2018-2019高二下学期期末考试英语试卷含答案

2019学年高二英语期末试卷

（考试时间：100分钟试卷满分：120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。

A

Female Scientists Who Have Changed the World

There are still hundreds of relatively-unknown women who have changed the world with their research throughout history.

Tiera Guinn

This 21-year-old scientist hasn’t yet graduated from college, but Tiera Guinn’s already doing rocket science. The MIT(麻省理工学院) senior is helping build a rocket for the United States that could be one

of the biggest and most powerful ever made. She’s

an aerospac e（航天航空）major with high credit

points who also works as a Rocket Structural Design and Analysis Engineer for the Space Launch System

that aerospace company Boeing is building for the US.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell, who was born in Bristol, England in 1821, was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States, became an activist for poor American women’s health found a medical school for women in England.

Jane Goodall

The most famous primate(灵长目) scientist in history, Jane Goodall was known for her work with chimps

（黑猩猩）and as a champion of animal rights. And Goodall wasn’t just working in a lab; she climbe trees and imitated the behavior of chimps in Tanzania to gain their trust and study them in their natural habitat.

Rachel Carson

voice rose above the rest to become central to American

In the 1960s, one environmental scientist’s

politics, culture, and foreign policy: Rachel Carson’s. Her article, ＂Silent Spring,＂warned of the dangers of pesticides(农药) and chemicals to humans, plants, and animals, and was a landmark in the （周围的）mental history.

nation’s environ

1. What is Tiera Guinn’s greatest achievement?

A. She entered the best university of the world.

B. She has been learning the newest rocket science.

C. She has helped build a big and powerful rocket.

D. She is a top student employed by a famous company.

2. What is Elizabeth Blackwell famous for in history?

A. She was the first woman with the advanced education.

B. She was a pioneer of the women’s health in the US and the UK.

C. She found the first women’s school in the United Kingdom.

D. She was the first woman to be accepted as an American citizen.

3. Who made a great contribution to the animal-protection movement?

A. Tiera Guinn.

B. Jane Goodall.

C. Rachel Carson.

D. Elizabeth Blackwell.

B

Volunteering abroad comes with a bit of a social stigma (耻辱). From my experience, this couldn’t

-off（有钱的）. I further from the truth. Volunteering isn’t so expensive that it’s only a choice for the well

spent 10 weeks volunteering in Arizona with America Conservation Experience(ACE), helping preserve America’s natural beauty.

The trip was arranged through BUNAC, a work and volunteer organization. In all it cost me around

$ 1,000 — a sum which I covered mostly by working part-time.

The self-indulgent（放纵自己的）image is relevant to overseas volunteer projects.

However, the work can be hard-going. I spent my time maintaining trails, building fences and carrying out projects in some of the national monuments of America. Summer temperatures in Arizona

stay well above 35℃, never pleasant if you’re carrying 50kg of concrete for 10 hours at a time. And the there was the wildlife to deal with, which improved my strength of character and made my fear of the English household spider disappear.

What do most people volunteer for? Probably they want to give back things to the world. But in

re helping.

reality, you benefit just as much as the local communities and ecosystems you’

most beautiful national parks and forests was unforgettable. I gained Spending 10 weeks in America’s

a far deeper understanding of the local environment than the average tourist, meeting ex-national park rangers(护林者) who knew perfectly of the area’s history and ecosystem. But best of all, my 10 weeks were spent volunteering with young people from a mix of cultures — from Belgians to South Koreans.