上海市青浦高级中学2022-2023学年高一上学期期末英
语试题
一、用单词的适当形式完成短文
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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, ud one word that best fits each blank.
Would you like to travel through time like the Doctor from Doctor Who? Well, according to scientists from the University of British Columbia in Canada and the University of Maryland in the US, it is a mathematical possibility. In a report titled Tardis —a nod to Doctor Who’s police box spacecraft, they describe a way 1 time travel could happen using a machine made of extraordinary materials.
To understand 2 the scientists have propod, we first need to go back more than 100 year s. Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity was published in 1915 and explains how the path of light 3 (affect) by massive objects, such as planets and stars, that have a huge amount of gravity. Einstein believed that the huge objects bend space and time, allowing light to curve around them. Think of it li
ke this: imagine you’re standing in the middle of a trampoline (蹦床) — it will dip downwards. If you put a tennis ball near the edge, it would roll towards you 4 it gets to your feet. You
are 5 a planet: the dip in the trampoline is like the curve in space-time; and the tennis ball is light travelling around the planet.
One of the most interesting parts of Einstein’s theory was the idea that
time 6 change, depending on how fast a person is travelling. He believed that if someone were travelling at the speed of light in space then time would
pass 7 (slowly) for them, compared with someone standing still on Earth. Although this sounds impossible, scientists 8 (experiment) with accurate clocks and found that it is true.
The scientists bad their report on Einstein’s theory of bending space-time. They found that if a time machine could travel faster than the speed of light and “bend time into a circle”, usin g something called exotic matter, then they could theoretically travel back in time. 9 the science is correct, the rearchers said that it is unlikely anyone would ever achieve it.
Ben Tippett, one of the rearchers, said, “ 10 it is mathematically feasible (可行的), it is not yet p
ossible to build a space-time machine becau we need materials —
which we call exotic matter — to bend space-time in the impossible ways, but they have yet to be discovered.”
二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word
Pirates had existed for as long as man had sailed the as. In the 1600s, the sight of the Jolly Roger would 11 fear into the hearts of even the bravest amen, and it was at this time that they truly began to rule the 12 .
The colonisation of the New World and the birth of the slave trade meant that the oceans were crowded with richly loaded merchant (商人) ships, and many men and women turned to a life of 13 on the high as. And what a life it was! A bottle of rum (朗姆酒) at breakfast, and a day spent stalking ships and trading spoils in pirate havens.
The hives (聚居地) of villainy, hidden away on islands in the Caribbean and Indian Oceans, rved as 14 sites for attacks on enemy outposts and merchant ships. Here, pirates could repair their ships away from the watchful eye of the Navy, while taverns and gambling halls provided welcome 15 for pirates who had spent months at a.
Over the years, pi rates’ lives became easier and even more lucrative. Sailors knew the bandits were skilled, well-armed, and willing to 16 it all— the chance of winning a battle with them was slim. Ships that did put up a fight were shown no 17 , so their best option was to rai the white flag and surrender.
However, as the problem of piracy grew, merchant communities began to
take 18 into their own hands, arming and equipping ships at their own expen to protect commerce. The ships, 19 b y ‘privateers’, were licend by the crown and could attack any enemy ship. Over time, the line between privateer and pirate became unclear.
In a world where native populations were being wiped out or bound in chains, pirate life 20 freedom and dem ocracy. It’s easy to e why many found it hard to resist the spoils of the Golden Age of Piracy.
三、完形填空
In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton, obrved light entering a prism (三棱镜), and from this experience he made a brilliant discovery about light and colour; that white light is made up of a spectrum of veral colours. He was 21 with light, and believed that it had a clo relationship to the concept that the early modern scientist knew as ‘the vegetable spirit’, which was an idea that Newton coined.
Newton was 22 awed (敬畏) by the beauty and complexity of nature. Over time, he concluded that the massive variety of life and process that occur in nature, such as growth and 23 , meant there must be some 24 force making it all happen. He believed that the ‘vegetable spirit’ was that 25 , and he thought it might be linked with the power of light.
To tho only familiar with Newton’s discoveries in 26 and physics, the idea of the ‘vegetable spirit’ might em 27 , and even pudo-scientific. However, this idea was cloly 28 with a subject that he is not very often known for studying, and yet spent a great amount of his time devoted to: alchemy. In his lifetime, Newton wrote around one million words on alchemy (炼金术), which shows how committed he was to the 29 . Through his rearch into alchemy, Newton hoped to 30 the cret of the ‘Vegetable spirit’, or the spirit of life.
Newton was not the first person to turn to alchemy in order to find what he was looking for, and was in fact one of the last in a long line of alchemists who sought to u the art for the purpo of discovering the univer’s remarkable crets.
小学生六年级作文The 31 of alchemy can be traced back 2,000 years before Newton to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. In fact, the word ‘alchemy’ may be derived from Khem, which was an Ancient Greek 32 for Egypt. Even though alchemical tradition often states that the 33 father of the practice was Hermes Trismegistus, it is very difficult小山屋
绘本ppt下载to 34 the root of alchemy to one person. On the other hand, it is much more likely that the first proto-alchemists were Egyptian metalworkers, who would have worked with veral different types of metal. It was gold that had the most 35 , therefore many focud their attention on this precious metal. Dyers and medicine-makers were also linked to early alchemy.
21.
A．satisfied B．experienced C．attracted D．fascinated
22.
A．constantly B．casually C．hardly D．emingly
23.
A．development B．disappearance C．death D．peace 24.
A．struggling B．driving C．leading D．pulling
25.
A．nature B．spirit C．force D．power
26.
A．mathematics B．science C．spirit D．nature
27.
A．uncomfortable B．strange C．reasonable D．objective
28.
A．relevant B．stuck C．dealt D．associated
29.雨天的歌
A．problem B．practice C．mystery D．career
30.
我眼中的幸福A．complete B．hide C．uncover D．restore
31.
A．crets B．discoverers C．origins D．traditions
32.
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A．expert B．custom C．term D．subject
33.
A．basic B．biological C．imaginary D．founding
34.
A．tie B．show C．stick D．involve
35.
A．popularity B．value C．amount D．usages
四、阅读理解
Last year, Liu Xiang, who lives alone in Shanghai, wrote an analysis of nearly 3,000 words on small home appliances that make living alone all the more pleasurable. Her take on the items, ranging from desk lamps and hair dryers to cooking machines, drew more than 100 replies, unusual for that specific ction of the discussion group where 50 replies would normally put the topic in the hot category.
高热量However, the interest shown to what to some may em like a trifling matter should not really be that surprising given that in China 77 million people live alone. The solo
dwellers, aged 20 to 39, are mostly engaged in high-paying jobs in fields like finance, so as a group they have tremendous spending power.
Home appliance makers and llers are one of the main beneficiaries of the solo economy. Take Little Bears Electric Appliances. It has been expanding and updating its product line to target at the solo market, and half its 40 product categories are now singles-friendly.
A New York University sociology professor, Eric Klinenberg, said in his book Going Solo: The Extraordinary Ri and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone that the single society is becoming hugely powerful and an indicator of social change.
In 2018 and 2019 the Japane video game Travel Frog became a hit in China. Actually, Travel Frog was a game that emed to speak directly to tho who keep the solo economy ticking. In it, a wayward (任性的) frog has become a baby people are keen on looking after. The frog never interacts with the player, eats alone, reads and does craft work at home and often ts out on journeys, nding postcards to the player letting him or her know its new location. The Travel Frog phenomenon was just one more sign of the increasing importance of the solo economy, with more and more people actively or passively accepting and enjoying their solitude.
Travelling alone is becoming a strong market opportunity. 75% of Ctri p’s lf-operated tour groups have opened options for one-person travel, and it plans to develop more innovative products and rvices tailored to solo travelers.
In entertainment and recreation, too, the solo economy is changing how things work. Minikaraoke booths, lf-rvice photo studios and lf-rvice gyms have popped up on many comers in many cities.
36. Liu Xiang’s article about small home appliances is well-received by _____. A．tho living all by themlves B．a specific discussion group
C．home appliance producers D．people with high-paying jobs
37. By “singles-friendly” (in paragraph 3), the author most probably means that Little Bears’ products _____.
A．are innovative in design B．are easy to u to any individual C．address the needs of the individual D．are environmentally conscious
38. What do the travel frog and its player have in common?
A．They both em to enjoy living alone. B．They are both keen on travelling.
C．They both stimulate the solo economy. D．They both interact with others reluctantly.
39. What is the passage mainly about?
A．The popularity of solo dwelling. B．The prospect of the solo market. C．The influence of living alone. D．The ri of the solo economy.
