2021-2022学年度汕头市金山中学高二期中考试

汕头市金山中学2020 级高二第二学期期中考试英语试卷 命题人：郑璐 杨锟 审题人：王文贞 第一部分 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、D 四个选项选出最佳选项。 A Exercising regularly not only helps you keep slim, but also improves your overall health and well-being. Different exercises produce different results, as they focus on alternate parts of the body.There are four broad exercise categories: endurance, strength, flexibility, and balance. Many people often only focus on one exercise type, but including all four in your workout will produce better results and reduce your risk of injury. Endurance Endurance exercises increase your breathing and heart rate. By doing endurance exercises, you are working to keep your heart, lungs, and blood-flow system healthy while improving your total fitness.Over time these activities will make everyday activities seem easier. Strength If you want to build up your muscles, then strength exercises, which are also known as "resistance training", are right for you. Even the slightest increase in strength can make a huge difference in your ability to carry out daily tasks. Developing strong muscles also reduces your risk of weak bones. Flexibility Flexibility exercises help stretch your body's muscles. This allows for more freedom of movement for other exercises and can also improve your range of motion, posture,ability to breathe deeply, and blood flow. Also, it reduces the muscle tension caused by stress. Balance Balance exercises help prevent falls and are especially important to older adults, helping them stay independent. Most good balance exercises are ones that keep you constantly moving with your feet on the ground. Heel-to-toe walking and standing on one foot are simple ways to improve balance. 21. How can a person benefit most from their exercise routine? A. By combining different exercise types together B. By having sufficient rest between their workouts C. By concentrating on one training aspect at a time. D. By increasing the frequency of their training gradually. 22. Which exercise types are most useful to improve a person's breathing function? A. Strength and Balance B. Flexibility and Balance C. Endurance and Strength D. Endurance and Flexibility 23. Which part of the body plays the most important role in balance-related exercises? A. Arms. B. Legs. C. Waist D. Neck B The 2000 anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Bronte, whose novel Jane Eyre has attracted generations of readers, is being marked in Britain today. Fans are hosting a birthday party in the house in northern England where Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne grew up and wrote their books. The anniversary reflects the global popularity of the Brontes, whose works are seen as among the most important ever written by female authors. A wreath(花环) will be laid for Bronte in Westminster Abbey tomorrow and a ballet version of Jane Eyre is opening next month, while the National Portrait Gallery is hosting an exhibition in her honour. The Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, a remote village in Yorkshire, draws tens of thousands of visitors from around the world each year, and the sisters books are an important part of British bookshops and school curriculums. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte were a clergyman’s ( 牧师) daughters who wrote for pleasure and dreamt of becoming published authors but feared they would not be taken seriously because they were women. They therefore adopted the pen names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell when they sent Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to publishers in the 1840s. Emily Bronte fell ill and died in 1848, followed by Anne the following year. Charlotte lived for a further six years before dying in Haworth in 1855 at age 38. Jane Eyre, which has never been out of print in Britain, tells the story of Jane Eyre’s youth as an orphan and how she falls in love with her employer, Mr Rochester, while working as a teacher. Charlotte Bronte’s other works include Shirley and Villette. Her biographer Claire Harman told the BBC this month that she was someone “who longed to be forever known, but relied on anonymity (匿名) in order to achieve it; a woman much more concerned about truthfulness than personal fame and someone who put into words her own terrible sufferings... as being the only way to deal with them.” 24. What does the underlined word “marked” in Paragraph One mean? A. celebrated B. announced C. informed D. signed 25. What is the second paragraph mainly about? A. The global popularity of the Brontes. B. The activities in honor of Charlotte Bronte’s 200th birthday. C. The introduction of Charlotte Bronte’s birthday party. D. The achievement of Charlotte Bronte and her sisters. 26. Why did the Brontes use pen names when sending their works to publishers? A. To take pleasure. B. To attract readers attention. C. To meet publishers’ requirement. D. To avoid prejudice. 27. We can infer from Claire Harman’s words that Charlotte ______. A. was unwilling to be known forever. B. achieved success by means of anonymity. C. dealt with her sufferings by writing them out. D. valued personal fame most. C There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that the influence of media is growing stronger and stronger as time passes. If you have noticed, the speed at which news travels around the world has become faster with the development and advancement in technology. Media are actually influencing people in different ways. Whether you admit it or not, watching movies and programs on the television or our laptop, ipad and other mobile devices as we relax takes us away into this different kingdom— that is, there are parts in our being that feels we are the ones in the movie and sometimes we even feel what they are feeling as we get caught in the emotional excitement. The effect of media does not stop when the movie or program ends. And this effect might just be the cause of behavioral changes in people. With action films, children tend to follow the movie hero, engaging them to violent acts thinking that it is acceptable because his hero became successful in the end. There are cartoon programs that show acts of violence and dishonest acts against others. In return, children tend to copy the characters and think that cheating other people is a way to deal with their problems. They learn to transfer these ill behaviors to friends. There are some television shows and movies that attempt to create an atmosphere to change the view of people towards social issues such as racial discrimination. In the minds of other people, the effect can be for the better, but some unfortunately for the worse. There had been instances in the past that young people drive drunk imitating their favorite actors. There was also a case where somebody set a subway ticket booth on fire because he saw it in his favorite film. These are just a few examples of the disturbing influence of media on people’s behavior. An explanation to these bad acts is that these people could not distinguish fantasy from reality. They get caught up in the kingdom of what they had been watching and the images and scenes become deeply rooted in their minds. So the media is largely responsible for giving people false ideas and unhealthy pictures, which lead to misbehavior against other people, and can create a dangerous cycle among individuals as they attempt to do the same or even worse things to others. The sad reality is, no one is turning off their TVs or disconnecting from these influences. The only way programming of this sort will change is when people no longer buy into it, demand it, and watch it. 28. What does the author want to tell us in Paragraph 2? A.What it is that changes our emotion. B. How media affect people's behavior. C. Why we are attracted by movies and programs. D. Whether people feel being taken away from the reality. 29. According to the author, some people act badly because________. A. they are just the violent people B. they hope to solve social problems C. they actually can’t tell fantasy from realit