河北省邯郸市大名县第一中学2019-2020学年高二下学期第一次半月考英语试题

河北省邯郸市大名县第一中学2019-2020学年高二下学期第一次半月考英语试题

高二半月考英语试题（2020.6.12）‎ Ⅰ 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）‎ 第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）‎ 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。‎ A At a young age, Patti Wilson was told by her doctor that she was an epileptic （癫痫病患者）. Her father, Jim Wilson, is a morning jogger. She ran with her father every day. After a few weeks, she told her father, "Daddy, what I'd really love to do is break the world's long-distance running record for women." Her father checked the Guinness World Records and found that the farthest any woman had run was 80 miles.‎ As a freshman in high school, Patti announced, "I'm going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco."(A distance of 400 miles.) " As a sophomore （二年级学生）," she went on, "I'm going to run to Portland, Oregon. "(Over 1, 500-miles.)"As a junior, I'll run to St. Louis. "(About 2, 000 miles.)" As a senior, I'll run to the White House. "(More than 3, 000 miles away.)‎ In view of her handicap (缺陷）, Patti was as ambitious as she was enthusiastic, but she said she looked at the handicap of being an epileptic as simply＂an inconvenience. " She focused not on what she had lost, but on what she had left.‎ That year she completed her run to San Francisco wearing a T-shirt that read,＂I Love Epileptics. "In her sophomore year, Patti's classmates got behind her. They built a large poster that read — "Run, Patti, Run! " ‎ On her second marathon (马拉松）,a doctor told her she had to stop.＂Doctor, you don't understand, "she said. "I'm doing it to break the chains on the brains that limit so many others." ‎ She finished the run to Portland, completing her last mile with the governor of Oregon. After four months of almost continuous running from the West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of the then President of the United States. She told him, "I wanted people to know that epileptics are normal human beings with normal lives."‎ Because of Patti's efforts, enough money had been raised to open up 19 multi-million-dollar epileptic centers around the country. If Patti Wilson can do so much with so little, what can you do to outperform (超越）yourself in a state of total wellness?‎ ‎1. What was Patti's goal? ‎ A. To run through the nation. B. To help the disabled.‎ C. To beat a record. D. To make an international tour.‎ ‎2. How did Patti look at her illness?‎ A. She thought of it as a gift. B. She devoted all her attention to it.‎ C. She faced it with discouragement. D. She considered it a small difficulty.‎ ‎3. What did Patti do when a doctor asked her to stop her run? ‎ A. She continued without quitting. B. She focused on her treatment.‎ C. She followed his advice. D. She asked for her classmates' assistance.‎ ‎4. Why did the author ask the question in the last paragraph?‎ A. To ask readers to answer it. B. To get inactive people to run. ‎ C. To encourage deep thinking. D. To show his view on success.‎ B ‎ Long-time exposure to air pollution can lead to physical changes in the brain and cause trouble in learning and memory, and even anxiety. This is suggested by the results of new research on mice.‎ ‎ While other studies have shown the harmful effects of polluted air in the lungs and heart, this is the first to show the negative effect on the brain.‎ ‎ The team of Laura Fonken, Randy Nelson, from the Ohio State University, USA, has spread to the brain a previous line of research which found that fine particulate (颗粒) matter floating in the air mainly because of air pollution caused by humans, causes swelling in much of the body, and may be related to high blood pressure problems, and some other diseases.‎ ‎ In the research Fonken and his colleagues exposed mice to polluted air for six hours each day, five days a week, over a period of 10 months, almost half the average life length of mice.‎ ‎ Polluted air contains fine particles created by cars, factories and natural dust. Fine particles of this kind are tiny, about 2.5 micrometers in diameter, or about one-thirtieth the width of a human hair. These particles can go deep into lungs and other organs.‎ ‎ The concentration of this particulate material to which they exposed mice is equal to the concentration at which people can be exposed in some polluted urban areas.‎ ‎ After a period of 10 months, the researchers got the animals to have a series of behavioral tests. Both the behavior of mice and the results of neurological（神经的）tests done to them show that ‎ those within the polluted air had more problems in learning and memory, and higher levels of anxiety.‎ ‎ The results suggest that long-time exposure to polluted air can have measurable negative effects on the human brain and can cause a variety of mental health problems. This could have important consequences for those living and working in polluted urban areas.‎ 5. The results of new research on mice first suggest that polluted air mainly does harm to ________.‎ ‎ A. lungs and heart B. mental health ‎ ‎ C. normal organs D. blood pressure ‎6. Which of the following words can best replace the underlined word in the fifth paragraph?‎ A. bad smell B. car exhaust gas C. particulate matter D. industrial exhaust gas ‎7. The bad effects of tiny particles in polluted air are those except ________.‎ ‎ A. making human hair thinner B. high blood pressure problems ‎ C. different kinds of diseases D. swelling in much of the body C Almost everyone has heard the expression “the calm before the storm.” It is usually used to describe a peaceful period just before a very stressful situation or a tense argument.‎ British sailors coined the phrase in the late 1600s; they noted that before certain storms the seas would seem to become still and the winds would drop.‎ Science has given us the reason. According to US website HowStuffWorks, a calm period occurs because many storms, tornadoes and hurricanes draw in all the warm and humid(湿热的) air from the surrounding area. As this air rises into the storm clouds, it cools and acts as “fuel for the storm, like petrol in a car”. Once the storm has taken all the energy it can from the air, it is pushed out from the top of the storm clouds and falls back down to ground level. As the air goes down, it becomes warm and dry. Warm and dry air is stable, so once it covers an area, it causes a calm period before the storm. This same process also causes the “eye of the storm” in hurricanes and tornadoes. In these conditions, the calm occurs in the center of the storm because of the strong rotating (旋转的) winds.‎ The Weather Network has a tip for working out how far away a storm is. First count how many seconds there are between a flash of lightning and a clap of thunder, roughly three seconds equal one kilometer. So, for example, if you count nine seconds, the storm is about three kilometers away. A ‎ good method is that if your count is below 30 seconds, you should seek shelter straight away.‎ However, due to the complexity of storm system, not all storms take place after calm. Given the right conditions, some storms announce themselves with heavy rain and fierce winds.‎ So, your best bet is to keep yourself updated with weather reports for any predictions regarding a coming storm in your area. That's the most reliable way to predict the next display(展示) of nature's temper (脾气).‎ ‎8. What is the function of Paragraph 3?‎ A. To describe how the eye of the storm comes into being.‎ B. To stress why tornadoes and hurricanes are destructive.‎ C. To explain why a peaceful period occurs before some storms.‎ D. To remind how dangerous a storm can be in certain situations.‎ ‎9. If you count fifteen seconds between a lightening flash and a thunder clap, the storm may be ________ .‎ A. one kilometer away B. three kilometers away C. four kilometers away D. five kilometers away ‎10. What can we learn from the text?‎ A. Heavy storms don't usually last long. B. It is not always quiet before a storm.‎ C. Storms have a big influence on our life. D. Weather reports often fail to predict a storm.‎ 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）‎ 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。‎ Much meaning can be conveyed clearly with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.‎ ‎ ‎11 In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not for too long. And if he sensed that you are staring at him, he may feel uncomfortable.‎ The same is true in our daily life. If you are stared at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down to see if there is anything wrong with you. 12 . Eyes do speak, right？‎ Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive. 13 . If a man stares at a woman for more than 10 seconds and refuses to look away from her, his intentions are obvious. He wishes to attract her attention, and let her know that he is admiring her.‎ However, when two persons are engaged in a conversation, the speaker will only look into the listener’s eyes from time to time to make sure that the listener does pay attention to what the former is speaking. 14 If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking as if he trying to control you, you will feel awkward. A poor liar usually exposes himself by looking too long at the victim. He wrongly believes that looking straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication. 15 ‎ Actually, eye contact should be made based on specific relationship and situation.‎ A. But things are different when it comes to staring at the opposite sex.‎ B. Actually, continuous eye contact is limited to lovers only.‎ C. After all, everybody likes to be stared at for quite a long time. ‎ D. Do you have such a kind of experience?‎ E. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel annoyed at being stared at that way.‎ F. On the contrary, it will give him away. ‎ G. That’s what normal eye contact is all about.‎ Ⅱ 完形填空(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)‎ 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。‎ Mitsuhiro Iwamoto has been blind since he was 16. He wanted to 16 that his blindness didn't limit what he can do.‎ Sailing a boat is much more 17 than simply steering(掌舵). But Mr. Iwamoto can 18 it. He can feel the waves and sense the speed and angle of the winds to 19 the sails properly. In 2013, he tried to sail the Pacific with a navigator(领航员). 20 , after only five days at sea, their boat sank, and the two spent 11 hours floating in the sea before they were 21 .‎ Doug Smith, who hasn't 22 much before, but likes the 23 of sailing across the Pacific, learned the story of Mr. Iwamoto's 24 during his first sail. He got in touch with Mr. Iwamoto. 25 they teamed up. Mr. Smith would go along as the boat's navigator---to use his 26 to decide on the boat's path. It took much courage to make a second 27 , but Mr. Iwamoto was 28 . He said that "Failure becomes 29 failure if you stop trying."‎ They prepared for the 30 trip together. Mr. Smith bought, a 40-foot sailboat that he named "Dream Weaver". Mr. Iwamoto 31 actively and hard. On February 24, he and Mr. Smith he calls his " 32 Eye Doug" set out from San Diego‎, ‎California on their 14,000 kilometer trip. 33 , ‎ after sailing for 55 days, the two arrived in Iwaka‎, ‎Japan.‎ ‎"I didn't 34 and I made it," Mr. Iwamoto 35 himself. He became the first blind person to sail non-stop across the Pacific Ocean in the world.‎ ‎16. A. prove B. believe C. suggest D. advertise ‎17. A. artificial B. convenient C. complex D. expensive ‎18. A. predict B. handle C. repair D. improve ‎19. A. advocate B. record C. save D. adjust ‎20. A. However B. Lastly C. Thus D. Instead ‎21. A. blocked B. served C. explored D. rescued ‎22. A. sailed B. traveled C. paid D. dreamed ‎23. A. distance B. direction. C. curiosity D. thought ‎24. A. speech B. experiment C. defeat D. chance ‎25. A. Again B. Then C. Even D. Still ‎26. A. strength B. eyes C. theory. D. acts ‎27. A. suspension B. impression C. attempt D. principle.‎ ‎28. A. interested B. determined C. satisfied D. relaxed ‎29. A. true B. precious C. equal D. popular ‎30. A. extra B. normal C. practical D. new ‎31. A. trained B. observed C. designed D. commented ‎32. A. Protecting B. Seeing C. Evaluating D. Curing ‎33. A. Consequently B. Naturally C. Finally D. Directly ‎34. A. fade away B. look back C. break down D. give up ‎35. A. enjoyed B. expressed C. prided D. repeated Ⅲ（共10个小题；每小题2.5分， 满分25分）‎ 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。‎ For those lacking sleep at night, a nap (小睡) can often be the perfect solution. Naps improve your performance, which is why you feel 36 (refresh) after taking one. The length of your nap 37 (determine) the benefits. A 20-minute nap is the most 38 (suit) to improve moving skills and attention, while an hour to 90 minutes of napping helps solve creative problems. Just set an alarm 39 (get) the right amount of sleep.‎ Regular, short naps can help relieve tension, which decreases your risk of heart disease. Get the most health benefits 40 your nap by doing it right. Stick to a regular napping schedule during right 41 (hour), between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm. The time is right for a nap as it is usually after lunch, 42 your blood sugar and energy starts to dip. So, keep shut-eye short and nap in a dark room as soon as possible during this period.‎ As anyone suffering from 43 sleepless night knows, it's hard to be happy the next day. Napping can help erase the bad mood for lack of sleeping. A short nap is a 44 (wise) choice than drinking black coffee, since 45 (take) caffeine in the afternoon or evening can badly affect your nighttime sleep.‎ 高二半月考英语答案（2020.6.12）‎ 阅读理解 1-4 CDAC 5-7 BCA 8-10 CDB 11-15 DEAGF 完形填空 16-20 ACBDA 21-25 DADCB 26-30 BCBAD ‎ ‎31-35 ABCDC 语法填空 36. refreshed 37. determines 38. suitable ‎ 39. to get 40.from 41.hours 42. when 43. a ‎ ‎44. wiser 45. taking ‎