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学科： 英语 考试时间： 120 分钟 分值： 150 分
注意事项：
1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
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4. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。
第 I 卷
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Chicago has all the offerings you would expect from a major city. If you plan to spend a wonderful time here, just see the followings:
Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S. Lake Shore Drive
Price: $21 for adults; $12 for kids 3-17
Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry shows more than 35,000 artifacts and a variety of hands-on exhibits. Displays here cater to all types of curious minds: feel the physics of a tornado in “Science Storms” and see baby chicks at the Genetics, etc.
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave
Price: $25 for adults; $19 for kids 3-17
Home to one of the country’s most impressive collections of impressionist art, the Art Institute of Chicago features nearly 300,000 works from all over the world in its collection. Highlights include paintings from famous artists like Van Gogh and Monet.
Skydeck Chicago at the Willis Tower
233 S. Wacker Drive
Price: $30 for adults; $22 for kids 3-17
On the 103rd floor of the 110-story Willis Tower, the third-tallest building in North America, Skydeck Chicago is famous for breathtaking views of the city. Visit on a sunny day and you may be able to see 4 states.
Navy Pier
600 E. Grand Ave
Price: Free
Navy Pier offers a family-friendly entertainment. Kids enjoy their rides on a drop tower while grown-ups catch a show at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater or grab a drink at the Navy Pier Beer Garden. Beautiful fireworks displays light up the skies on Wednesday and Saturday nights.
1. Where can impressionist art fans go to appreciate works
A 5700 S. Lake Shore Drive. B. 111 S. Michigan Ave.
C. 233 S. Wacker Drive. D. 600 E. Grand Ave.
2. How much will a couple with a child aged 6 pay if they enjoy a bird view of Chicago
A. $60. B. $64. C. $69. D. $82.
3. What can people do at Navy Pier
A. Enjoy a beer. B. Make fireworks.
C. Observe baby chicks. D. Discover secrets of tornadoes.
B
My grandparents actively practised simplicity. They both grew up in very large families and lived through the Great Depression. Saving for a rainy day and avoiding superfluous spending was their life guide. Rather than seeking fulfillment through material items, they chose to spend really simple life together, with family and in nature.
Over the years my grandparents noticed dramatic changes in their community. Every year more farmland was destroyed to build larger and larger homes. As land prices rose, many of their neighbors sold their homes. Lots of family members encouraged my grandparents to expand their little old house. But they didn’t want a bigger place. My grandparents built and lived in a small cottage for most of their lives. They loved their little house and were content with what they had.
My grandparents avoided consumptive lifestyle by painting and repairing the house themselves. They lived in a small home, but had a huge garden. They loved gardening and planting because it reduced their grocery bill, improved their health, and gave them an excuse to be outside. They also reused and recycled everything. For instance, they had driven the same car for over 15 years and didn’t buy a new one until the old Chevrolet was worn out.
Through their example I learned an important lesson: It is possible to live a simple and fulfilling life. My grandparents taught me that living a simple life isn’t about self-deprivation (剥夺) . Instead, it is about giving yourself the time, freedom, and money to pursue your dreams. Becoming debt free, downsizing to a smaller home, are a few ways to take control of your life and start pursuing your dreams.
4. What does the underlined word “superfluous” in Paragraph 1 mean
A. meaningful B. unnecessary C. increasing D. troublesome
5. Why didn’t the author’s grandparents expand their house
A. They didn’t notice the family members’ advice.
B. Their house were really new and large enough.
C. They were satisfied with the house they lived in.
D. They were too old to do any house-building job.
6. Which of the following is a consumptive lifestyle in the grandparents’ opinion
A. Repairing the house themselves.
B. Planting vegetables in the garden.
C. Reusing and recycling things.
D. Changing cars in a short time.
7.What does the author think of his grandparents’ lifestyle
A. unacceptable B. favorable C. unreasonable D. impossible
C
As 17-year-old Torri’ell Norwood drove through Florida, last February, the laughter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly gave way to screams. As they approached an crossing, another car crashed them, sending their car into the yard of a nearby home, coming to a stop only when it knocked into a tree.
As smoke rose from the car, a bystander shouted, “It’s about to blow up! Get out!”. Shaken, Norwood climbed out through the window as the driver’s side door couldn’t be opened. Along with two of her friends, who’d also managed to free themselves, she ran for her life. But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood ran back and found Simmons unconscious in the back seat. She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out. She dragged Simmons a few feet to safety and laid her on the ground and started CPR (心肺复苏术) .
If the accident happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have known what to do. But just several days before, Norwood, who wanted to pursue a career in medicine, had earned her CPR certificate by learning on her own. Kneeling on the ground and looking down at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had precious little time to practise what she’d learned.
She started pumping Simmons’s chest with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend’s mouth in hopes of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. After quite a while, Simmons began coughing and taking quick deep breaths. The CPR had worked! Soon, the ambulance arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital. And then she heard how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t shocked,” Simmons told others. “She will always help any way she can.”
8. What caused the car crash
A. Another car hit Norwood’s car near the crossing.
B. Norwood drove the car too quickly that day.
C. Norwood’s car crashed into a tree in a yard.
D. The girls were too excited to notice another car.
9. What did Norwood do after hearing the bystander’s warning
A. She climbed out through the window and ran without stopping.
B. She dragged her friends out and performed CPR at once.
C. She ran for her life but turned back to save her friend.
D. She opened the driver’s side door and pulled her friend out.
10. Why did Norwood know how to perform CPR
A. She had learned CPR in school classes.
B. She has got a career in medicine.
C. The bystander told her how to do it.
D. She just earned her CPR certificate.
11. What’s the best title of the passage
A. Breath of Life. B. A Frightening Night.
C. Power of Knowledge. D. An Admirable Girl.
D
Nature has inspired researchers to develop a robotic gripper (抓取器) that behaves like an elephant’s trunk (象鼻) to pick up and put down objects without breaking them. The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney researchers said the technology could be widely applied in industries where breakable objects are handled, such as agriculture, food and the scientific exploration industries — even for human rescue operations.
Dr Thanh Nho Do, UNSW Medical Robotics Lab director, said the gripper could reach consumers in the next 12 to 16 months if his team found an industry partner. “Our new soft fabric gripper is thin, flat, lightweight and can grip various objects — even in narrow spaces — for example, a pen inside a tube,” Dr Do said. “This gripper also has an improved real-time force sensor which is 15 times more sensitive than traditional designs and detects the grip strength required to prevent damage to objects it’s handling. The gripper body can change, enabling it to hold objects of various shapes and weights.”
Dr Do said the researchers found inspiration in nature when designing their soft fabric gripper. “Animals such as an elephant use the soft structures of their bodies to hold objects. These animals can do this because of a combination of highly sensitive organs, the sense of touch and the strength of thousands of muscles without bone — for example, an elephant's trunk has up to 40,000 muscles. So, we wanted to copy these gripping abilities,” he said.
Dr Do said the researchers’ new soft gripper was an improvement on existing designs that had disadvantages that limited their application. “Many soft grippers are based on human hand-like structures with multiple inward-bending fingers, but this makes them unsuitable to grip objects that are strangely shaped, heavy or big, or objects smaller or larger than the gripper’s opening. Many existing soft grippers also lack the ability to provide sensory information and flexibility, which means you can’t use them with breakable objects or in narrow spaces,” he said. “Our technology can grip long objects and get them from narrow spaces, as well as get into holes to pick up objects.”
12. What is Dr Thanh Nho Do’s team trying to do at the moment
A. Perfect the gripper. B. Partner with agriculturalists.
C. Put the gripper on the market. D. Increase their new products’sales.
13. What is a characteristic of this robotic gripper
A. It is quite hard. B. It can change to meet needs.
C. It comes in different shapes. D. It is able to send real-time warnings.
14. What is paragraph 3 mainly about
A. How the researchers carried out the study.
B. What the researchers want to achieve.
C. Where the researchers got the idea.
D. Why the researchers love nature.
15. What is the problem with the existing grippers
A. They are very weak. B. They are big and heavy.
C. They have limited applications. D. They work differently from human hands.
第二节（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Efficiently Prepare for a Test
Exam taking is a demanding process. Preparing for it is even more challenging. Sometimes you have that eagerness to stay focused on the books and try to input everything into your brain. ____16____ Here are some tips in better preparing for a test.
____17____ Reviewing is useless if your heart is not into it. Focus and maintain that drive to prepare for the exam. Also, take note of your reasons for scoring highly in the exam. Give yourself multiple positive objectives. It is like setting the mood for it.
After motivating yourself, check how reliable your memory is. It can be useful if you have lots of concepts to remember. Every day make it a point to memorize at least ten terms. ____18____
If you have the materials, try to summarize them by listing down important points. Gather lessons, notes, and books about the subject you are to take an exam for. ____19____ It does not only test your skill in memory recall, but also how well you have been studying.
When you study, choose the perfect time and place for you where there are no distractions. Likewise, you must determine your learning style. You might find it more comfortable studying in the library than at your own home.
Remember that reviewing allows you to recount the lessons and process them more systematically. When you know you have studied well, then you wouldn’t really have to worry about taking the test. ____20____
A. Add more terms as the days succeed.
B. Take memory-enhancing games and puzzles.
C. One of the most important things is to motivate yourself.
D. So give yourself enough time in studying, and beat the nervousness.
E. Reread your notes and try to recall how they were discussed by your professor.
F. But other times you just don’t know what to do with the loads of lessons to study about.
G. You wouldn’t expect yourself to be mentally and physically prepared for the test as well.
第二部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.
Asia has long tradition of tea-drinking. And China is no _____21_____.
However, lately more and more Chinese people are turning to a different drink. Coffee has become a/an ____22____ popular choice of Chinese people living abroad and in the country’s _____23_____ cities. In big cities such as Beijing, coffee shops seem to be on nearly every major street corner. These ___24____ are not just selling drinks from Starbucks, the world-famous coffee company. Coffee businesses from South Korea and Britain are also ____25____ in China.
Many young Chinese people drink coffee ____26____ —especially when meeting with friends. Yang Lin lives in the U.S. but comes from an area in China which is ____27____ for growing tea. She used to ____28____ drink tea while in China.
Yang Lin says she was a tea drinker when she was back in China. But she likes coffee and tea ____29____ now. Drinking coffee for her is a social event. She and her co-workers like to sit in a café and talk over a cup of coffee. Tea, she says, is more about family ____30____. She grew up in Fujian Province — an area known for its tea. Ms. Yang says that as a child, her family would ____31____ together in the evening and talk about the day’s events over a steaming pot of tea. So now, ____32____ the smell of Fujian tea brings back these _____33_____ family memories.
____34____ a person in China drinks about five cups of coffee a year. This information comes from the China Coffee Association Beijing. That amount is far below the world average of 240 cups a year. But the association says the amount of coffee that Chinese drink is ____35____ by about 15 percent every year.
21. A. business B. exception C. attitude D. custom
22. A. fundamentally B. severely C. entirely D. increasingly
23. A. huge B. ancient C. remote D. initial
24. A. cities B. companies C. shops D. foreigners
25. A. producing B. earning C. running D. strengthening
26. A. optimistically B. negatively C. elegantly D. socially
27. A. famous B. appropriate C. ambitious D. beneficial
28. A. seldom B. sometimes C. often D. never
29. A. completely B. gradually C. equally D. eventually
30. A. traditions B. values C. concepts D. rules
31. A. work B. gather C. cook D. participate
32. A. even B. still C. somewhat D. hardly
33. A. rare B. tough C. brilliant D. warm
34. A. Above all B. In summary C. On average D. On the whole
35. A. decreasing B. growing C. casting D. engaging
第II卷
第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
36 (know) as the “father of hybrid rice”, Yuan Longping is one of China’s the most famous scientists, who regards himself 37 a farmer despite his fame and influence. 38 (tackle) the crisis of food 39 (short), he attended Southwest Agricultural College and made up his mind to study agriculture. Then as a researcher, he was devoted 40 research and found 41 approach to boost yields without expanding the area of land. Having overcome enormous difficulties, he developed the first hybrid rice in the world 42 could be used for farming in 1974, which made 43 possible for farmers to expand their output 44 (great). Not only has his innovation helped to feed China, but also has alleviated hunger in other countries 45 (depend) on rice like India and Vietnam. He received numerous awards both in China and abroad. In spite of being wealthy, he cared little for celebrity or money and made large donations to support agricultural research.
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （满分15分）
假如你是校英文报主编李华，为积极响应节能号召，共建绿色家园，请用英语写一封以“节约用电，珍惜能源”为主题的倡议书。
内容包括：1.节约用电的意义；
2.日常节电的措施；
3.对大家的呼吁。
注意：1.词数80左右，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear teachers and students,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The School Newspaper
第二节 （满分25分）
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Jenny was the only child in her home. She had a quarrel (争吵) with her mother that afternoon and she ran out of the house angrily. She couldn’t help crying sadly when she thought of the angry words from her mother. After she walked aimlessly in the street for hours, she felt hungry but had no money. She stood in front of a shop which sold noodles for several minutes, but she had to leave. The owner of the noodle shop came out and noticed the young girl.
“Hey, girl, you want to have noodles ”
“Oh, yes, but I have no money on me.” she replied.
“Oh, that’s nothing. I’ll treat you today,” the owner said, “come in.”
The owner brought her a bowl of noodles, whose smell was so attractive. As she was eating, Jenny cried silently.
“What is it ” asked the man kindly.
“Nothing, actually I was just touched by your kindness!” said Jenny as she wiped her tears. “Even a stranger on the street will give me a bowl of noodles, while my mother drove me out of the house. She showed no care for me. She is so merciless compared to a stranger!”
Hearing the words, the owner smiled, “Girl, do you really think so I only gave you a bowl of noodles and you thanked me a lot. But it is your mother who has raised you since you were a baby. Can you number the times she cooked for you Have you expressed your thanks to her ”
Jenny sat there, speechless and numb with shock. She remembered mother’s familiar face. “A bowl of noodles from a stranger made me feel grateful, but I have never thanked my mum for what she has done for me.”
On the way home, Jenny made up her mind to say sorry to her mother for her rudeness as soon as she arrived home.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:
Approaching the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath. ___________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Paragraph 2:
A gentle touch on her hair called her mind back. _______________________________________
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高二英语期中考试答案
阅读理解
1-3 BDA 4-7 BCDB 8-11 ACDA 12-15CBCC 16-20 FCAED
完形填空
21-25BDACC 26-30DACCA 31-35 BADCB
语法填空
36 Known 37 as 38 To tackle 39 shortage 40 to
41 an 42 that 43 it 44 greatly 45 depending
写作一
Dear teachers and students,
There is no denying that electricity plays a great role in our life. However, it is being consumed too much, which is a waste of money and contributes to global warming. Therefore, as the chief editor of our school newspaper, I am writing to call on everyone to save electricity.
First of all, the simplest way to save electricity is to turn off lights whenever you leave a room. Besides, open up your curtains and let the sun shine in. Using natural light whenever possible instead of artificial light can greatly reduce the amount of electricity you use during the day. Last but not least, it is advisable to replace outdated energy-consuming appliances with energy-efficient ones, which saves more in the long run.
Every little bit counts. Let’s make joint efforts to save energy and live a green low-carbon life.
The School Newspaper
写作二
Paragraph 1:
Approaching the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath. When she knocked at the door, she found the door was knocked and her mother was not in. Tired and sad, she sat down in front of the house. “Where would my mother be ” she wondered. “Was she still angry with me ” Again, the scene of the quarrel appeared in her mind. She remembered her rudeness to her mother. Realizing that all the scolding from her mother was due to the fact that her mother really cared a lot about her, she felt rather ashamed, and tears began to roll down her cheeks.
Paragraph 2:
A gentle touch on her hair called her mind back. She raised her head and saw the familiar face of her mother. “Here you come! I’ve been looking for you,” she said, tired and relieved. Jenny couldn’t help throwing herself into her mother’s arms. “Mum, I’m so sorry and thank you for what you have done for me.” She expressed her sincere apology and great gratitude. Hearing this, her mother smiled, patting her back gently.
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