河南省淅川县第二高级中学2015-2016学年高二英语上学期期末考试试卷.doc

2015—2016学年度高二期末考试 英语试卷 时间：120分钟 分值：120分 第一部分：听力（略） 第二部分 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 Loud noises in everyday activities can damage the inner ear. This type of hearing loss can’t be healed. But it can be prevented. Block the noise from entering your ears; walk away from it; and turn it down. Those are your first steps in staying safe. On average, 15% of all school-age children live with some hearing loss. And it’s a growing problem. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2012 found a 31% rise from 2003 to 2010 in hearing loss among kids ages 12 to 19. A 2013 study by Harvard Medical School did not find the same significant increase. But the Harvard study found that teenage girls have more hearing problems than teenage boys. The study did not track kids into adulthood. “Imagine a handful of pipe cleaners (烟斗通条). They represent the hair cells (毛细胞) in your ear,” Andrea Boidman of Research Foundation said. “Being exposed to a really loud noise is like shaking the pipe cleaners really fast. When you’re done, the pipe cleaners are all bent. You can never really make them straight again,” she says. “That’s like what happens with your hair cells. Once they are damaged, they never go back to being perfect again, and eventually the damage will start to affect your hearing.” Most people don’t know that listening to headphones at full volume puts your ears at risk, “If your iPod is on the maximum volume(最大音量)，it’s too loud, ” says Boidman. “If you listen to it at that level every day, it will cause hearing loss.” Sometimes, staying safe and sound is as simple as turning it down. 21 We can conclude from the study by Harvard Medical School that ______. A. the increase of hearing loss among kids reached 31% B. more teenage boys suffer hearing loss than teenage girls C. teenage girls experience more hearing loss than teenage boys D. the number of adults w