广东省广州市越秀区2021-2022学年高一下学期期末英语试卷

2021- 2022 学年越秀区第二学期学业水平调研测试 高一年级英语试卷 本试卷共10页，满分120分。考让用时120分钟。 2022.6 注意事项: 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、试空号、座位号填写在答题卡上， 并用2B份笔填涂符题卡上的机应位置。因不考听力，试卷从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始，试题序号从“21”开始。 2.回答选择时，选出正确答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题日的答案标号涂黑。 如需改动，用像皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。 3.回答非选择题时，必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡指 定区域的相应位置上; 如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新答案; 不准使用粉笔、圆珠笔成涂改液。写在本试卷上无效。 4. 考试结束后，将本试在和答题卡一并交回。 第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分50分) 第一节(共15小题:每小题25分，满分37.5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 Graffiti Have you ever written anything on a wall? It’s nothing new and for thousands of years humans have been writing messages on walls, bridges, and buildings as a means of expressing themselves. Ancient Graffiti Some of the first graffiti artists were the Vikings. You can read some at a prehistoric site in Scotland. The Vikings broke into the burial site about 800 years ago, hoping to find treasure. Unfortunately,there wasn`t any; however,the cave was a good place to shelter from the terrible storm that night, where the Vikings left messages on the walls to pass the time. Interestingly, many of the things they wrote are typical of modern-day graffiti, for example,“John made this cross." Political Graffiti At times, graffiti is used to make political statements. During World War ,people in occupied Holland painted orange victory“V"signs on walls in major towns. Here’s another example:“ No more wars! " American Graffiti During the 1970s a new type of graffiti became popular in the States: tagging (标记) Bands of youngsters slipped away into the streets at night with cans of paint and left their tags on as many walls as possible. Sometimes they also responded to other people’s graffiti. Some people see this form of graffiti as an example of urban art; others see it as an example of urban decline. British Graffiti In Britain, one of the most popular forms of graffiti is known as “toilet graffiti”, which is common on the walls of public toilets all over the country.The graffiti often consists of a fu