【英语】河南省商丘市第一高级中学2015-2016学年高二下学期期中

商丘一高2015～16学年第二学期期中考试

高二英语试卷

命题人李敏审题人张平

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分。考试时间100分钟。注意事项：

1．答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案前，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动, 用橡皮擦干净后, 再选涂其他答案标号框, 不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

3. 请从第21题开始涂卡。

第I卷（共60小题，共100分）

第一部分：听力（略）

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面四篇短文,从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人) chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.

The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cooking a more manly picture, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.

According to the research by Prof. Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.

Prof. Gershuny said, ―The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider s ocial trend. There has been 40 years of sexual equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come.‖Women, who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes—a great fall, but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men.

Some experts have named these men in aprons as ―Gastrosexuals (men using cooking skills

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to impress friends)‖, who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.

―I was married in 1974. When my father came to visit me a few weeks later, I was wearing an apron when I opened the door. He laughed,‖ said Prof. Gershuny. ―That would ne ver happen now.‖

Two-thirds of adults say that they come together to share at least three times a week, even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table. Prof. Gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a table—with many ―family meals‖ in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room, and shared by family members. ―The family meal has changed a lot, and few of us eat—as I did when I was a child—at least two meals a day together as

a family. Bu t it has survived in a different format.‖

21. What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?

A. The improvement of cooks‘ status.

B. The influence of popular female chefs.

C. The change of female‘s view on cooking.

D. The development of sexual equality campaign.

22. What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?

A. Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.

B. Women spend much less time on cooking than before.

C. It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women.

D. There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.

23. How did Prof. Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?

A. It has become a thing of the past.

B. It is very different from what it used to be.

C. It shouldn‘t be advocated in modern times.

D. It is beneficial to the stability of the family.

24. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. The Changes of Family Meals

B. Equality between Men and Women

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C. Cooking into a New Trend for Men

D. Cooking—a Thing of the Past for Women

B

New crime prediction software should reduce not only the murder rate, but the rate of other crimes. Developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software has already used in Baltimore and Philadelphia to predict which individuals on probation(缓刑) or parole(假释) are most likely to murder and to be murdered.

―When a person goes on probation or parole he is supervised(监督) by an officer. The question is ?what level of supervision is appropriate?‘‖ said Berk. It used to be that parole officers used the person‘s criminal record, and their judgment to make decisions.

―This research replaces those seat-of-the –pants calculations,‖ he said.

Technology helps determine level of supervision. On average there is one murder for every 100,000 people. Even among high-risk groups the murder rate is one in 100. Predicting such a rare event is very difficult, but advances in computer technology works.

Years ago, the researchers made a dataset of more than 60,000 various crimes. Using the software they developed, they found some much more likely to commit murder when paroled or probated. They could identify eight future murderers out of 100.

Berk‘s soft ware examines roughly two dozen variables(可变因素), from criminal record to geographic location. The type of crimes, and more importantly, the age at which that crime was committed, were two of the most predictive variables.

―People assume that if someone murdered then they will murder in the future,‖ said Berk. ― What really matters is what that person did as a young individual. Predicting future crimes sounds well. But we aren‘t anywhere near being able to do that.‖

―Berk‘s scientific answer leave s policymakers with difficult questions. By labeling one group of people as high risk, and supervise them closely, there should be fewer murders, which the potential victims should be happy about. It also means that those high-risk individuals will be su …… 此处隐藏：12909字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……