2019学年黑龙江双鸭山一中高二上期中考试英语卷
【含答案及解析】
姓名___________ 班级____________ 分数__________
一、阅读理解
1. People are compassionate. With effort, we can translate compassion into action. An experience last weekend showed me this is true. I work part-time in a supermarket across from a building for the elderly. The old people are our main customers, and it’s not hard to lo patience over their slowness. But
last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man walked up to my register (收款机) with a box of biscuits. He said
he was out of cash, had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He asked if we could let him have the food on trust. He promid to repay me the next day.
I couldn’t help staring at him. I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if luck had gone
his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in
the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.
Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up. If anything, he looked more pitiable. “Charge it to me,” was all he said.
________ What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft
and safe and easy. Compassion, on the other hand, is
caring in action. I thanked the cond man but told him that was not allowed either. Then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits mylf. I reached into my pocket becau the two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion.
1.The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits _______.
A. promid to obey the store rules
B. forgot to take any money with him
C. hoped to have the food first and pay later
D. could not afford anything more expensive
2.Which of the following best describes the old gentleman?
A. kind and lucky
B. friendly and helpful
C. poor and lonely
网络推销D. hurt and disappointed
3.The writer acted upon the store rules becau _______.
A. he expected someone el to pay for the old man
B. he felt no pity for the old gentleman
C. he considered the old man dishonest亏损弥补
D. he wanted to keep his prent job
4.What does the writer learn from his experience?
A. Wealth is more important than anything el.
B. Obeying the rules means more than compassion.
C. Experience is better gained through practice.
D. Helping others is easier said than done.
2. The English writer Samuel Johnson famously said, “You find no man who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired
of life, for there is in London all that life can afford.” More than two centuries have pasd since Johnson’s age, but his words still ring true. Here, you’ll find the historic Tower of London and the Tate Modern both considered must-es. Shakespeare’s sonnets（十四行诗） are still being
uttered by actors. Londoners most certainly still look up to the royals, but they also rock out to Coldplay and Lily Allen. And while they still sip tea, they now drink Starbucks, too.
How to Save Money in London
Find the free attractions. Many of London’s top things to do, including the National Gallery, Hyde Park and the Portobello Road Market, are absolutely free to enjoy.
Ride the Tube. Taking taxis will add up quickly, so buy a pay-as-you-go Oyster Card and travel on London’s
underground system, nicknamed the “Tube”.
友善的交谈Dine smart. Corridors like Brick Lane offer fantastic
cultural food for bargain prices; fish and chip shops are
a cheap standby and takeaway food costs less than dine-in.
London Culture & Customs
London is one of the fashion capitals of the world, and its residents tend to reflect that. Practically, pack an umbrella for the rainy days and a scarf for the cold
ones. As for tipping, restaurants and cafes will usually add a 10-to-15-percent rvice charge to the bill. If a rvice charge is not allotted（指定）, it’s customary to tip the same (between 10 and 15 percent). If you’re drinking at a pub or wine bar, tipping is flexible. And in a taxicab,
tip the driver to the nearest pound or about 10 percent
绩效目标of the cost.
London Dining
London ud to be highly criticized for its heavy and common menu items. Now, London is considered as one of the most gourmet cities in the world. And with
its melting pot of cultures, it’s not difficult to e why. London offers everything from modern British to Malaysian. For Indian food, we suggest
visiting the curry hous on Brick Lane. If you want a real high tea
experience, book rervations at the Ritz, at Fortnum & Mason, or at the Dorchester — but be sure to dress the part. Pub culture is still alive and
well, so if you have a hankering for fried fish and salty chips (or French fries), you’ll still find them here. And for a quick bite, exchange a few
pounds for a kebab, a quick sandwich or some to go sushi, which can be found
in restaurants throughout the city.
1.What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. Life in London is exciting but tiring.
B. Londoners are traditional and fashion conscious.
C. Many well-known writers like to live in London.
D. Coffee is more popular with Londoners than tea.
2. The underlined word “hankering” in the last par agraph can be replaced by “________”.
A. desire
B. respect
C. preparation
D. talent阳明山
3.In which column of a newspaper can we find the passage?
A. Culture.________
B. Travel.______________
C. Education.___________
D. Entertainment.
3. We are surrounded by mixed messages about mistakes: we're told we earn by making them,
but we work hard to avoid them. So the result is that most of us know that we are going to make
mistakes, but deep down, we feel we shouldn't.
Experiments with schoolchildren who did well on a given test show that
tho who were
praid for being smart and then offered a more challenging
or less challenging task afterward
usually cho the easier one. On the other hand, children praid for trying hard-rather than
being smart-far more often lected the more difficult task.
If we try hard to avoid mistakes, we aren't open to getting the
information we need in
order to do better. In a writing study, experiments showed that tho who are so scared to
make mistakes perform wor in writing tasks than tho who aren't as worried about being
perfect. They fear receiving any kind of negative feedback,
so they don't learn where they went
wrong and how to get better.
We don't just learn more when we're open to mistakes, we learn deeper. Rearch tells us
that if we're only concerned about getting the right answer, we don't always learn the
underlying concepts that help us truly understand whatever
we're trying to figure out. Mistakes
need to be en not as a failure to learn, but as a guide to what still needs to be learned. As
Thomas Edison said, “I am not discouraged, becau every abandoned wrong attempt is
another step forward. "
Furthermore, we often make mistakes becau we try new things-we wander
away from
accepted paths. Teflon, penicillin-the are examples of great discoveries made by mistake.
Take a page from Albert Einstein, who said, "Anyone who
has never made a mistake has never
tried anything new. "
1.What will happen to students praid for being smart in face of choosing
tasks compared to students praid for working hard?
A. He will choo a less challenging task.
B. He will hide his mistakes from his teachers.
C. He will work harder to avoid mistakes.
D. He will ask his teachers for advice.
2.Which of the following statements is NOT acceptable according to the passage?
A. The more mistakes we make, the more we learn.
B. Mistakes can be ud as a positive factor for success.
C. Being open to mistakes help you understand the truth.go的用法
D. A step forward may come from mistakes you've made.加减法游戏
3.What does the last paragraph want to tell us?
A. One must follow a correct path to avoid mistakes.
B. To become an Einstein, you should make mistakes.钱商
C. You can't make mistakes unless you try new things.
D. Making mistakes is not a disadvantage in a way.
4. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. We can never avoid making mistakes when we work.
B. Success can't be achieved without making mistakes.
C. Mistakes should be treated with a correct attitude.
D. Try every means to avoid mistakes in our daily life.
4. Expensive perfumes (香水) come in tiny bottles, but many hide a whale-sized cret.
To perfect a particular smell, perfume-makers often u an ingredient
that comes from sperm whales, called ambergris (龙涎香). But using ambergris, which helps a perfume last longer, is strongly oppod by many people who think it is wrong to kill whales just so we can smell sweet. Joerg Bohlmann
is neither a perfumer nor a whale expert. He's a plant biologist at the University of British Columbia in Canada. But his discovery of a new plant
gene (基因) might push whales out of the perfume business.
The gene comes from fir trees, found throughout North America and commonly ud as Christmas trees. The trees produce a chemical that can be ud in perfume in place of ambergris-but with a catch . "There's a problem that many people wouldn't consider. In the tree, the chemical is mixed with many others. That makes paration a challenge," Bohlmann says. "lt's like trying to isolate sugar from a biscuit. "
This is where science becomes uful. When Bohlmann learned that fir
trees produce the ambergris-like chemical, he decided to u his gene know-how to find the instructions for how to make the ambergris-substitute.
Bohlmann found that gene and took it out of the tree cells. Then he did something that might sound strange to someone who doesn't work in genetics: Bohlmann put the gene from the tree into yeast (酵母) cells.
Yeast may sound familiar becau it's ud to make things like bread,
wine and beer. Biologists like to work with yeast becau it easily adopts new genes and changes its features and behaviour. When Bohlmann put the fir tree
