辽宁师范大学附属中学2018-2019学年高二上学期第一次模块考试英语试题

辽师大附中2018-2019学年上学期第一次模块考试

高二英语试题

命题：高二备课组  考试时间：90分钟   总分：120分

第一部分 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

Big messaging apps abroad

 While WeChat is China’s biggest mobile messaging app, there are many equivalent apps in other countries that offer similar features.

WhatsApp (US)

Users: more than 600 million[来源:Z。xx。k.Com]

Platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry

Features: text chat, push-to-talk, file sharing, location sharing

With more than 600 million active users, WhatsApp is one of WeChat’s biggest competitors. Developed by two ex-Yahoo employees in 2009, WhatsApp originally focused on text chat, but on Aug. 6 it also started push-to-talk service. It’s noted for its accessibility, ease of use and the absence of advertisements. The service is free for the first year, after which $0.99 (6.06 yuan) is charged for a one-year subscription.

KakaoTalk (South Korea)

Users: more than 100 million

Platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Bada (an operating system developed by Samsung)

Features: text chat, group chat, push-to-talk, group calls, file sharing

With more than 100 million users in more than 230 countries, KakaoTalk is a multi-platform texting application that allows users to send and receive messages for free. With KakaoTalk, users can message each other one-on-one or in group chats with unlimited numbers of friends. You can also choose from many animated emoticons and share them with friends.

Line (Japan)

Users: more than 600 million

Platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and PC

Features: text chat, group chat, push-to-talk, file sharing, location sharing, gaming, stickers

Line tops the list of the most downloaded free apps in 52 countries. Apart from text and voice messaging, Line provides its users with more than 250 original stickers and emoticons to buy from its own shop. In the first quarter of 2013 alone, it made $17 million just from stickers. The popular app also allows friends to battle each other in the LINE GAME.

21. Compared with the other two apps, which of the following features makes Line stand out?

  A. Group mobiles games.     B. Free emoticons.

  C. Free downloads of the app.    D. Text and group chat.

22. Which of the statements is TRUE according to the passage?

  A. Users can always send and receive messages for free with WhatsApp.

  B. Users can share files with any of the three apps.

  C. KakaoTalk frees users from unwanted advertisements.

  D. Line is the most popular one of the three apps.

23. In which part of the newspapers may this article be found?

  A. Advertisement.      B. Economy and Finance.

  C. Entertainment.          D. Science and Technology.

B

What happens inside the head of a soccer player who repeatedly heads a soccer ball？ That question inspired a challenging new study of the brains of experienced players that has caused discussion and debate among soccer players, and some anxiety among those of us with soccer-playing children.

For the study, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York selected 34 adults，men and women. All of the volunteers had played soccer since childhood and now competed year-round in adult soccer leagues. Each filled out a detailed questionnaire developed especially for this study to determine how many times they had headed a soccer ball in the previous year, as well as whether they had experienced any known concussions（脑震荡）in the past.

Then the players completed computerized tests of their memory and other learning skills and had their brains scanned, using a complex new M.R.I. technique which can find structural changes in the brain that can’t be seen during most scans.

According to the data they presented at a Radiological Society of North America meeting last month，the researchers found that the players who had headed the ball more than about 1,100 times in the previous 12

months showed significant loss of white matter in parts of their brains involved with memory, attention and the processing of visual information, compared with players who had headed the ball fewer times.

This pattern of white matter loss is “similar to those seen in traumatic （外伤的） brain injury ”, like that after a serious concussion, the researchers reported，even though only one of these players was reported to have ever experienced a concussion.

The players who had headed the ball about 1,100 times or more in the past year were also generally worse at recalling lists of words read to them, forgetting the words far more often than players who had headed the ball less.

24. The passage is most probably a __________.

A. news report      B. research report  

C. medicine instructions    D. text for doctors

25. What was used to find the structural changes in the brain?

A. Learning skills.     B. Advanced computers. 

C. Special questionnaires.   D. A new technique M.R.I.

26. From the passage we can conclude that frequent heading may have __________.

A. a significant effect on one’s brain  B. little effect on one’s brain

C. nothing to do with the brain injury  D. one’s memory improved

27. What do we know about the volunteers?

A. They were all researchers about soccer.

B. They had serious injury on the head.

C. They were adults who still played soccer.

D. They all head children who played soccer.

C

One of the main creators of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the fast growth of the Internet is also creating serious problems.

He especially warns of false information being easily spread around the Internet, "A great danger is that it becomes a place where untruths start to spread more than truths, or it becomes a place which becomes increasingly unfair in some way." In particular he mentions the phenomena of blogging. Blogging enables friends and contacts to easily spread information. However he argues that people may too easily trust information mentioned in a blog. This inaccurate information can then easily become an accepted truth on the