高二年级第二学期英语学科5月阶段调研卷
Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A Directions: After reading the passages below,fill in the blanks to make the passages 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, u one word that best fits each blank.
(A)
In the next few decades, people are going to travel very differently from the way 21 do today. Everyone is going to drive electrically-powered cars, so in the years, people won't worry about running out of gas. Some of the large automobile companies are really moving ahead with this new technology. F&C Motors, a major auto company, for example, is holding a press conference next week. After the press conference, the company will prent 22 鲁滨孙漂流记好词 new
23 （electronically-operate）models.
Transportation in the future won't be limited to the ground.Many people predict24 traffic will quickly move to the sky. In the 25 (come) years, instead of radio reports about road conditions and highway traffic, news reports will talk about traffic jams in the sky. 26 the sky isn't the limit. In the future, you will probably even be able to take a trip to the moon.27 listening to regular airplane announcements, you will hear someone say: the spacecraft to the moon 28 (leave)in 10 minutes. Plea check your equipment. And remember no more than 10 ounces of carry-on baggage are allowed.
(B)
What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people 29 (bear) intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? The are very old questions and the answers to 30 are still not clear. We know, however, that just being born 31 a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm
muscle. It needs exerci. Mental (done with the mind) exerci is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists (心理学家) think that parents 32 play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then 33 ( likely) to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.Parents should also be careful with 34 they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep 35 (do) silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive (helpful) things to their children, 36 “That was a very clever thing you did.”or“You are such a smart child.”
Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be u ones. Note that there is one word more that you need.
酱焖鲫鱼怎么做A.opportunity B.reality C. impossible D. importantly E.ordinary属羊和属狗 F. achieve G. view H. fame I. laughed J. formed |
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I believe in the challenge to accomplish something out of the ordinary. I have ___闺蜜电影37__ this belief from the Guinness Book of World Records. That book showed me the value of equal ____38__and competition. It proved to me, early on, that I could ri above anonymity and ___39___ remarkable things.
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The Guinness Book of World Records taught me to believe in the “accessibility of the “___40__”. I was attracted by the descriptions in the book: the fastest, the longest, the widest, the most …whatever you can imagine. It opened up the possibility of what I might be able to do.
The Guinness Book of World Records taught me tenacity and perverance and, more __41___, the desire to do
something unexpected. So many people in the book were __42___ by family and friends for what they were doing. Yet they did it. I e them as success stories --- the ___43吹的英文____ people who did something extraordinary.
I am not saving the world. I am not the best at what I do, but I am only 24 --- there is still time.
The Guinness Book of World Records helped give me a different ___44___ on the impossible, and encouraged me to try something unusual. I believe in making the “dream ” a ___45____, and I hope to someday break a few records mylf.
Ⅲ.Reading comprehension
Section A
German universities, known for their excellence throughout the world in the early part of the 20th century, are in a state of decline, according to Michael Burda, an American economics professor at Berlin’s Humholdt University．
Burda claims that Germany’s 300 schools of 46 learning are being hurt by “a long-time shortage of general 47 ．
“No statistic（统计数字） makes this more evident than a low proportion of young Germans actually 48 university-level degrees,” he says．
Only 22 per cent of German students aged 24-34 49 complete their university studies．That’s compared to 31 percent in the UK, and 39 percent in the US, 50 精益生产管理培训 the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development （OECD）．
One reason for the decline is that Germany spends barely 1．1 per cent of its gross 51 product （GDP） on higher education, compared to 2．6 percent in the US．
“ A central reason why so few Germans 52 university degrees here is the deterioration （下降/退化） in the 53 of education．This certainly comes from the ri in the number of students per teacher．Tho who have the will and the means often study 54 ,” he said．
