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2021-2022

学年山东省济南市高一下学期期末学情检测英语试题

1. What would you do if you spilled your coffee on your desk? Many of us would probably

immediately begin cleaning up the desk. But some people are so talented that they can be artistically

inspired by the most unexpected of things, such as spilled drinks. Case in point — Italian artist

Giulia Bernardelli, whose amazing coffee art began as an accident.

Born in 1987 in the city of Mantua, Giulia Bernardelli graduated at the Accademia of Fine Arts of

Bologna with a bachelor’s degree in educational studies, but it was a coffee accident that shaped her

artistic career.

One day, Giulia was drawing and having her coffee at the same time. At one point, she moved her

hand too quickly and spilled her coffee all over the canvas, but the way the spilled coffee spread

inspired her to pick up the spoon and use it as a brush to guide the brown liquid. And that’s how her

journey into coffee art began. She got better and better at it, and today Giulia is regarded as one of

the world’s best coffee artists.

As for the things Giulia draws with coffee, she takes inspiration from a variety of things, such as

famous artworks, architecture, or the human body. So the next time you spill your coffee or

something else, don’t immediately clean it up. It’s your chance to be an artist too!

1. What can be learned about Giulia Bernardelli?

A

．

She hates cleaning.

C

．

She is an Italian artist.

2. What does Paragraph 3 mainly tell us?

A

．

What tools Giulia needed for painting.

C

．

When Giulia became world- known.

3. Which of the following best describes Giulia?

A

．

Gifted.

2. A woman who lost one leg to cancer is seeking to break a world record by completing 102

marathon-length runs in 102 days.

Jacky Hunt-Broersma, who lost the bottom half of her left leg to a rare form of cancer in 2001, set

her goal in mid-January. And every day since then, she has been running the distance of a marathon.

“Part of my body was gone. For me the biggest struggle was accepting my disability,” she told the

reporter.

Until five years ago, she was not very active. But then she looked into running and decided to give it

a try. The sport ended up being quite costly. Currently, the carbon fiber blade she uses, which is

designed specifically for running, costs about $10,000.

B

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Productive. C

．

Helpful. D

．

Brave.

B

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Why Giulia was the best coffee artist.

D

．

How Giulia started coffee art.

B

．

She is a fan of coffee.

D

．

She wants to be a teacher.

“Running really changed my life,” she said. “It helped me accept myself as a person with disability.

It gave me a sense of freedom. I fell in love with the process of pushing my body further just to see

what I could do.”

However, she has faced both physical and mental difficulties during her record-breaking attempt. On

one recent day, Hunt-Broersma felt near breakdown at 24 kilometers and began to cry. In that

moment, she felt like her planned goal might not happen at all. By dividing it into little goals, she

finally picked herself up and carried on.

Hunt-Broersma’s main support team is her husband and their two young children. She is posting her

progress online and has also got a large social media following.

As she nears the end of her goal, Hunt-Broersma is hoping to inspire a single thought in others:

You’re stronger than you think and you’re capable of so much more.

1. What was the biggest struggle for Hunt-Broersma?

A

．

Fighting against cancer.

C

．

Breaking a world record.

B

．

Living with a disability.

D

．

Completing the marathon.

2. What might “the carbon fiber blade” underlined in Paragraph 3 be?

A

．

A running aid. B

．

A sports skill. C

．

A training field. D

．

A support team.

3. Why did Hunt-Broersma almost break down one day?

A

．

She was not hopeful about her goal.

C

．

She lost a record breaking chance.

4. What can we learn from Hunt-Broersma’s story?

A

．

A thousand-mile journey begins with one

step.

C

．

Experience is the father of wisdom.

3. For one month, I turned down all in person activities with friends: going out for drinks, dinners,

parties and non-work events, to see if it would make me more productive and improve my focus on

my career.

Gradually, I came to enjoy the moments of doing nothing, sitting at cafes without any technology,

and found myself daydreaming more frequently as I was no longer attempting to fill every spare

moment. Such moments are linked to creative problem solving, brainstorming new ideas and

reimagining existing projects.

However, such benefits would be a concern if I remained alone at home for too long. “For many

working in an office environment, socializing is one of the most important parts and people with a

‘best friend’ at work are seven times more likely to throw themselves fully in their work,” says

Silvia Bellezza, professor of Harvard University. Workplace friendship also creates a common sense

of purpose and a social support network. Of course, off-hours socializing is also an important way to

B

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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

B

．

She wasn’t supported by the family.

D

．

She wanted a sense of freedom.

D

．

Happiness is the key to success.

build work contacts. While one month of no social life did not impact people’s relationship with

existing connections, it may have reduced their ability to build new ones.

During the month, I learned that I couldn’t cut out an area of life in order to lift another — a

connection with people is linked to our work and helps us deal with life’s ups and downs.

Researcher Ellen Galinsky has found that people who are dual-centric (

兼顾的

) are the most

satisfied in their lives. “We find that people who are dual-centric tend to be healthier, do better at

work and do better at home,” says Galinsky. Perhaps the secret to a successful career is not cutting

out my social life, but combining the two.

1. Why did the author refuse all in-person activities with his friends?

A

．

To focus on his family.

C

．

To make new friends.

2. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A

．

The purpose of having friends.

C

．

The importance of remaining alone.

B

．

The benefits of keeping social.

D

．

The skills of building new relations.

B

．

To save personal time.

D

．

To better his career.

3. What of the following may Ellen Galinsky agree with?

A

．

Social life should not be cut out.

C

．

People should be devoted to work.

4. What is the purpose of the text?

A

．

To show the value of social life.

C

．

To introduce some social activities.

4. It’s very likely that at some point, whether in school or elsewhere, you’ve come across pi, the

mathematical term which is about 3.142 and most commonly represented by the Greek letter “π” .

Pi has interested people around the world for over 4,000 years. Many mathematicians — from

famous ones such as Fibonacci, Newton, Leibniz, and Gauss to lesser well-known mathematical

minds — have toiled over pi, calculated its digits (

数位

), and applied it in many areas of

mathematics. Some spent the better parts of their lives calculating just a few digits.

In 2009, the United States House of Representatives recognized March 14 as National Pi Day. For Pi

Day 2010, Google presented a Google Doodle celebrating the day, with the word Google laid over

images of circles and pi symbols. The entire month of March 2014 (3/14) was observed by some as

“Pi Month”. In the year 2015, pi Day had special significance on 3/14/15 at 9:26: and also at

p.m., with the date and time representing the first 10 digits of π.

Pi Day has been observed in many ways, including eating pies, throwing pies and discussing the

significance of the number π, due to a pun (

双关语

) based on the words “pi” and “pie” in English, as

well as pies tending to be round, and thus related to π. Massachusetts Institute of Technology has

B

．

To give tips on career success.

D

．

To compare some experts’ researches.

B

．

Most people are satisfied with life.

D

．

Humans need close friends to enjoy life.

often mailed its application decision letters to would-be students for delivery on Pi Day. Starting in

2012, MIT has announced it will post those decisions privately online on Pi Day.

1. What does the underlined part “toiled over” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A

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Fought against. B

．

Noted down. C

．

Worked on. D

．

Broke into.

2. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

A

．

Pi Day became official in the USA in

2010.

C

．

Google designed a Doodle for Pi Day.

3. Why are π and “pie” related?

A

．

They sound similar.

C

．

They are valuable in math.

B

．

They are both mysterious.

D

．

They are useful in our life.

B

．

Pi Day has become a worldwide holiday.

D

．

Pi Month referred to March, 2015.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A

．

Pi Day is gaining popularity

C

．

MIT officially announces Pi Day

5. Father’s Day is a fairly new celebration in the British calendar compared with Mother’s Day,

which has been a very popular and well celebrated festival in the UK for a very long time. 1 It was

inspired by the actions of an American man named William Smart.

William had a happy family but his wife died giving birth to their sixth child. 2 No doubt it was

unusual back in those days. His daughter, Sonora Dodd, realised when she was an adult what her

father had done for his children. It was one day in the early 1900s, and she was listening to a lecture

talking about the importance of Mother’s Day. 3

And so the tradition was born. It was set on the third Sunday every June, close to the anniversary (

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年纪念

) of Sonora’s father s death. Britain took the idea of Father’s Day from the American

celebration and it has been celebrated officially since the 1970s. Father’s Day is never quite such the

big commercial event that Mother’s Day is.

4 Well, most people would buy their fathers a card. The card would probably have a nice message

in it saying what a great Dad their father is. 5 Popular gifts for Dads are probably ties, chocolates or

socks. As a special treat, British people might give their Dad a bit of a rest — make him a cup of tea,

or even wash his car to make him feel really appreciated.

A

．

Some people do buy presents as well.

B

．

What do British people do for Father’s Day?

C

．

But the origins of the celebration are American.

D

．

“World’s Greatest Dad” will be written on them.

B

．

People celebrate strange festivals

D

．

Researches on Pi are making progress