湖北省宜昌市2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题（无答案）

湖北省宜昌市2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题（无答案）第卷第一部分 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. What is the woman probably doing?A. Waiting for the traffic lights.B. Doing morning exercise.C. Asking for directions.2. What does the woman mean?A. She lacks experience.B. She missed the interview.C. She isnt interested in the job.3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Their favorite games. B. The weather. C. The coming rain.4. When did the incident happen?A. At about 10 am. B. At about 10 pm. C. At about 2 am.5. Why will the man go to Edinburgh?A. To drive the woman there.B. To do some sightseeing there.C. To meet some important people.第二节 (共15小题；每小题1.5分，共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、7题。6. Why is the man sad today?A. He lost his job. B. He was criticized by his boss. C. He has too much work to do.7. What will the man do tomorrow?A. Drive the woman to her workplace.B. Have a talk with his boss.C. Have some job interviews.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What does the woman want the man to do?A. Take her to the front desk.B. Help her check in.C. Send someone to clean her room.9. When does the woman want to go to the museum?A. In 25 minutes. B. In 20 minutes. C. In 5 minutes.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why does the man think the campus housing is not bad?A. Its quiet. B. Its cheap. C. Its big.11. What do students have to pay?A. State tax. B. Gas. C. Water.12. What is the mans plan?A. To find a cheap apartment in the summer.B. To live in his present apartment till next June.C. To share a house with his classmate after June.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Whats the most probable relationship between the speakers?A. Friends. B. Strangers. C. Colleagues.14. What does the man advise the woman to do?A. Talk with her husband more.B. Buy a house far from the city center.C. Save or borrow money from relatives.15. Who sold the old house?A. The owner. B. The owners family. C. The government.16. What do we know about the old house?A. It is in bad shape.B. It was built about 75 years ago.C. It is located in a good place.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What did the neighbors complain about?A. The dogs waste. B. The dogs barking. C. The dogs attacking people.18. How did the dog go out of the garden?A. By pressing his paw on the handle.B. By waiting until the gate opened itself.C. By sitting there and barking.19. When did the dog probably begin his new bad habit?A. Last week. B. Last month. C. Last year.20. What caused the dog to get upset and disappear?A. The removing of the gate. B. Going out without him. C. The tiring training.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。AA cute white cat peeks out of a hole with only its head visible. A long-eared rabbit licks its lips while looking up at a carrot. These arent real scenes in a natural park. Instead, theyre paintings in tree holes on a road in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. Hundreds of people are visiting the artistic road to take photos of the new paintings.The creator of these eye-catching paintings is Wang Yue, 23. She describes her tree hole paintings as “a beautiful journey” through which she adds fun and vitality (活力) to her hometown.“When I saw the trees by the roadside had lost all their leaves, and the ugly tree holes became obvious, I thought that if I could paint some interesting scenes in these holes they might add some color to the city,” said Wang Yue.But Wang was worried that her watercolor paints could hurt the trees. When Wang got permission from city officials, she gathered her color palette, brushes and a stool and got to work.Her first painting was of rosy clouds, but many passers-by couldnt understand it. “Perhaps it was too abstract,” said Wang Yue. After that, she began to paint animals. Using her paintbrush she creatively placed a raccoon(浣熊), a squirrel and a cat in the holes.Wangs friends shared her works on their micro blogs and she became a hit. Her next aim is to tell stories rather than painting individual animals. “I was glad to let people see lifes beauty. I hope more artists can join me in painting the tree holes,” she said.21. Why did Wang Yue begin to create paintings in the tree holes?A. To practice painting and have fun.B. To prevent the tree leaves from falling.C. To have passers-by take photos of her paintings.D. To make the city more colorful and lively.22. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. Wangs first painting hurt the trees and city officials stopped her work.B. Wangs first painting wasnt popular because she wasnt skillful then.C. Wang became successful partly because of her friends micro blogs.D. Wang would continue to centre her works on individual animals.23. Which is the best title for the text?A. Paintings in Tree Holes Become Popular.B. Paintings Bring Grey Road to Life.C. Wang Yue-A Girl Who Has Become a Hit.D. Join in Painting the Tree Holes!BLondons transport services offer you a special experience of the city. Heres a round-up of the transport choices available to you. London UndergroundThere are 11 colour-coded Underground lines. Services run regularly from around 5:00 to 00:30 (Sunday 07:30 to 23:30).Visit .uk/tube for more information.Tip:Always stand on the right when using the escalators (电动扶梯) at Tube stations. It can get hot and busy on the Tube during peak travel times, so you may prefer to travel outside these hours. BusesA cheap and easy way to travel around London. They generally run from 5:00 to 00:30. Night buses operate on many major routes from around midnight to 05:00, and some operate a 24-hour service.It is not possible to pay for your London bus fare in cash. Instead you can pay with a Visitor Oyster card, Oyster card, Travelcard or UK-issued contactless payment card. A single bus journey is 1.50 with an Oyster card or UK-issued contactless payment card.To help you get home, if you dont have enough credit (存款) on your Oyster card, you will be able to make one more bus journey. After this you will need to add the credit on your card before you use it again. If your contactless payment card has been issued outside the UK, please check .uk/contactless before you use your card to travel on our bus services.For more information visit .uk/buses.Tip:Some bus routes are especially good for sightseeing - try routes 9, 14, 15 and 22. The New Routemaster bus featured in the James Bond film Skyfall and runs on routes 9, 11, 24, 38 and 390.24. At what time do London Underground services begin to operate on Sundays?A. Midnight B. 00:30 C. 05:00 D. 07:3025. During the rush hour, visitors at Tube stations are advised to _ .A. stand side by side B. avoid using the escalatorsC. take the tube at fixed times D. take advantage of off-peak hours26. If you find only 1.00 left on your Oyster card for your home journey, you _ .A. will be given one more chance to take a London busB. will not be allowed to get on a London busC. should pay 0.50 more in cash on the busD. should add more credit on your card first27. What type of writing is this text?A. Job advertisements. B. Activity announcements.C. Service introductions. D. Project reports.CAs graduation draws near, those who havent landed a job yet may be desperate to find one. Perhaps some of the job offers they have received are below their skill and experience levels. Is it better to take these offers, or reject them and remain unemployed?Recently, David Pedulla, a University of Texas sociologist, conducted a study about how taking a job below your skill level could affect your future employment.In the study, Pedulla developed resumes for imaginary job applicants. The job seekers he created had a few things in common. They had a college degree, worked nearly two years at their first job, and about 4.5 years at their second job. What differed was their third job in the most recent year. They either had a full-time job that matched their skills, a part-time job below their skill levels, or were unemployed.Then Pedulla submitted 2,420 resumes based on his imaginary job seekers, along with cover letters, to online ads for 1,210 real jobs. Each applicant had a real phone number that employers could contact if they were interested in talking with the applicant further.The callback rates varied widely based on how the imaginary job seekers had spent their last year. The applicants who had full-time jobs the previous year were called back 10.4 percent of the time. Those whose most recent year of employment was in a job below their skill levels were only called back about 5 percent. Male applicants unemployed for a year were called back 4.2 percent of the time, while the figure is 7.5 percent for unemployed females.However, Pedulla cautioned that the experiment only measured the initial interest of employers in his fictional job candidates, not whether the employers would hire them or what they would be paid based on their most recent job experiences.28. The purpose of the first paragraph is _ .A. to lead in the topicB. to present an argumentC. to shock the readerD. to describe the present situation in job seeking29. Which statement is NOT true about Pedullas experiment?A. The applicants had some things in common at their first two jobs.B. The applicants resumes and phone numbers are created by Pedulla.C. The applicants most recent job experiences affected the callback rates.D. Unemployed female applicants got a higher callback rate than males.30. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?A. The applicants with a high callback rate would surely be hired.B. The applicants most recent job experiences would decide their salaries.C. There are some limits about what lessons can be taken from the study.D. It is better to take a job offer below ones skill level than to reject it.31. In which section may the text appear in a newspaper?A. Career B. Science C. Culture D. EducationDIf you look outside, you probably will see some kind of insect. If your first instinct is to kill it, take a moment to think about all of the benefits insects provide to the environment.Entomologists, scientists who study insects, estimate that there are more than 800,000 species of insects found throughout the world. Only a few hundred of these insects are considered harmful. Mosquitoes, for example, are considered harmful. They bite humans and other animals, and their bites can cause skin pain and spread disease. Desert locusts also are considered harmful because they destroy crops causing billions of dollars in damage each year.However, the number of helpful insect species far outweighs the number of harmful species. Some insects make up a vital part of the food chain. Many different birds, reptiles, fish and even plants eat insects. There are also about 500 insects that people in various parts of the world eat. These insects are considered delicious food and prized for their high protein, mineral, and vitamin content. Other insects produce valuable commercial products such as silk, wax, and honey.Of all the insects, perhaps the most important are those that travel from flower to flower and pollinate(授粉) the plants they visit. Agriculture around the world would be very different without the bees, butterflies, moths, flies and wasps that pollinate many crops. In fact, nearly one-third of the food you eat depends on plants that are pollinated by insects!While it is true that some species of insects harm or annoy us, you should not automatically reach for the bug spray when you come across an insect. You may be destroying one of the hundreds of thousands of insects that provides many benefits to human beings.32. According to the passage, the most important type of insects are_.A. insects that are eaten by birds, reptiles and fishB. insects that travel around and pollinate plantsC. insects that harm mosquitoes and stop the spread of diseaseD. insects that are eaten by people in many countries33. According to the passage, insects are eaten in some parts of the world because_.A. they are nutritiousB. they are available to cookC. they are easy to breedD. they are free34. According to the author, the sentence in the last paragraph “you should not automatically reach for the bug spray.” means _.A. you should not keep insects as petsB. you should not breed insects for their benefitC. you should not catch insects for pleasureD. you should not kill insects without thinking35. The main purpose of this passage is_.A. to explain why it is cruel to kill bugsB. to convince people that insects are nutritiousC. to describe the beneficial contributions of insectsD. to make people aware of endangered insect species第二节 （共5小题；每题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。During a research experiment a marine（海洋）biologist placed a shark into a large holding tank and then released several small fish into the tank. 36._The marine biologist then inserted a strong piece of clear fiberglass（玻璃纤维）into the tank, creating two separate parts. She then put the shark on one side of the fiberglass and a new set of small fish on the other.Again, the shark quickly attacked. This time, however, the shark hit the fiberglass divider and bounced off. 37._ Meanwhile, the small fish swam around unharmed in the second part. Eventually, about an hour into the experiment, the shark gave up.This experiment was repeated several dozen times over the next few weeks. 38._ Eventually the shark got tired of hitting the fiberglass divider and simply stopped attacking altogether.The marine biologist then removed the fiberglass divider, but the shark didnt attack. 39._ So, they swam wherever they wished, free from harm.Like the shark in the story, many of us, after experiencing setbacks and failures, emotionally give up and stop trying. 40._ In other words, we continue to see a barrier in our heads, even when no real barrier exists between where we are and where we want to go.A. At the same time, the shark tried again and again.B. We believe that because we were unsuccessful in the past, we will always be unsuccessful.C. The shark was trained to believe a barrier existed between it and the small fish.D. It kept repeating this behavior every few minutes fruitlessly.E. We should keep on trying even if we meet obstacles.F. Each time, the shark got less aggressive and made fewer attempts to attack the small fish.G. As you would expect, the shark quickly swam around the tank, attacked and ate the smaller fish.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。When I was strolling in the park one day, I passed some children selling hot chocolate. One girl asked, Would you like to help support our park? Its only 50 rents a cup. Of course, I couldnt help being extraordinarily 41 that kids showed great interest in 42 their community. They were having great 43 pouring hot chocolate and feeling proud that they were helping a local cause. It was because they 44 grasped a basic idea about helping others：It feels 45.Teaching our children to help others benefits them a great deal. 46 brings them peace of mind. Serving those in need also helps children learn to make a 47 -that they have the 48 to make a positive impact. This 49 a sense of control, helping them feel less frightened. It also reassures them that help would be 50 if they were ever in danger.Another important 51 is that we are all dependent on each other. When children serve others, they learn to 52 someone elses greater need and to 53 other people.There are many other 54 of making charity a part of your familys life. Youll meet new friends and develop relationships. Running a bake sale will give your kids a chance to practice 55 such as fundraising, money management, and teamwork. Self-exploration and discovery will 56 through their choice of activities.If a child can become a cheerful, charitable giver, he or she must try different volunteer efforts. When you see them enjoying the 57 of them, encourage them to 58.On my own experience, I can say developing the good 59 of charitable giving will become 60 to your best family memories and celebrations.41. A. worried B. impressed C. doubtful D. grateful42. A. organizing B. cleaning C. improving D. controlling43. A. difficulty B. success C. advantage D. fun44. A. already B. seldom C. never D. often45. A. boring B. strange C. great D. relaxing46. A. Teaching B. Giving C. Thinking D. Learning47. A. choice B. promise C. mistake D. difference48. A. ability B. right C. freedom D. time49. A. promotes B. reduces C. reflects D. protects50. A. impossible B. flexible C. available D. reasonable51. A. example B. less