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1、2020学年第二学期学业水平调研测试高二年级英语试卷本试卷共11页，满分120分。考试用时120分钟。 注意事项：1 .答卷前，考生必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的学校、班级、姓名、座位号和考生号填写在答题 卡相应的位置上。用2B铅笔将考生号、座位号填涂在答题卡相应位置上。2 .选择题每小题选出答案后，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， 再选涂其它答案；不能答在试卷上。3 .非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位置上； 如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔或涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答

2、 案无效。4 .考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分阅读（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题分，满分分）阅读下列短文，从115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。AChinas first pandathemed tourist train, known as the “Panda train“ left Chengdu Railway Station in Sichuans provincial capital for Zunyi in neighboring Cuizhou province

3、on Sunday night. The train is decorated with giant panda images, and attendants carry panda toys and passengers can even try pandashaped food. The panda train” will start operation on March 28. It will serve on fixed lines and customized lines to connect tourist attractions in Sichuan and neighborin

4、g provinces.In the future, the train will operate on a number of rail lines linking Chengdu and Chongqing, Chongqing and Guiyang, Shanghai and Kunming in Sichuan, Guzhou provinces and Chongqing municipality （自治 区）.Ticket offer:The threeday trip costs 1,280 yuan, including food, acmodation and entran

5、ce tickets to scenic spots in Guizhou.Facilities:The train, which doubles as a mobile starrated hotel, can acmodate 252 passengers. It has a dining room, bar, karaoke room, dance hall and mahjong room. The 12 cars have individual rooms for two or four passengers, and each room has a washroom with a

6、toilet and shower facilities.The mahjong room might be the biggest attraction for passengers from Sichuan, whose people are known for their fondness of the game. Theres an old joke that an airplane passenger bound for Chengdu can sleep soundly, only to be woken by the clicking of mahjong tiles in th

7、e city before landing. In fact, Chengdu is better known for its love of mahjong than its other attractions, such as the giant panda, Sichuan Opera and Sichuan cuisine, according to an onlineMy name is Li Hua. As an exchange student from China, I am studying in a local school.I am really delighted to

8、 learn that a guide for your Chinese cultural relic exhibition is required and Fm confident that I am truly fit for then position.To start with, my advantage first lies in the fact that I am from China and used to be a volunteer in Shanghai Museum and quite familiar with Chinese relics. Furthermore,

9、 being an outgoing and optimistic boy, I am good municating with others and introducing Chinese culture to the world is always my honor and my pleasure.Finally, there is no problem with my spoken English, as I have lived here for almost a year and I have no difficulty municating with others in Engli

10、sh.I would really appreciate it if you can offer me the chance to be a volunteer in your museum. I am looking forward to your early reply.Yours Truly,Li Huasurvey conducted by sohu two decades ago.Booking information:Tickets are only available in advance through Chengdu Railway International Busines

11、s Travel Group website during the trial runs.1. Who are the intended readers of the passage?A. People who like pandas.B. People who enjoy travelling.C. People interested in decoration.D. People fond of playing mahjong.2. What makes the train attractive for passengers from Sichuan?A. The dance hall f

12、or travelers.B. The mahjong room on the train.C. The beautiful giant panda images.D. The dining room serving Sichuan cuisine.3. How can people buy tickets during the trial runs?A. They can buy tickets in advance online.B. They can buy tickets at the railway station.C. They can buy tickets in the sta

13、rrated hotel.D. They can buy tickets from Business Travel Group.BI had only really known the little girl for a few weeks, but I carried her with me every day. We met in the Childrens Hospital of Columbus. I was 11, I was bom with a hole in my heart. So was the fiveyearold girl in the bed beside me.W

14、e were both recovering from the same surgery. Being older and wiser, I thought it wasmy job to look out for her. “Do you want to hear a story?” I recalled asking her one afternoon. Great!” she said.It was so easy to make her happy. She seemed always to be smiling or laughing or singing songs. Life w

15、asnt fair. She passed away. My own recovery went well. Youre really lucky, a nurse told me. But how e my operation was so easy and hers wasnt? I asked. Easy?” my dad said. Mary, your surgery wasnt easy at all. We thought we were going to lose you because of the amount of internal bleeding （内 出血）.You

16、 cant remember it because you were in a a （昏迷）Dad said. For two weeks after your operation many things could go wrong. Im really lucky. I wasnt too old to need someone to look out for me.” You wouldnt remember this either. When you were in the a, she used to e over to your bed and sing to you. She w

17、as watching over you.”My surgery scars were hidden under my shirt. But I knew they were there, along with the memory of that little girl, the one whod been at my side like a tiny angel when I didnt even know she was there. I was older now and hopefullysomewhat wiser. Wise enough to know that I have

18、angels watching over me, when life is fair and when its not. 4. The author looked after the little girl because.A. the girl was seriously illB. she thought it was her dutyC. the girl wanted to hear storiesD. they were in the same hospital5. What did the author think of the girl?A. Confident.B. Optim

19、istic.C. Wise.D. Independent.6. What can be inferred from paragraph 3?A. The girl came to the authors bed and watched over her.B. The gird died because of the amount of internal bleeding.C. The author had a poor memory and couldnt remember what happened.D. The author thought her operation was easy b

20、ecause she was unconscious.7. What most probably made the girl into the authors memory?A. The help from the girl.B. The unfair life of the girl.C. The conversation with her dad.D. The experience of the operation.CAs people are being more socially conscious about where their food es from and how it i

21、mpacts the planet, they are choosing animalfree plantbased options. Cowfree meat has been around for quite some time and the popularity of brands of the cultivated meat is rising. While there are a large number of plantbased milk substitutes, none of them have the same taste of cows milk. Now, a fbo

22、dtech pany created real dairy products without harming a single cow or the planet.The pany stresses that their product produced in the lab is not a milk substitute but rather is the real deal. And it is very healthy. The pany also says that the labproduced milk tastes identical to the real thing and

23、 they hope to eventually replace cows by creating every dairy product sold. They expect to roll out plantbased cheese and yogurt in addition to milk. “Our pany was founded with the mission to stop using animals to produce our food because, as dairy lovers, we realize that giving up on milk is not an

24、 option/9 John said. But todays milk es with an unreasonable price tag. The dairy industry is destructive to our planet, our health, and our animals, and is simply not sustainable （可持续的） anymore.”The environmental price tag of dairy farming is way too high. According to the World Wildlife Fund, dair

25、y cows add a huge amount of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere andcontribute to global warming and climate change as well as pollute the air around them. Dairy operations consume large amounts of water and runoff of manure （粪月巴）and fertilizers from these farms get into local waterways. The productio

26、n uses only 5 percent of the resources and produces only 1 percent of the waste of producing cows milkaccording to the pany. And they acplish this by being 100 percent crueltyfree unlike dairy farms.8. The fbodtech panys milk mentioned in the text differs from other milk substitutes in.A. its variou

27、s plantbased flavourB is tastes the same as cows milkC. its highest output from the farmsD. its broad popularity home and abroad9. What can we know from Johns words in paragraph 2?A. Prices of cows milk are rising these days.B. The destructive dairy industries should be shut down.C. The foodtech pan

28、y was set up for animal protection.D. The foodtech pany aims to produce animalfree food.10. What does the underlined word them” probably refer to in the last paragraph?A. Dairy cows.B. Dairy operations.C. Climate changes.D Greenhouse gases.11. Which of the following can be the best title for the tex

29、t?A. Healthier Milk.B. New Milk Saves Planet.C. Fresher Milk, Better Future.D. Making Milk without Cows.DHave you ever had the feeling that you cant think when there is too much noise around Did you ever think a fish could experience that feeling too? A recent published paper, bined over10,000 scien

30、tific papers, confirms that undersea life knows that exact same feeling, more often than not. Anthropogentic ocean noise, also known as underwater noise pollution, has created a huge impact on sea life due to “humancaused“ activity within and neighboring our oceans.The film Finding Nemo educated us

31、about the ocean, and specifically within the ordinary world of a clown fish. A fact many may not know is that clown fish spend the first part of their lives as larvae （幼虫），moving slowly with the current of the ocean until they bee strong enough to swim against it. Once they are powerful and strong,

32、they head home in sheltered coral reefs. There is only one drawback-the fish cant physically see the reef, but they can hear it. The only problem is, if they cant hear it, will they ever make it home?Our ocean noise, such as cargo ships, ship and boat propellers （螺旋桨）,surfing, deep sea mining, etc.

33、are causing destruction of sea life. Some researches found that sound is the sensorysignal that travels the farthest through the ocean. The ocean noise drowns out the natural soundscapes, putting sea life under great stress. Altogether, this stress then affects their general health, disturb their be

34、havior, reproduction and, in extreme cases causes death. Marine life can adapt to noise pollution, however, only if they can escape it This onlycauses further plications of straying （使偏离）species from their traditional breeding regions or separating them from their families.Now, what if we told you t

35、here is already a solution? Multiple ways, ideas and designs are currently in the works or already exist to remove the damage of the ocean noise. As the previous research explains, from windpowered ships to noisereducing propellers, a great many solutions are already available and in some cases, cos

36、teffective. The authors of the paper hope it will catch the attention form the society.12. What does the underlined word Anthrapoqentic probably mean?A. Produced by nature.B. Caused by ocean lives.C. Related to human beings.D. Made by underwater activities.13. The author mentioned the clown fish in

37、paragraph 2 is to?A. educate us to protect sealifeB. introduce the film Finding NemoC. illustrate the harmful effect of ocean noiseD. show how terrible their living conditions are14. Which of the following solutions is already available according to paragraph 4?A. The noise control techniques.B. The

38、 attention from the society.C. The application of relevant laws.D. The restriction of human activities.15. Whafs the tone of the passage?A. Narrative and serious.B. Persuasive and critical.C. Descriptive and positive.D. Informative and objective.第二节（共5小题；每小题分，满分分）根据短文内容，从短文后的1620选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中

39、有两项为多余选项。Many people avoid apologizing because the idea of admitting to wrongdoing makes them terribly unfortable. We might also fear that the victim wont accept our apology, further promising our positive sense of sell. For these reasons, an apology can be very difficult to give. 16 Research shows

40、that it can improve your mental health, repair damaged relationships and boost selfesteem. Would you like to apologize but arent sure how? Experts offer these advice:Build Your ApologyResearchers have determined that effective apologies have some factors: expressing regret, explaining what went wron

41、g, acknowledging responsibility, offering to repair the situation and requesting forgiveness. The pore of thesefactors that are included, the more likely the apology is seen as acceptable._17_Sometimes an immediate apology is called for“ says a psychology professor. But if the other part is angry at

42、 your wrongdoing. It may be more effective to wait, because their anger may stop them being receptive to an apology. The best time to apologize is when one feels ready to sincerely apologize. There is nothing worse in these situations than insincere apologies.Choose Your WordsChoosing appropriate wo

43、rds is very important when you plan an apology. _18_ Examples include I certainly apologize if I offended anyone, and Tm very sorry, but in my defense, you started it.”19_Postapology, yod may feel like a burden has been lifted. Research shows that apologies may ease an apologises sense of guilt, and

44、 bring people closer and increase trust, even among strangers.An apology is an important tool for rebuilding a relationship to make it functional again. 20A. Consider TimingB. What es next?C. Offer immediate apologyD. Even if you cant say the words smoothly, theyll mean a lotE. Some things such as m

45、aking excuses, or pointing fingers should be avoided.F But when we are in this situation, we need to think how to say sorryeffectively.G. Although apologizing is stressful and unfortable, a heartfelt apology has positive effects. 第二部分语言知识及应用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节 完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，从短文后2135各题所给的

46、四个选项（A, B, C, D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Its mon to post on social media to keep a record of the fun things you do. Although social media has its positive aspects, it can also have some serious 21 results. For example, have you ever been bored and decided to check social _22, only to find out t

47、hat your best friend is at the Great Wall, one of your classmates is eating delicious noodles at your _23 restaurant, and one of your basketball teammates is visiting the giant pandas in Sichuan? Oh! Youre really _24_! At least thafs what you might think.Have you ever had that feeling that others ar

48、e experiencing things and enjoying life 25than you are? Researchers call that feeling the fear of missing out or FOMO.FOMO is a real _26 that over 75% of young people are experiencing from time to time. Social media is the cause, because its so easy today to _27_ through to see what your friends are doing, eating, buying and talking about. 28, it would be impossible to enjoy all the same activities we see others take part in on social media. Rather than29 this basic truth, though, we often let FOMO lead us to pare our lives to those of others on social