湖南省炎德英才杯学年高一英语下学期基础学科知识竞赛试题Word文件下载.docx

1、For students who do well academically or artistically, there are organizations like the National Honor Society, National Science Honor Society and National Art Honor Society that reward students whose achievements are superior. Students who desire to be a part of high school honor societies are requ

2、ired to have grade point averages of at least 3.0, on a 4.0 scale, and may have to get nominated（提名）by teachers or request recommendation letters. While these organizations focus on scholarship, they also teach members leadership skills and encourage community service.Sports and Athletics ClubsWheth

3、er formally joining a sports team or simply participating in school activities, high schools offer students a wide range of sports and athletics clubs. Helping students stay active and healthy, these clubs teach students the importance of teamwork, patience and practice.Community Service Organizatio

4、nsOrganizations like the Key Club International and Habitat for Humanity help students give back to their communities by participating in structured service learning activities. From cleaning a local park to distributing（分配）Thanksgiving baskets to the homeless, these organizations teach children the

5、 importance of reaching out a helping hand to those in need.Career Development ClubsDetermining the right career path comes from exploring different options to learn what each career requires and how it fits your interests. High schools develop clubs and organizations dedicated to students who want

6、to own businesses, become teachers, doctors, lawyers and actors, among many other careers. Students participating in these clubs are active in the community and often compete against students on local, regional and sometimes national levels. Clubs like DECA（an association of marketing students） and

7、FBLA（Future Business Leaders of America） have students compete against one another to test their business skills. Other career-oriented clubs include organizations for future teachers, debate and photography enthusiasts.1. Which of the following has a requirement for student achievements?A. Career D

8、evelopment Clubs. B. Honor Societies.C. Community Service Organizations. D. Sports and Athletics Clubs.2. What do Sports and Athletics Clubs and Community Service Organizations have in common?A. They both need students to work together.B. They both teach students practical skills.C. They both provid

9、e moral education for students.D. They both build students confidence.3. What is the purpose of Career Development Clubs?A. To help students with career planning. B. To train people for all walks of life.C. To lead students to find their hobbies. D. To improve students awareness of competition.BNatu

10、re never stops being amazing, says Rosemary Mosco, master of humorous nature art. Her new book, Birding Is MyFavorite Video Game, combines fascinating facts with charming pictures, and its guaranteed to make you laugh. In fact, the learning and laughing are both equally important to Rosemary.Theres

11、so much to love about birds, notes Rosemary. I admire that theyre real-life, modern dinosaurs! As an artist, Im captivated by their color variations. Once you get into birds, the interest snowballs. You can find them almost everywhere. You start to notice subtle behaviors and wing patterns. Youre ne

12、ver bored again. Teaching a kid to watch birds is a huge gift.Birds make regular appearances in Rosemarys nature art comics（连环漫画）. She created charts（图表）explaining the songs and calls of common eastern and western birds. One of her most popular pieces is a flow chart helping you to decide whether or

13、 not to help a baby bird fallen from a nest. And her own personal favorite cartoon is about tiny owls, meant to be both motivational and mildly disturbing. Rosemary explains: One reader asked me if we had any evidence that these owls can kill and eat a moose（驼鹿）. My response was, not yetRosemary lov

14、es other animals, and is especially proud of a poster she drew showing every snake in the US and Canada. She also has a real soft spot for butterflies. Their behaviors can be surprisingly complex, she points out. They defend habitats with dogfights. They have complex relationships with poisonous pla

15、nts. Some of them cat waste and drink tears. Oh, and it helps that they pose nicely for photos.Mostly self-taught, Rosemary has taken a few art courses, even studying video game art for a bit. During her career, shes created many educational charts, and has been working on some childrens science boo

16、ks. She also has an upcoming comics novel about the solar system.Im excited to share more stories about the natural world. Rosemary says about the future of her nature art comics. Humor gives science wings!4. What is the main feature of Rosemarys comics?A. A novel of ecology and cartoons.B. A combin

17、ation of nature art and science.C. A mixture of entertainment and education.D. A book of interesting facts and behavior charts.5. What does the underlined word captivated mean in Paragraph 2?A. Puzzled. B. Attracted. C. Shocked. D. Encouraged.6. The purpose of writing Paragraph 4 is to .A. share the

18、 content of Rosemarys comicsB. explain the popularity of Rosemarys artC. prove the hardship of Rosemarys creationD. disclose the source of Rosemarys inspiration7. What is Rosemary most likely to do next?A. Take some art courses. B. Write a new birding book.C. Draw the sun humorously. D. Observe moos

19、es behavior.CSign language, the primary form of communication of the deaf community, has been in use for hundreds of years. Youre probably most familiar with American Sign Language, but sign language is used all over the world and has nearly 150 variations. Sign language interpreters can be seen eve

20、rywhere from classrooms and graduation ceremonies to major sporting events.When you think of sign language, you most likely imagine signers using their hands to form words and letters. However, hands arc only one of the many different body language techniques that signers use to get their meaning ac

21、ross. In fact, much of the grammatical structure of sign language is not indicated by the signers hands.While the hands are responsible for forming the words themselves, markers called non-manual elements control much of the languages grammatical structure. Non-manual elements （or markers） arc body

22、language techniques that dont use the hands. These include head movements, body positioning and facial expressions. Used together with the signs. these elements give sign language a subtle（微妙的）and extremely complicated grammatical structure. Linguist Andrea Lackner from Alpcn-Adria University in Aus

23、tria did a study that shows just how important these non-manual elements arc to sign language users.The study assessed just how many different things non-manual elements can do. For this study, all participants were deaf users of Austrian Sign Language. They watched a video of someone using sign lan

24、guage, and they had to describe the purpose of each non-manual element. The results were very complicated. For instance, things as subtle as the direction of the signers gaze can indicate whether or not a statement is hypothetical（假设的）. A single head movement can indicate the emotion of a statement,

25、 a conditional or if situation, or a signers feelings toward a hypothetical question. Body language is always important, but in sign language, it can change the entire meaning of a sentence!8. What do signers use their hands to do mostly?A. To know peoples words and letters. B. To understand peoples

26、 meanings.C. To form the grammatical structure. D. To form words and letters.9. What do non-manual elements include?A. Words, sign language and body language.B. Head movements, body language and signs.C. Head movements, body positioning and facial expressions.D. Body positioning, facial expressions

27、and signs.10. What does the study show about sign language?A. The main function of the non-manual elements.B. The importance of the non-manual elements.C. The influence of body language on sign language.D. The influence of sign language on body language.11. What may be the best title for the text?A.

28、 Non-manual Elements Counts in Sign Language B. Ways to Avoid Being MisunderstoodC. Grammatical Elements in Sign Language D. The Importance of Sign LanguageDNobel prize-winners, legendary（传奇的）authors, and famous scientists-you might think all these people were born to be creative. However, thats not

29、 always the case.While well-known figures like Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein did their most significant work in their youth, famous American poet Robert Frost and English-born natural scientist Charles Darwin were known as late bloomers-people whose talents were not noticeable until later in lif

30、e.This idea of peaking at different times inspired new research from the United States. Many people believe that creativity is exclusively（独有地）associated with youth, but it really depends on what kind of creativity youre talking about, said Bruce Weinberg, a professor of economics at the University

31、of Chicago and co-author of the study.According to the study, published earlier this month in the journal De Economist, there are two types of people: conceptual（概念的）and experimental thinkers.To reach this conclusion, researchers took the 31 previous winners of the Nobel Prize in economics and arranged them according to when they did their most significant work, to identify their crea