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2016-2017学年宁夏银川二中高二上期中考试英试卷

阅读下面的短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    One day a mother brought home a small 1 and gave it to her little girl on her birthday. She told her little girl that the jar was 2 , and that she could write to her mommy about anything in the world and then put it in the jar. And 3 , in its place, there would be a 4 for her. Soon the jar became a special part of their lives.

    The little girl loved to get 5 from her mommy. They always told her how 6 she was. Sometimes, too, there would be a little 7 in the jar with a note telling her how 8 her mommy was of her. She 9 all of her mommy's letters in a pretty box by her bed.

     The mother 10 each of her little girl's letters, too. As the years went by, that little girl 11 into a young lady and then got married and started a 12 of her own. For the first time, the jar sat 13 . The mother dusted the jar every day and sometimes looked inside, 14 sadly that the magic jar years had to end.

     One day the young lady came to 15 her mother. She went straight to her mother's room, opened the chest at the end of her bed, and found what she was looking for. She 16a piece of paper and put it in the jar, and 17 it to her mother. The mother opened the magic jar and there was that note from so long ago, “You're going to be a 18 !”

    And when that baby boy was born months later, there was the jar 19 in his nursery(育儿室) with a blue ribbon tied around it, and a note that read, “Magic jar years never 20 : they are always just beginning.”

(1)
A、jar   B、box C、bottle D、vase
(2)
A、dangerous  B、magic  C、beautiful  D、mysterious
(3)
A、thus B、somewhat C、later  D、anyway
(4)
A、doll    B、toy C、book D、note
(5)
A、letters    B、sweets C、flowers D、gifts
(6)
A、fat  B、special    C、ordinary D、wise
(7)
A、air B、love C、present D、money
(8)
A、ashamed   B、afraid C、tired D、proud
(9)
A、kept    B、hid C、buried D、forgot
(10)
A、market    B、treasured   C、counted D、numbered
(11)
A、developed  B、turned   C、grew  D、fell
(12)
A、business    B、factory C、shop D、home
(13)
A、empty     B、upright C、full D、whole
(14)
A、judging    B、remembering C、realizing D、knowing
(15)
A、treat    B、award C、visit  D、notice
(16)
A、designed  B、cut   C、prepared D、folded
(17)
A、handed B、fell C、posted D、sent
(18)
A、hero   B、grandma C、actress D、mother
(19)
A、hanging   B、placing  C、sitting D、lying
(20)
A、disappear    B、sell C、break  D、end
举一反三
 阅读理解

D

With the completion of the Human Genome(基因组)Project more than 20 years ago, and the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA enjoying its 70th birthday last year, you might assume that we know how life works. Think again!

Evolution has a 4bn-year head start on us. However, several aspects of the standard picture of how life works-the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular(分子)machines and more-have wildly reduced the complexity of life. 

In the excellent book How Life Works, Philip Ball explorers the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more delicate affair than we have understood. Ball explains that life is a system of many levels-genes, proteins, cells, tissues, and body modules-each with its own rules and principles, so there is no unique place to look for an answer to it. 

Also, How Life Works is a much more appealing title than the overused question of "What is life?". We should be less concerned with what a thing is, and rather more focused on what a thing does. Defining a living thing implies an unchangeable ideal type, but this will run counter to the Darwinian principle that living things are four-dimensional, ever changing in time as well as space.

But it's an idea that is deeply rooted within our culture. Ball points out that we rely on metaphors(比喻)to explain and explore the complexities of life, but none suffice. We are taught that cells are machines, though no machine we have invented behaves like the simplest cell; that DNA is a code or a blueprint, though it is neither; that the brain is a computer, though no computer behaves like a brain at all.

Ball is a terrific writer, pumping out books on incredibly diverse subjects. There's a wealth of well-researched information in here, and some details that are a bit chewy for the lay reader. But the book serves as an essential introduction on our never-ending quest to understand life.

阅读理解

Adults check their phones, on average,360 times a day, and spend almost three hours a day on their devices in total. The problem for many of us is that one quick phone-related task leads to a quick check of our emails or social media feeds, and suddenly we've been sucked into endless scrolling.

It's an awful circle. The more useful our phones become, the more we use them. The more we use them, the more we lay neural(神经的) pathways in our brains that lead to pick up our phones for whatever task is at hand-and the more we feel an urge to check our phones even when we don't have to.

What we do know is that the simple distraction of checking a phone or seeing a notification(通知)can have negative consequences. This isn't very surprising; we know that, in general, multitasking does harm to memory and performance. One of the most dangerous examples is phone use while driving. One study found that merely speaking on the phone, not texting, was enough to make drivers slower to react on the road. It's true for everyday tasks that are less high-risk, too. Simply hearing a notification "ding" made participants of another study perform far worse on a task-almost as badly as participants who were speaking or texting on the phone during the task.

It isn't just the use of a phone that has consequences-its me re presence can affect the way we think.

In one recent study, for example, researchers asked participants to either put their phones next to them so they were visible(like on a desk), nearby and out of sight(like in a bag or pocket), or in another room. They were found to perform far better when their phones were in another room instead of nearby-whether visible, powered on or not.

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。

The popularity of ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Zhouzhuang and Wuzhen, has aroused a nationwide trend in the construction of ancient towns. Lin Peng, the director of China's Institute of Ancient Cities and Cultural Studies, pointed {#blank#}1{#/blank#} that there are more than 2,800 developed or developing ancient towns in our country, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} is definitely the highest number globally.

In ancient towns, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} immersive(沉浸式) experience being mentioned here is historical and cultural characteristics—the "ancient" of ancient towns. Apart from visible "special buildings", characteristics also include invisible "culture". Tourists in ancient towns want to see the living {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (condition) of local people, feel the vitality of town life, try characteristic local snacks {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (influence) by geography and folk customs, and understand how long history {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (shape) local culture. Out of modern fast-paced work and life, tourists want to awaken their inner softness with a slow-moving ancient town.

Touring ancient towns is for recreation, relaxation, and pleasure, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} if all the ancient towns in different places are the same and cannot find their own {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (unique), then ancient town tourism will {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (eventual) decline. Let every ancient town become a unique historical imprint(印记), so that tourists can find their "poetry and distance" while {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (wander) through the ancient towns. This is the soul that ancient towns need to regain.

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