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1、 高二英语检测卷第一部分：听力 （共两节，20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10个小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）AMr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty- three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape routethrough the boot (行李
2、箱).Mr. Johnsons car had finished up in a ditch (沟渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent, after skidding on ice and hitting a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said. “I couldnt force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the win
3、dows because I knew water would come flooding in.”Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape.Later he said, “It was really a half penny that
4、 saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from
5、 the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench (扳手) and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in. I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled clear as the car filled up
6、.”His hands and arms cut and bruised，Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked after by the farmers wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Trembling in a blanket, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours.” Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night. The vehicle had
7、 sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.21. In which section of a newspaper can we read this article?A. Book review. B. News report. C. Campus life. D. Continued story.22. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 “Finally it gave” means that _.A. luckily the door was torn away in the end
8、B. at last the wrench went brokenC. the lock came open after all his effortsD. the chance was lost at the last minute23. It may be inferred from the passage that _. A. the ditch was along a quiet country road B. the accident happened on a clear warm day C. the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of th
9、e ditchD. Mr. Johnson had a tender wife and was well attendedB“A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smart phone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website” is the definition of “selfie” in the Oxford English Dictionary. In fact, it wasnt even in the dictionary until Aug
10、ust of last year. It earned its place there because people are now so obsessed with (对痴迷) selfieswe take them when we try on a new hat, play with our pets or when we meet a friend whom we havent seen in a while.But is there any scientific explanation for this obsession? Well, you should probably ask
11、 James Kilner, a neuroscientist(神经系统科学家) at University College London.Through our lifetime we become experts at recognizing and interpreting other peoples faces and facial expressions. In contrast, according to Kilner, we have a very poor understanding of our own faces since we have little experienc
12、e of looking at themwe just feel them most of the time.This has been proved in previous studies, according to the BBC.Kilner found that most people chose the more attractive picture. This suggests that we tend to think of ourselves as better-looking than we actually are. To further test how we actua
13、lly perceive our own faces, Kilner carried out another study. He showed people different versions of their own portraitthe original, one that had been edited to look less attractive and one that was made more attractiveand asked them to pick the version which they thought looked most like them. They
14、 chose the more attractive version.But what does it say about settles? Well, isnt that obvious? Selfies give us the power to create a photographby taking it from various angles, with different poses, using filters (滤色镜) and so onthat better matches our expectations with our actual faces.“You suddenl
15、y have control in a way that you dont have in non-virtual(非虚拟的) interactions,” Kilner told the Canada-based CTV News. Selfies allow you “to keep taking pictures until you manage to take one youre happy with” , he explained.24. What is the passage mainly about?A. The definition and fun of taking self
16、ies.B. The explanation of why people love taking selfies.C. How taking selfies influences peoples daily lives.D. How to interpret peoples facial expressions in their selfies.25. The underlined word “perceive” in Paragraph 5 can be replaced by “_”.A. interpret B. beautify C. choose D. destroy26. According to Kiln
