(16份试卷合集)宁夏育才中学2020届英语高二下学期期末模拟试卷

D. The history of the word “belittle”

D

Look and listen, and that concert poster just might be singing. Engineers have designed antennas（天线）that can turn everyday objects, from posters to clothing, into radio stations. Anyone walking or driving by can tune in and hear what’s on. The devices use radio waves, but they don’t generate their own. They hijack（劫持）the same waves that carry music and news to your smartphone.

Vikram Iyer co-led the project with Anran Wang, a graduate student in puter science and engineering. The two got the idea for their invention by paying attention to what was already around them. “It’s the ideal way to minimize the power consumption for any kind of munication,” notes Iyer. Their research had focused on new types of wireless

munications that won’t require much energy. They wanted something that would work outdoors in a city. Then they realized the air is already filled with wireless munications in the form of radio stations.

Radio waves carry energy at the speed of light from tall transmission towers to radios in cars, phones and homes. These waves of the antennas take in existing radio waves and change them slightly. Those changes add new sound information. The changed waves are then sent back out into the world where people can listen in. So the device only needs enough power to change the waves, not to generate them.

The scientists tested their device with a poster. It advertised a Seattle concert by Simply Three. People standing almost 4 meters away from the poster could use FM receivers on smartphones to listen to all songs of the band’s music, Those in cars as far as 18 meters away could use car radios to pick up some parts of the songs

The technology could even extend to clothes. Iyer, Wang and their team turned the shirt into an antenna. It let the shirt talk to the wearer’s smartphone. If a sensor in the shirt tracked a person’s heart rate during exercise, for instance, the antenna could transmit those data to the wearer’s phone.

32. The underlined word “generate” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to “ ”. A. promote

B. repair

C. produce

D. recycle

33. Which of the following is one advantage of the new antennas? A. They save energy. B. They are small-sized

C They can be used in villages.

D. They can improve radio signals.

34. What is the third paragraph mainly about? A. The way the antennas take in radio waves. B. The working principle of the antennas. C The benefit people can get from the antennas. D. The situation where the antennas can be used 35. What can be inferred from the text? A. The antennas can be available at present.

B. Vikram Iyer created the antennas with much money.

C The antennas cannot be used in the students dormitory and classroom. D. The closer people stay to the antennas, the stronger signals they pick up. 第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 It’s Friday morning, and you’re taking another test. Are you ready? Students who do well on tests often have good study skills, but good study skills involve a lot of preparations as well as studying. Here are a few simple strategies（策略）that will help.

Read ahead. 36 . Highlight or make notes of things that you feel are important, and share your thoughts during classroom discussions. Also, by reading ahead, class time can be used more efficiently to discuss questions or topics that need clarification. Clarifying questions in class will free up more time to review and study the new material at home.

Take good notes. Good notes make great studying tools. Good note taking involves a lot more than copying notes from the board. 37 . Pay attention to textbook pages that are relevant to the discussion.

Make flashcards. Flashcards are great review tools for basic math facts or word definitions. Write the word or question on one side and the definition or answer on the other side. 38 . Make one pile for flashcards that were remembered, and make one pile for flashcards not remembered. The more you review the flashcards, the smaller the flashcards pile not remembered should be.

39 . Get together with a few friends and quiz each other on the material and notes you’ve collected for the test. Explain or describe in your own words what the material is about, and pare the information you have collected with each other.

40 . Being prepared for class, participating during class, and reviewing after class are good strategies so that you have the most accurate and best materials to study.

A. Study in a group

B. Review notes daily

C. As you review them, make two piles

D. Doing it helps you better prepare for class

E. There are many things you can do to improve your studying skills F. You are being more familiar with the concepts and topics discussed

G. Make sure to include any relevant information from the classroom discussions 第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Sunday was always our book-buying day. Every Sunday, my father would take me over to the Carousel Mall and let me walk through all the 41 while he read his newspaper. Then we would sit side by side reading in 42 . After a while, he would ask me which one out of my large pile of books I liked best. If I couldn’t 43 between two, he would buy me both books. In this way, he 44 me to read. He never discouraged me by 45 like my mom often did: “Why are you reading 46 ? Get outside! Stop living in fantasy.”

When I grew older and discovered the 47 where I could take out as many books as I wanted for free, my father encouraged me to go there 48 .

For quite some time I never knew there was an actual person who 49 all those wonderful books. When I finally realized this, it was like a(n) 50 . I thought I could also write stories just like them. When I told my dad this, he seemed to already 51 it. He read what I wrote and always joked that when I became a famous writer one day I should give the 52 to him. Even if I don’t bee 53 for my books. I at least know what I am and what my dad helped me to bee because of all those childhood 54 to book stores, and all his heartfelt ments that made me really 55 myself. Before reading what I wrote, he said he knew it would be 56 , because I had written it.

I’m going to major in English literature at college 57 I want to make a career writing. I know my dad will be 58 of me. He has 59 me instead of hindering（阻碍）me. He encouraged me to be who I am. I’m going to give the first book to him not because he 60 me to but because he is my inspiration. 41. A. street 42. A. silence 43. A. buy

B. blocks B. surprise B. decide B. forced

C. houses

C. turn

D. bookshelves

D. doubt

C. recognize C. encouraged

D. finish

44. A. taught D. persuaded

45. A. saying 46. A. calmly 47. A. school

B. worrying B. quickly B. library B. by far

C. proving

D. caring

C. immediately C. store C.as well C. bought C. history

D. constantly

D. case

48. A. after all 49. A. read

D. at least

D. collected D.

B. wrote

50. A. secret inspiration 51. A. know 52. A. work 53. A. happy 54. A. trips researches

B. task

B. manage B. prize

C. organize

C. book

D. repeat

D. result D. thankful

D.

B. famous B. excuses

C. anxious

C. impressions

55. A. care about differ from 56. A. hard 57. A. if

B. laugh at C. believe in D.

B. expensive

B. but B. proud

C. great C. though

C. aware

D. similar D. because

D.

58. A. afraid guilty

59. A. helped 60. A. allowed

B. loved

C. protected

D. known

B. promised C. preferred D. told

第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

A boy trembled in the cold winter, wrapping his arms wound 61 (he) on a bus stop bench. He wasn’t wearing warm clothes and the temperature was -10℃. 62 a heartbreaking scene it was! But the good deeds of the ordinary people 63 witnessed the 11-year-old Johannes were both joyous and inspiring. A woman, 64 (sit) next to the boy, discovered he was on a school trip and was told to meet his teacher at the bus stop. She 65_ (selfless) covered his shoulders with her own coat. 66 (late), another woman at first gave him her scarf, and then wrapped him in her large jacket. Throughout the day, more and more people offered Johannes their gloves and even the coats off their backs.

Actually, it was a 67 (hide) camera experiment by Norwegian charity SOS Children’s Village as part of their winter campaign to collect 68 (donate) to help Syrian children get