河北省张家口市宣化区宣化第一中学2019_2020学年高二英语下学期期末考试试题.doc

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1、河北省张家口市宣化区宣化第一中学2019-2020学年高二英语下学期期末考试试题一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共37.5分）AThe Summer Holiday Activities for Families in the UK While the Astronaut spacewalk， Manchester last year remains in the memory of some families， our week-by-week guide to the school summer break this year features a host of special even

2、ts and outdoor fun for kids， from open-air cinema and live music to coming face to face with dinosaurs Polar fun， Edinburgh Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh is keeping cool this summer with lots of polar-themed activities， including family science shows on the Arctic and Antarctic， icy experiments， and cr

3、aft designs where kids can make their own penguin， walrus or polar bear Until 28 August， 15 adults， 9.50 children， dynamicearth Co uk Dinosaur events， various locations Dinosaurs in the Wild is a vivid， walk-through experience taking visitors back 67 million years to the late Cretaceous period Dinos

4、aur Babies is an exhibition of dinosaur embryos and eggs， plus a model nest Dinosaurs of China displays fossils and skeletons never before seen in Europe Until 23 August， NEC in Birmingham， then 7 October to 7 January， Event City Manchester， 29.50 adults， 26 children， dinosaursinthewild Com Proud Co

5、untry House kids fest， Brighton Just 15 minutes from the centre of Brighton， this 18th century Georgian manor house in Stammer Park has a packed program of events and activities on throughout the summer， including storytelling in the forest， guided bike rides， tree climbing and family yoga 1 July10

6、September， prices vary， usually from510，booking for events required but house and gardens can be visited without booking， stammer house co UK / kids fest1. Which activity is not included this year？ _ A. Astronaut spacewalkB. Open-air cinemaC. Live musicD. Face to face with dinosaurs2. If you want to

7、 take the activity in December， where should you go？ _ A. EdinburghB. BirminghamC. ManchesterD. Brighton3. Which activity should be booked？ _ A. Polar funB. Dinosaur eventsC. Family yogaD. Visiting gardensBWould you eat a six-month-old yogurt？ This is a question you may have asked if you read the re

8、cent story about a US grocer and his year-long experiment eating expired food It started in October 2016， when Scott Nash， founder of the Moms Organic Market chain of grocery stores， wanted to make a smoothie （果昔） He likes his smoothie with yogurt As he was at his holiday cabin in Virginia， though，

9、the only pot he had to hand was one he had left behind on his last trip there by accident， six months earlier He opened it No bad smell He decided to take the risk and dumped the yogurt in the smoothie I drank and waited， he wrote on his blog And nothing happened The first thing to point out is that

10、 Nash is based in the US， where regulations on food dating differ significantly from those in the UK While British foods carry just one date - either use by or best before - Nash was faced with quality guarantee period， use by， best by， sell by， best if used by He sells food for a living， and even h

11、e doesnt understand the system Clearly， this lack of clarity has influence on both the health of the environment and the health of the nation What you dont eat， youll end up throwing it away， even if you could have safely eaten it； and what you dont know not to eat could make you sick A report from

12、the Natural Resources Defense Council and Harvard Law School in 2013 said that 40% of American food goes uneaten each year， and the confusing effect of the US date labeling system is in large part to blame4. The underlined phrase expired food probably means the food _ A. which is freshB. which is so

13、urC. which is not within the quality guarantee periodD. which is not cooked5. What can we learn from para.2？ _ A. Nash hadnt eaten expired food before October 2016B. Nash left the yogurt in the cabin for his experimentC. Nash was sure the yogurt would do no harm to himD. Nash liked drinking six-mont

14、h-old yogurt6. What does Nash think of the USs date labels on food？ _ A. They are clearer than the UKsB. They are more advanced than the UKsC. They are confusing to peopleD. They are concrete and helpful to the Americans7. What can we learn from the last paragraph？ _ A. The date labeled on the bag o

15、f food plays an important role in peoples healthB. The food you throw away can do harm to your health if eatenC. People often get sick for eating the expired foodD. The lack of clarity of date labeling system leads to a large amount of waste of foodCIt cant be done Boyan Slat heard this over and ove

16、r when he first proposed a way to clean up millions of tons of plastic polluting our oceans Slat， who grew up in the city of Delft in the Netherlands， was on a diving trip in Greece three years ago when he was deeply impressed by plastic There were more plastic bags than fish， he says That moment I

17、realized it was a huge issue and that environmental issues are really the biggest problems my generation will face That fall， Slat， then 17， decided to study plastic pollution as part of a high school project Soon， Slat learned that no one had yet come up with practical way to clean up this massive

18、garbage patches Most proposed solutions involved fishing up the plastic using ships equipped with nets-which， as Slat discovered， would likely take more than 1，000 years， cost too much， let off too much sea life along with the trash Slat proposed an alternative that mostly avoided these problems： a

19、solar-powered system using a floating plastic tube which will go around the garbage and trap it is 600 meters long Wind， waves and ocean currents will push the trash toward the tube A ship will pick up the trash and take it back to the shore Best of all， Slat predicted his system could clean up the

20、North Pacific Garbage Patch within five to 10 years The following， Slat entered the aerospace engineering program at the Delft University of Technology and officially announced his ocean cleanup concept at TEDxDelft But nothing much moved forward Slat organized a team of volunteers and employees for

21、 The Ocean Cleanup， which now numbers about 100 In answer to opposition， Slat and his team raised $100，000 from a crowd funding campaign and began testing a 40-meter collecting barrier near the Azores Islands last March Over the next three to four years， Slat will push toward a fully operational lar

22、ge-scale project by testing a series of longer and longer barriers8. What inspired the boy to study plastic pollution？ _ A. One of his high school projectsB. Others opposition to his proposalC. Humans failure in cleaning up the oceanD. The shockingly heavy plastic pollution in ocean9. What can we sa

23、y about Slats design？ _ A. It is powerful but only used in California and HawaiiB. It is huge but causes great damage to sea livesC. It makes full use of natural forces and is friendly to natureD. It was welcomed by all the public and worked very well10. What hasnt Slat done to make his idea into re

24、ality？ _ A. Presenting his idea at TEDxDelftB. Raising funds with his teamC. Doing testD. Stopping plastic from washing into the ocean11. What does the author mainly do in this article？ _ A. Explain a strange ideaB. Introduce a fascinating personC. Describe a social phenomenonD. Praise a point of vi

25、ewDOur most beautiful part is our bridge because we can make wind energy by this bridge and our main transportation is used by this bridge The future city competition puts young teens in charge of building a city that can respond to a challenge This years challenge is resilience （重建能力） after a natur

26、al disaster like an earthquake The models must be built with recycled materials for less than 100 dollars But behind this is some serious engineering Each group has to present its citys resilience features to the audience and judges The sea walls are made with concrete and steel to reduce the tidal

27、waves impact on the shoreline And its about more than just infrastructure（基础设施） Judges want to know that youve thought about your citizens， too If someone wants to design a building thats 50 floors， we make an agreement like maybe 20 of them have to be low-income housing Engineering Outreach Group D

28、iscover （EOGD） has run the competition for nearly three decades Director of programs Thea Sahr says it is an effective teaching tool She tells of one boy who asked his teacher when they would get back to the real learning You know the kind we were just sitting there reading the books and telling you

29、 the answers， and she said well what do you know about storm water that you didnt know last week What do you know about scale？ And youre having a really good time while youre doing it He says this is learning I want to do more of this The winners take home 7，500 dollars for their schools science pro

30、gram， and get a trip to a science focused summer camp This years winners from Warwick Middle School in Pennsylvania say they also learned real-world skills like dealing with failure The hardest part was trying not to get frustrated when something didnt work And I think our team members really contri

31、buted to that Communication is key Listen， when youre building a city， engineering is just part of it12. What does we refer to in the first paragraph？ _ A. Teen competitorsB. School boysC. College studentsD. Engineers13. Whats the purpose of the competition according to Thea Sahr？ _ A. To increase s

32、tudents communication skillsB. To allow students to experience the work of engineersC. To strength the friendship between studentsD. To offer students a different way of learning14. What can we learn from the last paragraph？ _ A. The winners can share the 7，500B. The winners can take part in all kin

33、ds of summer campsC. The biggest challenge for the team is using the knowledge of engineeringD. The participants can learn a lot besides engineering15. What is the best title for the text？ _ A. Building City of the Future： A Way of Out School LearningB. Nature： An Outdoor ClassroomC. EOGD： A Middle

34、School ReformD. The City of Future： the Place Full of Imagination二、阅读七选五（本大题共5小题，共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 are sitting in class， have you ever drawn pictures in the margins （页边的空白处） of your notebooks？ If so， you are doodling Many people think of doodling as a distractio

35、n （分心） from more important things (1) (2) In 2009 researchers asked two groups of people to listen to a phone message One group was encouraged to doodle， but the other was not Neither group knew that it would be asked to remember information from the message But the group that doodled remembered 29%

36、 more Other people have suggested other uses for doodling Jesse Prinz， a professor who studies doodling， says it can help you think creatively (3) When you come back， youll have a fresh perspective （观点） and figure out an answer more quickly An author named Sunni Brown wrote a book on doodling She ar

37、gues that doodling is a tool that can help people think (4) In fact， she runs a business that helps companies improve organization and planning through doodling Brown believes doodling is helpful because it includes many ways of learning You learn in four ways： seeing， hearing， reading or writing， a

38、nd through movement The more ways you use， the better you learn And when you doodle while listening to a lecture， you use all four You might think that being good at drawing is important for doodling But if the point of doodling is to help you think， then it doesnt matter what the picture looks like

39、 (5) So next time you need help focusing， pick up a pen and doodle away! AAnd many experts agree with this BEven if youre not an artist， doodling can help you CWalking away from a problem to draw might actually help you solve it DBut it might be just the opposite EOne study shows that doodling may h

40、elp you remember things you hear FShe admits that people see doodling as doing nothing， but she wants to change that GDoodling can help you achieve more than you imagine16. A. AB. BC. CD. DE. EF. FG. G17. A. AB. BC. CD. DE. EF. FG. G18. A. AB. BC. CD. DE. EF. FG. G19. A. AB. BC. CD. DE. EF. FG. G20.

41、 A. AB. BC. CD. DE. EF. FG. G三、完形填空（本大题共15小题，共15.0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 At my daughters recent graduation， a speaker kept repeating， You can do anything with a degree in philosophy To that， I thought you can do anything with the right (21) I didnt have a(22)job until I was 27

42、 When I was hired， I was basically(23) My car had broken down I was living with two other people and sleeping on a couch My family and friends thought I was going(24) I didnt feel that way though I wasnt doing well(25) Sure， friends of mine got married and bought houses But neither of those choices(

43、26)me Taking the road(27)traveled is part of being an entrepreneur （创业者） I wanted to(28)my dream， which was to work with my hands and be creative I wanted to be my own boss At the time， I was(29)toy animals and selling them at street fairs It wasnt easy， but I stayed true to myself I was(30)and hard

44、working I know those were the qualities that led me to get (31)at my first job So dont give up hope One Sunday， I read an article about a toy company called Worlds of Wonder I knew I could make a better teddy bear than the one they were(32)， although I had designed just a few cuddly toys for another

45、 company The next day， I visited the companys offices in person and told them they needed me To my surprise， they (33) to interview me Because they could tell I was enthusiastic Many of us dont(34)new things because were sure we dont have the skills But from my experience， its far more(35)to have th

46、e right attitude Almost everything can be taught Are you a ready and willing student？21. A. directionB. attitudeC. wayD. knowledge22. A. full-timeB. specialC. creativeD. surprising23. A. blessingB. annoyingC. starvingD. satisfying24. A. forwardB. nowhereC. anywhereD. somewhere25. A. physicallyB. spi

47、rituallyC. mentallyD. financially26. A. upsetB. disappointedC. enviedD. excited27. A. oftenB. nearlyC. lessD. easily28. A. followB. changeC. getD. earn29. A. copyingB. makingC. buyingD. learning30. A. enthusiasticB. healthyC. friendlyD. intelligent31. A. hiredB. lostC. warnedD. supported32. A. improvingB. researchingC. designingD. marketing33. A. deniedB. agreedC. refusedD. invited34. A. give awayB. take onC. put upD. let down35. A. funnyB.