2020-2021学年七宝中学高一下英语摸底考试

2021高一英语下摸底试卷考试时间Mar.9, 2021满分：150分考试时长 120 分钟请独立冷静仔细地完成请交答题卡，答题纸1 和 2 I. Listening Comprehension 18 minutes 13 seconds
Section A：Short conversations. (10 points)
1. A. Excited. B. Dissatisfied. C. Bored. D. Exhausted.
2. A. 7:00. B. 7:10. C. 9:00. D. 9:10.
3. A. A cook. B. A shop assistant. C. A saleswoman. D. A waitress.
4. A. At a gas station. B. In a workshop. C. At an art gallery. D. In a department store.
5. A. He hasn’t had a ch ance to meet Kathy yet.
B. Kathy had already told him the news.
C. He didn’t know that Kathy was being moved.
D. His new office will be located in New York.
6. A. The woman wants to go to Toronto.
B. The man wants to go to V ancouver.
C. There are no flights to Toronto.
D. There are two direct flights to Toronto.
7. A. She should do more careful work.
B. She is not concerned about George’s remarks.
C. George does not care about her.
D. George shouldn’t have said that about her work.
8. A. She can’t afford that much for a trip.
B. She is fortunate to have made a lot of money.
C. She doesn’t think 15,000 dollars is enough for the trip.
D. She considers 15,000 dollars only a small sum of money.
9. A. Playing tennis. B. Writing a term paper. C. Gathering materials. D. Holding a meeting.
10. A. The man was seriously injured in the car accident.
B. The man had poor imagination because of the car accident.
C. The man wasn’t wearing the seat belt when the accident happened.
D. The man’s daughter advised him to wear the seat belt before he left home.
Section B (1.5’*10=15 points)
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Future researchers. B. College students. C. Company employees. D. Successful artists.
12. A. To teach the listeners how to work hard.
B. To enable the listeners to get better salaries.
C. To prepare the listeners to get better jobs.
D. To encourage the listeners to seize opportunities.
13. A. Kindness. B. Diligence. C. Willingness. D. Interest.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. The benefits of walking. B. The importance of keeping fit.
C. The way of forming a habit.
D. The possibility of excising regularly.
15. A. Because it needs much thinking. B. Because people can improve their memory.
C. Because it is suitable for everyone.
D. Because people needn’t concentrate on it.
16. A. It is the easiest way to lose weight. B. It can be made part of people’s life.
C. It can make people’s hearts stronger.
D. It helps prevent cancers.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. He has just been back from South America.
B. He has been burnt for a few hours.
C. He has been surfing the Internet for long.
D. He has been doing school work all night.
18. A. To look for something interesting for pleasure.
B. To meet new friends in the net chat-room.
C. To release pressure from heavy work.
D. To look for information for his project.
19. A. Quite a few sites are just old event calendars.
B. It’s a waste of time to surf the Internet.
C. A lot of information can be found.
D. A lot of friends can be made on the Internet.
20. A. People spend much time talking about other interests.
B. It takes long to find things because of many useless sites.
C. It is hard to start chatting with others in the chat-room.
D. It’s hardly the best source of information available.
Section A 10*3=30 points
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
(A) Positive tales
“No one can promise that life will be fair,” but (1)________ _________ what happens, follow the example set by Rehan Staton, and never lose sight of your goal.
Staton, a 24-year-old former sanitation(环卫) worker in Maryland, US, recently celebrated his acceptance into Harvard Law School.
Staton’s life was relatively normal (2)_________ a series of setbacks impacted his family life and studies. “Things were pretty good. But when I was 8 years old, my mom abandoned my dad, my bro ther and me after she moved back to Sri Lanka,” he said.When he was in seventh grade, a teacher even recommended that he (3)________ (place) in special education classes. His brother Reggie then brainstormed ways to help boost his grades. An aerospace eng ineer also offered to tutor him free of charge. Staton’s grades did improve and he became an honor student.
However, he was rejected by every college he (4)_________(apply) for. So to help support himself and his family, Staton began working at a sanitation company. He spent his days transporting trash and cleaning dumpsters, (5)_________(wake) up every morning to get dressed around 4 am. “The sanitation workers were the only people in my life who told me I (6)_______ be somebody,” Staton said. “They would say, ‘You’re too young to be here. Go to college, and come back if it doesn’t work out’.”The son of the company’s owner helped Staton contact a professor at Bowie State University, and the university eventually accepted Staton. Things began to look up. Two years later, he transferred to the University of Maryland to continue pursuing his undergraduate degree. But Staton still struggled to pay for his father’s medical bills. He’d work in the morning and take classes in the afternoon. After graduation, Staton worked at a national consulting firm (7) ________ applying for law school. He plans to start at Harvard this fall, (8) ________ he will major in sports law to pursue his dream of becoming a sports agent.
“For Rehan, the sky is truly the limit. (9)________he chooses to do in the future, he will definitely achieve,”
said a chief operating officer of Staton’s firm. For (10)_______ is looking for inspiration during difficult times, Staton recommends to “love yourself enough to get what you want out of life,” he told news outlet ABC. “You can always see the light in any dark situation, and you need to hold on to that light.”
(B) How dishonest are students?
I teach philosophy to college students, and there was no way I was going to give them exams this semester, with our classes being held online. Why not? Simple —cheating. It is nothing personal with these particular students, but I have read enough psychological research to know that it (11)________ (be) very hard for them to resist looking for help in places where they are not supposed to, such as their notes, their friends and the internet.
I am fortunate that papers are a great alternative means of assessment in philosophy courses. But they do not work so well in certain other fields, like the sciences. In this time of widespread, online learning and home-schooling, what can be done to curb cheating exams?
One solution is remote proctoring (监考) (12)________ the students is video-recorded during the exam, with any suspicious web browsing reported. Effective as that might be, it strikes me as a crude approach, relying as it does on active surveillance, which creates an overt atmosphere of distrust. Naturally enough there are also privacy concerns.
Instead I suggest that a practice that has been used widely in other educational contexts (13)______ (extend) to the world of online testing: pledging one’s honor. Not only (14) ______ honor pledges help curb cheating,but they also promote honesty. Students who abide by them refrain from cheating not because they can’t, but because they choose not to.
It is easy to be cynical (冷嘲的) about honor pledges and honor codes. They can seem to be — and sadly too often are —public relations stunts (噱头) for schools looking to burnish their image. But many schools and programs, from elementary to graduate level, take their honor codes seriously. Signing an honor code (15)______ serve as a moral reminder. As we know from both ordinary life and recent experimental findings, most of us are willing to cheat to some extent if we think it would be rewarding and we can get away with it. At the same time, we also want to think of ourselves as honest people and genuinely believe that cheating is wrong. But our more honorable intentions can be pushed to one side in our minds when there arise tempting opportunities, even if by cheating. What a moral reminder can do, then, is (16)_______ (help) to place our values front and center in our minds.
This is borne out by recent findings in the lab. In a widely cited study, Nina Mazar at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and her colleagues had one group of students take a 20-problem test (17) _______ which they would be paid 50 cents per correct answer. It was a hard test — students averaged only 3.4 correct answers. A second group of students took the same test, but they graded their own work and reported their “scores” with no questions asked. The average in this group was 6.1 correct answers, suggesting some cheating. The third and most interesting group, though, began by signing an honor code and then took the test, followed by grading their own work. The result? An honorable 3.1 correct answers. Cheating was eliminated at the group level. Signing the honor code (18) _______ (work).
So far research of honor codes and cheating (19)_______ (conduct) typically in face-to-face environments. But as we settle into the routine of online instruction, we should consider trying to extend the impact of an honor code virtually as well. Honor codes won’t eliminate cheating. Deeply dishonest stu dents will not be deterred (制止). But fortunately, the research confirms (20) ___________ experience suggests: Most students are not deeply dishonest.
(C)When computers were human
Dune is a novel written by Frank Herbert, which is set hundreds of years in the future. In the novel, building computers (21)_____ (forbid). (This is because, in the novel’s past, ‘(22)_____ (think) machines’ became so
powerful that they almost took over the world.) Instead, there are Mentats—humans (23)_____ (train) to perform the kinds of calculations and analysis that you will normally expect a computer to carry out.
(24)_____ _____ Mentats are a fictional creation, human computers are a real part of history. In fact, the word ‘computer’ was first used more than 300 years ago and referred to a person (25)_____ job was to perform mathematical calculations. In the middle of the 18th century, a French mathematician called Clairault wanted to calculate the date when Halley’s Comet(哈雷彗星) (26)_____ (return). Although he knew (27)_____ to do this, the calculations themselves were extremely complex, so he shared the work with several ‘computers’ who helped him arrive at the correct answer.
In the 19th century, the Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikday was employed (28)_____ a “computer” by a team of British explorers, and was the first person (29)_____ (calculate) the height of the highest mountain in the world, which was later named Mount Everest. During the two World Wars of the 20th century, huge teams of human computers were employed to work on maps, codes, and countless other military and engineering projects. It was not until about 1950 (30)_____ mechanical computers began to take over, and the days of the human computer were finally numbered.
Section B 10*2=20 points
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
do the job better, can breathe a sigh of relief. The (21) _______ is with the Norwegian oil industry, where remotely operated oil rigs have spooked unions and last month triggered a/an (22) _________. Distant control of machinery is increasingly prevalent in the collection of natural resources, reducing labor costs and improving safety in extreme environments.
Objectors are fighting a rearguard action. Ports show what lies ahead. Here, ship-to-shore remote-controlled gantry cranes have replaced wharfies（码头管理员）. In mining, automation began in the middle of the last century.
(23) ______ mining rail carriages are now commonplace. The commodities crash of 2012-2015 provided an impetus (动力) to increase productivity and (24) _______ costs --- factors not lost on the oil industry. Rio Tinto last year completed the public introduction of what it (25) ________ is the world’s first fully autonomous, long-distance heavy-haul rail network.
Oil rigs (石油钻塔）have been on the automation (26) _________ for most of the past decade. Remote control rooms can manage everything from drilling to procurement. The (27) ______ advantage of having fewer humans on the rigs is obvious, especially during the pandemic. Benefits to the bottom line are just as clear. Equinor, which Statoil is now known as, says the (28) _______ added more than $212m to earnings within a year of its Johan Sverdrup rig going digital. The biggest savings come from shrunken payrolls. Robots are set to replace humans in a range of (29) ________ tough, repetitive jobs, from order picking in warehouses to lifting the old and infirm.
Up to 800m jobs, according to a rough (30) ________, could be lost across industries to automation by 2030, Mckiney Global Institute.
writer, is indistinguishable from magic. The (31) _________ technology of voice computing proves his point. Using it is
just like casting a spell (咒语): say a few words into the air, and a nearby device can grant your wish.
The Amazon Echo, a voice-driven computer that sits on a table top and responds to the name Alexa, can call up music tracks and radio stations, tell jokes, answer questions and control smart appliances; even before Christmas it was already (32) in about 4% of American households. V oice assistants are prospering in smartp hones, too: Apple’s Siri handles over 2 billion commands a week, and 20% of Google searches on Android-powered handsets in America are input by voice. Dictating e-mails and text messages now works (33) enough to be useful. Why (34) _______ when you can talk?
This is a huge (35) . Simple though it may seem, voice has the power to (36) __________ computing, by providing a natural means of interaction. Windows, icons(图标) and menus, and then touchscreens, were welcomed as simpler ways to deal with computers than entering (37) keyboard commands. Just as mobile phones were more than existing phones without wires, and cars were more than carriages without horses, computers without screens and keyboards have the potential to be more useful, powerful and common than people can imagine today.
V oice will not (38) replace other forms of input and output. Sometimes it will remain more convenient to talk with a machine by typing rather than talking. But voice is destined to account for a growing (39) of people’s interactions with the technology around them, from washing machines that tell you how much of the cycle they have left to virtual assistants in corporate call-centers. However, to reach its full potential, the technology requires further breakthroughs — and a (40) of the tricky questions it raise s around the trade-offff between convenience and privacy.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A Directions:
The days of the camera-carrying tourist may be numbered. Insensitive travelers are being ordered to 41 pointing their cameras at local residents. Tour companies selling expensive trips to remote corners of the world have become increasingly annoyed at the 42 of visitors upsetting locals. Now one such operator plans to ban clients from taking any photographic equipment on holidays. Julian Matthews is the director of Discovery Initiatives, a company that is working hand-in-hand with other organizations to offer holidays combining high adventure with working on environmental projects.
Matthews says he is providing ‘holidays without 43 , insisting that Discovery Initiatives is not a tour operator but an environmental suppo rt company. Clients are referred to as ‘participants’. ‘We see ourselves as the next step on from Eco-tourism, which is merely a(n) 44 form of sensitive travel—ours is a more active approach.’
However, says Matthews, there is a price to pay. ‘I am pla nning to introduce tours with a total ban on cameras because of the damage they do to our relationships with 45 . I have seen some 46 things, such as a group of six tourists arriving at a remote village in the South American jungle, each with a video camera attached to their face. That sort of thing tears me up inside. Would you like somebody to come into your home and take a photo of you cooking? A camera is like a weapon; it puts up a barrier and you lose all the 47 that comes through body language, which 48 means that the host communities are denied access to the so-called cross-cultural exchange.’
Matthews’ views reflect a g rowing 49 among some tour companies at the increasingly rude behaviour of wealthy tourists. Chris Parrott, of Journey Latin America, says: ‘We tell our clients that indigenous (土著的) people are often shy about being 50 , but we certainly don’t tell t hem not to take a camera. If they take pictures without asking, they may find themselves having tomatoes thrown at them.’
Crispin Jones, of Exodus, the overland truck specialist, says: ‘We don’t have a(n) 51 but, should cameras cause offence, our tour leaders will make it quite clear that they cannot be 52 . Clients tend to do what they are told.’
Earthwatch, which pioneered the 53 of active Eco-tourism by sending paying volunteers to work on scientific projects around the world, does not ban cameras, but operates strict rules on their use. Ed Wilson, the marketing director of the company, says: ‘Some people use the camera as a(n) 54 ; it allows them to distance themselves from the reality of what they see. I would like to see tourists 55 their cameras for once, rather than trying to record everything they see.’
41. A. consider B. stop C. practise D. mind
42. A. edge B. expense C. bottom D. sight
43. A. surprise B. limit C. doubt D. guilt
44. A. passive B. simple C. inexpensive D. innovative
45. A. guides B. locals C. tourists D. specialists
46. A. routine B. interesting C. terrible D. personal
47. A. protection B. passion C. communication D. dignity
48. A. effectively B. accidentally C. comparatively D. optimistically
49. A. unease B. feeling C. awareness D. despair
50. A. misunderstood B. witnessed C. sponsored D. photographed
51. A. experience B. policy C. market D. intention
52. A. offended B. used C. judged D. deserted
53. A. change B. benefit C. concept D. history
54. A. protector B. exchange C. tool D. barrier
55. A. turning up B. looking after C. putting away D. running out
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
What happens when we try foreign dishes for the first time? More often than not it is like finding ourselves in circumstances different from what is comfortably familiar. We hesitate and declare them unacceptable. Yet there are no universal standards for good cuisine (烹饪); there’s only badly cooked food. We may not like some foreign dishes but that has nothing to do with their being inferior or superior. It has everything to do with how removed they are from what we know.
A few years back I wasn’t particularly fond of Indian dishes with their strong spices. Then an Indian family moved in next door and I immediately became friends with the lady. Being very friendly people they kept asking me over. Seeing as I had no choice, I gave in, went over and waited in horror. They served a lot of strange-looking dishes, whose aroma (香味) was inviting enough for me to sample them. And I felt sorry I did. My tongue felt like it was on fire! But I saw it through to the end so as not to endanger our neighbourly relationship. Needless to say, I was asked to come back for more. It took a few months, but I have actually come to love some hot Indian curries and overly honeyed desserts.
In contrast, American steaks and burgers now strike me as downright dull, although I used to love them. Then there’s Japanese cuisine, which I associated with a smelly sushi bar next door until I went on a trip to Japan. I was served dishes of suspicious smell day in day out and, although they didn’t seem particularly delicious, upon my return home I found myself repeatedly wandering into that sushi bar around the corner. The smell I had thought terribly fishy before now seemed familiar and mouth-watering.
In short, I have acquired the taste for some foreign dishes but not for all the food of any particular cuisine. In a way, the ability to acquire the taste for new foods has to do with a person’s ability to accept a culture. The ‘acquired taste’for food goes beyond a taste bud(味蕾) experience. It has a lot to do with what a person
associates the food with, like friendly neighbours or a memorable journey. Similarly, many of us find our mother’s cooking incomparable. But that isn’t necessarily because of our mother’s superior kitchen skills but because we associate her cooking with the warmth of home.
56. Which of the following statements is true of the Indian family?
A. They scared the author a lot.
B. They were curious about the author.
C. They made pleasant smelling dishes.
D. They got an apology from the author.
57. Concerning Japan and Japanese food, the author says that _____.
A. she was seldom served traditional food on her trip
B. she loved Japanese food from her first day in Japan
C. she was surprised at her actions after she returned home
D. she is uninterested in the taste of the strangest Japanese dishes
58. According to the last paragraph, acquiring new tastes _____.
A. is a sign of how open-minded a person is
B. depends on how sensitive your taste buds are
C. is like making new friends or going on a journey
D. becomes easier if your mother isn’t a great cook
59. Which statement best summarizes the overall message of the article?
A. Travelling is the best way to acquire new tastes.
B. The smells and sight of food are often misleading.
C. The stranger the food, the more difficult it is to like it.
D. Experiences are crucial in determining food preferences.
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D. No communication is allowed between judges and participants.
(D)
The college years are supposed to be a time for important growth in autonomy and the development of adult identity. However, now they are becoming an extended period of adolescence, during which many of today’s students are not shouldered with adult responsibilities.
For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within. In the past two decades, however, continued connection with and dependence on family，thanks to cellphones, email and social media, have increased significantly. Some parents go so far as to help with coursework. Instead of promoting the idea of college as a passage from the shelter of the family to autonomy and adult responsibility, universities have given in to the idea that they should provide the same environment as that of the home.
To prepare for increased autonomy and responsibility, college needs to be a time of exploration and experimentation. This process involves “trying on ” new ways of thinking about oneself both intellectually and personally. While we should p rovide “safe spaces” within colleges, we must also make it safe to express opinions and challenge majority views. Intellectual growth and flexibility are fostered on debate and questioning.
Learning to deal with the social world is equally important. Because a college community differs from the family，many students will struggle to find a sense of belonging. If students rely on administrators to regulate their social behavior and thinking pattern, they are not facing the challenge of finding an identity within a larger and complex community.
Moreover, the tendency for universities to monitor and shape student behavior runs up against another characteristic of young adults: the response to being controlled by their elders. If acceptable social behavior is too strictly defined and controlled, the insensitive or aggressive behavior that administrators are seeking to minimize may actually be encouraged.
It is not surprising that young people are likely to burst out，particularly when there are reasons to do so. Our generation once joined hands and stood firm at times of national emergency. What is lacking today is the conflict between adolescent’s desire for autonomy and their understanding of an unsafe world. Therefore, there is the desire for their dorms to be replacement homes and not places to experience intellectual growth.。