高二下学期英语期中考试试卷第6套真题

高二下学期英语期中考试试卷一、阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）1. 阅读理解Welcometo Adventureland!Everyone lovesAdventureland! The Parks and Exhibitions were built for you to explore, enjoy,and admire their wonders. Every visit will be an unforgettable experience. Youwill go away enriched, longing to come back. What are you going to do thistime?The Travel PavilionExplore places you havenever been to before, and experience different ways of life. Visit the Amazonjungle village, the Turkish market, the Tai floating market, the Berbermountain house and others. Talk to the people there who will tell you abouttheir lives, and things they make. You can try making a carpet, making fishingnets...The Future TowerThis exhibition shows howprogress will touch our lives. It allows us to look into the future and explorethe cities of the next century and the way we’ll be living then. Spend sometime in our space station and climb into our simulator for the Journeyto Mars!The Nature ParkThis is not really onepark but several. In the Safari Park you can driveamong African animals in oneof our Range Cruisers: see lions, giraffes, elephants in the wild. Move on tothe Ocean Park to watch the dolphins and whales. And then there is still theAviary to see...The PyramidThis is the center ofAdventureland. Run out of film, need some postcards and stamps? For all thesethings and many more, visit our underground shopping center. Come here forinformation and ideas, too.（1）The Travel Pavilion is built to help visitors .A . realize the importance of travellingB . become familiar with mountain countriesC . learn something about different places in the worldD . learn how to make things such as fishing nets（2）When you visit The Future Tower, which of the following is NOT available for you to do?A . Get to know about what people’s life will be.B . Have a journey to Mars.C . Enjoy your time in its space station.D . Learn about the impact of progress on our lives.（3）If you want to get a toy lion to take home, where will you most likely go?A . The Travel Pavilion.B . The Nature Park.C . The Future Tower.D . The Pyramid.2. 阅读理解The next time yourfriends roll their eyes when you’re snapping a selfie and watched some lionsattacking a water buffalo, the people who took photosof the bloody event werereported to have a lower enjoyment of the activity than those who didn’t, theresearchers said.（1）Why does taking photos increase enjoyment?A . People can share their photos on Facebook.B . People have more time to look at the objects to be photographed.C . Some photos may end up as valuable artifacts.D . Photography gets people more involved in the activity.（2）What can we infer from the last paragraph?A . Photography sometimes can be dangerous.B . Photography requires more courage to do.C . Photography is an unpleasant process.D . Photography isn’t fun all the time.（3）Which of the following is closest to the main idea of the text?A . Photography helps you appreciate people around you.B . Snapping a selfie is a symbol of self-confidence.C . Taking photo s doesn’t ruin your experience.D . The photo-taking process is a mental choice.3. 阅读理解ManuteaOwen is a hero on his home island of Huahine. His ancestors took over nearlyevery island in the South Pacific Ocean in what was perhaps the greatestachievement before humans went to the moon. Only recently have scientists begun tounderstand where these amazing sailors came from, and how, with simpleboats and no navigation equipment, they could manage to find hundreds ofdistant islands that cover nearly a third of the globe. This expansion into thePacific was achieved by two wonderful peoples: the Lapita and the Polynesians.Howdid the Lapita and early Polynesian pioneers do this? Very little evidenceremains to help scientists understand their great sailing skills. However, withlittle evidence, scientists have been able to develop some theories about thesecrets of these explorers’ success.Sailorshave always relied upon the so-called trade winds, winds that blow steadily and in predictable directionsover the ocea n’s surface. Geoff Irwin, a professor of archeology notesthat the Lapita’s expansion into the Pacific was eastward, against steady tradewinds. Sailing against the wind, he argues, may have been the key to theirsuccess.AtholAnderson of the Australian National University believes that they may also havebeen lucky—helped by a weather phenomenon known as EI Nino. E1 Nino occurs inthe Pacific Ocean when the surface water temperature is unusually high. Itaffects world weather in a variety of ways, but one of its effects is to causetrade winds in the South Pacific to weaken or to change direction and blow tothe east. Scientists believe that E1 Nino phenomena were unusually frequentaround the time of the Lapita expansion, and again when early Polynesians begantheir even more distant journeys.Thesuccess of the Lapita and the Polynesian may have been because of their ownsailing skills, of reverse trade winds, of a mixture of both, or even offacts still unknown. But it is certain that by the time Europeans came to thePacific, nearly every piece of land, hundreds of islands in all, had alreadybeen discovered by the Lapita and the Polynesians.（1）What does the underlined part “amazing sailors” in Para.1 refer to?A . The Lapita and early Polynesians.B . Manutea Owen and his islanders.C . Men who went to the moon.D . Today’s Polynesians.（2）What is Irwin’s theory about the Lapita ?A . They stopped sailing when the weather changed.B . Their sailors knew how to sail against the wind.C . Their navigational skills are well understood.D . They needed to find food on other islands.（3）How might El Nino have helped early Pacific sailors?A . By changing the direction of trade windsB . By decreasing the water temperature.C . By providing more fishes for themD . By bringing more rain to them（4）What would be the best title for the text?A . What the early Polynesians discoveredB . How E1 Nino helped the ancient peoplesC . What sailing skills the Lapita had learnedD . How ancient peoples explored the Pacific二、任务型阅读（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）4. 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。