上海市2016-2017学年第一学期期末考试试卷高一英语
II. Grammar
Directions:Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked ABC and D. choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. 17.---- Can you give me the right answer?
---- Sorry, I _________ . Would you repeat that question?
A. hadn’t listened B. haven’t listened C. don’t listen D. wasn’t listening
18.A latest report by Taobao said that visitors through wireless devices _________ from 10 million in 2010 to 300 million by the end of last year.
19. He _______ articles for our wall-newspaper these three years, and he ____about forty articles.
A.has been writing; has written B.has been writing; wrote C.is writing; has been writing D.has written; has written
20.-- We ______ that you would fix the TV set this week. --I’m sorry. I _____ to, but I’ve been too busy.
A.had expected; had intended B.are expecting; had intended C. expect; intend D.expected;intend
21. They ____ on the program for almost one week before I joined them, and now we _____ on it as no good results have come out so far.
A.had been working; are still working B.had worked; were still working C.have been working; have worked D.have worked; are still working
22. These people once had fame and fortune; now _____ is left to them is utter poverty. A. all that B. all what C.allwhich D.that all
23. The time is not far away ______ modern communication will become widespread in China’s vast countryside.
A.when b.as C. Until D.before
24. The fertilizer may pollute the grass that ______.
A.animals are fed on B.feeds animals C.animals are fed D.feeds on animals 25. The evening school where I study computer ______.
A.is its best course B.is fast C.is well taught D.is nice 26. I gave him a warning, ______ he turned a deaf ear. A.of which B.for which C.to that D.to which
27.______your ship travels through the harbor and around Manhattan Island, you begin to understand the enormous scope of the great metropolis. A. Since B. As C. Because D. Before
28. To my surprise, my children are not allowed to play football in the school playground ______ they might be hurt.
A. in order that B. except that C. for fear that D. for that
29. ______ more Americans are getting married today than ever before, the divorce rate is also on the rise.
A. Since B. If C. While D. Once
30. I sent the parcel by express that morning ______ my mom received it that afternoon. A. in order that B. such that C. for the purpose D. so that 31.______, the politician became famous for her wonderful speech.
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A. Failed in the election B. Fail in the election as she did C. As she failed in the election D. Failing in the election III. Cloze(15%)
Direction: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
The Yellow River is the 2nd longest river in China (after the Yangtze River) and the 7th longest in the world, at 5,463km. It is called the Yellow River ___32____ huge amounts of loess sediment(黄土沉积物) turn the water that colour. So much of this mineral-rich soil ends up in the Yellow River that it can fill the riverbed and thus change the river’s course.
The Yellow River is to China___33___ the Nile is to Egypt. It is the cradle of the Chinese ___34___, a symbol of enduring glory, and a force of nature both feared and admired. From its ___35___ in the 14,000-foot Tibetan highlands, the river sweeps across the northern plains, ___36___ ancestors of Chinese people first learned to cultivate crops and irrigate land, to make porcelain and gunpowder, to build and bury imperial dynasties.
But today, ___37___ the Chinese call the Mother River is dying. Poisoned by pollution and crowded with dams, it ___38___ at its mouth to a lifeless trickle(涓涓细流). There were many days during the 1990s that the river failed to reach the sea at all.
The desperate reality of the river is a tragedy ___39___ consequences extend far beyond the 150 million people living by it, one of which is a shortage of the one resource no nation can live without: water.
Water has always been ___40___ in China, a country with roughly the same amount of water as the United States but nearly five times the population. The shortage is especially severe in the dry north, where nearly half of China’s population lives on only 15percent of its water. Nothing, however, has ___41___ the water crisis more than three decades of rapid industrial growth. Just consider what is happening already in the Yellow River Basin. The spread of deserts is creating a dust bowl that may only be compared with ___42___ of the American West in the 1930s, driving down grain production and pushing millions of “environmental refugees(难民)”___43___ the land. The poisonous chemicals polluting the waterways--50 percent of the Yellow River is considered biologically dead-- have ___44___ an outbreak of cancer, birth defects(缺陷), and waterborne disease along their banks. Theses symptoms, if unchecked, could ___45___ China’s growth and cause a great stir across world markets. Taken together, the long-term impact could be even more destructive. As former Premier Wen Jiabao has put it.the shortage of clean water ___46___ “the survival of the Chinese nation.” 32 A.for B.because C.that D.due to 33 A.what B.while C.as D.when 34 A.culture B.community C.civilization D.technology 35 A.birth B.root C.origin D.source 36 A.where B.when C.which D.whose 37 A.how B.why C.what D.whatever 38 A.increases B.reduces C.adds D.broadens 39 A.with B.its C.who’s D.whose 40 A.adequate B.precious C.extensive D.particular 41 A.worsened B.survived C.prevented D.solved 42 A.those B.one C.that D.what
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43 A.for B.across C.into D.off 44 A.made up B.build up C.led to D.resulted from 45 A.hold back B.hold on C.hold off D.hold out 46 A.strengthens B.threatens C.quickens D.deepens
IV. Reading Comprehension
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
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Tech-Camp
No.6 Devon Road, Kowloon Tong, Hon Kon A technology day camp for students 12-17 About
About Tech-Camp
Tech- Camp is a day camp with a focus on computers and electronics technology. We offer 2-week summer programmes for students of 12 to 17 years of age. We have a computer lab with the latest and fastest equipment, an electronics lab, and a video production studio. Our staff are special, too. Our programme leaders are experts in computers and electronics, of course, but they are also people who care about children and enjoy working with them. The benefits of Tech-Camp
In all of our programmes, we show students how to work in teams and how to solve problems by themseles. We encourage them to think creatively. What students will do at Tech-Camp
Each day Tech-camp is filled with useful, interesting and challenging activities. For example, in the Computer Programme, students learn the basic computer programming, and how to use the Internet. In the High-tech Programme, they make radio-controlled model cars and produce their won short videos. Programme Computer Programme High-tech Programme Session 1 15 June-26 June 29 June-10 July Session 2 15 June-26 June 27 July-7 August Session 3 15 June-26 June 15 June-26 June Fee: HK $2,000 per student (10% discount available for groups of 10 or more students.)
For more information about Tech-Camp, please contact Director of Summer Programmes, Ms Julia Brown, by phone, fax or e-mail.
Telephone:26548898 Fax:26948850 E-mail:juliab@techcamp.com.hk
47. What would you probably like to ask about if you phone Ms Julia Brown after reading the brochure?
A. The activities the students will have B. The fee each attendant should pay. C. The e-mail address of Tech-Camp. D. The deadline for application. 48. From the brochure we can infer that _______.
A.the Camp offers students accommodation during their two-week stay at eh CMP B.High school teachers are in charge of the Tech-Camp all the time
C.Students at Tech-Camp benefit from the knowledge about the hi-tech through lectures given by the experts.
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D.Students will learn how to work with their friends and how to think and solve problems creatively through activities.
49. The purpose of writer is to ________.
A.introduce to us some information about Tech-Camp B.Attract students to take part in Tech-Camp
C.Offer some introductions about computer technology
D.Tell students of the necessity of learning Hi-tech Programme
50. If Mrs. Newman’s two sons and another ten classmates of theirs form a group to sign up for the camp, how much can Mrs.Newman save?
A. HK$200 B. HK＄400 C.HK$3600 D. HK$2400
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Jon D. Giorgini says he isn’t losing sleep yet over 1950 PA, the kilometer wide asteroid(小行星) that he predicted might hit the planet Earth. After all, if it hits, it won’t get here for 878 years. Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory also spotted a space rock--- about the size of a football field--- passing by Earth just 75,000 miles away. Named 2002 MN, it came closer than any similar-size asteroid had in recent years. Giorgini spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Adam Piore last week. Here is an excerpt.
PIORE:According to your research, is this something we should be worried about?
GIORGINI: well, not this particular asteroid, 1950 PA, because it’s so far off. It’s 878 years in the future, but it’s possible that there are other asteroids we haven’t discovered yet that could impact sooner. The purpose is to find these things as soon as possible. If there are centuries of warning, there are many things you can do about the threat. But if you only find out about it the last day or two, or the last year, there’s not much you can do. PIORE:What would happen if one of these things hit?
GIORGINI:There was an incident where an asteroid nearly the size of 2002 MN hit in Tunguska, Siberia, back in 1908. It exploded in the air and flattened about 800 miles of forested area. 1950 DA would carry about 100,000 megatons(百万吨级) of energy if it hit. It would make a crater(陨石坑)about 10 or 15 miles across and destroy hundreds or thousands of miles around it, kick up dust and steam into the atmosphere. Some would even orbit the Earth for a while. It would be a global problem.
PIORE:What should we do about 1950 DA?
GIORGINI:In hundreds of years, it’s hard to imagine what ways we’ll have to deal with it. It’s sort of like guys 900 years ago trying to plan the interstate highway system. It would probably be more sensible to leave it to future generations. If you have centuries of warning like this, you can just change the way it absorbs and reflects light and heat. Sunlight shines on it and heats one side, and it turns around to the back and the heat radiates off into space and sort of pushes on it like a weak rocket. Over centuries, it’s enough to push it out of the way.
51. The main purpose of Piore interviewing Giorgini is ________.
A.to announce an astonishing prediction B.to publicize the significance of a research C.to warn people of the coming threat D.to create a sensational effect 52. What is Giorgini really worried about?
A. Unidentified outer space rocks. B. Undiscovered approaching small asteroids C. The tremendous impact of 2002MN D. The potential threat of 1950 PA.
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53. Giorgini mentioned the asteroid explosion in Tunguska because he would ________. A.compare the explosion to that of 2002 MN.
B.give an impression of an asteroid hitting the earth. C.estimate the property damage a space object caused
D.describe a disaster bigger than a nuclear explosion in human history 54. Which of the following statements is TURE?
A. Ancient people attempted to build main roads connecting cities or states. B. Humans are now in a position to take action on 1950 PA.
C. One solution Giorgini suggested is to launch a rocket towards 1950 PA and push it away. D. One solution Giorgini suggested is to change the direction of sunlight shining on 1950 PA.
C The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping-where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters，like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.
Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. But earning money isn’t quick or easy for most of us. Isn’t it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink (眨眼) of an eye? Doesn’t a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters?
But I’ll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone of an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable as pebble (鹅卵石). Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer. 55. What is happening to the wallet?
A) It is disappearing. C) it is becoming costly. B) It is being fattened. D) It is changing in style.
56. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?
A) Saving money is becoming a thing of the past. B) The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.
C) Earning money is getting more difficult.D) Spending money is so fast and easy. 57. Why does the author choose to write about what’s happening to the wallet? A) It represents a change in the modern world. B) It has something to do with everybody’s life.
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