高二英语下学期周练试题4_9

为深入贯彻落实党的十九大精神和习近平总书记的重要指示精神，保障人民安居乐业、社会安定有序、国家长治久安、进一步巩固党的执政基础，束城镇深入贯彻全市扫黑除恶会议精神，强化措施，深入扎实开展扫黑除恶专项斗争河北省定州市2016-2017学年高二英语下学期周练试题（4.9）一、阅读理解For many people, being on the job might just sound like a picnic compared to a day at home filled with housework, meals and childcare. Even for those with a happy family life, home can sometimes feel more taxing than work.In a new study, researchers at Penn State University found significantly and consistently lower levels of cortisol(皮质醇) released in response to stress, in a majority of subjects when they were at work compared to when they were at home. This was true for both men and women, and parents and people without children.Both men and women showed less stress at work. But women were more likely to report feeling happier there. Men were more likely to feel happier at home. Experts say there are other reasons why work is less stressful than home for many. “Paid work is more valued in society,” says Sarah Damaske, the lead researcher on the study. “Household work is boring and not particularly rewarding.”We get better at our job with time and the increased competence means less stress and more rewards. Yet none of us, no matter how long weve been doing it, ever truly feels like an expert at parenting or even at marriage.The support and friendship of co-workers also offer stress relief. At home, meanwhile, stress spreads and accumulates quickly. “Thats the reason why most housewives wish they were the bread earners,” Dr. Damaske says.Much of the advice to families and couples include the warning to “leave work stress at the office” and even to change our mind-set from work to home, for example, a walk around the block. The recent findings, though, suggest our home life, not our attitude, might be due for some change.1Which of the following can replace the underlined word “taxing”?A. stressful. B. cheerful. C. worthwhile. D. rewarding.2What did the research in the second paragraph prove?A. Men felt better at home.B. Women felt they had less time.C. Women were easier to feel happier.D. Most people felt more stress at home.3What do most people think of work at office?A. It is competitive. B. It improves ability.C. It cant relieve stress. D. It doesnt always pay off.4According to the recent findings, what should we change to solve the problem mentioned?A. Our attitude. B. Our mind-set.C. Our home life. D. Our working style.Its an ordinary morning，like all the othersBut instead of being woken up by the buzzing of an alarm clock, youll be roused by the smell of freshly made coffee，light entering your room as the curtains open automatically，and a gentle back massage（按摩）provided by your high-tech bed.This is what a typical(典型的) persons life will be like two decades from now，according to The Guardian. Want to know more?After you get up, your apartment will be like an electronic orchestra with you as the conductor. With simple moves of your hand and spoken instructions, youll be able to control your apartments temperature, humidity, music and lighting. Youll be able to look through the days news on translucent screens while your breakfast waits for you in the automatic oven.As you move into your kitchen, you might accidentally hit your toe on a cupboard. If you do, youll grab your cell phone and open the diagnostics(诊断) app. Inside your phone there will be a tiny microchip(芯片) that uses X-ray waves to scan your body. The scan will tell whether your toe is bruised or broken.After breakfast, your driverless car will take you to work. While you “drive”, your central computer system will suggest a list of chores(家务事) that your housekeeping robots can do that day and it will also remind you to buy a gift for your mothers upcoming birthday.As you can see, with the help of advanced technology, our lives will be more efficient(有效率的). Technology will mitigate our forgetfulness and free us of many small burdens that distract us, such as buying a ticket. Our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like preparing for a presentation or doing “deep thinking”.However, the development of technology might have some disadvantages as well. By 2036, well be relying heavily on the virtual(虚拟的) world, which will mean that all of our data will be stored in the cloud, a remote digital storage system with near limitless capacity(容量). That will increase the possibility of someone else accessing, sharing or manipulating(操控) our personal information.5What might be the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To stress the importance of developing technology.B. To remind people not to depend too much on computersC. To introduce one new invention that will benefit our future lives.D. To describe how advanced technologies will affect our future lives.6According to the text, in two decades, _.A. youll be able to rely on an electronic orchestra to wake you up instead of an alarm clockB. a tiny microchip in your phone will treat you when you are sickC. you will be able to adjust the conditions of your apartment via oral instructions or simple hand gesturesD. technology will be smart enough to help us with important things like preparing for a presentation7What does the underlined word “mitigate” in Paragraph 6 mean?A. Make up for. B. Worsen. C. Cure. D. Take advantage of.When we know somewhere well，we say we “know it like the back of our hand”. But new research has shown that we dont actually know as much about our hands as we think we do.Wider and shorterProfessor Matthew Longo at the University of London and his team did an experiment, covering the left hands of 100 people. Then they asked the people to point to where they thought their fingertips and knuckles (指关节) were. They made some quite big mistakes.“People think their hand is wider than it actually is,” said Longo. The fingers also seem shorter than they are. This mistake gets worse as you go across the hand from the thumb to the little finger.Sense of position“It is connected to our sense of position,” explained Longo. This is our ability to tell where different parts of our bodies are, even when we cant see them. “It tells us whether a joint is straight, or not” he said. It also tells us whether we are going up or down in an elevator. All this information comes from signs from nerves in real time. Its like our brain has maps maps that show the size and shape of our body. “This experiment tried to find those maps,” said Longo.Strength(强度) of feelingBut these maps make mistakes. These mistakes may be made because of how the brain understands different parts of the skin. “Our brains see areas as larger where the skin feels touch strongly,” said Longo. Body parts dont appear as their true size, but appear bigger or smaller depending on how strongly they feel touch. Our lips, for example, have more nerves than our nose. So brain “sees” lips on its map of the body as being bigger than our nose. The same thing happens for other parts of the body that have lots of nerves.Longo believes that more research in this area may help us to understand eating problem better, because people suffering from these problems may not know their bodies properly.8Which of following statement is TRUE about the experiment according to the article?A. People think their body parts are larger than they actually are.B. People made more mistakes about their little fingers length than their thumbs length.C. Peoples fingers are actually shorter than they think.D. People were asked to draw their hands from memory9What does the underlined “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to?A. The new experiment. B. The location information.C. The mistake people made. D. The sizes of fingers and hands.10We can learn from the article that _.A. the maps of peoples bodies form before they are bornB. the maps of our body are based on information from nervesC. our sense of position tells how different parts of the body workD. how we feel about our body shape is only decided by our sense of position11We can infer from the article that _.A. the hand feels touch more strongly than fingers doB. our lips have a weaker sense of touch than our noseC. there are more nerves in the finger than in the handD. our sense of position should not be trusted because it is too often incorrect二、完形填空When my sister Diane began playing the violin, she was seven. How did she sound? Terrible. But she didnt_. At twelve, she asked our parents if she could_a full-time music school. They said no. Actually, everyone agreed that my sister_talent.I was better at my _. My teacher had told my parents that I had great _. So my parents found the best piano teacher in the area to _me. But the only time he was _was Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m. Back then, I was _about the British TV show “The Avengers”, which was_every Saturday at 3 p.m. I let nothing take up my “Avengers” hour. So I _this amazing opportunity. Today, I dont even have a _ in my house.My sister became an engineer, but she_stopped making music. When she was in her 40s, she switched _. She went back to college, got a(n)_in music education, and became a music teacher. She starts kids out on their first instrument and gives them all the encouragement and support she never_.Recently, she and a pianist pal put on a recital. A big crowd of friends and family _for her. As she played, I looked around at the _. Everyone was _enjoying the music. It occurred to me that I was the only person who remembered that 7 -year-old kid making those perfectly _sounds and knew how far she had come, despite _. Talent is important. But enthusiasm is even more important.12A. advance B. quit C. reflect D. listen13A. inspect B. open C. attend D. visit14A. lacked B. spotted C. possessed D. admired15A. major B. project C. composition D. instrument16A. patience B. enthusiasm C. potential D. ambition17A. train B. examine C. correct D. challenge18A. punctual B. skillful C. occupied D. available19A. sensitive B. crazy C. serious D. particular20A. filmed B. designed C. aired D. commented21A. jumped at B. turned down C. waited for D. opened up22A. tutor B. violin C. musician D. piano23A. never B. once C. already D. even24A. attitudes B. careers C. plans D. positions25A. scholarship B. sponsor C. degree D. assistant26A. provided B. imagine C. received D. expected27A. voted B. feared C. stayed up D. turned up28A. students B. audience C. spotlights D. platform29A. obviously B. desperately C. appropriately D. anxiously30A. booming B. pleasing C. awful D. powerful31A. everything B. something C. everybody D. somebody三、七选五Make the right choicesWhat is lifes gift? 32 Choice is the ability to select one course of action from a set of alternatives to achieve a goal. What is so great about choice? It transforms us from dumb animals into artists. Each of us becomes another Michelangelo. Choice becomes nothing other than the tool we use to sculpt (雕刻）our life. The tool doesnt come free, however, for the price of choice is responsibility. 33 The reward is happiness.Life is not still. It is a flow. 34 We constantly need to monitor where we are on our journey. We need to ask questions: Am I moving closer to my goals? If not, what corrective measures can I take? What action will I take now to readjust myself to my goals? Choice is power. Choice is at the heart of life. It is the creative power of life.35 And your life becomes more convenient or comfortable because of them. For example, you decide which stores to shop at and which gas station to go to. But the decisions that we make to sculpt our lives are far more important than deciding where to shop. The more we appreciate the difference between minor and major decisions, the greater the probability that we will experience happiness and fulfillment.All chess lovers realize that it isnt necessary to win to enjoy the game. The pleasure is in the playing. Life is like a chess game. 36A.But when we accept and carry it out, we get a great return.B.Make the best moves you can under the circumstances.C.Life is full of hard choices, and the bigger they are, the harder they get.D.Every choice we make leads us closer to or farther from our goals.E.Choose to carry out responsibilities not because you have to, but because you want to.F.You have to make choices every day.G.It is free will or choice.四、短文改错37假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改短文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。I still remember the first day I come to this new school. Everything was new to me, what made me realize I was no longer a small child. I had to depend on me. Luckily, I made several good friend. Their interests were similar with mine. I had great English teacher, Maggie. She let me know the important of English. So I decided to learn English hardly. Although it was very difficult at first, but with the help of my teacher, I made rapidly progress. Just as the old saying goes, “Where there is a will, there is a way.”五、书面表达38假如你是李华，你校国际部即将举行一次主题为“我爱中国古典诗词”的读书活动。你将代表全体学生，在启动仪式上发言。请你根据以下提示，用英文写一篇发言稿。内容包括：1.说明活动的目的；2.从中国古典诗词的特点的角度，陈述热爱它的理由；3.对学习中国古典诗词的认识。注意：1.词数100词左右；2.开头已写好，不计入总词数；3.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。参考词汇：古典诗词 classical poetry; 押韵 rhyme Good morning, everyone! Welcome to our Reading Activity. _为充分发动群众积极参与到扫黑除恶工作中来，束城镇通过由包片班子成员、包村干部、村书记召开各村群众大会广泛宣传动员、公布全镇扫黑除恶举报电话、邮箱和纪委举报等方式，增强人民群众通黑恶势力做斗争的决心，在全镇范围内营造了全民扫黑除恶的浓厚氛围参考答案1A2D3B4C【解析】本文主要讲述一个事实：不管是丈夫还是妻子，不管有没有孩子，他们都认为在家时比上班更有压力，且他们都更愿意上班，尤其是女性。11题： 词义猜测题。根据第一段中being on the job might just sound like a picnic compared to a day at home filled with housework, meals and childcare.可知，与在家做家务带孩子相比，上班简直像野炊一样，因此在家里比上班更加有压力，故选A。22题： 推理判断题。根据第二段的描述可知，不管是男性还是女性，有孩子还是没孩子的，都觉得在家压力更大，故选D。33题： 推理判断题。根据倒数第三段We get better at our job with time and the increased competence means less stress and more rewards.可知，上班能提高自己的能力，故选B。44题： 细节理解题。根据最后一段The recent findings, though, suggest our home life, not our attitude, might be due for some change.可知，需要改变的是家庭生活，故选C。【名师点睛】推理判断题要求在理解原文表面文字信息的基础上，做出一定的推理判断，从而得到文章的隐含意义和深层意义。推理判断题所涉及的内容可能是文中的某一句话，也可能是某几句话，所以，推理题的答案只能是根据原文表面文字信息进一步推出的答案：即对原文某一句话或某几句话所作的同义改写或综合。推理判断题的题干中通常含有infer，suggest，imply，conclude， indicate等标志性词语。这种题型主要包括细节判断题、态度观点推断题、写作意图推断题、文章出处判断题和猜测想象推断题。比如第二题，问题中虽没有infer之类的表推理的关键词，但是题干意思表明是一个推理题，题干问第二段的研究证明了什么，很明显需要了解第二段讲了什么方可得出想要的答案。第二段讲述了在这项研究中，无论是男人还是女人，父母还是没有孩子的人，他们在工作中应付压力释放出的皮质醇水平都低于在家里应付压力释放出的皮质醇水平，而且这具有显著性和持续性。也就是说在家里压力会更大，所以才会释放出较多的皮质醇。因此答案就非常明显了。此题需要具备很好的理解原文文字信息的能力，并在此基础上做出合理的推断。5D6C7A【解析】本文是一篇未来幻想文，介绍20年后我们的生活完全智能化，会给我们的生活带来很多便利，当然也会有缺点，比如严重依赖虚拟世界、信息泄露等。51题： 主旨大意题。本文主要是介绍20年后随着科技发展，我们的生活会更智能化，生活更舒适，故选D。62题： 细节理解题。根据第二段的描述With simple moves of your hand and spoken instructions, youll be able to control your apartments temperature, humidity, music and lighting.可知，只需要口头指令或者简单的手势就可以轻松调整你房子的温度湿度等等情况。故选C。73题： 词义猜测题。根据后一句Our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like可知，大脑将来只需要记住重要的事情就可以了，也就是科技会减轻人的健忘带来的负面影响，将人们从小事中解放出来。A项make up for“弥补，补偿”，代入句中意思吻合，故选A。【名师点睛】词义猜测题。阅读材料中的每个词与它前后的词语或句子甚至段落都有联系。我们可以利用语境（各种已知信息）推测、判断某些生词的词义。做这种类型的题，要根据词、词组、句子所在的语境来判断其意义。我们要特别注意熟词生义，切不可脱离语境想当然。在句子或段落中，我们可以利用熟悉的词语，根据语言环境所表示的关系推断生词词义。比如第三题，要猜出单词“mitigate”的意思就需要结合前后句的意思，语境非常重要，可根据后一句Our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like可知，大脑将来只需要记住重要的事情就可以了，也就是科技会减轻人的健忘带来的负面影响，将人们从小事中解放出来。A项make up for“弥补，补偿”，代入句中意思吻合。8B9C10B11A【解析】本文通过实验研究发现，人们并不了解自己的手，大脑所感受到的事物往往与身体部位神经的多少有关，因而会有一些错觉。81题： 推理判断题。根据第三段People think their hand is wider than it actually is,” said Longo. The fingers also seem shorter than they are. This mistake gets worse as you go across the hand from the thumb to the little finger. 可知，从大拇指数到小拇指，人们对于小拇指的长度估计错误远远大于第一个大拇指的长度估计，故选B。92题： 词义猜测题。此处代词it具有承上启下的作用，指代的是上文中出现的人们所犯的错误，故答案为C。103题： 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段的描述Our lips, for example, have more nerves than our nose. So brain “sees” lips on its map of the body as being bigger than our nose. The same thing happens for other parts of the body that have lots of nerves.可知，我们的位置观念告诉身体的不同部位如何工作，比如，我们嘴唇上的神经比鼻子里的多，所以大脑就觉得嘴唇要比鼻子大得多，同样的事情也发生在有大量神经的身体其他部位上。故选B。114题： 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段“Our brains see” areas as larger where the skin feels touch strongly,”可知，皮肤触感强烈的地方大脑看到就大，而手的神经要远远多于手指，故答案为A。【名师点睛】推理判断题要求在理解原文表面文字信息的基础上，做出一定的推理判断，从而得到文章的隐含意义和深层意义。推理判断题所涉及的内容可能是文中的某一句话，也可能是某几句话，所以，推理题的答案只能是根据原文表面文字信息进一步推出的答案：即对原文某一句话或某几句话所作的同义改写或综合。推理判断题的题干中通常含有infer, suggest, imply, conclude, indicate等标志性词语。这种题型主要包括细节判断题、态度观点推断题、写作意图推断题、文章出处判断题和猜测想象推断题。比如本文第3题、第4题的题干3. We can learn from the article that_.4. We can infer from the article that .这都属于推理判断题。那么对于第三题，首先要找到文章中的信息句：根据倒数第二段的描述，Our lips, for example, have more nerves than our nose. So brain “sees” lips on its map of the body as being bigger than our nose. The same thing happens for other parts of the body that have lots of nerves.可知，我们嘴唇上的神经比鼻子里的多，所以大脑就觉得嘴唇要比鼻子大得多，同样的事情也发生在有大量神经的身体其他部位上。也就是我们关于身体器官的位置观念告诉了我们身体的不同器官是如何工作的，神经多的器官在大脑的印象中就比较大，故选B。12B13C14A15D16C17A18D19B20C21B22D23A24B25C26C27D28B29A30C31A【解析】本文是一篇记叙文。讲述了姐姐通过努力取得成功的事，