2020-2021学年江苏省徐州市高二上学期英语期中试卷【含答案】
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Teens love to socialize, and the websites give them a chance to do that while playing games, exploring virtual worlds and taking quizzes. Of cour, teens also need to be safe online and report any cyber bullying(网络欺凌）。任读音姓氏
Instagram
Instagram allows teens to upload photos of their daily life and share them with friends. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. The platform is all about photos with short captions(说明文字）。 When it comes to Instagram' s around 300 million urs, 53 percent of them are aged 18-29, but a big percentage of tho may be even younger and simply list their age as 18 in order to u the platform.
Habbo Hotel
Habbo Hotel is a place for teens to chat. Each teen receives a personal room to decorate with virtual objects. They can also dress their avatar(网络头像）in virtual clothes or create games to play with friends.Each room teens can interact in has an adult moderator(管理员） to make sure it stays safe.
Fanlala
Fanlala is a social network that gives teens who love celebrities, music and TV shows a place to interact. Through it, a ur can get the latest news on their favorite shows, as well as take quizzes to test their knowledge. Teens can t up their own' profile on Fanlala and interact with other urs.
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Teen Chat is a place for teens to interact with one another through forums(论坛）according to their interests. For example, there are chat rooms for tho who love anime
(动漫）， music, games, or sports. The platform offers a"Friend Finder” tool that will help teens arch for people living locally to them.
21. What makes Instagram different from other sites listed in the text?
A. Only tho above 18 normally u it.
B. The majority of its urs are in their 20s.
C. It has the largest number of urs.
D. It's a great place for people to share photos.
22. Which site allows its urs to create their own character and design a virtual room for it?
A. Instagram.
B. Habbe Hotei.
D. Teen Chat.
C. Fanlala.
23. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Tips on online chatting.
B. Free chat rooms for everyone.玩沙子
C. Websites for socializing.
D. How to fight cyber bullying.
B
For Beth Terry, when she read an article about how abirds are being killed by discarded plastics, she realized that it was time to give up plastics.
First, she focud on her kitchen and got rid of the shopping bags and other plastic produ
cts. Then竹子资料 she turned to her bathroom. Toothpaste without plastic packaging was extremely hard to find,so she 鸟瞰started making her own with baking soda.
Sometimes her personal war on plastics created awkward moments. During a vacation to Disneyland in California to run a half-marathon, Ms. Terry and her husband left their reusable cloth bags in the hotel,soon discovering that the local supermarket only had plastic bags. How should they carry her fruits like apples,oranges,pears and melons?
＂We just rolled them up in our T-shirts and carried them that way,” said Ms. Terry, 54, recalling how she crab-walked back to the hotel to stay true to her principles. “ If I let mylf off the hook this time, it would be easier for me to take plastics next time,” she said.
Treating plastics like a drug habit that needs to be kicked is a lifestyle promi being shared by more and more consumers, horrified by tens of millions of tons of plastics created worldwide each year, much书法贴 of it in the form of single-u items like straws that end up in landfills(垃圾填埋场）or,wor, the oceans.
If you gathered up all your plastic waste each week, as Mr. Terry once did, you would have a small hill on the floor.How should we begin? “The one thing I want to make people know is to go step by step. Don't try to do everything at once,” said Ms. Terry, who is the author of Plastic-Free:How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too.
葛红兵24. What made Beth Terry give up plastics in her life?
A. Seeing some horrible scenes.
B. Reading about some terrible news.
C. Finding piles of plastic waste in her room. D. Knowing about the annual creation of plastics.
25.Which word can best describe Beth Terry's experience of refusing plastics?
A. Difficult.
B. Absurd.
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C. Relaxing.
D. Terrible.
26. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Allow mylf to ask a favor.
B. Remind mylf to keep on trying.
C. Remind mylf to make a change.
D. Allow mylf to get out of trouble.
27. What is Ms. Terry's final suggestion?
A. To remember your original aims.
B. To stay true to your principles.
C. To make gradual progress.
D. To keep your word.
C
Listening to“ Eye of the Tiger" or Katy Perry 's “Roar” when you work out probably isn't going to make you perform any better. But it might get you to take risks at the gym. The are the findings of a team of rearchers who looked at the effect of motivational music on athletic performance.
