重庆一中2020-2021学年高二下学期期末试题-英语-Word版含答案.docx

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2021年重庆一中高2022级高二下期末期考试
英 语 试 题 卷 2021.7
英语试题卷共10页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。
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第I卷
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
该部分分为第一、其次两节。留意：回答听力部分时，请先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束时，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. What does the man want to do?
A. Take photos. B. Buy a camera. C. Help the woman.
2. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A noisy night B. Their life in town. C. A place of living.
3. Where is the man now?
A. On his way. B. In a restaurant. C. At home.
4. What will Celia do?
A. Find a player. B. Watch a game. C. Play basketball.
5. What day is it when the conversation takes place?
A. Saturday. B. Sunday. C. Monday.
其次节（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，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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6至7两个小题。
6. What is Sara going to do?
A. Buy John a gift B. Invite John to France C. Give John a surprise
7. What does the man think of Sara’s plan?
A. Funny. B. Exciting. C. Strange.
听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题
8. Why does Diana say sorry to Peter?
A. She has to give up her travel plan.
B. She wants to visit another city.
C. She needs to put off her test.
9 What does Diana want Peter to do?
A. Help her with her study.
B. Take a book to her friend.
C. Teach a geography lesson.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。
10. Why does the man call the woman?
A. To tell her about her new job.
B. To ask about her job program
C. To plan a meeting with her.
11. Who needs a new flat?
A. Alex. B. Andrea. C. Miranda.
12. Where is the woman now?
A. In Baltimore. B. In New York. C. In Avon.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至16四个小题。
13. What does Jan consider most important when he judges a restaurant?
A. Where the restaurant is.
B. Whether the prices are low.
C. How well the food is prepared.
14. When did Jan begin to write for a magazine?
A. After he came back to Sweden.
B. Before he went to the United States.
C. As soon as he got his first job in 1982.
15. What may Jan do to find a good restaurant?
A. Talk to people in the street.
B. Speak to taxi drivers.
C. Ask hotel clerks.
16. What do we know about Jan?
A. He cooks for a restaurant.
B. He travels a lot for his work.
C. He prefers American food.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至20四个小题。
17. What do we know about the Plaza Leon?
A. It’s a new building. B. It’s a small town. C. It’s a public place.
18. When do parents and children like going to the Plaza Leon?
A. Saturday nights. B. Sunday afternoon. C. Fridays and Saturdays.
19. Which street is known for its food shops and markets?
A. Via Del Mar Street. B. Fernando Street. C. Hernandes Street.
20. Why does the speaker like Horatio Street best?
A. It has an old stone surface.
B. It is named after a writer.
C. It has a famous university.
其次部分 阅读理解（共两节, 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
A
Publicity（宣扬推广） offers several benefits. There are no costs for message time or space. An ad in prime-time television may cost $250,000 to $5,000,000 or more per minute, whereas a five-minute report on a network newscast would not cost anything. Publicity reaches a mass audience within a short time and new products or company policies are widely known.
Credibility about messages is high, because they are reported in independent media. A newspaper review of a movie has more believability than an ad in the same paper, because the reader associates independence with objectivity. Similarly, people are more likely to pay attention to news reports than to ads. For example, Women’s Wear Daily has both fashion reports and advertisements. Readers spend time reading the stories, but they skim through the ads. Furthermore, there may be 10 commercials during a half-hour television program or hundreds of ads in a magazine. Feature stories are much fewer in number and stand out clearly.
Publicity also has some significant limitations. A firm has little control over messages, their timing, their placement, or their coverage by a given medium. It may issue detailed news releases and find only portions mentioned by the media, and media have the ability to be much more critical than a firm would like.
For example, in 1982, Procter & Gamble faced a massive publicity problem over the meaning of its 123-year-old company logo. To fight this negative publicity, the firm had a spokesperson appear on Good Morning America to disprove the rumor (谣言). The false rumors were temporarily put to rest. However, in 1985, publicity became so troublemaking that Procter & Gamble decided to remove the logo from its products.

21. All of the following advantages of publicity are mentioned EXCEPT _____.
A. time saving B. attentiveness C. credibility D. profitability
22. The example of “Procter & Gamble” is given to show _____.
A. the efficient way of disproving rumors B. the importance of a spokesperson
C. the interaction between firms and media D. the negative effect of publicity
23. What’s the author’s attitude towards publicity?
A. doubtful B. passive C. objective D. supportive
24. Which one of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. Commercial ads are more practical than publicity.
B. Publicity speaks louder than ads!
C. Credibility weighs more than timesaving.
D. Little control over media limits publicity’s credibility.
B

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A.11：00 am-2：00 pm. B.5：00 pm-10：30 pm.
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A. in Williamstown B. in the centre of the city
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C
The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes enormously. The distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel, no matter how much we might like to think so.
Trying to criticize writing instantly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us meet with. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to seized a fleeting (稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. If you seize the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking what it is.
The practice that can help you past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing.” In free writing, the goal is to get words down on paper non-stop, usually for 15-20 minutes. No stopping, no going back, no criticizing. The goal is to get the words flowing. As the words begin to flow, the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves be seized on your ipad or your screen.
Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that you’ve persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly. Most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.
Instead of staring at a blank, start filling it with words no matter how bad. Halfway through your available time, stop and rework your raw writing into something closer to finished product. Move back and forth until you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices.
28. What is the chief goal of the first stage of writing?
A To get one’s ideas down.
B To choose an appropriate topic.
C To organize one’s thoughts logically.
D To collect raw materials.（C）
29. What prevents people from writing on is ________.
A putting their ideas in raw form
B trying to seize fleeting thoughts
C ignoring grammatical rules
D attempting to edit as they write（B）
30. （B）In what way does the critical mind help the writer in the writing process?
A It improves his writing into better shape.
B It helps him to come up with new ideas.
C It saves the writing time available to him.
D It shows the difficulties of writing on the fly
31. What is this passage mainly about?
A a recommendation of the book Writing Without Teachers
B a distinction between the creative and critical mind.
C a short introduction to Free Writing.
D the writer’s own understanding about a writing process.

D（原创）
The Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry are the most respected prizes in science. But talk to scientists in private, and many will complain why (besides jealousy, perhaps) are some scientists unhappy with the Nobels?
One reason is that the committees can often be slow to recognize achievement. Alfred Nobel specified in his will that the prizes should reward work done in the previous year. But experience soon showed that this was risky, as medals were given out for discoveries that later proved questionable. So a degree of caution is probably advisable. Sometimes, though, it can lead to strange results. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, for instance, had to wait until 1983 to win a prize for work he had done in the 1930s on the structure of stars. However, Albert Einstein never won a prize for his theory of relativity. Even though some pretty suggestive evidence had been produced by Arthur Eddington in 1919, relativity, which has later passed every experimental test ever thrown at it, was still considered somewhat risky and obscure.
Another criticism concerns the tradition that no more than three people can share a prize. Science is rarely this clear-cut. Take this year’s physics prize, which recognised Peter Higgs for predicting the existence of the mass-bestowing particle that now bears his name. Dr Higgs was only one of several people with a claim. Two other teams---- Rober Brout and Francois Englert, as well as Gerald Guralnik, Carl Hageh and Tom Kibble----- submitted papers on the same idea to the same journal that published Dr Higgs’s work, all within a few months of each other. Science often works like this, with different people coming up with similar ideas at similar times. In the event, the committee decided to honour Dr Engler (Brout is dead, therefore unqualified), whose paper was earlier than Dr Higgs’s but did not explicitly predict a particle, over Dr Guralnik and his collaborators, who were more comprehensive but published a few weeks later.
32. According to the passage why some of the scientists are unhappy with the Nobels?
A. because usually the Nobels award work done in the previous year.
B. just because they envy those who have won the Nobles.
C. because different people often come up with similar ideas at similar times.
D. because the Nobles are quite possibly slow to recognize achievement
33. Who was it that received the Nobel Prize for physics this year?
A. Carl Hageh and Tom Kibble
B. Gerald Guralnik, Carl Hageh
C. Peter Higgs and Francois Englert
D. Rober Brout and Francois Englert
34. Which of the following words has the closest meaning to “submitted”?
A. surrendered B. suggested C. presented D. provided
35. The passage is most probably coming from ?
A. a magazine B. a book review C. a literature work D. a science fiction

其次节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）（原创）
依据短文内容，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。
I’m not buying an Apple Watch. It’s not because I’m cheap, or a Luddite（反对技术进步的人）. I’m not buying one because it would make my life too easy, too convenient.
36 That concept lies at the heart of what Silicon Valley is selling and we are so eagerly buying.
There are, in fact, many downsides. 37 , but too often we fail to recognize the full cost of our convenient lives. There’s an environmental cost— think of all those convenient plastic K-cups clogging（阻碍） the ecosystem—as well as personal and social costs.
Convenient food, such as sliced apples and pre-cut, prewashed lettuce, is pricier. 38 .
39 Point. Click. Enjoy. Every time you order a book from the online giant, you take business away from your neighborhood book-store, perhaps speeding its death. And it’s one less chance for human interaction.
Yes, in theory, conveniences free up time to spend with family or on the golf course, but such optimistic predictions of a leisure bonanza are invariably wrong. In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that “our grandchildren” would work about “three hours a day.” 40 . Besides, tied to our smart phones, many of us never really leave the office.

A We’d also be a lot wiser if we were to embrace difficulty rather than run from it.
B I’m not arguing for a return to the inconvenient Paleolithic （旧石器）Era