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和诚中学2018-2019学年高二知识清单、易错题目定时训练（28）
时间：60分钟 总分100分 出题人：
一、阅读理解（每题4分，共40分）
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The Coolest Inventions
An Oceans Vacuum
There’s a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It’s bigger than Texas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets. That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next year’s trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42 % over 10 years.
Easy-On Shoes
In 2012, Matthew Walzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,” he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the FlyEase. The basketball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike FlyEase shoes sells for $ 130.
An Airport for Drones (无人机）
As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, in Africa, may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goals is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.
1. What’s the advantage of the Oceans Vacuum?
A. It can be a money-saver. B. It can grow year by year.
C. It can tear plastic into pieces. D. It can be put into wide use soon.
2. What do we know about Nike?
A. It offers free shoes to the disabled. B. It is designing new shoes frequently.
C. It provides customer-friendly services. D. It responded to Matthew’s request passively.
3. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”？
A. Because road travel there is rough.
B. Because there are too many drones.
C. Because they’re easier to construct than roads.
D. Because they are receptive to new technology.

B
I spent most my twenties working for the National Park Service, and I lived a wide variety of government housing, including several shabby but appealing old houses where the wild creatures outnumbered humans. Sometimes I wondered, lying awake at night, how many hearts beat inside those walls. With all that lovely national park habitat protected for their use, why did the animals need to live in my house?
My latest essay “The indoor wilds at outdoor parks,” revisits my experiences with wild (non-human!) roommates and officemates in Rocky Mountain National Park. At first, they were considered annoying but not dangerous. Attitudes changed dramatically when hantavirus (汉他病毒) came on the scene, and suddenly those cute, non-housebroken deer mice became a threat. When I moved on to Canyonlands National Park, I found that every effort had been made to seal off my house from four-footed intruders (入侵者). These efforts mostly worked and later employees moved into new housing. But somehow a rat still managed to chew its way through the floor and drown itself in my toilet. I’m not even going to get started about my coworkers’ experiences with other much scarier animals.
The Beaver Meadows Vistor Center in the story was designed by Tailiesin Associated Architects, Frank Lloyed Wright’s firm, after Wright’s death. Working there, I always thought the building was strange. I recently revisited the building while researching a children’s book I am writing about the park. I think I get it now, at least a little.
4. What does the underlined word “their” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Some park visitors’. B. Endangered animals’.
C. The author’s coworkers’. D. The author’s wild roommates’.
5. Why did people show a change in attitude towards deer mice?
A. Because a virus was spreading.
B. Because people were hurt by them.
C. Because people saw a really cute one.
D. Because they protected people’s houses.
6. What can we infer about the living conditions of the author’s coworkers?
A. They were unknown to the author. B. They were acceptable to the author.
C. They were no better than the author’s. D. They were much better than the author’s.
7. After visiting the Beaver Meadows Vistor Center again, the author .
A. could appreciate it better B. finished a children’s book
C. did research on national parks D. knew it was designed by Wright
C
Increasing numbers of airports, especially in Europe, are promoting a “silent airport” idea. It is to reduce noise pollution, such as airport-wide announcements, without sacrificing timely and helpful updates of information.
International airports were once characterized by their high voices, competing gate announcements and so on.
This is all changing.
Angela Gittens, director general of Airports Council International (ACI), says there is a growing desire among airports and airlines they serve to “create a calm, relaxed atmosphere” without being disturbed by announcements.
“Passengers can relax while they wait for their flight to board in the common airside lounges (休闲区), and food and drink areas,” she says.
In June, Helsinki Airport in Finland — a country where the tourism slogan is “Silence, Please” — became the most recent airport to adopt the silent concept.
As part of its commitment to quieting things down, announcements for flights are made only in boarding gate areas.
Lost track of time in the shop?
Too bad.
Nobody’s going to call you to your flight, as announcements in all terminals will be made only in exceptional emergency circumstances.
Heikki Koski, vice president of Helsinki Airport, says that improved flight information display systems and interactive kiosks (交互式自助服务机), together with advances in mobile technology, are changing the way airports communicate with passengers.
At Munich Airport, InfoGate kiosks allow for video-based, face-to-face conversation with a live customer service representative in the traveler’s language of choice. Interactive signs, on the other hand, give directions at the touch of finger. Passengers can tap a “you are here” display to get directions and approximate walking times to their destinations.
Of course, an airport will never be as silent as a temple.
There will continue to be a need for airport-wide emergency announcements, along with boarding calls.
But at silent airports, the latter can be restricted to specific gates, as has been adopted in Helsinki.
8. What is Angela Gittens, opinion on the silent airport concept?
A. It makes airport noise-free.
B. It is intended for passengers’ benefit.
C. It has changed international airports’ reputation.
D. It has encouraged the catering industry in airports.
9. What should passengers pay close attention to at Helsinki Airport?
A. Their boarding time. B. Finland’s tourism slogan.
C. The shops’ opening hours. D. The “you are here” display.
10. Why is Munich Airport mentioned in the next?
A. To show its popularity. B. To introduce InfoGate kiosks.
C. To prove Heikki Koski’s words. D. To be compared with Helsinki Airport.

二、完形填空（每题2分，共40分）
That was my first ballet performance and I was the lead role. A huge black curtain 11 me from the crowd. My heart raced so rapidly that it would 12 out of my chest. A rush of 13 shot through my body when the music began and I took my 14 at the center of the stage. I pushed off the floor as hard as I could and 15 into the air. Then I started to come 16 for my landing, preparing to jump again, and yet my foot 17 . I fell, face-first. For a moment I couldn’t 18 , wondering if I should go on. 19 , trained for thousands of hours for twelve years, my muscles ignored the 20 of my mind and I 21 myself back on my feet. I finished the part and left the stage. Bending over a table, I tried to 22 tears. I didn’t want to go back to finish the last twenty minutes. I didn’t 23 the lead role.
Then came my teacher. “The 24 thing on stage is to fall. You’ve gotten it, so what’s left to 25 ? Just go and give it all.” Her words 26 me. Minutes later, I went back onstage and completely let go of 27 . I just danced, letting the music guide me through the movement.
Now, as a Principal Dancer, I often think about that performance. We fall when we try our hardest. There is no 28 , only pride. Falling is 29 and sometimes it is easier just to stay on the 30 . But if we never get up, we never experience what it is like to fly.
11. A. covered B. hid C. protected D. drove
12. A. beat B. drop C. run D. shout
13. A. amazement B. excitement C. joy D. contentment
14. A. time B. turn C. place D. order
15. A. flew B. spun C. rose D. looked
16. A. out B. in C. down D. off
17. A. slipped B. stopped C. stepped D. advanced
18. A. think B. cry C. move D. believe
19. A. Therefore B. However C. Otherwise D. Instead
20. A. loss B. pain C. relief D. hesitation
21. A. found B. dragged C. accustomed D. allowed
22. A. dry up B. wipe out C. burst into D. fight back
23. A. play B. deserve C. get D. finish
24. A. unexpected B. awkward C. common D. worst
25. A. go B. do C. lose D. say
26. A. awoke B. enriched C. excited D. surprised
27. A. the music B. myself C. the teacher D. others
28. A. excuse B. fear C. benefit D. shame
29. A. shocking B. interesting C. rare D. terrible
30. A. spot B. road C. ground D. stage

三、语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and 31 (step) outside the room. It was full of thick smoke.
I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, I did not go towards the stairs. 32 , I went in a wrong direction. The smoke grew much 33 (thick) and I could see 34 (burn) wood all around me. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But 35 I could reach it, one of my 36 (foot) was caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing that made me fall like a bundle (包) of clothes, and I picked it up 37 (protect) my face from the smoke and heat.
As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave out 38 thin cry. I nearly dropped 39 in my surprise. Then I found myself in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in her night dress and a 40 (borrow) man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running to me madly.
She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.

四、短文改错：见答题卡部分（共10处错误，共10分）

和诚中学2018-2019学年高二知识清单、易错题目
定时训练答题卡（28）
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四、短文改错
Dr. Stefan Klein has found that be happy is a skill that can be learned like a foreign language, and one way to train ourselves to be happy is to write down the little things that cheer us up each day. Also, Dr. Klein says that decade of study into happiness has shown that people who are depressed often believe in there are no sources of joy in their lives. But recent study found that when patients were asking to keep diaries of events that made them happy, it helped them a lot to get better.
According to Dr. Klein, to make us more aware for the moments, we just need to sit down in the evening and write down the moments where we feel happy. Even in states of severely depression there are moments of happiness. And unless you decide to take Dr. Klein’s advice, you can make yourself even happy by recommending the technique to others.



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