江苏省20xx-20xx学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题1

江苏省20xx-20xx学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题1内容摘要：

hich means that you find the meal terrible. Japan is a very polite nation, and their fondness for etiquette extends to the use of chopsticks. According to Japanese custom, if you39。 re in the middle of eating, use the opposite end of your chopsticks to secure food from a shared plate. When doing business in Turkey, it’s the custom for your host to pay for your meal. Requests to split the bill won’ t be accepted. If you would like to pay your fair share, Turks remend inviting your host to a followup meal. 56. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. Giving a fancy kitchen knife to a friend from Russia is a good choice. B. You can use blue ink to write notes to your friend from South Korea. C. Dining with Japanese, one can use either end of the chopsticks to get food from shared plates. D. Invited to a meal, one should arrive earlier to show respect for the host. 57. What does the underlined word “insulting” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A. Respectful. B. Challenging. C. Indifferent. D. Offensive. 58. Where is this passage probably from? A. A news report. B. A travel essay. C. A culture column. D. A food magazine. B Recently the barbican museum in London held an exhibition called the rain room. During the time this exhibition was open, my twitter stream was filled with photos of people standing in the rain room, acpanied by the caption “ rain room@ the barbican!” and a location attachment to prove that they were indeed in the rain room. This got me thinking. What were people actually saying by Tweeting about their visit? I think all they were doing was fulfilling the obligation that we have to share. Not sharing in the sense of treasuring a moment with people close to us, but sharing in the sense of “ tell the world that I am doing a thing” . It’ s not sharing。 it’ s showing off. When we log in to Facebook or Twitter we see an infinitely updating stream of people enjoying themselves. It’ s not real life, because people only post about the good things whereas all the dull or deep stuff doesn’ t get mentioned. But despite this obvious fact, it subconsciously makes us feel like everyone is having a better time than us. This is the curse of our age. We walk around with the tools to capture extensive data about our surroundings and transmit them in realtime to every friend we’ ve made. We end up with a reduced understanding of reality because we’ re more concerned about choosing a good Instagram filter(过滤器 ) for our meal than how it tastes. I don’ t think that it’ s inherently wrong to want to keep the world updated about that you’ re doing. But when you go through life robotically posting about everything you do, you’ re not a human being. You’ re just a prism that takes bits of light and sound and channels them into the cloud. The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online。 you are detracting from them because all your efforts are focused on making the look attractive to other people. Once you stop seeing things through the eyes of the people following you on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, you can make your experiences significant, because you were there and you saw the sights and smelled the smells and heard the sounds, not snapped a photo of it through a halfinch camera lens. 59. What do we learn from the first two paragraphs? A. Rain Room exhibition received a large audience in London. B. Most of people feel obligated to share their experience with friends. C. Many people want to inform others of their experience by Tweeting. D. All people having gone to the Rain Room took pictures. 60. It seems to the author that ___________. A. Facebook or Twitter is a good place where we share personal experience B. people seldom show depressing stuff on the social working websites C. most of people tend to show off that they are having a better time than others D. sharing experience on the social working websites is not real life 61. What suggestion does the author give in the last paragraph? A. Enrich your experiences by sharing them online. B. Make efforts to make your life attractive to others. C. Stop showing your personal experience. D. Record the details of what you see, smell and hear. C “Tear them apart !” “ Kill the fool!” “Murder the referee !” These are mon remarks one may hear at various sporting events. At the time they are made, they may seem innocent enough. But let39。 s not kid ourselves. They have been known to influence behavior in such a way as to lead to real violence. Books have been written about the way words affect us. It has been shown that words having certain meanings may cause us to react in ways quite foreign to what we consider to be our usual behavior. I see the term “opponent” as one of those words. Perhaps the time has e to delete it from sports terms. The dictionary meaning of the term “opponent” is “enemy”, or “one who opposes your interests.” Thus, when a player meets an opponent, he or she may tend to treat that opponent as an enemy. I remember an incident in a handball game when a referee refused a player39。 s request for a time out for a glove change because he did not consider them wet enough. The player went away to rub his gloves across his wet Tshirt and then screamed, “Are they wet enough now?” In the heat of battle, players have been observed to throw themselves across the court without considering the effect that such a move might have on anyone in their way. I have also witnessed a player reacting to his opponent39。 s intentional and illegal blocking by hitting him with the ball as hard as he could during the course of play. Off the court, they are good friends. Does that make any sense? It certainly gives proof of a court attitude which differs from normal behavior. Therefore, I believe i。