湛江市第21中学2019~2020学年第一学期期中考试
高二英语试题
（总分:120分）
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第一部分阅读理解(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，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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There are a number of sports writers who are now widely regarded as some of the best sports journalists of our time.Here are five of the most well-known sports writers. Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated
Rick Reilly became famous as the back page columnist(专栏作家)for Sports Illustrated magazine.Then
he moved to ESPN in2008and began working as a columnist for their website—Now he has his own show with ESPN,and he also contributes articles to ABC sports.
Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe
Bob Ryan ro through the ranks thanks to his skill and knowledge about basketball. He very soon became known as a guru of the sport,writing an impressively large number of articles about The Boston Celtics—a National Basketball Association(NBA) team bad in Boston,Massachutts.
John Feinstein of The Washington Post
John Feinstein is primarily a columnist with The Washington Post but during his long career he has published two best-lling sports books A Good Walk Spoiled and A Season on the Brink.He is a regular with the Golf Channel and has a very popular blog called Feinstein on the Brink.
Joaquin Henson of The Philippine Star
Joaquin Henson started out his sports journalism career in1973and became popular through his column Sporting Chance,which has been published in The
Philippine Star since the80’s.He has given a number of catchy nicknames to some of the most famous sporting stars of our time.
William Rhoden of The New York Times
日本食物晚上看的小说Apart from being a columnist with The New York Times since the80’s,William Rhoden is a respected sports journalist known for his two books Forty Million Dollar Slaves and Third and a Mile.Both books deal with the problems that face black athletes in the field of sport.
1.Before working for ESPN,Rick Reilly_____.
A.was a regular with the Golf Channel
B.started his column Sporting Chance
C.wrote articles for Sports Illustrated
D.worked as a sports talk show host
2.Both John Feinstein and William Rhoden_____.
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A.have worked as writers for ten years
B.work as columnists and write books
C.like to give nicknames to sporting stars
D.are known as columnists for ABC sports
3.What would be the best title for the text?
A.Uful tips for a sports journalist
B.How to be a newspaper columnist
C.Newspapers that influence us a lot
D.Famous and popular sports writers
B
Londoners are great readers.They buy large numbers of newspapers,magazines and books—especially paperbacks(平装书),which are still cheap in spite of
ever-increasing ris in the costs of printing.They still continue to buy"proper"books, too,printed on good paper.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in
book-lling.Perhaps the best known of the is Charing Cross Road in the very heart of London.Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found,from the celebrated
one which is said to be"the biggest bookshop in the world"to the tiny,dusty little places which em to have been left over from Dickens’time.Some of the shops stock or will make efforts to get any kind of book,but many of them specialize in cond-hand books,in art books,in foreign books,in books on economics,politics or any other subjects about which books may be written.One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet.
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charing Cross Road is not the cheapest.For really cheap cond-hand books,collectors must venture off the beaten track,to Farringdon Road,in the East Central district of London.Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops.The bookllers come along each morning and put lots of books onto small hand-carts(手推车)which line the streets.The collectors,some professionals and some amateurs(业余爱好
者),who have been waiting for them,run quickly towards the books.In places like this one can still, occasionally,pick up for a few pence(便士)an old book that may be worth many pounds.
4．"Londoners are great readers"means that.
A.Londoners are great becau they read a lot
B.there are a great number of readers in London多少英语怎么说
坚固近义词C.Londoners are readers who read only great books
D.Londoners read a lot
5．According to this passage,Charing Cross Road.
A.is in the suburbs of London
B.is famous for its bookshops
D.is the busiest street in London
6．In this passage,what does the underlined part"venture off the beaten track"mean?
A.Buy books in a most busy street.
B.Move away from a busy street.
C.Waste time looking for books.
D.Take a risk of losing one’s life.
7．The best topic for this passage is"".
A.bookshops in London
B.the biggest bookshop in the world
胃肠感冒症状C.Charing Cross Road
D.buying books in London
C
Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over200years ago.He studied the obrvations of comets(彗星)which other scientists had made.The orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem.He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems.
However,Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton,who was a brilliant mathematician.Newton thought he had already worked out that problem,but he could not find the papers on which he had done it.He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellip(椭圆).
Now Halley t to work,He figured out the orbits of some of the comets that had been obrved by scientists.He made a surprising discovery.The comets that had appeared in the years1531,1607and1682all had the same orbit.Yet their appearances had been75to76years apart.
This emed very strange to Halley.Three different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about,the more he thought that there had not been three different comets,as people thought.He decided that they had simply en the same comet three times.The comet had gone away and had come back again.
It was an astonishing idea!Halley felt certain enough to make a prediction of what would happen in th
e future.He decided that this comet would appear in the year1758. There were53years to go before Halley's prediction could be tested.
In1758the comet appeared in the sky.Halley did not e it,for he had died some years before.Ever since then that comet had been called Halley's comet,in his honour. 8．Halley made his discovery________.
A．by doing experiments
B．by means of his own careful obrvation
C．by rearching the obrvations of other scientists
D．by chance
9．Halley made a surprising but correct prediction in the year________.
A．1704B．1705
C．1706D．1707
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10．This text in general is about________.
A．Halley and other scientists
B．the orbit of a comet
C．Newton and Halley
D．Halley and his discovery
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。
I'm30years old,and there are veral things that life has taught me that I want to share with you.Here are the4lessons that life has taught me in the past30years.
1.Take Care of Your Body
Life is“unfairly”biad(偏向的)towards people who“look good”，like it or not. So it's important that you do all that is in your power to look your best.__11__You will live longer，and you will live happier,
鹅妈妈if you take care of your body;you may even get promoted faster on your job.Remember that your health is really your greatest wealth.
2．__12__
No one taught me to save when I was growing up;no one told me the importance of saving.Fortunately I was able to learn the value of saving through reading great books like The Millionaire Next Door.What I want to teach others is to save at least twenty percent of your income.If you are to be wealthy,you must not just earn a lot, you must save a lot.
3．Think long－term
In high school I was thinking about college；in college I was thinking about life after college.I'm designing my life and I'm making decisions today that will enable me to live the life I desire when I'm in my40's,50's and60's.You have to think long－
