高二下学期英语4月月考试卷第1套真题

高二下学期英语

4

月 月考试卷

一、阅读理解

1.

阅读理解

My first trip to Greece took place in the1960s. There I accepted a challenge

to hitchhikewitha group of English friends from my university in Birmingham to

Athens withlittle money. For me, a 20-year-old girl, I had not done anything

like thisbefore. It was so hard on the road. We slept in the open air, ate little

morethan bread and cheese, and depended heavily on the help of strangers.

But ithelped me learn about European society.

One day, my Greek friend came to see me atthe youth hostel and asked

me

to

step

outside.

He

was

angry

with

me.

Hereminded

me

of

my

social

background

and

asked

what

my

parents

would

say

if

theysaw

me

living

in

these conditions like these “dirty” English. Afterseveral weeks on the road,

we did look tired

; but his choice of the word “dirty”interested me. He was

showing a historic dislike of the English that some Europeanshad. In that part

of Europe, both the Turks and the Greeks, who dislike eachother to this day,

blamed the English for their national disasters. He ignoredmy explanations of

having accepted the challenge of hitchhiking. He took mehome and his family,

especially his mother and sisters, showed me Greekhospitality at its best.

My experience in Greece could not havediffered more from the situation

facing

Pakistanis

—

and

others

seeking

shelter

—

in

Greece

today.

On

recent

visits

to

Greece

in

connection

with

my

study

onIslam

in

Europe,

I

saw

the

trouble

of

the

refugees.

Some

said

that

they

had

been

physically

beaten.

However,

thereare

good

stories

of

ordinary

Greeks

giving

shelter

to

some

hopeless

sense

of

Greek

hospitality

that

I

experienced

as

a

student does exist.

（

1

）What

was

the

author’s

purpose

of

taking

a

trip

to

Greece

in

the

1960s?

A . To visit a friend in Greece.B . To complete a challenge bravely.C . To learn

how

to

hitchhike

to

other

countries.D

.

To

increase

her

knowledge

about

European society.

（

2

）

What did the author find during her recent visits to Greece?

A .

Many

Greeks

lived

a

very

bad

life.B .

The

country

hadn’t

changed

much.C . Some refugees were badly treated.D . Many people were leaving the

country.

（

3

）

What does the author want to show by giving the example in the last

paragraph?

A . Many Greek people still love helping others.B . Many people in Greece

need help.C . Greece is a safe country for refugees.D . Helping others is very

important.

2.

阅读理解

At

a

bright

new

building

in

Landover,Maryland,

students

are

getting

a

crash course,in which they are learning how to spend

，

save and lookafter their

money responsibly.

Tuesday

marked

the

grand

opening

of

the

newest

JuniorAchievement

Finance Park, where eighth-

graders from Prince George’s Countyschools will

use

tablet

computers

to

practice

personal

finance

skills

they

havelearned

in

class. An international study last year clearly showed that morethan 1 in 6 U. S.

teens is unable to make simple choices about how to spendtheir money.

The center, a mini city o

f stores, was created by PrinceGeorge’s County

schools, Capital One Bank and Junior Achievement of Greater

fact the first Washington-area Finance Park opened in Fairfax County,Virginia,

five

years

ago.

Altogether

there

are

17

finance

parks

nationwide,

andone

is

planned to open in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Before coming to a finance park, students have lessons onhow to save

and invest, how to read a bank statement and how to make senseof debit

and

credit cards. They put their skills to the test when they walkinside. Students are

given a career, salary, debt and family situation, andthen they are required to

have to put together a monthly budget .

Budgeting can be tricky. Students need to figure out howmuch to spend

on

groceries,

rent,

transportation

and

even

entertainment.

Theyshop

with

virtual

money

，

making

a

change

in

their

budgets

according

to

different

situationsthey may go into.

When

asked

about

the

practice,

LaChelle

King,

a

teacher

atBenjamin

Tasker Middle School in Bowie, said the center was exciting andsurprising for

her students. One of the kids said,” Now I know why my momgets mad at me

when I ask her to buy me things!”

（

1

）

In the crash course, students learn to ___________.

A . make moneyB . spend moneyC . develop finance knowledgeD . make a

monthly budget

（

2

）

The finance park is________________________.

A . a center where students practice finance skillsB . a park where people

can buy what they needC . a bank where people can borrow or save moneyD . a

classroom where students learn finance skills

（

3

）The

underlined

phrase

“make

sense

of”

in

the

fourth

paragraph

means “___________ “.

A

.

stand

up

forB

.

keep

away

fromC

.

get

ready

forD

.

have

an

understanding of

（

4

）

The last paragraph tries to tell us___________ .

A . U.S. teens need a

lot of things in daily lifeB . U. S. mothers don’t know

how to spend moneyC . teachers also learn a lot from the crash coursesD . the

crash courses have a good effect on students

3.

阅读理解

Seeds on Ice

Close

to

the

North

Pole

，

remoteand

rocky

Plateau

Mountain

in

the

Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard seems anunlikely spot for any global effort

to safeguard agriculture. In this cold anddeserted environment

，

no g rains

，

nogardens

，< /p>

no trees can grow. Yet at the end of a 130-meter-longtunnel cut

out of solid stone is

a room filled with humanity’s most precioustreasure, the

largest and most diverse seedcollection

—

more than a half-billion seeds.

A

quiet

rescue

mission

is

under

way.

Withgrowing

evidence

that

unchecked

climate

change-will

seriously

affect

foodproduction

and

threaten

the

diversity

of

crops

around

the

world

，

theSvalbard

Global

Seed

Vault

represents

a

major

steptowards

ensuring

the

preservation

of

hundreds

ofthousands of crop varieties. This is a seed collection, but more importantly,it

is a collection

of the traits found within the

seeds

：

the

genes that give one

variety resistance to a particular pest andanother variety tolerance for hot

，

dry

weather.

Few people

will ever

see orcome into contact

with the contents of

this

vault. In sealed boxes

，

behindmultiple locked doors

，

monitored by electronic

securitysystems, enveloped in below

—

zero temperatures, and surrounded by

tons

of

rock,hundreds

of

millions

of

seeds

are

protected

in

their

mountain

fortress.

Frozenin

such conditions

inside the mountain,

seeds of most

major

crops

will

remain

viablefor

hundreds

of

years,

or

longer.

Seeds

of

some

are

capable of retaining

their ability to grow for thousands of years.

Everyone can look back nowand say that the Seed Vault was a good and

obvious

idea,

and

that

of

course

theNorwegian

government

should

have

approved and funded it. But back in 2004, whenthe Seed Vault was proposed,

it was viewed as a crazy

，

impractical,and expensive idea.

We knew that nothing wouldprovide a definite guarantee. But we were

tired, fed up, and franklyscared of the steady, greater losses of crop diversity.

The Seed Vault wasbuilt by optimists who wanted to do something to preserve

options so thathumanity and its crops might be better prepared for change. If

it simplyresupplied seed gene banks with samples those gene banks had lost,

this wouldrepay our efforts.

The Seed Vault is abouthope and commitment

—

about what can bedone

if

countries

come

together

and

work

cooperatively

to

accomplish

somethingsignificant, long- lasting

，

and worthy of who we are andwish to be.

（

1

）

According to the passage, the Seed Vault is ___________.

A . a tunnel where the collected seeds are displayedB . a stone room that

contains

the

seeds

of

endangered

cropsC

.

a

seed

gene

bank

that

stores

diverse seeds for future agricultureD . a lab where researchers study how to

maintain the diversity of crops

（

2

）The

underlined

word

“viable”

in

Paragraph

3

probably

means

________.

A . matureB . cleanC . aliveD . valuable

（

3

）

Paragraph 3 mainly tells us __________.

A . how the seeds are preservedB . where people keep the seedsC . why the

seeds are protectedD . what people do to study the seeds

（

4

）

We can know from the passage that _________.

A . the Seed Vault offers a solution to climate changeB . most countries

took part in rescuing the seed varietiesC . the Seed Vault guarantees to prevent

the

loss

of

crop

diversityD .

many

people

originally

considered

building

the

Seed Vault unwise

4.

阅读理解

Many of us listento music while we work, thinking that it will help us to

concentrate

on

thetask

at

hand.

And

in

fact,

recent

research

has

found

that

music can havebeneficial effects on creativity. When it comes to other areas of

performance,however, the impact of background music is more complicated.

The

idea

that

listening

to

musicwhen

working

is

beneficial

to

output

probably has its roots in the so-

called”Mozart effect”. Put simply, this is the

finding

that

spatialrotation

performance

isincreased

immediately

after

listening to the music of Mozart, compared to nosound at all.

How sound affectsperformance has been the topic of research for over 40

years,

and

is

observedthrough

a

phenomenon

called

the

irrelevant

sound

effect. To study irrelevantsound effect, participants in the research are asked to

complete

a

simple

taskwhich

requires

them

to

recall

a

series

of

numbers

or

letters in the exact orderin which they saw them. The tricky thing is being able

to do this whileignoring any background noise.

Two

keycharacteristics

of

the

irrelevant

sound

effect

are

required

for

itsobservation.

First,

the

task

must

require

the

person

to

use

their

rehearsalabilities,

andsecond,

the

sound

must

contain

acoustical

variation.

Where the sound does not vary much acoustically, the performanceof the task

is much closer to that observed in quiet conditions.

The irrelevant soundeffect itself comes from attempting to process two

sources of orderedinformation at the same time

—

onefrom the task and one

from

the

sound.

Unfortunately,

only

the

former

isrequired

to

successfully

perform

the

recall

task,

and

the

effort

in

ensuringthat

irrelevant

order

information from the sound is not processed actuallyhinders this ability.