2017-2018学年人教版高二英语暑假作业：(25)

2017-2018学年人教版高二英语暑假作业（25）
一、阅读理解
1. When Chris moved in across the hall from Norma Cook four years ago in a Los Angeles-area apartment complex, the 31-year-old actor waved to his 85-year-old neighbor for a few weeks before finally knocking on her door and introducing himself.
“The day I enter her apartment and spoke with her face to face was the day my life was changed forever,”Chris says.
He learned that Cook had no family living in California and that she suffered from a long list of illnesses, including leukemia (白血病).The pair quickly became close friends, as Chris took her to doctor’s appointments, cooked with her and they ran errands together. He shared their adventures on social media.
But recently, Cook’s health declined and she was in and out of the hospital several times. She once spent weeks in the hospital fighting pneumonia (肺炎)and breathing issues. Eventually Cook was told by one of her doctors that she could no longer live at home unless she had 24-hour care. Because Cook had no money saved to pay her health care costs, Chris started a GoFundMe account to help cover her bills.
But caretakers are expensive and Cook quickly went through the $34,445 they raised. Knowing her days at home were limited, Chris invited Cook to move in with him to save money.
“She loves it! I do most of my work at home so I am here most of the time to care for her. It only made sense to both of us, ” Chris wrote. “She is my adopted grandmother after all and I am her grandson she never had.”
“Cook st ill has weekly hospice health care visits and regular visits from caregivers, so any funds raised cover those expenses,”he wrote.
Though doctors say Cook’s days are very limited, the pair are enjoying spending time together drinking champagne and snuggling with her cat, Hermes, who also made the move.
“She does not want to change, ”Chris told Today. “My apartment was the only place she would have moved. She has strong opinions about where she wants to carry out the rest of her days, and she wants to stay here. ”
Chris says he feels like the relationship was fate. “Moving her in....it feels as though it was meant to be all along, ” he said. “It’s really fulfilling (有成就感的)to be there for her.”
1.Chris invited Cook to live with him because she_________.
A.had no other family members
B.was unable to afford 24-hour care
C.shared similar adventures with him
D.was told not to live at home by the doctor
2.From the passage, we can learn that Chris________.
A.worked as an actor for GoFundMe
B.was legally adopted as Cook's grandson
C.collected money for Cook’s private care
D.paid Cook’s expensive health care costs
3.Which of the following words can best describe Chris?
A.Kind and sympathetic,
B.Optimistic and friendly.
C.Patient and enthusiastic.
D.Warm-hearted and outgoing.
2. While only 12 years old, it seems like Cameron Manor has done it all! She is the Butterfly Caretaker at the Environmental Nature Center. She also creates fun educational videos about science. She makes and delivers free cupcakes to the elderly, and a story she wrote was published in Stone Soup, an international kids’ magazine! Through all of her hard work she was even named a Discovery Girl’s example!
Cameron first started raising butterflies when her mother let her get her own butterfly growing kit(设备). After mailing in for the butterflies, Cameron received five black caterpillars(毛虫).
One of Cameron’s favorite parts about raising her butterflies was decorating the bottom of the cage with flower petals(花瓣) and freshly sliced ora nges so the butterflies could eat. “For anyone wanting to attract their own butterflies, he can attract butterflies by planting herbs, flowers, and trees such as wild cherry, willow, maple, alder, birch, gooseberry, currant, wild rhododendron and cabbage. Each flower and plant attracts its own butterflies,” Cameron says.
Over the last six months Cameron has raised over seventy butterflies. Her love for and experience with nature helped her become the new Butterfly Caretaker. Right now the butterfly house is being built. “I look forward to the day the new caterpillars arrive, so then there will be butterflies once again in the house,” Cameron said excitedly. “I am also looking forward to leading tourists in the butterfly house, to teaching young children how they can be butterfly protectors and growers.”
She also has a love of science. And the coolest thing is that she is using her knowledge of science to make fun educational videos for others. Cameron’s first science video was made for a contest on Discovery Kids.
1.What does Paragraph 1 mainly tell us?
A.Cameron’s goals
B.Cameron’s studies
C.Cameron’ s hobbies
D.Cameron’s achievements
2.How did Cameron get her first caterpillars?
A.She bought them
B.Someone sent them to her
C.She caught them in the wild
D.Her mother gave them to her
3.From Paragraph 3, we can learn that ____.
A.different plants can attract different butterflies.
B.oranges are butterflies’ favorite food
C.the garden is the best place to raise butterflies
D.butterflies should be fed frequently
4.Cameron was chosen as the Butterfly Caretaker because ____.
A.she is good at raising butterflies
B.she loves and often close to nature
C.she taught kids how to build growing kids
D.she grew butterflies and sent them to others
3. Native to America, the cane toad (癞蛤蟆) was introduced to Northern Queensland 70 years ago to control sugarcane beetles (甘蔗害虫). The toads failed in that duty but spread across Queensland and into neighboring northern areas.
Now it calmly invades(侵略) the stats of Western Australia and New South Wales ( NSW). NSW wildlife experts fear the amphibians - which have poisonous backs that kill hungry predators (食肉动物) 一will have a terrible effect on native animals.
Those fears may be about to be realized. Australia’s leading government research body, the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organization (CSIRO), forecasts that a rise in average temperatures will make NSW an ideal living place for the cane toads.
Tony Robinson, head of CSIRO’s Wildlife, Pests, and Disease s Program, said cli­mate change is increasing the amount of suitable living place for the cane toads.
“With climate change, the cane toads might go down as far as Sydney and some areas of Western Australia,” Robinson said.
Recent estimates put the pace of the toads’ westward march at nearly 17 miles (27 kilometers) a year and slightly slower from north to south.
“More southerly (南部的) cities, such as Melbourne and Adelaide, would likely re­main too cold and dry to ever suit the toads,” Robinson noted, “but Perth could expect cane toads in five years’ time.”
Sydney could see their arrival in the next 20 years.
Robinson said there is no method that will keep the toads under control.
The cane toads already cover at least half of Queensland and most of the northern country. The toads are believed to number in the billions.
A Venezuelan virus was tried in the 1990s but had to be given up after it was found to also kill native frog species. Scientists and governmental bodies believe a national approach is needed.
The main threat the toads cause to species such as dingoes, and crocodiles is the poison contained in glands (腺) on each of their shoulders. The poison sprays out when the toads are threatened or handled roughly. The poison is made up of 14 different chemicals.
Cane toads also compete, and usually win, the hunt for food and living space.
"”If the government and other states combine resources, I believe we can achieve a very practical biological-control research program,” Bum s said.
1.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A.Poison Toads Leap Across Australia
B.Strategies to Keep the Toads under Control
C.The Main Threat the Cane Toads Cause
D.Climate Favours the Spread of Cane Toads
2.It can be inferred from the passage that_____.
A.the cane toad bites its enemy dead when it is threatened or handled rudely
B.the cane toad has already threatened the survival of all the native species
C.scientists and governmental bodies have achieved a successful biological-control pro?gram
D.the cane toad likes warm and wet weather
3.The underlined words “the amphibians” in the second paragraph mean _______.
A.hungry predators
B.sugarcane beetles
C.the cane toads
D.dingos
4.According to the passage, the cane toad is the least likely to live in ______
A.Queensland
B.Melbourne
C.Sydney
D.Perth
4. We tend to think of plants as the furniture of the natural world. They don’t move, they don’t make sounds, they don’t seem to respond to anything –at least not very quickly. But as is often the case, our human’s view of the world misses quite a lot. Plants talk to each other all the time. And the language is chemical.
Over the years scientists have reported that different types of plants, from trees to tomatoes, release compounds(化合物)into the air to help neighboring plants. These chemical warnings all have the same purpose –to spread information about one plant’s disease or infestation so other plants can defend themselves. But exactly how plants receive and act on many of these signals is still mysterious.
In this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in Japan offered some explanations. They had identified one chemical message and traced it all the way from release to action.
The scientists looked at tomato plants infested by a common pest, the cutworm. The researchers studied leaves from exposed and unexposed plants. They found one compound showed up more often in the exposed plants. The substance is called Hex Vic. When the scientists fed Hex Vic to cutworms, it knocked down their survival rate by 17%. The scientists identified the source of Hex Vic, and sprayed it lightly over healthy plants. Those plants were then able to start producing the cutworm-killing Hex Vic. Researchers confirmed that uninfested plants have to build their own weapon to fight off bugs and diseases. How do they know when to play defense? They are warned first by their friendly plant neighbors.
It is a complex tale, and it may be happening in more plant species than tomatoes. It may also be happening with more chemical signals that are still unknown to us. For now though, we know that plants not only communicate, they look out for one another.
1.What does the author try to emphasize in Paragraph 1?
A.How plants communicate is still a mystery.
B.Enough attention has been paid to plant talk.
C.Plants are the furniture of the natural world.
D.Plants can communicate with each other.
2.According to Paragraph 2, what remains unknown is ______.
A.how plants receive and handle the signals from their neighbors
B.why plants spread chemical information to their neighbor
C.how many types of plants release compounds into the air
D.whether plants send chemical warnings to their neighbors
3.The experiment shows that the infested plant helps its neighbors by ______.
A.making more Hex Vic to attract the pest
B.releasing Hex Vic into the air to warn them
C.letting them know how to produce Hex Vic
D.producing enough Hex Vic to kill the pest
4.What may be the best title for the passage?
A.Survival of Plants
B.Plant World
C.Talking Plants
D.Plant Bug Killer
二、七选五
5.根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

Most cars have seat belts as part of their equipment. Seat belts protect drivers and passengers in case of accidents. They also reduce the effect of a crash on the body. ① __________Worldwide, the devices have protected up to a million people.
America first recognized the invention of an automobile seat belt in 1849. The government gave a patent to an engineer named Edward Claghorn of New York City so that others would not copy his invention of a safety device. ②__________This early version of the safety belt was said to include hooks and other attachments for securing the person to a fixed object.
Other inventors followed with different versions of the seat belt.③__________It resulted from the work of a Swedish engineer, Nils Bohlin. His three-point, lap and shoulder seat belt first appeared on cars in Europe 50 years ago.
Nils Bohlin recognized that both the upper and lower body needed to be held securely in place. His invention contained a cloth strap (带子) that was placed across the chest and another strap across the hips. ④__________
Volvo was the first company to offer the modern seat belt to its cars. This company also provided use of Nils Bohlin's design to other car-makers.
⑤__________He received a gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1995. He died in Sweden in 2002.
A.The Swedish engineer won many honours for his seat belt.
B.Claghorn was a promising young engineer with many honours all his life.
C.The design joined the straps next to the hip.
D.There are many companies adopting Nils Bohlin's invention of the seat belt.
E.Safety experts say that seat belts save thousands of lives a year in America alone.
F.But more than 100 years passed before the current seat belt was developed.
G.Claghorn called his invention a safety belt.
三、完形填空
6.阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

On March 28th, 2017 my mother received a call. It was from Metro Country Jail. It was my father calling her, saying that he had been put into prison 1 not having a driving license and
speeding. He told my mother that he needed her 2 to get out. So the next day my mother got him a lawyer. The lawyer told my mother 3 things were going to be with my father, and that he would inform her of the things going on. When my mother and I went to 4 my father, she always tried not to 5 . She would tell him 6 things. She always said that when
he 7 she would prepare his favorite dishes and that we were going to be 8 soon.
Easter came, and my mother and I thought that my father would be out, but he wasn’t. My brother was very sad 9 he wanted to be with my father. 10 , when we got home from the park, my mother went to the bathroom and started to cry 11 . She was there for about 10 or 15 minutes. When she came out she had a big 12 on her face and told me that everything was going to be 13 . Then she went to my 14 room and started to play with him. Suddenly, my father’s15 called and told my mother that the judge had given my father a 16 to go home. But he had to take some classes and he also couldn’t17 .
When my father came home, my mother gave him a big hug, then she said, “I18 you that soon we were going to be together, and everything was going to be back to 19 or even better. Nothing can separate us again.”
My mother is a 20 woman, and she never gave up when the hard times came.
1.A.with B.on C.for D.instead
2.A.money B.guidance C.suggestion D.help
3.A.where B.what C.how D.which
cate B.visit C.search D.dominate
5.A.lie B.cry C.regret D.explain
6.A.positive B.various C.strange D.upsetting
7.A.put out B.came out C.reached out D.gave out
8.A.together B.well C.hard D.high
9.A.unless B.before C.until D.because
10.A.Often B.Always C.Hardly D.Once
11.A.secretly B.eagerly C.patiently D.nervously
12.A.expression B.frustration C.smile D.doubt
13.A.wrong B.valued C.sad D.fine
14.A.father's B.brother's C.sister's D.friend's
15.A.colleague B.doctor wyer D.assistant
16.A.warning B.chance C.promise D.license
17.A.fly B.walk C.drive D.run
18.A.permitted B.told C.suggested D.reminded
19.A.normal ual mon D.ordinary
20.A.fortunate B.strong C.clever petitive
四、语法填空
7.阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

It’s a classic picture—a child hiding her head in her mother’s skirt when she
①__________(meet) a stranger. She must be shy. You may be shy②__________(you).
Where does shyness come③__________?Research shows that some people are born shy. About 20 percent of④__________(baby) feel nervous when they see strangers. Children may become shy when they enter school. Adults can become shy in the face of problems like job loss.⑤__________the reasons, shy people are often lonely and ⑥__________(happy) in social
situations. But researchers say there is hope for shyness. Here ⑦__________(be) some suggestions for you.
*Don’t think the worst. Don’t worry about what will happen. Just open your mouth and say something.
*Learn to relax. Practice some ⑧__________(relax) techniques before you go into a social situation. You’ll feel better ⑨__________ have more fun.
*Smile and look at people.If you smile and show you are⑩__________(interest),people will respond and conversation will be easier.
五、短文改错
8.假定英语课上老师要求同桌中间交换修改作文,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:把缺词处加个漏字符号(∧),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:在错的词下划一横线,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。

Last year during the National Day holiday, my father took my little sister and me out for a pleasantly drive. My father pulled up by a riverside and encourage us to go and catch some crabs (螃蟹). My sister and I took out our shoes and socks, walk into the shallow water. We had many tries at catch a crab, but we were out of the luck. We felt so discouraging that we decided give up. Just as we were walking towards the bank, I felt something struggling under one of my feet. “It feels like a crab,” I whispered in my sister’s ears. T hen I bent down slowly and caught hold of them. Our effort did finally prove fruitful.
六、书面表达
9.一个英语网站面向中学生征稿。

下面是一篇关于“中秋节”的介绍,请你参照这篇短文及提示,写一篇关于“端午节”的介绍。

The Mid-autumn Festival
The Mid-autumn Festival, which is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, falls on August 15th of the Lunar calendar every year. Not only is it popular in China but it is also celebrated in many other Asian countries.
On that day people usually go back home to have family reunion, enjoying a large meal with their family. They will also eat moon cakes, which are round cakes with meat, eggs, nuts and other things inside. It’s a family reunion festival when people express best wishes to the beloved ones at this particular time.
注意:
1. 可以适当发挥,以使行文连贯;
2. 词数100左右;
3. 要点提示:
① on May 5th of the Lunar calendar
② popular in China
③ celebrate in many other Asian countries
④ eat Zongzi (meat,rice,beans)
⑤ have dragon boat races
⑥ in memory of Quyuan
The Dragon Boat Festival
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参考答案
一、阅读理解
1.答案：1.B;
2.C;
3.A
解析：
2.答案：1.D; 2.B;
3.A;
4.B
解析：
3.答案：1.A; 2.D; 3.C;
4.B
解析：
4.答案：1.D; 2.A; 3.B; 4.C
解析：
二、七选五
5.答案：E; G; F; C; A
解析：
三、完形填空
6.答案：1.C; 2.D; 3.C; 4.B; 5.B; 6.A;
7.B;
8.A;
9.D; 10.D; 11.A; 12.C; 13.D; 14.B; 15.C; 16.B;
17.C; 18.B; 19.A; 20.B
解析：
四、语法填空
7.答案：meets; yourself; from; babies; For; unhappy; are; relaxing; and; interested
解析：
五、短文改错
8.答案： Last year during the National Day holiday, my father took my little sister and me out for a pleasant pleasantly drive. My father pulled up by a riverside and encourage encouraged
us to go and catch some crabs (螃蟹). My sister and I took
out off our shoes and socks, walk walking into the shallow water. We had many tries at catch catching
a crab, but we were out of the luck. We felt so discouraging discouraged
that we decided to give up. Just as we were walking towards the bank, I felt something struggling under one of my feet. “It feels like a crab,” I whispered in my sister’s ears ear . Then I bent down slowly and caught hold of
them it
. Our effort did finally prove fruitful. 解析： 六、书面表达
9.答案：
The Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is celebrated on May 5th of the Lunar calendar /the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. Not only is it popular in China but it is also celebrated in many other Asian countries.
On this day, Chinese people eat Zongzi which are wrapped in bamboo leaves with meat, rice and beans. As the festival name shows, people have dragon boat races to celebrate it, especially in the southern places where there are many rivers and lakes. It’s in a special festival that people are in memory of Quyuan.
解析：。