河南省郑州市第一中学2019-2020学年高二上学期入学测试 英语试题

21 届高二上期入学测试英语科目试

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说明：1．本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题），考试时间100 分钟。

2．将第Ⅰ卷的答案代表字母填（涂）在第Ⅱ卷的答题表（答题卡）中。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共70 分）

第一部分听力( 略)

第二部分阅读理解（共20 小题；每小题2 分，满分40 分）

第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

The C oo l e s t I n v e n t io n s

An Oceans V acuum

There’s a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It’s bigger than T exas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets. That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next year’s trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42 % over 10 years.

Easy-On S h o e s

In 2012, Matthew W alzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,”he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the FlyEase. The basketball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike FlyEase shoes sells for $ 130.

An Airport for Drones (无人机）

As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is

one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, in

Africa, may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goals is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.

21. What’s the advantage of the Oceans V acuum?

A. It can tear plastic into pieces.

B. It can grow year by year.

C. It can be a money-saver.

D. It can be put into wide use soon.

22. What do we know about Nike?

A. It offers free shoes to the disabled.

B. It provides customer friendly services.

C. It is designing new shoes frequently.

D. It responded to Matthew’s request passively.

23. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”?

A. Because they are receptive to new technology.

B. Because they’re easier to construct than roads.

C. Because there are too many drones.

D. Because road travel there is rough.

B

I grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves, most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping perspectives by creating worlds we could step into, take part in and live in.

With this unshakable belief, I, at fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became useful. Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say, but being unable to find the right ways to say it. He has to find