木天蓼2021届高二英语周末卷week1

2021年1月24日发(作者：volt)
2021
届高二英语周末卷
week 1
I.

Choices:(26% 2
分一题
)
1.
Figures
showed
that
demand
_________
British
universities
increased
by
almost
10




percent this year.

A. of


B. for


C. on


D. in
2.
We had to make the corrections by hand as the computer _____ do them for us.
A. mightn’t


B. needn’t


C. shouldn’t


D. wouldn’t

3.
The book is of great value. ______ can be enjoyed unless you digest it, though.

A. Nothing

B. Something

C. Everything

D. Anything
4.
The town has developed a lot ________ we had a boat race two years ago.

A. when


B. which


C. that


D. where
5.
We all know that, ______, the situation will get worse.

A. not if dealt carefully with


B. if not carefully dealt with
C. if dealt not carefully with


D. not if carefully dealt with
6.
You can’t imagin
e what difficulty we had ______ home in the snowstorm.
A. walked


B. walk


C. to walk

D. walking
7
Many of them turned a deaf ear to his advice, ______ they knew it to be valuable.

A. as if



B. now that

C. even though

D. so that
8.
With the dam built, we had reduced the possibility of ___ down the river.
A. flooded farmland




B. farmland’s flood

C. farmland being flooded






D. farmland flooding
9.
Independent
learning
gives
you
the
freedom
______
your
learning
to
your
demanding
lifestyle.
A. tailored


B. tailoring

C. to tailor

D. to have tailored
10.
My happiest moment was _______ I met my favorite author in a bookstore.

A. that


B. which


C. when


D. because
11.
The lecturer’s humor was ________ make every attendant burst into laughter.

A. so as to


B. such as to

C. such that

D. such as
12.
________
they
developed
many
of
the
plants
including
types
of
corn,
potatoes,
tomatoes,
squash, beans, and peppers we eat today?

A. When do you suppose



B. When do you suppose that
C. Do you suppose when



D. When you suppose
13.
His explanation was so clear that everyone could understand it with _________.

A. possibly the least effort


B. the least effort possibly
C. the least possible effort


D. the possible least effort

II. Vocabulary (20% 2
分一题
)

A. stirred
G
. predict
B. estimate
C. trail
D. fixing
J. charge
ted
F. extent
tes

ences
I. invisible
A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning
more about people than ever from what they search for and do on the Internet, gathering clues
about the tastes and (11) ___________ of a typical user several hundred times a month.
These
companies
use
that
information
to
(12)
__________what
content
and
advertisements people most likely want to see. They can (13) ___________ steep prices for
carefully tailored ads because of their high response rates.
The
analysis,
(14)
___________
for
The
New
York
Times
by
the
research
firm comScore, provides what advertising executives say is the first broad (15) ___________

of the amount of consumer data that is transmitted to Internet companies.
Privacy
(16)
___________

have
previously
sounded
alarms
about
the
practices
of
Internet companies and provided vague estimates about the volume of data they collect, but
they did not give comprehensive figures.
The
Web
companies
are,
in
effect,
taking
the
(17)
___________

of
crumbs
people
leave behind as they move around the Internet, and then analyzing them to anticipate people’s
next
steps.
So
anybody
who
searches
for
information
on
such
disparate
topics
as
iron
supplements, airlines, hotels and soft drinks may see ads for those products and services later
on.
Consumers have not complained to any great (18) ___________

about data collection
online. But privacy experts say that is because the collection is (19) ___________

to them.
Unlike Facebook
’s Beacon program, which (20) ___________

controversy last year when it
broadcast its members’ purchases to their online friend
s, most companies do not flash a notice
on the screen when they collect data about visitors to their sites.

(30% 2
分一题
)
Fantasy is a genre (
流派，类型
) that has dominated children’s literature over the years,
with J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins leading the way in the crossover field
of book to film adaptation. So why is cinema (21)______ their fantastical lands? And what
does the future hold?
The reason why fantasy remains popular across pop culture is pretty (22)_______. The
genre offers (23)______ from school or work into a totally different world. Your imagination
can be totally released and your (24)_______ surrounding your everyday life can be forgotten.
No
matter
what
age
you
are,
(25)________
is
something
that
can
be
discovered
and
rediscovered over generations.
There
are
a
number
of
reasons
why
children’s
fantasy
is
so
(26)_________
to
filmmakers.
The
depth
that
children’s
authors
(27)_________
within
their
stories
and
characters gives any screenwriter and director a rich plenty of material to elaborate on. The
recent success of Peter Jackson’s
Hobbit trilogy
(
三部曲
) is just one example. Adapted from
Tolkien’s
novel,
Jackson’s
three
-part
series(28)
________
how
much
a
filmmaker
can
take
from a single book, turning a three-hundred-page book into nearly eight hours of screen time.
Of course Rowling’s wizarding world of Harry Potter acts as a model example of how
filmmakers continue to (29)________ an author’s vision. With the upcoming
Fantastic Beasts
and Where to Find Them
, directed by David Yates, to be (30)_______ in November 2016, it
shows there are endless stories yet to be uncovered from Rowling’s world.

Another reason why children’s fantasy remains popular is related to a(n) (31)_______
element. (32)___________ is the most impor
tant feature in children’s fantasy books, meaning
there is an abundance of
aesthetic
(
审美的
) springboards for cinematographers,
animators(
动
画片制作者
) and visual departments to (33) ___________.
Studio
Ghibli
have
built
their
(34)_______
filmmaking
legacy
on
chil
dren’s
books.
From the wonderfully British Diana Wynne Jones’ novel
Howl’
s Moving Castle
, to Japanese
author
Eiko
Kadono’s
picture
-
book
Kiki’s
Delivery
Service,
Ghibli
have
(35)________
a
variety of children’s stories into Academy Award
-winning visual masterpiece.
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22.
A. obvious
23.
A. relief

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IV
. Reading comprehension (26%

2
分一题
)

(A)
Our oldest daughter is having trouble letting go of an old red couch
．


It’s not the couch she’s having trouble letting go of as much as the memories
．
It was
their first sofa
．
It has been loaded and unloaded onto moving trucks seven times
．
Three kids
have eaten on it
，
dripped on it
，
and jumped on it
．


Yet she’s having a hard time letting go and asked if I thought that was strange
．


“Completely
，
” I said
．
“You get it from me
．
”


When we were ready to get rid of our baby things
，
I sold our crib (
婴儿床
) at the