2019-2020年高二英语下学期开学考试试题(III).doc

2019-2020年高二英语下学期开学考试试题(III) 注意事项：1.答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号填写在答题卷上。2.用2B铅笔将选择题答案在答题卷对应位置涂黑；答案不能答在试卷上。3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；不准使用铅笔或涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。4.考生必须保持答题卷的整洁。第卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）做题时，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分, 满分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. Where does the conversation take place?A. At home. B. At the entrance of a cinema. C. At a parking lot. 2. What does the woman mean?A. She didnt sleep well. B. She has finished her essay. C. She has difficulty with her essay.3. What does the woman ask the man to do?A. Repair the shelf. B. Paint the shelf. C. Look for a key.4. What does the man say about the cars?A. They are clean and practical. B. They make peoples life much easier.C. They have caused some environmental problems.5. Where is the chemists?A. Behind a post office. B. Beside a supermarket. C. Next to a bank.第二节 (共15小题；每小题1分, 满分15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. Where does the woman want to spend the vacation?A. On a beach. B. At home. C. On an island.7. How does the woman feel about the mans suggestion? A. Uninterested B. Surprised C. Satisfied听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Where are the speakers?A. At a train station. B. At a hotel. C. At an airport. 9. What can we learn from the conversation?A. It is very hot today. B. The woman is a driver. C. The man enjoyed his journey.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why does the man buy that newspaper every day?A. It always has a lot of interesting stories.B. It provides a lot of useful information.C. It covers business news from all over the world.11. Which section has detailed reports of important stories?A. News section. B. Sports section. C. World affairs.12. What kind of newspaper does the woman always buy?A. A local evening paper. B. A national newspaper. C. An international newspaper.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Where do the speakers need a person to run a branch office?A. In Spain. B. In France. C. In Germany.14. What do we know about Mr. Smith?A. He has three children. B. He is good at languages. C. He has a lot of experience.15. When did Jeff e to the pany?A. Five years ago. B. Three years ago. C. One year ago.16. What does the man ask the woman to do this afternoon?A. Give Jeff a call. B. Have a chat with Betty. C. Talk to Jeff with him.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is the speaker mainly talking about?A. Colours effect on changing ones mood.B. The importance of choosing right colours.C. The methods of using colours power.18. What colour of clothes does the speaker suggest wearing during a busy day?A. Red. B. Orange. C. Blue.19. Which season does yellow put us in mind of?A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Autumn.20. What colour can make people relaxed?A. Green. B. White. C. Orange.第二部分：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50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。Some students from Washington Adventist University, near Washington, D.C. have been helping poor children with their schoolwork. But the students did not work with the boys and girls at a traditional school. Every Thursday night, they have been meeting at a laundromat , a place where people go to wash their clothes. At the same time, the students are carrying out a marketing plan they designed for the Laundromat.The program began with just five children, but has grown to about 20. Before the program works, the business was so bad that the owner had even considered closing his business, which is why the group came in. They were writing a marketing plan to give people a reason to keep ing to the laundromat. Then one student said, “Therere a lot of children hanging around. Why dont we add teaching?”The project is part of an international program called Enactus. It was started in the United States 40 years ago. The project is now at more than 1,700 colleges in 36 countries. It wants to give students experience before they graduate, so the project works with the munity and with businesses.Ms. Pichot, the head of the universitys business department, says they invite any business to e in. Its a free workshop. Her students are working with other businesses in addition to the laundromat. She says the students help business owners increase their profits while gaining experience that they cannot get in school. They volunteer long hours.Christine Sumampouw is pleting her studies this year. She has spent about 1,000 hours as a volunteer. That is more than any other student in the group. She says she has learned a lot from volunteering.21.Why do college students teach poor children at a laundromat?A. They work part-time there.B. The poor children cant afford to go to school.C. They want to increase the laundromats business.D. The poor children dont have other places to study.22.What do we know about Enactus?A. It is paid to offer help to businesses in need.B. It aims to help students start their own business.C. It is created by Washington Adventist University.D. It is a win-win program both for businesses and students.23.What does Christine think of the project?A. Its of great benefit. B. Its a waste of time.C. It takes too much of her time. D. It has a bad effect on her study.BA supermarket checkout operator was praised for striking a blow for modern manners and a return to the age of politeness after refusing to serve a shopper who was talking on her mobile phone.The supermarket manager was forced to apologize to the customer who plained she was told her goods would not be scanned unless she hung up her phone. Jo Clark, 46, said, “I dont know what she was playing at. I couldnt believe how rude she was. When did she have the right to give me a lecture on checkout manners? I wont be shopping there again!”But users of social media sites and Internet forums(论坛) were very angry that store gave in and the public appeared to be supporting the angry checkout worker. “Perhaps this is a turning point for mobile phone users everywhere. When chatting, keep your eyes on people around you. That includes people trying to serve you, other road users and especially people behind you in the stairs,” said a typical post.“Its time checkout staff fought back against these people constantly chatting on their phones. They can drive anyone crazy. Its rude and annoying. I often want to grab someones phone and throw it as far as I can, even though I am not a checkout girl, just a passer-by,” said another.Siobhan Freegard, founder of parenting site Netmums said, “While this checkout operator doesnt have the authority to order customers to switch off their phones, you can see clearly how frustrated and angry she felt. No matter how busy you are, life is nicer when you and those around you have good manners.”24. According to Jo Clark, the checkout operator_. A. lacked the knowledge of checkout mannersB. played with a mobile phone while at workC. deserved praise for her modern mannersD. had no right to forbid her from using her mobile phone25. The third and fourth paragraphs imply that the public_.A. are used to chatting on their mobile phonesB. are driven crazy by constant mobile callsC. seem to support the checkout operatorD. ignore the existence of mobile phone users26. The attitude of Siobhan Freegard towards the checkout operator was_.A. disapproving B. supportive C. neutral D. indifferent27. The passage is mainly about _.A. whether we should talk on our phones while being servedB. why we can talk on mobile phones while shoppingC. what good manners checkout operators should haveD. how we can develop good manners for mobile phone users C Have you ever done something that was really dangerous just because you thought it was safe? Maybe you did a dangerous trick on your bicycle or skateboard because you were wearing a helmet(头盔) and thought you couldnt get hurt. The psychology(心理)of this sort of behavior is called the Peltzman Effect(佩尔兹曼效应)，named after Sam Peltzman, professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Peltzman believes that those moments when people think they are the safest are the times when they act most dangerously. Peltzman said that people drove more dangerously when they wore seal belts(安全带).Driving a large four-wheel drive vehicle has a similar effect on drivers behavior. Because drivers of large vehicles sit up higher and can see better, they feel they can make better judgments when they drive. They are better protected in accidents, so they act more dangerously. This makes driving more hazardous to other drivers. The Peltzman Effect isnt just limited to driving. In l972，the American Food and Drug Administration(FDA)passed a law requiring child safety caps on most medicine bottles. The safety caps were designed to prevent children from accidentally taking the medicine，especially painkillers such as aspirin. Requiring safety caps sounded like a great idea, but there was an unexpected side effect. Because the safety caps are so hard to take off, some people leave them off altogether. Worse, some parents leave the bottles where kids can reach them because they feel that it is safe because of the cap. A study on the Peltzman Effect showed that more than 3,500 children have been harmed by aspirin because of the safety caps. The Peltzman Effect describes how were likely to take more risks and act more dangerously when we feel safest. Whats more, the effects of these behaviors can be quite different from what we expect.28. What is the Peltzman Effect? A. People behave less safely when they feel safe. B. People feel safest when they are under protection. C. Something that seems dangerous turns out to be safe. D. People who act dangerously are likely to be together. 29. What does the underlined word “hazardous”in Paragraph 2 mean? A. Interesting. B. Expensive. C. Dangerous. D. Important.30. Why do some people leave the safety caps of medicine bottles open?A. The caps dont work at all. B. The caps cant be opened easily.C. The bottles are out of the reach of children. D. The bottles without caps are less attractive to kids.31. What would be the best title for the text? A. Unsafe Safety Measures B. Types of Decision Making C. Peoples Fear of Taking Risks D. Different Behaviors of People in Danger D About this time every year, I get very nostalgic(怀旧的). Walking through my neighborhood on a fall afternoon reminds me of a time not too long ago when sounds of children filled the air, children playing games on a hill, and throwing leaves around in the street below. I was one of those children, carefree and happy. I live on a street that is only one block long. I have lived on the same street for sixteen years. I love my street. One side has six houses on it, and the other has only two houses, with a small hill in the middle and a huge cottonwood tree on one end. When I think of home, I think of my street. Only I see it as it was before. Unfortunately things change. One day, not long ago, I looked around and saw how different everything has bee. Life on my street will never be the same because neighbors are quickly grown old, friends are growing up and leaving, and the city is planning to destroy my precious hill and sell the property to contractors. It is hard for me to accept that many of my wonderful neighbors are growing old and wont be around much longer. I have fond memories of the couple across the street, who sat together on their porch swing almost every evening, the widow next door who yelled at my brother and me for being too loud, and the crazy old man in a black suit who drove an old car. In contrast to those people, the people I see today are very old neighbors who have seen better days. The man in the black suit says he wants to die, and another neighbor just sold his house and moved into a nursing home. The lady who used to yell at us is too tired to bother any more, and the couple across the street rarely go out to their front porch these days. It is difficult to watch these precious people as they near the end of their lives because at once I thought they would live forever. The “ings and goings” of the younger generation of my street are now mostly “goings” as friends and peers move on. Once upon a time, my life and the lives of my peers revolved around home. The boundary of our world was the gutter at the end of the street. We got pleasure from playing night games or from a breathtaking ride on a tricycle. Things are different now, as my friends bee adults and move on. Children who rode tricycles now drive cars. The kids who once played with me now have new interests and values as they go their separate ways. Some have gone away to college like me, a few got married, two went into the army, and one went to prison. Watching all these people grow up and go away makes me long for the good old days. Perhaps the biggest change on my street is the fact that the city is going to turn my precious hill into several lots for now homes. For sixteen years, the view out of my kitchen window has been a view of that hill. The hill was a fundamental part of my childhood life; it was the hub of social activity for the children of my street. We spent hours there building forts, sledding, and playing tag. The view out of my kitchen window now is very different; it is one of tractors and dump trucks tearing up the hill. When the hill goes, the neighborhood will not be the same. It is a piece of my childhood. It is a visual reminder of being a kid. Without the hill, my street will be just another pea in the pod.There was a time when my street was my world, and I thought my world would never change. But something happened. People grow up, and people grow old. Places changes, and with the change es the heartache of knowing I can never go back to the times I loved. In a year or so, I will be gone just like many of my neighbors. I will always look back to my years as a child, but the place I remember will not be the silent street whose peace is interrupted by the sounds of construction. It will be the happy, noisy, somewhat strange, but wonderful street I knew as a child.32. The writer finds it hard to accept the fact that _. A. many of his good neighbors are growing old B. the lady next door who used to yell at him and his brother is now a widow C. the life of his neighbors has bee very boring D. the man in his black suit even wanted to end his own life 33. The biggest change on the writers street is _. A. removing the hill to make way for residential development B. the building of new homes behind his kitchen window C. the fact that there are much fewer people around than in the past D. the change in his childhood friends attitude towards their neighborhood 34. What does the writer mean by saying “my street will be another pea in the pod”? A. his street will be very noisy and dirty B. his street will soon be crowded with people C. his street will have some new attractions D. his street will be no different from any other street 35. Which could be a good title for the passage?A. The Past of My Street will Live Forever B. Unforgettable People and Things of My StreetC. Memory Street Isnt What It Used to BeD. The Big Changes of My Street 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。Annoying Mobile Phone Users What really annoys(使不悦) me most about modern life is the way some people use their mobile phones. 36 However, there are some people out there who just dont care about other peoples feeling when they use a phone. These mobile phone users make life painful for the rest of us. Lets divide these users into groups. The first group are those people who shout on the phone, especially in enclosed places like trains or lifts. 37 It isnt necessary. 38 Some ringtones are truly unpleasanta 1oud, electronic version(版本) of Beethoven with a hip hop(嘻哈乐)beat, for example. This is especially annoying in the cinema. The third group of people who annoy me are those who have to walk around while they speak.39Finally, the worst group are people who take a phone call while you are in a conversation with them. This is extremely rude in my opinion. I would like to end with a message to all the above mobile phone users：You think you look cool and important talking on your mobile all the time. 40 A. But believe meyou dont! B. Next are those with annoying ringtones. C. I dont know why they have to talk so loudly. D. This group of people keep talking on the phone. E. I have no idea where they get, the noisy ringtones. F. They stand in the way just when you want to get past. G. The mobile phone is an important part of life for most of us. 第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分 45） 第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分50分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后4160各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。I had always wanted to go on a high mountain walk. There are some good long-distance walks in the UK，but there arent any really 41 mountains. Before leaving，I 42 my clothes，equipment(装备), and the weather forecast. I 43 read a couple of books and looked at some photos and travel blogs on the Internet. This was fine, but you cant 44 them with the real thing!A lot of incredible things happened during the 45 . Perhaps the best was the plete 46 from city life. While I was 47，there were no cars, no noise, no rush. The 48 was of course very impressive：valleys, mountain lakes, and there were plants and wildlife that you 49 see on TV. And I 50 so many interesting people along the way, from Europe, Canada, and Japan. When I arrived at my acmodation，I made new 51.They told me where theyd been; I told them where I was going；we exchanged(交换)stories and advice. It was just 52!But of course there were 53. There always are. In this case, the weather. High mountains 54 that the weather can change very quickly. We even had snowstorms in July! When your clothes get very wet，it isnt 55 to dry them，so youre 56 the next day. And climbing mountains is hard on your knees, too. And theres always the 57 of falling on the paths，where not even a mobile phone can 58 you very much. For me，however, the whole walk was a special 59 that Ill always remember. 60 I did the trip again，theres just one other thing I would do differently：lots of physical training before the walk!41. A. high B. beautiful C. rocky D. distant42. A. provided B. required C. needed D. checked 43. A. also B. just C. soon D. once44. A. discuss B. put C. pare D. bring45. A. task B. trip C. summer D. planning46. A. patience B. treatment C. change D. story47. A. riding B. walking C. running D. sleeping48. A. sky B. wildlife C. collection D. scenery49. A. again B. 1ater C. only D. even50. A. met B.1isted C. expected D. recognized51. A. visits B. friends C. choices D. preparations52. A. amazing B. popular C. tiring D. strange53. A. chances B. promises C. disagreements D. problems54. A. show B