21 届高二上期入学测试英语科目试卷说明：1．本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题），考试时间100 分钟。

2．将第Ⅰ卷的答案代表字母填（涂）在第Ⅱ卷的答题表（答题卡）中。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共70 分）第一部分听力( 略)第二部分阅读理解（共20 小题；每小题2 分，满分40 分）第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

AThe C oo l e s t I n v e n t io n sAn Oceans V acuumThere’s a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It’s bigger than T exas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets. That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next year’s trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42 % over 10 years.Easy-On S h o e sIn 2012, Matthew W alzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,”he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the FlyEase. The basketball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike FlyEase shoes sells for $ 130.An Airport for Drones (无人机）As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there isone big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, inAfrica, may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goals is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.21. What’s the advantage of the Oceans V acuum?A. It can tear plastic into pieces.B. It can grow year by year.C. It can be a money-saver.D. It can be put into wide use soon.22. What do we know about Nike?A. It offers free shoes to the disabled.B. It provides customer friendly services.C. It is designing new shoes frequently.D. It responded to Matthew’s request passively.23. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”?A. Because they are receptive to new technology.B. Because they’re easier to construct than roads.C. Because there are too many drones.D. Because road travel there is rough.BI grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves, most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping perspectives by creating worlds we could step into, take part in and live in.With this unshakable belief, I, at fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became useful. Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say, but being unable to find the right ways to say it. He has to findagrees or disagrees with, or agrees with so strongly that it reshapes his own world. He cannot write without loving to read, because only through reading other people’s writing can one discover what works, what doesn’t and, in the end, together with lots of practice, what voice he has.Now I am in college, and have come to realize how important it is to read fiction. As a law student, my reading is in fact limited to subject matter----the volume of what I have to read for classes every week means there is little time to read anything else. Such reading made it all the clearer to me that I live in a very small part in this great place called life. Reading fiction reminds me that there is life beyond my own. It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the comfort of my own armchair, to experience, though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldn’t necessarily be able to have in my lifetime.24. What can be inferred about the author as a child?A. He never watched TV.B. He read what he had to.C. He found reading unbelievable.D. He considered reading part of his life.25. The underlined word “voice” in the second paragraph most probably means “”.A. an ideaB. a sound qualityC. a way of writingD. a world to write about26. What effect does reading have on the author?A. It helps him to realize his dream.B. It opens up a wider world for him.C. It makes his college life more interesting.D. It increases his interest in worldwide travel.27. Which of the following can be the best title of this text?A. Why do I read?B. How do I read?C. What do I read?D. When do I read?CProtect Children from Cyber-bullying(网络欺凌)When you think about bullying, you might think of a child being bullied by another in the schoolyard. As more young people have access to computers and cell phones, traditional bullying has gone digital, which has not yet gained awareness in Chinese parents.Cyber-bullying, first invented by Canadian educator Bill Belsey, is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm other people, in an intentional, repeated, and unfriendly manner. It involves threatening text messages, the spread of online rumors on social networking sites, and intentionally keeping someone out of an online group. Cyber-bullying is at an all-time high in the US. According to a study from the US Department of Justice, more than 43% of teenagers report being victims of cyber-bullying.Compared to face-to-face bullying, cyber-bullying is considered to have a worse emotional effect on the victims, and kids could feel more desperate and depressed. Severe, long-term or frequent cyber-bullying can leave victims at greater risk for anxiety, depression, and other disorders. Research says that cyber-bullying victims were almost twice as likely to have attempted suicide compared to youths who had not experienced it.In traditional schoolyard bullying, at least home is a safe place for the victims. But cyber-bullying is endless---it could happen anytime. Moreover, inthe digital world, bullying is much easier, as a bully can pick on people with a much lower risk of being caught. Actually, cyber-bullying has become a worldwide issue. In the US, as several teens committed suicide because of cyber-bullying, some schools set rules to punish cyberbullies. Laws to punish cyber-bullying have been introduced in some states. In China, cyber-bullying is still considered by many parents and educators as a problem that involves physical contact. However, as cell phones and laptops are becoming common equipment for teenagers, social interactions have increasingly moved from personal contact to virtual contact. Cyber-bullying is spreading faster than expected.For schools and parents, safety rules should be set in the virtual world for kids, such as telling them not to let out anything to a stranger. Active steps should be taken to make the public aware of the seriousness of this problem, because it would be too late to take measures after tragedy strikes.28. According to the writer, which of the following is cyber-bullying?A. Saying unkind words to classmates.B. Attacking one’s computer with virus.C. Stopping someone from joining a club.D. Threatening someone in text messages.29. Compared to traditional bullying, cyber-bullying .A. can be found out easilyB. hasn’t been punished by lawC. can cause more lasting sufferingsD. has made twice more youths killed30. According to the passage, .A. cyber-bullying first started in CanadaB. measures should be taken against cyber-bullyingC. there is no escape from cyber-bullying for studentsD. Chinese students are not facing serious cyber-bullying31. Who is this passage mainly intended for?A. Parents and educators.B. Victims and parents.C. T eachers and students.D. Researchers and victims.DW e can achieve knowledge either actively or passively. W e achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.W e achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers. Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor.Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original message has changed.That’s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listenimperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping （打上标记）it with their own personal style. Y et those who hear it think they know.This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts.32. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in .A. doing a medical experimentB. solving a math problemC. visiting an exhibitionD. doing scientific reasoning33. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to .A. active learningB. knowledgeC. communicationD. passive learning34. The author mentions the game Rumor to show that .A. a message may be changed when being passed onB. a message should be delivered in different waysC. people may have problems with their sense of hearingD. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor35. What can we infer from the passage?A. Active learning is less important.B. Passive learning may not be reliable.C. Active learning occurs more frequently.D. Passive learning is not found among scholars.第二节根据短文内容，从短文后选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。