【英语】吉林省长春市九台区第四中学2019-2020学年高二上学期期末考试

【英语】吉林省长春市九台区第四中学2019-2020学年高二上学期期末考试

吉林省长春市九台区第四中学2019-2020学年高二上学期 期末考试英语试卷 本试卷分第 I 卷和第 II 卷两部分, 共 12 页。满分 125 分。考试限定用时 90 分钟。 ‎ 第 I 卷 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 is the woman doing? ‎ A. Buying a handbag. ‎ B. Trying on a piece of clothing. ‎ C. Drawing a picture of the countryside. ‎ ‎2. What is the possible relationship between the speakers? ‎ A. Family members. ‎ B. Classmates. ‎ C. Co-workers. ‎ ‎3. What is the man angry about? ‎ A. Telephoning while driving. ‎ B. Some women drivers. ‎ C. Traffic lights. ‎ ‎4. What does the woman mean? ‎ A. She will choose the man. ‎ B. The man was late in asking. ‎ C. She may run for the position. ‎ ‎5. What does the woman want the man to do? ‎ A. Set up a museum. ‎ B. Start doing exercise. ‎ C. Stop buying cameras. ‎ 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，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. How will the man’s brother go to South America? ‎ A. By ship. ‎ B. By plane. ‎ C. By train. ‎ ‎7. What will the man probably buy for his brother? ‎ A. A toothbrush. ‎ B. A silk tie. ‎ C. A clock. ‎ 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。 ‎ ‎8. Where is Rick working now? ‎ A. In a travel company. ‎ B. In a hotel. ‎ C. In a law office. ‎ ‎9. How does Rick feel about his trip? ‎ A. Excited. ‎ B. Curious. ‎ C. Nervous. ‎ ‎10. When will Rick leave? ‎ A. In three days. ‎ B. In a week. ‎ C. In a month. ‎ 听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。 ‎ ‎11. What do we know about the grandmother? ‎ A. She lives by herself. ‎ B. She’s as healthy as before. ‎ C. She often does some cleaning. ‎ ‎12. How long has the grandmother lived in Kentucky? ‎ A. Since her husband died. ‎ B. Since she was married. ‎ C. Since her son moved away. ‎ ‎13. What does the grandmother enjoy about her present life? ‎ A. Being busy with housework. ‎ B. Being with relatives. ‎ C. Being with friends. ‎ 听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。 ‎ ‎14. What was the woman talking about at the beginning of the conversation? ‎ A. Her story of completing a task. ‎ B. Her experience of being lost. ‎ C. Her trip abroad. ‎ ‎15. What did the man do in the bar in Germany? ‎ A. Met his friends. ‎ B. Attended a lecture. ‎ C. Gave a performance.‎ ‎16. How did the man find his way back to the bar? ‎ A. By following a man. ‎ B. By looking at a map. ‎ C. By asking an old woman. ‎ ‎17. What do we know about the man? ‎ A. He cannot stand the noise in the bar. ‎ B. He doesn’t like to wear T-shirts. ‎ C. He doesn’t speak German. ‎ 听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。 ‎ ‎18. Who is the speaker? ‎ A. A radio announcer. ‎ B. A police officer. ‎ C. A taxi driver. ‎ ‎19. What makes driving a taxi a hard job in London? ‎ A. Bad traffic. ‎ B. Confusing street names. ‎ C. Large population in London. ‎ ‎20. What will the speaker probably do if he’s stuck on the road? ‎ A. Have a map ready. ‎ B. Be understanding. ‎ C. Change directions. ‎ 第二部分 阅读（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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项。 ‎ A Maple Leaf Educational Systems The Maple leaf Model of International Education Offering Canadian and Chinese high school graduation diplomas English and Chinese language skill development with certified ESL and CSL instructors Preschool, elementary school, middle school and high school programs Blending the innovative and enquiry-based western educational model with the culturally rich and disciplined traditional Chinese educational model, preparing students to meet the challenges of living and working in an internationally diverse society Preparing academically motivated students for worldwide university studies Now accepting applications for the 2021 school year Accredited by the Ministry of Education British Columbia Canada and Chinese Provincial Education Department For information: call 4006556857 / Email: international@maplelea f.net.cn / www mapleleafschool.comDalian—Wuhan—Tianjin—Chongqing—Zhenjiang—Luoyang—Ordos—Shanghai ‎ ‎21. What can you expect from the Maple Leaf Model? ‎ A. Top professors from around the world. ‎ B. Studying in overseas high schools. ‎ C. The development of both Chinese and English language skills. ‎ D. Living and working in an international environment. ‎ ‎22. Which of the following is NOT suggested as a way of contact? ‎ A. Calling 4006556877. ‎ B. Contacting the offices in different cities. ‎ C. E-mailing international@mapleleaf.net.cn. ‎ D. Visiting www.mapleleafschools.com. ‎ ‎23. From the advertisement, we can conclude that the Maple Leaf Model of International Education now has ______. ‎ A. 7 branches in China ‎ B. 8 branches in China ‎ C. 9 branches in China ‎ D. 10 branches in China ‎ B After a few moments, my passenger started a conversation. It began ordinarily enough: “How do you like driving a cab?” “It’s OK,” I said. “I make a living and meet interesting people sometimes. How about you?” His reply intrigued me. “I would not change jobs even if I could make twice as much money doing something else.” I’d never heard that before. “What do you do?” “I’m in the neurology (神学)department at New York Hospital.” I believe that people are put together for a reason. I decided to ask for this man’s help. We were not far from the airport. “Could I ask a big favor of you? I have a son, 15, a good kid. He wants a job, but a 15-year-old can’t get hired unless his old man knows someone who owns a business, and I don’t.” I paused. “Is there any possibility that you could get him some kind of a summer job?”He didn’t respond for a while. Finally, he said: “Well, the medical students have a summer research project. Maybe he could fit in. Have him send me his school record.” I tore off a piece of my brown lunch bag, and he scribbled his name on it and paid me. It was the last time I ever saw him. After I nagged (唠叨), yelled, and finally threatened to cut off his allowance (零用钱) my son Robbie sent off his grades to the guy the next morning. Two weeks later, when I arrived home from work, my son was beaming (眉开眼笑). He handed me a letter from my passenger, “Fred Plum, MD, ‎ Neurologist-in-Chief, New York Hospital”. Robbie was to call my passenger’s secretary for an interview. Robbie got the job. He did minor tasks, unpaid, but he fit in well. The following summer, he worked at the hospital again with more responsibility. As high school graduation neared, Dr Plum was kind enough to write letters of recommendation for Robbie. Much to our delight, he was accepted by Brown University. Robbie did well in college and medical school, and he eventually did a four-year residency (住院医生实习期) in obstetrics and gynecology (妇产科). Finally, Dr Robert Stern, the son of a taxicab driver, became OB-GYN chief resident at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Some might call it fate, and I guess it was. But it shows that something as ordinary as a taxi ride can change your life. ‎ ‎24. What does the underlined word “intrigued” in the third paragraph mean? ‎ A. Confused. ‎ B. Benefited. ‎ C. Interested. ‎ D. Challenged. ‎ ‎25. After the author got the passenger’s name, he ______. ‎ A. found that his son got the summer job immediately ‎ B. had difficulty persuading his son to send his school record ‎ C. found his son wasn’t interested in getting a summer job ‎ D. asked for his help more than once ‎ ‎26. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article? ‎ A. The small summer job led to Robbie’s career. ‎ B. The author loves his job and devotes himself to it. ‎ C. Robbie was very eager to work at New York Hospital. ‎ D. Dr. Plum promised to help the author without hesitation. ‎ ‎27. From the article, we can conclude that the author ______. ‎ A. often asked his passengers for favors ‎ B. often forced his opinions on his son ‎ C. tried to do what he could for his son ‎ D. taught his son by example ‎ C Overhearing a one-sided cell phone call is more distracting than eavesdropping on both sides of a conversation, a new study finds. ‎ ‎“People find cell phone conversations annoying—survey results indicate that up to 82percent of people do,” Veronica Galván, a cognitive ( 认 知 的 ) psychologist at the University of San Diego, told Tech News Daily. “We were curious to see what cognitive effects overhearing cell phone conversations might have, since they are now so pervasive in everyday life.” To see how precisely cell phone chatter might distract people, Galván and her team had about 150 volunteers complete a task where they had to unscramble letters to form words—for instance, rearrange “suohe” to form “house”. As the volunteers performed the task, the scientists carried out a conversation in the background that volunteers were unaware was part of the study. Half the volunteers overheard one side of a chat carried out on a cell phone, while the rest overheard the conversation as a discussion between two people in the room with them. The discussions involved topics such as shopping for furniture, a birthday party and meeting a date at the mall. The people who overheard the one-sided mobile phone call thought the background conversation was far more distracting than those who heard it as a chat between two people. People not only thought cell phone conversations were more attention-catching, but they also remembered more words and content from the cell phone discussions than they did from two-sided conversations and made fewer errors recognizing which words were part of the phone call. Past research suggests this is due to how one-sided conversations are more unpredictable than ones where people can hear both sides of a discussion. “Not knowing where the conversation is heading is what makes cell phone calls more distracting,” said study co-author Rosa Vessal at the University of San Diego. ‎ Galván recalled how distracting cell phone calls could be in her own life. “We’d been doing the study for a couple of months, and I was at the store looking at clothes, and the lady next to me was on a cell phone saying, ‘Yeah, he was in jail last night,’” Galván said. “I had no idea what she was talking about—it was just a snipped-off conversation without context (语境), and it really was different from a conversation you could hear both sides of.” ‎ ‎28. What does the underlined word “distracting” mean in the first paragraph? ‎ A. Annoying. ‎ B. Frightening. ‎ C. Puzzling. ‎ D. Interesting. ‎ ‎29. Which of the following is TRUE about the experiment that Galván did according to the article? ‎ A. Males and females were asked to perform the task separately. ‎ B. The researchers told volunteers to ignore the distractions. ‎ C. Volunteers were asked to unscramble letters while they were distracted. ‎ D. Volunteers needed to recognize whether some words were part of the conversation they overheard.‎ ‎30. According to the experiment’s results, when overhearing one-sided cell phone call, people ______. ‎ A. tended to be more aware of the loud voice of the speaker ‎ B. usually felt annoyed that the speaker was using a cell phone in public ‎ C. couldn’t help trying to figure out constantly where the conversation is heading ‎ D. finished their unscrambling tasks faster than those who heard a chat between two people ‎ ‎31. How does the article mainly develop? ‎ A. By providing examples. ‎ B. By making comparisons. ‎ C. By following the order of time. ‎ D. By presenting a result and analyzing its reasons. ‎ D Big dogs apparently die younger than smaller ones mainly because they age quickly, researchers say. Normally, larger mammals live longer than smaller ones; for instance, elephants can get up to 70 years old in the wild, while house mice reach only 4years.But the opposite seems true when you compare animals within one species---in mice, horses and perhaps even humans. ‎ We can especially see how much it hurts to have a bigger body with dogs, a species that comes in various shapes and sizes. The heaviest known dog may have been Zorba, an English breed that weighed 155 kilograms, while the smallest dog alive may be Meyzi which is less than 110 grams. ‎ Large breeds often die young compared with smaller ones, with a 70- kilogram Great Dane having an average life span (寿命) of about 7 years, while a 4-kilogram toy poodle can expect to ‎ live up to 14 years. ‎ To figure out the possible tradeoffs of large size, researchers figured out at what age dogs from 74 breeds died, using data from more than 56,000 dogs that visited veterinary (兽医) teaching hospitals. The researchers focused on why large dogs lived shorter lives on average. ‎ The scientists found that large breeds apparently aged more quickly; the speed at which the risk of death increased with age was greater with larger breeds than smaller ones. Indeed, among dog breeds, an increase of 2 kilograms in body mass leads to a loss of approximately 1 month of life expectancy. “Their lives seem to end in fast motion,” said researcher Cornelia Kraus, a biologist at the University of Göttingen in Germany. The investigators now want to look at the growth and health histories of a large number of dogs and figure out the leading causes of death for large dogs. For instance, bigger canines apparently suffer from cancer more often, which could make sense; large dogs grow more than smaller breeds do, and cancer is rooted in abnormal cell growth. These new findings might be able to help unravel (解密) the biological links between growth and death, the scientists added. ‎ ‎32. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article? ‎ A. Smaller dogs usually age at faster rates than big dogs. ‎ B. Dogs’ sizes don’t vary much compared to different species. ‎ C. The life spans of dogs differ a lot based on their body sizes. ‎ D. The biggest dog is about 100 times heavier than the smallest dog. ‎ ‎33. If a 70-kilogram Great Dane has an average life span of about 7 years, how long will an 80-kilogram dog be expected to live according to Paragraph 6?‎ A. 7 years and 5 months. ‎ B. 6 years and 7 months. ‎ C. 7 years and 10 months. ‎ D. 6 years and 2 months. ‎ ‎34. The underlined word “tradeoffs” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to ______. ‎ A. disadvantages B. exchanges C. chances D. improvements ‎ ‎35. According to the last three paragraphs, the scientists are planning to _____. ‎ A. find out what larger dogs do to stay healthy ‎ B. find out ways to extend the life spans of dogs ‎ C. find out why cancer attacks bigger dogs more often ‎ D. find out the most common causes of death for larger dogs ‎ 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。‎ When you sleep, do you ever realize that you are dreaming? If yes, then you have had a lucid dream (清醒梦). ___36___ Only some people are able to have them. Now, scientists have found ways to help more people to have lucid dreams, Live Science reported. ‎ Denholm Aspy from the University of Adelaide in Australia found that certain skills are key to helping people have lucid dreams.‎ First, people can train themselves to figure out whether they are dreaming or not. For example, someone may look at a clock, look away, and then look back. ___37___ Then, they might dream about this trick while sleeping. But in their dreams, the time on the clock may change very quickly. So people know they are dreaming. Another trick is to wake up after five hours of sleep. ___38___ During this time, repeat the words, “The next time I’m dreaming, I’ll remember that I’m dreaming.” Then, go to bed again to enter rapid eye movement (REM，快速眼球运动) sleep. In REM sleep,‎ People are more likely to be aware of their dreams. Scientists found that those who used these tricks had a 17 percent success rate at having lucid dreams. ___39___ ‎ In a lucid dream, people might study a hobby and then become better at it in real life, according to Aspy. For example, you might learn to play the piano in a lucid dream. ‎ ‎___40___ ‎ A. Then, stay awake for a while. ‎ B. The time should stay the same. ‎ C. This was far higher than if they did nothing. ‎ D. People learn new skills faster in a lucid dream. ‎ E. It is hard for most people to have a lucid dream. ‎ F. Then, your real-life piano skills might improve. ‎ G. Some people will need more time to fall asleep and have a dream. ‎ 第三部分 语言运用（共两节,满分 30 分） ‎ 第一节（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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。‎ Every year, as soon as Halloween is over, our son Matthew waits for the lights. As the days grow shorter and the nights longer, as the temperatures 41 and the leaves fall, he waits for the 42. The neighbors across the street always put up a light display for the holidays and Matthew loves to wait for them to be turned on, which usually 43 right after Thanksgiving. 44, he begins his monitoring a month before their arrival. And then, each day between Thanksgiving and 45 the lights are turned off, he waits, 46, from midafternoon on. And when each evening's moment comes, you don't have to be with 47. You know it no matter where you are in the house. The rhythmic 48. The dancing around the house. Pure 49 on his face! And it happens every single night. ‎ Despite all his 50, in the world's view — his severe mental disabilities, his two-year-old 51 in a twenty-three-year-old body, his inability to speak — Matthew knows 52 very profound, that light will shine in the darkness, and no matter how long the 53 is, without 54, eventually, those lights will shine again. There will come a season when those lights will shine again. ‎ Whatever 55 I find within and around me, I look to my son, and remember that a light can break the darkness. ‎ 41. A. rise B. change C. drop D. stay ‎42. A. lights B. neighbors C. tricks D. holidays ‎ ‎43. A. happens B. tests C. obtains D. delivers ‎ ‎44. A. Instead B. Then C. Therefore D. However ‎ ‎45. A. unless B. until C. after D. since ‎ ‎46. A. nervously B. impatiently C. excitedly D. quietly ‎ ‎47. A. it B. her C. one D. him ‎ ‎48. A. poems B. excitement C. clapping D. fighting ‎ ‎49. A. surprise B. sadness C. glory D. delight ‎ ‎50. A. limitations B. advantages C. characters D. beliefs ‎ ‎51. A. brother B. sister C. mind D. memory ‎ ‎52. A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything ‎ ‎53. A. holiday B. display C. street D. wait ‎ ‎54. A. fail B. pity C. stop D. plan ‎ ‎55. A. happiness B. darkness C. sympathy D. warmth ‎ 第Ⅱ卷 ‎ 注意事项： ‎ 用 0. 5 毫米黑色签字笔将答案写在答题卡上,写在本试卷上无效。 ‎ 第三部分 语言运用（共两节, 满分 30 分） ‎ 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 个单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 ‎ Chinese Women's Volleyball Team once achieved great honor in the last century,56._______ inspired so many people throughout the whole country. But during the last decade, as the old volleyball players retired 57.____ the new ones were not strong enough, the team met with various 58. ____ (difficult). After 59. ______(win) an important match, Chinese Women's Volleyball Team announced 60.________(they) return. Chinese Women's Volleyball Team had a very important match 61.______ Brazil team in the Rio Olympic Games. The hope to win was very little, because Brazil team was the champion of last two Olympic Games and Chinese team only won one match for the last 18 records. What's more, almost all the audience 62. _____ (support) Brazil team. It seemed that to win the match was 63.____ (possible) for the Chinese team, but under the guidance of coach Lang, the girls were very strong and determined 64. _____ (fight) for the last minute. Even when they lost the first game, they never gave up.Especially for the last two points, they were so brave and 65. ______(final) won the match. ‎ 第四部分 写作（满分 15 分） ‎ 假定你是李华，你的美国朋友 Michael 正在一家孔子学院学习汉语和中国文化，知道中国人很重视家风传承。他在给你的电子邮件中提到想了解你家的家风以及家风对你的影响。请你给他回复一封电子邮件。 ‎ 注意：1．词数 80 左右； ‎ ‎2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； ‎ ‎3．信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。 ‎ 参考词汇：家风 family spirits ‎ Dear Michael， ‎ I'm glad to know that you are learning Chinese language and culture. ____________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ‎ Yours，‎ Li Hua ‎【参考答案】‎ 第I卷 第一部分 听力 ‎1—5 BCABC 6—10 BACAB 11—15 ABCBC 16—20 ACAAB 第二部分 阅读理解 ‎ 第一节 ‎21—23 CBB 24—27 CBAC 28 —31 ACCD 32—35 CBAD 第二节 ‎36—40 EBACF 第三部分 语言运用 第一节 ‎41—45 CAADB 46—50 CDCDA 51—55 CBDAB 第II卷 第二节 ‎56. which 57. and 58. difficulties 59. winning 60. their 61. against 62. supported 63. impossible 64. to fight 65. finally 第四部分 应用文写作 Dear Michael，‎ I'm glad to know that you are learning Chinese language and culture. As for my family spirits, there are definitely some good qualities. My parents lay emphasis on the importance of courtesy, honesty, bravery, perseverance and diligence. Moreover, they have set good examples for me. Under the profound influence of such spirits, I'm always friendly to people and ready to help others. Whenever I encounter difficulties, I always think of ways to overcome them. Owing to this, I have made great achievements in my study and life.‎ Hopefully this can offer you a deep understanding about Chinese family spirits.‎ Yours，‎ Li Hua