广东省揭阳市揭西县2019-2020学年高二下学期测试卷（二）英语试题

广东省揭阳市揭西县2019-2020学年高二下学期测试卷（二）英语试题

河婆中学高二英语测练卷（二）‎ ‎ ‎ 第一部分 阅读理解（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中，选出最佳选项.‎ A High School Course Requirements for College Admissions While admissions standards vary greatly from one school to another， nearly all colleges and universities will be looking to see that applicants have completed a standard core (核心) curriculum. As you choose classes in high school， these core courses should always be the most important. Students without these classes may be automatically disqualified for admission In general， a typical high school core curriculum looks something like this ‎ English： 4 years Foreign Language： 2 to 3 years Math： 3 years Science： 2 to 3 years including lab science Social Studies and History： 2 to 3 years Art： 1year Keep in mind that the required courses for admission differ from the recommended courses. At selective colleges and universities， additional years of math， science and language will be necessary for you to be a competitive applicant.‎ When colleges calculate your Grade Point Average (GPA) for admissions purposes， they will often ignore the GPA on your transcript (成绩单)and focus only on your grades in these core subject areas. Grades for physical education， music performance and other non-core courses are not as useful for predicting your level of college readiness as these core courses. This doesn't mean that electives aren't important. Colleges do want to see that you have a large variety of interests and experiences， but they simply don't provide a good window into an applicant's ability to handle strict ‎ college courses.‎ Core course requirements vary from state to state， and many of the more selective colleges will want to see a strong high school academic record that goes well beyond the core. Advanced Placement， IB and Honors courses are a must to be competitive at the most selective colleges. In most cases， the strongest applicants to highly selective colleges will have four years of math (including calculus)， four years of science and four years of a foreign language.‎ ‎1. How many courses are included in a typical high school core curriculum?‎ A. Three B. Six C. Eight D. Ten ‎2. What does your non-core courses mean when you apply to college?‎ A. Your intelligence level B. Your academic standard C. Your talents and creativity. D. Your interests and experiences ‎ 河婆中学高二英语测练卷（二） 第1页共8页 ‎3. Who will most probably be interested in the text?‎ A. High school students B. High school teachers C. College students D. College teachers ‎ B One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem inability to read.‎ In the library, I found my way into the "Children's Room." I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random. The cover of a book caught my eye. It presented a picture of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle.‎ There on the book's cover was a beagle which looked identical to my dog. I ran my ‎ fingers over the picture of the dog on the cover. My eyes ran across the title：Amos, the Beagle with a Plan. Unknowingly, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer.‎ Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.‎ My mother's call returned me to the real world. I suddenly realized something: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. Everyone knew I could not read. But I had read it. Books could be incredibly wonderful and I was going to read them.‎ I never told my mother about my "miraculous"（奇迹般地）experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the words has held.‎ ‎4.The author's mother told him to borrow a book in order to .‎ A. encourage him to do more walking B. let him spend a meaningful summer C. help cure him of his reading problem D. make him learn more about weapons ‎5.Why could the author manage to read the book through?‎ A. He was forced by his mother to read it. B. He identified with the story in the book.‎ C. The book told the story of his pet dog.‎ D. The happy ending of the story attracted him.‎ ‎6.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?‎ A.The author has become a successful writer.‎ B.The author’s mother saw his remarkable improvement.‎ ‎ 河婆中学高二英语测练卷（二） 第2页共8页 C.The author’s mother rewarded him with books.‎ D.The author has had happy summers ever since.‎ ‎7.Which one could be the best title of the passage?‎ A. My Passion（激情） for Reading B. Mum’s Strict Order ‎ C. Reunion with My Beagle D. The Charm of a Book C If you feel at present that you don’t have enough friends in your life, one reason may be that you have let yourself become too busy to make time for the relationships you already have. Starting and keeping friendship requires effort and commitment.‎ Many of us let our lives become so busy with work and other commitments that we don’t get around to scheduling time for pleasure and renewal（叙旧）with the friends, relatives and acquaintances we already have.‎ Making the effort to call your friends more regularly and to accept more of the invitations you receive from others can improve your social life in a hurry!‎ Are there any people you could call right now and be assured of a pleasant welcome? Are there people that you could depend on to help you in time of difficulty? Can you have close talks with them? Do you have fun when you are together? Are you happy to have them in your life?‎ If you haven’t seen much of them lately, is it because you have become too busy? Have you grown apart? Was there an argument?‎ If the main reason you haven’t been getting together with the people you already know is because you have gotten too busy, take a good look at how you spend your time. Compare it with your real values and priorities（优先考虑的事）in life. Is your busy lifestyle really bringing you the quality of life that you want?‎ If you have become too busy for friends, why has this happened? Are you seeking material joys in your life at the expense of relationships with other human beings? Have you allowed your time to be over-committed because you never say “No” to anyone? Do you insist on doing things yourself that could be delegated to others? If so, why? Do you believe that everything depends on you?‎ Examine whether the way you are now spending your time exactly reflects your deepest values and priorities. Make sure that you schedule enough time for the things ‎ that are truly most important to you.‎ If you really want to keep friends in your life, make a space in your schedule, and a space in your heart for them.‎ ‎8. In this passage the author mainly discusses .‎ A. how to balance friendship and work B. how to spend our spare time C. whether we should keep friendship ‎ D. whether we should invite friends to dinner ‎9. What does the underlined word “delegated” probably mean?‎ A. Appointed（分派） B. Replaced C. Reduced D. Handled ‎ 河婆中学高二英语测练卷（二） 第3页共8页 ‎10. The reason why you have become too busy for friends may be the following except that ____‎ A. you spend too much time seeking material joys in your life B. you feel it difficult to keep friendship C. you stick to doing everything all by yourself D. you never refuse whatever other people ask you to do ‎11. Which would be the best title for the text?‎ A. Too busy for Friendship? B. Too busy with work?‎ C. How to Spend Your Time D. How to Make New Friends D It was at her company’s annual picnic that my mother met my father, and he walked her home. The next week, from his home in Chicago, he sent her a post card: Remember me please. Do be calling you one of these days.—David.‎ She still has that post card. I am not sure what made her save. Though he already had his heart set on her, she hadn't chosen him yet, at least not consciously.‎ My father, a salesman for a big electronics company, often told us while we were growing up, it was blind luck that he was at the picnic that day. He was in town to meet with clients and happened to stop by the branch office that Saturday morning to make a call. It was the manager of a local radio station where my mother worked as a ‎ writer. “Dave! Glad you’re in town!” he said, and invited him to come right over to their annual picnic. Later my mother dated him when he was in town. Eventually, one night a few months later, she woke her mother and told her she was going to marry Dave. A few months after the wedding, my father was transferred east. They settled in New York, in the house where I grew up.‎ Sometimes I think how time gets us together and puts us in a certain place where we’re faced with one option or another. We leave behind while others live by the choice we made. We could have lived full of different passions and joys, different problems and disappointments. Sometimes, particularly when I came home late to a sleeping house, my husband and daughter curled around each other. I think about the lives we would not have had if choices had brought us to a different place. And I tremble at the thought that I might have missed this life, this man, this child, this love.‎ ‎12. According to the text, where did the author’s parents come across?‎ A. At the author’s home. B. At a local radio station.‎ C. At her father’s company’s picnic. D. At her mother’s company’s picnic.‎ ‎13. It can be inferred from the text that .‎ A. the author’s father didn’t like her mother ‎ B. the author’s mother always made right decisions C. the author didn’t believe her mother ‎ ‎ D. the author’s mother hadn’t decided to marry her father at first ‎14. Before meeting the author's father, her mother was .‎ A. a writer B. a manager C. a teacher D. a saleswoman ‎ 河婆中学高二英语测练卷（二） 第4页共8页 ‎15. What do we know about the author?‎ A. She values her life now. B. Time makes her life now perfect.‎ C. She is tired of her life now. D. Her life now faces problems and disappointments.‎ 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。‎ Recently some American scientists have a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized  nations. They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10, 000 years ago.   16    The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly. Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses.   17    So they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases. Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none.   18   . However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today. Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic ones. They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains.   19   .We eat six times more salt than our ancestors. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.     20   . But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food. A. Stone Age people lived a simple life. B. But today, we enjoy eating a lot of these. C. In that case, they would live much healthier. D. Ancient people also got lots of physical exercise. E. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times. F. People today probably don’t want to live like our ancestors. G. Modern people used to suffer from “diseases of civilization.”‎ 第二部分 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）‎ A little girl wanted to become a great pianist, but all she could play on the piano was the     21     little tune, “Chopsticks.” No matter how hard she tried, that was ‎ the     22    she could do. After some time her parents decided to     23    for a great pianist to teach her to play     24    . Of course, the little girl was     25    .‎ ‎ 河婆中学高二英语测练卷（二） 第5页共8页 When the little girl and her parents arrived at the pianist 's house for the first lesson, they were     26    by the servant into the living-room, where they saw a beautiful concert grand     27   . Immediately, the little girl     28    over to the piano and began playing “Chopsticks.” Her     29     parents told her to stop, but as she played, the pianist entered the room and     30    the little girl to continue.  The pianist then took a     31    on the piano bench next to the little girl, listening to her play. After a moment he began to play     32     her, adding beautiful musical notes. The little girl     33    to play “Chopsticks.” The parents couldn't believe their     34    . They were hearing a     35    piano duet(二重奏) played by their daughter and the pianist, and     36    enough, the central theme of it was still Chopsticks.”  At times you may feel as if you're a nobody and you will never     37    great things. But think of that little girl. All she could play was “Chopsticks.” It was an embarrassment to her     38    . Compared to some people's     39    , your gifts and talents may seem like “Chopsticks”, but if you     40    with others, you will be able to turn them into something beautiful.‎ ‎21. A.famous  B. simple   C. beautiful   D. amazing 22. A.hardest  B. latest  C. worst  D. best 23. A. arrange  B. hope   C. wait  D. shout 24. A.cheerfully   B. normally  C. properly  D. regularly 25. A. delighted  B. frightened   C.satisfied  D.opposed 26. A. led  B. served  C. treated  D. introduced 27. A. violin  B. piano   C.bench  D. hall 28. A. bent  B. dashed  C. thought   D. wandered 29. A.discouraged  B.terrified  C.puzzled  D. embarrassed 30. A. prohibited  B.commanded  C. encouraged  D.urged 31. A. note  B.breath  C. look  D.‎ ‎ seat 32. A. instead of  B.ahead of  C. along with  D. apart from 33. A. continued B. intended  C.stopped  D. preferred 34. A. daughter  B. story  C. ears  D. eyes 35. A. familiar  B. beautiful  C. terrible  D. similar 36. A. strangely   B.curiously  C. differently  D. amazingly 37. A. schedule  B. memorize  C. accomplish  D. describe 38. A.teachers  B. parents  C.gifts  D.friends 39. A. abilities  B. wealth  C. knowledge  D. achievements 40. A. correspond  B. consult  C. compare   D. cooperate 第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分）‎ Andrew Engel was completely confused. Just days into his freshman year at Rutgers‎ ‎University, he was sitting in Sociology 101, listening to _____41____ students have a discussion. He had no idea _____42____ they were talking about. He had done his homework, ‎ ‎ 河婆中学高二英语测练卷（二）第6页共8页 ‎ ‎ paid attention to lectures and taken notes, but nothing was familiar. “Everyone is so much _____43____(smart) than I am,” he thought. It was a foreign feeling, as he'd always been a good student and _____44____(graduate) from high school with a 3.9 GPA.‎ The rest of his day progressed like an episode of The Twilight Zone. He got _____45____(lose), again, on his way to the cafeteria, even though he'd been there a few hours earlier. Back at his dorm, he greeted his roommate with a "Hi, how's it going?" all the while thinking, “What is his name again?”‎ He was acting _____46____ a person with Alzheimer's disease（阿尔茨海默氏病，即老年痴呆病）, _____47____ he was only 17. By the end of September, he'd dropped a class and ‎ was studying with _____48____ tutor, yet he was still struggling. He decided he had no ____49___(choose) but to drop out, telling his _____50____(puzzle) parents he wasn't ‎ cut out for college.‎ 第三部分：书面表达(满分25分)‎ 假定你是武汉某高中学生李华，你在2019武汉秋令营结识的朋友Tom了解到武汉爆发的新冠状病毒肺炎疫情，组织了德国伯乐中学中文合唱团倾情演唱中文歌《让世界充满爱》，为武汉加油。你看了这个小视频非常感动，请给他写一封英文感谢信。要点如下：‎ 1. 表达感动和感谢。 2. 告诉他你的现状。‎ ‎3注意：‎ ‎1. 词数150左右；‎ ‎2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。‎ ‎ 河婆中学高二英语测练卷（二） 第7页共8页 河婆中学高二英语测练卷二 参考答案：阅读理解：1-3 BDA 4-7 C B A D 8-11 A A B A 12-15. D D A A l 七选五：16-20  CEDBF l 完形填空：21-25.BDACA    26-30.ABBDC  31-35.DCACB   36-40.DCBAD 语法填空：文章介绍了一位因无法适应大学生活而打算辍学的学生。‎ ‎41. other 根据上下文可知Andrew在教室里听着其他学生讨论问题。‎ ‎42. what 连词引导同位语从句，在句子中充当宾语。‎ ‎43. smarter 根据后文的than可知此处应使用形容词比较级。‎ l ‎44. graduated/ had graduated 根据上下文可知Andrew上大学之前以高分从中学毕业，所以用过去完成时表示过去的过去，但因前面已经有had，所以此处可以省略。‎ ‎45. lost 短语get lost 表示“迷路”。‎ ‎46. like 短语act like 表示“表现的像…”。‎ ‎47. although/though 连词引导让步状语从句。‎ ‎48. a 名词tutor前用冠词，因是第一次提到，所以用不定冠词。‎ ‎49. choice no后用名词.‎ ‎50. puzzled 形容词作定语修饰后面的名词parents，表示“困惑的父母”。‎ l 书面表达：【 possible version】‎ Dear Tom,‎ Words failed me when I watched the video from your school chorus. Especially when I heard "Come on, Wuhan!" , I was so deeply moved that I couldn't help replaying it again and again. I truly appreciate your love and support.Those days at the Autumn Camp are unforgettable. I often enjoy the pictures taken at the camp. Currently, I hardly go out due to the outbreak of novel Coronavirus. Instead, I spend time taking online courses, watching American plays or listening to English songs. And it takes me a little time to read books that I am keen on. Can you inform me of your recent life in the next e-mail?People across the country support Wuhan to the best of their ability. I'm definitely convinced that we can get through the hard times. Looking forward to your next visit to China! May our friendship last forever!‎ ‎                                                      Yours, ‎ ‎                                                       Li Hua ‎ 河婆中学高二英语测练卷（二） 第8页共8页 rg