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2024級高一年級下學期英語學科階段練習二
（2025.5.23）
I. Grammar and vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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 History of Roses
According to fossil records, roses are over 35 million years old and they were first cultivated in China about 5,000 years ago. A Chinese emperor in the 6th century BC apparently had over 600 books ____1____ roses in his library, and oil was drawn from those ____2____ (plant) in his garden. However, only the highest members of society were allowed ____3____ (use) it. If anyone else ____4____ (find) with even a small amount, they were sentenced to death. Roses were also popular with the Romans, who used them as medicine and a source of perfume.
Cultivated roses were only introduced to ____5____ is now Western Europe in the 18th century. Napoleon’s wife, Josephine, started a botanical garden near Paris, ____6____ she collected all the known varieties of roses and encouraged the breeding of new ones. This led to the flowers ____7____ (gain) increasing popularity. In Britain at that time roses were so valuable that ____8____ were often used as currency in local markets.
All roses in Europe used to be pink or white ____9____ the first red ones arrived from China 200 years ago. These now symbolize love and are the world’s ____10____ (common) cut flower.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box: Each word can be used only once, Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. style B. mined C. awkward D. monitors E. replaced F. tremendous G. consume H. serve I. evolved J. tracked K. scene
Science and technology are advancing at ____11____ speed. We may think we’re a culture that gets rid of our current technology at the first sight of something shiny and new, but a new study shows that we keep using our old devices well after they go out of ____12____. That’s bad news for the environment — and our wallets — as these outdated devices ____13____ much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.
To figure out how much power these devices are using, Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York ____14____ the environmental costs for each product throughout its life — from when its minerals are ____15____ to when we stop using the device. This method provided a readout for how home energy use has ____16____ since the early 1990s. The devices were grouped by generation — Desktop computers, basic mobile phones, and box-set TVs defined 1992. Digital cameras arrived on the ____17____ in 1997. And MP3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.
As we accumulated more devices, however, we didn’t throw out our old ones. “The living-room television is ____18____ and gets planted in the kids’ room, and suddenly one day, you have a TV in every room of the house,” said one researcher. The average number of electronic devices rose from four per household in 1992 to thirteen in 2007. We’re not just keeping these old devices — we continue to use them. According to the analysis of Babbitt’s team, old desktop ____19____ and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.
So what’s the possible solution The team’s data only went up to 2007, but the researchers also explored what would happen if consumers would replace old products with new electronics that ____20____ more than one function, such as a tablet for word processing and TV viewing. They found that more on-demand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by 44%.
II. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: 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.
Why Most of Us Can’t Digest (消化) Milk
Many people in the world are unable to digest dairy products. They can suffer a range of ____21____ symptoms as a result of this lactose intolerance (乳糖不耐受). According to studies, the ability to digest milk may have only recently grown to be relatively common in Europe.
Between 30 minutes and two hours after having had food or drink containing lactose, the sufferer may have one of the following symptoms: flatulence (脹氣), diarrhea (腹瀉), or stomach cramps (痙攣). In some cases, these symptoms can be severe.
Lactose is the main sugar found in milk and other dairy products. Those who have lactose intolerance find it ____22____ to digest this sugar, usually because their small intestine (小腸) doesn’t make enough lactase, the enzyme (酶) that digests lactose.
Around 60% of adult humans are lactose intolerant or have ____23____ lactose tolerance following infancy. Children make lactase because they have a ____24____ lactase gene. But then, over time, most of them lose this ability. Some lose it as early as three, some at 20, some even older and some never at all. But if they have the gene when they’re ____25____, where does it go once they are older
It doesn’t go anywhere; it just gets ____26____. For a gene to work, it must be read by the cell and ____27____ into a protein, like the lactase enzyme. A gene is sort of like a recipe in a cookbook. If the cell doesn’t read the lactase “recipe” and ____28____ the enzyme, then you can’t do anything with lactose. Humans are able to digest milk past childhood only because of a genetic ____29____. Research suggests the gene for ____30____ lactose in milk didn’t exist until 20,000 years ago.
And tolerance varies depending on ____31____, which has been shown to affect certain ethnic groups more than others. Lactose intolerance is most ____32____ among African, Asian, Hispanic and American Indian people. Scientists believe this is because many places in Africa and Asia historically had little ____33____ to milk. This means people may not have evolved the ability to digest lactose because there was no ____34____ in doing so.
But lactose intolerance isn’t the same as a dairy allergy (過敏). Unlike food allergies, intolerances are not caused by the immune system and are not ____35____, said Amena Warner, the head of clinical services at Allergy UK.
21. A. unacceptable B. unbelievable C. uncomfortable D. unreasonable
22. A. addictive B. complicated C. hard D. pleasant
23. A. fixed B. increased C. limited D. reduced
24. A. dying B. growing C. varying D. working
25. A. healthy B. ignorant C. tired D. young
26. A. calmed down B. run away C. shut off D. worn out
27. A. divided B. knocked C. translated D. united
28. A. borrow B. produce C. reject D. remove
29. A. adaptation B. combination C. invention D. regulation
30. A. breaking down B. living on C. picking out D. turning into
31. A. chemistry B. geography C. history D. physics
32. A. common B. impressive C. obvious D. popular
33. A. access B. excess C. process D. stress
34. A. ambition B. benefit C. hope D. permission
35. A. breath-taking B. life-threatening C. mind-destroying D. time-saving
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished 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)
The common use of Google Maps, a navigation(導航) app on smartphones, raises the age-old question we meet with any technology: What skills are we losing But also, crucially: What capabilities are we gaining
People who are good at finding their way around or good at using paper maps usually experience lots of confusion with digital maps. For example, they may mess up the direction of north and south, and you can see only a small section at a time. But consider what digital navigation aids have meant for someone like me. Despite being a frequent traveler, I’m so terrible at finding my way that I still use Google Maps almost every day in the small town where I have lived for many years. What seems unnecessary to some has been a significant expansion of my own capabilities.
Part of the problem is that reading paper maps requires a specific skill set. There is nothing natural about them. In many developed nations, street names and house numbers are meaningful, and instructions such as “go north for three blocks and then west” usually make sense. In Istanbul, in contrast, where I grew up, none of those hold true. For one thing, the locals rarely use street names, and house numbers often aren’t sequential either because after buildings 1, 2 and 3 were built, someone squeezed in another house between 1 and 2, and now that’s 4. But then 5 will maybe get built after 3, and 6 will be between 2 and 3. Besides, the city is full of winding and ancient streets that meet with newer ones. Therefore, instructions as simple as “go north” would require a helicopter. I got lost all the time.
But since I used Google Maps, I travel with a lot more confidence, and my world has opened up. And because I go to more places more confidently, I believe my native navigation skills have somewhat improved, too.
That brings me back to my original question: while we often lose some skills after seeking convenience from technology, this new setup may also allow us to expand our capabilities and do something more confidently. Maybe when technology closes a door, we should also look for the doors it opens.
36. How does the author feel about Google Maps
A. Confusing. B. Unnecessary. C. Complicated. D. Helpful.
37. Which contributes to the difficulty of finding ways in Istanbul
A. Strange street names. B. Ordinary paper maps.
C. Complex road arrangements. D. Lack of road instructions.
38. What does the underlined word “sequential” in Paragraph 3 probably mean
A. In a fixed order. B. In good condition.
C. Of great importance. D. Of the same kind.
39. What column of a newspaper may this passage belong to
A. Fashion. B. Opinion. C. Society. D. Geography.
(B)
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40. In the Discover Painting class, participants ________.
A. must have basic knowledge of painting
B. can learn how to draw natural views with acrylics
C. can learn how to create the colour they desire in oils
D. can learn how to use acrylics and many other paints
41. What course will you take if you want to learn to draw a person
A. Life Drawing.
B. Elemental Ocean.
C. Discover Painting.
D. Painting Flowers in Oils.
42. Where can you probably find this article
A. In a market survey.
B. In a journal about wildlife.
C. On a website about famous painters.
D. On a website that introduces art courses.
Section C
Directions: 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.
Tea for Two Times the Price
There is so little Turks agree on these days that even settling on the country’s national drink is hard. Secularists pick raki a wine best had with baked fish and music. Religious conservatives, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, insist on a milky and non-alcoholic drink called ayran.
____43____ An average Turk gets through about 3.5kg of tea every year, or almost four glasses a day, ahead of every other country including Britain, India, China and Russia. Turkey is also the world’s sixth-biggest producer of the leaf. No one has ever entered a house or a government office in Turkey without being offered a glass. (Cups are for coffee, or for tourists.)
Now change is taking place in an ancient industry. The government is offering subsidies (補貼) to tea farmers who go organic, hoping that foreigners will then pay more for Turkish tea. ____44____
At one of the company’s factories near Rize, a drab city bordered on one side by the sea and by mountains covered in green carpets of tea on the other, the manager, Koksal Kasapoglu, says the policy has already worked. Organic production at Caykur has shot up from under 100 acres a decade ago to about 10,000 today, about 5% of the total area under cultivation, he says.
Some people owe the popularity of tea in Turkey largely to price. ____45____ Many Turks chose the new drink over coffee which they had been drinking for centuries, but which had become hard to afford.
____46____ Partly because organically grown tea requires more land to produce the same amount of crop, it costs roughly twice as much as the standard kind. Taxpayers’ cash can no doubt persuade many farmers to go organic. But with the economy declining, convincing Turkish tea-drinkers to buy the stuff will be harder.
A. What if Turks can afford organic tea
B. A good thing, then, that there is tea, around which all can unite.
C. In the second half of the 19th century, when tea arrived in the Ottoman empire, the economy was in decline.
D. Price is just as important today.
E. Tea wasn’t Turks’ favourite until recently.
F. The state tea company, Caykur, the country’s largest producer, will turn entirely to organic farming by 2025.
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
47 It’s even not difficult for an inexperienced consumer ________________ (將棉和絲區分開來). (根據漢語提示單詞拼寫)
48. 定期的鍛煉，像慢跑或游泳，會對你的健康產生重大影響。(difference) (漢譯英)
__________________________________________________________________________________________
49. 這家公司從向發展中國家出口二手衣服獲利，在那里人們甚至買不起便宜到3美金的T恤。（profit）（漢譯英）
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2024級高一年級下學期英語學科階段練習二
（2025.5.23）
I. Grammar and vocabulary
Section A
【1~10題答案】
【答案】1. on 2. plants
3. to use 4. was found
5. what 6. where
7. gaining 8. they
9. until monest
Section B
【11~20題答案】
【答案】11 F 12. A
13. G 14. J
15. B 16. I
17. K 18. E
19. D 20. H
II. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: 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.
【21~35題答案】
【答案】21. C 22. C 23. D 24. D 25. D 26. C 27. C 28. B 29. A 30. A 31. B 32. A 33. A 34. B 35. B
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished 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)
【36~39題答案】
【答案】36. D 37. C 38. A 39. B
(B)
【40~42題答案】
【答案】40. B 41. A 42. D
Section C
Directions: 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.
【43~46題答案】
【答案】43. B 44. F 45. C 46. D
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
【47題答案】
【答案】to distinguish cotton from silk
【48題答案】
【答案】Regular exercise, such as jogging or swimming, can make a big difference to your health.
【49題答案】
【答案】This company profits from exporting second-hand clothes to developing countries, where people cannot even afford a T-shirt that is as cheap as three US dollars.

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