2020- -2021上海市嘉定二中高一英语上第一次月考试题II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage 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.The Goosehead guide to lifeAshley Powers mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly, but she ____1____not find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, "If I had my own website, I'd make it a really interesting site for teenagers."So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website, called Goosehead. She had no idea how big a success it ___2___ (be), but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees.After a few years, the website closed do w n. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles,____3____(ask) to write a book called The Goosehead Guide to Life. The book is about____4____to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called All About Ashley, ____5____Ashley tells readers what it's like ____6____(be) the boss of a company when you're only sixteen - not always easy! "I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got very stressed. I mean. I was only sixteen - I didn't even have a car! If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you'd be stressed too!"In her book, Ashley talks about the problems facing teenagers today, and about the importance of friendship, but also about being independent. "Learn to love your friends but not rely on them. I did that by ___7___ (create) Goosehead on my own."Ashley says that The Goosehead Guide o Life is not a book of teenage advice. "It isn't a book that's going to tell you what to do. I hope you can work that out for ___8___,”she says.“I just want to provide a little inspiration to teenagers. Maybe___9___ reading my story, you'll launch your own website. But perhaps you've got a better idea? Well, if I were you, I'd just do it, ____10____it is. Maybe it won't work-but maybe it will!"Directions: After reading the passage 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.Rescue a Raccoon (浣熊)A disoriented five- month-old raccoon hurries across a busy road in Greenbrae, California.Somehow the animal and her mom have become separated, and now the ___11___(frighten) baby has no idea what to do. Suddenly a car approaches. Unable to see the animal, the driver accidentally runs over her hind leg. The raccoon falls to the ground where she lies helpless.Other motorists, who saw the accident, pull over to check on the injured animal. One concerned witness is Marco Berger, ___12___works for a nearby wildlife hospital called WildCare.Berger calls a nearby branch of the Marian Humane Society, an organization that, among other things, transports injured wildlife to care centers. About 10 minutes later, rescue officers arrive on the scene.They use a net to lift up the lttle raccoon, then load her into an animal ambulance and ___13___(rush) her to WildCare.At the hospital, head veterinary technician Nat Smith gives the raccoon a checkup. An X-ray of her leg reveals that the thighbone is completely broken. If the bone ___14___ (not repair),she'll never be able to run, climb, or search for food in the wild. The good news is that the leg ___15___be fixed with surgery.Almost immediately after ___16___ (wake) up from the surgery, the raccoon shows signs of improvement. "Within a day she's able to walk on her leg," Smith says. A week and a half later,the raccoon has become so active that WildCare staff decide to move the animal to a 12-foot-by-12-foot outdoor enclosure ___17___trees for her to climb.Within two months, the young raccoon is ready ___18___(release). After one final checkup, she's loaded into a pet carrier and driven to a forested area near ___19___ she was found. ____20____the carrier door is opened, the raccoon runs into the woods. "She's ready to take on the wild," says Smith.Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.Researchers say American children now eat an average of three snacks a day between meals. A study found that those snacks add up to almost one third of all the daily calories eaten by children. And those extra calories could help ___21___ the rise in overweight children in the United States.The study was done at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The researchers studied the diets of thirty-one thousand children ages two to eighteen over a thirty-year period. They found that snacking has increasedsince the nineteen seventies. And what kinds of snacks have increased the most? Salty, high-fat foods like chips. The study also found greater snacking on cake, cookies and other treats that past ___22___ might have saved for after dinner.The study is in the journal Health Affairs. Nutrition professor Barry Popkin was one of the lead ___23___. He says parents should ___24___ snacks to one a day for children age six and older. He also advises parents and___25___ to provide healthy snacks like fruits and vegetables. Professor Popkin says American schools also need to improve their nutrition. For example,schools may have vending machines (自动售贩机) that offer what many people would consider junk food. There has been a(n)___26___ for schools to offer more healthful snacks and lunch choices and fewer sugary drinks.Earlier this month Coca-cola said it would stop selling sugary drinks in American schools unless parents___27___ them. Its competitors at Pepsi just announced that they will stop sales of sugared drinks to schools___28___.America’s top public health officer wants to see more changes like this. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin recently spoke to lawmakers about making healthy foods more ___29___. “T here is a growing agreement that we as a nation need to recreate our communities and environments where ____30____ choices are easy choices and affordable choices.”III. Reading ComprehensionsSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage, there are four words or phrases marked A, B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.A recent survey in the United States showed that the average family spent more money on its pets than on its children. Although rather shocking, it should not ___31___ anyone who has seen the doggy parlors(客厅) where loved pets rest. It is possible that: Americans are unique in treating their little friends in this way, but the information we have suggests that the English, too, are ___32___ to their pets.This can clearly be seen when we look at pet foods, which often contain more vitamins than human food or at least, are ___33___ less nutrition. They certainly cost much. Last year the British public spent two hundred million pounds on pet food alone, ___34___ veterinary(兽医的) bills or animal furniture. It is difficult not to feel ___35___ with this when considering what the same amount could do for victims of starvation and poverty, so it is ___36___ for me to get hot under collar when I read an old man left all his money to his dog instead of his children.There are a variety of reasons why I find the popularity of British pets ___37___. They cause physical problems.An example of this is New York where they have great difficulty getting rid of the mess that dogs leave on the streets. Many people find this funny, but in a number of large cities it is a major problem. Animals can cause disease, too. It is the threat of rabies—a disease with no known cure—that has made the English government impose strict ___38___ on animals coming into the United Kingdom. When the Spanish government recently ___39___ a number of stray dogs as protection against the same threat, English tourists immediately wrote letters to the newspapers____40____about 'mass murder'.Another problem is the ____41____ of pet owners. Most little children want a dog or a cat, and they continually push their mothers and fathers until they get one. It is only when the "sweet little thing" has been brought home that the parents realize how much time and money must be spent on "Rover" or "Bonzo". Then they just ____42____ it. This brings me to my last point. Pets, which run free, are often not ____43____ at all. English farmers lose hundreds of sheep a year, killed by someone’s pet and you must have read of children being hurt by some pets of their own.____44____, I would only suggest that we have got our ____45____ wrong and that something should be done about it. In my view, it’s time we stopped being sentimental about pets.31. A. alert B. surprise C. disappoint D. interest32. A. kind B. polite C. subject D. available33. A. seldom B. far C. frequently D. totally34. A. in spite of B. regardless of C. not to mention D. rather than35. A. delighted B. patient C. mention D. unsatisfied36. A. usual B. natural C. concerned D. essential37. A. inevitable B. understandable C. ridiculous D. common38. A. orders B. punishments C. unacceptable D. restriction39. A. cured B. destroyed C. treatments D. drove40. A. inquiring B. caring C. enclosed D. complaining41. A. thoughtlessness B. hesitation C. worrying D. kindness42.A. isolate B. scold C. abandon D. bind 43. A. funny B. sweet C. desert D. loving 44. A. Nevertheless B. Moreover C. Therefore D. Meanwhile45. A. mind B. behavior C. love D. prioritySection BDirections: Read the following two passage. Each passage is followed by several questions orunfinished 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 just read.(A)18-year-old Kayla Perkins explains what is in her bedroom, "I throw something on the floor and I know right where it is." However, her parents, Steve and Deborah Perkins, of McKinney,Texas, haven't caught on. Even Kayla admits that, at the worst, her room is a mess.Most families at some point have at least one child whose room looks like a landfill (垃堆) .The mess can disturb the whole household. Dirty clothes pile up; dirty dishes get lost in the mess and smell bad; homework is lost; and valuable things are ruined.Some parents let it go, believing that a bedroom is private space for children to manage as they wish. Others lecture their children, offer rewards for cleaning, or punish them when they don't. What doesn't work, parenting experts say, is constant lectures, verbal (口头的，言语的) threats or getting very angry. Mrs. Perking says they picked up all the clothes on Kayla's floor and hid them. They cleaned everything up. When Kayla came back to a barebedroom, there was screaming and shouting,"How can I live without my clothes?" Mrs. Perkins asked Kayla to earn her clothes back by doing housework. These days, she keeps her room clean.Humour can help, too. For example, since Jessica, the 14-year-old daughter wasn't bothered by the dirty clothes all over her floor, the whole family started using her room as a place to store dirty clothes. Her attitude changed after her family did that. By the time she gave in and cleaned up her room a few days later, even she was laughing.Parenting expert, Jim Fay, also recommends that parents first ask children in a nice way to clean up and agree on a reasonable time limit. Children often behave better if you treat them in the way you would want to be treated by your boss at work - with respect and high expectation.46. What is the best title of the passage?A. How to Make Children Clean up Their BedroomsB. Ways to Correct Children's Bad Habits.C. Encourage Children to Share More Housework.D. Tips on Cleaning up the Room. 47. According to the experts, when children's room looks like a landfill, parents at first shouldA. let children have their own private space.B. lecture their children and give verbal threats.C. set an example and offer rewards for cleaning.D. ask them in a nice way and set a reasonable time limit.48. What can we conclude from the passage?A. Playing hide-and-seek can help children change their attitude.B. Parents differ over their children's bedroom cleaning.C. Children often behave better if parents treat them like bosses.D. Most children feel uncomfortable when their rooms are too clean.(B)MEGHAN YOUNG is a professional Instagram star. She gets paid to climb beautiful mountains, photograph their glittering (闪闪发光的) summits and post about her adventures to her fans.Young graduated from Seattle University’s school of Law in 2015. But she decided she didn’t want to become a lawyer. Her parents were shocked by the decision. “They were worried about what I was going to do,” Young says. “How was I going to find career stability?”But her legal skills haven’t gone to waste. Once companies express an interest in working with her, there’s the tough task of negotiating the terms (条款) of the deal. And the work is still u nfinished even after she’s done take the photos. When Young returns from her adventures, she carefully edits the images and writes captions to go along with them. Once the posts are public, businesses sometimes don’t pay on time. That's when she needs to f ollow up. Her least favorite problem is when she discovers that a company has used her photos in a way that violates the terms of the contract.That usually leads to time-consuming email exchanges.Social media influencing is not as effortless as it seems. The stress it creates even has its own name: creator burnout (精疲力竭) . Young used to obsessively check her post’s performance, which she says will “drive you crazy”, so she stopped. But if she doesn’t reply, people will stop commenting.Without that engageme nt on her posts, brands won’t want to keep paying her. Therefore, she had to accept the fact that she’ll be tethered (拴住) to her phone as long as she’s in this line of work.Beyond the day-to- day headaches of a career online, social media’s inherent (固有的) uncertainly also poses problems for creators. There are times when Young is staring at the calendar without another project in the works. In the long term, it can be risky to focus a career on a single platform, or even on social media itself.Yet Young s ays it’s all been worth it, because the sponsorship allow her to spend much of her life in the mountains. Her ideal day starts with unzipping her tent at dawn so she can take pictures of the sunrise reflecting on snowy summits around her. Few jobs in the world would allow her to do that so consistently (一贯地) .49. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?A. The main work involved in being an Instagram influencer.B. The difficulties that every Instagram star will meet.C. How to deal with dishonest companies.D. H ow Meghan Young’s legal skills help her work.50. According to the article, all of the following are problems with being a social media influencerEXCEPT__________.A. there are a lot of tough tasks when dealing with sponsors.B. the work of photo-taking and image-editing is difficult to handle.C. it is stressful to check one’s phone and to interact with fans all the time.D. the income is unstable and the career prospects are uncertain.51. According to the article, what is Meghan Young’s attitude toward her career as a full-time influencer?A. Bored.B. Worried.C. SatisfiedD. Confident.52. According to the article, which of the following statements is true?A.Meghan Young’s decision to be a full-time influencer was supported by her parents.B. It happ ens frequently that Meghan Young doesn’t get paid on time.C. It is impossible for Instagram influencers to put down their phones.D. In order to increase their influence, creators have to keep a good relationship with fans. (C) About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it that all children,whatever their background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing became unpopular.Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past few decades such testing has gone out of fashion and many communities have indeed forbidden it.However, paradoxically(自相矛盾的), just recently a group of black parents filed a lawsuit (诉讼) in California claiming that the state’s ban on IQ testing discriminates(歧视) against their children by denying them the opportunity to take the test. (They believe, correctly, that IQ tests are a valid method of evaluating (评估) children for special education classes.) The judge, therefore, reversed, at least partially his original decision.And so the argument goes on and on. Does it benefit or harm children from minority groups to have their intelligence tested? We have always been on the side of permitting, even promoting such testing. If a child of any color or group is doing poorly in school it seems to us very important to know whether it is because he or she is of low intelligence, or whether some other factor is the cause.What school and family can do to improve poor performance is influenced by its cause. It is not discriminative toevaluate either a child’s physical condition or his intellectual level.Unfortunately, intellectual level seems to be a sensitive subject, and what the law allows us to do varies from time to time. The same fluctuation (起伏) back and forth occurs in areas other than intelligence. Thirty years or so ago, for instance, white families were encouraged to adopt black children. It was considered discriminative not to do so.And then the style changed and this cross-racial adopting became generally unpopular, and social agencies felt that black children should go to black families only. It is hard to say what are the best procedures. But surely good will on the part of all of us is needed.As to intelligence, in our opinion, the more we know about any child’s intellectual level, the better for the child in question.53. Why did the intelligence test become unpopular in the past few decades?A. Its validity was challenged by many communities.B. It was considered discriminative against minority children.C. It met with strong opposition from the majority of black parents.D. It robbed the black children of their rights to a good education.54. The author believes that intelligence testing .A. may ease racial discrimination in the United StatesB. can encourage black children to keep up with white childrenC. may seriously worsen racial discrimination in the United StatesD. can help black parents make decisions about their children’s education55. The author’s opinion of child adoption seems to be that .A. no definite rules can be prescribedB. white families should adopt black childrenC. adoption should be based on IQ test resultsD. cross-racial adoption is to be advocated56. Child adoption is mentioned in the passage to show that ______.A. good will may sometimes complicate racial problemsB. social surroundings are vital to the healthy growth of childrenC. intelligence testing also applies to non-academic areasD American opinion can shift when it comes to sensitive issuesSection CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box.Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.One afternoon three years ago, Chelsey Vance from Tennessee decided to go for a walk after taking some ibuprofen (布洛芬) . She didn't know then that she was allergic (过敏的) to the painkiller.About halfway down the trail, she felt like she was going to faint (昏倒) . Vance sent her roommate her location and asked the roommate to come pick her up. She soon lost consciousness(意识) . Knowing Vance' s exact location, the roommate was able to find her quickly and to call an ambulance. Vance credits the location- sharing service as the reason she's alive today.Vance' s story is a typical example of the most obvious purposes of location sharing safety. ___57___.Launches of apps like Find My Friends, in 2011, were the start of mainstream locationsharing.___58___Location sharing had really taken off by the time Snap- chat was released in 2017. Today, people frequently broadcast their where abouts to their social circles.Why do people share their locations? They say the apps provide peace of mind. Calvin Jordan, who lives in Virginia, says that because he recently moved,he doesn't have a lot of friends and family members in the area. He feels better knowing that people closest to him have his location. "If I go out somewhere strange or it's late.___59___ I'll go into a group chat with my friends who have me on Find My Friends," Jordan says. "I'l tell them: I'm planning to leave at this time. If you don't see my lttle icon move, just give me a call or something -- to make sure I'm OK."Several parents use the app to keep track of their kids, especially teens who drive. Joan Rose,from San Diego, uses Find My Friends to track her teenage son. She says the app reduces her worries when he's out late at night and allows her to see when he's on his way home.___60___People use them to manage the logistics (物流) of road trips or check if their roommate stopped at the grocery store on the way home. It does away with the need for update through texts and calls - you can get an answer without disturbing anyone.A. But at the time, many people were hesitant to use these apps regularly.B. Location-sharing apps also make coordinating ( 协调) more convenient.C. This would have been a terrifying concept before smart-phone technology.D. Even if people haven't been in an emergency situation, many use them just in case.E. Some teens, however, are unless with their parents' use of location-sharing apps.F. But this technology is used much more often in none-emergency situations.IV. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.61. 这个故事的结尾剥夺了我的想象力。