甘肃省镇原县第二中学2020-2021学年高二期中考试英语试卷

2020—2021学年度第一学期期中考试试题

高二英语

第Ⅰ卷

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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

You may need to give first aid. First aid is defined as the emergency care given to a sick or injured person. The goals of first aid are to prevent death and to prevent injuries from becoming worse.

Each emergency condition is different. However, the following rules apply to any kind of emergency.

☆Be aware of your limitations. Do not try to do more than you are able to. Nor should you do things if you are unfamiliar with them. Do what you can under the conditions at the time.

☆ Stay calm. Acting calmly will help the victim feel safe.

☆ Take a quick look to see if the victim is bleeding, and if there is a pulse.

☆ Keep the victim lying down and do not move him or her. You could make an injury worse if you move the victim.

☆ Take necessary emergency steps.

☆ Call for help or ask someone to make the EMS system(急救系统) start.

☆ Do not remove clothing unless you have to. If clothing must be removed, tear the

clothes along the seams(线缝).

☆Keep the victim warm. Cover the victim with a blanket. Coats and sweaters can be used if a blanket cannot be found.

☆ Reassure the victim. Explain what is happening and that help has been called.

☆ Do not give the victim any food or fruits.

☆Keep the bystanders away from the victim. Bystanders want to have a look, offer advice, and say something about the victim’s condition. The victim may believe that the condition is worse than it really is.

1. When a person is badly injured on the road, you should .

A. act worriedly and hurriedly

B. do whatever you want to freely

C. not move him or her

D. make the injured person stand up

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. You should help an injured person in any condition.

B. Don’t remove the clothing of the injured person whatever happens.

C. It is necessary to cover the victim with a blanket.

D. If the injured person feels hungry, you should give him or her some food.

3. Why should bystanders be kept away from the victim?

A. Because bystanders can prevent the victim from receiving first aid.

B. Because what they say can make the victim think the condition is very bad.

C. Because the victim doesn’t want to accept the advice of bystanders.

D. Because the victim hates being surrounded by bystanders.

B

I was attending a party one night given in Sir Ross’s honor. During the dinner, the man sitting next to me told a humorous story and spoke of the quotation: “There’s a divinity(神) that shapes our ends. Rough-hew them how we will.”

The storyteller mentioned that the quotation was from the Bible. He was wrong. I knew that; I knew it positively. There couldn’t be the slightest doubt about it. And so, to get a feeling of importance and show my high quality, I chose myself as an unwelcome person to correct him. He stuck to his guns. “What? From Shakespeare? Impossible! Absurd ! That quotation was from the Bible. ”

The storyteller was sitting at my right hand, and Frank Gammond, an old friend of mine, was seated at my left hand. Mr. Gammond had devoted years to the study of Shakespeare, so the storyteller and I agreed to leave the question to Mr. Gammond. Mr. Gammond listened, kicked me under the table, and then said, “Dale, you are wrong. The gentleman is right. It is from the Bible.”

On our way home that night, I said to Mr. Gammond, “Frank, you knew that quotation was from Shakespeare.”

“Yes, of course,” he replied. “Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2. But we were guests on a festive occasion, my dear Dale. Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save his face? He didn’t ask for your opinion. He didn’t want it. Why argue with h im?”The man who said that taught me a lesson I would never forget. I not only had made the storyteller uncomfortable, but had put my friend in an embarrassing situation. How much better it would have been if I hadn’t become argumentative.

Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants(竞争者) more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right. You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

4. At the party, the author tried to get a feeling of importance by ___________ .

A. telling a humorous story

B. showing off his rich knowledge

C. teaching the storyteller a lesson

D. correcting the storyteller’s mistake

5. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means that ___________ .

A. he realized he was wrong

B. he didn’t change his mind

C. he felt sorry for what he said

D. he wanted to fight with the author

6. What do we learn about Frank Gammond?

A. He was very humorous.

B. He was very thoughtful.

C. He knew much about the Bible.

D. He didn’t know much about Shakespeare.

7. What does the author learn from his friend Gammond?

A. Having an open mind.

B. Respecting others opinion.

C. Never getting into an argument.

D. Avoiding making mistakes in public.

C

Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not bring so much material home in the first place.

The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.