辽宁省瓦房店市2016_2017学年高二英语下学期期末考试试题201707200173.doc
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1、2016-2017学年度下学期瓦房店市期末考试高二英语试题第二部分 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,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 ALast July, we asked what you dream of doing as an adult. Thanks for your great responses! We wish we had room to print them all. Here are just a few. Work and play My ideal job is
2、being a construction worker, but only on an amusement park. James Martian, Age 9 AlaskaRoyal Fashion Designer In the future, I want to sew dresses for a queen. I could make whatever design I wanted. Her breakfast dress would be blue and long. Her lunch dress is purple and medium. Her dinner dress is
3、 red and short. They would all have sparkles. I think they would be pretty. I like my dream job. Jenna Suchyta, Age 6 WashingtonA “Police Law Fireman”When I grow up, I want to be a policeman or a fireman or a lawyer because they help people. Maybe I will combine all three and become a “Police Law Fi
4、reman”. I can work as a policeman in the morning. I can do law things in the afternoon. I can do fireman things in the evening. But for now, I want to be a boxer to build up my muscles. I will need my strength! Avi Samuels, Age 7 IllinoisPlaying in the Band My dream job is to become a professional g
5、uitarist and singer for my future five-member rock band. I practice the guitar, and I have written hundreds of songs! The reason why I want to be a guitarist and singer is that I am very interested in music itself, so I want to create some of my own. Jake Francis, Age 12 Ohio21. What do you think is
6、 the best title for the passage? A. Your dream job. B. Your dream. C. Your future job. D. Your great chance.22. Who has done something for his or her future? A. James Martian B. Avi Samuels C. Jake FrancisD. Jenna Suchyta23. Where can you find this passage? A. In a fashion magazine. B. In a children
7、s magazine. C. In an entertainment newspaper. D. On a website.BIn a speech this week to the Institute of Civil Engineering, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, made clear his support for wind energy. He focused on some of the many advantages of developing the industry. Lets examine those reasons. It
8、is an abundant, clean and sustainable source of energy, reducing our dependence on expensive fossil fuel imports, increasingly from politically unstable parts of the globe. Lets not forget that Russia turned off the gas supply to Europe in 2006. More recently, we have all felt the pain this winter,
9、when international gas prices soared by 40% compared to last year. Should we carry on exposing ourselves to the instability(不稳定) of global energy prices and the unpredictability of global events, or should we recognize the value of taking control of our energy supply? As for the economic opportuniti
10、es, over the last decade wind energy has attracted $5 billion in investment(投资)to the UK and is set to go above $50 billion by 2020. Look at the companies queuing up to build wind turbine (涡轮) factories in the UK, such as Siemens and Vestas. Examine the number of people employed in the wind industry
11、 in the UKnearly 12000, now with nearly 90000 jobs by 2021. The UK is already the global leader in wind power, with greater ability than anywhere else in the worldenough to supply more than a million homes with electricity all year roundand the government is calling for an increase by eight times in
12、 the amount of wind turbines installed by 2020, which the industry can achieve as long as it gets the right level of support from ministers. In return, as well as bring the environmental benefits of clean energy, the wind industry is committed to save consumers a lot of money. 24. The writer uses th
13、e example of Russia to prove that_.A. international gas price is not always stableB. there exists the unpredictability of global eventsC. there are conflicts between Europe and RussiaD. every nation is badly in need of gas25. What does the underlined word “soared” mean?A. Set.B. Dropped.C. Cancelled
14、.D. Rose.36. What can we know from Paragraph 4? A. Many job opportunities are created by wind industry. B. The UK would not accept many companies investment. C. Over the last ten years the UK has attracted little investment. D. Other industries are less important than wind industry.27. What is the m
15、ost important thing for the government to achieve its goal by 2020?A. Attracting more investment.B. Getting enough support from ministers.C. Improving the technology a lot.D. Listing the advantages of wind power to the public. CWomen are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Gov
16、ernment minister said yesterday creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers.Universities minister David Willetts predicted relationships and traditional household structures will be transformed as the females power ahead, and women earn more than their male partners.Successful women will have
17、to “marry down” by choosing partners less qualified than them and may increasingly select men based on how supportive they might be to their careers, rather than whether they can support them financially.And experts say women will often become the main breadwinners, with more men staying at home to
18、look after children.Mr. Willetts said there was clear evidence from schools that boys are “lagging behind”, and are being overtaken by female students at universityHe said: “I am not against women having those advantages but there is now a rather striking gap, if you look at the statistics, where it
19、 looks as if approximately 50 percent of women are graduating from university by the time theyre 30 and perhaps about 40 percent of men.” He added: “It may lead to changes in the patterns of household livingSo there are some deep questions here.”The Philadelphia-based Pew Research Centre study, publ
20、ished in The Atlantic magazine, suggests female graduates are being put in similar situation to that faced for some time by black womenIn America, 70 percent of black women have no husband and there are twice as many black women as black men with university degrees.Many educated British women believ
21、e there is already a dearth of traditional husbandsClaire Davis, 33, who works in financial services and lives in south London, told The Times: “I have a good job and my own flat and I can pretty much do what I want, but a lot of them I meet arent really of the right quality. If I look at the friend
22、s I went to university with, the men dont tend to be doing as well as the women.”28David Willetts attitude toward womens overtaking men in education and in the workplace could be described as .Aworried Bpositive Csupportive Dexcited29Claire Davis example is used to indicate that .Aa lot of women pre
23、fer to be single Bblack women do not want to be marriedCwomen are less excellent than men in generalDexcellent women have difficulty in looking for a good husband30The underlined word “dearth” in the last paragraph most probably means .Ashortage Brespect Coversupply Dpride31The best title of this pa
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