湖南省重点中学2020_2021学年高二英语下学期3月联考试题202104170149.doc

湖南省重点中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期3月联考试题注意事项：1.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号、座位号填写在答题卡上。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。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)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。例: How much is the shirt?A.19.15. B.9.18. C.9.15.答案是C。1. What did the woman's sister use to be?A. A nurse. B. A doctor. C. A teacher.2. How did the man come here?A. By car. B. By taxi. C. By bus.3. Whom does the dictionary belong to?A. Mary. B. Jack. C. Jane.4. When will the train leave?A. At 9:00. B. At 10:00. C. At 10:30.5. What is the man doing?A. Watching TV. B. Answering the phone. C. Repairing the TV.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。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 does the woman advise the man to do?A. Call his secretary. B. Talk to the director. C. Put off the meeting with the director.7. When will the man be free?A. On Wednesday morning. B. On Monday afternoon. C. On Monday morning.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Why did the man call up The Rose Hotel?A. To find a job there.B. To have a party for his sister's birthday.C. To prepare a dinner for his family.9. What main course is chosen by the man?A. Meat. B. Salad. C. Fish.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why did the speakers' parents have a quarrel this afternoon?A. Lucas didn't get an "A". B. Daisy spent too much money. C. Daisy didn't get an "A".11. Which month is it now?A. October. B. November. C. December.12. How will Daisy make some money soon?A. By walking the neighbor's dogs.B. By looking after the neighbor's children.C. By helping parents do more housework.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. How did the woman get to the place?A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. On foot.14. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a restaurant. B. In an office. C. At the airport.15. What does the woman like best?A. Beef. B. Fish. C. Pork.16. What would the woman like to drink?A. Tea. B. Coffee. C. Orange juice.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is farming like in New England?A. It's difficult. B. It's easy. C. It's interesting.18. What was the first job for starting a new farm in New England?A. Building stone walls. B. Cutting down trees. C. Removing the stones.19. Where do stones in the field come from?A. The stone walls. B. The rocky mountain. C. The rocks below the thin soil.20. What is usually found around New England fields?A. Stone walls. B. Wooden fences. C. Big trees.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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中，选出最佳选项。AHere we will show you some of the best winter RV(野营车)destinations in the United States. Casa Del Sol Resort(度假胜地)At the Casa Del Sol, you are sure to feel right at home. This RV destination offers Showers, laundry facilities(设备), restrooms and free Wi-Fi at the RV sites. They don't stop there though, this awesome RV park offers an Olympic sized heated pool, craft rooms as well as planned year-round activities to keep you busy and active.Golden Village Palms RV ResortThis RV resort in sunny southern California, is a great choice to spend your winter months! This RV park offers a big pool, outdoor barbecues, a lending library and even free coffee! On the RV hook-up sites they feature cheap Wi-Fi and landscaping services to keep the park neat and clean! A great place to park your RV for the winter!Riverbend Resort Cabins & RV ParkRiverbend Resort Cabins and RV Park is the perfect place for your RV when you want a warm place to return to after a long day of hiking, biking or fishing in the cold! It offers water, sewer and electrical hookups, as well as cheap Wi-Fi. It also offers outdoor grills and picnic tables. There is easy access to hiking and biking trails from the campsite.Forge AdirondackForge Adirondack resort offers many activities to attract you to their campgrounds for winter recreation! It offers snowmobiling which is popular with most tourists, a snowshoe track, boat rentals and even horseback riding! It has 8 different sites for heated restrooms and showers, and each site comes complete with picnic tables.21. Which of the following is free of charge at the Casa Del Sol Resort?A. Restrooms. B. Wi-Fi. C. Showers. D. Laundry facilities.22. Which destination offers free coffee?A. Casa Del Sol Resort. B. Riverbend Resort Cabins & RV Park.C. Camping Resort Forge Adirondack. D. Golden Village Palms RV Resort.23. Which attracts most tourists at Forge Adirondack?A. A snowshoe track. B. Swimming. C. Snowmobiling. D. Horseback riding.BCharles Dickens was born in 1812 in England. His parents were John Dickens and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was the second of their eight children. John Dickens was a clerk in a payroll office of the navy. John Dickens inspired the character of Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield. Elizabeth Dickens inspired the characters of Mrs. Nickleby in Nicholas Nickleby and Mrs. Micawber in David Copperfield.Finances were a constant concern for the family. The costs of entertaining along with the expenses of having a large family were too much for John's salary. When Charles was just four months old, the family moved to a smaller home to cut costs.From a very young age, Charles dreamed of becoming a gentleman. He wanted a formal education. His parents did have some limited funds put aside to send one of their children to a university. Mr. and Mrs. Dickens considered the talents and qualifications of all their children. They wanted to use the money earmarked(留出)for education where it would do the most good. It was as if they were placing all their bets on one child. Charles was not that child. His parents chose to send their daughter, Fanny, to school. She had a talent for music and was sent to an academy.Then came the darkest hours in the life of Charles Dickens. When he was 12, it looked like his dreams would never come true. John Dickens was arrested and sent to the Marshalsea prison for failure to pay a debt. At that time the family sent Charles to work in Warren's Blacking Warehouse. It was a shoe polish factory. He earned six shillings a week. As a side note, while employed there Dickens met Bob Fagin. Charles later used the name in Oliver Twist.Luckily, John Dickens came to an agreement with his creditors within months of his imprisonment. Shortly after that John Dickens ended his son's employment at the blacking factory. Charles Dickens won the disagreement and Charles was sent to Wellington House Academy instead.24. Who was Charles Dickens' inspiration for the character of Mr. Micawber?A. His father. B. His youngest brother. C. His elder brother. D. His grandfather.25. Why did the family move to a new home?A. John Dickens got rich overnight.B. Elizabeth Dickens changed a new job.C. John's salary couldn't cover the family's expense.D. The couple wanted their children to receive a good education.26. What caused John Dickens to be arrested?A. Fighting with his workmate. B. Killing a person by accident.C. Abusing his children. D. Failing to pay a debt.27. What is the text mainly about?A. The mother of Charles Dickens. B. The childhood of Charles Dickens.C. The contributions of Charles Dickens. D. The main works of Charles Dickens.CA million species are facing extinction. A million, that is enough to make most scream. Some species are becoming extinct because of poaching(偷猎). Even Namibia, which has a spectacular conservation record, hasn't been safe from that. Since 2015, poaching has caused the loss of 50 black rhinos(犀牛)annually in Namibia.Globally, there is a $ 23-billion-a-year trade in illegal wildlife products. Driven by a demand in some countries. where the rhino horn(角)is thought to be a cure for some diseases, it sells for up to $ 100,000 per kilo on the black market. This illegal trade is making some people very rich, but it isn't rural Africans. Here, poor people are convinced to trade the life of a rhino for a few hundred dollars, which may bring the possibility of years in prison. In fact, rhino horn is made mostly of keratin, the same substance as found in our fingernails and hair.To help slow down this reality, I took a trip to Namibia, determined to make a difference to black rhino conservation. The first stop, Mount Etjo Safari Lodge, was where I heard Nossi's story. Nossi, a black rhino, was born in Etosha National Park, a place where my parents and I spent many holidays when I was young. When Nossi was born, her mother was stressed and pushed her around. By the time the vet arrived, Nossi only had a 10% chance of survival. With massive investment of time, energy and care, Nossi survived and, last year, she gave birth to her eighth child. In a population in danger of extinction, this represents an important increase in the world's black rhino population. All of these efforts have paid off and I learned that my support matters. Your support matters too. Because together, we can save the rhino. Together, it is likely that we can change the world.28. What does the first paragraph try to tell us?A. The problem of species extinction has been solved.B. The problem of species extinction is serious.C. Namibia has an excellent conservation record.D. It's easy to stop the extinction of species.29. Why do rhino horns sell well on the black market?A. They have made most poor Africans rich. B. They can make people live, much longer.C. They can replace some kinds of metals. D. They are believed to cure sonic diseases.30. Her did Nossi nearly die at birth?A. She was pushed around by her mother. B. The weather was very terrible that day.C. There was no good medicine at that time. D. Her mother had little milk for her.31. What can be the best title for the text?A. The urgent effort to save black rhinos B. The protection of wildlifeC. A wildlife reserve in Namibia D. The story about young black rhino NossiDMy twin sister is in therapy(治疗). The other day, she missed an important appointment for no good reason. My therapist said it was "time blindness".I'm living in New York, 3, 000 miles away from my twin. We video chat every day, but I haven't seen her in person since Christmas.Time blindness is a term invented by doctors who treat people with ADHD(注意缺陷多动障碍). Psychologist Ari Tuckman says adults typically develop an awareness of time and an ability to track its passing. Some people have what he calls "harder" or "sharper" time awareness: they know when they've been out for lunch for too long, or when something hasn't been in the oven for long enough. The others have much "softer" time awareness: they can miss appointments and trains. Time blindness can greatly impact someone's life if they can't ever meet deadlines. People with ADHD are often more time-blind than others.Besides our own time awareness, Tuckman says, context plays a role: sleep loss, anxiety, being drunk and anything that might impact how we process the world can make us feel time-blind. Without the usual time-marker cues we might use to divide up our days-the school bus arriving, the line at the coffee shop, or weekend nights spent at restaurants with friends-we're swimming in a sea of sameness.Sorrow is one of the biggest causes of time blindness, according to Tuckman. Holding onto time is a skill of your mind, like doing math, and sadness reduces its computing strength. It's why time goes faster when I talk to my twin sister, when I'm not so sad.Tuckman says it might be nice for more people to understand time blindness.32. What do we know about the author and her sister?A. She is not optimistic about her sister's health.B. It has been years since they chatted in person.C. She has learned her sister's illness is less serious.D. She chats with her sister every day.33. What are people having harder time awareness like according to Tuckman?A. They are often productive in a limited time.B. They tend to spend less time in having lunch.C. They are good at keeping track of time passing.D. They usually need stronger time management.34. What does the underlined phrase "time-marker cues" in paragraph 4 refer to?A. Ordinary activities in our daily life. B. Troubles we are suffering from.C. Activities in our home. D. The same things we share regularly.35. Which of the following can cause time blindness most easily?A. Deep thought. B. Sadness. C. Surprise. D. Hard-work.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 A. 空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Ice sheets covering three-quarters of Greenland, the world's largest island, are melting at a fast pace. 36 Such prediction was made from the findings of an international team of researchers, including representatives from the Danish Meteorological Institute(DMI).Climate researcher Ruth Mottram said in a DMI press release, "If global warming continues as before-what we call the high emission scenario(排放情景), then the temperature will be likely to rise by a further 4.0 to 6.6 degrees by the year 2100." 37 And the researchers added that the polar regions are more sensitive to climate change. 38 By using them they can calculate the extent(程度)that the melting of Greenland's inland ice would contribute to the global sea level, by examining the unstable relationship between the change in summer temperatures in Greenland and the ice's surface mass-balance over the last 30 years. "Our research shows that we should expect an increase of 10 to 12. 5 centimeters in global sea level by the year 2100 as a direct result of increased ice melting and loss of surface mass from the Greenland ice sheet alone," said Mottram.John Cappelen, senior climatologist(气候学家)at DMI and member of the research team, stressed the seriousness of the team's findings and called all people and countries to obey the Paris Agreement as a way to limit the global warming. " 39 Otherwise we can't limit the global warming," said Cappelen.The Paris Agreement was agreed by the 195 member economies in Paris in 2015, with the goal of reducing global warming. 40 A. It's really a pity.B. Something must happen to our behavior.C. We must do something to protect Greenland.D. However, some countries want to quit the agreement.E. Such a rise in temperature is significantly greater than we expect.F. Researchers used the latest global and regional climate modeling tools.G. By the en