安徽省阜阳市颍上二中2020学年高二英语上学期第二次段考试题

安徽省阜阳市颍上二中2020学年高二英语上学期第二次段考试题（满分：150分，考试时间：120分钟）命卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）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。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. How much time is left before the meeting begins?A. 20 minutes. B. 30 minutes. C. 40 minutes.2. What does the man want the woman to do?A. Keep a kitty. B. Sing a song for him. C. Look after his sick pet.3. What is the man?A. A hairdresser. B. A tailor. C. A salesman.4. Whose birthday is coming?A. Geralds. B. Sarahs. C. Tonys.5. What did the man see in the painting?A. Some boats. B. Some mountains. C. Some houses.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. What does the woman offer to do?A. Drive the man downtown. B. Lend her car to the man. C. Check the mans house.7. When is the man supposed to arrive at the mechanics?A. At 1:00 pm. B. At 2:00 pm. C. At 3:00 pm.听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。8. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a police station. B. In a music shop. C. In a clothes shop.9. What does the madam look like?A. She is short. B. She wears blue jeans. C. She has red hair.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。10. What are the speakers discussing?A. Who should clean the floor. B. Where dark marks are from. C. Why the shoes get dirty.11. When does the conversation take place?A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.12. Whats the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Detective and homeowner. B. Cleaner and employer. C. Husband and wife.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。13. Who made many mistakes in the monthly report?A. The woman. B. The manager. C. The managers supervisor.14. How long has the woman worked in the company?A. Three years. B. Four years. C. Five years.15. What is the woman expecting?A. A transfer. B. A raise. C. A promotion.16. What will the woman probably do?A. Leave the company. B. Speak up her opinions. C. Bear the unfair treatment.听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。17. Whats the speakers attitude towards exams?A. Positive. B. Indifferent. C. Negative.18. What does the speaker usually do the night before exams?A. Watch TV. B. Study all night. C. Do something interesting.19. What problem does the speaker have during exams?A. He couldnt arrange time properly. B. He often skips the first question. C. He usually falls asleep.20. Why doesnt the speaker discuss answers right after exams?A. Hes sure of his answers. B. He finds that very stressful. C. Hell check answers at home.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）AWELCOME TO THE RONALD REAGANPRESIDENTLAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUMVisit the limitedtime “Interactive! The Exhibition” at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum and save more than 30% on museum admission tickets with an audio tour.WHENThrough Feb. 28, 2020WHATS INCLUDED$19 (reg. $28) . Admission for one person to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, including “Interactive! The Exhibition” with an audio tour. Please note: the virtual reality (虚拟现实) experience will be an additional cost and participants must be 10 years old or above.WHY WE LOVE IT The exhibition is a handson experience focusing on movies, TV, music and the arts Experience virtual reality, 1980s video games, robots, 3D printing Climb aboard Air Force One, view the expensive comfortable presidential car and a Marine One helicopter Explore Reagans legacy (遗产): Step into an Oval Office copy and see a piece of the Berlin Wall The audio tour has more than 50 stops and original material not copied in the exhibitsWHAT YOU NEED TO KNOWThis is a seasonspecific event. All sales are final. No refunds (退款) or exchanges. Not valid after the expiration date. Valid any regular museum operating day through Feb. 28, 2020. Museum hours are 10 a. m. 5 p. m. , seven days a week. Valid for one person. Cannot combine with other offers. Must use in one visit. Tickets include admission to “Interactive! The Exhibition” and the entire museums galleries and grounds.21.What can visitors do while visiting the library and museum?A. Fly on Air Force One.B. Approach technology of different times.C. Experience virtual reality for free.D. Learn about the presidents daily routine.22.What does the author say about the admission ticket?A. It can be enjoyed with other offers.B. It allows limitless visits to the museum.C. It cannot be changed once sold.D. It isnt accessible to children.23.What type of writing is this passage?A. A notice.B. An official report.C. A tour review.D. An advertisement.BIt was in 1965 when I was 6 years old that my family moved to Elmont. It was a wonderful place to grow up. There were lots of kids, great schools and we had a big yard. Having grown up a city kid, my father, Nicholas Denaro, believed that grass was not just to look at, but that children were meant to play on it. We played games and badminton there. A white fence separated our backyard from a small wood. My friends and I enjoyed jumping the fence and climbing trees.My father had the most amazing hand. He could fix anything. He gave those amazing hands to his son, my younger brother, Frank, who also became handy around the house. But my father saved his green fingers for me. He grew flowers, tomatoes, strawberries and figs and he shared his love of gardening with me.Fourteen years ago, my husband and I went to a local nursery and bought a fig tree for Dad for Fathers Day. My mother, Bridget Denaro, called it the best gift I could have given him. He planted it exactly in the middle of the front yard.He loved that tree and enjoyed delicious figs every year, except just after Sandy hit in 2020. He was so disappointed when cold weather just after the superstorm froze all the remaining figs.In 2020, my father died of lung cancer at 97. We sold our family home of 61 years last year. We left behind Dads tree, full of figs waiting to ripen. We briefly considered taking it with us, but decided that his Fathers Day fig tree belonged in Elmont. The new owners generously allowed me to take some branches so that I could have a precious reminder of my much-loved father and the Elmont home.24.Which of the following is true about the author?A. She was born in Elmont.B.She was naughty and stubborn.C. She had a sad childhood.D. She liked climbing trees.25.What did the author get from her father?A. How to fix everything.B. How to garden well.C. How to color fingers.D. How to play games.26.Why did Father fail to enjoy figs in 2020?A. The cold hit the fig tree.B. He was ill in hospital. .C. The tree didnt bear figs.D. He moved to another city.27.What is the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To show her love of figs.B.To remember her father.C. To share her childhood.D. To introduce her experience.CThere was a time when cheating was rare in schools, but today everyone is focused on making the top ten percent of their class and seems to have forgotten schools purpose. School exists so that people will be educated. Nobody can cheat their way into being successful.A lot of students today dont even view cheating as wrong, and most of those who cheat have been doing it for so long that it doesnt even faze them. This really bothers the teachers because the students who usually cheat probably will never stop to think how bad it truly is. When you cheat, you learn nothing, which is why cheating is so serious.Our society seems to believe that the more material wealth you have, the more successful you are. As a result, it seems many people have become successful by cheating their way to the top. If students think cheating is normal, who knows what they will find acceptable as adults? Most people think that cheating on one little test doesnt mean that you will cheat again. Unfortunately, this is not true because if you can get away with it once, you are likely to do it again.If cheating continues in college, students will get nothing out of what they are being tested on. If a college student cheats on all the work they do for their major, when and if they get a job, that person will be a total mess at work.I am not saying that anyone who has ever cheated is a liar, because that would mean just about every student at your average school would be one, including me. What I am saying is that cheating students should receive more severe punishments. I truly believe that if there were severe consequences for cheating, students would actually focus on learning. Then we all would be better educated.28.More and more students tend to cheat in exams because they want to _.A. succeed in societyB. gain high marksC. find a good jobD. finish their work quickly29.What does the underlined word “faze” mean in the second paragraph?A. Encourage.B. Excite.C. Embarrass.D. Frighten.30.What can we learn from the text?A. Getting away with punishment will lead to cheating again.B. Students who never cheat in college will find a good job.C. Most people have successfully cheated their way to the top.D. Anyone who has ever cheated in school is a liar.31.What is the text mainly about?A. Students Cheating in SchoolsB. Consequences of CheatingC. Students Cheating: Acceptable or Not?D. Punishments for Students CheatingDMaryland is expected to become the first state of the USA to ban foam (泡沫橡胶)food packaging, takeout containers and cups The new proposed law passed both of the states legislative bodies (立法机关)this week with enough votes to override a potential rejection signed by Gov. Larry Hogan, who has not publicly signaled whether he supported the law or not. The law would become the latest in a growing effort worldwide to ban kinds of single-use plastic products, due to their impacts on the environment.With the statewide previous ban effort, Marylands two counties, Prince George and Montgomery, had already banned foam packaging. Del. Brooke Lierman, who introduced similar legislation last year and in 2020, says changing public opinion helped her third attempt succeed.“I think we have reached a danger point,” she says. “People are seeing how common single-use plastics are, and that they are not recyclable and never going away. People are beginning to understand the importance of living more sustainably. The new law would ban foam food packaging for products packaged in-state, including restaurants, cafes, food trucks, and grocery stores. The final version of the bill includes exceptions, such as meat. The ban would go into force on July 1, 2020 and would carry fines of $ 250.The legislation was opposed by the Maryland Retailers Association, which warned that outlawing foam packaging could hurt small businesses by higher costs. Foam packaging remains popular among restaurants and the food industry because it is lightweight, inexpensive, and keeps food and drinks hot.Foam food containers have been banned in cities or counties in 11 states, including Seattle, Portland, Washington D. C. , San Francisco, and numerous other cities in California. A ban in New York City took effect at the beginning of this year after a long legal battle ended last summer.32.How did Maryland carry out the ban of foam food packaging?A. By closing some local companies.B. By fining foam packaging users.C. By passing a new law.D. By teaching people to focus on the environment.33.What does the underlined word “override in paragraph 1 mean?A. Explain.B. Reject.C. Prove.D. Tolerate.34.What is the key to the third success according to Del. Brooke Lierman?A. Changing public opinion. B. Getting mediums support.C.Learning from other cities.D. Hurting small businesses.35.What can we learn from the text?A. Foam food packages will disappear in the world.B. Meat will be allowed to be sold in foam food packages in America.C. Foam food packages havent any advantage at all.D. People in Maryland support the law absolutely.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。Barbecue is a tradition as old as the US itself .The first president of the US, George Washington, once wrote about going to a lovely barbecue. 36 .In the northern region, the word barbecue means cooking something on a grill. It could be burgers, hot dogs or potatoes. In North Carolina, barbecue means “smoked pork shoulder. 37 . If I crossed the border to South Carolina, Id see them smoke an entire pig in a hole in the ground .In the western half of the state, folks prefer a sweet-and-sour barbecue sauce made with ketchup, while people in the eastern half like a sauce made of boiled vinegar. We used to travel around the US, giving samples to the public. But some people in Lumberton refused the free samples. 38 One guy even stood around to argue with us.39 When my brother got married, we celebrated with barbecue .When I graduated from school, we celebrated with barbecue. When I go home to visit my friends and family, we celebrate with barbecue.But its not just my family. At churches, schools, offices and house parties, barbecue is the first thing many people think of when we need to feed as many as 50 people. 40 .It means getting out of doors, in good weather, to eat with your friends and good neighbors.Whether we are from a big city or a tiny town, people in the US can agree on one thing: We love barbecue-whatever that is.A. Other places in the US have different ideas of barbecueB. You can probably see that barbecue is important in my family.C. We have our own brand of barbecue sauce.D. But people in the US argue about almost anythingE. But Americans cant agree on what barbecue is.F. Barbecue means more than just meat.G. They were upset that the sauce wasnt yellow.第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 （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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。A woman professor walked around in a classroom while she was teaching stress management to her students. 41 she raised a glass of water, 42 expected they would be asked the “half-empty or half-full” question.Instead, with a 43 on her face, she asked, “Whats the 44 of this glass of water?” 45 called out ranged from eight to twenty ounces (盎司).She 46 the students down and then replied, “The absolute weight doesnt matter. It all 47 how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, its not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, Ill have a 48 in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb (麻木) and paralyzed (麻痹). In each 49 , the weight of the glass of water doesnt change, but the longer I hold it, the 50 it becomes. Do you know why?”All the students kept silent and listened carefully, lost in thought.She 51 , “Our stresses and 52 in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing 53 . Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel 54 unable to do anything.”Its important to 55 to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as possible, put all your burdens down. Dont 56 them through the evening and into the night Remember to put the glass down!More often than not life gets 57 when we think too much. And the moment you 58 your burden, youll find yourself feeling so much more relaxed.So 59 wondering around and feeling sorry for yourself, start doing something about it. After all, life is too short to devote yourself to anything that makes you 60 .41.A. IfB. AsC. HoweverD. Though42.A. nobodyB. someoneC.everyone D. anyone43.A. lookB. puzzlementC. smileD. surprise44.A. weightB. amountC. qualityD. problem45.A. numbersB. methodsC. solutionsD. answers46.A. signedB. stoppedC. quietedD. signaled47.A. depends onB.decided on C. resulted fromD. resulted in48.A. cutB. painC. dangerD. problem49.A. glassB. wayC. caseD. manner50.A. more seriousB. heavierC. harderD. more51.A.commentedB. explainedC. continuedD. replied52.A. worriesB. angerC. discomfortD. problem53.A. mattersB. happensC.helps D. works54.A. shockedB. dissatisfiedC. angryD. discouraged55.A. rememberB.come C. realizeD. believe56.A. carryB.getC. putD. take57.A. excitingB.terrible C. frighteningD. colorful58.A. undertakeB. refuseC.removeD. change59.A. As toB. more thanC. besidesD. rather than60.A. relaxedB. unhappyC. excitedD. unsure第二节 （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。Keeping a diary in English is one of the effective ways 61 (improve) our English writing ability.Compared with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes 62 (little) time. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. If we persist in this practice, gradually well learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many 63 (difficult). Firstly, it often happens that we have trouble 64 (find) appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there65 (be) many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English 66 (proper)As far as I am concerned, my suggestion is67 we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then consult our dictionary. We can also ask our English tea