英语学科（第二十九期） 完成时间 8.12
班级_________ 学生姓名_______________ 家长签字________________ 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节,满分40分） 第一节（共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分）
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The teen book for this quarter is The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen. After a teenage track star loses the lower part of one of her legs in an accident, she struggles with how to continue on with her life. Through the support of her friends, family and a new friend who enters her life that she may never have met before, Jessica learns that her life isn’t as over as she thought and that there are many paths that she has yet to explore. This quarter we will be reading Rules by Cynthia Lord. Catherine has a brother with autism (孤独症). She spent years trying to teach him the rules of life. Catherine is so focused on what normal is and how people should act, which leads to her own behavior harming the friendships she has made. We have two selections for our youngest readers this quarter. The first is Fluffy and Baron by Laura Rankin. A sweet story detailing the friendship between a yellow duckling and a dog as they both grow and explore their own lives. Wonderfully illustrated (插图) this book whose language is easy to understand will be enjoyed by the youngest of readers. The second book we are recommending for our youngest readers 假期作业二十九期
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touches on water. Water Can Be, by Laura Purdie Salas, draws younger readers in as it is written in rhyme. While attracting kids with rhyme, the book with blue cover looks at all the many forms and roles water can take across the beautifully illustrated pages. 21. Which book describes its leading character’s fighting for a new life? A. Rules.
B. Water Can Be. D. The Running Dream.
C. Fluffy and Baron.
22. What can we learn about Catherine? A. She is a teacher of disabled students. C. She is the youngest writer for kids.
B. She helps write Fluffy and Baron. D. She gradually loses her friends.
23. What make (s) kids like Water Can Be according to the text’s author? A. Its special writing style. C. Its attractive cover design.
B
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, has won the 2017 World Food Prize for his work to increase production and farm incomes. Dr Adesina said providing millions of farmers with seeds and fertilizers (肥料) was vital to promote development. He added that 98% of the world’s 800 million skinny people live in Africa. Since 1986, the World Food Prize aims to recognize efforts to increase the quality and quantity of available food.
Dr Adesina said that he was “very happy” to win the award. “For me, the award is not just about recognition for me, it is also about putting the wind behind the sails of what still needs to be done in African agriculture,” he said. He added that the problem that needed to be solved was that the level of productivity of the African agriculture was “so, so low”. “One of the things that I have worked on was how to accelerate our efforts,” he said. “You know, you can find Coca-Cola anywhere in rural Africa, so
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B. Its easy words.
D. Its beautiful illustrations.
why can’t you find seeds or why can’t you find fertilizers? It is because the model that was used to hand out was based on government systems, which are very, very ineffective. So I thought the best way to do that is to support rural companies to have their own small shops to sell seeds and fertilizers to farmers.”
The World Food Prize was founded in 1986 by Dr. Norman E Borlaug, who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. Dr Adesina will receive the US $250,000 prize at the Borlaug Dialogue international symposium, which is held in the US to “help further the discussion on global food security issues and inspire the next generation to end hunger”.
President of the World Food Prize Foundation, former US ambassador Kenneth Quinn, said the judging panel hoped awarding Dr Adesina this year’s prize would “inspire the next generation of Africans as they meet the challenges of the 21st century”. 24. Why was Dr Adesina awarded?
A. Because he became president of African Development Bank. B. Because he realized his dream of helping the farmers in Africa. C. Because he found some ways to make land produce more crops.
D. Because he intended to increase the quality and quantity of available food. 25. What did Dr Adesina mean when he said “putting the wind behind the sail”？ A. Much work had to be completed. C. He wanted to show his happiness.
B. He was recognized by the world. D. The African agriculture was better.
26. What did Dr Adesina do to help the farmers? A. He handed out the seeds on government systems. B. He gave Coca-Cola to them anywhere he met them. C. He changed ways of providing seeds and fertilizers. D. He ran shops to sell seeds and fertilizers to farmers. 27. Who would end the problem of food shortage in Africa? A. All the people in Africa.
C
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B. The next generation of Africans. D. The scientists in the United States.
C. Food and Agriculture Organization.
Civil society in Morocco is working hard to fight tobacco and drug addiction among young people. With the help of non-governmental organizations, many teenagers have managed to give up smoking.
Salim, eighteen years old, is one of them. “A friend offered me my first cigarette. Soon, I started buying my own cigarette and got in the habit of smoking. As my parents didn’t realize that I was smoking, I carried on until one day a teacher, who was a member of an organisation, saved me. He gave me advice and support for several weeks till I finally quitted this bad habit. ” Salim said.
Samira is a secondary school student. “My mother neglected (忽视) me. She gave me money just to get rid of me. As for my dad, he only came home in the evening and always started shouting at my mother. I easily found refuge to drugs. ” She explains.
Amina Baaji is a teacher and member of the Moroccan Associations for Listening and Dialogue. She stressed the importance of the role of parents in dealing with cigarette smoking, before it leads to drug addiction. “Families must look after their children and try to understand them so that they will not become addicted to tobacco or drugs. ”She says. “Parents’ failure to listen to their children and understand their problems is the main reason why young people start smoking or taking drugs.” She adds.
Jamal Bahaoui, another teacher, agrees with Baaji. “If young people are to be protected from tobacco and drugs, families and schools must keep an eye on them and try to understand their needs and fears.” He explains. “Teachers must spend more time listening to their students so that they can give them guidance and help them deal with their psychological problems.” He adds. 28. What’s the main idea of the text?
A. Non-governmental organizations in Morocco. B. Anti-smoking and drug campaigns in Morocco. C. Students, psychological problems in Morocco. D. Teenagers giving up smoking or drugs in Morocco. 29. How did Salimas teacher help him?
A. By keeping encouraging him to keep away from tobacco. B. By continuing to tell him to talk with his mother. C. By giving him money to support his studies. D. By communicating with his mother.
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30. What led to Samira’s drug addiction? A. Her own bad habit.
B. Her family problem.
D. Her failure to listen to her parents.
C. Her teachers’ ignorance.
31. What does Baaji advise parents to do to protect their children from addiction? A. Give advice to their children. B. Give up smoking or taking drugs. C. Communicate with their children.
D. Put their family problems behind their children.
D
Queuing, unpacking and repacking our suitcases is the price of airport security. Suitcases go through an X-ray and any suspicious (可疑的) image means the luggage is sent on to a second machine, but a new 3D scanner may speed things up. It was the result of a collaboration (合作) between a global company, Rapiscan, and a team led by professor Bill Lionheart.
The idea is that the bags could have a three-dimensional scan and be viewed from any angle, allowing the security people to get a much better idea of the contents of a piece of luggage much faster. “They had invented it to make it very fast,” says Lionheart, “but they hadn’t thought about how to make the three-dimensional picture.” Despite the difficulties, Lionheart and his team who designed the machine finally managed to make one based on complex mathematical calculations, which the operator can look at in any direction.
The resulting machine, the RTT80 3D scanner won a famous Engineer magazine prize and has been inexperimental use in the US and in Germany with a view to being put into production if it meets the necessary standards. The mathematics they’ve used for the scanner is also a starting point for other applications. Rapiscan also makes metal detectors which made Professor Lionheart think that there are perhaps new ways of thinking about landmines (地雷).
Lionheart says, “Generally, it will take hundreds of years to clear the mines. We’re hoping that this metal detector project will lead to clean up landmines quicker.” Lionheart believes that mathematics is particularly good at working across different engineering problems. “You start looking at X-rays in
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airport security; then apply the same things to material science, inventing detectors, and you realize the same mathematics could be applied to landmine detection. We tend to make bridges across different areas of knowledge because the mathematics is shared.” 32. What may security measures at airports result in? A. Passengers having to wait in lines. B. Checking suitcases being very expensive. C. Airplanes sometimes having to be put off. D. All luggage passing through at least two machines.
33. Which is right about the new three-dimensional picture of luggage? A. It was invented by accident. B. It has already been put on the market. C. It depended on mathematical calculations. D. It can be mistaken for the image of other luggage.
34. What does the underlined word “it” refer to in Paragraph 3? A. The prize.
B. The production. D. The 3D scanner.
C. The experimental use.
35. What can we know about mathematics from Lionheart’s words? A. It inspires Lionheart to design the 3D scanner. B. It has wide application in the engineering field. C. It accelerates the solving of the landmine problem. D. It can reduce the differences between scientific fields. 第二节（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 How to improve social skills? Different people have different opinions. Social skills are an essential part of life but are not always easy to perfect. Improving takes time and some trial and error.
Select specific skills to improve
Don’t try to improve all of your social skills at once. 36 After you feel comfortable in your
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understanding of body language, you might read a guide on small talk and practice that next.
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Talk with people while carrying out daily activities at school, work or at any other place. Communication is powerful and as you enter into more conversations, you will become more experienced in chatting.
Be relaxed and confident around people
38 You can help grow this feeling by building your sense of self-worth and finding your inner-strength. Remind yourself that you are a very special and worthwhile person.
Choose specific goals and work towards them
Trying to improve your social skills is such a broad goal that it is hard to see progress towards it and it is easy to get discouraged. 39 For instance, you might decide “I want to successfully join a conversation at a party.”
Find people who share the same interests with you
Why do you think you see a lot of friends are people who share something in common? For example, the basketball group, the football group, the video games group. 40 So if you love football then talk about football. This is how most friendships start off.
A. Join in conversations.
B. Refer to social skills books and guides. C. People love to be around with humorous people. D. People like it when you are comfortable with yourself. E. You might buy a book on body language and work on that first. F. Instead, pick a goal that is challenging but able to do and specific.
G. Generally, those who share the same interests are more likely to become friends. 第一节（共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Alice Green tries to follow the fashion at 11. But her mom, Helen, 41 part-time and her
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husband was recently 42 off, leaving little room in the family budget for designer-brand clothes. So Alice didn’t ask her mom to 43 her wallet this fall to buy clothes. Instead, she 44 a mass of her own old jeans and shirts at a 45 and bought what she wanted for school. Alice is learning she has to make 46 with her money.
The cost of bringing up kids is continuing to 47 . Now, because there is a growing 48 that today’s youth will face a lasting drop in their standard of living, many parents are working to reshape children’s 49 . The result is a strong, painful change in 50 , as kids learn to save 51 work to pay for consumer goods they want.
Ms. Green is teaching Alice and her brother Noah, 13, to 52 consumer pressures. Both children have learned to enjoy 53 family camping vacations, and they sell items on eBay to raise cash for purchases. The joke around their house is that if the things are not nailed 54 , they will be sold.
In the past, money talk was unacceptable in many 55 , and many parents 56 children from financial realities. Because parents want everything to be 57 great for their children. So it’s 58 sometimes to set limits for the children.
There is a networking group—Mothers & More with 4,100 members, where teaching kids money skills is a 59 topic. A better approach is to give children a budgeted amount for necessities and require them to 60 it and account for their spending. 41. A. writes 42. A. laid 43. A. give 44. A. sold 45. A. shop
B. works B. driven B. hide B. bought B. sale
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C. wears C. kicked C. open
D. wonders D. cut D. show D. found D. spot D. choices D. improve D. fact D. needs
C. collected C. price C. clothes C. rise
46. A. plans 47. A. raise
B. rules B. add
48. A. belief 49. A. wishes
B. idea C. suggestion C. dreams
B. expectations
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50. A. action 51. A. and 52. A. bear
B. activity B. but
C. behavior C. rather
D. thinking D. or D.escape from D. fantastic D. in D. families D. sheltered D. just D. hard D.troublesome D. devote to
B. resist B. shabby B. off
C. be opposed to C. valuable C. down C. groups
53. A. inexpensive 54. A. up
55. A. schools 56. A. realized 57. A. almost 58. A. easy
B. societies
B. appreciated B. merely
C. inspected C. only
B. necessary B. popular B. arrange
C. important C. tough C. stick to
59. A. unbelievable 60. A. admit
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Seychelles has long been on my “to visit” list so I was excited at the chance of 61 (final) being able to go there.
To get to the Seychelles we flew via Dubai to Mahe. From there we took a smaller plane for a 45-minute trip to Desroches. I was so 62 (please) as the plane was landing—all I could see was this noble island, edged with pure, white beaches in the middle of the Indian Ocean. What 63 sight!
Desroches is described 64 a sort of place in the Seychelles for romance (浪漫), adventure and 65 (amuse). The island is famous for its great contributions to protecting the environment and the only sounds we heard were those 66 (provide) by Mother Nature.
The giant tortoises are one of the real 67 (delight) of Desroches. They’re so lovely. I regularly requested fresh fruit from the restaurant, 68 I told them I was going to give to the tortoises. They kindly provided me with a small tortoise feast of mango and banana. Similar to dogs, the tortoises come to you when you call. I swear, they want you 69 (touch) them, to take their pictures—they even pose (摆姿势).
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The best way to explore Desroches is by bike and each guest 70 (give) one to use during their stay. 作文
假定你是李华，你校来自英国的交换生Peter，回国后发邮件对你的帮助表示感谢，并询问了你的学习情况，尤其是对你市业已开始的垃圾分类处理问题表示关注。请你给他回复邮件介绍相关情况。
注意：1.词数：100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。 【答案】Dear Peter,
I am more than happy to know that you have returned safe and sound. You owe your progress in Chinese to my help. To tell you the truth, I also appreciate your help in my English. Now I am getting along well with my subjects, especially English.
As for our environment, it used to leave much to be desired, but now the whole city have promoted the awareness of environment protection. All the citizens are willing to separate and sort rubbish. All the rubbish is properly treated. Last week our school held a show — Art works out of Rubbish.
Now I can’t wait for you to come again to our city, a cleaner one than ever.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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第二部分 阅读理解
第一节21—23 DDA 24—27 CACB 28—31 BABC 32—35 ACDB 第二节36—40 EADFG 第三部分 英语知识运用
第一节 完形填空41—45 BACAB 46—50 DCABC 51—55 DBACD 56—60 DDDBC 第二节61. finally 62. pleased 63. a 64. as 65. amusement 66. provided 67. delights 68. which 69. to touch 70. is given
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