2024年4月16日发(作者：)
浙江省杭州市八县区2022-2023学年高二上学期期末学
业水平测试英语试题
一、阅读理解
Nobody likes to spend money on a new book only to face disappointment when it
doesn’t live up to your expectations. Here are the best book review sites to help you
avoid buying books that you’ll regret reading.
Goodreads
Goodreads is the leading online community for book lovers. If you want some
inspiration for which novel or biography to read next, this is the best book review site to
visit. There are an endless number of user-generated reading lists to explore.
Fantasy Book Review
Fantasy Book Review should be high on the list for anyone who is a fan of fantasy
works. The book review site publishes reviews for both children’s books and adults’
books. It has a section on the top fantasy books of all time.
Booklist
Booklist is a print magazine that also offers an online portal. Trusted experts from
the American Library Association write all the book reviews. You can see parts of
reviews for different books. However, to read them in full, you will need to subscribe.
YouTube
YouTube is not the type of place that immediately springs to mind when you think of
the best book review sites online. However, there are several engaging YouTube channels
that frequently offer opinions on books they’ve read.
Although it’s easy to be attracted by an impressive book cover, it’s always best to
have a quick look at the book reviews before actually buying a copy. This way, you can
save your money and spend it on the books that you’ll be proud to display on your
shelves for a long time.
1. Which site best suits people who want to buy a biography?
A．Goodreads. B．Fantasy Book Review. C．Booklist. D．YouTube.
2. What can visitors do on Booklist?
A．Edit book reviews. B．Discuss with experts.
C．Read full reviews after payment. D．Find information about writers.
3. What is recommended before buying a book?
A．Noting the book cover. B．Reading the book reviews.
C．Preparing a display shelf.
D．Checking the book’s ratings.
When you set a foot outside of your door to drop trash, go to a social event or go for
a walk, thoughts like “I hope I don’t see anyone I know” or “please don’t talk to me” may
run through your mind. I’ve also said such things to myself. Sometimes the last thing you
want to do is to talk with someone, especially someone new.
Why do we go out of our ways to avoid people? Do we think meeting new people is
a waste of time? Or are we just lazy, thinking that meeting someone new really is a
trouble?
Communication is the key to life. We have been told that many times. Take the past
generations, like our parents, for example. They seem to take full advantage of that whole
“communication” idea because they grew up talking face to face while Generation-Y
grew up staring at screens. We spend hours of our days sitting on Facebook. We send
messages to our friends and think about all of the things we want to say to certain people
that we don’t have the courage to do in reality.
Nowadays, we are so caught up in our little circle of friends — our comfort zone. We
love it that they laugh at our jokes, understand our feelings and can read our minds. Most
importantly, they know when we want to be alone. They just get us.
Holding a conversation with someone new means agreeing with things that you don’t
really believe and being someone you think they want you to be — it is, as I said before,
a trouble. It takes up so much energy, and at some point or another, it is too tiring.
But meeting new people is important. Life is too short, so meet all the people you
can meet, make the effort to go out and laugh. Remember, every “hello” leads to a smile
— and a smile is worth a lot.
4. What do we learn about the author?
A．He likes to be alone.
B．He feels stressed out lately.
C．He’s active in attending social events.
D．He used to be afraid of talking to others.
5. What’s the problem of Generation-Y in the author’s eyes?
A．They rely on the Internet to socialize. B．They are less confident in themselves.
C．They have difficulty in communicating. D．They are unwilling to make new friends.
6. Why do many young people avoid meeting new people?
A．They think it troublesome. B．They are busy with their study.
C．They fear to disappoint their friends.
7. Why does the author write the text?
A．To stress the importance of friends.
B．To give tips on how to meet new people.
C．To encourage people to meet new people.
D．To display the disadvantages of Generation-Y.
We’ve all heard the stories of an actor’s struggles before a career breakthrough:
living a hard life, working part time, being a couch potato before getting that major role.
Shelby, the star of “A Dog’s Way Home,” has a hard-luck story that could top them all.
Before her big break, she was living in a landfill(垃圾填埋场), looking through rubbish
for her next meal.
Shelby’s big break came in April 2017, when animal-control officer Megan Buhler
was driving in Cheatham County, Tennessee. Out on an unrelated call, Buhler found what
she recalled was an obviously scared puppy appearing from the landfill. “I just said, ‘Oh,
come here, baby,’ ” said Buhler. “She was so scared, but she came right up to me, and I
was able to put her in my truck.” The pair headed to the county animal shelter, where the
staff began calling the new resident Baby Girl.
Buhler and others didn’t know that 3,200 kilometers away, Hollywood was looking
for a dog to play Bella in a film written by Cathryn Michon. The find-a-Bella job went to
Teresa Ann Miller. Her job was to search shelters nationwide for a dog that could play
Bella. One day, Miller found Baby Girl’s adoption photo. “Honestly, it was a really good
picture, and she was flat-out smiling,” Miller said. Then she met Baby Girl, and tested
her on personality and the ability to respond to simple commands. After the test, she
adopted Baby Girl from the shelter, renamed her Shelby and took her to California for
training. Miller and Shelby trained for just over three months before filming began. Then
they were together each day on the set.
Most of the film’s reviews have praised Shelby’s performance. Variety made the
comments “an amazing dog, perfect performance!”
Shelby has come a long way from the landfill. But Buhler said she saw Shelby
recently and needed only a second to compare the movie star with the dog she found from
piles of trash. “She’s exactly the same,” Buhler said.
D．They want to do meaningful work.
8. Where did Buhler get the puppy?
A．In a landfill. B．In an animal shelter.
C．In a training house. D．In a film studio.
9. What finally helped Baby Girl get the big role in the film?
A．Her adoption picture. B．Her flat-out smiling.
C．Her personality and ability. D．Her terrible experiences.
10. What does Buhler probably mean by saying “She’s is exactly the same” in the last
paragraph?
A．Shelby returned to where she was found.
B．It cost a lot to change Shelby’s fate.
C．Shelby’s inner qualities hasn’t changed.
D．She was really excited to see the dog again.
11. What is probably the best title of this passage?
A．The Success of “A Dog’s Way Home”.
B．From a Landfill Puppy to a Movie Star.
C．The Trainer and Her Star Dog.
D．Shelby’s Hard-luck and miserable Story.
Imagine a way to produce meat without killing animals. Instead of raising livestock
on farms, Uma Valeti, a cardiologist, and co-founder of Upside Foods, dreamed of a way
to “grow” meat by cultivating(培养) animal cells(细胞).
The idea for what’s now called “cultivated” meat came to Valeti when he was
working with heart attack patients at the Mayo Clinic more than 15 years ago, growing
human heart cells in a lab. It should be possible to grow meat with similar science, he
realized. Scientists could take cells from an animal by a needle biopsy(切片检查), place
them in tanks, feed them the nutrients they need to reproduce, including fats, sugar,
amino acids and vitamins, and end up with meat.
It has taken years of experimentation by a crew of biologists, biochemists and
engineers to turn that idea into a product ready to eat. Now the company is awaiting a
greenlight from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin selling its first
cultivated meat products, including a chicken fillet (without bone).
After four years of talks with regulators at the FDA, Valeti expects this could happen
“in the very near future.” When it does, Upside’s production facility in Emeryville,
California, will be able to produce over 50,000 pounds of cultivated meat products per
year.
For Valeti, the potential benefits of cultivated meat are too important not to try to
overcome the current obstacles. He sees a future with a better choice to the current
system of producing meat, and he’s determined to create it. Valeti says, at last, as a
doctor he might have been able to help a few thousand patients during his career. But, by
taking the great step to cultivated meat, with its potential promise to surpass meat
production, he believes he can have a larger impact. “This could literally affect billions of
human lives and save potentially trillions of animal lives,” Valeti says.
12. What made Valeti come to the idea of making cultivated meat?
A．His heart attack patients’ inspiring advice.
B．The inspiration from growing human heart cell.
C．His dreaming about a way to grow meat.
D．The thought of helping his heart attack patients.
13. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A．The company is waiting for the permission from FDA.
B．The idea of cultivated meat turned into a product easily.
C．Chicken fillets will be very popular in the future .
D．FDA is a big company that makes and sells cultivated meat.
14. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．The cultivated meat is very popular among young people.
B．Valeti has helped many patients with cultivated meat.
C．Valeti is producing cultivated meat to avoid killing many animals.
D．It will take decades before enormous cultivated meat is produced.
15. What’s Valeti’s attitude towards the future of cultivated meat?
A．Negative. B．Uncertain.
C．Critical.
二、七选五
Do you have an important or favorite memory from the past? Perhaps it was clapping
for goals. 16 By sharing our memories, we can feel closer to other people and more
positive about what we've been through.
How does memory work?
D．Positive.
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