2024年3月16日发(作者：蔺春芳)
山西省太原市第五中学15—16学年高二3月第四次周练英语试题
I．完形填空（每小题2分，共30分）
Have you ever monitored something about yourself? Perhaps you’ve tracked(追踪) how many
kilometers you’ve run, how many hours you’ve slept or how many calories you’ve 1 in a day.
If so, you’ve ___2____ a movement called the “Quantified Self Movement.” Individuals
gather information about their daily activities in this widespread movement, also called
self-tracking. This may sound __3___, but technology is making the process easier.
Perhaps you’ve wanted to __4___ a bad habit and couldn’t. Self-tracking may be your 5 .
The idea is to take information about your everyday activities and analyze it to help get a
___6____ lifestyle.
Recently, tools such as smart-phones, journals and apps, along with newly ____7____
wearable gadgets (工具), are making self-tracking extremely easy. Today, one can use Fitbit, the
Jawbone UP, Google Glass or a smart watch to ____8____ personal data including hours slept,
stress levels, heart rate and mood.
So 9 does a person self-track? Someone may be trying to lose weight or improve their
sleep patterns. 10 person feels tired after eating. Self-tracking could help him to ___11____ what
foods make him sleepy and modify(改变) his diet accordingly.
Monitoring daily activities isn’t a 12 concept. In years past, athletes and their coaches kept
notes detailing nutrition, training and sleep patterns in order to achieve an athletic goal. __13____,
doctors have also helped patients to document parts of their lifestyles and eating habits to help
fight allergies , headaches and other health issues. ___14___, it wasn’t until 2007 that Wired
magazine editors Gary Wolf and Kim Kelly, who started tracking every move they made, coined
the ____15____ “Quantified Self.”
Although self-tracking has many advantages, Dennis Nash, president of Data Speaks Health
Solutions, says self-tracking has its ____16____. Once people start tracking their daily activities,
it can become an addiction. Also, they might begin to worry too much about their health.
While self-tracking doesn’t ____18____ that one’s quality of life will improve, it can highlight
the importance of eating well and exercising daily. __19____, the quantified Self Movements’
primary focus is ___20____ people to employ enough energy to make healthier choices.
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II．阅读理解
B. expect
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C. After all
D. prove
D. At B. As a result
B. forcing C. persuading D.
A
How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups, and, old people wishing they
were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who
enjoys what each gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has
good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will
ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. What's more, life
is always giving new things to the child-things that have lost their interest for older people because
they are too well known. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he
is repeatedly being told not to do something, or being punished for what he has wrongly done.
When a young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his
food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most
of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks
the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he
works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building
up for himself his own position in society.
21. According to Paragraph 2, the writer thinks that _____.
A. life for a child is fairly easy
B. a child is always loved whatever he does
C. if much is given to a child, he must do something in return
D. only children are interested in life
22. The main idea of the passage is that _____.
A. life is not enjoyable since each age has some pains
B. young men can have the greatest happiness if they work hard
C. childhood is the most enjoyable time in one's life
D. one is the happiest if he can make good use of each age in his life
23. The paragraph following this passage will most probably discuss __________.
A. example of successful young men
B. how to build up one’s position in society
C. joys and pains of old people
D. what to do when one has problems in life
B
Some nations think they must have more and more babies, more and more people, if they are
to remain strong and free.
Actually, this is not so. Very often in history, small nations have conquered large ones. It’s not
so much the size of the army as its organization and the technical level of its weapons. Thus,
Greece took over Persia in the 300s B.C., Great Britain took over India in the 1700s, even though
Persia and India had far bigger population than Greece and Great Britain.
If a nation wishes to avoid being dominated by its neighbors, its best chance is to raise its
standard of living and its level of technology. This can be done best by not allowing its population
to grow to such a point that it is sunk in misery and poverty. In fact, the worst way in which a
nation can try to avoid being dominated by its neighbor is to increase its population to the point of
misery and poverty.
If every nation tries to compete with its neighbors by raising its population, then the whole
world will be sunk in misery and poverty. The nations will become weak in a disaster that will
leave nothing behind that is worth dominating. No one will have gained anything. Everyone will
have lost everything.
Once all this is understood, and people generally agree that population growth must not be
allowed to continue, they must also come to understand how that growth can be stopped.
Population grows because more people are being born than are dying. There are two ways, then, in
which the growth can be stopped. You can increase the number of people who die until it matches
the number of people who are being born. Or else you can decrease the number of people who are
born until it matches the number of people who are dying.
The first method—increasing the death rate—is the usual way in which population is
controlled in all species of living things other than ourselves, but we don’t want that, for disaster
lies that way. The intelligent way is to reduce the birth rate. But how can the birth rate be reduced?
24. In paragraph 3, the word “This” refers to ______.
A. avoidance of poverty B. growth of population
C. improvement of life and technology D. enhancement of living standard and
competition
25. It can be inferred from the passage that if a country had fewer people, ______.
A. it could still remain strong B. it would be defeated by a strong neighbor
C. its standard of living could be high
26. The passage mainly focuses on ______.
A. why we must control population B. where we can find a solution
C. how to stop population growth D. how to become a strong nation
C
Not being the greatest fan in the world of live performance, I took a deep breath before I
entered the building, the castle theatre, and prepared myself to be bored, expecting to find it more
interesting to watch the audience than the show. Then I got the shock of my life.
Wadaiko Inchiro are a group of ten young Japanese men and women using traditional drums
with a history going back more than 1500 years. The drums were once used for festivals and
religious ceremonies and also as a means of communication during wars. Today they give an
ear-blasting performance which punches out rhythms with the power to wind you. They’re a
welcome relief from the Scottish pipers.
Unlike other performances, the best seats are at the back of the house. Not only will your ears
be protected from full blast, but you will get a fantastic view of the whole set. On stage are some
of the biggest drums you will ever see and a cast wearing red, white and black headscarf.
There had been almost no publicity for the show, but the house was full of people desperate,
one could only assume, for something a bit different from the boring performances appearing at
this world-famous festival. The solid 60-minute show starts as it means to go on. The drums
rumble(隆隆作响) into fever-pitch action as the group strike their sticks with surprising control.
Their rhythmic passion almost immediately drugs you into full enjoyment. Trapped inside the
beating of the drums, you carried swiftly through warrior war cries to emotional rhapsodies(狂想
D. its people would live misery
2024年3月16日发(作者：蔺春芳)
山西省太原市第五中学15—16学年高二3月第四次周练英语试题
I．完形填空（每小题2分，共30分）
Have you ever monitored something about yourself? Perhaps you’ve tracked(追踪) how many
kilometers you’ve run, how many hours you’ve slept or how many calories you’ve 1 in a day.
If so, you’ve ___2____ a movement called the “Quantified Self Movement.” Individuals
gather information about their daily activities in this widespread movement, also called
self-tracking. This may sound __3___, but technology is making the process easier.
Perhaps you’ve wanted to __4___ a bad habit and couldn’t. Self-tracking may be your 5 .
The idea is to take information about your everyday activities and analyze it to help get a
___6____ lifestyle.
Recently, tools such as smart-phones, journals and apps, along with newly ____7____
wearable gadgets (工具), are making self-tracking extremely easy. Today, one can use Fitbit, the
Jawbone UP, Google Glass or a smart watch to ____8____ personal data including hours slept,
stress levels, heart rate and mood.
So 9 does a person self-track? Someone may be trying to lose weight or improve their
sleep patterns. 10 person feels tired after eating. Self-tracking could help him to ___11____ what
foods make him sleepy and modify(改变) his diet accordingly.
Monitoring daily activities isn’t a 12 concept. In years past, athletes and their coaches kept
notes detailing nutrition, training and sleep patterns in order to achieve an athletic goal. __13____,
doctors have also helped patients to document parts of their lifestyles and eating habits to help
fight allergies , headaches and other health issues. ___14___, it wasn’t until 2007 that Wired
magazine editors Gary Wolf and Kim Kelly, who started tracking every move they made, coined
the ____15____ “Quantified Self.”
Although self-tracking has many advantages, Dennis Nash, president of Data Speaks Health
Solutions, says self-tracking has its ____16____. Once people start tracking their daily activities,
it can become an addiction. Also, they might begin to worry too much about their health.
While self-tracking doesn’t ____18____ that one’s quality of life will improve, it can highlight
the importance of eating well and exercising daily. __19____, the quantified Self Movements’
primary focus is ___20____ people to employ enough energy to make healthier choices.
ed
counted
part in
carried out
e
difficult
reduce
5.A. answer
punishment
r
simpler
ered
8.A. monitor
record
9. A. when
10. A. Other
Others
11. A. identify
12. A. new
ularly
Generally
rmore
Meanwhile
nt
equipment
teristics
drawbacks
17. A. wonder
worry
B .managed
B. taken notice of
B. interesting
B. develop
B. pan
B. healthier
B. tracked
B. analyze
B. where
B. The other
B. increase
B. wicked
B. Similarly
B. However
B. subject
B. functions
B. bring
C. eaten
C. known about
C. valuable
C. strengthen
C. obligation
C. clearer
C. released
C. process
C. why
C. Another
C. decrease
C. serious
C. Surprisingly
C. Therefore
C. term
C. reasons
C. cast
D.
D.
D.
D.
D.
D.
D. built
D.
D. how
D.
D. chose
D. old
D.
D.
D.
D.
D.
tee
general
last
20.A. stimulating
motivating
II．阅读理解
B. expect
C. conclude
C. After all
D. prove
D. At B. As a result
B. forcing C. persuading D.
A
How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups, and, old people wishing they
were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who
enjoys what each gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has
good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will
ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. What's more, life
is always giving new things to the child-things that have lost their interest for older people because
they are too well known. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he
is repeatedly being told not to do something, or being punished for what he has wrongly done.
When a young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his
food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most
of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks
the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he
works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building
up for himself his own position in society.
21. According to Paragraph 2, the writer thinks that _____.
A. life for a child is fairly easy
B. a child is always loved whatever he does
C. if much is given to a child, he must do something in return
D. only children are interested in life
22. The main idea of the passage is that _____.
A. life is not enjoyable since each age has some pains
B. young men can have the greatest happiness if they work hard
C. childhood is the most enjoyable time in one's life
D. one is the happiest if he can make good use of each age in his life
23. The paragraph following this passage will most probably discuss __________.
A. example of successful young men
B. how to build up one’s position in society
C. joys and pains of old people
D. what to do when one has problems in life
B
Some nations think they must have more and more babies, more and more people, if they are
to remain strong and free.
Actually, this is not so. Very often in history, small nations have conquered large ones. It’s not
so much the size of the army as its organization and the technical level of its weapons. Thus,
Greece took over Persia in the 300s B.C., Great Britain took over India in the 1700s, even though
Persia and India had far bigger population than Greece and Great Britain.
If a nation wishes to avoid being dominated by its neighbors, its best chance is to raise its
standard of living and its level of technology. This can be done best by not allowing its population
to grow to such a point that it is sunk in misery and poverty. In fact, the worst way in which a
nation can try to avoid being dominated by its neighbor is to increase its population to the point of
misery and poverty.
If every nation tries to compete with its neighbors by raising its population, then the whole
world will be sunk in misery and poverty. The nations will become weak in a disaster that will
leave nothing behind that is worth dominating. No one will have gained anything. Everyone will
have lost everything.
Once all this is understood, and people generally agree that population growth must not be
allowed to continue, they must also come to understand how that growth can be stopped.
Population grows because more people are being born than are dying. There are two ways, then, in
which the growth can be stopped. You can increase the number of people who die until it matches
the number of people who are being born. Or else you can decrease the number of people who are
born until it matches the number of people who are dying.
The first method—increasing the death rate—is the usual way in which population is
controlled in all species of living things other than ourselves, but we don’t want that, for disaster
lies that way. The intelligent way is to reduce the birth rate. But how can the birth rate be reduced?
24. In paragraph 3, the word “This” refers to ______.
A. avoidance of poverty B. growth of population
C. improvement of life and technology D. enhancement of living standard and
competition
25. It can be inferred from the passage that if a country had fewer people, ______.
A. it could still remain strong B. it would be defeated by a strong neighbor
C. its standard of living could be high
26. The passage mainly focuses on ______.
A. why we must control population B. where we can find a solution
C. how to stop population growth D. how to become a strong nation
C
Not being the greatest fan in the world of live performance, I took a deep breath before I
entered the building, the castle theatre, and prepared myself to be bored, expecting to find it more
interesting to watch the audience than the show. Then I got the shock of my life.
Wadaiko Inchiro are a group of ten young Japanese men and women using traditional drums
with a history going back more than 1500 years. The drums were once used for festivals and
religious ceremonies and also as a means of communication during wars. Today they give an
ear-blasting performance which punches out rhythms with the power to wind you. They’re a
welcome relief from the Scottish pipers.
Unlike other performances, the best seats are at the back of the house. Not only will your ears
be protected from full blast, but you will get a fantastic view of the whole set. On stage are some
of the biggest drums you will ever see and a cast wearing red, white and black headscarf.
There had been almost no publicity for the show, but the house was full of people desperate,
one could only assume, for something a bit different from the boring performances appearing at
this world-famous festival. The solid 60-minute show starts as it means to go on. The drums
rumble(隆隆作响) into fever-pitch action as the group strike their sticks with surprising control.
Their rhythmic passion almost immediately drugs you into full enjoyment. Trapped inside the
beating of the drums, you carried swiftly through warrior war cries to emotional rhapsodies(狂想
D. its people would live misery