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甘肃省天水市秦安县第二中学2015-2016学年度第一学期期末考试
高二英语试题
（满分：120分 时间：100分钟）
注意事项：
1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。
2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填涂在答题卡相应的位置。
3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
4. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。
第I卷（选择题）
第一部分 阅读部分(共2节，满分40分)
第一节 阅读理解(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A、B、C和D选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
A mum saved her daughter’s life with her newly learnt first aid skills. Sonya had only just attended one first aid class the day before when she found herself needingto use the skills on her three-year-old daughter Tilly.
Sonya, who also has a son Emmen,attended the first aid course at Lune Park Children’s Centre. Then she was faced with every parent’s worst nightmare when Tilly went blue in the face and stopped breathing. But thanks to her newly acquired skills, Sonya saved Tilly’s life.
Sonya said: “Tilly was playing with her brother and they were fighting over a toy. Emmen won the fight. Tilly fell backwards and her head was hit. She was face down and shaking and at first I thought she was upset. But then I saw she was blue in the face and had stopped breathing. I reacted without thinking and immediately started using the first aid skills I had learntthe day before.I began doing mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions (胸外按压). It probably took about a minute before Tilly started breathing again, but to me it felt like a lifetime.”
After getting Tilly breathing again, Sonya called an ambulance and the doctorscame. Since then, Tilly has been diagnosed (诊断) with Reflex Anoxic Seizure (反射缺氧发作). Sonya said: “The seizure can happen when there’s any unexpected pain, fear or fright. It is just so lucky that the day before it happened, I had been practicingfirst aid.I am just so glad I did the course and learnt the first aid skills. I always feared I would not know what to do in a crisis situation, but luckily I had the knowledge and skills to deal with it.”
1. What happened to Tilly?
A. She was knocked down by her brother.
B. She fell on the floor and hit her head.
C. She was hit by a toy on the head and felt upset.
D. She was hit by her brother and stopped breathing.
2.When Sonya found Tilly’s shaking, she thought her daughter must ______.
A. be crying B. be very angry
C. pretend to be hurt D. recognize her failure
3. When Sonya goes to the first aid class next time, she will feel ______.
A. enjoyable B. excited C. grateful D. confident
B
Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis, Cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England's rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's cold-water exploits（成就）. Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.
Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy." John Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say, 'You are completely crazy,' " Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter（遭遇）with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
4. The turning point in Saunders’life came when _____
A. he started to play ball games
B. he ran his first marathon at age 18
C. he got a mountain bike at age 15
D. he started to receive Ridgway’s training
5. We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.
A. won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic
B. built up his body together with Saunders
C. hired Saunders for his cold-water experience
D. dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy
6. What do we know about Saunders?
A. He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.
B. He once worked at a school in Scotland.
C. He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.
D. He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.
7.The underlined word “Intrigued” in the third paragraph probably means_____.
A. Excited B. Fascinated C. Delighted D. Convinced
8. It can be inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ______.
A. was accompanied by his old playmates
B. made him well-known in the 1960s
C. was supported by other Arctic explorers
D. set a record in the North Pole expedition
C
From musician and philanthropist (慈善家) Peter Buffett comes a warm, wise, and inspirational book that asks which will you choose: the path with least difficulty or the path of potentially greatest satisfaction?
You may think that with a last name like his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless advantage. But the son of billionaire Warren Buffett says that the only real thing handed down from his father was: Build your own path in life. It is a principle that has allowed him to follow his own interests, establish his own identity, and gain his own successes.
In Life Is What You Make It, Buffett describes the strong set of values given to him by his trusting and broadminded mother, his hardworking and talented father, and the many life teachers he has met along the way.
Today’s society, Buffett believes, has changed a lot. People begin to enjoy what they do, with a wealth ethic (财富伦理), honor the payoff instead of the process. Yet, by focusing less on reward, we can open doors of opportunity and work hard toward a greater sense of satisfaction.
In clear and brief terms, Buffett explains a great truth: Life cannot be predicted and doesn’t have a second chance, neither fair nor unfair. We see that our journey in life seldom follows a straight line but is often met with false starts, difficulties, and mistakes. How we push through and don’t give up at these challenging moments is where we begin to create the life of our dreams — from discovering our careers to giving back to others.
Personal and instructive, Life Is What You Make It is about challenging your condition, taking control of your own life and living it to the fullest.
9. What does Peter Buffett value most about his mother?
A. Intelligence. B. Independence. C. Hard work. D. Broadmindedness.
10. Which proverb can best express the main idea of the fifth paragraph?
A. Nobody is perfect. B. Life is full of ups and downs.
C. Where there is a will, there is a way. D. Failure is the mother of success. 4

11. Which of the following is NOT true about Peter Buffett?
A. He works on music. B. His father is very rich.
C. He wrote Life Is What You Make It. D. He thinks society has changed for the better.
D
Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.
Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers – most of them aren’t nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2012 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2015 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.
The problem is that most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative(权威的), so it’d hard to know if what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.
12. According to the text, an increasing number of American _____.
A. are suffering from mental disorders
B. like to play deadly games with doctors
C. turn to Internet pharmacies for help
D. are skeptical about surfing medical websites
13. Some Americans stay away from doctors because they _____.
A. are afraid to face the truth of their health
B. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctors
C. find medical devices easy to operate
D. are afraid to misuse their health insurance
14. According to the study of Brown Medical School, ______.
A. more than 6 million Americans distrust doctors
B. about 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high quality
C. only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profit
D. 72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts
15. Which of the following is the author’s main argument?
A. It’s cheap to self-treat your own illness.
B. It’s dangerous to be your own doctor.
C. It’s reasonable to put up a medical website.
D. It’s embarrassing to discuss your bad habits.
第二节 阅读填空（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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
(16)____You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessarily so, however. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here’s how:
Plan your time carefully. When planning your work, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. First your time for eating , sleeping, dressing, etc. Then decide a good, regular time for studying. (17)____ A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you realize what is happening to your time.
Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television. When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject.
Make good use of your time in class. (18)____Listening carefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.
Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes, review the important points that your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material. (19)_____If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you’ll remember it longer.
Develop a good attitude towards tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. They help you remember your new knowledge. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t be over worried.
(20)_____ You will probably discover many others after you have tried these.
A. There are other methods that might help you with your studying.
B. Don’t forget to set aside enough time for entertainment.
C. Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teacher says.
D. No one can become a top student unless he or she works hard.
E. Maybe you are an average student.
F. Make full use of class time to take notes of what the teacher says in class.
G. This will help you understand the next class.

第二部分 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
If you want to learn a new language, the very first thing to think about is why. Do you need it for a __21__ reason, such as your job or your studies? __22__ perhaps you are interested in the __23___, films or the music of a different country and you know how much it will help to have a __24___ of the language.
Most people learn best using a variety of __25__, but traditional classes are an ideal（理想的）start for many people. They __26_ an environment where you can practice under the __27_ of someone who’s good at the language. We all lead __28__ lives and learning a language takes __29__. You will have more success if you study regularly, so try to develop a __30__. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t got long. Becoming fluent in a language will take years, but learning to get by takes __31__.
Many people start learning a language and soon give up. “I’m too __32__,” they say. Yes, children do learn languages more __33__ than adults, but research has shown that you can learn a language at any __34__. And learning is good for the health of your brain, too. I’ve also heard people __35__ about the mistakes they make when __36__. Well, relax and laugh about your mistakes __37__ you’re much less likely to make them again.
Learning a new language is never __38__. But with some work and devotion, you’ll make progress. And you’ll be __39__ by the positive reaction of some people when you say just a few words in __40__ own language. Good luck!
21. A. technical B. political C. practical D. physical
22. A. After B. So C. Though D. Or
23. A literature