宁夏海原县第一高级中学校2020-2021学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案（无听力音频无文字材料）

海原县第一高级中学2020-2021学年高二下学期期中考试
英语试卷
第Ⅰ卷
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3.考试结束后,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节
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 do we know about the man?
A. He is overweight. B. He won’t give up smoking. C. He is suffering a heart attack.
2. What is the man going to buy?
A. Food. B. Drinks. C. Flowers.
3. Why is the woman unsatisfied with the fish?
A. It tastes terrible. B. It is served too late. C. It抯 not what she ordered.
4. What is the woman going to do on Friday?
A. Take an exam. B. Study at home. C. Go to the mountains.
5. What time does the next bus leave for New York?
A. At 9:30. B. At 10:00. C. At 10:30.
第二节
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至8题。
6. Who is on a banana diet?
A. The man’s sister. B. The man’s cousin. C. The man’s neighbour.
7. How does the woman know too many eggs are bad for the heart ?
A. She learned it on TV. B. She read that before. C. She was told by the man.
8. What does the woman think of a steak diet?
A. It抯 bad for the teeth. B. It抯 bad for the heart. C. It costs too much money.
听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
A.Work. B. Health. C.Wealth.
10. What is the man’s trouble?
A. He can’t go to sleep at night.
B. He doesn’t like his work.
C. He will lose his job.
11. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Find an easy job.
B. Make less money.
C. Take some medicine .
听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。
12. What do we know about the man?
A. He is getting lost.
B. He has lost something.
C. He is going to the hospital.
13. Why is the man here?
A. To go to a business trip.
B. To help to do some farm work.
C. To take a vacation in the country.
14. What kind of work does the man do?
A. Office work. B. Farm work. C. Medical work.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
15. What抯 the relationship between the man and the woman?
A. Husband and wife.
B. Sportsman and saleswoman.
C. Customer and clerk.
16. Where are the sporting goods?
A. On the 3rd floor. B. On the 4th floor. C. On the 5th floor.
17. What does the man want to buy?
A. Shoes. B. Toys. C. Sporting goods.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. Where did the speaker and her friend go last summer?
A. Tokyo. B. Miami. C.New York.
19. How long did they stay there?
A. About two hours. B. About Half a day. C. About two weeks.
20. What was the weather like during their stay there?
A. Wet and cool. B. Very nice. C. Hot and dry.
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
Personal Robot
Make your parents and teachers happy!
Are you having problems finishing your homework on time? Do you avoid tidying your room until your mom shouts at you? You don抰 need to worry if you buy a Mr. Helping Hand personal robot. Mr. H can be programmed to organize your homework. Your own personal robot will follow you around, putting away books and objects that you have left on the floor or bed.
Mr. H also has these features(特点):
weight only 500 grams
includes long-lasting batteries(电池)
comes with a 5-year guarantee
remembers simple instructions
Originally (最初) sold for $499
NOW ONLY $299
WATCH CONTROL
This is a watch that James Bond would be proud to wear!
This is NOT a watch for ordinary people!
Your electronic PENGO WATCH CONTROL
Acts as a remote control for TVs and videos.
Gives you a daily weather forecast.
Reminds you when to hand in your homework.
Sets off a silent warning alarm when parents or teachers are near.
Besides, your PENGO WATCH CONTROL will always tell you the time accurately.
Originally sold for $199
NOW ONLY $99
For further information, click here.
With help from a Mr. H, you can ______.
A. stop using batteries B. finish your homework on time
C.remember your teacher抯 instruction D. get your room tidied on your way home
22. You can get your Mr. H for______.
A. $499 B. $299 C. $199 D. $99
23. A PENGO WATCH CONTROL can help you to ______.
A. repair your TV B. organize your homework
C. be a James Bond D. know what the weather is like
24. Where would you be most likely to find the two texts?
A. On a notice board B. In a company brochure
C.On a teenage website D. In a college newspaper
B
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission(录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.
In 1849, after graduation from medical school, she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.
Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children. Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital, she also set up the first medical school for women.
25. Why couldn't Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?_____
A. She couldn't get admitted to medical school.
B. She decided to further her education in Paris.
C. A serious eye problem stopped her.
D. It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States.
26. What main obstacle(障碍) almost destroyed Elizabeth's chances for becoming a doctor?_____
A. She was a woman.
B. She wrote too many letters.
C. She couldn't graduate from medical school.
D. She couldn't set up her hospital.
27. How many years passed between her graduation from medical school and the opening of her hospital?__
A. Eight years B. Ten years C. Nineteen years D. Thirty-six years
C
Feng Bangli, a resident of Wuhan, Hubei, began to have a fever at the end of January and suspected(怀疑) that he had been infected with the virus. He tried several times to be admitted to a hospital but failed. He eventually gave up and stayed at home, taking drugs prescribed(开药方) by doctors.
At that time, “too many patients were waiting to see doctors at every hospital, and it was not possible for me to get a bed,” said Feng. Days later, with the community staff’s help, Feng tested positive for COVID-19 and was sent to a makeshift hospital (临时医院) for treatment.
“Without such makeshift hospitals, many COVID-19 patients like me may never have found a bed,” said Feng, who recovered and was discharged (获准离开) from the makeshift hospital in Wuchang district at the end of February after staying there for 12 days.
Like Feng, more than 12, 000 COVID-19 patients in Wuhan received treatment and care at 15 makeshift hospitals, which were from exhibition halls, sports stadiums and warehouses(仓库). These hospitals, which mainly received patients with mild symptoms(轻症), contained one in every four confirmed COVID-19 patients in the city, said Ma Xiaowei, minister of China’s National Health Commission.
“Building makeshift hospitals was a key decision made in the critical moment when Wuhan was facing a formidable task of epidemic(疫情)control and it has played an important role in both prevention and treatment of the disease.” he said.
Makeshift hospitals have greatly eased pressure on designated(指定的) hospitals to receive and treat patients, which made it possible to treat and isolate(隔离) all people in need, said Xu Junmei, vice-president of Wuchang makeshift hospital. “They were the life boat during the peak of the epidemic.”
Makeshift hospitals have now been embraced in other countries. Eight makeshift hospitals are being built in Tehran, Iran, to fight against the virus. The one converted from the Iran Mall, the largest shopping mall in the country, is expected to have a total of 3,000 beds, according to People抯 Daily.
On March 29, New York converted a grassy meadow in Central Park into a makeshift hospital, where it will provide 68 hospital beds.
Considering the ways we can increase hospital capacity(容量)right now is incredibly important.” Dr Andrew Ibrahim, a surgeon at the University of Michigan told Architecture. “If hospitals do become over-packed, and new equipment needs to be built up.”
28. What point does the writer make by using FengBangli抯 example?
A. COVID-19 has infected a large number of people in a very short time.
B. Makeshift hospitals have played an important role in the fight against COVID-19.
C. Hospitals should always be prepared for any unexpected situations.
D. The COVID-19 outbreak happened suddenly without the slightest warning.
29. What does the underlined word 揻ormidable in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A. new B. basic C. strange D. tough
30. What did Dr Andrew Ibrahim think of Tehran抯 and New York抯 recent measures?
A. They were greatly helpful. B. They wasted resources.
C. They were not practical. D. They would not be as useful as China抯.
31. What is the best tittle of the article?
A. China抯 quick response to the COVID-19 outbreak
B. Let抯 copy China抯 method of fighting the virus
C. The value of building temporary hospitals to fight COVID-19
D. Different measures to deal with COVID-19
D
With weather getting warmer, animals have begun to change in response to the new condition. And some of them have become smaller. Some scientists thought this might be an adaptation to a warmer world; smaller bodies should be able to lose heat better. But now a new study has found that for red knot birds, that's not the case.
Ecologist Jan van Gils and his colleagues have been studying these birds for 33 years. Over the course of their research, van Gils and his team have found that in Russia where the red knots summer, snowmelt and spring have been advancing by half a day per year on average. Over more than thirty years, the researchers caught and measured nearly 2,000 birds. In years when the snowmelt had arrived particularly early, the birds were likely to be smaller and have shorter bills (鸟嘴).
The birds leave the coast of Western Africa, where they winter, and fly north toward Russia. The birds are supposed to arrive in spring, so they can lay their eggs and when their chicks hatch out(孵出), there will be a wealth of arthropod (节肢动物) insects to feed their young.
But even though the red knots are advancing their arrival date by about a quarter of a day per year, it is not enough to keep up with the snowmelt. And in years when the snowmelt arrives early, the arthropods reach the greatest quantity before the birds need them.Therefore, chicks miss out on eating well and they grow up to be smaller and have shorter bills.
Being smaller and having a shorter bill isn't a problem in Russia—but it is in Africa. There, adult birds feed on thin-shelled bivalves (双壳贝类), Loripes lucinalis. But the bivalves are buried deep. However, other options, Dosinia isocardia bivalves and seagrass rhizomes (根茎), which only the youngest birds rely on, are not abundant or nutritious.
Van Gils and his colleagues found that, in their first year, shorter-billed red knots don't survive as well in Africa. The majority of birds that survive are the long-billed birds.
32.How did Jan van Gils and his colleagues reach the conclusion?
A. By comparing red knots with other birds.
B. By dividing 2,000 red knots into several groups.
C. By analyzing studies that have been published in Science.
D. By watching and examining red knots for three decades.
33.What influence does early snowmelt have on red knots?
A.They need to find other places for summer.
B.They arrive in Russia half a day earlier each year.
C.Their eggs take more time to hatch out.
D.Their chicks don't have enough to eat.
34.Why do few adult short-billed red knots survive in Africa?
A. Because they can抰 access Loripes lucinalis bivalves.
B. Because Dosinia isocardia bivalves they need are rare.
C. Because they can't find arthropod insects to eat.
D. Because seagrass rhizomes they feed on are not nutritious.
35.What's the purpose of the text?
A. To tell a story.
B. To make an announcement
C. To provide facts.
D. To put forward suggestions.
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填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
The jobs of the future have not yet been invented． （36） By helping them develop classic skills that will serve them well no matter what the future holds．
1．Curiosity
Your children need to be deeply curious． （37） Ask kids，"What ingredients （配料）can we add to make these pancakes even better next time? "and then try them out. Ingredients make the pancakes better? What could we try next time?
Creativity
True creativity is the ability to take something existing and create something new from it.（38） There are a dozen different things you can do with them. Experimenting with materials to create something new can go a long way in helping them develop their creativity．
3．Personal skills
Understanding how others feel can be a challenge for kids. We know what's going on inside our own head, but what about others? Being able to read people helps kid from misreading a situation and jumping to false conclusions. （39） "Why do you think she's crying?" "Can you tell how that man is feeling by looking at his face?" "If someone were to do that to you, how would you feel?"
4．Self Expression
（40） There are many ways to express thoughts and ideas ---- music, acting, drawing, building, photography. You may find that your child is attracted by one more than another．
A．Encourage kids to cook with you.
B．And we can't forget science education.
C．We can give kids chances to think about materials in new ways.
D．So how can we help our kids prepare for jobs that don't yet exist?
E．Gardening is another great activity for helping kids develop this skill.
F．We can do this in real life or ask questions about characters in stories.
G．Being able to communicate ideas in a meaningful way is a valuable skill.
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、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。
Much meaning can be conveyed with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.
Do you have such kind of??41??? In a bus you may look at a???42??, but not too long. And if he is??43???that he is being stared at, he may feel??44??.
The same is in??45???life. If you are looked at for more than??46??, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is??47???wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel angry toward other's??48??at you that way.
Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and??49??. But things are different when it?50???to stare at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds and?_51??to avert (移开) his gaze, his intentions are??52??, that is, he wishes to attract her attention, to make her understand that he is??53???her.
54??, the normal eye contact for two people???55???in?a conversation is that the speaker will only look at the listener??56???, in order to make sure that the listener does pay attention to what the former is speaking about, to tell him that he is attentive. If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking,???57??he tries to dominate (控制) you, you will feel embarrassing.
In fact, continuous eye contact is confined to???58???only, who will enjoy looking at each other tenderly for a long time, to show affection that???59???cannot express.
Evidently, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and the specific???60?.
41．A．experience B．thought?? C．feeling??????? D．attitude
42．A．conductor???? B．driver??? C．tourist? D．stranger
43．A．looking?? B．sensing?? C．telling?? D．deciding
44．A．interested? B．stupid??? C．uncomfortable? D．angry
45．A．social???? B．daily??? C．family????? D．school
46．A．friendly? B．authentic??? C．special D．necessary
47．A．anything??? B．somewhere? C．nothing??? D．anywhere
48．A．interest?? B．stare????? C．appreciation D．notice
49．A．attentive?? B．positive??? C．aggressive??? D．active
50．A．comes???? B．hopes??? C．tries???? D．seems
51．A．starts????? B．refuses???? C．manages?? D．aims
52．A．dirty????? B．unhealthy? C．obvious? D．unfair
53．A．admiring? B．enjoying???? C．cheating???? D．selecting
54．A．Therefore? B．Otherwise?? C．Altogether D．However
55．A．engaged?? B．attracted??? C．trapped????? D．invited
56．A．all the time B．from time to time C．all the way?? D．back and forth
57．A．in case???? B．as if??????? C．even though?? D．so that
58．A．mothers???? B．children???? C．lovers?????? D．teachers
59．A．looks???? B．eyes????? C．smiles????? D．words
60．A．situation?? B．circumstance? C．environment D．condition
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1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
First, reading books __61__(be) fun. You can always keep yourself __62__(interest) and it can help you have an enjoyable time if you like reading. This is especially useful when the weather is bad. It is a __63__(relax) hobby too. 　　
Next, you can read a book anywhere: in a car, in a waiting room, on a plane, in bed—even in the bath. __64__ you need is a book! Reading is a convenient hobby as it is easy to stop and then start again. 　　
Another good reason for reading books is __65__ it is useful. If you read as a hobby, you __66__(get) better and better at it. This means that you will read faster and will become __67__(good) at understanding what you read. As your reading improves, you will probably find your schoolwork becomes much easier. Many school subjects depend __68__ good reading and, as you read you learn more and more. 　　
Good readers are most likely to be good __69__(write), too. They are usually good at __70__(spell) as well, and have more things to write about. Reading books is really a wonderful hobby.
写作 （共两节 满分 35）
第一节 短文改错（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 Sunday, I didn’t get up early as usually. In the morning after I finished my homework, I do some washing. Then I telephoned one of my classmate, inviting him to see a film. And unfortunately, when we got to the cinema, we found all the tickets had sold out. Then we went back to school and played the football. After that, we were about to go home then we saw our English teacher, Ms Gao, coming into the school gate. She told us we had made great progresses in English. This term she suggested that we should read more and wrote more. She also asked us to help those on need. She hoped we would improve English together.
第二节 书面表达 (25分)
假如你是李华，你在中国日报是看到招聘广告，一家外资餐馆招服务员，请写一封求职函。内容如下：
1、求职申请。
2、自己的优势：曾经在宾馆工作，受好评；英语口语好；性格开朗，能吃苦，善合作等等。
3、期待回复。
注意：1、次数100左右；
可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已为你写好
Dear sir,
I have learned that your restaurant is wanting some waiters during the summer vacation in China Daily
of Jun. 13, 2018. _____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
海原县第一高级中学2020-2021学年高二下学期期中考试
英语试题答案
听力
1-5 ACABB 6-10 CBCBA 11-15 AACAC 16-20 BABCB
二、阅读
21-24 BBDC 25-27 CAA 28-31 BDAC 32-35 DDAC 36-40 DACFG
三、完形填空
41-60 ADBCB DABCA BCADA BBCDA
四、语法填空
is　2.interested　3.relaxing　4.What/All 5.that　6.will get　7.better　8.on　9.writers　10.spelling
五、改错
【小题1】 usually-usual
【小题2】 do-did
【小题3】 classmate-classmates
【小题4】 And-But
【小题5】 sold前加been
【小题6】 去掉the
【小题7】 then-when
【小题8】 progresses-progress
【小题9】 wrote-write
【小题10】on need-in need
六、作文
Dear sir,
I have learned that your restaurant is wanting some waiters during the summer vacation in China Daily of Jun. 13, 2018. Now I’m writing to apply for the position.
I’m sure that I have not only the qualification for the job, but also the personality as a waiter. First, I once worked in a big hotel for 3 months and was highly thought of by the boss and customers. Second, my English is so good that I once won first place in the spoken English competition of our city. Finally, what I am proud of is that I am outgoing, hardworking, active and cooperative, which makes me popular with my friends.
I’d really appreciate it if you could take me into consideration. Looking forward to your reply the sooner.
Yours,
LiHua