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2019-2020
学年高二英语
9
月联考试题
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A
The National Beekeeping Centre Wales is
a free attraction in the countryside that
teaches children about the importance
of honeybees
–
with the
chance to try lots
of local honeys.
This friendly visitor centre is a
supporter of Welsh honeybees, which are
increasingly under threat from climate
change and loss of wildflower meadows. It
raises visitors' awareness of
environmental issues and shows the 4,000-year
history
of beekeeping and honey-
making, from the ancient Egyptians to the Romans.
A Hive (
蜂
巢
) Aid
scheme lets you adopt a beehive, and regular
courses (from
￡
60 per
person)
train new generations of
beekeepers.
Fun fact
Bees pollinate
(
授粉
) about a third of
everything we eat and play an important
role in sustaining our ecosystems. In
economic terms, honeybee pollination could be
worth up to
￡
200m
to the UK alone.
What about
lunch?
Next door is the
Furnace Tearoom, part of the Bodnant Welsh Food
Centre, which
serves light bites
–
wraps
(
卷饼
), fruit salads
(
￡
7) and coffee. And the
nearby
Pavilion Restaurant at the
National Trust's Bodnant Garden has cooked food,
including
baked potatoes
(
￡
5) and daily specials such
as local casseroles (
焙盘
)
with bread
rolls
(
￡
6), plus coffee and cakes.
Exit through the gift shop
There is a range of bee-themed gifts in
our gift shop, including bee toys
(
￡
2),
wooden
honey candy (
￡
2) and a
selection of honeys all made by Welsh producers
(
￡
5).
The
bestselling Bodnant honey
(
￡
8) goes fast.
Getting here
We are located
just off the A470 on the Bodnant Estate in the
Conwy Valley, and
10 minutes from the
A55 north Wales coast road. Follow the brown signs
just after
Bodnant Gardens.
Value for money
Visits and activities for kids are
free, though donations are welcome. Taster
days (from
￡
60)
and the weekend beekeeping course
(
￡
80 per person) are held at
Abergwyngregyn village, 10 miles west
down the A55.
Opening hours
The Visitor Centre opens
daily from 10 am-4 pm but it is volunteer-run, so
phone
ahead to check. Expect lots of
fun activities around the annual Conwy Honey Fair.
1. What do we
know about the National Beekeeping Centre Wales?
A. It makes money mainly by selling
local honeys.
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B. It invites visitors to
adopt a beehive for free.
C. It's an
educational center about beekeeping.
D. It shows visitors Wales' long
beekeeping history.
2. You can buy
_______ at the Furnace Tearoom.
A.
bread rolls B. fruit salads C. baked potatoes D.
local casseroles
3. Where is the
National Beekeeping Centre Wales?
A.
In the village of Abergwyngregyn.
B.
Opposite Bodnant Gardens.
C. Off the
A55 Wales coast road.
D. Next to
the A470 on the Bodnant Estate.
4.
How much would you have to pay for the weekend
course and two bee toys?
A.
￡
64 B.
￡
76 C.
￡
84 D.
￡
96
B
Recently, I
was interviewed by a parenting magazine for a
story it was running
on eco-parenting.
The reporter explained that it was
expensive to be an eco-parent, with organic
baby foods and clothing to buy.
But I told her.
“
I'm sorry, but eco-
parenting isn't about buying
ecologically-produced versions of
products we think we may need. It's about
discovering what we don't
need.
”
I told
the reporter about my daughter Sarah's simple wish
for a pink balloon
on her birthday,
but she felt that things would inevitably change
as Sarah grew up
and adopted more
materialistic desires.
I agreed that
Sarah may not always be interested in such simple
gifts as balloons,
but I couldn't
agree that a birthday needs to be about
materialistic desires.
To me, a
birthday is an opportunity to celebrate the life
and the development
of a person.
Do we need to see a table covered with
gifts to know that our family and friends
love us? Somewhere in our consumer
culture, we've confused material items with
expressions of love and gratitude.
My own birthday was just a few days
ago. It came and went in the middle of a snow
storm, and my birthday party was
canceled. While my husband and I spent much of the
day clearing the snow, Sarah made some
little dolls for me.
And when we came
in to rest, Ula climbed onto my lap and sing Happy
Birthday.
Throughout the day, my
friends called to wish me a happy day, and my
mother called,
upset that she couldn't
visit.
Later, my husband apologized
that he was unable to do anything special for me
that day.
“
I had
a fantastic birthday,
”
I
replied, as I thought of all the love I'd felt.
5. What does the author think eco-
parents should do according to the article?
A. Buy organic
foods and clothing for their kids.
B.
Teach their kids to protect the environment.
C. Try to avoid buying useless things
for their kids.
D. Allow their kids to
make their own choices in life.
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6.
What does the author intend to express with
Sarah's story?
A. A pink balloon is
the best birthday gift for girls.
B.
Kids' material desire will change as they grow up.
C. We don't have to express our love
with expensive gifts.
D. A birthday is
a good occasion for us to express our love.
7. Why did the author think that her
birthday was fantastic?
A. Her husband
did something special for her.
B. Many
friends came and celebrated it with her.
C. She received meaningful gifts from
her children.
D. She felt a lot of
love from her family and friends.
C
The World
Health Organization recently said that it planned
to add gaming disorder
to its new list
of disease classifications, angering the gaming
industry but pleasing
doctors who hope
it may make treatment more easily available.
Some US experts said it would make
little difference when it comes to helping
people with the disorder, although
others said it would bring attention to a disorder
that people sometimes don't recognize.
Many of us enjoy video games, but does
playing our favorite game for a couple
of hours every night mean we're
suffering from gaming disorder? Not according to
the WHO.
The symptoms
listed by the WHO include a lack of control over
gaming, treating
gaming more seriously
than other life interests and daily activities,
and continuing
to play games despite
the negative consequences that playing them might
have.
“
The behavior pattern
is enough to result in significant damage to one's
personal, family, or social life, the
WHO said.
Meanwhile, Douglas Gentile
of Iowa State University has carried out
influential
research into the cause of
gaming addiction in young people.
“
I and many others had
assumed that gaming is not really a problem but is
a symptom
of other
problems,
”
he told NBC News.
Many had thought it was simply a failure of
self-control.
To see if it
was, Gentile's team studied a group of children
who had been gaming
for several years.
“
We found that when kids
became addicted, their anxiety increased
…
and their
grades
decreased,
”
Gentile said.
When kids were able to back off from
gaming, their symptoms disappeared, he added.
Gentile thinks medical organizations
should pay attention to the WHO's proposal.
“
This isn't an issue of
opinion; it's an issue of
science,
”
he said.
“
This is a major scientific
and medical organization. They don't do things
lightly and
without reason.
”
Dr Petros Levounis, chair of psychiatry
(
精神病学
) at the New Jersey
Medical
School at Rutgers University,
said that he hoped the WHO' s proposal would lead
to
more research into obsessive
behavior among all types of people.
“
Now, there is renewed
interest and excitement,
”
he
said.
8. Which of the following is a
sign of gaming disorder according to the WHO?
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A. Putting games before
everything else.
B. Playing games for
several hours every night.
C. Having
no hobbies but playing games.
D.
Keeping playing until winning the games.
9. Why is Gentile's research mentioned?
A. To explain the cause of gaming
addiction.
B. To show the impact of
gaming disorder.
C. To show the
reasons behind the WHO's decision.
D.
To introduce the study that influenced the WHO's
proposal.
10. What did Levounis think
of the WHO's decision?
A. It needed
further research to make it more convincing.
B. It would do little to help people
with gaming addiction.
C. It would
encourage new cures for gaming disorder.
D. It would encourage studies about
diseases similar to gaming disorder.
11. What's the article mainly about?
A. The WHO defining gaming disorder.
B. New research findings about gaming
disorder.
C. The benefits of defining
gaming as a disease.
D. The
discussions about defining gaming disorder as a
disease.
D
“
Although we live in an era
where everything seems to be available
immediately,
our study suggests that
today's kids can delay gratification longer than
children
in the 1960s and
1980s,
”
said University of
Minnesota psychologist Stephanie M.
Carlson.
“
This
finding stands in great contrast with the
assumption by adults that
today's
children have less self-control than previous
generations.
”
The original marshmallow
(
棉花糖
) test conducted by
researchers at Stanford
University
involved a series of experiments in which children
aged between 3 and 5
years were
offered one treat that they could eat immediately
or a larger treat if
they waited.
Researchers then left the room to see how long the
children would wait
and watched from
behind a one-way mirror.
Interestingly, today's adults thought
that children nowadays would be more
impulsive and less able to wait,
Carlson found.
“
Our findings
serve as an example
of
how
our
beliefs
can
be
wrong
and
how
it's
important
to
do
research,
”
said
co-author
Yuichi Shoda, PhD
at the University of Washington.
The
researchers offered several possible explanations
for why children in the
2000s waited
longer than those in prior decades. They noted a
statistically
significant increase in IQ scores in
the last several decades. Another explanation
may be society's increased focus on the
importance of early education, according
to Carlson. The primary objective of
preschool changed from largely custodial care
(
监护
) to school
readiness in the 1980s. Parenting also has changed
in ways that help
promote the
development of executive function, such as being
more supportive of
children's self-
control, the researchers noted.
Walter
Mischel of Columbia University, who co-authored
this paper, noted that
“
while the results indicate
that the children's ability to delay is not
weakened
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on the marshmallow test,
the findings do not speak to their willingness to
delay
gratification when faced with
the many temptations now available in everyday
life.
”
12. What
is the adults' assumption about today's children?
A. They are not easy to please.
B. They are less able to control
themselves.
C. They don't like things
that are easy to get.
D. They have
different personalities from previous generations.
13. What does the underlined word
“
impulsive
”
in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. productive B.
considerate C. clear-minded D. hot-headed
14. What did the researchers find about
children in the 2000s?
A. They are
more prepared to go to school.
B. They
are not as clever as previous generations.
C. They are taught self-control by
their teachers.
D. They have better
education than previous generations.
15. What does the author want to tell
readers in the last paragraph?
A. Most
children nowadays can't resist the temptations of
everyday life.
B. Children did not
willingly choose to delay gratification in the
marshmallow test.
C. The marshmallow
test can't accurately measure children's ability
to delay
gratification.
D.
Children's ability to delay gratification is
weakened because there're many
temptations.
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For the last few months, more than
20,000 primary students in one Florida school
district in the United States have
enjoyed school life without the usual homework.
Instead, they are being asked to read
for 20 minutes each night.
16.
__________. Heidi Maier, the superintendent
(
主管
) of the public schools
there,
said in an interview that she
made the decision based on research. Homework
doesn't
help students get good grades
in primary school, she said.
Maier
isn't alone. 17.__________, which has caused
debate among educators and
parents.
Some support Maier, saying that without
homework, kids can have more quality time
to spend with their family. But some
argue that homework is needed to cement
(
巩固
)