江苏省江阴市四校2019_2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题.docx

江苏省江阴市四校2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题第一部分： 听力（共两节，每题1.5分，满分 30 分） 第一节(共 5 小题）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. Why does the man want to leave?A. The service is too slow. B. The food is bad. C. The music is too loud.2. What does the woman do?A. A teacher. B. A nurse. C. A shop assistant.3. What has the man decided to do? A. Continue his talkwith Mr. Black. B. Go to see anengineer. C. Check the schedule.4. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. On a bus.B. In a library.C. In a shop.5. How did the man feel about his jump in the end? A. Terrified.B. Disappointed.C. Excited.第二节(共 15 小题)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. What are the speakers talking about?A. A restaurant.B. An accident.C. A magazine.7. Why is The Sunflower closed now?A. It will move to another town B. The workers are on holiday. C. It is under repair. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What do we know about Mr. Bannister?A. He lacks experience.B. He worked on a trade deal last year. C. He is a new member of the company.9. Who do the speakers think is suitable for the position in the end?A. Amelia.B. Mr. Duncan.C. Ms. Templeton.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What are the speakers doing?A. Cooking.B. Watching TV.C. Doing shopping.11. What does the man like best?A. Ice cream.B. Milk.C. Cheese.12. When does the conversation take place?A. In the morning.B. In the late afternoon.C. At night.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Who gave the woman her first mountain bike?A. Her father.B. Her uncle.C. Her brother.14. Why did the woman slow down at one point in the Regional Championship?A. The road was full of rocks.B. She was too tired to speed up.C. Someone appeared on the road suddenly.15. What does the woman think is the most important before a race?A. Making sure the bike is in good condition. B. Looking at the route in advance.C. Doing sports to keep fit.16. What does the woman say about the clothes for a race?A. Theyre comfortable.B. Theyre pretty.C. Theyre tight.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. When does the Business Studies course start?A. On June 5th.B. On June 12th.C. On July 11th.18. What can the students bring with them during the course?A. Business videos.B. Notebook computers.C. Mobile phones.19. Where is the Business Studies Department?A. Next to the staff car park.B. On the left side of the science center.C. Beside the main entrance of the college.20. What language classes are provided this summer?A. Japanese and German.B. French and Chinese.C. Italian and Spanish.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分 35 分） 第一节（共 10 个小题：每小题 2.5 分，满分 25分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AAutomatic dishwashers have been around for more than 100 years. It started in 1886 with Josephine Cochrane, a woman in Shelbyville, Illinois. She was a rich woman who could afford servants to wash her dishes, so she really didnt mind the work. What she did mind was that her servants broke the dishes. She hosted quite a few dinner parties, and after every party the servants broke more of her expensive dishes.Finally, Cochrane took action. First, she measured her dishes and bent wire into racks to hold them. Next, she put the racks on a wheel in a large copper boiler. Then, the boiler sprayedhot, soapy water on the dishes as a motor turned the wheel. After a hot water rinse(冲洗), thedishes were clean!Josephine Cochranes friends were impressed with the machine and asked her to build more. After that, word got out fast. Soon hotel and restaurant owners who didnt like broken dishes also were interested. Cochrane then knew that she had a wonderful machine, so she received a patent from the government, which said that only the inventor can make money from an invention. Then in 1893 Chicago held a Worlds Fair where inventions from all over the world were shown. Cochranes labor-saving machine was a big hit. Her dishwasher won the highest award.Cochranes company came out with a smaller machine in 1914. It was supposed to be for the ordinary home, but it wasnt an immediate success. Many homes couldnt produce the extremely hot water it needed. Also, in most homes, dishwashing wasnt considered very difficult compared to most other housework. In fact some people liked to relax at the sink after a hard day! Sales of the home model finally picked up in the 1950s when people had more money and wanted to have more time to enjoy themselves. Now many homes have electric dishwashers that arent very different from the one Josephine Cochrane invented more than 100 years ago.21. Why did Josephine Cochrane invent the dishwasher?A. To avoid possible damage to the dishes. B. To reduce the number of servants.C. To host more dinner parties. D. To make the dishes cleaner.22. What does the underlined words in Paragraph 3 suggest?A. The machine wasnt as efficient as described.B. Josephine Cochrane could no longer keep it a secret. C. The invention drew immediate attention of the public.D. Josephines friends soon began to talk about the new machine.23. The smaller machine became popular only when .A. people had more relaxing jobsB. hot water was not neededC. housework became easierD. peoples living conditions improvedB Say youre in the supermarket parking lot, holding your baby, bags of goods, and trying to open your car. A stranger walks up and says, “Here，let me hold your baby.” Should you let him?According to a new New York University study, knowing whether or not to trust someone is so important that we can tell whether a face is trustworthy before we even consciously know its there. The researchers knew from previous studies that people are fairly similar when it comes to how they judge a faces trustworthiness. They wanted to find out whether that would be true if people only saw a face for a quick momentan amount of time so short that it would prevent making a conscious judgment.To carry out their study, the researchers monitored the amygdala (扁桃腺结构) of 37 volunteers while showing them 300 faces for 33 milliseconds each. Those faces had already been tested with a different set of 10 subjects, who saw them for much longer. In those earlier tests, people agreed about whether to trust each face. In this new study, fascinatingly, different parts of the amygdala lit up when a subject saw an untrustworthy face and a trustworthy oneand it lit up more when the face in question was suspicious.“Faces that appear likely to cause harm are suddenly tracked by the amygdala, so it could then quickly change other brain processes and make fast responses to peopleapproach or avoid,” says Jon Freeman, the studys senior author.“Our talents for making instant judgments could either come from birth or be learned from the social environment.”So should you trust the guy in the parking lot? Your brain already knows.24The amygdala lit up more clearly when people _ .A. came across a neutral face mask B. met a reliable personC. saw an untrustworthy face D. saw a familiar face25What can we infer from Freemans words?ABrain processes cannot be changed.BThe ability of making fast judgments can be acquired.CThe amygdala decides the accuracy of judgments.DThe amygdala tracks only faces of bad men.26What would be the best title for the passage?AIs facial trustworthiness reliable?BYou can judge a person even without being aware of itCCan the amygdala reveal how people make automatic judgments?DYour brain decides whether to trust people in millisecondsCThe other day, my sister and I were sitting in the restaurant, trying to have a conversation, but her children, four-year-old Willow and seven-year-old Luca, would not stop fighting. The arguments-over a fork, or who had more water in a glass-never stopped.Then my sister reached into her handbag, produced two shiny iPads, and handed one to each child. Suddenly, the two were quite. They sat playing games and watching videos, and we continued with our conversation.After our meal, as my sister stuffed the iPads back into her bag, she said, “I dont want to give them the iPads at the dinner table, but if they keep them occupied for an hour so we can eat in peace, I often just hand them over. I am afraid that its bad for them. I do worry that it makes them think its OK to use electronics at the dinner table in the future.”Dr. Gary Small, director of the Longevity Center at the University of California, Los Angeles says that the brain is highly sensitive to stimuli（刺激物），like iPads and smartphone screen, and if people spend too much time on one technology, and less time interacting（互动）with people like parents at the dinner table, that could prevent the development of certain communication skills.“Conversations with each other are the way children learn to have conversations with themselves, and learn how to be alone,” said Sherry Turkle, a professor of science, technology and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She fears that children who do not learn real interactions, which often have imperfections, will come to know a world where perfect, shiny screens give them a false sense of intimacy（亲密）without risk. However, they need to be able to gather themselves and know who they are. So someday they can form a relationship with another person without a panic of being alone. “If you dont teach your children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely,” she said.27. What did Willow and Luca fight about? A. Little things. B. iPads. C. Delicious food. D. Interesting things.28. How did the authors sister feel about offering children iPads? A. She was critical of it. B. She was uncertain about it. C. She felt it was worth a try. D. She felt surprised at its effect.29. According to Dr. Small, what should parents do? A. Provide their children with various technologies. B. Teach their children communication skills. C. Limit their childrens screen time. D. Talk to their children at the dinner table.30. What is Sherry Turkle worried? A. Children are afraid of taking risks. B. Children try to escape from the real world. C. Children cant deal with companion-less situations. D. Children cant live without electronic devices.第二节 七选五（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。Children start out as natural scientists, eager to look into the world around them. Helping them enjoy science can be easy, as theres no need for a lot of scientific terms or expensive lab equipment. _31_.Give them time to think. Studies over the past 30 years have shown that, after asking a question, adults typically wait only one second or less for an answer, no time for a child to think. _32_, children can give more logical, complete and creative answers.Watch your language. Once you have a child involved in a science discussion, don t jump in with “Thats right or “Very good”. _33_. But in talking about science, quick praise can signal that discussion is over. Instead, keep things going by saying Thats interesting or I have never thought of it that way before”，or coming up with more questions or ideas. Never force a child to think. _34_, as children are always thinking, without your telling them to.Whats more, giving them freedom to think can turn a conversation into a performance. The child will try to find the answer you want, in as few words as possible, so that he will be a smaller target for your disagreement._35_ Real-life impressions of nature are far more impressive than any lesson children can learn from a book or a television program. Let children look at their fingertips through a magnifying glass (放大镜), and theyll understand why you want them to wash before dinner. Rather than saying that water evaporates (蒸发), set a pot of water to boil and let them watch the water level drop.A. It doesnt make senseB. Listen to their questionsC. Teach them by examplesD. You only have to share your childrens curiosityE. It began with a set of questions that lasted nearly two hoursF. When adults increase their wait time” to three seconds or moreG.These words work well when it comes to encouraging good behavior第三部分 语言知识运用（共四节，满分85分）第一节、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）It seems that the great desire among the young is to be popular. And once they achieve _36_, they want to keep it and _37_ it. But the desire to be popular can_38_ you into looking and acting like everyone else. You can lose yourself in a sea of _39_ hairstyles and thinking styles.I was forced to _40_ popularity long before in a talk I had with my daughter. Margy had to _41_ schools when my busy work schedule made it _42_ for me to move houses. I suppose that, for a girl in her teens, _43_ a new school is as easy as spending a season alone in the tropical jungles. However, as the school year _44_ to an end, one student after another came to her. They said they would have liked to be friends sooner.I told Margy that I would have been more concerned if she had been a(n) _45_ social success in her new school. That, to me, would have been the _46_ that she had betrayed her _47_ self in order to become popular. Sometimes young people try to force friendships into blossom by opening _48_ their innermost thoughts to people they have just met. Such friendships are the least likely to _49_.I know that it has become harder and harder for a young person to stand up against the popularity wave and to _50_ his or her own way. This leads to a great _51_ for the young person who wants to find his or her own _52_. But the barrier is worth climbing over. The road is worth _53_. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. Well, come on! Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come with the people who _54_ you for who you are. Thats the only kind of popularity that really _55_.36. A. permissionB. popularity C. safety D. ambition37. A. improveB. create C. abandon D. express38. A. persuadeB. cheat C. frighten D. force39. A. personalB. childish C. similar D. ridiculous40. A. think aboutB. speak out C. comment D. discuss41. A. leaveB. change C. arrange D. apply42. A. famousB. important C. necessary D. impossible43. A. believingB. finding C. entering D. handling44. A. cameB. developed C. finished D. spent45. A. academicB. slim C. political D. instant46. A. evidenceB. means C. qualification D. purpose47. A. innocentB. numb C. complex D. true48. A. thoroughlyB. exactly C. partly D. typically49. A. formB. last C. break D. adjust50. A. recallB. desert C. transfer D. seek51. A. choicesB. lessonsC. barrier D. goals52. A. motivationB. pathC. hobby D. potential53. A. destroyingB. followingC. preparing D. noticing54. A. encourageB. sympathizeC. respect D. remind55. A. variesB. differsC. does D. counts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1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。Students have responsibility to learn well and pay more attention to learning. If a long reading assignment (任务) is given, _56_ (instruct) expect students to be familiar _57_ information in the reading even if they do not discuss it in class or take an examination.The ideal student _58_ (consider) to be one who is motivated to learn for the sake of learning not the one interested only in getting high _59_ (grade). Sometimes homework is returned with brief _60_ (write) comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is not given, the student is responsible for learning the material distributed.When research is distributed, the professor expects the student to take it _61_ (active) and to complete it with minimum guidance. It is the students responsibility to find books in the library. Professors do not have the time _62_ (explain) how a university library works. Professors will help students _63_ need them, but prefer that their students should not be too dependent on them. In the United States, professors have many other duties besides _64_ (teach), such as regulative or research work. Therefore, the time that a professor can spend with a student outside of class is limited. If a student has problems with classroom work, the student should either approach a professor during office hours _65_ make an appointment.第三节、单词拼写 （15分）1. Is this the