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1、黑龙江省哈尔滨市第九中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题第I卷（选择题，共80分）第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共20小题；每题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（人评工和。）中，选出最佳选项。ABook now to see Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss star in The Children s Hour at the Comedy Theatre in London.Dates: 22 January 2011 to 31 January 2011Times: 22 Jan 2011 6:30 P

2、M; 2429 Jan 2011 7:30 PM; 29 Jan 2011 2:30 PM; 31 Jan 2011 7:30 PM.Place: Comedy TheatreThe Children s HourThe Childrens Hour by Lillian Hellman is a striking play about the power of a lie. Karen Wright （Keira Knightley） and Martha Dobie （Elisabeth Moss） run a girls boarding school in the 1930s New

3、England. When an angry student starts a rumor that the two headmistresses arc having a lesbian （女同性恋者）affair, it gradually destroys the womens careers, relationships and lives. The Children s Hour is an upsetting story of cheat, shame and courage.Banned in London and several cities across America, T

4、he Childrens Hour received itsworld opening on Broadway （百老汇）in 1934. Generations on, its exploration of a culture of fear remains remarkably relevant.Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss StarKeira Knightley, nominee（被提名者）for Best Actress 2010 Evening Standard Awards for The Misanthrope, returns to th

5、e London stage. Knightley starred in Love Actually, The Pira tes of the Caribbean Trilogy, Pride and Prejudice.Elisabeth Moss, best-known for playing Peggy Olson in Mad Men, made her Broadway stage debut （首映）in David Mamet, s Speed the Plow in 2008. The Childrens Hour will be her West End （伦敦西区）debu

6、t.Book The Childrens Hour TicketsBook theatre tickets to see The Chi Idrens Hour at Londons Comedy Theatre today. With two big stars in the leading roles, The ChiIdren 5 Hour tickets are sure to sei 1 fast. Book yours online now with Visit Londons secure ticket booking partner on this website. Just

7、click the green book button to buy your The ChiIdrens Hour tickets.1. If you visit London in January, at which time can you see the play?A. 21 Jan 2011 6:30 PM.B. 23 Jan 2011 2:30 PM.C. 26 Jan 2011 2:30 PM.D. 31 Jan 2011 7:30 PM.2. We can learn from the passage that The Children ,s Hour.A. used to b

8、e forbiddenB. is about the power of loveC. was set in England in the 1930sD. is not popular these days3. Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?A. Keira Knightley was awarded Best Actress 2010 Evening Standard Awards.B. Elisabeth Moss ever performed on the Broadway stage.C. Without

9、 the two big stars, people would not buy the play s tickets.D. You can not buy a ticket with Visit London s secure ticket booking partner. 4. Where shal1 we probably read this passage?A. In a movie magazine.B. In the newspaper.C. On the website.D. in an academic journal.B“Calling tower, M the pilot*

10、 s voice crackled. This is an emergency!n The radio operatorin the control tower looked at his watch. It was 3:15 p. m. I.ieutenant Charles Taylor and five Navy bombers （轰炸机）were in trouble. We are off course. We cannot see land repeat we cannot see land.The control tower grew silent. The operator g

11、arbed （戴上）his microphone. What is your position?” We are not sure of our position, w Lieutenant Taylor replied. We seem to be lost. M Taylor had over 2,500 hours of flight time. What was happening?The tower called back: Assume bearing （方位）due west. aWe don* t know which way is west, “ Taylor replied

12、.uEverything is wrongstrange We cannot be sure of anydirectionEven the ocean looks odd-M The radio operator told Taylor to fly north ”with the sun on the left” unti1 he reached a Naval Air Station. Anyone could find the sun, especially a good pi lot 1 ike Taylor. Soon the radio crack 1 ed again. 4We

13、 have just passed over a smal island,“ said the pi lot. rtNo other land in sight. w That was the last message Flight 19 sent to the radio tower. Five Navy bombers were lost. They had left the Naval Air Station for a routine training flight at 2:00 p. m. , December 5, 1945. Each plane had enough fuel

14、 to fly more than a thousand mi les. The weather was sunny and mi Id. Pilots from other flights had not seen anything strange there. So what happened? How could five Navy bombers and their crews just disappear?The search for the five bombers covered 380,000 square miles of land and sea. Hundreds of

15、boats and planes searched large areas of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the mainland of Florida, and many neighboring islands. Some of the boats were aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines. They searched the area for weeks. Nothing was ever found. No life rafts. No wreckage

16、（残骸）.Not even an oil slick （油层）.Oil from the engines should float on the surface, even if everything else had sunk.5. The pilot knew that they were in trouble when .A. The radio operator warned himB. He couldn，t be sure of his flying routeC. The engine failed to workD. The emergency light was sudden

17、ly on 6. What made the disappearance so mysterious?a. The control tower grew silent.b. The bombers had a lot of fuel.c. The weather was good.d. No strange happening was reported by other flights.A. (b) (c) (d)B. (a) (b) (d)C. (a) (c) (d)D. (a) (b) (c)7. What was the most unusual for the search?A. Th

18、ere was no life raft.B. There was no wreckage.C. There was no oil slick.D. There was no SOS call.8. The result of the search for the five bombers was that .A. they went for a very important missionB. they went to some very important placesC. they went out of earthD. they went somewhere no one knewCI

19、f women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times

20、 have to be put aside because of the change of fashion.Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend large sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of t

21、heir time changing their old-fashioned dresses. Skirts are lengthened or shortened; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on.No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with necessary things 1 ike warmth, comf

22、ort and durability. They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they 1ook gorgeous. There can hardly be a man who hasn，t at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin d

23、ress on a winter day, or picking her way through deep snow in high heeled shoes.When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashions of women* s clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy and instability

24、? Men arc too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability? That is for you to decide.9. Designers and big stores always make money.A. by mercilessly exploiting women workers in the clothing industr

25、yB. because they are capable of predicting new fashionsC. by constantly changing the fashions in womens clothingD. because they attach great importance to quality in womens clothing10. To the writer, the fact that women change their old-fashioned dresses is seen asA. a waste of moneyB. a waste of ti

26、meC. an expression of tasteD. an expression of creativity11. New fashions in clothing are created for .A. the commercial exploitation of womenB. the women, s strength of characterC. basic qualities of inconstancy and instabilityD. an important contribution to society12. By saying the conclusions to

27、be drawn are obvious” （ in Paragraph Four ）, the writer means that.A. womens inconstancy in their choice of clothing is often laughed atB. women are better able to put up with discomfortC. men are also exploited greatly by fashion designersD. men are more reasonable in the matter of fashionDNow scie

28、ntists believe that global warming affects hibernating animals, causing them to wake up earlier. While this may seem a little concern, it is in fact a significant environmental problem. The shortened hibernation （冬眠）period could actually lead to significant declines in the populations of several spe

29、cies.Some of the first concrete evidence of the phenomenon came from Colorado, where researchers at the Rocky Mountain Biological lab have been observing marmot （旱獭） hibernation behavior since the 1970s. In the early days of their studies, marmots generally hibernated several weeks into the month of

30、 May. Nowadays, however, temperatures in the area have risen by 2. 5 degrees Fahrenheit, and the marmots are waking up about a month earlier.At least the marmots are still hibernating. Several other animals have not been hibernating at all recently. Brown bears in the Spanish Cantabrian Mountains di

31、d not hibernate last year. In parts of the United States, chipmunks （花鼠）also skipped the hibernation period. The bears seem to have survived without losing many individuals. The chipmunks, however, were not so lucky. Many of the animals died of starvation during the winter.The problem with animals w

32、aking up early, or skipping hibernation altogether, 1 ies with the creatures , metabolism （新陈代谢）.When an animal hibernates, their metabolism drops significantly. The animals, heart rate slows, and they require very little energy to live. When the animals awake from their winter slumber, their metabo

33、lism returns to normal.But while their metabolism may UU active as it was before hibernation, food sources aren* t as avai lable as they were before. A marmot may wake up when temperatures get warmer, thinking it, s spring, but plants will not have gotten the amount of sun they need to signal their

34、spring period of growth. So until the plants grow, the marmots have no reliable food source.Many scientists believe the problem wi11 continue to get worse. In addition to changes in hibernation patterns, some believe that other animals will also begin to change their migration patterns or begin to g

35、ive birth earlier. For many biologists, that t s a scary prospect. Terry Root, an animal expert at Stanford University, said: I do think what we will be facing is the extinction of many species.”13. What is the viewpoint of the writer?A. Global warming will continue to get worse as time goes on.B. G

36、lobal warming will lead to shortened hibernation of some animals.C. Shortened hibernation could result in declines in the population of animals.D. Some animals wi11 skip hibernation al together.14. The writer sets the example of the marmot so as to .A. explain that global warming influences animals

37、hibernationB. indicate that the weather gets warmer and warmer nowC. show that the weather in the United States is quite differentD. say some animals do not hibernate now due to warm weather15. The underlined word “slumber“ in the fourth paragraph means .A. weatherB. activityC. nestD. sleep16. Why c

38、an t marmots find enough food when they wake up?A. Because there arc too many marmots in the wild now.B. Because plants haven * t received enough sunlight for spring growth.C. Because winter days end much earlier than before.D. Because more and more animal species skip hibernation now.EA newspaper s

39、aid a federal judge sentenced Bruce Jones to 12 years in federal prison for fraud （欺诈）.Over a 10-year period, Jones had managed to cheat thousands of people throughout the state out of almost $10 million.He advertised his fantastic ideas on TV. For some reason, ,T Jones said, *TV seems to break the

40、ice. Even though you are a total stranger to the viewer, once he sees you on TV in his home, he feels like he knows you. You enter his living room and become a trusted friend. ”Jones had an imagination that wouldn t quit. One time he showed viewers an “official governmentw earthquake report which br

41、oved“ that the western half of California would collapse into the sea within three years. For $100, he said, Jones would insure your house and property for full value. Thousands of people who saw that TV ad sent him a hundred dollars each.In another TV ad, Jones claimed that he had come to an agreem

42、ent with the federal andstate government for exclusive （独享的）air rights. He told viewers that, for only $100, theycould own the first 10 miles above all their property. You would be able to charge any commercial plane that f1ew over your property $100 per crossing. You wou1d also be able tocharge gov

43、ernment rockets, satellites, space shuttles, and space stations $100 for each andevery violation of your air rights.Another time, Jones claimed to have invented a product that gets rid of calorics. He showed the viewers a spray can of “NoCal. He said that by simply spraying NoCai on your food, a che

44、mical interaction would cause all the calories in the food to simply disappear within about 10 seconds. The NoCal was only $10 a can. As usual, Jones received thousands of checks in the mail.The judge told Jones that he should be ashamed of himself. Jones responded that hewasvery ashamed of himself,

45、 and that when he got out of prison he hoped to become a TVadviser to help people avoid getting cheated. He told the judge that he was already developing an instructional CD that, for merely $100, would save people thousands of dollars in scams （骗局）.The judge nodded, and then changed Jones sentence

46、from 10 years to 12 years.17. According to Jones, he could successfully cheat many people mainly because.A. he promised them a large profitB. they were too eager to make moneyC. they believed too much in TVD. he was ski 1Iful in communicating with people18. Which of the following slalemenls is TRUE?

47、A. Jones showed unusual imagination in his tricks.B. Jones was closely related to the state government.C. Western California was in danger of going under the sea.D. Jones felt guilty and was determined to lead a new life.19. We can infer that people who wanted to buy “NoCai from Jones.A. were mainly

48、 from low income familiesB. all had a rich knowledge of chemistryC. were probably interested in losing weightD. usually did the shopping through the Internet20. The judge changed the sentence at last because.A. Jones was planning another big scamB. Jones denied what he had doneC. Jones had cheated more people than he expectedD. he had suffered from Jones scams himself第二节（共5小题；每题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。A dog is man s best friend. That common saying may contain some truth, but a dog is not the only animal f