湖南省湖南师大附中学年高二英语下学期第一次大练习试题.docx

1、湖南省湖南师大附中学年高二英语下学期第一次大练习试题某某省某某师大附中2020-2021学年高二英语下学期第一次大练习试题第一部分阅读技能(共两节，满分45分)第一节阅读理解(共12小题；每题3分，满分36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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThis is my son Matthews last night at home before college. I know that this is good news. I feel proud that Matthew will go to a great school. I kn

2、ow that this is the finest hour. But looking at the suitcases on his bed sends me out of the room to a hidden corner where I cant stop crying.Through the sorrow, I feel embarrassed. “Pull yourself together!” I tell myself. There are parents sending their kids off to battle zones. How dare I feel so

3、shocked and upset?One of the great gifts of my life has been having my boys, Matthew and John Owen. Through them, I have explored the mysterious, plicated bond between fathers and sons. As my wife and I raised them, I have discovered the love and loss between my father and me. After my parents divor

4、ce, I spent weekends with my dad in Ohio. By the time Sunday came around, I was unable to enjoy the days activities because I was already afraid of the goodbye of the evening.Now, standing among Matthews accumulation of possessions, I realize its me who has bee a boy again. All my sadness and longin

5、g to hold on to things are back, sweeping over me as they did when I was a child.His bed is tidy and spare. It already has the feel of a guest bed. In my mind I replay wrapping him in his favorite blanket. That was our nightly routine until one evening he said, “Daddy, I dont think I need a blanket

6、tonight.” I think of all the times we lay among the covers reading. I look at the bed and think of all the recent times I was annoyed at how late he was going to sleep. Ill never have to worry about that again, I realize.For his part, Matthew has been a rock. He is treating his leaving as just anoth

7、er day at the office. And Im glad. After all, someones got to be strong. Im proud that he is charging into the first chapter of his adult life with such conf idence.1. What does the writer mean by “Pull yourself together!”?A. Get up!B. Take up!C. Cheer up!D. Wake up!2. We can infer from the passage

8、that_.A. the writer is accustomed to sleeping earlyB. Matthew doesnt get on well with his fatherC. the writer wasnt brave enough to face his parents divorceD. Matthew is ready for his new life3. How does the writer feel about his sons leaving for college?A. Worried.B. Grateful.C. Relieved.D. Bitters

9、weet.4. Which of the following could be the best title of the text?A. Sweet MemoriesB. Unavoidable GoodbyeC. A Glorious MomentD. Unconditional Love【答案】1. C 2. D 3. D 4. BBWith reports suggesting a second wave of coronavirus(新冠病毒) may be on its way (or here already), it makes sense to give yourselves

10、 a check if were still doing all the right things. Washing hands is one of those things that we were hopefully already doing, but realized in the wake of the pandemic that we could always be doing it more and for longer. But what about washing our food? Given the news that there have been outbreaks

11、in food factories and processing plants from-Bernard Matthews to Mr. Kipling locations-it does make sense to think about it.Although the government have confirmed that the chance of catching coronavirus from food and food packaging is “very unlikely”, washing food before eating is a part of good hab

12、it that can reduce that small risk. Sally Bloomfield, chair of the scientific advisory board of the International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene tells people, “Because the items you pick off the shelves in the supermarket will have been touched by other people, there is a chance that the packaging

13、 may have bee harmful via their hands. Washing your shopping is not a question of whether it is necessary, its about minimizing risk-and if someone in the home is at increased risk of infection, this bees more important.”Dr. Perpetua Emeagi, a lecturer in Human Biology and Biological Sciences at Liv

14、erpool Hope University, says, “If someone with COVID-19 asked you if you wanted a bite of their sandwich, you clearly wouldnt go anywhere near it.” And the same caution has to be taken with everything you bring home from the supermarket, as you simply don t know whos been handling it before you. Ima

15、gine a scene where someone with COVID-19 has sneezed into his hands before entering the store and picked up a tin of beans. The same person changes his mind, puts the tin of beans back on the shelf, only for you to e and place it in your basket shortly afterwards. On the science side, she continues,

16、 “Officially, Public Health England tells us that the quantity of infectious virus on any surface is likely to have decreased significantly by 24 hours, and even more so by 48 hours. But theres also some evidence to suggest the virus could survive for up to seven days outside the human body. Surface

17、s like cardboard and plastic-mon supermarket packaging products-are known to effectively harbor COVID-19. And my advice would be this: Wash or wipe down everything you bring home thoroughly before either putting in your cupboards or consuming it.”5. Why did the author mention coronavirus in the firs

18、t paragraph?A. To give some evidence.B. To attract young readers.C. To lead to the topic.D. To relate the latest event.6. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 2?A. People can by no means catch a virus from food.B. Washing food before eating is a positive and necessary action.C. The

19、items you pick from the supermarket can have a lot of viruses.D. The government has confirmed that there is no need to wash food before eating.7. What does the underlined word mean in Paragraph 3?A. Cause.B. Destroy.C. Protect.D. Carry.8. What does the passage mainly talk about?A. Necessity of washi

20、ng food before eating.B. Ways to stop the spread of coronavirus.C. Approaches to picking up groceries.D. Ways to deal with infection with coronavirus.【答案】5. C 6. B 7. D 8. ACA study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important . These experiences affect the develo

21、pment of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion(万亿)connections in the brain of a three-year-old child.Resea

22、rcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mu-ba-ba. This is the patternA-B-B. Another order was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern

23、“A-B-C”. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during the A-B-Bpattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order.Gervain is excited by these findings because the

24、 order of sounds is the building block of words and grammar. Position is key to language, she says. If something is at the beginning or at the end, it makes a big difference: John caught the bear. is very different from The bear caught John.”Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found that

25、 language delivered by televisions, audio books, the Internet, or smartphonesno matter how educationaldoesnt appear to be enough for childrens brain development. They carried out a study of nine-month-old American babies. They expected the first group whod watched videos in Chinese to show the same

26、kind of learning as the second group who were brought face-to-face with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies regardless of whether they had watch

27、ed the video or listened to the audiolearned nothing.9. What makes connections in a babys brain?A. Having a higher IQ.B. Experiencing new information.C. The babys early age.D. The connection with other babies.10. What did Judit Gervain and her team find in the experiment?A. Babies can identify diffe

28、rent sound patterns.B. Word order is relevant to meaning.C. Babies can well understand different words.D. A certain brain region processes language.11. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 3?A. Words have different sounds.B. Different orders have different meanings.C. Different langua

29、ges have different grammar.D. Grammar is important in learning languages12. What is the main conclusion from the study led by Patricia Kuhl?A. Babies shouldnt watch a lot of television.B. Foreign languages help babies brain develop.C. Listening to different languages develops babies brain.D. Social

30、munication improves babies brain development.【答案】9. B 10. A 11. B 12. D第二节小标题填空(共3小题；每小题3分，满分9分)下面文章中有3处(第1315题)需要添加小标题。请从以下选项(A、B、C和D)中选出符合各段意思的小标题，选项中有一项是多余选项。How to bee a better readerLanguage and literacy(读写能力) are among humans greatest inventions. Evolving over the course of human history, lang

31、uages are a reflection of our cultural and societal attitudes. Today, surrounded by social media, television, movies,and, of course, books, the ability to read and write is important to expressing ones feelings. Most humans acquire language in early childhood and speak fluently when they are about t

32、hree years old, but our continued relationship with language gives shape and meaning to our lives. Here are 4 ways to bee a better reader._13_ Many readers feel that they read too slowly, especially pared with others. But the truth is that the faster you read, the less likely you are to understand fully what youre reading. The best readers are flexible(灵活的)-slowing down when needed-and always have a dictionary at hand._14_ When humans first began reading written words, it was un