华师一2020上学期高二期中英语试卷

1 华中师大一附中华中师大一附中 2019-2020 学年度学年度下下学期高二期学期高二期中中考试考试 英语试题英语试题 命题人：贾怡珩 余志武 刘娟 审题人：贺 莉 时长: 120 分钟 满分：150 分 第一部分第一部分 听力（共两节，每题听力（共两节，每题 1.5 分，满分分，满分 30 分）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。 1What does the man want to do? AApply for a job. BBorrow the womans car. CFill out an application for a loan 2When is the baseball game? AOn Thursday. BOn Friday. COn Saturday. 3What does the man suggest the woman do? AHire a tutor. BPractice more often. CJoin a study group 4What was the original price of the Jacket? A$50 B$75 C$100 5What are the speakers talking about? AA book. BA play. CA role. 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。 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至 7 题。 6Why does the man come to town? ATo take some training. BTo see the dentist. CTo do some shopping. 7What does the man think needs improving? AThe lighting. BThe footpaths. CThe trains. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。 8What is the man mainly talking about? ASilences in conversation. BJapanese culture. CInteresting facts. 9How does the woman feel in the end? AAnnoyed. BSatisfied. CCurious. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10What does Craig do? AA reporter. BA gym teacher. CA youth center clerk. 11Why does the woman dislike Craig? AHe talks too much. BHe doesnt work hard. CHe lacks the sense of humor. 12What does the woman say about Andy? AHe is not fun. BHe is impatient. CHe is a music fan. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13Why are many animals in danger according to the woman? AThe environment is seriously polluted. 2 BMany animals are suffering from diseases. CThere is not enough food for animals. 14What is advised not to do when traveling abroad? AIntroduce new species. BBuy pets. CBuy skin coats. 15What can people do in their neighborhoods? ACall for new laws. BLook after homeless animals. CMake the environment cleaner. 16How can people improve animals living conditions in the zoos? ABy hiring more staff to look after them. BBy building natural conditions. CBy offering them more food. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. How long was the team working on the project? AFor 4 years. B. For 8 years. C. For 10 years. 18. Who is the team leader? AOReilly. B. Tabriz. C. Moradi. 19. Which car did the team recreate? A. An Iranian one. B. An Italian one. C. A British one. 20. What was the engineers primary goal? A. To develop a car superior to the initial model. B. To put super sports cars into mass production. C. To learn how to make a sports car by themselves. 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，每题阅读理解（共两节，每题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 40 分）分） 第一节 （共 11 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 27.5 分） A Every new parent knows that rocking can calm that uneasy baby when its time to take a nap. But the benefits of gentle movement may go beyond the baby stage. Because two new studies show that rocking also helps grown-ups, both human and mouse, get a good nights sleep. What should be no surprise is that movement can calm someone. Think of how many times youve fallen asleep on a train. But can motion really cause a nap, and make for a deeper sleep? To find out, researchers invited 18 healthy volunteers for a sleepover. So they came to the lab and slept one time on the motionless, normal bed. And one night where they got rocked. said Aurore Perrault, a sleep researcher at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.And what we find is that when compared to a motionless night, a whole night of rocking sleep has a beneficial effect not only on sleep beginning but also on sleep continuity.Subjects who were rocked also did better on a memory test the next morning than the stiller sleepers. In the second study, Kompotis, a student at the University of Lausanne, rocked a group of mice.Whether rocking affects sleep in other species was never before discussed. So the main questions for our study were whether rocking affects sleep in mice and what is the possible system? Kompotis placed the mouse cages on a platform that moved from side to side. Though mice were rocked four times faster than their human counterpartsa frequency of one back-and-forth per second, or 1 Hertz, worked bestthe results were strikingly similar. During rocking at 1 Hertz, time spent asleep increased, and mice fell asleep twice as fast as at still condition.However, additional studies could allow the researchers to 3 identify a new aim for treating sleep disorders, including insomnia(失眠）. If you want a good nights sleep, you might think about adding a little swing to your night-time routine. 21. Whats the purpose of the second study in the passage? A. To do research on the sleep system of other species. B. To see whether rocking affects sleep of other species. C. To discuss in which case rocking affects babys sleep. D. To study the influence of rocking on sleep disorders. 22. What do we know about the mice in Paragraph 5? A. Their sleeping time went up when rocked at 1 Hertz. B. Their sleep disorder including insomnia was treated. C. When rocked, they fell asleep four times faster than at still condition. D. When rocked, they slept faster than their human counterparts. 23. Whats the best title of the passage? A. Rocking Helps Grown-ups Sleep Too. B. Deep Sleep Needs the Constant Swing. C. Rocking Greatly Affects Deep Sleep. D. Rocking Can Treat Sleep Disorders. B Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP), also named COVID-19 by WHO, there is a general fear of the unknown virus as its full effects remain to be seen. Fever, coughing, sore throat, difficulty breathing the NCPs symptoms are similar to the common cold or the flu, but its potentially more dangerous. Viruses could be deadly, like HIV and Ebola. But what are viruses? How can they cause so much trouble? Viruses are non-living organisms (有机体) approximately one-millionth of an inch long. Unlike human cells or bacteria, they cant reproduce on their own. Instead, they invade the cells of living organisms to reproduce, spread and take over. Viruses can infect every living thing from plants and animals down to the smallest bacteria. For this reason, they always have the potential to be dangerous to human life. Sometimes a virus can cause a disease so serious that it is fatal. Other viral infections trigger no noticeable reaction. Viruses lie around our environment all of the time, waiting for a host cell to come along. They can enter our bodies by the nose, mouth, eyes or breaks in the skin. Once inside, they try to find a host cell to infect. For example, HIV, which causes AIDS, attacks the T-cells of the immune system. But the basic question is, where did viruses first come from? Until now, no clear explanation for their origin exists. “Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult”, Ed Rybicki, a virologist(病毒学家) at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, told Scientific American, “because viruses dont leave fossils and because of the tricks they use to make copies of themselves within the cells theyve invaded”. However, there are three main hypotheses (假说) to explain the origin of viruses. First, viruses started as independent organisms, then became parasites (寄生者). Second, viruses evolved from pieces of DNA or RNA that “escaped”from larger organisms. Third, viruses co-evolved with their host cells, which means they existed alongside these cells. For the time being, these are only theories. The technology and evidence we have today cannot be used to test these theories and identify the most plausible explanation. Continuing studies may provide us with clearer answers. Or future studies may reveal that the answer is even murkier (含糊不清的) than it now appears. 4 24. What can we learn about viruses from the text? A. Viruses have nothing to do with the common cold. B. Viruses are really small living organisms. C. Viruses cant reproduce unless they find a host cell. D. Viruses enter our bodies mainly through the mouth, nose and hair. 25. Which of the following might explain the origin of viruses? A. They evolved from the fossils of large organisms. B. They evolved from parasites into independent organisms. C. They evolved from the T-cells in animals. D. They evolved along with their host cells. 26. The underlined word “plausible” in the last paragraph probably means _. A. reasonable B. common C. creative D. unbelievable 27. What can we conclude from the text? A. Viruses live longer in human host cells than in animals. B. Viruses will become more like bacteria as they evolve. C. It may take a long time to understand the origin of viruses. D. The author is optimistic about future virus research. C The coming of warm weather here in Maine calls for a seasonal ritual that, for me, puts an end to winter fetching the wooden screen door (纱门). Note that I wrote “wooden”. The aluminum (铝) models just wont do itthey close too neatly and keep their perfect form for decades. In the 1960s, a time of imperfection, there was no perfect house, no perfect car, no perfect kids or parents. Why should a screen door be an exception? I grew up with my siblings in a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey. When the warm weather arrived, my dad would pull out the wooden screen door and install it over the back door, which could then be left wide open, admitting a refreshing breeze (we had no air conditioning). My father was a Mr. Fix-it, so keeping the screen door serviceable was one of his hobbies. Every few years he gave it a fresh coat of paint and fixed it a bit. I distinctly remember him putting the last screw in the last hinge (铰链), and swinging the door shut with a “crack!” A good, wooden screen door, unsightly as it was, had an invaluable function in the age of the stay-at-home mom: It alerted her to the coming and going of the kids. My siblings, and my friends ran in and out of the house, tearing the screen door open and letting it slap shut behind us. A hundred times a day. It was all good, and my mom never complained about the noise, because that was the purpose of a wooden screen doorto slam shut and thereby announce that her children were within earshot. Several years ago, in a fit of nostalgia (怀旧), I went shopping for a wooden screen door. I was disappointed in the choices available. They looked a bit too solid, too well made. But I found one online, and within a week it was delivered to my doorstep. The firm had sent me one with the wrong dimensions, so I asked my carpenter to make the necessary adjustments. Ozzie worked away at it for a couple of hours until he got it to sit neatly in its frame. I gave it a test: I pulled it open and let go. It closed in a lazy fashion. “Not good,” I pronounced. “Please remove the automatic door closer and adjust the door so it swings shut with a good crack.” Ozzie went about his work and a short while later the task was done. The door was uneven in its frame, and the screen no longer lay flat. But when I pulled open the door and released it, the thing clapped shut like a 5 rifle shot. “What do you think?” I asked. “It looks like hell,” said Ozzie. “But it sounds like heaven,” I said. And I, being the owner of the doorand the memoryhad the final word. 28. What particular function did the wooden screen door perform in the writers childhood? A. It functioned as an air conditioner in summer. B. It helped sharpen his fathers repairing skills. C. It was more like a toy that kids often played with. D. It made Mom aware that the kids were close by. 29. The reason why the writer asked the carpenter to continue to adjust the door after testing it is that _. A. the door was not the right size for the frame B. the door was poorly made that it didnt suit him C. he wanted to see how the door was supposed to shut D. he was determined to seize the ownership of the door. 30. What does the wooden screen door mean to the writer now? A. It is a reminder of the imperfect things. B. It is a symbol of his memory of summer. C. It is a contributor to the better life he leads. D. It is an antique worth cherishing in the museum. 31. What is the best title for the passage? A. The good old days are gone B. Never judge a door by its appearance C. Summer announces itself with a crack D. Every single imperfection adds to beauty 第二节 (共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 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。 Ballet for children and teenagers It can take a long time to reach a professional level in ballet, so most dancers begin their training very young. It is essential that very young dancers learn the ballet movements properly right from the beginning. 32 This is because it is usually more difficult to change old habits than to learn new ones. The first thing that young children who are interested in learning to dance often do is attend creative movement classes, where they can practice basic skills like jumping and turning, and just have fun. 33 In addition, some people recommend that they should learn either to sing or play instrument. Young people who decide they want to have a ballet career can attend a dance school. Here, students not only study normal school subjects but also do daily dance training. 34 And the whole dance-school environment is set up to support the young peoples artistic development; it allows them to focus on their dance more easily, and prepares them for their future. But how can a young dancer and their parents tell which dance school is the most suitable? 35 The older students taking part in it should clearly have more highly-developed ballet skills than the younger dancers. By the time they are 16 or 17, many ballet dancers are entering ballet competitions and taking classes at professional studies. 36 It is important for young dancers to know how well they are doing, because the dance world is very competitive and the training is hard; not everyone makes it to the top. A. For all these reasons, they enjoy meeting other dancers. B. Listening to different styles of music also helps. C. Travelling long distances to dance schools can be tiring, too. D. Attending one of their public performances is a good way of finding out. E. If they develop poor techniques, they may have problems later on. F. This allows them to compare themselves with teenagers from other schools. G. That means they do not waste time travelling from home to dance classes. 6 第三部分第三部分 语言运用（共三节，满分语言运用（共三节，满分 40 分）分） 第一节 完形填空（共 15小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C和 D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by 37 , because we had never seen geese there before. I wondered where they came from and why theyd 38 our pond. As the days passed, I couldnt 39 getting a closer look and started talking to the geese. They craned their necks and raised their heads 40 but seemed to realize I was a friend and not an enemy. I felt 41 we were bonding. One day as they were feeding in the grass near the driveway, I discovered the reason for their 42 the male had a broken left wing. He was 43 to fly, and his lifelong mate would not leave him behind. I marveled at the 44 between them. I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should do. He explained that sometime a broken wing will heal by itself and suggested letting 45 take its course. 46 the first day of November, I was working in the vicinity(在附近) of the geese with my tractor. I caught some 47 from the corner of my eye. Both geese were running toward the pond, wings beating 48 . The geese gained enough altitude to clear a neighbor s house, then 49 back toward me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of sight. I grew 50 them during their stay at our pond, and I miss them. Ill never forget their 51 to each other. We could all learn a lesson or two from this pair. 37. A. anger B. surprise C. terror D. sorrow 38. A. cleared B. destroyed C. chosen D. disturbed 39. A. resist B. imagine C. escape D. admit 40. A. naturally B. happily C. sadly D. cautiously 41. A. whether B. even if C. how D. as though 42. A. absence B. delay C. visit D. departure 43. A. unable B. curious C. eager D. afraid 44. A. bond B. quarrel C. conflict D. competition 45. A. chance B. nature C. fate D. knowledge 46. A. For B. During C. On D. To 47. A. atmosphere B. division C. response D. movement 48. A. wildly B. occasionally C. slowly D. aimlessly 49. A. floated B. circled C. slid D. skipped 50. A. angry with B. fond of C. tired of D. grateful to 51. A. sympathy B. objection C. adjustment D. devotion 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。 Light pollution is defined by the Lighting Research Center as the 52 (want) consequence of outdoor lighting such as street lights. Too much man-made light at night results in disturbed 53 (nature) cycles, and also prevents the 54 (observe) of stars and planets at night. But its effects 55 the environment go beyond that. By 56 (study) some trees, researchers found out that trees that are more 57 (expose) to artificial lighting at night bud (发芽) up to 7.5 days earlier than those at the normal nighttime setting. And they found 7 out that light had a more significant effect than temperature 58 the buds came out. The early budding may cause problems for insects, which feed on 59 (leaf), and the birds which feed on them in turn. Migratory birds(候鸟) are also 60 (negative) affect