2016-2017学年四川省成都七中高一(下)期末英语试卷

23．Which of the following productions can the audience in Chengdu enjoy this July？ A．The Deep Blue Sea．B．War Horse．C．Macbeth．D．Man and Superman． 24．Where is this passage likely from？ A．A website．B．A theatre magazine．C．A textbook．D．A booklet．

12．（8分）Which boy hasn't dreamed of being a cool secret agent？The wonderful fighting abilities and the world﹣saving adventures are much more colourful than most people's everyday lives．Well，Cody Banks is just like any other boy，except that he is not just dreaming．He has a big secret his friends never know about．He was trained to be a spy by a special CIA programme，which was made to look like a summer camp．He learned high﹣speed driving，hand﹣to﹣hand fighting and the use of high﹣tech tools．

After proving he could become a young hero by saving a baby from a runaway car，Banks gets his first real task．He must make friends with a popular girl at school，Natalie Connors．Then，he must spy on her father，a scientist who has developed a dangerous technology．Banks must stop a group of bad people from forcing Natalie's father into us ing the technology to endanger the world．

The CIA may have taught him first﹣class self﹣defence moves，but they didn't show him how to talk to girls．Banks has zero ability when it comes to dealing with girls．How can he get around his problem and get an invitation to the girl's upcoming birthday party？Will he finally become Natalie's boyfriend and find out whatever he can about her father's work？

Agent Cody Banks has everything that young people are interested in：big explosions，breath﹣taking performances and funny girl﹣dating experiences．It was listed No.2in the American box office last week．

\，and especially cool for young boys，\，a film reviewer in the US．

25．What is Banks'first real task？

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A．To test a high﹣tech tool． B．To save a baby from a car． C．To study a new technology． D．To watch a scientist secretly．

26．Banks wanted to go to Natalie's birthday party to ． A．meet her father face to face B．know more people in her family C．find something about her father's work D．steal some information from her father

27．What is considered as a great danger in the text？ A．The technology developed by Natalie's father． B．An explosion set off by some bad people． C．The CIA's training of Banks for its tasks． D．Banks'stopping bad people．

28．What is the purpose of the text？ A．To make known the work of the CIA． B．To tell the story about a cool boy． C．To show the dark side of science． D．To introduce a new film．

13．（6分）The World Meat Free Day for 2017falls on 12，June，but what would actually happen if the whole world suddenly went vegetarian （素食的） permanently？

If vegetarianism were accepted by everyone by 2050，the world would have about seven million fewer deaths every year．No meat would lower the chances of some diseases or even some cancers and so save the world 2﹣3% global GDP in medical bills．Food﹣related emissions would drop by around 60%．This would be due to getting rid of red meat which come from methane （甲烷） producing livestock （家畜）﹣from people's diets．Turning former pastures （牧场） into native habitats and forests would slow climate change and bring back lost biodiversity，including

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some animals which were previously pushed out or killed in order to keep cattle． However，farmers in the developing world could really suffer．Arid and semi﹣arid lands can only be used to raise animals as there's no or little water in these places，such as the Sahel land strip in Africa next to the Sahara； nomadic（游牧的） groups that keep livestock there would be forced to settle permanently and lose their cultural identities if there were no more meat．Losing meat also means that we also lose traditions．There's no more Christmas turkey．We would need to replace meat with nutritional substitutes，in particular for the world's estimated two billion﹣plus unhealthy or weak people for lack of nutrients．Animal products contain more nutrients per calorie than staples like grains and rice．

Everybody currently engaged in the livestock industry would need to be retrained for a new career．This could be in agriculture，reforestation or producing bioenergy．Failing to provide career alternatives could lead to mass unemployment and social problems，particularly in traditionally rural communities．

29．The passage is mainly about ． A．what future life will be like

B．why there is a World Meat Free Day C．the influence of a meat free world D．the positive and negative sides of our life

30．In what way would people suffer from a vegetarian world？ A．Famers'lands would become too dry to raise livestock． B．We would lose some traditions where meat is needed． C．All of us would be unhealthy and weak for lack of nutrients． D．Nomadic groups would keep their livestock where they settle． 31．The underlined word\ \． A．dry B．wet C．hot D．cold．

14．（8分）There is something very wrong with the system of values in a society that has only unkind terms like nerd and geek for the intellectually curious and

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academically serious．

We all know what a nerd is：someone who wears thick glasses and ugly clothes； someone who knows all the answers to the chemistry or math homework but can never get a date on a Saturday night．And a geek，according to Webster's New World Dictionary，is a street performer who shocks the public by biting off heads of live chickens．It is an obvious fact about our language and our culture that someone devoted to the pursuit （追求） of knowledge is compared to such a strange person． Even at a famous educational institution like Harvard，anti﹣intellectualism is widespread：Many students are ashamed to admit how much they study．The same thing happens in US primary and high schools．

Enough is enough．The anti﹣intellectual values that have spread throughout American society must be fought．There are very few countries in the world where anti﹣intellectualism runs as high in popular culture as it does in the US．In most industrialized nations，especially in East Asia，a kid who studies hard is praised．But in America，average professional ballplayers are much more respected and better paid than professors of the best universities．

How can a country where typical parents are ashamed of their children studying mathematics instead of going dancing be expected to compete in the technology race with Japan？How long can America remain a world﹣class power if we constantly put social skills and physical strength over academic achievement and intellectual ability？

Do we really expect to take the lead largely by bringing in our scientists and intellectuals from abroad，as we have done for a major portion of this century without making an effort to also cultivate （培养） a pro﹣intellectual culture at home？

32．The definition from the Webster's New World Dictionary is quoted to _． A．show that vocabulary use is always up﹣to﹣date B．prove that words used in this article are accurate

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