江阴市2014-2015学年高二上学期暑期网络课程检测(开学检测)英语试题.doc

一、单项填空（共15小题，每题1分，满分15分）1. Jim managed to get into his house without the key. _? I dont know. He might have asked someone for help.A. What for B. Who knows C. So What D. Guess how2. Alice Munro, the 82-year-old female writer, is the 13th woman _the Nobel Prize for Literature since its start in 1901.A. won B. winning C. to winning D. to win5. As is often the case in nature, some plants are so _ to temperature that they can only survive in cool places. A. addicted B. cautious C. sensitive D. available6. You may depend on _ that they will look after your daughter when you are away.A. them B. it C. this D. that7. Our school appeals to the students to _ at least an hour every day to take exercise to raise learning efficiency.A. pick out B. take up C. keep back D. set aside8. High school girls in the country _ to wear long hair at that time, which you may think quite strange.A. were forbidden B. have been forbidden C. forbade D. had forbidden9. Whatever background you come from, you can be _ successful with your hard work like many others.A. mostly B. merely C.equally D. hardly10. For us Senior Three students, 2014 is a special year, one _ we are trying to be admitted to a desired universityAwhat Bwhich Cwhere Dwhen11. Owing to her balanced diet and regular exercise, she is very slim and athletic _. A. in heightB. in detail C. in shape D. in sight12. He admitted not until he lost most of his old friends _that inner beauty was more important than physical beauty.A. that he realized B. did he realized C. he had realized D. did he realize13. After leaving office in 1999, Nelson Mandela didnt stop doing_ he thought was right.A. that B. which C. what D. where 14. The visit to the memorial of Jiao Yulu, a late model official who worked in Lankao in the 1960s was a _ of Secretary Xis trip. A. highlight B. preparation C. destination D. preference 15. _ English not to be tested in the future, it would be more of a disaster than a fortune. A. Were B. Should C. Would D. Might二、 完形填空（共20小题，每题0.5分，满分10分） When Edward Jones was 10, he used to go to the public library in Washington, but not for the books. “ We 16 go into the boys room,” he remembers. “ We would 17 our shoes and lay on the floor and put our feet 18 on the radiators to get warm.” Jones is again sitting in the lobby of that building. 19 _ the library is now the City Museum of Washington, and Jones is 53 and the 20 of the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, The Known World. Time does have a way of changing 21. Everything-and nothing. “ I always thought 22 day I would write a story,” says Jones. The first line is, “ You never 23 having been a child.” He laughs, but theres still hurt there. Jones had a tough childhood: his 24 wasnt around, and his mother washed dishes and scrubbed floors to 25 him and his sister and brother, who is disabled. 26 , his poor mother with them moved 18 times in 18 years. Once an landlord threw all their possession out of the windows when his mother didnt 27 the rent.Jones went to college-Holy Cross, a Jesuit school in Massachusettsbut 28 was always around him, and he was briefly 29 after he graduated. When he was offered a 30 job at a financial magazine called Tax Notes, he took it, and stayed there for 19 years. “ 31 you grow up like that, having a job is important,” he says. “ It was always the job first. 32 would come second.” But Jones concentrated upon his literary dreams, 33 his co-workers laughed at him about writing the great American novel.Its strange and wonderful that a book of 34 deep human understanding could be written by a man who lives alone, who until last year had never even 35 the country.16.A. would B. should C. could D. might17.A. put on B. take off C. have on D. go off18.A.off B. away C. up D. back19.A.or B. then C. and D. but20.A.loser B. owner C. winner D. competitor21.A.anything B. something C. nothing D. everything22.A.one B. each C. either D. neither23.A.get over B. grow up C. go down D. gaze at24.A.father B. mother C. teacher D. classmate25.A.supply B. suggest C. surround D. support26.A.Luckily B. Unfortunately C. Cheerfully D. Strongly27.A.cost B. take C. spend D. pay28.A.wealth B. poverty C. strength D. power29.A.homeless B. hopeless C. useless D. careless30.A.plenty B. sudden C. steady D. strange31.A.Before B. After C. Although D. When32.A.Speaking B. Writing C. Reading D. Retelling33.A.even though B. if C. whats more D. however34.A.so B. that C. as D. such35.A.stayed B. left C. visited D. wrote三、阅读理解（共20小题，每题1分，满分20分）AEach time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. Yes, honey. Of course. she said.Can we write him a letter?She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, Yes.My heart jumped. How? Does the mailman go there? I asked.No, but I have an idea. Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it was for. Just wait, honey. Youll see. Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face. She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped the balloon string. We went outside and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining.Okay, on the count of three, let go. One, two, three.The balloon, carrying my letter, darted upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the mass of clouds.Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, hed persevere, dart up, and finally transcend this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was hereditary. I prayed to be a balloon. BAbout PISAThe Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. To date, students representing more than 70 countries have participated in the assessment.What makes PISA differentPISA is unique because it develops tests which are not directly linked to the school curriculum. The tests are designed to assess to what extent students at the end of compulsory education, can apply their knowledge to real-life situations and be equipped for full participation in society. The information collected through background questionnaires also provides context which can help analysts interpret the results.What the assessment involvesSince the year 2000, every three years, fifteen-year-old students from randomly selected schools worldwide take tests in the key subjects: reading, mathematics and science, with a focus on one subject in each year of assessment. The students take a test that lasts 2 hours. The tests are a mixture of open-ended and multiple-choice questions that are organized in groups based on a passage setting out a real-life situation. A total of about 390 minutes of test items are covered. Students take different combinations of different tests.Additional PISA initiativesPISA-based Test for Schools(PTS)As interest in PISA has grown, school and local educators have been wanting to know how their individual schools compare with students and schools in education systems worldwide. To address this need, the OECD(The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) has developed the PISA-based test for schools. It is currently available in the United States and the OECD is in discussions with governments to make the test available in other countries such as England and Spain.40. PISA is different from other programmes because _. A. its test is closely related to the school curriculum. B. its test aims to assess whether students can solve real-life problems. C. its test can equip students for full participation in school. D. test scores directly determine the analysis of the test. 41. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A. Test-takers are carefully selected. B. Test-takers answer the same questions. C. Test-takers are tested on three key subjects. D. Test-takers spend about 390 minutes on the test. 42. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A. Students of all ages will be able to take PTS in the future. B. More countries are likely to have PTS in the future. C. School and local educators show little interest in PISA at present. D. PISA provides evaluation of education system within a certain country. 43. Where can we most probably find the passage? A. On the Internet B. In a newspaper C. In a magazine D. In an advertisement CExpensive and new gloves allow chatterboxes to take the term “handsfree” to a new levelby talking into them as they make a call. The gloves are known as “Talk to the Hand” and cost 1,000 a pair. They fixed a speaker unit into the thumb and a microphone into the little finger that can be connected to any mobile handset using Bluetooth.Artist Sean Miles designed the new gloves that double as a phone in part of his project that shows the possibilities of gadget recycling. He uses outdated gloves and combines them with parts from mobile handsets recycled through O2, which commissioned the project. Mobile phone users will be able to keep their hands warm while they chat without taking their phones out of their pockets or handbags.Mr. Miles designed two pairs of the new glovesone in pink and the other in brown and yellow. They will appear in an exhibition this July and visitors will be able to win the gloves. If demand is high, they will then be produced on a larger scale. O2 Recycle, which backed the project, estimates that there are already 70 million unused mobile handsets in the UK. The service pays up to 260 to those who recycle gadgets including phones, handheld consoles, MP3 players and digital cameras.Designer Sean Miles hopes his work will get people thinking about recycling. The 41-year-old said, “I hope that my Talk to the Hand project will get people to think again about the waste created by not recycling gadgets. If a few more people recycle their gadgets rather than send them to trash, I think this project will have fulfilled its aim.”Bill Eyres, head of O2 Recycle, urges people to recycle their phone responsibly. He said, “Theres a pressing need for all of us to look at outdated handsets, and all the gadgets that we move on from or upgrade each year. Whether they are consoles or cameras, we should think of them as a resource that we need to recycle responsibly rather than throw them away.” D Given all the heated debates about how Americas children should be taught, it may come as a surprise to learn that students spend less than 15% of their time in school. While theres no doubt that school is important, a series of recent studies remind us that parents are even more so. A study, for example, finds that parental involvementchecking homework, attending school meetings and events, discussing school activities at homehas a more powerful influence on students academic performance than anything about the school the students attend. Another study, reports that the effort put forth by parents has a bigger impact on their childrens educational achievement than the effort devoted by either teachers or the students themselves. And a third study concludes that schools would have to increase their spending by more than $1,000 per pupil in order to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement . So parents matter a lota point made clear by decades of research showing that a major part of the academic advantage held by children from wealthy families comes from the “concerted cultivation（协作培养） of children” as compared to the more laissez-faire style of parenting common in working-class families. But this research also reveals something else: that parents, of all backgrounds, dont need to buy expensive educational toys or digital devices for their kids in order to give them an edge. They dont need to chauffeur their offspring to enrichment classes or test-prep courses. What they need to do with their children is much simpler: talk. But not just any talk. Although well-known research by psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley has shown that professional parents talk more to their children than less-affluent parentsa lot more, resulting in a 30 million “word gap” by the time children reach age threemore recent researches are raising our sense of exactly what kinds of talks at home contributed to childrens success at school. For example, a study conducted by researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health and published in the journal Pediatrics found that two-way adult-child conversations were six times as effective in promoting language development as interludes in which the adult did all the talking. Engaging in this reciprocal back-and-forth gives children a chance to try out language for themselves, and also gives them the sense that their thoughts and opinions matter. As they grow older, this feeling helps middle- and upper-class kids develop into confident supporters for their own interests, while working-class students tend to avoid asking for help or arguing their own case with teachers, according to a research presented at American Sociological Association conference earlier this year. The content of parents conversations with kids matters, too. Children who hear talk about counting and numbers at home start school with much more extensive mathematical knowledge, which predicts future achievement in the subject. Psychologist Susan Levine, who led the study on number words, has also found that the amount of talk young children hear about the spatial properties of the physical worldhow big or small or round or sharp objects arepredicts kids problem-solving abilities as they prepare to enter kindergarten.While the conversations parents have with their children change as kids grow older, the effect of these exchanges on academic achievement remains strong. And again, the way mothers and fathers talk to their middle-school students makes a difference. Research by Nancy Hill, a professor at Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Education, finds that parents play an important role in what Hill calls “academic socialization”setting expectations and making connections between current behavior and future goals (going to college, getting a good job). Engaging in these sorts of conversations, Hill reports, has a greater impact on educational accomplishment than volunteering at a childs school or going to PTA meetings, or even taking children to libraries and museums. When it comes to promoting students success, it seems, its not so much what parents do as what they say.48. What is the most effective talk between parents and children in improving language development? A. Professional parents talk. B. Two-way conservation. C. Adults talking all the time. D. Children speaking as interludes.49. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A. Its necessary for children to follow the example of their parents. B. Children should be active in their educational accomplishment. C. Parents should often communicate with the teachers of their children. D. Parents influence stays with children for a long time.50. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? A. Parenting is more important than schooling. B. Conversation is the most suitable way to educate children C. Kids should be encouraged to think and behave independently D. The content of the conversations matters the most to the children第四部分 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）Few women choose academic careers in math-intensive fields because the lifestyle is not consistent with motherhood, researchers at Cornell University found in a study to be published next month in American Scientist Magazine.Universities have long been criticized for hiring and evaluation policies that discriminate against women, but the findings of this new study point to the female biological clock as a main reason why so few women end up as professors in fields such as math, engineering, physics and computer science.A woman who wants a family looks at the tough path to a tenured（终身的）position and considers how old she will be before she can start a family and how little time she will have to raise her children. Many of those women choose a more flexible career.Universities have been largely inflexible about anything other than the standard timetable, which means youll have to struggle for years and only then would yo