高二上学期期中考试英语试卷及答案（二）

第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

A

A Nepalese teenager set to be declared the planet's smallest person got the big star treatment on Tuesday on a tour of New York. People at Times Square crowded for a glimpse of Khagendra Thapa Magar who at17 is the size of a baby and has stopped growing.

The Nepalese teen was making his first visit to New York as part of a publicity trip organized by the museum Ripley's Believe It or Not! Wearing a white shirt and doll-sized grey jacket, Magar smiled shyly, blinking at rows of cameras and the vast neon (霓虹灯) billboards lining Time Square.

Ripley's declares Magar — at 56 centimetres tall and five kilograms — the world's smallest person. The Guinness Book of Records on Monday named Colombia's Nino Hernandez to the title but only because Guinness doesn't consider Magar an adult — at least not until he turns 18 next month and takes the title of mini-king.

Ripley's, a chain of museums specializing in bizarre acts of nature such as a five-legged cow and two-headed sheep, said Magar suffers primordial dwarfism (原始侏儒症), which typically reduces life expectancy to as little as the 20s.

But his translator, Min Bahadur Rana, said Magar was in many ways a normal teenager. \—a big one, not a small one,\\ he wants to study.\

Magar smiled at the crowds and showed off a dance move for a bank of news cameras, but he sometimes looked overwhelmed (受宠若惊的) on his tour of the Big Apple.

\celebrity. \（ ）51. What could be the best title for the text?

A. Next World Smallest Man Tours New York B. The Wish of a Primordial Dwarfism C. The Smallest Man Hopes to Be a Doctor D. The Smallest Man in Guinness Book

（ ）52. Why did The Guinness Book of Records refuse to give Magar the title of mini-king?

A. He is the size of a baby. B. He hasn't been checked. C. He is not a grown-up. D. He weighs too light. （ ）53. The underlined word \ . A. funny B. fast C. strange （ ）54. From the text we can infer that Magar .

D. beautiful

A. expects to be a big teenager B. is studying medicine in a college

C. has a life expectancy of 20 years D. is greatly welcomed by people

B

It's a goal for millions and millions of families every year —keep the Christmas spending

within a certain amount, but can still afford the gifts that your loved ones will enjoy. Never has this concern been greater in recent years than right now. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.

Hit the sales.

No one wants to get up at four o'clock in the morning and fight to get the best deal on Black Friday, and it's surely very tough to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a good deal, but sometimes -- it can be well worth. Many retailers (零售商) offer specials all through the day—and some even offer online Black Friday specials, so you may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.

Pay close attention to advertisements.

Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers hungry for business will do just about whatever to get you in the store. Pay very close attention to weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers and you may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops Shop online.

Some of us don't like running from store to store in order to get the best price on the perfect gift, and some of us don't like to go out in the cold at all — thankfully for us, we can do online shopping.

The world of online shopping lets people visit all the major retailers as well as some specialty stores that could only be found on the Internet. Customers can find exactly what they are looking for, at the best possible price without ever having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping consumers are sometimes limited to what's left in stock if they wait too long to get to a particular store.

（ ）55. The first paragraph implies that .

A. nowadays not many people can afford expensive gifts B. recently many people don't want to spend money on gifts C. Christmas is a time to make our loved ones enjoy their gifts D. Christmas is a time to make us feel free to buy our loved ones gifts （ ）56. The underlined word \ . A. some experts in shopping B. certain things with especially low price C. some kind of help for a certain customer D. things that can only be found on Friday （ ）57. We can have more choices .

A. in a particular store B. on Black Friday C. on the Internet D. from retailers （ ）58. In this text the author means to .

A. tell us the best way to do shopping B. attract more readers to do wise shopping

C. show us how hard it is to do Christmas shopping

D. give us advice on how to get a good deal at Christmas time

C

New rules will let millions of Americans know where more of their food comes from. The law is known as COOL—Country of Origin Labeling.

American Congress first passed the law in 2002. Stores have had to label seafood by country of origin since 2005. But industry pressure delayed other requirements until last week.

Products that must now be labeled include fresh fruits and vegetables, muscle meats and

some kinds of nuts. But the rules are complex, and many foods are excluded. For example, organ meats are free to be labeled. So are processed foods, including cooked or smoked food.

The United States has imported more and more food in recent years to save money and expand choices. Country-of-origin labeling has become more common lately but has still been limited in many stores.

Food safety is one reason why some shoppers pay close attention to where foods came from. For example, when a large number of people recently got sick from salmonella (沙门菌病), officials blamed peppers from Mexico. Yet the last big food scare involved spinach (菠菜) grown in California. But labeling is also a way for people to know they are getting what they want. Some want to buy local foods or foods from a particular country.

The country-of-origin labeling law gives stores 30 days to correct any violations (违反) that are found. Stores and suppliers that are found to be deliberately violating the law could be fined 1,000 dollars per violation. Federal inspectors are not to take action to enforce the law for six months to give time for an education campaign.

Some food safety activists say they are generally pleased with the law. They call it a good step that will give people more useful information. （ ）59. Which is the regulation in the new rules?

A. Stores have to label seafood by country of origin. B. Labeling of food should include more useful information. C. Stores have to label food by its production date from now on. D. The country-of-origin label has to be marked on more food.

（ ）60. Why has more and more food been imported to the United States in recent years? A. It is economical and provides people with more choices. B. Foreign food is of higher quality than native food C. Americans need more and more food recently. D. The United States is short of food supply.

（ ）61. Consumers are more concerned about where foods come from because . A. they are curious about the origin of the food B. most of them are particular about the tastes C. they are concerned about food safety D. most of them are food safety activists

（ ）62. Which of the following can be inferred from the text?

A. Store owners are most likely to be the supporters of the law.

B. The government of America will possibly forbid importing peppers from

Mexico.

C. Federal inspectors couldn't take measures to enforce the law. D. Most Americans prefer imported vegetables to the vegetables grown an local

places.

D

Unusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit (因纽特人) families going off on snowmobiles to prepare their summer hunting camps have found themselves cut off from home by a sea of mud. There are also reports of sea ice breaking up earlier than usual, carrying seal beyond the reach of hunters. Climate change may still be a rather abstract idea to most of us, but in the Arctic it is already having great effects -- if summertime ice continues to shrink at its present rate, the Arctic Ocean could soon become almost ice-free in summer. The knock-on

effects are likely to include more warming, cloudier skies, and higher sea levels. Scientists are increasingly eager to find out what's going on in the Arctic.

For the Inuit the problem is urgent. They live in unsteady balance with one of the toughest environments on earth. Climate change, whatever its causes, is a direct danger to their way of life. Nobody knows the Arctic as well as the locals, which is why they are not content simply to stand back and let outsider experts tell them what's happening. In Canada, where the Inuit people are trying hard to guard their hard-won autonomy in the country's newest land, Nunavut, they believe their best hope of survival in this changing environment lies in combining their ancestral (祖先的) knowledge with the best of modern science. This is a challenge in itself.

The Canadian Arctic is a vast, treeless polar desert that's covered with snow for most of the year. Adventure into this area and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone who calls this home. Farming is out of the question and nature offers few pickings. Humans first settled in the Arctic a mere 4,500 years ago, surviving by taking advantage of sea first. The environment tested them to the limits: sometimes the settlers were successful; sometimes they failed and disappeared. But around a thousand years ago, one group appeared that was uniquely well adapted to deal with the Arctic environment. These Thule people moved in from Alaska, bringing dogs, iron tools and the like. They are the ancestors of today's Inuit people.

（ ）63. Which of the following is likely to be the effect of climate change? A. Shorter and shorter summertime. B. Ice-free summer around the Arctic. C. Lower sea levels, D. More rainy skies.

（ ）64. The Inuit people believe the solution to the climate change problem is . A. to change their way of life B. to do as their ancestors C. to try to protect the environment from now on D. to use their ancestral knowledge and modern science （ ）65. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that A. the first settlers in the Arctic survived there quite easily B. it's hard to farm in the Arctic due to climate change C. the ancestors of Inuit people stood out among the settlers D. the Thule people from Alaska invented iron tools （ ）66. Which of the following is the best title for this text? A. Climate Change and the Inuit B. Climate Change around the Arctic C. Global Warming around the World D. The Inuit and Their Ancestors around the World

E

Robby was 11 when his mother dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I prefer student to begin at an earlier age. Robby said that it had always been his mother's dream to hear him play the piano, so I took him on as a student.

Robby tried and tried while I listened and encouraged him and gave him more instructions. But he just did not have any inborn (天生的) ability.

I only saw his mother from a distance. She always waved and smiled but never came in. Then one day Robby stopped coming to our lessons. I thought about calling him but I guessed he had decided to try something else.