2016-2017學(xué)年上海市閔行區(qū)七寶中學(xué)高二（下）開學(xué)英語試卷

Grammar & vocabulary Section ADirections： After reading the passages below， fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.

• 1．With every rooster singing at dawn there （1）

  （come） a new start．In the new year，what do you think will happen to you？
      Right now various "roosters" made of gold，wood，plastic，paper，shell and stone are on sale in stores to salute the animal sign's return．
      Traditional customs mean that each animal sign of the Chinese zodiac has special meanings．So what about the rooster？
      In ancient times，（2）

  there were no clocks，it was the roosters that told people it was time to get up and start work．Hard working ancient Chinese people were therefore big fans of the rooster．
      （3）

  it's hard working nature，the animal is traditionally considered as a bird that can get rid of evil spirits．This is （4）

  folklore says all the evil things at night leave once roosters make their morning calls．It also enjoys a good reputation for its courage．It is no wonder that many Chinese people believe that those born in the Year of the Rooster are socially active．As the old saying goes，this is the animal that hides in your heart．They are happiest when （5）

  （surround） by others．（6）

  they are at a party or just around．
      It is not just the animals personality that appeals to the public．In Chinese culture，the pronunciation of "rooster" in Madarin is the same as（7）

  of "opportunity"．This coincidence means that many different customs are associated with the rooster．The Han people had a tradition of wearing a rooster shaped accessory made of cloth ，a symbol of good beginnings
      The ancient Greeks believed that the rooster，（8）

  （rise） to attention and saluted the sun every morning with a big cry，showing the victory over night．This means the rooster was thought to be a sign of the sun．It was made into the sign of the gold Apollo，as well as Zeus，Persephone and Attis．
      In Christianity，the rooster is a symbol of Jesus Christ's final days．All four Canonical Gospels state that during Jesus' Last supper with his disciples．He predicted that Peter （9）

  （deny） knowledge of him，stating that Peter would disown him before the rooster crowded the next morning．（10）

  （follow） the arrest of Jesus，Peter denied knowing him three times．But after the third denial，he heard the rooster crow and recalled the prediction as Jesus turned to look at him．To this day，the rooster，seen on a weathervane has symbolic meanings of keeping watch over evil，as weather are often see on top of churches．
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• 2．"Someday ，when we are not together，you won't be able to order a cup of coffee（1）

  hearing or seeing me．" There were the strong words of Lady Gaga，when she was still Stefani，Germanotta to an unkind boyfriend who wished failure on her．
      It's safe to say that Lady Gaga has been proven right．Since her first album in 2008，she has sold more than 140 million singles worldwide，and is one of the best selling artists of all time，Hits like Born This Way and Bad Romance are popular around the world，and her art has made her a cultural icon．
      It is not just a music， （2）

  Lady Gaga is famous for．Inspired by US artist Andy Warhol's The Factory from the 1960s，Lady Gaga has also opened her own artistic center called Haus of Gaga．This group of artists has designed some of her most controversial clothes．For example，in 2010 she wore a dress made of raw meat to the MTV Video Music Awards and （3）

  （list） as one of Vogue's（4）

  （well- dressed） people of the year．
      Lady Gaga has always had big dreams．Born in 1986 in New York，she grew up （5）

  （listen） to The Beatles and Madonna．She （6）

  （spot） at 13 singing to herself in clothes shop and it was not long before she was in front of a microphone herself，performing in high school musical productions．
      Now her goal is （7）

  （revolutionize） pop music． "My whole life is a theatre piece，" she said． " when I am writing music I'm thinking about the clothes I want to wear on stage．It is about．It is about（8）

  altogether--performance art，pop performance，fashion．"
      As well as her artistic career，Lady Gaga is known for her charity work and her efforts to encourage others to accept their flaws．She admitted that she （9）

  （suffer）from bulimia and，anorexia since the age of 15．But she was brave enough to accept their "flaws" and wanted others to do the same．Many fans，commented on her website，thanking Gaga for sharing her struggles． "You give us the strength to accept （10）

  we are supposed to be ashamed of and make it into our pride．" a user commented．
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Section BDirections： 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.

• 3．

  A．command B．exploiting C．nevertheless D．specific AB．contacts AC．emphasize AD．a(chǎn)vailable BC．elements BD．a(chǎn)mateur CD．a(chǎn)rms ABC．professional

  One of the executives gathered at the Aspen Institute for a day-long leadership workshop using the works of Shakespeare was discussing the role of Brutus in the death of Julius Caesar． "Brutus was not an honorable man，" he said． "He was a traitor（叛徒）．And he murdered someone in cold blood．" The agreement was that Brutus had acted with cruelty when other options were（1）

  to him．He made a bad decision，they said-at least as it was presented by Shakespeare-to take the lead in murdering Julius Caesar．And though one of the executives acknowledged that Brutus had the good of the republic in mind，Caesar was（2）

  his superior． "You have to endeavor，" the executives said， "our policy is to obey the chain of（3）

  ．"
     During the last few years，business executives and book writers looking for a new way to advise corporate America have been（4）

  Shakespeare's wisdom for profitable ends．None more so than husband and wife team Kenneth and Carol Adelman，well-known advisers to the White House，who started up a training company called "Movers and Shakespeares"．They are（5）

  Shakespeare scholars and Shakespeare lovers，and they have combined their passion and their high level（6）

  into a management training business．They conduct between 30 and 40 workshops annually，focusing on half a dozen different plays，mostly for corporations，but also for government agencies．
     The workshops all take the same form，focusing on a single play as a kind of case study，and using individual scenes as（7）

  lessons．In Julius Caesar ，sly provocation（狡詐的挑唆） of Brutus to take up（8）

  against was a basis for a discussion of methods of team building and grass roots organism．
     Although neither of the Adelmans is academically trained in literature，the programmes，contain plenty of Shakespeare tradition and background．Their workshop on Henry V，for example，includes a helpful explanation of Henry's winning strategy at the Battle of Agincourt．But they do come to the text with a few biases （偏向）：their reading of Henry V minimizes his misuse of power．Instead，they（9）

  the story of the youth who seizes opportunity and becomes a masterful leader．And at the workshop on Caesar，Mr．Adelmans had little good to say about Brutus，saying "the noblest Roman of them all" couldn't make his mind up about things．
     Many of the participants pointed to very specific（10）

  in the play that they felt related Caesar's pride，which led to his murder，and Brutus's mistakes in leading the after the murder，they said，raise vital questions for anyone serving as a business when and how do you resist the boss？
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Section BDirections： Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. 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 read.

• 8．It is generally well known that in a number of particularly dangerous parts of the world，for example the Middle East and the Indian/Pakistan border region，there are countries which either possess，or have the technology to produce，nuclear weapons．It is also worth remembering，however，that the country which possesses more nuclear weapons than any other，the United States，is the only power ever to have used nuclear weapons against people．
     Nuclear weapons were first developed in the United States during the Second World War，to be used against Germany．However by the time the first bombs were ready for use，the war with Germany had ended and，as a result，the decision was made to use the weapons against Japan instead．Hiroshima and Nagasaki have suffered the consequence of this decision to the present day．
     The real reasons why bombs were dropped on two heavily-populated cities are no t altogether clear．A number of people in 1944 and early 1945 argued that the use of nuclear weapons world be unnecessary，since American Intelligence was aware that some of the most powerful and influential people in Japan had already realized that the war was lost，and wanted to negotiate a Japanese surrender．It was also argued that，since Japan has few natural resources，a blockade by the American navy would force it to surrender within a few weeks，and the use of nuclear weapons would thus prove unnecessary．If a demonstration of force was required to end the war，a bomb could be dropped over an unpopulated area like a desert，in front of Japanese observers，or over an area of low population inside Japan，such as a forest．Opting for this course of action might minimize the loss of further lives on all sides，while the power of nuclear weapons would still be adequately demonstrated．
     All of these arguments were rejected，however，and the general consensus was that the quickest way to end the fighting would be to use nuclear weapons against centers of population inside Japan．In fact，two of the more likely reasons why this decision was reached seem quite shocking to us now．
     Since the beginning of the Second World War both Germany and Japan had adopted a policy of genocide（i．e．killing as many people as possible，including civilians）．Later on，even the US and Britain had used the strategy of firebombing cities（Dresden and Tokyo，for example）in order to kill，injure and intimidate as many civilians as possible．Certainly，the general public in the West had become used to hearing about the deaths of large numbers of people，so the deaths of another few thousand Japanese，who were the enemy in any case，would not seem particularly unacceptable-a bit of 'justifiable' revenge for the Allies' own losses，perhaps．
     The second reason is not much easier to comprehend．Some of the leading scientists in the world had collaborated to develop nuclear weapons，and this development had resulted in a number of major advances in technology and scientific knowledge．As a result，a lot of normal，intelligent people wan ted to see nuclear weapons used；they wanted to see just how destruct five this new invention could be．It no doubt turned out to be even more 'effective' than they had imagined．
  
  （1）In Paragraph 1，the writer is suggesting that the

  ．
  A．America should，if necessary，use nuclear weapons again
  B．America is more likely than other countries to use nuclear weapons
  C．America is one of several countries to have used nuclear weapons
  D．America could potentially use nuclear weapons again．
  （2）According to paragraph 3，a blockade would have been successful because

  ．
  A．Japan has to import most of its natural resources like coal and steel
  B．Japan would not be resourceful enough to beat a blockade
  C．a(chǎn)n attack would probably destroy Japanese resources within a few weeks
  D．the Americans could defeat Japan's navy since it was short of resources
  （3）According to paragraph 5，which of the following is true？

  
  A．People in the West had got used to hearing the sounds of people dying．
  B．It would probably not be wise to inform people in the West of the deaths．
  C．Scientists thought only a few thousand people would die if the bombs were used．
  D．People in the West would accept that some people had to die to end the war．
  （4）In the last sentence of Paragraph 6，the writer implies that

  ．
  A．he/she agrees with the decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan
  B．he/she thinks the decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japanese cities was wrong
  C．nuclear weapons worked much better than the scientists probably expected
  D．the weapons proved to be effective because Japan surrendered soon after
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Section C （8）

• 9．

  A．A lot of volunteers wait to be told what to do or they wait to be asked． B．It never occurred to him that everyone had a part to play in making the world a better place． C．He hit up friends，neighbors and family members for donations． D．It helped him discover that this one small gesture had a huge chain effect that goes straight to the heart of helping． AB．Shoes in different sizes and colors suddenly caught his eyes． AC．That's when the answer came through loud and clear．

  In the summer of 2015，Christian Moyer was just another teenager busy preparing for the SAT when he was faced with a question he couldn't answer．It had nothing to do with reading，writing or math and everything to do with life．
     "We were looking at this section about college essays，and one of the prompts（提示） was， ' Tell us about a struggle you have had in life and how you overcame it．''' Said Christian，now a 17-year-old senior at University City High School． "And I realize how fortunate I was not to have any struggles in life and how other people don't have as much as I do．"
     （1）

  ．The inspiration for what to do next came from "Barefoot Sunday'" an annual Newbreak Church event that asks church members to wear new or gently used shoes to a service and leave them behind．The shoes are then donated to charities that help people start over-people who are homeless，addicted，abused and poor．
     Christian decided to start collecting shoes for the San Diego Rescue Mission，one of the "Barefoot Sunday" charities．
     When he dropped off his first batch（批） of shoes，Christian got a tour to the downtown with events manager Michelle Smith． （2）

  
     "Some of the people we see will wear the same pair of shoes until there are no bottoms or tops on them．This makes a big difference for them．" Said Herb Johnson，president and CEO of the San Diego Rescue Mission． "With the children，many of these kids have never had a good pair of shoes．Some of our clients' shoes look like they have been around the world a couple of times．"
     Christian started collecting shoes last fall．（3）

  ．He posted a note on an online social network．His family members put a bin （箱子） in front of their house for easy drop-off．He even raided（掃蕩） his own closet．
     Since starting his shoe drive，Christian has collected 160 pairs，which he catalogs on an Excel spreadsheet．The shoes that are not used by the mission's clients are sold in one of the organization's stores，with proceeds（收益） going to support the mission's programs．
      " （4）

  ．But Christian's started this on his own，" Smith said．
     Over the past year，Christian figures he has donated at least 10 pairs of his own shoes to the mission．In addition to freeing up some room in his closet，donating the shoes has given him the king of feel-good payback．
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