湖湘教育三新探索协作体2020年11月联考试卷
高二英语
由郴州市一中 鼎城区一中 衡阳市八中 汉寿县一中
澧阳一中 永州市四中 周南中学 联合命制
第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分30分)
英语词霸第一节(共10小题，每小题2分，满分20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。
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Events at Mystic Aquarium
现状翻译Family Overnight
How incredible it would be to come in after all the visitors have left for the night and explore the Aquarium without the crowds! Let’s explore our cool grogs, create really cool craft and even work on a scavenger hunt! Finish it off with a light evening snack and falling asleep next to your favorite indoor exhibit.
Start: January 17 at 7:00 pm
End: January 18 at 8:30 am 高考出分时间
Prices: Adult ($65.00)
Child ($55.00)
Family Game Days
Explore all of your favorite exhibits and compete against family and friends with super-sized games! Take your pick from a variety of fun games and activities.
麟角凤嘴Free for Aquarium members or with admission.
Date: January 18
Time: 9:00 pm—11:30 am
Trainer Days
Guests will learn what each Aquarium trainer’s schedule looks like. Find out what it takes to work as an animal trainer and understand how their dedicated work with the animals at Mystic Aquarium impactsother animal populates locally and globally.
Free for Aquarium members or with admission
Date: January 19
Time: 1:00 pm—4:30 pm
Seal Splash (溅水花)
From the first splash of a healing (治愈)alentering the medical pool to the animal’s dive
into theAquarium’s Animal Rescue Team succeed in their mission (使命)! Top fund-rairs receive special prizes!
十二月英文
Date: February 22
Time: 10:00 am-12:30 pm
Early registration by January 31: $ 20/person
Registration: $25 per person
(Online registration clos February 21 at 5:00 pm)
21. How much should a couple with a child pay to go to the overnight event?aplus
A. $120. B. $175 C. $185 D. $230
22. Jack is only free in the afternoon, so he can go to ________.
A. Family Overnight B. Family Game Days
C. Trainer Days D. Seal Splash
23. What can you do in the event on February 22?
A. Help a rescue team with money. B. Dive into the ocean and make a splash.
C. Enjoy a night s sleep in the Aquarium. D. Play games or take part in activities.
B
I am in venth-grade language arts class in an upstairs room in the old red-brick junior high school building. The afternoon sun streams through high windows that face the playground. It is the day I remember hearing this phra for the first time: “the little / lame balloonman.”
It’s from “in Just-”, the E. E. Cummings poem we are reading. Mr. Katz is trying to loon up our adolescent imaginations to the point where we might appreciate figurative language. There arephras like Abe world is mud- / luscious,” and then “puddle-wonderf
ul.” Something begins to grow in me as a reader: the mixture of descriptive words and words expressing action.
Words would be and do what they describe! I’d like to think Mr. Katz was conspiring (密谋) with the poem, sun, spring and kid energy, not just a lesson plan. From then on, I was a new reader and writer. I look back on that poem as a starting line, I heard the call to poetry.
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1 would e “in Just-” in nearly every poem in my language arts life. It was in my very old “A Pocket Book of Modern Ver”, edited by Oscar Williams and in “An Approach to Poetry”, by X.J Kennedy. I began to understand that a poet is describing the world, experience, or concepts in a way that antidotes (对抗) dullness, commonness, and indifference. “Poetryprovides the one permissibleway of saying one thing and meaning another,” Robert Frostexplained.
Reading’ poems became a daily practice. I collect my own favorite expressions of life’s joys and sufferings. I’m fond of Billy Collins’ view: “The history of poetry is the only survivi环亚西文
ng history we have ofhuman emotion. It is the history of the human heart. There is no other one.”
The special poems always lead me back to my memory of a sunny classroom, in junior high school when Mr. Katz carefully brought us into a newfield—a moment that got me out of middle school mundanity (乏味). Even the dance on Friday and my drum lesson on Wednesday afternoon paled in comparison. I wasaddicted to poetry.
my ideal job24. What is Mr. Katz trying to do in his class?
A. Fire up students’ interest in poetry. B. Finish his lesson plan on time.
C. Teach students to write poems. D. U great words to express himlf.
25. What does Robert Frost think of poetry?
A. It makes the theme obvious. B. It talks about practical concepts.composites
C. It carries underlying meaning. D. It allows dullness and commonness.
26. How did the author find his /her middle school?
A. The dance on Friday was quite boring.
B. The language arts lesson was incomparable.
