江苏省江阴一中2018—2019学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

高二上学期期中考试英语试题

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 I’ve never thought that a fundraiser could have had such a huge influence on my life. Back in 5th grade, our school announced a fundraiser and each class would get a box to fill it up with small 36 . To make my class to come to the first place in the fundraiser, I took two fifty-dollar bills 37 to school and tossed them into the box.

Two weeks later, my parents asked me about the 38 . They said they had discovered the truth and weren’t 39 , but I must do something to 40 it.

My dad had the perfect idea in mind. The day 41 Christmas, he took me to St. John’s Hospice in north Philadelphia, and explained to me that we were going to be 42 in the kitchen for several hours, making meals with potatoes and chicken for the 300-400 43 men that came in each day.

As the lunch began, I thought I could 44 this by playing with my new toys. But 45 the mealtime went on, I found these men were overjoyed at the 46 food they were receiving, which I couldn’t 47 . I considered it a fairly common winter meal. The men’s faces lit up with each portion of food they were given. I realized how poor some people in this world actually are.

I had always heard about giving to the needy, but I never fully 48 it until that day. It was enlightening to see how thankful they were for something I thought was 49 . I learned that I didn’t 50 need all the materialistic things I initially desired. On the drive home, my dad 51 McDonald’s for lunch and I immediately answered no. I knew that I didn’t 52 it.

That day I came to know how 53 the feeling is to help people who are really in need. I now return to St John’s Hospice every year, trying to make a 54 . This is why I am becoming a doctor, thinking that in the future I will make a difference in people’s lives just like my father 55 on that December 26th. 36. A. change 37. A. typically 38. A. prize

B. cards

C. cloth C. secretly C. present C. wise

D. books D. carefully D. box D. calm D. get back to D. for

B. seriously B. money B. shy

39. A. angry

40. A. come up with 41. A. after

B. make up for B. from

C. look back on C. over

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高二上学期期中考试英语试题 42. A. eating 43. A. upset

B. standing

C. working C. disabled C. get over

D. sleeping D. homeless D. leave out D. since D. simple D. remember D. imagined D. silly D. really D. required D. gather D. familiar D. difference D. promised

B. friendless B. wait for B. unless B. healthy B. believe

44. A. succeed in 45. A. as 46. A. fast

C. although C. tasty C. possess

47. A. avoid

48. A. supported B. accepted 49. A. cheap

B. funny

C. understood C. useless C. merely

50. A. usually B. roughly 51. A. admitted 52. A. doubt 53. A. good 54. A. plan 55. A. took

B. insisted B. need B. mature B. record B. did

C. suggested C. notice C. similar C. decision C. enjoyed

第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Indeed Machine Learning CodeSprint

July 31st — August 7th 2018

Competition starts at 9AM PDT / 4PM UTC / 8:30PM IST.

The Challenge

Indeed is the world’s No. 1 job site, serving 200 million unique visitors each month in more than 60 countries and 28 languages. What started as a job search engine has become a destination for job seekers and employers, a place where people share resumes, learn about companies and apply for jobs on any device. With the job seekers’ experience at the core of all decision-making, its culture is built around the mission, “I help people get jobs.”

Join our CodeSprint for the chance to solve a real-world machine learning problem based on the site’s data. Indeed is recruiting(招募) machine learning specialists of all levels to join our data science teams in the United States and most countries in Asia. We are looking to grow our teams with people who share our energy and enthusiasm for offering the best experience to job seekers.

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高二上学期期中考试英语试题 Prizes

1st-10th Place: Indeed branded hoodies(连帽衫) 11th-30th Place: Indeed branded T-shirts Rules

1. This is an individual participation competition.

2. You can code using our interface (界面), which currently supports over 40 major languages. If you are not yet familiar with our platform, check out Solve Me First to acquaint yourself with it. 3. Please refrain (克制) from discussing strategy during the competition.

4. All submissions are checked by a plagiarism (抄袭) detector. Any case of code plagiarism will disqualify both users from the competition.

5. Prizes will be awarded to those participants who have given permission to share their information with Indeed. 6. Current Indeed Employees are not qualified for prizes.

7. Please expect 6-8 weeks after the competition to receive your prizes.

56. For more information, visit Indeed.com 56. We can know from the passage that Indeed _____. A. provides services for job seekers B. supports over 40 languages

C. runs branch offices in more than 60 countries D. is recruiting someone to design the plagiarism detector

57. What can we learn about the Indeed Machine Learning CodeSprint competition? A. It will last for one week.

B. It is a contest involving teamwork.

C. Indeed employees are encouraged to participate.

D. Competitors are expected to share their information with Indeed.

B

Friendship is above reason, for, though you find virtues (美德) in a friend, he has been your friend before you find them. It is a gift that we offer because we must; to give it as the reward of virtue would be to set a price upon it, and those who do that have no friendship to give. If you choose your friends on the grounds that you are virtuous and want virtuous company, you are no

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高二上学期期中考试英语试题

nearer to true friendship than if you choose them for commercial reasons. Besides, who are you that you should be setting a price upon your friendship? It is enough for any man that he has the power of making friends, and he must leave it to that power to determine who his friends shall be. For, though you may choose the virtuous to be your friends, they may not choose you. It comes, like sleep, when you are not thinking about it; and you should be grateful, without any misgiving, when it comes.

So no man who knows what friendship is will give up a friend because he turns out to be disreputable (声名狼藉的). His only reason for giving up a friend is that he has stopped caring for him; and, when that happens, he should blame himself for this poverty (缺乏) of affection, not the friend for having proved unworthy.

We have our judgments and our punishments as part of the political mechanism that is forced upon us so that we may continue to live; but friendship is not friendship at all unless it teaches us that these are not part of our real life. It is only in the warmth of friendship that we see how cold a thing it is to judge and how stupid to take a pleasure in judging; for we recognize this warmth as a positive good, a richness in our natures, while the coldness that sets us judging is a poverty.

There are men who cannot be friends except when they are under an illusion (幻觉) that their friends are perfect, and when the illusion passes there is an end of their friendship. But true friendship has no illusions, for it reaches to that part of a man’s nature that is beyond his imperfections, and in doing so it takes all of them for granted. A man is your friend, not because of his superiorities (优越), but because there is something open from your nature to his, a way that is closed between you and most men.

—A. Clutton-Brock

58. What is the author’s attitude towards choosing friends on the grounds of their virtues? A. Concerned.

B. Uncertain.

C. Disapproving.

D. Supportive.

59. According to the author, you may give up your friend only when he _____. A. becomes disreputable B. shows no care for you

C. blames you for not caring about him D. does something bad and hurts your feelings 60. What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

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