2017-2018学年江苏省宿迁市泗阳县高二下学期期中英语试题和答案

46. A. proved 47. A. silent 48. A. called in 49. A. off 50. A. casually 51. A. left 52. A. in question 53. A. incident 54. A. concerning 55. A. connection B. happened C. seemed D. looked B. still C. quiet D. calm B. dropped out C. put through D. split up B. back C. in D. away B. annually C. completely D. totally B. came C. participated D. joined B. in trouble C. in vain D. in general B. arrangement C. coincidence D. ignorance B. regarding C. considered D. given B. decision C. reservation D. distinction

第三部分：阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并

在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Apple hides secret job advertisements to attract world’s best tech talent. Apple took the recruiting (招聘) game a step further this week and hid a job advertisement on its website. The posting, for a technical engineer, said: “Hey there! You found us. We are looking for a talented engineer to develop a critical infrastructure component.”

Apple is not the first organization to seek new technical talent in innovative(创新的) ways. The use of puzzles and challenges to find people skilled in security goes back to World War Two, when code breaking site Bletchley Park published puzzles in newspapers.

Britain’s security agency GCHQ is also known for using online quizzes in recruitment drives and, in 2015, it ran a nationwide campaign with cryptic graffiti(神秘涂鸦).

Google has also hidden tasks for job seekers within its website. An engineer searching on Google’s website in 2015 for a list of technical functions was met with message that said: “You’re speaking our language. Up for a challenge?”

After Max Rosett completed six challenges the search giant asked for his resume and contact details. Three months later he started working at Google. 56. The passage is mainly meant to ________.

A. reveal some secrets hidden in some big technology companies

B. persuade readers to apply for some creative jobs in Apple and Google

C. compare the advantages and disadvantages in technology between Apple and Google D. inform readers of innovative ways in some technology companies to attract tech talents 57. From the passage, ________ can go back to the World War II. A. asking unusual questions in an interview

B. applying for innovative jobs in a famous newspaper C. carrying out a national campaign with cryptic graffiti

D. finding skilled people with puzzles and cryptic challenges

B

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“Being stopped by the Chinese army was fairly hair-raising,” says Bill Marr-Johnson with a chuckle. “We had come across a military manoeuvre — tanks rumbling up and down, field guns dug in. They kept us for three hours. We were nervous because we had no idea how they were going to treat us.”

That was on a three-week trip through Tibet, staying at a mix of hotels and truckers’ stops with metal beds in concrete-floored dormitories. “They were fine,” he says, “the only problem was the long-drop toilets, which are never cleaned.” And though his wanderlust is clearly prodigious(惊人的；奇妙的), Mr Marr-Johnson is less of an outlier than part of what the travel industry is recognizing as a key trend.

Once travel in retirement meant cruises, golf, cultural weekend trips and winter sun beach breaks, recent years have seen a sharp rise in demand for exotic and adventurous travel. “We have really noticed it in the last five to seven years,” says Jonny Bealby, the founder of tour operator Wild Frontiers, with whom Mr Marr-Johnson has often travelled.

“If you go to the travel shows you see the same demographic. The baby boomers have seen their kids come back from gap years and adventures and they are thinking, hang on, we never had a chance to do that. Unless you were on the hippy trail — and that was a tiny minority — life in the 1970s was quite serious, you had to get on and get a career going. Now they have made their money, paid off the mortgage, the kids have left home, they have got decent pensions, and they want to spend it on experiences.”

Figures from the UK Office for National Statistics show the number of British over-65s travelling overseas leapt by 13.7 per cent from 2014 to 2016. A separate survey from the Association of British Travel Agents suggests that, after a significant increase in the 12 months to August 2017, over-65s are now more likely to take foreign holidays than any other age group.

58. The story mentioned in Paragraph 1 is planned to ________ A. remind us not to travel at random.

B. arouse readers’ interest in military base. C. attract our attention to the theme of travel.

D. introduce the advanced technology of Chinese military.

59. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 shows that ________. A. it is improper for old men to travel just for relaxation in the past.

B. more and more old men have been choosing to travel in surrounding cities. C. there is a growing trend for old men to travel overseas or make adventures.

D. all of the old men would make adventurous travels rather than go on cultural trips. 60. According to the passage, which of the statements below is TRUE ? A. Johnson was far more satisfied with the 3-week trip through Tibet. B. Johnson hopes to travel as much as possible in case he goes bankrupt. C. People aged 65 or below are more likely to adventure overseas at present.

D. One reason why old people want to travel is that they have pension and free time. C

Stephen Hawking, passing away Wednesday at the age of 76, had plenty to say about the

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future.

Doomsday

Let’s start with the big one, then: Hawking had in recent years been convinced that humanity needs to get into space with a fair amount of urgency, because “spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves.”

In late 2016, Hawking reckoned humanity has about 1,000 years left on Earth. Half a year later, he cut that to 100 years, because of climate change, “overdue” asteroid strikes, excessive population growth, and the threat of epidemics. Oh, and nuclear or biological war.

What changed over those months to so drastically shorten humanity’s Earthbound future? Well, Donald Trump got elected as U.S. president, for one thing.

“We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action [pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement] could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid,” Hawking said.

Artificial intelligence

Along with the likes of Elon Musk, Hawking was one of the most prominent voices warning of the dangers of so-called general artificial intelligence—AI that isn’t just designed for a narrow task, but that can improve itself to a point where a new super intelligence leaves humanity in the dust, and robots ultimately replace us.

Hawking’s views on AI weren’t entirely gloomy, though. He also noted that the technology could help us get rid of disease and poverty, and so on.

“Success in creating effective AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst. We just don’t know,” he said late last year.

______________

Alright, so we need to flee death-rain and killer robots. Where is Hawking’s “Planet B”? For the last decade, Hawking had been calling for colonies on the Moon and on Mars. But those are just staging posts—the physicist had his eye on the closest star system to ours, Alpha Centauri.

A couple years ago, Hawking joined a team of scientists and investor Yuri Milner to design computer chips that could fly through space, aided by a super-thin sail. The Breakthrough Starshot program aims to send these “interstellar sailboats” out as probes, in order to return imagery from Alpha Centauri that might give us clues as to likely locations for colonization.

Yes, Alpha Centauri is very, very far away, but the idea here is to propel these nanocraft using a 10 gigawatt light beam trained on their sails. Travelling at a fifth of the speed of light, the probes might be able to make the two-way trip within a few decades, the scientists hope.

Hawking will never get to see that plan come to fruition. But who knows? Perhaps we will. 61. The proper title to fill in the blank is ________.

A. Where to go? B. Whom to save? C. What to expect? D. How to develop? 62. According to Hawking, ________ is NOT the factor leading to human extinction? A. epidemics’ threat B. nuclear war C. excessive population growth D. Donald Trump

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63. In terms of AI, Hawking probably agreed that ________ A. AI has raised great concerns throughout the world.

B. AI can be made use of to prevent disease and climate change. C.we have yet to know whether it is beneficial to create effective AI.

D. General AI is intended to improve itself to help complete a narrow task. 64. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. It’s time that we established colonies on Alpha Centauri. B. Hawking failed to finish the Breakthrough Starshot program.

C. The Breakthrough Starshot program may be carried out successfully in the near future. D. We will make a two-way trip in the next decade based on the clues by Alpha Centauri.

D

Haw wondered why he had always thought that a change would lead to something worse. Now he realized that change could lead to something better.

“Why didn’t I see this before?” he asked himself.

Then he raced through the Maze with greater strength and agility. Before long, he found a Cheese Station and became excited as he noticed little pieces of New Cheese near the entrance.

They were types of Cheeses he had never seen before, but they looked great. He tried them and found that they were delicious. He ate most of the New Cheese bits that were available and put a few in his pocket to have later and perhaps share with Hem. He began to regain his strength.

He entered the Cheese Station with great excitement. But, to his disappointed, he found it was empty. Someone had already been there and had left only the few bits of New Cheese.

He realized that if he had moved sooner, he would very likely have found a good deal of New Cheese here.

Haw decided to go back and see if Hem was ready to join him. As he retraced his steps, he stopped and wrote on the wall:

The quick you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

After a while, Haw made his way back to Cheese Station C and found Hem. He offered Hem bits of New Cheese, but was turned down.

Hem appreciated his friend’s gesture but said, “I don’t think I would like New Cheese. It’s not what I’m used to. I want my own Cheese back and I’m not going to change until I get what I want.”

Haw just shook his head in disappointment and reluctantly went back out on his own. As he returned to the farthest point he had reached in the Maze, he missed his friend, but realized he liked what he was discovering. Even before he found what he hoped would be a great supply of New Cheese, if ever, he knew that what made him happy wasn’t just having Cheese.

He was happy when he wasn’t being run by his fear. He liked what he was doing now. Knowing this, Haw didn’t feel as weak as he did when he stayed in Cheese Station C with no Cheese. Just realizing he was not letting his fear stop him, and knowing that he had taken a

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