四川省宜宾市第四中学2020学年高二英语上学期期末模拟考试试题

四川省宜宾市第四中学2020学年高二英语上学期期末模拟考试试题本试卷分第卷（选择题，共100分）和第卷(非选择题，共50分)两部分。总分150分，考试时间120分钟。第卷 选择题（100分）注意事项：1答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、班级、考号用0.5毫米的黑色墨水签字笔填写在答题卡上。并检查条形码粘贴是否正确。21-60小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡对应题目标号的位置上，非选择题用0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔书写在答题卡对应框内，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。3考试结束后，将答题卡收回。第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30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。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 woman suggest the shirt with long sleeves?A.It is lovely.B. It is warm.C. It is comfortable.2.Where will the woman probably go first?A.To a school.B. To a friends house.C. To a library.3.What did the woman buy for her husband for Christmas?A.A book.B. A recorder.C. A watch.4.How does the woman feel when hearing the tickets were sold out?A.Angry.B. Excited.C. Disappointed.5.Where are the speakers?A.In a garden.B. In a restaurant.C. In a supermarket.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。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.Why does the man need to get his suit cleaned in a hurry?A.He has no clothes to wear to work.B.He will attend a party this evening.C.He wants to wear it to a job interview.7.What will the woman do in 40 minutes?A.Deal with the mans suit.B.Work on a jacket.C.Clean a party dress.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8.Why wont the woman wear her own hat?A.It is uncomfortable.B.It doesnt fit her.C.It is old.9.What will the woman do?A.Try on her sisters gloves.B.Buy a pair of boots.C.Change her jeans.听第8段材料，回答第10-12题。10.When did Keiko start to live in America?A.In 2020.B.In 2020.C.In 2020.11.What was Keikos trouble?A.He didnt look like Japanese.B.He was not Japanese any more.C.He acted a little different from other Japanese.12.Why does Keiko like Japanese culture?A.Because Japanese people have different opinions from others.B.Because Japanese respect others opinions.C.Because Japanese take each other for granted.听第9段材料，回答第13-16题。13.What does the Golden Rule ask people to do?A.Study hard and seek truth.B.Respect their families and ancestors.C.Treat others as they wish to be treated.14.Which is one of the teachings of Confucius?A.People should develop their own personal rules.B.Husbands should respect wives.C.People should memorize rules of behavior.15.How did Confucius teach lessons?A.Through arguments.B.Through reasoning.C.Through personal examples.16.What does the speaker say about Confucius?A.He used to be even more popular.B.He has influenced many cultures.C.He has little effect on people today.听第10段材料，回答第17-20题。17.Why does the speaker give the talk?A.To announce some changes.B.To say sorry for an accident.C.To remind passengers to leave.18.From which platform(月台)will the train to London leave?A.Platform 3.B.Platform 6.C.Platform 9.19.When will the train to Bristol leave?A.At 10:15 am.B.At 10:55 am.C.At 12:20 pm.20.What do we know about Mr. Green?A.He is traveling to London.B.He works in the luggage office.C.He lost his computer at the railway station.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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A.It was a cold March day in High Point, North Carolina. The girls on the Wesleyan Academy softball team were waiting for their next turns at bat during practice, stamping their feet to stay warm. Eighth-grader Taylor Bisbee shivered (发抖) a little as she watched her teammate Paris White play. The two didnt know each other well Taylor had just moved to town a month or so before.Suddenly, Paris fell to the ground, Pariss eyes rolled back, Taylor says. She started shaking. I knew it was an emergency.It certainly was, Paris had suffered a sudden heart failure. Without immediate medical care, Paris would die. At first, no one moved. The girls were in shock. Then the softball coach shouted out, Does anyone know CPR?CPR is a life-saving technique. To do CPR, you press on the sick persons chest so that blood moves through the body and takes oxygen to organs. Without oxygen, the brain is damaged quickly.Amazingly, Taylor had just taken a CPR course the day before. Still, she hesitated. She didnt think she knew it well enough. But when no one else came forward, Taylor ran to Paris and began doing CPR. It was scary. I knew it was the difference between life and death, says Taylor.Taylors swift action helped her teammates calm down. One girl called 911. Two more ran to get the school nurse, who brought a defibrillator, an electronic device (器械) that can shock the heart back into work. Luck stayed with them: Pariss heartbeat returned.I know I was really lucky, Paris says now. Most people dont survive this. My team saved my life.Experts say Paris is right: For a sudden heart failure, the single best chance for survival is having someone nearby step in and do CPR quickly.Today, Paris is back on the softball team. Taylor will apply to college soon. She wants to be a nurse. I feel more confident in my actions now, Taylor says. I know I can act under pressure in a scary situation.21.What happened to Paris on a March day?A.She caught a bad cold.B.She had a sudden heart problem.C.She was knocked down by a ball.D.She shivered terribly during practice.22.Why does Paris say she was lucky?A.She made a worthy friend.B.She recovered from shock.C.She received immediate CPR.D.She came back on the softball team.23.Which of the following words can best describe Taylor?A.Enthusiastic and kind.B.Courageous and calm.C.Cooperative and generous.D.Ambitious and professional.B.The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they dont know. By next year,half of the calls we receive will be scams(欺诈).We are finally waking up to the severity of the problem by supporting and developing a group of tools,apps and approaches intended to prevent scammers from getting through. Unfortunately,its too little,too late. By the time these “solutions(解决方案)become widely available,scammers will have moved onto cleverer means. In the near future,its not just going to be the number you see on your screen that will be in doubt. Soon you will also question whether the voice youre hearing is actually real.Thats because there are a number of powerful voice manipulation ( 处理 ) and automation technologies that are about to become widely available for anyone to use .At this years I/O Conference ,a company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist and book a reservation without detection.These developments are likely to make our current problems with robocalls much worse. The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision A decade of data breaches(数据侵入)of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother s name ,and far more. Armed with this knowledge. theyre able to carry out individually targeted campaigns to cheat people. This means. for example,that a scammer could call you from what looks to be a familiar number and talk to you using a voice that sounds exactly like your bank teller s,ricking you into confirming your address,mothers name,and card number. Scammers follow money,so companies will be the worst hit. A lot of business is still done over the phone,and much of it is based on trust and existing relationships. Voice manipulation technologies may weaken that gradually.We need to deal with the insecure nature of our telecom networks. Phone carriers and consumers need to work together to find ways of determining and communicating what is real. That might mean either developing a uniform way to mark videos and images, showing when and who they were made by. or abandoning phone calls altogether and moving towards data-based communicationsusing apps like Face Time or WhatsApp, which can be tied to your identity.Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to harder from here on out.24.How does the author feel about the solutions to problem of robecalls?A.Panicked.B.Confused.C.Embarrassed.D.Disappointed.25.taking advantage of the new technologies,scammer can_.A.aim at victims preciselyB.damage databases easilyC.start campaigns rapidlyD.spread information widely26.What does the passage imply?A.Honesty is the best policy.B.Technologies can be double-edited.C.There are more solutions than problems.D.Credibility holds the key to development.27.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A.Where the Problem of Robocalls Is RootedB.Who Is to Blame for the Problem of RoboeallsC.Why Robocalls Are About to Get More DangerousD.How Robocalls Are Affecting the World of TechnologyC.Digital grounding is when parents or caregivers limit or completely take away access to technology from children. According to a study conducted by Pew Research,65% parents have digitally grounded their teen by taking away their teens cellphone or Internet access as punishment.Because children are so connected with their technologies,digital grounding may seem likea logical step for parents. Take away a childs most cherished item and they will quickly learnfrom their behavior, But the idea of digital grounding isnt as clear-cut as that. Instead, it may be a lose-lose situation for parents and kids, alike.For most parents, the goal of grounding isnt to make their children unhappy or sad. It is to teach a lesson in the hope that they wont engage in whatever behavior gets them in trouble in thefirst place. Unfortunately, though, digital grounding is often just punishment, not discipline. If a child stays out past curfew(宵禁时间)。a punishment would be hitting or yelling at themDiscipline would be not letting them go out the next weekend because they fail to follow rules. weve all been there-weve caught our child doing something wrong and in the heat of the moment laid out a strict punishment. We may have been feeling hotheaded, embarrassedor dismayed. Often, though, these punishments arent aligned with the had behavior.While digital grounding may solve the problem temporarily it wont provide childrenwith the guidance they need to act appropriately in the future. Instead of grounding, show your child what they did wrong and give them the chance a act differently.This way, they will learn from their mistakes in a practical manner and figure out ways to be safe and smart with technologyThere is no denying it: technology is here for the long-haul. This is why some parenting experts don recommend digitally grounding your children. It doesnt focus on the end goal ofsafe behavior. They recommend teaching them good habits as soon as possible, rather than taking away their technology. By digitally grounding them, you are putting a bandage over the wound.rather than treating it.Now, when we say that digital grounding is a lose-lose situation, were not saying that disciplining your children in general is a lose-lose situation, Discipline is a great way to teachchildren lessons. when use appropriately.28.Whichofthefollowingisaformofdiscipline?A.Hitting or yelling at children.B.laying out a strict punishment in the heat of the momentC.Taking away access to cellphones from childrenD.Forbiding kids to go out the next weekend if they stay out past curfew.29.Whatdoestheauthorthinkofdigitalgrounding?A.lt benefits children greatly.B.It is no better than discipliningC.Parents can use it to correct kids behavior.D.Neither parents nor children gain benefits from it30.Whatdoestheauthorsuggestparentsdoinsteadofgrounding?A.Give kids more free time.B.Act appropriately in publicC.Help kids form good habitsD.Put a bandage over the wound31.Whatsthepurposeofthetext?A.To inform us of ways of punishing kids.B.To explain what digital grounding means.C.To show how to parent children in digital timesD.To prove digital grounding is not a good parenting wayDWherever agriculture has been practiced, pests have attacked and destroyed part or even all of the crop.In modern age, the term pest includes animals (mostly insects), plants, bacteria, and viruses.Human efforts to control pests have a long history.Even in Neolithic times (新石器时代), farmers practiced a form of biological pest control involving the more or less unconscious selection of seed from resistant plants.The scientific study of pests was not undertaken until the 17th and 18th centuries.In his Natural History, the Roman author Pliny the Elder describes picking insects from plants by hand and spraying.The first successful large-scale battle against a serious disease by chemical means was in Europe in the 1840s.The disease, brought from the Americas, was controlled first by spraying pesticide (农药).Another serious outbreak caused food shortage in Ireland in 1845 and some succeeding years and severe losses in many other parts of Europe and the United States.Insects and bacteria from Europe became serious pests in the United States, too.The first book to deal with pests in a scientific way was John Curtiss Farm Insects, published in 1860.Though farmers were well aware that insects caused losses, Curtis was the first writer to call attention to their significant economic impact.The successful battle for control of the Colorado potato beetle (甲壳虫) of the western United States also occurred in the 19th century.When miners and pioneers brought the potato into the Colorado region, the beetle fell upon this crop and became a severe pest, spreading steadily eastward and ruining crops, until it reached the Atlantic.It crossed theocean and eventually established itself in Europe.But an American scientist in 1877 found a practical control method consisting of spraying with water-insoluble chemicals.It was used successfully against the beetle.Since many pesticides available in the 19th century were comparatively weak, other pest-control methods were used as well.A species of ladybird beetle was imported from Australia to California to kill the Colorado potato beetle.32.How did farmers control pests in Neolithic times?A.By picking insects from plants by hand.B.By spraying chemicals on a large scale.C.By controlling the number of the crops.D.By selecting best seeds from resistant crops.33.When did people begin to research the pest control systematically?A.By the end of the 18th century.B.During the 17th and 18th centuries.C.In 1845.D.In 1860.34.What can be inferred about the Colorado potato beetle?A.It was native to Colorado.B.It has changed into a new species.C.It was finally under control in 1877.D.It was completely killed in Colorado region.35.What can be the best title of the text?A.The Common Crop Disease in History B.The Battles against Pests in Early HistoryC.Survival of the Fittestthe History of Pests D.Beginnings of Pest and Disease Control in Crops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。Communication skills: What is active listening?Active listening is a special way of communicating. Its goal is to make it easier for people to clearly express ideas and feelings. It can lead to a better understanding between a speaker and a listener.Active listening can be guided by a third person, such as a therapist (治疗专家)._36_Active listening works best when the speaker and the listener sit facing each other. The two people take turns talking. The goal is for listener to give full attention to the speaker. You should avoid thinking about what to say next or whether what the speaker is saying is right._37_Try as much as possible to see things from the speakers point of view.Once the speaker finishes talking, you should repeat back the main points of what he or she just said._38_It gives him or her a chance to clear up any misunderstandings. The speaker can explain his or her ideas until he or she feels fully understood._39_From there, the two people switch back and forth (来回地) until they have both fully heard and understood each other.Active listening is very useful for people who live or work together. Family members and co-workers often have bad listening habits. They react to each other based on what they expect the other person to say rather than on what is actually said._40_A. Doing that lets the speaker know how well you understood what was said.B. You do not have to agree on everything.C. Or, it can be done by two people on their own.D. Instead, focus on understanding what is being said.E. Active listening gives them a way to break this pattern.F. The speaker and the listener then switch roles.G. An active listener first listens carefully, without talking.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，从短文后各题所给四个选项（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。I walked into a restaurant and ordered some food. After 20 minutes a group of guys came in and ordered theirs.To my 41 ,these folks got served first. I watched as they began to eat and laugh 42 I even overheard one of them bragging(吹嘘)about how he was 43 to everyone in the restaurant and I felt 44 .Unable to stand it anymore, I called the 45 .He explained to me: Yours is a special order, being prepared by the 4