人教版英语高二下期末复习说明文阅读理解练习

1、人教版英语高二下期末复习说明文阅读理解练习（带答案）If youre concerned about climate change, should you feel guilty about hanging out online? Maybe not.Data, or information, is often processed and stored on a computer. A computer that provides data to other computers is called a server. Servers also store data such as videos

2、, pictures and emails. A building that holds many servers is known as a data center. Without data centers and servers, we could not access websites on our own computers and phones every day.Some people worry that data centers use a lot of energy, which could be bad for the environment. But recent st

3、udies found that data centers do not use as much energy as they thought.Eric Masanet, a professor at Northwestern University, is the study5s main author. Masanet and his team looked at the energy used by data centers around the world, and found that data centers have improved. They saw a 20 percent

4、energy improvement each year.These improvements are due to better servers. They use less energy than servers once did. Other technologies have also improved.Masanet said to make sure computers use energy effectively, some things need to happen. Businesses and governments should get involved. Countri

5、es need to be open about how much electricity their data centers use. Large data companies also need to source their electricity from renewable energy, such as sunlight and wind. For example, Google and Apple both purchased or generated enough renewable electricity to match 100 percent of their data

6、 center energy use in 2018.“People should care about the energy data centers need J said Masanet. But we dont have to feel bad about staying connected.1. Why do people need data centers?To help people reduce time on computers.To store information and let them use websites.To provide energy needed to

7、 run peoples phones.To save data on the Internet instead of on servers9. What caused data centers to have a 20 percent improvement in energy use?A. Less fuel is being burned in the atmosphere.B. Fewer people are online at the same time.C. Servers and technologies have improved.D. More information is

8、 stored in phones.What does the underlined word source“ in paragraph 6 mean?A. Measure.B. Store.C. Choose.D. Obtain.According to Eric Masanet, how to make sure computers use energy effectively?Businesses and governments should be involved.The boundaries of countries should be opened.People need to s

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11、to the following statement: “I really care about my work., If you have answered that kind of question before, you have probably applied for a job at a large company. Psychometric tests, as they are called, have become increasingly popular.Eager job-seekers may think the answers to these questions ar

12、e glaringly obvious. For any statement, give a response that creates a portrait of a diligent and collaborative worker. But the people who set the tests know that candidates will respond this way. So questions are rephrased in many different ways to check that applicants are consistent and make it d

13、ifficult for them to remember what they have already said.The Second World War had a big impact on psychometric testing. The British were impressed with the efficiency of German army officers and learned they had been selected with the help of intelligence tests. This led the British to create the W

14、ar Office Selection Board. Alongside verbal and non-verbal reasoning, it challenged candidates with word-association exercises and being made to lead group discussions.For high-skilled jobs, these tests are useful. However, Mr. Johnson says there is a risk with using such tests to recruit workers fo

15、r low-skilled jobs. If you select people who pass complex cognitive tests, they will learn the job quickly but will then get bored and leave.Psychometric tests became more popular from the 1970s onwards and are now seen as a useful way of sorting through the candidates who apply for the jobs offered

16、 by big companies. Previously, it was a laborious task to sort through thousands of written applications J says Julia Knight, another occupational psychologist. As well as being time consuming, it was not very effective and accurate.Whafs the passage mainly talking about?The rise of psychometric tes

17、ts in nowadays societyThe introduction of psychometric tests with its historyThe benefits of using psychometric tests for bossesThe presentation of psychometric tests in companiesWhat do we know from the second paragraph?Job seekers can guess the expected answers in the test.It is never too hard to

18、cheat in testing.Psychometric tests are scientific and reasonable.Its recommended to find a job through psychometric tests.What can we learn from what Julia Knight said?The traditional way of classifying written applications was unsatisfactory.Psychometric tests are not effective and accurate as exp

19、ectedCompanies are rejecting thousands of written applicationsIt remains to be seen whether psychometric tests work wellHow is the passage developed?Comparing between the people who test and are testedGoing from an argument to its supporting ideasDigging the topic from the present to the pastUnfoldi

20、ng from the topic to its related aspectsNoise created by humans, such as car traffic, quieted by about 30% between late March 2020, when Governor Greg Abbott closed schools and restaurants across Texas, and early May, according to the analysis by researchers at Southern Methodist University.“There w

21、as quite a big change in some areas/ said Stephen Arrowsmith, a seismologist （地 震 学家）at SMU, who took on the project with a class of undergraduate and graduate students. Arrowsmith and his students looked at data from a dozen seismometers （地震仪）across North Texas. Seismometers are used to detect eart

22、hquakes, but they are sensitive to just about everything that makes the ground vibrate, such as strong winds, ocean waves, construction and traffic.The idea of using seismometers to track urban noise first gained popularity last March when Belgian seismologist Thomas Lecocq posted some of his urban

23、noise data from Brussels on Twitter. Lecocq, of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, received such an overwhelming response from scientists that he launched the group Lockdown Seismology11 on the Slack communications platform.Its where bored seismologists around the world are collaborating/* Arrowsmith

24、 joked. Lecocq wrote in an email to The Dallas Morning News that he wanted to document the noise levels to show how small changes in personal behavior can make an international impact. Cities have seen a wide range of noise reductions ranging from 20% to 90% during last year, Lecocq said.Arrowsmith

25、hopes his findings will contribute to a growing list of creative ways in which researchers are using seismometers. In his spring seismology course, Arrowsmith teaches students how seismic stations can help, investigators solve crimes, like terrorist bombings, aid scientists in tracking nuclear tests

26、 pr assist inspectors investigating accidents, like chemical plant blasts. One potential application of his research is to better understand the shallow layers of Earth beneath cities. That could be useful in places where theres a real seismic hazard, like San Francisco or Los Angeles, he said, H,wh

27、ere just knowing what that shallow structure is tells you a lot about how it would respond in a big earthquake.Recently, researchers have begun using seismic stations to track storms over the ocean because large waves register on the instruments too.What are Arrowsmith and his students1 findings abo

28、ut?A. The quiet of car traffic.B. The reduction of city noise.C. A big change in seismology.D. An earthquake detecting project.How did Thomas make the urban noise analysis popular?By inspiring a response from scientists.By establishing a communications platform.By revealing the noise data on social

29、media.By launching the group “Lockdown Seismology.The underlined word collaborating“ in Paragraph 4 means “A. ignoring each otherB. arguing all the timeC. improving greatlyD. working togetherWhat does Paragraph 5 mainly talk about?Some additional uses of seismometers.Arrowsmiths spring seismology co

30、urse.C Understanding the shallow layers of Earth.Using seismometers in detecting earthquakes.四The worldwide partial internet outage (中 断)this week, which lasted more than an hour and apparently caused by human error at a little-known company based in San Francisco, wasn*t a big deal for most people.

31、 You might not have even noticed it. But the businesses and services that went dark definitely noticed it.Around 7:30 pm (AEST) last Tuesday, dozens of sites began displaying 503 error messages. This included The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, Amazon, eBay, Twitch,

32、Spotify and many others.The problem was at Fastly, the provider of one of the internets most widely used content delivery networks (CDNs). These CDNs allow websites to be accessed quickly through the use of servers spread across the globe. These, servers reduce the distance data has to travel to get

33、 to its destination. There are many CDNs around the world but they are controlled by a very small group of operators: Fastly, Akamai and Cloudflare.Fastly attributed the problem to a configuration (酉己置)error, which likely means someone made a change that resulted in a cascade of system failures. Sim

34、ilar issues at CDNs have occurred in the past and in this case, it was fixed promptly.But a brief inconvenience for some posed a big headache for others. Amazon Australia may have missed $114,000 during the hour of downtime. For smaller businesses or more vital services, the impact might have been m

35、ore horrible. In the UK and the US some government services were also affected, including a British hub for booking COVID-19 vaccination.Dr Marcus Thompson, cyber security advisor and former head of information warfare for The Australian Defense Force (ADF), said the outage demonstrated the need for

36、 greater data sovereignty (主权)in Australia. This was a technical outage, rather than a cyber-attack, yet the effect on Australian businesses and people was the same. It calls into question our dependence on foreign service providers, he said.Monash universitys Dr Klaus Ackermann, who was part of a t

37、eam that created a global internet pressure map to analyze the pressure on basic facilities, said local companies could consider taking matters into their own hands. nIf issues like this are to be prevented in the future, businesses need to be willing to invest in setting up their own distributed se

38、rvers,1 he said.As distributed delivery has become more vital to operations, companies have started using multiple CDNs as insurance against failures. But its a costly strategy and switching from one CDN to another in an emergency, even if youve prepared beforehand, is not a simple task.What is the

39、text mainly about?A What caused the problem at Fastly.How to prevent the internet from outage.What a worldwide partial internet outage resulted in.How to reduce dependence on foreign service providers. 2. What do we know about CDNs?They reduce the data during the transfer.They didnt cause inconvenie

40、nce in the past.They allow people to access websites quickly.They are controlled by a large group of operators.According to Paragraph 5, which can be a headache*?A. Companies economic losses.B. Governments* financial problems.C. Websites1 system failures.D. Countries* social disorder.Which of the fo

41、llowing might possibly prevent such an outage?Refusing to use various CDNs.Strengthening data sovereignty.Building companies own websites.Refusing to use foreign cyber technologies.五Those who work on the “996” model (where employees work from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week) must envy their counterparts (

42、对应的人)in an American company, because they have a shorter work week. Basecamp, a Chicago-based web application company gives all his employees a short work week: just four days-a total of 32 hours, between May and September every year. Also, they usually work five days a week for the rest of the year

43、.“Thats plenty of time to get great work done. This is all we expect and all we want from people J says Jason Fried, a co-founder. Working 60-plus, or 70-plus hours is unnecessary. In fact, if you have to work 60-plus or 70-plus hours a week, theres a management problem.”The companys summer workload

44、 must fit reduced hours, Mr. Fried insists, otherwise the benefits of a shorter week - to recover from work, enjoy time with family and develop outside interests - would be undone.His new research finds that it is not just long hours that are harmful to employees9 physical and mental health. It is a

45、lso the intensity （强度）of work. Moreover, it suggests that intensity work harms career prospects （前景）.That is because unbearable hours and intensity are in the opposite direction, reducing the quality of the work.The research concludes that the level of intensity we apply to the work we do is general

46、ly a stronger predictor of unfavorable outcomes than overtime work”. The research compared people of similar jobs and education levels, and found they were more likely to suffer poorer happiness and worse career prospects, including satisfaction, security and promotion, when they worked at an intens

47、e level for long periods.What do we know about Basecamps four day work week?It lasts nearly half a year.The work pressure is too high.There are some management problems.Employees work more than 8 hours a day.What does Mr. Fried intend to say in paragraph 2?Given plenty of time, people can do more.To

48、 get work done well needs plenty of time.People can do a job very well in a short work week.A long work week is appropriate for reduced workload.What does the research mentioned in the text want to tell us?Getting much more rest.Improving work quality.Refusing a five-day work week.Avoiding working t

49、oo intensely.What can be the best title for this passage?A. More Work, More ProfitsB. Shorter Week, Better RewardC. Less Work, Less BenefitsD. Longer Hours, Higher Intensity六To show empathy is to identify with anothers feelings. It is to emotionally put yourself in the place of another. The ability

50、to empathize is directly dependent on your ability to feel your own feelings and identify them.If you have never felt a certain feeling, it will be hard for you to understand how another person is feeling. If you have never put your hand in a flame, you will not know the pain of fire. If you have no

51、t experienced jealousy, you will not understand its power. Reading about a feeling and intellectually knowing about it is very different than actually experiencing it for yourself.Among those with an equal level of emotional intelligence, the person who has actually experienced the widest range and

52、variety of feelings the great depths of depression and the heights of fulfillment, for example, is the one who is most able to empathize. On the other hand, when we say that someone cant relate“ to other people, it is likely because they haven9t experienced, acknowledged or accepted many feelings of

53、 their own.Once you have felt discriminated against, for example, it is much easier to relate with someone else who has been discriminated against. Our innate emotional intelligence gives us the ability to quickly recall those instances and form associations when we encounter discrimination again. W

54、e then can use the “reliving“ of those emotions to guide our thinking and actions. This is one of the ways nature slowly evolves towards a higher level of survival.For this process to work, the first step is that we must be able to experience our own emotions. This means we must be open to them and

55、not distract ourselves from them or try to numb ourselves from our feelings through drugs, alcohol, etc.Next, we need to become aware of what we are actually feeling to acknowledge, identify, and accept our feelings. Only then can we empathize with others. That is one reason why it is important to w

56、ork on your own emotional awareness and sensitivity -in other words, to be “in touch with“ your feelings.How does the author explain the feelings of empathy?A. By giving examples.B. By having classification.C. By making comparison.D. By providing data.Which statement may the author agree with?Low le

57、vel of empathy leads to fewer varieties of feelings.The deeper ones feelings are, the more empathetic one is.Empathy is a way we recently picked up for better survival.Rich experiences may not go with a high level of empathy.Whats the purpose of the last two paragraphs of the text?To advise a sincer

58、e attitude to ones experiences.To suggest a right understanding of empathy.To require a real bond with ones emotions.To call for true acceptance of ones feelings.What is the best title for the text?A. How Empathy UnfoldsB. Be Open to Your EmotionsC. Why Is Empathy ImportantD. Accept Your True Self七Y

59、ouve heard that plastic is polluting the oceans - between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage, forcing v

60、iewers to re-examine their relationship to single-use plastic products.At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called Strawpocalypse J a pair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves, frozen mid-crash. Made of 168,000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture