河南省郑州市中牟县第一高级中学2019-2020学年高一下学期第二次限时练考试英语试题+Word版含答案

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第一部分：听力（略）

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）(出题人：廖孙莹 审题人：李培) 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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England has been the birthplace of most of the great English-language theatre

written throughout history. Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have something in common. They usually come from a playwright (剧作家) with several famous plays.

Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright. Shakespeare has a large catalogue (目录) of tragedies, comedies and history plays, and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written. Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Julius Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theatres around the world every year. Famous comedies include A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. In the history category, Richard Ⅲ and Henry Ⅴ are very famous.

Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw

Several hundred years after Shakespeare, English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Wilde's plays are still popular now, and The Importance of Being Earnest is both performed and studied extremely frequently. A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works. Shaw and Wilde were born within a few years of each other, but Shaw was a much more productive writer. His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida. Shaw's plays are loved so much that an entire theatre company is devoted to performing his works in Niagara-on-the-Lake in southern Ontario.

Harold Pinter

The plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an international presence. His writing was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. Pinter is especially known for his style of writing. Many of his plays such as Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter and his first play, The Room, are extremely well known.

21. The writer wrote this passage to ________． A．advise us to spend more time enjoying plays

B．explain why England has so many wonderful plays

C．tell us about some famous British playwrights and their works D．tell us the differences among some British playwrights

22. What do the works in the underlined part in Paragraph 2 have in common? A．They are all Shakespeare's early works.

B．They are all tragedies written by Shakespeare.

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C．They are all Shakespeare's famous comedies.

D．They all belong to the history category of Shakespeare's plays.

23. Which of the following plays were most probably written in the same period of time?

A．The Dumb Waiter and A Woman of No Importance. B．Richard Ⅲ and A Woman of No Importance. C．An Ideal Husband and Candida. D．Candida and Betrayal.

B

Bad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking people's e-mails and online posts, scientists have

found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories. “The ‘if it bleeds’ rule works for mass media，” says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. “They want your eyeballs and don't care how you're feeling. But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react. You don't want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer.”

Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, Web posts and

reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than

negative, but that didn't necessarily mean people preferred positive news. Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that possibility, Dr Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on The New York Times' website. He and a Penn colleague analyzed the “most e-mailed” list for six months. One of his first

findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles. He found that science amazed Times' readers and made them

want to share this positive feeling with others.

Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad. They needed to be aroused one way or the other, and they preferred good news to bad. The more positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared, as Dr Berger explains in his new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

24．What do the classic rules mentioned in the text apply to? A．Daily conversations. B．Research papers. C．Private e-mails. D．News reports.

25．What can we infer about people like Debbie Downer?

A．They're socially inactive. B．They're inconsiderate of others. C．They're good at telling stories. D．They're careful with their words. 26．Which tended to be the most e-mailed according to Dr Berger's research?

A．Personal accounts. B．Financial reviews. C．Science articles. D．Sports news. 27．What can be a suitable title for the text? A．Sad stories actually travel far and wide

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B．Reading habits change with the times

C．Good news beats bad on social networks D．Online news indeed attracts more people

C

These days, people who do manual (体力的) work often receive far more money than people who work in offices. People who work in offices are frequently referred to as “white-collar workers” for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work. Such is human nature, that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the honor of becoming white-collar workers. This can lead to curious situations, as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation.

When he got married, Alf was too embarrassed to say anything to his wife about his job. He simply told her that he worked for the Corporation. Every morning, he left home dressed in a smart black suit. He then changed into overalls (工作服) and spent the next eight hours as a dustman. Before returning home at night, he took a shower and changed back into his suit. Alf did this for over two years and his fellow dustmen kept his secret. Alf’s wife has never discovered that she married a dustman and she never will, for Alf has just found another job. He will soon be working in an office. He will be earning only half as much as he used to, but he feels that his rise in status (身份；地位) is well worth the loss of money. From now on, he will wear a suit all day and others will call him ‘Mr. Bloggs’, not ‘Alf’.

28.What does the case of Alfred Bloggs show?

A. That people often care more about the status of a job than the income. B. That “white-collar workers” usually wear a suit to go to work. C. That manual workers prefer to keep their jobs a secret. D. That office workers earn less than manual workers. 29.What did Alfred Bloggs do for over two years?

A. He told his wife he worked for the Corporation, when in fact he did not. B. He dressed himself as a dustman before leaving home every morning. C. He lied to his wife about his job.

D. He earned twice as much as a white-collar worker. 30.What does Alfred Bloggs think of his new job?

A. He feels it is a pity because he now earns less than before. B. He thinks it is worthwhile for his rise in status.

C. He is proud because he earns much more than before.

D. He is satisfied because he no longer needs a shower before returning home. 31.What’s the best title of the passage? A. The Double Life of Alfred Bloggs. B. Money or Status, Which Comes First?

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C. The Story of Alfred Bloggs, a Dustman. D. Truth Will Come to Light Sooner or Later.

D

It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old. Welcome to our future life.

Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you’re 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middle aged! As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal（谷物） into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that,” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen cheeks its food supplies.

“Ready for your trip to space,” you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially-trained astronauts went into space---and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines(疫苗). With the strawberries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.

It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office, autopilot,” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and move smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it. 32.What changes the color of your shirt? A. The mirror. B. The shirt itself C. The counter. D. The medicine. 33.How do the shoes know that you shouldn’t eat the breakfast cereal? A. By pouring the breakfast into a bowl. B. By listening to the doctor’s advice.

C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen. D. By checking the nutrition details of the food. 34.The strawberries the children eat serve as ______.

A. breakfast B. lunch C. vaccines D. nutrition 35.How is the text organized?

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