雷山民中2015—2016学年度高二第二学期半半月考英语卷.docVIP

雷山民中2015—2016学年度第二学期高二第一次半月考试题 （英语试卷） (满分:150分 考试时间: 2016年3月1日18:40-20:20) 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。 A People are divided into those who can jump out of bed each morning and those who need several hours to wake up. I have hated getting up early all my life. The moment the alarm goes off in the morning, I feel sick. Nights, though, are different; I’ll happily stay up and I’ll do anything to escape an early start. This makes me an owl(猫头鹰), but I know many larks(云雀) who insist that dawn is the best part of the day. While I go to work sleepy they have been up for hours and even seem cheerful about it. But it is wrong to say that society is exactly divided into larks and owls. Surveys that explore what time of day people prefer to do activities show that only 20% of adults are true larks or owls. That leaves 80% of us---half of which lean towards one direction or the other, the other half are neither. Schools and work often start very early, and there’s a sense of love for getting up early, while the owls are simply slovenly. But no one suggests that the larks are lazy for having an early night while owls are working. Fortunately science is on my side. I’m not sleeping my life away or missing the best part of the day. I’m behaving according to my genes(基因). Researchers have found that one’s chronotype (睡眠类型)is largely genetic. So it seems that when I try to get up early I am fighting my genetics. With the help of an alarm clock I can force myself to get up early. But as soon as I fail to set the alarm my genes will return me to my old days. According to the text, owls refer to people who _______. go to bed early and get up early B. go to bed early and get up late C. go to bed late and get up early D. go to bed late and get up late According to the text, people who are neither larks nor owls takes up about________. 20% B. 40% C. 60% D. 80% The underlined word “slovenly” i