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1、1/9北京海淀区高二上学期期末英语试卷一、完形填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）1.1.2.3.One Mother to AnotherOn Wednesday evening,our daughter,who was at a boarding school over 200 kilometers away,told us that she had lost her phone when she took part in an activity off campus.We realized that wehad little chance of finding it.The n
2、ext morning,my phone beeped（哔哔响）loudly.A kind voice announced that she hadsomething that belonged to my daughter.I 1 that I lived a three-hour drive away,and told her Iwould ask a friend to fetch the phone.My daughter had written my number on the inside of herphones casegood thinking!After contactin
3、g the people I know who lived near the school,I was out of 2 no one couldgo and 3 the phone,not surprisingly as it was the working day and everyone was busy.Idecided to ask the lady to post the phone to my daughter.But when I sent her a text to ask if thiswould be OK,she replied,We will 4 it and wer
4、e going to drive down to the boarding schooltonight.To my 5 ,this wonderful couple,who had already spent a busy day at work,wasmaking a round trip on the night,6 for returning a phone to a complete stranger.How touching itwas!I gave them directions and they 7 the phone into the hands of my daughter
5、at her boardinghouse.The only word of an explanation was,Ive got children of my own,and I know how amother 8 .We had thought that the chance of getting back the phone was 9 ,but we got it back insuch a short time.It was a wonderful reminder of the good in the world and how the actions of oneperson c
6、an 10 the world to another.A.suggestedB.reportedC.explainedD.arguedA.dateB.luckC.workD.controlA.pick upB.carry outC.hand inD.give away2/94.5.6.7.8.9.10.A.findB.showC.missD.takeA.regretB.surpriseC.amusementD.disappointmentA.especiallyB.certainlyC.definitelyD.probablyA.conductedB.arrangedC.deliveredD.
7、identifiedA.doubtsB.interestsC.predictsD.worriesA.freeB.slimC.hardD.fairA.tellB.faceC.meanD.join二、语法填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分）2.I love my campus very much.It has a lot of buildings traditional in Chinese style but modern inequipment.Having classes in them always 1 (make)me feel excited with the busy
8、world andrelaxed about the long history of our nation.Out of the houses are beautifulgardens 2 (surround)by trees.In the morning,we read aloud by the lake or behind the hill.Theair is so fresh and sweet that very often I think how 3 (luck)I am to study in such a beautifulcampus.3.Whales use sound to
9、 get information around them.By constantly 1 (send)out sounds thathit underwater objects and come back,whales receive information.This way of using sound is calledsonar.Recently,scientists have found that whales 2 (harm)by the powerful sonar coming fromships.This problem is being studied,and peoples
10、 level of awareness of the problem is 3 (high)than ever before.Now ships around the world are trying to be more careful when using sonar.4.Rules help us live together in a community.At my local park,there is a sign that reads,Keep offthe grass.Because our community has a need 1 a nice green space to
11、 relax,we areexpected 2 (keep)our park clean and in good condition for everyones enjoyment.If one personbreaks the rules,more people 3 (follow)him and do what they want.In a community,rules are inplace to protect everyone.What we do and 4 we act affect everyone,not just ourselves.Weneed rules in ord
12、er to live safely.三、阅读理解3/9（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）5.A.B.C.D.（1）My daughter was being thrown out of the sixth grade.The teacher said,She may not be up towhat were trying to accomplish.He was really saying she didnt have the intelligence.I got madbecause I knew she was smart,just as my father had known
13、I was smart when I was failing in school.We had her tested.I decided to get myself tested as well,and found that the troubles she was havingwere exactly what I had haddyslexia.By then I was a successful television writer,and had won anEmmy Award for The Rockford Files.If I had known earlier that som
14、ething beyond my control could explain why I was a low achiever,Imay not have worked so hard in my late 20s and early 30s.I was writing and writing.I was working forno other reason than to hear people praise me because I did badly in all my courses.I once asked a friend who had always gotten an A,Ho
15、w long did you study for this?He said,Ididnt.I just glanced at it.So he must be smarter.I began to ask,What will happen to me when Imnot good at anything?Despite my doubts,I did become successful,and people now say to me,Soyouve overcome dyslexia.No.You dont overcome it,you learn to compensate for i
16、t.Some easy things are very hard for me.Most people who go through college read twice as fast as I do.I avoid dialing a phone if I can becauseI sometimes have to try three times to get the number right.Despite my weaknesses,I view dyslexia as a gift,not a curse（诅咒）.Many dyslexics are goodat right-br
17、ain,abstract thought,and thats what my kind of creative writing is.And I can write quicklyand can get up to 15 pages a day.Writing is my strength.The real fear I have for dyslexic children is not they have to struggle in school,but that they willquit on themselves before they get out of school.Paren
18、ts have to create victories for them,whetherits music,sports,or art.You can make your dyslexic child able to say,Yeah,reading is hard.But Ihave other things I can do.The writer decided to get himself tested as well because he .wanted to know if they had the same problemdidnt believe his daughter had
19、 the problemhad to take a regular medical examinationaccepted that his daughter was not smart4/9A.B.C.D.（2）A.B.C.D.（3）We can learn from the second paragraph that the writer .struggled and got better gradesdidnt work hard when he was youngwas praised for overcoming dyslexiawas thankful not knowing of
20、 dyslexia earlierWhat can we learn from the story?Clumsy birds have to start flying early.God shuts one door but opens another.Never judge a person by his appearance.No one can make a good coat with bad cloth.6.Whenever we see a button,we are eager to press it because we know something will happen.T
21、his is true in most cases,for example on a doorbell and on the on/off button on the TV.But somebuttons are actually fake,like the close button on a lift.Many people are in the habit of pressing the close button because they dont have the patienceto wait for the lift doors to shut.But lifts close but
22、tons are a complete scam（骗局）,at least in theUSthe doors will not close any faster no matter how hard you press.It started in the 1990s when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in the US,makingsure that all lifts stayed open long enough so that people with disabilities could enter.Only USf
23、irefighters and repairmen can use the buttons to speed up the door-closing process if they have acode or special keys.But to normal lift riders,the buttons arent completely useless.According to psychologists,fakebuttons can actually make you feel better by offering you a sense of control.Perceived（能
24、够感知的）control is very important.It reduce stress and increases well-being,Ellen J.Langer,a psychology professor,said,having a lack of control is associated with depression.Experts have revealed that a lot of buttons that dont do anything exist in our lives for this samepurpose.For example,many office
25、s in the US have fake thermostats（温度调节器）because peopletend to feel better when they think they can control the temperature in their workplace.5/9A.B.C.D.（1）A.B.C.D.（2）A.B.C.D.（3）A.B.C.D.（4）Pedestrian（行人）crosswalk buttons dont live up to their names either.Pressing them used tohelp make the traffic s
26、ignals change faster,but that was before computer-controlled traffic signalswere introduced.But psychologists found it interesting that even when people are aware of these little White lies,they still continue to push fake buttons because as long as the doors eventually close,it is consideredto be w
27、orth the effort.That habit is here to stay,John Kounios,a psychology professor,said.Even though I have realdoubts about the traffic light buttons,I always press them.After all,Ive got nothing else to do whilewaiting.So why not press the button in the hope that this one will work?What was the authors
28、 main purpose in writing the article?To describe some different kinds of fake buttons.To analyze the functions of fake buttons.To explore peoples different habits when it comes to pushing buttons.To explain the advantages and disadvantages of fake buttons.In America,the close buttons on lifts .work
29、only when people press them hard for a whilecannot speed up the process of closing the door in any caseare fake for the convenience of disabled peoplewere specially designed to give people a sense of controlThe underlined part for this same purpose in Paragraph 6 refers to .helping people to build u
30、p confidencemaking people more patientgiving people perceived controlmaking people with depression feel betterAccording to John Kounios,people who press fake buttons .dont know that what they press is fakeshould give up this habitconsider what they do to be meaninglessprobably do so to kill time6/97
31、.Although it has been revealed in recent years that plants are capable of seeing,hearing andsmelling,they are still usually thought of as silent.But now,for the first time,they have been recordedmaking ultrasonic（超声的）cries when stressed which researchers say could open up a new field ofprecision agr
32、iculture where farmers listen for water-starved cropsItzhak Khait and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobaccoplants made cries at frequencies humans cannot hear when stressed by a lack of water or when theirstem it cut.Microphones placed 10 centimetres from the
33、plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of20 to 100 kilohertz,which the team says insects and some mammals would be capable of hearing andresponding to from as far as 5 metres away.A moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant thatsounds water stressed the researchers suggest plants could
34、 even hear that other plants are short ofwater and react accordingly,they speculate（推断）.On average,drought-stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour,while tobacco plants made11.When plant stems were cut tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour andtobacco plants 15.Unstres
35、sed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour,on average.It is even possible to distinguish between the sounds to know what the stress is.The researcherstrained a machine-learning model to recognize between the plants sounds and the wind,rain andother noises of the greenhouse,correctly identifyi
36、ng in most cases whether the stress was caused bydryness or a cut,based on the sounds intensity and frequency.Water-hungry tobacco appears tomake louder sounds than cut tobacco,for example.Enabling farmers to listen for water-stressed plants could open a new direction in the field ofprecision agricu
37、lture,the researchers suggest.They add that such an ability will be increasinglyimportant as climate change exposes more areas to drought.The suggestion that the sounds that drought-stressed plants make could be used in precisionagriculture seems feasible（可行的）if it is not too costly to set up the re
38、cording in a field situation,says Anne Visscher at the royal Botanic Gardens,Kew,in the UK.She warns that the results cant yet be broadened out to other stresses,such as salt ortemperature,because these may not lead to sounds.In addition,there have been no experiments toshow whether moths or any oth
39、er animal can hear and respond to the sounds the plants make so that7/9A.B.C.D.（1）A.Disappointed.B.Cautious.C.Appreciative.D.Optimistic.（2）A.B.C.D.（3）idea remains based on guesses for now,she says.The experiment by researchers at Tel Aviv University shows that .tomato plants cry more often than toba
40、cco when hurtplant sounds can be heard by plants quite far awayhumans can hear water-hungry plants cryingmoths like laying eggs on stressed plantWhat is Anne Visschers attitude towards the finding of the experiment?Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?Plants get stressed ju
41、st Like Us.Sounds of Plants Detected Far Away.Cries of plants break Farmers Hearts.Plants scream in the presence of stress.四、七选五（本大题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）8.When watching a soccer game or basketball match,you might hear people encouraging theirfavorite team by shouting things like come on or go for it.Coul
42、d the Chinese phrase add oil alsobecome a frequent cheer at sporting events?Last month,add oil,a direct translation of jiayou,was added to the online Oxford EnglishDictionary(OED).1 It is believed to have originated as a cheer at the Macao Grand Prix（汽车大奖赛）during the 1960s.2 OED is recognizing the l
43、egitimacy（合法性）of our English and its potential to berelevant to the anglophone（英语为母语者）world Wee Lian-hee,professor of language studies atBaptist Universitys English Department,told the South China Morning Post.We can certainly reachout and communicate with the world without having to give up on bein
44、g ourselves.So how does a word get into the OED?3 New words are also required to have been usedover a reasonable amount of before being added.The process of adding words can be long andpainstaking.4 Lets take a look.8/9A.B.C.D.E.F.G.Hongbao:A traditional gift of money presented in a red envelope.Jia
45、ozi:A crescent-shaped（新月形的）dumpling made of thin pastry.Wuxia:5 Chinese people are excited that Chinglish phrases like these are gaining recognition.According to Oxford University Press,words can be added as long as they are understood byreaders without the heed for an explanation of its meaning.Bel
46、ow are some other Chinese words that have been added to the OED.OED is becoming more and more popular in the world.The phrase refers to adding fuel into a vehicle.Chinese slang is causing jokes in our life.A type of fiction or cinema featuring ancient Chinese warriors（勇士）.五、任务型阅读（本大题共4小题，共10分）9.Food
47、 as CommunicationWe usually understand when someone speaks or writes to us,and many gestures（手势）andfacial expressions have meaning,too.But have you ever considered what and how we eat as a formof communication?In many cultures,people sit together and share food at mealtimes,which is acommon traditio
48、n that can promote unity and trust.Food can also play an important role in a family orcultures celebrations.The foods we eatand when and how we eat themare often unique to aparticular culture or may even differ between areas within one country.In most cultures,bread represents delicious food.It is a
49、lso one of the most commonly sharedfoods in the world.Sharing bread is a common symbol of companionship and togetherness.In fact,the word companion comes from the Latin roots com-(together)and panis(bread).Many cultures alsocelebrate birthdays and marriages with decorated cakes that are cut and shar
50、ed among the guests.Early forms of cake were simply a kind of bread,so this tradition has its roots in the custom of sharingbread.There are foods like bread in other cultures.In Greece,people share a special cakecalled vasilopita.A coin is baked into the cake,which stands for success in the New Year