甘肃省武威第五中学2017_2018学年高二英语下学期第一次检测试题201805041228.doc
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1、甘肃省武威第五中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期第一次检测试题第一部分 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。AToday we talk about a time when half the world is waking from the dark, cold winter months. Spring! We often describe “spring” as a time of rebirth, renewal and awakening. Many trees are blo
2、ssoming and early flowers are pushing through the earth. Things are coming to life!But the word “spring” is not just a season. It is also a verb that means something going on or coming out quickly. When you put “spring” and “life” together, you will get “spring to life”. This expression means someth
3、ing suddenly becomes very active or perhaps seems more alive! You may “spring to life” after hearing that a distant friend will be visiting you. Or maybe your favorite soccer team finally “sprang to life” in the second half, played well and won the match.Now, besides being a season and a verb the no
4、un “spring” refers to a metal coil (线圈) that is wound tightly. When the coil unwinds, it often jumps. So, we often say a person “has a spring in his step” if he is lively and active. He might even appear to jump, or bounce a little when he walks.There is another way we use “spring” as a description.
5、 In the case of a “spring chicken”, “spring” means young. However, “spring chicken” is also an informal, humorous way to refer to someone who isnt young at all. So, we use this expression in the negative form, as in “no spring chicken”. For example, lets say you know an 83-year-old man who decides t
6、o run a marathon, even though he has never exercised before. You could say, “Thats amazing! After all, hes no spring chicken.”But be careful when using this expression. It could be a little disrespectful. Lets say your boss shows you a picture of his wife, and you say, “Wow, shes no spring chicken.”
7、 That response would be disrespectful and a bad career move.1. What does “spring” mean in the expression “spring to life”?A. The season after winter. B. Being young and healthy.C. A tightly wound metal coil. D. To occur or appear quickly.2. What is the passage mainly about?A、The origin of the word “
8、spring”B. The meaning of the season “spring”.C. Some expressions with the word “spring”.D. Some characteristics of the season “spring”.3. How does someone feel when he “has a spring in his step”?A. AngryB. SurprisedC. HappyD. Frightened4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?A. Being young i
9、s a great advantage in career development.B. Women may feel offended when described as “no spring chicken”.C. Using “spring-related” expressions in conversations seems impolite.D. Expressions with the word “spring” are always disrespectful to others.BI am often homesick. I have learned something abo
10、ut myself from it. I moved from Long Island to Florida three years ago. Even though I own a home in Port St. Lucie just minutes from the ocean, an uncontrollable urge wells up to return to Long Island even as others make their way south. I guess I am a snowbird stuck in reverse. Instead of enjoying
11、Floridas milder winters, I willingly bear the severe weather on Long Island, the place I called home for 63 years.Im like a migratory bird (候鸟) that has lost its sense of timing and direction, my wings flapping against season.So what makes me fly against the tide of snowbirds? The answer has a lot t
12、o do with my reluctance to give up the things that define who I am. Once I hear that the temperature on Long Island has dipped into the range of 40 to 30 degrees, I begin to long for the sight and crackling sound of a wood fire. I also long for the bright display of colors-first in the fall trees, a
13、nd then in the lights around homes and at Rockefeller Center. Floridians decorate, too, but cant create the special feel of a New England winter.I suppose the biggest reason why I return is to celebrate the holidays with people I havent seen in months. What could be better than sitting with family a
14、nd friends for a Thanksgiving turkey dinner, or watching neighbors children excitedly open gifts on Christmas? Even the first snowfall seems special. I especially enjoy seeing a bright red bird settling on a snow-covered branch. (My wife and I spend winters at a retirement community in Ridge, and Im
15、 grateful that I dont have to shovel.)While these simple pleasures are not unique to Long Island, they are some of the reasons why I come back. Who says you cant go home?5. Whats the difference between Florida and Long Island?A. Winters in Florida are milder.B. The snowbirds in Florida are rarer.C.
16、Weather in Florida is severer.D. Florida is nearer to the ocean. 6. What does the underlined word “reluctance” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. Coincidence.B. Expectation.C. Unwillingness.D. Motivation.7. Which of the following words can best describe the author?A. Homesick and easy-going.B. Hard-working and
17、serious.C. Imaginative and outspoken,D. Anxious and painful.8. Whats the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To describe his dream to be a free bird.B. To express his feeling of missing his hometown.C. To praise the beauty and warmth of his family life.D. To explain the reasons for moving from hi
18、s hometown.CIn the past many studies placedtoo muchemphasison how animalsare trained to learn. But recently more and more studies have focused on how animals equip themselves to learn. One studystarted witha school field trip to a pine forestwhere many pine cones were discovered, stripped(剥壳) to the
19、 centralcore.So the investigation was directed at finding out what was eating the pine seeds and how they managed to get them out of the cones.The culprit proved to be theblack rat, and thetechniquewas to bite each conefrom base to top,following the growth pattern of the cone.Urban black rats were f
20、ound to lack the skill. However, babies of urban mothers cross-fostered by stripper mothers acquired the skill,whereasbabies of stripper mothers fostered by an urban mother could not. Clearly the skill had to be learned from the mother. In the case of rats, the youngsters take cones away from the mo
21、ther when she is still eating them, allowing them toacquirethe stripping skill.Another study, Bird Behaviour, provides a different view of the adaptiveness of social learning. It concerns the seed caching(hiding) behaviour of ClarksNutcrackerand the Mexican Jay. The former is a specialist, caching a
22、bout 30,000 seeds in scattered locations that it willrecoverover the months of winter; the Mexican Jay will also cache food but is much less dependent on this than the Nutcracker. The two species also differ in their socialstructure:the Nutcracker prefers living alone while, the Jay, in social group
23、s.The experiment is to discover if a bird can remember where it hid a seed but also if it can remember where it saw another bird hide a seed. Thedesignisfunny with a cacher bird hiding food in a room, whilewatchedby acaged observerbird. Two days later, cachers and observers are tested for their disc
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