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1、1 福建省莆田市第七中学福建省莆田市第七中学 2018-20192018-2019 学年高二英语下学期期中试题学年高二英语下学期期中试题 I.I.听力（听力（3030 分）分） II.II.阅读理解（阅读理解（4040 分）分） 第一节第一节（共共 1515 小题小题；每小题每小题 2 2 分分，满分满分 3030 分分） A A ScienceScience onon SundaysSundays Science on Sundays is a new series of informal, drop-in plant science talks at the Cambridge Unive
2、rsity Botanic Garden suitable for 12+. 2727 Mar.Mar. A trick(花招) of the light? How flower surfaces attract pollinators(授粉昆虫)? Professor Beverley Glover, Director of the CUBG (Cambridge University Botanic Garden) and Head of Group, Plant Evolution and Development Research, Department of Plant Science
3、s 2424 Apr.Apr. The shapes that feed us: a pleasing journey into grass leaf shape Dr. Devin OConnor, the Leyser Group, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University 2929 May.May. Natures geometry(几何学): the interesting world of plant patterns(图案) Dr. Siobhan Braybrook, Plant Growth Mechanics Group, Sains
4、bury Laboratory Cambridge University 2626 Jun.Jun. A birds-eye view of the natural world: learning about forests from aircraft Dr. David Coomes, Head of Group, Forest Ecology and Conservation, Department of Plant Sciences 2424 Jul.Jul. Extreme green: plant adaptations(适 应 ) to the worlds most diffic
5、ult environments Dr. Sam Brockington, Head of Group, Molecular Systematics there is no need to book; just drop in to the Classroom at the Brookside Gate at 11am(each talk repeated at 2pm). www.botanicxam.ac.ukCUBotanicGarden 2 21. Who is the director of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden? A. De
6、vin OConnor. B. Beverley Glover. C. David Coomes. D. Siobhan Braybrook. 22. What is the talk about in April? A. Tricky light. B. Leaf shape. C. Plant patterns. D. Plant adaptations. 23. Where is the text probably taken from? A. A monthly review. B. A science report. C. A gardening guide. D. A local
7、notice. B B Unlike most other holidays, the history of April Fools Day, sometimes called All Fools Day, is not totally clear. The only point in time that can be agreed on as the beginning of this tradition was 1582, in France. Before that year, the New Year was celebrated for eight days, beginning o
8、n March 25th. The celebration reached the highest point on April 1st. With the reform of the calendar under Charles IX, the Gregorian calendar(公历，阳历) was introduced, and New Years Day was moved to January 1st. However, because in those days communications were not as developed as they are today, man
9、y people did not receive the news for several years. Some people refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the New Year on April 1st. These backward people were considered “fools” by other people. They were often sent on “fools” errands(徒劳无益的工作) or were made the targets of jokes.
10、 This developed, over time, into a tradition of playing a trick on someone on the first day of April. The tradition eventually spread to England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. It was later introduced to the American colonies of both the Britain and France. April Fools Day thus developed int
11、o an international fun feast, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own kind of humor at the expense of their friends and families. 24. According to an earlier calendar, New Years Day in France was _. A. March 25th B. January 1st C. April 1st D. April 3rd 25. Which of the f
12、ollowing first had the tradition of celebrating the April Fools Day? A. France. B. England. C. Scotland. D. America. 26. What was peoples attitude towards the new calendar? 3 A. They accepted it happily. B. They refused it immediately. B. Some recognized it. D. Some laughed at it. 27. The passage ma
13、inly tells us _. A. what the French did on April Fools Day B. how April Fools Day came into being C. when was the new calendar introduced D. why some people were fooled in France C C Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of ed
14、ucating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life. In some modern countries, it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all whether rich or poor, clever or stupid, one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free ed
15、ucation for all is not enough: we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees; they refuse to do what they think “low” work; and in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a complete
16、ly uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we would get terrible diseases in our towns. In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we are edu
