扬州市2019-2020学年度第一学期高一英语期末调研试卷

1、重庆南开中学2019-2020学年度第一学期期末检测试题英语第二部分 阅读理解（共三节，满分50分）ANotices1. Winterization （过冬准备）/ Outside Tap（水龙头） Shut OffPlease be advised that outside water taps are easily affected by freezing which can cause the pipes and taps to break.If you have an outside water tap at your unit, please make arrangements be

2、fore October 31 to:1) Turn off the water to the outside tap from inside your unit (if you have any)2) Disconnect all pipes linked to the tap3) Open the water valve（阀门）and empty all the water In addition, if you are away from your home for more than two days, you should consider leaving the heat on a

3、t a reasonable temperature to prevent your pipes from freezing.As usual, arrangements should be made to have your place examined regularly to reduce any possible damage.Failure to winterize your outside taps may result in taps and pipes breaking and insurance claims（保险索赔）could become the responsibil

4、ity of the unit owner.2. Yearly Fire TestingPlease be advised that Earth Wind and Fire will be available on Tuesday, October 29, 2020 to conduct the Yearly Fire Testing. Access to all units must be provided on:Tuesday, October 29 5:00 PM to 8:00 PMThe repairman will work their way from unit #1 to un

5、it #48. If you are unable to provide access, please leave a key with a neighbor and a note on your door.Please note that Korecki Real Estate Services wont offer service beyond their work time, nor the company performing the fire testing.Failure to provide access during the scheduled time will result

6、 in additional fire testing days being scheduled, with any cost being charged back to the missed flats.Earth Wind and Fire - 604-649-5665.21. If you are to prevent your outside tap from breaking in winter, youre advised to do the following things EXCEPT _. A. disconnecting all the pipes linked to th

7、e tap and emptying all the waterB. taking the responsibility to claim insuranceC. leaving the heat on at a reasonable temperature while away for over two daysD. getting your place checked on a regular basis22. As the owner of a flat in unit #30, if you fail to provide access during the arranged time

8、 period, you can _. A. ask the repairman to test your flat first B. arrange the testing day without extra pay C. call Earth Wind and Fire according to your schedule D. leave the repairman a note and turn to your neighbor23. In which page of the newspaper might we read this article? A. Sports.B. Busi

9、ness.C. Life.D. Education.BIn 2019 every graduating student at the private school was the first in his or her family to make it past middle school, and these high achievers didnt stop there: every one of them was also accepted to college. The Fugees Academy recently opened a second school, in Ohio,

10、and a third one is soon to follow. With any luck, they will all produce success stories like the girl who described herself in this life story: “Im sad when we get days off during snowstorms and holiday breaks. My name is Harwaa from Iraq and I lived past the age of nine.”The academys name comes fro

11、m the word refugees（难民）. All 90 graduates escaped dangerous countries: Liberia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran. Their lives in the United States were often hard too. Psychological hurts can make concentrating hard. Many reached middle school reading English, their second language, at a kindergarten level.

12、 Yet they grow up healthily and happily because of one woman, Luma Mufleh, and one game: soccer.About 15 years ago, Mufleh, a coach（教练）who emigrated from Jordan and ended up in Georgia, America, came across some boys playing street soccer. As she got to know them and their struggles, especially in s

13、chool, she kept thinking: What would I do if this were my kid?Her answer: open a school for the students unlikely to get help elsewhere. “You want the kids who perform well in their studies, or who cant read a word,” Mufleh says. Her method is to speak to them in the language of their sport, which i

14、s filled into everything. They read about it and write papers comparing superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The biggest tool: teamwork. Report cards are read aloud, and if a grade is dropping, the whole class decide how to fix it.“We want them to see that theres no shame in struggling,” M

15、ufleh says. “Were going to help no matter what.”24. What do the students who graduated from the Fugees Academy have in common?A. They succeeded in graduating from the same public middle school.B. They all came to America from their dangerous motherlands.C. Not every one of them had the chance to go

16、to college.D. They grow up healthily and happily with their families.25. What does the underlined word “emigrated” in paragraph three mean?A. graduatedB. escapedC. movedD. recovered26. Mufleh helped the boys in the following ways EXCEPT _.A. helping them go back to schoolB. teaching them how to play

17、 football betterC. guiding them to comparing soccer superstarsD. making them realize the importance of teamwork27. Whats the best title of the passage?A. The students who will graduate B. The children from dangerous countriesC. A teacher helping poor childrenD. A school that saves lives with a goalC

18、For many, its easy to tell if its a computer calling you on your phone. Its voice makes it obvious before it has the chance to finish telling you that you can get a free loan（贷款）or that you are invited for a customer survey. Its also easy to hang up its just a computer, after all.But Google Duplex,

19、an artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistant, has shown computers are able to “conduct a natural conversation with a human over the phone and complete simple real-world tasks,” reported tech site Wired. At May 8 conference, the company showed Duplex making phone calls and having full conversation

20、s. It called a hair salon, before calling a restaurant to make a reservation.As CNET noted, Google has changed the special computerized voice and taken “extra steps to disguise the system to sound more like a human”. . Duplex comes with imperfections “umms” and “uhhs” and uses human expressions such

21、 as “Oh, gotcha.”As a result, “the people on the other end of the call dont know they are chatting with AI,” said CNET. it will be able to help humans cut down on boring tasks. But for the rest, it “cross a line between being easily used and tricky,” as Wired wrote. People have difficulty knowing wh

22、ether news is real or fake, or what photos are to be trusted. And now, we may not be able to trust our own ears.Google also mentioned that soon, Duplex will be able to copy the owners voice. While this is a great step forward in AI, it also raises many worries. . For example, students could use it t

23、o call their school and lie that theyre sick by using their parents voice.Since people are shocked by the fact that a machine can copy a human so well, Google has promised that in the future the voice will tell the listener its not a real person.According to Alexander Rudnicky, a researcher of human

24、-computer speech interaction（互动）, technology like this is something people are only going to become more aware of. 28. What is special about Google Duplex?A. Its the most advanced AI voice assistant.B. It can misunderstand the person on the phone.C. Its well received upon appearing.D. It has the abi

25、lity to copy human voice. 29. Where can the sentence “Some see Duplex as quite an amazing advance” be placed in the passage?A. B. C. D. 30. We can infer from the passage that _.A. its no surprise that people dont trust their ears B. humans should limit the development of AIC. the special computerize

26、d voice is almost perfectD. AI is going to make teachers cheated by parents31. Whats the article mainly about?A. AI brings about many worries.B. AI is taking the place of humans.C. AI takes big step forward.D. AI is coming into daily life.DTen years before Air Jordans, I learned to fly. Its like the

27、 way some kids walk to a basketball hoop（篮筐）with a ball and throw a few shots, hitting each one easily. As double-dutch（双绳跳）girls, we had our own jump. Three of us and a couple of ropes. It had to be at least three girls two to turn, one to jump. We started turning nice and slow. Before jumping in,

28、we would rock back and forth to push ourselves forward. It wasnt a question of whether wed make it in; the challenge was how long we could jump. There is a space between the ground and heaven where the air is sweeter and your heart beats faster. You drop down and then you jump up again and you do it

29、 over and over until the rope catches on your foot or your mother calls you home. Your legs feel powerful and heavy as they beat the ground. In the rope, if youre good enough, you can do anything and be anything you want. Wed meet at about 3:30 p.m., after wed changed from our school clothes into ou

30、r play clothes. Then wed jump until the parents started coming home. Most of our parents worked nine to five in Manhattan, and it took them about an hour to get home. We knew it was coming up on six oclock when we saw the first grown-up in business clothes walking down the hill from the bus stop.Som

31、etimes a grown-up woman, dressed in the stockings and sneakers that all our mothers wore for the long way home, would jump in handbag and all just to show us what she could do. She usually couldnt jump for very long. These women had no purpose of sweating anyway.Around this time, I would start looki

32、ng out for my mother. Id try to make my turn last long enough so she could see the jump.“Wait, Mom, watch me jump!” Id say.“Ive got to start dinner,” shed say, closing the gate behind her.Theres so much I can do. So much she doesnt know. But its always some other time with her.Here is what I wish sh

33、e knew: There is nothing better than the space between the two ropes. The feeling of happiness encircles you and protects you and there you are strong. I wish shed let me show her.32. Why does the author mention Air Jordans in Paragraph 1?A. To introduce the topic.B. To make comparison.C. To give an

34、 example.D. To sell shoes.33. According to the underlined sentence, jumping rope best shows _ for the author.A. group spiritB. enjoyable exercise C. distant spaceD. unlimited possibility34. What can we learn about the parents from Paragraph 4?A. Their have a fixed schedule.B. They came from differen

35、t background.C. Their jobs were surely splendid.D. They liked the girls rope-jumping skills.35. What might be the tone（语气）of the author from the last two paragraphs?A. Regretful B. Optimistic C. PeacefulD. Scared第二节 （共5小题，每小题2分, 满分10分）根据黑布林文本阅读，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。Wuthering Heights36. From

36、 the story we can conclude that Healthcliff leads a(n) _ life.A. isolatedB. wealthyC. happyD. mysterious37. “He seemed to enjoy watching Hindley gradually sinking.” The underlined word has the similar meaning to _.A. Far off to the west the sun was sinking.B. He said nothing and sank into the chair.

37、C. As we all know, a fresh egg will sink and an old egg will float in water.D. Stealing from friends? How could you sink so low?38. Which of the following of the love in this novel is not true?A. Edgas love for Isabella: brotherly and protectiveB. Edgars love for Catherine: devotedC. Lintons love fo

38、r Cathy: natural but forced by HeathcliffD. Heathcliffs love for Catherine: passionate and permanentThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow39. Which of the following is not one of the themes of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?A. physical mobility in a vast continentB. peoples beliefs of the futureC. greed for money

39、 and possessionsD. peoples attachment to superstitions40. Which of the following statements is not a reason why therere fewer ghost stories in big towns and villages?A. There is no encouragement for ghosts in big towns and villages.B. Big-town people travel more often and ghost stories don't tra

40、vel with them.C. People in “sheltered places” have a more vivid imagination.D. Fewer people stay long enough to get to know the ghost stories in big towns and villages.第三节 七选五（共5小题，每小题2分；满分10分）Who would win in a competition to memorize numbers, a chimp or a teenager? The teenager? Think again. Scien

41、tists have proved that chimps perform better than human beings when it comes to this kind of problem._31_Memory is our ability to learn something, save it and recall it when needed. Our memories are important to our sense of self, our personalities, and our ability to understand the world._32_ There

42、 is short-term memory and long-term memory. Your short-term memory saves information for a few seconds or a few minutes. _33_ Long-term memory involves the information you try hard to keep, because its meaningful to you-an example is data about family and friends. And then there is visual memory and

43、 sound memory. But these are not hard and fast. In fact, Scientists argue a lot about the nature of memory._34_ Some memorize better with the help of pictures. Others are helped more by sounds. One things for sure though: If you can put the different kinds of memory together, there can be great resu

44、lts. _35_ At the same time, you could listen to recordings of the same group of words. These things may help when it comes to memorizing the words.Imagination and association can be useful too. By imagination, scientists mean picturing a word in your mind, while association means relating the word t

45、o something you already know.A. So why not try pictures with English words?B. Then how do chimps have better memories than us?C. Scientists say that there are different types of memory.D. We may have to rethink what we believe about human memory.E. Scientists have also found that people memorize thi

46、ngs in different ways.F. For example, the time it takes to compare the prices of a few items in a store.G. Short-term and long-term memory differ in the amount of information they can store.第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分50分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题,每小题1.5分；满分30分）Walden was reporting breaking news for the Orlando Sentinel

47、.“When talking of Orlando, you 46 Disney,” Walden told me. “I had no 47 how much violence there would be.”Her friend, Johnson, was making films at an independent production company.Both 48 of Northwestern University decided to move to Chicago in 2015 to 49 the stories of their community.“We wanted t

48、o tell the stories that dont always appear in 50 newsroom settings 51 there arent many people like us,” Johnson said.They 52 with web developer David and started The Triibe, which puts together journalism, 53 writing and photography to tell the stories of black 54 .“We know, as millennials（千禧一代）, we

49、 dont like to 55 for news,” Johnson said. “We made a decision not to be subscription-based（基于订阅的）.”“That seems wrong to me. Its 56 to ask someone to pay,” Walden said.The Triibe is mostly supported with donations.Waldens 57 in Orlando also helped her in 58 sensitive（敏感的）news stories.“We wont come in

50、 and just report on a situation after it happens and then walk 59 ,” she said. “We hope to 60 how people recover after something bad happens to their family and their community.”Another life, a series Johnson 61 for The Triibe, observe the people left behind after gun violence. The series shows fami

51、ly members and classmates of gun violence victims（受害者） 62 to mend their lives after a loved one is killed.Episodes last five to seven minutes, but their 63 feels limitless.Johnson said, “We want to study our 64 , whichs growing up without our brothers, our sisters, our lovers, our friends, and how w

52、e are 65 that.” 46. A. reflect onB. count onC. think ofD. approve of47. A. argumentB. idea C. evidenceD. limit48. A. graduatesB. hostsC. explorersD. guides49. A. makeB. assumeC. shareD. reserve50. A. enjoyableB. appropriateC. traditionalD. comfortable51. A. as ifB. untilC. in caseD. because52. A. te

53、amed up B. made upC. mixed upD. stepped up53. A. superiorB. creative C. curiousD. splendid54. A. Orlando B. hometownC. websiteD. Chicago55. A. chargeB. workC. bendD. pay 56. A. normalB. politeC. unfair D. useless57. A. graduationB. experience C. exchangeD. challenge58. A. viewingB. covering C. organ

54、izingD. composing59. A. away B. onC. aloneD. up60. A. show upB. insist onC. warn againstD. look at61. A. created B. openedC. desiredD. attracted62. A. struggling B. wanderingC. survivingD. inspiring63. A. affectionB. strengthC. influence D. comfort64. A. contentB. storyC. lifestyleD. generation65. A

55、. resulting inB. dealing with C. applying toD. turning to第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每小题1分；满分10分）Parks and Recreation（娱乐）A public park is a place (66) _ people can go to spend time away from the home in an outdoor environment. Parks have many features which are designed (67) _ (give) the most choices possible to park visitors. How to develop a park (68) _ (depend) greatly on its natural environment. It may not only be made up of grassy areas, rocks, soil, and trees, (69) _ also contain buildings. Many parks have fields