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1、育才学校2020-2021学年度第二学期期末试卷高一英语试卷第一节（共5小题；每小题L 5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。 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. When does Planet Fitness open on holidays?a.m.t 6 a.m.a.m,t 9 a.m.a.m.t 8 a.m.2. What will the man do next?C. Buy a new book.C. Lecture professors.C. By train.

2、C. At an airport.A. Argue with the woman. B. Pay for the damage.3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Course selection. B. Career choice.4. How did the woman go traveling?A. By bus.B. By car.5. Where does this conversation probably take place?A. In a hospital.B. At home.第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，

3、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. Why is the woman so happy? A. Her work will be shared.B. The new dress fits her well.C. Everything has been checked.7. What is the probable relationship

4、 between the speakers?A. Husband and wife. B. Employer and employee. C. Host and guest. 听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What is the main problem with the man?A. He gels poor grades. B. He lacks sleep. C. He feels stressed out.9. How is the man dealing with his problem now?A. By listening to music. B. By running.C

5、. By swimming.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题Which sport is for a super pass member only?A. Basketball.B. Golf.C. Rock-climbing.10. How much does the swim-only pass cost?A. $1().B. $35.C. $4().11. How does the man feel about choosing the pass?A. Excited.B. SatisfiedC. Confused.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。12. What is the woma

6、ns plan fbr Sunday?A. Going shopping. B. Going camping. C. Going snowboarding.13. Where will the woman stay in Big Bear?A. In a camp.B. In a hotel. C. In a house.14. What will the man do on the weekend?A. Visit his friends. B. Read books.C. Join the woman.15. What does the woman think of the mans we

7、ekend?A. Its boring.B. Its comforting. C. Its relaxing.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。16. Why did Reyes Guana stay in the car when his parents were working?A. He was very young. B. He didnt like working. C. He looked after brothers.17. What did Reyes Guana learn from cleaning the school?A. How to make money. B.

8、How to respect others. C. How to move up the ranks.18. How many jobs has Reyes Guana had?A. 3.B. 4.C. 5.19. What is the guide in Reyes Guanas current job?A. His Mexican origin. B. His life experience. C. His college education.第二部分阅读理辞（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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

9、ASpring Willow Fann is designed to educate the public about farm operation, farm history, and issues facing farmers today.ScheduleWe are open every day of the year, except holidays. The grounds are open year-round from 8： 00 a. m. until 6： 00 p. m. Visitors can access the buildings on most days betw

10、een 10： 00 a. m. and 5： 00 p. m., with a reduced schedule during the winter months. Please call the farm or visit our website for a current schedule of events, classes, and opening times.Visiting the farmVisitors are free to tour the farm on their own. Maps are available at the information desk in t

11、he Main Building. Guided tours arc included in the cost of admission. Tours leave from the Main Building front entrance at 1（）： 3（） a. m. and 2： 00 p. m. daily.The ground floor of the Main Building contains exhibits explaining daily farm life in different periods of history, with displays showing fa

12、rm tools, kitchen and other household utensils （用具）, photographs, and more. Also in the Main Building is the Farm Gift Shop. Available for sale are a variety of books on farming and farm life as well as reproductions of old photographs and historical farm tools.In the cow barn （棚舍），visitors can watc

13、h milking demonstrations （示范）every afternoon. The horse and goat barns are also open to visitors. Please note: Our animals are used to attention from people and enjoy being petted, but use caution. Please dont tease the animals, and please dont feed them.ClassesSpring Willow Farm offers classes on v

14、arious aspects of farming and farm history two evenings a week throughout the year. In addition, classes on special subjects related to farming can be arranged for your club or group. Please contact （联系）the Education Office for further information.20. What can we learn about Spring Willow Fann?A. It

15、 is open to the public.B. It offers free guided tours.C. It works with local farmers.D. It is accessible during the night.21. While touring the farm, visitors are allowed to.A. do the milkingB. feed the animalsC. adopt the animalsD. buy some souvenirs22. What is Spring Willow Farm used as?A. A winte

16、r school.B. A botanical garden.C. An education center.D. An amusement park.BJust like any other home, the International Space Station （1SS） requires some housekeeping, in the form of routine work and repairs. That is why NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and fellow astronautKjell Lindgren performed a space

17、walk outside the station on Wednesday. The operation began at 8： 03 a. m. and lasted for more than seven hours. It was the first space-walk for both men.upgraded Lindgren provide new crew astronautsThe ISS has been in constant use for 15 years and needs to be （升级）from time to time. During their spac

18、ewalk, Kelly and did basic electrical work, such as attaching new cables that will power to docking ports on the station. The ports will be used when （工作人员）and cargo ships arrive at the ISS in 2017. The two also placed a thermal （I防寒的）cover on a key scientific instrument on the station to protect it

19、 from the cold temperatures of space.As the more senior astronaut, Kelly led the spacewalk. However, Lindgren handled some of the more challenging parts of the job in some of the tighter areas of the station.“Lindgren has longer arms, “ said NASAs Grant Slusser, who served as ground director for Wed

20、nesdays spacewalk.Kelly and Lindgren spent months training and practicing for the operation. The preparation began in NASAs Neutral Buoyancy Lab （NBL）, a 6.2-million-gallon swimming pool with a full-size replica （复制品）of most of the ISS located at the bottom. Here astronauts become accustomed to work

21、ing in an environment similar to the one outside the space station.During the spacewalk, Kelly and Lindgren received updates from NASA that provided them with both major and minor details, right down to how many turns are needed to tighten a bolt （螺 栓）.Once the task was successfully completed, the a

22、stronauts reentered the ISS. But they will not remain inside the station for too long. Both men will perform a second space walk scheduled for November 6.23. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?A. The goal of Wednesdays spacewalk.B. The duties of NASA astronauts in space.C. The role of the Internationa

23、l Space Station.D. The flight schedules of spaceships in 2017.24. Why did Lindgren take on the more challenging parts of the job?A. He is several years senior to Kelly.B. He has a physical advantage over Kelly.C. He has more work experience than Kelly.D. He is braver and more confident than Kelly.25

24、. The spacewalk Kelly and Lindgren performed.A. started at nightB. seemed a difficult taskC. was directed by the NBL D. was their second spacewalk26. What will Kelly and Lindgren do next?A. Go back to the earth.B. Welcome the new crews arrival.C. Prepare for their next space walk.D. Get in touch wit

25、h the ground control center.A US dad quit his job, giving up a massive salary, after his 10-year-old daughter gave him a 22-point list outlining all the events he had missed so far during the year. As the CEO of the global investment firm PIMCO, Mohamed El-Erian shocked the finance industry when he

26、quit in January.El-Erian said it was about a year ago when he was repeatedly asking his daughter to brush her teeth, but she wasnt listening. When he asked her why, she responded with a list of 22 milestones he had missed: like the first day of school and the first soccer game of the season.“And the

27、 school year wasnt yet over, “ El-Erian wrote/41 felt awful and got defensive: I had a good excuse fbr each missed event, such as travel, important meetings, and urgent phone calls. But it dawned on me that I was missing an infinitely more important point. My work-life balance had gotten out of whac

28、k, and the imbalance was hurting my special relationship with my daughter. I was not making enough time fbr her.” El-Erian explained he was struggling for work-life balance.Dads are quitting their profit-making jobs to improve work-life balance. This is a subject that is getting more attention as so

29、me high-profile executives have recently written about their experiences.Last month, former MongoDB CEO Max Schireson wrote a blog post about his decision to step down from the CEO position. He wrote that he struggled to make time for his three children because he was flying around half a million ki

30、lometres a year for work.“I was not with my kids when our puppy was hit by a car, or when my son had an emergency surgery, Schireson wrote.On an overnight flight to Texas he woke up in Arizona to discover the plane made an emergency landing and some of traumatized crew members had to be replaced. He

31、 decided it was time to address his work-life balance.Quitting is something El-Erian and Schireson were financially able to do, but El-Erian recognizes most peoDle dont havK thisuxury. He hopes companies will pay attention to improving work-life balance for their employees.El-Erian now manages “a po

32、rtfolio of part-time jobs“ that dont require much travel. He alternates mornings with his wife taking their daughter to school and he often picks her up from school.“So far, its been the right decision for me, “ he wrote. Tm so gratefill that this is providing me with great opportunities to experien

33、ce key moments in my daughters life before theyre all too quickly gone.El-Erian resigned from PIMCO mainly because.A. his daughter has been missing him badlyhe was getting bored with the endless flightsB. he hoped to get his daughter to listen to himhe wanted to experience his daughters milestones27

34、. What does the underlined part “most people dont have this luxury“ probably mean?A. Most people dont like their jobs.B. Most people have to work for financial security.C. Not all dads have a 1 O-year-old daughter.D. Not all dads face the problem of work-life balance.28. What do we know about El-Eri

35、anrs life now?A. He now takes part-time jobs, which dont involve any business travel.B. He spends most of his day with his daughter.C. He manages to take on his responsibilities as a father.D. He is now living an easy and relaxed life because he neednt go to work.29. What can be inferred from the pa

36、ssage?A. Its never too late to see children grow up healthily.B. Many working parents can balance their career and family life well.C. CEOs are occupied with work and have no time for their family.D. Parents love can not be replaced by money or jobs.DScientists have always been interested in the hig

37、h level of organization in ant societies. American researchers have watched ants build life-saving rafts to keep afloat during floods. They also have documented how ants choose their next queen - the female whose job is to produce eggs.New technology is helping to improve researchers understanding o

38、f the insects. But there is still a lot to be learned.Fire ants living in Brazilian forests are perfectly at home in an environment where flooding iscommon. To save themselves, the insects connect their legs together and create floating rafts. Some ant rafts can be up to 20 centimeters wide.David Hu

39、 is an engineer with the Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, saying, “If you have 100 ants, which means 600 legs, 99 percent of those legs will be connected to a neighbor. So theyre very, very good at maintaining this network.”David Hu and other Georgia Tech researchers want

40、ed to study ants and the secret of their engineering. They froze ant rafts and then looked at them with the help of computed technology, or CT images. The pictures showed that larger ants serve in central positions to which smaller ants hold. The larger ants form pockets of air that keep the insects

41、 afloat.Scientists say small robots or materials that can change shape could be programmed in a similar way, working towards a shared goal.Researchers at North Carolina State University are also studying ants. They examined how Indian jumping ants choose the leader of the colony when they lose their

42、 top female or queen.30. The author takes fire ants as an example to tell us.A. how ants seek foodB. how ants surviveC. how ants communicateC. how ants communicateD. how ants live together31. What can we know from what David Hu said?A. Ants know the way to join together closely.B. Ants know the way

43、to keep a good figure.C. Ants know the way to help each other.D. Ants know the way to form a strong society.32. Why did the larger ants serve in central positions in their ant rafts?A. To stress their importance.B. To protect the smaller ants.C. To attack their enemies.D. To defend themselves.33. Wh

44、at inspiration do the ants give us according to the passage?A. We can use similar-shaped machines in flood-stricken areas.B. We can combine small robots or materials into larger ones.C. Small and shape-changeable objects might work just like ants do.D. Small robots or materials in the shape of ants

45、can be made.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。The health benefits of journalingScientific evidence supports that journaling （or keeping diaries） provides unexpected benefits. The act of writing accesses your left brain, which is analytical and rational （推理的）.While your le

46、ft brain is occupied, your right brain is free to create and feel. In sum,use all of and theseem all Taking a will world, whatwriting removes mental blocks and allows you to your brainpower to better understand yourself, others world around you. 36Clarify your thoughts and feelings. Do you ever mixe

47、d up inside, unsure of what you want or feel? few minutes to write down your thoughts and emotions quickly get you in touch with your internal （内心的） 37 By writing routinely you will get to know makes you feel happy and confident. You will also become clear about situations and be able to recognize p

48、eople who will not get on with you important information for your emotional well-being.Reduce stress. Writing about anger, sadness and other painful emotions helps to release your feelings. 38Solve problems more effectively. Typically we solve problems from a left-brained, analytical perspective. But sometimes the answer can only be found by involving right-brained creativity and intuition （直觉）.39Resolve disagreements with others.Writing about misunderstandings rather than worrying about them will help you understand anothers point of view. 4