1、上海市上海交通大学附中学年高二下学期期末英语试题上海市上海交通大学附中2020-2021学年高二下学期期末英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、用单词的适当形式完成短文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;
2、for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.To Kill A Mockingbird (Excerpt I) By Harper LeeI was fairly sure Boo Radley was inside that house, but I couldnt prove it, and felt it best to keep my mouth shut or I would be accused 1 believing in Hot Steams, phenomena I was immune to in
3、 the daytime.Jem parceled out our roles: I was Mrs. Radley, and 2 I had to do was come out and sweep the porch. Dill was old Mr.Radley: he walked up and down the sidewalk and coughed when Jem spoke to him. Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and screamed from time to time.3 the su
4、mmer progressed, so did our game. We polished and perfected it, and added dialogue and plot until we had manufactured a small play upon which we rang changes every day.Dill was a villains villain: he could get into any character part 4 (assign)him, and appear tall if height was part of the cruelty r
5、equired. He was as good as his worst performance; his worst performance was Gothic. I reluctantly played various ladies who entered the script. I never thought it as much fun as Tarzan, and I played that summer with more than vague anxiety 5 Jems assurances that Boo Radley was dead and nothing would
6、 get me, with him and Calpurnia there in the daytime and Atticus home at night.Jem was a born hero.It was a blue little drama, 6 (weave) from bits and pieces of gossip and neighborhood legend: Mrs. Radley had been beautiful until she married Mr Radley and lost all her money. She also lost most of he
7、r teeth, her hair, and her right forefinger; she sat in the living room and cried most the time, 7. Boo slowly whittled(消减) away all the furniture in the house.The three of us were the boys 8 got into trouble; I was the judge, for a change; Dill led Jem away and crammed him beneath the steps, poking
8、 him with the brushbroom. Jem would reappear as needed in the shapes of the sheriff, various townsfolk, and Miss Stephanie Crawford, who had more to say about the Radleys than anybody in Maycomb.When it was time to play Boos big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from the sewi
9、ng-machine drawer when Calpurnias back 9 (turn), then sit in the swing and cup up newspapers. Dill would walk by, cough at Jem, and Jem would pretend a plunge into Dills thing. From 10. I stood it looked real.Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coheren
10、t 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, use one word that best fits each blank.What the Bible Says About MoneyMost people know Sean Hyman form his regular appearances on Fox Business, CNBC, and Bl
11、oomberg Television, but what they dont know is that Sean is a former minister, and that his secret to 11 (invest)is hidden within the Bible. Perhaps 12 can explain why, despite his mysterious ability to predict accuate moves in the stock market, Sean is often laughed at for his unique strategy for i
12、nvesting.For example, a few months ago Sean appeared on Bloomberg Television. At that time, Best Buy 13 (drop) to all-time lows of $16 a share. Sean predicted the stock 14 go down to $11 a share, and would then quickly rebound to $25 per share, and after that would restore to 40 per share over the n
13、ext year. Another commentator on the show actually challenged Sean for his prediction, saying “$40 on Best Busy? If thats the case Apple is going to $1500. Thats the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard! (Editors Note: At the time, Apple was trading at $650 per share.) Within a few weeks, Sean wo
14、uld receive the last laugh. Best Buy dropped down to $11.20 a share and has since rebounded to $30 a share, 15 (continue) its path to $40. exactly as Sean predicted. (Ironically, Apple has dropped down to about $400 per share.)During a recent private dinner with Sean, once he 16 (bless) the food, I
15、wasted no time 17 (ask) him what his secret is for investing so successfully. I expected Sean to say that it was his years of experience at Charles Schwab or perhaps one of the complicated algorithms(算法) he uses for timing the stock market. 18 when Sean responded that his secret was the Bible, I was
16、 thoroughly shocked.Yes, I knew Swan was a Christian. However, people usually keep their faith separate from things likeinvesting. But not Swan. For Sean, the Bible is his foundation for investing.He explained to me 19 there is actually a “Bible Money Code” hidden into Scripture. Certain investment
17、Giants, Sean says, such as Warren Buffett and John Templeton, 20 (already use) this code to store up billions. Finally, Sean used the teachings of King Solomon and Jesus of Nazareth to show how anyone can get out of debtmake sound investmentsand morally build substantial wealth.二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文Direc
18、tions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.Here is a lesson that were going to be taught again and again in the coming years: Most animals are not just animals. Theyre also 21 of microbes (微生物).
19、 If you really want to understand the animal, you also have to understand the world of microbes inside them. In other words, zoology is ecology.Consider the western corn rootworm- a beetle thats a serious pest of corn in the US. The adults have strong preferences for laying eggs in corn fields, so t
20、hat their underground larvae (幼虫) hatch into a 22 of corn roots. This life cycle depends on a continuous year-on-year supply of corn. Farmers can use this dependency against the rootworm, by planting soybean and corn in alternate years. These rotations (轮流) mean that rootworms lay eggs into corn fie
21、lds but their larvae hatch among soybean, and die.But the rootworms have 23 to this strategy by reducing their strong 24 for laying eggs in corn. These “rotation-resistant” females might lay among soybean fields, so their larvae hatch into a crop of corn.There are almost certainly genetic difference
22、s that separate the rotation-resistant rootworms from their normal 25. Researchers at the University of Illinois began to study the genes of the bacteria in its gut (肠) and found some answers, after focusing on the rootworms own genes and found that the results were mostly inconclusive.“The bad guy
23、in the story-the western corn rootworm-was actually part of a multi-species plot,” says Joe Spencer, who was part of the study. “No wonder it was hard to figure out what was happening. We were only looking at the most obvious 26 of the story.”If you really want to understand the animal, you also hav
24、e to understand the microbes. The rootworms gut bacteria are effectively another one of its organs, but an 27 flexible on that can change dramatically when 28 to a new food source. This allows the insects to adapt very quickly to environmental challenges, far more quickly than if they could only rel
25、y on mutations (突变) in their own genes.Spencer says, “Modern agriculture has always underestimated the ability of pests to avoid pest control, and I think the 29 that pest insects are not alone in their efforts should give us some 30. There is a brand new tiny world out there inside every creature,
26、and we need to start thinking seriously about it.”三、完形填空 In a development that would have seemed hardly possible just over a decade ago, many of us have gained constant access to information. If we need to find out the score of a ballgame, learn how to perform a complicated mathematical task, or sim
27、ply remember the name of the actress in the movie we are viewing, we need only turn to our 31 or smart phones and we can find the answers immediately. It has become such an ordinary 32 to look up the answer to any question the moment it occurs. It can feel like going through withdrawal when we cant
28、find out something immediately. We are seldom offline unless by choice and the Internet, with its search engines like Baidu and Google and the information stored there, has become an 33 memory source that we can access at any time.Storing information externally is nothing particularly 34 , even befo
29、re the invention of computers. In any group relationship, people typically develop a transactive(交换式) memory, which is a combination of memory stores held directly by individuals and the memory stores they can 35 because they are in touch with someone who knows that information. Like 36 computers th
30、at can address each others memories, people in groups form transactive memory systems.In a rec arch led by Besty Sparrow of Columbia University, researchers have 37 whether having online access to search engines has become a primary transactivc memory source in itself. If asked the question whether
31、there are any countries with only one color in their flag, for example, do we think about flags or immediately think to go online to find out the answer?In one experiment, the participants were asked to read 40 memorable unimportant statements of the type that they could 38 online (e.g., an ostrichs
32、 eye is bigger than its brain). Then they were asked to type the statements into computer to assure memory. Half the participants believed the computer would save what was typed and the other half believed the item would be 39 . After the reading and typing task, participants wrote down as many of the statements as they could 40 . It turned out that participants who believed the computer would erase what they had typed had 41 recall than those who regarded the computer as the memory source.The Internet
