高二英语下学期教学质量检测试题（含解析）本试卷共8页，满分120分，考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1、本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的学校、姓名、试室号、考生号座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将答题卡右上角“考号”相应的信息点涂黑。2. 答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔在答题卡上对应题目选项的答题信息点涂黑；如需要改动，用橡皮擦干净后，在选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试卷上。3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必需写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需要改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效。4. 考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将答题卡交回。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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AOuting Destinations in AustraliaAustralian Seabird Rescue CenterThe Australian Seabird Rescue, Research, Rehabilitation and Coastal Education Center in Ballina offers a comprehensive educational experience for people of all ages. All presentations include a one-hour informative talk by one of their trained volunteers, as well as a chance to see wildlife that may be in their care. Animals that you may get the opportunity to get a close-up look at may include some sea birds, and even the endangered sea turtles（海龟）.The Laland Sea of Sound FestivalThis is a major festival of music, arts and culture staged in the symbolic location of Wahluu-Mount Panorama. The festival will bring together some of Australias most famous artists during the two-day music feast from Friday to Saturday.Bathurst Mintature RallwayThe club started in 1977 and today operates and maintains nearly 600 metres of track at the John Mathews sporting complex in Durham Street Bathurst. Over the years many buildings, features and a lot more tracks for your enjoyment have been added. Everyone will have a great family day out! It operates every third Sunday of the month. It is located next to the Tennis Centre in Durham Street. Train tides are available weather permitting and passengers must wear covered footwear.Bathurst Farm ExperienceExperience a real farm and interact with animals at Bathurst Farm Experience. Feed lambs, chickens, horses and learn about their uses. Birthday parties are great fun at Bathurst Farm Experience. They provide the venue; you provide the kids and the food.Bookings are essential for all visits, times by arrangement. If you have particular activities you would like to try, please disuss this when-hooking-es all activities cannot fit into a 90-minute visitl Extra time may be possible for more activitics, charges in 30-minute-btek, $50. 00 per hour.1. What can you do at the Australian Seabird Rescue Center?A. Play with sea turtles.B. Sign up to be a volunteer.C. Adopt your favorite birds.D. Attend a lecture about birds.2. Where may you meet some artistsA. In Wahluu-Mount Panorana.B. At Bathurst Farm Experience.C. In Durham Street Bathurst.D. At the Australian Seabird Rescue Center.3. If you like to try a special activity on the farm, you have to _.A. learn to feed the animalsB. wear covered footwearC. make an advance bookingD. pay $90 for an extra hours visit【答案】1. D 2. A 3. C【解析】这是一则广告。文章介绍澳大利亚郊游目地及有关事宜。【1题详解】细节理解题。根据Australian Seabird Rescue Center中Animals that you may get the opportunity to get a close-up look at may include some sea birds,“你有机会近距离观察的动物可能包括一些海鸟，”可知，the Australian Seabird Rescue Center参加一个关于鸟类的讲座。故选D。【2题详解】推理判断题。根据The Laland Sea of Sound Festival中This is a major festival of music, arts and culture staged in the symbolic location of Wahluu-Mount Panorama. The festival will bring together some of Australias most famous artists during the two-day music feast from Friday to Saturday.“这是一个主要的音乐、艺术和文化节日，在瓦卢山全景的标志性位置上演。从周五到周六，为期两天的音乐盛宴将汇集澳大利亚一些最著名的艺术家。”可知，在Wahluu-Mount Panorana能遇到一些著名的艺术家。故选A。【3题详解】推理判断题。根据最后一段中Bookings are essential for all visits, times by arrangement. If you have particular activities you would like to try,可知，如果你想在农场里尝试一项特殊的活动，你必须提前预订。故选C。BI never thought I would go far from home. I was an ordinary high school student from a working-class family，and I didnt think traveling the world was in the cards for me. For my undergraduate and doctor degree，I only applied to universities within an hour of my hometown in the United Kingdom. Staying at the same university seemed like the safe option. A few years later，as I was considering a postdoc（博士后），I once again wanted to stay close to home，in the comfort of my Ph. D. lab. But I hope to run my own lab one day，and I knew that seeing a different approach to science would be valuable.I heard about a fellowship program in Japan that sounded like a good fit. The flexibility of the program appealed to me. I could choose how long I would be there-rom as little as a month to as month as a year-long enough to experience a new place, learn and get some msearch done but short enough to make the experience less scary. I thought of it almost as a holiday, somewhat like going to a conference in an interesting far-off place.But when I was accepted, the head of the group I was going to join wanted me to stay for the full year. I hesitated. After much thought, I worked up my courage and signed on for the year-knowing that, if things went badly. I could come