重庆南开中学2020-2021学年第二学期高2023级期末考试（英语）

1、重庆南开中学2020-2021学年第二学期高2023级期末考试英语试题本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。第I卷和第II卷都答在答题卷上。第I卷（共95分）一、听力（共两节，满分30分）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。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 probable relationship between the speakers? A. Roommates.

2、 B. Boss and secretary. C. Husband and wife.2. Why did the man go to see a doctor?A. He can only see things up close.B. His glasses no longer work.C. He is going blind.3. Where does the man want to go?A. The seaside. B. The woods. C. A park.4. How often will Jocelyn take dance lessons next month?A.

3、Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Three times a week.5. How does the woman describe her dog?A. Hes good at protecting her.B. Hes not very nice sometimes.C. Hes too small to do any harm.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。听完每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给岀5

4、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、7题。6. What is Tom busy doing?A. Raising money.B. Writing a lab report. C. Giving classes to children.7. Who might be able to help Tom this week?A. Mike. B. Jane. C. Cathy.听下面一段对话，回答第8、9题。8. What is the womans favorite music?A. Jazz music. B. Rock music. C. Classical

5、music.9. What will the woman arrange this Friday evening?A. A course of classical music.B. A party for her music teacher.C. A drum performance for her husband.听下面一段对话，回答第10至12题。10. How did the speakers find out the restaurant?A. From a friend. B. From a website.C. From the newspaper.11. What does th

6、e woman want to do after the meal?A. Eat some pizza. B. Get another drink. C. Complain to the manager.12. What will the woman probably do this week?A. Lend money to Brian.B. Talk to Susan.C. Go back to the restaurant.听下面一段对话，回答第13至16题。13. How does the girl spend her day?A. Playing ball games.B. Talk

7、ing with friends.C. Sharing pictures.14. In which field does the man work?A. Technological. B. Financial. C. Medical.15. What is the mans main concern about Meitu?A. Its making his daughter less smart.B. It isnt very safe or private.C. Its an old technology.16. What might happen in the end?A. The gi

8、rl will have to delete Meitu.B. The man will allow the girl to use Meitu.C. The man will send his daughter to a different school.听下面一段独白，回答第17至20题。17. Where did the woman realize her wallet was missing?A. At the gym. B. At the bakery. C. At the golf court.18. What is not included in the womans walle

9、t?A. Her Visa card. B. Her drivers license.C. Her membership card.19. Who found the womans wallet at last?A. A worker who cuts the grass.B. A kid who washes the golf cart.C. A guy who works in a restaurant.20. How will the woman reward the guy?A. To buy him a beer.B. To give him money.C. To treat hi

10、m to a round of golf.二、阅读理解 （共两节，满分50分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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。ABank Holidays in the UKPublic holidays in the UK are commonly referred to as bank holidays. As the UK is a country made up of four more or less independent regions, official holidays vary

11、 depending on whether you live in England, Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland. There are eight bank holidays in England and Wales.HolidaysTime of The YearNew Years Day (substitute day)1 January (3 January 2022)Good Friday15 April 2022Easter Monday18 April 2022Early May2 May 2022Spring Bank Holiday

12、2 June 2022Summer Bank Holiday29 August 2022Christmas Day (substitute day) 25 December (26 December 2022)Boxing Day (substitute day)26 December (27 December 2022)When bank holidays fall on a weekend, the following Monday is usually a “substitute” holiday. For instance, 25 December 2022 is Sunday, so

13、 there will be a national substitute holiday for Christmas Day on Monday, 26 December 2022.In Scotland, the summer bank holiday is earlier in August. Moreover, Scots celebrate St. Andrews Day on 30 November and 2 January is also a bank holiday, but Easter Monday is not. All in all, there are nine ba

14、nk holidays in Scotland.In Northern Ireland, St. Patricks Day on 17 March is a bank holiday, and so is Orangemens Day on 12 July which commemorates the Battle of Boyne. There are a total of ten bank holidays in Northern Ireland, making it the region with the most holidays in the UK.The UK does not h

15、ave a national day, making it only one of two countries in the world without one (the other is Denmark). Theres an old joke about this, that the United Kingdom, once called “the empire on which the sun never sets”, doesnt need its own national day because its indirectly responsible for so many other

16、 countries national independence days. 21. How many holidays are there in England in the second quarter of 2022? A. 2. B. 3. C. 4.D. 5.22. What bank holidays are unique to Northern Ireland? A. Good Friday and Easter Monday. B. Easter Monday and St. Andrews Day. C. St. Andrews Day and St. Patricks Da

17、y. D. St. Patricks Day and Orangemens Day.23. What does the joke in the last sentence imply? A. The UK used to rule a lot of countries. B. The UKs culture influenced many countries. C. The UKs independence greatly encouraged many countries. D. The UK helped many countries set their independence days

18、. BIt was a summer vacation, and I was at a zoo with my family. Because of my extremely pointy nose, when we spotted a group of flamingos (火烈鸟) standing around a pond, my brother shouted at me, “Hey, look! Your real family!” Then, my parents asked me to stand in front of my new-found relatives. “Now

19、 turn your face to the side, sweetie,” my mom said. She pressed the button and shot a picture. Once, I was having lunch at my aunts house. “Why dont you have a boyfriend yet?” she asked. “We were talking about you the other day and saying how pretty you are, Patricia, but we all agreed that if you j

20、ust took off a little bit of length from that nose, you could be beautiful.”When I was 14, the performer Ashlee Simpson got a fantastic nose job. I looked at her before-and-after pictures, and I was convinced I needed to get one for myself. I told my mom I was determined to fix my nose. “I thought y

21、ou had grown out of this by now,” she said, disapproval in her voice. When I begged her to take me to see a plastic surgeon (整容医生), my mother would laugh and tell me there was an easier way to fix my problem. “If you believe youre beautiful, people will see you that way,” she would say.She must have

22、 had enough of me, because she finally agreed to book me an appointment. Full of expectation, I walked into the doctors office. The doctor turned my head up and down while a nurse took a photo of my face. The doctor downloaded the images and played around with my noses appearance. Finally, he showed

23、 me his finished work in the computer. When I stared at the image, a smile flashed across my face and then disappeared. I made excuses to get out of making another appointment and exited the office, never mentioning a nose job again. Looking at the old photo, Im smiling with an inward relief. Had I

24、had that plastic surgery, I would definitely lose my individuality and uniqueness. My mums words consistently serve as a reminder that dont let appearance cast a shadow on our confidence and we should learn to accept and love who we are. 24. What can we possibly infer from paragraph 1?A. People pref

25、erred a pointy nose to a round one.B. People liked taking pictures with flamingos.C. The authors pointy nose didnt bother her family.D. The author felt proud of looking like a flamingo.25. What made the author decide to have a nose job?A. The need to find a boyfriend.B. The memory of the summer vaca

26、tion.C. The dislike for the position of her nose.D. The amazing effect of a celebritys case.26. The mother allowed the author to see the plastic surgeon because _.A. the author kept asking her to arrange it for her B. the authors aunt managed to change her mindC. the technology of plastic surgeries

27、had advanced a lotD. she thought the author was old enough for a plastic surgery27. According to the last paragraph, the author might agree that _.A. mothers words are a reliable source of enjoymentB. acceptance of our weaknesses is of great importance C. a plastic surgery can make someone more conf

28、identD. its not worth sacrificing ones features for beautyCFor months, their adventure through Chinas south-western Yunnan province had gone almost unnoticed. But last week, when images of a group of 15 Asian elephants walking through a residential(居民的) area appeared on social media, it immediately

29、seized the imagination of the nation, stirring up considerable media interest and questions as to what caused their unusual journey.The movement was so unusual that authorities sent as many as 360 people with 76 cars and nine drones(无人机) to track it. State TV has spent days following their every foo

30、tstep. Chinese wildlife authorities have been struggling to understand why the elephants left their natural habitat last year. According to Xinhua, a group of 16 wild elephants began the journey in March 2020 to the north. In November, they arrived in Puer in Yunnan, where a female elephant gave bir

31、th to a baby, and settled there for five months. They then continued the walk on 16 April. A week later, two left the group, leaving 15 to continue their odyssey.The appearance of the animals has not been warmly received by residents in Yunnan. Along the way, they have caused much destruction, eatin

32、g whole fields of corn and ruining farm buildings. State broadcaster CCTV has estimated the damage to be at least 6.8m yuan ($1.07m). Fortunately, no human death has been reported so far.Chinese experts said there had been other reports of elephants wandering into villages and harming crops in recen

33、t years. “Large-scale human engineering developments have changed the islanding of elephant habitats,” said Zhang Li, a professor from Beijing Normal University. “The traditional zones between humans and elephants are gradually disappearing, and the chances of elephants facing humans naturally incre

34、ase greatly.”The wild elephant population in Yunnan is about 300, up from 170 in 1980, but the habitat area has decreased from 2,084 square km in 1976 to less than 500 square km in recent years.28. What happened to the group of wild elephants in Yunnan? A. They got trapped while approaching a reside

35、ntial area. B. They headed north after leaving their natural habitat. C. They had a newborn baby in March 2020. D. They split up and three male elephants left.29. What does the underlined word “odyssey” in paragraph 2 mean? A. Adventure. B. Break.C. Struggle.D. Victory.30. How did the local resident

36、s feel about the elephants? A. Excited. B. Confused.C. Embarrassed.D. Annoyed.31. What can be concluded from the last two paragraphs? A. Wild elephants got on well with humans in the past. B. An island will be reserved to protect wild elephants. C. The number of wild elephants will stay stable. D. T

37、here may be more human-elephant conflicts in the future.D Suppose you become a leader in an organization. Its very likely that youll want to have volunteers to help with the organizations activities. To do so, it should help to understand why people undertake volunteer work and what keeps their inte

38、rest in the work. Lets begin with the question of why people volunteer. Researchers have identified several factors that motivate people to get involved. For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to create various experiences, and to strengthen social relatio

39、nships. Therefore, to select volunteers, you may need to understand the motivations of the people you wish to attract. A few people also volunteer because they are required to do so. To increase levels of community service, some schools have launched compulsory volunteer programs. Unfortunately, the

40、se programs can shift peoples wish of participation from an internal factor (e.g., “I volunteer because its important to me”) to an external factor (e.g., “I volunteer because Im required to do so”). When that happens, people become less likely to volunteer in the future. Once people begin to volunt

41、eer, what leads them to remain in their positions over time? After following 238 volunteers in Florida over a year, one study found that one of the most important factors influencing their satisfaction as volunteers was the amount of suffering they experienced in their volunteer positions. The resul

42、t leads to important practical advice attention should be given to “training that would prepare volunteers for troublesome situations or provide them with strategies for coping with the problems they do experience”. Another study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differ

43、ences in the degree to which people view “volunteer” as an important social role. It was assumed that those people for whom the role of volunteer was most part of their personal identity would also be most likely to continue volunteer work. The assumption was supported by the result, which once agai

44、n leads to concrete advice: “Once an individual begins volunteering, continued efforts might focus on developing a volunteer role identity.Items like T-shirts that allow volunteers to be recognized publicly for their contributions can help strengthen role identity.”32. People volunteer mainly out of

45、 _. A. academic requirements B. social expectations C. financial rewards D. internal needs33. What can we learn from the Florida study? A. Follow-up studies should last for one year. B. Strategy training is a must in research. C. Training to get volunteers prepared is necessary. D. Volunteers are pr

46、ovided with concrete advice.34. What is most likely to motivate volunteers to continue their work? A. Individual differences in role identity. B. Publicly identifiable volunteer T-shirts. C. Role identity as a volunteer. D. Practical advice from researchers.35. What is the best title of the passage?

47、 A. How to Get People to Volunteer B. How to Study Volunteer Behaviors C. How to Keep Volunteers Interest D. How to Organize Volunteer Activities第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。How to Feel ConnectedIts easy to feel disconnected from what is going on around you in to

48、days fast-paced world. 36 You can get in touch and feel connected, however, by following the tips below：l Consider why you feel disconnected.Knowing what is making you feel disconnected can help you choose the best ways to address the problem. Ask yourself: Are you keeping yourself occupied with wor

49、k too much? Do you rely on electronic communication instead of face-to-face communication? Do you lack friendships that are satisfying? 37 l Interact with people in person.Technology is a great way to stay in touch, but sometimes you need to spend time with other people in person. 38 You can also ta

50、ke steps to feel more connected by making small talk with strangers who are sharing parts of your day. l 39 You may never know how to improve your relationship unless you ask the right questions. Your loved ones could feel shy about telling you what they need, so asking them opens the doors that can

51、 give you some insight on what you can do. Learning this information can help to strengthen your bond.l Show your commitment to your loved ones.Simply showing up and being there for your loved ones says a lot about how much you value your relationships. 40 Attending family events, or simply visiting

52、 someone once a week can help to strengthen your relationship and keep it strong.l Show appreciation.A simple “thank you” goes a very long way. Unfortunately, it is something that people who are close often take for granted. Telling someone you appreciate their time, love, and efforts can strengthen

53、 your bond and help you to become more connected.A. Be brave to express your love.B. Ask others what they need from you.C. Reach out to people to schedule a time to get together.D. You can have a gift delivered to friends on special occasions.E. Sometimes you can feel isolated and distant from the o

54、nes you love.F. Putting in the time shows them that you are committed and want to stay connected.G. Targeting your efforts toward those questions allows you to close the distance more effectively.三、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。 Little Free Library

55、(LFL) steward Sandy Freel has a rare disease. Some days are more 41 for her to see things than others. “The doctor says I will be 42 within five years,” said Sandy. She also recently 43 her husband.She started an LFL in 44 of her husband, as they both loved to 45 . One day, while walking in her neighborhood, Sandy 46 an old bench that she thought would make a nice a