甘肃省武威市第二中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题 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 Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition & Tour is a unique international resource to explore Shakespeare’s work. Open all year round, it gives you an opportunity to learn more about the most famous playwright, Shakespeare, and helps you seek to further the experience and international understanding of him. Group Visits to the Exhibition & Tour Opening Hours Theatre Tours: Monday - Sunday 9:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Exhibition: Monday - Sunday 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Groups of 15 people or more are required to pre-book their visit, and each group will have its own guide for free. To make a reservation, please fill in a Group Request Form and return it to us via email. Exhibition and Tour Prices Adult: $15.00 Senior (60+): $13.50 Student (with valid ID): $11.50 Child (5-15): $ 8.00 Complimentary: Every 16th person free Getting here Shakespeare’s Globe 21 New Globe Walk, London SEl9DT, UK Visitors are advised to arrive by public transport or by taxi. There is a car park on Thames Exchange on the north side of Southwark Bridge (open 24 hours, seven days a week). Cabs may be found all year round on Southwark Bridge. It may also be possible to pick one up from outside the entrance hall on New Globe Walk. Where to eat Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe serves modern British seasonal food for dinner, afternoon tea or drinks in our beautiful bar and restaurant set over two floors, available for pre- and post-theatre dining. Swan Restaurant Monday- Friday: 12 noon – 3:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.- 10:30 p.m. Saturday: 12 noon- 3:30 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. Sunday: 12 noon- 9: 00 p.m. 21.When can you pay a visit to the exhibition? A.Friday at 12:00 noon B.Monday at 8: 00 a.m. C.Saturday at 5: 30 p.m. D.Sunday at 7: 00 p.m. 22.If a group of 20 children visit the Exhibition & Tour, what is required for them to do? A.They need to hire a guide themselves. B.They must be accompanied by an adult. C.They have to pay $160 for tickets in total. D.They need to email for a reservation in advance. 23.What can we know about Swan Restaurant? A.Afternoon tea is not served on Sunday. B.It serves traditional seasonal food for diners. C.It is closed from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on workdays. D.It serves three meals, drinks and afternoon tea. B Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 in a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated (躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate. In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “creative voice”. “It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.” Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book talks about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school to graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection. 24.What can we know about Cisneros in her childhood? A.Her brothers liked her. B.She felt herself unimportant. C.She was too shy to go to school. D.She did not meet any good teachers. 25.The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to ________. A.run away from her family B.develop her writing style C.make a lot of friends D.search for a husband 26.According to Cisneros, what was the key factor in her success? A.Her childhood experience. B.Her training in the Workshop. C.Her feeling of being different. D.Her early years in college. 27.What do we learn about The House on Mango Street? A.It enjoys great popularity among students. B.It is a book of poetry written by Cisneros. C.It wasn’t a success as it was written in Spanish. D.It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine. C Flight cancellations(取消) and loss of luggage can ruin even the best-planned holiday. The key to a stress-free trip is having a backup plan. Fly non-stop. The worst problems involve connections, so it is important to take non-stop flights whenever possible. If you do have to make a connection, try to route through a southern city, where snowstorms and delays will be less likely. Always allow at least two to three hours for flight connections. Check the weather. Check the weather in your connecting city, not just the arrival and departure city. If your departure flight is cancelled because of weather, you can go home or back to your hotel. Airlines promise to get you on the next available flight, not the next flight. That could be several days later on a sold-out holiday weekend. Go early. The earlier in the day you fly, the better your chance of getting rebooked the same day after a missed connection. It will also put you ahead of stranded(滞留的) passengers who arrive later. Rebook immediately. As soon as your flight is delayed or cancelled, get on the phone and rebook your flight instead of waiting at the ticket counter. If your rebooking is delayed, call or ask your travel agent to find a seat on another carrier, and then ask your original carrier to endorse your ticket to the new airline. Airlines are not required to do this but often do. Ship bags. A few days before your flight, ship suitcases or holiday gifts to your destination by a documented express service. It’s preferable to losing bags because of re-routed flights and sometimes cheaper than paying airline overweight bag fees. Know your rights. Airlines are not required to compensate passengers for delayed or cancelled flights, but it never hurts to ask for goodwill vouchers(折扣) for meals, taxis or a room. 28. When making a flight connection, it’s common that you’ll___________. A.stop in the south B.choose a good city without snowstorm C.be trapped in the storm D.go home 29.The suggested way for you to rebook your flight is___________. A.through the phone B.by waiting at the ticket counter C.by changing another airline D.by surfing the Internet 30.The underlined word “compensate” in the last paragraph can be replaced by “___________”. A.pay B.ask C.host D.treat 31.What’s the best title of the passage? 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/94522b12b80d4a7302768e9951e79b89690268f3.html