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1、2018-2019学年度第二学期期末考试高二英语试题一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题,共30.0分）ALovell Camps Kids Club in SwitzerlandLovell Camps Kids Club is an English language Montessori(蒙台梭利)style club. Children will enjoy a wonderful and safe learning experience which includes language activities, cooking, arts and crafts, singing, dancing
2、, etc. Learning outside the classroom plays a necessary role at Lovell Camps, making children experience the outdoors. During the summer months this can include visits to local playgrounds, farms and indoor or outdoor swimming pools. Winter time gives children the chance to go skiing and play outsid
3、e in the snow. Admission： The Lovell Camps Kids Club is for pre-school children aged between 2 and 5. Whats included： Fees include： Healthy snacks and school equipment. If you choose the skiing activity, fees include transportation to and from the ski hill and professional ski instructions. Fees do
4、not include： Ski rentals, round-trip transportation from Kids Club to home and medical insurance. Time： Kids Club is open from December to March and in July and August. It is closed on Mondays during the year.1. What is the special activity in summer？ _ A. Getting close to animals.B. Swimming in the
5、 pool.C. Singing and dancing.D. Visiting farms.2. Lovell Camps Kids Club is designed for 2- to 5-year-olds _ .A. who are good at swimmingB. who enjoy outdoor activitiesC. who want to learn skiingD. who are interested in playing sports3. For which of the following should kids pay extra？ _ A. Medical
6、insurance.B. Healthy snacks.C. School equipment.D. Transportation to the ski hill.BAt the beginning of the century there was a big farm called Hollywood Ranch.It was near Los Angeles in California.A few years later Hollywood was one of the most famous places of the world.From the 1910s to the 1950s
7、Hollywood was the film center of the world.Every family knew the names of the film stars Charlie Chaplin,Greta Garbo,Bergman and hundreds more. The reason why people went to Hollywood to make films was the sun.At first people made films in New York on the east coast of the United States.But then the
8、y heard about Los Angeles where there are 350days of sun every year.As they made all the films by sunlight,the west coast was a much better place to work. Also near Hollywood you can find mountains and sea and desert.They did not have to travel far to make any kind of film. When TV became popular in
9、 the 1960s,Hollywood started making films for television.Then in the 1970s they discovered people still went to cinema to see big expensive films.After twenty years they are still making films in Hollywood and people watch them all over the world.4. Hollywood used to be a _ .A. big farmB. cinemaC. p
10、arkD. market5. Who was not mentioned as a film star in the passage？ _ A. Charlie ChaplinB. Marilyn MonroeC. Ingrid BergmanD. Greta Garbo6. People went to Hollywood to make films because _ .A. it was a beautiful placeB. you could find many film starsC. there was a lot of sunlight thereD. it was a fam
11、ous place7. Which statement is true？ _ A. The west coast was a better place to make films.B. There are no mountains near Hollywood.C. People no longer went to the cinema after television became popular.D. Hollywood began to make films for television before the First World War.CStephen Hawkings final
12、 fear was that DNA manipulation would lead to a master race of superhumans. The physicist, who died aged 76 in March, 2018, thought the development could destroy the rest of human beings. His last prediction is revealed in a new book of his collected articles and essays called Brief Answers to Big Q
13、uestions. Hawking feared rich people would soon be able to edit their childrens DNA to improve attributes like memory and disease immunity. And he said that would pose a crisis for the rest of the world even if politicians tried to illegalize the practice. In an extract(摘录)published by The Sunday Ti
14、mes, he wrote： I am sure that during this century people will discover how to modify both intelligence and instincts such as aggression. Laws will probably be passed against genetic engineering with humans. But some people wont be able to resist the temptation to improve human characteristics, such
15、as memory, resistance to disease and length of life. And he said that would cause huge problems for humans who have not undergone the same process, leaving them unable to compete. The professor even warned it could lead to the extinction of humanity as we know it. He said of normal humans： Presumabl
16、y they will die out, or become unimportant. Instead, there will be a race of self-designing beings who are improving at an ever-increasing rate. The Brief History of Time author also refers to techniques like Crispr, which enables scientists to modify harmful genes and add in others. And although such procedures could be a boos
