高二1月月考英语试题

四川省双流中学2020-2021学年高二1月月考英语试题

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一、阅读选择

More and more people read an iPad in bed, reserved as a place for sleep, before they go to sleep.

Charles, a professor from Harvard Medical School and his colleagues got a small group of people for an experiment. For five days in a row, the people read either a paper book or an iPad for four hours before sleeps. Their sleep patterns were monitored all night. Before and after each trial period, the people took hourly blood tests to paint a day-long picture of just how much melatonin (褪黑激素) was in their blood at any given time.

When the people read on the iPad as compared to the paper books—they reported feeling less sleepy at night and less active the following morning. People also took longer to fall asleep on the iPad nights, and the blood tests showed that their melatonin secretion (分泌) was delayed by an hour and a half.

The researchers conclude in today’s journal article that because of the rise of e-readers and the increasingly widespread use of e-things among children and teenagers, more research into the long-term consequences of these devices on health and safety is urgently needed. Charles and colleagues go on, in the research paper, to note “Reading an iPad in bed may increase cancer risk.”

However, software has been developed that can reduce some of the blue light from the screens of phones and computers according to time of day, and there are also glasses that are made to filter (过滤) short wavelengths. While they seem like a logical solution for the nighttime tech users, it needs more research.

1．In Charles’ experiment, the group of people were asked to .

A．sit in a row and receive the strict tests

B．have their sleep patterns observed all night

C．read a paper book and an iPad at the same time

D．have their blood tested per hour during the trial.

2．The third paragraph tells us the iPad readers were likely to .

A．feel less sleepy and tired in the day

B．fall asleep more easily after reading

C．become less energetic the next morning

D．have a lot more melatonin secretion

3．The special software recently developed can .

A．remove the blue light from your devices completely

B．help prevent eyes being harmed by short wavelength

C．weaken the harm done by doing nighttime e-reading

D．be used in all the e-things widely and safely

4．Which of the following can be best served as the title of the passage?

A．No e-reading in bed before sleep B．New software for night e-readers C．Wrong behaviors before bedtime D．No games on iPad in bed

I have sometimes heard people refer to reading fantasy novels as escapism. These people believe that magic circumstances distract people from real life and struggles we should be concentrating on overcoming. Although I enjoy reading such books, I used to think so, and that I was escaping real life while I read, since people said that was what I was doing. Now, I no longer believe that I escape through fantasy. Instead I believe that I am having an experience much more profound.

I have always loved fantasy (especially J. R. R. Tolkien and J. k. Rowling) and read extensively in this genre, but I used to think of this reading as downtime, less important than more “serious”, realistic reading. Over time, I realized that the conversations I was having about these fantasies were deeper and more insightful than those about books set in my time and with similar problems to ray own. I looked up to those heroic characters for inspirations when dealing with new and perplexing questions. Many of these books were shared with my family, and created a sense of belonging and acceptance as we discussed Aslan’s sacrifice and argued over whether or not Frodo was a failure. Even we didn’t agree, these conversations united us through shared thoughts and experience. When I married, my wife, my children and I read Lioyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain on our honeymoon, rejoicing and mourning together through Taran’s Journey from Assistant pig-keeper to High king.

Then I began my graduate studies in Marriage and Family Therapy, and I wanted to enrich others’ lives with this experience I found so personally rewarding. I first assigned a couple to read a fantasy novel, which the couple did read. Just reading the book together, discussing it and wondering together why I had asked them to read it, led to recovery and a renewed