四川省成都外国语学校2020-2021学年高二4月月考英语试题 学校_________ 班级__________ 姓名__________ 学号__________ 一、阅读选择 1. English is changing faster than ever with the development of society. Do you long to keep up with the times? If so, here are some old-fashioned words you should remove from your vocabulary list. Whippersnapper As an alteration of the term "snippersnapper'', the word first appeared in the 17th century, expressing our ancestors' annoyance at ill-mannered children. In its more contemporary version, the word relates to a young person who is too confident and does not show enough respect to older. Tape Are you born in the 1980s? If so, you may still be using the term "tape" when speaking of recording music or TV shows. Today, though digital media has made data storage on magnetic an outdated thing, this old linguistic habit still exists. Stewardess In the earlier age of air travel, female crew members serving airline passengers were called stewardesses. It was the development of women's rights movement in the 1960s that the word fell out of use. "Stewardess" was replaced by a more gender-neutral term, "flight attendant”. Dungarees What we know as "jeans" today were once called “dungarees" to refer to trousers made of denm （蓝粗棉布）.As traders began importing the cloth from Genoa in Italy, this kind of trousers got a new name ’jeans”. So don't be surprised if you catch your grandpa saying dungarees. 【小题1】Who can be described as a whippersnapper nowadays? A．A child who is bad-tempered. B．An elder who doesn't like children. C．An elder who has confidence and influence. D．A teenager who is overconfident and impolite. 【小题2】Which of the following has become out of date with digital technology? A．Whippersnapper. B．Tape. C．Stewardess. D．Dungarees. 【小题3】What is the author's purpose in writing the passage? A．To show readers how to stay young. B．To explain how to keep up with the times. C．To analyze the differences among modem words. D．To advise readers not to use some old-fashioned words. 2. Eugene O'Neill, who was born in 1888, in New York, was a leading American drama writer and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936. His father was a successful touring actor. Because of that, Eugene spent his early childhood in hotels, on trains, and backstage. Although later in his life he grew to hate his father for not giving him security in his early years and a loving, comfortable family, he had the theater in his blood. As a student, O'Neill went to boarding schools but spent the summers in a moderate house his family owned. He left Princeton University in 1907, only about one year after he entered it, to start what he later called his real education in "life experience". At the age of 24, he was hired as a reporter and poetry column writer for the New London Telegraph. O'Neill didn't cut a figure in playwriting until the summer of 1916. Before that, he had written awkward plays that were hardly accepted by the mainstream of American theater. While O'Neill was only one of those whose plays were produced by the theater, he led the group to success because of his contribution within the next few years. Between 1916 and 1920, the theater produced all of O'Neill's one-act sea plays. By the time his first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, was produced on Broadway on February 2, 1920 at the Morosco Theater, the young playwright already had a small reputation. Theater critics spoke highly of Beyond the Horizon for its tragic realism. The play brought O'Neill more public attention, as well as his first Pulitzer Prize, apart from which he won another three for Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, and Long Day's Journey into Night. Over the next two decades, O'Neill continued to gain reputation nationally and globally. He became the most widely produced dramatist after Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw. 【小题1】What might inspire O'Neill's passion for theater? A．His father's career. B．The support of his family C．Hotel rooms he had lived in. D．Stories he had heard on trains. 【小题2】Why did O'Neill drop out of Princeton University? A．He didn't want to study in a boarding school. B．He wanted to receive real education from life. C．He got a job from the New London Telegraph. D．He was unsatisfied with the university education. 【小题3】What does the underlined phrase “cut a figure" in Paragraph 3 probably mean? C．Attract D．Receive an A．Show interest. B．Hold a degree. attention. award. 【小题4】What can we learn about O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon? A．It drew theater critics attention to tragic realism. B．It inspired him to compose another three dramas. C．It increased his reputation in the field of theater. D．It made him the most widely produced dramatist in history. 3. For years, Hainan, China's southernmost island province, has been an attractive tourist destination for people around the world because of its pleasant environment. Beginning this year, the beautiful island will have a new identity — an open and distinctive free trade port. The Hainan Free Trade Port will serve as a special functional economic area and its level of openness will be better than any other port in the world. Products and funds from abroad will have free access to the port, and most goods will be duty-free. The decision shows China's willingness to further open up to the world. The province of Hainan was founded in 1988. Later it became an appointed special economic (SEZ) to attract foreign investment. In 1992, the Yangpu Economic Development Zone, which was the first area in China to be comprehensively developed by foreign investors, was established. After eight years, in 2000, Hainan took the lead in carrying out a policy of visa on arrival. In the following years, a series of similar initiatives have been implemented for Hainan's continuous development, including a pilot zone for free trade founded in 2018. 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/4477baa98c9951e79b89680203d8ce2f006665b2.html