2017福建高二下学期人教版高中英语期末考试

In Britain and other countries, young people sometimes take a “gap year,” a year off between high school and college. This idea never gained a big following in America. Recent news reports have suggested that interest may be growing, though there are no official numbers.
    Charles Deacon，Dean of Admissions at Georgetown University in Washington，D．C．，estimates that in the current first-year class of 1,600 students, only about 25 decided to take a year off．He says this number hasn’t changed much over the years.
    Mr. Deacon says the most common reason for taking a “gap year” is to have a chance to travel, but he says international students may take a “gap year” to meet requirements at home for military duty.
    Some high school graduates see a year off as a chance to recover after twelve years of required education, but it can also give students a chance to explore their interests. Students hoping to be doctors, for example, could learn about the profession by volunteering in a hospital.
    Many colleges and universities support gap-year projects by permitting students to delay their admission. Experts say students can grow emotionally and intellectually as they work at something they enjoy.
    The Harvard admissions office has an essay on its Web site called “Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation.” It praises the idea of taking time off to step back, think and enjoy gaining life experiences outside the pressure of studies. It also notes that students are sometimes admitted to Harvard or other colleges partly because they did something unusual with that time.
    Of course，a gap year is not for everyone．Students might miss their friends who go on directly to college, and parents might worry that their children will decide not to go to college once they take time off. Another concern is money. A year off, away from home, can be costly.
    Holly Bull’s job is to specialize in helping students plan their gap year. She notes that several books have been written about this subject. She says these books along with media attention and the availability of information on the Internet have increased interest in the idea of a year off, and she points out that many gap-year programs cost far less than a year of college.
1. What is the passage mainly about？

A．If you want to go to an American university, take a gap year first.

B．It is likely that taking a “gap year” is becoming popular in America.

C．More and more American students are choosing to take a year off.

D．Americans hold different opinions towards students’ taking a “gap year”.

2. How many reasons for students’ taking a “gap year” are mentioned in the passage？

A．2                        B．3                            C．4                           D．5．

3. The essay “Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation” suggests that ______．

A．the stress of studies does harm to the students’ health

B．taking a ‘gap year’ can make students free from life learning

C．some famous universities encourage students to gain more life experiences

D．every student must take a “gap year” before applying for a famous university

4. What can we learn from the passage？

A．Charles Deacon doesn’t support the idea of the students’ taking a “gap year”.

B．Books and media have contributed to the students’ interest in school learning.

C．Experts agree taking a year off will benefit the students emotionally and physically.

D．Parents might disagree with the program, concerned about their children’s future.

    Cheaters called “pirates” often use camcorders(便携式摄像机) and cell phones to make illegal copies of blockbusters in the local theater. These pirates then sell those recordings on the street or over the Internet for very low prices. Some share them for free.
    “It’s unfair for people to pirate movies,” says 15-year-old Hadaia Azad Ezzulddin. Movie piracy “takes money out of the pockets of thousands of people in the movie industry,” she notes. Victims include famous actors and directors as well as local theater owners and their employees.
    Hadaia came up with an idea that could help stop movie piracy. Hadaia’s idea uses infrared(红外线的) light. This range of light is invisible to the human eye. It is visible, however, to many types of cameras. Theater owners could place small infrared lights on their movie screens. The lights would not disturb people watching the movie. It would, however, distort (扭曲) the recordings made by many types of cameras.
    To test her idea, Hadaia built a box with a movie screen inside. Then, she projected images on that screen through a hole in the box. She took recordings of those images, using nine different types of cameras. These included the types found in cell phones as well as camcorders. During some tests, she also turned on light emitting diodes(发光二极管), or LEDs. The LEDs were embedded（植入的）in a certain place behind the movie screen. They gave out infrared light.
    Sure enough, she showed, a pirated movie included odd stripes or spots if it had been recorded while the LEDs were on. It might be possible to use the LEDs to flash the date and time on the movie screen. The information would then appear in the illegal recordings. Theater owners or police might use the information to track down the pirates.
    Cutting down on piracy might get more people into theaters to watch the real movie instead of an illegal copy. Six out of every ten films now produced aren’t profitable. They don’t make enough money to recover how much was spent to make and market them. Such a poor payback can discourage filmmakers from producing anything but the types expected to become blockbuster hits. It might also keep smaller theaters from showing a wider variety of movie types.
5.From what Hadaia says in Paragraph 2, we can infer that _______.

A．most people spend less money on pirates moves

B．she criticizes those who video movies in the theater

C．theater owners will increase the price of movie tickets

D．the pirates don’t have to pay for the movie tickets

6. Infrared lights are put on the movie screens to _______.

A．adjust the brightness of the movie screens     

B．make sure the images of movies are dark

C．protect the eyesight of viewers in the darkness

D．make illegal copies of movies unpleasant to see

7. What is the correct order of the steps in Hadaia’s test?
a. She projected pictures on the screen.

b. She used cameras to record the pictures.
c. She turned on the LEDs placed behind the screen.
d. She made a special box with a movie screen inside.

A．b a c d                      B．d b a c          C．d c a b             D．b c a d

8. According to the last paragraph, we can know that _______.

A．forty percent of the movies now are profitable

B．small theaters often choose to show low-cost movies

C．more and more people go to theaters to fight movie piracy

D．filmmakers prefer to produce ordinary movies than blockbusters

    When going through major life changes, like changing careers, I would change the people with whom I spent the most time. We’ve all gone through periods when the people in our lives have changed -- graduation, moving to a new city, getting a new job, joining a new club, etc. I don’t think I need to convince you just how much influence other people can have over your identity. If you’ve ever experienced a major switch in your people environment, then you know that you change as well.

    Most people don’t make these choices consciously, though. You might consciously decide to spend more time with a certain friend, or you may ask someone out on a date to begin a new relationship. But few people choose their existing friendships deliberately.

    There’s no “getting rid of people”. People are always dropping into and out of each other’s lives. Associations grow into friendships, and friendships fade into associations. You don’t get rid of anyone. The truth is that in order to make room for new people and new experiences, you may need to loosen up some of your existing connections.

    What about loyalty? Shouldn’t you always be loyal to your friends? Once you have a close friend, even if his influence on you is slightly harmful, shouldn’t you stick by him?

    Loyalty to a friend sometimes means having to let go. It means being loyal to his highest and best self as well. If someone is destroying his health by smoking, for example, you aren’t showing loyalty by smoking right along with him. True loyalty sometimes requires that you break damaging connections, get yourself back on solid ground, and then decide what you can really do to help your friend.

    It can take a lot of courage to tell someone, “I’m sorry, but I can’t have you in my life anymore.” But even though this might seem like a selfish act at times, it’s often the best thing for the other person, too. If a relationship is holding you back in some way, understand that it’s also hurting the other person. For example, if you work for a violent boss, your acceptance of that situation is considered to be silent approval, encouraging your boss to continue to behave violently.

9. When experiencing major life changes, people may _______.

  A. join a new social community                    B. influence their friends around

  C. choose their friendships purposely                D. have their people environment changed

10. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. Everyone is supposed to have at least one friend.                

B. It is unnecessary for you to make new friends.

  C. You ought to treat your old and new friends equally.

  D. Friendships still exist though there are fewer connections.

11. What is the author’s opinion on the loyalty to friends?

  A. Never betray your close friends whatever happens.

  B. Stick by your friends even though they do harm to you.

  C. Correct their mistakes while you guard their goodness.

  D. Break up with your friends immediately if they smoke.

12. How should we behave when employed by a violent boss?

  A. We should accept what we are told to do.     B. We should bravely disobey him if he is wrong.

  C. We should stay silent and be in favor of him.  D. We should give our boss courage to continue.

AIDS researchers say they still have much work to do on a vaccine (疫苗) against HIV. But the first reports of some success have raised hopes.    1  

The study was designed to test for two abilities. One was the ability of the vaccine to prevent HIV infections. The other was its ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

Volunteers received vaccinations over a period of six months and were tested for HIV for an additional three years. The study began in 2003. It was the largest AIDS vaccine trial yet.  2    Half received the vaccine. The other half received a placeho, an inactive substance (物质). The volunteers did not know which they were getting.

Seventy-four people in the placeho group became infected during the study.    3    Doctor Supachai Rerks-Ngarm, who led the study for the Thai Ministry of Public Health, called it a scientific breakthrough.

The National Institutes of Health also took part. Doctor Anthony Fauci at NIH called the findings an important step forward.    4    But he also said additional research was needed to better understand how the vaccine reduced the risk in those individuals.

The vaccine did not lower the amount of virus in the blood of volunteers who became infected during the study. The study was based on versions of HIV commonly found in Thailand. The volunteers received a combination of two vaccines.    5   The second, or booster, vaccine was developed by VaxGen. The nonprofit group Global Solution for Infectious Diseases now has rights to it.

Neither vaccine had been successful by itself when tested earlier. More detailed results of the study are expected to be presented at an AIDS vaccine conference in Paris next month.

1. Since my father stopped sending me money, I __________a small retail business for all these years.

2. China is the first country in the world to plant rice, which ____________more than 6000 years ago.

3. Mary lost her job last month so she had no alternative but______________ with her old coat this winter.

4.______________several times by door-to-door salesmen, the old woman is very careful to open the door when she was alone at home.

5. The couple is satisfied with the pretty and comfortable room ____________ a flower-filled garden.

6. I had got myself well prepared for the interview and then it ________________at the last minute, which disappointed me very much.

7. It is ________________a famous key university that will bring the fresh graduates a little bit closer to getting a job.

8. With her perseverance _____________, she became a doctor and joined the medical team in Africa.

1. In the 16th century, after the 1)_______________ of the Europeans, the native people suffered greatly. Thousands were killed or 2)_______________.

2. 3) ____________ Dolly lived six and a half years, half the length of the life of the original sheep. Sadly the same arbitrary fate affected other species, such as cloned mice.

3. The criteria are so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted unless they are 4)_____________.

4. Nearby a flower girl wearing dark garments and a woollen scarf is also ________________ the rain. A gentleman (G) passes and hesitates for a moment.

5. But they 6)______________ every time they open their mouths. Now once taught by me, she'd become an upper class lady.

6. We have found human and animal bones in those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and other objects. So we think it is 7) _______________ to assume they lived in these caves, 8)______________the cold.

7. We've discovered fireplaces in the centre of the caves where they 9) _________________. That would have kept them warm, cooked the food and 10)_________________ as well.

The Italian dinners we had every Sunday when I was a boy were feasts fit for a king. There were    1     ( loaf ) of Italian bread ready to be eaten. They were great with butter and even better when you dipped them in the sauce. My grandma,    2    we called “Nanny”, would always bake them a day ahead so they would be ready. I remember watching her make the dough (面团). I would often ask to help but only because I wanted to have a bite of the dough    3     she placed it in the pans to bake.

One day I   4   (fool) asked Nanny why she didn’t just buy bread at the store   5   (save) time. “Because they’re not as good,” she said in her thick Italian accent. Then she laughed, smiled, and gave me a piece of dough to eat.

Nanny was right. Today I buy my bread at    6    store and it isn’t as good. It is factory-made and    7    (lack) all the taste, warmth, and love that Nanny put into    8    bread. Store-bought happiness is a sad substitute for homemade joy. If you want    9    (last) love, permanent peace, and endless joy, then you have to bake them    10    your own.

My first lesson is at a meeting. As we settle around the table I hear Meg, who is   1   a recent operation, talking to Judith, the manager of our project. “Thank you so much for   2   my daughters to their dance lessons last week.” “Don’t mention it,” Judith says, “It was nothing.”

       Knowing how   3   Judith’s schedule is, with her work, kids and aging parents, I find her driving Meg’s children to lessons unbelievably   4  . I am about to say more about this when Donna, another colleague, enters the room   5  . She apologizes for being late, saying she just hosted a lunch for her friends who are over seventy. “That is so nice of you,” I say,   6   how busy she is, how she doesn’t like to cook and clean. “Oh,” she says, waving her hand, “It was nothing.”  7  , I can still tell the   8   in her voice. She did gain a sense of satisfaction from the entertainment offered to her friends.

       Seeing their   9   to help others selflessly, I start thinking about the concept of “nothing”, this way of living--- had it really been nothing or are they simply saying that? It   10   to me that once I spent a whole afternoon after work helping a friend   11   a speech she was going to deliver. I       12   her to rearrange the sequence of the stories in the lecture to make it sound more   13  . After the fifth try, she finally   14   it. She hugged me with   15  , saying thanks to me. I smiled and said it was nothing.

       Suddenly, I realized that helping someone was really something to me. I learned that giving from the heart doesn’t   16   mean sacrifice and hard work. The   17   is finding something we love to do and finding someone who   18   that something. Our generosity can benefit others   19     ourselves. Once you have a good   20   of it, it’s nothing. And it’s really something.

1. A.       waiting for              B. adapting to                C. going through           D. recovering from

2. A. guiding                     B. driving                  C. fetching                   D. dragging

3. A. common                    B. strange                     C. tight                   D. practical

4. A. ridiculous                    B. strange                     C. generous               D. tiresome    

5. A. hurriedly                 B. angrily                C. disappointedly           D. unexpectedly

6. A. knowing                 B. forgetting                 C. ignoring                   D. predicting

7. A.       Therefore                         B. Somehow              C. Otherwise                D. Moreover

8. A. pleasure                       B. sadness                    C. surprise                    D. regret

9. A. progress                      B. ambition                   C. promise                 D. willingness

10. A. occurs                      B. appears                    C. refers                    D. seems

11. A. deal with              B. put up                      C. give away                 D. prepare for

12. A. begged                   B. invited                      C. sponsored          D. recommended   

13. A. confusing               B. sensitive                   C. sensible                    D. typical

14. A. got                            B. made                        C. caught                         D. meant

15. A. gratitude                B. worry                   C concern                  D. apology

16. A. normally                    B. necessarily             C. accidentally                  D. possibly

17. A. treat                          B. plot                          C. trick                        D. plan

18. A. defends                      B. admires                   C. loves                        D. needs 

19. A. on account of             B. as well as                 C. except for                D. regardless of

20. A. impression              B. glimpse                    C. command                 D. order 

1. It suddenly s____________ me that I had left my luggage at the airport when I arrived home.

2. The other day the audience a              the singer’s wonderful performance for five minutes.

3. Experts believe the move is of great s______________, marking the new cooperation between two Asian countries.

4. It is reported that five youths got a______________ by the police for connecting with the murder.

5. Please note that food and fruit are f _____________in the library, but you are allowed to have drinks with you.

6. The mayor was strongly c____________ by the public for the city’s high crime rate during his term.

7. Before d__________ into the details of this theory, we are supposed to make clear some relevant concepts.

8. In order to protect the environment, the citizens made o______________ to marking out the area along the river for commercial use.

9. It is not m____________ a matter of cost, but whether she’s old enough to go on holiday alone.

10. Harry’s pulse raced when he saw the huge beast and immediately he a____________ his car out of the jungle.

1. She explained to me that the force of gravity would change three times on our journey and the first change would be the most powerful.

2. Much time spending sitting at a desk, office workers are generally troubled by health problems.

3. In Chinatown, you may see many temples, a number of markets and a great many of restaurants.

4. Mr. Hopkins has not answered my question whether the excavation team finally arrived in which he thought was a wasteland ten years ago.

5. The shop assistants, having robbed of all the pearls and jewels last night, had to call in the police.

6. Assume that we can’t get the necessary equipment, we will have to give up the experiment.

7. When carrying out the scientific experiments, we should not cast down faced with temporary setbacks .

8. In Pakistan, marrying without parental approval can mean being completely cut up from one’s family.

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。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

    增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧）, 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线, 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。

I took the Harvard Summer School program in my vacation. During my stay there, I spend a lot of time studying in the main library Widener. I enjoyed myself in the ocean of knowledges, either doing research for my papers or read special edition books. The library, which it is named after its donor Harry Widener, stands right next to the Emerson building of philosophy. Opening a pair of heavy yet elegant metal doors, I was immediate bathed in warm light. I wandered around the library, fascinating to find one treasure after other.

The library is a amazing place. One can fully experience the academic atmosphere only he visits the library. For me, the library as well as the courses explain Harvard’s place as the home of devoted scholars.

假设你是高二学生李华，得知某英文报招聘一名兼职记者，请根据以下要点写一封自荐信申请得到这个职位。主要内容包括:

1.写信目的；

2.申请理由（语言优势，性格优点，相关经历……)；

3.希望获准。

注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 文章的开头已给出，不计入总词数；3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯并注意语言的得体性。

Dear Sir or Madam,

     I am a middle school student in Grade Two.__________________________________________

Yours.                                                                                                                   Li Hua