福建省东山县第二中学2020学年高二英语下学期期末考试试题

东山二中20202020学年下学期期末考试高二英语科试卷试卷共分两卷，第卷90分，第卷60分，总分150分第I卷(选择题 共90分)第一部分： 听力 (共两节，满分30分)第一节（共五题，每题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 are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A movie. B. A book. C. A match.2. What do we know about Penny? A. She likes chemistry. B. She got a good mark in chemistry. C. She thinks chemistry is easier than physics. 3. Whose dictionary is it? A. The mans. B. The womans neighbors. C. The mans classmates.4. Where did the woman find the mans pen? A. Under his chair. B. On his desk. C. In his drawers.5. What does Laura always do? A. She goes fishing. B. She goes swimming. C. She talks with friends.第二节（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15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。听下面一段材料，回答第6-8题6. Where was the man born? A. In Oakland. B. In San Diego. C. In Los Angeles.7. Why does the man want to change his job? A. To do some travelling. B. To live closer to his parents. C. To use his computer knowledge.8. What is the most probable relationship between the speakers? A. Mother and son. B. Boss and employee. C. Interviewer and interviewee.听下面一段材料，回答第9-11题9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Colleagues. B. Strangers. C. Classmates. 10. What do we know about Diana?A. She is wearing a green shirt. B. She will go to England next week. C. She is Adams best friend.11. What does Norm run?A. A bank. B. A restaurant. C. A dance studio.听下面一段材料，回答第12-14题12. What did the man enjoy last year? A. The coast. B. The desert. C. The mountains.13. What does the woman suggest doing? A. Staying in a hotel. B. Staying in a youth hostel. C. Renting a holiday house.14. What do we know about the man? A. He hates sharing a kitchen with people. B. He has a lot of money. C. He likes cheap things.听下面一段材料，回答第15-17题15. What do we know about The Sports Shop? A. Its an old store. B. Its beside the Manulife building. C. Theyre doing a sales promotion(促销) at present. 16. Where is the Manning Building? A. Its across from the hospital. B. Its on the Manulife Street. C. Its beside a hotel.17. What do we know about the woman? A. Its her birthday tomorrow. B. She will go to The Athletes Centre. C. She will go shopping right after lunch. 听下面一段材料，回答第18-20题18. How many children are there in the Ramirez family? A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.19. What do we know about Mr. Patel? A. He is about 86 years old. B. He was a teacher before. C. He has no relatives.20. How does the speaker go to school? A. By bus . B. By bike. C. On foot.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 one of the largest collections of footwear（鞋类）in the world that will make you green with envy. Here at the Footwear Museum you can see exhibits（展品）from all over the world. You can find out about shoes worn by everyone from the Ancient Egyptians to pop stars. Room 1 The celebrity（名人）footwear section is probably the most popular in the entire museum. Started in the 1950s there is a wide variety of shoes and boots belonging to everyone from queens and presidents to pop stars and actors! Most visitors find the celebrities choice offootwear extremely interesting.Room 2 Most of our visitors are amazed and shocked by the collection of “special purpose” shoes on exhibition here at the Museum of Footwear. For example, there are Chinese shoes made of silk that were worn by women to tie their feet firmly to prevent them from growing too much!Room 3 As well as shoes and boots the museum also exhibits shoe shaped objects. The variety is unbelievable. For example, there is a metal lamp that resembles a pair of shoes, and Greek wine bottles that like legs!The footwear Library People come from all over the world to study in our excellent footwear library. Designers and researchers come here to look up information on anything and everything related to the subject of footwear. 21. Where would you find a famous singers shoes? A. Room3. B. Room 2. C. Room1. D. The Footwear Library22. All exhibits in each room . A. share the same theme B. have the same shape C. are made of the same material D. belong to the same social class23. Which of the following is true according to the text? A. Room 3 has a richer variety of exhibits than the other two. B. Researchers come to the Footwear Library for data. C. The oldest exhibits in Room 1 were made in the 1950s. D. Room 2 is the most visited place in the museum.24. The purpose of the text is to get more people to . A. do research B. design shoes C. follow celebrities D. visit the museumBLong ago in a small town, there was a place known as the House of 1,000 Mirrors. A happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit.When he arrived, he bounced(跳) happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1,000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1,000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the house, he thought to himself,“This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit often.”In this same town, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1,000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1,000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself,“This is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again.”All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see on the faces of the people you meet? 25. Why was the first dog surprised when he entered the house? A. Because he was always in a mixed mood. B. Because he saw so many dogs smiling at him. C. Because he didnt expect to see so many happy dogs. D. Because he didnt know there were 1,000 mirrors in the house.26. Why did the first dog like the house? A. Because there were 1,000 mirrors in the house. B. Because he thought he could keep himself warm in the house. C. Because he liked the mirrors. D. Because he felt he was welcome here.27. The underlined word“growled”probably means . A. made an unfriendly noise B. smiled C. said hello D. stared28. Which of the following is the most suitable title for the passage? A. A Happy Little Dog B. The House of 1,000 Mirrors C. The Wonderful Place and the Horrible Place D. Two Little DogsCThere are many ways in which human cloning is expected to benefit mankind. Below is a list that is far from completion.Dr. Richard Seed, one of the leading proponents (支持者) of human cloning technology, suggests that it may someday be possible to reverse the aging process because of what we learn from cloning.Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged. Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and several other industrialized countries.There has been a breakthrough with human stem cells. Embryonic (胚胎的) stem cells can be grown to produce organs to repair or replace damaged ones. Skin for burn victims, brain cells for the brain damaged, hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys could be produced. By combining this technology with human cloning technology it may be possible to produce needed organs for suffering people that will be free of rejection by their immune systems. Conditions such as Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease, diabetes, heart failure, and other problems may be made curable if human cloning and its technology are not banned.Despite getting a fair amount of publicity in the news current treatments for infertility (不生育),in terms of percentages, are not very successful. One estimate is that current infertility treatments are less than 10 percent successful. Couples go through physically and emotionally painful procedures for a small chance of having children. Many couples run out of time and money without successfully having children. Human cloning could make it possible for more infertile couples to have children than ever before. 29.The passage mainly deals with . A. the advantages of human cloning B. the disadvantages of human cloning C. the problems with human cloning D. the different ways human cloning is done30. According to Dr. Richard Seed we can use cloning technology. A. to make people look younger B. to make people live longer C. to cure people of many diseases D. to produce more animals31.From the passage we can infer that. A. cloning has already been used to treat heart diseases B. we can treat a mans heart disease by cloning others hearts C. most people in industrialized countries suffer from heart diseases D. more people die of heart diseases than of other diseases in America32. What would be the best headline for the last paragraph? A. Physically and Emotionally Pain of Infertile Couples B. The News Is Not Telling the Truth C. With Cloning, Infertile Couples Could Have Children D. Treatment of Infertility Is Not SuccessfulDDecision-making under StressA new review based on a research shows that acute (严重的) stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative (负面的) consequences of a decision.The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.“Stress affects how people learn,” says Professor Mara Mather. “People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images (影像) with either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadnt gone through the stress.This phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stress at those moments, only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind. But the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect. Not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative consequences are also easily recalled.The research also found that stress appears to affect decision-making differently in men and women. While both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way. In stressful situations in which risk-taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better, when caution weighs more, however, women will win.This tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction. 33. We can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to _. A. keep rewards better in their memory B. recall consequences more effortlessly C. make risky decisions more frequentlyD. learn a subject more effectively34. According to the research, stress affects people most probably in their _. A. tolerance of punishmentsB. preference for pleasure C. ways of making choices D. responses to suggestions35.The research has proved that in a stressful situation, _. A. women find it easier to fall into certain habits B. men are more likely to take risks C. women focus more on outcomes D. men have a greater tendency to slow down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 want your essay to be the one that is passed around the admissions officeor not. Its a little bit like the difference between being famous and infamousWe all know that a truthful，well-written essay that shows how the student has matured is sometimes shared among admissions staffers 36 So how do you make your essay famous instead of infamous?Here are some basic tips to avoid that infamous essay：Avoid the generic(概括的)and get specificDont write that youre “fully-developed”or that“many people have impacted”you 37 .Dont repeat information that is elsewhere in your application 38 It is important for the student to use every opportunity to show who they are and impress the admissions office 39 If you have gone through difficult circumstances，you should share your story. But dont blame othersIts important to show perseverance (毅力)A better essay will talk about how you have dealt with and overcome the obstacles you came acrossDont talk about rankingsMany students love focusing on the numbers when they are writing their“why this college”essay 40 Obviously schools are aware of their rankings. They want to know why you want to attendA. Dont try to cover everything in an essayB. They believe they are praising the college by mentioning the fact that the college is highly rankedC. It also shows the reader that you are thinking about his or her appreciation of your writingD. Dont complainE. For example，it is not necessary to share your participation level in your essayF. But Im guessing that there are a lot more essays that produce laughter and gasps of “not again”.G. Tell the reader what youve done, how youve been influenced, and by whom第三部分 英语知识应用(共三节，满分45分)第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） Fifteen years ago, I was living in London. I had a lot of experience and a Masters degree, 41 I could not find 42 work. I was 43 a school bus to make ends meet and 44 with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had 45 five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not 46 the job. “Why has my life become so 47 ?” I thought painfully. As I pulled the bus over to 48 a little girl, she handed me an earring (耳环) 49 I should keep it 50 somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”. At first I got angry. Then it 51 me I had been giving all of my 52 to what was going wrong with my 53 rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a 54 of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to 55 more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for 56 from a lady who was a director at a larger 57 . She asked me if I would 58 a one-day lecture on stress (压力) management to 200 medical workers. I said yes. My 59 there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of 60 that I completely changed my life. 41. A. butB. thoughC. ifD. when 42. A. successful B. extra C. satisfyingD. convenient 43. A. repairing B. driving C. takingD. designing 44. A. working B. travelling C. living D. discussing 45. A. attendedB. prepared forC. asked forD. held 46. A. loseB. likeC. findD. get 47. A. busyB. hardC. seriousD. short 48. A. drop offB. wave atC. call onD. look for 49. A. orderingB. promisingC. sayingD. showing 50. A. now that B. or elseC. as ifD. in case 51. A. hurtB. hitC. caughtD. moved 52. A. feelingsB. attentionC. strength D. interests 53. A. opinionsB. educationC. experiencesD. life 54. A. listB. bookC. checkD. copy 55. A. connectB. turnC. keepD. add 56. A. herB. a passengerC. meD. my friend 57. A. hospitalB. factoryC. restaurantD. hotel 58. A. listen toB. reviewC. giveD. talk about 59. A. planB. choiceC. tourD. day 60. A. operation B. thinking C. employmentD. speaking第II卷 (非选择题 共60分)第三部分 英语知识应用(共三节，满分45分)第二节 语法填空 （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）或括号内的单词正确形式。 61 artist had a small daughter 62 was clever and sensitive. Sometimes he painted women 63 any clothes on, and he and his wife always tried to keep the small girl out 64 he was doing this, “She is too young 65 (understand),” they said. But one day, when the artist 66 (paint) a woman with no clothes on, he forgot to lock the door, and the girl suddenly ran into the room. Her mother ran up the stairs after her. But when she got to the room, the little girl was already in the room, 67 (look) at