常州市2017学年高一年级（下）期末统考英语试卷2017年6月第一卷选择题（共74分）一、听力（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）略二、单项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）21. Good news never goes beyond the gate, __________ bad news spreads far and wide.A. whenB. asC. whileD. before22. Waling for half an hour every day will help you eep fit. As an added __________, you won’t suffer from lac of sleep.A. favorB. bonusC. awardD. promise23. Chinese web novels enjoy great popularity with many people, among __________ are a large number of foreign readers.A. whichB. whatC. themD. whom24. Social media, such as WeChat and Sina Weibo are, as Amaon has reported, __________ readers are encouraged to share reading eperiences.A. whereB. whichC. whatD. when25. He ___________ computer games the whole Sunday morning. I thin he should have helped with some cleaning.A. has playedB. has been playingC. was playingD. had played26.--- I’m afraid I won’t have the chance to go to the concert.--- Don’t worry. You ___________ have the ticet for it, I promise you.A. shallB. wouldC. mayD. should27. Some Olympic sports judged to have become less popular have to __________ new sports which are more popular.A. mae use ofB. mae way forC. tae charge ofD. tae control of28. It was the Sil Road, a trade route, __________ promoted the East-West culture and economic echange.A. 不填B. butC. whereD. that29. ___________, Alice sat down on the floor and began to cry.A. Unhappy and tiredB. Unhappily and tiredC. Unhappy and tiredlyD. Unhappily and tiredly30. --- Oh, I can’t mae up my mind whether to accept the job offer.--- Why not? You need a job, ____________.A. Don’t hesitateB. Tae your timeC. Tae your turnD. Don’t worry三、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）When I was younger I was interested in stories of magic. I eagerly read boos where wiards(魔法师）____31____ the powers of darness in strange worlds. I felt joyful when they brought peace and happiness to their lands. I ___32___ wished for magical powers for myself. I wanted to be able to magically mae my problems___33___. and to control this world that so often controls us.As I got older, ___34____, I realied that there was no such thing as magic and the ___35___ reality of life set in. I ___36____ through a long period of poverty(贫穷). I felt sadness and sorrow when both of my sons____37___ Autism (自闭症).I still sometimes daydreamed of magic but___38___ even that faded away.Then one day I am not sure ___39___, I began to discover a different ind of magic. This magic grew ___40___ in my heart, soul, and mind day by day and year by year. This magic was called ___41___. This magic connected me to God,because God is love. It also connected me to my own highest ___42___and to all of the other souls in this world. It didn’t reduce my poverty but it made every day of my life feel ___43___. It didn’t ___44__ my sons’Autism, but it helped me see them as the beautiful, loving, and joyful souls that they __45__ are. It didn’t __46___ me a wiard but it helped me to ___47___the darness of this world with my own light.There is such a thing as magic ___48___each one of us. May you choose it, __49___ it,and live in it every single day of your life. May you use it to help others, to heal this world,and to build a ___50___ to Heaven.31.A.had B.battled C.lost D.balanced32.A.secretly B.quietly C.slightly D.simply33.Ae down B.fall out C.roll up D.go away34.A.moreover B.therefore C.meanwhile D.however35.A.unfair B.social C.bitter D.virtual36.A.struggled B.wondered C.hesitated D.survived37.A.recovered from B.suffered from C.resulted in D.ended in38.A.at times B.on time C.in time D.with time39.A.why B.when C.where D.how40.A.clearer B.craier C.tricier D.stronger41.A.love B.joy C.health D.luc42.A.self B.opinion C.status D.spirits43.A.longer B.busier C.richer D.harder44.A.treat B.prevent C.cure D.cause45.A.hardly B.nearly C.liely D.truly46.A.offer B.mae C.change D.bring47.A.gather B.cover C.tolerate D.brighten48.A.in B.on C.around D.before49.A.have B.tae C.share D.find50.A.future B.destination C.bridge D.solution四、阅读理解（共12小题；每小题2分，满分24分）AIt is a world where the closest feelings and desires can be epressed with a single emoticon(情感符号）.And it seems the quic nature of social media and teting is having an impact on English language as the words we most frequently use are getting shorter.Helen Newstead, the head of language content at Collins, said most of the “words of the year 2016”are used by or related to the younger generation born towards the end of the last century. Their contribution to the constant evolution of the English language should not be ignored.Ms Newstead put the changing nature of language down to social media where space is often small and messages are sent in a hurry. She told the Telegraph “I thin because so many of our communications are by social media, there is a lot more sharing and words come to light a lot quicer than they used to.”The Collins list is put together by a panel of leicographers and eperts, who loo at terms that are becoming increasingly used. There are around 4.5 billion words in the Collins Corpus, but between 10 and 12 are piced for the final list.2016|Collins ‘Words of the YearBreit The withdrawal of the United ingdom UnionDude food Jun food considered particularly appealing to menHygge A concept of creating a comfortable atmosphere that promotes well-beingJomo(joy of missing out) Pleasure gained when one decides to refuse a party invitation without any fear of missing the event.Mic drop the act of pretending to drop a microphone after speaingSharenting The habitual use of social media to share news and images of one’s children Snowflae generation Young adults who are more liely to become angry than previous generations Throw shade To publicly show contempt(轻视)Trumpism The policies advocated by the US politician Donald TrumpUberiation A business model where services are offered directly to customers usually by mobile technology51. Which of the following words best describes the situation “You’re enjoying what you’re doing instead of constantly checing social media to see what everybody else is doing.”?A. sharentingB. hyggeC. jomoD. uberisation52. Which of the following is related to politics?A. mic dropB. TrumpismC. throw shadeD. sharenting53. These factors contribute to words getting shorter ecept .A. limited space in social mediaB. the hurry to send tetsC. the younger generationD. evolution of EnglishBScientists said they have found evidence of a giant planet far out in our solar system.In a statement, the California Institute of Technology(Caltech) said this planet travels a strange “highly elongated orbit in the distant solar system”.The discovery was made by two researchers at Caltech; onstantin Batygin and Mie Brown. They used mathematical modeling and computer simulations (模拟)to find the planet.So far, there have not been any direct observations of the planet.“My jaw hit the floor,” said astronomer Mie Brown, the moment he realied there might be a ninth planet.The scientists said it would tae this planet 10,000to 20,000 years just to mae one full orbit around the sun. The new planet, called “Planet Nine” has a mass about 10 times the sie of Earth.It is believed that the planet orbits, or travels, around the sun from a great distance. The planet Neptune’s average distance to the sun is about 4.5 billion ilometers. But “Planet Nine” could be 20 times farther away from the sun than that.While they did not get a picture of “Planet Nine” yet, the scientists say they are using the biggest and best telescopes on Earth to try to find it.Brown and Batygin reported their finding in The Astronomical Journal. They say that this new planet is so large that there should be no doubt that it is a true planet, once they confirm it.Robert Massey is with the Royal Astronomical Society in London. He told AFP that planets have been predicted before, and then were not found. But, he said the wor of the these researchers is definitely worth following up. “It would be a really eciting thing to find. At the moment it’s simply a prediction（预测）.”54. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph5 mean?A. He felt quite shocedB. He felt on the floorC. He made a public speechD. He went on observing55. What can we now about “Planet Nine” from the tet?A. It could be the ninth planet discovered since ancient timesB. It could be about 10 times as large as the earthC. It could travel around the Earth on a special orbitD. Its distance to the sun could be about 90 billion ilometers56. What’s Robert’s attitude towards the discovery of “Planet Nine”?A. doubtfulB. unclearC. worriedD. supportive57. What’s the best title for the tet?A. The discovery of the largest planetB. The prediction of a ninth planet in solar systemC. Attitudes to “Planet Ninth” in the solar systemD. Values of finding “Planet Ninth”in the solar systemCI was in the garden with Augie, My four-year-old grandson, watching the bees. “Bees mae honey,”I said. After a pause, Augie replied, “How do they mae the honey?”There is nothing lie a child’s question for eposing the limits of a grandmother’s wisdom.“Actually, Augie, I don’t now,”I said.“But, Grandma, you have your phone,”he said. For Augie, a smart phone is as natural as the bees, and holding one is almost equal to nowing.I Googled “How do bees mae honey?”There were doens of videos eplaining it. Augie and I learned that worer bees produce an enyme（酵素）, which changes nectar（花蜜）into detrose. then beat their wings to thicen the nectar into honey.“It’s ind of hard to see the bees.”I said.“Why don’t we watch it on the big computer?”Augie said.For the net hour, we sat inside, bee-surfing. There were a lot of beeeeper selfie videos, best of which was a BBC documentary about the “waggle dance,”the remarable communication system that allows bees to give one another directions to the places where they’ve found nectar.Most of my own children was spent reading boos, forgetting the world around me. Over time, reading controlled my brain, as large areas once dedicated to dealing with the “real”world adapted to dealing with the printed word. This didn’t limit my development , but it didi leave me with some illusions（错觉）—my idea of romantic love surely came from novels.Many parents worry that “screen time”will harm children’s development, but recent research suggests that most of the common fears about children and screens are unfounded. (There is one eception looing at screens that emit blue light before bed really does disturb sleep,in people of all ages.) The new guidelines emphasie that what matters is content and contet, what children watch and with whom. Each child, after all, will have some hundred thousand of conscious eperience before turning siteen. Those hours can be lie the wonderful ones that Augie and I spent together bee-watching, or they can be mindless—and that’s true whether those hours are occupied by apps or TV or boos or just by tal.New tools have always led to panic. Socrates thought that reading and writing would have disastrous effects on memory; the novel, the telegraph, the telephone, and the television were alldeclared to the End of Civiliation, particularly in the hands of the young. Part of the reason may be that adult brains require a lot of focus and effort to learn something new, while children’s brains are designed to master new environments naturally. Advanced technologies always seem disturbing to the adults attempting to master them, and obvious to those children, lie Augie.Lie the bees, we live by the reports of others. Unlie the bees. We can invent new worlds., constructing them out of apps or TV or boos. Sometimes those worlds confuse; at other times, they tell us something inspiring. When Augie’s father got home, Augie rushed to meet him in ecitement. “Daddy, Daddy, loo,”he said, reaching for the phone. “Do you now how bees mae honey? I’ll show you....?58. What can be learnt from the dialogue between the author and Augie?A.The author felt embarrassed about not nowing the answer.B.Augie turned to the smartphone for answers instead of using his head.C.They gained a lot of information about bees on the Internet.D.Children are more creative and quicer in thining than old people.59. The author mentions her childhood eperience in Paragraph 8 in order to _______.A.introduce the theme of the passagepare her childhood with Augie’sC.Analye the good effects of readingD.show great technological changes60. Which of the following statements might the author agree with?A.What children watch or read is harmless to their development.B.The new tools lie apps harmed the progress of civiliation.C.It’s worrying that apps and boos may have bad information.D.It taes children less energy to learn new technologies than adults.61. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph imply?A.Humans communicate in the same way as bees.B.Humans can build up more form what they read.C.Humans depend on news reports for information.D.Apps or boos open a confusing world to people.62. What does the author mainly want to say with this article?A.Technologies bring more confusion than inspiration to people.B.Screen time eeps the children from thining independently.C.Screen time doesn’t necessarily harm children’s development.D.Technologies will open up new worlds to old people and children.第二卷非选择题（共46分）五、阅读文章，回答问题（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）You travel thousands of miles to eperience new cultures. The peer-to-peer or sharing-economy(经济)movement maes it possible for travelers to live locally by staying in other people’s homes, driving their cars, eating in their itchens and so on, seeing a new destination through their eyes.Why share? After the economic downturn, people developed new ways to mae money by sharing resources they already had, such as house, vehicles and sills, while this movement has mobilied an army of micro-entrepreneurs(小型企业家)，it has also resulted in traveler benefits ranging from practice(savings and convenince) to enriching (authentic eperience). It also supports local communities.This travel style has grows rapidly and become more accessible in recent years through the use of the Internet and social media, both of which help connect travelers with hosts and services.Share a houseThe style of staying in others’private houses has eploded over the past few years, mainly thans to Airbnb, an online community maretplace for homelowners and travelers that was started in 2008.Compared with booing a hotel, house-sharing can mae a vacation more affordable and add convenience. You can save on food bills by not eating at a restaurant for every meal, and there are no early chec-in or checout rules, besides, you get to meet people, often friends of the echange partner.Share a ride.Once you’ve booed stay in a stranger’s home, the net natural step into the peer-peer world is driving a stranger ear, which has appeal for travelers wanting to save money and get more personalied(个性化的) service when they hit the rode.Typically, car sharing involves renting cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. This helps leeo unnecessary cars off the road, maing things a little easier on the environment. In recent years ,it has epanded to meet the longer-term needs of travelers, who can rent directly from car owners for a day ,maing full use of underutilied(不常使用的) cars.Share a MealHouses and cars aren’t the only things up for sharing .People long for authenntic eperiences through food. And plenty of new websites are maing it easier to connect passionate coo ---and grandmothers ---with hungry travellers who want to share home—cooed meals with locals in just about any destination around the world.This social dining sites---through which you call boo meals or cooing classes in someone’s private itchen---fill the need of travelers who have become dissatisfied with food available at tourist restaurants and want more memorable meals that reflect the local culture.六、单词拼写（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）根据句意及首字母或中文提示，完成或写出相应的英语单词。
