江西省九江市2016-2017学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

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14

至

16

题。

14. What kind of mobile does Mary think she needs?

A. A mobile that she can use the Internet.

pictures to others’.

C. A mobile that can stop her missing important calls.

15. Why did Mary miss the calls yesterday?

A. Her phone was turned off.

C. The signal there is very weak.

16. What’s the woman doing?

A. Offering help.

advice.

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B.

A

mobile

that

can

send

B. Her phone charge is overdue.

B. Making an introduction.

C.

Asking

for

some

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段 材料，回答第

17

至

20

题。

17. With whom did Bob go to the mountains?

A. His classmates.

B. His friends.

C. His brothers.

18. Why did Bob go to the forest?

A. To build their camp.

B. To enjoy the cool.

C. To observe the trees.

19. What was the weather like that afternoon?

A. Rainy.

B. Snowy.

C. Windy.

20. Where did Bob want the horses to take them?

A. To the camp.

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分，满分

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阅读下列短文

，从每题所给的四个选项

（

A

、

B

、

C

和

D

）中

，选

出最佳选项

，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Every year at Halloween, American kids of all ages go trick-or-treating.

They

hope

to

bring

home

as

much

candy

as

possible.

Twelve-year-old

Madelynne

Caralli

goes

trick-or-treating,

too.

She

is

happy

to

get

candy.

But

she

really wants food. Madelynne trick-or- treats for donations to give to hungry people.

Madelynne’s

project

began

several

years

ago.

When

she

read

a

book

about

children who volunteer in their neighborhoods, she decided to collect food for a food

bank. “My mom explained to me that there are people who don’t have any food, and I

wanted to

help them,” she explained.

Madelynne and her mother visited the food bank website to find out what kinds

of food were needed. Then they got in touch with people in their neighborhood and

told them that Madelynne would be looking for donations at Halloween. She and her

mother suggested things like canned soups---food that can be stored for a long time.

On

the

night

she

trick-or-treats,

Madelynne

puts

on

her

costume

and

walks

through the neighborhood collecting food. She says she has been surprised to see how

much

food

people

are

willing

to

give.

Last

Halloween,

“some

people

gave

me

so

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B. To his house.

C. To the mountains.

much that the bags are breaking,” she says.

In the past

four

years,

Madelynne has

collected a total

of 645 pounds of food.

That amount of food helped feed 16 families for a wee

k! Madelynne doesn’t carry all

the food herself. Her friend Jordyn helps her carry the heavy bags. After Halloween,

Madelynne and her mother take the food to the food bank. There it is sorted and then

given

to

people

who

need

it.

This

year,

Madelynne

plans

on

trick-or-treating

her

grandmother’s neighborhood as well as her own.

The neighbors also give Madelynne candy for her own trick-or-treating bag. But

according

to

Madelynne,

her

favorite

part

of

Halloween

is

not

the

candy.

It

is

“the

feeling that I am he

lping people.”

21. Why does Madelynne want food at Halloween?

A. Because she doesn’t like candy.

B. Because she wishes to help hungry people.

C. Because she hopes to be different from other kids.

D. Because she wants to remind people not to waste food.

22. Madelynne started the project after she____.

A. visited the food bank website

B. read a book about some volunteer children

C. got in touch with people in her neighborhood

D. knew many people didn

’

t have any food at Halloween

23. This year, Madelynne plans to ______.

A. prepare more bags to hold food for hungry people

B. collect food as well as ask for candy in her neighborhood

C. ask her friend Jordyn to help her carry the food to the bank

D. look for donations i

n her grandmother’

s neighborhood too

B

Why do we

say “it’s not the winning but taking part that counts”?

It’s

a

phrase

supported

by

the

founder

of

the

Olympics,

Baron

Pierre de

Coubertin, who said “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning

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but taking part;

the important thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”

Most

people

seem

to

agree

that

trying

and

failing

is

more

admirable

than

not

trying at all. In practice, though, most people seem only to be interested in the medals.

In young children’s sporting events, last place is often rewarded with a “wooden

spoon”

or

booby

prize

（末名奖）

.

Grown-

up

athletes

don’t

even

have

this

to

look

forward to. Perhaps “taking part” is just designed to cheer up the slowest children:

to

take the edge off failure.

Many

people

would

say

otherwise.

They

say

that

effort,

determination

and

striving

（努力）

to

reach

a

goal

are

worth

praising

in

themselves.

It

is

commonly

accepted that through sport one learns to persevere, to sacrifice, to be self- disciplined

（有自制力的）

,

to

work

hard,

to

follow

orders,

to

be

a

leader,

and

to

work

with

others.

Winning

athletes

are

those

who

combine

the

good

behaviours

with

natural

talent.

There

are

other

goals

to

struggle

for

apart

from

a

medal.

Baron Pierre de

Coubertin

himself

coined

the

motto“Citius,

Altius,

fortius”

(“

Swifter,

Higher,

Stronger”) for his games. It is an ambiguous phrase

, one that could be used to include

managing to do something as well as going for gold.

Competition is not unethical. It is reasonable that winners be rewarded, even if

their victories have an element of chance ( and all victories have ); this is the essence

（本质）

of a game, and games are fundamental to humanity. Celebrating achievement

is not in itself unethical, but it can drive some competitors to unethical behavior.

24. Baron Pierre de Coubertin might agree that

.

A. intense competition is bad for people

B. taking part is valued more highly than winning

C. one can win a game if he works hard enough

D. a person can be perfect if he wins every game

25. The underlined words “to take the edge off failure” in Paragraph 4 probably mean

“

”.

A. to learn from failure

B. to be afraid of failure

D.

to

warn

children

of

the

danger

of

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C. to reduce the effect of failure

failure

26. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 5

?

A. How people reach a goal easily.

C. Why people should not stop learning.

winning a game.

27. Why does the author think the Olympic motto is an ambiguous phrase?

A. It is hard to change.

C. It is used in different fields.

C

Why

does

nearly

everyone

instantly

look

more

attractive

with

sunglasses

on?

You

know you’re at least a little curious. And so was Vanessa Brown, a senior lecturer of

art and design at Nottingham Trent University in the U.K. Her research focuses on the

meaning we assign to everyday objects, and in her

academic book that’s coming out

early

next

year,

she

explores

the

cultural

and

psychological

relationship

between

sunglasses

and

our

moder

n

idea

of

“cool”.

In

an

e

-mail

to

Science

of

Us

,

Brown

explained

what

her

research

has

uncovered

about

why

most

of

us

look

better

in

shades.

Sunglasses

do

make

your

face

look

better.

Put

on

a

pair

of

sunglasses,

and

there’ll be instant

symmetry

（对称）

! The dark lenses cover up any non-symmetrical

features

around

your

eyes,

and

research

on

facial

attractiveness

shows

a

clear

link

between symmetry and our ideas of beauty.

Many of the snap judgments we form about people come from looking them in

the

eyes.

“The

ey

es

are

such

a

tremendous

source

of

information

for

the

human

being,”

Brown

explained.

Eye

contact

helps

us

form

judgments

about

someone’s

intelligence,

confidence,

and

sincerity,

and

sunglasses

keep

us

literally

in

the

dark

about forming those perceptions about

a person. A recent study showed that people

who

wore

sunglasses

acted

more

selfishly

and

dishonestly

than

those

wearing

eyeglasses, which, the researchers argue, suggests that sunglasses cheat us into feeling

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B. What makes a winning athlete.

D.

Which

quality

counts

most

in

B. It is hard to understand.

D. It is used for different purpose.

more unknown.

Sunglasses are a relatively modern everyday accessory. Sales started to pick up

in the 1920s, but they didn’t become

commonplace until about two decades after that.

In their early days sunglasses were primarily used during risky water and snow sports,

and were also associated with new technologies like airplane travel, which made them

seem “daring and thoroughly modern”.

Soon

after

that,

Hollywood

stars

of

the

1950s

and

1960s

started

wearing

sunglasses to defend themselves from being recognized by the public or harassed by

paparazzi

（狗仔队）

,

whose

flashbulbs

would

often

explode

violently,

sometimes

literally

in

their

faces.

But

regardless

of

practicality,

movie

stars’

adoption

of

the

sunglasses strengthened the link between sunglasses and attractiveness.

28. We know from Paragraph 1 that Vanessa Brown

.

A. is an expert on designing sunglasses

B. keeps regular contact with

Science of Us

C. is a senior lecture of history in a university

D. will have a book published next year

29. How is the second paragraph developed?

A. By following time order.

C. By making classifications.

B. By making comparisons.

D. By providing explanations.

30. According to the last two paragraphs, sunglasses

.

A. came into being in the 1920s

B. began to get popular in the 1940s

C. was mainly used in airplane travel in the past

D. got popular with stars immediately after they appeared

31. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The reasons sunglasses make people look fashionable.

B. The relationship between sunglasses and dishonest people.

C. The historical development of sunglasses.

D. The role sunglasses play in our daily life.

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D

Once upon a time, a library was just about the only place that someone could go to get

a book or go to read for free. Then came the arrival of the Internet, and that changed

everything.

Before

long,

books

were

available

on

different

sites

on

the web.

It

was

only a matter of time until Kindle, Nook, and other e-readers swept the scene. Along

with them came the e-book. Many believed that this would be the end of libraries. But

libraries still exist today, and many of them even thrive(

繁荣

). So, how is it possible

that they survived against the

onslaught

of e-books?

For one thing, the truth is that libraries were never just about borrowing books

for free. Librarians provide many services other than those of a desk clerk or customer

service agent. They often hold seminars, presentations, contests, and other events to

promote

free

education.

These

events

are

considered

necessary

by

parents

and

kids

alike.

For others, the library is a place where they can go to get away from the rush of

the world

and

from

social

obligations or

family

troubles. Many

go to

the library to

study for projects, papers and exams. Others simply see it as a recreational hobby.

For another thing, most libraries and librarians do not reject the changing tides of

technology. And neither does the world, for that matter. In the US, the graduate degree

program to become a librarian is often called a Library Science program. It reflects

the

fact

that

the

country

believes

its

librarians

should

keep

up

with

the

latest

in

information technology. Many librarians agree, and therefore have become experts in

the

field.

Librarians

have

by

and

large

willingly

educated

themselves

in

the

technology needed to keep up with the fast-paced digital world of technology today.

So

consider

a

visit

to

your

local

library

to

see

all

the

recent

changes.

If

you

haven’t been to one in a while you might not recognize the place. But don’t worry.

Your librarian will be happy to bring you up to speed.

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Which of the following shows the structure of the text?

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