2019届四川省成都外国语学校高二下学期英语期中考试

成都外国语学校2017-2018学年度下期期中考试

高二英语试卷

命题人: 赵芳肖山审题人: 张嵘

注意事项:

1、本试卷分第Ｉ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。

2、本堂考试120分钟，满分150分。

3、答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、学号填写在答题卡上并使用2B铅笔填涂。

4、考试结束后将答题卡交回。

第Ｉ卷（选择题共70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

City College

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

All high school graduates and anyone 18 years of age or older, with or without a high school diploma, are suitable for admission. Individuals under the age of 18 who possess a high school diploma are also suitable for admission.

HOW TO ENROLL IN CREDIT COURSES

New and readmitted students must complete and hand in a credit admissions application form available online at .

BEFORE YOU REGISTER:

●L earn about your skill level in English and Math through our assessment service;

●Attend an orientation (新生报到会) to hear about support services;

●Meet with a counselor (adviser) to select your courses;

●Find out if you are required for attendi ng the entrance examinations.

HOW TO ENROLL IN NONCREDIT COURSES

Courses in Noncredit Programs are free of charge (no enrollment fee). For information on how to enroll in noncredit courses, click here.

PARKING

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to use public transit. Click here for Parking Regulations.

SERVICES

City College services include a bookstore, cafeteria, health center, tutoring center, career and transfer center, counseling, financial aid, library, learning resource center, student government offices, campus police, disabled students programs and more.

1.Which kind of the following people could not be admitted to City College?

A. A high school graduate

B.An adult without a high school diploma

C. Anyone who possesses a high school diploma

D. A sixteen boy without a high school diploma

2. What do we know about the entrance examinations from the passage?

A. All new and readmitted students must take the examinations.

B. Those who are poor in English and Math must take the entrance examinations.

C. Not all the new students are required to take the entrance examinations.

D. The entrance examinations are free of charge.

3. Where can this passage be found?

A. In a college news report.

B. In a newspaper advertisement.

C. In a tour guide.

D. On an education website.

B

Spending money on time-saving services reduces stress and boosts (增进) happiness, according to a new research, but shockingly, few of us do it.

Whillans, a professor at HBS said, “Buying time helps to protect us from the stress in our lives caused by time pressure, and the feeling that we don’ t have enough minutes in the day to complete our tasks.’’

The effect was clearest in the Canadian experiment, in which 60 working adults were given $40 to spend in two different ways. One weekend, they were told to spend the money on a material purchase—a gift for themselves. The next weekend, they were instructed to spend the $40 on anything that saved them time, from paying the neighbor’s kid to run err ands (跑腿) to taking a Uber instead of a bus.

“On the day they made the time-saving purchase, they felt happier, in a better mood, and lower feelings of time stress than on the day they bought a material purchase” said Whillans.

The biggest surprise to the researchers was how few people would spend money on time-saving services. When they asked 98 working adults how they would spend a “windfall” of $40, only two percent named a purchase that would save them time.

“One reason,’’ said Whillans, “is that we’re very bad at remembering how much we hate doing certain tasks once the suffering has passed. That makes us less likely to take active steps to avoid that over burdened feeling in the future.” But another possible cause is good old-fashioned guilt. “If you f eel guilty about getting someone to clean your house for you, then you might get less happiness from outsourcing that task,” said Whillans, or you might just be less likely to spend your money in that way. ’’

4.In the Canadian experiment, the participants _________ .

A.were divided into two groups

B.were given $ 40 every two weeks

C.were asked to give money to a neighbor’s kid

D.were asked to spend the money in different ways

5.According to the author, what can make people less time-stressed?

A.Paying much for a concert ticket.

B.Taking a regular bus to get to work.

C.Employing someone to clean the garden.

D.Buying themselves an expensive present.

6.When it comes to spending money on ‘‘buying time”, ________ .

A.no people would like to do it