潮南实验学校高中部2017-2018学年度第二学期期中考试高二英语试题试题分值：120分考试时间：120分钟第Ⅰ卷第二部分阅读理解（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
AFeeding a crowd of hundreds doesn’t make Kenny Seals-Nutt nervous.In fact, he loves being in the kitchen.By the time Kenny, 16, reached his third year of high school in Charlotte, US, he had become vice president of his school’s cooking club.Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his grandmother, who owned a business.And at the age of 5, he cooked his first dish. Taking it to school for lunch, he warmed it up in the school’s microwave, while the other kids ate their sandwiches.“I love to eat, and it started to become more fun to cook than to have food prepared for m e,” he said.Cooking came easy to Kenny, and he enjoyed adding new ingredients into common dishes. “It started with a passion and I wanted to know more,” he said.Last summer, Kenny put his skills to the test by working with his grandmother to cater his uncle’s wedding. Kenny added new changes to the traditional dishes that his grandma had prepared.Chef Frederick Mookie Hicks, owner of a catering business, said Kenny’s success comes from his ability to multitask in the kitchen.“He’s so enthusiastic about cooking that he doesn’t let anything stop him,” Hicks said.21. What inspired Kenny’s interest in cooking?A. The cooking club in his school.B. His love for eating.C. His desire to run a catering business alone.D. The sight of his grandmother cooking.22. The underlined word “cater” in Paragraph 8 probably means “to ______”.A. have fun atB. be present atC. provide food forD. make a plan for23. Which of the following best describes Kenny’s cooking?A. Traditional.B. Creative.C. Simple.D. Strange.24. What does Hicks think sets Kenny apart from other students?a. His passion for cooking.b. His cooperation with others.c. His ability to multitask.d. His special family background.A. a, bB. a, cC. b, cD. c,dBIn my second-to-last semester of college, my favorite professor announced that he would be teaching a study abroad course over winter break in Cambodia. The more he talked about the opportunity, the more interested I became. I left class thinking I might actually do it.My immediate excitement gave in to excuses as the weeks passed. The trip would be expensive, I would have less time to spend with my family over winter break, and I hadn’t really traveled before. Most of all, I was terrified of taking the risk.On the day I made my decision, I suddenly felt as if I had finally opened my eyes and seen myself clearly. Why was I so scared to take this chance? I had moved away from home, almost graduated college and overcome plenty of small-scale fears. How could I let fear get in the way of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Besides, I had always dreamed of traveling the world and studying abroad was a major point on my bucket list(人生目标清单).So I took the challenge. I was scared yet excited on the plane, but my fears faded as soon as the wheels touched the runway. I soon found myself immersed(沉浸) in ancient, ornate(华丽的) mountain-top temples. I spent my days teaching poor orphans simple English, learned a little Khmer myself and became an expert at avoiding terrible traffic and bargaining with Cambodian store owners. By the end of my stay, I had fallen in love with travel, exploration and a life of daily wonders.My experience in Cambodia was incredible and life-changing. I came back adifferent person, but a better one: a better friend, sister, daughter, girlfriend and student. I came back a grown woman instead of a young girl.After Cambodia, my life clicked into place(步入正轨). Before the trip, I hadn’t known what I wanted to do after graduation. Now I am planning on teaching English abroad. I am still amazed by my experience and thankful for everything it taught me.I now have a passion for conquering(征服) fears, big or small, and have a renewed faith in myself.25.The author’s excitement to go to Cambodia faded mainly because .A. she could not afford the expensive tripB. she had no experience of traveling abroadC. she was scared of the risk she would be takingD. she preferred spending time with her family to traveling26.How did the author decide to go to Cambodia in the end?A. She had a heart-to-heart talk with her familyB. She thought about what might have made her scaredC. She went through every item she had put on her bucket listD. She realized the challenges and fears she had overcome before27.What did the author do in Cambodia?A. She taught KhmerB. She studied EnglishC. She helped local children with EnglishD. She studied traffic problems28.What did the author think of her stay in Cambodia?A. It was relaxing and refreshingB. It gave her a better idea of herselfC. It improved her communication skillsD. It led her to offer her help to volunteer servicesC(CNN)---A killer whale killed a trainer We dnesday afternoon at SeaWorld’s Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Florida, a public information officer for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.The 40-year-old woman, identified by sheriff’s spokesman Jim Solomons as Dawn Brancheau, was in the whale holding a rea about 2 p.m. when “she apparently slippedor fell into the tank and was fatally injured by one of the whales,” he said.But a witness told CNN that the whale approached the glass side of the 35-foot-deep tank at Shamu Stadium, jumped up and grabbed the trainer by the waist, shaking her so violently that her shoe came off.A SeaWorld employee who asked not to be identified confirmed the description of the attack and added that the whale involved is named Tillikum.The incident occurred after a show calle d “Dine with Shamu,” said Paula Gillespie, who attended with her daughter.“During the show everything was perfectly fine,” she said.Afterward, “we went down to look at his full body underneath the isolation tank,” she said. “Everything seemed calm and OK. The trainer was laying herself down on him and kissing his nose and rubbing him.”But the scene changed quickly, she said.“Within five minutes, she was down in the tank and we saw all the thrashing(扑腾) and the bubbles and him pushing her with his nose,”she said. “It was just so, so upsetting.”Within moments, sirens(警笛) went off and SeaWorld employees asked her to leave the building, she said.Jack Hanna, director of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio, said he knew Brancheau and that she would want her work to continue. He also hopes SeaWorld continues with the work it does with killer whales.But a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called the death “a tragedy that didn’t have to happen.” Jaime Zalac said the organization had c alled on “SeaWorld to stop confining(禁闭) oceangoing mammals to an area that to them is like the size of a bathtub, and we have also been asking the park to stop forcing the animals to perform silly tricks over and over again.”29.What probably caused the death of a whale trainer according to the text?A. A killer whale kissed her to deathB. She was attacked by a violent killer whaleC. A whale jumped out of the broken tank and killed herD. She missed her steps because of carelessness and fell into the tank30.What’s the best title of the text?A. A great trainer and a wild whaleB. SeaWorld trainer killed by killer whaleC. What happened is something that happensD. SeaWorld getting rid of its killer whale show31.From the text we know that .A. SeaWorld would want Brancheau’s w ork to continueB. SeaWorld’s killer whale show bring in a lot of moneyC. Different people have different reactions to the accidentD. keeping the killer whales in a tank is bound to cause deathDRobots and humans will soon be living in harmony. A singing robot is being taught to create jazz with a human in a project that researchers hope will throw light on the nature of consciousness.Antonio Chella from Italy is working with a Telenoid robot. To start with, the Telenoid will be trained to imitate the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer, and to connect music with different emotions states. Chella then plans to see if the robot can use these connections to create music.Some jazz musicians say that they should have a mental library of musical phrases so that they are able to combine them in new ways. More importantly, however, this combination happens in a state that is similar in a sense to dreaming. Chella wants to copy these states in a machine.“This work raises interesting questio ns about the link between consciousness and music making,” says Philippe Pasquier, a musician and computer scientist. But he is skeptical about whether a robot musician needs a physical body.Pasquer argues that robot are faced with two challenges. Software that can imitate Bach has already been developed. But interpretation(演绎) involves human’s different tastes and judgments. “what made the Beatles famous was not so much their compositions(作品), but the fact that the interpretations of the compositions were brilliant,” he says.It is not yet clear how a robot would go about interpreting music in a new way. But by imitating humans and then learning to sing. Chella’s robot could provide clues.What seems to be important is that human composer often listen to lots of music made by others. So Chella’s robot had better listen to tho se jazz standards first.32.Which of the following is the robot’s first step before it tries to create jazz?A. It will live with human beings in harmonyB. It will connect actions with human’s emotionsC. It will learn to communicate with human beingsD. It will copy a human singer’s movements and sounds33.The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph4 could be replaced by “”.A. doubtfulB. worriedC. certainD. concerned34.It can be concluded from the text that .A. Chella’s robot needs a physical body to make musicB. How to interpret jazz is a piece of cake for Chella’s robotC. A new kind of software should be developed to imitate BachD. Chella’s robot should listen to lots of jazz to create something new35.In which column of one newspaper can we read the text?A. EducationB. CultureC. ScienceD. Health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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
