江苏省沭阳县修远中学2017-2018学年高二上学期第二次月考英语试(2)

38. A. expressed 39.A. particular 40. A. details 41.A. inevitably 42. A. reporter 43. A. different 44. A. hard 45. A. true

46. A. arouse 47. A. took

B. put

C. written

D. spoken D. confident D. contacts D. eventually D. observer D. pleasant D. easy

B. curious B. contents

C. passionate C. descriptions

B. invariably B. hunter B. same B. mild B. close

C. unexpectedly C. researcher C. alike C. casual C. open

D. contrary

B. share B. spent

C. awaken C. cost

D. pursue

D. used

D. saw to D. recognized

48. A. looked into 49. A. consented 50. A. might 51. A. accepted 52. A. climb 53. A. yet

B. looked though C. saw though B. realized B. should

C. concluded C. would

D. could

D. opposed

B. confirmed B. grow B. still

C. approved C. flee

D. float D. also

D. rather than

C. thus

54. A. more than 55. A. drags

B. better than B. keeps

C. other than C. leaves

D. catches

第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A Peanuts to This

Proudly reading my words, I glanced around the room, only to find my classmates wearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes. Confused, I glanced toward my stone-faced teacher. Having no choice, I slowly raised the report I had slaved over, hoping to hide myself. “What could be causing everyone to act this way?”

Quickly, I flashed back to the day Miss Lancelot gave me the task. This was the first real task I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information

about a man named George Washington. Since my idea of history came from an ancient teacher in my home country, I had never heard of that name before. As I searched the name of this fellow, it became evident that there were two people bearing the same name who looked completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, while the other led some sort of army across America. I stared at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice: flip （掷） a coin. Heads—the commander, and tails—the peanuts guy. Ah! Tails, my report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver.

Weeks later, standing before this unfriendly mass, I was totally lost. Oh well, I lowered the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his report, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American Revolution.” The whole world became quiet! How could I know that she meant that George Washington?

Obviously, my grade was awful. Heartbroken but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to Miss Lancelot, but she insisted: No re-dos; no new grade. I felt that the punishment was not justified, and I believed I deserved a second chance. Consequently, I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months later, that chance unfolded as I found myself sitting in the headmaster’s office with my grandfather, now having an entirely different conversation. I smiled and flashed back to the embarrassing moment at the beginning of the year as the headmaster informed me of my option to skip the sixth grade. Justice is sweet!

56. Why was the author confused about the task? A. He was unfamiliar with American history．

B. He followed the advice and flipped a coin． C. He forgot his teacher’s instruction．

D. He was new at the school．

57. In the end, the author turned things around _______． A. by redoing his task B. through his own efforts C. with the help of his grandfather

D. under the guidance of his headmaster

B

Shiny things absorb less heat when left in the sun. This means that if the Earth could be made a little shinier it would be less likely to suffer global warming. Ways to brighten it, such as adding nanoscale specks（纳米级） of salt to low clouds, making them whiter, or putting a thin haze of particles into the stratosphere（平流层）, are the field of “geoengineering”（地球工程）. A small band of scientists which have mostly been using computer models to study the subject. Some of them are now proposing outdoor experiments—using seawater-fed sprayers to churn out particles of the exact size needed to brighten clouds, or scattering sulphur particles（硫粒子） from underneath a large balloon 20km up in the sky.

The scientists hope to understand some of the processes on which these technologies depend, as a way of both measuring their possibility (can you reliably make the proper amount of sea salt brighten clouds?) and assessing their risks (how much damage to the ozone layer might a stratospheric haze do, and how might such damage be minimized?). The experiments would be far too small to have any climatic effects. The amount of sulphur put into the stratosphere by the experimental balloon would be 2% of what a passenger jet crossing the Atlantic emits in an hour.

However, many scientists doubt whether geoengineering experiments have any effects. And some environmentalists say that such experiments reflect the hubris（傲慢）of humans, who believe they can toy with nature.

Geoengineering is not an alternative to relieving climate change by cutting carbon emissions. Even if emissions do start to fall, the cuts will lake decades to h …… 此处隐藏：8252字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……