2018-2019学年上海市建平中学高一下学期期末考试英语试题

2018-2019学年建平中学高一第二学期期末考试

英语试卷

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

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Directions: Choose the best answer according to the meaning of the sentence.

17.___ is mentioned above, the number of violent crimes will increase this year about 15%.

A.Which

B. As

C. That

D. It

18.Being unable to afford a car, going shopping for the two of us meant ___ down to the shops and going back home again with full arms.

A.to walk

B. walked

C. is to build

D. will be built

19.Opposite the bus station ___ a new commercial center, which the nearby residents are currently discussing a lot.

A.to build

B. built

C. is to build

D. will be built

20.As of Friday, the money ___ totaled more than 8.5 million yuan ($1.38 million) for China-Dolls Center for Rare Disorders, a non-commercial organization.

A.having been raised

B. raising

C. raised

D. was raised

21.___ gender differences follow essentially old ideas on achievement tests in which boys typically score higher on math and science, females have the advantages on school grades regardless of the subject.

A.While

B. When

C. If

D. Because

22.The most important part of what children’s minds have and many animals’ don’t is ___ scientists call shared intentionally, which is the ability to infer what others know or are thinking.

A.that

B. which

C. what

D. the

23.It was not until then ___ the girl would receive an operation the next day.

A.did we know

B. we knew

C. that we knew

D. when we knew

24.Before 1973, fingerprints at the scene of a crime used to be photographed for ___ purpose and the object carrying the prints were shown in court as well.

A.qualification

B. identification

C. estimate

D. possession

25. When it comes to leadership roles, in some cases, such as friendship groups, one or more persons may gradually ___ as leaders, although there is no formal process of selection.

A. arise

B. distinguish

C. occur

D. emerge

26. There are many factors in people’s daily lives that can affect posture and throw the body off balance, such as sitting at a desk for long periods, frequently holding a phone between the ear and the shoulders, bending over a laptop, or ___ looking down at a smartphone.

A. continually

B. eventually

C. temporarily

D. accidentally

Section B

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.

The first DC movie of 2017, Wonder Wonder Woman, is a few days away from release. With the DC Extended University (DCEU) so far ___27__ (look) dangerously underpowered compared with Marvel’s Chinematic University, the pressure is on to ensure this latest comic book adaptation from Warner Bros is a hit.

The DCEU has offered the world a handful of heroes, but it seems to be confused about what makes a good hero. We’ve seen a Superman suffering from doubt and lacking his unusual optimism, and a hopeless Batman who ___28__ (motivate) almost entirely by evil. So untrustworthy are the supposed good guys in the DCEU, the world turned to a group of super villains (恶棍) when it wanted to take down a villain in Suicide Squad.

Wonder Woman, an Amazonian princess warrior who is a demigoddess (半神), is

supposed to be different. She presents a very feminine sense of peace, justice and ___29__ Gal Gadot has described as “emotional intelligence.” In Wonder Woman, ___30__ American pilot Steve Trevor crashes on Themyscira and tells Princess Diana of the island nation about Word War I, she leaves her home to try to stop the war and becomes Wonder Woman.

___31__ the upcoming movie, DC has an opportunity to steal a march on Marvel, because the Disney-owned studio has yet to deliver a movie led by a female superhero. Besides, director Patty Jenkins has ___32__ impressive history of telling women’s stories, including writing and directing the Oscar-winning crime drama Monster.

Making her first comic book appearance in October 1941, Wonder Woman was the brainchild of the American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston, ___33__ intended her as a feminist icon. But is her impressive physical beauty a problem for a feminist reading of the character? Jenkins doesn’t think so, describing her take on the character as “total wish-fulfillment.”

“I, ___34__ a woman, want Wonder Woman to be hot as hell, fight bad guys and look great at the same time,” she said, “the same way men want Superman to have huge chest muscles and an impractically big body. That makes them feel like the the hero they want to be. And my hero, in my head, has really long legs.”

Section C

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.

Time seems to pass faster or slower depending on the language you speak, new research has revealed, because of the way your native tongue speaks about time. A team from the University of Lancaster say their work also shows how bilingualism(双

语) may affect pur perceptions of time, __35__ the brain to think in new ways.

In one experiment, 40 Spanish speakers and 40 Swedish speakers were __36__ in seeing a computer animation(动画) of a slowly line. All the animations lasted 3 seconds, but the line didn't always grow to the same length. The researchers expected that because Swedes talk about time in terms of distance, they would find it harder to __37__ how much time had passed, and they were right. Meanwhile the Spanish speakers, who refer to time in terms of __38__ (as in a “small” break rather than a “short” break), were much better at realizing that the same 3 seconds had fled, no matter how far the line grew. “The Swedish speakers tend to think that the line that grows longer takes longer,” one of the researchers explained. “Spanish speakers aren't __39__ by that. They seem to think that it doesn't matter how much the line grows in distance, it still takes the same time for it to grow.”

In another experiment, participants were shown animations of a jug(水壶) slowly being filled up: the length of the animation was fixed, but the jug filled up by __40__ amounts. Sure enough, this time it was the Spanish speakers who had more trouble __41__ the passage of time.

Interestingly, when the spoken instructions in a particular language were taken away, the volunteers were much better at judging time, as if being asked out loud how much time had passed triggered something in the brain. To gain __42__ insight into what was happening, 74 bilingual speakers of both Spanish and Swedish were also recruited, and shown similar animations. The end results were the same: when instructed in Swedish, the volunteers were more easily fooled by the line animations, and when instructed in Spanish, it was the jug animations that interfered with their __43__ of time.

III. Reading comprehension.

Section A

Directions: 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.

It is often claimed that nuclear energy is something we cannot do without. We live in a _44_ society where there is an enormous demand for commercial products of all kinds. Moreover, an increase in industrial production is considered to be one solution to the problem of mass unemployment. Such an increase presumes an abundant and cheap energy supply. Many people believe that nuclear energy provides an inexhaustible and _45_ source of power and that it is therefore essential for an industrially developing society. There are a number of other advantages in the use of nuclear energy. Firstly, nuclear power, except for accidents, is clean. A further advantage is that a nuclear power station can be run and maintained by relatively few technical and administrative staff. The nuclear reactor represents an enormous _46_ in our scientific evolution and, whatever the anti-nuclear group says, it is wrong to _47_ a return to more primitive sources of fuel. However, opponents of nuclear energy point out that nuclear power stations bring a direct threat not only to the environment but also to civil rights.

Furthermore, it is questionable whether ultimately nuclear power is a(n) _48_ source of energy. There have, for example, been very costly accidents in America, in Russian and, of course, in Japan. The possibility of increases in the cost of uranium in addition to the cost of greater safety _49_ could demand too much money for nuclear power. In the long run, environmentalists argue, nuclear energy wastes valuable resources and disturbs the ecology to an extent which could _50_ the destruction of the human race. Thus, if we wish to survive, we cannot afford nuclear energy. In spite of the case against nuclear energy outlined above, nuclear energy programs are _51_, which assumes a continual growth in industrial production and consumer demands. _52_, it is doubtful whether this growth will or can continue. Having considered the arguments on both sides carefully, it seems there are good economic and ecological reasons for sources of energy _53_ nuclear power.

44.A. material B. transforming C. consumer D. modern

45.A. economical B. commercial C. clean D.