湖北省武汉市2019-2020学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

湖北省武汉市2019-2020学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

英语试卷 第一部分 听力 （共两节， 满分 30 分） 做题时，请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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. What’s the weather like now? A. Sunny. B. Rainy. C. Cloudy. 2. How is Tina like her grandmother? A. She has blue eyes. B. She loves animals C. She has brown hair. 3. When does the man wake up? A. At 8:00 a.m. B. At 10:00 a.m. C. At noon. 4. What was the man probably doing just now? A. Getting off a taxi. B. Buying a train ticket. C. Checking out from a hotel. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A public holiday. B. The man’s boss. C. A bank. 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。 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。 6. What was the man planning to do earlier? A. Read at home. B. Watch a sports game. C. Go out for a nice dinner. 7. Where will the speakers go? A. To a park. B. To an art gallery. C. To a movie theater. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Give up her dream of seeing a polar bear. B. Find some polar bears in the wild. C. See some polar bears at the zoo. 9. Where would the man like to stay? A. In very cold places. B. In warm places. C. In very hot places. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. Why won’t the man read War and Peace? A. He never heard of it. B. He doesn’t have too much time. C. He thinks the story isn’t so interesting. 11. Which language is the man good at? A. Italian. B. Russian. C. French. 12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Writer and reader. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. Which country would the woman like to visit the most? A. Germany. B. France. C. England. 14. How long is the woman’s holiday? A. Two months. B. One month. C. Half a month. 15. What will the man probably do for the holiday? A. Go to the mountains. B. Go to the beach. C. Go to Disneyland. 16. What’s the relationship between the speakers? A. Husband and wife. B. Good friends. C. Assistant and customer. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. Who is this speech mainly for? A. High school juniors. B. High school seniors. C. College students. 18. When were there fewer diseases according to the speaker? A. Twenty years ago. B. Ten years ago. C. Five years ago. 19. Why should people start language learning companies according to the speaker? A. To bring happiness to people. B. To help people earn more money. C. To introduce people to other cultures. 20. What is the speaker’s dream for the listeners? A. They will become famous. B. They will become more intelligent. C. They will help people have better lives. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 35 分） 第一节（共 10 小题：每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 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。 A Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart. They will in a lifetime, push the chromeplated contraptions many miles. But few will know — or even think to ask — who it was that invented them. Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging groceries around in baskets they had to carry. One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business. On June 4, 1937, Goldman's first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn't wait to see them using his invention. But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try. After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren't using his carts. “Don't you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket？” one shopper replied. But Goldman wasn't beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. So Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony (假的) customers. As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come — those who came bought more. With larger easiertohandle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before. Today's shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman's original model. Perhaps that's one reason why Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937 — the coming of the shopping cart. 21．What was the purpose of Goldman's invention? A. It was to prove him to be a good inventor. B．It was to reduce the burden of his employees' work. C．It was to make shopping easier and attract more business. D．It was to help the disabled make shopping easily in his market. 22．Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market in order to ________. A．attract people to buy things in his market B．encourage people to use his shopping carts C．make his market different from the others D．keep the groceries from being stolen 23．What can we infer from the last paragraph? A．Goldman will become very famous because of his invention. B．Goldman's invention will be regarded as the greatest one in the world. C．Supermarket business has benefited a lot from Goldman's invention. D．There will be nothing that can replace Goldman's invention. B As a child, visiting the zoo was more a punishment than a treat. I didn't find the chimps' tea parties funny, nor the bird shows entertaining. Feeding time for seals was less painful, but their performances still seemed like they belonged more in a circus. And I hated circuses, especially the animal acts — men teasing lions, girls balancing on elephants and monkeys playing football. I knew that every trick a circus animal did was unnatural, achieved through strict training and quite possibly cruelty. Happily, during my lifetime public attitudes and the law have changed. Circuses using wild animals are now almost extinct, and zoos have definitely evolved. When my children were young, I occasionally took them to our local zoo. The elephants were in tiny cages and the gorillas looked bored as they sat peeling bananas and staring at teasing visitors. Each cage had a sign which listed the animal's name and where it came from. But, back then, there was little information included about the environmental challenges they faced. As a result, environmentalists and animal lovers often oppose zoos. “Animals belong in the wild !” is a common and understandable complaint. But what do the animals themselves prefer? Generally speaking, zoo animals have a longer life. But — you may protest — they are not free. What? Free to be hunted and killed, free to die of hunger or thirst? Maybe sitting in a cage eating bananas isn't so bad. Not that such conditions are acceptable in modern zoos, due to the work of BIAZA, the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums. These days every zoo requires BIAZA's approval to operate, and the association sets the standards, observes conditions in zoos and develops animalresearch programmes, both in the UK and abroad. BIAZA also organizes the animal exchanges between zoos all over the world. Consequently, today, most zoo animals are born and raised in zoos, live in large, comfortable enclosures and are cared for by welltrained, knowledgeable and caring zoo employees. Of course it's no substitute for living in the wild but unfortunately this isn't always possible. Meanwhile, why not visit your local zoo and decide for yourself? 24.The passage is mainly about ________. A．how zoos have improved B．whether a zoo should be closed down C．a new environmental organization D．the difference between zoos and circuses 25．From Paragraph 2, we can guess that the writer believes circus animals ________. A．had much shorter lives than those in the wild B．were not treated well by their trainers C．should have been placed in zoos D．were not as intelligent as those in zoos 26．Which of the following roles are performed by BIAZA? A．Organizing animal study projects and training zoo workers. B．Checking zoo conditions and arranging animal exchanges. C．Designing zoos and approving zoo operations. D．Caring for ill animals and setting zoo standards. 27．Which of the following statements about zoos would the writer agree with? A．Zoo animals should be freed into the wild. B．Zoos are more popular now than in the past. C．Zoo animals are more restricted than in the past. D．Zoos now provide caring living conditions for animals. C Social networking sites have changed the way that people interact and connect on a daily basis. One of the major concerns that have caught the attention of many, is the influence that social media may be having on social anxiety disorders. If removed from their phone for a few hours or a few days, the average person would likely feel anxious about not being “connected.” Most people have probably experienced an occasion in which they posted a creative photo, and waited to see how many “likes” or “retweets” they received. If this number is lower than expected, the ego (自我) is going to take a hit. There’s also constant checking of the number of “followers” and “friends” that you have, and these numbers can have a direct influence on feelings of acceptance and popularity. Anxiety can arise from feeling at a loss when faced with too much going on at one time. Multitasking can very quickly lead to increased levels of anxiety. Most people can likely relate to feeling the constant need to check their phone while driving, during meals or at work. This desire is actually leading to increased levels of anxiety. The choice to be constantly connected leads to the feeling of having to always make yourself available. Social anxiety is much different from the anxiety one feels from being offline. It’s a more serious type of anxiety resulting from the fear of being judged by others while in a social interaction. Cases can range from mild -- and are often the cause of a lot of drinking with others -- to severe, in which case a person may avoid parties and get-togethers altogether. The degree to which social media and technology are changing our lives and introducing new forms of anxiety is anything but deniable. The real question is to what extent they are introducing new disorders or increasing existing ones like social anxiety. It’s certainly a topic worth studying more to determine who is being helped, who is being harmed and how social anxiety can be dealt with. 28. What’s the major focus of the text? A. Human desire for social interaction. B. The influence of social media on anxiety. C. Anxiety resulting from interpersonal relationships. D. The popularity of social media in people’s daily life. 29. According to the author, which of the following can lead to increased levels of anxiety? A. Not being available for get-togethers. B. Chatting on the phone with a friend. C. Dying to use the phone while driving. D. Eating meals alone. 30. What does the underlined word “they” refer to? A. Life changes. B. Anxiety degrees. C. New forms of anxiety. D. Social media and technology. 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。 Many scientists believe our love of sugar may actually be an addiction. When we eat or drink sugary food, 31 Then the good feeling goes away, leaving us wanting more. All tasty foods do this, but sugar has a particularly strong effect. 32 “It seems like every time I study illness and search for the first cause, I find my way back to sugar,” says scientist Richard Johnson. One-third of adults worldwide have high blood pressure, and up to 347 million have diabetes（糖尿病）. Why? “Sugar, we believe, is one of the reasons, if not the major one.” Our bodies are designed to survive on very little sugar. 33 In this way, we had energy stored for when there was no food. But today, most people have more than enough. So what’s the solution? Less sugar of course. 34 From breakfast cereals to after-dinner desserts, our foods are increasingly filled with it. Fortunately there’re those fighting back against sugar. 35 Other schools are growing their own food in gardens, or building facilities like walking tracks so students and others in the community can exercise. A. The trouble is that in today’s world, it’s extremely difficult to avoid. B. we take in more energy and fat. C. Early humans often had very little food, so our bodies learned to be very efficient in storing sugar as fat. D. Many schools are replacing sugary desserts with healthier food like fruit. E. the sugar enters our blood and affects parts of our brain that make us feel good. F. Our ancestors were used to poor food, clothing and shelter. G. In this way, sugar is in fact an addictive drug, one that doctors suggest we all cut down on. 第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分 45 分） 第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 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。 Once upon a time, a group of businessmen were sailing on the Atlantic Ocean, 36 much American goods back to Paris. However, they 37 across a terrible thunderstorm, both the men and ship 38 into the Atlantic Ocean 39 their goods. The only survivor of the shipwreck was washed up on a small, 40 island. He prayed desperately for God to rescue him, and every day he 41 the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. 42 , he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to 43 him from bad weather, and to store his few 44 . But then one day, after searching for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke 45 up to the sky. The worst had happened; everything was lost. He was shocked with 46 and anger. “God ! How could you do this to me!” he cried. Early the next day, 47 , he was awakened by the 48 of a ship that was 49 the island. It had come to rescue him. “How did you know I was here?” asked the 50 man of his rescuers. “We saw your smoke 51 ,” they replied. It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad. But we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and 52 . Remember, next time your little hut is 53 to the ground, it just may be a smoke signal that calls for the grace of God. For all the 54 things we have to say to ourselves, God has a positive 55 to it. 36. A. developing B. carrying C. raising D. attending 37. A. went B. put C. cut D. came 38. A. sinking B. diving C. folding D. bringing 39. A. in spite of B. ahead of C. as well as D. in charge of 40. A. constructed B. deserted C. borrowed D. polluted 41. A. scanned B. caught C. challenged D. removed 42. A. Astonished B. Annoyed C. Delighted D. Exhausted 43. A. prevent B. take C. shelter D. keep 44. A. goods B. wages C. possessions D. thoughts 45. A. rolling B. winding C. flashing D. rushing 46. A. imagination B. sorrow C. expression D. blame 47. A. furthermore B. therefore C. besides D. however 48. A. scene B. sound C. light D. dream 49. A. approaching B. striking C. attacking D. pouring 50. A. dynamic B. wealthy C. weary D. admirable 51. A. evidence B. guide C. motivation D. signal 52. A. suffering B. peace C. error D. existence 53. A. thundering B. burning C. moving D. falling 54. A. positive B. different C. negative D. common 55. A. requirement B. description C. dilemma D. answer 第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 56 (worry) about the time available, Zhang Pingyu had made a list of the sites she wanted to see in London. Her first delight was going to the tower that remained part of a royal palace and prison combined. Pingyu found the Queen’s jewels guarded by special royal soldiers who, 57 special occasions, still wore the old uniform of the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Then , Zhang Pingyu went to visit Westminster Abbey and she thought it was 58 (extreme) interesting. It contained statues in memory of 59 (die) poets and writers. Just as she came out of the abbey, Pingyu heard the famous sound of the clock, Big Ben, 60 (ring) out the hour. 61 impressed her most was Greenwich. The longitude line is 62 imaginary line dividing the eastern and western halves of the world. Karl Marx’s statue in Highgate Cemetery was also in Pingyu’s list. It seemed strange that the man who had developed communism 63 (live) in London. Not only that, 64 he had worked in the famous reading room of the Library of the British Museum. Sadly, the library had moved from its 65 (origin) place into another building and the old reading room was gone. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40 分） 第一节 应用文写作（满分 15 分） 假定你是李华,你听说你的留学生朋友 Neil 想要在寒假从事一份兼职工作,而你刚好得知 当地的一家英语杂志社正在招聘编辑助理(editing assistant)。请你写封邮件给他,建议他 申请这份工作。内容包括: 1．告知兼职的消息; 2．给出申请的理由; 3．表达支持和祝愿。 注意:1．词数 80 左右; 2．可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。 Dear Neil _______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Li Hua 第二节 读后续写（满分 25 分） 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。 After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. It’s hard to imagine that the other woman was my mother, who has been a widow for 19 years, but I am too busy to visit her often. That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a movie. “What’s wrong? Are you well?” she asked. My mother is the type of woman who suspect that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign of bad news. “I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you,” I responded. “Just the two of us.” That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up, I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our date. She waited in the door with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. She smiled from a face that was as beautiful as an angel’s. “I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were impressed,” she said, as she got into the car. “They can’t wait to hear about our meeting.” We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant, was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read large print. Halfway through the entries, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me with a smile on her lips. “It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small,” she said. “Then it’s time you relax and let me return the favor,” I responded. During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation --nothing extraordinary but catching up on recent events of each other’s life. We talked so much that we missed the movie. As we arrived at her house later, she said, “I'll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you.” I agreed. 注意： 1．所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右； 2. 至少使用 5 个短文中标有下划线的关键词语； 3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好； 4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。 Paragraph 1: When I got home, my wife has prepared a rich dinner for me.____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: At that moment I understood the importance of saying, “I love you.” _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ ___ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________