辽宁省沈阳二中2019-2020学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 Word版含答案

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段材料，回答第

14

—

16

题。

14. What does the woman want to do today?

A. Write a book.

B. Read a magazine.

C Watch a movie.

15. Why does the man need some old magazines?

A. To know about old movies.

B. To find something about his family.

C. To learn about family life in the 1990s.

16. Where can the man find the magazines he needs?

A. On the third floor.

B. On the fourth floor.

听第

10

段 材料，回答第

17

—

20

题。

17. Why will the woman invite her friends to her apartment?

A. To celebrate her birthday.

B. To give a farewell dinner.

C. To give a house

-

warming party.

18. What will be provided at the party?

A. Some wine.

B. Noodles.

19. What do we know about the woman's apartment?

A. It's in front of a school.

B. It's on the 10

th

floor.

20. What is the woman doing?

A. Leaving a phone message.

C. On the fifth floor.

C. Pizza.

C. Its room number is 106.

B. Offering some advice.

C. Making a speech.

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A

、

B

、

C

、

D

四个选项中

选出最 佳选项。

A

72 hours in Beijing

Traveling

to

China

is

no

longer

a

luxury

for

many

foreign

passport

holders.

The

Chinese

government

has

permitted a 72

-

hour visa

-

free policy that offers access to visitors from 53 countries including the US, France and

Austria. Let's start with the capital of China, Beijing. Here's a pick of the best in Beijing!

Mutianyu Great Wall

Your trip to Beijing isn't really complete without seeing one of the

Great Wall of China. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is by far the

most

well

-

preserved of all. Taking a

one

-

hour bus ride, Mutianyu would be your ideal location for a half

-

day of hiking away from the large crowds in

the city. Also, the authorities have allowed tourists to paint graffiti on a specific section of the Great Wall since

2014. The Great Wall was designated

（指定）

a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.

798 Art Zone

This would be on the top of my list! Named after the 798 factory that was built in the 1950s, the art zone is

home to various galleries, design studios, art exhibition spaces, fashionable shops and bars. You could easily spend

half your day wandering around the complex, feeling the contrast of the present and the past.

Summer Palace

Located in northwestern Beijing, the Summer Palace is by far the city's most well

-

preserved royal park. With

its huge lake and hilltop views, the palace offers you a pastoral escape into the landscape of traditional Chinese

paintings. The Summer Palace was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998.

Sichuan Provincial Restaurant

While in Beijing, apart from trying the city's best

-

known Peking duck, the Sichuan provincial restaurant is one

of the places where you can enjoy regional delicious food. It offers one of China's eight great cuisines, Sichuan,

which ranges from Mapo tofu to spicy chicken.

21. Which of the following is true about the Muti?nyu Great Wall?

A. You can paint graffiti anywhere.

B. You need a half

-

day to get there.

C. Ii is the most well

-

preserved part of the Great Wall.

D. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2014.

22. When was the Summer Palace added to the UNESCO World Heritage List?

A. In 1950.

B. In 1987.

C. In 2014.

D. In 1998.

23. Which place is the author's first choice when visiting Beijing?

A. Mutianyu Great Wall.

B. 798 Art Zone.

C. Summer Palace.

D. Sichuan Provincial Restaurant.

B

A 1400

-

year

-

old Peruvian method of diverting

（转向）

water could supply up to 100 million cubic meters of

water

--

equal

to

40,000

Olympic

-

size

swimming

pools'

worth

of

water

—

to

Lima

each

year,

according

to

a

new

study published in

Nature Sustainability

. It's one example of how ancient methods could support existing modern

ones in countries without enough water.

More than a billion people across the world face water shortages. Man

-

made reservoirs store rainwater and

water overflow for use during drier times. But reservoirs are costly, require years to plan and can still fail to meet

water needs.

Peru's capital, Lima, depends on water from rivers high in the Andes Mountains. It takes only a few days for

water

to

flow

down

to

the

city.

So

when

the

dry

season

begins

in

the

mountains,

the

water

supply

quickly

disappears. The city suffers shortages of 43 million cubic meters during the dry season. It solves this with modern

structures such as man

-

made reservoirs. These reservoirs are not the only solution, however. Over a thousand years

ago, indigenous

（本地的）

people developed another way to solve water problems.

Boris Ochoa

-

Tocachi is a researcher at Imperial College London and lead writer of the study. He explored one

of

the

last

remaining

water

-

harvesting

systems

in

the

small

mountain

community

of

Huamantanga,

Peru.

The

system was developed even before the ancient Inca civilization.

The 1,400

year

-

old system

is designed to increase the water supply during the dry season by diverting and

slowing

water

as

it

travels

down

the

mountains.

This

nature

-

based

method

is

made

of

special

canals

that

guide

water from its source to a series of water bodies and hillsides. The water goes slowly into the ground, then flows

downhill through the soil and reappears in water bodies near the community.

The

researchers

measured

how

much

the

system

slowed

the

flow

of

water

by

injecting

special

dye

in

the

highlands and noting when it reappeared in water bodies. The dyed water started to surface two weeks later and

continued flowing for eight months

—

a huge improvement over the hours or days it would normally take.

24. How much water does an Olympic

-

size swimming pool need?

A. 2,500 cubic meters.

B. 4,000 cubic meters.

C. 1,000 cubic meters.

D. 1,400 cubic meters.

25. What can be learned about the ancient water system?

A. It was developed during the ancient Inca civilization.

B. It is nature

-

based and made of special canals.

C. It is the last water system left in Huamantanga.

D. It can satisfy water needs of Lima throughout the year.

26. What does the underlined word

A. Water resources.

B. Water supply.

C. Water shortage.

D. Water system.

27. Which of the following order shows how the ancient system works?

a. The water flows downhill through the soil.

b. The water surfaces in water bodies.

c. The water goes slowly into the ground.

d. The water flows to water bodies and hillsides.

A. d, a, b, c

B. b, c, a, d

C. a, b, c, d

D. d, c, a, b

C

in

life,

rule

of

thumb:

if

you

don't

absolutely

have

to

clean

anything,

don't

clean

it.

Fashion

designer Stella McCartney said this in an interview with the

Observer

this weekend. Instead, she says, the

to

It may have been a throwaway comment at the end of the interview, but something about this line impressed

readers

—

many of whom have been doing several loads of laundry a week. So does she have a point? Is it better to

avoid washing your clothes?

This

isn't

the

first

time

that

McCartney

has

recommended

not

washing

our

clothes.

In

fact,

she

has

long

advocated

avoiding

the

washing

machine

-

both

for

the

longevity

of

the

clothes,

but

also

because

of

the

effect

washing them has on the environment.

Laura Diáz Sánchez, from the Plastic Soup Foundation advocacy group, agrees with this, particularly when it

comes to high

-

street clothes, which contain more synthetic materials such as polyester

（聚酯纤维）

and acrylic

（腈

纶）

.

time

we

wash

our

clothes

an

average

of

nine

million

[plastic]

microfibres

are

released

into

the

environment,

m ade

-

but the more we wash our clothes, the more microfibres are released.

When you do wash, she recommends setting the machine to a lower temperature and using liquid detergent:

（摩擦）

between the clothes [during washing], so more fibres are released,

while liquid is smoother. The less friction there is in general, the fewer fibres are released.

She

advises

against

overloading

washing

machines

for

the

same

reason

-

fewer

clothes

in

the

drum

means

there's less friction. But it's not just about microfibres. Washing an item of clothing too often can largely shorten its

lifespan, meaning that you're more likely to throw it out and buy something new.

28. Why does McCartney suggest not washing clothes?

A. To buy something more fashionable.

B. To make her interview more interesting.

C. To reduce the impact on the environment.

D. To avoid releasing microfibres.

29. What does the underlined words

A. The rule.

B. The newspaper.

C. The interview.

D. The comment.

30. According to Laura Diáz Sánchez, what can we do to release less microfibres?

A. Use powder detergent rather than liquid detergent.

B. Wash fewer clothes at a time.

C. Set the washing machine at a normal temperature.

D. Avoid using washing machines.

31. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Why we should stop washing clothes.

B. A practical rule of washing clothes.

C. Fashion designer's recommendations.