2017-2018学年上海市普陀区曹杨二中高三英语第二学期周测试卷含答案和解析

1、上海曹杨二中2017-2018学年度第二学期高三英语周测试卷II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammaticallycorrect. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the otherblanks, us

2、e one word that best fits each blank.Talking with Not Just to Kids Powers How They Learn LanguageChildren from the poorer families begin life not only with material disadvantages but cognitive ones. Decadesof research (1)_ (confirm) this, including a famous 1995finding by psychologists Betty Hart an

3、d Todd Risley: By age four children raised in poverty have heard 30 millionfewer words, on average, than their peers from wealthier families. That gap has been linked to shakier languageskills at the start of school, (2)_ , in turn, predictsweaker academic performance.But just the quantity of words

4、a toddler hears is not the most significant influence on language acquisition.Growing evidence has led researchers to conclude quality matters more than quantity, and (3)(valuable)quality seems to be back-and-forthcommunication what researchers call conversational turns.A paper (4)_ (publish) last w

5、eek in Psychological Science brings a new kind ofsupport to this idea, offering the first evidence that these exchanges play a vital role in the development of Brocaasrea, the brain region most closely associated with producing speech. Further, the amount of conversationalturns a child experiences d

6、aily outweighs socioeconomic status in predicting (5)activity in Broca sarea and the child_ s language skills.The researchers confirmed the classic 1995 finding that, overall, kids from wealthier familieshear more words. And small (6)_ their sample was, they even confirmed the30-million-word gap bet

7、ween the poorest and richest children. But they found that “ byfar the biggest driver forbrain development was not the number of words spoken (7)_ theconversations, ” Gabrieli says.The researchers calculated that a child verbal abilitysscore increased (8)_ onepoint for every additional 11 conversati

8、onal exchanges per hour.The study is a “ veryv, ery important a”ddition (9)_ a growing body of work,says developmental psychologist Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, director of the Infant Language Laboratory at TempleUniversity. “ Wehave known for quite a while that conversational turns or (10) in my work we ca

9、llconversational duets are very important for building afoundation for language and maybe for learning generally. What hadn bteen done is to link it where we knew it hadto be linked to changes in the brain.”【答案】1. have confirmed2. which3. the most valuable4. published5. both6. as/though7. but8. by9.

10、 to10. what【分析】1. 考察谓语动词时态语态。根据后面的句子中的时态“ That gap has been linked ”及主语“Decades of research (数十年的研究)”判断应该用现在完成时，且主动。2. 考察非限制性定语从句。 “这一差距与上学初期不稳定的语言技能有着联系， 而这反过来又预示着较差的学习成绩”，先行词Ianguage skills，在定从中做主语，故只能 which。3. 考察最高级： “但是，仅仅是一个蹒跚学步的孩子听到的单词数量并不是对语言习得的最 重要的影响。越来越多的证据表明， 研究人员得出的结论是质量比数量更重要， 而最有价值 的品质

11、似乎是来回交流，研究人员称之为“对话转换”。 ”4. 考察非谓语：该句已经有谓语动词brings，publish 是做后置定语，且被动。5.考察代词。在预测 in Broca s a 的活动及孩子语言技能方面，这是两方面，故both。6.考察连词。后面主句中有even 表面逗号前后是转折关系，且从句中的表语small 提前,表明倒装了，所以只能用as/though。7.考察介词：“但是他们发现，到目前为止，大脑发育的最大驱动力并不是说的话的数量而是对话的数量”，不是 而是notbut8.考察介词：“孩子的语言能力得分就会增加1 分”。表程度用 by。9.考察介词：a very, very im

12、portanttoadditi 对的非常重要的补充 。根据 addto.得出。10.考察连词：此题较难，所缺连词的从句在句中做主语从句，且和第二段的“and(23)_(valuable) quality seems to be back-and-forth com munication whatresearchers call con versati onal turns. ”中的这个结构一样，故填 what。Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word

13、can only be used on ce.Note that there is one word more tha n you n eed.A. obedie neeB. adaptedC. con flictD. receivedE. willF. stra ndedG. supervisi onH. harm onyI. i nterpretedJ. excepti onK. pursuitLord of the FliesLord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author WilliamGol

14、ding.The book focuses on a group of British boys (1)_on an unin habited isla nd and theirdisastrous attempt to gover n themselves.The novel has bee n critically well (2)_ . It was n amed in the Moder n Library 100Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editors list, and 25 on the readers list. In 200

15、5 Time magaz ine n amed itas one of the 100 best En glish-la nguage no vels from 1923 to 2005.Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Goldi ngs first no vel. Although it was not a great success at the time,it soon went on to become a best-seller. It has bee n (3)_for filmtwice in En glish, in 1963

16、by Peter Brook and 1990 by Harry Hook.The book takes place in the middle of an unspecified nuclear war. A plane carrying a group of Britishschoolboys is shot down over the Pacific. The pilot of the plane is killed, but many of10.考查名词，根据前面的对比，填写aggression 的反义词the boys survive the crash and find thems

17、elves deserted on an isla nd, where they are alone without adult (4)_. Some of them arrive as a musical choir(合唱队)under an establishedleader , while others are ordinary students. With the (5)_ of the choirboys, somechildren like Sam and Eric, appear never to have encountered each other before. The b

18、ook portrays their graduallybeco ming extremely cruel and viole nt. Left to themselves on a heave nly island, far from modern civilization, thewell-educated children return to a primitive state.Golding wrote his book as a counterpoint(对照)to R.M.s youth novel The Coral Island (1858), and includedspec

19、ific references to it, such as the rescuing naval officers description of the childrens (6)of Ralph, one of thekid leaders on island, as a jolly(pleasant) goodshow, like the Coral Island. Goldings three central characters Ralph, Piggy and Jack have bee n (7)asexaggerated versions of R.M.s Coral Isla

20、 nd leadi ng characters.At an allegorical( 比喻的)level, the central theme is the (8)_of human desire forcivilization and social organization living by rules, peacefully and for the (9)_ topower. Several themes are revealed in the book, including the tension between groupthink and in dividuality,betwee

21、 n rati onal and emoti onal reactions, betwee n (40)_ and aggressi on,and between morality and immorality. How these play out, and how different people feel the in flue nces of theseform a major subtext of Lord of the Flies.【答案】1-10 FDBGJ KICEA【分析】1. 考查分词作定语，根据意思是被困在一个荒岛上2. 考查分词作形容词，被广泛的接受3. 考查谓语动词，

22、改编4. 考查名词，根据电影剧情，填写没有丑女人的监护5. 考查词组， with the excepti on of6.考查名词，根据电影剧情，孩子们对于Ralph 的追杀7.考查固定搭配,in terpretas8. 考查名词，根据这部作品反射出来的意义，人性的欲望和民主的冲突10.考查名词，根据前面的对比，填写aggression 的反义词9. 考查名词，对于权力的欲望Section ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and

23、D. Fill ineach blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.The picture of miseries and sufferings of the Black woman in America may appear, perhaps darker and moredepressing than Dante 但丁) description of Hell because in the history of human race, the Black woman inAmerica has suffered t

24、he most. A close and critical (1)_of the history of the Black woman slife and condition since her arrival in a strange land will unfold very well the longstory of her pain and sorrow (2)_her mutilated( 被切断的 ) soul.Since her arrival on the foreign shore, the Black woman has been facing the worst kind

25、 of (3)and oppression.As a Black she has had to endure all the horrors of slavery and hasbeen the (4)_ of continually inhumane treatment in all kinds of work, (5)_ thelowest place on the wage scale and restricted to the lowest-status and the most uncreative jobs. Since times ofslavery, Black womanho

26、od has been destroyed, twisted and abused with racial and inhuman (6) by black menand white men and women. In the process, they have lost theirgenuine self, and have developed a(n) (7)_ in themselves though as black women, theysee themselves with the eyes of white men and women and black men. This h

27、as ultimately been responsible for thedestruction of their self-confidence and the feeling of being human. They (8)themselves as mastersbelongings.As a mother she has seen her children sold into slavery. She has seen them left at home without attentionwhile she (9)_to the needs of the children of th

28、e ruling class. She hasseen her children suffer from drug addiction, the (10)_ of decent education and experienceattacks by a racist society, and (11)_ the prisons of this nation. In addition, besidessuffering the common fate of all oppressed people, the African-American women continue to (12) theop

29、pressionof woman by men, which existed for long. In the home she becomes“ theslave of a slave ”M.en may be cruelly treated and subjected to all sorts of dehumanizing treatment on thepart of the ruling class. (13)_ , at least they can take out their frustration onsomeone else, their women.Thus femini

30、sm in America means much more than what it stands for in other European countries, chieflybecause it has different role and meaning (14)_ the Black women. If afeminist is commonly defined as one who is involved in transforming and (15)_ familiarrealities, then Black women are innate(天生的)feminists. B

31、lack women writing exhibits and constructs a Blackwomen sliterary tradition that is inherently feminist. Barbara Smith, an influential Black feminist critic, states thatthe ability of Black women to survive in the face of White America exhibits an innate feminist potential.III.ReadingComprehension (15+30)1. A. respectB. referenceC. accountD. expressi on2. A. associated withB. completed withC. i nvolved inD. joi ned by3. A. explorati onB. exhausti onC. exploitati onD. explosi on4. A. articleB. itemC. substa neeD. object5. A. i ncludi ngB. occupy ingC. containingD. strik