黑龙江省双鸭山市重点中学2021-2022学年高二上学期9月周测英语试题

高二英语试卷 一、阅读理解（本大题共15 小题，共37.5 分） A 72 hours in Beijing Traveling to China is no longer a luxury for many foreign passport holders. The Chinese government has permitted a 72-hour visa-free policy that offers access to visitors from 53 countries including the US， France and Austria. Let's start with the capital of China, Beijing. Here's a pick of the best in Beijing! Mutianyu Great Wall Your trip to Beijing isn't really complete without seeing one of the "New Seven Wonders of the World"，the Great Wall of China. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is by far the most well-preserved of all. Taking a one-hour bus ride, Mutianyu would be your ideal location for a half-day of hiking away from the large crowds in the city. Also, the authorities have allowed tourists to paint graffiti on a specific section of the Great Wall since 2014. The Great Wall was designated （把….定名为） a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987. Summer Palace Located in northwestern Beijing,the Summer Palace is by far the city's most well-preserved royal park. With its huge lake and hilltop views,the palace offers you a pastoral escape into the landscape of traditional Chinese paintings. The Summer Palace was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998. 798 Art Zone This would be on the top of my list! Named after the 798 factory that was built in the 1950s,the art zone is home to various galleries, design studios, art exhibition spaces, fashionable shops and bars. You could easily spend half your day wandering around the complex, feeling the contrast of the present and the past. Sichuan Provincial Restaurant While in Beijing,apart from trying the city's best-known Peking duck,the Sichuan provincial restaurant is one of places where you can enjoy regional delicious food. It offers one of China's eight great cuisines,Sichuan Cuisine, which ranges from Mapo tofu to spicy chicken. 1. How does the author describe Mutianyu Great Wall？ ______ A. Tourists need a half-day to arrive there. B. Tourists are allowed to paint graffiti anywhere. C. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage site 20 years ago. D. It is the most well-maintained part of the whole Great Wall. 2. Where would you go first if you were the author？ ______ A. 798 Art Zone. B. Summer Palace. C. Mutianyu Great Wall. D. Sichuan Provincial Restaurant. 3. Who is the passage intended for？ ______ A. The tourists who prefer to travel for free. B. The foreigners to stay in Beijing for three days. C. The visitors coming from every corner of China. D. The foreigners coming to Beijing for the first time. B Luo Dengping has become famous as the only woman in a group of "spider men" who climb cliffs of up to 100 meters high, without ropes or safety equipment of any kind,for the entertainment of tourists in China's Guizhou Province. Men of the Miao people,in Southwest China,have been free-climbing steep cliffs for centuries. They originally developed this skill as part of a custom,to lift coffins（棺材） of relatives up the cliffs and place them in small caves or just hang them on the cliffside,like the Tana Toraja tribe,in Indonesia. The Miao spider men continued climbing the vertical cliffs of Ziyun,in order to collect rare medicinal plants. Today, only a few members of the Miao people still practice this ancient tradition,and one of them is a woman. Traditionally,only Miao men were considered brave and skilled enough to become spider men,but Luo Dengping had no choice but to break social norms and take up the practice. As the daughter of a skilled spider man,and with no brothers to carry on her family's tradition,Luo began climbing the cliffs near the village when she was just 15 years old. In the beginning,she felt scared and could barely move on the precarious cliffside, but as time went by, she perfected her skills and, eventually, making her way up the giant rocks using nothing but her hands and feet became routine. In her late teens, Luo Dengping left the village and became a migrant worker at a construction site in Guangzhou. She returned in 2000， married a villager and had two children. To support her husband, who drives freight trucks for a living, she occasionally climbed nearby cliffs in search of medicinal plants to sell. Then, in 2015， the local government decided to promote the karsts mountain as a tourist attraction, and started hiring spider men to practice their skills for entertainment purposes. 4. Why did Luo Dengping work as spider woman at first？ ______ A. To make more money. B. To collect medicinal plants. C. To support her husband. D. To carry on her family's tradition. 5. What does the underlined word "precarious" in Paragraph 3 probably mean？ ______ A. Famous. B. Dangerous. C. Wet. D. Rough. 6. What is Luo Dengping's husband？ ______ A. A driver. B. A performer. C. A spider man. D. A migrant worker. 7. What can be the best title for the text？ ______ A. The Promotion of Ancient Skills B. Spider Men Becomes a Must-see C. China's Only "Spider Woman" D. A Hobby Makes "Spider Woman" C The victims were carried in one by one, their paws and fur burned, suffering from dehydration （脱水） and fear. Their caretakers bandaged their wounds, wrapped them and laid them in baskets with the only thing that was familiar -- the leaves of a eucalyptus （桉树） tree. As catastrophic fires have burned more than two million acres in Australia, dozens of koalas have been rescued from burning trees and ashen ground. The animals, already threatened as a species before these latest fires destroyed an essential habitat, are being treated in rescue centers, and at least one private home, along the country's east coast. The difficult situation of the koala- a national symbol of Australia- has raised questions among conservationists and scientists about what it will take to preserve biodiversity in a country increasingly exposed to intense fire, extreme heat and water scarcity. Australia has already been among the highest rates of species extinction in the world. While koalas have evolved to exist alongside wildfires,the animals are facing new threats not just from climate change but also from human development, which has dislocated local populations, damaging their ability to survive fires. In some regions, scientists say, koalas' numbers have declined by up to 80 percent, though it is difficult to know how many remain across Australia. "We have these unique animals not found anywhere else on this planet, and we're killing them," said Cheyne Flanagan, the clinical director of the Koala Hospital, the only facility of its kind in the world. "This is a big wake-up call." 8. What happened to koalas after the catastrophic fires in Australia？ ______ A. Most of koalas have been rescued from burning trees. B. The koalas were taken good care of after being rescued. C. The victims only suffered from severe burns and a lack of water. D. Koalas have been listed among the highest rates of species extinction. 9. Which of the following threats koalas face are not mentioned in the passage？ ______ A. illegal hunting. B. climate change. C. human development. D. fires in the wild. 10. What's the author's attitude towards the situation of Koala？ ______ A. negative B. supportive C. worried D. indifferent 11. What might be the best title for the passage？ ______ A. Koala --- A National Symbol of Australia B. Catastrophic Wildfires Burning in Australia C. Climate Changes --- A Big Wake-up Call D. Saving the Fire Victims Who Cannot Flee D An 80-year-old man and his family may soon get a bill for the cost of his rescue mission. After an all-night search by rescuers, James Clark of Dublin,Ohio,was found "not moving and exhibiting what appeared to be signs and symptoms on low body temperature to the point of not being able to speak any clear words," according to a statement. Similarly, in 2015，a family of four received an about 8，500 bill after their daytime hike left them lost in the dark and requiring search and rescue（SAR）. This raises an interesting question： Who pays for the