海南省东方市东方中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题.doc

海南省东方市东方中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题

海南省东方市东方中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题

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海南省东方市东方中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题
（考试时间120分钟，满分150分）
第一部分 听力理解（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
下面你将听到5段短对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从每小题A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。听完每段对话后，你有10秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话只播一遍。
1. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a library. B. In a bookstore. C. In a classroom.
2. How does the woman feel now?
A. Relaxed. B. Excited. C. Tired.
3. How much will the man pay?
A. $20. B. $80. C. $100.
4. What does the man tell Jane to do?
A. Postpone his appointment. B. Meet Mr. Douglas. C. Return at 3 o’clock.
5. Why would David quit his job?
A. To go back to school. B. To start his own firm. C. To work for his friend.
第二节（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
下面有6段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从每小题A、B、C三个选项中，选出一个与你所听到的对话或独白内容相符的问题的答案。听每段对话或独白前，你有10秒钟的时间阅读相关小题；听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。
听第一段材料，回答第6至7小题。
6. What does the man want the woman to do?
A. Check the cupboard. B. Clean the balcony. C. Buy an umbrella.
7. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Husband and wife. B. Employer and employee.
C. Shop assistant and customer.
听第二段材料，回答第8至10小题。
8. Where did the woman go at the weekend?
A. The city centre. B. The forest park. C. The man’s home.
9. How did the man spend his weekend?
A. Packing for a move. B. Going out with Jenny. C. Looking for a new house.
10. What will the woman do for the man?
A. Take Henry to hospital. B. Stay with his kid. C. Look after his pet.
听第三段材料，回答第11至13小题。
11. What is Mr. Stone doing now?
A. Eating lunch. B. Having a meeting. C. Writing a diary.
12. Why does the man want to see Mr. Stone?
A. To discuss a program. B. To make a travel plan. C. To ask for sick leave.
13. When will the man meet Mr. Stone this afternoon?
A. At 3:00. B. At 3:30. C. At 3:45.
听第四段材料，回答第14至16小题。
14. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A company. B. An interview. C. A job offer.
15. Who is Monica Stansfield?
A. A junior specialist. B. A department manager. C. A sales assistant.
16. When will the man hear from the woman?
A. On Tuesday. B. On Wednesday. C. On Thursday.
听第五段材料，回答第17至20小题。
17. What did John enjoy doing in his childhood?
A. Touring France. B. Playing outdoors. C. Painting pictures.
18 What did John do after he moved to the US?
A. He did business. B. He studied biology. C. He worked on a farm.
19. Why did John go hunting?
A. For food. B. For pleasure. C. For money.
20. What is the subject of John’s works?
A. American birds. B. Natural scenery. C. Family life.
第二部分：阅读理解 （共2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，从每题所给出的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
SHEFFIELD
LINCOLN COLLEGE OF ENGLISH
Classes for foreign students at all levels
3 months, 6 months, 9 months and one year course
Open all year
Small class( maximum(最大限度)12 students)
Library, language laboratory and listening center
Accommodation(膳食供应) with selected families 25 minutes from London
Course fees(费用)for English for one year are＄1, 380 with reduction for shorter periods of study

21. Lincoln College of English .
A. is at the centre of London
B. lies far away from London
C. takes in foreign students, from beginners to the advanced
D. accepts students only at the beginning of the year
22. While you stay there, will take care of you.
A. the school where you study
B. the family you have chosen
C. your classmates
D. your own parents
23. If you go there for a one-term course, you Will pay for it.
A.＄1,380
B.over＄1,380
C. much less than＄1, 380
D. Nothing

B
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission(录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.
In 1849, after graduation from medical school. she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.
Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women.
24. Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?
   A. She couldn’t get admitted to medical school.
   B. She decided to further her education in Paris.
   C. A serious eye problem stopped her.
   D. It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States.
25. What main obstacle(障碍) almost destroyed Elizabeth’s chances for becoming for a doctor?

A. She was a woman.
   B. She wrote too many letters.
   C. She couldn’t graduate from medical school.
   D. She couldn’t set up her hospital.
26. How many years passed between her graduation from medical school and the opening of her hospital?
   A. Eight years   B. Ten years     C. Nineteen years     D. Thirty-six years 
27. Elizabeth Blackwell spent most of her life in _______.
   A. England       B. Paris      C. the United States      D. New York City

C
Some parents will buy any high-tech toy if they think it will help their child，but researchers said puzzles help children with math-related skills.
Psychologist Susan Levine, an expert on mathematics development in young children at the University of Chicago, found children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatial(空间的) skills. Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition(认知) after controlling for differences in parents' income, education and the amount of parent talk, Levine said.
The researchers analyzed video recordings of 53 child-parent pairs during everyday activities at home and found children who play with puzzles between 26 and 46 months of age have better spatial skills when assessed at 54 months of age.
“The children who played with puzzles performed better than those who did not, on tasks that assessed their ability to rotate(旋转) and translate shapes, ”Levine said in a statement.
The parents were asked to interact with their children as they normally would, and about half of the children in the study played with puzzles at one time. Higher-income parents tended to have children play with puzzles more frequently, and both boys and girls who played with puzzles had better spatial skills. However, boys tended to play with more complex puzzles than girls, and the parents of boys provided more spatial language and were more active during puzzle play than the parents of girls.
The findings were published in the journal Developmental Science.
28.In which aspect do children benefit from puzzle play?
A. Building confidence.
B. Developing spatial skills.
C. Learning self-control.
D. Gaining high-tech knowledge.
29.What did Levine take into consideration when designing her experiment?
A. Parents’ age.
B. Children’s imagination.
C. Parents’ education.
D. Child-parent relationship.
30. How do boys differ from girls in puzzle play?
A. They play with puzzles more often.
B. They tend to talk less during the game.
C. They prefer to use more spatial language.
D. They are likely to play with tougher puzzles.
31. What is the text mainly about?
A. A mathematical method. B. A scientific study.
C. A woman psychologist. D. A teaching program.

D
The possibility of self-driving robot cars has often seemed like a futurists dream, years away from coming into reality in the real world. Well, the future is apparently now. The California Department of Motor Vehicles began giving permits in April for companies to test truly self-driving cars on public roads. The state also cleared the way for companies to sell or rent out self- driving cars, and for companies to operate driverless taxi services. California, it should be noted, isn’t leading the way here. Companies have been testing their cars in cities across the country. It's hard to predict when driverless cars will be everywhere on our roads. But however long it takes, the technology may change our transportation systems and our cities for better or for worse, depending on how the transformation is managed.
While much of the debate so far has been focused on the safety of driverless cars, policymakers should be talking more about how self-driving cars can help reduce traffic jams, cut emissions(排放)and offer more convenient and affordable choices to move around. The arrival of driverless cars is a chance to make sure that those cars are environmentally friendly and more shared.
Do we want to copy or even worsen the traffic of today with driverless cars?
Imagine a future where most adults own their self-driving cars. They accept long, slow journeys to and from work on crowded highways because they can work on crowded highways because they can work, entertain themselves or sleep on the ride. They take their driverless car to a date and set the empty car to circle the building to avoid paying for parking. Instead of walking a few blocks to pick up a child or the dry cleaning, they send the self-driving minibus. The convenience even leads fewer people to take public transport ---an unwelcome side effect researchers have already found in ride-hailing(网约车)services. Policymakers should start thinking now about how to make sure the appearance of driverless cars doesn’t worsen the transportation system we have today. The coming technological development presents a chance for cities and states to develop transportation systems designed to move more people, and more affordably. The car of the future is coming. We just have to plan for it.
32. What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. Self-driving cars are not allowed in the real world.
B. Driverless taxies will be seen everywhere on the road in a short term.
C. California is not alone in testing driverless cars.
D. Self-driving technology will definitely benefit transportation system.
33.According to the author, policymakers should pay more attention to .
A. how driverless cars can help deal with transportation-related problems.
B. how driverless cars can travel safely.
C how driverless cars can travel faster.
D. how driverless cars can move more people.
34. What is a possible side effect of self driving cars?
A. Journeys to and from work become longer.
B. More and more people abandon public transportation.
C. There is no place to park them.
D. They may result in traffic jams.
35. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Preparing Cities for Robot Cars.
B. Future Technology Underway.
C. Transportation System in the Future.
D. Robot Cars on the Road.

第二节 语篇填空（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。
Everyone knows that fish is good for health. 36 But it seems that many people don't cook fish at home. Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home. Buying, storing, and cooking fish isn't difficult. 37 This text is about how to buy and cook fish in an easy way.
38 Fresh fish should smell sweet: you should feel that you are standing at the ocean’s edge. Any fishy or strong smell means the fish isn't fresh. 39 When you have bought a fish and arrive home, you’d better store the fish in the refrigerator if you don't cook it immediately, but fresh fish should be stored in your fridge for only a day or two. Frozen fish isn’t as tasty as the fresh one.
There are many common methods used to cook fish. 40 First, clean it and season it with your choice of spices(调料). Put the whole fish on a plate and steam it in a steam Pot for 8 to 10 minutes if it weighs about one pound. (A larger one will take more time. )Then, it's ready to serve.
A. Do not buy it.
B. The easiest is to steam it.
C. This is how you can do it.
D. It just requires a little knowledge.
E. The fish will go bad within hours
F. When buying fish, you should first smell it.
G. The fats in fish are thought to help prevent heart disease.

   第II卷
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共15题，每题1分，共15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
This happened when I was ten. On a normal Sunday，I went to the barber shop where I always went. That day，along with the barber there was an assistant，who had recently 41 the shop.
So I sat for the haircut. The uncle asked me how 42 wanted it. I answered, “Just do as my dad had 43 you the last time.”
He smiled. Before starting the 44 , he added, “What if I keep it long?”
I 45 he was joking. So I joked too. I said, “I can’t 46 what would happen to your shop then!”
The moment I said it, the assistant 47 from behind,“How dare do you say that! Who are you to take us down, eh?”
I admit I was too 48 at that moment and the uncle standing beside me was giving me an 49 look.
From that day on, I 50 stopped joking about anyone’s profession and works. It is one of the most 51 incidents in my life, which taught me to 52 the profession and works of a person, no matter how 53 they are.
I’m 54 that the assistant responded in a way that made me rethink the power of my words. Words do make a 55 .
41.A.left B.opened C.joined D.visited
42.A.much B.long C.often D.soon
43.A.instructed B.invited
C.promised D.convinced
44.A.discussion B.Journey
C.training D.haircut
45.A.agreed B.heard C.hope D.knew
46.A.forget B.tolerate C.guarantee D.understand
47.A.urged B.shouted C.laughed D.helped
48.A.angry B.proud C.scared D.curious
49.A.anxious B.appealing
C.encouraging D.awkward
50. A.suddenly B.completely
C.temporarily D.regularly
51.A.important B.exciting
C.strange D.interesting
52.A.learn B.enter C.change D.respect
53.A.hard B.small C.good D.complex
54.A.sorry B.confident
C.grateful D.embarrassed
55.A.difference B.mistake
C.choice D.joke

第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入适当的单词或括