吉林省辽源市20xx-20xx学年高二上学期期末考试英语试卷

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d of ebooks? Ebooks are electronic books. They are no larger than an ordinary book, with a screen on which you can read. How does the ebook work? First, you call up websites on your puter and select books that you want. There are thousands of books provided by different websites on the Inter. Then download the books you like on to your ebook. You can download about 10 books at a time. Now you can just sit back and enjoy yourself reading. Compared with ordinary books, ebooks have many advantages. First of all, ebooks save space. You can put as many as 10 books into a thing no bigger than a pocket radio and then carry it everywhere. You can renew reading materials in your ebook as many times as you like. With the development of ebook technology, probably an elibrary will appear. Then you just take your ebooks there and download what you want to read. You no longer need to worry about whether your books are overdue or not. 32. Ebooks are _________. A. electronic books B. no larger than an ordinary book C. very popular in big cities D. A, B and C 33. First, you _______________. A. call up websites on your puter B. read books that you want C. turn on your ebook D. download the books you like 34. You can download __________ books at a time. A. two B. ten C. twelve D. twenty 35. Ebooks ______________. A. save space B. save money C. look like a pocket radio D. carry easily 第二节 任务型阅读（ 共 5 小题 ； 每小题 2 分，满分 10 分 ） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。 A lot of people look short only because they are standing with their shoulders hanging down. 36 . Use a chair with a straight back to keep your body straight while you work. 37 . Even a little amount of extra weight can make a man or woman look fat and therefore, shorter than he/ she already is. The weight also affects your shape of the body. Besides, whether you want to look taller of not, losing weight is important to your health. Get rid of those loose clothes and buy clothes that will show your best. Don’t wear shorts or skirts that will make your legs look shorter. 38 . Wear long scarves to increase your height. In addition, vertical stripes（竖条纹） are known to give the illusion（错觉） of height. Wearing right clothes can give you a taller appearance. 39 . Fashion experts suggest wearing single color to give an appearance of looking taller. And it would be better to chose the darker side. Above all, no matter how many ways you try to look taller, remember that you need to first carry yourself confidently. 40 . Love yourself and who you are, and you will never feel low in any way. A. Maybe your height is affected by your parents. B. Wear skirts or shorts that end above the knee. C. If you want to look taller, you’d better stand with your back straight and your arms by your side. D. First, make your hair in a way that gives you a taller appearance. E. Another important point is to lose weight. F. There is no need to be embarrassed about your height, and you look as good as any tall person. G. The colors you wear also determine how tall you look. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分） 第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 分，满 分： 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（ A、 B、 C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When caught in a pouring rain without an umbrella, most people pick up their pace（步伐） . But an old tale advises that a person who runs in the rain gets wetter than one who walks. It 41 reasonable that when someone runs up and down, the 42 is exposed to more drops of water. But several studies have 43 this saying to the test and found it not to be true. One such test was 44 in 1987 and was published in European Journal of Physics magazine. The Italian physicist who did the 45 said that if the distance is short enough, running gets a person 46than walking. But running only keeps you about 10 percent drier. That is to say, running isn’t 47 the effort. Another study, published in 1995 by a British researcher, found that it 48 no difference 49 a person walked or ran. Perhaps the final word 50 from two American scientists at the National Climatic Data Center in North Carolina recently. They thought that 51 studies overestimated（高估） the average walking pace. So, they did a 52 more careful experiment than any of the earlier ones. They noticed that the direction of the wind really matters 53 the results of the experiment. They also found that runners like to 54 forward, hiding the front of their bodies from rain, but exposing the 55 . The 56 used themselves as guinea pigs（豚鼠，供做实验的人或物） in the test. Over a 57 of 100 metres, they found that running in the heavy rain 58 them drier by as much as 40 percent. The bottom line is that running in the rain probably keeps you drier than walking. 59 do remember to take an umbrella with you! For long distances, without an umbrella, the 60 is the same, no matter you run or walk. 41. A. listens B. feels C. sounds D. smells 42. A. head B. back C. chest D. body 43. A. put B. made C. given D. permitted 44. A. carried out B. taken out C. put out D. made out 45. A. study B. work C. experiment D. task 46. A. wetter B. less wet C. no drier D. less dry 47. A. worth B. su。