甘肃省静宁县第一中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题(无答案)

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第一部分 阅读理解 （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 ，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The Coolest Inventions

An Oceans Vacuum(吸尘器)

There’s a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It’s

bigger than Texas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets.

That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a

62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next

year’s trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could

reduce the trash by 42% over 10 years.

Easy-On Shoes

In 2012, Matthew Walzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note

to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,” he wrote, “without having to worry about

someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the

challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the FlyEase. The basketball

shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike FlyEase shoes sells for $130.

An Airport for Drones (无人机)

As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is

one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, in Africa,

may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”.

The goals is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics,

and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed

in 2020.

1. What’s the advantage of the Oceans Vacuum?

A. It can be put into wide use soon

B. It can grow year by year

C. It can tear plastic into pieces

D. It can be a money-saver

2. What do we know about Nike?

最新 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 1 A. It provides customer-friendly services

B. It is designing new shoes frequently

C. It offers free shoes to the disabled

D. It responded to Matthew’s request passively

3. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”?

A. Because they are receptive to new technology

B. Because there are too many drones

C. Because they’re easier to construct than roads

D. Because road travel there is rough

B

MySpace，the social networking website，is different from other websites which

only provide stories about other people. MySpace is a place that allows you to

broadcast your own stories and personal information to as many people as you like.

Started two years ago，it is a big source of information for and about American kids.

Teenagers and their parents feel very different about it. Teens are rushing to join

the site，not sharing their parents’ worries. It signals yet another generation

gap in the digital era.

For teenagers，it is reliable network to keep in touch with their friends. They

will often list their surnames，birthdays，after­school jobs，school clubs，hobbies

and other personal information.

“MySpace is an easy way to reach just about everyone. I don’t have all the

phone numbers of my acquaintances. But if I want to get in touch with one of them，I could just leave them a message on MySpace，”said Abby Van Wassen. She is a

16­year­old student at Woodland Hills High of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Parents on the other hand are seriously concerned about the security problems

of MySpace. “Every time we hold a parents meeting，the first question is always

about MySpace，”said Kent Gates，who travels the country doing Internet safety

seminars(研讨会)．The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children has

received at least 288 MySpace-related complaints，according to Mary Beth Buchanan，a lawyer in Pittsburgh.

“Your profile on MySpace shows all your personal information to anyone on the

Web. And MySpace even lists this information by birthplace and age. It’s like a

free checklist for troublemakers and it endangers children，” Buchanan said.

4. From the passage, we can learn that MySpace ________.

最新 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 1 A. brings about the generation gap

B. is very careful about people’s privacy

C. lists the telephone numbers of your friends

D. encourages you to list your personal information

5. Why are some parents against MySpace?

A. Because troublemakers can easily reach their children through the site.

B. Because they don’t want to pay so much money for MySpace.

C. Because it takes up too much of their children’s spare time.

D. Because they think MySpace has a bad influence on their children.

6. What can we infer from “Every time we hold a parents meeting，the first question

is always about MySpace”？

A. MySpace is quite popular with parents.

B. MySpace often holds parents meetings.

C. MySpace has become a top problem troubling parents.