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1、广东省第二师范学院番禺附属中学学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题广东省第二师范学院番禺附属中学2018-2019学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分，共10页，满分150分。考试用时130分钟。注意事项：1.本试卷分第一部分（选择题）和第二部分（非选择题）两部分。答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的班级、姓名、考生号填在答题卷指定位置。2.回答第一部分时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。写在本试卷上无效。3.回答第二部分时，用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将答案写在答题卡指定的答题区域内，超出答题区

2、域和写在本试卷答案无效。第I卷 （选择题 70分）第一部分 阅读理解（共两节 满分40分）第一节阅读理解（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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThe Coolest InventionsAn Oceans VacuumTheres a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Its bigger than Texas and growing. The way to clean it up now

3、 is to catch it with nets. That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next years trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42% over

4、 10 years.Easy-On ShoesIn 2012, Matthew Walzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,” he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out wit

5、h their solution: the Fly Ease. The basketball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike Fly Ease shoes sells for $ 130.An Airport for Drones (无人机）As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have?

6、Rwanda, in Africa, may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goal is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.1. Whats the advantage of the

7、 Oceans Vacuum? A. It can be a money-saver. B. It can grow year by year.C. It can tear plastic into pieces. D. It can be put into wide use soon.2. What do we know about Nike? A. It offers free shoes to the disabled. B. It is designing new shoes frequently.C. It provides customer-friendly services. D

8、. It responded to Matthews request passively.3. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”?A. Because there are too many drones.B. Because road travel there is rough.C. Because theyre easier to construct than roads.D. Because they are receptive to new technology.BI really love my job because I enjoy wor

9、king with small children and like the challenges and awards from the job. I also think my work is important. There was a time when I thought I would never have that sort of career.I wasnt an excellent student because I didnt do much schoolwork. In my final term I started thinking what I might do and

10、 found I didnt have much to offer. I just accepted that I wasnt the type to have a career.I then found myself a joblooking after two little girls. It wasnt too bad at first. But the problems began when I agreed to live in so that I would be there if my boss had to go out for business in the evening.

11、 We agreed that if I had to work extra hours one week, shed give me time off the next. But unfortunately, it didnt often work out. I was getting extremely tired and fed up, because I had too many late nights and early mornings with the children.One Sunday, I was in the park with the children, and me

12、t Megan who used to go to school with me. I told her about my situation. She suggested that I should do a course and get a qualification（资格证书）if I wanted to work with children. I didnt think I would be accepted because I didnt take many exams in school. She persuaded me to phone the local college an

13、d they were really helpful. My experience counted for a lot and I got on a part-time course. I had to leave my job with the family, and got work helping out at a kindergarten.Now Ive got a full-time job there. I shall always be thankful to Megan. I wish I had known earlier that you could have a care

14、er, even if you arent top of the class at school.4. What is the authors present job?A. Working part-time in a college.B. Taking care of children for a family.C. Helping children with their schoolwork.D. Looking after children at a kindergarten.5. When staying with the two girls family, the author _.

15、A. was paid for extra workB. often worked long hoursC. got much help from her bossD. took a day off every other week6. Why did the author leave her first job?A. She found a full-time job.B. She was fed up with children.C. She decided to attend a part-time course.D. She needed a rest after working ex

16、tra hours.7. What has the author learned from her own experiences?A. Less successful students can still have a career.B. Qualifications are necessary for a career.C. Hard work makes an excellent student.D. One must choose the job one likes.CIn some islands north of Scotland, head lice, which live on

17、 the hair or skin of people or animals, were a part of life. If the lice left their host, he became sick and feverish. Therefore, sick people had lice put in their hair intentionally. There was a method to their madness: As soon as the lice had settled in again, the patient improved. The story expla

18、ins the confusion of cause and effect. If the lice leave the sick, it is because he has a fever and they simply get hot feet. When the fever breaks, they return. We may laugh at this story, but false causalitymisleads us practically every day. Consider the headline: “Fact: Women Who Use Shampoo XYZ

19、Every Day Have Stronger Hair.” This statement says very littleleast of all, that the shampoo makes your hair stronger. It might simply be the other way round: Women with strong hair tend to use Shampoo XYZand perhaps thats because it says “especially for thick hair” on the bottle. A further example:

20、 Scientists found that long periods in the hospital did harm to patients. This was music to health insurers ears, who, of course, are keen to make stays as brief as possible. But, clearly, patients who are dismissed immediately are healthier than those who must stay on for treatment. Recently I read

21、 that students get better grades at school if their homes contain a lot of books. This study was surely a shot in the arm for booksellers, but it is also an example of false causality. This simple truth is that educated parents tend to value their childrens education more than uneducated ones do. Pl

22、us, educated parents often have more books at home. In short, a dust-covered copy of War and Peace alone isnt going to influence anyones grades; what counts is parents education levels, as well as their genes. Another example of false causality was the supposed relationship between the birth rate an

23、d the numbers of stork (鹳) pairs in Germany. Both were in decline, and if you plot them on a graph, the two lines of development from 1965 to 1987 appeared almost the same. Does this mean the stork actually does bring babies? Obviously not, since this was a purely accidental connection. In conclusio

24、n: Connection is not causality. Take a closer look at linked events: Sometimes what is presented as the cause turns out to be the effect, or just the other way around. And sometimes there is no link at alljust like with the storks and babies. 8. Which is an example of false causality? A. Women with

25、strong hair tend to use a certain shampoo. B. Birth rate and the stork population are connected. C. Longer periods in the hospital benefit patients. D. Lice can make a person sick and feverish.9. The underlined phrase “a shot in the arm” in Paragraph 4 means _. A. pain B. defeat C. guidance D. encou

26、ragement10. According to the author, students get better grades probably because _. A. their homes are full of books B. they have read War and Peace C. their educated parents value education D. their parents are successful booksellers11. It can be concluded from the passage that _. A.linked events m

27、ay turn out to be unrelated B. cause and effect are interdependent C. connections are mostly cause and effect D. connections are pure accidentsDAn artificial intelligence chatbot (聊天机器人) called TacoBot from fast food chain Taco Bell now lets you order a meal in a smartphone text exchange that might

28、look something like this:TacoBot: Hello there. Im your TacBot. I can help you order a meal for you or your team.You: Can I order one soft taco (墨西哥煎玉米卷) with beef?TacoBot: Sounds good. Do you want to keep adding stuff? Maybe some bacon?Brands like Taco Bell and some tech companies are betting that m

29、ore and more people will start using this conversational way of interacting online instead of clicking through on-screen menus.If the trend catches on as firms like Facebook and Microsoft expect it could transform the digital landscape by allowing smartphone users to find information or make purchas

30、es with simple text messages, ignoring apps and search engines. Among the companies already developing or launching chatbots are the Wall Street Journal, CNN and retail giants Sephora and H&M.“I believe we are headed to a shift where this will become one of the primary ways we interact with the digi

31、tal world,” says Mark Beccue of Mark Beccue Consulting, who follows trends in the messaging market. “The chat user interface(界面) is what makes sense for a mobile-first world. You can be more specific and be quicker.”Messaging services have become a natural place for chatbots to reside(居住), since the

32、ir usage is growing: at least 1.4 billion people used a messaging app last year. According to Business Insider Intelligence, messaging apps have overtaken the largest social networks in the world.The messaging service Kik meanwhile launched its own “bot shop”, with partners including retailers and game developers. Kik said the move was a response to the trend people using fewer apps and spending more time on chat platforms. “Theres nothing to dow