夸克学习打开夸克扫码有夸克就有解查看试卷解析2018-2019学年云南省玉溪一中高二（上)期末英语试卷阅读理解1.My husband David was waiting at the door when our daughter Laura and I came back.It wasn't like himto be home so early.The disbelief on his face told me that something was up."Do you still have a job?""No.Redundant,he answered,looking away from me."OK.Well figure it out,I replied calmly.I actually had no idea how we were going to figure it out.Iimmediately started to think of how we'd cut costs and who we should start to get in touch with.Thatnight,after David had fallen asleep,I cried myself to sleep,and frequently sobbed()in the shower inthe days that followed.I knew the loss of David's income would have great effect on us.He had worked for the same company fortwenty-one years and was our main income.I work at home caring for Laura,and my income isof identity was tied to his job.He called his parents to tell them about losing his job,but didn't say a wordto anyone else for weeks.He told me that he felt like "a failure".job,David woke me just before midnight,sweating,pacing the bedroom floor and saying he didn't feelwell.We spent the night in the emergency room waiting to see if he had a heart attack.Thankfully,it wasjust a serious anziety attack.It was then that I knew I needed to do more to understand what my husbandwas going through.Here is what I learned from my own erperience-and from talking to erperts-on howto support your loved ones through a job loss.[1]The underlined word in Paragraph 3 probably means_.A.A piece of cakeB.Out of questionC.It's a secretD.Out of employment[2]What did the writer do about her husband's situation at first?A.She always remained calm and gave him advice.B.She appeared calm when in fact she was worried.C.She began to write about his situation to the newspapers.D.She talked to some experts to ask for advice.A.He talked much to others to reduce his anriety.第1页1共11页夸克学习有夸克就有解B.He never thought himself "a failure"even when jobless.C.He was fired by the company for which he had worked for twenty-one years.D.Once leaving the job,he suffered a heart attack and had to consult the doctor.[4]What will be talked about in the following part of the passage?A.Why the company fired David.B.How David suffered from the heart attack and the treatment.C.How the writer supported David to get through the jobless period.D.What the writer did to help get some income.2.Most people can't live to 100.Those who do live so long can hardly walk,let alone take part in anyactivities.A few people,however,take part in dangerous activities even though they are more than 100years old-They keep going and going!There is a great grandmother who likes challenging herself althoughshe is 101 years old this year.Mary Hardison believes that people showld always be cheerful and more importantly,take on all kinds ofadventures while they physically still can.So,instead of celebrating her 101st birthday with a boring party,she decided to go paragliding(滑翔跳伞）-an idea she got from her 75-year-old son who recently took it upas a hobby.So on her birthday,cheered on by her big family.she tied herself up together with expert instructor KevinHintze,and jumped down fearlessly from the sky near her home in Ogden,Utah.And,it was not just asimple jump either.According to Kevin Hintze,the grandmother encouraged him to turn around,as theymade their way down.This is not the first time that Mary has done something "wild"and "crazy".For her 90th birthday she rodeall the adult rides at Disneyland.And.she is not done yet-For her 102nd birthday she hopes to go downthe 3,000 feet Alpine Slide at Utah's Park City Mountain Resort!Not surprisingly,this great action has made Mary Hardison very famous and also earned her a place in theGuinness World Records where she broke a 2007 record set by a 100-year-old British woman.What anamazing lady!【l】What do we know about Mary Hardison?A.She took up paragliding as her hobby at the age of 75.B.She is a 101-year-old lady who likes challenging herself.C.She was recorded in the Guinness World Records in 2007.【2】From whom did Mary get the idea of going paragliding？A.A 100-year-old British woman.B.Kevin Hintze.C.Her grandson.D.Her 75-year-old son.[3]How does the author feel about Mary's action第2页1共11页夸克学习有夸克就有解A.Amazed.D.Worried.【4】The tert is likely to appear in_·A.a news reportB.an advertisementC.a novelD.a science report3.Over millions of years,African penguins have developed a keen sense of where to find food.Oncethey're old enough,they set off from the shores on which they were hatched()for the first time andswim long distances in search of tasty fish like anchovies and sardines.But they don't search directly forthe fish themselves.When African penguins head out to sea,they look for areas with low surfacetemperatures and high chlorophyll(叶绿素).Because those conditions signal the presence of algae(藻类).Andlots of algae means lots of plankton(浮游a动物)，which in turn means lots of their favorite fish.Wcdl,that's what it used to mean.Climate change plus overfishing have made the penguin feeding grounds a mirage().The habitat isindeed plankton-rich,but now it's fish-poor.Researchers call this an "ecological trap.""It's a situationwhere you have a sigal that previously pointed an animal towards good-quality habitat.That habitat hasbeen changed,usually by human pressures.The signal stays,but the quality in the environment getsRichard Sherley,a zoologist at the University of Exeter and his team used satellite imaging to track theAfrican penguins from eight sites along southern Africa.Historically,the birds benefited from tons of fishoff the coasts of Angola,Namibia and western South Africa,but now they're going hungry."I was really hoping we'd see them going east,and finding areas which the fish had moved to but it ends upbeing quite a sad story for the penguins."said Richard.The researchers calculate that by falling into this ecological trap,African penguin popwlations on SouthAfrica's Western Cape have declined by around 80 percent.Some research groups are erploring the idea of moving them to a place where they can't get trapped,like theEastern Cape.But Sherley thinks that a solution in the long run means making and carrying out rules to【1】How do penguins find their food?A.They discover fish with their keen sense.B.They swim long distances directly for fish.D.They look for warmer and greener areas.第3页1共11页