河南省商丘市第一高级中学2019-2020学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题
英语试卷
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。
A
Weekly Update: April 18, 2019
Do you pretty love going to documentary film festivals? If you do, here are some which you’d not miss.
Colorful Documentary Festival
It’s clear that it focuses on documentaries exploring the social and cultural developments in the world. Lying on the nice coast of Greece, the festival’s side events host exhibitions, concerts and parties.
Visions Festival
Changing to new management in 2018 in Nyon, Visions Festival quickly became the important event for documentary films with major reports and historical inquiries.
Hot Festival
What is impressed is that it allows participants to meet sectors of the whole of the British documentary industry under one roof, which attracts the leading names of British documentaries and promotes the screenings of today’s documentaries for the future.
Silver Festival
As is well-known to us all, it includes a week-long international film festival and a five-day conference—the largest professional conference of its kind in the US. Meanwhile, the conference promotes documentary films as a leading art form, supports the work of independent filmmakers, and encourages public dialogues around the issues and ideas explored in films.
And just a few minutes’ distance away from downtown Washington, D. C., screenings take place at the Silver Theatre, one of the premier film exhibition spaces in America.
- Which of the following festivals features British documentaries?
- Hot Festival. B. Colorful Documentary Festival.
C. Visions Festival. D. Silver Festival.
22. What can we learn from Silver Festival?
A. It has the largest conference of its kind worldwide.
B. It’s the most famous international film festival worldwide.
C. The documentary film isn’t the only form at it.
D. It’s a festival mainly for independent filmmakers.
23.The passage may probably appear _______.
A. on a website B. in the cultural column of a magazine
C. in a travel brochure D. in a newspaper
B
A teacher from Relax Kids in Tamworth, UK, used two apples to show her students the damaging and often unseen consequences of bullying（欺负）. And her post about the powerful lesson has gone viral.
Rosie Dutton explained that during one of her classes she introduced two red apples to the children. What the kids didn’t know was that ahead of the lesson, Dutton had repeatedly dropped one of the apples on the floor. And yet, on the outside at least, both apples looked perfect. “I picked up the apple I’d dropped on the floor and started to tell the children how I disliked this apple, and that I thought it was disgusting, it was a horrible colour and the stem(梗) was just too short,” Dutton wrote.
She then encouraged the students to do the same. Some of the children looked at her like she was “crazy”, but the students passed the apple around the circle, calling it names.
Continuing the exercise, the teacher then passed the second apple around the circle. This apple, however, was showered with comments like: “Your skin is beautiful.” and “What a beautiful colour you are!”
Dutton then showed the students both apples once again, highlighting that “there was no change, and both apples still looked the same.”
That is, until she cut them open. “The apple we’d said unkind words to was bruised(碰伤的) and all mushy(糊状的) inside,” she said. There was, she said, an immediate “light bulb” moment for her students. “They really got it. What we saw inside that apple is what is happening inside everyone of us when someone mistreats us with their words or actions.”
Dutton explained how important it is to teach children to stand up for one another, and to stop any form of bullying.
“Let’s create a generation of kind caring children,” the teacher wrote. “The tongue has no bones, but is strong enough to break a heart. So be careful with your words.”
24. What had the teacher done to the first apple before the lesson?
A. She had introduced it to the kids. B. She had made it look perfect.
C. She had coloured it brightly. D. She had damaged it purposely.
25. What does the underlined part “calling it names” (Para. 3) mean?
A. Making fun of it. B. Saying rude things.
C. Cheering for it. D. Shouting at it.
26. What did the teacher instruct the kids to do with the second apple?
A. Observe it. B. Ignore it. C. Drop it. D. Praise it.
27. What’s the purpose of the teacher’s using two apples in class?
A. To make a comparison between them.
B. To explain her personal preferences.
C. To help the kids understand the results of bullying.
D. To draw the kids’ attention.
C
Bad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking people’s e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories．
“The ‘if it bleeds’ rule works for mass media,” says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. “They want your eyeballs and don’t care how you’re feeling. But when you share a story with your friends，you care a lot more how they react．You don’t want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer.”
Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, Web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn’t necessarily mean people preferred positive news. Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that possibility, Dr. Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on The New York Times’ website．He and a Penn colleague analyzed the “most e-mailed” list for six months. One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles．He found that science amazed Times’ readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others．
Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad. They needed to be aroused one way or the other, and they preferred good news to bad. The more positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared, as Dr. Berger explains in his new book, “Contagious: Why Things Catch On.”
28. What do the classic rules mentioned in the text apply to？
A. Research papers． B. News reports．
C. Daily conversations． D. Private e-mails．
29. What can we infer about people like Debbie Downer？
A. They’re inconsiderate of others. B. They’re good at telling stories．
C. They’re socially inactive． D. They’re careful with their words．
30. Which tended to be the most e-mailed according to Dr. Berger’s research？
A. Personal accounts． B. Sports new．
C. Financial reviews． D. Science articles．
31. What can be a suitable title for the text？
A. Online News Attracts More People．
B. Reading Habits Change with the Times．
C. Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks．
D. Sad Stories Travel Far and Wide．
D
2018 was an influential year for artificial intelligence, not just in terms of the advancement of the technology itself, but also for the development of our understanding of AI’s influence on our society.
When we talk about AI, often we focus on the belief that it is going to take away certain types of jobs. However, we often ignore the fact that this technology will also slowly spread into most of our lives.
Thanks to the development of AI, we are on the highway of human intelligence augmentation (增强). Despite the great steps we’ve made in AI development and will continue to make in 2019, we are still years away from AI fully replacing human jobs. However, we are much closer to seeing the influence of AI spreading into almost every job and the growth in human intelligence.
Take the doctor for example: AI will soon be able to test and diagnose common diseases more quickly and accurately than humans. Now, doctors can spend more of their time explaining the possible diagnoses, communicating with patients and developing unique, reliable treatment plans that are most effective for each specific patient.
However, AI is so powerful and its adoption will only accelerate as it begins to help our work