河北省衡水中学滁州分校2017-2018学年高二英语下学期开学考试试题

at your hotel and later proceed(继续前行) for a full-day guided tour in Delhi starting with old Delhi visiting Raj Ghat, Jama Masjid, driving past through Red Fort. Later in New Delhi visit Humayun’s Tomb. India Gate, drive past through Parliament Street & President House and visit QutubMinar. Overnight at Delhi hotels DAY 3: Delhi--Jaipur via Fatehpur Sikri(240 km/5 hours)

Today morning after breakfast, drive to jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan state. Jaipur is also known as “Pink City”. En route visit Fatepur Sikri, known as Ghost Capital. Later continue the drive to jaipur. Upon arrival, check in at the hotel. Evening free at your own activities. Overnight at jaipur hotels

DAY 4: Delhi—Delhi (256 km/5 hours)

Today morning after breakfast, drive back to Delhi airport. The total distance is 256 kms and you can cover it in 5 hours. Upon arrival in Delhi, board flight to onward journey.

NOTE: Price starts with US $215 with:

●Daily breakfast and soft drinks and packaged drinking water. ●Elephant rides at Amber Fort

●Sunset or Sunrise visits to TajMahal.

●All entrance fees to the monuments and train tickets. 25.On which day can you visit QutubMinar? A. DAY 2 B. DAY 1 C. DAY 4 D. DAY 3

26.What can we learn from the schedule(安排)? A. Travelers will stay in Delhi for two nights B. The whole journey covers 496 km

C. Travelers will fly to Delhi airport on DAY 4 D. Travelers will be made to buy things on DAY 3 27.During the trip, you need to pay extra for . A. a sunrise visit to TajMahal B. elephant riding at Amber Fort

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C. breakfast and packaged drinking water D. visits to Chokhi Dhani Village Resort

C

My parents grew up during the Depression(大萧条) attending small country churches. At the close of Christmas Eve services, each child was given a brown paper bag containing an apple, an orange, nuts and several chocolates.

Years later, whenever Dad recalled that tradition, his eyes shone reliving the memory. My mother didn’t share his enthusiasm. She always said the chocolates tasted cheap and old.

Cheap chocolates or not, the paper bags with goodies were an event. Gifts of any sort during the Depression were rare, especially in large farm families with seven children.

When our children were young and we were home for Christmas one year, Mom and Dad gave each of the grandkids a brown paper bag holding an apple, an orange, nuts and several chocolates. When we finished the 8-hour drive home after the holiday, there was a message waiting on the phone when we walked in the door. “Your ungrateful kids left their apples and oranges in the back of our refrigerator. No more fruit for them!” Grandpa and Grandma were joking, of course, but still there was a degree of disrespect in the kids leaving behind thoughtfully chosen gifts.

But the paper bag didn’t have a context for our children. They had never known fruit to be a scarcity(缺乏). They didn’t appreciate the gift because they had never experienced the need the gift was meant to fill.

The same is true of Christmas today. We don’t appreciate the true gift of the season because we don’t understand the need the gift was given to fill.

It’s not like we don’t know we have needs. We know them, all right—patience, love, self-control, strength, courage, faithfulness, forgiveness—it’s just that we have become experts at numbing(使麻木) ourselves to our needs.

The true gift of the season is a perfect fit for our every need. When a gift like apples and oranges fits a need, there is a cheerful satisfaction. When the gift of a Christmas tree fits a need, there is the joy of Christmas.

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28.We know from the first two paragraphs that the author’s parents . A. had different memories of the chocolates B. were born into wealthy families

C. had no interest in Christmas Eve services D. received lots of help during the Depression

29.The kids left the apples and oranges in the back of the refrigerator . A. because they wanted to surprise their grandparents B. to show their disrespect for the family tradition C. because such gifts didn’t meet their needs

D. to thank their grandparents for the well-chosen gifts 30.What can be learned from the underline sentence? A. The kids didn’t want to carry on the tradition

B. The tradition didn’t have the same meaning for the two generations C. The paper bags didn’t serve a useful purpose for the children D. The kids didn’t understand the necessity of the paper bags 31.What could be the best title for the text? A. The best gift ever B. The Christmas tradition C. When Christmas meets Depression D. When the gift meets the need

D

Newly discovered fossils(化石)in New Zealand have revealed a giant penguin(企鹅)that was as big as an adult man.

The creature was almost the same size and weight as professional Canadian hockey player Sidney Crosby, who plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Scientists estimate it was a little shorter than Crosby, at 178 centimeters (Crosby is 180 centimeters), and nine kilograms heavier.

The new discovery is larger than any other ancient penguin that scientists have found, says Gerald Mayr. He is with the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. A possibly larger penguin is only known to

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scientists from a small piece of leg bone. That makes estimating its size difficult. The largest living penguin species is the emperor penguin in Antarctica. It stands about 120 centimeters tall. Mayr and others described the giant bird in a paper released this week.

The fossils are between 56 million to 60 million years old. That is almost as old as the earliest-known penguin fossils, says Daniel Ksepka, who has studied New Zealand fossil penguins but was not a part of the new study. Ksepka told the Associated Press that the new discovery shows that penguins grew very large, very quickly. They grew just after a mass extinction 66 million years ago – the extinction that is best known for killing off dinosaurs, he said.

The event played a role in penguin history, as well. Before that, a non-flying seabird like the penguin would have been threatened by larger animals living in or near the water, as they competed for the same food. But after the extinction killed most of the larger animals, the ability to fly became less important. This helped penguins survive and grow. The question that remains, however, is what happened to the giant birds? Mayr said researchers believe they died out when large marine mammals, such as toothed whales and seals, showed up and started competing with the penguins for food and safe breeding places. These newer animals may also have hunted the giant penguins.

32. Sidney Crosby is mentioned in Paragraph 1 to______. A. show how big the ancient penguin was

B. show the relationship between penguins and men

C. tell us he is interested in the newly discovered fossils D. tell us how famous the hockey player is

33. What does the underlined word “That” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. The limitation of researching time B. The shortage of solid evidence C. The lack of researching fund D. The absence of enough efforts

34. From the passage we can learn that______.

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