高一英语作业学生版

4月4日英语作业
命题人：姜小燕
一、阅读理解
A
My father and I have been separated for over two years. He was physically violent and emotionally abusive to me throughout my childhood, and I felt that I couldn’t forgive him. And yet, now he is dying, unconscious and struggling to breathe through an oxygen tube after a major stroke, all I can think of is how much he loved me.
How he would hold my fringe (刘海) back and kiss me on the forehead before school. How he bought me a pottery set and roller skates, although we were struggling by on just his salary, and allowed me to skate to school. How he would play chess and tennis with me, and take me to endless chess and tennis tournaments, even though I never won anything. How he would read the Guardian every day and fill in the quick crossword, but leave a few clues and praise me if I solved them. He kept every one of my Guardian columns, and every article I ever had published, even during our many estranged (疏远) periods. He gave me a lot of his savings to buy a flat after I became a single mum. And he set my date of birth as the passcode on his phone.
Yet I’m ashamed to say I blamed him, often, for everything: my anorexia (厌食症), my cutting, my anxiety, my depression... He was there during the tough times, yet all I could think was that the tough times happened because of him, forgetting that the causes of events are complex, and that plenty of people who had happy childhoods have to deal with mental illness and domestic violence too.
I even stopped him from seeing my daughter, the thing that brought him most happiness, because I was scared he would hurt her, and that her life would be like mine. That decision would mean he never spoke to me again.
When we spent time together in previous years, my father hugged me a lot yet never talked much. Born in 1930s America during the Depression, he was a man of few words, a silent romantic who signed his empty Valentine’s cards to my mother with only his first initial. I know he thought I talked too much; ironically, I never told him what I needed to. Knowing he was old, I tried to get back in touch several times to make things right, but my mother said he didn’t want to hear from me. I understand that. Why would he want to hear from the daughter who was never able to forgive him for his mistakes; who brought them up time after time, unable to accept his apologies? Who prevented him from seeing his granddaughter? Who scolded him for his faults, yet never acknowledged his numerous kindnesses?
It’s much too late now. When I sit by his hospital bed and hold his large wrinkled hand, far too warm, and ask him to squeeze it if he can hear me, he doesn’t. So I tell him a few of the things I should have told him when he was conscious, though it’s hard to say the words: that I love him very much, and that I’m sorry about the estrangement. And it reminds me of what I’ve known for a long time: that my dad didn’t know how to be a father to me when I was young, because his father was abusive to him as a child. His father died estranged from his son; my father is dying estranged from his daughter.
I never thought that I’d feel this broken at losing him. I fantasise that his eyes will open, and that he will be conscious again for just a few days. I will give him a letter thanking him for all the things I have remembered while writing this piece, and apologizing for all the ways I have wronged him. And when I deliver the letter, I will bring my five-year-old daughter with me, so he can see her happiness and sweetness, and learn that the chain of hurt that has been passed down from generation to generation has finally been broken.
1. The separation between Father and the daughter is mainly caused by .
A. Father’s cruelty to wards the daughter
B. Father’s irresponsibility for the family
C. the daughter’s protection of her kid from har m
D. the daughter’s misunderstanding of her father
2. Father rejected his daughter’s offer to get in touch with him because .
A. he was too ashamed to face his daughter
B. he couldn’t support his daughter any more
C. he couldn’t pardon his daughter’s ignorance
D. he was content to live away from his daughter
3. What message does the author want to convey in the underlined part?
A. The granddaughter will break the family chain to live freely.
B. The previous way of family education will no longer continue.
C. There will be no restriction in the family from that moment on.
D. Father will leave the world without any regrets and sufferings.
4. What might be the best title of the passage?
A. East or west, home is best
B. A good medicine tastes bitter
C. It’s no use crying over spilt milk
D. Where there is life, there is hope
B
It’s common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da
Vinci’s most famous painting seems to look back at observers,
following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the
room. But this common knowledge turns out wrong.
A new study finds that the woman in the painting is actually
looking out at an angle that’s15.4 degrees off to the observer’s right—well outside of the range that people normally believe when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said the study author, Horstmann, “She’s not looking at you.” This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a person’s gaze (凝视) in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the “Mona Lisa effect” . That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person’s gaze is no more than about 5 degree s off to either side, the Mona Lisa effect occurs.
Horstmann and his co-author were studying this effect for its application in the creation of artificial-intelligence avatars(虚拟头像) when Horstmann took a long look at the “Mona Lisa” and realized she wa sn’t looking at him.To make sure it wasn’t just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the “Mona Lisa” on a computer screen.
So why do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isn’t sure. It’s possibl e, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them. Or maybe the people who first coined the term “Mona Lisa effect” just thought it was a cool name.
5. What is generally believed about the woman in the painting “Mona Lisa”?
A. She attracts the viewers to look back.
B. She seems mysterious because of her eyes.
C. She fixes her eyes on the back of the viewers.
D. She looks at the viewers wherever they stand.
6. What gaze range in a painting will cause the Mona Lisa effect?
A. B.
C. D.
7. Why was the experiment involving 24 people conducted?
A. To confirm Horstmann’s belief.
B. To create artificial-intelligence avatars.
C. To calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze.
D. To explain how the Mona Lisa effect can be applied.
8.What can we learn from the text?
A. Horstmann thinks it’s cool to coin the term “Mona Lisa effect”.
B. The Mona Lisa effect contributes to the creation of artificial intelligence.
C. Feeling being gazed at by Mona Lisa may be caused by the desire for attention.
D. The position of the ruler in the experiment will influence the viewers’ judgment.
二、七选五
Open Hearts to Life
We often close ourselves off when unlucky events happen in our lives. We try to reduce the hurt and pain by pretending it doesn’t exist.____9____ We need to learn to open our hearts to the potentials of life. The items listed below are the ways you can open your heart more fully and completely.
Breathe into pain.
Whenever a painful situation arises in your life, try to embrace it instead of running away. ____10____If we run away from sadness, it will get stronger and more real. By making use of our breath, we soften our experiences and allow more newness and greater experiences to blossom.
____11____
I know we’ve all felt decisions or actions that we had to take simply due to our “gut” impulses（冲动）:when asked, we can’t explain the reasons behind doing so —just a deep knowing that it had to get done. To start this process, take few deep breaths and then ask, “Heart, what decision should I make here?
What action feels the most right?” See what comes up, then take action and evaluate the outcome.
Spend time alone.
For most of our lives we’re surrounded by people: our friends, colleagues, family members, and strangers. How often do we really spend time alone? When you spend time in solitude, you’re free from the influences of other people, and can truly open yourself and explore whatever you’d like. See where your thoughts take you.____12____
Get outside of yourself.
____13____After you’ve explored the depths of yourself, you come away with a new understanding. Now, it’s time to share that — not through telling others, but through being with others.
When you’re in a group of people, try to give them your full energy and attention so you can understand them just as you did yourself. Appreciate their uniqueness, as if they are an extension of you. Lose yourself in the beauty of others; see what they can teach you about yourself.
A. Embrace the uncomfortable.
B. Ask your heart what it wants.
C. In the end, though, we can’t hide from ourselves.
D. We should take a step back and re-evaluate our behavior.
E. When the sadness strikes, take a deep breath and lean into it．
F. The golden ticket here is to not let yourself become distracted; just see what it’s like to be alone.
G. This may seem a little contradictory to the last tip, but in reality, they actually work hand-in-hand.
三、完形填空
A Game of Light and Shade
It was a sunny day. I had gone up and down the tower when, outside the door at the foot, a blind man came toward me. In a moment, he disappeared up the stairs. I looked at the sign that said “To the Tower”, and decided to__1__him.
I caught up with him in the ticket office. There I was __2__ to see the attendant (工作人员) selling him a ticket as if he were any other visitor. Then, with the ticket in one hand and __3__the wall with the fingers of the other, the blind man reached the stairs __4__to the hallway.
“That man is blind. What would a blind man climb up the tower for?” I said to the attendant, expecting him to show some __5__ , but he didn’t answer.
“Not t he __6__ certainly,” I said. “P erhaps he wants to __7__.”
I bought a ticket and __8__ up the stairs. The man hadn’t gone as far as I __9__. A third of the way up the tower, I heard his__10__. I slowed down and followed him at a little__11__. He stopped from time to time. When he got to the balcony, I was a dozen steps__12__. As I reached it, I saw him at the corner of the tower.
At last, after ten minutes, I __13__him. “Excuse me,” I said as politely as I could, “but I am curious to know __14__ you came up.”
He smiled. “Comi ng up the stairs, you will notice how not just light but sun __15__into the tower through the narrow windows here and there, so that you can feel the __16__ —the cool stairs suddenly become quite warm—and how up here behind the wall there is __17__, but as soon as going opposite a window you can find the sun. There is no __18__ so good as this for feeling the difference between light and shade. It is not the first time I’ve come up.”
The blind man seemed quite __19__ just like a child who was enjoying his favorite games. He told me the truth that blind men can also find the beauty in life__20__they cannot enjoy the sights of the world.
1. A. accept B. follow C. control D. visit
2. A. frightened B. disappointed C. surprised D. embarrassed
3. A. touching B. climbing C. hitting D. covering
4. A. pointing B. attaching C. contributing D. leading
5. A. respect B. doubt C. concern D. sympathy
6. A. view B. test C. prize D. trick
7. A. kick B. jump C. relax D. escape
8. A. struggled B. explored C. wandered D. hurried
9. A. promised B. examined C. imagined D. confirmed
10. A. steps B. words C. secrets D. cheers
11. A. standard B. distance C. expense D. intention
12. A. ahead B. around C. outside D. behind
13. A. recognized B. surrounded C. approached D. witnessed
14 A. why B. how C. when D. whether
15. A. knocks B. pours C. slides D. bursts
16. A. trend B. reaction C. change D. honor
17. A. light B. space C. mess D. shade
18. A. place B. signal C. object D. period
19. A. nervous B. content C. curious D. patient
20. A. unless B. because C. once D. although
四、语法填空
Poor diets are among the top causes of ill health globally, accounting for nearly one in five deaths, according to a study published on Thursday, 21. _________ called on governments to do more to improve eating habits.
Some researchers indicate that eating unhealthy food 22 _________ not having enough food contributes to widespread malnutrition (营养不良). Therefore, diets are one of the top risk 23_________ (factor) of ill health and deaths in the world --- more than air 24_________ pollute) or smoking. A lack 25_________ knowledge and affordability of nutritious food, as well as ineffective supply chains, 26 _________ (be) among the factors that contribute to poor diets.
The researchers 27_________ (analyze) 194 countries and found that malnutrition could cost the world $3.5 trillion per year, while overweight and obesity could cost US $500 billion 28_________ (annual). Most countries are unlikely to meet nine global targets on nutrition, 29_________ (include) adult obesity and diabetes, anemia and child health.
Progress has been “unacceptably slow”. 30 _________, there is now better and more detailed data, creating an extraordinary opportunity to make effective responses.
五、单词拼写（15）
31.Sometimes customers can ___________(收益) from some advertisements.
32. Joining the firm as a clerk, he got rapid p_______, and ended up as a manager.
33.Can you (推荐) me some new books on this subject?
34.We should pay more attention to our ____________(心理)health.
35.They ________(敦促) Jack to give up smoking, but he wouldn’t listen.
36._____________(就个人而言), I prefer paintings, but I also like photography.
37.This detail actually you have referred to has no _______________ (意义).
38.The war was killing _______________(无辜)women and children.
39.It is too early to tell whether Mr. Smith has obtained such a ______________(便宜货).
40.When designing advertisements, you should choose the right _____________(目标), teenagers or grown-ups?
41.Before going on a diet, you’d better c _______________your doctor.
42.How did you p___________ him into joining us? It’s amazing!
43.At 20, Steve left his hometown, d_____________not to return without realizing his dream.
44. It is a new latest book. Our teacher recommends that I p__________ a copy to read.
45.I would rather fail than c_____________ in the examination.。