2019-2020年高二前半期期末英才班能力素质监测英语免费试卷完整版（四川省射洪市）

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Fun with Shadow Puppets People around the world have been making shadow puppets (皮影戏) for a very long time. In a shadow puppet show, the puppets cannot be seen. Only their shadows can be seen. HOW TO PREPARE THE STAGE ●A cardboard puppet stage can be made using a piece of poster board. ●Lay the poster board down flat. ●Fold the edges in 6 inches on each side. ●Cut out a rectangular opening from the center of the poster board. ●Cover the opening with a piece of white cloth. Fasten it with tape (胶带). This cloth will be the stage “curtain.” The puppets hide behind the curtain. Have a bright light set up behind the puppets. When the light behind the puppets is turned on, black shadows that resemble, or look like, the puppets appear on the white curtain. When the puppets move, the shadows move. HOW TO MAKE SHADOW PUPPETS 1.Choose a story with two or three talking characters. 2.Draw the shape of each person or animal on a piece of black poster board. It will be easy to follow the lines if you draw them with a white pencil or crayon. ●Make the characters so that they are facing to one side. ●Make each character different. Remember that only the shadow will show. so the outside shape is what is important. 3.Use scissors (剪刀)to cut out the puppets carefully. 4.Attach a drinking straw (吸管) to the back of each puppet with tape. Let the bottom of the straw hang below the body of the puppet. This will be used as a handle. Use it to control the movements of the puppets across the stage. 5.Have a friend read the story while you move the puppets. Then you can take turns. 6.You are now ready. LET THE SHOW BEGIN! 【1】Why does the stage need a light? A.The light helps locate the puppets. B.The light gives the stage a fancy look. C.The light signals that the show has started. D.The light helps to make a shadow on the curtain. 【2】Which item could best be used in place of a drinking straw? A.A broom. B.A ribbon. C.A pencil. D.A string. 【3】It can be learnt that to make a puppet show . A.a white pencil is a must B.at least two people are needed C.the characters should face the same side D.the color of the characters is very important

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I got married just after I graduated from college and found a job to support our family at the nearby Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT). It was in the laboratory of Prof. Edward Lorenz that I learned what a computer was and how to develop software. One day my husband saw a newspaper advertisement. The MIT Instrumentation Laboratory was looking for people to develop software to “send man to the moon”. Deeply attracted both by the idea and the fact that it had never been done before, I became the first programmer to join and the first woman the lab hired. At the beginning, nobody thought software was such a big deal. But then they began to realize how much they were relying on it. Our software needed to be very reliable and able to detect an error and recover from it at any time during the mission. My daughter, Lauren, liked to intimate me—playing astronaut. One day, she was with me when I was doing a simulation (模拟) of a mission to the moon. She started hitting keys and all of a sudden, she selected a program which was supposed to be run before launch. The computer had so little space that it wiped the navigation data taking her to the moon. I thought: my God—this could happen by accident in a real mission. I suggested a program change to prevent a prelaunch program being selected during flight. But the higher-ups at MIT and NASA said the astronauts were too well trained to make such a mistake. On the very next mission , Apollo 8, one of the astronauts on board accidentally did exactly what Lauren had done. The Lauren bug! It created destruction and required the mission to be rearranged. After that, they let me put the program change in. It was the program change that had a crucial influence on the success of the mission of Apollo 11. During the early days of Apollo, software was not taken as seriously as other engineering disciplines (学科).It was out of desperation I came up with the term “software engineering”. Then one day in a meeting, one of the most respected hardware experts explained to everyone that he agreed with me that the process of building software should also be considered an engineering discipline, just like with hardware. It was a memorable moment. 【1】What do we know about the author? A.She taught Lauren to write software. B.She got her master's degree from MIT. C.She is the first woman ever hired by MIT. D.She created the term “software engineering”. 【2】“The Lauren bug” in Para.5 refers to ______. A.a pet to accompany Lauren B.a mission to land on the moon C.a mistake causing data loss D.a software ending prelaunch 【3】What greatly contributed to Apollo 11's success according to the passage? A.The in-time upload of data. B.The program change. C.Astronauts' rich experience. D.Experts' new attitude. 【4】What can we learn from Margaret's story? A.Honesty is the best policy. B.A good beginning is half done. C.Two heads are better than one. D.Chances favor the prepared mind.

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Walk through the Amazon rainforest today and you will find it is steamy, warm, damp and thick. But if you had been around 15,000 years ago, during the last ice age, would it have been the same? For more than 30 years, scientists have been arguing about how rainforests like the Amazon might have reacted to the cold, dry climates of the ice ages, but until now, no one has reached a satisfying answer. Rainforests like the Amazon are important for mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere and helping to slow global warming. Currently the trees in the Amazon take in around 500 million tons of CO2 each year: equal to the total amount of CO2 giving off in the UK each year. But how will the Amazon react to future climate change? If it gets drier, will it still survive and continue to draw down CO2 ? Scientists hope that they will be able to learn in advance how the rainforest will manage in the future by understanding how rainforests reacted to climate change in the past. Unfortunately, getting into the Amazon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult. To study past climate, scientists need to look at fossilized pollen, kept in lake mud. Going back to the last ice age means drilling deep down into lake sediments (沉淀物) which requires specialized equipment and heavy machinery. There are very few roads and paths, or places to land helicopters and aeroplanes. Rivers tend to be the easiest way to enter the forest, but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers completely unsampled (未取样). So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon rainforest reacts to climate change. 【1】How will the Amazon rainforest react to future climate change? A.It’ll get drier and continue to remove CO2. B.There is no exact answer up to present. C.It’ll get warmer and then colder and drier. D.It’ll remain steamy, warm, damp and thick. 【2】What’s the main idea of the last paragraph? A.It’s important to drill deep down into lake sediments to collect information. B.It’s impossible to prove how climate changes in the Amazon rainforest. C.It’s hard to collect information for studies of the past climate in the Amazon rainforest. D.It’s necessary to have specialized equipment and machinery to study the past climate. 【3】What is the best title for this passage? A.Studies of the Rainforests B.Climates of the Amazon C.Secrets of the Ice Age D.Changes of the Rainforests

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Parents， they are here to clothe us， feed us and， embarrass us． Sixteen is a_____ ripe age for embarrassment and poor Rain Price of Utah was no_____It was the beginning of his high school year and his first time to_____the bus． So it was really embarrassing when his dad Dale_____him off． After school ， he_____ his mom Rochelle to stop Dale from doing it again． Guess who overheard？ To Rain's_____，not only did the father decide to go on waving his son goodbye，_____he decided to send him off dressed in costume． But this wasn't a one﹣time_____： Dale dressed up in different clothes every_____day for 170 straight school days，"When he did it the first day， I was in shock． You don' t want to see your dad dressing up in a wedding dress， waving at you on the_____．" Rain told the Metro，to which his dad_____，"I hope this lives with him for the rest of his life．" Dale made his_____goodbye on and on， from the Little Mermaid to the Wonder Woman． Dale became_____as the "Wave At The Bus Dad'，coming out in the most strange and funny costumes and never repeating the same_____ He said he only spent around $ 50 the whole year and relied on friends and neighbors to_____ him costume and other materials． So the family could_____ the incidents with the rest of the world． Rochelle created a blog to_____ all the costumes． Rain is now all grown up at 19． He still_____ Dale as a blushing bride， "In the end， it was just_____．I was laughing on the bus the whole way． I am_____ of him． 【1】A. hopefully B. slightly C. particularly D. quietly 【2】A. use B. way C. excuse D. exception 【3】A. ride B. see C. follow D. choose 【4】A. kissed B. waved C. hugged D. chased 【5】A. ordered B. begged C. advised D. persuaded 【6】A. joy B. sorrow C. relief D. disappointment 【7】A. and B. but C. so D. while 【8】A. event B. incident C. accident D. affair 【9】A. other B. busy C. single D. happy 【10】A. bus B. bike C. subway D. train 【11】A. stuck B. objected C. responded D. adapted 【12】A. special B. beautiful C. considerate D. valuable 【13】A. regarded B. treated C. scolded D. known 【14】A. time B. look C. place D. location 【15】A. hand B. show C. lend D. award 【16】A. learn B. discuss C. share D. overcome 【17】A. document B. house C. book D. name 【18】A. doubted B. confused C. blamed D. remembered 【19】A. fun B. popularity C. reputation D. complaint 【20】A. critical B. confident C. ashamed D. proud

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。(请将答案填写在答题卷相应的位置） The US is paying the price for launching a trade war. China has announced that it will slap additional tariffs (附加关税) on U.S. imports worth about 75 billion U.S. dollars,【1】(cover) 5,078 U.S. products,【2】will start on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15, respectively. The new tariffs will cover vehicles, auto【3】(part) and farm produce such as soybean and corn. U.S. farmers and manufacturers will soon feel the impact. Through more than a year of trade war between the two countries, China never gave in. When the U.S. side tried to intensify trade bullying and increase pressure on China, it only【4】(strengthen) China’s determination, making China stand more firmly against the U.S., and defend its rights and interests. China has always believed that cooperation is the only means of solving trade issues, but such cooperation comes with preconditions. China strongly opposes U.S. trade hegemony (霸权)【5】will never compromise on its fundamental principles. The【6】(far) some people in the United States go on their dangerous road, the stronger the pushback they will meet. There is no winner in a trade war. Companies from both sides【7】(pay) prices. Farmers in some parts of the United States have suffered serious impacts【8】the trade war with China. Some people in the United States had imagined their trade war would be “easy to win.” They have proved wrong. The only way【9】(end) the trade war is to find a solution through consultations on the basis of【10】(equal) and mutual respect.

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假如你是校学生会主席李华，你校要举办一次汉服（Hanfu）表演。请你写一封电子邮件邀请在你市做交换生的英国好友Chris观看演出。内容包括： 1.发出邀请； 2.演出时间，地点和目的； 3.建议他上网搜索，简要了解汉服。 注意： 1.词数100 左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Dear Mr. Chris, I’m Li Hua, chairman of student union. Yours sincerely, Li Hua