1、哈师大青冈实验中学2017-2018学年度4月份考试高二学年英语试题 （满分120分，答题时间100分钟） 第卷 (选择题共70分)第一部分：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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项 A In most parts of Britain, the black cat is a symbol of good luck and owning a black cat may bring good luck to the family. But recently, black cats can no lo
2、nger enjoy so much favor.The British Royal for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (英国防止虐待动物协会) announced a rise in the number of black cats being abandoned by their owners, due to not looking good in selfies (自拍). According to the RSPCA, more than 70 percent of the cats in its care are black. The
3、biggest reason for that is black cats tend not to photograph as their lighter and brighter-colored fellows with more obvious markings. An RSPCA spokesman said, “This has become a national problem. And we are urging people to never judge a cat by its color but look at its personality instead.”The Mil
4、lwood Cat Rescue Centre has taken in nice black cats in the past two weeks. The founder of the rescue centre said, “We have had a lot of black cats because people dont like black at the moment. Other look at the black cats and then just say Oh, have you got anything else?”Animal lover Gabriella Flet
5、cher owns a 16-year-old black cat, Susie. She regularly takes selfies with her pet. She said, “It is hard to get a good picture as you cant really see how beautiful Susie is. She is just as special as any other cat.”1. Why are black cats less favored by people?A. They are rising in number. B. They d
6、ont bring good luck anymore C. They are banned by RSPCA. D. They dont look good in photos.2. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 imply? A. People want more black cats. B. People want to have something to eat.C. People want more pet animals. D. People are unwilling to see so many black c
7、ats.3. In Gabriella Fletchers eyes, black cats are _.A. disgusting B. unlucky C. ordinary D. attractive4. Which of the following can be the best title of this text?A. Black cats out in “selfies”.B. Black cats abandoned in the UK.C. Black cats in need of caring. D. Black cats favored again. B For the
8、 business traveler who is all about efficiency: Check out these hotels that will get you in and out with a minimum of trouble. When you are pressed for time on a business trip, nothing can infuriate you more than a slow hotel check-in process. On your next trip, try these hotels that offer a speedie
9、r check-in process.1. Yotel New YorkThe self-service kiosks at this high-tech New York hotel work just like the ones youd see at an airport. There are just five-steps to register and obtain your card key. There is even a robotic luggage bellboy. You tap in the number of bags you are carrying and siz
10、es, then wait for a robot arm to swing down and store your luggage in a locker (say, for a day trip). This also speeds up the check-in process if the first thing you need to do, like me, is head to a series of meetings.2. Marriott Detroit AirportAnother option for business travelers in a hurry: Marr
11、iott is rolling out its mobile check-in app to 325 hotels this year, including the Marriott Detroit Airport hotel. (Ive tested the app itself but not for a real visit quite yet.) Here is the basic idea: you download the iphone or Android app. The night before, you can “check-in” virtually. When you
12、arrive, you get an alert that the room is ready and your key, which is already tied to your reservation, is waiting for you at the desk.3. Hyatt Regency MinneapolisI happened to stay at this hotel recently and liked how fast the kiosk check-in works. Like the Yotel, the kiosk asks you to insert your
13、 credit card, similar to an airport terminal. The whole process took about three minutes, when I left, I was equally impressed with the fast check-out. An agent meets you in the lobby with an ipad and asks for an email to use for a receipt. The big advantage: you never have to wait in line.4. Radiss
14、on: LaCrosseThe Radisson is trying to make the kiosk process even faster, at a few select hotels like the Radisson Lacrosse in Wisconsin, you use a mobile app to register and then receive a barcode(条形码) by email or text. When you get to the kiosk, you scan the barcode to get your key without any oth
15、er steps required. Its super fast. You can find this new check-in system at the Radisson hotels in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Phoenix as well.5. Which two hotels offer a mobile app for customers to check in? A. Yotel New York and Marriott Detroit Airport. B. Marriott Detroit Airport and Radisson:
16、LaCrosse. C. Marriott Detroit Airport. and Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. D. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis and Radisson: LaCrosse.6. Which hotel will send you a receipt by email?A. Yotel New York. B. Marriott Detroit Airport. C. Radisson: LaCrosse. D. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.7. Which of the following is T
17、RUE according to the passage? A. At Yotel New York, a robot will help you with all the check-in process. B. With its check-in app, you may enter your room in Marriott without a key. C. The barcode you receive from Radisson contributes to the fast check-in. D.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis is close to an
18、airport terminal. C You may think, salt is just a simple cooking element we shake on our food for a little extra taste. But salt is much more than that. Without saltour muscles would not move. Our nervous systems would not operate. Our hearts would not beat.But do not think rubbing salt into a wound
19、 will help. Doing that would be painful and not heal the wound.“To rub salt into a wound” is an idiom thatmeans to purposefully make a bad situation worse.Early humans got the salt they needed to stay alive from the animals they killed. But advances in agriculture led to a diet low in salt. So, huma
20、ns neededto find other sources. Those who lived near the ocean or other natural sources for salt were lucky. Those who did not had to trade for salt. In fact, people used salt as a method of payment in many parts of the ancient world. The word “salary” comes from the word “salt”.Salt also played an
21、important part in population movement and world exploration. Explorers understood that if they could keep food fresh, they could travel longer distances. So they used salt to preserve food and explore the world.Salt was so important that, according to food historians, it was traded pound-for-pound f
22、orgold.Today,people still use the expressions “worth ones salt” or “worth ones weight in salt”. The expressions describe a person of value.A person might also be called “salt of the earth”. That description means he or she is dependable and trustworthy. However, when you say “I think we should take
23、what he said with a grain of salt”you mean you accept it but maintain a degree of doubt about its truth.8. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Salt plays an important part in our life. B. Salt makes food tasty.C. Salt is considered to be part of our muscles. D. Salt is sure to damage nervo
24、us systems.9. A beggars bread was stolen last night, which means_.A. salt of theearth B. rubbing salt in a woundC. a diet low in salt D. worth his salt10. If you describe a person as agreat help, you mean_.A. he rubs salt in a wound B. he is often taken as a grain of saltC. he often uses saltto pres
25、ervemeat D. he is worth his weight in salt11. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Salt Is More Than a Four-letter Word. B. Salt Is a Basic Element in Cooking.C. Salt Is a Word with a Long History. D. Salt Is Popular with Different People. DA new study has discovered that medi
26、tation（冥想）and oxygen sport together reduce depression. The Rutgers University study found that this mind and body combination, done twice a week for only two months, reduced the symptoms for a group of students by 40 percent.“We are excited by the findings because we saw such a meaningful improvemen
27、t in both clinically depressed and non-depressed students,” said lead author Dr. Brandon Alderman. “It is the first time that both of these two behavioral ways have been looked at together for dealing with depression.”Researchers believe the two activities have an interactive effect oncombating depr
28、ession. Alderman and Dr. Tracey Shors discovered that a combination of mental and physical training (MAP) enabled students with major depressive disorder not to let problems or negative thoughts defeat them.Rutgers researchers say those who participated in the study began with 30 minutes of focused
29、attention meditation followed by 30 minutes of oxygen sport. They were told that if their thoughts drifted to the past or the future they should refocus on their breathing, enabling those with depression to accept moment-to-moment changes in attention.Shors, who studies the production of new brain c
30、ells in the hippocampuspart of the brain involved in memory and learningsays scientists have shown in animal models that oxygen sport exercise keeps a large number of certain cells alive.The idea for the human intervention（干预）came from her laboratory studies, she says, with the main goal of helping
31、individuals acquire new skills so that they can learn to recover from stressful life events.By learning to focus their attention and exercise, people who are fighting depression can acquire new learning skills that can help them process information and reduce the overwhelming recollection of memorie
32、s from the past, Shors says.“We know these treatments can be practiced over a lifetime and that they will be effective in improving mental health.” said Alderman. “The good news is that this intervention can be practiced by anyone at any time and at no cost.”12. What made the research so different?A
33、. Adopting a way of meaningful talk.B. Combining the two behavioral ways to treat depression.C. Treating depression with special medicine.D. Comparing the depressed with the non-depressed.13. The underlined word “combating” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by _.A. fighting B. identifyingC. distinguish
34、ing D. examining14. What did the participants do in the research?A. They did oxygen sport half an hour before thinking.B. They thought quietly and then took exercise.C. They took exercise longer than they thought.D. They took exercise while thinking quietly.15. What is Shors main purpose of her stud
35、ies?A. To find out certain brain cells of humans.B. To study the production of new brain cells.C. To offer people a new method to treat stress.D. To decide the links between stress and exercise.第二节 （共5小题; 每小题2分，满分10分） 阅读短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Stop Negative Talk“Im so fat,” one of yo
36、ur friends says. The girl next to her joins in, “Well, I hate my hair today.” Without thinking, you respond: “No, you are not fat! I am fat. And my hair is flat and boring.” 16 It is easy for people to engage in self-critical conversations, and once it starts there is often pressure for you to join
37、in. 17 Maybe it is because “just talking” feels harmless. But before you know it, those opinions flow out of your conversations and into your life, where they start eating away at your self-respect. 18 When you start talking about yourself in a negative way, you are not only affecting your self-resp
38、ect, but your friends! When you criticize yourself, your friends might think you have the same standards for them. You have heard that it is important to treat others the way you want to be treated, but there is also value in treating yourself like you treat your friends. If you wouldnt criticize yo
39、ur friend for the same thing, chances are that you are being too hard on yourself. So, dont start it.But what if someone else starts? For example, your friend feels insecure about how well he played in his soccer game, so he puts himself down: “I suck at soccer.” 19 Ask him, “Do you really think tha
40、t? Why?” Maybe he is actually upset about a comment someone made, or is just getting down on himself over one bad play. Whatever it is, talking through the real issue will help him more than slipping into another negative talk.It is important to talk to your friend about your insecurities, but make
41、sure you are not talking about them just to put yourself down. 20 Instead of just focusing on the negative, talk about what makes you and your friends beautiful and uniqueincluding what you love about your body and what you have accomplished. When you show yourself love, you set yourself as an examp
42、le, and everyone benefits from you positively.A. Negative talk affects self-respect.B. Criticizing yourself helps nobody.C. But why do we hesitate to praise ourselves?D. But why is it acceptable to talk so negatively?E. All it takes is just one comment and the negative talk starts.F. It is better to
43、 resist negative conversations and create more balanced ones.G. Before everyone puts himself down, see if you can get to the root of the problem.第二部分.英语知识运用第一节：完形填空 (共20小题，每小题.1.5分, 满分30分) 阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I was looking at a picture recently and noticed ther
44、e was something different. The frame was _21_ . The overall picture still looked good but I couldnt _22_ whether or not changing the frame would make it better.From this an interesting _23_ came to mind. At times when I was _24_. I would spend money on clothes. Maybe I spent it on other things as we
45、ll.Because I have a love for _25_ , I thought I would feel good. However, the feeling was always _26_. Why? Because doing this didnt _27_ the real issue. What I needed to do was to pay attention to what was bothering me on the inside _28_trying to cover up my problems by making changes on the outsid
46、e. I was changing the frame but the picture on the _29_ was still the same.We may change the _30_ of our hair or even buy new clothes. There is nothing wrong with doing this _31_ , but if it is being done for the wrong reasons, it may not _32_to how we really feel . If you _33_there is something wro
47、ng , try to change that; this way you will truly feel better on the inside. _34_ time with family, having a conversation with a friend, or even letting your pen write your innermost feelings can _35_. Eventually, you will get true peace and joy inside. This way, you will not only be better able to _36_your life but also display colorful images of love for others.So _37_necessary, dont just change the frame. Change the picture. Getting a new pic
