四川省成都市20xx-20xx学年高二英语上学期期中试题word版

四川省成都市20xx-20xx学年高二英语上学期期中试题word版内容摘要：

business people. It is “cut to the chase”. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one pany. One official was giving a very long and boring report, and finally, the president of the pany interrupted and said, “Cut to the chase.” Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant materials. Hurry and get to the point. And naturally, this saying was started by people who make movies. Next time, if your employer tells you to cut to the chase, be sure to get to the main point of your story quickly. 45. After the woman visited the United States she might feel that . A． her English was poorer than she had expected B． it was great fun to learn English and its culture C． American employers were sometimes rude D． it was difficult to do business with Americans 46. In which situation could the words “get your act together” be used? A． You’ve won a job opportunity in a law firm. B． Players perform badly in a match and seem to lose. C． Visitors make a tiresome and unpleasant trip to someplace. D． Audience is satisfied with the actor’s performance in a movie. 47. What do the sayings “get your a ct together” and “cut to the chase” have in mon? A． Their use. B． Their meaning. C． Their origin. D． Their popularity. 48. The text is most likely to be found in a book about . A. life attitude B. travel and culture C. language and culture D. business management C Here’s a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for long periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be bad for your health. And it doesn’t matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a puter or TV — just the overall number of hours it occurs. Several studies suggest people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die. In an editorial published this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Elin EkblomBak of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences suggested that authorities rethink how they define physical activity to highlight the dangers of sitting. While health officials have issued guidelines remending minimum (最少的 ) amounts of physical activity, they haven’t suggested people try to limit how much time they spend in a seated position. “After four hours of sitting, the body starts to send harmful signals,” EkblomBak said. She explained that genes regulating (调节 ) the amount of glucose (葡萄糖 ) and fat in the body start to shut down. Even for people who exercise, spending long periods of time sitting at a desk is still harmful. Tim Armstrong, a physical activity expert at the World Health Organization, said people who exercise every day — but still spend a lot of time sitting — might get more benefit if that exercise was spread across the day, rather than just doing once. Still, in a study published last year that tracked more than 17,000 Canadians for about a dozen years, researchers found people who sat more had a higher death risk, whether or not they exercised. “We don’t have enough evidence yet to say how much sitting is bad,” said Peter Katzmarzyk of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, who led the Canadian study. ”But it seems the more you can get up and interrupt this sedentary (坐着 的 ) behavior, the better.” Figures from a . survey in 20202020 found Americans spend more than half their time sitting, from working at their desks to sitting in cars． Experts said more research is needed to figure out just how much sitting is dangerous, and what might be possible to offset those effects. “People should keep exercising because that has a lot of benefits,” EkblomBak said. “But when they’re in the office, they should try to interrupt sitting as often as possible too,” she said. 49. What is the best title for the text? A. Sitting Too Much Could Be Deadly B. How to Avoid Sitting Too Much C. Not Sitting Too Much While Working D. More and More People Sit Too Much 50. According to the research, . A. the more time you spend in exercising at a time, the healthier you will be B. those who often sit too much are sure to grow fat or suffer from a heart attack C. you had better not sit for more than four hours at a time in case you get fat D. regular exercise is effective to get rid of the side effect of sitting too much 51. The underlined word “offset” in paragraph 9 probably means . A. improve B. achieve C. ignore D. avoid 52. In the opinion of Ekblom Bak, you’d better have a rest in the office by . A. having a walk around your office B. reading a magazine or newspaper C. chatting online or playing puter games D. listening to music with your head on the desk D Philo Farnsworth was a man who made it possible for one of the most important munication devices — television to be created. Philo was born on August 19th, 1906, near Indian Creek in the western state of Utah. He attended a very small school near his family’s farm. He did very we。