1、山西省晋中市学年高二下学期质量监测优生检测英语试题及答案 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节（共l5小题；每小题3分，满分45分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。AAt a supermarket,two women arc shopping.One is a stay-at-home housewife who loves to create delicious masterpieces.The other is a supervisor at an advertising agency.The two ladies stop in the fro
2、zen foods section.Im so tired,sighs the professional woman.I dont know what to do about supper.Her friend suggests,What about a microwave dinner?The weary professional sighs,I dont feel like cooking tonight.It is true that Americans have cakes for breakfast,sandwiches for lunch and instant dinners.M
3、ost Americans enjoy the convenience of prepackaged meals that can be served in 10 minutes or less.However,if you think American cooking means throwing the packaged contents into the microwave,think again.Many Americans recognize the value of cooking skills,admitting that theres nothing better than a
4、 good home-cooked meal.For those who need guidance in their cooking,recipes are lifesavers.Recipes list all the ingredients for a dish,the amount of each to use,and a description of how to put them together.Most good cooks have a shelf full of cookbooks ranging from locally published recipe collecti
5、ons to national bestsellers.Magazines devoted to home management,are full of tasty selections.Friends often increase their recipe collection by passing around their favorites cards.For experienced cooks,recipes are merely references.They often make adjustments,depending on the people they need to se
6、rve,the available ingredients and their personal taste.Some cooks prefer instead to depend on their feelings to cook the right flavors.Of course,as a land of immigrants,America has imported all varieties of cooking.Most good cooks in America are fluent in several cooking dialects: Mexican,Italian,Ch
7、inese and traditional American style,just to name a few. But whatever the dialect,cooking is a language everyone understands.21.The conversation in Paragraph 1 aims .A.to criticize the lazy supervisor B.to lead to the topic of the text C.to stress the importance of dinner D.to compare two womens hob
8、bies22.What kind of food do many Americans think is the best?A.Frozen foods. B.Sandwiches. C.Prepackaged meals. D.Home-cooked meals.23.What can we learn about recipes in America?A.Recipes can save peoples lives in danger. B.It is clear how to put the recipes together.C.Finding recipes in America is
9、very easy. D.Good cooks like reading bestsellers.24.What may be the best title for the text?A.Recipes in America B.American Cooks C.Two American Ladies D.American CookingBSmall and round transparent water bottles filled with natural water could help provide a solution to Londons plastic waste proble
10、m,according to Skipping Rocks Lab,the company in the British capital that produces them.They added that the balls have been made of plant and seaweed extracts and will decompose（分解）after four to six weeks if not consumed.With many cities struggling to get rid of vast numbers of used plastic water bo
11、ttles,the Ooho has begun to meet the thirst of consumers in San Francisco and London.A report published last Thursday said more than 4,000 plastic bottles had been removed from the River Thames in a month last year,proving the scale of the waste problem.We think Ooho may not be the solution for all
12、the applications that plastic bottles have,but definitely for short term consumption it could be a solution,said Rodrigo,the founder of Skipping Rocks Lab.In a trial near London Bridge last Wednesday,Ooho drew a mixture of surprise,amusement and delight among those who sampled them. Londons city ass
13、embly said Ooho was a step forward.It could be part of the solution but not the only solution.You also need to be able to refill bottles at railway stations for example,said Leonie Cooper,the Chair of the assemblys environment committee.The company aims to target,among other consumers,marathon runne
14、rs,who will be able to eat the Oohos mid-race without concerns about the environment.It is also considering sealing alcohol for a whole new market. People see these small round bubbles and they just think shots.So thats definitely something were looking at,said Skipping Rocks Lab Chief Operating Off
15、icer Lise.We have sealed alcohol,we want to perfect it,and hopefully this will be the great change of the future.25.Ooho can help solve the plastic waste problem because .A.it is small and transparent B.it is filled with natural waterC.it is made of plant and seaweed D.it can disappear some time lat
16、er26.How is Rodrigos comment on Ooho?A.Subjective. B.Unreal. C.Objective. D.Ridiculous.27.In which column can we find the text?A.Technology and Invention. B.Health and Medicine. C.Industry and Economy. D.Tourism and Development. CThe ride-sharing company Uber has removed its self-driving cars from t
17、he streets of San Francisco,California. The action came after a dispute between Uber and state officials over whether the vehicles needed special permits to operate.Uber recently launched testing of its self-driving service in San Francisco.But shortly after the launch, Californias Department of Mot
18、or Vehicles (DMV) told the company to stop the self-driving vehicles.State officials said the Uber cars needed the same special permit given to about 20 other companies testing self-driving technology in California.Uber argued that its technology does not make vehicles fully autonomous,and so the sp
19、ecial permit was not needed.It added that all of Ubers self-driving cars have a driver sitting in the passenger seat to take over if needed.The head of Ubers self-driving technology,Anthony Levandowski,explained the companys position in a blog post.He said the self-driving Uber vehicles do use high-
20、technology tools to assist drivers.But they are not fully autonomous and require a driver to be at the controls at all times.He compared the technology to solar carmaker Teslas advanced driver assist tools.Telsas Autopilot system allows its cars to steer in a lane,change lanes,and speed up or slow d
21、own based on nearby traffic.The company tells drivers that,when using Autopilot,they should still always be ready to take control of the vehicle.Vehicles equipped with these high-tech driver assist tools do not need a special permit to operate in California. Its hard to understand why the DMV would
22、seek to require self-driving Ubers to get permits when it accepts that Teslas autopilot technology does not need them,Levandowski wrote.San Franciscos mayor,Ed Lee,praised the DMV for stopping Ubers self-driving vehicles.He said he supports self-driving development and testing.But only under conditi
23、ons that put human bicyclists and pedestrian safety first.28.What does the underlined word dispute in Paragraph 1 mean?A.Discussion. B.Disagreement. C.Fighting. D.Meeting.29.Why does Uber say that the special permit was not needed?A.Because Ubers self driving cars are fully autonomous.B.Because ther
24、e are passenger seats in Ubers self-driving cars.C.Because no drivers are needed in some Ubers self-driving cars.D.Because Ubers self-driving cars can be operated by humans when necessary.30.What can we know from the passage?A.Ubers self-driving cars need human drivers.B.Telsas Autopilot needs speci
25、al permits too.C.Ubers self-driving cars are completely autonomous.D.Telsas Autopilot system is better than Ubers self-driving technology.31.What can we infer from Ed Lees words?A.He doesnt think DMV is right. B.Ubers self-driving cars should he supported.C.Ubers serf-driving cars are not safe enoug
26、h. D.One should be careful while walking or cycling in streets.DPopular culture often shows alcohol as a big part of the college experience in the United States.Television programs and movies about American college life have images of wild parties with young people either drinking alcohol or holding
27、 a drink.Now,a new study of alcohol use suggests that some college students may be missing meals so they can have more drinks or get drunk faster.Researchers are calling this kind of behavior drunkorexia. The study involved 1,184 college students between the ages of 18 and 26.Researchers found that
28、80 percent of those studied had demonstrated some kind of drunkorexia in the past three months.They had performed heavy physical exercise,eaten low calorie meals or even missed meals for up to a full day before drinking alcohol.Dipali Rinker organized the study and presented its findings to the.Rese
29、arch Society on Alcoholism in June.She says students see drunkorexia as a way to keep their body weight down while drinking alcohol.And it causes them to feel the effects of alcohol quickly and with more intensity（强度）.Rinker says unhealthy eating habits are only one of the reasons why this type of b
30、ehavior is dangerous.Heavy drinking is linked to drunk driving,unprotected sex,and alcohol poisoning.George Koob,who directs a U.S. governmental agency that studies alcohol related problems,says that the percent of students using alcohol has not increased in recent years.But what worries him is that
31、 the number of students drinking to the point of blacking out has increased.Blacking out is when a person drinks so much alcohol they have no memory of their actions while drunk.Koob notes that college students in Canada and Europe also face issues with alcohol.But he feels a big part of the problem
32、 is that.Americans do not fully understand alcohols effects.Most people do not know the part of the brain where decisions are made is not fully developed until age 25 and that alcohol harms the development of that part of the brain,he adds.32.What is the purpose of the behavior drunkorexia?A.To get drunk. B.To drink more alcohol. C.To take exercise. D.To lose weight.33.What can heavy drinking result in?A.Unhealthy eatin
