宁夏育才中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题.doc

宁夏育才中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题(试卷满分 150 分，考试时间为 120 分钟)本试卷分第 i 卷（选择题）和第 ii 卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，将 答题卡交回。注意事项：线1答第 i 卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2选出每小题答案后，用 2b 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如 需改动, 用橡皮擦干净后, 再选涂其他答案标号框, 不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第 i 卷（选择题） 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）题做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。答第一节（共 5 个小题；每小题 1. 5 分，满分 7. 5 分）封不得听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的 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。例：how much is the shirt?内a. 19. 15b. 9. 18c. 9. 15答案是 c1. what did the man do this morning?线a. he flew to london.b. he attended a meeting. c. he met his aunt at the airport.2. where is tom now?封a. at home.b. in the office.c. in the hospital3. how will the man get to the grand cinema most probably? a. on foot.b. by bus.c. by taxi.密4. h ow long will the man stay here?a. less than a week.b. no more than a week.c. more than a week.5. what will the weather in south china be like tomorrow? a. snowy.b. rainy.c. cloudy.密第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1. 5 分，满分 22. 5 分）听下面 5 段对话或对白，每段对话或对白后有几个小题，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 至 8 题。6. what are the speakers talking about?a. a football game.b. tv programs.c. their work.7. w hat the man probably do last night?a. he watched a football game. b. he talked with the woman. c. he worked all night.8. what did the woman see?a. the beginning of a film.b. the end of a film.c. a whole film听第 7 段材料，回答第 9 至 11 题。9. what does john want to have?a. a bike.b. a football.c. a guitar.10. why will the speakers buy an mp5 player for jane?a. she can learn chinese with it. b. she can learn japanese with it. c. she can listen to music with it.11. what will the man be doing while the woman is buying the presents?a. seeing a film.b. playing the games. c. eating something.听第 8 段材料，回答第 12 至 14 题。12. why cant the man remember english words?a. he seldom writes them. b. he seldom reads themc. he cant understand them.13. when can the man borrow grammar books from the woman?a. on friday.b. on saturday. c. on sunday.14.what can we learn about the man?a. he doesnt listen to his teacher carefullyb. he has difficulty following his teacherc. he is a student of the womans.听第 9 段材料，回答第 15至 17 题。15. how does the woman prefer to travel?a. by airb. by shipc. by train16. where will the woman go this summer vacation?a. bostonb. londonc. new york17. what can we know about the man?a. he thinks traveling by air is the safestb. he suffers from air sicknessc. he prefers to travel by air.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18. what will the man do in australia ?a. work as an assistantb. work as a managerc. work as a chemist19. where is the mans father now?a. in hospitalb. in his own housec. in the mans house20. how many people will attend tomorrow evenings party?a. threeb. fourc. five. 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， 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。ado you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someones life?if you dont care about sex（性别）or age,come and join us,then11班级：考号：姓名：考场：座位号：第 1 页 共 5 页youll make it!position: volunteer social care assistant（no pay with free meals）place: manchesterhours: part timewe are now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! only 4 days left. dont miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!线role:you will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily livesyou will help them to develop new skillsyou will help them to protect their rights and their safetybut your primary concern is to let them know they are valuedskills and experience required:题you will have the right values and great listening skills. you will be honest and patientyou will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and答spoken english since youll have to help those people with different learning disabilitiesprevious carerelated experience will be a great advantage for you得21.the text is meant to封不a. leave a note b. show a document(文件) c. carry an advertisementd. send an email22.what will you do if you join them？内a. you will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily livesb. you will help them to protect their rights and their safety线c. you will help them to develop new skillsd. all of the above封23.which of the following statements is true according to the text？ a. a girl cant get the positionb. you can get money from the position密c. it is a full time jobd. free meals are available （可得到的）b密two men were sitting together in a plane. they were on a long journey. one of the men was a businessman.the other was a farmer.they sat without talking for awhile, then the farmer said, lets do something to pass the timewhat do you want to do? the businessman askedwe can ask each other riddles.the farmer said, you start. lets make the rules first, the businessman said. thats not fair. you are a businessman with much knowledge. you know more things than i doiam just a farmer.thats true. the businessman saidwhat do you want we should do? if you dontknow the answer to a riddle, you pay me 100and if i dont know the answer, ill pay you 50. the farmer said. the businessman thought about this, then he said, ok.thats fairwho will go first? i will, the farmer said. here is my riddlewhat has three legs when it walks, butonly two legs when it flies? the business man repeated the riddle, what has three legs when it walks, but only two legs when it flies? mm, thats a good oneim afraid i dont know the answer he gave the farmer 100, then said, tell me the answerwhathas three legs when it walks,but only two legs when it flies? i dont know. the farmer said and gave him 5024. the story happened a. on a farm b. between two passengersc. before a long train journey d. in a shop25. what does the word riddle mean in this story？a. a difficult question to find the answer tob. something to help to make rulesc. something to win moneyd. a kind of game in doing business26. the farmer a. enjoyed himself on his long journeyb. didnt want to pay even one dollarc. spent all his money on the plane ticketd. won fifty dollars by playing the riddle game27.which of the following is not true？ a. the two men made rules for their riddleb. the businessman knew the answer to his riddlec. the two men made their riddle game more interesting by paying it for moneyd. the farmer was much cleverer than the businessmancare you wondered why different animals or pests have their particular colours? colours in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselvesbirds, especially seagulls are very fond of locusts(蝗虫), but birds cant easily catchlocusts because locusts change their colours together with the change of the colour of cropswhen crops are green, locusts look greenbut when crops are ripe, locusts take on exactly the same brown colour as crops havesome other pests with different colours from plants are usually easily found and eaten by their enemies so they have to hide themselves in terror for lives and appear only at nightif you study the animal life in any part of the world, you will find the main use of colouring is to protect them bears, wolves and other beasts move quietly through foreststhey are usually invisible（cant be seen） to the eyes of hunters, because they have the colour much like the bark（树皮）of treesan even more strange act remains to be noticeda kind of fish living in seas can send out a kind of very black liquid when it faces dangerwhile the liquid is over, its enemies cannot find it, and it quickly swims awaythus, it has existed up to now though it is not powerful at all班级：考号：姓名：考场：座位号：第 2 页 共 5 页28. this passage mainly talks about a. the change of colour in locustsb. animals or pests can dye（染色）themselves different coloursc. how a certain sea fish protects itselfd. the protective colour of animals and pests29.locusts are pests but they arent easily wiped out by their enemies because a. they change colors with the crops b. they are dangerous to their enemies线c. they fly very fast d. they are powerful enough30.the pests that have different colours from plants usually appear at night because题a. their enemies can easily find them and eat them b.they have the habit of coming out in darkness c.its easy for them to destroy plants in darknessd.birds take their rests when night comes答31. a certain fish living in seas has lived through millions of year because a. it is the most powerful in the sea得b .no other fishes can swim as fast as it canc. it can send out a kind of liquid which makes its enemies unable to find it封不d .the liquid it sends out can kill its enemiesd内one of the greatest killers in the western world is heart disease.the death rate( 率)线from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years.today in britain,for example,about four hundred people a day die of heart disease.medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of getting heart disease by exercising regularly,by not smoking,by changing their diets,and by paying more attention to封reducing stress(压力) in their work.密however,western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease.there is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease.instead of supporting such programs,however,the u.s.health-care system is spending large sums of money on the密surgical( 外 科 的 ) treatment of the disease after it develops.this emphasis( 强 调 ) ontreatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years.in this time,modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques.many operations that were considered impossible ortoo risky(有风险的) a few years ago are now performed every day in u.s.hospitals.theresult has been a huge increase in heart surgery.although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people,some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages.first,it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention.second,it causes the costs of general hospital care to rise.after hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery,they must try to recover the money they have spent.to do this,they raise costs for all their patients,not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment.the third disadvantage is thatdoctors are encouraged to perform surgeryeven on patients for whom an operation is unnecessarybecause the equipment and expert skills are there.a government office recently stated that major heart surgery was often performed even though its chances of success were low.in one type of heart surgery,for example,only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery.however,more than 100,000 of these operations are performed in the united states every year.32. what effect has modern technology had on medicine? a.it has reduced the costs of medical treatment.b.it hasnt helped save any patients.c.it has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries.d.it has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease.33. “to do this”(in paragraph 3) means . a.to help patients recoverb.to increase the number of heart surgeriesc.to get back the money spent on the equipmentd.to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease34. the author would agree that .a.more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease b.heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions c.modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before d.the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease35. which would be the best title for the passage? a.the greatest killer in the westb.heart disease:treat or prevent c.old technology and heart surgery d.heart surgery:advantages第二节（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。the winners guide to successdo you know what makes people successful ？ to find out the answers ， anamerican scholar recently visited some of the most successful people around the world 36be responsible for yourselfsometimes you may want to blame others for your failure to get ahead in fact ，when you say someone or something outside of yourself is stopping you from making success，youre giving away your own power 37write a planit is very difficult to try to get what you want without a good plan it is just liketrying to drive through strange roads to a city far away 38 without thismap，you may waste your time，money and also your energy； while with themapyoull enjoy thetripand get what you want in the shortest possible timebe willing to pay the price班级：考号：姓名：考场：座位号：第 3 页 共 5 页39 so you must be ready to work hardeven harder than you have ever doneif you are not willing to pay the price，you wont get anything valuable40 it seems to us that everyone knows thisbut it is easier said than donewhen you线are doing something，you must tell yourself again and again：giving up is worse than failure because failure can be the mother of success ，but giving up means the death of hopeanever give upbnothing is easy to getca good plan is like a map to youdhere are some keys to success that they give题esome people achieve success much later in life答fyoure saying，you have more control over my life than i do. gsomeone elses opinion of you doesnt have to become your reality第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）得第一节完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 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，选出可封不以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。封线内two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. one man was allowed to 41 in his bed for an hour each afternoon for treatment. his 42 was next to the rooms only window. the other man 43 spend all his time flat on his back. every 44 when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he 45 pass the time by describing to his 46 all the things he could see outside the window. the window overlooked a 47 with a lovely lake. ducks and swans played on the water while children 48 their model boats. young lovers walked 49 among flowers. as the man by the window described all this beautifully, the other man would close his eyes and 50 the scene.密one morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the 51 body of the man by the window, who had died 52 in his sleep. she was saddened and 53the hospital attendants (服务员) to take the body away. 54 it seemed appropriate (合适密的), the other man asked if he could 55 next to the window. the nurse was happy tomake the switch, and after 56 he was comfortable, she left him alone. slowly and painfully, he sat up to take his 57 look at the world outside. finally, he would have the58 of seeing it for himself. he strained (紧张地) to slowly turn to 59 the window besidethe bed. it faced a blank(空白的) wall.41a. stand upb. lie downc. sit upd. sit down42a. roomb. tablec. seatd. bed43a. had tob. would ratherc. prefer tod. rather thanthe man asked the nurse what could have forced his dead roommate to 60 those wonderful things outside this window. the nurse answered that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. she said, “perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.”44a. morningb. eveningc. afternoond. dawn45a. willb. wouldc. shouldd. might46a. nurseb. workmatec. roommated. doctor47a. parkb. streetc. gardend. field48a. playedb. madec. startedd. sailed49a. face to faceb. shoulder to shoulderc. arm in armd. back to back50a. describeb. tellc. heard. imagine51a. strongb. warmc. sickd. lifeless52a. peacefullyb. sadlyc. secretlyd. completely53a. lookedb. foundc. calledd. ordered54a. howeverb. as soon asc. butd. except55a. changedb. sitc. be movedd. be taken56a. making sureb. depending onc. making upd. accounting for57a. nextb. firstc. lastd. another58a. surpriseb. feelingc. tryd. joy59a. look out ofb. lookc. glare atd. stare at60a. rememberb. describec. writed. talk第 ii 卷（非选择题） 注意：将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。the skin is 61 essential part of your body and its 62 (large) organ.you have three layers of skin 63 act as a barrier against disease, poisons and the suns64(harm ) rays.the functions of your skin 65(be) also very complex:it keeps you warm or cool; it prevents your body from66 (lose) too much water;it is 67 you feel cold, heat or pain and it gives you your sense 68 touch.