华东师大二附中2021学年第一学期期末测试卷
高一英语
（考试时间：100分钟卷面满分：100分）
第Ⅰ卷（共68分）
Ⅱ.Grammar(8%)
Directions:Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A,B,C and
D.Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
1.Tom kept quiet about the accident_______lose his job.
A.so not as to
B.so as not to
C.so as to not
< so as to
2.__________in the mountains for a week,the two students were finally saved by the local police.
A.Having lost
B.Lost
C.Being lost
D.Losing
3.—You were brave enough to raise objections at the meeting.
—Well,now I regret that.
< do
< be doing
< have done
D.having done
4.__________the host call her name,her heart started to beat fiercely.
A.Hearing
B.When hearing
C.Heard
D.When she heard
5.__________,Bryan had to make great effort to concentrate on the book,__________.
A.Absorbed in its story;ignoring the outside world
B.Absorbing in its story;to ignore the outside world
C.To be absorbed in its story;ignoring the outside world
D.Being absorbed in its story;to ignore the outside world
6.Anything that is worth__________is worthy__________well.
A.doing;doing
B.doing;to be done
C.doing;being done
< be done;doing
7.I have no objection__________the evening with them.
< spend
B.of spending
< spending
D.spending
8.__________by his boss,he had to give in to pressure and agreed to do some extra work.
A.Not to be fired
B.To be fired
C.Not being fired
D.Not fired
Ⅲ.Vocabulary(10%)
Directions: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.
<
B.impressive
C.potential
E.affordable
<
G.pand I.denied J.preneurial
Last spring,Karly Bierma,an18-year-old girl from Canby High School(CHS)in Oregon,US,carried with her a spirit of go-for-it mentality.And it’s that spirit that led her down an unexpected,____9____road at
a relatively young age.
Growing up on a75-acre farm,Bierma knew from an early age that art was going to be part of her life.Along with doing chores,Bierma’s passion for art started to really ignite as a seventh-grader when the plain white walls of Ninety-One School called out to her for color and vibrancy.____10____the chance to create a mural on one of the walls initially,she ran home,made a full layout,got paint donated and organized a committee,then came back
about a week later with a full plan and got a‘yes’.
As Bierma grew as an artist,she realized that she wanted to share her passion and her creations with a larger audience.But how?
“I started selling my art in the beginning of high school at markets and coffee house shows,but I just didn’t see the____11____in people buying originals,”Bierma said,“That’s kind of where my idea for the stickers came from.I wanted to make it easy,convenient and____12____for people to buy my art.”
Ah,the stickers.It is here that Bierma was able to watch passion,art and reality____13____.The results have been____14____.In November2019,through a website that would turn scans of her unique art int
o stickers, Bierma ordered her first set of____15____stickers.“It was$104(about728yuan)for150stickers,and it was all my money,”she said.
Soon,she was selling her stickers in the hallways of CHS all day long.She also hit up five to10stores each weekend across Canby and other locales,just looking for a(n)____16____point into the retail market.She found some takers,but a store in Oregon City proved to be a doorway to a much bigger world for her creations.
In April2020,a group of gift representatives saw Bierma’s stickers and those middlemen were able to
____17____her line into stores throughout the northwest,and in2020,she had sales of more than17,000stickers.
“That’s when I was forced to realize that this was a business.I had to figure out invoicing,credit cards,all that fun stuff,”she said.“I had become a full-on artist who had to learn to do business.It’s fun to see a design that’s close to my____18____and discover that what I love is what other people love,too.”
Ⅳ.Reading Comprehension(30%)
Section A(15%)
Directions:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B ,C and D.Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Digital Heaven
If you had the opportunity to live forever,would you take it?The____19____to keeping your body alive indefinitely still seem unbeatable,but some scientists think there is another____20____opened up by digital technology:creating a digital copy of your“self”and keeping that“alive”online long after your physical body has_ ___21____to function.
____22____,the proposal is to clone a person electronically.Unlike the familiar physical clones—offspring that have____23____features as their parents,but that are completely separate organisms with a separate
____24____life—your electronic clone would believe itself to be you.How might this be possible?The first step would be to map the brain.
How?One plan____25____the development of nanotechnology.Ray Kurzweil—one of the prophets(先
知) of artificial intelligence—____26____that within two or three decades we will have nano transmitters that can be_ ___27____into the bloodstream.In the capillaries of the brain they would line up alongside the neurons and
____28____the details of the cerebral(大脑的)electronic activity.They would be able to____29____that information to a receiver inside a special helmet or cap,so there would be no need for any wires extending from the scalp(头皮).
As a further step,Ray Kurzweil also consider the nano transmitters being able to connect you to a world of virtual reality on the Internet,similar to what was depicted in the film‘Matrix’.With the nano transmitters in place, by thought alone,you could log on to the Internet and instead of the pictures coming up on your screen they would play inside your mind.____30____sending your friends e-mails you would agree to meet up on some virtual tropical beach.
For Ray this would be,quite____31____,heaven.Once you upload the brain onto the Internet and log on to that virtual world the body can be left to rot while your virtual self carries on playing Counter Strike forever.
Generations of Christians believed in Christ partly because his rebirth held out the____32____that we
too might be able to enjoy life after death.But why wait for the Second Coming when you can have a shot of nanobots
and upload your brain onto the Internet and live on as an immortal virtual surfer?
Who needs faith when you’ve got____33____?
19.A.devotion
20.A.possibility
vealed
22.A.In consequence
levant
ative
lies on
26.A.proposes
27.A.processed
28.A.update
anslate
30.A.Regardless of
pically
32.A.strength
33.A.mind Section B(11%)B.reference
B.challenge B
yearn
.adapted
B.In effect
B.identical
B.ambitious B
.applies to B.
predicts
B.admitted
B.promote
B.Aside from
B.literally
B.soul
C.obstacle
C.pressure
C.preserved C
.In contrast C
.distinctive C.
previous
C.sums up
C.quotes
C.injected
C.arrange
.Other than C
.
instantly
C.clue
C.broadband
D.priority
D.judgment D
.ceased
D.In total
D.limited
.figures out D
.recognizes D.
turned
D.detect
.Instead of D.
faithfully D.
promise
D.data
Directions:Read the following four passages.Each passage is followed by several questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Traveling through time
As children,we dream of growing older;when we are older,we dream of being children.We let our lives pass us by because we have yet to learn that the harder you yearn for time,the faster it passes.This is how my story begins.
In October of my freshman year,I took an accidental trip down memory lane.One day after school,I decided to take the long way home,I needed time to think.So off I went,walking through the grass.That was how I came to find a gap in the fence lining the school property.I passed through this gap and followed the treeline until I found myself in the far fields behind the neighborhood.
Suddenly,I remembered it was here through the fence between the school and the fields that I watched older kids having their high school graduation ceremony.In cap and gown(长袍),they stood in the middle of the field. They looked like they were having the most fun I had ever seen anyone have;they looked free.
Years later,I walked through that field on my way home from that same high school.The soccer nets were long gone,and the paint lines had washed away with the rain,but there it was,just as I remembered it.The old field felt like a moment trapped in time,a long-forgotten memory.Here I was,standing in between my past and my present and trying so hard to figure out just how all of those
years had passed me by so quickly.The gap in the fence seemed like a distinct line between my years.A doorway between5and15.
I’ve since given this place a name,Tempus Illud,a place between places.I try to take the long way home at least once a month now.Sometimes,when I cross that bridge,I see that younger version of myself.She is so young and so desperate to speed up time.I see her peering through the fence at those graduates in the cap and gown,and she’s wishing she could be just like them.She,too,could feel so free that she might just grow wings and fly away. Now I’m preparing to wear the cap and gown in a few short months.But this time,I wish to leave time to its own devices.
The harder you yearn for time,the faster it passes you by.So I no longer yearn.The passage of time is inevitable,and you can’t avoid it,but you can appreciate it.James Taylor sings,“The secret of life is enjoying the
passage of time…Nobody knows how we got to the top of the hill,but since we’re on our way down,we might as  well enjoy the ride.”
34.How did the author feel when she saw the older kids’graduation ceremony?
A.Jealous.C.Admiring.35.What is the significance of Tempus Illud to the author?
A.It honors her best childhood memory.
B.It bridges her past,present and future.
C.It shows the miracle of frozen time.
D.It symbolizes high school graduation.
B.Curious.
D.Unconcerned.
36.Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined expression “leave time to its own devices”in
paragraph 5?
A.Keep calm,and carry on.
C.Seize the day.
37.What is the author’s main purpose in writing the article?
A.To suggest that time brings the truth to light.
B.To show that tough times never last.
C.To explain how time changes everything.
D.To share her changing attitude toward time.  B.Whatever will be,will be.D.The best is yet to come.(B)
38.In order to be popular on the show,an item should have one of the following selling points except________.
B.multiple functions
C.home automation
<-friendly system
39.Which of the following is true about these products?
A.Apart from facial recognition,there is no other way to lock or unlock Elecpro’s US:E.
B.De’Longhi air purifier can only be used in summer because it gives a chilly feeling.
C.The Galanz ToastWave has not come onto the market yet.
D.Despite the germ-away experience it provides,the Flatbox Cheers itself is hard to clean.
40.Where is it most likely to find this article?
A.Scientific journal.
B.Education magazine.
C.Advertisement brochure.
D.Local newspaper.
(C)
The actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among50wealthy people,charged Tuesday in what Department of Justice officials called the largest college cheating scam()it has ever accused.The FBI alleged that parents spent up to$6.5million to guarantee their children’s admission to elite universities by inflating entrance-exam scores and bribing college officials.
It’s the extreme,illegal version of what parents often do,attempting to bend the college-admissions system to their will to ensure their children’s privilege,convinced that a college name will lead to“success.”Parents believe that an elite school will make their kids happy or give them an edge in life.But the misleading focus on a“roadmap
to success”not only isn’t a guarantee of either result—it’s also terrible for kids.

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