?A.Tricia Cousins was available to teach courses in the fall.B.Community organizations were ignoring local teenagers.C.The McGee Arts Foundation wanted to be more involved in Allendales arts programming.D.She wanted to make the

23、 cultural center a more important part of the Allendale community.66.Which of the following factors is implied as another reason for Project Teen?A.The number of people visiting the cultural center has declined over the last several years.B.The cultural center wanted a grant from The McGee Arts Foun

24、dation.C.The young people of Allendale have complained about the cultural centers offerings.D.Leah Martin thinks classes for teenagers are more important than classes for adults.Three【2018届上海市七宝中学高二英语开学考试题】Section BDirections:Read the following three passages.Each passage is followed by several ques

25、tions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.CIn the 1990s, when an area of Brazilian rainforest the size of Belgium was cut down every year, Brazil was th

26、e worlds environmental villain (反派角色) and the Amazonian jungles the image of everything that was going wrong in green places. Now, the Amazon ought to be the image of what is going right. Government figures show that deforestation fell by 70% in the Brazilian Amazon region during the past decade. If

27、 clearances had continued at their rate in 2005, an extra 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide would have been put into the atmosphere. That is an amount equal to a years emissions from the European Union. Arguably, then, Brazil is now the world leader in addressing climate change.But how did it bre

28、ak the vicious cycle (恶性循环)? The answer, according to a paper is that there was no silver bullet but instead a three-stage process in which bans, better governance in frontier areas and consumer pressure on companies worked.The first stage ran from the mid-1990s to 2004. This was when the government

29、 put its efforts into bans and restrictions. The Brazilian Forest Code said that, on every farm in the Amazon, 80% of the land had to be set aside as a forest reserve. As the study observes, this share was so high that the code could not be followed - or enforced. This was the period of the worst de

30、forestation. Soybean prices were high and there were a vast expansion of soybean farming on the south-eastern border of the rainforest.During the second stage, which ran from 2005 to 2009, the government tried to boost its ability to police the Amazon. Brazils president made stopping deforestation a

31、 priority, which resulted in better co-operation between different bits of the government. The area in which farming was banned was increased from a sixth to nearly half of the forest.The third stage, which began in 2009, was a test of whether a system of restrictions could survive as soybean expans

32、ion continued. The government shifted its focus from farms to counties (each state has scores of these). Farmers in the 36 counties with the worst deforestation rates were banned from getting cheap credit until those rates fell.By any standards, Brazils Amazon policy has been a success, made the more remarkable because it relied on restrictions rather than rewards, which might have been expected to have worked better. Over the period of the study, Brazil also turned itself into a farming superpower, so the country has shown it is possible to get a huge i