重庆市教育联盟2021-2022学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题含解析.pdf

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1、1重庆教育联盟重庆教育联盟 2021-20222021-2022 学年（上）年度考试学年（上）年度考试高二英语注意：本试卷包含、两卷。第卷为选择题，所有答案必须用 2B 铅笔涂在答题卡中相应的位置。第卷为非选择题，所有答案必须填在答题卷的相应位置。答案写在试卷上均无效，不予记分。一、阅读理解（本大题共 1515 小题，共 37.537.5 分）A AA Wan ted,Someone for a KissWere looking for producers to join us on the sound of London Kiss 100 FM Youll workon the statio

2、ns music programmes.Music production experience in radio isnecessary,along w ith rich know ledge of modern dance music.Please apply in writing toProducer Vacancies,Kiss 100Fat her ChristmasWere looking for a very special person,preferably over 40，to fill our Father Christmassuit.Working days：Every S

3、aturday from November 24 to December 15 and every day fromDecember 17 to December 24 except Sundays,10：30-16：00Excellent pay.Please contact the Enterprise Shopping Centre,Station Parade,Eastbourne.Accountants AssistantWhen you join the team in our Revenue Adm in istration Unit,you will be providinga

4、ssistance within all parts of the Revenue Division,dealing with post and other generalduties.If you are educated to GCSE grade Clevel we would like to talk to you.Thisposition is equally suitab le for a school leaver or for somebody who has officeexperience.Wealden District CouncilSoftware TrainerIf

5、 you are aged 2445 and have experience in teaching and train ing,you could be theperson we are looking for.You should be good at the computer and have some2experience in programme writing.You w ill be allow ed to make your own decisions,andto design courses as well as present them.Pay up wards of 15

6、，000 for the rightperson.Please apply by sending your CV（简历）to Mrs ROglivie,Palmlace Limited.1.We learn from theads that the Enterprise Shopping Centre needs a person who _.A.is aged between 24 and 40B.may do some training workC.should deal with general dutiesD.can work for about a month2.Which posi

7、tion is open to recent school graduates？_A.Producer,London Kiss.B.Father Christmas.C.Accountants Assistant.D.Software Trainer.3.What kind of person would probably apply to Palmlace Limited？_A.One with GCSE grade Clevel.B.One with some office experience.C.One having good computer know ledge.D.One tra

8、ined in producing music programmes.B BThe MacArthur Foundation late last month announced its latest crop of genius grants，and once again you thought maybe,just maybe,this was your year.And why not？These days,were all geniuses.We might be marketing geniuses orcooking geniuses or TV geniuses.We have s

9、o weakened genius that its fast joiningthe company of natural and mindful（留心），words left inactive through overuseand misuse.Admittedly,the word is tough to nail down.Sometimes we assume genius equivalent toraw intelligence.But many of humanitys greatest breakthroughs were achieved bythose with only

10、modest IQs.Sometimes we think of the genius as someone extremely knowledgeable,but thatdefinition also falls short.During Albert Einsteins time,other scientists knew more3physics than Einstein did,but history doesnt remember them.Thats because they didntmake use of that knowledge the way Einstein di

11、d.They werent able to,as he put it,regard old questions from a new angle.The genius is not a know-it-all but a see-it-all,someone who,working with the materialavailable to all of us,is able to make surprising and useful connections.True geniusinvolves not merely an extra advance,but a conceptual lea

12、p.As philosopher ArthurSchopenhauer put it：Talent hits the target no one else can hit；genius hits the target noone else can see.Weve lost sight of this truth,and too often grant the title of genius on talented peoplehitting visible targets.A good example is the much-boasted announcement earlier this

13、year that scientists had,for the first time,recorded the sound of two black holesbumping,a billion light-years away.It was a remarkable discovery,no doubt,but it did notrepresent a dramatic shift in how we understand the universe.It merely confirmedEinsteins general theory of relativity.As Plato obs

14、erved,What is honored in a country is cultivated there.What do wehonor？Digital technology,and the convenience it represents,so naturally we get a SteveJobs or a Mark Zuckerberg as our geniuses，which,in point of fact,they arent.The iPhone and Facebook are wonderful inventions.In many ways,they make o

15、ur lives abit easier,a bit more convenient.If anything,though,a true genius makes our lives moredifficult,more unsettled.William Shakespeares words provide more anxiety thanrelief,and the world felt a bit more secure before Charles Darwin camealong.Zuckerberg and Jobs may have changed our world,but

16、they havent yet changedour worldview.We need to recover genius,and a good place to start is by putting the brakes on GeniusFlooding.4.The key factor that sets geniuses and talents apart is that _.A.geniuses have a larger range of knowledgeB.geniuses have access to far more resourcesC.geniuses can se

17、e visible targetsD.geniuses approach things differently45.The reasons why people naturally regard Steve Jobs&Mark Zuckerberg as geniusesinclude all the following EXCEPT that _.A.their achievements bring people convenienceB.they have extraordinary intelligenceC.they are native to the country where di

18、gital technology is highly valuedD.they satisfy peoples needs in the age of high technology6.What can we infer from the passage？_A.We should stop the improper use of natural and mindful.B.The first recording of two black holes bumping each other is a genius breakthrough.C.Charles Darwin is hardly a

19、genius.D.More geniuses remain to be found in our life.7.What is the best title for the passage？_A.Get a new word,genius.B.Learn from a new model,genius.C.Join in a new group,genius.D.Make a new friend,genius.C CLondoners are great readers.They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines andof books

20、-especially paperbacks,which are still comparatively cheap in spite ofever-increasing rises in the costs of printing.They still continue to buy proper books,too,printed on good paper and bound（装订）between hard covers.There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling.P

21、erhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London.Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found,from the celebrated one whichboasts of being the biggest bookshop in the world to the tiny,dusty little places whichseem to have been left over from Dickens time.So

22、me of these shops stock,or willobtain,any kind of book,but many of them specialize in second-hand books,in artbooks,in foreign books,in books on philosophy,politics or any other of the countlesssubjects about which books may be written.One shop in this area specializes only in5books about ballet!Alt

23、hough it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books,CharringCross Road is not the cheapest.For the really cheap second-hand books,the collectormust venture off the beaten track，to Farringdon Road,for example,in the East Centraldistrict of London.Here there is nothing so impressive a

24、s bookshops.The booksellerscome along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small hand carts.Andthe collectors,some professionals and some amateurs,have been waiting for them.Inplaces like this they can still,occasionally,pick up for a few pence an old one that maybe worth many pounds.

25、8.Londoners are great readers means that _.A.Londoners read a lotB.There are a great number of readers in LondonC.Londoners are readers who read only great booksD.Londoners are great because they read a lot9.According to this passage,Charring Cross Road _.A.is famous for its bookshopsB.is in the sub

26、urbs of LondonC.contains various kinds of shopsD.is the busiest street in London10.In this passage,what does the underlined part venture off the beaten track mean？_A.buy books in a most busy streetB.take a risk of losing ones lifeC.waste time looking for booksD.move away from a busy street11.On Farr

27、ingdon Road,_.A.you can find fine bookshops for the latest booksB.you can see book sellers selling books on hand-cartsC.there are only small bookshops for the second-hand booksD.the same books as the ones in the bookshops of Charring Cross Road are sold6D DBees see,bees do.At least thats the conclus

28、ion of research published earlier this monthin the journal PLOS Biology,showing that bumblebees learn to solve problems bywatching each other.In the first study of its kind in insects,scientists constructed experiments thatchallenged bees to pull strings in order to access rewards of nectar（花蜜）.The

29、scientists hoped their study would throw light on a bigger picture：how sociallearning spreads through a population.In the study,Lars Chittka from Queen Mary University of London and his team madeartificial flowers and filled them with artificial nectar made of sugar water.They put theflowers under a

30、 clear type of plastic and attached a string.Then they added bees.While most of the insects failed to reach the nectar,a feweventually figured out how to access it,by pulling the string.The team discovered that they could greatly increase the success rate of the bees byfirst placing them inside a tr

31、ansparent（透明的）box where they could observe anexperienced bee pull the string.Then,when the boxed bees were released,they often knew what to do and successfullypulled the string to obtain nectar.Next,the researchers added a bee that was experienced in string pulling to each of threenew groups that ha

32、d never seen the experiment before.Within a short time,about half ofall those bees were soon pulling the strings.That result suggests the learned behaviorcould spread from bee to bee,similar to the way cultural ideas spread in otheranimals,including people.The experiment suggests that social learnin

33、g may be more widespread in the animalkingdom than people previously thought.12.What happened after the bee pulled the string？_A.It got nectar.B.It found water.C.It joined others.D.It saw flowers.13.What did the boxed bees do after being set free？_7A.They flew back to the box.B.They flew directly to

34、 the rewards.C.They imitated（模仿）the experienced bee.D.They watched the experienced bee work.14.Why was an experienced bee added to new bee groups？_A.To keep the bees interest.B.To carry the experiment further.C.To watch the process of string pulling.D.To reduce the difficulty of the experiment.15.Wh

35、at does the study find？_A.Most animals create their own cultures.B.Strings are particularly attractive to bees.C.Animals may have good social learning ability.D.Bumblebees may be smarter than other bee species.二、阅读七选五（本大题共 5 5 小题，共 12.512.5 分）What is culture？Culture is too complex to define in simpl

36、e terms.(1)One is thatculture is a total pattern of behaviour that is consistent in its components.Anotherfundamental is that culture is learned behaviour.The third is that culture is behaviourthat is shared by a group of people.To understand the culture of a particular country or region,one could e

37、xamine itscomponents,among which are material culture,language,and socialorganization.Material culture includes the tools and symbols in a society,not includingthose physical things found in nature,unless they have undergone some change or havebeen given meaning by people.(2)The way we consume and w

38、hat we consume areheavily influenced by material culture.(3)Linked with all other aspects of culture,it reflects the nature and values of thatculture.Industrialized societies have a rich vocabulary for commercial and industrialactivities,while less industrialized societies may have richer vocabulari

39、es for mattersimportant to their societies.The Eskimos in Alaska have many words to describe snow8whereas English has only one general term.Social organization differs somewhat from society to society.The primary kind ofcommunity association is based on blood ties.(4)It provides mutualprotection,psy

40、chological support and a kind of economic insurance or social security forits members.The term brothers in Zaire includes those whom we call cousins anduncles.Cultural analysis serves a variety of purposes.Understanding the various dimensionsand their inter-relatedness helps promote cross-cultural a

41、wareness.(5)A.Language is the most obvious difference between cultures.B.Some scholars even suggest that it is useless to try.C.The values represented within a culture can also change with the passing of time.D.However,there are certain agreed-on fundamentals that can be easily identified.E.In many

42、developing countries,the extended family fulfils several social and economicroles.F.For example,a mouse running on a street is not part of a culture,but the Mickey Mouseis.G.It leads on to the promotion of goodwill,social and economic planning and harmonybetween social groupings or societies.16.A.AB

43、.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.A.AB.BC.CD.DE.EF.FG.G三、完形填空（本大题共 1515 小题，共 15.015.0 分）I noticed something,my friend Ashley said.Your bookshelf is(21).I noddedabsently.I could feel my best friend staring at me with(22).Im looking at your onl

44、ine bookshelf right now.Its clear of books this year.Why？sheasked.9I wish I could read,I replied,(23)the many hours Id spent helping someone withtheir computer or browsing（浏览）online news articles(24)reading novels.But whos going to(25)fun books to me？Ashley asked,sounding shocked.Youalways were my b

45、ook buddy（朋友）.When I got home that day,I deleted a calendar event that was supposed to happen at 9：00 pm and typed into the description box,Read a novel.When the time for the(26)event came,I felt so guilty（内疚的）that I(27)to turn on theaudiobook.With(28)，though,I finally pressed Play and sank into a c

46、ozy young-adultnovel.I soon(29)and noticed that I was really enjoying myself.I started clearing my calendar for myself.Each time I put(30)time in my calendar,Ifelt really happy.When it came time to(31)for the second night,it was(32)than the previous night.I eventurned off my phone and sank into bed

47、with headphones on.Then I(33)my phone and called Ashley to tell her that I had(34)a lot of upcomingappointments.She was(35).Thats really great.Im glad to have my book buddy back.21.A.prettyB.tidyC.largeD.empty22.A.respectB.prideC.concernD.fear23.A.accounting forB.thinking aboutC.depending onD.dividi

48、ng up24.A.instead ofB.because ofC.apart fromD.along with25.A.writeB.recommendC.transportD.award26.A.originalB.popularC.commonD.formal27.A.expectedB.promisedC.hesitatedD.forgot28.A.joyB.determinationC.accessD.support29.A.survivedB.agreedC.relaxedD.repeated30.A.personalB.hardC.valuableD.limited31.A.sl

49、eepB.helpC.readD.reflect32.A.longerB.easierC.earlierD.quicker33.A.escaped fromB.looked forC.pointed toD.turned on1034.A.finishedB.fixedC.canceledD.missed35.A.excitedB.confusedC.anxiousD.ambitious四、语法填空（本大题共 1 1 小题，共 15.015.0 分）36.Last spring,Fiona Presley,a library assistant from Scottish Highlands

50、came across asurprising phenomenon she would never forget.While taking care of her garden,she(1)（spot）a bumblebee（大黄蜂）queen crawling around.What surprised her most was thatthe animal had no wings,(2)made it unable to fly.The bumblebee may have beenaffected by a virus in wing development.The insect h