高中英语必修二综合测试.docx

1、高中英语必修二综合测试阶段性综合检测(二)第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)(略)第二部分阅读理解(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(2015山西高三四校联考)Canadian short story writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize tor Literature. Eightytwoyearold Munro is the 13th woman to win the 112yearold prize.Munro didnt publish her

2、 first collection of short stories until she was 37 years old, but her stories have always been wellreceived.Lots of her stories share similar themes and characters, but each story has its own twists and turns.Even though shes won Canadas most famous literary award, the Giller Prize, twice, winning

3、the Nobel Prize for Literature is the cherry on top of Munros career. “It brings this incredible recognition, both of her and her career, and of the dedication to the short stray，”said one person.Along with the wellrespected title comes 1.3 million dollars. Munro said everything was“so surprising an

4、d wonderful”and that she was“dazed by all the attention and affection that has been coming my way”Munro knew she was in the runningshe was named the secondmost likely person to win this years prize, after Haruki Murakami(村上春树)of Japanbut she never thought that she would win.Munros win also represent

5、s the long way Canadian writers have come.“When I began writing there was a very small community of Canadian writers and little attention was paid by the world. Now Canadian writers are admired and respected around the globe.” Munro said on Thursday.She is technically not the first Canadian to win t

6、he Nobel Prize for Literature, but many like to think that she is. In 1976 Saul Bellow, who was born in Quebec but moved to Chicago when he was still a child, won the prize. Even though he was born in Canada, he is mostly considered to be an American writer.“This is a win for us all. Canadians, by o

7、ur very nature, are not very nationalistic，”said Geoffrey Taylor.“But things like this suddenly make you want to find a flag.”She wasnt sure whether she would keep writing if she won the prize, saying that it would be“nice to go out with a bang. But this may change my mind”【文章大意】82岁的加拿大短篇小说家Alice Mu

8、nro获得了诺贝尔文学奖，成为历史上第13位获此殊荣的女性作家。21What is the feature of Munros stories? A. They have their own complicated(复杂的)contents. B. They have similar story backgrounds. C. They have specific themes for children. D. They have the same characters in each book.解析：细节理解题。根据第二段的最后一句“Lots of her stories share sim

9、ilar themes and characters, but each story has its own twists and turns.”可知，她的很多故事都有相似的主题和人物，但每个故事都有自己的曲折情节，因此选择A项。答案：A22For Munro, the Nobel Prize for Literature is an award for_. A. her love for Canadian culture B. her devotion to the short story C. her special form of writing D. her career of edi

10、ting sbort stories解析：细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句的“It brings this incredible recognition，both of her and her career, and of the dedication to the short story”可知，Munro获得诺贝尔文学奖，是对她为短篇小说所做出的奉献的认可，因此选择B。答案：B23What is implied in the sixth paragraph? A. Canadian writers paid little attention to the prize. B. Canadian

11、writers arc just a small community. C. Canadian writers have long been ignored. D. Canadians have a long way to win the prize.解析：推理判断题。根据第六段Munro的话可知，当她开始写作的时候，加拿大作家只是一个小团体，很少被世界关注；尤其是根据第六段的第一句“Munros win also represents the long way Canadian writers have come.”可推知，加拿大作家长期被忽视。答案：C24What does the pas

12、sage mainly tell us? A. How Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. B. An introduction to the Nobel Prize for Literature. C. Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. D. A worldfamous writer, Alice Munro.解析：主旨大意题。本文主要讲述了Alice Munro获得了诺贝尔文学奖，由此可知C项切题。答案：CB(2015山东潍坊高三联考)Experts from ne

13、arly 200 countries have spent the past two weeks in Warsaw, Poland. More than 9,000 representatives gathered for a United Nations conference on climate change. Organizers called the meeting to work toward a treaty(条约)to fight rising temperatures on our planet. The treaty would be signed in 2015 and

14、take effect after 2020.In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is leading government efforts to fight climate change. The agency just ended a series of public hearings across the country. The EPA was seeking comments as it considers tightening clean air rules for coalburning power

15、plants.David Doniger is a climate policy expert. He says it is the duty of the EPA to control carbon as a pollutant.He wants the agency to establish new rules that would move the United States toward a cleaner energy environment.“No one is coming up with standards that would knock_out all those powe

16、r plants. Were talking about a shift from the dirtier ones to the eleanor ones, and from all those fossil fuelpowered ones towards renewable and even nuclear sources of energy.”He says the government is responsible for protecting clean air, not protecting old and dirty power stations.He says, “Thats

17、 the only way that we can continue to have the way of life we want without running into the wall on climate change impacts, which in turn will destroy the quality of life we have.”The EPA is now considering comments from the nationwide hearings. The agency plans to announce proposed rule changes in

18、June.【文章大意】联合国气候变化大会在波兰首都华沙举行，近200个国家的专家参加了该会议。在美国，环保署正为缓解气候变暖问题而努力。25The United Nations conference was held to_.A. call for protection of wildlifeB. deal with the warming climateC. make plans for nearly 200 countriesD. gather opinions from the representatives解析：细节理解题。根据第一段中的“Organizers called the m

19、eeting to work towrad a treaty(条约)to fight rising temperatures on our planet.”可知，联合国举行会议是为了处理气候变暖的问题，应选B。答案：B26What action will the EPA take to fight climate change?A. Accept the opinions of the Americans.B. Develop more nuclear sources of energy.C. Make more strict rules to limit coal power plants.

20、D. Close those power plants which pollute the air most.解析：细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句中的“it considers tightening clean air rules for coalburning power plants”可知，为了应对气候变化，环保署会制定更严格的规定来限制燃煤电厂，应选C。答案：C27The underlined phrase“knock out”in Paragraph 4 has the same meaning as“_”A. blow up B move awayC. break up D shut

21、 down解析：词义猜测题。下文谈论的是让电厂变得更清洁，是进行转变，而不是关闭这些电厂，因此knock out此处指“关闭”。blow up“爆炸”；move away“离开”；break up“解散”；shut down“停工，关闭”。故选D。答案：D28It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the EPA_.A. ignores the public commentsB. values public opinions greatlyC. will cancel the former lawsD. will announce the

22、 list of dirty plants解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段的第一句“The EPA is now considering comments from the nationwide hearings.”可知，环保署现在正在考虑全国听证会的意见，这说明环保署很重视公众的意见，因此选B。答案：BC(2015东北三校高三联考)Welcome to the world of multitaskinga place where the measure of a person is how many jobs he/she can perform at the same time. In fa

23、ct, if experts are to be believed, multitasking is a disastrous idea.One of the opponents of multitasking is Dr.Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University.“People who multitask frequently are less able to pay attention; theyre worse at managing their memory，”he said. In his opinion, the loss

24、that we get with multitasking is harmless in some situations, for example, part of doing business in the digital world, but you cant do serious work like writing, thinking or solving an important problem this way. You do worse even as you think youre doing better. All the time the research points to

25、 a simple fact: the brain cannol cope. When yon stop midway through composing a report to check an email，you force your brain to stop and regroup. It is like pressing the pause button during a movie, meaning the film takes longer to watch.And as for Dr.Nass, the problems extend beyond the brain. You

26、ng people who frequenly multitask are not as socially and emotionally healthy as those who dont. They just feel more emotionally satisfied and the feeling is so good and they are bound to desire it again.Todd Oppenheimer, a writer said，“Weve become a very shortterm society and dont reward people for

27、 spending a lot of time on something. “He fears we may end up losing the next generation of great thinkers. ”Its really unfortunate because the longterm challenges of our worldenvironmental issues, financial issuesrequire people to think wisely about the longterm consequences of what they do. And it

28、s no coincidence that the kind of people who do think longterm dont muhitask.”【文章大意】这是一篇科普文。研究人员发现，同时做很多事情的人做事不专一，不仅会导致事倍功半，而且还会影响人们的社交与情感健康。29According to Dr.Nass, multitasking_.A. makes the performance emotionally affected onlyB. contributes to memorizing various thingsC. may result in losing the

29、next generation of great thinkersD. can be performed using digital tools解析：细节理解题。关于同时做很多事，第二段说在有些情况下，比如在数字化的世界里做生意(doing business in the digital world)是无害的，因此选D。文章说同时做很多事会影响我们在人际交往和情感方面的健康(A项错)，会使我们的记性更差(B项错)，同时做很多事可能会使我们失去未来一代伟大的思想家是一位叫Todd的作家说的(C项不切是题)。答案：D30From the passage, we can tell_.A. the l

30、oss that we get with multitasking is harmlessB. we mistakenly believe that were doing better by switching between tasksC. multitasking does harm to us in every areaD. for every task you add to your muhitasking, you can finish your goal more quickly解析：推理判断题。文章开头说，“欢迎来到同时做很多事的世界，在这里，对一个人的衡量标准是他/她能同时开展

31、多少项工作”，接着说，这个想法实际上害人不浅，因此B项正确；从第二段可知A、C两项错，因为multitasking有时是无害的，有时则会妨硬我们；第二段最后一句通过打比方的方式告诉我们，这样会使事情做得更慢(D项错)。答案：B31Which of the following is a multitasking addict?A. You turn your cellphone to silence when youre out to dine with friends.B. You watch from start to finish without distraction when play

32、ing a DVD.C. You have your office desk covered with paperwork from various unfinished projects.D. You feel that when you try to do too much at once, the result afways suffers.解析：推理判断题。从本题四个选项的陈述看，A、B、D三项都是在专心做一件事，C项说办公桌上放着各种没有完工的项目的文件，这里的various unfinished projects属于multitasking。故选C。答案：C32The author mainly wants to tell us_. A. the less you switch, the bett