高一下学期英语期末考试试卷第11套真题

2

）

What was it that made him determined to pursue a full time degree?

A . His long held passion for art.B . His boring retirement life.C . His success

in the foundation course.D . His desire to travel to the destination.

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）

What is Panagraph 3 maitly about?

A . How he got along with his course matesB . How be helped his friends at

university.C . What activities be took part in at schoolD . What be experienced 2

a volunteer.

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4

）

Which of the following can serve as the title of the passage?

A

. Knowledge is power.B . It’s never too old to learn.C

Failure is

the mother of success.D. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

3.

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Techgiants

Apple

and

Google

are

teaming

up

to

create

a

system

that

would

let

smartphone

users

know

when

they’v

e

come

into

contact

with

someone who has COVID-19.

Thetechnology

would

rely

on

the

Bluetooth

signals

that

smart

phones

can both sendout and receive 1aperscn tests positive forCOVID-19, they could

inform

public

health

authorities

through

an

app.

Thosepublic

health

apps

would

then

warn

anyone

whose

smart

phones

bad

come

tear

theinfected

person’s

phone

in

the

previous

14

days.

The

technology

could

be

usedon

both Google Android phones and Apple iPhones.

Thecompanies insist that they will preserve smart phone

users’ privacy

and theirtechnology will be used only by public health authorities to trace the

spreadof COVID-19. Smart phone users can choose to use it. The software will

notcollect

data

on

users’

physical

locations

or

their

personally

identifiableinformation.

People

who

test

positive

would

remain

unknown

to

the public, bothto the people who came in contact with them and to Apple and

Google. “Privacyis of greatest importance in this effort,” the companies said

in a jointstatement.

TheAmerican Civil Liberties Union has warmed that using cellphone data

to

handlethe

pandemic

carries

risks

of

“destruction

of

privacy”.

In

a

statement

onFriday,

ACLU

cyber

security

counsel

Jennifer

Granick

said,

The

system alsocan’t work well if people don’t trust it”. She said t

hat the joint

Apple andGoogle project “appears to reduce the worst privacy risks, but there

isstill

room

for

improvement.”

She

added

that

the

contact

tracing

app

shouldbe

used

only

for

public

health

purposes

and

only

for

the

duration

of

thispandemic.

Publichealth

officials

say

the

contact

tracing

-finding

people

who

have

been

incontact

with

an

infected

person

will

be

a

key

step

in

lifting

shelter

in- placerestrictions.

Itwould allow people who are known to have been exposed to the virus

to isolatethemselves, while letting others recover normal activities.

（

1

）

What is the main purpose of the passage?

A

.

To

advertise

for

public

health.B

.

To

introduce

a

contact

tracing

system.C .

To

warn

the

public

of

risks

of

COVID-

19.D .

To

raise

people’s

awareness of privacy protection.

（

2

）

What do the companies promise to do in particular?

A . Warn people who test positive.B . Protect infected people’s privacy.C .

Work with public health authorities.D . Collect data on users physical locations.

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3

）

What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 suggest?

A

.

Public

health

i

ssues

are

traced

accurately.B

.

Only

people’s

trust

influences

the

system.C .

The

system

is

at

the

risk

of

being

destroyed.D .

Jennifer thinks the system should be better.

（

4

）

The system is mainly designed to .

A .

ensure

infected

people’s

recoveryB .

guarantee

people’s

normal

activitiesC . help prevent the spread of COVID-19D . encourage all the people

to isolate themselves

4.

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Thegovernment’s top Great Barrier Reef scientist says a third mass coral

bleaching event in five years is a clear signal that

themarine wonder is “calling

for urgent help on climate change. Corals can recoverfrom mild bleaching, but

severe bleaching can kill corals.

ProfTerry

Hughes,

director

of

the

Centre

of

Excellence

for

Coral

Reef

Studies atJames Cook University, surveyed 1,036 reefs from a plane over nine

days in lateMarch.

Themarine park authority also had an observer on the flights. The survey

has releasedmaps showing that serious levels of bleaching occurred in 2020 in

all threesections of the reef northern, central and southern. Some 25% of the

reefs

wereseriously

bleached-meaning

that

more

than

60%

of

the

corals

on

each reef hadbleached.

TheGreat Barrier Reel has experienced five mass bleaching events-1998.

2002,2016,2017 and 2020 -all caused by rising ocean temperatures driven by

globalheating.

Hughes

said

there

probably

would

not

be

the

same

level

of

coral deathin the north and central regions in 2020 as in previous years, but

this

waspartly

because

previous

bleaching

outbreaks

had

kill

off

the

less

heat- tolerant species The 2020 bleaching was second only to 2016 for severity,

Hughes said.

Wachenfeld

，

chief scientistat the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

Authority,

told

Guardian

Australia”My

greatest

fear

is

that

people

will

lose

hope for the reef. Without hope

there’s no action. People need to see these

bleaching events, They are clearsignals that the Great Barrier Reef is alling for

urgent help and for us to doeverything we can”.

Measuresto improve the ability of recovery of the reef include improving

water quality,controlling outbreaks of coral-eating starfish, and research and

development

toimprove

the

heat

tolerance

of

corals.

“

However,

climate

change brings anew scale of impact unlike anything we have seen before. Thus,

dealing

with

theclimate

problem

is

t

he

basis

for

everything

else

to

work,”

Wachenfeld said.