山西省长治市潞城市第四中学2019-2020学年高二下学期阶段性测试英语试卷

英语试题（时间：100分钟满分：150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A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项AName: Off the Beaten PathCover price: $ 30. 00Our price: $ 19. 80The best-selling Reader's Digest travel book has 40% new content including over 200 new sites, over 200 new full-color photographs, and all-new, up-to-date maps. It focuses on more than 1.000 of the United States most overlooked must-see destinations.Name: Container Gardens by NumberCover price: $ 15.95Our price:$9. 49A unique book contains 50 easy-to- follow container designs. Each design provides a simple numbered planting plan that shows exactly how to create each display, with an instruction of the finished planter and in-depth plant information. The plans are easy to follow and for any type of living space or garden.Name: Best Weekend ProjectsCover price: $ 17.95Our price: $ 13, 96Choose from 80 unique ideas to create an extraordinary living space. The projects are practical, as well as attractive, and will improve your home and yard and can be made in a weekend. These 80 well-designed pro/ is are presented in a clear, easy-to follow style that addresses readers in an accessible, user-friendly tone.Name:I801 Home Remedies(治疗方案)Cower price: $ 40.00Our price: $ 29.96Plenty of health complaints can be handled at home. Each and every remedy will be tested by a doctor to make sure it is safe and sound.Dozens of conditions are covered. from headaches, sunburn, bad breath, and blisters(起泡;起疮) to allergies, and: hiccups(打嗝).21.You can most probably read the passage in a___________A. travel guideB. medicine bookletC. textbookD. newspaper22. How much money could you save if you want to buy a travel book?A. $10.20B. $6.46C. $13.96D. $19.8023.Which of the following could help you to deal with common diseases without a doctor?A. Off the Beaten PathB,Container Gardens by NumberC. 1801 Home RemediesD. Best Weekend ProjectsBWhen milk arrived on the doorstepWhen I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s. we had a milkmandelivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a s-year-old boy,I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.Of course. he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mot her would pen a note"Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery"-and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.All of this was about more than convenience. 'There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze, And I remember Mr. Busille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides milk s for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practiced to have a deliveryRecently, an old milk box in the country side I saw brought back my childhood memories, I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my son's friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.24.Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer_A.to show his magical powerB.to pay for the deliveryC. to satisfy the boy's curiosityD. to please the boy's mother25. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy's house?A. He wanted to have tea thereB. He was a respectable personC. He was treated as a family member.D. He was fully trusted by the family26,Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now.B. It has been driven out of the marketC. Its service is getting poor.D. It is forbidden by law.27. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?He missed the good old days.B. He wanted to tell interesting stories.C. He needed it for his milk bottles.D. He planted flowers in it.CWhen women sit together to watch a movie on TV. they usually talk simultaneously(同时的) about a variety of subjects, including children, men,careers and what's happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the screen-they can't do both and they don t understand that women can. Besides, women consider that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring at the screen.During the ad breaks, a man of ten asks a woman to explain the plot and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going. He is unable, unlike women to read the subtle body language signals that reveal how the characters are feeling emotionally, Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group. they developed the ability to communicate successfully in order to maintain relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends. For men, to talk is to relate the facts.Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people, but a woman sees it as a means of bonding. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.There is no convincing evidence that social conditioning, the fact that girl's mothers talked to them more, is the reason why girls talk more than boys. Psychiatrist Dr Michael Lewis, author of Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition, conducted experiments that found mothers talked to, and looked at, baby girls more often than baby boys. Scientific evidence shows parents respond to the brain bias, of their children. Since a girls brain is better organized to send and receive speech, we therefore talk to them more. Consequently, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually disappointed to receive only short grunts in reply.28. While watching TV with others, women usually talk a lot because theyA. are afraid of awkward silence with their families and friendsB. can both talk and watch the screen at the same timeC.think they can have a good time and develop relationshipsD.have to explain the plot and body language to their husbands29. After a vacation with her girlfriend, a woman would talk to her again on the phone for hotA. experience the happy time againB,keep a close tie with herC. recommend her a new scenic spotD. remind her of something forgotten30. What does the author want to tell us most?A,Women,s brains are better organized for language and communicationB. Women love to talk because they are more sociable than menC. Men do not like talking because they rely more on factsD. Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking.31. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. Women Are Socially Trained to TalkB. Talking Maintains RelationshipsC,Women Love to TalkD Men Talk Differently from WomenDSteven Stein likes to follow garbage trucks. His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road. What is even more interesting is that one of Stein s jobs is defending an industry behind the plastic shopping bags.Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year. So many end up in tree branches or along highways that a growing number of cities do not allow them at checkouts(收银台). The bags are prohibited in some 9 0 cities in California, including Los Angeles. Eyeing these headwinds, plastic-bag makers are hiring scientists like Stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume .Among the bag makers argument: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport. And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.The industry has also taken aim at the product that has appeared as its replacement: reusable shopping bags. The stronger a reusable bag is, the longer its its life and the more plastic-bag use it cancels out. However, longer-lasting reusable bags often require more energy to make. One study found that a cotton bag must be used at least 131 times to be better for the planet than plastic.Environmentalists don't dispute(i ME) these points. They hope paper bags will be banned someday too and want shoppers to use the same reusable bags for years.32. What has Steven Stein been hired to do?A. Help increase grocery salesB. Recycle the waste materialC,Stop things falling offD,Argue for the use of plastic bags33. What does the word"headwinds"in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. Bans on plastic bagsB. Effects of city developmentC. Headaches caused by garbageD. Plastic bags hung in trees34. What is a disadvantage of reusable bags according to plastic-bag makers?A. They are quite expensiveB. Replacing them can be difficultC. They are less strong than plastic bagsD, Producing them requires more energy35. What is the best title for the text?A,Plastic paper or NeitherB. Industry, Pollution and EnvironmentC. Recycle or Throw AwayD Garbage Collection and Waste Control第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。