四川省宜宾市叙州区第二中学校2019-2020学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题
四川
高二
期中
2020-06-17
42次
整体难度:
适中
考查范围:
主题、语篇范围
一、阅读理解 添加题型下试题
You’ll find it amazing to support people when you go out to eat! Just look for restaurants that hire people with disabilities,which are making the world a more inclusive place. Each bakery,café and restaurant below has a wonderful and heartwarming story.
Hugs Care: McKinney,Texas
Ruth Thompson once had a vision to create a nonprofit café that would be run and operated primarily by adults with special needs. With hard work,a strong passion and an amazing team,Hugs Café opened its doors in 2015.“Hugs Café is now so much more than a job to our 23 teammates,which is enhancing the meaningful lives of adults with special needs through training and employment at Hugs Café. Thompson says.
Vinny&Bay’s Coffee and Eatery: Panama City,Florida
“A lot of people plan their vacations around coming to this coffee shop,”says café owner Kara Rigby. Vinny & Bay’s Coffee and Eatery was established “so that Baylee had a place to work,”Rigby adds. Baylee is Rigby’s daughter’s friend who has a disability. The coffee shop’s goal become training for individuals like Baylee. Some workers have even started at Vinny & Bay’ s and were able to work in a regular workplace. Rigby says that her employees” have a whole lot more abilities than disabilities. They love unconditionally,and it changes the whole environment and business.” Rigby believes that incorporating even just one or two disabled individuals into a business can change the whole atmosphere—for the better!
Sugar Pl um Bakery: Virginia Beach,Virginia
Head to Sugar Plum Bakery to find a delicious carrot cake and see people with disabilities successfully working alongside none—disabled workers. Sugar Plum has been promoting the integration of adult s with developmental disabilities by providing training and employment opportunities to more than 1,000 people with disabilities since 1987.Whether they’re scooping cookies or making cupcakes,Sugar Plum’s disabled employees are the backbone of the bakery.
1. What do the three restaurants have in common?A.They are established by adults with special needs. |
B.They are supported by charities or local government. |
C.The provide training and employment to disabled individuals. |
D.The employers and employees there are all individuals with disabilities. |
A.Hugs Café set up in 1987 now has 23 teammates |
B.Rigby founded her coffee shop to help Baylee,her daughter |
C.Disabled individuals are not able to work in a regular workplace |
D.Sugar P1um Bakery hires both normal people and people with disabilities |
A.Disabled workers there are the most important part. |
B.The bakery get s support and strength from backbone. |
C.The customers are always backing the disabled workers. |
D.The employees have a whole lot more abilities than disabilities. |
【知识点】 社会关系
I’m sitting in my kitchen in London, trying to figure out a text message from my brother. He lives in our home country of Germany. We speak German to each other, a language that's rich in strange words, but I've never heard this one before: fremdschämen.
The experience gets me to consider: can we lose our mother language? Most immigrants (移民)know what it’s like to be not as good at their mother language as before. The process seems obvious: the longer you are away, the more your language suffers. But it’s not quite so straightforward. It turns out that how long you've been away doesn't always matter. Socializing with other native speakers abroad can worsen your own native skills. And emotional factors like trauma(精神创伤) can be the biggest factor of all.
In children, the phenomenon of language attrition (语言磨蚀)is somewhat easier to explain since their brains are generally more flexible and adaptable. Until the age of about 12, a person’s language skills are relatively easy to change. Studies on international adopters have found that even nine-year-olds can almost completely forget their first language when they are removed from their country of birth.
But in adults, the first language is unlikely to disappear entirely except in extreme circumstances. For example, Monika Schmid analyzed the German of elderly German-Jewish wartime refugees(难民) in the UK and the US. The main factor that influenced their language skills wasn't how long they had been abroad or how old they were when they left. It was how much trauma they had experienced as victims. Those who left Germany in the early days of Nazi occupation, before the worst violence, tended to speak better German – despite having been abroad the longest. Those who left later, tended to speak German with difficulty or not at all.
“It seemed very clearly a result of this trauma”, says Schmid. “Even though German was the language of childhood, home and family, it was also the language of painful memories”. The most traumatized refugees had held them back. As one of them said: “I feel that Germany betrayed me. America is my country, and English is my language.”
4. What does the first paragraph serve as?A.A comment | B.A background |
C.An explanation | D.An introduction |
A.How two languages coexist |
B.The way to deal with adult’s trauma |
C.The reasons behind adult’s language attrition. |
D.Whether trauma leads to adult’s language attrition. |
A.Because he can’t remember his mother language. |
B.Because his ability to communicate is affected. |
C.Because his country is far from him . |
D.Because he chooses to escape from bad experiences. |
A.Where does your native language come from? |
B.Will you lose your native language? |
C.How does trauma affect your first language? |
D.How far are you from your mother tongue |
Oxford and Cambridge have now decided to remove the words CAN'T and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionary. Jessica Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside an aircraft. The girl from Tucson, Arizona got the Sport Pilot certificate lately and became the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet. Jessica Cox of Tucson was born without arms, but that has only stopped her from doing one thing: using the word "can't".
Her latest flight into the seemingly impossible is becoming the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet.
With one foot manning the controls and the other delicately guiding the steering column, Cox, 25, soared to achieve a Sport Pilot certificate. Her certificate qualifies her to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet.
"She's a good pilot. She's rock solid," said Parrish Traweek, 42, the flying instructor at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport. Parrish Traweek runs PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didn't come close to Cox's abilities.
"When she came up here driving a car," Traweek recalled, "I knew she'd have no problem flying a plane."
Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she figured out early on that she didn't want to use prosthetic devices. So, the next time you are ready to tell yourself, "I can't possibly..." remember this amazing young woman and change your vocabulary.
8. The word CAN'T will be removed from the two dictionaries because of ______.A.the first woman pilot |
B.a very special flight service |
C.a great flight with a light-spot aircraft |
D.the flight in a seemingly impossible way |
A.flies the plane by standing in it |
B.is good at driving a car with her legs |
C.has been her workmate for two years |
D.is one of the best pilots trained by her |
A.Jessica Cox has been armless for 25 years. |
B.Jessica Cox was normal when she was young. |
C.There are no suitable prosthetic devices for Jessica Cox. |
D.The doctors have discovered how Jessica Cox lost her arms. |
A.Flying with no hands |
B.Jessica Cox, a disabled pilot |
C.Living with a positive attitude |
D.Two words will disappear from dictionaries |
【知识点】 故事
Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.
However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practising. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.
Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
12. Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.A.the reasons for success | B.the meaning of success |
C.the standards of success | D.the importance of success |
A.work makes one feel pain | B.one tends to enjoy his work |
C.one gives up his work easily | D.it takes a lot of time to succeed |
A.Successful people like to show their great skills. |
B.People sometimes succeed without luck or talent. |
C.People need to achieve success at the cost of life. |
D.It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success. |
A.Having a goal is vital to success. |
B.Being good is different from being great. |
C.One cannot succeed without time and practice. |
D.Luck,talent and family help to achieve success. |