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高二上学期英语期末考试试卷
一、阅读理解（共
15
小题；每小题
2
分，满分
30
分）
1.
阅读理解
AppFire
Thisapplication
provides
for
users
apps
that
are
free
and
highly
discounted using this app, you only
need to submit some information
when
filling it up, you are eligible to have access to
alist of
recommended downloads.
Starling
Basedon bank nature, this app has been
a good one in that regard. They
have
abanking license and allow you to open a current
account through your
phone forjust some
minutes. You are even liable to earn interest on
the money
held inyour account through
this app. The app will notice you with alerts when
youspend money as it will help you
outline what you have spent in categories
likeshopping, bill, foods and many
more.
CampusSpecial
Thisapp is greatly used by
students as it enables them to have great deals
on
foodstores
and
restaurants
around
the
school.
It
also
gives
you
the
opportunity
toorder
food
from
your
hostel
through
your
phone
on
pick-up
delivery.
The
goodthing
about
this
app
is
that
it
enables
you
to
get
more
rewards when you
oftenuse it. Those rewards can be used at your
usual local
food stores.
ATMLocator
Thisis another interesting app that can
assist you in financial needs. When
you
arehooked up in an area that is not familiar to
you and you are interested
ingetting
some
cash,
instead
of
moving
up
and
down
in
searching
for
the
nearestplace
to
withdraw
some
cash,
this
app
should
give
you
comfort
in
doing
that. Ithelps you to find cash points that are
very near to you, and it will
displaythem on the map for you to check
through.
（
1
）
Which app can serve as a warning if you spend money?
A . Campus Special.B . ATM
locator.C . AppsFire.D . Starling.
（
2
）What’s special
about Campus Special?
A .
Its rewards enable you to save some money.B . It
offers you the biggest
discounts for
deals on food.C . It allows you to do your banking
without going
out.D . It enables you to
spend less on eating in campus canteen.
（
3
）
In
which situation can you make use of the app ATM
locator?
A . When
you have
no
bank
cards
on
you.B .
When
you
can’t find the
nearest cash
machine.C . When you are unfamiliar with the local
campus.D .
When you are busy with some
banking business.
2.
阅读理解
Jamie Whitmore, 43, isn’t used to
slowing down. Theprofessional athlete
who
became
a
gold
medalist
of
Olympics
for
the
disabledhas
never
met
a
challenge
she
couldn’t
overcome,
whether
it
was
a
mountain
bikerace
-or
cancer.
One morning in 2007,
Whitmore found her leg muscles weretight when
trying for a jog. Thinking she’d pushed
herself too hard in the lastrace, she
ignored the pain. Later at a sports
camp in Arizona, she realizedsomething was
wrong. “Once I got on my bike I was so
painful that it washard to pick my legs
up. I flew back home to go to a
hospital.” Whatdoctors found shocked them
all: Whitmore had a soft tissue tumor
that started in the bone, and the tumor
was wrapped around hernerve of waist,
touching several vital organs.
After the surgery, Whitmore had to
learn to walk again withthe help of a
physical
doctor.
She
also
started
radiation
treatment,
but
fourmonths
later,
doctors had worse
news: A scan had shown the cancer was back.
“Thistime it
was
more
aggressive.
Doctors
took
the
rest
of
my
nerve
in
the
waist,and
removed some cancer from my tail bone.
“ Whitmore developed sepsis from
the
surgery and endured a two-month
recovery. “Myscans were coming back
clear of cancer, but now I had all of
these othercomplications.”
Today, Whitmore is a mother and cancer-
free. She has won agold medal
in the
Paralympics, and has set two world records.
Whitmore has someadvice
for others with
limitations: Never let anyone tell you what youcan
and cannot
do.
You
have
to
find
out
yourself.
Some
doctors
told
me
I
wouldnever
ride
anything
more
than
a
stationary
bike.
And
yet
I
rode
my
mountainbike
104
miles climbing from 9,000 feet to
14,000
feet. You just can’t give
up.”
（
1
）What’s
Whitmore’s first reaction to her leg
pain?
A . She was very
scared.B . She thought nothing of it.C . She
related it to
cancer.D . She thought of
muscle tumor.
（
2
）
What does the
author intend to tell us in Paragraph 3?
A . What Whitmore has suffered.B . How
Whitmore reacted to cancer.C .
What
Whitmore
planned
to
perform.D
.
How
Whitmore
thought
of
the
treatment.
（
3
）
Who
does the underlined part in paragraph 4 refer to?
A .
People
living
with
cancers.B .
Students
short
of
virtues.C .
Students
without good luck.D . People living
with disabilities.
（
4
）
Which one of the following best
describes Whitmore?
A . Humorous and
unhealthy.B . Outgoing and honest.C . Strong
minded
and optimistic.D . Determined
and naughty.
3.
阅读理解
The
2020
summer
Olympics
will
be
held
in
Tokyo
next
has
made 5,000 medals for the winners. But
this Olympic medals are morespecial
than most----they are made entirely out
of recycled electronics.
One
new
focus
of
the
Tokyo
Olympics
is
to
make
them
“sustainable”
----toavoid
using
too
many
natural
resources,
so
that
the
games are environmentallyfriendly. As
part of this goal, the organizers decided
to make all of theOlympic medals out of
metal recycled from old electronics.
They needed gold forfirst place medals,
silver for second, and bronze for third.
You might not knowit, but almost all
electronics are made with small amounts
of
“precious”metals,
like
gold
and
silver.
But
collecting
enough
of
these
metals
to make5,000 medals is a huge challenge.
Th
at’s because the amount
of
metal in eachdevice is tiny. It would take about
20,000 cell phones to get just
2. 2 pounds of gold.
Beginning
in
April
2017,
organizers
placed
collection
boxesaround
the
country,
and
asked
people
to
turn
in
their
old
electronic
devicesfor
the
Olympic
medals.
Soon
people
began
to
fill
up
the
boxes,
turning
insmart
phones, digital cameras and laptops. By
the end, 1,621 local governmentshad
helped
out
with
the
collection
process.
The
Japanese
mobile
phone
companyNTT Docomo
collected 6.21 million used cell phones. In all,
around
158,000,000pounds
of electronics were collected.
Then
came
the
job
of
breaking
those
phones
down
intosmaller
pieces.
This
is
a
difficult
job.
It’s
also
dangerous,
because
some
ofthe
metals
and
other things
that go into electronics aren’t safe
for people totouch or breathe.
That’s
why it’s not a good idea to try something like
this athome. Once the
devices were
broken down, the metals had to be
carefullyseparated out. By the
end of
March, the organizers had hit their targets.
Theopening ceremony for
the 2020 summer
Olympics will take place in Tokyo on July24,020.
（
1
）What’s special
about the 2020 summer Olympics medals?
A . Shape.B . Material.C . Meaning.D .
Weight.
（
2
）
Why
is it a challenge to collect enough metals for
medals?
A . The Japanese people are
unwilling to help.B . Companies are recycling
metals for profit.C . The amount of
metal in each device is small.D . The amount
of device with metals is limited.
（
3
）
What do
the figures in paragraph 3 suggest?
A .
The number of the used electronics is too large to
deal with.B . People
in Japan are eager to get rid of their
used electronics.C . People in Japan are in
great
favor
of
the
collecting
process.D .
A
number
of
metals
are
wasted
to
produce electronics in Japan.
（
4
）
What can we
learn from the last paragraph?
A . The
job of breaking down phones into pieces is tough.B
. The targets of
collecting metals are
hard to achieve.C . The metals in the devices are
easy to
separate out.D . The opening
for the 2020 summer Olympics falls in June.
4.
阅读理解
We
know
that
reading
is
good
for
children.
Now, a
new
studysuggests
that just being around books has its
benefits. A team of researchersin Australia
finds
that
growing
up
with
a
large
library
at
home
improvesliteracy
，
number-sense,
and
even
technological
skills
in
later
life.
Itappeared
in
the
journal Social Science Research.
The researchers were
exploring the advantages of scholarlyculture. They
were interested in a curious
observation that some call the “radiationeffect”.
“Radiation effect is a situation where
children grow uparound books, but they
don’t
read
books.
But
someho
w
books
benefit
them,
eventhough
they
don’t
read
them
as
much
as
their
parents
wish
them
to.”
JoannaSikora,
a
sociologist
in
Australia.
Joana
and
her
colleagues
analysed
datacollected
between 2011
and 2015 by the Organization for Economic
survey assessed the literacy, numeracy,
and technological competency of more
than 160 ,000 adults from31 countries.
And it included a question about how
many
books
participants
hadin
their
homes
during
adolescence.
“What
we
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