甘肃省天水市一中2021-2022学年高二上学期第二次学段(期末)考试英语试题 Word版含答案

天水一中2022级2021-2022学年度第一学期其次学段考试

英语试题

命题： 李卓桥 张莉莉 审核： 陈万生 杨 平

（满分：120分 时间：100分钟）

留意事项：

1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。

2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填涂在答题卡相应的位置。

3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。

4. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。

第I卷（选择题）

第一部分 阅读部分(共2节，满分40分)

第一节 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A、B、C和D选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Chocolate is good for your heart, skin and brain. Usually, people think that chocolate is bad for their health. They describe

chocolate as “something to die for” or say “death by chocolate”. Now they should bite their tongues! Evidence is showing that

some kinds of chocolate are actually good for you in the following ways:

A happier heart

Scientists at Harvard University recently examined 136 studies on cocoa— the main ingredient in chocolate— and found

that it does seem to strengthen the heart. Studies have shown heart benefits from increased blood flow. These benefits are the

result of cocoa’s chemicals, which seem to prevent both cell damage and inflammation(炎症)。

Better blood pressure

If yours is high, chocolate may help. Jeffrey Blumberg from Tufts University recently found that people with high blood

pressure who ate 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate per day for two weeks saw their blood pressure drop quickly.

Muscle magic

Chocolate milk may help you recover after a hard workout(熬炼). In a small study at Indiana University, people who drank

chocolate milk between workouts did better on a tiredness test than those who had some sports drinks.

Better for your skin

German researchers gave 24 women a half-cup of special cocoa every day. After three months, the women’s skin was

moister and smoother. The research shows that chocolate helps protect and increase blood flow to the skin, improving its

appearance.

Brain gains.

It sounds almost too good to be true, but research suggests that chocolate may improve your memory, attention span,

reaction time, and problem-solving skills by increasing blood flow to the brain.

1.What’s the meaning of “bite their tongues” in the first paragraph?

A. Stop talking. B. Speak up.

C. Think of it. D. Listen to it.

2.What’s the meaning of the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph?

A. Sports drinks are better than chocolate milk.

B. sports drinks can make people easy to be tired.

C. Drinking milk can keep you energetic at work.

D. we should drink chocolate milk between times when we work hard.

3.What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Chocolate, a Healthy Food B. More Chocolate, Less Health C. Chocolate and Blood Pressure

D. Advice on Eating Chocolate

B

Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis, Cricket—anything

with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in

England's rural Devonshire.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby

forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing

his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic

Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older

man's cold-water exploits（成就）. Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions,

then decided that this would be his future.

Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy."

John Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say, 'You are completely crazy,' " Saunders says.

In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He

suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter（患病）with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himself

than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.

This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile

journey that has never been completed on skis.

4. The turning point in Saunders’life came when _____

A. he started to play ball games

B. he ran his first marathon at age 18

C. he got a mountain bike at age 15

D. he started to receive Ridgway’s training

5. We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.

A. won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

B. built up his body together with Saunders

C. hired Saunders for his cold-water experience

D. dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy

6. What do we know about Saunders?