2019年高二下学期英语期末模拟试卷（无听力）
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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A、B、C 和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑.
A
Choose Your one-day Tours!
Tour A---- Bath & Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge ----￡ 37 until 26, March and ￡ 39 thereafter.
Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum. Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.
Tour B ---- Oxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the university St Mary’s Church Towel and Anne Hathaway’s house-- ￡32 until 12, March and ￡ 36 thereafter.
Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England’s oldest university city and colleges. Look over the “city of dreaming spires(尖顶)” from St Mary’s Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.
Tour C--- Windsor Castle & Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampton court Palace --- ￡ 34 until 11, March and ￡37 thereafter.
Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle ( entrance fees not included). With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal(皇室的) palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze（迷宫) where it is easy to get lost!
Tour D ---- Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great --- ￡33 until 18, March and ￡37 thereafter.
Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the garden of the 18th
century.
21. Which tour will you choose if you want to see England’s oldest university? A. Tour A. C. Tour C
B. Tour B D. Tour D
22. Which of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March? A. Windsor Castle & Hampton Court. B. Oxford & Stratford C. Bath & Stonehenge D. Cambridge.
23. Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction? A. It used to be the home of royal families. B. It used to be a well-known maze.
C. It is the oldest palace in Britain. D. It is a world-famous castle.
B
On February 3,1931, the peace of New Zealand's Hawkes Bay region was destroyed when the area was hit by the worst earthquake in New Zealand's history. At 10:46 am on that summer's day, the quake hit with a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale(里氏震级).The centre of the quake lied some 15 to 20 kilometers north of the two main centers, Napier and Hastings. The quake lasted for two and a half minutes. Many people died in the earthquake.
A fire broke out immediately after the quake. The fire started in a chemist's shop and spread quickly. Then the Fire Department in Napier came to help, but they were at a loss to control the fire as a result of losing their water supply. However, the water supply in Hastings, was still usable, allowing them to fight back against the fire.
The force of the earthquake destroyed many of the city's famous landmarks(地标).Chunks of the coastline were thrown into the sea. Napier's Bluff Hill, a popular tourist spot, was pletely destroyed and thrown into the waters below.
Most of the major buildings in the city were pletely destroyed. Roads and munications across the whole area were cut. People were afraid to enter their homes for days and found shelters at the local Motor Camp or on the beach. There were about 150 aftershocks（余震）in the 24 hours after the main shock. Over the next 2 weeks, there would be 525 such aftershocks. 24. The worst earthquake took place in New Zealand_______. A. at night B. in the morning
C. at noon D. in the afternoon
25. The firefighters in Napier failed to put out the fire probably because_______. A. there was no usable water B. they couldn't get close to it C. the flames spread too quickly D. The wind was very strong
26. The last two paragraphs mainly tell us that_______. A. there were many places of interest in New Zealand B. the earthquake damaged the city seriously C. many famous landmarks were thrown into the sea D. people were afraid to enter their homes for sleep 27. What’s the best title for this passage? A. The 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquake B. New Zealand's two cities
C. The great fire after the great earthquake D. The city's famous landmarks
C
Right in front of the Minneapolis Central Library, a row of green bikes sits parked in a special stand. Each bike is designed with the logo “Nice Ride”—the name of the city’s bike-share program.
Nice Ride bikes are a lot like the library books that people e here to borrow. To rent a bike, you simply use your membership card at a Nice Ride bike station. Members can rent one of 1,200 bikes from 138 stations throughout Minnesota’s largest city. People use the Nice Ride bikes to go to work, to go out on business, or just to enjoy the city’s many bike paths.
The rise of bike-share programs like Nice Ride is encouraging more people than ever to choose biking over driving. Increasingly climbing gas prices and concerns about the environment have also gotten people to dust off their bike helmets, pump air into flat tires, and hit the road.
Why ride? Not only is biking good exercise but changing from a car to a bike also cuts down the amount of pollution in the air. Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas leading to climate change, is one of the many polluting substances that e out of a car’s tail pipe.
Bike-share systems are found around the world in cities like London, Paris, Barcelona, and Melbourne, Australia. They are also mon in China’s cities, Wuhan, for example, has the largest
program with 70,000 bikes.
To make roads friendlier to non-motorists, the U.S. Department of Transportation has spent more than a billion dollars on cycling and pedestrian projects in recent years. The money went toward building thousands of miles of on-street bike lanes and pedestrian-only passages called greenways.
28. Which of the following can people do with the bikes? A. Enjoy bikeways. C. pete in a race.
B. Make a living.
D. Rent them out to others.
29. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about? A. Ways to use the bikes. C. Benefits of biking.
B. Pollution caused by cars. D. Measures to cut down pollution.
30. What do we know about bike-share programs like Nice Ride? A. China has better public bike systems. B. They will take the place of taxi panies. C. They attract more people to choose biking. D. The government doesn’t have to support them. 31. What is the author’s purpose in writing this text? A. To ask for advice for Nice Ride. B. To pare Nice Ride with libraries. C. To raise money for bike-share programs. D. To introduce the bike system in public places.
D
Why do Americans struggle with watching their weight, while the French, who consume(消耗) rich food, continue to stay thin? Now a research by Cornell University suggests how life style and decisions about eating may affect weight. Researchers concluded that the French tend to stop eating when they feel full. However, Americans tend to stop when their plate is empty or their favorite TV show is over.
According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, a health expert, the French see eating as an important part of their life style. They enjoy food and therefore spend a fairly long time at the table, while Americans see eating as something to be squeezed between the other daily activities. Mercola believes Americans lose the ability to sense when they are actually full. So they keep eating long after the French would have stopped. In addition, he points out that Americans drive to huge supermarkets to buy canned and frozen foods for the week. The French, instead, tend to shop