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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.
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