湖北省2020-2021学年高二上学期期末联考英语试题分类汇编
-阅读理解
湖北省武汉市部分重点中学2020-2021学年高二上学期期末联考英语试题土豆肉丝的做法
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
A quarter of the world's humans are at home right now. If you're reading this, chances are that you're one of them. Yes, it's important to stay safe indoors to protect ourlves and others, but that doesn't mean you can't have a good time. We will create an endless list of things to do indoors. Stick with us and we promi you won't be bored for a cond.
Catch up on literary classics
You know that pile of books that you haven't ever quite managed to get into? There'll never be a better time to conquer it. And if you've already exhausted your library, you can now access more than a million books for free online as part of the 'National Emergency Library'. Usually, you'd have to join a queue before being able to borrow anything. But now you can just dip into whatever you want, whenever.
Join a virtual choir
孕妇能吃雪莲果吗If the videos of cities in lockdown coming together to sing on their balconies left you with a lump in your throat生姜治白发, here's your chance to add your sound to one of veral online choirs popping up around the world. The Sofa Singers is a free online singing event that aims to 'bring people together from around the world to promote joy and human connection'. It involves hundreds of singers joining a Zoom call and learning a new song together.
Form new bonds with your neighbours
In normal times, you might not be the type to actually talk to your neighbours. But let's be honest: your social life's a wreck right now, and you're going to make friends with the people next door, no matter what. So why not take inspiration from Balcony Parties In Miami, or the Londoner Hosting Athletic Class On His Doorstep? Go on, get social - in a distant kind of way, of cour.
21. What's the purpo of the writer? '
A. To enrich people's life. B. To educate the uncivilized.
C. To train professional singers. D. To build a harmonious society.
纪律作风心得体会22. What does the underlined phra "with a lump in your throat" mean?
A. the state of being choked. B. the state of singing aloud.
送书简短清雅赠言C. the state of wanting to sing. D. the state of having a bad voice.
23. The author implies that neighbours .
A. ldom communicate with one another.
黄皮果的功效与作用B. usually form a community singing group.
C. often share literary books with each other.
D. hold parties on the balcony every weekend.
B
A few years ago, my father arranged to nd me a mail- order fruitcake at Christmastime. Although I had a good job and owned an apartment in Manhattan, he feared my cupboards and refrigerator might be bare. I had recently moved from California, where my parents still lived in their suburban bungalow of 50 years, the hou I grew up in.
He wanted me to have a particular brand of fruitcake. "It reminds me of my mother's," he told me in a phone call. Ordering the fruitcake was his way of trying to take care of me from afar. "It should arrive the first week of December," he said. "As soon as you get it, let
me know what you think." The first week of December pasd with no sign of his fruitcake. Delayed by holiday mail, I assumed, or a backlog of orders.
The day before my flight to California, the fruitcake still had not arrived. When I arrived at my parents' hou, he said, "Did you get the fruitcake?" "No, but I'm sure it'll be there when I go home."
As soon as the word left my lips, I realized that home, for them, was a kind of triggering（触发）word. Becau wasn't this home? Wasn't I home now, with my parents greeting me, asking whether I was hungry after the long flight?
January, February, and March came and went with no fruitcake. Though my father continued to ask about it, I never once considered lying and telling him yes, the fruitcake had finally arrived and was delicious. Instead I said, "That cake is traveling earth, and sooner or later it will land."
倒悬空寺"That's a good one!" he said,
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His n of humor never wavered, and as time went on he would bring up the journey of his fruitcake now and then.
"I wonder where it is now," he'd say.
"It's taken a detour（绕道）to Pluto（冥王星）."
He liked that one too.
"Do you want me to order another, in ca it never comes?"
"That's OK. Dad. I said. "I'll wait for this one. It'll taste even better after touring the univer."
Early last December, nearly a year after my father died from a failing heart, I got a call from a staffer at the front desk of my apartment building.
