湖北省十堰市2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末调研考试试题.doc

湖北省十堰市2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末调研考试试题湖北省十堰市2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末调研考试试题年级：姓名：14湖北省十堰市2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末调研考试试题（无答案）本试题卷共12页，全卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟。祝考试顺利注意事项：1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结東后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）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。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。例: How much is the shirt?A. 19.15. B. 9.18. C. 9.15.答案是C。1. What time is it now?A.10:25. B.9:55. C.10:15.2. What does the woman advise the man to do?A. Move the desk back.B. Ask someone for help.C. Go to see the doctor.3. Why is the man trying to call David?A. To invite him to see a movie.B. To tell him that he is busy.C. To ask him to keep in touch.4. What does the mans father like?A. Running. B. Drinking. C. Singing.5. Why does James refuse to go to school this day?A. Its the weekend.B. He is too tired for school.C. His school is closed down.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22. 5分）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。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. What is the special at the Chinese restaurant?A. A special drink. B. A kind of soup. C. Corn cakes.7. What will the speakers do next?A. Go to the Italian restaurant.B. Go to the Chinese restaurant.C. Have dinner at home.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Where did the man learn about the job?A. From the TV. B. From the Internet. C. From the newspaper.9. What will the man probably do next?A. Learn to type faster.B. Start working right away.C. Pick up an application from the woman.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What season is it now?A. Autumn. B. Winter. C. Summer.11. What does the woman think of watching movies?A. Its so exciting. B. Its too boring. C. Its too expensive.12. What do we know about the woman?A. She hasnt been used to the weather in San Francisco.B. She will have a date with the man tonight.C. She paid much to watch a movie.听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。13. Where are the speakers?A. In Los Angeles. B. In Chicago. C. In London.14. What does the woman finally buy?A. A light coat. B. A heavy coat. C. A light jacket.15. How much discount does the woman get for the coat?A. Five percent. B. Ten percent. C. Fifteen percent.16. What does the man recommend to the woman in the end?A. Some scarves. B. Some gloves. C. Some shirts.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Who is the speaker probably talking to?A. Students. B. Teachers. C. Parents.18. What is the speaker talking about?A. How to read a book.B. How to love studying.C. How to find a place to study.19. What is the advantage of changing studying places?A. It can make people healthy.B. It can let people meet with friends.C. It can make people feel pleasant.20. What is the purpose of adding color to the studying process?A. To make it shorter. B. To make it more fun. C. To make it more colorful.第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。AFour Great Destination Cities to Visit on a Vacation to AustraliaAdelaideAdelaide, the capital city of South Australia, is known for its beauty and outdoor natural areas, many of which are protected and preserved for the use of the people that live there and those that visit there too. Adelaide has a number of popular attractions including attractive swimming beaches, an exciting nightlife, interesting shopping opportunities, great restaurants, and much more.CanberraThe city of Canberra dates back to 1913 when it was purposefully built to be the capital of the nation of Australia. It has grown over time to not only be the location of the government of the nation, but also a city in its own right with a particular culture and atmosphere of its own. Canberra offers the chance to see the more official side of Australia and learn a little bit about how the country was founded, formed, and how it developed.DarwinUnlike other major cities in Australia, Darwin is of the rather small size. Darwin sits in the north-central region of Australia, right on the Timor Sea. The lifestyle in Darwin has been described as laid back by many who have visited there before. A visit to Darwin is a visit to one of Australias truly unforgettable cities.SydneyThe most famous, most traveled to, and most popular city in all of Australia is the city of Sydney. Sydney sits on the shores of Sydney Harbour and is an exciting city that offers an unbelievable experience to those travelers. Sydney has been the main point of tourism in Australia for decades and it will continue to be that so long as it keeps offering the amazing experiences that it does right now.Travel to Australia with Travelocity, get discounts on www. couponcodes. com.21. What can visitors learn about in Canberra?A. The development of Australia. B. The outdoor natural areas.C. An exciting art show. D. The attractive swimming beaches.22. What is Darwin special for compared with the other three places?A. Its position. B. Its history.C. Its size. D. Its attractions.23. Which city attracts the most tourists?A. Adelaide. B. Canberra.C. Darwin. D. Sydney.BOne day, Lisa Holman told her family she would be out that night visiting her friend, only about half an hour drive from her house. So it was not alarming as the night grew on and she did not arrive home. As 11 pm passed, her family began to worry. They called her but did not get any answer. They then reached out to Lisas friend, who said Lisa had left to drive home at 9 that night.The family thought about calling the police that evening but the police typically dont define a person missing unless there is no contact for 24 hours. The next morning there was still no sign of Lisa. All the family could do was sit home and wait. Lisas son decided to drive along Lisas route and carefully look for her. He found Lisas car had crashed into a tree. Whats worse, there was no sign of Lisa at all.The family called the police. The police began their search. But due to the heavy rain the search team was called back. The family was very disappointed but still hopeful and continued the search. 700 feet from Lisas car, they finally found Lisa under a rock.After a few days in hospital, Lisa recovered. She explained that she passed out after her car slid off the road in the rain. After she came to herself, Lisa managed to climb out of the car. While walking to find help, Lisa was exhausted and unable to figure out the direction. So she couldnt walk on and climbed under a rock as it started raining again. Scared as she was, she turned to her faith in hopes of living to see her son again.24. When should Lisa arrive home after visiting her friend?A. About 9 pm. B. About 9:30 pm.C. About 11 pm. D. The next morning.25. Why did the family give up calling the police that night?A. The police usually refused to come at night.B. The heavy rain had blocked all the roads up.C. They thought Lisa would come back herself.D. They had been out of touch with Lisa for less than a day.26. Who found Lisa under the rock?A. Lisas family. B. A hiking team passing by.C. The police search team. D. The friend she had visited.27. Why was Lisa unable to go home by herself?A. She was caught by heavy rain.B. Her legs were badly injured.C. She was locked in her car.D. She was lost.CA new app uses Artificial Intelligence（AI）to tell- you what your pet is thinking. Its called Happy Pets and it analyses an animals facial features, tells you what breed（血统）it is and indicates which of the five most common animal emotionshappy, angry, neutral, sad and scared.The Happy Pets app uses AI, or machine learning. Its a technology thats used for vision in robotics and self-driving cars and it works by taking in images and assigning importance to them. One common use for AI is in facial recognition technology. Many of us can unlock our mobile phones with an image of our face and its an important part of security processes in, for instance, airports.But this is the first time this kind of technology has been used for animals. It then had to learn to recognise facial features. This is sophisticated because photos can be taken in so many different ways: from the side, above, below, in bright light. And different animals can have such different facial features, Think about how different the noses of a border collie（边境牧羊犬）and a bulldog are, for instance, Once the AI behind Happy Pets had learned all this, it then had to be able to detect emotions based on specific facial features that are associated with each emotion, which it has learnt from thousands of examples. For instance, if a dog tightens its eyes and mouth while changing the position of its ears in a particular way, its a sign of being scared.In an online article for Melbourne Universitys Pursuit, the researchers write theyre happy with how the app performs. The researchers would love feedback about how they could develop the app further.28. Which of the following may go beyond Happy Pets function?A. Learning the kinds of pets,B. Teaching pets facial recognition.C. Showing pets main feelings.D. Analyzing the pets facial features.29. What is the facial recognition technology commonly used as now?A. The robots eyes. B. The vision of self driving.C. A security system. D. A machine learning system.30. What does the underlined word sophisticated in paragraph 3 mean?A. Typical. B. Complex. C. Scientific. D. Traditional.31. Why does Happy Pets have to learn to recognize faces?A. Because faces can show animals feelings.B. Because it wants to have emotions of humans.C. Because it is learning to use facial expressions.D. Because the types of animals are based on the looks.DThe word orange describes both a color and a fruit. Which one came first might be surprising. Orange when used as the name of the fruit came before orange as a word to describe color. While the shade itself existed before the fruit, there was not a name in the English language for the color. Before the introduction of the fruit to English-speaking countries, the color was usually described as a shade of red or yellow.In the early 16th century, Portuguese traders brought oranges from India to Europe. The Europeans had not seen the bright colored fruit before and didnt have a name for it. The fruits were named narancia by Italians and narange by the French and were sometimes referred to as golden apples by English speakers.Orange was first used in a phrase to describe shades of colors, including in a third-century Greek text translated into English, in 1576. It describes Alexander the Greats servants as dressed in orange colour velvet（天鹅绒）. In 1578, a Latin-American dictionary defined melites as a precious stone of orange color. While orange represents the color of the objects, it needed the word color to follow it in order for the meaning to be clear. In the mid-1590s, Shakespeare described a beard as orange tawny, one of the first instances of orange without the word color as part of the expression. Tawny is a brown color often used on its own. Orange was not yet a color, just a shade of brown.In 1616, in an account describing varieties of tulips（郁金香）that can be grown, orange was used as a stand-alone color. When Isaac Newton performed his experiments on the color spectrum（色谱）, he listed it as one of the seven basic colors. After almost half a century, orange was recognized as a color on its own.32. Which is the right time order of the appearance of orange?A. As a fruitas a colorthe shade itself.B. The shade itselfas a coloras a fruit.C. As a colorthe shade itselfas a fruit.D. The shade itselfas a fruitas a color.33. What were oranges called by the British in the early 1500s?A. Melites. B. Narange. C. Golden apples. D. Narancia.34. Which of the following would be the right usage of orange in the 16th century?A. My ball is a melite. B. The ball is orange colour.C. The orange ball is beautiful.D. I have an orange ball.35. What is the best title for the text?A. How to plant oranges B. The spread of orangesC. Orange used as a color D. Shakespeare and oranges第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。How to Stay Focused While Working from HomeRight now, many people have been forced into the work-at-home life suddenly. 36 However, you can learn to boom at home as productive as in a traditional office. Here are some tips for focusing while working from home. 37 When you work from home, chances are that youre going to have more control over your day than when youre office-based. So, get organized and structure your day accordingly. Know when youre at your peak, and actively schedule the tasks that require more creativity and brain input for that time.Take breaks, So many people seem to be copying their office life but at their kitchen tabletied to their laptop all day without having a rest. The good news is that most of us are much more productive at home. 38 Its not avoiding your responsibilitiesits really important, as research shows that if we dont rest for certain time, we become touchy and less productive.Dont get distracted. Youve swapped the interruptions of coworkers for many other things: pets, the fridge, the laundry, movies, Set your work hours, and focus on the work that matters in that time! You can grab a snack, pet the dog or put the washing machine on when you take a break. 39 Stay focused.Move around your house or apartment. When Im working with teams in workplaces, I always advocate walking around the office building or campus to stay energized, and not staying at a desk all day long. The same goes for working from home. 40 A. Think like a designer.B. Prepare for the unexpected.C. But you must pause from time to time.D. Their working circumstances are under less- than-ideal.E Set rules about when youll check social media, or use an app.F. Even walking a short distance inside your home can re- energize you.G. Also check in with others and ask how they are and how you can help.第三部分 语言