2021-2022学年山东省青岛市黄岛区高二（上）期末英语试卷
一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共37.5分）
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From baking pumpkin pie to celebrating the moon,here's how autumn is celebrated across the globe.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the biggest and most widely celebrated harvest festivals in the world.It is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chine lunar calendar.In many Asian countries including China,the festival is celebrated as a public holiday,with families gathering and giving thanks for the harvest and full moon.
Oktoberfest is another major autumn celebration that,while originating in Germany,has inspired local versions around the globe.The world's largest folk festival begins in September and runs for about two weeks,featuring traditional Bavarian food,music,clothing,and most importantly,lots of beer!
Thanksgiving is also an important celebration for Americans that takes place in late Novem
ber every year,with asonal dishes like yams smothered and pumpkin pies always having a place at the Thanksgiving dinner table.Walks,hikes and trips to e the changing foliage are also hugely popular,with locations like Asheville and North Carolina,boasting of some of the most beautiful autumn scenery around.
There are also veral cultural and religious events that occur throughout October and November.Dia de Los Muertos,on the 1st and 2nd November,is a Mexican celebration that honours the lives of tho who have pasd away with food,drinks and activities that tho loved ones enjoyed when they were alive.Diwali,the Hindu festival of lights,is another spiritual celebration of the victory of light over darkness,and good over evil,which falls on 14th November.Lighting candles all around the hou and hoping for health and wealth are the chief rituals of the festival.
1.Which festival features food and trips？ ______
A. The Mid-Autumn Festival. B. Oktoberfest.
C. Thanksgiving. D. Dia de Los Muertos
2.What will people do on Oktoberfest festival？ ______
A. They will enjoy full moon.
B. They will have traditional Bavarian food.
C. They will eat pumpkin pies.
D. They will light candles.
3.What do the festivals listed have in common？ ______
A. They are celebrated for harvest.
B. They are held all over the world.
C. They are cultural and religious celebrations.
D. They fall in autumn.
B
The chasm（鸿沟）parating Garang Piol from his dream of attending Cape Town University,the top university of Africa,in 2018 was wide.The former soldier from the Repub
lic of South Sudan needed money to pay tuition.
In the years after the war's ending in 2005，he had worked as an electrician in a school where he found a chance at education.Later,he worked for Atlanta's Carter Center in South Sudan,helping root out Guinea worm dia.His salary paid for his living expens and for his education at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Kenya,where he earned a degree in sustainable development.
David Stobbelaar was in charge of the Carter Center in South Sudan in 2008 when Garang was assigned to his team.Stobbelaar says Garang impresd Carter Center staff with his intelligence,organization and communication abilities.The two became good friends over years and Garang told Stobbelaar his experience of being a soldier.
When Stobbelaar was talking in 2015 to Dickstein Hughes,a friend who is a teacher,she was leading her 10th grade English class through a book,A Long Way Gone：Memoirs of a Soldier. "I was talking to David about some of my concerns and bringing my students clor to the humanity of the memoir,and he suggested that he could connect me with a former soldier," she said.
Garang soon was answering questions via Internet from the students.His talk was so impactful that Dickstein Hughes continued contacting him for the next three years,became Garang's friend and came to know of his hopes of coming to Cape Town University for more schooling.Recommended by Dickstein Hughes,Garang was accepted at Cape Town,but the money became the sticking point.Thus Dickstein Hughes and her class started a GoFundMe account,went door to door and held fundrairs. "Life has challenged him time and time again,and Garang has proved himlf time and time again." Dickstein Hughes said.
Now Garang is one year into earning master's degrees at Cape Town in international development and public health.He is anxious to return home and recreate the process that changed him. "I hope to change the life of others- to help them know they have a future," Garang said.
4.What is the text mainly about？ ______
A. A chasm parated a Sudane soldier from his dream.
B. A Sudane soldier fulfilled his dream with the help of friends.
C. A Sudane soldier realized his dream by telling his stories.
D. A former Sudane soldier hopes to change the life of others.
5.What does the author intend to tell us about Garang in paragraph 2？ ______
A. He went to school in 2005.
B. He managed to get more schooling.
C. He did different jobs to make money.
D. He made contributions in rooting out Guinea worm dia.
6.Why did Garang's friends like to help him？ ______
A. He ud to be a soldier.
B. He communicated with friends via Internet.
C. He received high level education.
D. His behavior impresd friends deeply.
7.What does the underlined part "sticking point" in paragraph 5 mean？ ______
A. Disadvantage. B. Mistake.
C. Difficulty. D. Disappointment.
C
For years,you've been told that stress can be deadly and is something to be avoided.Therefore,an anxious situation is often accompanied by a n of fear.However,recent studies suggest that stress-related harmful effects on your health are not unavoidable.
One study followed 30，000 people over eight years and measured their stress levels.Tho who believed that stress is harmful died at a higher rate than tho who were under stress but didn't acknowledge the so-called negative effects.The latter group was healthier,and many of them lived long,happy lives.
Stressful feelings start out in a small region of the brain that affects how people feel emotions,especially fear.The small region is very nsitive to possible threats.When it
ns danger,it alerts the brain,and feelings of fear or stress can result.The feelings give people a warning message when they need to pay attention and when they need to take action.For instance,when the sight of a speeding car triggers（触发）the region to relea a lightning-fast message,we know immediately to move out of the way!
Another study carried by Health psychologist Dr.McGonigal found a link between stress and the amount of sympathy people showed to others.Rearchers tracked 1，000 adults,their descriptions of the level of stress in their lives and the amount of time spent helping others.With each major stressful event,such as a family tragedy or financial crisis,the risk of dying incread by 30 percent.But for the group who spent time helping others,there was no increa in stress-related deaths,even for tho who had faced their own personal tragedies.According to Dr.McGonigal,"Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourlf to handle the stress that follows."
