江西省南昌市新建县第一中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题.doc

江西省南昌市新建县第一中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题 总分值：150分 时间：120分钟卷面分：5分（5分：字体端正、卷面整洁、无涂改；43分：字迹清楚，卷面整洁； 2分：字迹较清楚、有少量涂改、卷面较整洁；1分：字迹潦草、卷面脏乱。0分：大多主观题没写或全部没写。）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，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 think of advertising on TV?A. Expensive. B. Necessary. C. Useless. 2. Where is the woman going tonight?A. The airport. B. A restaurant. C. Her sisters house. 3. What is the woman speaker related to Jim?A. His grandmother. B. His sister. C. His mother. 4. What was the man looking for?A. A suitcase. B. A key. C. A chair. 5. What do we know about Cathy?A. She didnt feel well. B. She went out dancing. C. She canceled a meeting. 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，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和第7两个小题。6. How long did the woman teach English?A. About 3 years. B. About 5 years. C. About 13 years. 7. What is the woman writing now?A. A novel. B. A magazine article. C. A travel journal. 听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。8. What kind of electric heater does the man want to buy?A. A large one. B. A branded one. C. A fairly priced one. 9. How much will the man pay for the electric heater?A. $180. B. $200. C. $250. 10. How will the man pay?A. In cash. B. By check. C. By credit card. 听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13三个小题。11. What does the mans mother ask him to do?A. Wash clothes. B. Clean his room. C. Do some cooking. 12. What is fun at the weekend for the womans family?A. Taking a trip. B. Preparing big dinners. C. Watching TV together. 13. Who is good at fixing things?A. The man. B. The womans father. C. The mans father. 听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17四个小题。14. Why is the woman going to Boston?A. To study. B. To take a holiday. C. To be on business. 15. Which hotel has the best location?A. The Midtown. B. The Boston Bay. C. The Fairfield. 16. What can we learn about the Boston Bay in Boston?A. It is the cheapest hotel. B. It doesnt have a restaurant. C. It is the newest and biggest hotel. 17. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Call the hotels for details. B. Read the guidebook herself. C. Search for information online. 听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20三个小题。18. Which aspect of the jet plane is talked about?A. Its cost and length. B. Its length and speed. C. Its speed and cost. 19. What does the giant jet look like?A. A kitchen. B. A great theater. C. A square. 20. How many passengers can the jet hold at most?A. 200. B. 300. C. 400.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。 AArtificial intelligence (AI) is practically everywhere today. There are so many products out there which use AI. Some are being developed, some are already in use, and some failed and are being improved, so its very difficult to name a few of them and regard them as the best.ViIt is an AI personal trainer which is mainly concerned with fitness and coaching. It, however, requires the use of bio-sensing earphones and other fitness tracking equipment! It can play your favorite music while you work out and all you have to worry about is the exercise youre doing.Deep Text Do you ever wonder how an ad appears suddenly just when you are looking for something similar? This is because of Deep Text. It uses real-time consumer information to produce data which in turn is used to target consumers. Thus, if you search online for flight tickets from Bangalore to Delhi, it is very likely that an ad relating to hotels in Delhi will soon follow.Hello EggIf you live alone and miss your mother because you always miss your breakfast or dont know what to eat for dinner, then Hello Egg is exactly what you are looking for. A very healthy choice of the 2-minute noodles and oats, Hello Egg provides you with a detailed weekly meal plan about the needs of your body. It is truly a modern AI-powered home cooking tool for the young.WordsmithYou can put Mr. Smith into your Microsoft Excel using their free API, and let it write up detailed analysis of the stories behind your numbers. It can produce detailed reports on thousands of pages of spreadsheets in seconds.21. What can we learn about Vi from the text?A. It is an AI music player. B. It is a bio-sensing earphone.C. It doesnt work without bio-sensing earphones. D. It can make you more energetic while you work out.22. Which can help you improve cooking skill?A. Hello Egg.B. Deep Text.C. Vi.D. Wordsmith.23. What can Wordsmith do for us?A. Produce a detailed report.B. Book a ticket ahead of time.C. Provide us with a detailed meal plan.D. Offer us information on hotels for traveling.BNew law lets students sleep inWhen your alarm clock rings and you drag yourself out of bed, you probably wonder: Why on earth does school have to start so early?Fortunately, there is a new law to back you upor better still, science.A law in California, passed on Oct 13, requires that public middle schools begin classes no earlier than 8:00 am and that high schools start no earlier than 8:30 am. The law will go into effect by July 1, 2022.Starting school at 8:00 or 8:30 in the morning may not sound like too big of a change, but it could mean one more hour of sleep for students who used to start school at 7:30 or even earlier.“The effect of that one hour is something they will be feeling as 40-year-old adults,” Sumit Bhargava, a sleep expert at Stanford University told The New York Times. He said that not having enough sleep can affect students mental health and increase the risk of getting fat and diabetes (糖尿病).In the short run, students school performances should improve almost immediately. Kyla Wahlstrom, a researcher at the University of Minnesotas College of Education, found that students who have enough sleep are more alert (机敏的) in class and get better grades.Some might say that urging students to go to bed earlier could have been a much easier solution than changing the school timetable across an entire state. But according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, teenagers go through biological changes when they enter puberty (青春期), which makes it difficult for them to fall asleep before 11: 00 pm. So when school starts at 8: 00 or earlier, they can hardly get the ideal 8.5-9.5 hours of sleep that experts suggest they need to do their best in the daytime. This is why when the new law came out, its author, Anthony Portantino, said, “Generations of children will come to appreciate (感激) this historic day and our governor for taking bold action.24. When should public high schools start classes according to the Californias new law?A. No earlier than 7:30 am.B. No earlier than 8:00 am.C. No earlier than 8:30 am.D. No earlier than 9:00 am.25. What can we learn from Bhargavas words?A. The amount of sleep people need changes with age.B. Lack of sleep affects adults more than children.C. Sleep problems are the leading cause of diabetes.D. Lack of sleep could lead to health problems.26. What do we know about teenagers sleep patterns?A. Less sleep is needed when they enter puberty.B. Ideally, they need eight hours of sleep a night.C. They may have difficulty falling asleep before 11:00 pm.D. They often wake up at midnight due to biological changes.27.Where does this passage probably come from?A. A textbook. B. An advertisement. C. A newspaper. D. A biography. CA couple in their 60s has travelled 12,000 miles across 16 countries from Britain to China riding their bikes the entire way. Grandparents Peter and Chris stepped on the long journey after deciding to “do something a bit different”. They traversed cities, deserts, mountains and everything in between across Europe, the Middle East and the East Asia. The married couple of 37 years enjoyed themselves with delicious local food and spent most nights inside a tiny tent put up wherever they could find shelter.Peter, 66, said the moment they finally had a look at the famous Great Wall after a year and a half of cycling 30 miles a day was “really exciting”. At the end of their journey, the special pair didnt fly home but instead choose to book a cabin inside a 400m-long container ship. The final part was a three-week voyage from Singapore across the Indian Ocean and into the Mediterranean Sea before arriving at Southampton.“You never know what the day is going to bring. All you know is that you are going to get on your bike and cycle. Every day is an adventure and every day is new. Overall, the experience is absolutely unbelievable, ” Peter said.Peter and Chris initially set out to cycle from Britain in January 2017 but were forced home. They had cycled all the way to Hungary when Peter slipped on tiles and broke his leg. After seven months of recovery, the couple set out again in Britain. They finally arrived in China in November 2018.Both Peter and Chris agreed that the best part of the entire trip was coming across the kindness of strangers along the way, many of whom invited the couple for food and drink. Chris, 64, said, “It was a wonderful experience, particularly wonderful because of the amazing people we met along the way.”28. Whats the couples purpose of taking the long journey?A. To try something new.B. To break the world record.C. To go across 16 countries by bike.D. To celebrate their 37-year marriage.29. How did the couple go back to their home after the trip to China?A. By cycling.B. By train.C. By plane.D. By sea.30. Why did the couple put off their trip in 2017?A. Peter had an accident.B. They ran out of their money.C. They met with a heavy snow.D. Peter fell ill suddenly in Hungary.31. Whats the best part of the trip for the couple?A. The beautiful scenes.B. The help from others.C. The delicious food and drink.D. The kindness from other cyclists.DLately, a lot of e-commerce platforms, including Didi Taxi, Ctrip, Fliggy, JD ad Taobao, have been uncovered that they are cheating their frequent customers. Their ways are pretty clever. When there are new users or conservative old users, they will give a quite appealing price to attract them into registering and buying goods. However, their big data is not that friendly to the stable users and frequent visitors. The system always offers them higher price for the same products or service. How does this happen? According to the data analysis, the system knows clearly that although they feel the price is high, they will finally pay the bill. By collecting and analyzing users profiles, buying habits and other information, big data recommends the same products to different users with different prices. Companies also try other ways to make money, making online consumption far more worrying. For example, video websites always offer 120 seconds advertisements, which drives people crazy. And even if you pay for the membership to get rid of the ads, you have to “enjoy” 15-second “private” ads. By broadcasting them, companies make huge profits - second to the membership fees. Also, owning 100Mbps network, you still put up with the slow speed when you are downloading a song. You have no choice but to become a VIP when you seek high quality services. Users seem to be lambs(羊羔) among wolves. Even though they say,” Since you have money, Ill charge you more”, we cant do anything about it. It pains us that we havent figured out a way to deal with the problem. The only thing we can do is replacing our iPhones with Android phones if we want to buy a membership card, and applying for new accounts if we want cheaper hotels. Not finding a way to fight back, we cant do anything but accept them passively. 32. How does big data serve companies according to the text? A. By being kind to all users. B. By giving a discount to stable users. C. By attracting new users by analyzing their shopping habits. D. By recommending the same products with higher prices to regular users.33. What do we know from the third paragraph? A. Membership can rid you of all the ads. B. Only by being a VIP can you get a better service. C. The slow download speed is due to your poor network.D. Advertising income is the biggest income for video websites. 34. What is the authors attitude towards the chances of finding a way to fight back? A. Uncertain.B. Casual.C. Negative.D. Positive. 35. What is the main idea of the text? A. The big data provides helpful information to users. B. We have to accept online consumption as it is. C. There exist many online consumption traps. D. Regular customers are richer. 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。 You probably know you should exercise, get enough sleep and eat right. But the chances are that you are telling yourself that you dont have the time. If you are wondering how to develop healthy habits, these pieces of advice will help you feel great.Change sleep time.If you need to work all night, you can sleep seven to nine hours a night several days before you stay up. It can help reduce the bad influence of a single sleepless night. When you stay up, consider a powerful nap. 36 Improve creativity.Research has shown that healthy eating influences more than our physical health. Eating more fruits and vegetables makes us more creative, which in turn improves our work. 37 Time management is key. Exercise is another one. Just two minutes of physical activity can make you more creative.Fit in with some high-intensity (高强度) but short exercise.If you dont have a lot of time, try some high-intensity exercise, which can burn more calories than training separate parts of the body. 38 Research suggests that exercising regularly is highly effective in burning fat and building muscle. 39 Frequent flyers often catch the common cold. To protect your immune system, start taking vitamin C and B-complex a few days before your flight. To make you feel less travel-related stress, try some quick ways to relax, such as drinking green tea and writing your worries down on paper.Doing great work is important to you, but your health should be at the top of your list. So you should be honest with yourself. 40 Find time for exercise, healthy meals and some quality rest by cutting down useless activities.A. Get prepared for traveling. B. Remember to avoid taking flights.C. Even a 10-minute nap will lift your spirits.D. How to fit a healthy diet into a busy schedule?E. In other words, no good health makes no sense.F. Many people dislike doing high-intensity exercise.G. Some simple ways like jumping rope will work well.第三部分: 英语知识运用（共两节， 满分45分）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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。My car needed some mechanical work that I could not do myself. Since the garage I had been taking my car to had 41 , my friend Dave gave me a recommendation(推荐): Ds Auto Repair. I was very 42 to discover that the owner of Ds was a mechanic who had worked on my car several years earlier. 43 then he was an employee at a gas station near my house. I knew that his work was good. I 44 the paperwork for the repair and 45 while D took a phone call from another customer. As I sat there, I looked around the small office to keep myself 46 . A framed newspaper article caught my attention. The headline 47 : Local Dairy Farmer Kills Whole Herd.” The article was about the 48 of a fifth-generation dairy farmer during the polluted milk scare (恐慌) in Michigan several years earlier. Dairy cows were becoming 49 a disease that was affecting the milk supply. The fifth-generation dairy farmer paid to have all of his cows 50 . It was found that only a few were infected out of the entire herd. Because no one could 51 that the other cows were totally 52 , he had all the cows killed and buried them to make consumers feel rest assured(放心). The farmers insurance did not cover his 53 because the state had not issued a(n) 54 for him to get rid of the herd. Asked why he did it, the farmer replied Because it was the right thing to do. I asked D why he 55 the article on the wall. I thought that he might be related to or 56 knew the farmer. He said he had never met the man, but that the farmer was a(n) 57 to him and set a standard for integrity(正直), trust and honesty. He said that is how he 58 his auto Repair business. I was now doubly 59 by both the farmer and D. The next year, on my recommendation, my son started a nine-month mechanics apprenticeship(学徒) 60 Ds Auto Repair.41. A. closed B. started C. expanded D. developed42. A. content B. cautious C. surprised D. shocked43. A. Just B. Back C. In D. At44. A. filled out B. handed out C. came out D. took out45. A. stared B. thought C. worried D. waited46. A. informed B. moved C. prepared D. occupied47. A. wrote B. read C. recorded D. shown 48. A. plans B. feelings C. actions D. bravery49. A. immune to(免疫的) B. devoted to C. infected with D. come to 50