上海市七宝中学高三上学期周测卷英语试题1 含答案
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Test for 21
st
Teens, Issue 646
(sept 19)
Schoolgirl picks names (7%)
Many
children dream of becoming astronauts (宇航员),
scientists, teachers or pop stars, but it
is
unlikely that many would say, “When I grow up, I
want to help people pick their baby’s name.”
Yet one British teenager is a baby namer ____1____
is laughing all the way to the bank.
Beau
Jessup, 16, ____2_____(earn) more than ￡48,000
(422,155 yuan) by helping Chinese
parents
choose English names for their children, according
to the BBC.
A student at Cheltenham Ladies
College in England, Jessup had the idea during a
family visit
to China. It came ____3_____,
during a meal out, she was asked by her parents’
friends to suggest
an English name for their
newborn baby.
And thus, her business was
born: She ___4_____(found) the Specialname
website.
After choosing their child’s
gender (性别), parents are asked by the site to
select from a list of
12 personality traits
(特点) – including sensitive, honest, creative and
clever – to match the way
they would like
their kid to be.
Three names are then
suggested, along with their meanings and a famous
person with the same
name such as Grace Kelly
or Catherine Middleton. For example, Rose means
elegant, sensitive
and reliable. Parents can
share the choices with their family and friends
using messaging app
WeChat so they can help
make the final choice.
Users
____5____(charge) dozens of yuan to use the
service. Jessup said she was happy to have
played a part in the lives of many families
and changed her own life.
“I have a target
(目标) to reach ___6____ will allow me to pay for my
university fees, and
writing the text for the
site was really good practice for my Mandarin GCSE
(General Certificate
of Secondary Education),”
she told The Independent.
The practice of
the Chinese ____7____(choose) Western names for
themselves and their kids
has been going on
for decades. It is especially handy when it comes
to cross-cultural
communication.
Jessup’s
business isn’t the first of its kind. Last year,
Lindsay Jernigan from the US started a
similar
site called “Best English Names”.
Chinese
people aren’t the only ones who pay companies to
choose names for their babies,
either. In
recent years, baby name experts have found success
in the US and Europe by helping
parents
name their babies.
Climbing in pain(10%)
Day one: Saturday, April 26, 9 am.
Out in
the desert, I leave my truck ____8_____ the path
begins for Horseshoe Canyon. My plan
is to
cycle up Horshoe Canyon, leave the bike at the top
and then come down Blue John Canyon
on foot.
The trip is a last-minute decision. Usually I
would leave a detailed schedule with my roommates,
but the only word I have given is “Utah”.
____9_____ the Blue John path will be only a
day trip, I’m carrying a 13kg pack, most of the
weight ____10_____ (take) up by climbing gear
(装备) for the canyon, food and four liters of
water.
By 2:30 pm, I’m about 7 miles into
the canyon, where the canyon is no more than 1
meter wide.
____11____(get) down a steep
(急剧下降的) drop I try to hang off the edge of a
boulder (巨石)
that is stuck between the walls
of the canyon. Just before I let go of it, I feel
it move.
___12_____ ________ ________ I
land on the floor of the canyon, the boulder comes
falling down. In the narrow space I cannot
avoid the boulder. It hits one wall and then
breaks
my right arm against the other wall and
stops there.
The extreme pain throws me into a
panic. I pull my arm quickly three times in an
attempt to get
it out from under the rock. But
I’m stuck. There is no way I ____13_____ pull it
out or move
the boulder.
There is no
feeling in my right hand at all and it is already
turning grey.
My immediate worry is water. The
average survival time in the desert ___14_____
water is
between two and three days. My next
thought is escape. Eliminating (消除) ideas that are
just
too stupid (like breaking open my AA
batteries and hoping the acid eats into the stone
but not
my arm), I decide to try to chip away
the rock around my hand with my knife. This is
terribly
slow.
___15_____ _________ I
wanted to sleep, I couldn’t. My hand is trapped
too high up so I
can’t lie down, and as soon
as my knees bend, the pain is terrible.
____16____(use) a rope and
some of my climbing
gear, I manage to fix a kind of seat. That helps
me take the weight off my
feet,
although I soon realize that the straps (带子)
restrict (限制) the blood supply and I can’t sit
in it for more than 20 minutes.
Pandas making their comeback(10%)
A.
foreseeable B. recovery C. extinction D.
concern AB. reserves
AC. decreasing
AD. maintain BC. banning BD. threatened CD.
survive
ABC. endangered
When it
comes to cuteness, few animals can compete with
the giant panda, a national treasure.
And
there is good news for the lovable creature: It
has just been brought back from the brink (边
缘)
of ____17_____.
The International Union for
Conservation (保护) of Nature (IUCN) downgraded the
species
from “____18_____” to “vulnerable”
(易危) as the union published its new Red List on
Sept 4.
The downgrade came after IUCN data
suggested that there were 1,864 giant pandas in
the wild
in China in 2014－their population
grew by 17 percent in the decade leading up to
2014.
Chinese conservation efforts are
considered to have played a big part in the
animal’s
comeback.Œ
Decades of
conservation efforts have included the _____19____
of giant panda poaching (偷
猎) and the creation
of a panda reserve (保护区) system, increasing the
number of areas where the
animal can live.
“The Chinese have done a great job in
investing in panda habitats, expanding and setting
up
new ____20_____,” Ginette Hemley, senior
vice-president for wildlife conservation at the
World
Wildlife Fund (WWF), told the BBC.
The number of panda reserves in China has jumped
to 67 from 13 in 1992. Nearly two-thirds
of
all wild pandas live in these reserves, according
to the WWF.
“The ____21_____ of the panda
shows that when science, politics and … local
communities
come together, we can save
wildlife,” WWF Director General Marco Lambertini
told CNN.
The giant panda, however, is not
completely safe yet. Climate change and
____22_____
amounts of bamboo could mean the
gains that have been made in the past few decades
don’t last.
The BBC said that fast climate
change might destroy a third of the giant pandas’
bamboo-filled
homes in the next 80
years. Due to the warmer weather, bamboo might not
even____23____.
Pandas must eat 12kg to 38kg
worth of bamboo each day to ____24____ their
energy needs. It
makes up some 99 percent of
their diet, without which they are likely to
starve.
“It is a real ____25_____, and this
is the main problem that species are facing all
over the
world with regard to (关于) climate
change,” Joe Walston, vice president of
Conservation Field
Programs for the Wildlife
Conservation Society, told the Live Science
website. “The most
important thing we can do
at the moment is to be able to grow … that habitat
(栖息地) and …
allow pandas to move across land.”
Therefore, conservation efforts will
continue and the giant panda will still be “a
conservation-dependent species for the
_____26____ future,” the IUCN’s report concluded.
Money motivates fitness(15%)
Do you
think you would work out more if you were offered
money to do so? Science has
shown that money
can give people motivation to ____27_____, but
perhaps not in the way that
you think.
According to a study published in the Annals of
Internal Medicine journal, the best
___28_____
isn’t offering money; it’s giving someone money,
then ____29_____ to take it away.
Researchers gave 281 people the goal of walking
7,000 steps every day over 13 weeks.
To
motivate the people who took part to reach the
goal, researchers divided them into
____30____
groups. People in the first group received $$1.40
(9 yuan) each day as long as they
____31_____
7,000 steps; the second group was only able to
collect the $$1.40 if they had reached
7,000
steps the day before; and the third group was
given $$42 at the beginning of each month, and
$$1.40 was taken away every time someone failed
to meet the goal.
The third group met their
daily ____32____ goals 50 percent more often than
the other two
groups, showing that people were
most ____33_____ to walk by the fear of losing
money.
“People are more motivated by losses
than gains, and they like ____34____ gratification
(满
足),” study author Dr Mitesh Patel, an
assistant professor at the University of
Pennsylvania in the
US, told CNN. “They want
to be ____35_____ today, not next year or far into
the future.”
Our brains tend to avoid
wanting to lose things more than they try to get
the ____36_____
from gaining them, Patel
explained. “It makes people think like the money
is theirs to lose from
day one.”
___37____, in most programs, many participants
(参与者) will drop out quickly and only the
motivated will stay _____38_____, Patel said.
“In ours, we were pleasantly surprised that
96 percent stayed,” he added.
The study
provides _____39_____ that what matters is not
only the money incentives (奖励),
but also how
you think about them.ΠThis is important to how
effective they are. The evidence
could have a
big effect on health promotion programs in the
future, according to the study.
“____40_____ themselves are not all you need,”
Stephanie Pronk, a health and wellness
consultant (顾问) with the Aon plc corporation,
told The Wall Street Journal. “It’s really
important
to ____41_____ the incentive design
and keep people on their toes.”
27. A. turn up
28. A. test
B. work out
B.
campaign
B. threatening
B. two
C. make up
C. design
C. failing
C. three
C. followed
C. study
D. talk about
D.
strategy
D. managing
D. four
D. ran
D. fitness
D. blessed
D. mutual
D. rewarded
D. gifts
D. For example
D. involved
D. aid
D. Experiences
D. produce
29. A. attempting
30. A.
one
31. A.
finished
32. A. calorie
33. A.
motivated
34. A. emotional
35. A. praised
36. A. budgets
B. challenged
B.
business
B. worried
C. disappointed
C. intellectual
C. forced
C.
benefits
B. immediate
B.
compared
B. opportunities
B. In addition
B. calm
B. funds
37. A. As
a result
38. A. refreshed
39. A. evidence
C. By contrast
C. awake
C. suggestions
C. Incentives
C.
change
40. A. expectations
41. A. adopt
(8%)
B. Outcomes
B. award
A. But he likes to compete with himself and to
improve his acting skills through doing different
kinds of work.
B. His acting life
stared well.
C. He was first recognized as a
talented actor.
D. Dancer-turned-actor Yang
felt lost in the world of acting after he
graduated.
AB. But behind his pretty face is a
heart that won’t give up.
AC. Different
producers and directors offered him roles.
Yang Yang may very well be one of the most popular
actors in China. His good looks,
solider-like
qualities and heartwarming smile have attracted
audiences. _________42__________
Yang
majored in the Department of Dance at People’s
Liberation Army Arts College, a school
in
which students need to take part in military-style
(军队风格的) practices. _____43__________
At the
age of 16, he stood out with his manners and was
personally handpicked to play the lead
role of
Jia Baoyu in TV drama A Dream of Red Mansions
(红楼梦) by the director Li Shaohong.
“He
looks righteous (正气的) and innocent (纯真的),
seemingly having no knowledge of the
darkness
in the world,” commented director Li Shaohong.
Now this Chinese actor has taken his home
country by storm after being cast as Xiao Nai in
the hit TV drama A Smile Is Beautiful
(微微一笑很倾城) an adaptation of the best-selling book
written by Gu Man. In the show, he stars as a
handsome college student doing a computer science
major. Many people think Yang is the right
person for the role.
However, life is not
always plain sailing. He has suffered many ups and
downs as well.
__________44___________ “At the
beginning, I didn’t know how to be an actor,” he
told
.
__________45___________ After he
starred in the films The Left Ear (左耳) in 2014 and
The
Lost Tomb (盗墓笔记) in 2015, Yang started to
gain more recognition.
“So many times he
felt his acting was not good enough and asked to
try it again. He couldn’t
be more serious,”
said Alec Su, director of movie The Left Ear.
Key for Issue 646
1. who 2.
has earned 3. when 4. founded 5. are charged
6. that 7. choosing
8. where 9. Though
10. taken 11. To get 12. As soon as 13. can
14. without
15. Even if 16. using
17—26 C ABC BC AB B AC CD D A
27—30 BDBC
42—45 AB B
31—35
ADABD
D A
36—40 CBDAC 41. C