浙江省丽水市2022-2023学年高二上学期2月期末英语
试题
一、阅读理解
The Guardian
The Guardian, a daily newspaper, lls more in urban areas where it is read more widely by the corporate class, international communities, university students, politicians and government officials. The Guardian targets both local communities and International communities. However, businessmen and politicians are the regular readers of this great newspaper. Besides, the paper is up-in-arms to promote economic and social changes of this growing nation.
The Times
The Times, a daily newspaper published in London, is one of Britain’s oldest and most influential newspapers. Founded by John Walter in 1785 as the Daily Universal Register, it became The Times in 1788, publishing commercial news, politics and notices. The target audience is largely middle class and its readership demographics reveal that more men read the newspaper than women, and that 2.5
million houholds with children get the daily paper every month.
Metro
Metro, a daily newspaper, gives you all the stories you need to know and all the stories you want to know. The content is written for a young, mobile-savvy metropolitan audience. Metro takes the form of the latest showbiz gossip, the funniest and oddest stories from around the world and the best opinion pieces, without a party political standpoint. You can find what’s trending this very moment here.
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news website published in London. Founded in 1896, it is the Un ited Kingdom’s highest-circulated daily newspaper. You can get the latest breaking news, celebrity photos, viral videos, science & tech news, and top stories from MailOnline.
1. Which of the following may NOT be found in The Times in 1788?
A．Fashion. B．Notice.
C．Politics. D．Economy.
2. Which newspaper is the most likely to be read by tho who always focus on the trend? A．The Guardian. B．The Times.
C．Metro. D．The Daily Mail.
3. What can be inferred according to the passage?
A．The Daily Mail is the most popular both at home and abroad.
B．The Times is referred to as the Daily Universal Register now.
C．Metro reaches for every young, mobile-savvy metropolitan audience.
D．The Guardian has a great effect on the development of economy and society.
Shamarr Allen was sleeping at home one evening last July when he was shocked awake by a TV news item. There had been a shooting among a group of children in the
7th Ward of New Orleans, only a few miles from Allen’s home, and a nine-year-old boy named Deva
nte Bryant had been killed. Allen was horrified and heartbroken. He thought of his own nine-year-old son.
Originally from the city’s rough Lower 9th Ward, Allen is one of the most celebrated jazz trumpeters (小号手) in a city. His band has relead three albums, and he is a regular on local television and a street performer. After eing the tragic news that morning, it didn’t take long for Allen to hit on a possible way out. He had a few spare trumpets lying around. Maybe he could offer them to kids in exchange for their guns.
“What saved me and redirected my path was a trumpet, the music and culture of the city that it connected me with,” Allen says. “It showed me that success, connections and differences can be managed through lf-expression.”
“Just to e that they actually want to give up their guns, that’s the cool part about it,” says Allen, who has collected ven guns so far, a small but symbolically important start.
But he doesn’t stop with the exchange of gun for instrument. After the exchanges, Allen connects the children with local musicians who give them free virtual trumpet lessons. He also started a GoFundMe page to buy more instruments to give away. So far, he has collected over $45,000. More
importantly, he has fostered hope for his city and young people looking for a better life.
“I just say, ”Look, I come from where you come from, and I can show you the way that got me out,’“ says Allen. ”And music may not be the way for you, but it will at least open your mind to e what’s out there. “
4. What might be the reasons pushing Shammarr Allen to work out such a solution EXCEPT ________.
A．his nine-year-old boy B．his life experiences
C．his educational background D．his spare trumpets
5. Which of the following can best describe Shamarr Allen?
A．Caring and helpful.
B．Kind and famous.
C．Curious and brave.
D．Determined and honest.
6. What is the purpo of this text?
A．To introduce an admirable hero.
B．To promote Shamarr Allen’s new albums.
C．To appeal to the government to control the guns.
D．To inform the readers of a tragic shooting in New Orleans.
7. Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Hope Is at Your Hand
B．Music Is the Way Out
C．The Trumpet Is His Weapon
D．Shooting Is Under Control
Imagine a world without money. With no way to buy stuff, you might need to produce everything you need unless you could figure out how to exchange some of the things you made for other items.
Economists like me believe that using money makes it much easier for everyone to specialize, focusing their work on a specific activity. As economists have known since David Ricardo’s work in the 19th century, there are gains for everyone from exchanging goods and rvices-even when you end up paying someone who is less skilled than you.
People have traded goods and rvices with one kind of money or another, whether it was trinkets, shells, eds or cash for tens of thousands of years. People have always obtained things without money too, usually through barter. It involves exchanging something, such as a cookie, for something el-like a pencil.
Bartering sounds convenient, but it’s hard to pull off. Let’s say you’re a carpenter who makes chairs and you want an apple. You would probably find it impossible to buy one. Just imagine what a trouble it would be to drag the chairs you’ve made to the shopping mall in the hopes of cutting great deals through barter with the llers.
Paper money is far easier to carry. You might be able to ll a chair for $50. You could take that $50
bill to a supermarket, buy two pounds of apples for $5 and keep the $45 in change.
Nowadays, of cour, many people pay for things without cash or coins. Instead, they u credit cards or make online purchas. Others simply wave a smartwatch at a
designated device. Others u bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. But all of the are just different forms of money that don’t require paper.
No matter what form it takes, money ultimately helps make the trading of goods and rvices go more smoothly for everyone involved.
8. What does the underlined phra “pull off” in Paragraph 4 probably mean? A．Change. B．Achieve. C．Cea. D．Intervene.
9. Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the text?
A．Money hasn’t been ud until thousands of years ago.
B．People have to make all their necessities if there’s no money.
C．Money comes in more forms in modern times than in ancient times.
D．People benefit from exchanging goods and rvices even with someone less skilled.
10. What can be inferred from this text?
A．Paper money will ultimately disappear in the future.
B．Barter is the only way to get things if there’s no money.
C．Money makes the society more productive and convenient.
D．Exchanging something for something el is popular nowadays.
11. Where can this text come from?
A．A news report.
B．A financial magazine
C．A science fiction.
D．A rearch paper.
Solar panels that grow spinach (菠菜) by pulling in steam from the air could offer a low-cost strategy to produce crops in the dert, a new study says. A new system, called WEC2P, consists of solar panels coated with hydrogel (水凝胶) which suck in steam from the environment. The hydrogel-lined solar panels are mounted on top of a large metal box that turns steam from the air into liquid water for growing crops.
Over two weeks of hot weather last summer, rearchers conducted a plant-growing experiment by using WEC2P in Saudi Arabia. They ud the water only collected from air to irrigate 60 water spinach eds planted in a plastic plant-growing box. Over the cour of the experiment, the solar panel, with a size similar to the top of a student desk, also generated a total of 1,519 watt-hours of electricity. Spinach eds sprouted and grew normally to ven inches (18cm) with a crop survival rate of 95 percent.
According to the rearchers, the tec hnology offers a “low-cost strategy” to improve food and water curity. It’s described as “low cost” becau the hydrogels u the material as cheap as $1 per kilogram, although the combined cost of building and
adopting such a system would be much more. As well as powering the growth of crops, harvesting steam from the air can also provide clean drinking water.
“Our goal is to create a system of clean energy, water, and food production, especially the water-creation part in our design,” said Wang, “Our de sign makes water out of air using solar energy that would have been wasted and is suitable for small farms in remote places like derts and oceanic islands.”
One potential issue with the system is that it relies on high levels of humidity (湿度) —when there’s a lot of steam in the surrounding air — and may not be quite as effective in very dry areas. The performance and furthermore the cost of the system will have to be further and significantly improved before it can be made economically attractive.
12. What can we learn about the rearchers’ spinach planting last summer?
A．It was fruitless. B．It was successful.
C．It was perfect. D．It was ineffective.
13. Why is the technology described as “low cost”?
A．Becau it’s easy to collect steam from the air.
B．Becau of the low cost of building the system.
C．Becau of the wide application of the system.
D．Becau the material ud in hydrogels is inexpensive.
14. What do rearchers plan to do next?
A．They will harvest the steam from the air.
B．They will stay away from very dry areas.
C．They will reduce dependence on humidity.
D．They will cut down the cost of the system.
15. What does the text mainly talk about?
A．Solar panels grow crops in the dert by pulling in steam.
B．Solar panels produce energy in the dert by taking in sunlight.
C．Hydrogels turn vapour from the air into water for growing crops.
D．Hydrogels harvest steam from the air to provide clean drinking water.
二、七选五
I’m a hiker- ”born to hike,“ as my husband likes to joke. It does my heart and soul good to take a pack and head out on a trail, especially when I’m alone and can let my
