2021-2022学年宜春市高二下英语期末考试卷

1、宜春市20212022学年下学期期末质量监测高二年级英语试卷注意事项：1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。3. 回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。4. 考试结束后，将答题卡上交。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

2、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。例：How much is the shirt? A. 19. 15. B. 9. 18. C. 9. 15. 答案是C。What does the man want? A. Something to eat. B. Somewhere to sit. C. Something to drink. Why is the woman late? A. Traffic was held up. B. She was stopped by police. C. The roads are under const

3、ruction. What does the man ask the woman to do? A. Arrange a meeting. B. Give a speech. C. Review a report. What will the speakers see last? A. Elephants. B. Monkeys. C. Bears. What are the speakers talking about? A. An accident. B. A trip. C. A motorcycle. 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

4、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。When will the woman be able to sit at a table? A. At 7:30. B. At 7:45. C. At 8:00. Where will the woman go next? A. To a concert hall. B. To McDonalds. C. To her home. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。What does

5、the man want to do? A. Confirm an address. B. Arrange a delivery. C. Order some supplies. What items are unavailable at present? A. Tables. B. Chairs. C. Lamps. What will the woman do next week? A. Attend a meeting. B. Plan a schedule. C. Make payment. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。Why does the woman call the ma

6、n? A. To ask for leave. B. To apply for a job. C. To sign up for classes. What was the woman in charge of at her dads company? A. Doing basic office work. B. Cutting grass around town. C. Placing advertisements for it. When will the speakers meet? A. On Friday morning. B. On Friday afternoon. C. On

7、Friday evening. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。What is the probable relationship between Mary and the man? A. Brother and sister. B. Mother and Son. C. Husband and wife. How does the woman usually go to work? A. By car. B. On foot. C. By bus. How does the man find baking? A. Difficult. B. Enjoyable. C. Tiring. Wh

8、o does the cooking in the womans family? A. Her husband. B. Her mother. C. The woman herself. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。What is the speakers favorite season? A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Fall. What does the speaker say about winter? A. It is cool and mild. B. It causes inconvenience. C. It is a hot topic for pe

9、ople. Where does the speaker probably live? A. In the countryside. B. Near the sea. C. In the warm south. 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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AChina Daily and its Study China platform () are holding a story-telling contest from April to May 31, 2022. Internatio

10、nal students who study or used to study in China are welcome to share their campus life. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FORWorks in three categories: Articles; Photos; Videos Languages in either English or Chinese are preferred. WHAT YOU CAN GETWe offer a prize worth up to 10,000 yuan (approximately $1,563). S

11、ome of the best works get a chance to be featured on China Daily app(with 36 million users) and . HOW TO PARTICIPATEArticles & PhotosArticle:300 - 1,000 English or Chinese wordsPhoto:10 photos maximum, 5MB for each; each with a caption up to 200 English words; format in JPG or PNG.VideosFormat:MP4 o

12、r MOVSize: 1GB maximum, up to 4 minutes. Caption:200-500 English words to give a brief introduction. SUBMIT HEREEntry One: submit Articles & Photos Entry Two: submit Videos*Click the button to see the full text of the statementContact us:shenyijiagaowenjunWhat is the heme of the story-telling contes

13、t?A. Campus life in China. B. Foreign cultures and customs. C. Personal experiences of reading China Daily. D. Videos and photos introducing China. How can a college student perticipate in the contest? A. By posting a video format in JPGB. By uploading a five minutes video. C. By sending 12 photos,

14、each with a caption. D. By submitting an article of 500 English words. Where may the article come from? A. A magazine. B. A website. C. A newspaper. D. A textbook. BWhen I was in the seventh grade, I volunteered about thirty to forty hours a week during the summer at a local hospital in my town. Mos

15、t of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie, who never had any visitors. Nobody seemed to care about his condition.I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, even though he responded with only an

16、 occasional squeeze of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, he was gone. I didnt have the nerve to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might tell me he had died. So with many questions unanswered, I continued to v

17、olunteer there through my eighth-grade year.One day several years later, when I was at the gas station I noticed a familiar face. When I realized who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was alive! I asked him if he was Mr. Gillespie. With an uncertain look on his faces, he replied yes. I explained

18、 how I knew him. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received.He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. He thought it was an angel, not a person, who was there with him. M

19、r. Gillespie firmly believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.Although I havent seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death. More important, he has made a tremendous difference in my life. I will never for

20、get him and what he did for me: he made me an angel. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about? A. Mr. Gillespies terrible situation. B. An unexpected meeting with Mr. Gillespie. C. Mr. Gillespies personal life and family stories. D. Careful care offered to Mr. Gillespie from the author. What does the

21、 underlined word “nerve” in paragraph 3 mean? A. Courage. B. Ability. C. Anxiety. D. Right. What made him survive according to Mr. Gillespie? A. An angels blessing. B. His own good luck. C. The advanced treatments he received. D. The authors voice and care. What can we learn from the passage? A. The

22、 author didnt volunteer in his eighth grade. B. Meeting up with Mr. Gillespie again made his day. C. The two have become good friends and contacted regularly. D. Mr. Gillespie couldnt hear the authors words while in a coma. CIn a new PBS video, a sleeping octopus(章鱼) changes colors, making scientist

23、s believe that the animal is hiding itself to the environments in its dream. Octopuses are highly intelligent creatures. With a brain-to-body ratio (比例) similar to that of mammals, octopuses are able to solve problems and use tools. They can remove lids, open jars, and break into child-proof contain

24、ers. These amazing animals have even been reported escaping aquariums and finding their way back to sea and taking apart the plumbing (管道装置) of their own tanks. Like mammals, octopuses sleep is made up of quiet and active seep stages. Similarly to how a humans breathing and heart rate increases duri

25、ng dreams in REM sleep in active sleep, an octopuses skin change colors, their bodies twitch, and their suckers (吸盘) retract (缩回). Unlike humans, however, active sleep for octopuses does not last very long. “If they are dreaming, they are dreaming for about a minute,” said Sidarta Ribeiro, a scienti

26、st at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. Likely, octopuses dreams are not very complex considering how short their bursts of active sleep are. The scientists compare these dreams to short video edits, only a few seconds to a minute long. “For around 40 seconds, octopuses dram

27、atically change their color and their skin texture. Their eyes are also moving,” said Sylvia Medeiros of the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. “All of this happens very obviously.” These invertebrates (无脊椎动物) cycle through active and quiet sleep stages every 30-40 min

28、utes. To confirm the animals were actually sleeping, the scientists performed a series of visual and tactile (触觉的) stimulation tests. The researchers checked to see if the octopuses would respond to a favorite food item like a swimming crab, or to vibrations (振动) made by tapping on the glass. In eac

29、h instance, the octopuses required a stronger stimulus to produce a reaction than when they were awake, confirming that the observed behavior was indeed sleeping. In future studies, researchers want to explore the link between octopuses dreams and their extreme intelligence, thinking, and learning.

30、What can we infer from Paragraph 2? A. Octopuses may be as clever as mammals. B. Octopuses can change colors while sleeping. C. Octopuses are able to solve problems and use tools. D. Octopuses once escaped from aquariums and went back home. Octopuses sleeping patterns are different from humans in _.

31、A. the movement of eyesB. the length of quiet sleepC. the length of active sleepD. changes in sleeping formsThe purpose of the visual and tactile stimulation tests is _.A. to observe octopuses sleeping patternsB. to prove the octopuses were really asleepC. to check octopuses reaction to a favorite f

32、oodD. to test octopuses hearing by tapping on the glassWhat will the researchers focus on in their future study? A. Results of visual and tactile stimulation tests. B. Improvement of the plumbing of octopuses tanks. C. The secret of Octopuses changing colors and skin texture. D. The connection betwe

33、en octopuses dreams and their intelligence. DA smart wearable device (设备) that enables people with speaking disabilities to communicate normally is giving hope to those without a voice.Tao Luqi, from Chongqing University, used a material called graphene (石墨烯) to produce an artificial throat with a t

34、iny sensor that allows people with speech impairments to speak normally, according to a paper published in Nature Communications in 2017. Tao has continued his work on the device for the last four years.Although its a tiny sensor, it can work wonders. The device can detect weak vibrations and produc

35、e sounds across a wide spectrum(宽频谱), from 10Hz to 40KHz. Humans can detect sounds in a frequency range from about 20Hz to 20kHz.“Although the speaking impaired people cant speak, their throats can vibrate,” Tao said, “If I put a device made of graphene into their throats, it can detect the vibratio

36、ns and make sounds using electrical signals.” Even whispers, screams and coughs at different frequencies can be recorded and encoded by the device, and it can arrange them into groups. When the device detects the sounds in a certain group, it will reproduce the words, phrases or sentences, according

37、 to Tao. “But the speaking impaired people need to classify their own language sounds in groups and memorize them, just like typing keys on a keyboard,” Tao said.Taos artificial throat has brought the possibilities of graphene to reality. Its been 17 years since the discovery of graphene, and the wo

38、rld has been waiting for the “wonder material” to provide groundbreaking innovations. At only the width of an atom, graphene is the thinnest material known to humans and also the strongest. The material is also efficient conductor of heat and electricity, and is ultra-lightweight.“Graphene really do

39、es have fantastic properties and its potential is huge,” said Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, a director at UK-based research consultancy IDTechEx.China has emerged as a key country for graphene production. Around 3,000 Chinese companies are exploring uses for graphene, according to government statities in 201

40、8, while half of the worlds graphene-related patents have been filed in China.What can be learned about the tiny sensor? A. It has been tested for 17 years. B. It has already been put into market. C. It can make sounds in a wide spectrum. D. Research about it will be published soon. What can we know

41、 from Tao Luqis words? A. Speaking impaired people have to type keys on a keyboard. B. Only those whispers at a certain frequency can be encoded. C. Its impossible for speaking impaired peoples throats to vibrate. D. The sounds detected by the device will be divided into groups. What is Khasha Ghaff

42、arzadehs attitude towards graphenes future? A. Cautious. B. Positive. C. Worried. D. Negative. Whats the best title of the passage? A. Giving New VoicesB. Graphene, a Wonder ProductionC. Tao Luqi, an Excellent Chinese ResearcherD. China Takes the Lead in Graphene-related Research第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分

43、）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。5 habits that are guaranteed to put you in a good moodKeep fresh flowers around the house. 36 Plus, it doesnt have to break the bank. Whether its one or two stems, a bunch of rosemary or a small bouquet of carnations, a little goes a long way. Go grocery sho

44、pping weekly. An empty stomach is the biggest bad-mood catalyst. But if your kitchen is filled with healthy, yummy snacks, you can easily avoid a low-blood-sugar-impulse buy that makes you feel yucky. The best way to stay stocked? 37 Set aside an hour a day just for you. 38 This one can be tough to

45、do when people depend on you, but make time to support yourself in your own thoughts. We love waking up early to make coffee and read the paper. Its amazing how much more grounded (接地气的，理性的) you will feel. Set tiny, daily goals and cross them off. Theres no better feeling than checking something off

46、 your to-do list. 39 Paying your electric bill has never felt more satisfying. 40 It may seem shocking, but there was a time when you didnt have a cell phone, or a computer, everything was fine. Disconnecting from the invisible world that is constantly pulling you in for an hour or two a day will he

47、lp you feel more present, and help you focus on what is truly important. A. Go radio silent. B. Make a schedule and stick to it. C. Pick a day of the week that you always go and build it into your schedule. D. Listening to a favorite or familiar song can instantly transport you to another type of mo

48、od. E. When you have no time to yourself, you can feel like youre trapped between other peoples needs. F. Its a small thing, but a house with fresh blooms just had a way of making the space and your mood active and happy. G Give yourself some easy wins by making daily checklists and delightfully kno

49、cking them off one by one. 第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，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。Last weekend, I went to the beach nearby for some quality time with myself. After a(n) _41_ week, all I wanted was a book, some rest, and a good snack. It was a lovely time watching k

50、ids _42_ playing in the water, building sandcastles and sharing meals with their families. After a few hours, I decided to walk along the _43_ to get to my car on the other side as I was _44_. As I was near the end and about to _45_ off the beach, I noticed a girl about 8 playing by herself. It look

51、s like she built a little sandcastle with a moat (壕沟) around it and was now trying to fill the _46_ with water._47_, there was no _48_ or sand toys around to carry water. She was playing alone, _49_ most of the other kids. She would go to the waves, _50_ her hands and then walk back to her little _5

52、1_. Sadly not much of the water was making it to the moat. But she kept trying and was still smiling and hopeful. I wished I could help her out, but I didnt have a container with me. As I was standing there watching her, feeling _52_, I suddenly remembered I had a bottle of water in my _53_ that I h

53、ad completely forgotten about. I quickly _54_ in, took it out, and walked over to hand it to her. Confused at first, she smiled but _55_ her head shyly, saying no. I _56_ that it would make getting the water much _57_. She smiled widely and finally took it from my hands after I insisted. Not wanting

54、 her to feel embarrassed, I walked off the beach _58_. Glancing back just once to see her running over to the sea with a big smile, _59_ with a bottle in hand. In the larger scheme of things, it was a tiny gesture. But I know when she notices that someone needs help in her life, maybe she would _60_

55、 this little act of kindness by a stranger. And maybe that would make her more likely to jump in and help create a little gentler world around her.A. tiring B. easy C. lonely D. messy A. politely B. happily C. quietly D. fairly A. families B. roads C. waves D. sandcastles A. driving B. watching C. l

56、eaving D. crossing A. put B. set C. fall D. head A. beach B. canal C. path D. sand A. Eventually B. Unfortunately C. Particularly D. Silently A. container B. boat C. moat D. conductor A. with B. among C. like D. unlike A. open B. raise C. wave D. cup A. castle B. place C. friend D. space A. helpless

57、 B. selfless C. breathless D. careless A. car B. book C. bag D. home A. hid B. bent C. dug D. slid A. nodded B. shook C. rose D. moved A. understood B. explained C. upset D. wrote A. faster B. bigger C. stronger D. clearer A. on time B. in case C. right away D. ever since A. provided B. prepared C.

58、awarded D. equipped A. regard B. remain C. respect D. remember 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文内容，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。Over the past three decades, 61 81-year-old Chinese man has been operating by 62 (he) a small zoo hosting animals, most of which were saved off the streets or on the way to be kil

59、led.The zoo on Phoenix Mountain Forest Park in Enshi, central Hubei Province, 63 (consider) as the “worlds loneliest zoo” as very few people visit it due to the fact 64 most of the animals are not healthy. Luo Yingjun began keeping animals at home in the 1980s. After seeing wild animals with 65 (mis

60、s) limbs being kept in cages 66 sale at a food market, Luo bought them out of sympathy. He took them home in order 67 (give) them medical 68 (treat). He released those able to live on their own into the wild 69 continued to raise those that could not live 70 (independent). 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 短文改错