2017甘肃高二下学期人教版高中英语期末考试

Being selfish refers to an individual ______ talks on his or her cell phone even when doing so is rude or inconsiderate of other people.

 Mom told him he was forbidden to watch TV for a month. ______, he stormed out of the room.

 The number of smokers, ______ is reported, has dropped by 17 percent in just one year.

Most of us, if we know even a little about where our food comes from, understand that every bite put into our mouths was ______alive.

 Mr. Li gave all the textbooks to all the pupils, except ______ who had already taken them.

 Never drink too much wine again. It______ have got you killed!

 It’s everyone’s desire that every effort ______to realize the China Dream.

 ______ a little earlier, you could have got a copy of his latest book.

It took ______ building supplies to construct these energy-saving houses. It took brains, too.

Life is like riding a bicycle. ______ your balance, you must keep moving.

England is the 11  (large) of the four countries, and 12  convenience it is divided roughly into three  13   (zone). The zone nearest France is called the South of England, the middle zone is called the Midlands and the one nearest to Scotland is known as the North. You find most of the population 14  (settle) in the south, 15   most of the industrial cities in 16  Midlands and the North of England. Although, nationwide, these cities are not as large as those in China, they have world-famous football teams and some of  17   even have two! It is a pity 18  the industrial cities built in the nineteenth century do not attract visitors. For historical architecture you have to go to older but smaller towns 19  (build) by the Romans. There you  20  (find) out more about British history and culture.

Financial problems can easily surface (显露) if left unmanaged. ___36___ Here are some simple ways to improve your money management.

Record all your expenses. Put down your expenses under areas such as the car payment, electric bills, groceries, entertainment, study and other expense items. __37___

Review the unexpected expenses each month. ___38___ Eat out less, shop for cheaper items such as insurance or medication, or join in less expensive activities. The rule to remember is if you can’t pay it in cash, you can’t afford it.

___39___Financial experts advise that the amount be at least 10 percent of your pay. If you can save that much, every little bit you save adds up and can make a difference.

Avoid using credit cards. If you have to, use them as little as possible and be sure that the credit card you’re using has a low interest rate.

Stay away from shortcuts to wealth or plans to get rich quick. You can never be successful in making money by shortcuts like gambling (赌博) and lottery. ___40___ You just end up throwing your money away.

Seek a financial adviser to help you plan your finances and investments. Do remember that this applies only to those who are too bad at managing money because once you turn to a financial adviser you will have to spend an extra sum of money.

A. Set aside some money for savings.

B. Decide what you need to buy and how much you can afford to spend.

C. If it is more than your income, look for ways to reduce your spending.

D. Among some shortcuts, the chances of losing are much higher than success.

E. Always consult your mate when making major decisions about your finances.

F. This way you can record how much is spent on each item and develop a budget plan.

G. The best way to avoid financial problems is to budget money and watch spending closely.

Different countries and cultures celebrate the New Year in different ways. Many countries still follow the lunar calendar,  61   (mean) that their new year often starts in late January or in February. New Year’s celebration   62  (last) up to fourteen days!

In the US, many people attend New Year    63   (party). They drink and dance till midnight, and then all cheer and kiss each other    64  the New Year comes. Fireworks are very popular throughout the US. US residents often make one or more New Year’s resolutions about things  65   they think are important to do, such as quitting smoking,  66   (lose) weight, or stopping drinking.

In Mexico, many people wear red or yellow clothes for good luck in the New Year. In Brazil, residents wear white clothes for good luck, and in China, they wear red clothes and give children red envelopes with money in   67  .

In Scotland, homeowners open the front door at midnight to let in the new year, and open the back door to let    68  the old year. In Switzerland, people kiss each other three times at midnight. In Spain, people eat 12 grapes all midnight following  69  12 strikes of the clock. In Korea, they ring a bell 33 times   70   honor of 33 ancient soldiers.

When it comes to materials to do good to our body, it must be mentioned that there are all sorts of foods to everyone’s taste. Some foods are known to have a completely ruined effect on your brain function, and nutritionists advise us not to consume them too much in order to limit their negative impacts. Here are some top foods that kill your intelligence.

1. Sugar

Sugar and sugary products are bad not only for your waistline, but for your brain function as well. Long-term consumption of sugar can create a lot of neurological (神经系统的) problems, and it can also do harm to your memory. On the other hand, sugar can also bring damage to your ability to learn. So avoid the products.

2. Alcohol

Alcohol is known to harm your liver (肝) in the long run, and it also causes what is known as "brain fog", a feeling of mental confusion. It acts like a cloud that impacts your ability to think clearly, as well as your memory. Have you ever noticed that you cannot remember common items’names? This might be influenced by high alcohol intake, which impacts the balance of the brain.

3. Junk Food

A recent study has revealed that junk food can change the chemicals in the brain, thus leading to symptoms associated with depression and anxiety. Besides, foods that are high in fat can also produce some symptoms that are similar to the signs of "miss" when you stop consuming them. These foods affect the production of dopamine (多巴胺), an important chemical that promotes happiness and an overall feeling of well-being.

4. Very Salty Foods

Everybody knows that salty foods affect your blood pressure and they are very hard on your heart. However, as research suggests, foods that contain high amounts of salt can affect your learning function and make your ability to think imperfect. Otherwise stated, salty foods affect your intelligence! As a matter of fact, the consumption of salty foods has been shown to have the same effect as drugs, as they cause uncomfortable symptoms and hunger for salty foods.

5. Foods with Processed Proteins (蛋白质)

Meat is the richest source of high-quality protein, but avoids overly processed proteins such as hot dogs, sausages and so on. Unlike the natural proteins that help your body protect the nervous system, processed proteins do exactly the opposite. Better choose natural products, such as fish, dairy products, and seeds as these are natural, high-quality protein sources.

21. Which group of foods may affect your memory?

22. If you want to promote happiness, which of the following should you stop eating?

23. The special effect of foods high in fat and very salty foods lies in_________.

24. In terms of the mentioned foods, the writer seems to tell us_________.

Sometime in the future, the familiar early-newspaper on the front porch (门廊) will disappear. And instead of reading your newspaper, it will read to you. You’ll get up and turn on the computer newspaper just like switching on the TV. An electronic voice will distribute stories about the latest events, guided by a program that selects the type of news you want. You’ll even get to choose the kind of voice you want to hear. Want more information on this brief story? A simple touch makes the entire text appear. You can save it in your own personal computer if you like. These are among the predictions from communication experts working on the newspapers of the future. Pictured as part of broader home-based media and entertainment systems, computer newspapers will unite print and broadcast reporting, and offer news and analysis with video images of news events.

Most of the technology is available now, but convincing more people that they don’t need to read a newspaper is the next step. But resistance to computer newspapers may be stronger from within journalism. Since it is such a cultural change, it may be that the present generation of journalists and publishers will have to die off before the next generation realizes that the newspaper industry is no longer a newspaper industry. Technology is making the end of traditional newspapers unavoidable.

Despite technological advances, it could take decades to replace newsprint with computer screens. It might take 30 to 40 years to complete the changeover because people need to buy computers and because newspapers have established financial interests in the paper industry.

25. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of computer newspapers according to the passage?

26. Journalists are against computer newspapers because_________.

27. Why will it take a long time to complete the changeover?

28. What is the main idea of the passage?

In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren”, John Keynes, a famous economist, wrote that human needs fall into two classes: absolute needs, which are independent of what others have, and relative needs, which make us feel superior to our fellows. He thought that although relative needs may indeed be insatiable (无止境的), this is not true of absolute needs.

Keynes was surely correct that only a small part of total spending is decided by the desire for superiority. He was greatly mistaken, however, in seeing this desire as the only source of insatiable demands.

Decisions to spend are also driven by ideas of quality which can influence the demand for almost all goods, including even basic goods like food. When a couple goes out for an anniversary dinner, for example, the thought of feeling superior to others probably never comes to them. Their goal is to share a special meal that stands out from other meals.

There are no obvious limits to the escalation of demands for quality. For example, Porsche, a famous car producer, has a model which was considered perhaps the best sports car on the market. Priced at over $120,000, it handles perfectly well and has great speed acceleration. But in 2004, the producer introduced some changes which made the model slightly better in handling acceleration. People who really care about cars find these small improvements exciting. To get them, however, they must pay almost four times the price.

By placing the desire to be superior to others at the heart of his description of insatiable demands, Keynes actually reduced such demands. However, the desire for higher quality has no natural limits.

29. According to the passage, John Keynes believed that_________

30. What do we know about the couple in Paragraph 3? （0 分）

31. What does the underlined word “escalation” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

32. The author of the passage mainly argues that _________

In a recent study, investigators from Washington University School of Medicine found that a small group of fat people don’t have common metabolic abnormalities （新陈代谢异常） associated with obesity.

Researchers followed 20 fat participants who were asked to gain about 15 pounds over several months to determine how the extra pounds affected their metabolic functions.

"Our goal is to have research participants consume 1,000 extra calories every day until each gains 6% of his or her body weight," said Elisa Fabrini, assistant professor of medicine. "This wasn’t easy to do. It’s just as difficult to get people to gain weight as it’s to get them to lose weight. "

All of the subjects gained weight by eating at fast food restaurants, under the supervision of a dietitian. Before and after weight gain, the researchers carefully evaluated （评估） each study subject’s ability to regulate blood sugar, liver fat, and other measures of metabolic health.

After gaining weight, the metabolisms of fat subjects remained normal if they were in the normal range when the study began. However, the metabolisms significantly worsened after weight gain in fat subjects whose metabolisms already were abnormal when the study got underway.

"This research shows that some fat people are protected from the negative metabolic effects of moderate weight gain, whereas others tend to develop these problems, "said senior investigator Samuel Klein.

As part of the study, the researchers then helped the subjects lose the weight they’d gained. In the investigation, researchers discovered some key factors that distinguished metabolically normal fat subjects from those with problems. One was the presence of fat inside the liver. Those with abnormal metabolisms accumulated （积累） fat there. Another difference involved gene function in fat tissue. People with normal metabolisms in spite of their obesity expressed more genes that regulate fat production and accumulation.

"These results suggest that the ability of body fat to expand and increase in a healthy way may protect some people from the metabolic problems associated with obesity and weight gain," said Klein.

33. In the study, a subject of 260 pounds should be asked to gain_________.

34. Some fat people can be protected from metabolic abnormalities because_________.

35. What should be the best title for the passage?

We always celebrated my Dad’s November birthday on Thanksgiving Day, even after he entered a nursing home. As years went on, these events took on a（n）___41___meaning — a traditional birthday party for Dad, and a personal___42___for all that he had done for me in my life.

When we knew that it might be Dad’s ___43___birthday, the whole family decided to come together for a huge birthday celebration at the nursing home. It was a crowded party___44___all of us sitting around him. Dad was a wonderful___45___, and here was a biggest audience he’d ever had.

During a quiet moment, I announced that it was now Dad’s turn to___46___stories from us. I wanted everyone to tell Dad what we loved about him. ___47___we told stories from our hearts, ___48___Dad listened with wet, flashing blue eyes. We ___49___all kinds of lost memories – stories about when we were little, stories about when Dad was young and stories that are shared as family ___50___. Even the littlest grandchildren couldn’t___51___to tell their grandfather why they loved him. For a man who had been kind to so many people in his life, here was our___52___to honor him.

A few months later, at Dad’s memorial service, we fully realized what we had given Dad that night. Those were the stories people normally tell at a___53___. They are told, then, full of tears, with the hope that the departed will somehow hear the outpouring of love. ___54___we had given those loving___55___to Dad when he was___56___, told through laughter, accompanied by hugs and joy. I’m sure the stories and memories___57___over in his mind during his last months and days.

Words do___58___, and they are enough. We need to say them, to speak them___59___to the ones we love, for everyone else to hear. That’s the way to___60___love, and our chance to honor a person in life.

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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（  ），并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用（＼）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。

Dear Zhang Ning,

I know you are now having trouble communicate with others, and you may often feel lonely. That’s why you are new here and people don’t know about you. But I think you can make it if you follow the advices below.

First, you should take active part in the discussions and show your own opinion about the matters and at the same time, learn to listen to another people’s views. Second, you should learn about your classmates likes and dislikes. Then you can have much in common with them. This way, you can get to know more different people and show him that you are just as friendly. Last but not least, I’m always here ready to help. We can take part in some activities together and I can introduce about you to others.

As time going on, people will know you better and will like to make friends with you if you could do as the above.

Yours,

Zhao Wei

假如你是李华，你们班最近就校园安全问题组织了一个主题班会，请你用英语写一篇发言稿谈一谈你对这个主题的看法。文章应包括下面的内容：

1. 增强学生的安全意识；

2. 在校内外活动中注意安全；

3. 同学间发生矛盾时，一定要保持冷静；

4. 发出号召，共建安全校园。

注意：

1. 不要逐句翻译，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

2. 词数100左右；

3. 文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。

My dear classmates,

Recently the discussion about how to make our campus a safe place to stay on is quite popular among students. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________