河南省郑州一〇六中学2017_2018学年高二英语上学期期中试题.doc
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1、- 1 -2017-2018 学年上学期高二英语期中考试卷第二部分 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)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D )中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 AIn a nation with a one-child policy its understandable for parents to worry over whether they are petting their children. Are the children as truly weak as expected?Th
2、e concern has been brought into a hit reality TV series Hunan TVs Dad!Where Are We Going? and Zhejiang TVs First Time In Life. In both children as young as three have become new public figures(人物). In the show First Time In Life,children chosen from ordinary families are given small tasks to finish
3、by themselves;the ongoing Dad show centers on five fathers and their children who are forced to live a simple life in poor villages far outside their comfortable city life.Though they have different family backgrounds how they behave in the new environments has drawn the attention of the public.In D
4、ad! Where Are We Going? the five-year-old daughter of former Olympic diving champion Tian Liang cries and hides behind her father when they arrive at a rural village. In First Time In Life a young girl in Tianjin cries after being asked by her father to go out alone to buy eggs and a pancake.In the
5、eyes of some people these kids always depend on others and the reason is that their parents give them too much love. But television viewers and parents were encouraged when the crying Tianjin girl finally returned holding the pancake and Tians daughter finally began to take care of her younger frien
6、ds and learned to ask for help from people she didnt know.The father of the Tianjin girl felt “delightfully shocked” and said. “She - 2 -used tobe well taken care of by her mother or grandmother. Now she has the courage to do it all by herself. ”The shows have led many parents to change how they rai
7、se their children. Shanghai mother Liang Jing said she would try to “give some training” to her shy son asking him to tidy up his toys. Lin Yi a parenting expert in Beijing said giving kids a chance to do things for themselves helps to raise their sense of success which carries benefits all through
8、their lives. ”21. What draws the peoples attention in the programs?A. How the children behave in the new environments.B. Where the children are from.C. What the kids family background is like .D. How old the children are.22. What is Tian Liangs daughter expected to do in the show?A. Go out to buy so
9、mething alone.B. Live in a poor village with her father.C. Make friends with strange people.D. Hide in a safe place out of danger.23. It can be known from the underlined words “delightfully shocked” that _.A. father is more important than mother in a familyB. children should be given a chance to dep
10、end on themselves.C. parents should give the child a safe environmentD. the children are as weak as parents expected24.The shows are bound to raise a wave of discussion that _A. protecting good tradition B. the social society C. approaches to parenting D. the influence of TV programmesB- 3 -Cassandr
11、a Feeley finds it hard to manage on her husbands income.So this year she did something more than a hobby(业余爱好 ):She planted vegetables in her yard.For her first garden,Ms.Feeley has put in 15 tomato plants,and five rows of a variety of vegetables.The familys old farm house has become a chicken house
12、,its residents arriving next month.Last year, Ms.Rita Gartin kept a small garden.This year she has made it much larger because,she said,“The cost of everything is going up and I was looking to lose a few pounds,too;so its a winwin situation all around.“They are among the growing number of Americans
13、who,driven by higher living costs and a falling economy(经济),have taken up vegetable gardening for the first time.Others have increased the size of their existing gardens.Seed companies and garden shops say that not since the 1970s has there been such an increase in interest in growing food at home.N
14、ow many gardens across the country have been sold out for several months.In Austin,Tex.,some of the gardens have a three year waiting list.George CBall Jr.,owner of a company,said sales of vegetable seeds and plants are up by 40%over last year,double the average growth of the last five years.Mr.Ball
15、 argues that some of the reasons have been building for the last few years.The big one is the striking rise in the cost of food like bread and milk, together with the increases in the price of fruits and vegetables.Food prices have increased because of higher oil prices.People are now driving less,t
16、aking fewer vacations,so there is more time to garden.25What does the word “residents“ in Paragraph 1 probably refer to?Achickens Btomatoes Cgardens Dpeople26. By saying “a winwin situation all around“,Ms.Gartin means that_.- 4 -Ashe is happier and her garden biggerBshe may spend less and lose weigh
17、tCshe is selling more and buying lessDshe has grown more varieties of vegetables27.Why is vegetable gardening becoming increasingly popular? AMore Americans are doing it for fun.BThe price of oil is lower than before.CTheres a growing need for fruits.DThe cost of living is on the rise. CWhile astron
18、auts in space get to do many exciting things, they miss out on ordinary things that we all take for grantedbeing able to walk on firm ground, hanging out with family and digging into a slice of hot steaming pizza. Though not much can be done about the first two things, there may soon be a solution t
19、o the third one, thanks to this cool 3-D pizza printer!About a year ago, NASA offered $125 ,000 to Anjan Contractor, a 3-D technology expert, to build a device (设备) that would allow astronauts to make pizza on demand. The mechanical engineer promised that his invention would produce pies in large qu
20、antities that looked, tasted and even smelled like pizza made in common ovens.Late last year, the engineer presented a video of his first prototype (原型) that begins by creating a single slice of dough (面团) that is cooked and printed at the same time. Then comes the tomato “sauce” a mix of tomato pow
21、der, oil and water and finally, a protein slice that resembles cheese. While the video doesnt show the baking process, the inventor says that once the pizza is printed, it can be ready to be consumed in 7 seconds.While the pie in the video looks delicious enough to attract any pizza lover, Anjan Con
22、tractor is far from ready for astronauts. Thats because he still has to find a solution to make the food container in the printer last for 30 years. Though that may sound unrealistic, actually it is not.- 5 -Anjan Contractor believes that the only way that is possible is that the water is removed fr
23、om all the ingredients (配料 ) and then they are reduced to the powder form. This, as you can imagine, will not be so easy. But, while the printer may not be ready for space, it certainly looks ready enough for people on earth. Hopefully, NASA and Contractor will consider selling it to those not fortu
24、nate enough to go to Mars!28. Why does the author mention the things that astronauts in space cannot do?A. To ask us not to take common things for granted.B. To show they live a difficult life there.C. To show their life is boring in space.D. To introduce the topic of the text.29.NASA offered $ 125,
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