重庆市缙云教育联盟2021-2022学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题

绝密★启用前 重庆缙云教育联盟2021-2022 学年（上）年度考试 高二英语 注意：本试卷包含Ⅰ、Ⅱ两卷。第Ⅰ卷为选择题，所有答案必须用2B 铅笔涂在答题 卡中相应的位置。第Ⅱ卷为非选择题，所有答案必须填在答题卷的相应位置。答案写 在试卷上均无效，不予记分。 一、阅读理解（本大题共15 小题，共37.5 分） A A Wan ted,Someone for a Kiss We're looking for producers to join us on the sound of London Kiss 100 FM．You'll work on the station's music programmes.Music production experience in radio is necessary,along w ith rich know ledge of modern dance music.Please apply in writing to Producer Vacancies,Kiss 100． Fat her Christmas We're looking for a very special person,preferably over 40，to fill our Father Christmas suit. Working days：Every Saturday from November 24 to December 15 and every day from December 17 to December 24 except Sundays,10：30- 16：00．Excellent pay. Please contact the Enterprise Shopping Centre,Station Parade,Eastbourne. Accountants Assistant When you join the team in our Revenue Adm in istration Unit,you will be providing assistance within all parts of the Revenue Division,dealing with post and other general duties.If you are educated to GCSE grade Clevel we would like to talk to you.This position is equally suitab le for a school leaver or for somebody who has office experience. Wealden District Council Software Trainer If you are aged 2445 and have experience in teaching and train ing,you could be the person we are looking for.You should be good at the computer and have some experience in programme writing.You w ill be allow ed to make your own decisions,and to design courses as well as present them.Pay up wards of ￡15，000 for the right person. Please apply by sending your CV （简历） to Mrs R．Oglivie,Palmlace Limited. 1. We learn from theads that the Enterprise Shopping Centre needs a person who ______ . A. is aged between 24 and 40 B. may do some training work C. should deal with general duties D. can work for about a month 2. Which position is open to recent school graduates？ ______ A. Producer,London Kiss. B. Father Christmas. C. Accountants Assistant. D. Software Trainer. 3. What kind of person would probably apply to Palmlace Limited？ ______ A. One with GCSE grade Clevel. B. One with some office experience. C. One having good computer know ledge. D. One trained in producing music programmes. B The MacArthur Foundation late last month announced its latest crop of "genius grants"，and once again you thought maybe,just maybe,this was your year. And why not？These days,we're all geniuses.We might be "marketing geniuses" or "cooking geniuses" or "TV geniuses".We have so weakened "genius" that it's fast joining the company of "natural" and "mindful" （留 心），words left inactive through overuse and misuse. Admittedly,the word is tough to nail down.Sometimes we assume genius equivalent to raw intelligence.But many of humanity's greatest breakthroughs were achieved by those with only modest IQs. Sometimes we think of the genius as someone extremely knowledgeable,but that definition also falls short.During Albert Einstein's time,other scientists knew more physics than Einstein did,but history doesn't remember them.That's because they didn't make use of that knowledge the way Einstein did.They weren't able to,as he put it, "regard old questions from a new angle". The genius is not a know-it-all but a see-it-all,someone who,working with the material available to all of us,is able to make surprising and useful connections.True genius involves not merely an extra advance,but a conceptual leap.As philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer put it：Talent hits the target no one else can hit；genius hits the target no one else can see. We've lost sight of this truth,and too often grant the title of genius on talented people hitting visible targets.A good example is the much- boasted announcement earlier this year that scientists had,for the first time,recorded the sound of two black holes bumping,a billion light-years away.It was a remarkable discovery,no doubt,but it did not represent a dramatic shift in how we understand the universe.It merely confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity. As Plato observed,"What is honored in a country is cultivated there." What do we honor？Digital technology,and the convenience it represents,so naturally we get a Steve Jobs or a Mark Zuckerberg as our "geniuses"，which,in point of fact,they aren't. The iPhone and Facebook are wonderful inventions.In many ways,they make our lives a bit easier,a bit more convenient.If anything,though,a true genius makes our lives more difficult,more unsettled.William Shakespeare's words provide more anxiety than relief,and the world felt a bit more secure before Charles Darwin came along.Zuckerberg and Jobs may have changed our world,but they haven't yet changed our worldview. We need to recover genius,and a good place to start is by putting the brakes on Genius Flooding. 4. The key factor that sets geniuses and talents apart is that ______ . A. geniuses have a larger range of knowledge B. geniuses have access to far more resources C. geniuses can see visible targets D. geniuses approach things differently 5. The reasons why people naturally regard Steve Jobs & Mark Zuckerberg as geniuses include all the following EXCEPT that ______ . A. their achievements bring people convenience B. they have extraordinary intelligence C. they are native to the country where digital technology is highly valued D. they satisfy people's needs in the age of high technology 6. What can we infer from the passage？ ______ A. We should stop the improper use of "natural" and "mindful". B. The first recording of two black holes bumping each other is a genius breakthrough. C. Charles Darwin is hardly a genius. D. More geniuses remain to be found in our life. 7. What is the best title for the passage？ ______ A. Get a new word,genius. B. Learn from a new model,genius. C. Join in a new group,genius. D. Make a new friend,genius. C Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books --- especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and bound（装订）between hard covers. There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being "the biggest bookshop in the world" to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens' time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet! Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand books, the collector must venture off the beaten track， to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. The booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small hand carts. And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for them. In places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many pounds. 8. "Londoners are great readers" means that ______ . A. Londoners read a lot B. There are a great number of readers in London C. Londoners are readers who read only great books D. Londoners are great because they read a lot 9. According to this passage, Charring Cross Road ______ . A. is famous for its bookshops B. is in the suburbs of London C. contains various kinds of shops D. is the busiest street in London 10. In this passage, what does the underlined part "venture off the