2017学年上海市四中高二月考卷英语试卷
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A （8%）
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.
Sports is both my work and life
Among various events organized by our company, the marathon impresses me most. The most unforgettable scene happened in my first year of work, (21) ______ I witnessed a silver-haired man in his 80s walk slowly toward the finishing line accompanied by two nurses. It was at that moment (22) ______ I was deeply moved. I realized (23) ______ marathon spirit stands for --- perseverance, willpower, self-proving and self-breakthrough.
I took part in the Nike Women' s Half Marathon in Washington DC this year. It was my first half marathon. (24) ______ ______ I passed over the bridge, runners from the opposite direction gave me high fives with an unspoken understanding, allowing me to forget fatigue and regain energy instantly.
There were many times when I wanted to quit. But runners around me, as well as the spectators along the road, always encouraged me. In the last 500 meters, (25) ______ (feel) sick in the stomach because of the cold wind, I slowed my pace and intended to walk. A woman shouted at me: "Hey, you are almost there. Come on girl! You're doing a great job." What amazing power (26) ______ words had! I started to run again. And finally I made it.
Running is flesh-and-blood and not just mechanical movements. Thus, I can’t help but (27) ______ (become) more considerate about runners when organizing races. I wish to create a far (28) ______ (favorable) running environment, offer better services and help them achieve the results they expect, happily, conveniently and comfortably.
Section B （9%）
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.
It is 8 p.m. on a Saturday evening,but teenagers in grey suits are still kicking and punching on the slopes above the Shaolin Temple.This is the home of kung fu:a Buddhist monastery(寺院），___29___for its warrior monks in Henan province.60,000 students come here to improve their fighting skills.plan their careers and ___30___of becoming stars.
There is a lot of interest in kung fu because of the King Fu Panda films.Many of the pupils arrive with on talent but they all have a dream——to become a ___31___as an action hero.Although only a few succeed,that___32____is enough to keep them practicing long into the night.
For some people,the temple is a symbol which____33_____the moral strength with the ___34___ability of kung fu.But for others,the magic of Shaolin is ___35____.Many of the tourists seem bored as they watch the kung fu performance.
The monastery insists that kung fu is secondary to religion for its members.“First they are monks,”says a spokesman.“It doesn’t matter if they are warriors monks;they are ___36___to meditate and study.”
Some students come so they can fight their way into a sporting university,giving them a chance of higher education.And more girls are coming.A student says,“it’s good to prove that girls can also practice martial arts.”___37___,even the best students only have a “really tiny chance”of becoming kung fu stars,says one of her classmates.
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.
June is always a sad time for Senior Three students. After taking the big test, they leave to realize their dreams in different ___38____. It’s hard time when students___39___to say goodbye to carefree high school days and close friends.
People always say that teenage friendships are the most precious. Kids are too young to understand___40____friendship while adults___41____to relate it to fame and wealth.
Things are different with best high school best friends. We share each other’ s ___42____. We discuss news from all walks of life and begin to___43___our values. We support each other on the journey to the biggest___44____in our lives. We also share success and failure. The seeds of friendship become deeply rooted.
Many of us don’t realize this___45___we enter society. One of my friends, Yang Ping, ____46____how strong the bond with high school friends could be. “ It was my high school friend who helped me___47____the darkest days in my life,” said the 27-year-old woman.
In 2001 Yang lost her job in Beijing. Yang’s best friend was staying in a college dormitory and took her in. Each night the two girls squeezed into a narrow single bed, chatting and crying. “I’ll never forget her care and encouragement, which ___48___me out of the darkness,” said Yang.
I still remember my last days in Senior 3. At the time, I __49___ a 20-page message with my best friend, both of us hoping to keep the friendship____50____forever.
But we didn’t realize we were already deep in each other’ s __51___. During the past ten years, whenever I’ve needed help or wanted to pour out my ___52____, she has always been there at the other end of a telephone line.
It is true that friends come and go. But never forget the ones who have been there for you. Take a closer look at those now around you, they could be the most precious treasure you discover in your entire life.
38.A．directions B．ways C．means D．relations
39.A．decide B．volunteer C．have D．begin
40.A．honest B．correct C．daily D．real
41.A．attempt B．tend C．plan D．manage
42.A．wealth B．money C．secrets D．housework
43.A．weigh B．make C．measure D．shape
44.A．challenge B．trouble C．question D．problem
45.A．unless B．after C．until D．but
46.A．experienced B．understood C．considered D．thought
47.A．burst through B．push through C．get through D．look through
48.A．held B．lifted C．raised D．supported
49.A．changed B．exchanged C．turned D．discussed
50.A．running B．going C．advancing D．marching
51.A．head B．brain C．spirit D．heart
52.A．unhappiness B．happiness C．disaster D．joy
Section B (16%)
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed 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
Sea cucumbers are considered nutritious in China and often used in soups.But China Central Television (CCTV) on Tuesday exposed the overuse of drugs in farmed sea cucumber(海参）in northeast China’s coastal Liaoning province, which has tainted the nearby seawater and killed many sea creatures, the Beijing Morning Post reported.
Sea cucumber farms abound in Dalian city's Pikou town, located on the coast of the Bohai Sea. It's no secret that drugs are used to keep farmed sea cucumbers healthy, the investigative report said.
Small bottles labeled ceftriaxone sodium, a type of antibiotic, are frequently dumped outside a farm in the town. Reporters learned that mariculture famers use several types of antibiotics and Chinese herbal concoctions to protect sea cucumbers from illness.One farmer told reporters that they also spike the water with pesticide to kill organisms that might otherwise steal nutrients from sea cucumbers.And sodium hypochlorite and clinical dextrane, all disinfectants(杀菌剂）, are used to clean up excrement from the sea creatures, he added.
Farmers dump this contaminated water into the sea every three or four days, undermining water quality near the fishing farms.In general, the farmland is cleaned up every four years. After removing all sea cucumbers and draining the water, local farmers cover the land with lime, 150 to 160 kg per mu (666 sq meters), and then wait for waves to take the lime and wastes into the sea.
Dozens of dead fish have been seen floating on the sea when these large-scale cleanings are carried out.In nearby areas, other sea creatures like squid and shrimp have been wiped out, a farmer said.
According to the passage,the overuse of drugs in farmed sea cucumber has resulted in______.
A.the economic losses of farmers B.people’s eating disorder
C.the extinction of many sea creatures D.people’s poor nutrition
The farmers protect the sea cucumbers from disease by________.
A.changing the water regularly B.cleaning up the farmland frequently
C.using different types of drugs D.adding extra nutrients to the water
Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the report?
A.Many sea cucumbers farms can be found in Pikou Town.
B.The waste from the sea creature can be recycled.
C.It is necessary for the farmers to clean up the farmland regularly.
D.Sea cucumbers is favored by Chinese people as an ingredient in dishes.
The article is probably intended to_________.
A.bring out the truth B.arouse the readers’ interest
C.advertise farmed sea cucumber D.call up readers’ memories
B
Getting kids to share their toys is a never-ending battle, and forcing them to do so never seems to help. New research suggests that allowing children to make a choice to sacrifice their own toys in order to share with someone else makes them share more in the future. The new findings are published in Psychological Science.
These experiments were conducted by psychological scientists, Nadia Chernyak and Tamar Kushnir of Cornell University. They found that sharing things with others when they are given a difficult choice leads children to think of themselves as people who like to share. It also makes them more likely to act in a pro-social （亲社会的）manner in the future.
Previous research has explained why rewarding children for sharing can backfire. Children come to think of themselves as people who don't like to share since they had to be rewarded for doing so. Because they don't view themselves as "sharers", they are less likely to share in the future.
Chernyak and Kushnir were interested in finding out whether freely chosen sacrifice might have the opposite effect on kids' willingness to share. To test this, the researchers introduced five-year-old children to Doggie, a sad puppet. Some of the children were given a difficult choice: Share a precious sticker（贴纸） with Doggie, or keep it for themselves. Other children were given an easy choice between sharing and putting the sticker away, while children in a third group were required by the researcher to share.
Later on, all the children were introduced to Ellie, another sad puppet. They were given the option of how many stickers to share (up to three). The kids who earlier made the difficult choice to help Doggie shared more stickers with Ellie. The children who were initially faced with an easy choice or who were required to give their sticker to Doggie, on the other hand, shared fewer stickers with Ellie. Therefore, children did not benefit from simply giving something up, but rather from willingly choosing to give something up of value.
“You might imagine that making difficult, costly choices is demanding for young children or even that once children share, they don’t feel the need to do so again,” Chernyak says. “But this wasn't the case: once children made a difficult decision to give up something for someone else, they were more generous, not less, later on.” Chernyak concludes.
57._______ helps children to share more in the future.
A．Rewarding children for sharing
B．Forcing children to share
C．Allowing children to share what they don’t need
D．Encouraging children to share precious things willingly
58.The underlined word “backfire” means _______.
A．serve as a push B．have an opposite effect
C．cause anger D．avoid taking things back
59.Those who were required to share give fewer stickers to Ellie because _______.
A．it’s not their own choice B．they regret what they did
C．Ellie is not as sad as Doggie D．they like to share with a real person
60.We can conclude from the passage that _______.
A．parents will never find a way to get children to share toys
B．a gift should be given to make up for children ’s sacrifice
C．making difficult choices may influence sharing behavior
D．children pretend to be generous when they are being observed
Section C (8%)
Directions:Read the passage carefully .Then choose the right answers.
When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority (优先).This view is shortsighted. ______61_______
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as a Schubert song. The jazz influence is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values.____62_____
Music provides a kind of perception(感知)that cannot be acquired any other way. ____63____The arts explore the emotional meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings "talk" to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our hungers, our discoveries, and our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.
____64____
It gives us identity as a society.
B.Science can explain how the sun rises and sets.
C. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other.
D.Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human.
AB.In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.
AC.So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
Section D (8%)
Summary Writing
Directions:Read the passage carefully.Then write an English summary of about 60 words in your own words according to the passage given below.
Imagine this: you get up in the morning and put on a custom printed T-shirt. Then you eat some 3-D printed food and relax on your printed sofa. Perhaps you take a ride in a printed electric car to the hospital to get a printed tooth fitted.
Though some of these things may seem impossible, they’re closer to reality than you might think. The world of 3-D printing is coming to a store near you soon.
The idea of 3-D printing is to produce complicated shapes in a very personalized way. If you want to make a totally new object, you need to make a virtual design in a CAD（computer aided design）file first. Or you can use a 3-D scanner to make a digital copy of an object. Then, based on the design or copy, the 3-D printer makes paper-thin slices out of liquid, plastic, or metal and puts them together to create the object you want.
There are many areas in which 3-D printing can change our lives. One such area is health care. Researchers have developed simple 3-D printed organs, which can be used in life-saving operations. A 17-year-old boy in the US has also recently developed a brain-powered, 3-D printed replacement hand. From heart monitors to fake limbs（四肢）, we can soon be living longer thanks to 3-D printed technology.
Another area that 3-D technology looks sure to change is food. Can you imagine being able to print your favorite dishes at home at the touch of a button? Even big companies are behind the trend. Hersheys, one of the largest chocolate makers in the world, recently announced that it would start producing chocolate with the help of 3-D printers. NASA, the US space agency, has reportedly spent $125,000 （767,594 yuan） developing a “3-D pizza printer”.
It is not yet clear how long it will take until 3-D printers are available to everyone. But one thing is for sure: the possibilities are endless.
65.
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IV.Translation (16%)
Directions:Translate the following sentences into English using the word or phrase given in the
brackets.
老师提醒我们要上课记笔记，万一我们会忘记。（in case）
尽管问题困难，他还是设法解决了。（despite）
他向父母承诺每周会去看望他们一次。（promise）
只有信守诺言的人才能赢得他人的信任。（word）
超过1000名运动员参加奥运会争夺第一名。（compete in）
参考答案
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
when/and 22. that 23. what 24. The moment/minute/instant 25. feeling 26. the/those/these 27. become 28. more favorable
29-37：B D CD BD AD AB C A AC
III. Reading Comprehension
38-52: BCDBC DACAC DBBDA
53-56:CCBA
57-60:DBAC
61-64:AB A B AC
65:3-D painting beyond out imagination is entering our daily life.Its principle is to create complex figures in an individualized process with this feature, 3-D painting will alter the world in many aspects such as medical care and food industries.Surely all people can enjoy the merits of 3-D painting one day.
IV.Translation
66.Our teacher reminded us to take notes in class in case we forgot to do it.
67.Despite the difficult problems he managed to solve them.
68.He promised to his parents that he would visit them once every week.
69.Only those who keep his word can win others’ trust.
70.Over 1000 athletes competed in the Olympic games to struggle for the champion.
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