云南省保山市昌宁县2021-2022学年高二英语下学期期中试题含听力.docx

云南省保山市昌宁县2021-2022学年高二英语下学期期中试题本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。第I卷第1页至第7页，第卷第7页至第8页。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。满分150分，考试用时120分钟。第I卷（选择题，共100分）注意事项: 1. 答题前，考生务必用黑色碳素笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号在答题卡上填写清楚。2. 每小题选出答案后，用2B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。在试题卷上作答无效。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。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. Where does the man work probably? A. At a restaurant. B. At a store. C. At a hotel. 2. What did the man do yesterday afternoon? A. He had fun with friends. B. He went to see a doctor. C. He called the woman. 3. When will the train arrive? A. At 2:30p.m. B. At 3:00p.m. C. At 3:30p.m. 4. What did the man think of his experience last night? A. Disappointing. B. Funny. C. Exciting. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Their hobbies. B. Their part-time jobs. C. Their favorite books. 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。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7小题。6. Which country is the woman from? A. The US. B. Canada. C. China. 7. How old is the woman now? A. 17. B. 22. C. 27. 听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10小题。8. What news is the man speaker announcing to the staff? A. Emergent notice. B. Reduction of the staff. C. The breaking-up of the winter holiday. 9. How many people will be on duty a day during New Year? A. Three. B. Two. C. One. 10. How will the manager decide who's on duty on New Year's Eve? A. By drawing lots to make it. B. By his instinct. C. By doing a test. 听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13小题。11. How many bedrooms does the apartment have? A. One. B. Two. C. Three. 12. What does the man think of the kitchen? A. Small but bright. B. Not large enough. C. Well designed. 13. How does the woman feel about the apartment? A. Disappointed. B. Uncertain. C. Satisfied. 听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17小题。14. Why did the woman decide not to take a walk in the park? A. Because the weather is bad. B. Because the park is closed. C. Because she has a cold. 15. What will the woman do tonight? A. Watch a movie with the man. B. Invite the man to dinner. C. Take a walk with the man. 16. When will the speakers meet? A. At about 8:30 p. m. B. At about 8:00 p. m. C. At about 7:30p. m. 17. What is the most probable relationship between the speakers? A. Colleagues. B. Classmates. C. Father and daughter. 听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20小题。18. What does the speaker's brother do? A. A college student. B. A high school student. C. A primary school student. 19. What does the speaker's sister want to become? A. A teacher. B. An engineer. C. An artist. 20. What do the speaker's parents usually do on weekends? A. Work overtime. B. Go to the beach. C. Stay with family. 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThe Most Beautiful Buildings in MelbourneState Library of VictoriaMelbourne's central library was set up in 1854, making it one of the first free public libraries in the world. Architect Joseph Reed was behind the design. The first stage of the library opened in 1856, with a collection of 3,800 books, and included most of the front wing and the Queen's Hall reading room. National Gallery of Victoria（NGV）InternationalThis grand modernist building on St Kilda Road is Australia's oldest and most popular art museum. The NGV International building by architect Roy Grounds opened in 1968. The gallery is known for its top-ranking exhibition（which includes a Rembrandt, a Bonnard and Tiepolo）, and fantastic painting collections（before we've seen exhibitions devoted to Van Gogh, and Monet）. Melbourne's GPOThe building began construction in 1859 and took the next five decades to construct. American architect Walter Burley Griffin redesigned the sorting hall into a public hall around 1919. The space functioned as a post office for most of the 20th century until 1993 when Australia Post decided it wanted to move its post office functions into smaller shopfronts. Many commercial ideas were put forward, though none came to fruition until 2001, when it was hired by developers with the goal of turning it into a shopping center. Manchester Unity BuildingMarcus Barlow designed the twelve-storey concrete-covered steel structure which reached the building height limit of 132 feet. Construction was put off because of the Great Depression but began early in 1932 and builders worked around the clock in eight-hour shifts to make sure that the ground and first floors were open for trade by September that same year. The ground floor was home to 23 shops. On the 12th floor there was a rooftop garden cafe fitted with a fountain, pond and Japanese palms, and the basement served as a tea room and cafe. 21. What can we learn about the building Melbourne's GPO? A. Its construction lasted about 50 years. B. It's close to Manchester Unity Building. C. It was specially designed to be a shopping center. D. It is the most popular shopping center in Australia. 22. Whose design was the oldest building of the four? A. Joseph's. B. Roy's. C. Walter's. D. Marcus's. 23. A painting fan is most likely to visit_. A. State Library of Victoria B. NGV InternationalC. Melbourne's GPO D. Manchester Unity BuildingBExtremely low temperature, strong winds and endless white snow are just a few of the challenges explorers must face in the Polar areas. But a 16-year-old British girl didn't let these worry her. On April 15 Alicia Adams became the youngest person to walk to the North Pole. She completed the adventure with her geology teacher and two other companions. Each of them carried 30 kilograms of supplies. At times temperatures fell to -45 during the 320-kilometre trip. But they made it in ten days, two days less than her famous father, David Adams' time record for the same walk. "It is a really good feeling, more of an achievement," said Alicia Adams after coming to the end of her adventure. "The winds were like angry beasts roaring behind us. The trip seemed endless and there was nothing in sight: no buildings, no people, and no animals. Sometimes we had to walk across lakes covered with thin ice, which is the deadliest threat."David Adams is a top British explorer, who reached both the South and North poles on foot. He also set a series of hot air-balloon records and climbed the highest mountain on every continent. "I take pride in what she has achieved but a bit annoyed that she has beaten my time," her father said playfully. Asked if there would be any future joint adventures, the dad joked, "I think I would be struggling to keep up with her now."Alicia returned to Britain last week where she faces a more normal task of going to school. And she said her achievement would not necessarily mark the start of a life-long exploration. "Going to school is on top of my list," she said. 24. How long did it take David Adams to complete the same adventure? A. 6days. B. 8 days. C. 10 days. D. 12 days. 25. What was the biggest danger during Alicia Adams' adventure? A. The lack of equipment and supplies. B. The angry wild animals in the polar areas. C. The strong icy winds and endless white snow. D. The need to cross the lakes covered with thin ice. 26. How did David Adams really feel about his daughter's adventure? A. Angry. B. Proud. C. Worried. D. Sad. 27. What is Alicia's plan for the near future? A. To go back to school to study. B. To start more explorations by herself. C. To challenge more of her father's records. D. To have an adventure together with her dad. CTo say that Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was a leader in Western art in the 20th century is to repeat an accepted fact, according to Time magazine. "No painter before him had enjoyed such a large following in his own lifetime.”This year marks the 140th anniversary of Picasso's birth. Born on Oct. 25, 1881, Picasso had created more than 20,000paintings, drawings, sculptures and other pieces of art by the time he died at 91. That's a long time to paint! The result is not only a lot of art, but a lot of different phases in Picasso's work. On its website, Christie's auction（拍卖）house lists eight different periods in the course of his painting career. Over a century ago, the painter once said that, "Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." So the eight periods are all very different in their choice of subjects and yet unmistakably drawn by Picasso's hands. Financial Express called his style unusual. As his style changed over time, it became more simplistic. A common joke is that Picasso forgot how to paint. After all, he was classically trained at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Now he is best known for leading an artistic movement known as “Cubism（立体派）”. It used geometric shapes to create human and animal figures. With this method, Picasso tried to show his figures from multiple perspectives（视角）in two-dimensional space. For example, a person's left eye may be shown from straight ahead while his right eye and nose are shown from the side. The result is strange and beautiful, frightening and funny. Picasso often said that he admired primitive art and drawings made by youngsters. "When I was the age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them," he said. Maybe that's why Picasso is still so popular. We look at his work and think, “Maybe I could do that!”28. Which of the following best describes Pablo Picasso? A. Productive. B. Optimistic. C. Traditional. D. Generous. 29. Why did Financial Express call Picasso's style unusual? A. His act of creation was destructive. B. He created a series of simple images. C. His painting style remained unchanged. D. He drew different subjects in different periods. 30. What is special about a cubist painting according to the text? A. It is rather difficult to understand. B. It shows figures from various perspectives. C. It covers different subjects at the same time. D. It reflects the relationship between humans and animals. 31. What does the underlined word "them" in the last paragraph refer to? A. Raphael's works. B. Artists. C. Drawings. D. Youngsters. DWhen Auntie Rose died in early 2007, she was the oldest wild chimpanzee known to humankind. At around 63 years old, very elderly for a chimp, her final months had been difficult. Still, until the very end, Auntie Rose had been fending for herself. Adult chimpanzees rarely share food, so elderly animals have to find their own meals. Aging animals in the wild are less active, and may become a bit feeble too, losing muscle mass as they age. But they handle old age much better than we do. They just power along. People often become less active as they age, inspired by the self-fulfilling prophecy that their bodies are naturally weakening and that their condition is therefore inevitably deteriorating. Yet even wild chimpanzees like Auntie Rose, who had to walk many miles to find food and did not receive health care when ill or injured, appear to be aging in a healthier way, says anthropologist Melissa Emery Thompson of the University of New Mexico. Studies in people with hunter-gatherer lifestyles, many of whom remain very active until the end of their lives, also often show that they stay healthy much longer than those of us taking it easy as we grow older, says Emery Thompson. For instance, the walking speed of the Hadzain Tanzania, who keep up their foraging duties throughout life, does not appear to significantly decrease as they grow older. "It's not physical activity, but inactivity, that makes us frail," she says.The many calcium-rich plants in the gorilla diet may be part of the explanation. But the most important factor, Thompson believes, is again physical activity. Even though mountain gorillas spend many hours a day sitting down and eating, they get plenty of exercise traveling up and down the region's steep slopes. 32. What can we know about Auntie Rose according to the passage? A. She was the oldest chimpanzee. B. She was taken care of by other chimpanzees. C. She suffered a lot in her final months. D. Other chimpanzees would share food with her. 33. Which of the following statements is NOT true about aging chimpanzees? A. Aging chimpanzees in the wild are not as active as the young ones. B. Aging chimpanzees have to find food for themselves. C. Aging chimpanzees tend to lose muscle mass. D. Aging chimpanzees can handle old age as well as human beings. 34. How to age in a healthier way according to the passage? A. Find food by yourself. B. Don't receive health care when ill or injured. C. Believe that your body and conditions will naturally become weak. D. Keep physical activities. 35. What can we learn from the passage? A. Older chimpanzees won't feel weak if they keep walking. B. Physical activity can help us age healthily. C. Physical activity is the only factor that helps us remain active. D. We should keep eating while traveling up and down. 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Sydney said thank-you and goodbye to all the servicemen and women of the world as the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 came to an end. 36 The past seven days had focused on these competitors'（参赛者）remarkable performance, though they have been injured, both physically and mentally. Founder of the Games, the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry said the competitors were not superheroes but in fact were ordinary people doing awesome things. 37 The word “invictus” is Latin for “unconquered（不可征服）” and expresses the fighting spirit of wounded, injured and ill servicemen and women. They have been tested and challenged, but they have not been defeated. They have proven that with the support of family and friends, they can reshape their future. They are invictus. But how do these men and women find the inspiration to move on? 38 On a trip to the Warrior Games in the United States in 2013, the Duke of Sussex saw the great impact sport could have on the recovery of wounded, injured and ill servicemen and women. He decided to hold a similar event in the UK. 39 And in 2014 London hosted the first Invictus Games. Led by an experienced and deeply passionate board of trustees, the Foundation supports the delivery of future Invictus Games. 40 The Games then moved to Toronto in September 2017 and in 2018 headed to Australia. The Sydney Games a