上海市七宝中学2017-2018学年高三上学期周测卷英语试题4 Word版含答案

2017-2018学年上海市延安中学英语试卷

News Quiz (Issue 649)

I. Grammar (20%)

(A)

Shy and introverted: These don’t seem like words 1)_________ would normally use to describe a comedian, but Yue Yunpeng, 2)_________ has both these characteristics offstage, has become one of China’s favorite crosstalk superstars.

3)_________ the many crosstalk performers who are also active in theater and TV shows,

Yue’s popularity is second only to his master, Guo Degang. Like many of his peers, Yue first started to learn crosstalk 4)_________ a survival skill. But unlike most other learners, flattering the master wasn’t one of his strong points. Even worse, he found himself 5)__________(judge) by peers as not suitable for the art, even ending up nearly 6)__________(throw) out of the Deyun Society comedy club. 7)_________ crosstalk may not have come naturally to him at first, his persistence has led to his success. He has also gradually started using his own style of speaking --- mean, but in a funny way. His straighforward language and his 8)___________(exaggerate) facial expressions create comedy. 1) _______________ 2)_______________ 5) _______________ 6)_______________

(B)

Many African people have always dreamed that one day the capitals of all African countries 9)_____________(link) by high-speed railway lines. And they have come one step closer to 10)____________(realize) that dream.

The Ethiopia-Djibouti railway, built by Chinese companies, 11)____________(become)

3)_______________ 7)_______________

4)________________ 8)________________

fully operational so far. The Ethiopia-Djibouti railway is the first railway built 12)_________(use) a complete set of Chinese standards outside China.

13)_________ it has not been easy for Chinese companies to win over Ethiopia with this

project. The Ethiopian government once 14)___________(consider) Western standards the best ones. But 15)_________ _________ China’s outstanding performance in building and managing

railways, Chinese firms finally got the project.

This is just 16)_________ achievement in China’s railway building. Last month, a new

high-speed railway opened, 17)___________(connect) Zhengzhou in Henan province with Xuzhou in Jiangsu province. With this railway, China’s high-speed railways are now over 20,000 kilometers in length. It is the world’s 18)___________(long) and makes up a huge 60 percent of the world’s total.

19)___________ length, China also does well in speed. China is the only country with trains 20)_____________(run) at 350 km per hour on lines such as the Beijing-Tianjing and Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railways. 9)_______________

10)_______________ 11)_______________ 12)_______________

13)_______________ 14)_______________ 15) _______________ 16)_______________ 17)_______________ 18)_______________ 19) _______________ 20)_______________

II. Vocabulary (10%)

A. regular B. endless C. structure D. overnight AB. explained AC. deliver AD. demonstrated BC. delicate BD. actual CD. divided ABC. motor

British scientist Isaac Newton (1643-1727) once said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” And this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry may have best 21)___________ these words.

This year’s prize was 22)___________ between three scientists – Frenchman Jean-Pierre

Sauvage, British-born Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard L. Feringa. They were awarded the prize for creating the world’s smallest machines.

How small? Instead of being made of nails and bolts like 23)_________ machines, they are

made of molecules. Instead of measuring in meters or centimeters, they measure in nanometers –– one billionth of a meter –– much thinner than a human hair.

But this was achieved neither 24)__________, nor alone.

Back in 1983, Sauvage, who is now a retired professor at the University of Strasbourg,

France, started doing the research. He managed to join two ring-shaped molecules together to form a chain. The work is so hard and 25)__________that The Guardian describes it as like

“building a Lego castle in the dark with boxing gloves”.

If what Sauvage had done was building the body of a car, what Stoddart managed to do 10 years later in 1991 was adding wheels to the car. Stoddart, who now works at Northwestern University, US, developed a(n) 26)_________ known as “rotaxanes”, which meant that a ring of atoms could move around an axle.

And just like a car, the molecular machine needs a(n) 27)________ to run. So in 1999,

Feringa, of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, became the first person to create a(n) 28)_________ molecular motor powered by electricity.

But what is the use of a machine so small that we can’t even see it? According to scientists,

the machines can benefit various fields like the creation of new materials and medical treatment methods.

“There are 29)___________ opportunities,” Feringa told Reuters. “Think of a tiny

micro-robot that a doctor in the future will inject into your blood and it will go to search for a cancer cell or 30)__________ a drug, for instance.”

III. Cloze (12%)

When it comes to makers of nature documentaries, ___31___ are better than French directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud. ___32___ the names don’t ring a bell, you might be familiar with at least one of their masterpieces –– Microcosmos, Winged Migration and Oceans.

Seasons is their latest nature film. After ___33___ the micro world, the sky and the sea, this time they have turned their attention to the land that we humans live on and the animals we ___34___ this land with. Through their lenses, we get to see up-close shots of ___35___ like baby bears learning to climb trees and cute owls looking out of tree holes.

In fact, this year is ___36___ a boom in nature documentaries. Now, 10 years since the highly successful

Planet Earth (2006) series, the BBC is finally releasing a sequel, Planet Earth II. Oscar-winning actor and longtime environmental ___37___ Leonardo DiCaprio has also co-produced a film about climate change, Before the Flood, which is going to be released on Oct 21 in the US.

Technology may be one of the reasons, since shooting a nature film used to be ___38___ and

dangerous. Photographers sometimes have to wait in the wild for hours just for the ___39___

animal to show up, and they may even have to risk their lives to capture a hunting scene.

Now things are getting easier. For example, the Planet Earth team developed a new camera

system. It allows cameras to stay stable even when they are placed on ___40___ or a running animal. This means that photographers are able to get a clear shot even from a distance away.

The reality that Earth is faced with increasing environmental problems has also played a part

in the ___41___ of nature films. In fact, this can be seen from the changes in Perrin’s storytelling. In Seasons, Perrin’s poetic storytelling turns ___42___ and contains warnings about the dangers of humans turning their backs on nature.

“The film reinforces the idea that man versus nature is an unnecessary idea, as we’re part of

what we’re destroying,” wrote Lee Marshall on film review site ScreenDaily. 31. A. nothing 32. A. In case

B. most B. Even if

C. few

D. anyone D. As long as D. exploring D. depend D. views D. seeing D. socialist D. exhausting D. endangered D. helicopters D. approach D. clearer

C. On condition that C. executing C. share

33. A. experiencing 34. A. accompany 35. A. scenes 36. A. reviewing 37. A. expert 38. A. bored 39. A. target 40. A. rocks 41. A. decline 42. A. longer

B. exposing B. face

B. creatures B. taking B. advocate B. amazing

C. situations C. opening C. actor

C. confused C. mysterious C. leopards

B. objective B. leaves

B. publication B. darker

C. popularity C. softer

IV. Reading (4 out of 6) 8%

A. Iceland is a wonder land beyond words. B. Even better are the northern lights, which are best to see from October to March. C. While Iceland’s unique natural features attract visitors, the country also offers inspiration. D. All those glaciers build Iceland into “a real ice land”. AB. Thanks to the glaciers and the dark sky, the bright, colorful dancing lights became

a heavenly light display. AC. Known as “the land of fire and ice”, the country has many natural wonders.

Found just south of the Arctic Circle, it’s far from the northernmost country on Earth. But as a travel destination, Iceland is on top of the world.

43)____________________________. As the Today website put it, “It is as if nature chose Iceland to be its shop window to … remind humanity that nature is still the unstoppable force.”

As the world was reminded when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted six years ago,

Iceland is a country “still in the making, and few other places offer the same opportunities to see the Earth in action”, commented National Geographic magazine.

Ice is Iceland’s other big attraction –– to be exact, the huge glaciers which travel toward the

coast, making strange pools of water. 44)_______________________________________.

On Sept 28, the country’s capital Reykjavik decided to turn off all streetlights for an hour at

night to give people a unique chance to enjoy the northern lights. 45) “___________________ ”, travel guidebook publisher Lonely Planet noted.

46)__________________________. Iceland has a higher percentage of writers in its

population than any other country in the world. And it is not surprising that the country publishes more books per person than any other country in the world, reported the NPR radio station. Iceland has been the birthplace of important literary works and authors – from the Vikings’ Iceland sagas to author Halldór Laxness, winner of the 1955 Nobel literature Prize.

“The beast is Iceland, with its harsh nature and its bitter, ever-changing weather. We cannot

escape it,” Haraldur Jonsson, an Icelandic artist, told The Observer newspaper while describing his inspiration. “So we find ways to live with it. We have to have a rich life to fill the empty spaces.”

V. Dictation 50%

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