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Remy Shea is a sixth-form student at my international school in Beijing. When I ask her where she is from, she says: “I'm Canadian-Chinese but, at the same time, I'm neither.”

Most students at my school aren't from one particular place. Sure, our passports(护照) might say we're British or Malaysian, but it's more complicated than that. Where you're “from” is less about birthplace and more about cultural identity; as a student your cultural identity ends up being difficult to identify.

If you ask me where I'm from, I'll tell you I'm English. Press me, and I'll say that I'm also half Hong Konger. Ask which part of England I'm from, and I'll be forced to explain that I spent most of my childhood and part of my adolescence flying around Asia. Though I was born in a city in the UK, I honestly couldn't point it out on a map or tell you anything about the place.

Students like me are uniquely rootless; we don’t belong anywhere and we can't describe ourselves as any one thing. Some find that they make their home wherever their family is. Some just accept the loneliness that comes with the lack of concrete ties to any single place.

Exir Kamalabadi, a year 13 student at my school, sums it up perfectly: “I'll never be Chinese, no matter what I do.” Replace “Chinese” with any other country, and you can understand the conflict within many “third culture kids”, as we’ve been titled by the media. For me, I’ll never be Hong Konger, no matter what I do. And, despite my mainly English-influenced upbringing(养育), I will never feel fully at home there either.

I feel like a foreigner everywhere I go, an emotion shared by other students at international schools like mine. Mixed-race students who travel a lot while growing up can lack a cultural identity and also have to struggle with the fact that they don't have a history – or not one that's easily explained. For me, a cultural identity is something I have to develop and maintain, not something that falls into place naturally. I've heard my accent becoming progressively more American over the last five years. This is upsetting because my slight British accent was the last real reminder of where I was born. Without it, how am I supposed to tell people I'm from the UK?

I've had to make an effort to preserve my ordinary, regionally unclear “English’’ accent because without it, I don't have any proof that I was from the UK at all. My passport might as well have been Hong Konger.

This lack of definition means that I’ve ended up in a dark shadow of different cultures, with bits and pieces from everywhere I've lived and everyone I’ve met. I count with my fingers the way they do in Hong Kong and I grew up eating roti in Singaporean food courts and goose fat noodles at my grandmother’s house in Hong Kong. My accent is influenced with my friends’ American pronunciation, but I still spell color with a ‘u’. Though it comes with its downsides, it's helped to shape me as a person and has broadened my perspectives.

67. Which of the following statements is true?

A. international students feel lonely because of lack of friends.

B. Kids like the author think they are cut off from history ties.

C. Any Mixed-race students can’t find their cultural identity.

D. The author’s American accent is to blame for his situation.

68. It can be inferred from the article that_______.

A. the author has English nationality

B. the author is studying in a city in the UK.

C. the author possesses Hong Kong passport

D. the author spent his childhood in Beijing

69. What’s the best tip to international school students like the author? They should _______.

A. spend as much time as possible with their families

B. communicate with local people in native language

C. overcome cultural differences and language difficulty

D. keep in close touch with their originally cultural roots

70. The author wrote this article in order to_______.

A. introduce his growing pain to the readers

B. pour out his loneliness without companions

C. express his greatest confusion of being rootless

D. offer something of international students in Beijing

第II卷(三部分，共35分)

第一部分：单词拼写 (共5小题;每小题0.5分，满分2.5分)

71. When a piece of paper is t ________into pieces, is it a chemical change or a physical change?

72. We hope that we have the courage t ensure that this type of ________(灾难) can be prevented.

73. She was  __________(陪同) by an experienced ski instructor and she learnt very quickly.

74.I think we should encourage secondary school students in the summer to find _________

(临时的) work..

75. Their parents hope that he will live up to their e_________ in the future.

第二部分：动词适当形式填空 (共5小题，每题0.5分，满分2.5分)

76. I ____________ (finish) my project by the time you come to London.

77. In the lecture ________(follow), he will tell us something about modern English.

78. You can’t imagine what great difficulty they have ___________(solve) the problem.

79. We would rather our daughter _________ (stay) at home with us, but it is her choice, and she is not a child any longer.

80. The trees there are extremely tall, some ___________(measure) over 90 meters.

第三部分：任务型阅读 (共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

注意：每个空格只填1个单词

Made in the USA: An Export Boom

In his State of the Union address two years ago, President Obama argued that in order to recover from the economic recession(经济衰退), one of the few things the U.S. needed to do was to export more goods around the world. That night, the president unveiled(吐露) a new goal: to double U. S. exports over the next five years. It would be an increase that the president said would “support two million jobs in America.”

Most economists dismissed the promise at the time as something unrealistic, but two years later, the U.S. is on pace to meet that goal. American exports are up 34 percent since the president gave that speech, and the number continues to rise.

Competitive In A Global Market

Marlin Steel, a metal working business in Baltimore, makes parts that ship all across the world. “ We export to 36 countries,” owner Drew Greenblatt tells All Things Considered Host Guy Raz. “We're working around the clock, and we're growing.”

It's not just advanced manufacturing exports on the rise, but pork, cattle and all kinds of agricultural exports are up as well. Even American craft beer has found an export market.

Flying Dog CEO Jim Caruso says that increasingly, people all over the world are trying the beer from the Maryland-based brewery. Caruso says，“Even in those top beer-producing countries, a competitive American product is finding a market.”

Services Are Exports, Too

Another place exports are coming from is New York City—in particular, the 30th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper on 5th Avenue and 52nd Street. That's where the consulting firm Kurt Solomon lies. It doesn't actually produce a product for export; it provides management advice and strategy.

“Four out of every five Americans is now employed in the service industry，” the nation's top trade official, Ron Kirk says, “Services are a significant part of our exports, and make up about a quarter of our exported goods.” These services can include everything from legal consulting, finance, information technology and even engineering.

And There Are Other Factors

So why has there been an increase of more than 30 percent for exports in almost everything? Part of the increase, at least for the manufacturing side, is due to better technology, says Tyler Cowen, an economist. “A lot of it is being driven by smart machines,” he tells Raz, “The U. S. has high wage rates, which is a disadvantage, but if machines are doing a lot of the work, that doesn't matter.”

China factors a lot in America's export economy, too. “Wages in China have been going up as the country becomes more productive. Thus China is losing the cheap labor advantage it has held for some time.” Cowen says.

Will Jobs Grow, too?

“Companies have become more productive by dismissing workers and lowering costs.” Cowen says, “So I don't view exporting as a way of creating a very large number of jobs, but it will create more profits.”

So not every business or worker is necessarily benefiting from the export boom in the U. S., and Cowen says that could ultimately lead to a polarization (两极) of economic outcomes.

Made In the USA: An Export Boom

Outline Details

The purpose of  increasing exports *To help America make a (1 )______ from the economic recession

*To help raise the nation's (2)______ rate

The current situation *American exports have risen (3)______ thirty-four percent up to now

*There has been an increase in exports in everything

*The export boom does not necessarily (4)______ every business or worker

(5)______ contributing to the export boom (6)______ products Even in those top beer-producing countries, people try craft beer from Flying Dog, a brewery (7)______ in Maryland.

Various products A variety of products are provided around the world, services (8)______ for 25%

Lower costs *(9)______ take the place of labor, helping companies reduce wages

*China, who used to take (10)______ of cheap labor, has given way to America in exports to some extent because of its increasing production

第四部分：书面表达(满分20分)

随着学习压力与生活压力的不断增加， 许多孩子与家长之间的矛盾日益升级，冲突不断。如何改善孩子与家长的关系成为大家共同关注的话题。请根据下表提示，以“How to Handle Conflicts between Parents and Children”为题写一篇150字左右的短文，并谈谈你自己的看法。

现象 争吵，吵架， 冷战

冲突出现的原因 1. 家长：缺乏耐心，过于苛刻，干涉自由….

2. 孩子：自我中心，举止无礼，渴望独立….

解决方法 (至少两点)

江苏省启东中学2015-2016学年度第一学期期中考试

高二年级英语试答案

一听力：(共20小题，每题1分)

1-5 BBCBA    6-10 BACBC   11-15 AABAC   16-20 CABCA

二 单选：(共15题，每题1分)

21-25 CDDBA   26-30 BCAAB    31-35 DABCD

三 完型填空：(共20题，每题1分)

36-40 BADAA   41-45 CDBBC   46-50 DCABD    51-55 CADCB

四阅读理解：(共15题，每题2分)

56-58 BBD     59-62 CBDA    63-66 ACBC       67-70 BADC

五单词拼写： (共5题，每题0.5分)

71.torn   72.catastrophe   73. accompanied  74. temporary  75. expectations

六 动词填空：(共5题每题0.5分)

76. will have finished   77. to follow   78. solving   79. stayed  80. measuring

七 任务型阅读：(共10题，每题1分)

1. recovery     2.employment    3. by      4. benefit      5.Factors

6.Competitive   7. located/ based  8. accounting 9.  Machines    10. advantage

八书面表达：(20分)

Conflicts occur in almost every family. In some families, differences in opinions between parents and children are so huge that they often lead to quarrels or even fights. In others, the situation becomes so serious that they do not talk with each other, adopting the passive aggressive approach.

Several reasons contribute to this phenomenon. On the part of the parents, they are either too impatient or too strict with their children, far more than their children can bear. Some parents even go so far as to interfere with their children’s freedom. On the part of the children, some are self-centered and seldom, if ever, consider other people’s feelings. Though desperate for independence, they often do not behave themselves and sometimes appear to be rude to others.

In my opinion, effective measures should be taken to solve the problem. First, both parents and children should realize that they need to solve their problems. Second, they should try to understand each other.

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