2017河南高二下学期人教版高中英语期中考试

The Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity Challenge

                             Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!

The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity Challenge. The challenge invites , even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their world.

   Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 

265 Mass Avenue,Cambridge 02139 by Friday, February 8th.

Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honored at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in celebration and brunch will be served.

Between March 10th and March 15th, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related information are available at :http://

cambridgesciencefestival.org.

21. Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?

A.  MIT artists.               B. Cambridge locals.

C. CSF winners.                  D.School students.

22. When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?

A. On April 21st.                    B. On March 10th.

C. On March 15th                     D.On February 8th .

23. What type of writing is this text?

A .An exhibition guide.             B.  An announcement. 

C.  An art show review.        D. An official report.

   My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. Summer after summer, I enjoyed staying with my grandparents as a young child. I was from the city and loved the small town they lived in. People knew everyone, their kids, their pets, their ancestors. The bond with them continued to grow as I grew and they got older. Grandma was always using her hands for something exciting. She would make little sandwiches and we’d have tea parties. She’d make beautiful quilts for each one. I remember the small thimble(顶针) she would use while doing her needle work.
    A few years ago, when Grandma left this earth, I bid farewell to a loving grandmother. How quickly our lives can change. We had just had tea together a couple of months earlier, on her 91st birthday.
     I missed her very much. On one particular birthday, when I was feeling a little low, something happened to make me feel like she was sharing that special day with me. I was arranging some colorful pillows that she had made, and suddenly I felt something inside one pillow. It was small and hard. I moved the object to a seam(接缝) that I carefully opened, and to my delight out came a tiny silver thimble! How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her. Not realizing it had fallen off her finger, I pictured her sewing it in that little pillow that I just happened to place on my bedspread that day. I carefully laid the thimble alongside the others I’ve collected over the years, where I could continue to see the gift God chose to reveal to me. What a precious memory of a very special lady who somehow, I knew, was laughing in delight at sewing her thimble inside my pillow.
     I made some tea, using my best china, as Grandma always did, and enjoyed my tea and Grandma’s thimble. What a wonderful birthday that was!
24.The author wrote this passage to ____ ．
  A. express a desire to lead a simple life.

  B．call on people to care for the old.
  C．show she missed living with her grandma.

  D．recall her happy childhood.

25.How did the author feel when she found the silver thimble?
   A.Sad    B.Cheerful    C.Lucky    D.Proud
26.It can be inferred from the passage that the silver thimble________.
   A.was the item the author had been trying to find.
   B.was very precious to the author.
   C.was the most treasured possession of Grandma.
   D.was a birthday gift Grandma had given the author.
27.What is the best title for the passage?
  A.A little pillow          B. My childhood

  C.My grandparents      D.Grandma’s silver thimble.

Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks for family, health, and life in general. However, Black Friday has turned it into a business.

Traditionally, the true value of Thanksgiving lies at home not the shopping centers. However, Black Friday has nowadays allowed society to ignore this as individuals long for something that they do not need or even truly want. Shopping on Black Friday becomes a sign of a shift into a culture that values material wealth over spending time with loved ones. People are willing to force their way through the crowds in their desperate search for marked-down sweaters and necklaces.

In recent years, Thanksgiving has become a pre-Black Friday holiday for many families. They are devoted to mapping out shopping routes and making organized schedules for which stores to hit first. By drawing individuals out to shopping centers with "matchless savings", businesses encourage this behavior of ignoring Thanksgiving. Many families take their home-cooked meals while camping out at the door of shopping centers. With each new year, Thanksgiving is becoming victim to over-commercialization—switching from a meaningful time of thanks and family to a day dedicated to products and profit.

Black Friday has shown that with current common standards, people cannot even set aside a single day to appreciate what they already have without immediately buying more. Families have lost sight of what is truly important in life, and have found reasons in debating between a low cost HD television and an appreciation for what they already have. Remember, Thanksgiving should be a day in which people are grateful for all that they have.

28. The underlined word "this" in paragraph 2 probably refers to ______.

A. the sign of a shift     B. the true value of Thanksgiving

C. the shopping crowd   D. the material wealth

29. In recent years, what will many families do when thanksgiving comes?

A.Visit some newly-opened shopping centers in advance.

B.  Find it difficult to choose a store for their first visit.

C.Make full preparations for the Black Friday shopping.

D. Go camping at the gate of shopping center for a good deal.

30. In the last paragraph, the author mainly intends to tell us that we should ______.

A. set aside a single day to buy more.

B. try to spend less to get low cost products.

C. stay with our families as long as we can.

D. appreciate what we've possessed with our families.

31. What's the author’s attitude towards the present ways people celebrate

    Thanksgiving?

Worried.  B.Annoyed .  C. Supportive.  D. Unconcerned.
                                 

A. The researchers identified 15 blue whales that have appeared off the coast of British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since 1997. Four of these whales were recognized as ones that were once sighted off California shores, suggesting that the whales are returning to an old migration pattern between the coasts.
      Before commercial whaling began in the early 1900s, blue whales were found widely throughout the North Pacific and California waters. But from the 1920s to the 1960s, whaling severely reduced the whale populations. Blue whales never recovered in the Northern Pacific, making sightings in this area rare.  However, much larger groups of whales have been observed close to California since the 1970s.
     The scientists had previously thought that the California population was separate from the population that had historically lived in North Pacific waters. But the current study shows that whales off the coast of British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska are likely part of the California population.
      To identify the blue whales, the researchers looked at photos of cetaceans taken in the North Pacific Ocean and compared them with a library of blue whale pictures taken along the West Cost of the United States and Southern Pacific. Up to now, the researchers are not quite sure why the whales are changing their migration patterns, but they suspect that the whales may be following their food moving farther north by the changes in ocean conditions.
32. According to the passage, blue whales are   ____       .
   A. moving from the south to the north.
    B. dying out due to commercial whaling.
   C.  following a fixed route of migration .

  D. rarely found in the Southern Pacific.
33. The whale population in the northern Pacific  ____        .
   A. is different from the California population
   B.has become the largest group since the 1970s
    C. is probably part of the California population   

  D. has lived there since the 1960s
34. The underlined word "cetaceans" in Paragraph 5 probably means____          .
   A. land creatures                        B. whale species
   C. ocean conditions                      D. migration patterns
35. What might make blue whales migrate according to the researchers?
    A. Commercial whaling.                   B. Food resources.
   C. Life reproduction.                      D.Weather conditions .

      It′s wrong that intelligent people are better at learning languages．36_____  Here are the most common mistakes language learners make and how to correct them．

Not listening enough.Just as babies learn to produce language by heating and parroting sounds,language learners need to practice listening．The solution? Find music,TV shows and movies in the target language,and listen as often as possible．
    37_______. In language learning attitude can be a key factor in how a student progresses．A learner who is curious about the target culture will be more successful

in their language studies．
     Inflexible thinking.Some students tend to struggle with language learning because it involves a lot of uncertainty—students will meet new vocabulary daily,and for each grammar rule there will be an exception．38_______．Find a passage in the language and practice figuring out the main idea,even if a few words are unknown．
    A single method. Some learners are most comfortable with the listen-and-repeat drills of a language lab．Some need a grammar textbook to make sense of a foreign tongue.39______． Language learners who use different methods get to practice

 different skills and see concepts explained in different ways.

     Fear to speak. Despite years of studying the language,students simply will not speak it．They′re too afraid of the clumsy grammar or mispronouncing words in a way that would embarrass them.The key is that those mistakes help language learners．40________

A.Lack of curiosity

B. Full of curiosity.

C.The more learners speak,the more quickly they improve．

D.Use your imagination , and visual image can help you remember words.

E. Until native--like fluency is achieved,there will always be some level of   

  uncertainty

F.Most language learning skills,however,are in fact habit．

G.Each of these approaches is fine,but it′s a mistake to rely on only one.

The adobe dwellings(土坯房) built by the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest 61 ________ (admire) by even the most modern of architects and engineers.In addition to their simple beauty，62_______ makes the adobe dwellings admirable is their ability to “air condition”a house without using electric 63_______(equip).Walls 64______(make) of adobe(土坯) take in the heat from the sun on hot days and give out that heat slowly during cool nights，thus 65_____(warm) the house.When a new day breaks，the walls have given up their heat and are now cold enough 66_____ (cool) the house during the hot day; 67_____ the same time，they warm up again for the night.This cycle 68____(go) day after day: The walls warm up during the day and cool off during the night and are thus always a timely offset(抵消)for the outside temperatures.As 69______(nature) architects，the Pueblo Indians figured out exactly 70______thick the adobe walls needed to be to make the cycle work on most days.

The True Story of Treasure Island

It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination. 41____ , recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.
    Stevenson,a Scotsman,had lived 42____ for many years.In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a 43____ .With him were his American wife Fanny and his son 44_____ .Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long 45____ over the hills.They had been 46_____ this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse.Kept indoors by the heavy rain,Lloyd felt the days 47____ .To keep the boy happy,Robert asked the boy to do some 48______ 
   One morning,the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island.Robert 49______ that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of  50______ ."What's that?" he asked."That's the 51______ treasure." said the boy. Robert suddenly 52_____ something of an adventure story in the boy's 53_____ .While the rain was pouring,Robert sat down by the fire to write a story.He would make the 54_____ a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd.But who would be the pirate (海盗)?
   Robert had a good friend named Henley,who walked around with the 55_____ of a wooden leg.Robert had always wanted to 56____ such a man in a story. 57_______ Long John Silver,the pirate with a wooden leg, was 58______ .
   So,thanks to a 59______ September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg,and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy,we have one of the greatest 60______ stories in the English language.

41．A．Therefore      B．However               C．Besides                 D．Finally

42．A．alone            B．next door              C．abroad                  D．at home

43．A．holiday          B．story                     C．meeting                 D．job

44．A．Henley          B．Robert                  C．Lloyd                    D．John

45．A．talk               B．rest                       C．game                    D．walk

46．A．attempting     B．missing                  C．enjoying                D．planning

47．A．dull               B．quiet                     C．busy                     D．cold

48．A．cleaning        B．drawing                 C．writing                  D．exercising

49．A．doubted        B．recognized            C．decided                D．noticed

50．A．the sea          B．the house              C．the island      D  Scotland．

51．A．buried           B．forgotten               C．discovered            D．unexpected

52．A．drew             B．saw                       C．made                    D．learned

53．A．book            B．reply                     C．mind                     D．picture

54．A．hero              B．star                       C．writer                    D．child

55．A．help              B．problem                C．use                       D．bottom

56．A．praise           B．include                  C．produce                D．accept

57．A．Yet               B．Also                      C．Thus          D．But

58．A．read              B．born                      C．hired                     D．written

59．A．sunny            B．rainy                     C．cool                      D．windy

60．A．adventure     B．love                      C．news         D．real-life

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 Failure is part of our life. Somebody has ever achieved great success without

lots of failure. One experience left deep impression on me. I’ve been fond of playing

the piano since my childhood. Last year there was a piano competition for teenager in

my city and I take part in it. I couldn’t wait to show off. The day finally came.

However, when I was on the stage I was very nervous that I made several mistakes

while playing. My performance was a completely failure!

It was only after the competition when I realized my failure resulted in my lack

of practice. From then on, I devoted more time to play the piano because I firmly

believe that practice make perfect.