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辽宁省辽阳市集美学校2018-2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题第二部分 阅读理解（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。AOne of the best ways to understand the world around us is to stop and pick up a book. Here are some books by black authors, which are shaping our conversations about race.The Hate U Giveby Angie ThomasPublish date: February 28th 2017The novel tells the tale of Starr Carter, a 16-year-old who is trying to going to a white high school without feeling like she is abandoning her friends and family in her black neighborhood. But when Starr is the sole witness to a police shooting of and unarmed black teen, she must develop the courage to find her voice and speak out against injustice.This Will Be My Undoingby Morgan JerkinsPublish date: January 30 2018In her first book, writer and journalist Morgan Jerkins dives into what it means to a black woman in modern society. Through essays about everything from Sailor Moon to the “Black Girl Magic” movement, Jerkins outlines how race and womens rights cross. Its delivered with the sharp criticism that has made Jerkins a must-follow voice in todays media landscape.We Were Eight Years In Powerby Ta-Nehesi CoatesPublish date: October 3rd 2017We Were Eight Years In Power is a collection of Coatess essays written about race, history, and power during the eight years of Obamas presidency. A critical look at race in the U.S., We were Eight Years In Power situates the current social, political, and cultural conversations were having as a country within the larger web of history, making it a must-read.Dont Call Us DeadAuthor: Danez SmithPublish date: September 5, 2017Danez Smiths poetry collection Dont Call Us Dead is a breathtaking look at being black, being queer and living with HIV, when the world seems unfriendly to those identities. It will leave readers anger, sadness and resolve as a result of Smiths poems.1. Who is speaking for the rights of black women?A. Angie Thomas.B. Morgan JerkinsC. Ta-Nehisi CoatesD. Danez Smith2. Which book should be chosen if you want to learn about Obama?A. The Hate U GiveB. This Will Be My UndoingC. We Were Eight Years In PowerD. Dont Call Us Dead3. What do these books have in mon?A. They were all published in the same.B. They are collections of essays or poems.C. They all deal with the problem of black race.D. They are all related to American modern culture.BQuietly sitting there reading, I found myself suddenly listening to the train guards announcement. Train travelers will surely agree that when the guard makes an announcement, whether its the recorded message or the guards message, few people listen to it, because its often quite dull or hard to understand. This one was different. I noticed that other passengers appeared to be listening, too. Not only that, everyone was smiling!Why was so much attention being paid to this message? As best I can recall, the guard said something along these lines, “Good Morning Ladies, Gentlemen and Children, this is the 7.35 a.m. from Penrith to Central and youll be pleased to know that we are on time. And what a lovely morning it is in Sydney today. The sun is shining, birds are singing, and alls right with the world. I trust you have a great day wherever youre going. Thanks for catching my train this morning and I hope to see you again soon.”Quite a few people (obviously previous strangers) started talking to one another about the guards excellent message and how good it had made everyone feel. I started thinking about this, and then I found the young guard and said “Were you the guard on the 7:35 a.m. from Penrith?” The guard seemed a bit stunned at first, replying, “Yes, yyyyes.” “Well, I really appreciate your announcement. Thank you for your extremely good message, which gave me and the other passengers such a good start to the day. Please keep doing it.” I said.There are two messages for me in what happened that day. Firstly, when people are happy in their work it shows in what that do and say. Secondly, the story attaches much importance to the benefits that accumulate from thanking people for something theyve done, particularly when its not expected. Can you imagine the conversation that guard would have when he got home?4. Why do few train travelers listen to the announcements?A. They usually feel sleepy.B. The messages are unattractive.C. The guards voice is not clear.D. They are absorbed in books.5. What does the underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. Surprised.B. Cautious.C. Excited.D. Patient.6. What might the guard talk about with his family when he got home?A. The beautiful weather.B. The recorded message.C. The train from Penrith.D. The unexpected appreciation.7. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. A Boring Train StoryB. An Intelligent GuardC. A Lovely Morning in SydneyD. A Different Train AnnouncementCThe old saying that practice makes perfect seems to make no sense when it es to schoolwork. Many educators today are looking for evidence to support the case for homework, but are ing up empty-handed. “Homework is all pain and no gain,” says author Alfie Kohn. He points out that no study has ever found a relationship between homework and academic achievement in elementary school.Mary Jane Cera is the academic administrator for the Kino School, a private, non-profit kindergarten0through-12th-grade school in Tucson, Arizona, and she maintains a no-homework policy across all grades. The purpose of the policy is to make sure learning remains a joy, not a thing that discourages social time and creative activity.Many supporters of homework argue that life is filled with things we dont like to do, and that homework teaches self-discipline, time management and other non-academic life skills. Kohn challenges this popular idea; he says that if kids have no choice when it es to homework, theyre not really exercising judgment, and are instead losing their sense of autonomy.At the Kino School, Cera says children often choose to take their favorite parts of school home. “A lot of what we see kids doing is continuing to write in journals, practicing music with their friends, and taking experiments home to show their parents,” she says. Surveys of Kino graduates suggest that the early control they are given over their education continues to serve them well into college, and that they feel better equipped to manage their time and approach professors with questions than other students do.One of the reasons why we continue to assign homework, Kohn says, is our obsession（着迷）with standardized tests. Even if we can agree on the importance of kids doing better on tests, he says, there is no research to suggest that homework is the ticket to success.Wherever the homework debate goes next, its worth taking a moment to examine if were asking the right questions about our childrens education.8. Which of the following is Kohns idea?A. Homework teaches students life skills.B. Standardized tests are not important in education.C. The quality of homework is linked to students interests.D. Homework is not connected with academic achievement in elementary school.9. According to the text, Mary Jane Cera _.A. thinks that learning should help develop students creativityB. argues some homework should be assigned to studentsC. finds her students cant finish their homework on timeD. believes in the connection between homework and academic achievement10. What can we infer from the fourth paragraph?A. Students who so more homework study better.B. Students who refuse homework have better time management skills.C. Students who have control over their studies can do better in college.D. Students who have better professors have better academic performance.11. What is the attitude of the author towards homework?A. Opposed.B. Objective. C. Indifferent.D. Supportive.DImagine a cat that does not need someone to clean up after it keeps an older person pany and help them remember to take their medicine. That is the shared dream of the toy maker Hasbro and scientists at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The researchers received a $3-nillion-dollar award from the National Science Foundation for a special project. They want to find ways to add artificial intelligence, or A.I., to Hasbros “Joy for All” robotic cat.The cat has already been for sale for two years. Though priced over 1000 dollars, it sold quite well. It was meant to act as a “panion” for older people. Now the project is aimed at developing additional abilities for the cat. Researchers at Browns Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative are working to decide which activities older adults may need the most. They hope to make the cat perform a small number of activities very well. Such activities include finding lost objects and reminding the person to take medicine or visit their doctor. They also want to keep the cost down to just a few hundred dollars.It is an idea that has appealed to Jeanne Elliot. Her 93-year-old mother Mary Derr lives with her in South Kingstown. Derr has dementia（痴呆）. The boy for All cat that Elliot bought this year has bee a true panion for Derr. The cat stays with Derr and keeps her calm while Eliot is at work. Elliot said a robotic cat that helps her mother to remember to take her medicine and be careful when he walks would be greater.The researchers are trying to learn how the improved cats will plete helpful activities and how they will municate. They say that they do not want a talking cat, however. Instead they are trying to design a cat that can move its head in a special way to successfully municate its message. In the end, they hope to create an exchange between the human and the cat in which the human feels the cat needs them. By doing so, the researchers hope they can even help prevent feelings of loneliness and sadness among elderly people.12. Whats the purpose of the project?A. To relieve the pain of the elderly.B. To promote the sales of a medicine.C. To help make the robotic cat smarter.D. To invent a robotic cat for the elderly.13. pared with the old model, the new robotic cat will be _.A. cheaperB. smallerC. more talkativeD. more expensive14. What does Paragraph 3 intend to tell us?A. The more functions of the cat, the better.B. The cat gives much help to the elderly.C. There is no cure for dementia at present. D. Mary Derr would have died without the cat.15. What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. The feeling of being needed is vital to the elderly.B. Each family can afford such a cat in the future.C. A talking cat is quite popular among the elderly.D. Feelings of sadness among the elderly are unavoidable.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。How many times have you started to make changes in your life, study a certain topic, or start a certain project, only to stop after a short while? It is mainly due to lack of motivation. It is an inner driving force. In order to acplish anything, you need the driving force. How to get motivated? 16 Start with small goalsIt is easier to display motivation in connection with short-term goals. When I es to long-term goals, it is always hard to sustain the motivation for along period of time, unless you have a strong ambition. 17 After learning to awaken motivation and increase the ambition, you can proceed to bigger goals. 18 Writing it down will help you describe it in clear and brief words. The more specific it is, the easier it would be to focus on it and awaken the necessary motivation.Make workable plans.With small steps that are easy to follow, insist on taking at least one step a day. 19 When you see a goal as doable（可做的）, it would be easier to bee motivated and enthusiastic.Read inspiring quotes related to the topic of your goal.I suggest that you read a few in the morning and again at night, before you go to sleep. You may also read them at any other time of the day. You can write a few on a piece of paper or save them on your smartphone. 20 If you want to make changes in your life you need to start them now, this very moment, and not tomorrow.A. Awaken the motivationB. Make your goal very clearC. So, what are you waiting for?D. Here are a few tips that can help you.E. What is motivation, and why do we need it?F. This is why it is wiser to start with small goals, which you can acplish quite fast.G. This will give you confidence, and make you believe that the goal is within your reach.第三部分 英语知识运用（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分45分）第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I am so grateful for the 21-Day Eco challenge hosted by KindSpring. Taking care of our sweet Mother Earth has always been 21 to me in my life and I have taken 22 in my everyday life to recycle, reuse, think about ways to protect our Mother Earth, etc. However, this 23 awoke me even more.Our Scholars Together munity has taken one more than we have before 24 recycling, using our own China cups and metal water bottles when we go out, not buying things in 25 containers and having green lunches more consistently（一贯的）, not 26 , but the biggest change we made was setting a goal of Zero Waste.We set up more boxes and bins for paper that we could 27 again, recycled every sheet of use-on-both-sides paper, plastics, cans, etc. We also 28 all of our food we cooked or bought, instead of throwing some away. We really 29 it a challenge. Each day we all saw how little 30 could be in our dustbins. I realized that I had been throwing paper away that could be used on the other 31 or could be recycled, and now I am looking everywhere for 32 that can be used more 33 until recycling time.The videos offered by KindSpring have been so 34 and useful to us all I dont want the Eco challenge to 35 . We will continue to do part and 36 the news to our family and friends. Next week we are trying some 37 in our local sandwich and sub shops where the kids like to go to see that we can bring our own 38 in, rather than having them put in bags. It is cool to see how the 39 spreads. Thank you KindSpring for 40 the munity with daily support and great researched videos and information.21. A. convenientB. importantC. obviousD. curious22. A. notesB. actionC. turnsD. risks23. A. lifestyleB. actionsC. adventureD. challenge24. A. in terms ofB. in need ofC. regardless ofD. apart from25. A. glassB. metalC. plasticD. china26. A. smoothlyB. occasionallyC. formallyD. regularly27. A. createB. findC. useD. put28. A. put awayB. sold outC. rid ofD. ate up29. A. sawB. madeC. thoughtD. debated30. A. rubbishB. paperC. moneyD. sandwich31. A. endB. sheetC. topD. side32. A. thingsB. inventionsC. storiesD. reasons33. A. easilyB. steadyC. effectivelyD. frequently34. A. meaninglessB. instructiveC. briefD. funny35. A. existB. occurC. endD. last36. A. hideB. deleteC. enjoyD. spread37. A. dreamsB. wondersC. hopesD. experiments38. A. foodB. drinksC. containersD. videos39. A. awarenessB. donationsC. mottoesD. fantasy40. A. chargingB. decoratingC. botheringD. providing第II卷第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。A 52-year-old man, who spent most of his life sleeping in the park and selling copies of the Big Issue magazine 41 (help) the homeless, has enrolled（登记）at Britains illustrious Cambridge University.Geoff Edwards left school 42 a young age with two qualifications and few ambitions, then ended up homeless in the city of Cambridge after work as a field laborer dried up.The number of homeless people in Britain 43 (rise) past 300,000 so far an increase of 4 per cent on last year. Mr. Edwards said 44 (sell) the Big Issue a magazine founded in 1991 to help the homeless earn 45 living had helped give him back “a bit of self-respect”.Now Edwards is studying English literature, having pleted a college course designed for adults 46 want to return to education or need extra qualifications to go on to university.“I didnt think of applying to Cambridge I didnt think Cambridge University would take someone like me, 47 my tutor encouraged me to apply,” Mr. Edwards said in a statement. “Its the first thing I am proud of in my life. Going to Cambridge University was a dream of 48 (me), for it is one of the top 49 (university) in the world.”Geoff Edwards 50 (believable) achievements have been recognized by the Cambridge Assess Validating Agency.41. _42._43. _44. _45. _46. _47. _48. _49. _50. _第四部分 写作（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分35分）第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）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：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），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. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。As you know, many students plain that English is very difficult learn. They spend a lot of time studying grammar, but still cant speak English fluent. But as China bees stronger, so more and more foreigners start to learn Chinese. Chinese and English were in the different language families, so the foreigners struggle to learn Chinese. But most people give up after a few days learning. There are four tones and it is hard of them to figure out. But there are still some foreigners learn Chinese so well. Therefore, if we can do it well, why do we plain?That we need to do is to keep practicing and find a best ways to master another language.第二节 书面表达（满分25分）假定你是李华，你校将于下周五举办一年一度的读书节(Reading Festival)活动。你的留学生朋友David对此很感兴趣。请你写封邮件告知其相关内容。内容包括：1. 活动目的；2. 活动时间和地点；3. 活动内容。注意： 1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；Dear David,_Best wishes!Li Hua高二英语试题答案整个试卷满分120分*1.25=150分阅读共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分A篇 21-23 BCC B篇24-27 BADD C篇28-31 DACB D篇32-35 CABA36-40 DFBGC完型共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分41-45 BBDAC46-50 BCDBA51-55 DACBC56-60 DDCAD语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）61. to help62. at63. has risen64. selling65. a/their66. who67. but68. mine69. universities70. unbelievable短文改错共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分As you know, many students plain that English is very difficult learn. They spend a lot of time studying togrammar, but still cant speak English fluent. But as China bees stronger, so more and more foreigners start to fluently删除solearn Chinese. 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