上海市交大附中2017-2018学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题

交大附中2017-2018学年高二下期末试卷

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

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Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

(A)

To Kill A Mockingbird (Excerpt I) By Harper Lee

I was fairly sure Boo Radley was inside that house, but I couldn’t prove it, and felt it best to keep my mouth shut or I would be accused (21) ________ believing in Hot Steams, phenomena I was immune to in the daytime.

Jem parceled out our roles: I was Mrs. Radley, and (22) ________ I had to do was come out and sweep the porch. Dill was old Mr.Radley: he walked up and down the sidewalk and coughed when Jem spoke to him. Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and screamed from time to time.

(23) ________ the summer progressed, so did our game. We polished and perfected it, and added dialogue and plot until we had manufactured a small play upon which we rang changes every day.

Dill was a villain’s villain: he could get into any character part (24) ________ (assign)him, and appear tall if height was part of the cruelty required. He was as good as his worst performance; his worst performance was Gothic. I reluctantly played various ladies who entered the script. I never thought it as much fun as Tarzan, and I played that summer with more than vague anxiety (25) ________ Jem’s assurances that Boo Radley was dead and nothing would get me, with him and Calpurnia there in the daytime and Atticus home at night.

Jem was a born hero.

It was a blue little drama, (26) ________ (weave) from bits and pieces of gossip and neighborhood legend: Mrs. Radley had been beautiful until she married Mr

Radley and lost all her money. She also lost most of her teeth, her hair, and her right forefinger; she sat in the living room and cried most the time, (27) ________. Boo slowly whittled(消减) away all the furniture in the house.

The three of us were the boys (28) ________ got into trouble; I was the judge, for a change; Dill led Jem away and crammed him beneath the steps, poking him with the brushbroom. Jem would reappear as needed in the shapes of the sheriff, various townsfolk, and Miss Stephanie Crawford, who had more to say about the Radleys than anybody in Maycomb.

When it was time to play Boo’s big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from the sewing-machine drawer when Calpurnia’s back (29) ________ (turn), then sit in the swing and cup up newspapers. Dill would walk by, cough at Jem, and Jem would pretend a plunge into Dill’s thing. From (30) ________. I stood it looked real.

(B)

What the Bible Says About Money

Most people know Sean Hyman form his regular appearances on Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg Television, but what they don’t know is that Sean is a former minister, and that his secret to (31) ________ (invest)is hidden within the Bible. Perhaps (32) ________ can explain why, despite his mysterious ability to predict accuate moves in the stock market, Sean is often laughed at for his unique strategy for investing.

For example, a few months ago Sean appeared on Bloomberg Television. At that time, Best Buy (33) ________ (drop) to all-time lows of $16 a share. Sean predicted the stock (34) ________ go down to $11 a share, and would then quickly rebound to $25 per share, and after that would restore to 40 per share over the next year. Another commentator on the show actually challenged Sean for his prediction, saying “$40 on Best Busy? If that’s the case Apple is going to $1500. That’s the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard! (Editor’s Note: At the time, Apple was trading at $650 per share.) Within a few weeks, Sean would receive the last laugh. Best Buy dropped down to

$11.20 a share and has since rebounded to $30 a share, (35) ________ (continue) its path to $40…. exactly as Sean predicted. (Ironically, Apple has dropped down to about $400 per share.)

During a recent private dinner with Sean, once he (36) ________ (bless) the food, I wasted no time (37) ________ (ask) him what his secret is for investing so successfully. I expected Sean to say that it was his years of experience at Charles Schwab or perhaps one of the complicated algorithms(算法) he uses for timing the stock market. (38) ________ when Sean responded that his secret was the Bible, I was thoroughly shocked.

Yes, I knew Swan was a Christian. However, people usually keep their faith separate from things like…investing. But not Swan. For Sean, the Bible is his foundation for investing.

He explained to me (39) ________ there is actually a “Bible Money Code” hidden into Scripture. Certain investment Giants, Sean says, such as Warren Buffett and John Templeton, (40) _____________ (already use) this code to store up billions. Finally, Sean used the teachings of King Solomon and Jesus of Nazareth to show how anyone can get out of debt…make sound investments…and morally build substantial wealth. Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. aspects B. astonishingly C. realization D. adapted E. inevitably F. peers G. collections H. pause I. feast J. instincts K. exposed Here is a lesson that we’re going to be taught again and again in the coming years: Most animals are not just animals. They’re also 41 of microbes (微生物). If you really want to understand the animal, you also have to understand the world of microbes inside them. In other words, zoology is ecology.

Consider the western corn rootworm---- a beetle that’s a serious pest of corn in the US. The adults have strong preferences for laying eggs in corn fields, so that their

underground larvae (幼虫) hatch into a 42 of corn roots. This life cycle depends on a continuous year-on-year supply of corn. Farmers can use this dependency against the rootworm, by planting soybean and corn in alternate years. These rotations (轮流) mean that rootworms lay eggs into corn fields but their larvae hatch among soybean, and die.

But the rootworms have 43 to this strategy by reducing their strong 44 for laying eggs in corn. These “rotation-resistant” females might lay among soybean fields, so their larvae hatch into a crop of corn.

There are almost certainly genetic differences that separate the rotation-resistant rootworms from their normal 45 . Researchers at the University of Illinois began to study the genes of the bacteria in its gut (肠) and found some answers, after focusing on the rootworm’s own genes and found that the results were mostly inconclusive.

“The bad guy in the story----the western corn rootworm---was actually part of a multi-species plot,” says Joe Spencer, who was part of the study. “No wonder it was hard to figure out what was happening. We were only looking at the most obvious 46 of the story.”

If you really want to understand the animal, you also have to understand the microbes. The rootworm’s gut bacteria are effectively another one of its organs, but an 47 flexible on that can change dramatically when 48 to a new food source. This allows the insects to adapt very quickly to environmental challenges, far more quickly than if they could only rely on mutations (突变) in their own genes.

Spencer says, “Modern agriculture has always underestimated the ability of pests to avoid pest control, and I think the 49 that pest insects are not alone in their efforts should give us some 50 . There is a brand new tiny world out there inside every creature, and we need to start thinking seriously about it.”

III. Reading Comprehension (15’+30’) Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the

context.

In a development that would have seemed hardly possible just over a decade ago, many of us have gained constant access to information. If we need to find out the score of a ballgame, learn how to perform a complicated mathematical task, or simply remember the name of the actress in the movie we are viewing, we need only turn to our 51 or smart phones and we can find the answers immediately. It has become such an ordinary 52 to look up the answer to any question the moment it occurs. It can feel like going through withdrawal when we can’t find out something immediately. We are seldom offline unless by choice and the Internet, with its search engines like Baidu and Google and the information stored there, has become an 53 memory source that we can access at any time.

Storing information externally is nothing particularly 54 , even before the invention of computers. In any group relationship, people typically develop a transactive(交换式) memory, which is a combination of memory stores held directly by individuals and the memory stores they can 55 because they are in touch with someone who knows that information. Like 56 computers that can address each other’s memories, people in groups form transactive memory systems.

In a rec arch led by Besty Sparrow of Columbia University, researchers have 57 whether having online access to search engines has become a primary transactivc memory source in itself. If asked the question whether there are any countries with only one color in their flag, for example, do we think about flags — or immediately think to go online to find out the answer?

In one experiment, the participants were asked to read 40 memorable unimportant statements of the type that they could 58 online (e.g., an ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain). Then they were asked to type the statements into computer to assure memory. Half the participants believed the computer would save what was typed and the other half believed the item would be 59 . After the reading and typing task, participants wrote down as many of the statements as they could 60 . It turned out that participants who believed the computer would erase what they had typed had 61 recall than those who regarded the computer as the memory source.