黑龙江省20xx-20xx学年高二英语上学期期中试题word版

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ned? A. Traveling faster B. Polluting less C. costing less D. Flying more safely 29. The modern jets without the new engine can’t travel faster mainly because____. A. their engines can’t stay cool a high spee ds B. they use a normal fuel source C. they just fly at very high altitudes. D. their engines can’t allow jets to fly in the thin air learn from the text that jets with the new engine______. A. can fly at high altitudes B. has some small windows C. will fly in the sky in about twenty years. D. is designed by engineers from 17 countries 31. The European Space Agency hoped to________ A. be in charge of testing the technology B. play the leading role in jet technology C. use jets with the new engine to launch satellites D. buy all the products made be Reaction Engines D. We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it. Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity（机会） and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changedno examination is perfectbut to have no external( 外部的 )tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in external examinations or in any controls in schools or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency（实力） ,the ideal and the purpose of each teacher. Without external examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them a form of favoritism will replace equality. At the moment, the bright child from an illrespected school can show certificates（证书） to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of a certificate shows the unsuitability of a dull child attending a wellrespected school. This defence of excellence and opportunity would disappear if external examinations were taken away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school39。 s fame（名誉） ,unable to pete for employment with the child from the favoured school. The opponents（对手） of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some puter. These people are not just against school anisation, but are at war with the whole idea of modem petitive society and they are using children in schools for their destructive（破坏性的） purposes. There is no reason why we should allow such people to determine the way our schools are anised when it is to the obvious disadvantage of the pupils, of the schools and of our society as a whole. 32. In the writer39。 s opinion, what would happen if external examinations were taken away? A. There would be no more opportunities and no more excellence. B. Children from poor families would not be able to change schools. C. Going to a favoured school should be the only way to get a good job. D. Schools for bright children would lose their fame. 33. The situation at the moment is that ________. A. many children who are suitable for a job have no proof of their suitability B. a school39。 s fame is not important, as long as a child has a certificate. C. children attending well respected schools need not get certificates. D. a bright child doesn39。 t need a certificate a t all to get a good job. 34. Which of the following sentences is TRUE? A. Most students from poor families can39。 t get a good job. B. Some people are using students to destroy our society. C. The writer thinks it a good way to choose a job by puter. D. The opponents of the examination want to reanize schools. 35. The opponents would agree that _________. A. puters should be selected to take over many jobs B. particular people should not be chosen for particular jobs C. well respected schools should be got rid of as soon as possible D. the students are not equally treated if they take external examinations 第二节（共 5小题；每小题 2分，满分 10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。 选项中有两项为多余选项。 Hydroponics (水栽法 ) is the only way that in the future we will be able to grow crops and food and at the same time sustain (维持 ) the Earth. Then what is the way of hydroponics? 36 These days we are losing land at such a rapid rate that it is only a matter of time before we will run out of land to develop. If we continue to grow at such a rate, finally the only land left to be developed will be farmland. If we use farmland to put up more apartments, then we will have no land to grow crops to survive. This is being a serious possibility. 37 The great thing about hydroponics growing is that anyone can do。