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1、 肇庆市第四中学2015-2016学年度高二第一学期 英语新课程模块二考试试题 第I卷第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40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)Owning pet birds is not just feeding them when necessaryYou have to be very responsible if you have decided to keep birds as petsIf you really want to acquire a com
2、panion, think in advance whether you are able to handle itDepending on what pet bird you are going to have and how big it is, the cost is differentFor example, the cost of a comfortable cage, the cost for nutritional food and the money for some additional things should be taken into considerationThe
3、re are also some unexpected costFor example, when your pet bird gets sick, you have to send for a vet （兽医）You may think that you do not have free time to have a dog so youd better have a pet bird because it doesnt require a lot of attentionYou are wrong! Some people even do not have time for a short
4、 sleepThey will not have enough time for pets, eitherFor good bird health it is very important to handle them and play with them as much as you canAlso there are a lot of people who think that birds do not require a lot of space and they are wrong againThey also need to fly so if you do not have spa
5、ce for it, youd better reconsider the thingsBut do not forget the great advantage of having a pet birdIn the animal kingdom, birds rank near the top when it comes to smartsYou can have a friend for life if you take good care of itIts a real character and can bring joy and colour in your home1What is
6、 the text mainly about? ADifferent types of pets for different peopleBThe advantages of keeping a pet birdCThe reasons for keeping a pet bird DThings to consider if you want to keep a pet bird2We can learn from the second paragraph that Athe cost of having a pet bird is unpredictable sometimesByou h
7、ave to be very rich to keep a pet bird Csome cost of keeping a pet bird is unnecessaryDit is very easy to calculate the cost of having a pet bird3If you want to have a pet bird, you neednt consider Athe space a pet bird needs to fly Bthe knowledge about a pet bird Cthe cost of having a pet bird Dthe
8、 time taken to care for a pet bird (B)Ask a teacher to name the most annoying invention of recent years and they will often mention the mobile phoneDisturbed by the problems they create, many head teachers have ordered that pupils should keep their phones switched off at schoolOthers have told pupil
9、s to leave them at homeHowever, education researchers at The University of Nottingham believe it is time that phone bans were reassessed, because mobile phones can be a powerful learning aid, they sayDr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young and her colleagues have reached this conclusion after studying the conse
10、quences of allowing pupils in five secondary schools to use either their own mobile phones or the new generation of smartphones in lessonsDuring the nine-month experiment, 14- to 16-year-old pupils used the phones for a wide range of educational purposes, including creating short movies, setting hom
11、ework reminders, recording a teacher reading a poem, and timing experiments with the phones stopwatchesThe smartphones, which could be connected to the Internet, also allowed pupils to access revision websites, log into the school email system, or transfer （转存） electronic files between school and ho
12、meThe research involved 331 pupils in schools in Cambridgeshire, West Berkshire and Nottingham“At the start of the study, even pupils were often surprised at the thought that mobile phones could be used for learning,” Dr Hartnell-Young said“After their hands-on experience, almost all pupils said the
13、y had enjoyed the project and felt more inspired”Some teachers found that pupils who lacked confidence gained most from the projectHowever, they recognized that greater use of mobile phones in schools could cause problems4We can infer from the first paragraph that Amobile phones are usually forbidde
14、n to be used at schoolBteachers are strongly against students owning mobile phonesCmobile phones should be developed to meet students needs Dstudents are free to use their mobile phones at school 5When the students first used mobile phones for learning, they Awere surprised that they were allowed to
15、 use mobile phones in schoolsBall enjoyed the project very muchCdidnt know what they were used forDdidnt fully realize the learning functions of mobile phones 6Who benefited most from the project?APupils who were confident BOlder pupilsCPupils who were not confident DYounger pupils7The purpose of the text is to tell us that Athe mobile phone is considered the most annoying invention of recent years Bmobile phones can actually help students learnCmobile phones begin to be widely used in schools
