2016-2017学年高二上期第二次月考英语学科试卷第二部分：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。 AThis is not a diet. Its a simple way to lose weight. And you dont even have to give up the food you love or join a gym. You just follow some habits that thin people have. Keep them, and youll become thin.A. Wake-up When you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, bend forward until you feel sore in your back. It will burn about 10 calories.B. Start with soup When you have a meal, order a clear soup, and have it before having the main food. In this way, youll feel fuller, so youll eat less when the main food comes.C. An apple (or more) a day Apples are full of fiber and water, so your stomach will want less. The study shows that people who eat at least three apples a day lose weight.D. Stand up and walk around Every time you use the mobile phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit on average two and a half hours more each day than thin people. This skill is very important as standing up and walking around will burn 50 or more calories. Use these skills, and you will have a big weight loss.21. We should have soup first so that _. A. it can help burn some calories B. our stomach will want less C. it will provide us with enough water D. we wont need any main food22. Which of the following may the writer NOT agree? A. You have to join a gym if you want to lose weight. B. Eating apples every day is good for peoples health. C. Its good to walk around while talking on the mobile phone. D. Sitting upslowly without using your hands helps burn calories.23. In which part of a newspaper would you most probably read the passage? A. Art. B. Teaching. C. Health. D. Family.BMemory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really made a conscious（自觉的）effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you. Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before. Memory “trick” works the other way as well. Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber（理发师）shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office. We always seem to find something funny and amusing（有趣的）in incidents caused by peoples forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. There are times when “trick” of our memory can cause us great trouble.24. If you want to have a good memory, . A. you should force yourself to remember things B. you should try hard to remember things C. you should never stop learning D. you should make a conscious effort of practice and exercise25. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A. The writer remembered unlocking the front door. B. One night the writer forgot having locked the front door. C. The writer remembered to lock the door. D. One night the writer forgot to lock the front door.26. From the sentence “We never get tired of hearing new ones”, we can infer that . A. absent-mindedness happens not only to professors but to many other people B. we dont want to know anything more about absent-mindedness of professors C. we will never get tired of listening to new stories about absent-mindedness D. we enjoy hearing new stories about absent-mindedness of professors27. The best title for this passage is . A. How to Get a Good MemoryB. “Tricks” Of MemoryC. Forgetfulness and Absent-mindedness is DangerousD. Get Rid of Absent-mindednessCThe loneliest chimp(黑猩猩) in the world just got the best surprise-a hug from a new friend. Ponso has been by himself for nearly three years, finding himself alone after his wife and children died on the island where they were abandoned by a medical testing company many years ago.For years a nearby villager named Germain has been Ponsos only company, visiting him so often to bring bananas and bread-the chimps only source of food on the tiny island. It was clear how much Ponso missed companionship when he was recently visited by Chimpanzee Conservation Centre Director Estelle Raballand. The chimp immediately embraced Estelle Raballand in a huge hug and laughed as she reached out for him, with his smile from e