江西省遂川中学2021-2022学年高二上学期开学考试英语试卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第1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 woman do on Sunday
A. Go to Canada. B. Eat out with the man. C. Head to the man’s house.
2. What’s the relationship between the speakers
A. Driver and passenger. B. Neighbors. C. Mover and customer.
3. What is the woman trying to express
A. Sympathy. B. Concern. C. Appreciation.
4. What are the speakers doing
A. Sitting by the river. B. Boating in the river. C. Swimming in the river.
5. What’s wrong with the woman’s car
A. It’s out of gas. B. It’s under repair. C. The battery is dead.
第二节 （共15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，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. What did the man like about the movie
A. The scenery. B. The acting. C. The length.
7. What did the woman think of the movie
A. Its scenery was beautiful. B. It was too short. C. It was boring.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. Where does the girl want to go
A. Japan. B. Germany. C. France.
9. How long is the student exchange program
A. One year. B. Two years. C. Three years.
10. Why did Tim like the program
A. He ate great food. B. He met nice people. C. He loved the culture.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Why is the woman upset
A. She failed her exam. B. She has no money. C. She feels a great pain.
12. How much does a student pay for the clinic
A. $ 0. B. $ 90. C. $ 100.
13. What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. The high cost of university.
B. The woman’s physical pain.
C. The difficulty of schoolwork.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Where does the conversation take place
A. At a stadium. B. On a college campus. C. In the man’s neighborhood.
15. What does the captain do well
A. Make plays for himself. B. Play defense. C. Score goals.
16. What will the woman do first
A. Get some food. B. Contact the man’s boss. C. Find a restroom.
17. How will the speakers get into the VIP club
A. By paying some money.
B. By showing their tickets.
C. By showing a yellow arm band.
听第l0段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. Why were no people injured
A. The buildings weren’t damaged.
B. The people escaped from the buildings.
C. The earthquake hit the countryside.
19. How large is the disaster area
A. Twenty miles. B. Fifty miles. C. One hundred miles.
20. What advice does the speaker give
A. Contacting people there you know.
B. Taking cover in buildings.
C. Paying attention to small quakes.
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。
A
USA TODAY 10 Best’s Readers Choice Awards are currently on hold. We asked our readers to vote for the top events across six categories: music, general food, specialty food, film, cultural and emerging industries (founded in the past five years).These are some of the winners:
Kutztown Folk Festival
The nine-day Kutztown Folk Festival is the nation’s oldest continuously operated folk life festival, drawing visitors from around the globe. A celebration of Pennsylvania Dutch culture and heritage, the event includes America’s largest quilt sale, 200 craftsmen and folk artists, local food and family friendly entertainment.
Water Lantern Festival
The Water Lantern Festival is all about connections. Magical nights in cities across the US include food, live music and the beauty of thousands of lanterns decorated with letters of love, hope and dreams floating on the water.
Carnival of Quebec
The Quebec Carnival is a 10-day festival of winter, the world’s largest, complete with night parades (庆祝游行), ice skating, snow sculptures and a towering ice palace. Other highlights include ice canoe racing, a sugar shack and iconic Caribou drinks.
San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade
San Francisco has celebrated its Chinese heritage during its annual Chinese New Year Festival &Parade since just after the Gold Rush. The parade ranks among the best in the world, with 100 units, fancy costumes, fireworks and a 268-foot Golden Dragon, which takes a team of 100 men and women to march through the streets. It has become one of the largest events of its kind in the world, drawing some three million spectators and television viewers.
21. What can you see during Kutztown Folk Festival
A. Modern arts.
B. Quilts for sale.
C. Traditional weddings.
D. Shows on stage.
22. Which festival is meant to promote interpersonal relationships
A. Kutztown Folk Festival.
B. Carnival of Quebec.
C. Water Lantern Festival.
D. San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade.
23. Carnival of Quebec and San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade both ________________.
A. include special food
B. relate to parades
C. take place only at nights
D. have sculpture exhibitions
B
For six hours we shot through the landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks and sand and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending, Daniel and I just wanted to remember all we had seen and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was into the fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I’d bought in a market in Mozambique.
Southern Africa was full of stories. And visions. We were almost drunk on sensations. The roaring of the water at Victoria Falls, the impossible silence of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. And then the other things: dogs in the streets, whole families in Soweto living in one room, a kilometre from clean water.
As we drove towards the setting sun, a quietness fell over us. The road was empty—we hadn’t seen another car for hours. And as I drove, something caught my eye, something moving next to me. I glanced in the mirror of the car; I glanced sideways to the right, and that was when I saw them. Next to us, by the side of the road, thirty, forty wild horses were racing the car, a cloud of dust rising behind them—brown, muscular horses almost close enough to touch them, to smell their hot breath. I didn’t know how long they had been there next to us.
I shouted to Dan: “Look!”, but he was in a deep sleep, his camera lying useless by his feet. They raced the car for a few seconds, then disappeared far behind us, a memory of heroic forms in the red landscape. When Daniel woke up an hour later I told him what had happened.
“Wild horses ” he said. “Why didn’t you wake me up ”
“I tried. But they were gone after a few seconds.”
“Are you sure you didn’t dream it ”
“You were the one who was sleeping!”
“Typical,” he said. “The best photos are the ones we never take.”
We checked into a dusty hotel and slept the sleep of the dead.
24. During their journey in Africa, the two travelers .
A. made friends with local residents
B. complained about the poor living conditions
C. enjoyed the sunset in the Karoo desert most
D. recorded their experiences in different ways
25. What does the phrase “heroic forms” in Paragraph 4 refer to
A. Racing cars.
B. Wild horses.
C. Eye-catching locals.
D. Running dogs.
26. What did Daniel think when he woke up and was told what had happened
A. He always missed out on the best thing.
B. He had already taken beautiful pictures.
C. A sound sleep was more important.
D. The next trip would be better.
27. What is the passage mainly about
A. How to view wildlife in Africa.
B. Running into wildlife in Africa.
C. Tourist attractions in southern Africa.
D. Possible dangers of travelling in Africa.
C
A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis.”
28. Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly
A. They did not have sufficient fund.
B. No ready-made components were available.
C. There was no model in their mind.
D. It was hard for them to piece together the components.
29. What can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4
A. The robotic fly has been put into wide application.
B. The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system.
C. Information from many sources can be collected by the robotic fly.
D. The robotic fly can just fly in limited areas at present.
30. Which of the following can be learned from the passage
A. Wood’s design can replace animals in some experiments.
B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.
C. The robotic fly is designed to learn about insects.
D. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.
31. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage
A. The Development of Robotic Fly
B. Robotic Fly Promotes Engineering Science
C. Harvard’s Efforts in Making Robotic Fly
D. Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect
D
Popularization has in some cases changed the original meaning of emotional intelligence (情商). Many people now misunderstand emotional intelligence as almost everything desirable in a person’s makeup that cannot be measured by an IQ test, such as character, motivation, confidence, mental stability, optimism and “people skills.” Research has shown that emotional skills may contribute to some of these qualities, but most of them move far beyond skill-based emotional intelligence.
We prefer to describe emotional intelligence as a specific set of skills that can be used for either good or bad purposes. The ability to accurately understand how others are feeling may be used by a doctor to find how best to help her patients, while a cheater might use it to control potential victims. Being emotionally intelligent does not necessarily make one a moral person.
Although popular beliefs regarding emotional intelligence run far ahead of what research can reasonably support, the overall effects of the publicity have been more beneficial than harmful. The most positive aspect of this popularization is a new and much needed emphasis (重视) on emotion by employers, educators and others interested in promoting social well-being. The popularization of emotional intelligence has helped both the public and researchers re-evaluate the functionality of emotions and how they serve people adaptively in everyday life.
Although the continuing popular appeal of emotional intelligence is desirable, we hope that such attention will excite a greater interest in the scientific and scholarly study of emotion. It is our hope that in coming decades, advances in science will offer new perspectives (视角) from which to study how people manage their lives. Emotional intelligence, with its focus on both head and heart, may serve to point us in the right direction.
32. What is a common misunderstanding of emotional intelligence
A. It can be measured by an IQ test.
B. It helps to exercise a person’s mind.
C. It refers to a person’s positive qualities.
D. It includes a set of emotional skills.
33. Why does the author mention “doctor” and “cheater” in paragraph 2
A. To explain a rule.
B. To present a fact.
C. To make a prediction.
D. To clarify a concept.
34. What is the author’s attitude to the popularization of emotional intelligence
A. Favorable.
B. Intolerant.
C. Doubtful.
D. Unclear.
35. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about concerning emotional intelligence
A. Its appeal to the public.
B. Its practical application.
C. Expectations for future studies.
D. Scientists with new perspectives.
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’ve got mail…and it’s a postcard
Paulo Magalhaes, a 34-year-old Portuguese computer engineer, loves to open his mailbox and find a brightly colored picture of Rome’s Colosseum. Or Africa’s Victoria Falls. Or China’s Great Wall. 36
“I often send postcards to family and friends.” he says to China Daily, “but you can imagine that after a while, you never receive as many as you send, and you realize that not everyone is into it. 37 ” Seeking other like-minded souls, however, Paulo started looking in a somewhat unlikely place: online. Many would say the Internet is a place for people who have given up on the traditional postal service, but Paulo’s hunch (直觉) paid off.
Today his hobby has developed into the website , a social network that has grown to 575,217 registered users in 214 countries and regions since he started it 10 years ago. 38 Running the website has almost turned into a full-time job.
Language is certainly a barrier (障碍) for many people. For postcrossing to work worldwide, a common communication language is needed so that everyone can understand each other. As cool as it may be to receive a postcard written in Chinese, the concept doesn’t work if one doesn’t understand it. 39 So a common language is required and in postcrossing that’s English since it’s widely spoken.
“Many people in China have limited exposure to English. 40 That said, we know of many postcrossing members, including Chinese, who have actually improved their English skills through their use of postcrossing,” Paulo says.
A. And that’s totally fine.
B. That makes it extra hard to learn and practice it.
C. He likes to think of sending postcards as a family-friendly hobby.
D. Many love to make a connection with someone from across the world.
E. On August 5, the number of postcards exchanged by members topped 31 million.
F. Similarly, if you speak only Chinese, receiving a card in Swedish takes part of the fun away.
G. In short, he loves postcards, and the excitement of getting a hand-written note from someone far away.
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
My mother is 92. Unless I have to be out of town, each week I take my mother to do her 41 and visit the doctor, providing 42 and transportation. During the week, however, she likes to go to a nearby store to 43 some small things she needs.
Last week she walked up to the store, but when she went to pay for her groceries, she was 44 about three dollars. The only 45 to pay for the groceries was to take off the 46 she could do without: a bottle of rubbing alcohol (医用酒精) and a bar of soap. By taking off these, she was able to 47 the new total to the amount of cash she had with her.
At this store, people 48 and then go off to the side to 49 their own groceries. My mother was putting her groceries into shopping bags when a 50 came up to her and said, “Here are the things that you 51 .” handing her the rubbing alcohol and the 52 . My mother, who is never speechless, was speechless. She 53 for the woman’s name and address so that she could 54 her. The woman told her it was her 55 .
My mother was so 56 by her gesture that she decided to go back to the store and give the cashier (收银员) a five-dollar bill to keep on hand 57 the same happened to someone else if they didn’t have enough 58 for all of their groceries.
So, whoever you are, thank you for the random act of 59 that not only helped my mother out, but 60 too.
41. A. exercise B. housework C. cooking D. shopping
42. A. reward B. medicine C. company D. shelter
43. A. return B. collect C. order D. buy
44. A. short B. cautious C. wrong D. concerned
45. A. aim B. way C. advice D. reason
46. A. weight B. things C. mask D. glasses
47. A. raise B. add C. bring D. switch
48. A. show up B. call in C. check out D. sit down
49. A. store B. select C. deliver D. bag
50. A. stranger B. cashier C. friend D. doctor
51. A. looked for B. talked about C. threw away D. put back
52. A. receipt B. soap C. cash D. bottle
53. A. asked B. waited C. cared D. searched
54. A. trust B. repay C. recognize D. help
55. A. luck B. chance C. turn D. gift
56. A. surprised B. amused C. touched D. convinced
57. A. in case B. even if C. as though D. so that
58. A. energy B. money C. space D. time
59. A. faith B. courage C. kindness D. honor
60. A. made her day B. changed her mind C. caught her eye D. met her demand
第二节（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）或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Xi’an City Wall is the most complete city wall that has survived China’s long history. It 61 (build) originally to protect the city 62 the Tang dynasty and has now been completely restored (修复). It is possible 63 (walk) or bike the entire 14 kilometers.
We accessed the wall through the South Gate. The wall is 12 meters high and from here you can see streams of people moving inside and outside the City Wall.
After spending some time looking at all the defensive 64 (equip) at the wall, we decided it was time for some action and what 65 (good) than to ride on a piece of history!
We 66 (hire) our bikes from the rental place at the South Gate. My bike was old and shaky 67 did the job. It took us about 3 hours to go all 68 way around the Xi’an City Wall. Supposedly you can do it in two hours, but we stopped at the different gates and 69 (watchtower) to take pictures or just to watch the local people going about their 70 (day) routines.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分；满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作业，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last week our teacher asked us to fill in a questionnaire. One of the questions are: Who will you go in times of trouble Here are the results. Many students say they will talk to their friend or classmates because they’re of the same age and can understand each other. Some will turn out to their parents or teachers for help. Only a little choose to deal with the problems on our own. Their answers also show that they dislike talk to others. They kept very much to themselves. In my opinion, where in trouble, we should seek help from those we trust mostly.
第2节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，自制了一些中国结(Chinese knots)。给开网店的美国朋友Tom写封信，请他代卖，要点包括：
1.外观（尺寸、颜色、材料）; 2.象征意义; 3.价格。
注意:1.100词左右。 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
高二英语开学考试参考答案
第一部分 听力
1-5 ABCAC 6-10 BACAB 11-15 CABAB 16-20 CBCBA
第二部分 阅读理解
21-23 BCB 24－27 DBAB 28-31 BDAD 32-35 CDAC
36-40 GAEFB
第三部分 语言运用
41-45. DCDAB 46-50. BCCDA 51-55. DBABD 56-60. CABCA
61. was built 62. in 63. to walk 64. equipment 65. better
66. hired 67. but 68. the 69. watchtowers 70. daily
第四部分 写作
第二句：are改为is; go后加to
第四句：friend改为friends
第五句：去掉out
第六句：little改为few; our改为their
第七句：talk改为talking
第八句：kept改为keep
第九句：where改为when或whenever; mostly改为most
Dear Tom,
How are you doing I wonder if you could sell some Chinese knots for me.
I made them myself with red silk threads, cloth and other materials. They look really beautiful in the shape of a diamond, about 5 inches long and 4 inches wide. In China, these knots stand for friendship, love and good luck. People can either give them as gifts to friends or hang them in their houses. They are only 12.99 US dollars each. If anyone wants to know more about the knots, let them write to me. Also, do let me know if you need further information.
Thank you!
Yours,
Li Hua
