上海市奉贤区学年高二下学期期末调研测试英语精校Word版.docx

1、上海市奉贤区学年高二下学期期末调研测试英语精校Word版上海市奉贤区2017-2018学年下学期期末调研测试高二英语试卷Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections:After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given wor

2、d; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Bill Gates doesnt pretend he lives in an egalitarian（平等主义的） household. When it comes to 1 （raise）his three children, the billionaire readily admits his wife Melinda 2 (do)more than her share of the work raising the kids.My wife does 80%

3、, Gates told a crowd of Harvard students last Thursday.Gates said he and his wife have been quite careful about the model theyve used to bring up their three children, 3 are now 15, 18, and 22 years old.He says the couple followed a 1970s Love and Logic parenting model. The core idea of their philos

4、ophy is centered on the idea that exerting emotional control, essentially minimizing emotional reactions 4 shouting or scolding kids.In addition to controlling hot-blooded parent tempers, the love and logic model also stresses the importance of not depending on rewards for kids, but instead demonstr

5、ating unconditional love and admiring kids for who they are, not 5 they do (or dont) achieve, like a poor test score or a bad grade.The model is a bit like the Socratic method, 6 it pushes parents to focus on asking questions of their kids and getting them 7 (think)about how to solve their own probl

6、ems, instead of feeding them answers.Gates says the Love and Logic method 8 (turn) out to be quite different from the way he grew up, but he knew he wanted to do things differently with his own kids. It wasnt the only way he set boundaries for his children while they were growing up. None of his kid

7、s owned a cell phone 9 they were 14 years old. We want to strike a balance where they have the freedom to do anything, but not a lot of money 10 (shower)on them so they could go out and do nothing, Gates once told TED.Section BDirections:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box.

8、Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. bursts B. appropriate C. beneficial D. necessarily E. apply F. denselyG. initial H. publicly I. publicationsJ. references K. require Reading as part of writingOne of the techniques of writing successfully in an acade

9、mic environment is to be able to combine the important points of what you have read with your writing. To do this, you must have a clear picture of what you have read, and this in itself will_1_active and focused reading.With academic reading, it is necessary to focus constantly on what the author i

10、s saying. Yet many academic texts are _2_written in unfamiliar ways,which make them much more difficult to manage than, for example, a novel or a magazine article.Although sometimes there may be reasons why you need to skim-read an article or book, this is likely to be only to get the general idea o

11、f what is being said, as a way of deciding whether it is_3_reading material or not. In general, skim reading is not a particular useful strategy for a student, but you may 4 it in other contexts, for example, skimming through a newspaper article or surfing the web. Instead of skim-reading, you will

12、be developing ways of concentrating on quite dense texts and making sense of them.Even though you may only be reading for short 5 of time, it is likely that you will have to concentrate for more intensely on academic reading material than, for example, when reading for pleasure. You dont 6 have to w

13、ork in the library, but you will need to decide what type of location and atmosphere suits you best, and establish conditions that are 7 to effective study.The 8 difficulty that most students face is choosing their reading. The first thing to do is to consult the reading list you have been given for

14、 books and articles that seem relevant to your particular assignment. Doing a library search, by key words or subject, is also useful if the 9 on your reading list are already on loan from the library. Your tutor should also be able to advise you as to which are the most relevant 10 or websites.Read

15、ing ComprehensionSection A Directions:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B，C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Different people may find that different learning methods work best for them. While some would 1 tut

16、oring in order to get better grades, others choose to join study groups. 2 , many universities encourage their students to form study groups and make good use of them.Two heads are better than one. Thats the simple idea behind study groups. By participating in a study group, students can benefit fro

17、m some of their best 3 resources: other students. They get to pick each other s 4 and improve their own understanding of different problems.Usually,study groups can create the slightly 5 atmosphere in which its good to study. For example, some students tend to procrastinate （拖延） when they are studyi

18、ng by themselves. However, by joining a study group, they get to observe their peers who are working 6 and are likely to thus have motivation for working harder.Study groups work 7 when they are small, but not too small-four to five participants is about right. And its 8 to make sure everyone has th

19、e same goal, to prepare for a particular test, to discuss class readings or to review the weeks lecture notes. 9 , socializing in the group would make studying more fun as long as it took up only a small portion of group study time.In addition, to optimize(优化) 10 , some study groups like to assign m

20、embers certain roles. Besides an organizer, who gets group members to agree to a(n) 11 purpose and a convenient time and place, there often is a group member playing the role of a source-seeker, whose duty is to remind group members to 12 their sources. For instance, when a group member saysI read s

21、omewhere that, the source-seeker should ask for 13 . This person reminds the group that its 14 to know who said what and where it was said. And a gatekeeper, who tries to 15 that all group members are participating, may ask a direct question to help a shy person participate, or find a way to get a d

22、ominating member to listen.1. A. turn to B. ask for C. ask about D. lead to2. A. In theory B. Without doubt C. After all D. In fact3. A. cultural B. academic C. social D. economic4. A. spirits B. brains C. intelligence D. resources5. A. lively B. alert C. tense D. orderly6. A. diligently B. creative

23、ly C. deliberately D. continuously7. A. hardest B. fastest C. best D. most8. A. necessary B. basic C. simple D. urgent9. A. Besides B. However C. Therefore D. Nevertheless10. A. influence B. program C. design D. efficiency11. A. personal B. common C. separate D. achievable12. A. admit B. identify C.

24、 classify D. guarantee13. A. qualities B. features C. specifics D. specialties14. A. evident B. natural C. feasible D. important15. A. promise B. ensure C. recognize D. remindSection B Directions:Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statement

25、s. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. ,（A）For the past few years, an email gets circulated prior to the beginning of a month that has 31 days and begins on a Friday. It usua

26、lly says something like,August 2014 has five Fridays, five Saturdays and five Sundays, and this will not occur again for 823years.Because I love math so much and know many people in the mathematical field, I get this email forward to me all the time with comments like,Isnt this cool,Mike? Even thoug

27、h the facts are totally false(it will happen again in 2025 and then again in 2031), this email continues to be passed around. It is human nature to believe everything you read without thinking if it is logical.When you were a kid, you might have been told not to cross your eyes because they will sta

28、y crossed, or not to go outside with your hair wet or you will catch pneumonia(肺炎). Those were common misconceptions when I was growing up. I thought they were true until I heard otherwise. But sometimes, as a kid, you may try to explain something to yourself, start believing it is true, and find ou

29、t many years later that it is totally false.For example, when I was in my 20s, my friend and I decided to take a trip to Las Vegas. After landing, we were waiting at the baggage claim, wondering what was taking so long for the bags to arrive. I turned to one of my friends and said,My friend looked a

30、t me in disbelief and told everyone else that I did not know that the luggage flew on the same plane as the passengers. Even though nobody ever told me otherwise, I probably told myself that and always believed it until I learned that it was wrong. My niece is an absolute genius. She graduated from

31、a distinguished university with full academic scholarship. Recently, she was driving with her mother. On the highway, she saw a car connected to a trailer(拖车) riding next to her. She quickly shouted out,Mom, nobody is driving the trailer! Brilliant as she is, she always thought the trailer pushed the car, not the car pulled the trailer.1. Why does the author put the story about the forwarded email at the beginning of the passage?A. To show us he is an expert in the mathematical field.B. To prove that people like to communicate with emails.C. To ex