甘肃省兰州一中2018-2019-2学期期中考试高二英语试题

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　　兰州一中2018-2019-2学期期中考试试题
　　高二英语
　　说明：本试题分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分，考试时间为100分钟。答案写在答题卡上，交卷时只交答题卡。
　　第I卷（选择题共15小题满分60）
　　第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）
　　第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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。
　　A
　　Traditionally, red is regarded as the symbol of China, because it is the lucky color in Chinese culture. However, what amazed most people is that red is also a favorite color in Britain.
　　There are red postboxes on street corners and on the sides of buildings. The British red phone box is famous all over the world. The famous double-decs is red. Red is the color traditionally worn by British soldiers in battle, and there is red in the Union Jack national flag. Britain even has a famous team of stunt (特技) jet planes called“The Red Arrows”.
　　Furthermore, British nature also features many red animals. A beloved bird is the robin (知更鸟), which has a bright red breast. At Christmas time in winter, the bird is commonly found on the greetings cards people send each other. There is also quite a rare animal called the red squirrel (松鼠). Foxes are red, and they used to be hunted by men in red clothes.
　　But is red considered lucky to British people? A good way to see how a culture looks at a color is to look at the way it uses it in language. The results may surprise you. Even though Britain has a lot of red on its high streets and in its countryside, red is used quite differently as a metaphor (比喻). If someone “sees red”, they are angry. When a person is “red faced”, they are out of breath. Red is also a political color: it means a left-winger (blue is the color of the political right). To be “in the red”is to be in debt (someone in credit (存款) is“in the black”).
　　Look hard enough and you’ll find the color red being used in all countries. For instance the“red heart”symbol is pretty universal. But whether the British realize it or not, red is everywhere in Britain. It does seem that the country is in love with the color.
　　1. The article is mainly about ______.
　　A. the metaphor of red in the English language
　　B. the color red in British culture
　　C. the history of red items in Britain
　　D. the preference for red animals in Britain
　　2. Someone saying bad words about you behind your back might ma ______.
　　A. see red           B. red-faced        C. in the red          D. in the black
　　3. It can be inferred from the article that ______.
　　A. red has the same cultural images (意象) in China and Britain
　　B. the color red is not as popular as it was before in Britain
　　C. most British people are not aware of how popular the color red is in British culture
　　D. red has different meanings in different situations
　　4. The text is mainly organized by ______.
　　A. time order         B. space order          C. listing data        D. giving examples
　　B
　　Climbers with pressing needs on Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest, will soon find an "eco-friendly" toilet at a Chinese campsite 7,028 meters (23,058 feet) above sea level in an ongoing campaign to deal with the peak's waste problem.
　　Decades of commercial mountaineering has turned Mount Qomolangma into the world's highest rubbish dump as an increasing number of big-spending mountaineers pay little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind.
　　Fluorescent (荧光的) tents, abandoned climbing equipment, used gas tanks, and even human wastes pollute the route to the summit of the 8,848-meter peak.
　　During the climbing season this spring, a Chinese expedition company will add an "eco-friendly" toilet at the higher campsite on the northern slope in Tibet.
　　"The toilet makes it easy to collect human waste produced by the climbers as there is a barrel with rubbish bags underneath the toilet," Xinhua quoted Pema Tinley, deputy secretary general of the Tibet Mountaineering Association, as saying.
　　The waste will be collected and brought down the mountain and the temporary toilets will be removed at the end of the climbing season.
　　Governments on both sides of the mountain have been battling the human waste and trash left by an increasing number of climbers.
　　Meanwhile, engineers in Nepal are considering installing a biogas plant near the more popular south base camp that would turn climber poo into a useful fertilizer.
　　Currently, raw sewage from the camp is carried to the next village and dumped into trenches (壕沟), which may contaminate the drinking water sources nearby.
　　5. The passage is most likely selected from which section of a newspaper?
　　A. Business       B. Health      C. Environment       D. Education
　　6. Which of the following is true according to the text?
　　A. Great efforts have been done to prevent Mount Qomolangma from being polluted.
　　B. A biogas plant has been established by Nepal near the south base camp.
　　C. The eco-friendly toilet will be there forever.
　　D. Mountain climbers have good sense of environment protection.
　　7. The underlined word “contaminate”in the last Paragraph means _______.
　　A. protect          B. purify C. clean              D. pollute