1、河南名校联盟河南名校联盟 2020-2021 学年高二（上）期中考试英语学年高二（上）期中考试英语试卷试卷 第第卷（选择题，共卷（选择题，共 70 分）分） 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分） 第一节（共 1 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 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，并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑。 A Dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures have captured the imaginations of children for decades. While there are plenty
2、of mowes and books that can teach your little ones all about dinosaurs, the following attractions will allow you to take your children to come face-to-face with their favorite dinosaurs and learn in an interactive, fun environment. Chicago Childrens Museum Chicago，IL Chicago Childrens Museum is fill
3、ed with plenty of activities for kids of all ages but one of the coolest has to be the Dinosaur Exhibition. At this exhibition, children can spend time digging for dinosaur bones at an excavation（挖掘）site, looking at dinosaur fossils, and learning what life is like for real archaeologists. Field Muse
4、um of Natural History Chicago，IL Field Museum of Natural History is home to Sue, the largest, best-preserved, and most complete T. rex ever found. Kids will love the opportunity to examine her skull（颅骨）from different angles as she towers overhead. The museum also features a 3D movie about the T. rex
5、 and an exhibition about the development of dinosaurs on the earth, including the time of the dinosaurs. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh, PA In addition to plenty of exhibitions about wildlife, Carnegie Museum of Natural History has one of the finest dinosaur fossil collections in the
6、world. Visitors can see experts work with real dinosaur fossils in the PaleoLab or check out the dinosaur skeletons on display. Make sure to take a photo in front of Dippy, the scarf-loving dinosaur guarding the front of the museuml Dinosaur World Plant City, FL; Cave City, KY; Glen Rose, TX With th
7、ree different parks spread across the country, Dinosaur World gives kids the opportunity to take photos with life-sized dinosaur statues, touch a real dino bone, and talk with paleontologists and demonstrators(演示员 ) at the interactive shows. These 20-acre parks feature more than 150 dinosaurs in nat
8、ural settings so kids can get an idea of the lives of these magnificent creatures when they ruled the earth. 1. What can visitors do while visiting Field Museum of Natural History? A. Act as an archaeologist. B. Work with real dinosaur fossils. C. Enjoy a deliciously cooked meal. D. Learn about the
9、dinosaurs evolution. 2. Where can visitors go if they want to know more about how the dinosaurs lived? A. Chicago Childrens Museum. B. Field Museum of Natural History. C. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. D. Dinosaur World. 3. Where is the text most likely from? A. A diary. B. A guidebook. C. A no
10、vel. D. A textbook. B Delivery driver Mikail Farrar had been driving through Suwanee, Georgia on his daily route last week when he saw a youngster chasing after his mail truck. Six-year-old Cooper Morgan had signaled to Farrar for stopping so he could ask him to deliver a gift to his skateboarding i
11、dol(偶 像) : Tony Hawk. The birthday gift was a worn-out skateboard deck that had Tony Hawks name written in black marker on one end of the board and Coopers name written on the other. Although the board was not properly packaged or addressed, the youngster told Farrar: Get this to Tony Hawk. Tell him
12、 its from Cooper. Though it was not his business, Farrar didnt want to disappoint Cooper. He didnt have Tony Hawks phone or address. But he took a chance on the Internet and posted a video to his Tik Tok channel explaining his predicament. A few hours after uploading the post, he checked his phone a
13、nd was surprised to see a flood of notifications(通知) from social media users. Not only that, Hawk uploaded a video response to Farrar on his channel, which was the skaters first Tik Tok video in two years. Hawk thanked Farrar for connecting him with his young fan and sent a private message with his
14、home address so Farrar could mail the skateboard deck. Hawk also said he would be mailing several new skateboards to Cooper and his family in return. Farrar later published a video to his channel of Cooper, thanking Hawk for the gift. Thedelivery driver also made sure to thank the pro skater for hel
15、ping to coordinate such a sweet exchange. I had low expectations. I was hopeful, but I just thought that celebrities went swimming in their money and looked in the mirror all day, Farrar told CNN. I dont know what they do, but not Tony Hawk. 4. What did Mikail Farrar do after knowing Cooper Morgans
16、request? A. He went above and beyond the call of duty to help him. B. He bought a new skateboard deck online for Cooper Morgan. C. He finished the task according to the address he provided. D. He satisified Cooper by uploading a video about Tony Hawk. 5. What does the underlined word predicament in
17、Paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Reward. B. Devotion. C. Curiosity. D. Dilemma. 6. What did Mikail Farrar think of Tony Hawk? A. Hes am itious. B. Hes easy-going. C. Hes special. D. Hes fashionable. 7. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. What should we do to exchange gifts wit
18、h the celebrities? B. How does six-year-old boys dream come true? C. What should we do to keep up with the times? D. How to post the story of celebritys kindness on social media? C A recent research shows that acts of kindness can make us feel better and improve our health.Researchers also say kindn
19、ess played an important part in how humans developed. In other words,they say scientific evidence suggests that we are designed to be kind. Several studies suggest there are some very good reasons to think about ways to be kind and actually plan out that type of behavior. Many researchers have studi
20、ed the subject. One of them is Michael McCullough, a psychologist at the University of California San Diego. Kindness, he said, is as much a part of us “ as our anger or our grief(悲伤 ) . Oliver Curry is the research director at Kind Lab. Curry claims that “kindness is much older than religion. There
21、 are other studies as well. University of London psychologist Anat Bardi studies value systems in people. In one study, researchers gave people kindness, creativity, ambition, tradition, security, seeking social justice, and seeking power. When they were asked to pick the most important, kindness wo
22、n. When it comes to a species surviving, “Kindness pays , friendliness pays, said Brian Hare ,who wrote the book Survival of the Friendliest. He explained that the more friends you have, and the more individuals you help, the more successful you become. As an example, he compared bonobos(倭黑猩猩) with
23、chimpanzees. Chimps can attack those outside their group. Bonobos, on the other hand, do not kill but help outsiders. Male bonobos, Hare added, are far more successful at mating than male chimps. Most animals are only helpful to those in their close family groups but are not kind or helpful to stran
24、gers. This separates us from other species. It shows our human ability to reason. For example, humans realize that there is not much difference between those close to us and strangers. Strangers can help us if we are kind to them, McCullough said. It is why we help strangers in need. University of C
25、alifornia Riverside psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky has tested this idea in many experiments over the past 20 years. She has found repeatedly that people feel better when they are kind to others, even more so than when they are kind to themselves. Acts of kindness, Lyubomirsky said, “are very
26、 powerful. 8. Why are Michael McCullough and Oliver Curry mentioned in the text? A. To tell us the reason for being kind. B. To stress the importance of kindness. C. To recommend the ways to be kind. D. To explain the effects of being kind. 9. What does the study in Paragraph 3 want to show? A. Kind
27、ness is not a science, but an action. B. People prize kindness over other values. C. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. D. A word of kindness is more important than a thousand gold. 10. What does Hare say about bonobos compared with other species? A. Theyre the cleverest. B. Th
28、eyre close to humans. C. Theyre the exception. D. Theyre unkind to outsiders. 11. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A. All things in their being are good for something. B. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. C. Kindness is sunshine of the spiritual world. D. Our bodies can rewar
29、d us for being kind. D To many peoples eyes, artist Mark Rothkos enormous paintings are little more than masses of color. Yet a Rothko can fetch nearly $100 million. Meanwhile, Pablo Picassos abnormal faces fascinate some viewers and terrify others. People used to think that it was our life experien
30、ces or our educational level that affected. It was not true. Researchers have now developed an algorithm (算法) that can predict art preferences by analyzing how a persons brain breaks down visual(视觉的) information and decides whether a painting is good. The findings show for the first time how basic f
31、eatures of a painting combine with human judgment to give art value in our minds. The point is our brain networks. Most people-including researchers-consider art preferences to be all over the map , ”says Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist (神经学家) at the University of Pennsylvania. Many preferences are
32、rooted in biology-sugary foods, for instance, help us survive. And people tend to share similar standards of beauty when it comes to human faces and landscapes. But when it comes to art, There are relatively arbitrary things we seem to care about and value,Chatterjee says. To figure out how the brai
33、n forms value judgments about art, computational neuroscientist Kiyohito Iigaya and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology first asked more than 1,300 volunteers on the website Amazon Mechanical Turk to rate a selection of 825 paintings from four Western genres including impression
34、ism, cu isni, abstract art, and color field painting. Volunteers were all over the age of 18. Researchers found that paintings preferred by the same groups of people tended to share certain visual characteristics. These characteristics all fell into two categories : Low-level characteristics, like c
35、ontrast and color, were intrinsic to an image. High-level characteristics, like the emotion a painting brought about, required human interpretation(理解) . Once the algorithm was trained, it could analyze these characteristics in new paintings and accurately predict which works a person would like. 12
36、. What does the author intend to do in the first paragraph? A. Promote the artworks to people. B. Introduce the topic for discussion. C. Tell us some famous artists. D. Present some background information. 13. What makes peoples sense of beauty differ so greatly? A. Life experiences. B. Educational
37、level. C. Brain networks. D. Personal interests. 14. Which of the following may Anjan Chatterjee agree with? A. Sugary foods are inspirations of artworks. B. All art preferences are rooted in biology. C. Different people have different ideas about beauty. D. People may think of landscapes in the sam
38、e way. 15. What does Paragraph 4 mainly discuss about the study? A. The measure. B. The impact.C. The characteristic. D. The classification. 第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 1 0 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。 选项中有两项多余选 项。 If youre looking for some fun and free activities to do with your kids this summer, ch
39、eck out your local librarys events calendar. Summer Reading Programs Most libraries have a summer program to keep kids reading while theyre not in school and give them a goal to work toward. 16 Each summer reading program is a little different, so check with your local library and see what they have
40、 to offer. Free Materials Books are the obvious benefit of going to the library, but many also lend music albums, movies, magazines, and audiobooks（有声读物） ，and provide access to subscription-based websites and databases. The best part is that its all free! 17 Craft Fairs 18 Take the kids along for af
41、un family outing of perusing stalls and enjoying the local talent. You may even find one-of-a-kind item you didnt know you needed. Book Sales Libraries take their excess inventory from donations, old books, and bestsellers that are no longer in high demand and have a massive book sale each summer. 1
42、9 Your money goes toward funding programs and future book purchases. 20 To find out what your library offers, hop onto their website and find the events calendar, or visit the circulation desk and pick up a summer schedule. Youll be surprised at whats available. A. All you need is a library card. B.
43、 Invite some friends along to make the day even better! C. Many libraries have started hosting craft fairs in summer. D. This is the perfect chance to pick up some great books at a low price. E. These are just some of the reasons to visit your library this summer. F. While activities will vary by li
44、brary, here are some you can hope to find. G. They also have book clubs and discussion groups for older children and teens. 第二部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分） 第一节（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的 A.B.C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳 选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I didnt want to be a shut-in though I didnt walk without ass
45、istance of some kind. One day, I asked my grandson to go out to 21 with me. After our meal that day, I saw an older man using a thin metal cane（手杖）.The rubber stoppers were missing. The cane was 22 on the floor and almost caused him to fall a couple of times. I always carry 23 canes, worrying that i
46、f I misplace one the 24 thing happens. I gave him the cane, 25 him that his was going to cause him to 26 . He looked at me with 27 eyes. My grandson asked, What was that about? God just told me to do it is my 28 to the question. Another time, as I was turning my car into the parking lot, I saw a man
47、 using a broken broom handle as a cane, which I considered 29 for him. There were no more in the back of the car. I made a(n) 30 . Give him the one Im using. I called him to 31 as the man approached my car.He 32 and looked around, 33 and cautious. Then I handed him my cane. I told him, You need it m
48、ore than I do. He called me a kind 34 and walked off smiling. The look in his eyes never 35 me. I decided I would use a shopping cart as a(n) 36 . I got what I needed and helped my grandson put some stuff into the car, pushed the cart to him to put it away, and then stepped into the 37 .It was then that I 38 I had walked around the store and gotten into the car without help or pain. My giving 39 .I havent used a cane since that day. An 40 made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. 21. A. play B. eat C. shop D. walk 22. A. sl
