2019-2021學年廣東省湛江市雷州市白沙中學高二（下）第二次月考英語試卷

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D 四個選項中，選出最佳選項。（共4小題：每小題2.5分，滿分37.5分）

• 1．Happy Campers Summer Retreat
     As a parent，your child's health and happiness are the most important things to you，which can be difficult to achieve.The Happy Campers Summer Retreat was developed to help parents with this challenge.
     Founded in 1998 by Michael Gibson，our summer camp is open to children during the holidays，from May to September.We look after lots of children every single year.Our camp is based in the Colorado Mountains，and it offers a lot of different activities for children.
     Our program helps improve：
     ? Physical fitness
     ? Problem-solving skills
     ? Social skills
     ? Sports ability and experience
     The Happy Campers Summer Retreat can benefit all children.Some children are good at school，but rarely active.Our program will help encourage an interest in sports.Other children are mainly interested in sports.These children will not only play sports，but will also learn new skills，such as teamwork skills，social skills，and communication skills.Children will also have the chance to try new activities.Our program is designed to help develop a complete and fully active child.
     At very affordable prices，our program is available to any family in America.Your child's stay can be as short as a week or as long as six weeks.
     Why not call us today or click here to join our camp？Take action now and give your child this great chance!
  
  （1）How long does the camp last every year？

  
  A．One week.
  B．One month.
  C．Six weeks.
  D．Five months.
  （2）What can a child learn from the camp？

  
  A．How to deal with people.
  B．How to choose a strong team.
  C．How to avoid physical problems.
  D．How to stay interested in something.
  （3）What is the purpose of the text？

  
  A．To describe the history of the camp.
  B．To compare the camp with other activities.
  C．To tell parents about the benefits of outdoor activities.
  D．To encourage parents to send their children to the camp.
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• 2．There is an old saying in English： "Laughter is the best medicine." Until recently，few people took the saying very seriously.Now，however，doctors have begun to investigate laughter and the effects it has on the human body.They have found evidence that laughter really can improve people's health.
     Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body.People watched funny films，while doctors checked their heart rate，blood pressure，breathing and muscles.It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise.It increases blood pressure，the heart rate and the rate of breathing；it also works several groups of muscles in the face，the stomach，and even the feet.If laughter exercises the body，it must be beneficial.
     Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be capable of reducing the effect of pain on the body.In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs.The group，which tolerated the pain for the longest time，was the group，which listened to a funny program.The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins（內啡肽） in the brain.These are natural chemicals that diminish both stress and pain.
     There is also some evidence to suggest that laughter helps the body's immune（免疫的） system，that is，the system which fights jye.aifection.In an experiment，one group of students watched a funny video while another group served as the control group—in other words，a group with which to compare the first group.Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their blood cells，that is，the cells which fight infection.
  As a result of these discoveries，some doctors and psychiatrists（精神病學家） in the United States now hold laughter clinics，in which they try to improve their patients' conditions by encouraging them to laugh.They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing，making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.
  （1）What can we learn from the first paragraph？

  
  A．Laughter is good for one's health.
  B．Laughter is related to some illness.
  C．Laughter has been investigated long since.
  D．Laughter has no effect on the body.
  （2）Doctors have found that laughter

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  A．keeps down blood pressure
  B．has similar effects to physical exercise
  C．decreases the heart rate
  D．increases stress
  （3）Which of the following statements of laughter is NOT true，according to the passage？

  
  A．It reduces pain.
  B．It exercises the body.
  C．It improves the body's immune system.
  D．It can cure cancer.
  （4）What do doctors in a laughter clinic do？

  
  A．They laugh at their patients.
  B．They encourage their patients to laugh.
  C．They smile when they don't feel like laughing.
  D．They never stop laughing.
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• 3．A snowboarder was feeling lucky to be alive yesterday after a helicopter rescue（直升機營救）.
     Ben Akintola，30，was snowboarding in the French Alps under a clear blue sky in the afternoon when a large amount of snow fell down the side of the mountain.He didn't have time to escape（逃脫）and it hit him with full force and knocked him senseless.
     He woke in the night in total darkness.He was lying on an icy rock.Amazingly，he still had a mobile phone signal（信號），so he called a friend a thousand kilometers away in Britain.His friend called the French rescue services.
     "I was waiting for what seemed like hours on that rock.I was beginning to give up hope when I heard the sound of a helicopter.It was circling around in the darkness，looking for me.I was trying my best to wave my mobile around.Fortunately the helicopter pilot saw the light."
     "I was overjoyed when the helicopter headed my way.It stayed above me and began lowering a rope."
     Ben was in hospital last night but he was not being treated for any serious injuries.He's looking forward to going home today.
     The French rescue services said："We were very pleased that we were able to save Ben.The risk of snow slide off-piste（非滑雪場地的） is much higher at this time of year.All snowboarders and skiers should stay on the ski runs and not go off-piste.Ben was very lucky."
  
  （1）What happened to Ben？

  
  A．He got lost in the French Alps.
  B．He had a snowboarding accident.
  C．He was separated from his friends.
  D．He was knocked down by falling rocks.
  （2）The French rescue services learned about Ben's difficulty

  .
  A．from his friend
  B．in the early afternoon
  C．a(chǎn)fter receiving his call
  D．when seeing his mobile
  （3）How did Ben feel about the wait？

  
  A．It made him strong in the darkness.
  B．It caused him to hope for the best.
  C．It was shorter than he expected.
  D．It was a little discouraging.
  （4）What's the best title for the text？

  
  A．A Lucky Escape
  B．A Rocky Mountain
  C．Risks of Snowboarding
  D．French Rescue Services
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第一節(jié) 寫作（滿分40分）

• 8．假如你是李華，你的澳大利亞筆友David在郵 件中透露，他覺得他的朋友吸煙很酷，也想嘗試一下，為此征求你的意見。請你根據(jù)以下提示，給David回一封郵件，勸他不要吸煙。要點如下：
  1.吸煙危害大，會影響自身及他人的健康；
  2.一旦上癮，很難戒除；
  3.提倡健康、積極的生活方式。
  注意：
  1.詞數(shù)80左右；
  2.可以適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫；
  3.開頭和結尾已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)。
  Dear David，
      I have learned from your email that you want to try smoking as you think it is very cool.

  
  Yours sincerely，
  Li Hua
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• 9．At the beginning of the new term，a teacher at Ringrose Kindergarten decided to do something different to choose "the Excellent Kid" of this term.One day the teacher brought a bag of boiled seeds，and then called the kids together，and said， "I am going to give each one of you a seed today，a very special seed.You are to plant the seed，water it and come back here at the end of this term with what you have grown from the seed you bring to me，and the one I choose will be "the Excellent Kid".
      Like the others，a boy named James received a seed.He went home and told his mother the story excitedly.She helped him get a pot and soil，and he planted the seed.Evert day he would water it and watch to see if it had grown.After about three weeks，some of the other kids began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.
      James kept checking his seed，but nothing grew.Four weeks，five weeks went by，still nothing.By now，others were all talking about their plants，but James didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.
      Two months went by，there was still nothing in James' pot.He just knew he had ruined his seed.Everyone else had tall plants，but he had nothing.James didn't say anything.However，he just kept watering the fertilizing （給……施肥） the soil，expecting the seed to grow.
      A term finally went by.All the kids brought their plants to the teacher for inspection.James told his mother he wasn't going to take an empty pot.But she encouraged him to go，and to be honest about what happened.James felt restless because it would be the most embarrassing moment of his life，but he knew his mother was right.
  
  Paragraph 1：
      He took his empty pot to the classroom.__________________
  Paragraph 2：
      All the other kids looked at the teacher in surprise._______________________
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