湖北省2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试备考精编金卷（B）

湖北省2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试备考精编金卷（B）注意事项：1.答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。用2B铅笔将答题卡上试卷类型B后的方框涂黑。2.选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。3.非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。4.考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。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。录音部分结束前，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 will the man do?A. Study with his brother.B. Take a math exam.C. Turn down the music.2. How many new words should the woman learn a week?A. 10.B. 20.C. 30.3. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Father and son. B. Teacher and student. C. Colleagues.4. What does Mary like to do?A. Hide something.B. Speak out whatever she hopes to.C. Say what others want her to.5. What day is it today?A. Monday. B. Friday.C. Saturday.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或对白，每段对话或对白后有几个小题，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. What does the woman decide to do?A. Stay at home and study hard all day.B. Study first and then go to the beach.C. Go to the beach now and study later.7. What did the woman do?A. Studied for a test. B. Put the test off.C. Delayed her study.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Why does the woman ask the man for help?A. She was absent from school.B. She doesnt study hard at school.C. She doesnt believe what Sarah said.9. Why does the man refuse to lend his notes to Jessica?A. He wants to review them himself.B. He thinks she should read her own.C. He doesnt want to share with others.10. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Borrow Sarahs notes.B. Go over her lessons herself.C. Invite him to lunch.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. How are Sunday hours affected by the new schedule?A. The gym closes later than before.B. The gym closes earlier than before.C. The Sunday hours have not changed.12. When does the gym open on weekends now?A. At 6:00a.m.B. At 8:00a.m.C. At 10:00a.m.13. When does the gym stay open the latest?A. On Sunday night. B. On Thursday night. C. On Saturday night.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. What does the man think of the rain?A. It will not be a big problem.B. It will make them buy raincoats.C. It will make the hike more interesting.15. Why is the woman concerned about going on a hike?A. She is worried they may get wet.B. She thinks they wont really enjoy the scenery.C. She is afraid they may not have time to study.16. What does the woman decide to do?A. Take more exercise.B. Get some sunshine.C. Make an early start.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Which forms are regarded as the best exercise?A. Cycling and swimming.B. Walking and swimming.C. Doing gymnastics and cycling.18. Why are we advised to eat less processed foods?A. They consist of few fruits and vegetables.B. They have a great deal of salt and sugar.C. They may lead to serious health problems.19. What does the speaker advise us to do at the end of the talk?A. Have checkups regularly.B. Treat health problems in advance.C. Do tests to prevent health problems.20. What does the speaker mainly talk about?A. Balanced diets. B. Forms of exercise. C. Ways to keep fit.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。AFour Sydney Youth Stamp Group(SYSG) workshops are held each year during the school holidays for children aged 7 to 17 years. We have a Junior group(7 to 11 year olds) and a Senior group (12 to 17 year olds). The workshops are for children at home and abroad, who want to further their stamp collecting enjoyment and skills, and we especially welcome those who are new to this field.2020 Workshop Dates:Friday 24 January 2020Theme: ItalySaturday 18 April 2020Theme: Sport in AustraliaSaturday 18 July 2020Theme: USASaturday 10 October 2020Theme: NetherlandsCost: FreeVenue: Philatelic Association of NSW, Inc. (Philas House) 17 Brisbane Street, Surry HillsTime: 10:30am to 3:00pm (children are to be seated by 10:30am. Parents, please arrive a little earlier to have your childrens names checked off)How to book: Download a registration form, click here(PDF 24kb). Complete the form and mail it to the Coordinator(协调者). The Coordinator will send you an email confirming your booking. Bookings are accepted up to 28 days before each workshop. Parents can also email the Coordinator to add your name to our mailing list, you will receive a letter in the mail and registration form, about our next workshop.Items(物品) children can bring(we understand beginners may not have some of these items, but do not worry, just come along):Stamp Album, with or without stampsLead pencil, coloured pencils, scissors, ruler, ballpoint or felt-tip penAustralian Stamp Catalogue(Seven Seaspreferably a fairly recent edition)21. Who are most welcomed in the SYSG workshops?A. Junior group members.B. Senior group members.C. Foreign stamp collectors.D. Beginners of stamp collecting.22. What does the last SYSG workshop in 2020 focus on?A. Sport in Australia.B. Netherlands.C. Italy.D. America.23. Where is the text most probably taken from?A. A stamp brochure.B. A children magazine.C. A website.D. A newspaper.BBritish childrens writer Roald Dahl ate chocolates and sweets “pretty much every mealtime”, remembers daughter Ophelia Dahl.After dinner, whether dining alone or entertaining guests, Dahl would pass around a little red plastic box full of Mars Bars, Milky Ways, Maltesers, Kit Kats and much more.He knew the history of all the sweets and could tell you exactly when they were invented. 1937 was a big year when Kit Kats (his favorite), Rolos, and Smarties (his dog, choppers favorite) were invented. He wrote a history of chocolate, lecturing schoolchildren to commit such dates to memory, such as 1928 when “Cadburys Fruit and Nut Bar popped up on the scene”, saying dont bother with the Kings and Queens of England. All of you should learn these dates instead. Perhaps the Headmistress will see from now on that it becomes part of the major teaching in this school.According to Dahl, the Golden Years of Chocolate were 1930-1937. In 1930, Roald Dahl was 14 years old. He was a student at Repton, a famous boys boarding school in England. It was a tough environment: Those in authority were more interested in controlling than educating the students.Ironically, it was at this difficult period that chocolate became Dahls passion. Near Repton was a Cadbury chocolate factory. Every so often, Cadbury would send each schoolboy a sampler box of new chocolates to taste and grade. They were using the students“the greatest chocolate bar experts in the world” to test out their new inventions.This was when Dahls imagination took flight. He pictured factories with inventing rooms with pots of chocolate and fudge(软糖) and “all sorts of other delicious fillings bubbling away on the stoves”.“It was lovely dreaming those dreams.when I was looking for a plot for my second book for children, I remembered those little cardboard boxes and the newly-invented chocolates inside them, and I began to write a book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”For the record, Roald Dahl did not like chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream. He said, “I prefer my chocolate straight.”24. What can we learn about Roald Dahl?A. He treated himself with various chocolates after dinner secretly.B. He has a good knowledge of chocolate, especially its history.C. He used to lecture schoolchildren of a boys boarding school.D. He only wrote some books related to the history of chocolate.25. What happened during the Golden Years of Chocolate?A. It was a great time for children to get educated.B. Those years stopped Dahls interest in chocolate.C .Students could become chocolate experts then.D. Roald Dahls passion for chocolate was lit up then.26. Which of the following can best replace the underlined phrase?A. paid offB. went onC. picked upD. took off27. What gave Roald Dahl inspiration to write Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?A. The dreams about chocolates.B. Factories with chocolate and fudge.C. Those boxes with chocolates.D. Chocolate cakes and ice cream.CThere are excellent reasons for anyone to seek out the optimistic. Optimists experience better health outcomes, live longer and are more satisfied with their relationships. Optimism enables people to hold on in the face of difficulty, while pessimism leaves them depressed and even expecting failure.I want that hopeful, optimistic outlook for my children. But many times we may feel pessimistic. The result of negativity makes me worry that my kids future will be uncertain. Fortunately, research suggests ways to help our children grow up with an optimistic attitude and maintain a happier outlook ourselves.Humanity has improved by many measures, but that success has become the water in which we swim, and like fish, we take the water for granted. While we fail to notice the positive, our brains naturally emphasize on the negative. With practice, we can help our brains to give the good stuff equal weight. Dr. Hansons advice: when you hear a great story or achieve something in your own life, deliberately rest your mind on that experience and stay with it. Sink into that feeling as it sinks into you. Describe what youre doing to your kids, and encourage them to dwell on their joys and pleasures as well.Following the “big scary” news can leave us feeling helpless. Find something in your area that makes you feel hopeful, and make it a part of your family life. Researchers found that when people with a pessimistic outlook use positive language to describe situations they find upsetting, their feelings about the situation become more positive. Thats something we can try at home.Raising optimistic kids is hard because it demands that parents abandon the pessimistic perspective thats the easiest response to pessimistic times. Put your energy into making sure you and your family are a part of the world around you. That might mean simply joining and being part of local clubs that feed our natural human need for connection(not of the digital kind).28. Why do people look up to optimists?A. Theyre like the water around the world.B. They can make pessimistic times hopefulC. They enable people to hold on in difficulty.D. They affect the government and education.29. Whats the negative effect of taking success for granted?A. People will feel pessimistic when they see no success.B. People will feel satisfied with their slightest success.C. People will think only about their joys and pleasures.D. People will feel frightened to hear big scary news.30. Which of the following does the author agree with?A. Big scary news can remind us of potential danger.B. Optimism is something one was born with.C. Human progress leads to the feeling of happiness.D. Pessimistic parents cant raise optimistic children.31. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. The Harm of Taking Optimism for Granted.B. Ways to Raise Optimistic Kids.C. Ways to Turn Pessimism into Optimism.D. Introduction to Positive Language for People.DIt is a question that has long puzzled scientistsexactly why are tigers orange? One might think it makes them more obvious, particularly against a leafy green forest background. William Blake summed it up in his famous poem known by generations of schoolchildren: “Tiger, tiger, burning bright/In the forest of the night.” But now the answer is at hand.While obvious to us, computer simulations(模拟) of what the big cats look to the main animals they hunt for, deer, show a different picture. Humans with normal colour vision, can see red, blue and green colours. But deer can only pick up blue and green light, they are effectively colourblind to the colour red, like some humans. It means the tigers orange colouration looks green to them, allowing them to mix perfectly into the background, new research claims.Dr. John Fennell at the University of Bristol and colleagues said that they used computers to estimate how noticeable a given animal was. They did this by using images of the environment in which the animal lives, and then creating images to see whether the camouflage helps the animal to mix in.Dr. Fennell writes that by simulating what the world looks like to animals who are “two-colour vision”someone who cannot discover the difference between red and green“we also identify the most suitable colours for hiding and visibility”.Dr. Fennell writes in the Royal Society Journal Inter face: “Considering the coat of a tiger, it has fur that appears orange to a three-colour vision observer rather than some shade of green, though the latter should be more appropriate color for an attack hunter in forests. However, when viewed as a two-colour vision observer, the tigers colour is very effective.”The question then arises as to why tigers dont grow green coats. Dr. Fennell and colleagues write that mammals(哺乳动物) are not able to produce green fur. To do so would “require a significant change to mammalian biochemistry”. There is only one mammal known to have green fur but this is achieved through what might be considered as, well, cheating, not exactly real.32. Why does the author mention the poem in paragraph 1?A. To arouse readers interest in poems.B. To show the authors respect to the poet.C. To answer the question of the color of the tigerD. To stress the noticeable color of the tiger to us.33. What color is inexistent in the eyes of deer?A. Black.B. Red.C. Blue.D. Green.34. What does the underlined word “camouflage” mean in paragraph 3?A. The cover of something.B. The images of something.C. The way of hiding something.D. The way of hunting for something.35. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?A. The colour of tigers sometimes cheats people.B. Getting green may prevent tigers from being extinct.C. There are no mammals with real green fur in the world.D. The tigers fur will probably evolve into green in the future.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。If you just moved, you might be wondering who lives in your neighborhood. Its always a nice surprise to learn that there are families similar to your family close by. 36 Here are some tips on how to make a good first and lasting impression.Do a Drop and Hi. Within the first few weeks of getting settled, consider dropping a small baked good or local treat with a card that includes your phone number and name. 37Host Something. Once you are on a first-name basis with a few of your neighbors, consider hosting a small meet and greet event. Do something outside like a BBQ to keep things simple and relaxed.38 Its always such a nice gesture if you help your neighbor with bringing in their garbage can or ask if you can help carry groceries, etc. Ask if you can help or suggest they borrow one of your tools. Being considerate goes a long way.Exchange Numbers. Its important to exchange numbers, especially if you or your neighbor may be traveling. 39Good neighbors become friends and always watch out for each other. 40A. Help When You Can.B. Hold a Positive Attitude.C. Its no good having a face-to-face talk.D. You can then tell them if you see anything wrong happening.E. A “looking forward to meeting you” type note is always nice.F. But how do you make sure youre the kind of neighbor people want to spend time with?G. With these tips, youll find yourself with a good community of close friends in no time.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。My close childhood friend, Howard Allen, brought us good news. He spent the last eight years 41 night school to get his bachelors degree while working a full-time job. After years of late 42 and weekends of doing course work and studying, 43 he graduated last month.He remained in our hometown after high school, but most of his 44 , myself included, left our 45 to other states for university and employment. Over time, newfound responsibilities, families, and other things have made it 46 that were back in our hometown at the same time.One of our mutual(共同的) friends 47 a wonderful idea. We made a weekend plan that 48 wed all fly back to our hometown to 49 him and celebrate his accomplishment.We contacted(联系) Allens mom and 50 how to have Allen come to the surprise 51 party. We decided that his mom told him that he was going to have dinner with just his 52 to celebrate. Little did he know that the dinner would 53 a 20-person affair with his old friends present from all over the country! Meanwhile, Allen likes cakes very much, and I 54 a big one, whose flavor was his 55 , which I knew from my childhood.When Allen 56 to have “dinner with his grandparents”, he was 57 surprised and moved. He told us how much it 58 to him that we all flew in to make him feel 59 . It was obvious that the party was a great 60 , but that was what we should do. As is often said, whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.41. A. buildingB. attendingC. repairingD. cleaning42. A. daysB. morningsC. afternoonsD. nights43. A. finallyB. quicklyC. strangelyD. naturally44. A. sistersB. brothersC. friendsD. teachers45. A. officeB. hometownC. companyD. job46. A. famousB. rareC. familiarD. fun47. A. likedB. rememberedC. hatchedD. knew48. A. in secretB. by luck