辽宁省沈阳市东北育才学校2016-2017学年高二下学期第二阶段测试英语试题 Word版含答案

iOS 10 The world’s most advanced mobile operating system.

Easy to Use

From the moment you pick up your iOS device, you’re up and running. Tap your favorite app and get right to work — or play. Swipe from the right side of the Lock screen to quickly pull up your camera. Scroll through thousands of photos in seconds. Everything about iOS is designed to look beautiful and work beautifully.

So smooth and responsive you won’t even notice it. And that’s the point.

Because iOS is engineered specifically for iPhone and iPad, everything looks and feels incredibly fluid. iOS uses a framework called Metal to maximize graphics performance. Whether you’re surfing the web, moving from app to app, or playing the most complex 3D video game, the graphics and responsiveness are amazingly smooth. No other mobile operating system is so effortless and natural.

An OS with a remarkably high IQ.

With sophisticated features like proactive(积极主动的) suggestions, predictive typing, and everybody’s favorite personal assistant, Siri, iOS 10 makes everything you do easier, quicker, and more fun.

Nobody understands you quite like Siri.

Siri learns how you talk, not the other way around. Thanks to Apple-developed machine-learning technology, you can simply speak naturally. So whether you say “Get a Lyft to SFO” or “I’d like a ride to SFO using Lyft,” Siri will read you loud and clear.

Siri even works with your favorite apps.

You can ask Siri to send someone a payment using Square Cash, book a reservation through OpenTable, and much more. And the number of apps incorporating Siri is growing every day.

21. Instead of the complicated procedures of starting a camera on an iPhone, you can easily ________.

A. start the camera by tapping the right side of the screen

B. start the camera from the Lock screen

C. start the camera by tapping the app from the Lock screen

D. start the camera by scrolling thousands of photos in seconds

22. According to the passage, “Metal” is  ______.

A. an app which helps you surf the web

B. a framework which helps everything look more beautiful

C. something that can promote the graphic performance

D. an app helping play the most complex 3D video games

23. Siri can distinguish between different syntaxes(文法) by _________.

A. enabling you to learn how it talks             B. machine-learning technology

C. apple-developed multi-tasking technology       D. speaking naturally

When my daughter Abigail got her learner’s permit a few months ago, I was appreciative of those drivers who saw a nervous teenager behind the wheel and treated her with patience as we drove around our neighborhood and the country roads close by.

Her first travels around our part of the Southern End were rather slow (cars piled up behind us). So thank you, nice people.

But no kidding, I sincerely want to thank you “friends”, because you have taught my daughter not to take anything for granted on the roads. You deserve the credit for making her a defensive driver.

I warned her about “friends” like you, but your actions speak much louder than my words.

She’s watched you go through red lights and stop signs, turn without signaling, fail to yield(让路) at the crossroads, or hesitate at a stop sign and then pull out into her path at the last millisecond (毫秒).

I especially appreciated the “friends” who pulled up beside us the other night at a stop sign on a two-way road and took off quickly as Abigail just started to make her move.

“What was that!” Abigail shouted.

“That’s a ‘friend’!” I yelled.

And then there are those of you who find a slow-moving vehicle(farm machinery down our way) in your lane (车道) and swing out into the opposite lane to pass, oblivious(未察觉的）of vehicles coming in the opposite direction.

My daughter has learned that a tractor coming her way means there might be an impatient “friend” hiding, ready to cross into her lane.

That’s an invaluable lesson. Thanks.

And thank you to all the walkers, adults and children, who appear from between cars. “Be ready to stop” is a lesson that you have taught my daughter well. At the same time, I have taught her the rules for yielding to walkers.

Teaching a teen to be a defensive driver isn’t easy. I want you to know that I couldn’t have

done it without you, my “friends”.

24. The people mentioned in the first two paragraphs were       .

  A. tolerant             B. strict               C. cautious             D. slow

25. According to the text, the author’s daughter       .

  A. often turns without signaling and hesitates at a stop sign

  B. has made a lot of friends after she got her learner’s permit

  C. has learned to be careful of driver in a few months

  D. has become an experienced driver in a few months

26. What is the author’s attitude towards the drivers whom he calls “friends”?

  A. Excited.            B. Indifferent.          C. Sympathetic.        D. Annoyed.

27. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

  A. To express his thanks to his friends.

  B. To warn people to obey traffic rules.

  C. To advise teens to be careful when driving.

  D. To explain to teens how to be a good driver.

The other morning on the subway I sat next to an attractive young blonde woman who was reading something on her iPad. She was very well-dressed, carrying a Prada bag with tastefully applied make-up indeed, she had an unmistakable air of wealth, material success and even authority. I suspected she worked as a highly-paid Wall Street lawyer or stockbroker or something of that sort. So, I was curious to see what she was so focused on. The Wall Street Journal perhaps? The Economist?

Quite the contrary; rather, she was concentrating on a romance novel. Then I realized that I have known many women who love romance novels—smart, attractive, successful, “liberated,” modern females who nonetheless find some kind of deep satisfaction and thrill from those hyper-romantic, artificial and extremely unrealistic tales of handsome, manly heroes falling in love with virginal women, enduring a series of adventures, then no doubt having a happy ending.

These romance stories are to literature what hot dogs are to fine food. Yet, the genre(体裁) remains enormously popular. Consider some of these surprising statistics from the good folks at the Romance Writers of America (RWA):

*More than 9,000 romance titles were released last year, with sales of about $1.44 billion (more than triple the taxes produced by classic literary fiction).

*More than 90 percent of the market are women (okay, that’s not at all surprising).

* Readers are typically women between the ages 30 and 54 who are themselves involved in a romantic relationship (betraying the stereotype that only lonely women long for these tales of love and adventure).

*Almost 40 percent of romance book consumers have an annual income of between $50,000 and $99,900 (placing them firmly in the middle class).

I had thought that romance novels accounted for a very small share of the literary market, so I was quite surprised that this part has such enormous popularity. But I must wonder why so many women—forty years after the women’s liberation movement—continue to enjoy themselves in the fanciful tales?

I’m not sure if it represents a kind of “rejection” of the women’s liberation movement, but clearly something is missing in the lives of contemporary ladies. A romance author named Donna Hatch who focuses on the Regency period (early 19th century Britain) explained the appeal of such books this way: “Regency men were civilized and treated women with courtesy. When a lady entered the room, gentlemen stood, doffed their hats, offered an arm, bowed, and a hundred other little things I wish men still did today. But they were also very athletic; they hunted, raced, boxed, rode horses. They were manly. Strong. Noble. Honorable. And that is why I love them!”

Mrs. Hatch may have expressed the secret desires and attitudes of untold millions of her peers—that is, in the early 21st century, have women grown tired of the burdens and expectations that the “freedoms” they have gained give them? Is this a rejection of modern feminism? Do women long for days of old when men were masculine gentlemen and women were feminine and protected as precious treasures and regarded as possessions?

Perhaps most women (even the ones who get lost in romance novels) do not want to go all the way back but it is obvious,      .

28. What is the function of the opening paragraph?

A. To summarize the whole passage.            B. To prove the author’s argument.

C. To lead in the main topic of the passage.  D. To raise problems that will be solved later.

29. What does the underlined sentence in the third paragraph imply?

A. Romance novels are satisfying and thrilling.

B. Romance novels are not of much “nutrition”.

C. Romance novels are as popular as hot dogs.

D. Romance novels are an essential part of contemporary life.

30. In the author’s opinion, what is missing in the lives of contemporary women?

A. Authority.         B. Dignity.             C. Liberty.         D. Care.

31. Which sentence can be put in the blank in the last paragraph?

A. they prefer tales of innocent romance to classics

B. they are unhappy with how the world has turned out

C. true love described in romance novels does exist in reality

D. romance novels provide them with an access to society

Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in reaction to climate change, which could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems.

Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world, changing some living patterns, scientists say.

Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on how plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth.

“Predicting species’ reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology,” said the researches of several U.S. universities. They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services.

The study, published on the Nature website, uses the findings from plant life cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1,634 species. It found that some experiments had underestimated the speed of flowering by 8.5 times and leafing by 4 times.

“Across all species, the experiments under-predicted the speed of the advance —for both leafing and flowering —that results from temperature increases,” the study said.

“The design of future experiments may need to be improved to better predict how plants will react to climate change.” it said.

Plants are necessary for life on the Earth. They are the base of the food chain, using photosynthesis (光合作用) to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water. They let out oxygen which is needed by nearly every organism on the planet.

Scientists believe the world’s average temperature has risen by about 0.8℃ since 1900, and nearly 0.2℃ every ten years since 1979.

So far, efforts to cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are not seen as enough to prevent the Earth heating up beyond 2℃ this century —a point scientists say will bring the danger of a changeable climate in which weather extremes are common, leading to drought, floods, crop failures and rising sea levels.

32．What is the key information the author wants to give in Paragraph 1?

A. Plants’ reaction to weather could have damaging effects on ecosystems.

B. The increasing speed of flowering is beyond scientists’ expectation.

C. Climate change leads to the change of food production patterns.

D. Food chains have been seriously damaged because of weather.

33．We can learn from the study published on the Nature website that __________.

A. plants’ flowering is 8.5 times faster than leafing

B. there are 1,634 plant species on the four continents

C. scientists should improve the design of the experiments

D. the experiments failed to predict how plants react to climate change

34．Scientists pay special attention to the study of plants because __________.

A. they can prove the climate change clearly

B. they are very important in the food chains

C. they play a leading role in reducing global warming

D. they are growing and flowering much faster than before

35． What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs about the world’s temperature?

A. It has risen nearly 0.2℃ since 1979.           

B. Its change will lead to weather extremes.

C. It is 0.8℃ higher in 1979 than that of 1900.   

D. It needs to be controlled within 2℃ in this century.

●Does failure really exist?

If you believe you have failed, then you have.  If you believe you don’t have the ability to succeed, then you don’t.     36     The moment you decide to give up or stop working toward your goals, failure is born.

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Most people give themselves an out without even realizing it. They are willing to work hard on reaching their goals, but only until the going gets too rough or their energy dies down.  Don’t do that!     38      Never quit, never admit failure, and never lose heart.

●Don’t believe in a clear finish line for goals.

It’s a good idea to set a general timeline, but remember that something will be beyond your control.      39     If you lock yourself into a given timeline, you might make yourself feel like a failure!  Instead, get a general idea of when you’d like your goal to be completed. Then take it one day at a time and focus on making progress instead of reaching the finish line in as little time as possible.

●Be sure that you don’t see difficulties as failures.

Difficulties mean only one thing: it’s not time for your goal to be completed yet.  That’s it!  It doesn’t mean you failed; it doesn’t mean you’re weak; it doesn’t mean you’ll never achieve your goals.     40     You’ve got to keep moving forward and find a way over, around, or through the difficulties.

A. Never give up on yourself.

B. Failure only exists in your own mind!

C. That’s exactly how failure makes us feel.

D. It simply means you have not done enough yet.

E. You can never say exactly when your goal will be reached.

F. Instead, make up your mind to make your goal happen, no matter what!

G. Work hard towards your goal, and you will be likely to get good results.

In Australia, it’s estimated there are 40,000 daigou, which ____61____ (mean) “on behalf of” in Mandarin. The online shopping agents are almost from mainland China,   ____62____ are young migrants or international students ____63_____ (look) for flexible ways to help cover their rent and university fees.

The centre of the trade is in Sydney, a city with a growing Chinese community and frequent flights to China, which makes doing business ____64____ (quick) and smoother.

Earlier this year, Beijing ____65____ (tight) regulations on cross- border online shopping, but there is still money to be made, especially in baby milk formula, known as “white gold”. Many families don’t care about the price ____66____they do care about the quality. However, customers must be convinced that goods they receive are real, and that the supplier is ____67____(rely). So daigou have to pack their products again with Australian magazines to help prove their origin. What daigou are doing is build trust between their customers. Rika, a girl from the 40,000 daigou, thinks that the income from daigou is reasonable compared to other working ____68____ (opportunity) like working in a restaurant and that sort of thing. Besides, she thinks daigou are good ____69____ the local economy and our business. So she ____70____ (clear) believes they are a positive force.

Eleven years ago I lived a normal life as everyone else. The only difference was that I’d learned to   41   the skin rash(皮疹)I’d had since the age of 13.

    However, in my late thirties the rash began to   42   worsen and my doctor became    43   . A year later, my life was forever   44   in one diagnosis: cancer.

   Following the unbearable treatment, the tough road to   45   began. I thought the next year would fly by as I   46   to my old self. What I didn’t realize is that   47   you have cancer, there is no “old self ”. I was and am forever changed. I didn’t   48  recover in one year, nor in two. It was eight years of    49   improvements.

    Eight years stretched to 10 as my hair slowly grew back and my   50  returned. Ten years of a lot of struggle and a lot of growth. When a friend suggested I   51   her in the One-Walk to Conquer Cancer benefiting the Alberta Cancer Foundation, I didn’t  52  to register. My commitment to participate started with a desire to   53   money, to get in shape and to support my friend－but as I started my training, I soon realized the  54  was about much more than that.

Through my   55   in One Walk, I’ve realized that I am no longer in the process of getting back to my “old self ” because she no longer   56   . I realize that for me this is just as good.

    Now I am thankful for all I do have. I am   57   for all of the beautiful things I gained from the   58   with cancer. Registering for One Walk has made me realize that there is no “old self ” to__59 __ to－there is only moving   60  .

41. A. go without       B. live with            C. care for         D. give in to

42. A. naturally        B. slightly        C. severely         D. secretly

43. A. worried      B. embarrassed          C. disappointed     D. relaxed

44. A. improved         B. covered          C. changed          D. exposed

45. A. success          B. science          C. recovery         D. conclusion

46. A. returned         B. turned               C. talked           D. stuck

47. A. though       B. until                C. unless           D. once

48. A. regularly        B. physically           C. usually          D. mentally

49. A. slow         B. rapid                C. great       D. sudden

50. A. freedom          B. weakness        C. dream            D. energy

51. A. instruct         B. remind               C. join             D. drive

52. A. agree       B. hesitate        C. want        D. choose

53.A. save              B. make            C. pay              D. raise

54. A. treatment        B. cancer               C. walk        D. reason

55. A. participation    B. introduction         C. performance      D. guidance

56. A. exists           B. cares                C. doubts           D. suffers

57. A. responsible      B. ready                C. famous           D. grateful

58. A. conversation     B. struggle        C. compromise       D. connection

59. A. turn             B. go back              C. devote           D. refer

60. A. upward       B. backward        C. forward          D. outward

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

    修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

      2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Life is always full of something that you can not expect. Bob is very sorry to have missed the first two lesson this morning. He got up early as usually in the morning, but when he was ready to leave he find his bicycle’s front tyre flat. He wanted to take taxi to school, and he didn’t have any money on him. He had to look for a place along the street to get his bicycle repairing.

Unluckily, there were not any bicycle repair shops was open in the early morning. So he had to

walk to school, carrying his bicycle all the way. That was the reason how he was late for school. He told Mr. White not to worry with his lessons, for he would make up for it and turn to his teachers for help if necessary.

     假设你叫李华。你在上一封信中邀请Dr. Brown 参加你们的春游活动，但你把时间和地点说错了。请给Dr. Brown 写一封道歉信，内容包括：

1.     为自己的失误道歉：

2.     告知其正确的时间（6月30号上午8点）地点（中山公园）：

3.     希望Dr. Brown 能来

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。开头、结尾语已为你写好。

Dear Dr. Brown:

I feel terribly sorry _____________________________________________________

                                                            Yours sincerely,

                                                             Li Hua