2016-2017学年上海市建平中学高二下学期期末考试英语试题

2016-2017学年建平中学高二第二学期期末考试

英语试卷

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage

coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each

blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that

best fits each blank.

On a flight from Dallas, Texas, to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2008, event planner Paige

Chenault daydreamed about the detailed birthday parties she’d throw for her daughter.

Then, (21)_______ (browse) through a magazine, she saw a photo of a poverty-stricken

Haitian boy. “I thought, this kid has nothing,” Paige says.

The image stayed with (22)_______, and she resolved to do something to help. “I

decided I (23)_______ use my talents to throw birthday parties for homeless kids,”

Paige says.

Finally, in January 2012, Paige launched the Birthday Party Project, a nonprofit

organization, and called on friends and family to help decorate Dallas’s 75-occupant

Family Gateway Shelter with balloons and banners, celebrating the birthdays of 11

boys and girls, (24)_______ 60 more homeless kids in attendance. “That first party

was (25)_______ than I could have ever imagined,” says Paige.

Now Paige and her staff of three (26)_______(pay) employees work with regional

volunteers, aka “birthday enthusiasts”, to plan monthly themed parties at 15

shelters across the country, some of (27)_______ house abused or abandoned kids. Each

child celebrating a birthday that month gets a $30 gift, a decorative place mat, and

an individual cake or cupcake.

One of Paige’s favorite parts of each party is (28)_______ the kids make a wish

and blow out the candles. “Rarely (29)_______ they get a chance to dream big,” says

Paige.

Her daughter, Lizzie, now seven, often helps out at the parties. Paige says, “The

one thing I’ve always wanted for my kid (30)_______(be) generous.”

Section B

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.

A. sorted B. extremely C. disposed D. archaeology E. include F. critical

G. coding H. defined I. randomly J. recycle K. response

There are many ways of obtaining an understanding of people’s behavior. One of

these is to study the objects discarded by a community, objects used in daily lives.

The study of the garbage of a society is the basis for the science of ___31___ in

which the lives and behavior of past societies are minutely examined. Some recent

studies have indicated the degree to which rubbish is socially ___32___.

For several years the University of Arizona, USA, has been running a Garbage

Project, in which garbage is collected, ___33___ out and noted. It began in 1973

with

an arrangement whereby the City of Tucson collected for analysis garbage from ___34___

selected households in designated census (人口普查) collection districts. Since then

the researchers have studied other cities both in the USA and Mexico,

improving their

techniques and procedures in ___35___ to the challenges of understanding the often

unexpected results they have obtained. Garbage is

classified according to

a(n)___36___ detailed schedule, a range of data for each item is recorded on a

standardized ___37___ form, and the researchers analyze their findings with

information from census and other social surveys.

The Project leaders then decided to look not only at what was thrown away, but

what happened to it after that. In many counties waste is ___38___ of in landfills,

where the rubbish is compacted and buried in the ground. So in 1987, the Project

expanded its activities to ___39___ the excavation (挖掘) of landaus across the United

States and Canada. Surprisingly, no

one had ever attempted such excavations before.

The Garbage Project's work shows how many misconceptions exist about garbage.

The researchers are therefore ___40___ of attempts to promote one type of waste

management, such as source reduction or recycling,

over others, such as incineration or landfilling. Each has its

advantages and disadvantages, and what may be appropriate for one locality may not

be appropriate for another.

III. Reading comprehension.

Section A

Directions: 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.

Business has traditionally been and to a certain extent still is a ‘a boy’s

game’. Less than six per cent of executive management positions in American and

European companies are held by women, and of the Fortune 500 only four have female