home and hope that there will be more programs like this in the future.

Thank you for listening.

2019年高二下学期英语期末模拟试卷（无听力）

注意事项：

1. 答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在考生信息条形码粘贴区。 2．选择题必须使用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题必须使用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。

3．请按照题号顺序在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。

4．保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。

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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Wele to our website. Here are some magazines to remend this week. Cover Price: $56.00 Sale Price: $25.00 Alarm celebrates independent thinking in music, art, film and fashion through in-depth writings. Each issue of Alarm features interviews, reviews and life stories of famous people in the artistic world. It also provides the latest news on famous bands, artists, film makers and fashion trends. Cover Price: $47.40 Sale Price: $12.00 Alternative Press celebrates music and youth culture. It features the latest music news and releases, and includes interviews with new bands as well as famous bands. The magazine is written for fans of electronic, industrial, punk, underground, rock, experimental and other musical types. It also offers columns about new technology, book reviews and film reviews. Cover Price: $39.92 Sale Price: $12.00 Sound ＆Vision is for people with a great interest in music and video. It is also for people who want to know how to reproduce video. The magazine tests new technology and explains how to buy and use music equipment. Cover Price: $23.70 Sale Price: $12.00 plex is a lifestyle magazine. It covers everything with hip-hop culture. Articles cover music, fashion, film and sports. It also has a buyer's guide to the hottest gear, clothes and gadgets. plex bines two magazines into one. It is not only a lifestyle magazine but also a product guide. 1. Alarm would most probably attract people who love reading __________. A. reviews of novels

B. simple humorous stories

D. stories written by famous artists

C. serious writings on music

2. What discount can you get if you buy Alternative Press on the website? A. About 38% C. About 70%

B. About 55% D. About 75%

3. Which magazine will suit a hip-hop fan? A. plex.

B. Alarm. B

I dropped out of college after my freshman year. Three years later, I quit a dead-end job and returned college. I saw school as my way out. But I quickly found myself facing the same roadblocks that had caused me to quit before: I was confused with college-level algebra and a heavy workload of reading and writing assignment. Moreover, I was unsure of my career direction. I was ready to drop out again. Then a smartly-dressed woman walked confidently to the front of my English position class. “Look at you! Look at each and every one of you,” she said. “You’re here to change your lives for the better. And you’re going to make it!” I can’t remember the rest of the speech, but it changed the course of my college career and my life.

Mrs. Smith didn’t know me from any of the other 40 faces in her classroom, but I felt she speaking directly to me. Having trouble keeping up with the workload? Break it down into small pieces, and set up a schedule that suits you. If college algebra is too difficult, drop back to introductory college math. As for English position, she gave us writing assignments we could relate to. “Go for the best, kid. You’re worth it,” she’d say.

I graduated from that college and went on to get my bachelor’s degrees. Today, as a college instructor, each fall when I stand in front of a new class, I think of Mrs. Smith and how much teachers can affect their students. She couldn’t have known it when she gave that pep talk, but she made a huge difference in my life.

4. Why did the author want to quit school again?

A. He wanted to return to hid former job. B. He decided on his future career. C. The academic pressure seemed unbearable. D. Many changes took place in his life. 5. How did Mrs. Smith help the author?

A. She made him feel relaxed. B. She helped him with algebra. C. She talked to him directly. D. She brought him courage and faith. 6. What can we infer about the author?

A. He learnt to be a better teacher. B. He didn’t finish his college education. C. He became Mrs. Smith’s favorite student. D. He didn’t understand the writing assignments. 7. What can be the best title for the text?

A. Always believe in yourself. B. Never quit before trying.

C. Experience is worth valuing. D. A lady changed my life in time.

C

In the story of “The Crow and the Pitcher”（乌鸦和水罐）from Aesop’s Fables（伊索寓

D. Sound & Vision.

C. Alternative Press.

言）, a thirsty crow drops stones into a narrow jar to raise the low level of water inside so he can take a drink.

Now scientists have evidence to back up that story. New Caledonian crows actually do understand how to make water displacement work to their advantage, experiments showed. The results suggests that the birds are, at least in some aspects, as smart as first-graders, according to the study.

Researchers, led by Sarah Jelbert at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, presented six crows with tubes filled with water. Inside the tubes, a worm or pieces of meat on a piece of wood was floating, just out of reach of the crow. In front of the tubes, the researchers arranged a bunch of heavy rubber erasers that would sink, and light plastic objects that would float. The crows found out that they could drop the heavy objects into the tubes in order to raise the water level and get their snack.

However, the birds handled awkwardly in experiments in which they could choose to drop objects in either a wide tube or a narrow tube to get snack, the researchers said. Dropping objects into the narrow tube would lift the water level by a greater amount and put the treat within reach after just two drops. In contrast, it took around seven drops to raise the snack to the same level in the wide tube. The crows obviously didn’t realize this, and most of them went for the wide tube first.

Previous studies showed that chimps and human children can solve similar tasks. In a 2018 study, chimps and kids found out that they could put water into a tube to reach a peanut that was floating in a small amount of water at the bottom. 8. What does the text focus on? A. Aesop’s prediction. C. The development of crows.

B. Crows’ intelligence. D. Human-animal munication.

9.How did the crows get the worm in a tube in Sarah’s experiment? A. By dropping in the heavy erasers. C. By standing on the wood.

B. By removing the plastic objects. D. By breaking the tube.

10.What does the underlined part “the treat” in paragraph 4 refer to? A.the tube. B.The object. C. the snack. D.The water 11.What did the experiment with wide and narrow tubes show? A.Crows are sensitive to surroundings. B.Crows have the ability to recognize shapes. C.Crows are cleverer than chimps and children. D.Crows understand water displacement inpletely.

D

“No pains, no gains.” gives the impression that we ought to be suffering while we study. It seems that the only way to know if we’re putting in enough work is how much hardship we bear. We are totally taken up with study, shutting ourselves away for a big exam. Is that necessarily