淮安市2014—2015学年度第二学期期末高二调研测试
英语试题
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分） 第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面各题，从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. The CCTV show Chinese Characters Dictation Competition has taken the country by storm, which is partly designed to arouse people’s _______ in the Chinese language. A. responsibility B. enthusiasm C. significance D. disappointment 22. I believe his design is _______ for it’s completely different from others’.
A. common B. reasonable C. practical D. original 23. —The scarf is nice, but the price is a little bit high.
—________, but if you want good quality, you have to pay more.
A. No wonder B. No doubt C. No offence D. No problem
24. While we may not be born with a natural talent, we can ______ for it with hard work. A. break up B. take up C. bring up D. make up
25. Today acupuncture has become popular round the world, ________ have other traditional Chinese medicines.
A. so B. as C. while D. like 26.—Have you heard of Fleming’s brave deed?
—Yes, the media have covered it. He saved a little boy from what _______ a sudden death last week.
A. had been B. was C. could have been D. would be
27. There _______ nothing left in the fridge, Li Lei had to go to the supermarket to buy some food. A. is B. was C. were D. being
28. — After graduation, more senior students in the mainland are applying for admission to Hong Kong University.
— _______. But studying in Hong Kong may cost more. A. Sounds reasonable B. That’s the case C. Not really D. I hope so 29. —How is your project coming along?
— I _______ on it. It will be completed in two weeks.
A. worked B. have worked C. have been working D. had worked
30. We make no restrictions on the kinds of films we show—_______ a film’s quality meets out standards, we include it.
A. so that B. no matter how C. except that D. as long as 31. Bob was fired the other day because he failed to _______ the boss’s expectations. A. look up to B. live up to C. keep up with D. come up with
32. Disturbing news came to the victims _______ another earthquake happened in Nepal on May 12, 2015.
A. that B. who C. where D. when
33. If you have got a suitable job, _______yourself to it and eventually you’ll succeed. A. do devote B. don’t devote C. devoting D. not devoting 34.______, the foreign student would like to study Chinese Kongfu in the future. A. If any B. If so C. If ever D. If possible 35.—I have been working at learning English for a month but I haven’t improved it much. —_______. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
A. It’s up to you. B. It’s a deal. C. It all depends. D. Take your time.
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第二节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Anthony Robles grew up in Mesa and started wrestling when he was a freshman in high school. He did an interview with Tara Hitchcock to talk about his 36 and his newly won title.
Born with no right leg, Robles said when he first started wrestling, his 37 were afraid
they would hurt him. While some people might have 38 his decision to take on the sport, he said his family was a huge 39__ of support and encouragement. ―They 40 me from a young age that I could do whatever I 41 my mind to, ‖ he said.
While the physical aspects of the sport might seem to be the most 42 part for many athletes, at one 43 in his college career Robles said he realized he needed to be mentally 44 . After
finishing seventh in a national match in his junior year, not nearly as well as he had hoped, he knew he had to do 45 .
―I took a 46 from wrestling for a little while,‖ he said. ― I was burnt out. I let all the 47 get to me. I decided to walk away all summer. I didn’t wrestle. I just lifted weights. That really just helped me to mentally 48 to the sport ---- the sport that I love so much.
Last week, Robles took part in his last college match. At the end of the match, he had 49 national champion, Matt McDonough, 7-1. Robles won the Championship.
While some people have 50 the idea of going to the Olympics, the Arizona State University senior says his wrestling career is over. He’s ready for the next 51 in his life.
I’ve had a 52 time with wrestling. I love the sport, but I think it’s time to move on. I’ve done 53 I set out to do. I can finish on top. I really want to be able to 54 now and help other people achieve things in their lives that others might say are 55 ,‖ he said. 36. A. difficulty B. hobby C. study D. career 37.A. friends B. relatives C. opponents D. colleagues 38. A. questioned B. followed C. approved D. persuaded 39.A. power B. cause C. source D. pleasure 40. A. forced B. taught C. corrected D. warned 41.A. designed B. prepared C. corrected D. set 42. A. obvious B. challenging C. interesting D. meaningful 43. A. point B. circle C. angle D. corned 44. A. clearer B. easier C. tougher D. better 45. A. anything B. nothing C. everything D. something 46. A. breathe B. break C. departure D. throw 47. A. pressure B. emotion C. energy D. worry 48. A. get down B. get away C. get back D. get over 49. A. struck B. threatened C. defeated D. protected 50. A. recognized B. suggested C. suspected D. explained 51. A. content B. passage C. paragraph D. chapter 52. A. great B. natural C. careful D. traditional 53. A. which B. that C. where D. what 54. A. turn over B. turn around C. show off D. pay off 55. A. disappointing B. ridiculous C. impossible D. impolite 第三部分：阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
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Every month, Editorial Director Sara Nelson and the editors at Amazon.com look through hundreds of books to discover their favorite titles. Here’s what they chose for the best of the season.
Fiction We Are Water Published by Harper Collins Written by Wally Lamb Another unputdownable（爱不释手的） doorstop of a novel—this one is about marriages and gay—from the beloved author of She’s Come Undone. Help for the Haunted Published by William Morrow Written by John Searles Help for the Haunted is John Searles’ masterful thriller about a family that helps haunted souls. Tatiana Published by Simon & Schuster Written by Martin Cruz Smith Remember Arkady Renko, the hero of Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park? He’s back … in Tatiana, an espionage extravaganza set in a Kremlinized Soviet state. Nonfiction Camelot’s Court Published by Harper Written by Robert Dallek Another Kennedy book—but this one is erudite(博学的)and intelligent, published on the 50th anniversary of the assassination. Five Days at Memorial Published by Crown Written by Sheri Fink Five Days at Memorial is Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s shocking look inside a hospital that barely weathered Hurricane Katrina. David and Goliathhttp://www.ks5u.com/http://www.ks5u.com/ Published by Little, Brown and Company Malcolm Gladwell About why it’s sometimes better to be a loser than a winner. Enough said. 56. What is the role of Editorial Director Sara Nelson and the editors at Amazon.com? A. To read hundreds of books every week in advance. B. To pick out and recommend the best of the season. C. To introduce the most popular novels to readers.
D. To study the difference between fiction and nonfiction. 57. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. William Morrow is the main character of the book Help for the Haunted.
B. Camelot’s Court may get readers to understand Kennedy from a different angle. C. We Are Water is similar to Help for the Haunted which is about marriages and gay. D. Five Days at Memorial whose writer is a Pulitzer Prize winner is published by Harper.
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58. If you aren’t good at your academic performance and feel depressed recently, you can choose _______ to read.
A. Help for the Haunted B. Tatiana
C. Five Days at Memorial D. David and Goliath
B
A credit card that won’t work unless its owner’s voice is heard may become an important weapon in the fight against economic fraud(欺诈).
The card using a built-in voice-recognition chip requires users to give a spoken password that it recognizes. The idea is to prevent thieves from using a stolen card to buy goods online.
A model built by engineers in California packs a microphone, a loudspeaker, a battery and a voice-recognition chip into a standard-sized credit card. The card is the length and width of an ordinary credit card but about three times as thick. The company now plans to make it thinner.
The voice card is based on an earlier Beep card technology designed to prevent fraud in online deals. The Beep card has no microphone, but has a built-in loudspeaker to utter an audible (听得见的) ID signal by a computer’s microphone to an online server(服务器). By confirming that signal matches the information in the card, the server can make sure that the user is not simply keying in a credit card number but actually has the card in his hand. The ID code, which only the server knows, changes each time the card is used.
This prevents fraudsters recording the beeps, noting the card details and then playing back the audible ID when they key in the details later. But this earlier Beep card technology cannot prevent illegal use of stolen cards. The new voice card can. The new voice card doesn’t identify itself by its ID until it has confirmed the real user’s spoken password. Thieves will be unable to use the card because even if they knew the password they would have to be able to copy the owner’s voice with a high degree of accuracy. The challenge for Beep card has been to develop voice-recognition and audio circuitry(声音电路).
The voice-recognition credit is powered by a mini battery. To extend batter life, the electronics have only to be switched on when the card is being used. Pressing a button on the card’s surface allows one to hear a female voice saying, ―Say your password.‖ If the voice-recognition software proves that the password is real, it sends its ID, which the server then identifies, allowing the deal to continue.
59. Why is the voice credit an important innovation?
A. It is cheap to make and buy. B. It can leave voice messages. C. It makes online shopping easy. D. It makes fraud more difficult. 60.What is the problem with the model card?
A. It is too large. B. It is too thick.
C. It can’t be used online. D. It has no loudspeaker. 61.Which of the following about the earlier card is TRUE? A. Its owner can change the ID code at will. B. Its user needn’t key in the credit card number. C. It can record its user’s spoken password. D. It can be used by someone who has stolen it. 62. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Further improvement should be made to extend battery life. B. Only female voice passwords can be recognized by the card. C. There are no limits to the use of the card. D. Female customers will like using it.
C
Creative conservationist (环保者) Asher Jay is a designer, artist, writer, and activist who is trying to save the world’s most threatened wildlife with an unusual weapon: Art.
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―Today we need everyone’s involvement, not just core conservationists,‖ says Jay. ― People with no previous interest in conservation tune in to my messages because they engage with my work aesthetically. It starts as an interest in art for art’s sake and ends with making lifestyle changes.‖
The New York-based artist has become a visual voice for a range of environmental causes. In Africa, screen savers glow with Jay’s graphics of a Poached rhino horn dripping with blood. Jay’s cartoons of elephants killed for their tusks have been shown in New York’s Times Square, wild other works have spread worldwide on social media.
―The right image can overcome language and cultural barriers, connecting with people on a non-verbal, emotional level,‖ she says. ―It all starts with making an emotional impression on one person. Only then will someone change habits, speak out, or donate.‖
In recent years, much of Jay’s best known work has focused on the illegal ivory trade.
In 2012, she created a silk screen print, showing a stark image of an elephant’s head silhouetted in black, dripping with red blood, and accented by a tusk decorated with images of elephants’ families. ―Every tusk costs a life,‖ said accompanying text. ―Stop poaching.‖
―I wanted to visualize the scale and brutality of the crisis and use art to tell the blood ivory story,‖ she says. \’s one every 15 minutes.‖
―Two-thirds of Africa’s elephants have been killed for tusks in the last 35 years. If this continues, experts predict elephants in the wild will be extinct in less than ten years.‖
Much of Jay’s work around poaching aims simply to correct a widespread misunderstanding. ―Many people think an elephant’s tusk or a rhino’s horn simply falls off, like losing a tooth. My goal,‖ she says, ―is to make them understand that elephants die painful deaths, because they are alive and conscious as poachers cut out their tusks.‖
63. What does the underlined word, “poached”, in the third paragraph probably mean? A. Broken optionally B. Incidentally decayed C. Taken illegally D. Repaired carelessly 64. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. More and more people care about wild animals now. B. Wild animals will be extinct in less than ten years. C. Jay wants people to stop buying ivory products.
D. Jay’s works show the pain of elephants that are poached. 65. What is this passage mainly about?
A. An artist’s animal work aims to stop animal slaughter. B. The risk of extinction for wild animals in Jay’s works. C. A new way to stop illegal trade designed by an artist. D. How people hunt and abuse wild animals. 66. What does Jay say about the effect of art? A. It is a visual voice for animal protection. B. It needs words to illustrate its meaning.
C. It can help more money to be donated to people in need. D. It makes an emotional impression on people.
D
After my sixth voyage I was quite determined that I would never go to sea. One early spring day, however, I was brought to see the Caliph. He said, ―Sindbad, I have chosen you to deliver a letter and a gift to the King of Serendib in return for his message of friendship.\
The Caliph's commandment fell upon me like a thunderbolt(晴天霹雳).
―Your Majesty,\I answered, \am ready to do all that your Majesty commands, but I have made a promise never again to leave Baghdad.\
\why they should prevent you from doing as I wish. You have only to go straight to Serendib and give
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