www.ks5u.com2016-2017学年建平中学高二第二学期期末考试英语试卷II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section ADirections: 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.On a flight from Dallas, Texas, to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2008, event planner Paige Chenault daydreamed about the detailed birthday parties shed throw for her daughter. Then, (21)_ (browse) through a magazine, she saw a photo of a poverty-stricken Haitian boy. “I thought, this kid has nothing,” Paige says.The image stayed with (22)_, and she resolved to do something to help. “I decided I (23)_ use my talents to throw birthday parties for homeless kids,” Paige says.Finally, in January 2012, Paige launched the Birthday Party Project, a nonprofit organization, and called on friends and family to help decorate Dallass 75-occupant Family Gateway Shelter with balloons and banners, celebrating the birthdays of 11 boys and girls, (24)_ 60 more homeless kids in attendance. “That first party was (25)_ than I could have ever imagined,” says Paige.Now Paige and her staff of three (26)_(pay) employees work with regional volunteers, aka “birthday enthusiasts”, to plan monthly themed parties at 15 shelters across the country, some of (27)_ house abused or abandoned kids. Each child celebrating a birthday that month gets a $30 gift, a decorative place mat, and an individual cake or cupcake.One of Paiges favorite parts of each party is (28)_ the kids make a wish and blow out the candles. “Rarely (29)_ they get a chance to dream big,” says Paige.Her daughter, Lizzie, now seven, often helps out at the parties. Paige says, “The one thing Ive always wanted for my kid (30)_(be) generous.”Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. sorted B. extremely C. disposed D. archaeology E. include F. criticalG. coding H. defined I. randomly J. recycle K. responseThere are many ways of obtaining an understanding of peoples behavior. One of these is to study the objects discarded by a community, objects used in daily lives. The study of the garbage of a society is the basis for the science of _31_ in which the lives and behavior of past societies are minutely examined. Some recent studies have indicated the degree to which rubbish is socially _32_.For several years the University of Arizona, USA, has been running a Garbage Project, in which garbage is collected, _33_ out and noted. It began in 1973 with an arrangement whereby the City of Tucson collected for analysis garbage from _34_ selected households in designated census (人口普查) collection districts. Since then the researchers have studied other cities both in the USA and Mexico, improving their techniques and procedures in _35_ to the challenges of understanding the often unexpected results they have obtained. Garbage is classified according to a(n)_36_ detailed schedule, a range of data for each item is recorded on a standardized _37_ form, and the researchers analyze their findings with information from census and other social surveys.The Project leaders then decided to look not only at what was thrown away, but what happened to it after that. In many counties waste is _38_ of in landfills, where the rubbish is compacted and buried in the ground. So in 1987, the Project expanded its activities to _39_ the excavation (挖掘) of landaus across the United States and Canada. Surprisingly,no onehadeverattemptedsuchexcavationsbefore.The Garbage Projects work shows how many misconceptions exist about garbage. The researchers are therefore _40_ of attempts to promote one type of waste management, such as source reduction or recycling, overothers,suchasincinerationorlandfilling.Eachhasits advantages and disadvantages, and what may be appropriate for one locality may not be appropriate for another.III. Reading comprehension.Section A Directions: 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. Business has traditionally been and to a certain extent still is a a boys game. Less than six per cent of executive management positions in American and European companies are held by women, and of the Fortune 500 only four have female CEO! _41_ in British one in three new business are started up by women, and since 1980 the number of self-employed women has increased twice as fast as the number of such men.Is it just a case of women whose career progress has been _42_ by their male colleaguethe so-called ;glass ceiling syndromebe