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2020-2021学年河北正定中学高一下学期第二次月考（期中）英语试卷学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________一、阅读选择How old are the apps on your smartphone? Is it time for an update? Here are three apps for you. Try them out and have fun.DuoLingoLearning a foreign language doesn't always mean you have to sit in a class and take endless exams. An app called Duolingo has been designed to help you memorize(记住) new words and grammar in creative ways, such as online lessons, games and interesting exercises. For example, one exercise asks you to put words in the right order to make the correct sentence. You can also try translation practice.Douban FMA music app is necessity for almost every smartphone now. Douban FM might be the right thing for you.There is no playlist on Douban FM—songs just keep streaming(播放) one by me, You can use the “heart”, “trash” and “skip” buttons (按钮) to mark the songs you like, don’t like and want to cut short, respectively(分別地). Those marked with a heart will be stored in another list as your favorites for you to listen to anytime you want. Douban FM also has different channels(道频). There are many types of music, such as blues, jazz, and pop. You can choose the music for outdoor activities work or studying depending on your mood (心情).FlipboardIt is one of the hottest news apps right now. With Flipboard, you can make everything personal to you. All you have to do is open up the app, “flip through” to select whatever interests you, and click the button. At the end you’ll have your own m agazine, complete with a front page, new articles, and information.1．What’s the purpose of the passage?A．To show a new way to learn English.B．To offer a hottest news website.C．To introduce three apps.D．To give advice to music lovers.2．What does Duolingo help you do?A．Get away from endless exams.B．Keep words and grammar in mind.C．Have easy access to online lessons.D．Practice speaking English correctly.3．Which statement is true about Douban FM？A．There is no playlist on it, making a smartphone easier to operate.B．It has special channels where concerts are regularly broadcast live.C．It knows about your mood based on what you are doing.D．You can choose with it your favorite songs and music as you like.4．According to the text, what can you do wish Flipboard?A．Make a personalized news magazine.B．Go through everything that interests you.C．Safely store some personal information.D．Contribute your articles to popular magazines.Unlike most other holidays, the history of April Fools’ Day, som etimes called All Fools’ Day, is not totally clear. The only point in time that can be agreed on as the beginning of this tradition was 1582,in France. Before that year, the New Year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25.The celebration reached the highest point on April 1.With the reform （改革）of the calendar under Charles 1X,the Gregorian calendar(公历，阳历）was introduced, and New Year’s Day was moved to January 1.However, because in those days communications were not as developed as they are today, many people did not receive the news for several years. Some people refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the New Year on April 1.These backward people were considered “fools” by other people. They were often sent on “fools” er rands（徒劳无益的工作）or were made the targets (目标)of jokes.This developed, over time, into a tradition of playing a trick on someone on the first day of April. The tradition eventually spread to England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. It was later introd uced to the American colonies of both the Britain and France. April Fools’ Day thus developed into an international fun feast, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own kind of humor at the expense of their friends and families.5．When did the New Year celebration in France reach the highest point? .A．On April the first B．On January the firstC．On March 25 D．On April the third6．What was people’s attitude towards the new calendar?A．They accepted it happily. B．They refused it immediately. C．Some laughed at it. D．Some recognized it.7．The passage mainly tells us .A．what the French did on April Fools’ DayB．when the new calendar was introducedC．how April Fools’ Day came into existenceD．why some people were fooled in FranceWhat if you arrived home to find it delicious hot meal waiting for you, prepared by your very own kitchen robot It might sound like science fiction. but professors at the university of Tokyo have taken the first steps toward making that scenario a reality. The team recently introduced a humanoid kichen robot that can pour and other drinks into cups and serve the m to guests.When teating is over, the robot can also wash the dishes and put them away.In Califormia, another interesting kitchen robot has been developed, called Readybot. It can pick up objects and either srore them in cabinets (橱柜）or put them in the trash. It also carries a separate floor-cleaning robot that can operate by itself.Unlike the Japanserobot,Readybot just looks more like a large box with arms and wheels.Readybot was created by engineers and designers who who etablished a called the Readybot Challlenge. They believe that in the future millions of robots will be needed in homes to perform ordinary household tasks. Readybot is just the step in their plan to create a robot that can do jobs not only in kitchens but in other rooms of homes and in offces as well. Clearly there are tcchnogical difficulties to to solve before robots can cook a Complete dinner, and there arc diso many safety concerns (忧虑） .Not everyone (especially parents) would be comfortable with the idea of robots in their house, manipulating hot pans and sharp knives. The European Commission recently furtded(资助）a project to study these concerns. According to lead researcher Professor Chris Melhuish,“ Enabling robots to work safely with humans is a key need for the future developmem ofrobots.”8．Compared with Readybot, which of the following is true about the Japanese robot? A．It is more popular.B．It performs more jobs,C．It moves inore quickly.D．It looks more like a person.9．What can Readybot be used to do?A．drive you aroundB．clean your kitchenC．prepare food for youD．work for office workers10．what's th e meaning of Ac underlined word “manipulating ” in the last paragrsph? A．InventingB．Avoiding.C．Controlling.D．Making.Some people surveyed tasted the sweet, salty, and crunchy together with other tastes of food as they listen to different noises. It shows that louder noises reduced the reported sweetness or saltiness of food while increasing the measure of crunchiness（松脆）.It may go some way to explain why airline food is widely complained about by both the workers and passengers. Andy Woods, a resea rcher, said, “It’s a general opinion that plane foods aren’t fantastic, but I’m sure airlines do their best, so we wondered if there were other reasons. One thought was that perhaps the background noise may have an effect. NASA gives their space explorers very strong-tasting foods, because for some reason, they can’t taste food that strongly –again, it may have something to do with the background noise.”In a study, 48 people were fed sweet foods or salty ones, while listening to nothing or noise through earphones. Meanwhile they rated（划分等级）the foods. In noisier settings, foods were rated less salty or sweet than they were when it was silent, but were rated crunchier. “The evidence shows that if the background noise is loud, your attention might be drawn to that, away from the food.” Dr. Woods said.“We are still at an early stage of progressing and this is a rather small study to really drawdefinitive（最完整可靠的）conclusions from,” Dr Woods said, “but they suggest that restaurants could well adapt their choice of food for a given environment.”Also in the group’s findings there is the suggestion that the overall satisfaction with the food is also related to the degree to which people like what they are hearing.11．How does the food taste when it is eaten in a noise environment?A．Less salty but crunchier. B．Sweeter and saltier.C．Sweeter but less crunchy. D．Less sweet and crunchy.12．What does NASA give their space explorers very strong-tasting foods?A．Foods become less tasty in space.B．The explorers lose their sense of taste in space.C．Loud noises in space may weaken the explorers’ sense of taste.D．The explorers need tastier foods to keep energetic in space.13．We can infer from what Dr. Woods said in the 4th paragraph that ________.A．the environment influences the food a restaurant sellsB．the researchers have made an effective conclusionC．music will weaken people’s sense of taste while eatingD．listening to nothing while eating is the best choice14．What would be the best title for the text?A．The best dinner environmentB．How to change plane foodsC．Listening to music while eatingD．Background noise affects the taste of foods二、七选五Thinking about a future career cm bung a lei of stress.15．This cuts up the question into workable issues that you and your child can enjoy dealing with throughout their childhood years.Here's how:In your child’s lift, there are times when they are given the opportunity to see and/or diacuss a certain career Schools have Career Day. an aunt or uncle talks about what they do for a living or your child's youth group goes on a trip to a hospital und talks to the staff there.16．When your Child shows interest in a certain career. you should do some research. Then, you can offer your child some information on that job and related jobs.17．It is a wondertul theonline resoure.Help your Child weigh the pros and cons for his or her different career interests. Encourage your child to narrow（缩小）the cboice down to five at the most.18．This is a good time to begin ordering in college and technical school lists. Use the lists and any other information you have found as an ice breaker for more converasations with your child.19．Make this a clear message.Teach your child that part of be ing independent is knowing when and who to lead on,trust and respect.A．Do you fed you have open communication with your child?B．The Occupational Oudook Handbook gives you what schooling is needed.C．The final decision lies with your child, but you do have the right to have input. D．Choosing the right career is one of die mm important decisions your child will make in life.E.Figure out the path your child would have to take to obtain the schooling, for his career choices.F.Each of these nines is an opportunity for you to ask your child what he thought of those jobs or that field of work.G.Parents need to learn to help their child conquer this great question by dropping seeds of conversation as time goes by Bud watch them grow into ideas.三、完形填空A Leap （跳跃）to HonorLeapirg on a narrow balance beam( 平衡木) is not easy. But Lola Water. a 13-year-old gymnast is an expert at it.To perfect her skills. Lola 20 for four hours a day, five days a week. At the slate championships in March，she finished seventh out of 16 girts. That's especially impressive.21 she is legaly blind, horn with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift (转移)canstantly. She offen sees double and can't 22 how far away things are. When she was little, her mom 23 even though she couldn’t24 , she was fearless. So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the 25 right away and gymnastics became her favorite.Though learning gymnastics has been more 26 for her than for some of her tournaments( 锦际赛). she has never quit(放弃). She doesn’t let her27 stop her fromdoing anything that she warts to. She likes the determination (决心）it takes to do the sport. Her biggest 28 is the balance beam. Because she has double vision , she often sees two beams. She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine. Sometimes she even clones her eyes. "You have to 29 your mind that it’ll take you where you want to go”, says Lola.To be a top-level gymmast, one must be brave The beam is probably the most 30 for anyone because it’s only four inches wide At the state competition, Lob didn 't31 the beam, In fact, she got an 8.1 out of 10 一her highest scone yet.Lola doesn’t waat to be 32 , differently from the other girls un her team, At the competitions, the judges don’t know about her vision33 . She doesn’t tell them, because she doesn't think they need to know. Her mom is amazed by her 34 altitude. Loda never thinks about 35 . She is presently at level 7 while the highest is level 10 in gymnastics. Her 36 is to reach level 9.She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach 10 37 what she s learned to other kids when she grew up.Lola is 38 of all her hard work and success. She says it has helped her overcome problems in her lifeOutside gymnastics,too. Her 39 for others is “just be1ieve yourself ”. 20．A．runs B．leaches C．trains D．daneeft21．A．since B．uritciab C．after D．ihDUgh22．A．tell B．guess C．fancy D．pmlict23．A．doubied B．remembered C．imagined D．noticed24．A．deeply B．well C．ahead D．carefully25．A．task B．sport C．event D．show26．A．boring B．enjoyable C．difficult D．unsatisfying.27．A．talent B．quality C．nature D．condition28．A．doubt B．advantage C．challenge D．program29．A．examine B．express C．open D．trust30．A．fearful B．harmful C．unfair D．inconvenient31．A．full down B．fall over C．fall off D．fall behind32．A．greeted B．treated C．served D．paid33．A．pains B．stresses C．injuries D．problems34．A．positive B．friendly C．selfless D．devoted35．A．defending B．quilting C．winning D．bargaining 36．A．standard B．ranga C．view D．goal37．A．go through B．pass by C．hand down D．give out38．A．proud B．tired C．ashamed D．confident39．A．plan B．advice C．reward D．Responsibility四、用单词的适当形式完成短文Panl Frederic Simon is u famous 40．(music), singer and songwriter. He was born on October 13, 1941 in the USA．It’s been more than half a century since he41．(write) his famous song The Sound of silence with his partner Art GarfunkeL They also adapted42．old English folk song Scarborough Fair,which is still popular all over the world now.Recently Paul Simon released43．(the) latest album Stranger to Stranger and received excellent reviews. And Wristband，which is one of the songs from the album, is often played on college radio.44．, Simon is ready to hang up his guitar and stop 45．(make)mu sic. “Show busing dewsn’t hold any interest for me,” said the 74-year-old man.Simon is planning46．(begin) a month-long Lour of Europe on October 17, shortly after his 75th birthday. After that, he’s going to travel for a year, perhaps47．his wife, It’s an act of courage to let go, ” said Simon. “I am going to see48．will happen if I let go. Then I’m going to see who I am.”If he does quit music. Simon will bring a great career to s close, which has spanned sixty years lie has won more than a dozen Grammys and produced a lot of49．(came)songs.Paul Fredric Simon has been named by Time Magazine one of the “100 Peaple Who Shaped the World”,五、短文改错50．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。