江苏省淮安市淮安区2019-2020学年高二下学期期中学业水平测试英语试题

Metro Pocket Guide

Metrorail(地铁)

Each passenger needs a farecard to enter and go out. Up to two children under age five may travel free with a paying customer.

Farecard machines are in every station. Bring small bills because there are no change machines in the stations and farecard machines only provide up to $5 in change.

Get one day of unlimited Metrorail rides with a One Day Pass. Buy it from a farecard machine in Metro stations. Use it after 9: 30 am until closing on weekdays, and all day on weekends and holidays.

Hours of service

Open: 5 am Mon.—Fri.     7 am Sat.—Sun.

Close: midnight Sun.—Thur.   3 am Fri.—Sat. nights

Last train times vary. To avoid missing the last train, please check the last train times posted in stations.

Metrobus

When paying with exact change, the fare is $1.35. When paying with a SmarTrip^® card, the fare is $1.25.

Fares for senior/disabled customers

Senior citizens 65 and older and disabled customers may ride for half the regular fare. On Metrorail and Metrobus, use a senior/disabled farecard or SmarTrip^® card. For more information about buying senior/disabled farecards, SmarTrip^® cards and passes, please visit MetroOpensDoors.com or call 202­637­7000 and 202­637­8000.

Senior citizens and disabled customers can get free guide on how to use proper Metrobus and Metrorail services by calling 202­962­1100.

Travel_tips(提示)

•Avoid riding during weekday rush periods—before 9: 30 am and between 4 and 6 pm.

•If you lose something on a bus or train or in a station, please call Lost & Found at 202­962­1195.

Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the island had a disease called beri-beri. He was going there to try and find a cure.

At first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ (细菌) caused beri-beri. He raised some chickens. He didn't eat them, but made experiments on them. The local people were quite surprised at that. One day he noticed that his chickens became sick when they were fed the food most Javanese ate — refined white rice (精炼米). When he fed them with unrefined rice, also known as brown rice, they recovered. Eijkman realized that he had made an important discovery — that some things in food could prevent disease. These things were named vitamins (维生素). The Javanese were not getting enough vitamins because they had actually removed the part that contains vitamins. Later, other diseases were also found to be caused by the lack of vitamins in a person's food.

Today many people know the importance of vitamins and they make sure they have enough vitamins from the food they eat. If they don't, they can also take vitamin pills.

Teenagers who talk on the cell phone a lot, and hold their phones up to their right ears, score worse on one type of memory test. That's the finding of a new study. That memory impairment (损伤) might be one side effect of the radiation (放射线) that phones use to keep us connected while we're on the go.

Nearly 700 Swiss teens took part in a test of figural memory. This type helps us remember abstract symbols and shapes, explains Milena Foerster. The teens took memory tests twice, one year apart. Each time, they had one minute to remember 13 pairs of abstract shapes. Then they were shown one item from each pair and asked to match it with one of the five choices. The study volunteers also took a test of verbal memory. That's the ability to remember words. The two memory tests are part of an intelligence test. The researchers also surveyed the teens on how they use cell phones. And they got call records from phone companies. The researchers used those records to figure out how long the teens were using their phones. This allowed the researchers to work out how big a radiation exposure (接触) each person could have got while talking.

A phone user's exposure to the radiation can differ widely. Some teens talk on their phones more than others. People also hold their phones differently. If the phone is close to the ear, more radiation may enter the body, Foerster notes. Even the type of network signal that a phone uses can matter. Much of Switzerland was using an older "second-generation" type of cell phone networks, the study reports. Many phone carriers (通讯公司) have moved away from such networks. And more companies plan to update their networks within the next few years.

The teens' scores in the figural memory tests were roughly the same from one year to the next. But those who normally held their phones near the right ears, and who were also exposed to higher levels of radiation, scored a little bit worse after a year. No group of teens showed big changes on the verbal memory test. Why might one type of memory be linked to cell phone use, but not another? Foerster thinks it could have to do with where different memory centers sit in the brain. The site that deals with the ability to remember shapes is near the right ear.

Social media can be defined (解释) as web-based and mobile media that are used for people to interact, connect and communicate with each other. It often involves the creation and sharing of content (writing, pictures, and video) that people make themselves, mostly through the Internet.

 The first type involve people getting together to work on a project, for example, Wikipedia. Blogs and micro-blogs (such as Twitter) are another type of social media. There are other websites like YouTube that allow people to share content such as pictures, articles or videos. Another type of social media are social networking sites. Facebook is an example of this type. Many people like to play games on the Internet and, yes, there are social media games as well. These games allow gamers to interact with each other and play with or against other gamers. World of Warcraft is a good example. The final type of social media is websites like Second Life, where people can create avatars (化身) and use and create objects, as if they were in the real world.

 With social media, many individual people in different places create content. Another difference is that people who produce content in social media don't need very special skills.. It takes only a few minutes to write a twitter post, for example.

. But whatever you might think, social media is here to stay.

A. These sites allow people to stay in touch with friends, make new ones and join communities.

B. Social media are different from traditional media.

C. And social media content can be produced much faster.

D. In general, there are six different types of social media.

E. Social media is one of the fastest-growing industries in today's world.

F. In traditional media, people need special skills to produce something.

G. Some people think social media is good and some think it is bad.

A 9-year-old boy was having a bad day, and an even worse birthday, until a police officer came to the rescue.

"I was 1," said officer Austin Lynema, "and saw Thomas running down the sidewalk trying to catch up to his 2, crying. When I stopped my car and asked him if he had any 3, he just shook his head."

He was nervous when Lynema first 4 him. In a child's whisper, Thomas said "I am 5 because I don't catch the school bus and I really want to attend 6 on time as usual." Thomas was a straight-A student and had never 7 a day of school.

On that late February day, Lynema 8 that Thomas was worried for another 9: It was his birthday. "Thomas told me that he didn't think anybody else would 10 to his birthday party" said Lynema, "because his family had just 11 to the US from Tanzania".

Lynema decided to 12 Thomas by attending his party. "I knock at the 13 and he comes out and sees me." said Lynema. "He's 14 up and down, smiling and he can't believe that I 15 was able to show up." But no one else did.

The story 16 the local news and has had 17 results. Lynema has now received cards and 18 for Thomas birthday from as far away as California.

"As a(n) 19, you will see thousands of people and most of the time you don't ever 20 these people again," Lynema said. "But I'm glad that I get to see Thomas again and again."

What is classics literature? Classics are the (antique) of the literary world. They are novels, plays and poems  were written a long time ago and were  well-written that people still read them nowadays. They are examples of great writing and wisdom, and even those written centuries ago can still be found in bookshops and libraries today.

Because a lot of classics (write) so long ago, their language characteristics are quite different  those of modern works. This makes them difficult for some people to read, so they are often left to gather dust on shelves. Many people do not read them, because they think classics are old and (bore) and have nothing to do with life today.

However, if this is true, why do we still find these classics in bookshops and libraries? They have not disappeared and still have  place in the world. Why else would many films adapted from them be successful? In 1995, an award-winning film (base) on Jane Austen's novel Emma came out. Three years later, in 1998, a modern (adapt) of Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations appeared in cinemas. Nobody would bother (make) these classic novels into films if they had nothing to do with contemporary life.

1）作品内容：自然风光、文化遗迹等；

2）作品要求：注明时间、地点和标题；

3）投稿方式：10月15日前发至邮箱Liuying @ HHschoool. com。

注意：

1）词数80左右。

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Last year at Christmas time, my wife, three children and I were on our way from Paris to Nice. Somehow everything went wrong. Our hotels were "tourist traps" and our rented car broke down. On Christmas Eve, when we checked into a dirty hotel in Nice, there was no Christmas spirit in our hearts.

It was raining and cold when we went out to eat. We found a small restaurant poorly decorated for the holiday. Only five tables in the restaurant were taken. There were two German couples, two French families, and an American sailor, by himself. They were eating in stony silence except the sailor. He was writing a letter, and a half-smile lighted his face. In the corner a piano player was listlessly (无精打采地) playing Christmas music.

All of us were interrupted by an old French flower woman through the front door. She had a worn overcoat and her old shoes were wet. Carrying her basket of flowers, she went from one table to another. No one bought any. Exhausted and frustrated, she sat down at a table.

The sailor finished his meal and got up to leave. Putting on his coat, he walked over to the flower woman's table.

"Merry Christmas," he said, smiling and picking out a handful of flowers. "How much are they?"

"Two francs, sir."

The sailor put a twenty franc note in the woman's hand.

"I don't have change, sir," she said. "I'll get some from the waiter."

"No, ma'am," said the sailor, leaning over and kissing the ancient cheek. "This is my Christmas present for you."

注意：1）所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2）至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3）续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4）续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

Then the sailor headed for our table with the flowers in his hand.

Paragraph 2:

The piano player came alive and pleasant music filled the whole room.