2017内蒙古高一下学期人教版高中英语期中考试

For a year and half, kids sent hurtful messages like “You are ugly.” or “Why are you still alive?” to Rebecca Sedwick. In 2013, Rebecca, then 12, couldn’t stand it anymore. She took her own life near her home in Florida. Soon afterward, Trisha Prabhu read about the story. “I was surprised and heart-broken,” said Trisha, now 15, who is from Naperville, Illinois, “I know that I had to do something to stop this from happening again.”

Trisha did some research. Studies show that one fourth to half of all teens in the US have been cyberbullied (网络欺凌). Experts say that if you are ever bullied online, you should tell a trusted adult. Tell the cyberbully to stop, and prevent him or her from contacting you again. Print and save messages to share with the police. This is good advice, agrees Trisha. But these methods all take place after the bullying has already happened. Trisha had a different idea. Why not teach cyberbullies to stop before they post these messages?

Trisha’s research won awards, including a prize in the Google Science Fair. Then, Tresah built the ReThink app (应用软件). It is programmed to recognize words or phrases that could be hurtful. When that happens, different warning messages come out. “Don’t say things that you may regret later!” says one message. Others ask, “Are you sure you want to say this?” and “Are these words really yours?”

Now Trisha is working on a version(版本) of ReThink for computers. “I am a big dreamer,” she says. “I want to stop cyberbullying before the hurt is done.”

21. What do we know about Rebecca Sedwick?

A. She was one of Trisha’s best friends.    B. She sent hurtful messages to others.

C. She ended her life at the age of 12.       D. She went to Florida to study further.

22. What is Trisha’s suggestion for stopping cyberbullying?

  A.Stop talking with the cyberbully.    B.Stop the messages before they are sent.

  C.Turn to your parents or close friends. D.Show the messages to the police at once.

23. What is the third paragraph mainly about?

  A. How the ReThink app works.          B. Trisha’s research on cyberbullying.

  C. People’s attitudes to the ReThink app.     D. The Google Science Fair.

24. Which of the following can best describe Trisha?

  A. Honest and careful.                          B. Strange and impatient.

  C. Proud and impolite.                         D. Helpful and clever.

    The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held every year in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May. Here are some helpful suggestions for your first trip to the Kentucky Derby!

Fashion vs. Comfort

In many ways, the Kentucky Derby is the world’s largest and most entertaining fashion show, with impressive hats and clothes! You will be on your feet and walking a lot, so pack a pair of comfortable shoes to change into during the day.

Your Tickets

You MUST have your tickets in order to get through the gates. Please note the only place that has official permission to buy and resell Kentucky Derby tickets is the Kentucky Derby Tickets Exchange. Law enforcement officials will be on site to prevent people from selling tickets at a much higher price.

If you have questions about your tickets in advance of the Derby, please call Churchill Downs customer service at 502-636-4400.

Finding help

With over 14,000 employees throughout the track on Derby day, you aren’t too far from someone who can help. If you cannot find an employee to help you, please text the word HORSE to 69050 and you will be placed in touch with Guest Services.

Safety & Security

For the safety of all our guests, your bag may be searched by security. A number of items are forbidden from entering the facility (场所).

For security and crowd control reasons, you cannot enter the facility again after you get out. This means that you will not be able to go outside the gate to fetch items from your car once you have passed through security. Please be sure to bring everything you need.

25. What is the dressing tip?

  A. Dress in popularsports clothes. 

  B. Prepare a pair of comfortable shoes.

  C. Bring several sets of clothes to change into.

  D. Put on a hat to provide protection from the sun.

26. What should you do if you want to resell your tickets?

  A. Go to the Kentucky Derby Ticket Exchange.  

  B. Call Churchill Downs customer service.

  C. Consult law enforcement officials.          

  D. Find a buyer by yourself.

27. What can we learn from Safety & Security?

  A. You cannot enter the facility after the game begins.

  B. You can bring whatever you need into the facility.

  C. Your car needs to be examined by security.

  D. You are not allowed to re-enter the facility.

    Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart. They will in a lifetime, push the chrome­plated_contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.

Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging groceries around in baskets they had to carry.

One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.

On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.

But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.

After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts.“Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?”one shopper replied.

But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony (假的) customers.

As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come — those who came bought more. With larger easier­to­handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.

Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason why Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—the coming of the shopping cart.

28. What do the underlined words“chrome­plated contraptions” in the first paragraph refer to?

  A. Shopping carts.       B. Suitcases.     C. Private cars.      D. Baskets.

29. What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention?

  A. It was to reduce the burden of his employees’work.

  B. It was to prove him to be a good inventor.

  C. It was to make shopping easier and attract more business.

  D. It was to help the disabled make shopping easily in his market.

30. Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market in order to ________.

  A. attract people to buy things in his market

  B. make his market different from the others

  C. keep the groceries from being stolen

  D. encourage people to use his shopping carts

31. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

  A. Goldman will become very famous because of his invention.

  B. Supermarket business has benefited a lot from Goldman’s invention.

  C. Goldman’s invention will be regarded as the greatest one in the world.

  D. There will be nothing that can replace Goldman’s invention.

    Getting older is a natural part of life. Changes as you get older are usually gradual. Certain physical changes are common. How fast your body can burn calories slows over time, which means that your body needs less food energy than before. How much and how well you sleep will likely change. Most people start needing reading glasses around forty, and many have some hearing loss later in life. Starting in your fifties, bone aging increase.

How you feel as you get older depends on many things, including what health problems run in your family and the choices you make.

If your family members have diseases or chronic (慢性的) health problems like high blood pressure, then you may have a greater chance of having those problems yourself. But it doesn’t mean you will definitely have the same problems. Actually, the lifestyle choices you make can help reduce your chances of getting illness that run in your family. And even if you do get a family illness, choosing to be physically active, to eat healthy foods, and to learn how to deal with stress can keep the illness from destroying your ability to enjoy your golden years.

What do you need to do to feel your best as you age? One of the most important things you can do for your health at any age is to be physically active. Physical activity keeps your body strong, and it helps with how you feel. People who stay active are less likely to get depressed.

Your mental and emotional health is also important. Protect or improve your emotional health by staying in touch with friends, family, and the community. People who feel connected to others are more likely to feel happy than those who do not.

32. When people get older, they will _______.

  A. go through some physical problems   B. look back to their past often

  C. consume more calories                D. need some help

33. Which of the following can NOT mostly affect old people’s health?

  A. Their family illness.                     B. Their income.  

C. Their eating habits.                        D. Their relationship with others

34. The underlined phrase“golden years” in paragraph 3 refer to a person’s ________.

  A. future            B. holidays            C. later life            D. leisure time

35. How can old people avoid loneliness according to the text?

  A. To make new friends.                B. To live with their family members.

  C. To be physically active.                     D. To have enough social connections.

   Your children are watching you.__36__According to the Health Program, developing healthy habits is an important part for your children. And when it comes to developing healthy habits, parents influence their children more than anyone else.

__37__ What happens during those early years can influence children for the rest of their lives. This includes some eating and exercise habits. Children are very careful, even at a young age. Children watch what others do carefully and imitate the behaviors of those closest to them. As parents, you should do the following: __38__ If you do that, your children are more likely to be enthusiastic about developing theirs.

 Let your children see you taking care of your own physical health by eating fruits and vegetables. Talk to them about healthy habits in appropriate terms and at a proper time. __39__

__40__ Computers, televisions and other forms of technology are a major part of life in the 21st century. Unfortunately, as the use of technology in the home increases, so does the time spent watching TV or playing on the computer. So as parents, you should also arrange the time for your children wisely.

  A. Don't get rid of technology, but use it wisely.

  B. Take part in physical activities and exercise regularly.

  C. Be enthusiastic about developing healthy habits of your own.

  D. Children prefer to imitate their parents rather than listen to them.

  E. Your actions are speaking to them louder than your words will.

  F. This can be helpful to teach your children to form good eating habits.

  G. It's easy for the children to form their healthy habits when they are young.

    Most Americans don’t like to get advice from members of their family. They get advice from “strangers”. When they need advice, they __61__ (rare) go to people they know. Instead, many of __62__ write letters to newspapers and magazines __63__ give advice on many different subjects __64__ (include) family problems, the use of language, health, cooking, child care, clothes, and even on how to buy a house or a car.

    Most newspapers regularly print letters from readers with problems. Along with the letters there are answers written by people who __65__ (suppose) to know how to solve such problems. Some of these writers are doctors, and others are lawyers or __66__ (educate). Among the writers, two women are famous. __67__ they have no special training for this kind of work, they can give the readers suitable advice because they are rich __68__ life experience and good at communicating with others. A survey was done last year about why people __69__ (turn) to strangers for help and why the two women were well­received. Most people interviewed in __70__ survey said this way could help protect their privacy and the advice from the women was practical and effective.

    One day, I was teaching my daughter how to paint. I saw that a lot of her energy went into  41  her brush into the paint, and then into a bowl of water. But then most of the paint that was on the  42  would just disappear in the water. As an  43   mother, I was thinking, “I am trying to teach you how to paint on paper and what are you doing? This is not what you are   44  to do. You have to do this way.”

But she is three years old so she is probably not going to  45  doing it the right way. She had so much  46  dipping the brush in the paint and in the water bowl. Pretty much within an hour, most of the paint was all over the room and I just sat there with my hands  47  my head thinking, “Oh my god, this girl is hopeless.” Soon after, however, she shouted, “Mama, when I  48  pink and blue, it turns purple!”

I was surprised.  49  I was thinking that she was wasting perfectly good paint and paper, she  50  learned something. What would have been a very theoretical(理论的) experiment turned into a very  51  experiment.

I am a designer and work with software like Photoshop and Illustrator. When my daughter sees me work on the  52  , she is always very curious and she wants to work with me on the same thing that I do. She starts to  53  with buttons, and in that process, sometimes lands up  54  me things! There will be many times when she will find  55  new. I will ask her  56  , and she will tell me, “I pressed this, and I pressed this, and then this happened.”

One of the things I realized from this is that everyone has a(n)  57  way of learning things. When I was growing up, I  58  to literature very well, so everything that was turned into a story became my way of learning and  59   different concepts. Some kids understand through art, some understand through math and games, and it’s the job of a parent or a teacher to watch and  60  how children learn and try their best to make these experiences educational.  

41. A. dipping             B. throwing            C. breaking              D. sweeping

42. A. plate                 B. brush                 C. paper                D. bowl

43. A. optimistic                B. impatient          C. energetic          D. independent

44. A. supposed                B. allowed             C. intended                  D. tricked

45. A. keep                 B. consider           C. bother               D. remember

46. A. regret                       B. fun                     C. disappointment   D. trouble

47. A. beside                     B. over                   C. below                D. on

48. A. add                   B. combine           C. mix                    D. take

49. A.While                 B. Because           C. If                        D. Before

50. A. accidentally      B. immediately     C. fortunately         D. actually

51. A. interesting       B. practical            C. beneficial           D. novel

52. A. phone                      B. desk                  C. computer          D. calculator

53. A. mess                       B. cooperate         C. go                      D. live

54. A. telling                       B. awarding          C. teaching                  D. giving

55. A. nothing             B. something      C. everything        D. anything

56. A. when                B. why                    C. where                D. how

57. A. different            B. effective            C. quick                     D. strange

58. A. stuck                 B. referred             C. related              D. turned

59. A. accepting                B. using                 C. appreciating           D. understanding

60. A. disturb             B. teach              C. respect                D. discover

    假设你叫李华，你和朋友们约定本周日上午去体育场打篮球，外教Mr. Green 非常喜欢体育活动，请你给他写封电子邮件邀请他加入你们的活动。你的e-mail应该包括下列要点：

1. 打篮球的时间和地点             

2. 从学校到体育场的方式

3. 午饭和下午活动安排             

4. 希望尽早回复

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