2019 秋
高二英语·腾飞班（QG）
期中测试试卷
（本试卷共四大题，满分100 分，考试时间60 分钟）
【注意事项】本试卷配有答题卡，请在答题卡上作答，并拍照提交。
一、阅读理解（每道小题5 分，共40 分）
My daughter Kelly is a cautious person. She needs to warm up to situations, and is hesitant to try new things.
When with close friends, she becomes a leader who laughs loudly and chants, "Girls rule, boys drool." But when that
comfort zone is not around her, she is shy and nervous.
This has been challenging for me at times. "Shy" is not a word that I think has ever been used to describe me.
But this has been a year of firsts for my girl that has filled her with a new sense of confidence. This year she moved
to lap lane in swimming where she was preparing for a swim team. This year she learned to ride a bike without
training wheels. And this year she completed her first kids' triathlon (三项全能运动).
On Saturday, with a thunderstorm coming soon and my son's birthday party later in the day, we all went out in
the dark of the morning for Kelly to participate in her first triathlon. We practiced transitions from swim to bike to
run with her, we got all the equipment she'd need, and we kept talking about the race. But as we waited the two
hours for the older kids to finish before her turn, she held my leg a little harder and told me she loved me a few too
many times. She was nervous but trying to keep it together.
And then it was her turn. From the second she jumped into the water, my heart soared. My daughter transformed
into the most confident human being I had ever seen. She dominated that swim, crushed that bike ride and ran to
the finish with the biggest smile on her face.
I can honestly say that I never felt so proud of someone in my entire life. It wasn't because she did a sport or
anything like that. It was because she was afraid of something and conquered that fear with confidence and a fire I
hadn't seen before.
All day I would find myself just looking over at her and smiling. She might be wearing the finalist medal but I
felt like I won that day. I won the chance to see my girl shine.
Shine on, sweet baby.
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Kelly is nervous when
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A. boys are around her
B. she changes into a leader
C. she is away from her mom
D. situations are new to her
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We can know from Paragraph 3
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A. the race began in the early morning
B. the whole family gave Kelly support
C. Kelly was eager for her turn in the race
D. Kelly prepared for her brother's birthday party
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In Paragraph 5, the underlined word "conquered" probably means
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A. to defeat someone especially in a competition
B. to succeed in dealing with or control something
C. to become very popular or successful in a place
D. to take control of a country or a city and its people by force
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In the ending paragraphs, the author "felt like I won that day" because Kelly
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A. overcame the fear
B. expressed love to her
C. won the gold medal
D. took part in the sport
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Why are newspapers and TV broadcasts filled with disaster, corruption and incompetence? It may be because
we're drawn to depressing stories without realizing, according to psychologists.
When you read the news, sometimes it can feel like the only things reported are terrible, depressing events.
Why do the media concentrate on the bad things in life, rather than the good? In fact, many people often say that
they would prefer good news.
The researchers present their experiment as solid evidence of a so-called "negativity bias (偏见)", psychologists'
term for our collective hunger to hear, and remember bad news.
It isn't just delight in other people's misfortune, the theory goes, but that we've evolved to react quickly to
potential threats. Bad news could be a signal that we need to change what we're doing to avoid danger.
As you'd expect from this theory, there's some evidence that people respond quicker to negative words. In lab
experiments, flash the word "cancer", "bomb" or "war" up at someone and they can hit a button in response quicker
than if that word is "baby", "smile" or "fun". We are also able to recognize negative words faster than positive words,
and even tell that a word is going to be unpleasant before we can tell exactly what the word is going to be.
There's another interpretation (解释) that researchers put on their evidence: we pay attention to bad news,
because on the whole, we think the world is more hopeful than it actually is. When it comes to our own lives, most
of us believe we're better than average, and that, like the cliches, we expect things to be all right in the end. This
pleasant view of the world makes bad news all the more surprising and arresting. It is only against a light background
that the dark spots are highlighted.
So our attraction to bad news may be more complex than just journalistic prejudice or a hunger springing from
the darkness within.
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What is "negativity bias" according to psychologists?
A. It is one's delight in others' misfortune.
B. It is one's habit of reacting quickly to potential threats.
C. It is a signal with which we can avoid danger.
D. People are born to hear and remember bad news.
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What can we infer from the passage?
A. Journalists only feel like reporting depressing bad news.
B. It is true that there are no good stories to be reported.
C. People unconsciously pay more attention to bad news.
D. People like to hear pleasant words rather than bad words.
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What will be read first by most readers according to the theory?
A. Movie star arrested for taking drugs.
B. Movie star went on a campaign for ASL disease.
C. Movie star accepts Ice Bucket Challenge.
D. Movie star awarded the third Oscar in three years.
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What causes people to focus more on bad news than on good news?
A. The world is believed to be more hopeful than it actually is.
B. It is expected things will be all right in the end.
C. The world is believed to be full of darkness.
D. It is believed that we are better than others.
二、七选五（每道小题2 分，共10 分）
Learn to Think
"I will think of it." It is easy to say this. 1 We cann't see our thoughts, or hear, or taste, or feel
them; and yet what mighty power they have!
Sir Isac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer's evening, when he saw an apple fall from a tree.
2 Later, he discovered how the earth, sun, moon, and stars were kept in their places.
3 He began to think; he wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid. From
that time, he went on thinking and thinking. When he became a man, he improved the steam engine so much that it
could, with the greatest ease, do the work of many horses.
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A man named Galileo was once standing in the cathedral of Pisa, when he saw a light swaying to and fro. This
set him thinking, and it led to the invention of the pendulum.
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Boys, when you have a difficult lesson to learn, don't feel discouraged, and help yourselves before asking some-
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A. But do you know what great things have come from thinking?
B. Think, and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose.
C. A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fireside, watching the lid of the tea kettle as it moved up and down.
D. And do you know how to think?
E. When you see a steamboat, a steam mill, remember that it would never have been built if it had not been for the
hard thinking of someone.
F. He began to think, trying to find out why the apple fell.
G. He was a famous physicist and good at thinking.
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三、完型填空（每道小题2 分，共40 分）
As a young man, Alan was a skilled artist, a painter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his elder son
1 a bad stomachache. Thinking it was only some 2 intestinal (肠的) disorder, neither Alan nor
his wife took the condition very 3 . But the boy died suddenly that night. Knowing the death could have
been 4 if he had only realized the seriousness of the 5 , he always felt the loss of his son was
due 6 him. To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, 7 him alone with his
six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Alan could 8 , and he
turned to alcohol for help. 9 Alan became an alcoholic. 10 the alcoholism progressed, Alan
began to lose everything he 11 — his land, house, etc. Finally Alan died alone in a small bar. Hearing
of Alan's death, I thought, "What a totally wasted life! What a complete 12 !" As time went by, I began to
reconsider my earlier 13 . I knew Alan's now 14 son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most
15 , most loving men I have ever known. I saw the love between Ernie and his children, thinking that
kindness and caring had to come from somewhere. I hadn't heard Ernie talked much about his 16 . One
day, I worked up my 17 to ask him what on earth his father had done so that he became such a special
person. Ernie said 18 , "As a child until I left home at 18, Alan came into my room every night, gave me
a kiss and said, ‘love you, son.'" Tears came to my eyes as I realized what I had been a fool to 19 Alan
as a failure. He had not left any 20 belongings behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and left
behind his best love.
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A. exploded
B. developed
C. spread
D. lifted
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A. certain
B. rare
C. common
D. informal
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A. lightly
B. slightly
C. consciously
D. seriously
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A. cured
B. saved
C. banned
D. prevented
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A. situation
B. position
C. stage
D. reaction
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A. to
B. by
C. for
D. on
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A. giving
B. leaving
C. providing
D. asking
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A. stand
B. understand
C. explore
D. support
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A. As usual
B. In no time
C. In time
D. On occasion
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A. Though
B. As
C. If
D. Because
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A. needed
B. shared
C. benefited
D. owned
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A. failure
B. trouble
C. hardship
D. success
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A. choice
B. chance
C. judgment
D. expectation
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A. teen
B. adult
C. old
D. poor
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A. careful
B. strict
C. caring
D. excited
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A. brother
B. mother
C. child
D. father
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A. courage
B. appreciation
C. interest
D. enthusiasm
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A. aggressively
B. quietly
C. impatiently
D. excitedly
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A. spot
B. wonder
C. view
D. call
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A. emotional
B. natural
C. basic
D. material
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四、语法填空（每道小题1 分，共10 分）
Faraday was the 1 (invent) of the electric generator and electric motor. Faraday's father suffered
from long-time health problems, as a result of 2 his family had little money to afford his formal schooling.
But he was curious and determined to learn.
While 3 (work) in London as a teenager, he had a chance to read 4 (vary) books that he
could get his hands on. In 1812, he attended four lectures at the Royal Institution given by a famous chemist named
Humphrey Davy. A year later, Faraday 5 (accept) as Davy's lab assistant. Davy also took Faraday on
6 18-month tour of Europe, where Faraday met some of the most famous scientists of the day. But for
Davy, Faraday 7 (lose) the opportunity to gain a complete scientific education.
He soon began to do 8 (experiment) with electricity. In 1831, he discovered electromagnetic in-
duction. And for the next eight years, Faraday worked long hours in the lab, which did harm 9 his
health. By the end of the decade, he was in 10 poor health that his research did not begin again un-
til 1845. In the mid-1850s, he was forced to retire and he lived at Hampton Court until his death on August 25, 1867.
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