2017-2018学年上学期竞赛试卷
高二英语学科（试卷）
总分：120分时间：100分钟
第Ⅰ卷（选择题共70分）
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。
A
Calling all poets! TIME For Kids(TFK) has a challenge for you.
WHO: The contest is open to students who are 8 to 13 years old.
WHAT:Write a funny, rhyming poem and enter it in the TFK Poetry Contest. By entering, the entrant（参加竞赛者）should promise that the poem is an original one that does not copy another poet’s work, has not been published in any medium and has not won an award.
HOW: Send your poem by e-mail to contest@https://www.doczj.com/doc/0913759129.html,. The subject line of your e-mail message should read “TFK POETRY CONTEST”. Be sure to include your first name only, your e-mail address and your parents’ e-mail address. Limit one entry per person or e-mail account. The sponsor（赞助者）is not responsible for lost, late or incomplete entries, or those not received for any reason.
WHEN: This contest begins 12:01 a.m. on January 13, 2013, and ends 11:59 p.m. on March 1, 2013.
JUDGING: All entries will be judged by poet Kenn Nesbitt, based on the following standards: creativity and originality (50%), use of language and rhyme (25%) and relatedness to contest theme (25%). Winner will be informed by e-mail and must respond within five days.
WINNER’S LIST: For names of the winner and finalists, visit https://www.doczj.com/doc/0913759129.html, (after April 1,2013, you can get for a period of 10 days).
PRIZE:Our judge will select four semifinalists(半决赛选手)from which one grand-prize
winner and three finalists will be chosen. The one grand-prize winner will receive an online class visit from poet Kenn Nesbitt and a signed copy of one of his books of poetry. The poem of the grand-prize winner will be published on https://www.doczj.com/doc/0913759129.html,. The finalists will receive signed copies of one of Nesbitt’s books of poetry. The poems of finalists will be published on https://www.doczj.com/doc/0913759129.html,.
21. Which may be a proper work for the TFK Poetry Contest?
A. A war poem published in a book.
B. A great poem which has won many prizes.
C. A fine poem downloaded from the Internet.
D. A love poem which has been kept secret from others.
22．According to Paragraph 3, a student__________.
A. can send more than one original poem
B. must send the poem with his full name on it
C. can ask a parent for help while writing the poem
D. can’t use the name of the poem as the subject line
23．Only the grand-prize winner can________.
A. visit https://www.doczj.com/doc/0913759129.html, for free
B. have his poem published on https://www.doczj.com/doc/0913759129.html,
C. receive an online class visit from poet Kenn Nesbitt
D. obtain a signed copy of one of Nesbitt’s books of poetry.
B
Powered by courage and determination，Felicity Aston, 33，became the first person to ski alone across Antarctica on 15，Jan,2012.
Aston finished the 59-day trip almost exactly a century after Roald Amundsen first reached the South Pole in 1911. Aston crossed 1,084 miles from the Ross Ice Shelf to Hercules Inlet.
Aston，a freelance travel writer，and explorer，faced temperatures that averaged -25 degrees as she pulled two sleds across the ice and thick snow on her nearly two-month trip. The scariest moment came when her two lighters failed to work while she was in the Transantarctic Mountains. The lighters started working again at lower
altitudes.
While early Antarctic explorers were cut off from the outside world, Aston's access to a satellite phone meant that friends and family could follow her online as she regularly tweeted and made almost daily podcasts(播客)about her journey. An interactive map showed Aston's progress in real time. And while she skied，Aston listened to bands.
On New Year's Eve she noted that there would be no champagne.“No wine with me to toast the new year but treating myself to spoonfuls of the peanut butter，” Aston tweeted as the new year approached.
In Aston's last podcast，the emotional traveler recorded after she reached Hercules Inlet, “I seem to have got here in a rush or something and I don't really feel prepared for it，”said Aston.“It feels amazing to be finished and greatly sad that it's over at the same time.”
Weather permitting，Aston will return home today where she says she is looking forward to some “red wine and a hot shower”．
24．What is Aston's most possible purpose to ski alone across Antarctica?
A．To memorize human's arrival at the South Pole.
B．To become the first woman to cross the South Pole.
C．To make an exploration by herself and write about it.
D．To explore Antarctica and do science researches.
25．What is the difference between Aston's trip and the early explorers'?
A．She brought an electronic map with her.
B．She was monitored by a special satellite.
C．She suffered much lower temperatures.
D．She was followed online all through the trip.
26．It was the most difficult for Aston when ________.
A．the temperatures fell below -25 degrees
B．her two lighters failed to work in mountains.
C．there was no champagne on New Year's Eve
D．her trip across Antarctica was coming to an end
27．Aston feels ________ about the ending of her trip.
A．depressed and sorry B．amazed but sad
C．excited and proud D．tired but cheerful
C
Two new studies suggest that modern running shoes could increase the risk of injuries to runners.
One study involved sixty-eight healthy young women and men who ran at least twenty-four kilometers a week. The runners were observed on a treadmill machine (跑步机). Sometimes they wore running shoes. Other times they ran barefoot.
Researchers from the JKM Technologies Company in Virginia, the University of Virginia and the University of Colorado did the study.
They found that running shoes create more stress that could damage knees, hips and ankle joints than running barefoot. They observed that the effect was even greater than the effect reported earlier for walking in high heels.
The study appeared in the official scientific journal of The American Academy of Physical Medicine.
The other study appeared in the journal Nature. It compared runners in the United States and Kenya. The researchers were from Harvard University in Massachusetts, Moi University in Kenya and the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
They divided the runners into three groups. One group had always run shoeless. Another group had always run with shoes. And the third group had changed to shoeless running.
Runners who wear shoes usually come down heel first. That puts great force on the back of the foot. But the study found that barefoot runners generally land on the front or middle of their foot. That way they ease into their landing and avoid striking their heel.
Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman led the study. He says the way most running shoes are designed may explain why those who wear them land on their heels. The heel of the shoe is bigger and heavier than other parts of the shoe, so it would seem more likely to come down first. Also, the heel generally has thick material under it to
soften landings.
But the researchers do not suggest that runners immediately start running barefoot. They say it takes some training. And there can be risks, like running when your feet are too cold to feel if you get injured.
The study was partly supported by Vibram, which makes a kind of footwear that it says is like running barefoot. The findings have gotten a lot of attention. But the researchers say there are many problems in the way the press has reported in their paper. So they have tried to explain their findings on a Harvard Website. 28．What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Walking in high heels could cause less serious effects than running barefoot.
B. Two new discoveries encourage people to run in high heels.
C. Running in shoes is partly good to runners.
D. Two new studies prove running without shoes is beneficial to runners in most cases.
29．Which part of our body could be injured if we run in running shoes?
A. Toes.
B. Hips.
C. Feet.
D. Legs.
30．What can we learn from the passage?
A. The way that we run by landing on the front or middle of our foot could avoid
damaging our heel.
B. We should start running barefoot in no time.
C. Running in modern running shoes could cause more serious effects than running
in high heels.
D. We won’t be injured if we run barefoot.
31.Where is possibly this passage from?
A. A newspaper
B. A text book
C. A fashion magazine
D. A science report
D
In the United States, many low income parents cannot afford to buy enough food for their children. A program called Kids Café is helping some of these children by providing free nutritious (有营养的) snacks and meals during after-school programs.
At a community center in Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C., children make
a snack as part of their afterschool program. “The snack is very he althy for your body, but the main thing is that it tastes really, really good,” Keith Clements tells them. He runs the Kids Café program.
The children are between the ages of 5 and 11 and are from several local schools. About half have parents from Ethiopia. Many of the children eat their traditional food at home. Kids Café, with food offered free by a food bank, gives them an opportunity to try different types of food.
“It’s good,” says one girl. But Rebecca Nance, whose parents are from the US, is not so sure. “The taste is weird.” Her mother, Daffany Nance has two children in the program. She’s glad her kids are getting nutritious food. “Even in my house we don’t have much junk food,” she says, “so it’s very important that it’s healthy and continues to he lp them grow better.”
The charity , Feeding America, started the national Kids Café program in 1993. The charity says more than 16 million children in the United States do not have enough healthy food to eat.
Kids Café became part of the afterschool progra m at this community center five years ago. Lori McFail heads the afterschool program. She says some children do not eat good evening meals because their parents work late or cannot afford healthy food. She hopes the children will make full use of what they’ve learned about nutrition in their lives.
32．What is the purpose of starting Kids Café?
A. To provide poor children with nutritious food.
B. To raise money for some poor children.
C. To develop the afterschool program.
D. To help poor children learn new skills.
33．The underlined word “weird” is the closest in meaning to _____.
A. delicious
B. unusual
C. good
D. strong
34．What can we learn about Daffany Nance?
A. She is from Ethiopia and has two children.
B. She cared little about her children’s diet before.