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1、1 2018 20192018 2019 学年下学期高二期中考试卷学年下学期高二期中考试卷 英英 语语 注意事项注意事项 1 答题前 先将自己的姓名 准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上 并将准考证号条形码 粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置 用 2B 铅笔将答题卡上试卷类型 B 后的方框涂黑 2 选择题的作答 每小题选出答案后 用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑 写在试题卷 草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效 3 非选择题的作答 用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内 写在试题卷 草稿 纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效 4 考试结束后 请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交 第第 卷卷 第一部分第一部分
2、听力听力 共两节共两节 满分满分 3030 分分 略略 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解阅读理解 共两节共两节 满分满分 4040 分分 第一节 共 15 小题 每小题 2 分 满分 30 分 阅读下列短文 从每题所给的四个选项 A B C 和 D 中选出最佳选项 并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑 A A ScienceScience onon SundaysSundays Science on Sundays is a new series of informal drop in plant science talks at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden
3、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 Sciences 2424 Apr Apr The shapes that fe
4、ed us a pleasing journey into grass leaf shape Dr Devin O Connor the Leyser Group Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University 2929 May May Nature s geometry 几何学 the interesting world of plant patterns 图案 Dr Siobhan Braybrook Plant Growth Mechanics Group Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University 2626 J
5、un Jun A bird s 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 world s most difficult environments Dr Sam Brockington Head of Group Mo
6、lecular 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 uk CUBotanicGarden 21 Who is the director of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden A Devin O Connor B Beverley Glover C David Coomes D Siobhan Braybr
7、ook 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 notice B B Unlike most other holidays the history of April Fools Day sometimes called A
8、ll 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 on March 25th The celebration reached the highest point on April 1st With the reform of the calen
9、dar under Charles IX the Gregorian calendar 公历 阳历 was introduced and New Year s Day was moved to January 1st However because in those days communications were not as developed as they are today many people did not receive the news for several years Some people refused to accept the 此卷只装订不密封 班级 姓名 准考
10、证号 考场号 座位号 2 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 This developed over time into a tradition of playing a trick on someone on the f
11、irst 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 into an international fun feast so to speak with different nationalities specializing in
12、their own kind of humor at the expense of their friends and families 24 According to an earlier calendar New Year s Day in France was A March 25th B January 1st C April 1st D April 3rd 25 Which of the following first had the tradition of celebrating the April Fools Day A France B England C Scotland
13、D America 26 What was people s attitude towards the new calendar A They accepted it happily B They refused it immediately B Some recognized it D Some laughed at it 27 The passage mainly tells us A what the French did on April Fools Day B how April Fools Day came into being C when was the new calenda
14、r 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 educating them Our purpose is to fit them for life In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by
15、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 education for all is not enough we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees they refuse to do what th
16、ey 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 completely 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 educat
