江苏省雨花台中学2020-2021年高二英语上学期调研测试题.doc

江苏省雨花台中学2020-2021年高二英语上学期调研测试题

江苏省雨花台中学2020-2021年高二英语上学期调研测试题

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江苏省雨花台中学2020-2021年高二英语上学期调研测试题
注意事项：
1．本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡上。
2．回答第第Ⅰ卷时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号，写在本试卷上无效。
3．回答第Ⅱ卷时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。

第Ⅰ卷（共55小题，计95分）
第一部分 听力（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）
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。
1. Where does this conversation take place?
A. In a classroom. B. In a hospital. C. In a museum.
2. What does Jack want to do?
A. Take fitness classes. B. Buy a pair of gym shoes.
C. Change his work schedule.
3. What are the speakers talking about?
A. What to drink. B. Where to meet. C. When to leave.
4. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Colleges. B. Classmates. C. Strangers.
5. Why is Emily mentioned in the conversation?
A. She might want a ticket. B. She is looking for the man.
C. She has an extra ticket.
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. How long did James run his business？
A. 10 years. B. 13years. C. 15 years.
7. How does the woman feel about James' situation？
A. Embarrassed. B. Concerned. C. Disappointed.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What has Kate's mother decided to do？
A. Return to school. B. Change her job. C. Retire from work.
9. What did Kate's mother study at college？
A. Oil painting. B. Art history. C. Business administration.
10. What is Kate's attitude toward her mother's decision?
A. Disapproving. B. Ambiguous(模棱两可的). C. Understanding.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What is the man doing？
A. Chairing a meeting. B. Hosting a radio program.
C. Conducting a job interview.
12. What benefits Mary most in her job？
A. Her wide reading. B. Her leaders' guidance. C. Her friends' help
13. Who will Mary talk about next？
A. Her teacher. B. Her father C. Her mother.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Why does the man seldom do exercise？
A. He lacks motivation. B. He has a heart problem. C. He works all the time.
15. What does Jacob Sattelmair probably do？
A. He's an athlete. B. He's a researcher. C. He's a journalist.
16. Why does the woman speak of a study？
A. To encourage the man. B. To recommend an exercise.
C. To support her findings.
17. How much time will the man probably spend exercising weekly？
A. 300 minutes. B. 150 minutes. C. 75 minutes.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What did the scientists do to the road？
A. They repaired it. B. They painted it. C. They blocked it
19. Why are young birds drawn to the road surface？
A. It's warm. B. It's brown. C. It's smooth.
20. What is the purpose of the scientists' experiment？
A. To keep the birds there for a whole year.
B. To help students study the birds well.
C. To prevent the birds from being killed.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15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。
A
University Room Regulations
Approved and Prohibited Items
The following items are approved for use in residential(住宿的)rooms: electric blankets, hair dryers, personal computers, radios, televisions and DV players. Items that are not allowed in student rooms include: candles, ceiling fans, fireworks, waterbeds, sun lamps and wireless routers. Please note that any prohibited items will be taken away by the Office of Residence Life.
Access to Residential rooms
Students are provided with a combination(组合密码) for their room door locks upon check-in. Do not share your room door lock combination with anyone. The Office of Residence Life may change the door lock combination at any time at the expense of the resident if it is found that the student has shared the combination with others. The fee is $25 to change a room combination.
Cooking Policy
Students living in buildings that have kitchens are only permitted to cook in the kitchen. Students must clean up after cooking. This is not the responsibility of housekeeping staff. Kitchens that are not kept clean may be closed for use. With the exception of using a small microwave oven to heat food, students are not permitted to cook in their rooms.
Pet Policy
No pets except fish are permitted in student rooms. Students who are found with pets, whether visiting or owned by the student, are subject to an initial fine of $100 and a continuing fine of $50 a day per pet. Students receive written notice when the fine goes into effect. If, one week from the date of written notice, the pet is not removed, the student is referred to the Student Court.
Quiet Hours
Residential buildings must maintain an atmosphere that supports the academic mission of the University. Minimum quiet hours in all campus residences are 11: 00 p.m. to 8: 00 a.m. Sunday through Thursday. Quiet hours on Friday and Saturday nights are 1: 00 a.m. to 8: 00 a.m. Students who violate quiet hours are subject to a fine of 251.
21. Which of the following items are allowed in student rooms?
A. Ceiling fans and waterbeds. B. Wireless routers and radios.
C. Fireworks and waterbeds. D. TVs and electric blankets.
22. Who can change the combination?
A. Students. B. The Office of Residence Life.
C. Anyone. D. The one you shared with.
23. If a student has kept a cat in his room for four days since the warning, he will face a fine of_____.
A. $100 B. $50 C. $250 D. $200
24. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. A microwave oven can be used.
B. Cooking in the kitchen is permitted.
C. A housekeeper is not responsible for the cleaning work of the kitchen.
D. Students have to close kitchen doors after cooking.

B
New research has found that even if you give up smoking, the damage it has done to your genes (基因) will stay there for a much longer time.
In the research, a team of US scientists studied the blood of 16,000 people. Among them, some were smokers, some used to smoke, and the rest were nonsmokers.
Scientists compared their genes and found that more than 7,000 genes of smokers had changed—a number that is one third of known human genes.
According to NBC News, both heart disease and cancer are caused by genetic changes. Some people may have had the changes when they were born, but most people get them in their daily lives while doing things like smoking.
When you stop smoking, a lot of these genes will return to normal within five years. This means your body is trying to heal(治愈) itself of the harmful effects of smoking. But the changes in some of the genes stay for longer. They can stay for as long as 30 years. It's almost like leaving a footprint on wet cement (水泥)—it will always be there, even when you've walked away and when the cement becomes dry.
Although the study results may make people unhappy, there is a bright side: the findings could help scientists invent medicine to treat genetic damage caused by smoking or find ways to tell which people have heart disease or cancer risks.
25. Most genetic changes happen because of ______.
A. People’s condition at birth B. environmental pollution
C. people's bad living habits D. heart disease and cancer
26. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refers to_____.
A. the cement B. the footprint
C. the harmful effects D. the genetic change
27. Which of the following statements is true?
A. The findings are the fruit of more than three years’ research.
B. The findings have prevented more people from starting smoking.
C. The findings offer evidence that a damaged gene can heal itself.
D. The findings help to find cures for genetic damage caused by smoking.

C
Curiosity is what drives us to keep learning, keep trying, keep pushing forward. But how does one generate(产生) curiosity, in oneself or others? George Loewenstein, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, offered an answer in the classic 1994 paper, The Psychology of Curiosity.
“Curiosity arises”, Loewenstein wrote, “when attention becomes focused on a gap in one' s knowledge. Such information gaps produce the feeling of deprivation( 匮乏) labeled curiosity. The curious individual is motivated to obtain the missing information to reduce the feeling of deprivation. Loewenstein's theory helps explain why curiosity is such a force: it's not only a mental state but also an emotion, a powerful feeling that drives us forward.
Scientist Daniel Willingham notes that teachers are often “so eager to get to the answer that we do not devote enough time to developing the question”. Yet it’s the question that stimulates (刺激)curiosity; being told an answer stops curiosity before it can even get going.
In his 1994 paper, George Loewenstein noted that curiosity requires some basic knowledge. We‘re not curious about something we know absolutely nothing about. But as soon as we know even a little bit, our curiosity is aroused and we want to learn more. In fact, research shows that curiosity increases with knowledge: the more we know, the more we want to know. To get this process started, Loewenstein suggests, take steps with some interesting but incomplete information.
Language teachers have long used communication in exercises that open an information gap and then require learners to communicate with each other in order to fill it. For example, one student might be given a series of pictures for the beginning of the story, while the student's partner is given a series of pictures showing how that same story ends. Only by speaking with each other (in the foreign language they are learning, of course) can the students fill in each others' information gaps.
28. When one notices a gap in his knowledge, he______.
A. desires to fill B. tends to be afraid
C. might get tired and sad D. will become focused on his learning
29. What does Daniel Willingham imply in the article?
A. Answers are more important than questions.
B. Teachers should be eager to get to the answer.
C. Teachers know how to stimulate students' curiosity.
D. Teachers are partly to blame for students' hating school.
30. According to George Loewenstein's paper, curiosity about something occurs only when you______.
A. have read a lot of books B. know little about something
C. have some related information D. are given incomplete information
31. What is the article mainly about?
A. Why students hate school? B. Why curiosity is important?
C. How to stimulate curiosity? D. What makes people hungry for knowledge?

D
Who cares if people think wrongly that the Internet has had more important influences than the washing machine? Why does it matter that people are more impressed by the most recent changes?
It would not matter if these misjudgments were just a matter of people's opinions. However, they have real impacts, as they result in misguided use of scarce resources.
The fascination with the ICT( Information and Communication Technology) revolution, represented by the Internet, has made some rich countries wrongly conclude that making things is so “yesterday” that they should try to live on ideas. This belief in "post-industrial society" has led those countries to neglect their manufacturing sector(制造业), with negative consequences for their economies.
Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the "digital divide between the rich countries and the poor countries. This has led companies and individuals to donate money to developing countries to buy computer equipment and Internet facilities. The question, however, is whether this is what the developing countries need the most. Perhaps, giving money for those less fashionable things such as digging wells, extending electricity networks and making more affordable washing machines would have improved peoples’ lives more than giving every child a laptop computer or setting up Internet centres in rural villages. I am not saying that those things are necessarily more important, but many donators have rushed into fancy programmes without carefully assessing the relative long-term costs and benefits of alternative uses of their money.
In yet another example, a fascination with the new has led people to believe that the recent changes in the technologies of communications and transportation are so revolutionary that now we live in a "borderless world”. As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back. Believing in such a world, many governments have put an end to some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labour and goods, with poor results.
Understanding technological trends is very important for correctly designing economic policies, both at the national and the international levels, and for making the right career choices at the individual level. However, our fascination with the latest, and our under-valuation of what has already become common, can, and has, led us in all sorts of wrong directions.
32. Misjudgments on the influences of new technology can lead to_____.
A. a lack of confidence in technology
B. a slow progress in technology
C. a conflict of public opinions
D. a waste of limited resources
33. The example in Paragraph 4 suggests that donators should_______.
A. take people's essential needs into account
B. make their programmes attractive to people
C. ensure that each child gets financial support
D. provide more affordable Internet facilities
34. What has led many governments to remove necessary regulations?
A. Neglecting the impacts of technological advances.
B. Believing that the world has become borderless.
C. Ignoring the power of economic development.
D. Over-emphasizing the role of international communication.
35. What can we learn from the passage?
A. People should be encouraged to make more donations.
B. Traditional technology still has a place nowadays.
C. Making right career choices is crucial to personal success.
D. Economic policies should follow technological trends.
第二节七选五（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。
Imagine a child standing on diving board four feet high and asking himself the question: “Should I jump?" This is what motivation or the lack of it can do. Motivation and goal setting are the two sides of the same coin. 36 Like the child on the diving board, you will stay undecided.
37 More than that, how should you stay motivated to achieve the goal? First, you need to evaluate yourself, your values, your strengths, your weaknesses, your achievements, your desires, etc. Only then should you set your goals.
You also need to judge the quality and depth of your motivati