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2021学年第一学期学习检测英语试卷第I卷I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard,1. A. At a gas station.B. At a garage.C. In a park. D. In an emergency room.2. A. Clean the backyard.B. Wash something.C. Sit in the backyard.D. Do some shopping.3. A. He finds his present job boring. B. He is too foolish to do the present job.C. He has got a better position. D. He doesn't get on well with the others.4 .A. She has a tight schedule. B. She has lost interest in sports.C. The training is too hard.D. She is only interested in routine work.5 .A. Rules restricting smoking.B. Ways to quit smoking.C. Smokers5 health problems.D. Dangers of smoking.6 .A. He5s going to visit a photo studio.B. He's just had his picture taken.C. He's on the way to the theater.D. He's just returned from a job interview.7 . A. He had to reject their request.B. He felt sorry for the other students.C. He agreed to consider their request.D. He regretted that he had said "Yes”.8 .A. She is trying to find a good-looking chair.B. She thinks it is a well-designed chair.C. She thinks the chair is actually comfortable.D. She's never sat in that chair before.9 .A. She used to be in poor health.B. She was popular among boys.C. She was somewhat overweight. D. She didn't do well at high school.the aquatic world our donors and sponsors are helping to conserve. Phone: 604-659-3473Volunteer DepartmentBecome a part of Canada's leading volunteer marine education team. Contact our Volunteer Services Department for more information about how to register. Phone: 604-659-3478If you plan to visit Vancouver Aquarium on Sunday,May 3rd, 2021, you should enter it before.A. 6:00 p.m. B. 5:45 p.m.C. 9:00 a. m. D. 9:45 a.m.60. Grandparents in their seventies with a 10-year-old boy should pay if they book tickets online.A. $60 B.$55C. $44D. $35If you are a member of Vancouver Aquarium, you canA. go out of the aquarium during lunch time and re-enter for free.B. observe the African penguins on Super Saturdays in winter.C. enter the aquarium every Saturday of each month without queuing up.D. enter the aquarium at 8:30 during non-holiday weekends.Wolves have a certain undeserved reputation: fierce, dangerous, good for hunting down deer and farmers, livestock. However, wolves have a softer, more social side, one that has been embraced by a heart-warming new initiative.In a bid to save some of Europe's last wolves, scientists have explored the willingness of these supposedly fierce creatures to help others of their kind. Female wolves, the scientists have discovered, make excellent foster parents to wolf cubs that are not their own. The study, published in Zoo Biology, suggests that captive-bred wolf cubs（幼兽）could be placed with wild wolf families, boosting the wild population.The gray wolf was once the world's most widely distributed mammal, but it became extinct as a result of widespread habitat destruction and the deliberate killing of wolves suspected of preying on livestock. Fear and hatred of the wolf have since become culturally rooted, fuelled by myths, fables and stories.In Scandinavia, the gray wolf is endangered, the remaining population found by just five animals. As a result, European wolves are severely inbred and have little genetic variability变异性,making them vulnerable to threats, such as outbreaks of disease that they can't adapt to quickly. So Inger Scharis and Mats Amundin of Linkoping University, in Sweden, started Europe5s first gray wolf-fostering program. They worked with wolves kept at seven zoos across Scandinavia. Eight wolf cubs between four and six days old were removed from their natural parents and placed with other wolf packs in other zoos. The foster mothers accepted the new cubs placed in their midst.The welfare of the foster cubs and the wolves' natural behavior were monitored using a system of surve川ance cameras. The foster cubs had a similar growth rate as their step siblings in the recipient litter, as well as their biological siblings in the source litter. The foster cubs had a better overall survival rate, with 73% surviving until 33 weeks, than their biological siblings left behind, of which 63% survived. That rate of survival is similar to that seen in wild wolf cubs. Scientists believe that wolves can recognize their young, but this study suggests they can only do so once cubs are somewhere between three to seven weeks of age.If captive-bred cubs can be placed with wild-living families, which already have cubs of a similar age, not only will they have a good chance of survival, but they could help dramatically increase the diversity of the wild population, say the researchers. Just like the wild wolves they would join, these foster cubs would need protection from hunting. Their arrival could help preserve the future of one of nature's most iconic and polarizing animals.61. Whafs the theme of the passage?A. Giving wolf cubs a new lifeB. Foster wolf parents and foster cubsC. The fate of wild wolvesD. Changing diversity of wild wolvesWhich of the following flow chart best demonstrates the relationship between the wolves?62. Which of the following statements is true?A. Female wolves are willing to raise wolf cubs of 3 to 7 weeks old.B. Foster cubs are accepted by foster parents and are well bred.C. Man's hostile attitude towards wolves roots in myths, fables and stories.D. Foster cubs and their biological siblings have similar growth rate and survival rate.63. Whafs the purpose of the research?A. To help wolves survive various threatsB. To improve wolves5 habitat and stop deliberate killingC. To save endangered wolves by increasing their populationD. To raise man5s awareness of protecting wolvesSection CDirections: Read the following 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.A. But the brain is also very plastic.B. Most importantly, geniuses all seem to have a mission beyond their individual identity.C.She is establishing habits of thought she can call upon in order to understand or solve D. Practicing ambitiously would be a driving force of women approaching the success.E. This contact would give the girl a vision of her future self.F. Instead, its deliberate practice.The latest research suggests that the key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success. (67)Top performers spend more hours practicing their craft. If you wanted to picture how a typical genius might develop, you'd take a girl who possessed a slightly above average verbal ability. It wouldn't have to be a big talent, just enough so that she might gain some sense of distinction. Then you would want her to meet, say, a novelist, who coincidentally shared some similar biographical traits. Maybe the writer was from the same town, had the same ethnic background, or, shared the same birthday.(68) It would give her some idea of a fascinating circle she might someday join. It would also help if one of her parents died when she was 12, giving her a strong sense of insecurity and fueling a desperate need for success. Armed with this ambition, she would read novels and life stories of writers without end. This would give her a primary knowledge of her field. She'd be able to see new writing in deeper ways and quickly perceive its inner workings.Then she would practice writing. Her practice would be slow, painstaking and error- focused. By practicing in this way, she delays the automatizing process. Her mind wants to turn conscious, newly learned skills into unconscious, automatically performed sk川s. By practicing slowly, by breaking sk川s down into tiny parts and repeating, she forces the brain to internalize a better pattern of performance. Then she would find an adviser who would provide a constant stream of feedback, viewing her performance from the outside, correcting the smallest errors, pushing her to take on tougher challenges. By now she isredoing problemshow do I get characters into a room-dozens and dozens of times. (69)The primary trait she possesses is not some mysterious genius. Its the ability to develop a purposeful, laborious and boring practice routine. The latest research takes some of the magic out of great achievement. But it underlines a fact that is often neglected. Public discussion is affected by genetics and what we5re “hard-wired" to do. And it's true that genes play a role in our capabilities. (70)We construct ourselves through behavior.IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main points of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.According to an official report on youth violence, uln our country today, the greatest threat to the lives children and adolescents is not disease or starvation or abandonment, but the terrible reality of violence/7 Given that this is the case, why aren't students taught to manage conflict the way they are taught to solve math problems, drive cars, or stay physically fit?First of all, students need to realize that conflict is unavoidable. It is reported that most violent incidents between students begin with a relatively minor insult. For example, a fight could start over the fact that one student eats a peanut butter sandwich each lunchtime. Laughter over the sandwich can lead to insults, which in turn can lead to violence.If the conflict occurs, students can practice the golden rule of conflict resolution: stay calm. Once the student feels calmer, he or she should choose words that will calm the other person down as well. Rude words and accusations only add fuel to the emotional fire while soft words can put out the fire before it explodes out of control.After that, they can use another key strategy for conflict resolution: listening. Listening allows the two sides to understand each other. One person should describe his or her side, and the other person should listen without interrupting. Afterwards, the listener can ask non-threatening questions to clarify the speaker's position. Then the two people should change roles.Finally, students need to consider what they are hearing. An argument doesn't mean trying to figure out the fault of the other person but means understanding what the real issue is. As the issue becomes clearer, the conflict often simply becomes smaller.V. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.71 .依我看来，这次活动的失败在于他们无视了环境因素。concern, come）.他从未想到做志愿者的经历会对他之后的生活产生如此深远的影响。（occur）72 .他经常在那家小书店逗留，把那里当做自己的精神家园，将尘世烦恼抛之脑后。fhang）.事实证明，志愿者效劳让你珍惜所拥有的一切并且关注生命中真正重要的事。（It）VI. Guided WritingDirections: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.假设你是学生李华，你校正在为下学期开设的选修课程征求学生意见，请你向学校课 程部老师写一封email ,提出你的课程建议。你的email中必须包括：1 .课程名称2 .课程的主要内容3 .设置该课程的理由听力录音文字1 . Listening ComprehensionSection ADirectionsSection A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1 .M:Goodmorning, whatcanldoforyou?W：rdliketohavemyemergencybrakefixed.ThecarrollswhenIparkitonthehill.Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place?2 . M: It' s such a beautiful day today. Why not sit out in the back yard for a while and enjoy it.W: r d love to, but there is a lot of laundry to do.Q: What will the woman probably do?3 .W: Rod, I hear you' 11 be leaving at the end of this month. Is it true?M: Yeah. V ve been offered a much better position with another firm. I' d be a fool to turn it down.Q: Why will the man quit his present job?4 .M: Do you still manage to continue playing sports, Mary?W: Not really. Besides the routine work, I have house work and a baby to attend back home.Q: Why does the woman stop playing sports?5 .M: I have to say I find the new smoking regulations too strict. W: Well, they're for everyone's health. I have no complaints. Q: What are the speakers talking about?6 .W: Hi, Michael, I can hardly recognize you,why are you dressed up today? Are you going to the theatre?M: No, actually, I just had an interview at the photo studio this morning.Q: What do we learn about Michael from this conversation?7 .W: Prof. Jackson, wewerewonderingifwecouldsitinyourEnglishclass?M: Iwishlcouldsay “Yes” . Butiflacceptedyoutwo, Iwonderhowtosay "No toalotofotherswhohaveraisedthesamerequest.Q: Whatdoestheprofessor imply?8 .M: What an uncomfortable-looking chair!W: Well, it may look that waybut just try it out!Q: What does the woman imply?9 .W: I ran into Sally the other day and I could hardly recognize her. Do you remember her from high school?M: Yeah, she was a little out of shape back then. Well, has she lost a lot of weight?Q: What does the man remember of Sally?10 .M: Have you taken Miss Green's history exam before? I'm kind of nervous.W: Yes, just concentrate on the important ideas she talked about in the class and ignore the details. Q: How does the woman suggest the man prepare for Miss Green's exam?Section BDirections: In Section B, you will heartwo passages and a longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and conversation will he read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage.Do you have a tough math test coming up? Then listen to some classical piano music just before the test. You might end up with a higher score. Researchers at a university in California conducted an experiment. They asked a group of college students to listen to some piano music by a famous 18th century composer before taking a math test. They were surprised to find that the students, scores jumped 8 to 9 points. The music seems to excite nerve activity in the brain; similar to the activity that occurs when a person is figuring out a math problem. However, the scientists warn before you get too excited about applying this