山东省青岛第十七中学2022-2023学年高一上学期
期中检测英语试题
一、阅读理解
Safety First
A home and road safety programme for children
Important!
Calling all parents! Sign your child up for our safety programme! Your children will undergo a half-day programme on safety. At the end of the programme, they will answer a written and practical quiz.
Are they responsible pedestrians (行人)?
Are they cycling safely on the roads?
Do they u electronic equipment safely?
●Friends card members enjoy a 15% discount on registration fees.
●Sign up w ith at least two friends and all three participants will enjoy a 5% discount.
●Receive a candy bag with every registration.
●The first fifty participants will receive a $20 voucher (代金券) from Book Stands.
●Register before 12 November to receive a 10% disco unt off the original registration fee and a $5 voucher from Café Express.
Venue: Police Training Centre
125 Advil Park
Fee: $40 per child
Date: 25, 26, 27 November
Time: ~
Every child will receive a Certificate of Participation after the programme.
1. What will each participant get?
A．A candy bag. B．A Friends card.
C．A visit to Book Stands. D．A $5 voucher from Café Express.
2. How do the organizers encourage people to attend the programme? A．They cut their profit. B．They allow parents to join.
C．They provide a wide variety of activities. D．They give a detailed programme schedule.
3. What can be learned about the programme?
A．It focus on sharpening children’s cycling skills.
非律宾B．It aims to strengthen children’s curity awareness.
C．It awards certificates to children who perform well.
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D．It requires participants to finish a quiz before joining it.
Stuttering （口吃）has nothing to do with intelligence. I know this becau I stutter. If it takes me a while longer to say a word, it's not becau I can't remember the word; it's becau the
neural(神经的） pathway that transforms words in my head into sounds in my mouth is wired differently. And differences, of cour, are the best way to get negative attention in our society. Taking extra time to get my words out can surely be frustrating, but that's nothing compared to the miry of dealing with people's reactions.
Almost all children who stutter are discouraged from speaking in one way or another. It's usually not as direct as someone walking up to them and saying, “Hey, stuttering kid! Keep your mouth shut!” But when your voice caus adults and peers to snicker （窃笑）or
roll their eyes, it's pretty discouraging.
Growing up, I learned to avoid speaking whenever possible. I hated what came out of my mouth, full of awkward breaks and paus. I figured whatever future I had, it probably involved a vow of silence.
Today Fm a touring author and comedian. It took me 30-something years to get over stuttering. Did I stop stuttering? No! I couldn't stop if I wanted to. But I stopped wanting to stop. Instead of wasting all my time and energy trying to meet unattainable standards, I learned that it's OK to stutter. And I learned by example. I attended the National Stuttering Association conference and met all kinds of people who stutter—people who didn't hate themlves, who
didn't silence themlves. They stuttered, and they were OK with it!
I remember watching them and thinking, "That's who I want to be!"
There's a popular saying in comedy: "Your weakness is your strength." When I first entered my local open-mic scene, I was
quickly met with some "smart" guys looking to score a cheap laugh at my expen. I remember introducing mylf to one comedian and stuttering on my name, as I usually do. Eager to demonstrate his smartness, he replied, "Is that Nina with five Ns?" "No," I said,
"it's Nina with two Ns!" Just like that, I had created a joke as the result of someone making fiin of my stutter.
To this day, whenever I need inspiration for a new joke, I just think about all the ridiculous comments I get from non-stuttering people. It's a comedy gold mine!
4. It takes the author longer to say a word becau she has _______. A．a comparatively low IQ B．trouble in organizing ideas
C．a relatively small brain D．problems in her neural system
5. What annoys the author most about her stuttering is _______. A．the unfriendly reactions of others
B．the difficulty in memorising words
C．her unpromising future as a stutterer
D．her embarrassing paus during talks
毋庸置疑是什么意思6. The author got over stuttering by _______.
A．adjusting her attitude towards it
固态硬盘接口类型B．getting help from non-stutterers
C．telling herlf constantly to stop it
D．silencing herlf whenever possible
7. Paragraph 5 is mainly about the author's _______.
A．success as a comedian
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B．respect for other comedians
C．resistance to others' strength
D．acceptance of her imperfection
Rearchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham suggest that brainwave-nsing headts (耳麦), also known as EEG headts, need to do more to protect urs after a study which shows hackers (黑客) could guess a ur’s bank account passwords by monitoring his brainwaves.
Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., professor in the UAB College of Computer and Information Sciences Department, and his team found that a person who stopped a video game and entered into a bank account while wearing an EEG headt was at a risk for having his passwords stolen by a bad software program. Saxena and his team ud one EEG headt that could be bought by customers online to show how easily an ill software program could eavesdrop on a ur’s brainwaves. While typing, a ur’s inputs meet with their visual processing, as well as hand, eye and head muscle movements. All the movements are caught by EEG headts.
The team asked 12 people to type passwords into a text box as if they were entering into an online a
ccount while wearing an EEG headt, in order for the software to train itlf on the ur’s typing and the prent brainwave. The team found that, after a ur entered passwords within the ill software program that could make educated guess about the passwords, the ur entered by reading the EEG data recorded. It incread the chance of guessing a six-letter password from one in 500,000 to one in 5.
“Given th e growing popularity of EEG headts and the different ways in which they could be ud, they will become part of our daily lives,” Saxena said. “It is important to study the possible risks together with this new technology to rai urs’ attention to the risks and develop solutions to the bad attacks.” One possible solution suggested by Saxena and his team is the inrtion (插入) of nois anytime a ur types a password while wearing an EEG headt.
8. How do hackers guess passwords of a ur’s bank account?
A．They u a software program.
B．They u a new-type computer.
C．They guess the ur’s brainwaves.
D．They talk with the ur on the net.
9. The underlined words “eavesdrop on” in Paragraph 2 refer to
“________”.
A．make full u of B．watch carefully
C．record or write down D．gain or get cretly
10. What was the result of the rearch of Saxena and his team in Paragraph 3?
A．They made a very exact answer.
B．They got clo to the passwords.
C．They got a part of the passwords.
D．They failed to get the passwords.
11. Why do EEG headts need to do more to develop solutions?
A．More and more hackers come about.
B．More people u online bank accounts.
C．EEG headts will become more popular.
D．EEG headts still have problems in quality.
'There's no place like home. 'This English saying has much truth
in it：the best place to be is surrounded by our treasured posssions and our loved ones and with a roof over our head. And for many young adults, it's the only affordable place to stay; somewhere where they can receive first-class rvice from mum and dad. But this comes at a price!
春夜洛城闻笛古诗孔雀鱼怎么受精In some countries, it's quite traditional for people in their
late teens and early 20s to live at home with their parents, but in other places, flying the nest to start their own independent life is very desirable. But there's been a growing trend, in the UK at least, for young people to return home to live-or not to leave home at all.
A survey by a price comparison website found that 18% of adult children in the UK said they were moving back home becau of debt, compared with 8% last year. More young people had lost their jobs,
and others couldn't afford their rent compared with the previous year. So, it's easy to e why they're increasingly becoming home birds.
The BBC's Lucy Hooker explains that many returning adult children enjoy home comforts. But for the 'hoteliers', that's mum and dad, the survey found the average cost to them has gone up sharply, and that they are sacrificing luxuries and holidays to look after their 'big kids'. Emma Craig from Money supermarket says " they're trying to
look after their children more. If your child comes home and you e them struggling financially, you feel more awkward asking them for
rent or to contribute. It tugs on your heartstrings more. "
With parents splashing out around ￡1, 886 on takeaway food, buying new furniture and upgrading their Wi-Fi for the benefit of
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their offspring, it's easy for the returning children to put their
feet up and make themlves at home. That's before they learn a home truth-that one day it might be their own kids who'll be checking into the hotel of mum and dad!
