新疆乌鲁木齐市第八中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期第一阶段考试试题.doc

新疆乌鲁木齐市第八中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期第一阶段考试试题

新疆乌鲁木齐市第八中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期第一阶段考试试题

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新疆乌鲁木齐市第八中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期第一阶段考试试题
（考试时间：120 分钟 卷面分值： 150分 ）
（命题范围： 选修六 Unit 2--Unit5 ）

第一部分 单项选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
1. Disappointed, I was about to leave __________ something occurred, which ________ my attention.
A. while, paid B. when, attracted C. before, drew D. and, got
2. _______ the question many times, Henry lost patience with his slow brother.
A. Having explained B. Explained
C. To explain D. Having been explained
3. It’s already 10 o’clock. I wonder how it ____________ that she was two hours late on such a short trip.
A. came over B. came out C. came about D. came up
4. The long speech given by Mr. Smith seemed ______ and endless. He felt so ______ that he nearly fell asleep.
A. disappointed; boring 　　　B. disappointing; bored
C. disappointed; bored 　　　 D. disappointing; boring
5. American Indians________ about five percent of the U.S. population.
A．fill up B．bring up C．make up D．set up
6. It was in the lab ______ was taken charge of by Professor Zhang ______ they did the experiment.
A. where; that B. which; that
C. that ; where D.which; where
7. —I don’t know why we have to go to the supermarket tonight.You see I have a lot of work to do.
—We are________ our food!
A．running out B．used up
C．giving out D．running out of
8. ______ this village was extremely poor, the adults felt it was so important to keep the school going.
A. So long as B. Even though C. Just as D. No matter how
9. If it ______ for his invitation the other day, I should not be here now.
A. had not been B. should not be
C. were not D. should not have been
10. What a sunny day! How I wish I __________ on the beach enjoying the sunshine now!
A. were    B. had been C. would be    D. should be
11.— I saw just one motor-car in that shop. Will you go and buy ______?
— No, I'd rather find ______ in other shops.
A. one, one B. it; it C. one; it D. it; one
12. It is for this reason ______ Spanish is the main official language of Peru.
A. why B. that C. which D. for which
13. —Did you enjoy your trip?
—Yes. If we hadn’t taken your advice, we __________ our stay in London so much.
A. wouldn’t have enjoyed B. hadn’t enjoyed
C. wouldn’t enjoy    D. didn’t enjoy
14. My brother’s pale face suggested that he ______ ill, and my parents suggested that he ______ some medicine .
A.  be; should have B.  was; should have
C.  should be; had D.  was; has
15. _______ in the regulations that you shouldn’t tell other people the password of your e-mail account.
A. As is required B. It requires
C. It is required D. What is required
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
A
FOUR BEST BOOKSHOPS IN LONDON
Looking for something to read while in London? If so, you’re in luck: the British capital happens to have an incredible collection of bookshops.
Daunt Books
Are you going on a trip and want to read a novel or nonfiction book set in the place you’re headed? This bookshop arranges books by country, so it’s easy to find anything by place. (83 Marylebone High Street. Monday-Saturday: 09:00-19:30; Sunday: 11:00-18:00.)
Foyles Books
Dig, if you will, the picture: four miles of shelves holding up to 200,000 books. This legendary (传奇的) bookshop is impossible to leave empty-handed. It was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest bookshop on the planet. (107 Charing Cross Road. Monday-Saturday: 9:00-21:00; Sunday: 11:30-18:00.)
Hatchards
In the year 1797, this London bookshop—the oldest in the city today—first flicked on its lights. It stocks an excellent selection of fiction, nonfiction, history and other genres. (187 Piccadilly Street. Monday-Saturday: 09:30-20:00; Sunday: 12:00-18:30.)
London Review Bookshop
There’s an excellent selection of history, philosophy, politics, new fiction and many other genres here. Plus, there’s a nice cafe in which you can crack open that tome (巨著) for the first time and start reading. (14 Bury Place. Monday-Saturday 10:00-18:30; Sunday 12:00-18:00.)
16. Which bookstore was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records?
A. Daunt Books. B. London Review Bookshop.
C. Hatchards. D. Foyles Books.
17. What is special about Hatchards?
A. It has a long history. B. It has 200,000 books.
C. It has a cafe. D. It has both fiction and nonfiction books.
18. Which place should you go to if you want to enjoy reading with a coffee?
A. 83 Marylebone High Street. B. 14 Bury Place.
C. 187 Piccadilly Street. D. 107 Charing Cross Road.
B
When it comes to the most famous 20th century painters of the United States, Grandma Moses should be mentioned, although she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself: “I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me”. No one could have had a more active old age．
She was born on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At 12 she left home and was in domestic service until at 27 she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927．
Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery (刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands became too stiff (僵硬的) to sew and she still wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought all that she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930’s and her death, she produced some 2,000 pictures: careful and lively portrayals of the country life she had known for so long, with a wonderful sense of color and form. “I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it” she said．
19. What can we learn about Moses?
A. She stopped painting in her late seventies.
B. She painted oils as a child.
C. Her marriage life was not happy.
D. She still led an active life when she was old.
20. What did Grandma Moses spend most of her life doing?
A. Embroidering. B. Nursing. C.Painting. D. Farming
21. What does the underlined word “portrayals ” in last paragraph mean?
A. Directions. B. Stages. C. Descriptions. D. Surveys.
22. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Grandma Moses: the Best Woman Painter
B. Grandma Moses: A Famous Woman Painter of 20th Century
C. Grandma Moses and Her Exhibition
D. Grandma Moses and Her Farm Life
C
The sea could be the food bowl of the future. In Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, seaweed, which is rich in fibre and omega 3, is grown and harvested.
Pia Winberg is a marine scientist who runs Australia's first food-grade farmed seaweed company. Her crop is grown alongside mussels (贻贝)and is used as an additive in pasta (意大利面)and other products.
Seaweed is also raised in large tanks, where it absorbs carbon dioxide waste from a wheat processing factory. The business is small, but could help to reduce the ecological footprint of traditional farming.
“We used ten percent of seaweed instead of wheat in breads and pastas, we've eliminated a million hectares of land, we've eliminated all of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with that, and we've also reduced the pressures on very precious fresh water.” said Pia Winberg.
Spiny sea urchins (多刺海胆虫)are another blue economy resource. They can destroy marine habitats, but a recent competition for environmental start-ups in Australia, saw them not as a pest but a delicacy (美味).
Martina Doblin, CEO of Sydney Institute of Marine Science, said, “By 2050 we will have some ten billion people on the planet, and about half the food they eat will come from the ocean. So, we really do need to pay attention to the way that we manage the blue economy-generating wealth from the ocean but in a sustainable (可持续的)way.”
Farming at sea has its challenges. Infrastructure (基础设施)has to be sound, as do supply chains and biosecurity. But get these things right, and the ocean might just be the next great economic frontier.
23．What is the function of the first paragraph?
A．Tell how important the food safety is.
B．To describe a new kind of seaweed.
C．To lead to the main topic.
D．To explain the meaning of blue economy.
24．What can we learn from what Martina Doblin said in paragraph 6?
A．Ocean exploration has made little progress so far.
B．Sea farming will be a good way to solve the coming world food problem.
C．More work is needed for a better use of natural resources.
D．More and more people will die of hunger in the future.
25．Which word can be used to describe the author's attitude towards sea farming?
A．Skeptical. B．Negative. C．Tolerant. D．Objective.
26．Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A．Farming the Sea for the Future of Food
B．Measures to Develop Blue Economy
C．How to Protect the Marine Animals
D．Traditional Farming is Gradually Disappearing
D
Several years ago, when someone used camera covers to protect against possible monitoring, it was not popular to talk about it. Today, people use various types of tapes(胶带) to cover the web cameras and microphones.
There are many types of spyware that can dive into our devices and secretly spy on them, recording everything they do. Such programs may infect not only computers but also smartphones. Your data may be used by hackers who will try to request money for not exposing your private information or by companies like NSO Group who created the Pegasus spyware to “provide authorized governments with technology that helps struggle against terror and crime”.
In my opinion, the described protection technique is highly overestimated. Users tape cameras and microphones due to the lack of understanding of how their devices work and how malware(恶意软件)works. Hackers and even secret services do not have enough resources to monitor all victims using cameras or microphones. If they need to get any information, they get it by sending a targeted malware to your device, which will not be stopped by the tapes. Such a virus will find what to steal from personal photos and videos to passwords from social networks, browser history, bank accounts and much more.
It is unwise to believe that attackers will not be able to find a way to spy on you, even if the device, discharged to zero, can still deliver data about your location, using the smartphones of the surrounding people as signal repeaters. Let us face it. we live in an era when it is extremely difficult to hide something and a piece of tape is clearly not the most useful tool in the struggle for your privacy.
Again, to be able to spy on you, attackers need to plant malware in your device. To prevent malware from entering your device, do not click suspected links and email attachments. Use strong passwords for email, social media and online banking accounts.
27．What does the underlined word “them” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A．Cameras. B．Devices. C．Programs. D．Types.
28．What is NSO Group？
A．group of hackers. B．A company fighting against crime.
C．A group of terrorists and criminals. D．A company developing spyware.
29．Why does the author think "the protection technique is highly overestimated”?
A．It hardly prevents malware from getting privacy.
B．Hackers have no access to others.
C．People know little about their devices.
D．It can't cover the cameras completely.
30．What is the text mainly about?
A．Monitoring devices via cameras. B．Rising trend of using tapes.
C．Protecting privacy on devices. D．Avoiding clicking distrustful links.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
Long, long ago people couldn’t write and they had no books. But they had stories. People learned the stories by heart and taught new ones to one another. Sometimes it was hard to remember them all. ___31___
The ancient Egyptians wrote their stories on something made from papyrus (纸沙草) plants. People in other places wanted to learn from the Egyptians to use papyrus. ___32___ So, parchment (羊皮纸), made from goatskin, later took its place.
In ancient China books looked a little different. People there used ink to write on bamboo or silk. And then they invented paper. Made of trees, paper was easier and cheaper to make than papyrus or parchment. ___33___ Paper-making later spread to the West, but there was a big problem with these early books. Every single one had to be copied and written by hand.
___34___ They carved (雕刻) a page of words into a piece of wood or stone. They could then print the page by spreading ink on the wood or stone and putting it against paper. But it wasn’t until a German printer invented movable, metal letters that books became fast and easy to make. The letters could be used to print copy after copy, and the letters put together again and again to print different pages of words.
___35___ Once a luxury (奢侈品) only the rich could buy, they soon became a treasure everyone could enjoy.
A. It took years to finish making just one book.
B. But papyrus grew mainly in Egypt.
C. Things grew a little easier when writing was invented.
D. Finally books could be printed by the thousands.
E. The Chinese were the first to think of a way to speed things up a little.
F. Books in the West didn’t change for a long time after that.
G. Its surface was smoother and better for writing on too.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满分60分）
第一节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Where there's a will, there's surely to be a way. As the COVID-19 crisis increasingly spread, all international flights in Spain were     36   . But Carlos, who was just in Spain, desired a    37     with his wife Isabel in Argentina in time for their 5th wedding anniversary celebration. With the Atlantic Ocean between them, he was faced with a     38     . Finally, the young sailor     39     a daring solution—he'd simply sail home.
Sensing the severe illness, Carlos feared the local     40     would soon begin restricting travel. The urgent situation left him with no     41    : with 24 hours, he had to get fully prepared. After     42     a 29-foot sailboat with life necessities, Carlos set sail in mid-March, trusting his      43     would get him home.     44    , the voyage wasn't without hardships or danger. On the way, he     45    the port Cape Verde to restore his food supply. But they    46    his entry. Once past the equator（赤道）, he ran out of fuel and was left to rely     47    on wind power. Then, the wind     48   , leaving his sailboat