河北省大名县一中2020学年高二英语下学期第二周周测试题

河北省大名县一中2020学年高二英语下学期第二周周测试题一、阅读理解(每题2分）

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Stephen Hawking, a world famous British physicist, also wrote a children’s book with his daughter. Hawking said the book would be “a bit like Harry Potter” but without the magic. “It explains the wonders of the universe,” said Hawking, while he was on a visit to Hong Kong over 10 years ago. Hawking, is probably the world’s most famous scientist after Albert Einstein. He is an expert on black holes. He has put his whole life into digging into the beginning (and th e end) of the universe. “My goal is simple,” Hawking once said. “It is to completely understand the universe, why it is as it is and why it is there at all.”

Hawking has a bad illness that stops him from moving or talking. For a period of time, he had no way to communicate except by blinking.

Now he sits on a wheelchair with a computer by his side. To communicate, he moves two fingers to control the computer’s mouse. He selects his words from the screen, which are then spoken by a voice synthesizer.

“I have had the disease for most of my life,” Hawking once said. “Yet it has not stopped me from being successful at my work.”

Although Hawking is such a disabled man, he made great achievements. He has received many awards and prizes for his work over the years. This includes winning the Albert Einstein Award. It is the highest achievement in theoretical physics.

1.In the first paragraph, the book that Stephen Hawking wrote is_____.

A.the same as Harry Potter

B.is quite different from Harry Potter.

C.about the magic

D.about science

2.From the text we can learn _____.

A.Hawking is more famous than Einstein

B.Hawking is less famous than Einstein

C.Both Hawking and Einstein are very famous

D.Neither Hawking nor Einstein is famous

3.What does the underlined pronoun “It” in the second paragraph stand for?

A.The goal.

B.The magic.

C.The universe.

D.The book.

4.According to the text, which of the following statements is the fact?

A.Hawking has received many awards and prizes except the Albert Einstein Award.

B.The illness keeps him from moving and talking.

C.He communicates with others by speaking.

D.The illness stopped him from being successful.

B

In the far future, robots live on Earth as humans but the population of humans is smaller than a thousand. This is a story of a repair robot R-62. One day, a car came to the repair factory and a human stepped out of the car.

“Wow, a human! I have never seen a real one,” said R-62.

“Humans are quite clever. They’re able to do any action they want to. They’re even able to harm oth er human beings or organize wars, which they have been doing a lot in the history. Also they don’t even have to follow orders if they don’t want to,” said another robot T-59 quietly to R-62.