江苏省无锡市四校高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

Doctors Without Boarders, ________ international organization, received ________ Nobel Prize for Peace in 1999 for its outstanding work .

---When was Tom bitten by a snake?
---It was on a Sunday _______ he was taking a trip to the mountainous area.

--- How do you find this kind of rice?
--- Pretty good, It ______more quickly than that kind.

________ by his teachers made him regain the confidence in himself.

For some students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed
skills,________, can be the difference between having a job and not.

The young man couldn’t afford a new car. _________ , he bought a used one.

Not until_______ home ______he had had his wallet stolen.

Mr Wang’s commitment leaves him held in deep ____ by his students and also wins their  respect.

The committee is discussing the problem right now. It will _____ have been solved by the end of next week.

--- Is this company ______ your elder sister once worked in?
---- Yes, it is.

The analysis shows that plastics, particularly those that __________ fast, are contributing to the climate change.

In taking a space walk, Chinese astronauts are__________ going where Russian andAmericans went decades before.

None of us expected the chairman to ______at the party. We thought he was still in hospital.

Most of the educators are ________ providing more freedom to the teenagers, believing that it may make them more creative and independent.

---You have to believe in yourself. No one else will, if you don’t.
--- _______. Confidence is really important.

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸(卡)上将该项涂黑。
A little boy wanted to meet God. He thought it was a long trip to where God lived,        he packed his suitcase with lots of food and drinks and he started his      .
When he had gone about three blocks, he            an elderly man. The boy sat down next to him and        his suitcase. He was about to take a drink when he noticed that the man looked       , so he offered him a drink.
The man      it and smiled at the boy. His smile was so pleasant that the boy wanted to see it again, so he        him another one.
The man        smiled at him. They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never said a word.
As it grew dark, the boy        it was time to leave, but before he had gone more than a few steps, he    , ran back to the man, and gave him a hug. The man      him his biggest smile ever.
When the boy     home a short time later, his mother was surprised by the look of        on his face. She asked him what made him so happy.
He replied, “I had lunch with God, and God’s got the most beautiful        I’ve ever seen!”
Meanwhile, the elderly man returned to his home. His son was      by the look of joy on his face and asked him the        question as the little boy’s mother. The elderly man replied, “I ate and drank in the park with God.” However, he       , before his son responded, “You know, he’s much          than I expected.”
Too often we underestimate the     of a touch, a smile, a kind word, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. We should treat the people we meet      ; they come into our lives for a reason. Embrace all equally!

A．if B．so C．but D．or

A．work B．study C．journey D．exploration

A．came across B．picked up C．learned from D．took away

A．hid B．opened C．examined D．ignored

A．worried B．anxious C．thirsty D．tired

A．refused B．avoided C．received D．accepted

A．lent B．bought C．made D．offered

A．again B．still C．only D．just

A．imagined B．realized C．announced D．pretended

A．played around B．sat around C．turned around D．got around

A．gave B．promised C．supplied D．begged

A．left B．called C．missed D．returned

A．joy B．confidence C．disappointment D．horror

A．drink B．food C．face D．smile

A．sad B．nervous C．amazed D．excited

A．same B．strange C．unique D．unusual

A．replied B．added C．reminded D．thought

A．braver B．shorter C．younger D．cleverer

A．power B．quality C．favor D．difficulty

A．differently B．proudly C．calmly D．kindly

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，并在答题纸(卡)上将该项涂黑。
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More than four decades ago British scientist Robert Edwards first witnessed the miracle of human life growing inside a test tube at his Cambridge lab. Since that ground-breaking moment, more than four million babies have been born through IVF and in 2010 his great contribution to science was finally recognized as he was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine.
The prize for Dr. Edwards, who was given a Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Award in 2008, includes a £900,000 check. The Nobel Assembly described IVF as a “milestone in modern medicine”.
With the help of fellow scientist Patrick Steptoe, the Manchester-born physiologist developed IVF - leading to the birth of the world’s first test tube baby. Dr. Steptoe died 10 years later but their work has transformed fertility treatment and given hope to millions of couples.
It was a scientific breakthrough that transformed the lives of millions of couples. They said: “His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a disease which makes human unable to have a baby. This condition has been afflicting a large percentage of mankind including more than 10% of all couples worldwide.”
Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby, made international headlines when she was born in Oldham, Gtr Manchester, in 1978 to parents Lesley and John who had been fruitlessly trying for a baby since 1969.
Ivf-in-vitro fertilization is the process whereby egg cells are fertilized outside the body before being implanted in the womb. After a cycle of IVF, the probability of a couple with infertility problems having a baby is one in five—the same as healthy couples who conceive naturally.
Professor Edwards, who has five daughters and 11 grandchildren, began his research at Cambridge University in 1963, after receiving his PhD in 1955. He once said: “The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.” With the help of fellow scientist Patrick Steptoe, Prof. Edwards founded the Bourn Hall clinic in Cambridge shire, which now treats more than 900 women a year. Each year, more than 30,000 women in Britain now undergo IVF and 11,000 babies are born as a result of the treatment.
But his work attracted widespread criticism from some scientists and the Catholic Church who said it was “unethical and immoral”.
Martin Johnson, professor of reproductive sciences at the University of Cambridge, said the award was “long overdue”. He said: “We couldn’t understand why the Nobel has come so late but he is delighted - this is the cherry on the cake for him.”
Professor Edwards was too ill to give interviews but a statement released by his family said he was “thrilled and delighted”.
What is Robert Edwards’ contribution to science?

What does the underlined word “afflicting”(Paragraph 4)most probably refer to?

Why did Professor Edwards begin his research on tube baby?

It can be inferred from Paragraph 8 and Paragraph 9 that ___________.

What might be the best title for the passage?

Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window .I would say to myself, “I wonder why that woman doesn’t wash her window .It really looks terrible.”
One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!
Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing(批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge someone, I asked myself first ,“Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because_____.

The writer was surprised that ________.

“ It dawned on me” probably means “______”.

It’s clear that________.

From the passage, we can learn_________.

When a big exam is coming up, you probably feel anxious about any wasted time and want to begin school as soon as you probably can.
But tens of thousands of British high school students will soon be getting up later. They’re taking part in a new experiment by Oxford University to see if later classes can improve their exam results.
Grades 10 students in the UK have to take the nationwide General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams. They have to pass these exams in order to study more advanced courses, and later apply for universities.
The Oxford University project means that GCSE students from more than 100 schools across England will start school at 10 am, more than one hour later than the current start time (8:50 am).
The project is based on scientific evidence that teenagers are “out of sync(同步)” with traditional school hours, the Telegraph reported. And what they need is more sleep in the morning.
“We know that something funny happens when you’re a teenager, in that you seem to be out of sync with the world,” said professor Colin Epsie, who is leading the study. “Your parents think it’s because you are lazy and opinionated（固执己见的）and everything will be OK if you could get to sleep earlier. But science is telling us that teenagers need to sleep more in the mornings.”
Everyone follows a natural cycle of sleep and wakefulne ss. Biology has decided that teenagers go to sleep around midnight and don’t feel fully awake until 9-10 am, according to scientists. That’s two hours later than adults. And their body clocks stay like this until the age of around 21 for males, and 19 for females.
“Society provides school for learning, but the brain provides sleep. So we are exploring the possibility that if you delay the schools start time until 10 am, that will improve learning performance,” said Epsie.
The results could be positive, based on previous studies.
An early study at the UK’s Monkseaton High School in 2009 found that starting an hour later improved grades in core subjects by 19 percent.
The Oxford project is expecting to publish the results in 2018. It’s time to wait and see whether scientists will give us an excuse to get up late.
According to the article, students who take part in the Oxford University project_______.

The underlined phrase “out of sync”in Paragraph 5 probably means _____________ .

We can infer from the article that _______________ .

What is the author’s attitude toward the Oxford University project ?
A Critical       B. Optimistic        C. Doubtful       D. Uninterested
What’s the best title of the article ?

任务型阅读（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 10 分）
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后第1至第10小题的空格里填上适当的单词。注意：每空1个单词。
The back-to-school season is upon us, and once again, parents across the country have loaded their kids’ backpacks up with snack packs and school supplies. It’s a good moment to reflect on what else we should be giving our kids as they head off to school.
American parents are feeling particularly anxious about that question this year. The educational process feels more than ever like a race, one that starts in pre-school and doesn’t end until your child is admitted to the perfect college. Most parents are more worried than they need to be about their children’s grades, test scores and IQ. And what we don’t think about enough is how to help our children build their character—how to help them develop skills like perseverance, optimism, responsibility, and self-control, which together do more to determine success than S.A.T. scores or I.Q.
There is growing evidence that our anxiety about our children’s school performance may actually be holding them back from learning some of these valuable skills. If you’re concerned only with a child’s G.P.A., then you will likely choose to minimize the challenges the child faces in school. With real challenge comes the risk of real failure. And in a competitive academic environment, the idea of failure can be very scary, to students and parents alike.
But experiencing failure is a critical part of building character. Recent research by a team of psychologists found that adults who had experienced little or no failure growing up were actually less happy and confident than those who had experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood. “Overcoming those obstacles,” the researchers assumed, “could teach effective coping skills, help engage social support networks, create a sense of mastery over past adversity, and foster beliefs in the ability to cope successfully in the future.”
By contrast, when we protect our children from every possible failure—when we call their teachers to get an extension on a paper; when we urge them to choose only those subjects they’re good at—we are denying them those same character-building experiences. As the psychologists Madeline Levine and Dan Kindlon have written, that can lead to difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood, when overprotected young people finally confront real problems on their own and don’t know how to overcome them.
In the classroom and outside of it, American parents need to encourage children to take chances, to challenge themselves, to risk failure. In the meantime, giving our kids room to fail may be one of the best ways we can help them succeed.

Back to School: Why Perseverance Is More Important than Good Grades?
Common phenomena	☺Parents throughout America _______ their kids’ backpacks up with snacks and school supplies.
☺Many American parents don’t _______ enough importance to their kids’ character building.
The writer’s __________	Parents should pay more attention to their kids’ character building.
Evidence and ______  findings	☺Parents’ anxiety about their kids’ performance may          them from learning some valuable skills.
☺Parents concerned only with a kid’s G.P.A. have a         to minimize the challenges the child faces.
☺Adults who have experienced a few significant setbacks in childhood are         and more confident than those who haven’t.
☺Denying kids character-building experiences can       in difficulties in adolescence and young adulthood.
The writer’s suggestions	☺ _________  kids to be risk-takers.
☺Give kids room to experience ___________..

单词拼写（满分5分，每小题0.5分））
Dad s ________ not to smoke again, but mum didn’t believe his promise.
I feel really g__________ at forgetting her birthday again.
He respects those who are in d___________ with him.
He made funny faces to a_______ the children.
Industrialization(工业化) t_______________ the world.
He exchanged a few words with the professor, an old ____________(熟人) of his.
She is a ___________(顾问) to the government.
He began the project by __________(非法地) using the university computer system..
Martha would ____________(消耗) nearly a pound of cheese every day.
Police have stressed that this is the most _________(精确的) description of the killer.

动词填空（满分10分，每小题1分）
Harrison Ford is thought to be one of the few movie stars __________(work) as a carpenter before.
Tom took a taxi to the airport , only _____________ (find) his plane high up in the sky.
_________________ (realize) that he was in great danger, Eric walked deeper into the forest.
With the incomes _______________(rise) continuously , some people now can afford expensive clothing of the fastest fashion.
If I’ve got nothing to share, I may leave my micro-blog __________ (untouch) for weeks.
His brother , who____ (serve) in the army for five years，is now running a farm in our village.
Sam is going to talk about the history of his country, but I’d rather he ______ (focus)more on its culture.
It is required in the library regulations that any book borrowed __________ (return) by due time, or the borrower will be fined．
People who are thinking about _________(adopt) a dog as their pets are worried that they will fight.
The woman is always looking forward to ________ (live) a rich life.

句型转换与翻译句子（满分15分，每小题0.5分）
You should have the courage to admit your mistakes.
You should have the courage to admit that ________ _________ _________.
Despite many invitations, he would always decline to visit Oxford.
________ ________ _________ many invitations, he would always decline to visit Oxford.
If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed it.
________I _________ _________ it with my own eyes, I would not have believed it.
The newly broadened square is four times as big as that one.
The newly broadened square is four times _______ _______ _______ that one.
He preferred reading to traveling when he was at high school.
He preferred _________ __________ __________ ________ travel when he was at high school.
我成功说服他不去看比赛。
I have managed to _________ him __________ __________ going to the match.
纵火烧房一事应由谁来负责？
Who  __________ ___________ ___________ for setting the house on fire.
你学习越努力，取得的进步就会越大。
The _________ you study, the greater __________ you will __________.
皮鞋的价格从100美元到250元不等。
The prices of leather shoes __________ __________ 100 dollars _________ 250 dollars.
如此专注地注视着那辆车从他身边开过，他没有注意到朋友们来了。
She was so ________ _______ watching the car passing by, she didn’t notice his friends coming.

书面表达（满分25分）
The summer holiday had come to an end before I knew it. Like any other kid, I came to a new school with a suitcase. There were six of us living in a small room about fifteen square meters. Luckily, everything went on well in the first three weeks.
A week ago, one of my roommates brought in a very large suitcase and placed it under her bed, but days later, she found something wrong with her suitcase. As we live on the ground floor, her case soon got wet. She took it out and after drying it up, she just put it on her desk because she had no other choices. I happened to be opposite her desk and her suitcase was so large that it not only occupied the whole of her desk but half of mine as well. I was very much annoyed, so I angrily pushed it forward without first talking to her about it. I pushed a bit too hard and the case fell off her desk, messing up everything it contained. On seeing this, she flew into a temper and angrily shouted at me. The quarrel started and lasted about two hours.
When I calmed down days later, I thought over the quarrel and began to see something. I should have talked to her about it first and then worked with her to find a solution to the problem. Living in a room with limited space, we should learn to get on well with one another.
【写作内容】
1．以30个词概括上文的主要内容。
2．用大约120词对“处理同学之间的矛盾”这个话题发表看法，内容包括：
1) 你喜欢寄宿学校吗？为什么？
2) 同一宿舍的同学之间常常会出现哪些问题？
3) 举例说明你或你的室友在矛盾出现后是怎么解决的。
【写作要求】
1．在作文中可以使用白己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。