A. ripe B. stable C. profitable D. fresh 60. What is the main cause of more cases of cheating? A. The formation of employee skills. B. The availability of information technology.
C. The popularity of the cheating industry. D. The requirement of taking professional exams.
C
THE UK government has announced plans to tackle sources of air pollution, including popular wood-burning stoves, but its Clean Air Strategy, which was unveiled last week, fails to address the real problem.
Although pollution from woodburning stoves is a relatively new problem for the UK, it has long been a major one in countries such as Canada and New Zealand. And the take-home message from them as to controlling the release of harmful particulates in the air is simple: ban wood burning.
“There does not seem to be a limit below which there is no impact on health,” says Gary Fuller at King’s College London, whose team has shown that wood burning is now the source of a third of particulate pollution in UK cities.
As New Scientist reported last year, families with wood burners are likely to be exposed to the highest levels of pollution and their neighbours are next in the firing line, given that the particulates produced can easily escape from homes. Despite this, the UK government isn’t planning a ban. Instead, it wants “to prohibit the sale of the most polluting fuels”, such as wet wood. What’s more, lots of people with wood burners don’t buy wood from shops. Instead, they scrounge it from wherever they can, with building waste one popular source. This is a disaster in pollution terms as treated or painted wood can release highly toxic chemicals when burned. The plan is also to “ensure that only the cleanest stoves are available for sale by 2022”. But even the cleanest stove produces eight times as much pollution as a diesel truck, says Fuller.
Some cities actually required old wood stoves to be replaced with cleaner new ones. That has helped, but wood burning remains a major source of pollution, says Fuller. In most cases, conventional gas central heating plus properly insulating (使隔热) your home is less harmful in global-warming terms than switching to a wood burner.
Finally, there are separate but related EU laws that set limits on the maximum allowable concentrations of specific pollutants in the air at individual locations. The UK frequently breaches these: London’s Oxford Street often hits its annual limit within the first weeks of each year. As a result, the UK government has lost a series of court cases brought by the environmental organization ClientEarth. Separately, on 17 May, the UK and five other countries were referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union for their repeated failures to keep to these limits. If the government really wants to clean up the UK’s air, it has a lot more work to do. 61. What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The British authorities. B. Countries like Canada and New Zealand.
C. Details of Clean Air Strategy. D. Citizens in woodburning countries.
62. Why does the author think the UK government is doing a stupid job in terms of handling wood
burning?
A. It is not worthwhile bothering to deal with wood burning.
B. It is impractical to get all the families to give up wood burning. C. The government has failed to aim its policies at proper targets. D. Citizens are forced to collect and burn treated or painted wood.
63. According to the author, to stay warm in winter, a Londoner had better ________.
A. turn to a cleaner stove B. put on more clothes
C. stick to central heating D. redecorate the house 64. What can be a suitable title for the passage? A. No More Stoves B. Say Good-bye to Pollution
C. Clean Air Strategy D. Why Not Central Heating
D
I will absolutely be the first person to romanticize libraries. I come from a home with thirty-two bookcases, a count that does not include the several dozen boxes of books in the attic labeled “work” and “extra.” All these books are courtesy of my parents, both of whom were English majors in their day and in whose footsteps I never hesitated to follow. My childhood dream was of a house with a claw-foot bathtub, stained glass, and (most importantly) an enormous library made of built-in shelves, a sliding ladder, and window seats in every window. As a high school girl, I began working at the county library near my house, following up on two summers of volunteering with their summer reading program. I was all starry eyes and romantic visions of alphabetizing the classics and discovering gems among the new arrivals. What I found instead was that the life of a library was nothing like my daydreams, but far more important than I could have imagined.
There is no library that is only a library anymore. Modern libraries can’t afford and don’t try to be only a receptacle for free books. They offer classes, book groups, Internet access, resume and tax help, tutoring, and multimedia resources for anyone who might wander in. Librarians are equipped to help with research and give recommendations. Most libraries have access to interlibrary loans, making the acquisition of nearly any piece of material merely a matter of time. What makes libraries so unique and important, however, is none of the diversity of resources and opportunities for community that they most certainly provide.
____________________________________. Every building one enters today comes with some expectation of spending money. Restaurants require paying for service. Shops require the intention of purchasing something. Houses require rent. Anyone who has lived near the poverty line, whether or not they have actually been homeless, has felt the threatening pressure toward expenditure that permeates the public spaces of modern Western culture. Even a free restroom is becoming difficult to find, especially as growing cities experience ever-increasing space restrictions.
In a library, no one is asked to pay anything simply to sit. For those with few resources besides time, this is a godsend. Libraries are unofficial playgrounds for low-income families on rainy days, homeless shelters in cold months, reprieves from broken homes for grade-school-age children. They are the last bastions of quiet and calm where nothing is asked of one but to exist. Many arguments have been made about how the library is an outdated institution offering outdated services—that in the twenty-first-century how-to books on building sheds and daily newspaper copies are obsolete and the funding used for libraries ought to be reallocated to other programs. I can only assume that those who make such arguments are people who have always been comfortable with the expenditures it takes to move through the world. For those people, libraries can be about books. But not everyone has the luxury of seeing past the space.
Libraries, as they exist in the twenty-first century, are the only remaining public domain. In a library, anyone of any walk of life can come and go as they choose, and so long as they remain respectful of the space they can remain as long as they wish. Libraries welcome everyone, offering a place to be and easily accessible resources to the most vulnerable populations, whether in downtown Chicago or small-town Oklahoma. My childhood romantic vision of the library is still close to my heart, but the very real work that public libraries do today is so much more critical than a leather-bound edition of Homer or a graphic novel fresh off the press. Those are the things the library gives me, but libraries are for everyone. 65. What can we infer from Paragraph 1?
A. The author has a vivid memory of her childhood life. B. The author had an appetite for reading long before. C. The author’s early romantic visions proved untrue.
D. The author’s parents deliberately tricked her into reading.
66. Why does the author talk about the diverse services modern libraries provide?
A. Modern libraries make reading more enjoyable than before. B. People nowadays come to libraries for different purposes. C. The core essence of public libraries remains unchanged. D. Technological changes become a must in modern libraries.
67. Which of the following sentences will best suit the missing part in Paragraph 3?
A. Libraries are a place in every town and city for people to have inner peace. B. Libraries are the last place in every town and city that people can simply exist.
C. Libraries are temporary shelters in every town and city for people to escape reality. D. Libraries are free restrooms with much spare space in every town and city. 68. According to the author, who are most likely to frequent libraries?
A. Rich businessmen faced with huge pressure. B. Young adolescents loaded with school work.
C. School children coming from broken homes. D. Senior citizens looking for old companions.
69. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 imply?
A. Libraries provide them with no more than books. B. Books plus diverse services should be provided. C. They don’t have to go to libraries to read books. D. The books and services in libraries are outdated. 70. The author wrote the passage to ________.
A. express deep affection for public libraries B. describe problems libraries are faced with
C. call on more people to read in libraries D. illustrate the necessity of public libraries 第四部分 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
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All company leaders will face major business decisions throughout their time as the heads of their organizations. Difficult decisions related to activities such as M&A, leadership changes, restructuring, and massive growth plans will directly impact the company’s employees.
If you’ve already established trust with your workforce, you can significantly minimize potential negative impacts and make sure your employees will buy into your decisions, even if they don’t necessarily agree with them. But earning their faith takes time. As a leader, you are trusted only to the degree that people believe in your ability, consistency, and commitment to deliver. The good news is that there do exist some strategies to help you earn confidence. Instill trust through an employee engagement program
By encouraging consistent feedback and establishing an honest environment, employees will trust the direction and information you give them. Create a highly engaged culture by prioritizing real-time recognition, continuous feedback, and ongoing goal-setting.
? Change and react with meaningful conversations. You’ve likely had to adjust your business plan in the middle of the year. Real-time, continuous communication helps you keep employees in the loop and adjust to expectations as your organization’s needs change.
? Giving timely feedback is the most effective way to communicate expectations. Not only that, but saving your big praise until the end of the year isn’t just ineffective—it makes it more difficult to deliver.
? Ongoing goal-setting can help people understand where their contributions fit within the organization and where they need to aim. Better yet, these can be transparent across the organization so everyone is held accountable for the outcomes and behaviors that drive your business and cultural success.
Gather and measure sentiment (情感) during times of change
Part of the difficulty in making tough business decisions is that leaders don’t want to surprise or disappoint employees. Think about the last time you made a major company-wide announcement. Did you know if employees were happy? Were they shocked? Or even worse, did you have no insight into their reactions at all? If you regularly measure employee sentiment through real-time pulse surveys—especially during times of change—you can more accurately pinpoint reactions and cope with issues immediately. The results of these pulse surveys empower your leadership team to be more forthcoming, moving forward, earning the trust of employees and strengthening a transparent company culture.
If there is a strong link between employees and managers to the goals of the organization, the vision and values of the company will be embraced by all.
At the end of the day, the mindset shouldn’t be about how you can make tough decisions easier, but how you can make those decisions in a way that won’t negatively impact your employees or your organization’s objectives. Create a cooperative feedback culture, and when the time comes to make difficult decisions, you know that with your team’s insights in mind and trust in the leadership, the decision will be accepted willingly. Earning employee’s faith takes time Passage outline Supporting details ◆ Trust from workforce can minimize negative impacts of difficult Introduction decisions and ensure employees’ (71) ▲ of your decisions. ◆ Only when employees think you are capable, consistent, and (72) ▲
will they believe in you. (74) ▲ employees in some programs. ◆ Timely and continuous communication is necessary because proper (75) ▲ are likely to be made to your business plan. ◆ Real-time feedback is valuable in communicating expectations and the (76) ▲ in giving praise will make it harder to deliver. Strategies to (73) ▲ on ◆ Ongoing goal-setting can make employees (77) ▲ of where their aims are. Gather and measure sentiment during times of change. ◆ Regular measurement of employee sentiment can help you know how they react so that you can (78) ▲ issues instantly. ◆ The vision and values of the company will be widely accepted if employees and managers are closely united in order to (79) ▲ their common goal. objectives and the creation of a cooperative feedback culture that count. 第五部分 书面表达（满分25分）
81. 请阅读下面图表及文字，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
Conclusion It is the (80) ▲ impact of your decisions on the organization’s
拿一本纸质图书阅读，45.1% 手机阅读，35.1% 网络在线阅读，12.2% 在电子阅读器上阅读，6.2% 习惯从网上下载并打印下来阅读，1.4% April 23 marks this year’s World Book Day, an annual event initiated by UNESCO. A recent report released by Amazon and China’s Xinhua News Agency suggest that the Chinese population is reading more, while e-books are becoming increasingly popular. Bruce Aitken, a general manager at Amazon in China, said the latest figures suggest reading has caught on more and more among the Chinese people. “56% of the people we surveyed said they read more than ten books last year, an increase of percentage points compared to the year before. 85% said they read both printed books and 8 e-books. 64% said e-books have helped to increase their amount of reading. 82% said they read at least 30 minutes a day. We found that many people have formed good reading habits. 37% said
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1. 用约30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容； 2. 用约120个单词阐述：
（1）你对阅读形式多样化这一现象的看法，并简要分析其产生的原因； （2）你自己最喜欢的一种阅读形式及理由（不少于两点）。 【写作要求】
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句； 2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称； 3. 不必写标题。 【评分标准】
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2017/2018学年度第二学期高二年级期终考试
英语试题参考答案
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分） 1-5 ACACA 6-10 BCBCA 11-15 BBABC 16-20 CBBCA 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） 21-25 ABBAD 26-30 ADCBC 31-35 BCDCD 第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） 36-40 CBBDA 41-45 BABDC 46-50 BCABD 51-55 ABCDD 第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 56-57 DB 58-60 ACD 61-64 BCCA 65-70 BCBCAD 第四部分 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 71. approval/acceptance 72. committed/devoted/dedicated 73. rely/depend/count 74. Involve/Engage 75. adjustments/changes 76. delay 77. aware/conscious 78. handle/address/approach/tackle 79. achieve/attain/reach 80. positive 第五部分 书面表达（满分25分）
Recent years have witnessed a steady increase in the number of readers in China. With modern technologies transforming people’s reading habits, reading among Chinese people has taken on diverse forms. (30 words)
From my perspective, more people will take to reading with the emergence of diverse forms of reading, for which there are several reasons. On one hand, digital reading has a wide appeal for young people, which can spare them the trouble of carrying heavy books here and there. On the other hand, reading printed books in a traditional way is still favored by old people, most of whom are poor at using digital devices. In terms of forms of reading, people’s choices vary from person to person. As for me, I opt for digital reading because it is convenient for me to find resources anytime anywhere. Besides, exchanging views with the writer online about the book is easy and cosy. (120 words)