江苏启东中学高二上学期期末考试英语试题word含答案

56. We can learn from the passage that _______.

A. the Dance company has performed 90 times in Meany Theatre B. the audience can buy tickets to enjoy these art events now C. Paul McCarthy got inspiration only from folktales in Germany D. the young Heath Quartet enjoys a good reputation worldwide 57. The passage is intended to _______. A. persuade people to buy tickets events

C. advertise for promising artists appreciate art

B

Syrian immigrants have been making their home in Allentown, Pa., for more than a century. They began settling there in the late 1800s, first to work as peddlers（小贩）and later to work in factories.

Today the town is home to one of the largest Syrian populations in the U.S. It’s also a destination for newer arrivals — refugees fleeing the ongoing crisis in Syria. But Allentown residents don’t agree on whether the town should welcome more of them.

______________________

The first stop for many Syrians arriving in Allentown is a neighborhood of flat-fronted row homes called the 6th Ward, which is home to Syrian restaurants and grocery stores.

That’s where Radwan Jarrouj landed in 1962. He’s active in local Syrian groups, and he tried to persuade Allentown to accept the refugees. However, he says he remembers Sept. 11 and empathizes with politicians who have grown anxious over welcoming more refugees.

“Proceed with caution,” Jarrouj suggests.

D. call on the public to B. present information of art

Most of the old Syrian families in Allentown are from the Christian minority and support Syrian President Bashar Assad, while some of the people arriving now have fled the violence under his power.

An Emphasis On Screening

The checking process for refugees takes an average of two years and involves investigating applicants’ stories and cross-checking whether any physical evidence ties them to terrorist groups.

But after the Paris attacks, some local politicians, including Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, say it needs to get even tougher. Todd Long, another Pennsylvanian, says he doesn’t know much about the background checks, but he doesn’t see any upside to accepting Syrian refugees. “If we were to find out tomorrow that 1,000 people are coming into the Lehigh Valley next week, people are going to think, ‘Well, what if one of them was an ISIS terrorist who got through the cracks?’ ” he says.

Since 2012, Allentown has resettled 138 Syrian refugees. And while there has been a national push to slow the pace of arrivals, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf both say they trust the checking process and will welcome more refugees.

58. What is mainly discussed in the text?

A. The reason why Syrians immigrate to Allentown. B. The history of Syrians immigrating to Allentown.

C. The fact that Syrian refugees are not welcomed in Allentown.

D. Different opinions about whether the town should welcome more Syrian refugees. 59. The best suitable subtitle for the blank in this passage might be ______. A. Proceed With Caution

B. The first stop for Syrians

D. Syrian families in Allentown

C. Welcome more Syrians refugees

60. What does the underlined word “empathize with” most probably mean? A. to agree with another person action

C. to oppose another person’s opinion person’s feelings

D. to understand another

B. to support another person’s

61. Which of the following opinion is from Todd Long? A. Any Syrian refugee might be an ISIS terrorist.

B. 1,000 Syrian refugees are coming into the Lehigh Valley next week. C. It’s difficult for more Syrian refugees to get into Allentown. D. He is unwilling to accept Syrian refugees.

C

Seeing in Stereo(立体的)

Have you wondered why you have two eyes and why they are set close together on the front of your face? The reasons are simple and important to the way you see the rest of your world.

Your eyes are like two small cameras. A camera catches an image of an object and records it on film. Similarly, when you look at something, each eye takes in what it sees and sends this image to the back of the eyeball. Because your eyes are set close together, they view the world from about the same height but from slightly different angles. Working as a team, the eyes send the images to your brain, which puts them together into a single, centered image.

Seeing in stereo means seeing with two eyes working together, which is called stereoscopic sight. This allows you to view the world in three dimensions, or 3-D. Seeing depth helps you to judge the distance between you and the objects you see and to adjust to the changing angle at which you see something as you move closer to or farther away from it. If images are coming from only one eye, however, only two of these dimensions—height and width---can be perceived. A world seen with one eye is thus two-dimensional, as in a photograph.

Now consider why your two eyes are on the front of your face. Think of other animals with the same arrangement. They are all animals that hunt, like lions and wolves. Their eyes face directly in front of them. This provided a field of sight about 180 degree wide, which is called binocular sight. On the other hand, animals that are hunted have eyes on the sides of the head, which provides nearly 360-degree field of sight. In order to stay alive, they need to see things coming from the sides and

from behind. However, without stereoscopic sight, they have difficulty determining how far a danger is.

With sight both stereoscopic and binocular, humans share with animal hunters the ability to see from side to side and to accurately determine the distance. If you think it would be great to have another type of sight, perhaps with hundreds of tiny eyes like many insects do, think again! Each tiny insect eye sees only a tiny part. Besides, what if you needed glasses? Be glad for the eyesight that you have. 62. According to the passage, an eye is like a camera because both_______ A. can imagine objects B. provide centered images C. can record images

D. work at the same height

63. Stereoscopic sight is a result of having_________. A. hundreds of eyes, all seeing parts of an image B. two eyes close to one another that work together C. a three-hundred-sixty-degree field of sight

D. one eye on either side of the head, each seeing a different image 64. The underlined word “perceived” in paragraph 3means________. A. sensed

B. taken

C. understood

D. set

65. The author implies “seeing in stereo” ________. A. is similar to the way cameras work B. would be better for a wide field of sight C. is an ability humans are fortunate to have D. helps people have better sight than animals

D

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