河南省商丘名校联盟2022-2023学年高二上学期期中考
试英语试题
一、阅读理解
Your Silver Passport to Travel the World
The 5 Most Popular Pure Silver Coins on Earth in One Set
Travel the globe, without leaving home-with this t of the world’s five most popular pure silver coins. Newly struck for 2022in 28.53 grams of fine silver, each coin will arrive in Brilliant Uncirculated (BU)condition. Your trip includes stops in the United States, China, South Africa, Australia and Canada.
2022 American Silver Eagle: The Silver Eagle is the single most popular coin in the world. 2022 reprents the first full year of relea(发布) of the Silver Eagle’s new Eagles Landing rever design introduced midway through last year to honor the coin’s 35th anniversary(周年纪念日). Struck in 99.9% fine silver at the U.S. Mint.
2022 South African Krugerrand: The Krugerrand continues to be the best-known, most respected numi
smatic coin brand in the world. 2022 is the 5th anniversary of the first silver Krugerrand. Struck in 99.9% fine silver at the South African Mint.
2022 China Silver Panda: Since its first issue the China Panda coin ries has been one of the most widely collected ries ever highlighted by one-year-only designs. This 2022 Panda features its first-ever privy mark honoring the coin’s 40th anniversary. Struck in 99.9% fine silver at the China Mint.
2022 Australia Wedge Tailed Eagle: Introduced in 2014, the Wedge-Tailed Eagle is the first-ever cooperation between U.S Mint designer John Mercanti and a foreign mint. With a new design for 2022, it’s struck i n 99.9% fine silver at the Perth Mint.
2022 Canada Maple Leaf: Since 1988,theSilver Maple Leaf’s elegant design has made it a highly sought-after bullion coin．The 2022 coin features anti-counterfeit(防伪)curity technology-radial lines and a microengraved (微雕)maple leaf with the number “22”. Struck in 99.99％ fine silver at the Royal Canadian Mint.
1. How many countries are mentioned in the advertiment?
A．3 B．4 C．5 D．6
2. Which t of silver coins is issued the latest?
A．2022 American Silver Eagle. B．2022 South African Krugerrand. C．2022 China Silver Panda. D．2022 Australia Wedge Tailed Eagle.
3. Which of the following has never changed its design?
若不阙秦的阙A．2022 American Silver Eagle. B．2022 China Silver Panda. C．2022 Australia Wedge Tailed Eagle. D．2022 Canada Maple Leaf.
Chongqing, a city of more than 32 million people, faced an unheard-of test this summer with a heat wave and drought causing a ries of large wildfires since Aug 17.
Local residents have safeguarded their hometown in every way possible, with thousands of volunteers from all walks of life fighting the fires with professionals.
Under a very hot sun, some residents ud chain saws(锯) to fell trees to make fire barriers. Others rode motorcycles on newly formed paths to take firefighters and supplies up a mountain, while some volunteers carried food and drinks on their backs by foot. Women and children helped organize supplies and clear the ground, and performed other esntial tasks.
On Thursday night, as wildfires approached a man-made barrier on Jinyun Mountain in Beibei district, a total of more than 1000 firefighters and volunteers stood alongside the barrier with fire extinguishers. Seen from overhead, their lights formed a silver wall against the raging fire.
The residents’ stories have touc hed many people.
十点半扑克牌玩法“Chongqing people are really amazing.“ said Du Hailang, head of the Beijing Emergency Rescue Association, an NGO founded in 2007 that has taken part in many overas rescue operations. Du and 10 other members of the association joined the fire rescue team in Chongqing last week.
二级军士长>兰迪波许“The man-made wall was unbelievable, but shocking. It really showed Chine people’s determination to defend their homeland.” Du said.
The outstanding work of the volunteers and the hospitality of local residents impresd the firefighters, too···
Bai Xueguang, from Gansu Forest Fire Brigade, said, “I never imagined that I would have ice cream and cold drinks at a fire rescue site.”
Zhou Hongyu, from Yunnan Forest Fire Brigade, said every volunteer he met at the scen e asked hi
m if he needed anything “It was the first time I had taken a motorcycle to reach a fire scene. We really appreciate the locals’ hospitality. Their support has been wonderful.” Zhou said.
4. What test that never had happened before did Chongqing face this summer?
A．A heat wave. B．Drought. C．Wildfires D．Flood.
5. Why did the local residents actively participate in fighting the fires?
A．To show their enthusiasm. B．To impress professional firefighters.
C．To get paid from it. D．To protect their homeland.
6. Which of the following best describes the volunteers in the fight against wildfires? A．Responsible and helpful B．Enthusiastic and faithful
C．Reliable and honest D．Ambitious and determined数学历史小故事
7. What can we learn from the report?
A．No pains, no gains. B．Hard work pays off.
C．Love breaks down barriers. D．Many hands make light work.
Some American states are making money available for high school graduates so they can learn skills to help them get technology jobs without a college degree.
One example is the northeastern state of Connecticut. It has invested $70 million to put young people and adults through short-term training programs that can lead to good paying technology jobs.
The programs are known as “non-degree skills training.” They hav e helped people like Mohameth Seck, who left college after two years. Seck said he wanted to work in technology but the class he was offered in a traditional college program “weren’t really interesting”to him. He also said traditional college takes too l ong to finish.
So Seck decided to enter a one-year computer training program run by a nonprofit organization. Today, the 25-year-old teaches computer coding at a skills training center, or academy, in Stamford, Connecticut. Eck said friends who finished the program also have good jobs.
Rearch carried out by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce showed th
at people who do get a college degree earn about 84 percent more over their lifetimes. But not everyone can get into, pay for or do well in college.
David Soo leads an organization called Jobs for the Future. He said the college model that has been in place for the last 40 years does not work for everyone. And this is especially true for students who are Black, Hispanic (拉美裔美国人) or who families do not make a lot of money. “We need to find a better way to rve tho students.” Soo said.
Anthony Carnevale is the leader of Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce. He said that while job training is good, it is not 100 percent correct to tell people they cannot benefit from a college degree.
One reason companies might hire college graduates is becau they think they might have better communication and teamwork skills.
8. What did Seck think of the training program?
A．Boring. B．Time-consuming. C．Rewarding. D．Demanding.
9. Which statement is Not true?
A．Some students can’t afford to go to college.
B．Some students are incapable of getting into college.
孔道C．The programs offer more choices to lead to a good job.
D．People cannot benefit from a college degree.
10. Who will most benefit from the short-term training programs according to David Soo? A．Minority and poor families. B．Everyone in America.
C．African-American students. D．College graduates.
11. What can be improved for the short-term training programs according to the last paragraph?
A．Expanding in size. B．Being given more financial support.
C．Including interpersonal skills in the programs. D．Teaching how to write code or design websites.
Few things come with no disadvantages at all. Even education is not always a pure good. Over the p
ast few decades, East Asia has en a surprising ri in the rate of short-sightedness. And a growing pile of evidence suggests that the main potential reason for this is education-specifically, the fact that children spend large parts of the day in comparatively dimly lit classrooms.
The evidence suggests that regular exposure to bright daylight is vital in properly controlling the growth of children’s eyes. Too little light leads to lengthened, short-sighted eyes. Rearchers think that this explains why rates are so high in Asia, where a strong cultural emphasis on the value of education leads to long school days and often private tutoring in the afternoon and evening. That leaves little time for sunshine. Western children, who parents are increasingly worried by a competitive jobs market that threatens much less cure employment than they enjoyed, are beginning to go the same way.
Special eyedrops(眼药水), as well as clever glass and contact lens(隐形眼镜), may be able to slow the progression of myopia(近视)once it has started. But prevention is better than mitigation, and the science suggests a cheap, straightforward measure. A ries of encouraging trials show that giving school children and especially tho in primary education-more time outside can cut the number who go on to develop myopia.
Governments are well placed to solve such collective-action problems, while reassuring anxious parents that a bit less classroom time is unlikely to be ruinous. After all, countries such as Finland and Sweden do well in global education rankings with a less inten approach to education. Giving more outdoor time to young children would still leave room for them to cram(突击准备)for exams in their teenage years. Far-sighted governments should nd the kids outdoors.
12. What is a problem with education in East Asia?
A．Inten competition. B．Increa in the rate of short-sightedness. C．Dimly lit classrooms. D．A lack of teaching equipment.
13. What makes the rate of short-sightedness in Asia so high?
A．Students study indoors for too long.
B．Parents attach little importance to education.
C．Students study in terrible learning environment.
D．It results from a competitive jobs market.
14. What does t he underlined word “mitigation” mean in paragraph 3?
A．Making something less rious. B．Curing an illness or injury.
C．A change in something. D．Becoming wor. 3
15. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A．Asia faces vere education problems.
B．Long school days are harmful to students.
詹天佑图片C．Schools should nd their students outside.
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D．East Asia has en a surprising ri in myopia.
二、七选五
Every day, We’re bombarded(频频不断地) with so many decisions that it’s impossible to make a perfect choice every time. 16 One particularly effective technique is critical thinking.
There are many different ways of approaching critical thinking, but here’s one four-step process that may help you solve any number of problems:
Come up with your question. 17 This isn’t always as straightforward as it sounds. For example, if you’re deciding whether to try out the newest diet craze(狂热), your reasons for doing so may be not clear by other factors-like claims that you’ll e results in just two weeks.
