江西省新余市2019-2022学年高二上学期期末英语质量检测阅读理解汇编.docx

新余市20192022学年第一学期期末英语高二质量检测阅读理解汇编（共三年）第二部分 阅读理解 第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分50分)第一节 (共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A（2020江西新余高二期末）Welcome to SummerC; find and book the very best summer camps. Your children are precious so we offer the highest quality of camps that will meet each childs needs and interests.Catalina Sea CampSea Camp offers three one-week sessions to boys and girls aged 8-13 and two three-week sessions to teens aged 12-17. Our hand-picked instructors create an atmosphere of fun and excitement while leading campers to a host of ocean adventures, marine(海洋的) biology, and social summer camp activities.Address: Toyon Way, San Bruno, California 94066Phone: 800-645-1423Camp CayugaCamp Cayuga is a private summer camp for children aged 6 to 16. The camp is on a 350-acre land in the Pocono Mountains of Northeast Pennsylvania, just outside the village of Honesdale. Its a 3-hour drive from New York City and Philadelphia.Address: 321 Niles Pond Road-Suite ISC, Honesdale, Pennsylvania 18431Phone: 908-470-1224Camp RockmontCamp Rockmont is a Christian summer camp for boys, aged 6-16, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Rockmonts duty of developing boys into healthy young men is accomplished through age-appropriate skills, activities, and challenges that help campers to know themselves better.Address: 375 Lake Eden Road， Black Mountain, North Carolina 28711Phone: 828-686-3885Primitive Pursuits Overnight CampsPrimitive Pursuits Overnight Camps offer week-long Summer Adventure Overnight Camps in New Yorks Finger Lakes to your children aged 11-15. Campers experience a week of nature-based skills training, inspiring challenges, and fun activities under the guidance of skilled instructors.Address: 611 County Rd 13, Van Etten, New York 14889Phone: 607-272-229291Where should a girl of 7 go camping?AToyon Way, San Bruno.B611 County Rd 13, Van Etten.C375 Lake Eden Road, Black Mountain.D321 Niles Pond Road- Suite ISC, Honesdale.92What is special about Camp Rockmont?AIts targeted at older boys.BIt provides skills training.CIt is located in the mountains.DIt has something to do with religion.93Who is the text most likely intended for?ACampers.BEducators.CParentsDChildren.（2020江西新余高二期末）Prateek Sharma was born into a family of farmers. After 10 years of being a chief manager of Kotak Mahindra Bank, he did a good job and earned a good pay. But Prateek couldnt continue the corporation life with ease, as his heart was always in farming. So he worked as a banker on weekdays and on weekends travelled 100 km to get to his 5-acre in Dhaba Khurd.By the end of 2015, Prateek had set up a house on his farm to grow offseason vegetables. Prateek thought hed quit his job once he was able to earn enough from farming, but this wasnt an easy decision to make. This was because costs to grow these vegetables were very high, along with the fact that farmers werent a part of the value chain and thus couldnt decide the price of their own vegetables.Fortunately, Prateek met Vinay Yadav, another educated farmer. They then decided to start their own value chain and sell their vegetables and grains, while skipping the middlemen. The variety of vegetables they grew wasnt enough, so they decided to form a group of farmers.Once the plan was ready, the group was registered by the name of Farmer Producer Organization (FPO). However, the trial failed in the first year as most of the farmers were grain growers and had limited knowledge of growing vegetables. However, the largest reason was the switch to organic from chemical.Luckily, once the soil was used to organic methods, the next round of crops were successful and the FPO had a good amount of produce. So at the end of 2017, Prateek finally quit his job and devoted all his time to farming. Now hes successful and recently his team has started two farmer resource centers at Dhaba Khurd and Nathrula Canj.94Why did Prateek have trouble continuing his life as a banker?AHe felt it so boring to be a banker.BHe almost never satisfied his boss.CHe found farming easier to do well.DHe was enthusiastic about farming.95Why was it difficult for Prateek to decide on quitting his job?AThe prices of organic products were low.BThe income from farming wasnt much.CHe had no money to put into farming.DHe found farming produce hard to sell.96What did Prateek and Vinay Yadav set about doing after they met?ABuilding their own marketing system.BRaising the prices of their products.CSwitching from chemical to organic.DAdding the kinds of vegetables grown.97What mainly resulted in the failure of FPOs first year trial?ATheir no experience in growing vegetables.BTheir poor management on the employees.CThe soils not adapting to organic farming.DThe wrong ways of doing organic farming.（2020江西新余高二期末）Science is finally beginning to embrace animals who were, for a long time, considered second-class citizens.As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friend die.Pigs respond meaningful to human symbols. When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O's. Then the team switched from real-life objects to T-shirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs walked only toward the O-shirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a two-dimensional format, a not inconsiderable feat of reasoning.Ive been guilty of prejudiced expectations, myself. At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes out-think and out-feel other animals. They're other primates(灵长目动物), after all, animals from our own mammalian(哺乳动物的) class. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social companions. Long-term studies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a viewpoint shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedure kin laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks.Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, I started to wonder: Will the new science of "food animals" bring an ethical (伦理的) revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catch up with the development of our science?Animal activists are already there, of course, committed to not eating these animals. But what about the rest of us? Can paying attention to the thinking and feeling of these animals lead us to make changes in who we eat?98According to Annie Potts, hens have the ability of_.AinteractionBanalysisCcreationDabstraction99The research into pigs shows that pigs_.Alearn letters quicklyBhave a good eyesightCcan build up a good relationshipDcan apply knowledge to new situations100Paragraph 4 is mainly about_.Athe similarities between mammals and humansBthe necessity of long-term studies on mammalsCa change in people's attitudes towards animalsDa discovery of how animals express themselves101What might be the best title for the passage?AThe Inner Lives of Food AnimalsBThe Lifestyles of Food AnimalsCScience Reports on Food AnimalsDA Revolution in Food Animals（2020江西新余高二期末）Language learning apps are very popular now and offer opportunities to learn vocabulary and practice grammar. But there has been a discussion about just how effective such apps can be.Among the most popular apps are Duolingo and Busuu. A previous research found positive results on the use of them. But it mainly concentrates on studies with learners who had signed up for language courses and these apps worked as an after-class support, so the results were not always reliable. A recent study of 4,095 Busuu users has been carried out to find out if users can actually learn a language with an app.Busuu provides learning materials for 12 different languages. It offers special models where some contents are available for free while some contents are not, We find that its users are an even mix of men and women. More than half consider themselves to be at the beginner level as there is a decrease in users as their language levels go up. Most people use the app because of personal interest, or because they want to study or live abroad. Females tend to use it less often but for longer periods of time than male users.Getting any feedback on Busuu depends on whether your answer is correct or not. While it is helpful, this is not the sort of feedback language teachers prefer, as it does not explain why the answer is right or wrong. In spite of this, feedback in the app is very highly rated.More than 92% of the people state that the app has met their expectations and 86% consider the app as very good or good. In fact, more than 80% of the users surveyed strongly agree that using the app has helped them improve their knowledge of the language they are learning.Besides, language learning apps also create an environment where mistakes are only known to the users, and this can address the performance anxiety that many learners suffer from when asked to speak a foreign language. So language teachers should encourage their students to use them to do the grammar work, leaving precious class time for more language communication.102Why werent the results of the former research always dependable?ABecause it used out-of-date methods.BBecause it just focused on positive results.CBecause it was only carried out before class.DBecause it only considered users of a limited type.103What can we learn about the app Busuu from the text?AAll the contents are free to use.BIts used by more advanced learners.CMost users consider it satisfying.DIts more popular with female learners.104Which of the following can probably replace the underlined word address?ADeal with.BWrite down.CTurn to.DSpeak of.105What is the main idea of the text?AStudents wont suffer anxiety in learning languages by using Busuu.BLanguage learning apps are effective and satisfactory to language learners.CLanguage learning apps are very popular with most language teachers.DStudents should be required to use apps for homework after class.（2021江西新余高二期末）Windermere Christmas MarkerLocation: Victoria Street. Windermere Date: Saturday, 12th & Sunday, 13th December, 2020Times: Saturday 10 a. m.-6 . m., Sunday 10 a. m.-4 p. m.Run entirely by a group of volunteers, the Windermere Christmas Market first took place in 2016. With around 50 stalls selling a range of goods produced both locally and from Europe, you will find live music and other street performers. There is a shuttle bus in operation from car parks, and plenty of stands selling hot food.Ambleside Christmas LightsLocation: Market Cross market Place in AmblesideDate: 2020, date to be decided     Times: 10 a. m. -6 p. m.This annual event combines a traditional shopping experience with a Christmas light show, cruises on the lake, a lantern parade, and a visit from Santa Claus. The day ends with a large fireworks display. There are family-friendly activities throughout the day, while the market sells range of tasty foods and other gifts.Hawkshead Christmas Fair Location: Hawkshead village CentreDate: Saturday. 5th & Sunday. 6th December, 2020     Times: 10 a. m. -5 p. m. A Christmas Fair takes over the ancient streets of the small village every December. You will find both indoor and outdoor markets with over 50 stalls selling food, crafts, and other gifts. There is also a lantern parade, live music, and street performance. Children can meet Santa, while grown-ups can enjoy the mini beer festival in villages pubs. Keswick Victorian Favre Location: market Place & Packhorse Court, Keswick Date: Sunday, 6th December, 2020     Times: 10. 30 a. m. -4 p. m.This is a fantastic opportunity to combine Christmas shopping with support for local charities. Around 30 local and national charities have stalls where you can browse their goods that include homemade Christmas crafts and cakes. Traders and other workers will be dressed in Victorian costumes and visitors are invited to do the same.106When does the Windermere Christmas Market open on 12th December, 2020？A10 a. m. -6 p. m.B10 a. m. -5 p. m.C10 a. m. -4 p. m.D10. 30 a. m. -4 p. m.107What cant visitors do at Hawkshead Chritsmas Fair?ABuy gifts for their friends.BSet off fireworks.CWatch street performance.DCelebrate the beer festival.108Where should visitors go if they want to support charities?AKeswickBAmblesideCHawksheadDWindermere B（2021江西新余高二期末）“Mom, its Christopher,” my son cut in after the beep one day. “Mom, are you there?” My heart skipped a beat at the sound of his voice.“Hey, Chris,” I said, struggling to keep my voice calm. “Whats wrong?”“Nothings wrong. I just wanted to know if its okay if l bring home a kitten.”“A chicken? OK. But youd better bring home two of them, if possible,” I suggested. “Theyll be company for each other.”We have several cats and a dog, and wed kept rabbits for a while, but chickens were altogether different. As I drove the fifteen miles to school to pick up our twin boys, I began to hesitate. Food? A chicken coop? Anything else?After pulling into the line in front of the school, I shut off the engine and texted my oldest son who works after school at the Missouri Farmers Association. I asked him to pick up whatever food and supplies might be necessary for two young chickens. When the school doors opened, Benjamin and his brother pushed through the doors and ran down the steps. I gasped as he approached the car - with a black-and-white kitten in his arm. “Thats not a chicken!” I said, as he climbed into the back seat. “I thought you asked if you could bring home a chicken,” I said. “Mo-o-o-m! I said kitten, not chicken. Can we still keep them?”There wasnt much sense arguing. After all, I had already agreed to take them, although Id misunderstood what “them” consisted of. “Yes, we can keep them.” I said, sending a quick text to my oldest son asking him