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乌鲁木齐市第八中学2021-2022学年
第二学期高二年级期中考试
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）英 语 问 卷

第一节（共15小题；每小题 2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, is often called the “City of Festival”, as this place is full of events and festivals on a regular basis. Here are some of the best winter events in Edmonton for you.
Snowshoeing
If you want to appreciate stars in your snowshoes, head to the Elk Island National Park. This park is
a great option for a full-day or a half-day trip. You can rent snowshoes at most locations. It's actually quite a fun family activity to enjoy the white snow outside.
Cost: rental start at $7/hour
Typical hours: 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Northern Lights
Edmonton is located in the northern part of Alberta where sighting Northern Lights during winters is common. The Elk Island National Park is an awesome location to watch stars.
Cost: free
Typical hours: after midnight
Ice on Whyte Festival
Ice on Whyte is an ice carving festival. Many international artists arrive in Edmonton to carve ice
and display their works of art during this festival. This is a must-visit item! Ice carving competitions are held at the festival every year. It is held on the last weekend of January and the first weekend of February.
Cost:$7+
Typical hours:2:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Snowball Fights
The Rundle Park is a beautiful park which overlooks the North Saskatchewan River,so you can
imagine how beautiful it is. When you reach there, it's like a snowy winter wonder-land waiting for you to kick in the river valley adventure. Have a snowball fight and have fun there.
Cost: free
Typical hours:10:00 am to 6:00 pm
1.What do Snowshoeing and Northern Lights have in common?
A.Both are free of charge. B.Both take place in the afternoon.
C.Both suit those who like watching stars. D.Both are related to farm outings in Edmonton.
2.What do we know about Ice on Whyte Festival?
A.It is held on weekdays. B. Its main item is ice skating.
C. It usually lasts at least two weeks. D.Its annual event is ice carving competitions.
3.Which of the following offers fun in the snowy river valley?
A.Snowshoeing. B.Northern Lights.
C.Ice on Whyte Festival. D.Snowball Fights.
B
“Every child has a great curiosity about something they love,”said Carolyn King, a doctor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. King, who once studied at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit,is the
co-founder of a yearly event called Reach Out to Youth (ROTY).
Wayne State has held the event since 1989, which lets kids ages 7 to11 experience science and medicine in an interesting way.
“We’ re here to help distinguish future scientists and future physicians,” said Richard Baker,
director of Medical Education at Wayne State.
Diamond Moore, a medical student and the leading organizer of ROTY planned a special but
interesting day for attendees. Exhibits included a room where you could see a brain, heart, and some other parts of our body, and a room where you could test your reflexes (反射动作 ). Wayne State teachers and medical students, including Moore, shared their knowledge of medical science with kids.
“This program wants kids to learn about science, arts, and the health care system, ”Moore said, so
that hopefully, they’ ll become interested in medicine.
Some of the students were excited about the chance to tour the exhibits and learn more about medicine-related jobs. “A doctor would be a cool job,”said first-time attendee Desiree Anders.
Jeremiah Tower, an 11-year-old from Detroit, said that learning about science and things about the
body was what the program was all about. Still, he wasn't excited about having to get up early on a Saturday morning.
This year’ s theme was “Play It Safe: Brain Safety.”After seeing what a brain looks like up close,
young attendees learned about the danger of concussions (脑震荡). A fun test was given about brain
safety so that kids could see how much they had learned.
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About 350 kids take part in the program each year. It’ s a great way to get an idea of what it feels like to be a doctor.
4. What can we learn about ROTY?
A. It is open to kids of all ages. B. It educates kids in a fun way.
C. It is held on a Saturday afternoon. D. It helps kids learn more about others.
5. Which can take the place of the underlined word " distinguish" in Paragraph 3?
A. Care for. B. Look for. C. Pick up. D. Cheer up.
6. How did Desiree Anders feel about medical science?
A. She felt a bit worried about it. B. She thought it was hard to learn.
C. She showed an interest in it. D. She believed it would have a bright future.
7. What type of writing is the text?
A. An official paper. B. An exhibition guide.
C. A newspaper report. D. A medical show review.
C
On a September night almost anywhere in southern Europe, you might see beech trees rustle (发出沙
沙声) with activity. If you shine a light into the branches，you may see animals with large eyes and bushy tails.
They are called fat dormice. Despite their name, all types of dormice are more closely related to squirrels than mice. That explains their bushy tails and why they hang out in trees and bushes. But most squirrels are active during the day. Like other dormice, fat dormice come out at night.
Once the sun sets, fat dormice go to work filling themselves with beech seeds until they grow fat.
These animals add at least half their body weight in just a few weeks. They’re preparing for a winter sleep. Lots of animals hibernate (冬眠),but fat dormice do so for seven or eight months. After putting on plenty
of weight, a fat dormouse makes a nest. There it will spend the winter. Its body uses the stored fat for
energy while it hibernates. But seven months is a long time,so the dormouse needs to use its energy
slowly.
Everything in a fat dormouse’s body slows down when it hibernates. That’s true of all hibernating animals. They breathe more slowly and their hearts beat less often. Those changes help the animals survive several months without eating. But in fat dormice, the bodies slow down even more than the bodies of other hibernating animals that live in similar environments. At temperatures well above freezing (15℃), hibernating fat dormice may breathe only once every 10 minutes. During a midwinter freeze, they breathe only once an hour. Hibernators such as little brown bats and squirrels breathe more often. Their hearts beat more often, too. But those animals hibernate for only five or six months. Fat dormice have to stretch their energy supply for two or three months longer.
Over seven or eight months, the fat dormouse slowly uses up the fat it stored in the fall. In May, it
finally wakes up. It is much thinner, very hungry, and ready to make the most of its short summer before
it is time to hibernate again.
8. What is a characteristic of fat dormice?
A. They feed on insects. B. They look the same as mice.
C. They enjoy staying underground. D. They are active during the night.
9. Why do fat dormice add half their body weight quickly?
A. To fight against enemies. B. To protect their families.
C. To survive during the winter. D. To feed baby fat dormice.
10. What can we infer from the figures in Paragraph 4?
A. Fat dormice are super energy savers.
B. Fat dormice are good food searchers.
C. Fat dormice store more energy than other hibernators.
D. Fat dormice breathe more quickly in midwinter than in summer.
11. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To compare several kinds of animals.
B. To introduce a champion of hibernation.
C. To explain how fat dormice earned their name.
D. To show how hibernating animals spend the winter. D
Here' s a word you may not have heard before: dogfooding. Dogfooding is short for “ eating your
own dog food”. It’ s a term that has been used for years among software developers. It means using the software you write for your customers yourself.
This has great advantages because you are able to see what the user experience is like for your
customers. You are also more likely to fix a bug (故障) if it affects you in your daily work.
For a long time, the compiler (编译程序) for Microsoft's Cprogramming language was written in
C++. Then the C team at Microsoft created a new compiler called Roslyn, which is written in C. It is a lot faster than C++ and it has the advantage of now being cross-platform (it works on different types of computers ). It is the result of dogfooding.
No one really knows where the term “dogfooding”or“eating your own dog food”comes from. In
a 1980s advertisement on TV, actor Lorne Greene mentioned he fed Alpo dog food to his own dogs. And the CEO of Kal Kan Foods also supposedly ate the company’ s dog food product at yearly company meetings.
However, the first mention of the term in relation to computer programming was in a 1988 email
from Microsoft manager Paul Maritz, titled Eating our own Dogfood, encouraging another Microsoft manager to use their products as a way to understand and improve them.
Nowadays, the term has been used in other fields. For example, teachers can dogfood their lessons
whenever possible. This means taking their own tests or doing their own homework. By doing this, they can find all kinds of problems that they’d never notice if they just created tasks and gave them straight to students.
12. Why do software developers dogfood?
A. They can talk to their customers. B. They can control their customers.
C. They hope to improve their products. D. They want to make their daily work easier.
13. How is dogfooding related to Lorne Greene?
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A. He loved dog food. B. He ate Alpo dog food.
C. He advertised dog food. D. He worked for Kal Kan Foods.
14. What is the advantage of teacher’s dogfooding?
A. They can have a close relationship with students. B. They can set a good example for students.
C. They can pay more attention to teaching. D. They can know their lessons better.
15. How does the author show the power of dogfooding?
A. By listing numbers. B. By giving examples.
C. By making comparisons. D. By using research findings.
第二节（共5 小题；每小题2 分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从选项中选出最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
If you want to travel on holiday, the very first question you must ask is, “How much is it going to cost?” With little money, you are not going to get very far. ____16____ Local transport is used, and
sleeping is done in tents(帐篷)or not expensive hotels.
However, it seems that many young people have found a different way to see the world. They usually come from a western country and are from well-off families. They pay for a flight from their home to an Asian country, and then try to beg for money once they arrive. ____17____ It’s become so popular; it has been given its own name: begpacking. It’s a cross between “begging” and “backpacking”.
It is now quite usual to see begpackers sitting on the streets in some of Asia’s popular shopping
districts.___18___ “I am travelling around Asia without money. Please support my trip.”
In many Asian countries, poverty is never far away. Citizens of popular holiday destinations are
asking why visitors arrive on their streets and expect the locals to pay for their travels. When these locals want to travel to a western country, they have to prove that they have enough money to travel. _19__
There have been recent reports that some countries are beginning to tire of bagpackers. A law was
passed in Thailand recently. The local government can now take action against any foreigner begging on the street. ____20____ There, western begpackers are taken by the local police to their foreign embassy. And then they are returned to their home.
A. It’s so unfair.
B. Something similar has happened in Indonesia.
C. Backpacking costs a traveller a lot of money..

D. They carry with them handwritten cards asking for help.
E. But backpacking is a very popular and inexpensive way to travel.
F. In other words, they want the locals to pay for the rest of their trip.
G. Don’t let a little thing like money stand in between you and your dream trip.
第二部分 语言知识运用（共四节，满分75分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I first heard about several cases of coronavirus in January, 2020. But I did not 21 the outbreak
to have such a sudden and powerful effect on the rest of the world. In March, towards the end of winter
quarter, it was 22 that we would take all the finals online. It was unexpected, and all university
teachers and students were 23 .
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, our University of California at San Diego（UCSD） student-run
free dental clinics are closed 24 , and most research laboratories are only open for 25
personnel(人力资源）. Thus, I have had a lot more spare time than before, 26 most of the events
have been switched to be held online. To 27 time, I learned to follow 28 to make different
dishes. The period of quarantine（隔离）has become a time when I can learn some new life 29 .
Besides cooking, I have been 30 a new hobby—playing puzzles. At first, solving a puzzle was
just a way for me to 31 endurance（忍耐性）and patience. Then I realized that I learned much more
than that. When I 32 1,000 pieces of a puzzle on the table, I 33 not buying a simpler one. I
suddenly realized how impatient I was that I couldn’t even focus on such a simpler task.
Electronic devices have been training me to constantly stare at a blinking（闪烁）screen and 34
what I was doing. I decided to solve a puzzle while 35 devices for several hours, and enjoy one
simple task like a little child.
When I started to look for different pieces to see if they could fit in a larger 36 , I started to
look for shortcuts. I tried to collect puzzles with similar patterns or colors and 37 their edges.
During this time, I slowly forgot all the madness and 38 of quarantine life. Every time I got
one piece in the right place, I was 39 awarded by such a small success and motivated to keep on trying.
It was surprising and unexpected for me to receive so much 40 from focusing on solving puzzles.
21．A．encourage B．expect C．require D．remind
22．A．announced B．promised C．hoped D．discovered
23．A．unhappy B．unfortunate C．uninterested D．unprepared
24．A．occasionally B．formally C．temporarily D．gradually
25．A．devoted B．eager C．excellent D．limited
26．A．unless B．before C．since D．though
27．A．treasure B．kill C．waste D．save
28．A．schedules B．orders C．targets D．recipes
29．A．secrets B．tracks C．skills D．lessons
30．A．exploring B．spreading C．reviewing D．doubting
31．A．support B．practise C．recommend D．appreciate
32．A．broke up B．handed in C．poured out D．put away
33．A．imagined B．permitted C．advised D．regretted
34．A．forget B．guess C．remember D．emphasize
35．A．putting up with B．staying away from C．watching out for D．taking control of
36．A．basket B．poster C．picture D．board
37．A．touch B．remove C．draw D．compare
38．A．danger B．boredom C．excitement D．amazement
39．A．mentally B．physically C．strangely D．passively
40．A．trouble B．joyfulness C．responsibility D．praise
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第二节 单词拼写（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
41. To ___________（加强））his position in Congress, he held talks with the leaders of different parties. 42.You will soon get a_________ to the climate here although you are a newcomer.
43.Chemical weapons are b________（禁止）internationally.
44.He was given an expensive car as a reward for his ______________（贡献）to the company’s success. 45.Some people are o________ to the decision while others are in favor of it.
46.We a___________ （提倡）recycling paper and plastics.
47.Cycling is an a___________(绝对地）energy-saving means of transportation.
48.He appreciated very much being a___________ as captain of the English team.
49.All children should be encouraged to realize their full ___________. （潜力）
50._____________ （祝贺）to you on your success!
51. The remote desert area is _____________(可进入的）only by helicopter.
52. Despite his cries, no one came to his a__________. （援助）
53. What a________ me most was that when I told my brother what to do, he must do the opposite.
54. Out of s___________ for the homeless children, he gave them shelter for the night.
55. My grandfather often goes to the countryside, because he thinks that a stay there will be b___________ to his health.
第三节 单句语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
56.You can always see young people and even adults __________ (addict) to the computer games.
57.The sun began to rise in the sky, ___________ (bathe) the mountain in golden light.
58. False advertisements play tricks on consumers, thus ______(cause) damage to their legal rights and interests.
59.The league serves as a platform for the performing arts and was set up ____________(promote)
cultural exchanges between China and other countries.
60.Tour buses, normally _______(equip) with air conditioning and TV, are managed by travel agencies, hotels and airports and provided for short tours.
61.Last month we spent so much having the roofs _______ (replace), for it always leaked when it rained.
62.He hurried to the station only ______(find) that the train had left.
63.It is difficult to imagine his ________( accept) the decision without any consideration.
64.Although it is not an official Olympic event, it is the first time that Wushu ______(come) so close to the Olympics.
65.We feel it our duty_____________ (make) our country a better place.
第四节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Bushfires are disasters that occur each year in many parts of the world . The worst bushfires usually involve eucalypt trees ,66___________leaves burn easily . A eucalypt tree( 桉 树 ) can explode in 67.__________ ball of fire . Therefore , eucalypt forest fires can be violent .
The most severe bushfire in the world is burning in south-eastern Australia and its
68.___________(surround) areas in this dry season . The current summer 69._________( present) the perfect storm for wildfire so far . Climate change is making Australian wildfires more powerful 70.___________( large ) due to its effects on dryness and fire weather . Australia's climate has warmed by more than one degree Celsius over the past century . The ongoing climate change originating（起源于）from human activities is virtually certain 71.___________(increase ). This assessment of the science
evidence has been repeated in countless 72.____________(report), including the IPCC's
report ,73.___________( publish ) in August 2019.
Apart from being more severe , the fire seasons are becoming longer . October used to be recognized 74.___________ the start of the fire season. But with the season starting in August , we are now facing a new 75.____________( real ) and should pay special attention .
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文 中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或
修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分
We have been traveling for more than a week already but arrived in Saudi Arabia today . Most people here wear traditional type of long and loose clothing that cover the whole body . Saudi Arabia is in the desert , and in summer , the weather is extreme hot. One of the tour guide told us that it gets as hotter as 50℃ every summer . Wear this kind of clothing may be very comfortable in that weather , but
this is winter and quite cool now . During the day in winter , it was about 22℃ and about 13℃ in the
evening . I think I will find the weather a bit of cold when we return to China .
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，你校英语报要举行题目为“我们都是追梦人( We ’ re All Dream Chasers )”的征文比赛。请你给你校英国交换生 Peter 写一封电子邮件，邀请他参加这一比赛，内容包括：
1．投稿方式和截止日期； 2.征文内容； 3.表示期待。
注意：1．词数100 左右； 2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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