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2020-2021
厦门大学附属科技中学高二上学期
10
月份月考
第二部分
阅读理解
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共两节，满分
40
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第一节
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共
15
小题；每小题
2
< br>分，满分
30
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（
A
、
B
、
C
、
D)
中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Venus, the Wildest
Adventure in 3016!
A trip to the moon,
to Mars? You are out. Venus
(
金星
) is your choice! Our
spaceship carries you there at the speed of
light!
Amazing Venus Facts
Temperature range: ALWAYS about 450
degrees Celsius. Great for barbecues!
Seasons: No seasons. Always visit
during best season!
Gravity strength:
0.91 of Earth’s gravity. Makes you lighter and
more
alive than ever!
Water:
NONE. All boiled away.
Day length: 1
day=243 Earth days. Longest days in solar system,
so fun never ends!
Rate of turning:
0.002 km/second. Turns in opposite direction of
the earth, so able to see sun rise in the west and
set in
the east.
Year
length: 1 year=224.7 Earth days or 0.62 of an
Earth year.
Rate of revolution: 35.03
km/second.
Atmosphere:
△
Very thick.
△
96% carbon dioxide; 3%
nitrogen, and 0.1% water vapor.
△
Can’t
support
life:
Suffocating
carbon
dioxide,
thick clouds
of
s
ulfuric
acid,
and
gases
create
greenhouse
effect
so
very hot and no water.
* Your Accommodations *
◎
You will travel on a high-
tech rocket ship that will transport you from
Earth to Venus in a mere 2.4 minutes by
traveling at a speed of light. This
trip will cost only $$ 750,000.
◎
Our two hotels
are very luxurious and are super strong, allowing
you to lie on the ground without being crushed
by the pressure of the atmosphere. They
are called Venus Heaven and Rocket Palace, and the
cost to stay is only $$ 200 per
night.
You’ll get your money’s worth at these two hotels,
receiving free meals every day.
To book a trip, call 1
—
800.
21. What
would you see if you faced east on Venus?
A. The rising sun.
B. The circling earth.
C. The setting sun.
D. The full moon.
22. During
the trip to Venus, you would pay nothing for
__________ .
A. service.
B. food.
C. the
spaceship.
D.
the hotel.
23. Which section of a
magazine is the text from?
A. Fashion circle.
B. News report.
C.
Modern art.
D. Future
world.
B
Nowadays
six
Amazon
Scout
delivery
robots
rolled
out
in
a
pilot
program
in
Snohomish
County,
Wash.
The
robots
carry
meals, groceries and
packages to homes and offices in this
region just north of Seattle. They have appeared
on the
sidewalks of London, Beijing and
other cities and communities worldwide. These
machines must overcome pedestrian legs,
naughty dogs and broken pavement, which
raises some questions.
These services
are gaining attraction as a growing number of city
residents expect immediate or scheduled delivery
for
just about everything. Between 2017
and 2018 online retail sales in the U.S. increased
by 16 percent. On the final step of all
these
deliveries,
called
the
last
mile,
humans
on
bicycles,
motorized
scooters
(
电动车
)
or
large
delivery
trucks
typically
deliver packages. All the vehicles
compete for space on busy urban streets.
Deliveries
are
trending
upwards
in
all
crowded
city
centers,
and
if
city
and
state
leaders
don’t
start
thinking
about
creative solutions like robot
deliveries, we can expect even worse traffic jams,
“says Paul Mackie, director of a
transportation
policy research center
in Arlington.
A study by this center
found 73 percent of delivery vehicles in Arlington
were parked outside of authorized areas, often
blocking bike lanes and crosswalks. By
moving the last step of deliveries from the road
to the sidewalk, cities could reduce
traffic jams and solve the parking
problem entirely, Mackie says.
Companies such as Amazon are not
developing this delivery technology simply to
clear up urban traffic. Self-driving
vehicles and sidewalk robots could cut
down last-mile delivery costs in cities by as much
as 40 percent, according to a 2018
report
by
a
consultancy
firm.
A
delivery
robot
can
cost
thousands
of
dollars
to
manufacture,
and
most
currently
require
human
management
and
conservation.
But
in
the
long
run
companies
that
use
autonomous
delivery
vehicles
in
the
next
several years could end up saving
billions of dollars, the report stated.
24.
Why does Amazon introduce delivery robots?
A. To amuse its customers.
B. To avoid pedestrians,
dogs and broken pavement.
C. To meet the increasing demand of
delivering packages.
D. To
confirm the company’s innovation
spirit.
25. What does Paul
Mackie mean by his words in paragraph 2?
A. Retail sales in the U.S.
increased fast.
B.
Deliveries stay steady in all crowded city
centers.
C. Regardless of
robot deliveries, traffic jams will remain the
same.
D. Robot
can help ease the traffic pressure.
26.
What can robots delivery bring to the city?
A. Block bike lanes and
crosswalks.
B. Relieve
urban traffic as well as save delivery costs.
C. Increase danger to
pedestrians.
D. Lead to
traffic jams.
27. Which word can best
describe the future of the robot delivery?
A. Uncertain.
B.
Hopeless.
C. Promising.
D. Unacceptable.
C
No longer in the pink
Corals are comeback creatures. As the
world froze and melted and sea levels rose and
fell over 30,000 years, Australia’s
Great Barrier Reef, which is roughly
the size of Italy, died and revived five times.
But now, thanks to human activity, corals
face the most complex condition they
have yet had to deal with.
According to
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change, a
rise in global temperatures of
1.5
℃
could cause coral
reefs to decline 70 90%. The planet is
about 1
℃
hotter than in the
19th century and its seas are becoming warmer,
stormier
and more acidic. This is
already affecting relations between corals and the
single-celled algae (
海藻
),
which give them their
color. When
waters become unusually warm, algae float away,
leaving reefs a ghostly
white. This
bleaching is happening
five times as
often as it did in the 1970s.
Meanwhile
the changing chemistry of the oceans makes it
harder for corals to form their structures.
If corals go, divers and marine
biologists are not the only people who will miss
them. Reefs take up only a percent of
the sea floor, but support a quarter of
the planet’s fish diversity. The fish that reefs
shelter are especially valuable to
t
heir
poorest
human
neighbours,
many
of
whom
depend
on
them
as
a
source
of
protein.
Roughl
y
an
eighth
of
the
world’s
population
lives
within
100km
of
a
reef.
Corals
also
protect
150,000km
of
shoreline
in
more
than
100
countries
and
territories from the oceans buffeting,
as well as generating billions of dollars in
tourism revenue.
Coral systems must
adapt if they are to survive. They need protection
from local resources of harm. Their eco-systems
suffer from waste from farms, building
sites and blast fishing. Governments need to
impose tighter rules on these industrials,
such as tougher local building codes,
and to put more effort into enforcing rules
against over-fishing.
Setting up marine
protected areas could also help reefs. Locals who
fear for their livelihoods could be given work as
rangers with the job of looking after
the reserves. Visitors to marine parks can be
required to pay a special tax, like what has
been done in the Caribbean. Many reefs
that have been damaged could benefit from
restoration. Coral’s biodiversity offers
hope, because the same coral will grow
differently under different conditions. Corals of
the western Pacific, for example, can
withstand higher temperatures than the
same species in the eastern Pacific, which proves
a way forward to encourage corals
to
grow in new spots.
28. According to the passage, what may
happen to corals when waters become warm?
A. Tuning white
B. Getting pink
C. Being active
D. Becoming colorful
29. According to the passage, corals
can __________ the changing in the nature.
A. escape from
B. live with
C.
die in
D. recover from
30.
According to Paragraph 4, the governments should
__________.
A. carry out
stricter rules on industries around the coast
B. call on
volunteers to look after the marine reserves
C.
reduce the number of visitors to the marine parks
D. ban people from fishing
in the coral reef areas
31. What’s the
main purpose of the passage?
A. To present the
importance of coral reef to the world.
B. To introduce the severe
effect on coral reef brought by climate change.
C. To propose governments
to take action immediately to save coral reef.
D. To attract more
attention to coral reef protection.
D
Your
colleague’s
sharp
comment
keeps
replaying
in
your
mind.
Two
of
your
students
are
trapped
in
a
he
said/she
said“
battle.
When
you
reflect
on
your
emotional
reac
tions,
you
sometimes
get
caught
up
in
cycles
of
negative
feelings,
which can make you feel even worse. If
so, the answer may lie in a skill called
“self
-distancing the ability to take a
step and
view yourself more objective.
According to a research, when people adopt self-
distancing while discussing a difficult event,
they make better sense of their
reactions, experience less emotional suffering,
and display fewer signs of stress.
But
what might self-
distancing look like in
action? Consider a typical “he said/she said”
student conflict where they are
each
focusing on their own feelings. One is thinking,
“I can’t believe he did that to me.” And another
insists, “she really h
urt
my
feelings.” However, if you ask them to take the
self
-distancing, they might step
outside of themselves and ask broader
questions: “Why was he so hurt in this
situation?“ or “How did her anger affect him?
Although this approach may sound too
simple to be effective, studies
indicate that a change in point of view can have a
powerful effect on the way people think, fee,
and behave. Here are several different
techniques you can try.
First, consider
how a thoughtful friend might respond after
quietly observing their situation. Besides, avoid
using the
pronoun “I”. Focus on using
third
-person pronouns, he, she, they,
and they were able to see the stressful event as
challenging
rather than threatening.
Finally, ask yourself, “How would I
feel about this one week from now or ten years
from now? “This form of mental
time
travel may be effective because our attention is
directed away from our immediate, concrete
circumstances.
32. What is self-distancing?
A. Getting stuck in
negative emotions.
C. A study on relieving
emotional stress.
B. A stressful situation.
D.
Reflecting on yourself objectively.
33. Paragraph 2 is developed by
__________.
A. Example
B. definition
C. classification
D. process
34. Which of the following statement
uses the techniques of self-distancing?
A I’m angry with
him.
B. How I wish I could go back to the
past!
C. How did these two
people get to this point?
D. He grabbed my notes, and then, and
then
35. What is the best title for the
passage?
A. Why Self-
distancing Matters
B.
Breaking the Cycle of Negative Reflection
C. The Application of Self-
distancing
D. Ways to
Reflect on Emotional Reaction
第三部分
语言运用
(
共二节，满分
30
分
)
完形填空
(
共
20
小题；每小题
1.5
分，满分
30
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的
A
、<
/p>
B
、
C
和
D
四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将
该项涂黑。
I looked out
at the smiling faces in the school auditorium. The
applause filled my ears. I had really done it!
Just a few months earlier I would never
have
41
myself acting
in a play in front of two hundred people. But
when the time came, I got up on stage
and
42
one of my
greatest fears. I found a new person inside me, a
much
more
43
, outgoing person who had
been hidden all along, just waiting for the
opportunity to come. If not for my
teacher, Mrs. Sather, I might never
have found that
44
.
I
was extremely
45
. I had friends, but it
just wasn’t in my personality to be
very outgoing, even when I knew
someone well. I was even
46
with strangers.
One day,
Mrs. Sather
47
that our class
was going to perform a play. I need someone to
play the lead part of
Dorothy,
“ she said. Anybody wants to
try?
“A few
48
hands shot up - mine, of course, was
not one of them.
After class Mrs.
Sather came to join me. Dallas, I was thinking you
would be the person for Dorothy. But I was
49
you didn’t raise your
hand.”