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1、2022年高二英语上学期阶段考试10月试题时间：100分钟 分数：150分第二部分 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AIKEA is the worlds largest furniture retailer, and the man behind it is Ingvar Kamprad, one of the worlds most successful businessman. Born in Sweden in 1926, Kamprad was a
2、natural businessman. As a child, he enjoyed selling things and made small profits from selling matches, seeds, and pencils in his munity. When Kamprad was 17, his father gave him some money as a reward for his good grades. Naturally he used it to start up a businessIKEA.IKEAs name es from Kamprads i
3、nitials (I.K.) and the place where he grew up (E and A). Today IKEA is known for its modern, minimalist furniture, but it was not a furniture pany in the beginning. Rather, IKEA sold all kinds of miscellaneous goods.Kamprads wares included anything that he could sell for profits at discounted prices
4、, including watches, pens and stockings.IKEA first began to sell furniture through a mail-order catalogue in 1947. The furniture was all designed and made by manufacturers near Kamprads home. Initial sales were very encouraging, so Kamprad expanded the product line. Furniture was such a successful a
5、spect of the business that IKEA became solely a furniture pany in 1951.In 1953 IKEA opened its first showroom in Almhult, Sweden. IKEA is known today for its spacious stores with furniture in attractive settings, but in the early 1950s, people ordered from catalogues. Thus response to the first show
6、room was overwhelming people loved being able to see and try the furniture before buying it. This led to increased sales and the pany continued to thrive. By 1955, IKEA was designing all its own furniture.In 1956 Kamprad saw a man disassembling(拆卸) a table to make it easier to transport. Kamprad was
7、 inspired. The man had given him a great idea flat packaging. Flat packaging would mean lower shipping costs for IKEA and lower prices for customers. IKEA tried it and sales soared. The problem was that people had to assemble furniture themselves, but over time, even this grew into an advantage for
8、IKEA. Nowadays, IKEA is often seen as having connotations (内涵) of self-sufficiency. This image has done wonders for the pany, leading to better sales and continued expansion.Today there are over 200 stores in 32 countries. Amazingly, Ingvar Kamprad has managed to keep IKEA a privately-held pany. In
9、xx he was named the worlds richest man. He currently lives in Switzerland and is retired from the day-to-day operations of IKEA. IKEA itself, though, just keeps on growing.1. The author states in Paragraph 6 that flat packaging_.A. needs large space to assembly furnitureB. is a business concept insp
10、ired by KampradC. makes the pany self-sufficient D. helps reduce transportation costs2. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Ingvar Kamprad is the richest man in the world. B. IKEA is the worlds largest furniture retailer.C. Ingvar Kamprad established IKEA and led it to great success. D. The adva
11、ntage of IKEAs furniture is dissembling.3. What is the authors attitude towards IKEAs future according to the last paragraph?A. Optimistic. B. Indifferent.C. Doubtful. D. Pessimistic. 4. The passage is developed mainly in terms of _.A. analysis of a process B. order of eventsC. examples that illustr
12、ate(阐释) a problemD. parison and contrastBWhat will man be like in the futurein 5000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.Let us take an obvious example. Man, eve
13、n five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is relatively short period of time, so we may assume that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make
14、 use of only about 20% of the brains capacity. As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change to the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.Nowadays our eyes are in constan
15、t use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they bee weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over very long period of time it is likely that mans eyes will grow stronger.On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the sa
16、me time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald.Perhaps all this gives the impression that
