1 甘肃省甘谷第一中学甘肃省甘谷第一中学 2018 20192018 2019 学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题 子材班 子材班 第一部分 阅读理解 共两节 第一部分 阅读理解 共两节 满分满分 4040 分 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 A A Story Show in Oberon Adults 8 00 pm 10 00 pm Join us for an evening of true personal stories about science Come to the only show where you can hear people scientists not scientists and half scientists tell funny and touching stories about the role of science in their lives Cost 10 Make Your Own iPhone Case through Toysinbox 3D Printing Families we have completely rebuilt our house bought a new car bought new furniture and new clothes and joined an inspirational spirit filled community 5 Why did the author leave home A To look after her sister B To attend a music festival C To watch a performance D To visit her husband s cousin 6 How did the author feel when she left home A Disappointed B Worried C Tired D Unwilling 7 What does the underlined word evacuated mean A Gathered B Struggled C Escaped D Hid 3 8 What might be the title for the passage A Lost it All Gained Even More B Once Gone Never Returned C Caught in the Hurricane D Trapped in a Dilemma C C People do not like being separated from their mobile phones even while enjoying a restful holiday at the beach However the phone battery may become exhausted completely If that happens they have no choice but to connect the phone to the power supply But it s i mpossible to get the battery charged at the beach What s worse the hot sun is shining right overhead and the water in the bottle is sure to reach a very high temperature Antoine Sayah a university student from Lebanon developed a special beach mat called the Beachill It looks similar to the ordinary beach mat and will cause back pain as well However the device can recharge any mobile phone It is designed to be water resistant 防水的 and has a 5 watt solar panel which provides power continuously The mat also has the refrigeration equipment that can help keep drinks cool just like the refrigerator Antoine Sayah began selling the Beachill on the Internet for 150 He says he has been surprised at the reaction worldwide I have got orders for the device from Brazil Toronto all over Europe especially France America from all continents The Beachill is also gaining popularity in other places like swimming pools and boats Some people like the mat because it is lightweight and easy to carry Rita Mathieu bought one of the Beachills When I am on the beach I used to look around for a charger and never managed to find any and the water never stays cool she says So this kind of beach mat is wonderful and has everything in it even a pocket where I can put a book Thanks to it I can surf the Internet and keep in touch with friends at any time at the beach 9 The opening paragraph is mainly intended to A show great pity for people at the beach B attract the readers interest in the subject C provide some key facts about mobile phones D prove the importance of water in hot weather 10 What can we learn about the Beachill A It is quite unusual in appearance B It will stop working in the water C It has some function of the refrigerator D It functions more effectively than ordinary ones 11 Rita Mathieu is mentioned to prove the Beachill s A popularity B convenience C good quality D low price 12 The text is written to A tell people a new way to get a cold drink B ask people to stop using phones at the beach C encourage people to travel around the world D introduce a beach mat that can charge a phone D D 4 Robots and humans will soon be living in harmony 和睦 A singing robot is being taught to create jazz with a human in a project Antonio Chella from Italy is working with a Telenoid robot To start with the Telenoid will be trained to follow the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer and to connect music with different emotional states Chella then plans to see if the robot can use these connections to create music Intelligence is often regarded as the ability to find connections between the existing things But Chella suggests that a conscious creature should be able to go a step further and introduce new connections that result in the creation of something new Some jazz musicians say that they should have a mental library of musical phrases so that they are able to combine them in new ways More importantly however this combination happens in a state that is similar in a sense to dreaming Chella wants to copy these states in a machine This work raises interesting questions about the link between consciousness and music making says Philippe Pasquier a musician and computer scientist But he is skeptical about whether a robot musician needs a physical body Pasquier argues that the robots are faced with two challenges Software that can copy Bach has already been developed But interpretation 演绎 includes human s different tastes and judgments What made the Beatles famous was not so much their works but the fact that the interpretations of the wo