河北省石家庄市第二中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期寒假作业(第15天).doc

河北省石家庄市第二中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期寒假作业（第15天）

河北省石家庄市第二中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期寒假作业（第15天）

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河北省石家庄市第二中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期寒假作业（第15天）
I 听力
第一节 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。. Why doesn’t the man want to go to the restaurant?
A. He doesn’t want to wait in line.
B. He doesn’t eat meat.
C. He doesn’t want a salad.
2. When does the woman need the package to arrive?
A. On Monday. B. On Thursday. C. On Tuesday.
3. What is the woman’s reason for moving?
A. She has a new car.
B. She wants to be an actress.
C. She found a job as a teacher.
4. What does the woman think about the cooking class?
A. It’s too expensive. B. It will be difficult. C. It sounds fun.
5. Where are the speakers?
A. On a bike. B. In a car. C. On the school playground.
第二节 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. Where are the speakers?
A. At a hair salon. B. At a clothing store. C. At a spa.
7. What is the woman’s attitude toward the man?
A. She doubts his abilities.
B. She is angry about his advice.
C. She trusts him to improve her look.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. How does the woman feel about getting the shot?
A. Nervous B. Relaxed. C. Indifferent.
9. Where does the woman get the shot?
A. In her right leg. B. In her right arm. C. In her left arm.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why does Tim want to take a day off?
A. To travel to London.
B. To attend a graduation party.
C. To attend his brother’s wedding.
11. When is the sales presentation?
A. Next Thursday. B. Tomorrow. C. This afternoon.
12. Who is Donna?
A. Tim’s boss. B. Tim’s teacher. C. Tim’s co-worker.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Writing music. B. Recording an album. C. Their favorite bands.
14. What type of person is the man?
A. Sad. B. Boring. C. Creative.
15. What was the man thinking about last night?
A. Socks. B. The ocean. C. Bees.
16. What does the man invite the woman to do?
A. Record an album. B. Join a famous band. C. Work with him.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where was Cameron Diaz’s father born?
A. In America. B. In Cuba. C. In Spain.
18. How did Cameron Diaz begin her entertainment career?
A. As a TV star. B. As a film actress. C. As a fashion model.
19. For which film did Diaz win a Best Lead Actress Award?
A. Shrek. B. Gangs of New York. C. There’s Something about Mary.
20. What can we learn about Cameron Diaz?
A. She made $10 million in 2010.
B. She is more than forty years old.
C. She is the richest woman in Hollywood.

II阅读理解
A
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Outside line: dial 0, wait for dial tone, and then the number required.
Please keep your key with you at all times. The main doors to the apartments are locked from about 10:30 pm ~ 07:00 am, and you will need to swipe (刷卡) your key to gain access (通道) to the apartment.
If in the event of the fire alarm(警报) sounding please stay calm. If evacuation ( 疏散 ) is necessary, please go to the fire exits. DO NOT USE LIFTS. Remember to take your valuables and key with you. When you go down, please gather at the Wishing Tree and the Corner of Sussex and Hay Street. And either the Fire Brigade, a staff member or hotel security will issue necessary instructions. For future details on this, please dial 7.
Please see reception for any advice on tours and Sydney's attention, and please dial 7 if you want any further information.
We hope your stay with us is an enjoyable one.
Kind regards,
Paul Williams
Guest Services Manager
21. How can you dial from your room in Pacific to Room 115 on the 1st floor?
A. Just dial 115. B. Dial 6, then 115.
C. Dial 115 and press the # key. D. Press the # key, then dial 115.
22. In case of fire in Pacific, guests should _______.
A. dial 7 and wait for the hotel security B. take their keys and leave Pacific by lifts
C. leave Pacific through the fire exits D. be together with the Fire Brigade
23. This letter most probably appears in ______.
A. at the train station B. the official guide
C. a manager’ s office D. a guest’ s room
B
My husband is reading The Secret Garden aloud to our kids. They are at the part where Mary has told Colin that she’s found the garden her mother loved. It’s an exciting moment. But the passage I’m waiting for is a few chapters on, after Colin has tasted his first breaths of fresh air and Mary has grown strong running in the garden. It’s just a detail, but my kids will notice it: a delicious description of roasted potatoes and eggs.
We have a tradition of trying foods from the books we read aloud. It started when we read Elizabeth Enright’s The Saturdays, and one of the boys asked, “What are petit fours?” An answer, my husband and I felt, wouldn’t be as good as a sample. So one Saturday we all sat down having tea and little cakes, covered with pink, green, and yellow. It was exciting for the kids to try a dessert they had learned about in a book. The petit fours they tried didn’t tell them what it was like to live in New York City 60 years ago, but tasting them made the book’s words alive.
Later, when we read C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, we had Turkish delight. We read The Penderwicks, written by Jeanne Birdsall, and had gingerbread (姜饼). We read Paddington Bear and tried marmalade.
Soon we will reach the part of The Secret Garden where Mary, Colin, and Dickon roast potatoes and eggs in a small oven (炉) in the earth. My kids will go out into the woods to find the perfect place for an oven of our own. Yes, we’ve eaten potatoes and eggs, but never in the open air.
The world that a good book creates is whole and real, but it lies flat on the page until a reader gives life to it.
24. The text is written mainly to 　　　.
A. show the importance of reading aloud
B. provide a new means of family education
C. discuss food culture in children’s books
D. introduce some interesting books
25. The author believes tasting foods from the books may help children 　　　.
A. understand the books better B. be friendlier to each other
C. know more about history D. enjoy more healthy food
26. From the fourth paragraph, we can learn that the author’s family 　　　.
A. will look for a secret garden in the woods
B. will read The Secret Garden in the open air
C. will cook potatoes and eggs in the woods
D. will eat roasted potatoes and eggs at home
27. Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?
A. The best way to make kids learn B. Eating means more than reading
C. The taste of a good book D. Our roasted potatoes and eggs

C
How do you get a man to do his share of the housework? If you are like most women, you’ve faced this question the hard way.
A man will enjoy a clean, orderly house, but he usually won’t make the effort to clean or organize it. This doesn’t mean that a woman has to do all the housework; she may have to manage many of the household duties, and request her partner’s participation. A woman can often say that men and women should take equal responsibility for housework.
Very few men are raised to be fully responsible for housework, and many men look on housework as women’s work. On the other hand, most men will readily work around the yard, make repairs and complete projects (住宅) on weekends or evenings, and it’s important that you give your man appreciation for those things, too. Most men will take on a little additional housework around the house if they can choose what they want to do, and do it without being monitored.
Here is the key: men want to feel that they are doing housework either because they want to do a task, or because they simply want to please their women. Men are much less likely to take on household tasks they consider uninteresting and unimportant. In other words, men are likely to do a household task just for the good of the house.
28. The passage is mainly about how to _____.
A. get men to take on some housework B. get men to serve their families
C. praise men’s housework D. make men do all the housework
29. According to the passage, a man _____.
A. is willing to do housework
B. likes to be told to do housework
C. is taught to be responsible for housework from childhood
D. likes a clean house but doesn’t make efforts to clean it
30. In order to get men to do some housework, women should often ____.
A. order them to do their share B. ask them to do some housework politely
C. blame men’s laziness D. monitor men’s work
31. According to the passage, the underlined sentence in the last paragraph means that men won’t ______.
A. work without any payment B. do unimportant household tasks
C. do housework without women’s praise D. please their wives
32. According to the passage, which of the following would a husband most probably like to do?
A. Cleaning the table B. Doing some sewing
C. Painting the fence D. Asking his wife to work on the yard
D
Two may well be the number of kids accepted by most Americans. But for many, deciding how many kids they could or should have isn’t that easy. As today’s couples are starting families at older ages than their parents or grandparents, and they are facing the pressure of low pay and increased job demands, many are looking for help making the “right” decision about family size.
Well, the idea of two children wasn’t always the generally accepted standard, says Steven Mintz, an expert on childhood and culture. In 1800, most American women had seven to ten children, he says. But by the end of the 20th century --- and as women became a growing presence in the workplace --- two became the number of kids people wanted.
What has changed, Mintz suggests, is the way adults view children.
“In earlier times, kids were clearly assets（财产）,” he says. “You put them to work, and they took care of you when you were old, and you didn’t have to spend on their education. What is happening now is that we begin to believe children require investment（投资）in order to have a successful future.”
Robin Gorman Newman became a mother at 42. She says there’s a lot of pressure on parents of only children.
“Moms feel like they should have had more than one,” she says. But part of the reason is that “they don’t want to feel they’re burdening their child when they get into old age.”
In his new book, Creating Your Perfect Family Size: How to Make an Informed Decision About Having a Baby, Alan Singer suggests things to think about when trying to find the perfect number for your own family, rather than arguing what number of kids is the best.
“We’ve been forced into thinking two children is the perfect size for a family,” says Susan Newman, author of The Case for the Only Child: Your Essential Guide.
She isn’t suggesting one-child families are right for everyone, but “it’s an increasingly popular decision”.
33. Why did two become the standard number of kids by the end 20th century?
A. Because many couples started families at older ages.
B. Because many women were tired of taking care of children.
C. Because more and more women began working outside their families.
D. Because many couples didn’t have enough money to raise more children.
34. Which of the following is adults’ view on children nowadays?
A. Children are their assets.
B. Children shouldn’t work at an early age.
C. Parents have to spend money in order to help their children succeed.
D. Parents should depend on their children when they get into old age.
35. What’s the main idea of Alan Singer’s new book?
A. What should be considered when deciding the number of kids.
B. Parents’ realization of their investment in children has gone up.
C. How to decide the best time to have a baby.
D. What number of kids is the best time for a family.
36. What’s the best title for the text?
A. Why do women decide to have fewer children nowadays?
B. Does family size matter? For today’s families it does!
C. The great pressure today’s parents are facing
D. The change of family size through the years
II. 完形填空
Dear Seth,
You are only three years old, and at this point in your life you are not able to understand this letter. But some day when you 37 , I hope you will find something 38 in what I am going to share with you.
Life can be 39 . There will be people in your life who won’t be very nice. They’ll 40 you because you are different, 41 for no good reason. You will also face heartbreak and might be 42 by those you love. I hope you don’t have to face these too much, but such things 43 .
Be open to life anyway. You’ll find cruelty and 44 in your journey through life, but don’t let that 45 you from finding new things. Don’t retreat (退却) from life, and don’t 46 or wall yourself off. Be open to new things, new experiences, and new people. You’ll 47 many times, but if you allow that to stop you from trying, you will 48 many chances. Do remember failure is a stepping stone to 49 .
You will meet many people who will try to do 50 than you, in school, in college and at work. They’ll try to have nicer cars, bigger houses, nicer clothes, and so on. To 51 , life is a competition. However, I believe life is a 52 . If you always try your best to 53 others, you’re wasting your life. Learn to enjoy your life 54 and you will make it a journey of 55 , of learning, and of love.
Finally, know that I love you and always will. You are 56 a really wonderful journey, and I will always be there for you.
37. A. grow up B. show up C. cheer up D. calm down
38. A. familiar B. valuable C. normal D. interesting
39. A. unkind B. peaceful C. equal D. simple
40. A. end up with B. get on well with C. laugh at D. look after
41. A. if B. but C. so D. or
42. A. hurt B. found C.