江苏省南京师大苏州实验学校2019_2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题.docx

江苏省南京师大苏州实验学校2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题时间：120分钟 满分：150分第I卷（选择题，共 90分） 第一部分：听力 （共两节，满分20分）第1节 （共5小题； 每小题1分， 满分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 do we learn from the conversation? A. The man hates to lend his tools to other people. B. The man hasnt finished working on the bookshelf. C. The man lost those tools.2. What do we know about the man? A. He doesnt like his job. B. He will not give up his job. C. He has a large family to support3. Whats the relationship between the two speakers? A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student C. Headmaster and teacher.4.Who is worried about gaining weight? A. The son.B. Aunt Louise. C. The mother.5. Why doesnt the woman buy the coat? A. It is expensive. B. There isnt her size. C. She doesnt like the color.第2节 （共15小题； 每小题1分， 满分15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。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What is the woman probably? A. A hotel clerk.B. A house agent.C. A shop assistant,7. What is the pillow filled with? A. Cotton.B. Dried flowers.C. A special material.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What kind of skills does the woman not have? A. Operating computers. B. Doing business. C. Typing.9. Which company did the woman work in? A. A trading company and a trust company. B. A trust company. C. A trading company.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Whats wrong with the womans mother? A. She has been sick. B. She misses her family and friends. C. She cant earn enough to support her family.11. Where does the woman live? A. In America.B. In India.C. In Britain.12. What does the woman plan to do next year? A. Study a new language. B. Travel to India.C.Visit her fathers native country.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. How many Economics lectures will the man attend every week? A. 5 times, from Monday to Friday. B. Two times, on Thursday and Friday. C. Two times, on Tuesday and Thursday.14. Why did the man miss the meeting for the new students yesterday? A. Because he hadnt received any notice about that meeting. B. Because he had to attend the group discussion. C. Because he had to do some part time jobs yesterday.15. If a student wants to earn the scholarship, what is the required attendance rate? A. 80% B. 90% C. 100%16. Which of the following statements is not true according to the conversation? A. The man is a grade one student in the university. B. The man has to work after school. C. The man thinks the time of the lecture is too early.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. How long has the speaker lived in a big city? A. One year. B. Ten years. C. Eighteen years.18. What is the speakers opinion on public transport? A. Its comfortable. B. Its time-saving. C. Its cheap.19. What is good about living in a small town? A. Its safer. B. Its healthier. C. Its more convenient.20. What kind of life do the speakers seem to like most? A. Busy.B. Colorful.C. Quiet.第二部分：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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A The Chocolate MuseumThe story of chocolate through the agesExperience chocolate-making from cocoa bean to chocolate bar.Enjoy the smell, taste and texture of freshly made chocolateOpening hoursTuesday- Friday 10 a m. to 6 p.m.Saturday & Sunday + public holidays 11 a m. to 7 a.m.Closed on Mondays, Christmas Day and during Carnival weekEntrance feesAdults $ 6.00Concessions (over 65 years old) $ 3.00Groups (of 15 people or more) $ 5.00More than a museum !The Panorama Restaurant can cater for all your corporate events: business lunches, anniversaries, weddings and parties, Groups of 30-300 people are welcome.Welcome To Auckland Museum“Nau mai haere mai”（毛利语）Auckland Museum has a constantly changing feast of fresh events and new exhibitions reflecting the culture of New Zealand. This year is no exception.Click here to find out more Latest newsBe inspired by the da Vinci Machines exhibition and design and build your own original flying machine. The best entry will win the budding inventor a helicopter ride over Auckland for a family of four. Avoid the traffic, enjoy hassle-free parking and view the exhibits in peace and quiet on Wednesday evenings! Open till 7: 30 p. mFrom 28 November until 4 March there will be no public access to the Reading Room.Click here to find out more Museum opening hours10 a m -5 p.m. daily (except Christmas Day)21. If 16 adults, including 3 aged 70, plan to visit the Chocolate Museum, how much should they pay at least?A. $69B.$87 C.$80D. $78.22. According to the information of Auckland Museum, we know that _.A. it opens from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day B. the museum focuses on New Zealands culture C. the winner will fly a helicopter as a reward D. it has a feast of fresh events except this year BHollywoods theory that machines with evil minds will drive armies of killer robots is just silly. The real problem relates to the possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) may become extremely good at achieving something other than what we really want. In 1960 a well-known mathematician Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics(控制论)put it this way, “If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot effectively interfere, we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire.”A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things; a wish to preserve its own existence. For the machine, this quality is not inborn, nor is it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence of the simple fact that the machine cannot achieve its original purpose if it is dead. So if we send out a robot with the single instruction of fetching coffee, it will have a strong desire to secure success by disabling its own off switch or even killing anyone who might interfere with its task. If we are not careful, then, we could face a kind of global chess match against very determined, super intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own, with the real world as the chessboard.The possibility of entering into and losing such a match should concentrate the minds of computer scientists. Some researchers argue that we can seal the machines inside a kind of firewall, using them to answer difficult questions but never allowing them to affect the real world. Unfortunately, that Plan seems unlikely to work: we have yet to invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans, let alone super intelligent machines.Solving the safety problem well enough to move forward in AI seems to be possible but not easy. There are probably decades in which to plan for the arrival of super intelligent machines. But the problem should not be dismissed out of hand, as it has been by some AI researchers. Some argue that humans and machines can coexist as long as they work in teams-yet that is not possible unless machines share the goals of humans. Others say we can just “switch them off ” as if super intelligent machines are too stupid to think of that possibility. Still others think that super intelligent AI will never happen. On September 11, 1933. famous physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, with confidence, “Anyone who expects a source of power in the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.” However, on September 12, 1933, physicist Leo Szilard invented the neutroninduced（中子诱导）nuclear chain reaction. 23. Paragraph 1 mainly tells us that artificial intelligence may_.A. command armies of killer robots B. satisfy humans real desiresC. run out of human control D. work faster than a mathematician24. Machines with specific purposes are associated with living things partly because they might be able to _.A. prevent themselves from being destroyed B. achieve their original goals independently,C. do anything successfully with given orders D. beat humans in international chess matches25. According to some researchers, we can use firewalls to _. A. help super intelligent machines work better B. be secure against evil human beings C. keep machines from being harmed D. avoid robots affecting the world26. What does the author think of the safety problem of super intelligent machines?A. It will be solved but with difficulty B. It will get worse with human interferenceC. It will disappear with the development of AI D. It will stay for a decade. CAre you a different person when you speak a foreign language? Thats just one of the questions The New Yorkers writer and native North Carolinian Lauren Collins explores in her autobiography, about her tough efforts to master French after marrying a Frenchman whose nameOliviershe couldnt even pronounce properly. When in French ranges from the humorously personal story to a deeper look at various theories of language acquisition and linguistics.The couple met in London “on more or less neutral ground: his continent, my language” But the balance shifted when they moved to Geneva for Oliviers work. The normally voluble Collins found herself at a loss“nearly speechless. The language barrier, and her dependence on her husband for simple things like buying the right cut of meat worsened her mixed feelings about “unlovely, but not ridiculous” Geneva. She comments, “Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.”Her sense of alienation (疏离感) leads to an examination of Americas miserable record when it comes to foreign language, “Linguists call Americathe graveyard of languages because of its singular ability to take in millions of immigrants and make their native languages die out in a few generations,” Collins writes, Educated in Wilmington, N. C, and at Princeton, she could -like the vast majority of Americans -only speak their mother tongue.Eight months after she moved to Switzerland. Collins gives up on the natural acquisition of language and finally attends a French course. As she struggles with grammar and vocabulary, Collins notes smartly that vert (green), verre (glass), ver( worm), vers( toward), and vair（squirrel） compose a quintuple homonym（同形异义）. “Although its difficult, French can try,” she says.French is actually considered among the easiest languages for an English speaker to learn, especially compared to Arabic or Mandarin Chinese. Collins, whose notably rich English vocabulary includes glossolalia (nonsense speech)and shibboleth (catchword or slogan), finds plenty of terrific French words to love. She writes, “English is a trust fund, an untamed inheritance(遗产), but Ive worked for every bit of French Ive banked.”Unlike Jhumpa Lahiri, who became so hooked on Italian and used it to write In Other Words. Collinss goals for learning French were more modest,“I wanted to speak French and to sound like North Carolina.”She also wanted to be able to deal with chimney sweeps and butchers, communicate with her in-laws, and “to touch Olivier in his own language”. She admits that she feels different speaking French, “Its austerity(朴素)made me feel more confused.”Readers looking for the romantic spark of classic cross-cultural love stories featuring an outgoing American and a shy Frenchman will find flashes of it here. Among the many cultural differences the couple argue over are her enthusiastic American habit of applying the verb love to express enthusiasm for shoes, strawberries, and husbands alike. But theres far more to Collinsbook than fantastic comedy, and those who have weathered linguistic crossings themselves tend to find particular resonance(共鸣) in its inquiry into language, identity, and transcultural translationArranged by chapters named for verb tenses, When in French works its way from The Past Perfect (Le plus-que-parfait ) to The Present (Le Present) and The Conditional ( Le Conditionnel). Collins ends on a delightful note with Le Futur-fitting for a new mother about to move with her hard-won French husband, French language, and Swiss-born daughter to the French-speaking city of her dreams, Paris.27.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word voluble in Para 2?A. Graceful B. Dependent C. Talkative D. Energetic28. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4 and Paragraph 5 ?A. Collins English vocabulary knowledge contributes little to her French learningB. Collins has found out some effective ways of mastering French words.C. Arabic or Mandarin Chinese are easier to learn than French for English speakersD. Its terrifying for Collins to have French words in store for practical use.29. The example of Jhumpa Lahiri in the passage is given to show that _.A. Collins aims at using French for her daily lifeB. Collins wants to apply French to serve her writingC. its inappropriate for Jhumpa Lahiri to write in another languageD. foreign language always makes learners feel complicated about life30. Which of the following items are mentioned by the author of this book review?the theme the structure the publisher the popularity the writing styleA B C D D Freedom and Responsibility Freedoms challenge in the Digital Age is a serious topic. We are facing today a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with it. Some 2,500 years ago Greece discovered freedom. Before that there was no freedom. There were great civilizations, splendid empires, but no freedom anywhere. Egypt and Babylon were both tyrannies, one very powerful man ruling over helpless masses. In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses. And Athenians willingly obeyed the written laws which they themselves passed, and the unwritten, which must be obeyed if free men live together. They must show each other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which life would be very painful unless one chose to live alone in the desert.The Athenians never thought that a man was free if he could do what he wanted. A man was free if he was self-controlled. To make yourself obey what you approved was freedom. They were saved from looking at their lives as their own private affair. Each one felt responsible for the welfare of Athens, not because it was forced on him from the outside, but because the city was his pride and his safety. The essential belief of the first free government in the world was liberty for all men who could control themselves and would take responsibility for the state.But discovering freedom is not like discovering computers. It cannot be discovered once for all. If people do not prize it, and work for it, it will go. Constant watch is its price. Athens changed. It was a change that took place without being noticed though it was of the extreme importance, a spiritual change which affected the whole state. It had been the Athenians pride and joy to give to their city. That they could get material benefits from her never entered their minds. There had to be a complete change of attitude before they could look at the city as an employer who paid hercitizens for doing her work. Now instead of men giving to the state, the state was to give to them.What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them; and with this as the primary object, ideas of freedom and self-reliance and responsibility were neglected to the point of disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share.Athens reached the point when the freedom she really wanted was freedom from responsibility.There could be only one result. If men insisted on being free from the burden of self-dependence and responsibility for the common good, they would cease to be free. Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom. It is to be had on no other terms. Athens, the Athens of Ancient Greece, refused responsibility; she reached the end of freedom and was never to have it again.But, the excellent becomes the permanent”, Aristotle said. Athens lost freedom forever, but freedom was not lost forever for the world. A great American, James Madison, referred to: The capacity (能力) of mankind for self-government.” No doubt he had not an idea that he was speaking Greek. Athens was not in the farthest background of his mind, but once man has a great and good idea, it is never completely lost. The Digital Age cannot destroy it. Somehow in this or that mans thought such an idea lives though unconsidered by the world of action. One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime.31. What does the underlined word “tyrannies” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. Countries where their people need help. B. Powerful states with higher civilization.C. Splendid empires where people enjoy freedom.D. Governments ruled with absolute power.32. People believing in freedom are those who_ .A. regard their life as their own business B. seek gains as their primary objectC. behave within the laws and value systems D. treat others with kindness