2023-2024学年浙江省杭州第四中学上学期高一年级期中考试英语试题

2023-2024学年浙江省杭州第四中学上学期高一年级期中考试英语试题
Cambridge Open Days, July and September 2023
Every July and September, the University of Cambridge opens its doors to welcome potential applicants and their parents and supporters to find out what it’s really like to live and study here. July Open Days-6 and 7July 2023
Our next Open Days will take place on 6 and 7 July 2023 and will include both online and in-person elements. You can get to know our courses, the colleges and departments, university facilities, the application procedure, student life and finance via:
·Information stands
·Course presentations and sample lectures
·College and department tours
·Q&A sessions with current students and staff
The program will run from 9:30-16:30(UK time)and is similar on both days so you should only need to attend one of the days. Further details will be announced in due course.
September Open Day-15 September 2023
With a focus on choosing your College, our September Open Day provides another opportunity for you to visit the Cambridge Colleges and ask current students and staff any questions you may have. Booking information
To attend our Open Days, you must register in advance.
·Bookings for our July Open Days will open in May 2023.
·Bookings for our September Open Day will open in summer 2023, after the July Open Days.
Sign up on our website to stay updated when bookings open and for details of other opportunities, advice and resources.
1. What can you learn about on July Open Days?
A．Staff information. B．Attendance requirement.
C．Classroom rules. D．Application process.
2. What should you do if you want to attend September Open Day?
A．Make an appointment in May. B．Ask for college staff’s permission.
C．Register after July Open Days. D．Pay for up-to-date information.
3. Where is the text probably from?
A．A school website. B．A tourism ad.
C．A freshman guide. D．A campus poster.
I try to be a good father. Cook my kids good dishes, and take them to photo shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, in marathons.
This love story began in Winchester Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled (缠住) by the umbilical cord (脐带) during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs (四肢). “He’ll be a vegetable (植物人) the rest of his life,” doctors told Dick and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. “Put him in an institution.” But the Hoyts weren’t buying it. They noticed the way Rick’s eyes followed them around the room.
When Rick was 11, they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University. Equipped with a computer, Rick was finally able to communicate. After a high school classmate was paralyzed (使瘫痪) in an accident, and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick said, “Dad, I want to do that.” How was Dick, a man who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. That day changed Rick’s life. “Dad,” he typed, “when we were running, it felt like I wasn’t disabled anymore!”
That sentence changed Dick’s life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. They even decided to try marathons. “No way,” Dick was told by a race official. They weren’t quite a single runner, and they weren’t quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years, Dick and Rick joined the massive field and ran anyway. In 1983, they ran another marathon so fast that they made the qualifying time for the Boston Marathon the following year.
Now they’ve done 212 triathlons and 85 marathons. “My dad is the Father of the Century,” Rick typed.
4. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean?
A．The Hoyts didn’t believe it was true.
B．The Hoyts couldn’t afford any institution.
C．The Hoyts couldn’t deal with the situation.
D．The Hoyts had no money for their son’s treatment.
5. What’s discussed in the third paragraph?
A．Why Rick became paralyzed. B．How Rick started running.
C．Why running changed Rick’s life.D．How Rick communicated with others.
6. Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A．A boy with a rare disease B．The greatest dad in the world
C．A tough road to marathons D．Parents’ influence on children’s life
If you had boarded a passenger plane in 1950, you would have seen five people in the cockpit (驾驶舱): two pilots, a radio operator, a navigator and a flight engineer. Over the years, technical advances have gradually removed the need for the last three, leaving just two pilots. That has been the norm (标准) in commercial aviation for decades.
However, things could be simplified further — one of the two remaining pilots could soon go. Many military aircraft are already manned by a single pilot, and for commercial aviation this would mean stepping into a brave new world.
But how will airlines make this brave innovation come true? One way is to greatly increase automation in the cockpit, devoting more tasks to computers. Another is to shift the same tasks from the cockpit to the ground. “The latter approach seems to be more workable, at least in the short term, because much of what is required already exists,” says Patrick Smith, an airline pilot flying Boeing 767 aircraft. “A trained ground operator could observe a number of flights at once and even fully control the plane remotely if needed.”
It’s true that single-pilot operations could help airlines save money, but there is another reason which makes them quicken their pace for this crucial breakthrough. Boeing predicts a need for 600,000 new pilots in the next two decades, but by some estimates, there will be a deficit (赤字) of at least 34,000 pilots globally by 2025. Reducing the number of pilots on some crews or aircraft could lessen the impact of this.
Perhaps the biggest barrier to a single pilot will be selling the idea to passengers. In 2019, Don Hairis, a professor at Coventry University, conducted a survey on the prospect of flying on an airliner with just one pilot. Just a minority of participants said they’d be willing to take that flight, and the general idea was that removing a pilot increased the possibility of accidents. In the study, Harris concluded that the single-crew airliner would be still probably 20 years away.
7. What is the potential trend in commercial aviation according to the text?
A．It will make air travel eco-friendly.
B．It will switch to single-pilot operations.
C．It will tighten its flight control for safety concerns.
D．It will bring in many military aircraft to the industry.
8. What does Patrick Smith think is a quick way to realize airlines’ brave innovation?
A．Raising the standards in admitting new pilots.
B．Making pilots adaptable to different situations.
C．Using computers to automate the flight process.
D．Gaining piloting support from ground operators.
9. What can be inferred from Don Harris’ study?
A．The prospect of single-crew airliners is bright.
B．It’s urgent that airlines reduce airplane accidents.
C．Passengers are willing to try new types of airplanes.
D．Airlines have a long way to go before the innovation occurs.
Even though we may believe that it’s important to say thank you, sometimes expressing gratitude is easier said than done. We might find ourselves getting confused about the details of what to say or the best way to deliver the message. As a result, many times, we do not express our gratitude.
According to new research, however, it’s possible we might be making our thanks more complicated than it needs to be. In a paper published in The Journal of Positive Psychology, researchers compared the effects of expressing thanks in person, over a video call, and by text. And, while people generally expect an in-person thank-you to be most impactful, what happened in reality was quite different: sending a thank-you by text was almost as impactful as delivering the message in person. Additionally, texting maybe especially well-suited for situations where we feel embarrassed about expressing our appreciation.
In one study, 219 college students from the United States and China participated in a gratitude activity in which they wrote about three things they were grateful for over a two-week period. After writing, the students were asked to actually thank the person involved. Some connected with the gratitude recipient (接受者) in person, others via video call, and others via text. At the beginning and end of the two weeks, participants completed surveys measuring their feelings of well-being, connections with others, depression, loneliness, and happiness.
The researchers found that people who expressed gratitude increased their well-being, with only a few differences between the different methods of gratitude expression. Overall, video calls were just as beneficial as meeting in person. Texting was slightly less effective than video calling -- it didn’t make people feel more connected and happy. However, participants who sent their thanks by text still experienced benefits: texting boosted their well-being and reduced their loneliness.
O verall, the message is that we shouldn’t worry about finding just the “right” way to express our gratitude. In fact, you’re probably better off sending a quick thank-you today than waiting for the right time to schedule an in-person visit. You can be sure that many of gratitude’s benefits can be attained regardless of how you send the message.
10. How do people make expressing gratitude complex?
A．They think it is useless to express gratitude.
B．They feel ashamed to express gratitude.
C．They think too much about the best way to do it.
D．They waste too much time before saying it.
11. Which way may be best for us to avoid embarrassment when expressing our gratitude?
A．Video chats. B．Face to face visits.
C．Sending messages. D．Making phone calls.
12. What does the research mainly show?
A．Learning to be grateful can give us a lot of benefits.
B．We need to put saying thank-you into our daily routine.
C．We should learn how to express appreciation to others.
D．We shouldn’t be bothered by how to express our gratitude.
Is your glass of milk half-full or half-empty? This saying is often used to test people’s outlook in a situation; do they focus on the positives(a half- full glass) or the negatives (a half- empty one)? 13 —and it’s known to boost your we ll-being.
Why is thinking positively good for you?
Research shows that people who are optimistic and think positively tend to experience less stress and cope well when faced with life’s challenges. People who are more pessimistic may find it hard to believe that these challenges will pass. Scientists have even found that thinking positively can make you live longer. According to Professor Tali Sharot, being optimistic about the future can make you happier and more successful. 14
Worrying is like a fire alarm.
Everybody can worry from time to time. Worrying can help to keep you safe—if you were never worried and were overly positive about how things would turn out, you wouldn’t recognize risks.“ 15 It’s like a fire alarm,” says child psychotherapist RachelMelville-Thomas. “The trouble is that sometimes it goes off when there isn’t a huge danger to face.” When this happens, you can feel anxious and hopeless about what lies ahead.
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Optimism is shaped by your genes, which carry characteristics inherited from your parents, and by what happens to you. 17 Research has shown that it can help to draw or write an outcome that’s positive —for example, an image of you playing guitar, having passed your next grade. Imagining this can motivate you to work to achieve it, such as practicing every day after school.
Chicago was hit with a snowstorm over the weekend, and Jahmal Cole’s _______ blew up with messages from elderly neighbors: They needed _______ shoveling(铲雪)in front of their homes. So Cole sent out a(n) _______ online Friday night asking for 10 volunteers to come to his neighborhood, Chatham, to shovel the snow that was _______ .
When he went to the train station Saturday morning to see whether anyone had _______ to assist, he couldn’t believe what he saw. About 120 people stood on the platform, ma ny with shovels, _______ to work. Many volunteers were from outside Chicago. One man had _______ taken a bus from Indiana. He sent them out to dozens of addresses where snow needed to be _______ .
”When you’ re getting such emails, you don’t want to _______ people,” said Cole. “This was literally me trying to help out the neighbors. I wanted to make a campaign next time, ________ more people to take action.”
After shoveling dozens of sidewalks and walkways, a ________ that lasted until 3 p. m. that afternoon, Cole and the volunteers went out together to have lunch at a neighborhood restaurant. To their ________ , an unknown customer paid the bill for their ________ .
“I’m ________ of our city,” Cole said. “People could have been home with families or making snowmen, but they came out to help, which ________ the spirit rooted in the city.”
18.
A．inbox B．website C．room D．doorway
19.
A．time B．help C．tools D．energy
20.
A．notice B．request C．invitation D．signal
21.
A．falling B．melting C．dancing D．piling
22.
A．set out B．passed on C．showed up D．kept up
23.
A．ready B．curious C．able D．nervous
24.
A．almost B．only C．even D．just
25.
A．delivered B．reserved C．covered D．cleared
26.
A．disappoint B．bother C．offend D．worry
27.
A．relying on B．appealing to C．bringing up D．applying to
28.
A．fix B．test C．job D．lesson
29.
A．relief B．delight C．surprise D．regret
30.
A．gesture B．appetite C．reward D．preparation
31.
A．sure B．proud C．certain D．mindful
32.
A．lifts B．revives C．passes D．exhibits
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The Yellow Crane Tower is one of the Four Great Towers of China. 33 (seat) at the top of Snake Hill, on the banks of the Yangtze River, this symbolic building is one of the 34 (great) landmarks in Wuhan. There are a number of legends which tell 35 the Yellow Crane Tower came into being. One of them is the story of a wine merchant named Xin. It is believed that one day, 36 immortal being (神仙) pretended he was a poor man and got into Xin’s wine store. Xin, showing no judgement, 37 (offer) the man some free wine. The poor man came back day after day for several years and Xin always welcomed him with the same 38 (warm). One day, as the poor man left the store, he took some orange peel and drew a picture of a crane upon the wall. He said if he clapped his hands, the crane would come down from the wall and dance for him. 39 (surprise), what the poor man said was true. The dancing crane brought 40 much business to Xin that he soon became a very wealthy man. About ten years 41 (late), the immortal being came back to Xin’s store, called out the crane and left with it. 42 (honor) him and the crane, Xin built the Yellow Crane Tower. 43. When you are asked your n________ , you should say, “I’m Chinese.” (根据首字母单词拼写)
44. Cigarette smoking is r________ for about 90 percent of deaths from lung cancer. (根据首字母单词拼写)
45. Her p________ choice for food is always Sichuan cuisine as it reminds her of home. (根据首字母单词拼写)
46. Dreams can be a rich s________ of inspiration for an artist. (根据首字母单词拼写)
47. The GPS system is of great use to whoever wants to find his d________ in a strange city. (根据首字母单词拼写)
48. He had a n________ escape in the accident. How lucky he was!（根据首字母单词拼写）
49. The first part of the project was completed two months ahead of s______________. （根据首字母单词拼写）
50. Visitors are recommended to choose bike sharing as a fun and environmentally friendly way when e________ a new city. (根据首字母单词拼写)
51. What she said was so c________ that they could hardly understand it. (根据首字母单词拼写)
52. Practising Chinese Kongfu can not only build up one’s s________, but also develop one’s character. (根据首字母单词拼写)
53. It is these young people who can keep this form of culture alive for future g________. (根据首字母单词拼写)
54. He firmly believes that education and e________ development are key factors to progress. (根据首字母单词拼写)
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