学年甘肃省武威第五中学高二英语下学期第一次检测试题有答案.docx

1、学年甘肃省武威第五中学高二英语下学期第一次检测试题有答案甘肃省武威第五中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期第一次检测试题第一部分 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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AToday we talk about a time when half the world is waking from the dark, cold winter months. Spring! We often describe “spring” as a time of rebirth, renewal and a

2、wakening. Many trees are blossoming and early flowers are pushing through the earth. Things are coming to life!But the word “spring” is not just a season. It is also a verb that means something going on or coming out quickly. When you put “spring” and “life” together, you will get “spring to life”.

3、This expression means something suddenly becomes very active or perhaps seems more alive! You may “spring to life” after hearing that a distant friend will be visiting you. Or maybe your favorite soccer team finally “sprang to life” in the second half, played well and won the match.Now, besides bein

4、g a season and a verb the noun “spring” refers to a metal coil (线圈) that is wound tightly. When the coil unwinds, it often jumps. So, we often say a person “has a spring in his step” if he is lively and active. He might even appear to jump, or bounce a little when he walks.There is another way we us

5、e “spring” as a description. In the case of a “spring chicken”, “spring” means young. However, “spring chicken” is also an informal, humorous way to refer to someone who isnt young at all. So, we use this expression in the negative form, as in “no spring chicken”. For example, lets say you know an 8

6、3-year-old man who decides to run a marathon, even though he has never exercised before. You could say, “Thats amazing! After all, hes no spring chicken.”But be careful when using this expression. It could be a little disrespectful. Lets say your boss shows you a picture of his wife, and you say, “W

7、ow, shes no spring chicken.” That response would be disrespectful and a bad career move.1. What does “spring” mean in the expression “spring to life”?A. The season after winter. B. Being young and healthy.C. A tightly wound metal coil. D. To occur or appear quickly.2. What is the passage mainly abou

8、t?A、The origin of the word “spring”B. The meaning of the season “spring”.C. Some expressions with the word “spring”.D. Some characteristics of the season “spring”.3. How does someone feel when he “has a spring in his step”？A. Angry B. Surprised C. Happy D. Frightened4. What can be inferred from the

9、last paragraph?A. Being young is a great advantage in career development.B. Women may feel offended when described as “no spring chicken”.C. Using “spring-related” expressions in conversations seems impolite.D. Expressions with the word “spring” are always disrespectful to others.BI am often homesic

10、k. I have learned something about myself from it. I moved from Long Island to Florida three years ago. Even though I own a home in Port St. Lucie just minutes from the ocean, an uncontrollable urge wells up to return to Long Island even as others make their way south. I guess I am a snowbird stuck i

11、n reverse. Instead of enjoying Floridas milder winters, I willingly bear the severe weather on Long Island, the place I called home for 63 years.Im like a migratory bird (候鸟) that has lost its sense of timing and direction, my wings flapping against season.So what makes me fly against the tide of sn

12、owbirds? The answer has a lot to do with my reluctance to give up the things that define who I am. Once I hear that the temperature on Long Island has dipped into the range of 40 to 30 degrees, I begin to long for the sight and crackling sound of a wood fire. I also long for the bright display of co

13、lors-first in the fall trees, and then in the lights around homes and at Rockefeller Center. Floridians decorate, too, but cant create the special feel of a New England winter.I suppose the biggest reason why I return is to celebrate the holidays with people I havent seen in months. What could be be

14、tter than sitting with family and friends for a Thanksgiving turkey dinner, or watching neighbors children excitedly open gifts on Christmas? Even the first snowfall seems special. I especially enjoy seeing a bright red bird settling on a snow-covered branch. (My wife and I spend winters at a retire

15、ment community in Ridge, and Im grateful that I dont have to shovel.)While these simple pleasures are not unique to Long Island, they are some of the reasons why I come back. Who says you cant go home?5. Whats the difference between Florida and Long Island?A. Winters in Florida are milder.B. The sno

16、wbirds in Florida are rarer.C. Weather in Florida is severer.D. Florida is nearer to the ocean. 6. What does the underlined word “reluctance” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. Coincidence. B. Expectation.C. Unwillingness. D. Motivation.7. Which of the following words can best describe the author?A. Homesick an

17、d easy-going.B. Hard-working and serious.C. Imaginative and outspoken,D. Anxious and painful.8. Whats the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To describe his dream to be a free bird.B. To express his feeling of missing his hometown.C. To praise the beauty and warmth of his family life.D. To expla

18、in the reasons for moving from his hometown.CIn the past many studies placedtoo muchemphasison how animalsare trained to learn. But recently more and more studies have focused on how animals equip themselves to learn. One studystarted witha school field trip to a pine forestwhere many pine cones wer

19、e discovered, stripped(剥壳) to the centralcore.So the investigation was directed at finding out what was eating the pine seeds and how they managed to get them out of the cones.The culprit proved to be theblack rat, and thetechniquewas to bite each conefrom base to top,following the growth pattern of

20、 the cone.Urban black rats were found to lack the skill. However, babies of urban mothers cross-fostered by stripper mothers acquired the skill,whereasbabies of stripper mothers fostered by an urban mother could not. Clearly the skill had to be learned from the mother. In the case of rats, the young

21、sters take cones away from the mother when she is still eating them, allowing them toacquirethe stripping skill.Another study, Bird Behaviour, provides a different view of the adaptiveness of social learning. It concerns the seed caching(hiding) behaviour of ClarksNutcrackerand the Mexican Jay. The

22、former is a specialist, caching about 30,000 seeds in scattered locations that it willrecoverover the months of winter; the Mexican Jay will also cache food but is much less dependent on this than the Nutcracker. The two species also differ in their socialstructure:the Nutcracker prefers living alon

23、e while, the Jay, in social groups.The experiment is to discover if a bird can remember where it hid a seed but also if it can remember where it saw another bird hide a seed. Thedesignisfunny with a cacher bird hiding food in a room, whilewatchedby acaged observerbird. Two days later, cachers and ob

24、servers are tested for their discovery rate against estimated random performance(预估随机表现). Both cachers performed above chance. More surprisingly, jay observers were as successful as jay cachers, whereasnutcracker observers did no better than chance. It seems that,whereasthe Nutcracker is highlyskill

25、edat remembering where it hid its own seeds, the social living Mexican Jay is more adept at remembering, and so making use of, the caches of others.9. Urban black rats were able to learn to strip when .A. fed by stripper mothers B. fostered by urban mothersC. living with stripper babies D. eating co

26、nes by themselves10. In Bird Behavior Study, we can conclude that .A. nutcraker observers perform well in rememberingB. the Clarks Nutcraker has better learning skillsC. the Mexican Jay benefits from social living D. jay cachers are only good at hiding food11. According to the passage, both studies

27、show that .A. skills are equipped in childhoodB. skills improve by practiceC. animals study through playingD. animals learn by examplesDNASA might be famous for sending rockets up to space quickly. But it will be more famous for making your next holiday come more quickly.The space agency is working

28、on a new plane, which could solve the problems of supersonic(超音速的) flight and vastly increase the speed of journeys abroad. If successful, the plane would be able to fly between New York and London in just three hours. And it would reduce the time spent flying other journeys by a half, since it coul

29、d be used more broadly. Until now, the problem with such planes has been the sonic boom(声爆), made famous by the original Concorde. That happens when a plane reaches supersonic speeds.It is a thunderous noise that upsets people on the ground- disturbing animals and even causing physical problems to m

30、aterials and houses underneath. It was that effect that led Congress to ban such planes from being used over the US land, a decision that in turn was responsible for Concordes failing to be commercially used.In view of the problem, the space agency has developed a new technology and tried it out in

31、wind tunnels, and now believes that it could be put to commercial use. That plane will fly as high as 33,000 feet- far higher than normal planes-and make a sound of only 60 decibels. Thats far less than 90 decibels thrown out by normal planes, and is roughly in line with a car on the motorway or a b

32、usy restaurant.“As long as we can get endorsement from the general public, the plane will probably be something thats acceptable,” said Peter Coen, project manager for NASAs commercial supersonic research team, in a new Bloomberg report. “If we get approved, we will have the full-sized version of the plane tried out and the plane will be put into use.”12. Why does the author mention Concorde?A. To suggest the rapid development of planes.B. To stress