上海市曹杨二中高二下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版

曹杨二中高二第二学期英语期中试卷

Ⅱ

. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A (10’)

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and

grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of

the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

A twist of fate

When Tamara Rabi met Adriana Scott at a local McDonald’s restaurant, their lives changed

forever. “I didn’t know what to say (21)______ ‘hi’. I was just so

shocked -- it was like seeing

myself,” says Adriana. They were both students at neighbouring universities in Long Island, New

York, and they had grown up only 30 kilometres apart. They shared a birthday, they were exactly

the same height and both loved hip hop. But the

most important

thing (22) ______ was shared

between

them

was

the

same

Mexican

mother.

Both

girls

grew

up

knowing

that

their

mother

(23)______ (give) them up for adoption when they were born, but they had no idea (24)______

they

had

a

twin

si

ster.

Then,

Justin

Lattore,

a

friend

of

Adriana’s,

went

to

Tamara’s

twentieth

birthday party. When he walked in and saw Tamara, hardly (25)______ he believe his eyes. “I was

just shocked --

she looked so much like Adriana,” says Justin. Then it got clear

-- they had to be

sisters. In fact, Tamara had already noticed that strangers on her university campus often smiled

and said hello, clearly (26)________ (mistake) her for someone else.

Following

the

birthday,

Justin

put

the

two

girls

in

touch

and

they

arranged

the

McDonald’s meeting by email. “(27)________ she came towards me, she was walking like me,

talking

like

me,”

says

Tamara.

“We

have

the

same

mannerisms,

the

same

interests

and

got

the

same grades at school,” adds Adriana. The girl even discover

ed that as children they had often had

the same nightmare of a really loud noise (28)________ (follow) by a very quiet one. They had

another sad factor a common. (29)________ of their adoptive fathers had died a few years before

they met.

Now the tw

ins are finishing their studies, and they meet often. “I feel she’s my sister, but

our

relationship

right

now

is

more

like

friends,”

says

Tamara.

She’s

optimistic

and

excited

that

their futures will be together. “We will always have each other. We don’t ha

ve any other brothers

and sisters --

we are sure (30)________ (grow) old together!”

Section B (10’)

Directions:

Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only

be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A.

address

B. efficiency

C. benefits

D. estimated

E. readily

F.

feature

G. reluctantly

H. duties

I. urge

J. blamed

K.

undisturbed

Japanese firms encourage daytime naps

Imagine working for an employer who, aware that you’re probably not sleeping

enough at

night, allows you to down tools and nap as part of your regular work ___31___

-- and not just

forty winks at your desk, but a restorative snooze in a quiet room.

These are some of the measures being used by a growing number of companies in Japan to

counter an epidemic of sleeplessness that costs its economy a(n) ___32___ $$ 138 bn a year.

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Tech

startups

have

been

quickest

to

___33___the

“sleep

debt”

among

irritable

and

unproductive employees. Last year, Nextbeat, an TT service provider, went as far as setting up two

“strategic sleeping rooms”

-- one for men, the other for women -- at its headquarters in Tokyo. The

aroma-infused

rooms

___34___

devices

that

block

out

background

noise,

allowing

workers

to

stretch out on sofas for a(n) ___35___ nap. Mobile phones, tablets and laptops are banned.

“Napping

can

do

as

much

to

improve

someone’s

___36___as

a

balanced

diet

and

exercise,” Emiko Sumikawa, a member of the Nextbeat board, told Kyodo news agency.

Nextbeat

also

asks

employees

to

leave

work

by

9

pm

and

to

avoid

doing

excessive

overtime, which has been ___37___ for a rising rate of death from overwork.

Japanese workers have more reason than most to submit to

（服从）

the ___38___ for a

daytime snooze, whether at work or during long commutes.

A

survey

conducted

using

fitness

trackers

in

28

countries

found

that

Japanese

men

and

women

sleep,

on

average,

just

6

hours

and

35

minutes

a

night

--

45

minutes

less

than

the

international

average

--

making

them

the

most

sleep- deprived

of

all.

Estonians,

Canadians,

Belgians, Austrians, as well as the Dutch and French, all get a comparatively decent night’s sleep,

according to the survey.

The

government

has

also

come

to

appreciate

the

___39___

of

a

well-rested

workforce,

with the health ministry recommending that all working-age people take a nap of up to 30 minutes

in the early afternoon --

advice ___40___ embraced by some of the country’s politicians.

Ⅲ

. Reading Comprehension

Section A (15’)

Directions: 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.

Placebos

（安慰剂）

Prove Powerful

Many doctors know the story of “Mr. Wright”. In 1957 he was diagnosed with cancer, a

nd

given only days to live. He had tumours

（肿瘤）

the size of oranges. He heard that scientists had

discovered a new

medication, Krebiozen, that was ___41___ against cancer, and he begged the

doctor to give it to him. His physician, Dr Phillip West, finally agreed. After Mr. Wright had been

given an injection on a Friday afternoon, the ___42___doctor found his patient out of his “death

bed”, joking with the nurses the following Monday. “The tumours”, the doctor wrote later, “had

___43___ like snow balls on a ho

t stove.”

Two months later, Wright read medical reports that the medication was fake. His condition

immediately got worse again. “Don’t ___44____ what you read in papers,” the doctor told Wright.

Then he injected him with what he said was “a new supe

r-

refined double strength” version of the

drug. ___45___,there was no drug, just a mix of salt and water, but again it worked. Wright was

the picture of health for another two months until he read an official report saying that Krebiozen

was ___46___. He died two days later.

This story has been ___47___ by doctors for a long time, dismissed as one of those strange

tales that medicine cannot explain. The idea that a patient’s ___48____ can make a fatal disease go

away has been thought of as too strange. But now scientists are discovering that the placebo effect

is

more powerful than anyone had ever thought. They

are also beginning to discover how such

miraculous results are ___49___. Through new techniques of brain imagery, it can be shown that a

thought, a belief or a desire can cause chemical processes in the brain which can have powerful

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effects

on

the

___50___.

Scientists

are

learning

that

some

body

reactions

are

not

caused

by

information

coming

into

the

brain

from

the

outside

world,

but

by

what

the

brain

___51___

to

happen next.

Placebos

are

“lies

that

___52___,”

said

Dr

Anne

Harrington,

a

historian

of

science

at

Harvard University. “The word placebo is Latin for “I shall please” (or I shall make you happy)

and it is typically a treatment that

a doctor gives to ___53___ patients to please them,”she said. “It

looks like medication, but has no healing ingredients whatsoever.” Nowadays, doctors have much

more powerful medicines to fight disease. But these treatments have not diminished

（减弱）

the

power of the placebo, quite the ___54___. Maybe when scientists fully understand how placebos

work, the powerful healing effects of the human ___55___will be used more systematically!

41.

A. vague

B. unique

C. effective

D. impossible

42.

A. astonished

B. disappointed

C. exhausted

D. experienced

43.

A. expanded

B. melted

C. accumulated

D. moved

44.

A. take down

B. look for

C. make out

D. care about

45.

A. Actually

B. Morcover

C. Meanwhile

D. Consequently

46.

A. beneficial

B. popular

C. worthless

D. available

47.

A. studied

B. ignored

C. invented

D. spread

48.

A. struggles

B. promises

C. rights

D. beliefs

49.

A. achieved

B. neglected

C. emphasized

D. mixed

50.

A. brain

B. doctor

C. body

D. process

51.

A. advises

B. expects

C. instructs

D. forbids

52.

A. heal

B. hurt

C. exist

D. fade

53.

A. optimistic

B. careful

C. peculiar

D. anxious

54.

A. point

B. opposite

C. time

D. adventure

55.

A. relation

B. strength

C. being

D. mind

Section B (22’)

Directions:

Read the following three passages. Each passage is following 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.

(

A

)

A Lesson Goes Viral

At the end of 2014, Tulsa, Oklahoma, sixth-grade teacher Melissa Bour received a friend

request on Facebook from one of her students. She didn’t accept the reques

t, but a quick browse

through the girl’s friends list revealed the names of dozens of kids from her classroom. Many of

the

students’

Facebook

pages

were

completely

public,

meaning

even

strangers

could

search

through the kids’ personal photos and messages.

“I

saw

middle

fingers,

students

dressed

inappropriately,

and

extremely

offensive

language,”

Melissa

says.

“It

was

disturbing.”

When

she

brought

up

her

discovery

in

class,

the

students thought is was nothing. So she created a post of her own.

Wi

th a bright green Sharpie, she wrote on a piece of paper in all caps, “Dear Facebook: My

12-year-

old students think it is ‘no big deal’ that they are posting pictures of themselves... Please

help me... [show them] how quickly their images can get around.”

She put a picture of the letter on

her Facebook page and asked people to share it.

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In

hours,

it

was

shared

108,000

times

across

dozens

of

states

and

four

countries.

She

deleted

it

after

eight

hours,

but

it

continued

to

spread.

“I

wanted

to

show

them

that

it’s

on

the

Internet forever,” she says.

As she explained the results of her experiment in class, the students’ “eyes got bigger and

bigger,” she says. “It scared a few of them into deleting their pages completely,” she says. Others

have removed inappropriate posts and used privacy settings to manage their pages.

Her intention wasn’t to scare them off social media but to push them to be mindful of what

they post. Melissa says, “I tell them, ‘just because everyone else is sharing doesn’t me

an you have

to.’”

56.

What did Melissa Bour find about her students’ Fackbook pages?

A.

They were not accessible to strangers.

B.

They contained improper messages.

C.

They appealed a lot to the public.

D.

They revealed nothing about the students.

57.

Why did Melissa put a picture of the letter on her Fackbook page?

A.

To prove the potential threat caused by sharing something online.

B.

To help students learn how to post something on Facebook.

C.

To turn to the public for tips on proper use of Fackbook.

D.

To scare her students off all social media.

58.

After Melissa told her students about the results of her experiment, they_______.

A.

ignored her warnings completely

B.

began to share something meaningful

C.

took no notice of what others posted

D.

realized the danger of social media

59.

What is the passage mainly about?

A.

How a teacher became popular with her unique post.

B.

How the students kept themselves away from social media.

C.

How a teacher raised students’ awareness of Internet security.

D.

How the students fought against their addiction to online games.

(

B

)

As much as we may want to protect children from all the terrible, horrible and very had

things in life, too often we don’t get a choice. These four new kids’ books serve as guides for a

variety of difficulties and as important reminders that we have a choice in how we react to

such

trails.

These

stories

introduce

young

readers

to

relatable

characters

who

are

processing

and

recovering

from

hardships

and

sorrows.

Each

book,

in

its

own

way,

offers

a

guide

for

young

readers who are facing their won struggles. Together, they teach a lesson for us all in resilience

（还原能力）

and hope.

The Secret Horses Of Briar Hill

Goodbye Days

By Megan Shepherd

By JeffZentner

Twelve-year-old

Emmaline

has

a

secret:

she

Carver Briggs blames himself for the deaths of

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