1、江苏省盐城市阜宁县学年高一下学期期中考试 英语 Word版含答案绝密启用前江苏省盐城市阜宁县2016-2017学年高一下学期期中考试 英语 Word版含答案试卷副标题考试范围：xxx；考试时间：42分钟；命题人：xxx学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_题号一二三四五六总分得分注意事项1答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息2请将答案正确填写在答题卡上第I卷（选择题）评卷人得分一、阅读理解（题型注释）In 1929, a peasant in Sichuan Province uncovered jade (玉器) and stone artifacts(手工艺品) while repairin
2、g a ditch(沟渠) located about 24 miles from Chengdu. But their significance wasnt understood until 1986, when archaeologists unearthed two pits(大坑) of Bronze Age treasures. The discovery suggests an impressive technicality(手工技艺), said Peter Keller, a geologist and president of the Bowers Museum in Cal
3、ifornia, which is currently hosting an exhibit of some of these treasures.The treasures came from a lost civilization, now known as the Sanxingdui, a city on the banks of the Minjiang River.“Its a big mystery,” said Keller, who is not involved in the current study.“Archaeologists now believe that th
4、e culture disappeared sometime between 3,000 and 2,800 years ago,” Niannian fan, a river science researcher at Tsinghua University in Chengdu, China, said.“The current explanations for why it disappeared are war and flood, but both are not very convincing,” Fan told Live Science.But about 14 years a
5、go, archaeologists found the remains of another ancient city called Jinsha near Chengdu. The Jinsha site, though it contained none of the bronzes of Sanxingdui, did have a gold crown covered with fish, arrows and birds similar to golden objects found at Sanxingdui. That has led some scholars to beli
6、eve that the people from Sanxingdui may have relocated to Jinsha.Fan wondered whether an earthquake may have caused landslides that dammed the river high up in the mountains and rerouted it to Jinsha. That catastrophe may have reduced Sanxingduis water supply, spurring its people to move.And some hi
7、storical records support their assumptions. In 1099 B.C., ancient writers recorded an earthquake in the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, in Shanxi Province, Fan said. Though that spot is roughly 250 miles from the historic site of Sanxingdui, the latter culture didnt have writing at the time. So its pos
8、sible the earthquake epicenter(震中) was actually close to Sanxingduibut it just wasnt recorded there.Around the same time, geological sediment(沉积物) suggest massive flooding occurred, and the later-han Dynasty document The Chronicles of the Kings of Shu records ancient floods pouring from a mountain i
9、n a spot that suggests the flow being rerouted, Fan said.Together, the findings hint that major earthquake triggered a landslide that dammed the river, rerouting its flow and reducing water flow to Sanxingdui, Fan said.1、In the first paragraph, the author wants to _.Aintroduce the topic of a lost ci
10、vilizationBtel us how beautiful the jade and stone artifacts lookCremind us to pay attention to the earthquakeDinform us we can easily find treasures in a ditch2、According to the passage, the following statements are true EXCEPT that _.ABowers Museum is exhibiting some of Bronze Age treasuresBPeter
11、Keller is the lead researcher on the study of SanxingduiCsome scholars think that the people from Sanxingdui may have moved to JinshaDsome findings support the idea that an earthquake caused a landslide, which dammed the river, rerouting its flow and reducing water flow to Sanxingdui3、Which of the f
12、ollowing is the most probable explanation of mystery of the disappearance of Sanxingduis civilization?AWar.BFlood.CEarthquake.DHurricane.4、Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “spurring” in the seventh paragraph?AForcing.BAllowing.CSupporting.DFavoring.5、What type of w
13、riting is this passage?AScience fiction.BAn official document.CA newspaper report.DA research report.I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk, in the east of England, and was given my poor fathers name, David Copperfield. Sadly, he never saw me and died six months before I was born. My early childhood
14、 was extremely happy, as my beautiful mother and kind Peggotty took care of me. But when I was about eight, a shadow passed over my happiness. My mother often went out walking, in her best clothes, with a gentleman called Mr Murdstone. He seemed to be very fond of my mother. But I knew that Peggotty
15、 did not like him.A few months later Peggotty told me that my mother was going to have a short holiday with some friends. Meanwhile Peggotty and I would go to stay with her brother Daniel in Yarmouth，on the east coast, for two weeks. I spent a wonderfully happy two weeks there, playing all day on th
16、e beach with Emily, and sleeping in my own little bed on the ship. I am sure I was in love with little Emily in my childish way, and I cried bitterly when we had to say goodbye at the end of the holiday.But on the way home to Blunderstone, Peggotty looked at me very worriedly. she said suddenly in a
17、 trembling voice.I must tell youWhile weve been away, your dear motherhas married Mr Murdstone！Hes your stepfather now!I was deeply shocked. I could not understand how my mother could have married that man. And when we arrived home, I went straight to my room and lay sobbing on my bed, which made my
18、 poor mother very unhappy too. As she sat beside me, holding my hand, Mr Murdstone suddenly came in.Whats this, Chara, my love? he asked sternly. Remember, you must be firm with the boy！Ive told you before, youre too weak with him! And when mother left the room, Mr Murdstone whispered angrily to me,
19、 David, do you know what Ill do if you dont obey me？Ill beat you like a dog! I was still very young, and I was very frightened of him. If he had said one kind word to me, perhaps I would have liked and trusted him, and my life would have been different. Instead, I hated him for the influence he had
20、over my dear mother, who wanted to be kind to me, but also wanted to please her new husband6、According to the passage, what ended Davids happy childhood?AHis fathers death.BPeggottys ignorance of him.CHis mothers acquaintance with Mr.Murdstone.DMr.Murdstones love to his mother.7、Whats the authors to
21、ne in writing the underlined sentences in P2?ASerious.BHumorous.CSad.DRegretful.8、How did David think about Mr.Murdstone?AStrict and firm.BSensible and caring.CGentle and helpful.DMean and unkind.9、According to the passage, whats most likely to be mentioned in the follwing part?APeggottys help to Da
22、vid.BMr.Murdstones cruelty to David.CDavids fights against Mr.Murdstone.DDavids love to mother.From self-driving cars to deep sea explorers, more and more of humans tasks are being taken over by robots. But technology doesnt stop there. In mid-August, reported the BBC, scientists from Cambridge Univ
23、ersity developed a robotic system that meant a robot could “build other robots, each one better than the previous(以前的) generation”.The BBC noted that “those concerned about machines taking over the world shouldnt worry”.However, over 1,000 scientists and numerous artificial intelligence (AI, 人工智能) r
24、esearchersincluding UK astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak of the US-brought the danger of fully autonomous weapons(自主武器), known as “killer robots”, to our attention earlier this summer.“If any major military(军事的) power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global a
25、rms race is inevitable(不可避免的),” warned an open letter released at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Unlike drones(无人机), which need a human hand, this kind of robot would have some decision-making abilities and the ability to act by itself.
26、While what the BBC called these “solders that never sleep” could help reduce battlefield deaths, they might also make countries more likely to go into battle, which would lead to more deaths overall, noted the scientists. The risks, they said, could be far greater than those posed by nuclear weapons
27、.Scientists called for a “ban on offensive(攻击性的) autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control”, reported The Huffington Post.In fact, in an interview with the BBC in 2014, Hawking warned that the “development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race”.And according
28、to the BBC, many leading thinkers have been thinking about the AI-powered killing machine of the not-too-distant future. “Killer robots could be here within years, not decades,” as Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, US, put it.Authorities are gradually waking up to the ris
29、k of robot wars. Last May, for the first time, the United Nations brought governments together to begin talks on so-called killer robots in a hope of stopping such weapons while there is still time.Meanwhile, there are scientists who are less worried. They believe all technologies have potential(潜力) for being used for good and evil ends, and argue that the ban called for by the open letter could close the door to developing AI technology that could save lives. “Technology can clearly do better than human beings in many cases,” Ronald Ar
