甘肃省天水市一中2021-2022学年高二下学期第一阶段考试英语试题

天水一中高二级2021-2022 学年度第二学期第一学段考试 英语试题 满分100 分，时间90 分钟 第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40 分） 第一节（共15 小题；每小题2 分，满分30 分） A Take a closer look at the wonders of Kew Gardens by joining a guided walking tour. Led by our knowledgeable volunteer guides, it is a fun and informative way to explore the grounds. Free daily walking tours Tours leave at 11 am and 1:30 pm from the information desk at Victoria Gate Plaza. Each guide presents their own tour and takes in the highlights(最精彩的部分) of the season. Themed tours Tours leave at 12 from the information desk at Victoria Gate Plaza. Our guides offer attractive seasonal themes including Autumn Colour and Winter Evergreens. Expert-guided tours Every Tuesday throughout the year at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm we’ll be holding an expert-guided tour. The tour will feature (以…为特色) a different plant each month and you’ll go behind the Scenes and talk to Kew staff about their work. You’ll find out interesting facts about the featured plant or fungus(真菌), including why it’s grown at Kew and how it’s used and cared for. Price The cost is £ 60 per guide (this does not include your entry to the Gardens). Each guide can take 15 people. Groups of more than 15 must book more than one guide. Smaller groups are also accepted but the cost remains £ 60. Tours take about one hour and may be booked from 10 am every day. Please note that no refunds(退款) can be given once tickets are booked. 1. What time can you choose if you go to Free daily walking tours? A. 9 am. B. 10 am. C. 11 am. D. 2:30 pm. 2. What can we learn about Expert-guided tours? A. People can get in touch with experts ahead of time. B. People have no choice but to go on Tuesday. C. People can be warmly received by the staff. D. People can have a taste of fungus. 3. How much is the guide cost for 5 people? A. £ 60. B. £ 120. C. £ 150. D. £ 300. B My work started in 2003 at my local animal shelter’s Adoption Department. It seems like such a long time ago. In the 13 years that have passed, more than 50,000 animals have passed the doors of the shelter. Most of them, I do not remember. But occasionally there are animals who stand out. Tabby was one such animal. Tabby was one of the many homeless dogs. What’s more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby’s chances at adoption seemed remote at best. But one day a woman named Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, who suffered from epilepsy (癫痫) had seen Tabby’s picture on the shelter’s website. They were interested in meeting her! Most boys would want a puppy, a dog who could grow with him and run through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would never be able to do that. But as they say, "love is blind". After meeting her, they decided to adopt Tabby! If Tabby’s story had simply ended with her successful adoption, it would still have been something very special indeed but it was what happened after her adoption that some might label as "magical" or perhaps even miraculous. As Gary and Tabby did everything together, they became so "in tune" with one another that Tabby began to telegraph Gary’s seizures (疾病发作) before they occurred, giving his family a warning that one was about to strike. What’s more, Gary seemed to be having fewer and fewer seizures since Tabby’s arrival. How could it be? There are some things that happen in this world that challenge all logic and understanding. Sometimes, the best that we can do is to accept a miraculous thing, which we didn’t attempt to explain. Because when you try to explain it, you lose the beauty and wonder of it all. 4. Which sentence can be used to describe Tabby? A. She was so lovely that she could be easily adopted. B. She suffered a lot from the disease-epilepsy. C. She was so strong that she could run very fast. D. She was homeless and couldn’t see or hear. 5. What does the underlined word "miraculous" in Paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Amazing. B. Typical. C. Interesting. D. Special. 6. What can we learn from the passage? A. Gary learnt about Tabby from a magazine. B. Gary was cured in the company of Tabby. C. Tabby could indicate a seizure before it struck. D. Most boys would have the same decision as Gary. 7. What can be a suitable title for the text? A. Love is Blind: a Miraculous Dog B. Give Me Food: My Dear Master C. Love is Everywhere: a Poor Dog D. Take Me Home: My Dear Boy C Bottled water has become the choice for people who are healthy and thirsty. Bottled water is all over the world. But some say the planet’s health, and people’s health may be suffering from it. The idea that bottled water is safer for humans may not be true. The Natural Resources Defense Council of America said, “There is no promise that because water comes out of a bottle, it is cleaner or safer than water from the tap.” Another New York City-based action group added that some bottled water is “really just tap water in a bottle—sometimes more clean, sometimes not.” It is not proven that bottled water is better than tap water. Nick Reeves from the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management said, “The high mineral content (含量) of some bottled water makes them not good for feeding babies and young children.” Also, most bottled water doesn’t have fluoride (氟化物), which can make teeth stronger. Kids are drinking more bottled water and less fluoridated tap water, and some say that’s behind the recent rise in bad teeth. Storing is another problem. Placed near heat, the plastic bottles can produce bad chemicals (化学物质) into the water. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used worldwide to bottle water each year. The plastic can take between 400 and 1,000 years to break down. In terms of energy use, plastic bottles are also not cheap. One report said that if water and soft drink bottlers had used 10 percent recycled materials in their plastic bottles, they would have saved about 72 million gallons of gas. So, if you are worried about the effect of bottled water on the Earth, you can take the following steps. ● Drink from your tap. Unless your government warns against this, it should be fine. ● Get a container (容器). Carry your tap water in a steel or a lined drinking container, and clean it between uses. ● Keep it cool. Don’t drink from a bottle that has been sitting in the sun, don’t store it near chemicals, and don’t reuse plastic bottles. ● Choose glass containers over plastic if possible. When finished, recycle! 8. What is the main idea of the article? A. Drinking tap water is the only choice for people. B. Glass containers are better than plastic bottles. C. Plastic bottles are harmful to the environment. D. Bottled water may not be as good as we think. 9. What can we learn about plastic bottles from the article? A. They break down in less than 300 years. B. They can be used for many other things. C. They are a risk to the environment. D. They are cheap to make. 10. According to the article, we can know that bottled water is __________. A. no problem for the environment B. more expensive than tap water C. always safer than tap water D. better for babies 11. Which of the following about tap water is NOT mentioned in the article? A. There are a lot of problems storing tap water. B. Bottled water can be just tap water in a bottle. C. It may be better for your teeth. D. It may contain fluoride. D Most adults firmly believe that as kids reach their teens, they start to take crazy risks that get them in trouble. Do teenagers simply love taking all risks much more than adults? A recent study suggests otherwise.Scientists designed a simple experiment involving 33 teenagers and three other age groups. In the experiment, the researchers tried to distinguish between two very different kinds of risk- taking. The first they called a willingness to take known risks (when the probability of winning is clear) and the second they called a willingness to take unknown risks (when the possibility of success is uncertain). The study offered participants the opportunity to play two kinds of games. They had the chance to