浙江省宁波市九校2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期末考试试题.doc

浙江省宁波市九校2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期末考试试题第一部分:听力(共两节,满分30分)第一节:(共5小题:每小题15分,满分75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. Why can't the woman open the door?A. Her hands are full.B. Her coffee is hot.C. Her arms are hurt.2. What does the girl like in the history area?A. The friendly people.B. The quiet atmosphere.C. The comfortable seats.3. What is the main idea of the conversation?A. Which program to watch. B. Who to invite as the guest. C. What kind of questions to choose.4. What day is it today?A. TuesdayB. Wednesday.C. Thursday.5. Where is the conversation probably taking place?A. In a theaterB. In a museumC. In a classroom第三节: (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7题。6. How does the woman feel about the gift?A. Worried B. Honored. C. Annoyed7. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. A couple. B. Co-workers.C. Waiter and customer.听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。8. What will the woman probably do firstA. Answer the phone.B. Use the washroom.C. Write up an order.9. What does the man need now?A. Flour. B. Vegetables.C. Oil.10. Where will the woman look for the item?A On the shelf.B. Beside the boxesC. In the cupboard听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。11. Who is the man?A. The woman's brother. B The woman's colleague. C. A post office clerk12. Which item will the woman put in a package?A. A bookB. A checkC. A letter13. When does the woman want the package to arrive?A In a few daysB. In two weeksC In one month听第9段材料,回答第14至17题。14. Where did the woman learn about the discoveryA. In a class.B. In an art.C. In a video.15. Why is the string so important according to the woman?A. It's very well madeB. It's with a long history.C. It's the proof of ancient knowledge16. What aspect about ancient humans makes scientists surprised?A. ArtB. FireC. Math17. Why is it difficult to get information on ancient humans according to the womanA. They moved a lot.B. The evidence is mostly gone. C. The tools are simple.听第10段材料,回答第18至20题。18. What is the speaker doing?A. Giving a lecture.B. Recommending a book.C. Collecting public opinions.19. What can we learn about the book?A. It focuses on hand gesturesB. It includes the speaker's new studyC. It stresses the necessity of eye contact.20. What is the speaker's first point about?A Blind people's communicationB. The natural ability to gestureC. The development of body language.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,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中,选出最佳选项。AIn many respects one could call John Beltzer the world's most successful songwriter. Every song that he writes is guaranteed to be a real hit not on the popularity charts, but in a childs heart. The reason for this is that every song that Beltzer writes is for a seriously ill child. The songs never fail to make the children smile and to raise their spirits. They also play them over and over. This means more by far to Beltzer than being ranked high on the popularity charts.Thirty-eight year old Beltzer is the founder and president of Songs of Love, a nonprofit group. This group combines the volunteer efforts of musicians, songwriters, singers, and studio technicians to create unique, happy songs that reflect a child's personality.Beltzer believes that music is very healing. When an adult listens to a favorite song. it makes him feel good: thus when a little child listens to a song written just for him, the result is very uplifting. Since its founding in 1996, Songs of Love has been responsible for the composition, taping and sending more than 780 songs to children in life-threatening conditions, all for free.Unmarried with no children of his own, Beltzer had never thought much about writing songs for children. He says that one day while he was walking down the street the idea came to him and he instantly felt that he could make a success of it. He went home and called St Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He told them he wanted to write songs for seriously ill children, and wrote six songs in four days. Upon receiving the songs, the hospital called him with high praise. Soon after that the mother of a little girl with cancer called him to thank him and then the little girl herself did so. At that point he knew that this was his"calling”.As is true with most charitable ventures, Songs of Love is almost always in need of money. To help in this respect, Beltzer has moved back home to live with his retired parents, who also help support his work. His long-term goal is to offer Songs of Love to patients of all ages, including nursing home residents and the mentally ill. Among other efforts to raise money, Beltzer sells CDs and tapes, expecting much bigger sales. Meanwhile, Beltzer himself continues to be the most productive writer in Songs of Love, making sure that all requests for songs written for critically ill children will be met.21. Why is John Beltzer, to some extent, called the world's most successful songwriter?A. Every song he composes tends to be a hit.B. All songs are played over and over again.C. His songs are intended specially for those unlucky children.D. He as well as his songs always enjoys a grand popularity.22. Which word can replace the underlined word"uplifting"in paragraph 37A. Satisfactory. B. AdequateC. Inspirational D. Appropriate23. What can we infer from the whole passage?A. Beltzer had had the idea of writing songs for seriously ill children long before actually doing so.B. The hospital in Tennessee didn't respond to Beltzer's request immediately and positively.C Song writing is the only source of income for Songs of Love.D. Running charitable activities makes Beltzer's finance really tight.24. Which of the following words can best describe John Beltzer?A. Social and intelligent. B. Compassionate and considerate.C. Conventional and patient. D. Confident and ambitious. Bwhy do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc.but what effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic (神经质的) than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old. Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mother's personality may also help determine your longevity. That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets, Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.Personality isn't destiny, and everyone knows that individuals can learn to change. But both studies show that long life isn't just a matter of your physical health but of your mental health.25. The aim of the study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is _.A. to see whether people's personality affects their life spanB. to explain one's lifestyle influences their healthC to investigate the role of exercise in living a long lifeD to examine all the factors contributing to longevity26. What finding of the study might prove somewhat out of our expectation?A. Easy-going people can also live a relatively long lifeB. Personality characteristics that prove advantageous actually vary with timesC. Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevityD. Readiness to accept new ideas helps one enjoy longevity27. What does the recent study of Norwegian mothers show?A. Children's personality characteristics are always determined by their mothers.B. People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die soonerC. Mothers' influence on children may last longer than fathersD. Mothers' negative personality characteristics may affect their children's life spans CPeople have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there, Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet. The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he wasburied. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.28. Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because _.A. the hunters appreciated the pictures.B. the painters advocated protecting animalsC. the painters had superb talent and imagination. D. the pictures were considered helpful29. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabetB. The Egyptians liked to write comic strip storiesC. The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.D. The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians30. Where is the text most likely from?A. A magazine.B. A travel journal.C. A guidebook.D. A science report.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Life is like a big swing, dangling (摇摆) between happiness and sadness. As soon as we go down the slope of sadness, we accelerate over the ever-feel-good activity of happiness. At times of suffering, one who can rise above the occasion is the architect of many wins over sorrows.To come through tougher times you have to encourage yourself up, when you are feeling low, lost and confused. This can be done effectively by self-talk. _31_ It can be effectively used for soul searching. When talking to ourselves, we hardly lie as our conscience controls our speech. Self talk is efficient because when we speak out our thoughts, it makes a larger impact on our mind. _32_ This repetition of energetic talks and thoughts fine tunes the performance of brain.Actually many times in our life, we find others advising us to do better in studies, sports, life etc. We usually get annoyed by these people and blank our ears to their constructive suggestions. _33_ And when something comes from within us, we always try our best to do justice to it. Self-talk can thus improve our status._34_ all you need to do is talk to yourself, Tell yourself with all the sincerity and emotions that"I can be like him. I am a natural born speaker, I do like people and speaking comes naturally to me. I just have to be ready to listen and speak". Suppose you love a person and want to tell him or her, then just say to yourselves"I love her with all my heart. She is the only one and I know it. If I don't let her know, it would be grave injustice on my part. Every person loves to be loved Even she will”.These are just some examples. _35_ So, guys, start talking!A. Self-talk encourages us to learn from others.B If you are shy and you want to be a social person like your friend next door.C. Our brain then receives the same message from the mind as well as the cars.D Self-talk is a way of talking to oneself.E. If you are highly optimistic about doing better, there is no better motivator than self-talk.F. You'll never know how wonderful you are.G. It is because they don't come from within us.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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑Emily had been bleeding all day! She was my closest professional colleague and good friend at the time when we worked in an IT company. It was her first day back at work after an operation and I thought she _36_ have taken a few more days to _37_.Realizing that we couldn't stop the bleeding, we _38_ to the emergency room and spent hours there waiting to be seen. After the trea