山东省青岛第二中学2022-2023学年高二上学期1月期末英语试题

2022-2023 第一学期期末测试 高二英语 第一部分 阅读（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 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 Our tailor-made English learning websites provide access to interactive videos, audio, animations (动画)and games. Find out more about our LearnEnglish website, LearnEnglish Kids website, LearnEnglish Teens website and LearnEnglish with Timmy. LearnEnglish website Our LearnEnglish website is designed for adult learners of English. Improve your English through videos，podcasts (播客)and games. You can also interact with other learners. LearnEnglish Kids website LearnEnglish Kids is for children who are learning English as a second or foreign language. Children can have fun learning English through games, songs, stories and other activities. Teachers can use many of the resources from the site in the classroom. There is also a support section for parents looking to help their children learn English outside of the classroom. LearnEnglish Teens website Our LearnEnglish Teens website is designed for 13-to-17-year olds.You can find top tips to pass your exams, practise your English grammar and improve your vocabulary through interactive videos, games and exercises. Read about life in the UK and share your opinions with other teens. LearnEnglish with Timmy Children aged 6 years and younger can now play exciting games and listen to English words to learn about numbers, colors, shapes and food with Timmy and his friends. The app is developed by the British Council in collaboration with Aardman Animations, the creators of Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time. 1．If a man aged 30 wants to find a partner to learn English together, which website is suitable? A．LearnEnglish website. B．LearnEnglish Kids website C．LearnEnglish Teens website. D．LearnEnglish with Timmy. 2．What can a child do with Timmy? A．Learning how to make videos. B．Learning how to pass exams. C．Learning about shapes. D．Learning English outside the classroom. 3．What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage? A．To express his love of some websites. B．To persuade people to buy his courses online. C．To introduce some websites to learn English. D．To prove the websites are helpful only for children. Some American states are making money available for high school graduates so they can learn skills to help them get technology jobs without a college degree. One example is the northeastern state of Connecticut. It has invested $70 million to put young people and adults through short-term training programs that can lead to good paying technology jobs. The programs are known as “non-degree skills training.” They have helped people like Mohameth Seck, who left college after two years. Seck said he wanted to work in technology but the classes he was offered in a traditional college program “weren’t really interesting”to him. He also said traditional college takes too long to finish. So Seck decided to enter a one-year computer training program run by a nonprofit organization. Today, the 25-year-old teaches computer coding at a skills training center, or academy, in Stamford, Connecticut. Eck said friends who finished the program also have good jobs. Research carried out by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce showed that people who do get a college degree earn about 84 percent more over their lifetimes. But not everyone can get into, pay for or do well in college. David Soo leads an organization called Jobs for the Future. He said the college model that has been in place for the last 40 years does not work for everyone. And this is especially true for students who are Black, Hispanic (拉美裔美国人) or whose families do not make a lot of money. “We need to find a better way to serve those students.” Soo said. Anthony Carnevale is the leader of Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce. He said that while job training is good, it is not 100 percent correct to tell people they cannot benefit from a college degree. One reason companies might hire college graduates is because they think they might have better communication and teamwork skills. 4．What did Seck think of the training program? A．Boring. B．Time-consuming. C．Rewarding. D．Demanding. 5．Which statement is Not true? A．Some students can’t afford to go to college. B．Some students are incapable of getting into college. C．The programs offer more choices to lead to a good job. D．People cannot benefit from a college degree. 6．Who will most benefit from the short-term training programs according to David Soo? A．Minority and poor families. B．Everyone in America. C．African-American students. D．College graduates. 7．What can be improved for the short-term training programs according to the last paragraph? A．Expanding in size. B．Being given more financial support. C．Including interpersonal skills in the programs. D．Teaching how to write code or design websites. After eight years of construction, the Padma Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh opened to the public on June 26, reducing travel time from parts of the southwest of the country to the capital Dhaka from seven to eight hours to as little as just 10 minutes. The 21.5-meter-wide, 6.15-kilometer-long bridge built over the Padma River, the main branch of the Ganges, has two levels with the upper tier having a four-lane highway and the lower tier a single-track railway, according to Wuhan-based China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group, or MBEC, one of China’s biggest bridge makers. Before that, travelers and goods were transported via boat or ship because of the vast width and fast-flowing nature of the river, and the tendency of the area to flood. In 2014, the Bangladeshi government awarded MBEC a $1.54-billion contract to build the core structure of the bridge, making it the country’s largest infrastructure(基础建设) project as well as the largest foreign bridge project undertaken by Chinese companies in terms of total cost. “The construction was much harder than expected as the complex geological conditions brought multiple challenges to us,” said Shen Tao, deputy general manager of the project. “The bridge is located above a river with banks on loose soil, and downpours in the rainy season often caused flooding, bringing us numerous difficulties we had never experienced before.” “During the construction, we had to adjust the design plan to adapt to environmental changes whenever necessary,” he added. “However, through continuous learning and adaptation, construction teams have greatly improved their abilities including technology, communication and adaptability.” said Wen Wusong, chairman of MBEC．“They demonstrated the strength of China’s road bridge construction to the whole world and the bridge is a model of international cooperation.” Over the past eight years, the project has created over 50,000 jobs for local residents, according to MBEC． 8．What do we know about the bridge? A．It is over the Ganges. B．It is across the Padma River. C．The upper tier has a single-track railway. D．The lower tier has a four-lane highway. 9．What did Shen Tao mainly express in paragraph 4? A．Costs of building the bridge. B．Features of the newly-built bridge. C．Benefits the bridge can bring about. D．Difficulties in constructing the bridge. 10．Which can replace the underlined word “demonstrated” in paragraph 5? A．Measured B．Adapted. C．Showed. D．Preserved. 11．What can be the best title for the news report? A．China-made bridge opens in Bangladesh B．Eight years of China’s constructing a bridge in Bangladesh C．Constructing a bridge creates over 50,000 jobs in Bangladesh D．Bangladeshi government awards MBEC $1.54-billion contract Before you walked down the aisle—if you even did---did you first agree to take your partner’s name? had you agreed to the bank for updated credit cards, changed your email address, and updated your Facebook? 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