安徽省安庆市第十中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题.doc

安徽省安庆市第十中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题

安徽省安庆市第十中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题

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安徽省安庆市第十中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题
（考试总分：150 分 考试时长： 120 分钟）
第一部分：听力
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
回答听力部分时，请先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将你的答案转涂到客观题答题卡上。
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，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。
1、 How is the film museum?
A. It is the most modern one B. It stands in the city center.
C. It is under construction
2.、Where does the man suggest the woman travel?
A. To Miami. B. To Hawaii C. To New York
3、What does the woman suggest Gordon do?
A. Share the place he’s renting. B. Apply for campus housing.
C. Find an apartment soon
4、How does the man usually go to work?
A. By bus B. On foot C. By taxi
5、Where does the woman live
A. In the downtown B. In the suburbs C. In the village
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6、7题。
6、What does the woman sometimes do in her room?
A. She reads loudly. B. She plays the guitar. C. She plays table tennis
7、What does the man think of the sound?
A. Terrible B. Noisy C. Good
听第7段材料，回答8至10题。
8、What is the woman’s favorite season?
A. Spring B. Summer C. Winter
9、What do we know about the seasons in the man’s city?
A. There is rain in four seasons. B. It is cold and dry in winter.
C. It is hot in spring and autumn
10、When does the man probably go on holiday?
A. In winter B. In autumn C. In spring
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11、What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A travel plan B. A happy family C. An ancient palace
12、What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Mother and son B. Father and daughter. C. Brother and sister
13、What does the woman say about China?
A. Interesting B. Mysterious C. An old country.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14、When did the area start to develop?
A. In 1837 B. In 1839 C. In 1860
15、What do we know about Watlington House?
A. It used to be a hospital B. It’s opposite St John’s Church.
C. It is next to the school
16、How many bakers were there in the area?
A. One B. Three C. Four
17、What can we learn about the industries of the area in the past?
A. They were mainly connected to the building industry.
B. Their products were mainly for office use.
C. Their products were mainly for daily use.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18、What does the speaker say about the city?
A. Big B. New C. Crowded
19、What is the weather like during the speaker’s stay in this city?
A. Cold B. Sunny C. Rainy
20、What does the speaker like best about the city?
A, The food B. The weather C. The transport
第二部分  阅读理解（共两节,每小题2分，满分40分） 
第一节（共15小题,每小题2分,满分30分） 
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中,选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
A
Sydney Cultural Festival — What’s on today!
European Art Show
Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales. Today is the final day of the exhibition featuring 18th and 19th century paintings by some of the greatest European artists, such as Van Gough and Monet. Posters of these great works are available for purchase at the Visitors’ Centre.
Time: 8:30 am –7 pm
Cost: $12 adults; $7 children and students
Nature Walks
Location: Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden. Come and celebrate our natural environment in one of the world’s only nature parks inside a major city. Join our hourly guided tours, starting at the Eastern Gate, and enjoy breathtaking forests, stunning city escapes and the magnificent Sydney Harbour.
Time: 9 am – 4 pm
Cost: Free
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Concert
Location: Sydney Opera House. Australia’s most famous orchestra is best known for its performances of classical French and German music. But in tonight’s concert, the world-famous Chinese pianist Lang Lang is the special guest artist and will perform a series of classic Chinese compositions including Yellow River.
Time: 8:30 pm –11:30 pm
Cost: $175 adults; $90 students and children
Moonlight Cinema
Location: Centennial Park. Sit on the grass and enjoy the latest movies or classics from the past under the stars at Australia’s best and largest outdoor cinema. Tonight features the wonderful Australian film Red Dog. Besides the movie, there will be a display of classic Australian film posters.
Time: 8pm – 10:30pm
Cost: $19 adults; $14 children and students
21．Where should people wishing to join a Nature Walk meet?
A．The Eastern Gate.． B．The Harbour Bridge.
C．The Visitors’ Centre. D．The guides’ building.
22．What kind of music will be played at the Opera House this evening?
A．Australian. B．Chinese.
C．French. D．German.
23．How many of today’s festival activities take place outside?
A．1. B．3. C．2. D．4.

B
Modern inventions have speeded up people's loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boats (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientist; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.
However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world. 
There was a time when some people's lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
24. Why have the new products become more and more time-saving?
A. Because the manufactures boast a lot.
B.Because our love of speed seems never-ending.
C. Because the prices are increasingly high.
D. Because our time is too much limited.
25. What does "the days" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Times of inventions. B. Imaginary life.
C.  Simple life in the past. D. Time for constant activity.
26. What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?
A. Critical. B. Optimistic. C.Objective.  D. Negative.
27. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Modern technology and its influence.
B. Machinery and human beings.
C. The present and past times.
D. Imaginations and inventions. 

C
Chinese students always complain that they’re under great pressure and don’t get enough sleep. But they may be surprised to learn that they’re much luckier than their peers (同龄人) in South Korea and Japan, according to a recently published report, conducted by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences on the physical and mental health of senior high school students in the three Asian countries.
According to the study among nearly 6,000 high school students in the three countries, Chinese students are the tallest but poorest in physical fitness. Chinese students are on average 168.17cm, compared with 167.61cm for South Korean students and 164.70cm for Japanese students. Chinese students asked for sick leave more than students in other countries. About 72 percent of Korean students never asked for sick and injury leave during high school, compared to 53 percent for Japanese students and 45 percent for Chinese students. Moreover, Chinese students drink alcohol and smoke earlier than Korean and Japanese students. Around 70 percent of Chinese students have drunk alcohol, compared to 50 percent for Korean and Japanese students.
According to the survey, Japanese and South Korean students suffer more pressure than their Chinese peers. Statistics show 16 percent of students in China said they experienced mental pressure often over the past year, while the numbers in Japan and South Korea were 33 percent and 47 percent respectively. Their worries come from “study”, “future after graduation”, “friendships” and “relationship with their parents”. To go with stress, 57.9 percent of Korean students sleep the least, less than six hours a day, compared with 46.6 percent of Japanese students and 30 percent of Chinese students.
More Chinese students were satisfied with their physical appearance, double that of students in the survey from Japan and South Korea. The report said that over half of students in South Korea had tried to lose weight in the past year, while in China the figure was only 22 percent. In measures of self-worth, such as “I think I am valuable” and “I think I am successful”, “I can complete many things”, “I won’t give up to failure,” Chinese students showed greater self-confidence than students in Japan and South Korea.
28. What’s the main idea of the second paragraph?
A. Chinese students ask for sick leave most often.
B. Chinese teenagers are tallest, but most unhealthy.
C. Japanese students ask for least sick leave.
D.Chinese students drink most alcohol and smoke earliest.
29. It can be inferred from the passage that _________.
A. South Korean students sleep the least
B. Japanese students are most stressed
C. Chinese students are luckiest, yet most unsuccessful
D. Chinese students are confident in themselves and luckier
30. What does the underlined word “that” refer to?
A. the height B. the appearance C. the weight D.the number
31. The worries that causes students to be stressed come from the following factors EXCEPT _______.
A. study and career B. physical appearance
C. friendships D. family relationship
D
We’ve been running for three days. Appointments, evening activities and athletic events. Now we’ve just returned from a field trip and there’s cooking to do for an event tonight.
I put on one of my husband’s T-shirts and a pair of sweatpants and start to work. I decide to ignore the table littered with books and coffee cups, the dishes that need washing and the floor that needs good cleaning. I’ll deal with the whole mess when I finish the cooking.
Suddenly I hear a knock at the door. “Hello,” calls a sunny voice. I look through the window and a beautiful friend waves her hand out there. She’s dressed from work and looks completely together (井井有条的), too together for this kind of mess. But she comes in. I cringe (畏缩) for the condition of my home, for the way I look and for the vulnerability(脆弱性) of being a straight-up mess.
But to my surprise, my friend gives me a hug. And as I tidy the messy house, my friend and I chat freely and happily. As we chat, I find that I’m anything but ashamed.
Suddenly I realize that she’s looking at my heart, not my house. I can be real-life vulnerable with this friend because the friendship is true, and true friendships are not woven with judgment and criticism but with love. Standing there, relaxed and warmed from the inside, I’m thankful that I’m enjoying safe vulnerability, and that regardless of my mess, I am loved by my friend.
32. What’s the recent situation of the author?
A. Being busy. B. Being ill.
C. Planning for a trip. D. Just having moved into a new house.
33. What’s the author about to do when her friend comes?
A. To go to work. B. To read a book for relaxation.
C. To prepare food for an evening event.
D. To do some washing and cleaning.
34 What can we learn about the author’s friend?
A. She comes well-dressed and behaves very well.
B. She comes only to be shocked at the messy house.
C. She comes to the author’s help.
D. She comes for an appointment with the author.
35. After chatting with her friend, the author feels _______.
A. delighted to have known such a friend
B. encouraged to be a together person
C. satisfied with her present situation
D. ashamed to have shown her vulnerability to her friend

第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Are you living in the present?
The idea of being present—being more aware of life as it happens—may seem impossible to those who are used to sacrificing living for achieving their goals. 36．Being present is the only way to enjoy life to the fullest. These tips turn everyday activities into opportunities to be mindful.
Stop worrying about the future. 37．Learn to recognize when you're doing this, and then practice bringing yourself back to the present. Just focus on what you're doing right now. Enjoy the present moment.
38． You want to do one task at a time, but also rush that task. Instead, take your time and make your actions deliberate, not rushed and random. It takes practice, but it helps you focus on the task.
Do less. If you do less, you can do those things more slowly, more completely and with more concentration. But you're busy and you can't possibly do less, right? You can. It's a matter of figuring out what's important. 39．
Put space between things. It's a way of managing your, schedule so that you always have time to complete each task. Avoid arranging things close together. 40．That gives you a more relaxed plan, and leaves space in ease one task takes longer than you planed.
By being present, you enjoy anything you're doing more. Even things you might thing boring, such as housework, can be amazing if you truly present. It takes practice, but it's incredible.
A．Do one thing at a time.
B．Act slowly and deliberately.
C．Are you constantly worrying about the future?
D．And don't waste time on the meaningless thing.
E.The most important thing is to keep practicing.
F.Instead, leave room between things on your schedule.
G.In fact, you are more productive when you are present.

第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B,C,和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将其涂黑。
One evening, Catherine was at home as usual. As her 41 swung between what she was going to do with her life and their dinner plans for the evening, she was unexpectedly