河南焦作市博爱英才学校2020-2021学年高二第五次考试英语试卷

英语第二部分阅读理解(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。

ALove sugar-white sand beaches? Whether you’re looking to ski down the side of a mountain or surf in the sunshine, you'll find the following four places in the best winter travel destination (目的地) list.Best for: Families and water babiesThe newly-built Coral Towers at the Atlantis resort (旅游胜地) in Paradise Island, Bahamas, with new next-door neighbor Marina Village, an open-air shopping and dining marketplace, are just two of the newest reasons to visit this Caribbean popular travel destination. Don't forget about Aquaventure, the world's largest open-air water park. With the average winter temperatures between the mid 60°F and high 70°F, it’s a perfect place t o escape the cold.Best for: Winter sports loversKnown as “Ski City” because of its position as the gateway to “the Greatest Snow on Earth” at four of the U. S.A.'s best ski resorts---Alta, Brighton, Snowbird, and Solitude---Salt Lake City welcomes winter sports lovers all around the world. In addition to wonderful skiing and snowboarding tracks, Utah Olympic Park offers an unforgettable experience that will make you feel like an Olympian in training.Best for: AdventurersIceland in the winter is simply dreamy and temperatures aren't as cool as you might think. Plus, there's no better time than winter to view the Northern Lights. Short winter days mean you'll have an even greater chance to catch the magic. An increasing number of flights in and out of Reykjavik make it easier than ever to visit.Best for: Families and theme park loversWhether you come for the Pro Bowl in January, the new Toy Story land at Disney's Hollywood Studios, or Supercharged ride at Universal Studios Florida, Orlando is yet another warm-weather destination for winter travel. The weather is at its best and the crowds are at their thinnest.21. Which of the following is a good place for shopping?A. IcelandB. AquaventureC. Marina Village.D. Ski City22. What makes Iceland become one of the best winter travel destinations?A. The new Toy Story landB. Sugar-white sand beachesC. An open-air dinning marketplace.D. The magic of the Northern Lights23. To escape the cold in winter, you can go to ______A. Salt Lake CityB. OrlandoC. ReykjavikD. BrightonBAfter the GoldCongratulations! You’ve won the gold medal! Stand still while the photo flashes (闪光灯) pop and TV journalists ask how it feels. Thousands of new followers on social media, meanwhile, are waiting for what you have to say.Then, prepare for a different kind of downhill.Diann Roffe knows the experience well. The American Alpine ski racer (高山滑雪运动员) won a gold medal at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics after winning a silver at the 1992 Albertville Games. She immediately announced her retirement. She was 26, an age when most people have just begun a career.Joining society at 26 can be tough. A professional athlete’s life is remarkably self-centered. You wake up taking your heart rate. You think of your own workout goals. You write down what you eat. After years of self-focus, if everything works out just right, you win. Most people will never experience a high that high. But there’s a downside.“It was like being taken up to the highest mountain peak to see the view, and then being brought down, never to be there again,” said Roffe. In the first years after her win, Roffe thought, “Here I am struggling with the masses to make ends meet and get school done, seeking that extraordinary feeling again.”Roffe’s friend, speed skater Cathy Turner, was the darling after she won a gold at the 1992 Albertville Games. “I woke up every day with a long to-do list,” she recalled her early days after retiremen t. “It was like, ‘What speech am I giving? What company am I going to address?’ I was Cathy the skater, the Olympian. Then I was Cathy the motivational speaker.”Turner found it difficult to make a transition out of the sport. She returned to compete at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, where she won another gold. She retired again, turned her attention to computers, but soon found herself with marital (婚姻的) troubles. Turner escaped her troubles the only way she knew —she trained for the 1998 Games, w here she didn’t win a medal.If their stories illustrate how difficult post-gold years can be, Roffe and Turner also show why winning athletes often eventually succeed.“Think of what these people develop!” said California sports psychologist Doug Gardne r. “Perseverance. Tenacity in dealing with failure. These skills are very useful in other aspects of life.”Turner combined her perseverance with her love of computer technology. She finally became a valued database (数据库) manager at a company in New York state. Roffe, 23 years after her retirement, runs a successful business which makes locker (储物柜) systems for team locker rooms, resorts and gyms.24. Which of the following statements about Diann Roffe is true?A. She won her first Olympic gold medal in 1992.B. She was invited to address many big companies after her retirement.C. She has taken part in the Olympic Games three times in all.D. She has become a successful businesswoman.25. According to the article, what is the “downside” of winning Olympic gold medals?A. Athletes will have many sleepless nights as TV journalists pour in.B. Athletes will have a hard time deciding what to say to new followers on social media.C. Athletes will find it challenging to relive such great feelings in daily life.D. Athletes earn small salaries and most of them will find it hard to make ends meet afterretirement.26. Doug Gardner thinks winning athletes can achieve success in life as well because______.A. they focus remarkably well on themselvesB. most of them are very strong and healthyC. they tend to keep trying despite difficultiesD. they know how to motivate others27. We can tell from the article that Roffe felt happy after returning from the 2014Sochi Winter Games because ____.A. American Alpine ski racers won many gold medalsB. she felt she had finally made a transition out of her sportC. the U.S.A. team used the products of her companyD. her husband and kids accompanied her to the racesCTutoring a New NormalIt's not piano lessons or dance classes. Nowadays, the biggest extracurricular activity in the West is going to a tutor. “I spend about 800 [Canadian] dollars a month on tutors. It’s costly,” says Pat, a mother in Canada. However, she adds,“After finding out half my daughter’s class had tutors, I felt like my child was going to fall behind because everyone else seemed to be ahead.”Shelley, a mother of three, also has tutors constantly coming in and out of her home.“When I used to sit down with my children, it was hard to get them focused. I was always yelling. When I got a tutor once a week, they became focused for one entire hour and could get most of their homework done.”Tutoring isn’t simply a private school phenomenon. Nor is it geared only toward lower-achieving students. In Canada alone, seven percent of high school students reported using a tutor in 2010. That increased to 15 percent in five years.Overall, parents hire tutors because they are worried that schools are not meeting their expectations, but there is also a cultural shift. A special value is placed on education in Asia, where tutoring is viewed as an extension of the school day. With a large number of Asians emigrating（移民）to the West in recent years, their attitudes towards education have had an impact.Another reason for the growth in business is parental frustration and their packed schedules.“A lot of parents just don’t have time to help their children with homework,” says Julie Diamond, president of an American tutoring company. “Others couldn’t help their children after Grade Three. ”There has been a shift in the attitudes, too. “Children used to get bullied （欺侮）for having a tutor，” Diamond says.“Now it’s becoming the norm to have one.”Children themselves don’t seem to mind that they have a tutor. One parent feels surprised that so many of her child’s classmates have tu tors. “For the amount we pay in tu ition, they should have as much extra help as they need,”she says. Still, she’s now thinking of getting a tutor. Why? Her daughter has actually asked for one.28. The tutoring business in the West has seen growth in recent years because_______.①immigrants from Asia have had an impact on people’s attitudes toward tutoring②a lot of parents are too occupied to help their children with homework③children no longer get bullied for getting extra help from a tutor④many schools cannot offer as much extra help as their students needA.①②③B. ①②④C.①③④D.②③④29. Between 2010 and 2015 in Canada, the number of high school students using atutor grew by_______.A. seven percentB. eight percentC. ten percentD. fifteen percent30. Shelley decided to equip her children with a tutor because cause_________.A. her children’s school was not meeting her expectationsB. over half of her children’s classmates had tutorsC. her children’s homework was too difficult for herD. she had a hard time getting her children focused31. According to the article, which of the following statements is true?A. Pat got a tutor because she couldn’t help her child with homework.B. Shelley spends about 800 Canadian dollars on tutors every month.C. Most students who use a tutor have poor scores at school.D. Asians usually place more emphasis on education than Westerners.DDo big sporting events make us do more sport?I recently spent half a weekend sitting on the sofa watching the Davis Cup. I thought about going for a run, but I did not want to miss the rest of the match. Soon it was starting to get dark, so I did not bother. Whenever I watch tennis, I think how nice it would be to play it regularly. But I have been thinking that for almost 20 years without actually setting foot on a court. The evidence would suggest that I’m not the only one.When a country or city bids to host an international sporting event, it often promises that more people will take up sports as a result. London was no exception. Tessa Jowell, who helped to secure the 2012 Olympics for London, said they would be the first to set challenging but achievable targets as a measure of their ambition: By 2012 two million more people would be physically active. And 60 percent of young people would be doing at least five hours of sports per week.In the end it did not turn out quite like that. Just over one-third of people in Britain take part in sports once a week. A report on Olympic and Paralympic legacy has said that a big change in participation levels simply has not happened.Why isn’t there a big increase in people taking part in sports after most sporting events? Perhaps it is a mistake to assume an automatic link between watching sports and playing it. While the games are on, they actually encourage people to do just the opposite — to spend whole sunny days not out playing sports, but inside sitting on the sofa with thecurtains shut to stop the sun shining on the TV screen and spoiling the view. We don’t expect half the audience of a hit musical to apply to drama school the next day, yet we seem to expect it of sporting events.We might have sat on the sofa doing an impression of Usain Bolt’s bow-and-arrow signature pose. But how many of us have been inspired by watching him sprint（短跑）100 meters? The high-level performances on show only remind people that they could never match the elite athletes in their sporting achievements even if they trained full time.Maybe participation in sports is not the right legacy to expect after a major sporting event. It’s not so much that the Olympics failed to get people to participate but rather that this was never going to be the result. The Olympics can do many things, but maybe this cannot necessarily be one of them.32. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. The author prefers playing tennis to running.B. The author watches tennis matches very rarely.C. The author hasn’t played tennis in nearly two decades.D. The author didn’t go for a run because the match lasted longer than expected.33. The underlined word “secure” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_________A. to fastenB.to protectC. to obtainD. to promise34. According to the article, there is no noticeable rise in sport participation aftermost events because .①it takes people a longer time to play sports than watch it②watching sports actually discourages people from going out③sporting events make people aware that they could never be as good as elite athletes④people are too busy to get into the habit of taking part in sportsA.①②B.②③C.③④D.①④35. According to the author, to expect more citizens to play sports after a countryhosts the Olympics is .A. importantB. naturalC. harmfulD. unnecessary第二节(共5小题:每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。