【英语】山西省吕梁学院附属高级中学2014-2015学年高二下学期期末考试
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吕梁学院附中2014—2015 学年下学期高二年级期末考试第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分60 分）第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A.When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind.When Doctor Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle: "No pain, no gain". He hardly watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow weaker. He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how, if they were not watered, trees would grow deep roots in search of water. So, instead of watering his trees every morning, he'd beat them with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention.Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I'd watched him plant some twenty five years ago. They were all tall and strong.I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of attending these trees meant they grew up weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. Adversity（逆境） seemed to benefit Doctor Gibb's trees in ways comfort and ease never could.Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to meet with hardship. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be torn apart.21. With the trees planted, Doctor Gibbs often ________A. kept watering them every morningB. paid little attention to themC. talked to them to get their attentionD. beat them to make them grow deep roots22. What does the author think of the way Doctor Gibbs planted trees?A. strange and harmfulB. interesting and funnyC. original and reasonableD. cruel and unacceptable23. Which prayer does the author wish for his sons?A. Have an easy life, without too much to worry about.B. Meet people like Dr Gibbs in the future.C. Have good luck, encountering less hardship in their life.D. Be able to stand the rain and wind in their lives.24. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?A. Prayers for my sonsB. Doctor Gibbs and his treesC. Growing rootsD. Watering treesBYou get anxious i f there 's n-foi iwnithe hotel or mobile phone signal up the mountain. You feelupset if your phone is getting low on power, and you secretly worry things will go wrong at workif you 're not there. All these can be called “ always on ”t phsotrneessadcadiucstieodn.by smar For some people, smart phones have liberated them from the nine-to-five work. Flexibleworking has given them more autonomy（自主权）in their working lives and enabled them to spend more time with their friends and families. For many others though, smart phones have become tyrants （暴君） in their pockets, never allowing them to turn them off, relax and recharge their batteries.Pittsburgh-based developer Kevin Holesh was worried about how much he was ignoring his family and friends in favour of his iPhone. So he developed an app —Moment —to monitor his usage. The app enables users to see how much time they 'srepending on the device and set up warnings if the usage limits are breached （突破）. “Moment's goal is to promote balance in yourlife, h”is website explains. “Sometime on your phone, some time off it enjoying your loving family and friends around you. ”Dr Christine Grant, an occupational psychologist at Coventry University, said, “The effe this ‘always on ' culture are that your mind is never resting, and you 're not giving your body to recover, so you 're always stressed. And the more tired and stressed we get, the more mistakes we make. Physical and mental health can suffer. ”And as the number of connected smart phones is increasing, so is the amount of data. This is leading to a sort of decision paralysis （瘫痪） and is creating more stress in the workplace because people have to receive a broader range of data and communications which are often difficult to manage. “aIcttually makes it more difficult to make decisions and many do less because they controlled by it all and feel they can never escape the office, ” said Dr Christine Grant.25. What 's the first paragraph mainly about?A. The popularity of smart phones.B. The progress of moder n tech no logy.C. The sig ns of “ always on ” stress.D. The cause of smart pho ne addicti on.26. Kevin Holesh developed Mome nt to _________ .A. research how people use their mobile phonesB. help people con trol their use of mobile phonesC. make people better use mobile phonesD. in crease the fun of using mobile phones27. What ' s Dr Christine Grant ' s attitude towards “ always on ” culture?A. Co nfused.B. Positive.C. Doubtful.D. Critical.28. Accord ing to the last paragraph, a greater amount of data means _________ .A. we will become less productiveB. we can make a decisi on more quicklyC. we will be equipped with more kno wledgeD. we can work more effectivelyCSele na Gomez and I are scheduled to meet at a low-key coffee shop in Encino. Not wanting to keep the superstar wait in g, I arrived at nine, 20 minu tes early. As I was catch ing up on e-mails, Sele na quietly scooted into the seat n ext to me. No bodyguard. Not eve n a drop of makeup. She was ten minu tes early and so incon spicuous that no one else in the restaura nt looked up so much.Sele na was weari ng Bebe shorts. She had a baby face and ordered a hot chocolate.After making small talk about what she wore for the shoot, she dived into the subject of her career. Selena declared 2012 the year of movies. She filmed three: Spring Breakers , a drama; The Getaway, an action flick; and Hotel Transylvania , a comedy. Each is a marked move away from the tee n style that made her a household n ame.Now that her Disney days are behind her, Selena is at that unstable point in a child star ' s career where she is tryi ng to grow up---both as a pers on( she tur ned 20 in July)a nd as an artist.“ Being part of the Disney Channel was such a blessing, and I ' m super happy with what my show accomplished, but acting is somethi ng I would like to take on more seriously. ” She continue don' necessarily feel accomplished. I want to creat a whole different person when it comes to acti ng. ”Selena has been working fulltime since she was seven years old and scored a role on Barney&Frie nds .In 2007, whe n she was offered the lead in Wizards of Waverly Place , Sele na, her mother, and her stepfather uprooted from Grand Prairie, Texas, to LA, where they are settli ng now.29. When was it that Sele na arrived at the low-key coffee shop?A. At ten.B. At ten to nine.C. At ten past nine.D. At thirty past nine.30. How did Selena think of Disney days which were behind her? A. She thought of playing in Disney a blessing.B. She didn ' t feel very satisfied with her show in Disney.C. She found her not accomplished in her performance in Disney.D. She believed her being part in Disney Channel a blessing.31. The underlined word in the last paragraph probably means “ _______ ”.A. MovedB. PickedC. ChangedD. informedDWith only about 1, 000 pandas left in the world, China is desperately trying to clone the animal and save the endangered species. That's a move similar to what the Texas A&M University researchers have been undertaking for the past five years in a project called ．“ Noah's Ark Noah's Ark is aimed at collecting eggs, embryos （胚胎）, semen and DNA of endangered animals and storing them in liquid nitrogen. If certain species should become extinct, Dr Duane Kraemer, a professor in Texas A&M's College of Veterinary Medicine, says there would be enough of the basic building blocks to reintroduce the species in the future.It is estimated that as many as 2, 000 species of mammals, birds and reptiles will become extinct in over 100 years. The panda, native only to China, is in danger of becoming extinct in the next 25 years.This week, Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo by introducing cells from a dead female panda into the egg cells of a Japanese white rabbit. They are now trying to implant the embryo into a host animal.The entire procedure could take from three to five years to complete.“ Thenuclear transfer （核子移植） of one species to another is not easy, and the lack of available panda eggs could be a major problem ，” Kraemer believes.“ They will probably have to do several hundred transfers to result in one pregnancy （怀孕）. It takes a long time and it's difficult, but this could be groundbreaking science if it works. They are certainly not putting any live pandas at risk, so it is worth the effort ，” adds Kraemer, who is one of the leaders of the Project at Texas A&M, the firstever attempt at cloning a dog.“ They are trying to do something that's never been done, and this is very similar to our work in Noah's Ark. We're both trying to save animals that face extinction. I certainly appreciate their effort and there's a lot we can learn from what they are attempting to do. It's a research that is very much needed. ” 32．The aim of “ Noah's Ark ” project is to .A ．make efforts to clone the endangered pandas B．save endangered animals from dying out C．collect DNA of endangered animals to studyD. transfer the nuclear of one animal to another33. Accord ing to Prof. Kraemer, the major problem in clo ning pan das would be the lack of ___ .A. available panda eggsB. host animalsC. qualified researchersD. enough money34. The best title of the passage may be ________ .A . Chin a's Success in Pan das CloningB. The First Clo ned Panda in the WorldC . Explori ng the Possibility to Clo ne Pan dasD . China—the Native Place of Pan das Forever35 . From the passage we know that ______ .A . Kraemer and his team have succeeded in cloning a dogB . scie ntists try to impla nt a pan da's egg into a rabbitC . Kraemer will work with Chin ese scie ntists in clone researchesD . about two thousa nd species will probably die out in a cen tury第二节（共5小题;每小题3分，满分15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。
