内江六中高 2021 届 高二下半期考试
英语试题
考试时间：120 分钟 满分：150 分
注意事项：
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第I 卷（选择题 共 100 分）
第一部分 听力 (共两节, 满分 20 分)
回答听力部分时, 请先将答案标在试卷上。 听力部分结束前, 你将有两分钟的时间将你的答案转涂到客观题答题卡上。
第一节 (共 5 小题；每小题 1 分, 满分 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。
What is the man doing?
A. Writing a detective story. B. Watching a new film. C. Reading a story.
What is the man’s suggestion?
Having the refrigerator fixed.
Putting the refrigerator far away.
Buying a new refrigerator.
What does the man hope to do?
Rest for a couple of hours.
Watch a basketball match.
Attend a meeting.
What kind of music does the woman like best?
A. Classical music. B. Pop music. C. Folk music.
5. How does the woman feel?
A. Disappointed. B. Indifferent. C. Excited.
第二节 (共 15 小题；每小题 1 分, 满分 15 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。每段对话读二遍。
听第 6 段材料,回答第 6 和第 7 两个小题。
What did Tom do last night?
He listened to the radio.
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He played the piano.
He did his homework.
What’s the possible relationship between the speakers?
A. Sister and brother. B. Teacher and student. C. Mother and son.
听下面一段对话,回答第 8 和第 9 两个小题。
What does Shelly do?
A. A driver. B. A reporter. C. A director.
What will the man do first?
A. Have his car fixed. B. Meet some singers. C. Prepare something to eat.
听下面一段对话,回答第 10 至第 12 三个小题。
What are the speakers probably doing now?
A. Having a meal. B. Shopping. C. Preparing food.
What is the man’s favorite food?
A. Carrots. B. Chocolate cakes. C. Fruits.
What does the woman want the man to do?
A. Try the dessert. B. Bake some cakes. C. Balance his diet.
听下面一段对话,回答第 13 至第 16 四个小题。
What will John get?
A. A bike. B. A toy car. C. A football.
Who is probably learning Chinese?
A. John. B. Jane. C. Jack.
When will the woman buy the gifts?
A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Sunday.
Why will the man take the kids to the McDonald’s?
A. To have lunch. B. To keep a secret. C. To make them quiet.
听下面一段独白,回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。
Who is Beck Alter?
A. An art teacher. B. A student leader. C. The owner of Penny.
When will Penny be tested?
When she is 30 days old.
When she is 49 days old.
When she is 79 days old.
In which classes will the students write diaries for Penny’s website?
A. English and art. B. English and geography. C. Speech and communication.
What will the students in life skills class do for Penny?
Take care of Penny.
Train Penny’s personality.
Help run the Internet page.
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，共 30 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Foods of the Future
We asked young scientists to write an advertisement that answers this question: How will food options, food availability, and individuals’ food choices change in the future? A selection of their suggested marketing campaigns is below. Read previous NextGen Voices survey results at
http://science.sciencemag.org/collection/nextgen-voices. — Jennifer Sills
Personalized Meal Plans
Send us your DNA, and we will predict your food preferences! Receive your personalized food basket, with a day-by-day diet program. We will send you full meals and personalized
smoothies (水果奶昔) based on your genetic taste tendency.
Ada Gabriela Blidner
Twitter:@adagbb
Fresh Fruit
If you miss sweet temperate fruits, welcome to our Moon Farm. Our fruit trees are planted in hybrid-soil and artificial air that reproduce Earth’s environment from 5000 years ago. Pick fruits
with your family or ship to your doorstep with MoonEx. Freshness guaranteed.
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Meat
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Which of the following needs you to provide the information of your genes?
A. Meat. B. Fresh Fruit. C. Personalized Meal Plans. D.NextGen Voices.
Who should you contact if you want to have fun with your family?
A. Jennifer Sills. B.Falko Buschke. C. Yongsheng Ji. D. Ada Gabriela Blidner.
Which of the following best describes the steaks in Meat?
A. Fresh. B. Green. C. Expensive. D. Personalized.
B
Amanda Seyfried didn’t grow up with dogs. With her busy work schedule, she didn’t think she could take care of a dog. In fact, she wasn’t looking for a furry friend at all.
But then she met Finn. Today, the 34-year-old actress, who’s known for films Mamma Mia, is a dog owner and a spokeswoman at the welfare organization Best Friends Animal Society.
“I can’t imagine my life without him,” Seyfried says of 6.5-year-old Australian shepherd Finn, who is allowed on her U.S. set. If for some reason he can’t join Seyfried on location --- like on a recent trip when she traveled from France to China, Seyfried requests from her dog sitter twice daily videos of him.
Now with a new video for Best Friends Animal Society, she calls herself Finn’s “stage
mother.”
Seyfried and Finn shot an ’80s-themed video for the ＃ 9000 Steps Challenge ＃, which asks animal owners to walk 9,000 steps with their pets on the ninth day of the month to raise awareness to the fact that more than 9,000 dogs and cats are euthanized ( 安 乐 死 ) in shelters each day because there’s not enough room.
As for the video shoot, in which Seyfried and Finn walked the 9,000 steps --- it was more
exhausting than a long walk. Seyfried was Finn’s trainer on the shoot. She believes that instead of being Finn’s cp-star, she’ll go back to being BFFs.
Why did Seyfried originally refuse a pet dog?
She wasn’t not yet a spokeswoman.
She was too busy to care for a dog.
She wasn’t used to being with a dog.
She had not enough room for a dog.
Who does the underlined word “him” in paragraph 3 refer to?
Finn. B. Seyfried. C. The dog sitter. D. Finn’s best friend.
Why did Seyfried shoot the video together with Finn?
To show how deep she loves Finn.
To train Finn to have a long walk.
To take part in an animal cp-star show.
To call on public attention to pets’life.
Which section of a newspaper is this text most likely from?
A. News B.Sports C. Education D. Life
C
Pinocchio （ 匹诺曹） may be just a children’s fairy tale, but Spanish scientists at the
University of Granada recently investigated this so-called “Pinocchio effect” and found that our noses don’t grow when we tell a lie, but actually shrink a bit.
Dr. Gómez Milán and his team developed a lie detector test that used thermography（体温计） to tell if people were lying, and found that whenever participants in their research were being untruthful, the temperature of the tip of their nose dropped up to 1.2℃, while the temperature of their forehead increased up to 1.5℃. Scientist also found that drop in temperature at nose level actually caused it to slightly shrink, although the difference is undetected by the human eye.
“One has to think in order to lie, which rises the temperature of the forehead,” Dr. Gómez Milán explained the findings. “At the same time we feel anxious, which lowers the temperature of the nose.”
For this study, researchers asked a number of 60 students to perform various tasks while their temperature is scanned by technology. One of these tasks required making a 3 to 4 minutes call to their parents or a friend and telling a significant lie. Participants had to make up the lie themselves during the call. Interestingly, this lie detector picked up the “Pinocchio effect” temperature difference in 80 percent of the test subjects, which is a better rate of success than that of any modern lie detector.
“With this method we have achieved to increase accuracy”, said Dr. Gómez Milán, who added that law enforcement interviewers could one day combine other lie detection technology
with thermal imaging to achieve better results.
Why does the writer talk about Pinocchio in the first paragraph?
A. To tell a fairy tale. B. To introduce the topic.
C. To talk about a scientist. D. To give an example.
What is “Pinocchio effect”?
Our noses will grow when we tell a lie.
Our noses will shrink when we tell a lie.
The temperature of the forehead falls if we lie.
The temperature of the student rises for anxiety.
How did Dr. Gómez Milán feel about the lie detector?
A. Doubtful. B. Confident. C. Surprised. D. Puzzled.
What lesson can we learn from the text?
A. A lie will travel very hard. B. A lie never lives tobe old.
C. Many ways to bring a liar to light. D. Once a liar always a liar.
D
East Africa is experiencing the worst desert locust（ 蝗虫） outbreak in decades. Climate events have accelerated breeding of the pest across the region, and with a sudden rise in the locust population expected in coming weeks, urgent actions and funds are needed to prevent a human crisis.
Twenty million people in six of the eight East African countries are most affected by an ongoing desert locust outbreak at risk of serious food insecurity. Considered among the most destructive of moving pests, an adult locust can consume 2g of plants per day, affecting crops and grasslands. A group typically holds 20 to 150 million locusts per square kilometer and can move hundreds of kilometers per day, invading areas covering millions of square kilometers. An active group, therefore, can destroy crops and grasslands within a very short period of time.
That global warming could increase the risk of desert locust crisis was proposed over ten years ago, and in February, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that the current outbreak is linked to the effects of climate change: “warmer seas mean more perfect breeding ground for locusts”. The outbreak has its origins in 2018, when a series of windstorms in the Arabian Peninsula ( 阿 拉 伯 半 岛 ) enabled the warm and wet conditions the desert locust requires to breed and band undetected in remote regions. Though our focus here is migration west,
dreadful outbreaks of the desert locust have been experienced to the east.
The situation is going out of control. A rescue operation and financial support admit no delay. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) can take out only US$138 million for rapid response and immediate action — controlling the spread of the desert locust and safeguarding livelihoods. They say the maths is clear: about half the funding (资助) is needed for supervision, ground and sky control, and uniting efforts; the other half is needed for livelihoods and food security of farmers. As for the huge gap, they have called on the international community to act
now through funding. However, by the end of February, just US$69 million had been promised.
This most alarming crisis has developed and is worsening in East Africa. The funds needed to control the situation become very difficult to achieve and the gap is a big concern.
Why does the crisis happen in East Africa?
Good climate for breeding plays a role.
There is a big population there.
There are large deserts and grasslands.
Africa lies west of Arabian Peninsula.
Why does the writer list those figures in Para 2?
To help us understand how locusts live.
To show how many locusts there are now.
To draw a picture of the present Africa.
To warn of the terrible damage by locusts.
What can we infer from the text?
The crisis is not noticed until recently.
The crisis has been the focus of the world.
More fund is needed to prevent the crisis.
Locusts are all from the Arabian Peninsula.
Which is the best title for the text?
Killing Locusts Before Too Late
Funding Gap for Locust Crisis
Global Warming, a World Problem
Africa, a Crisis-stricken Place
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。
Each year thousands of Chinese tourists visit Cambridge, not to see the beauty of a great university, but to pay homage( 敬 意 ) to a poem—Xu Zhimo’s Farewell to Cambridge. 36 As one of the most famous romantic poets of Chinese literature, he is known for his promotion and contributions to modern Chinese poetry.
To honor him, in July 2008, a stone of white marble was set up at the Backs of King's College, Cambridge (near the bridge over the River Cam). 37 It records the poet’s feelings of sorrows at departing from Cambridge where he had studied between 1920 and 1922. 38 He was also influenced by French romantic and symbolist poets at that time. The poem is his signature work, most frequently recited at shows. He was one of the first Chinese writers to successfully naturalize Western romantic forms into modern Chinese poetry.
39 It is a good embodiment( 典 型 ) of his life-long devotion to explore poetic qualities— poetic license, creation and beauty. He creates a beautiful poetic imagery just like the fresh bridge, rainbow and cloud. In such imagery, poem can tell about its own aesthetic(美学的) feelings. 40
Xu Zhimo got the honor in Cambridge.
The beauty of this poem impressed the readers.
It was at Cambridge that he fell in love with English romantic poetry.
Xu Zhimo was an early 20th century Chinese poet.
On it are written the first two and last two lines from this poem.
The poem possesses true feelings, fresh language and elegant style.
Music and color can appeal to the imagery by use of the two senses, ear and mind.
第三部分：基础知识运用（共两节, 满分 45 分）
第一节 完型填空 （共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分, 满分 30 分）
阅读下面短文, 从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将题涂黑。
I had to read The Secret several times in order to get and understand the core meaning of the book. I said to myself that 41 what the book said was true, I was going to give it my very best. When looking back at my 42 , I noticed that I had always been 43 by negative thoughts with my subconscious mind and not really thinking about the 44 of those.
I had taken an exam three times to get 45 in the field I was going to 46 . However, after meeting with 47 many times, I felt hopeless, depressed and 48 . I didn' t know what I should do. I had asked my friends for help, but their 49 didn't help me, either. One day, I 50 The Secret and borrowed it at once when I borrowed other books from the library. After I read The Secret several times and practiced it a lot with small things, 51 I learned its meaning bit by bit. I am not an expert yet now, so I 52 study it every day. I 53 the book and the author, without which I would not have 54 what I had always longed for. I did not get the top score, but I did get 55
in my study! I am now going to get top marks in this study, which is my new 56 .
This book is to me what a timely 57 is to a dry grassland. It was my luck that eventually
58 this book to me and it is the book that lets my effort 59 . I strongly believe that I can achieve more with it 60 me in the future.
41. A. although B. unless C. whether D. if
42. A. progress B. past C. childhood D. difficulty
43. A. judged B. abandoned C. troubled D. approved
44. A. results B. benefits C. fears D. differences
45. A. influence B. honor C. admission D. competence
46. A. discuss B. study C. devote D. apply
47. A. sufferings B. accidents C. conflicts D. rejections
48. A. unfair B. annoyed C. lost D. ambiguous
49. A. skills B. advice C. contacts D. comfort
50. A. came across B. put aside C. heard about D. gave away
51. A. correctly B. especially C. roughly D. gradually
52. A. still B. even C. never D. seldom
53. A. assess B. select C. value D. award
54. A. discovered B. accomplished C. missed D. dropped
55. A. exploration B. measures C. fortune D. advances
56. A. ambition B.reason C. interest D. idea
57. A. storm B. rain C.snow D. thunder
58. A. guaranteed B. took C. forced D. brought
59. A. move on B. come out C. pay off D. turn up
60. A. training B. saving C. matching D. accompanying
第Ⅱ卷（非选择题 共 60 分）
第一节 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（不多于 3 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
When the winter approaches, tanghulu, a traditional Chinese snack can be found on the street corner in northern China. Since the ancient times, it 61 (be) very popular with natives, especially children.
Tanghulu is 62 (common) made of haws ( 山 楂 ), which are rich in vitamin C and are known 63 (have) traditional Chinese medicine properties. According to a legend, 800 years ago, one of the emperor’s 64 (wife) was sick and had 65 poor appetite. The doctor suggested that she eat 10 haws 66 (boil) with sugar before dinner. She recovered within two weeks. Later, the prescription was passed on 67 ordinary people. People put haws on a stick, dipped them in hot sugar syrup ( 糖 浆 ) and dried. The syrup finally turned into a solid coating, like crystal on the surface of haws. That is 68 they are also called bingtanghulu. Another origin story says that the very first tanghulu only had
two haws: a small one on the top and a big one below, 69 (make) it resemble a hulu, a bringer of goodluck.
With sour haws and sweet sugar, the taste of tanghulu is a combination of flavors, which often 70 (remind) people of their happy childhoods.
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文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中有 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, in my English class we watch a video about the earth and how to help the environment with some simply actions. My family and I have decided to change our daily habit to save energy. Now I take a shower quickly than before. That makes me happy is that my mother no longer relies on the microwave for breakfast, but use a gas stove instead. When we leave home, and we turn off all the lights because nobody is going to use it. If we change our way of life, with my opinion, we will make a contribution to protecting the earth. Why not having a try?
第三节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，你的外国笔友 Jack 在网上看到了中国学生在疫情中做家务的照片，发来邮件想了解你的相关情况。请你回复邮件，内容包括：
你做的家务；
家人的态度；
你的感受。
参考词汇：the epidemic 疫情注意：
词数 100 左右；
可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jack,
Best wishes.
Yours, Lihua
2021 届高二下半期考试 英语科目答案
听力：CACAA CBBCA BCCBC BABBA
阅读：CCB BADD BABC ADCB
七选五：DECFG
完形填空: DBCAC BDCBA DACBD ABDCD
语法填空:
61. has been 62. commonly 63. to have 64. wives 65. a
66. boiled 67. to 68. why 69. making 70. reminds
改错：
作文范文：
Dear Jack, Delighted that you are interested in the pictures concerning Chinese students doing
housework, I’m writing to share with you my present life in this aspect. Personally, apart from online learning during the epidemic days, I take an active part in
fulfilling my duty of doing housework. By making beds, sweeping the floor and watering
flowers instead of my mother, I have not only gained some labour skills, but also felt a strong
sense of achievement and self-satisfaction. I even came to find my talent of being a chef, which
greatly pleases my parents, saying that they have never been so relaxed. Actually, doing
housework helps me realize how much my parents have done for my comfortable life. That’s
why I have decided to keep my family role as a life-long habit. Best wishes!
Yours, Li Hua
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