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黑龙江省实验中学 2020-2021 学年度上学期高二年级期中考试

英语试题

考试时间：120 分钟总分：150 分命题人：孟庆群

I卷（选择题共90 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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Dating back to 2002, this is the fifth time that I have traveled overseas to work with Roma people, whom

you probably know better as “gypsies”. Every time I came home feeling as though I had gotten far more than I

gave.

The Roma live mostly in central and eastern Europe and to some extent in the Americas. Due to some

reasons, throughout their history they are usually the last to be hired and the first to be fired, generally speaking.

They live far away from town normally and in relative poverty.

Getting education is a common subject. That is where we come in. This time, I, along with three other men,

was working in a village in Slovakia. Most Roma people there can’t speak English well, and we went to help out

with that, hoping to make a difference to their life.

Staying with the Roma, I have learned anyone can help others. The first time I went abroad was to work with

a Roma charity. When we arrived in a small village in Hungary, we found that several of the Roma were missing.

They would return the next day, because they had traveled a few hours away to serve in a prison. That is, these

who we thought needed us were off helping some other people who needed them.

We may think we are traveling over to “give” to them. Actually, we also received warm hospitality. Some

small gifts would sometimes come our way, as they expressed their thanks. On the last day of this trip, the local

Roma warmly invited us to stay for a coffee with home-baked sweets. These poor people always find some ways

to welcome trusted visitors.

Here what I want to say is that the Roma people that I have worked or talked with are just as smart and able

as we are. They are wise Roma people in many ways, though having lived quite differently from most of us. There

is nothing fault born with them. They are in every way that matters. We are all the same human beings.

1. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell about?

A. The disadvantaged backgrounds of the Roma.

B. The traditional cultures of the Roma.

C. The healthy lifestyle of the Roma.

D. The long history of the Roma.

2. In the author’s fifth time traveling abroad, he helped the Roma _______.

A. develop the local tourism B. get more work opportunities

C. protect their living environment D. improve their English language skills

3. What can we learn about the Roma from paragraphs 4 and 5?

A. They never trust outsiders easily.

B. They pay great attention to charity.

C. They are very kind and warm-hearted.

D. They dislike expressing their feelings directly.

4. Which of the following may the author agree with according to the text?

A. We should help the weak as much as possible.

B. The Roma should be treated fairly.

C. The Roma are special.

D. It is never too late to pay a visit to Europe.

You probably know who Marie Curie is, but you may not hear of Ruzena Bajcsy. Of the brilliant ladies listed

below, who is the greatest woman in your mind?

Ruzena Bajcsy

Bajcsy is an American scientist. She received praise from other scientists because of her research on robots

with her students who were under the guidance of her teaching. And she received the 2009 Benjamin Franklin

Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science for her creation in robots, especially in the development of improved

robotic perception (认知) and in the creation of better methods to analyze medical images.

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson is an author. At first, she majored in English at the Pennsylvania College for Women, but later

she changed her major. Her popular book Silent Spring raised awareness of the danger of pollution and the

harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world’s lakes and oceans.

Oprah Winfrey

Born into poverty in rural Mississippi, Winfrey is a successful talk show hostess and one of the richest

African Americans of the 20th century. She changed the modes of talk show by using a more honest way of media

communication and adjusted her talk show with a focus on literature and self-improvement, which made her show

become the highest-rated television program of its kind in history.

Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg is a great director of Facebook. In 2012, she was named in the Time 100, a list of the most

powerful people in the world. She published her first book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead in 2013.

This book talks about business leadership and development, at the same time discusses the lack of women in

government and business leadership positions.

5. What is Bajcsy most noted for?

A. Her new book on robots. B. Her excellent teaching skills.

C. Her contributions to technology. D. Her academic research on medicine.

6. Why was Oprah’s talk show so popular?

A. Her respect for the poor touched the audience.

B. She presented her show in creative forms and contents.

C. She talked about current events happening around the world.

D. Her personal experiences encouraged people to live positively.

7. Sandberg’s first book is suitable for women who ________.

A. are interested in social media

B. are devoted to community work

C. want to achieve their career values

D. desire to improve their writing skills

The ancient Herculaneum scrolls ( 卷轴 ) are thought to contain works of important thinkers in ancient

Greece. But the scrolls can’t be unrolled. Even a light wind threatens to reduce them to dust. The reason is that

they were turned into carbon by a natural disaster in A.D. 79.

But now researchers from the University of Kentucky have found a way to look inside the scrolls without

having to touch them. They first create a light that is 10 billion times brighter than the sun by taking advantage of

a machine. Then they will use the light to go through the Herculaneum scrolls to study and finally read the words

recorded on the scrolls. Researchers think it might take them six months to read the scrolls.

This isn’t the first time researchers have tried to read the Herculaneum scrolls. Several years ago scientists

from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility(ESRF) worked on uncovering the mystery using an X-ray

beam 100 billion times brighter than anything used in a hospital. This didn’t allow scientists to actually read the

scrolls, but it allowed them to make one surprising discovery. The scrolls were written in metallic ink, a writing

technology that scientists didn’t know existed at the time the scrolls were penned.

“For a long time, we thought our studies have let us know everything about the ancient ink used to write on

scrolls. Now we find it’s not the case. This shows that we should tell ourselves it may not be true when thinking

we fully know something once some research is done,” said Daniel Delattre, one of the study’s authors.

The finding wasn’t just a historical interest. To learn just how special these scrolls are, consider that the

thinker Chrysippus in ancient Greece is said to have written over 70 works; but all are lost, with the exception of a

few works found in the Herculaneum scrolls. In other words, it’s possible that these scrolls represent the only

existing complete works left by this great thinker. And who knows what other great works could exist in the

scrolls?

8. What do we know about the Herculaneum scrolls?

A. They were damaged by people in A.D. 79.

B. They’re impossible to read for a long time.

C. They have been poorly kept in the past few years.

D. They can be easily found in the libraries at present.

9. What’s Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A. The reasons why scientists create a powerful light.

B. The new method to read the Herculaneum scrolls.

C. The comparisons of the man-made light with the sunlight.

D. The advantages of using machine to study the Herculaneum scrolls.

10. What achievement did the ESRF’s scientists make?

A. Creating a kind of ink similar to the ancient one.

B. Finding more about the ancient way to record information.

C. Showing the paper material used for the Herculaneum scrolls.

D. Making clear some words written in the Herculaneum scrolls.

11. Chrysippus’ works are mentioned in the last paragraph to show ________.

A. the Herculaneum scrolls are probably of great value

B. the thoughts of ancient thinkers are widely spread

C. the Herculaneum scrolls are recognized by different writers

D. the culture of ancient Greece helps us know its situation then

We all want to be happy. In the pursuit of happiness, we often purchase shiny things, visit new places, and

change our appearances, but the truth of the matter is that these small bursts of high excitement cannot last long.

We tend to let one simple human necessity slip away: conscious kindness.

Conscious kindness is an act of looking for opportunities to be kind to others and yourself. Usually acts of

kindness are performed when the opportunity arises, such as holding the door open for someone and returning an

item dropped on the ground to the person walking ahead of us. We call these “random acts of kindness”. In other

words, there is no pattern, meaning or plan to focus on your act. Conscious kindness pushes you out of your

comfort zone and sends you into the world to deliberately add moments of kindness to someone’s life.

A recent study set out to investigate the effect of a seven-day kindness activity on changes in subjective

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