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B. He can cancel after answering a series of questions. C. He can email them to access his bank account to get prizes instead of money. D. He can cancel and get all his money back without answering any questions. B By 2050 Futurologists(未来学家)predict that life will probably be very different in 2050. TV channels(频道)will have disappeared. Instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program directly to the television. Today, we can use the World Wide Web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, and books will come to us by computer. Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. Cars will have computers to control the speed and there won’t be any accidents. Today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination. Space planes will take people halfway around the world in 2 hours. Today, the United States Space Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth again. By 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just 2 hours. Robots will have replaced people in factories. Many factories already use robots. Big computers prefer robots—they don’t ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will see robots everywhere—in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes. Medical technology will have conquered many diseases. Today, there are devices(设备)that connect directly to the brain to help people hear. By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear again. Scientist will have discovered how to control genes(基因). Scientists have already produced clones(克隆)of animals. By 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how clever they are. Scientists will be able to do these things, but should they? 59. According to the passage, the following can be realized today EXCEPT __________. A. reading newspapers on a computer B. making a space shuttle go into space and land on Earth again C. creating cloned animals D. choosing TV programs freely from a “menu” 60. We can learn from the passage that some big companies prefer robots to human workers, because human workers __________. A. can work 24 hours a day B. often ask for more pay C. are not clever enough D. are often late for work 61. From Paragraph 5 we can infer that __________. A. there will be no blind and deaf people by 2050 B. few diseases will attack people by 2050 C. devices are connected directly to the brain to help people hear D. medical technology will be more effective by 2050 62. What is the author’s attitude towards the cloning technology? A. The author does not support the use of cloning technology. B. The author thinks human cloning is impossible. C. The author does not really support the idea of human cloning. D. The author is quite excited about human cloning. C A year ago, August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, but it was hard for Dave to find work, and the price of everything was rising. The Fusses were at risk of joining the millions of Americans who have lost their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely gift—$7,000, a legacy(遗产) from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. “It really made a difference when we were meeting difficulty .”says Dave. But the Fusses weren’t the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to receive unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were touched by what the Hatches had done. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in others, it was more than $100,000. It surprised nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $3 million—they were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm. Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of saving. They preferred comparison shopping and would go from store to store, checking prices before making a new purchase. Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camps when their parents couldn’t afford it. “Ish and Arlene never asked if you needed anything,” says their friend Sandy Van Weelden, “They could see things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.” Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches gave away their farmland. It was the Hatches’ wish that their legacy—a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents—should enrich the whole community and last for generations to come. Neighbors helping neighbors—that was Ish and Arlene Hatch’s story. 63. According to the text, the Fusses __________. A. were employed by a truck company B. led a difficult life C. worked in a school cafeteria D. lost their home 64. What can we learn about the Hatches? A. They had their children during the Great Depression. B. They left the old house to live on their family farm. C. They gave away their possessions(财产)to their neighbors. D. They helped their neighbors to find jobs. 65. Why would the Hatches go from store to store? A. They decided to open a store. B. They wanted to save money. C. They couldn’t afford expensive things. D. They wanted to buy gifts for local kids. 66. What Sandy Van Weelden said mainly tells us that the Hatches were __________. A. understanding B. kindC. childlike D. wealthy D All the wisdom of the ages and all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books, but we must know how to get the most from this treasure. The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books. I am most interested in people and in finding out about them. Some of the most outstanding people I’ve met existed only in a writer’s imagination, then on the pages of his books, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends, new society, and new world. Reading is the pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his. Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something. They are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other; they link the past, the present and future and have their own generations, like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the long run, you not only find out about the world and the people in it; you find out about yourself, too. Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you “you ought to” read, you probably won’t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time—and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, or kinder, you won’t have suffered during the process. 67. What kind of people are the most unfortunate in the writer’s eyes? A. Those who only know how to get the most from his books. B. Those who exist only in a writer’s imagination. C. Those who don’t know the delight reading brings them. D. Those who differ from the writer in conclusions. 68. The writer thinks reading is fun, because reading __________. A. can make us a good reader B. makes our mind work C. can save our timeD. makes us relaxed 69. The underlines phrase “turn up” in Paragraph 4 means “__________”. A. have great fun B. find C. face another way D. appear 70. What would be the best title for the text? A. The Pleasure of Reading B. The Ways of Reading C. The Imagination of Reading D. The Results of Reading 第二卷(非选择题，共两大题，35分) 第四部分: 任务型阅读 (共10小题;每小题l分, 满分l0分) 请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意: 每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。 When we think about giving help to developing countries, we often think about giving money so that these countries can build schools and hospitals, buy food and medicine, or find clean water supplies. These seem to be the most important basic needs of the people we are trying to help. However, it’s far from enough. Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got to come up with some better ideas to help them. I was very surprised, then, when I read about a plan to make cheap laptop computers for children in developing countries. A man called Nicholas Negroponte invented a cheap laptop computer, which can run without electricity. He decided to invent this computer after he visited a school in Cambodia. The laptop which Mr. Negroponte has designed is a little different from the normal laptop computers you can buy in the shops. One difference is that it will be covered in rubber so that it is very strong and won’t be damaged easily. As an electricity supply can be a problem in developing countries, the computer also has a special handle(把手)so that children can wind(摇)the computer up to give it extra power when needed. These special laptop computers will cost less than 100 US dollars and Mr. Negroponte wants to build as many as 15 million machines in the first year of production. The idea is that these computers will help the children’s education as they will be able to access the Internet. These computers might not help the people in developing countries immediately, but by improving children’s education they should help people to find their own solutions to their problems in the long term. Another idea to help children in developing countries is to recycle old mobile phones so that they can be used again. In the UK, and, probably in many other countries too, millions of mobile phones are thrown away every year. The waste created by throwing away these old phones is very bad for the environment, so it seems to be an excellent idea to recycle them. In this way we will be able to achieve two important goals at the same time. We will reduce the waste we produce and help others. In other words, we will be able to “kill two birds with one stone”, and that is always a good thing. (71) ________: Some new and better ways to help developing countries Traditional way Giving money to help them meet the most important basic (72) ________ such as food and medicine. New ideasMaking cheap laptop computers for children there(73) ________ Nicholas Negroponte ReasonHis (74) ________ to a school in Cambodia Features1. Being covered in rubber 2. Running (75) _______ electricity 3. Being able to access the Internet (76) ________Less than $100 Purposes1. To help (77) ________ children 2. To help people solve problems (78) ________ old mobile phones for reuse(79) ________Throwing away old mobile phones easily creates waste, which does (80) ________ to the environment. Goals to achieveWe’ll reduce the waste; meantime, we will help others. 第五部分: 书面表达 (满分25分) 在学习、生活和工作中，与人合作是非常重要的，请根据下表中提供的信息，写一篇题为“Cooperating with others”英语演讲稿。 为何与人合作•在忙碌、现代化的社会中，要有效地完成工作，我们必须学会与人合作。 •可以节省时间和精力。 •从合作者身上学到很多。 与谁合作与喜欢的人合作心情愉快，一起分享工作的快乐和痛苦。 与不喜欢的人合作比较困难，但只要更多地关注我们的工作，而不是合作者本人，时间长了，会发现他是一个很好相处的人。 怎样做一个好的合作者请发表自己的观点(至少两点看法)。 注意： 1. 对所给提示，不要简单翻译，可适当发挥，使行文连贯。 2. 词数150左右。开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 3. 参考词汇：合作 cooperate合作者partner Good afternoon, everyone! The topic of my speech today is “Cooperating with others”. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thank you for your listening! 镇江市2009-2010高一第二学期英语期末考试 参考答案 2010年7月 第一部分：听力(每小题1分, 满分20分) 1-5 BCACC 6-10 AACBA 11-15 BBCAC 16-20 CBABC 第一节：单项填空(每小题1分，满分15分) 21-25 ABCDC 26-30 DAABC 31-35 ABDCA 第二节：完形填空(每小题1分, 满分20分) 36-40 ABBDC41-45 CDADB 46-50 AACDB 51-55 DBACB 第三部分：阅读理解(每题2分，满分30分) 56-60 BADDB 61-65 DCBCB 66-70 ACBDA 第四部分：任务型阅读(每小题1分，满分10分) 71. Title / Theme / Topic72. needs / requirements / demands 73. Inventor / Designer 74. visit 75. without 76. Price / Cost77. educate78. Recycling 79. Reason 80. harm / damage 第五部分：书面表达(满分25分) One possible version: Good afternoon, everyone! The topic of my speech today is “Cooperating with others”. In this busy and modern world, if we want to complete our work effectively, we must all learn to cooperate with others. Not only can cooperation save us a lot of time and energy, but also it benefits both partners by learning from each other. When we cooperate with someone we like, we will feel very happy. We can share our pleasure and sadness with each other. However, it can be difficult to work with someone we dislike. In such a situation, we may focus on our work instead of our partners. Perhaps after a long time of working together, we will gradually know more about each other and get along quite well. How can we become a good partner? Personally, we should try to listen to others’ opinions. Also, if he or she makes mistakes, we should point them out. But in no case should we put our partners in an unfavorable position. Thank you for your listening! (责任编辑：admin) |