2017学年朱家角中学高二第二学期期中考试精析word版

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2017学年朱家角中学高二第二学期期中考试精析

Grammar

Stephen Hawking: Science’s Brightest Star

His family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming his death at his home in Cambridge.

Hawking’s children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, said in a statement: “We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man (21)______ work and legacy will live on for many years.” For fellow scientists and loved ones, it was Hawking’s intuition and wicked sense of humor (22)______ marked him out as much as the fierce intellect that, coupled with his illness, came to symbolize (23)______ unbounded possibilities of the human mind.

Hawking was driven to Wagner, but not the bottle, when he (24)______ (diagnose) with motor neurone disease in 1963 at the age of 21. Doctors expected him (25)______ (live) for only two more years. But Hawking had a form of the disease that progressed more slowly than usual. He survived for more than half a century. Hawking once estimated he worked only 1,000 hours during his three undergraduate years at Oxford. In his finals, he came close (26)______ a first- and second-class degree. (27)______ (convince) that he was seen as a difficult student, he told his examiners that if they gave him a first he would move to Cambridge to pursue his PHD. Award a second and he threatened to stay. They opted for a first. Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most. For Hawking, the early diagnosis of his terminal disease, and (28)______ (witness) the death from leukemia of a boy he knew in hospital, aroused a fresh sense of purpose. “(29)______ there was a cloud hanging over my future, I found, to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before. I began to make progress with my research,” he once said. Taking up his career in earnest, he declared: “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it (30)______ (exist) at all.”

【答案】

21. whose 22. that 23. the 24. was diagnosed 25. to live 26. between 27. Convinced 28. witnessing 29. Although / though / While 30. exists 【分析】

21. 考察宾语从句关系代词，这里缺少所有格，先行词是mam，填whose； 22. 考察强调句，it be…that…；

23. 考察冠词，特指the human mind 的可能性；

24. 考察语态，he和diagnose之间是动宾关系，用被动语态； 25. 考察动词，expect sb. to do sth. 期望某人做某事； 26. 考察介词，两者之间用between; 27. 考察分词，convinced that意为考虑到； 28. 考察动名词，作主语； 29. 考察连词，表示转折；

30. 考察时态，一般现在时第三人称单数；

III Vocabulary

A.alone B.attractive C.intensity D.consisting E.contrast F.criticism G.even H.evidence I.fashion J.intended K.judged The Wodaabe,a tribe of West African nomads(游牧部落)，value beauty so highly that its recognition and praise form an important part of its rituals. Every year, they gather together to identify the most (31)______ of their youth and to praise their good looks in a festival called “Gerewol”.Gerewol takes the form of a series dance,in which young Wodaabe men parade their beauty before the women of the tribe,who select the most appealing,judging them on their looks (32)______.

The principal competitive dance performed at the festival is called the“Yaake”.This is (33)______to allow the participants to show their overall physical presence, their sense of rhythm,and the particular beauty of their facial features.The young men who take part in the Yaake spend hours preparing.They shave their hairline to lengthen the forehead and make up their faces,first by applying a yellow foundation and then by outlining their eyes and lips in black.This serves to emphasize through(34)______ the milky whiteness of their eyes and teeth.A single white line is drawn on their forehead,nose and chin,and a circle(35)______ of white dots is created on each cheek.These circles are a tribal pattern representing each individual’s camp.

According to the Wodaabe, the perfect man should be tall, slim, yet well-muscled; he should be able to dress in style and to dance well.He must be creative in the way he decorates himself； which must be beyond(36)______. The features of his face should be symmetrical(对称的),his eyes large and round his nose fine and long, his teeth white and(37)______. These are features that are (38)______ at the Gerewol festival.

The innocent pleasure pf differentiating by appearance is out of(39)______ in the developed world,in fact, in some countries, it will lead to lawsuits. As a consequence, beauty .contests now require participants to show(40)______ of ambitions beyond being celebrated merely for their looks. Gerewol, in contrast, focuses on the joyous power of good looks and youth. 【答案】 BAJED FGKIH 【分析】

31. 考察形容词，attractive意为有吸引力的； 32. 考察副词，alone意为单独地，独立地；

33. 考察动词和被动语态，be intended to意为目的是； 34. 考察动词，contrast意为对比，后接and； 35. 考察动词，consisting of由……组成； 36. 考察名词，beyond criticism意为无可非议； 37. 考察副词，and even意为乃至于；

38. 考察动词和被动语态，features和judge是动宾关系； 39. 考察名词，out of fashion意为过时的； 40. 考察名词，evidence意为证据，迹象；

III Cloze

A new phone app uses vibrations from smartphones to warn people about earthquakes.

The phone app (41) sudden shaking of the earth's surface through sensors in smartphones. It is called My Shake. It is the work of four researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. They said they created a worldwide warning system that would (42) people and give them time to prepare. The MyShake app is (43) only for Android phones.

Smartphones are (44) accelerometers(加速感应器).These instruments measure movement, like that of a

car of airplane: Myshake uses phone accelerometers to measure seismic(地震的) activity. It has been (45) to know the difference between normal activity and earthquake movement. The software developers say their app is right 93 percent of the time.

A smartphone sends seismic information to the app developers. If the developers receive several notices (46) , it recognizes that an earthquake may be taking place or will take place soon.

Using information sent from the app, the network then (47) the location and strength of the quake in real time. Myshake can record magnitude 5.0 earthquakes at distances of 10 kilometers or less.

MyShake uses very (48) power, according to its developers. Only when seismic activity is (49) by the app does it become active and sends data to the network. The app works best when your phone is resting on a (50) surface, like a table.

The developers hope that My Shake can add to information collected by the U.S. Geological Survey. That U. S. agency has created the Earthquake Early Warning: System, also (51) the EEW. The EEW has mapped out sensors for measuring quakes in many areas. In places where no such equipment (52) , MyShake may be the only method of early quake (53) . The app also shows ways to stay safer during an earthquake. The developers say, it will become more effective as more people use it.

“Our goal is to build a worldwide seismic network and use the data to (54) the effects of earthquakes on us as individuals and on society as a whole, say the researchers.

The developers say they hope to add a feature that would (55) people about a possible tsunami: a huge wave after an earthquake. 41. A. reports 42. A. infer 43. A. alternate

44. A. equipped with 45. A. programmed

B. recognizes B. include B. available B. made up of B. protected

C. reveals C. influence C. affordable C. filled C. banned B. form one area

D. reviews D. inform D. moderate D. in need of D. promised

46. A. from different places

C. from the same phone 47. A. controls B. connects 48. A. much 49. A. activated 50. A. low

51. A. honored with 52. A. exists 53. A. protection 54. A. raise

B. little B. sensed B. wooden B. famous for B. forms B. diagnosis B. receive

D. from another developer C. estimates D. receives C. active C. resisted C. high

C. known as C. counts C. detection C. record

D. green D. issued D. flat

D. associated with D. shakes D. resistance D. reduce