2019-2020学年高二英语下学期第二阶段考试试题 (I).doc

2019-2020学年高二英语下学期第二阶段考试试题 (I)第一部分 听力（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分20分）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秒种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 happened to the woman last weekend?A. She got lost.B. She missed a festival.C. She visited her brother.2. Why is the woman having trouble hearing her music?A. Her iPod isnt working. B. Her earphones are broken. C. She has a hearing problem.3. How will the speakers get to London?A. By bus.B. By car.C. By train.4. Why does the woman think shes losing customers?A. She doesnt have a website.B. Her jewelry is out of fashion.C. Her website needs to be updated.5. Where might the man be?A. In a hospital.B. In a classroom.C. In a hotel.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2-4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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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。 听下面一段对话，回答第6和7题。6. What does the woman hope to buy?A. A small blue bag.B. A medium blue bag.C. A medium blue shirt.7. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The man is a shop assistant.B. The woman will e back herself next week.C. The man has ordered more products than the woman wants.听下面一段对话，回答第8至10题。8. Where are the speakers now?A. In the United States.B. In Russia.C. In Canada.9. What happens in the mans country?A. People talk quickly.B. The government solves problems well.C. Going to the bank often takes a short time.10. What is true about the woman?A. She wants to go to Russia.B. She has never been abroad before.C. She thinks Americans are more relaxed.听下面一段对话，回答第11至13题。11. Why did the man fall asleep?A. He is sick. B. He works at night.C. His class was boring.12. Why does the man have to work?A. To pay for school.B. To pay his debts.C. To pay his hospital bill.13. Where will the man probably go next?A. To a class.B. To the financial aid office.C. To the student employment office.听下面一段对话，回答第14至16题。14. What is the woman doing?A. plaining about her school life.B. Showing the man around campus.C. Telling the man about her experience in college.15. What classes did the woman choose in the beginning?A. Classes that fit her major.B. Classes that seemed interesting.C. Classes she thought would be important for her career.16. What does the woman say about college classes?A. They get harder as you get older.B. They are challenging in different ways.C. They always involve the same kinds of preparation. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至20题。17. Why is the plane delayed?A. The weather is bad. B. The plane needs to be fixed. C. Some passengers havent arrived.18. How long will the flight last?A. About six hours. B. About four hours.C. About three hours.19. What information can be found in the brochure?A. Safety instructions.B. Meals being served for lunch.C. Details about the entertainment.20. What will passengers do next?A. Get aboard.B. Watch a video.C. Get some sleep.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30分）阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 AThe Mouse with the Question Mark Tail By Richard PeckPages: 223 Queen Victoria lives in Buckingham Palace. But behind the walls and under the floorboards live the mice. And for every job a human does, a mouse is doing it too. The smallest mouse in the place, Mouse Minor, is determined to trod out who he is really. Who are my parents, and what am I meant to do he wonders. He sets out on a journey to meet Queen Victoria herself and ask her some questions.Better to Wish By Ann M. Martin Pages: 226 Abby Nichols is 8 years old and living with her parents in a small town in Maine during the Great Depression. The story follows the ups and downs of Abbys life. By the end of the book, Abby is 22. To find out what happens to her next, readers will have to wait for the second book of this three-part series.Fish Finelli: Seagulls Dont Eat Pickles Book l By E.S. Farber. Illustrated by Jason BeenePages: 155 Bully Bryce Billings challenges Fish Finelli and his friends to find Captain Kidds lost treasure. In the action-packed adventure that follows, Fish and his pals arrived at an island and met many interesting people. But do they manage to find the lost treasure? Youll have to read the book to find out.Middle School: My Brother Is “Big, Fat Liar By James Patterson and Lisa PapademetriouPages: 304 Georgia Khatchadorian is entering Hills Village Middle School and thinks everything is going to be like elementary school, where she got good grades and had a lot of friends. She even makes a bet with her brother, Rafe Khatchadorian, that she will be popular at her new school. But things are different at Hills Village Middle School. Rafe used to go to this school, but he was kicked out because he broke all the rules. The teachers assume that Georgia is just like her brother, so they give her bad grades. To make things worse, Georgia gets bullied. Will Georgia be able to change the situation and win the bet? Youll have to read the book to find out.21. What can we learn from the text? A. Fish Finelli and his friends go to an island in order to meet many interesting people. B. Abby Nichols is the writer who has just pleted the first part of the three-part series. C. The story The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail is set in Buckingham Palace. D. Georgia makes a bet with her brother because she is able to change the worse situation.22. Why do the teachers treat Georgia unfairly? A. She is a new student. B. She doesnt obey school rules. C. She doesnt work hard at her lessons. D. Her brother wasnt a good student. 23. What is the purpose of the text ?A. To remend some books to the children. B. To list some popular writers and their books. C. To persuade readers to buy some new books. D. To find out which book is the most interesting.A gunman killed two members of a television news crew in the United States earlier this week. Their TV station broadcast the shooting “live,” in real time. The shooting shocked many Americans and people around the world.One U.S. teenager wants to help prevent such attacks. Kai Kloepfer lives in Boulder, Colorado. He has a talent for technology. He has been teaching himself engineering skills since he was a child. After the attack in Aurora, he decided to use his skills to help prevent mass shootings.The young mans goal was to make a gun that would not work in the hands of a killer. But he knew it would be impossible for him to stop dangerous people from buying guns. So he changed direction. He decided to create a gun designed to preventing accidental shootings. The gun Kai Kloepfer designed only works when unlocked by the fingerprint of the owner, and not for anyone else. The gun only recognizes the touch of its owner.It took the teenager seven months and over 1,500 hours to create a plastic model of his smart gun. He entered his fingerprint handgun in a local science fair and won. His award included a monetary prize. He received $50,000. Its goal is to support innovation in gun safety.Kai Kloepfer is now 18 years old. He has been using the grant money to improve the technology. He says the weapon he designed doesnt change the function of a firearm at all. It just makes it safer. He is now working to add the fingerprint lock technology to a real gun. He says he expects to one day see his “smart gun” for sale next to other firearms.The young man plans to spend the next year improving his fingerprint handgun. Then he will start college at one of the worlds top universities - the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.24. Why does Kai Kloepfer try to invent the gun?A. To prevent people from buying guns. B. To protect peoples life C. To limit functions of a gun D. To reduce power of a gun25. The gun created by Kai Kloepfer is controlled by the owners fingerprint to _.A. keep it convenient to use B. make it safe to carry C. protect its owner from harm D. avoid being used by others26. How is the progress of Kai Kloepfers gun invention?A. It is being shown in a fair. B. It is under further research. C. It will soon e into the market. D. It needs designing once again. 27. What is Kai Kloepfers wish for the fingerprint gun?A. It will bring enough money for him. B. It will replace traditional guns.C. It can be sold on the market. D. It can help forbid the use of guns.CHonesty is the best policy. We may agree that admitting mistakes and behaving in a genuine way is the right way to lead our lives, but is there something in our human nature that makes us immoral? For example, in some shops and car parks you can find an honesty boxa box where you pay for something by putting money in itbut it relies on you putting the right amount of cash in. This relies on people being honest and not trying to cheat but it does provide a temptation to get away with not paying the full amountPhilip Graves, a psychologist, suggests that this temptation is part of our evolution. He says “ We have evolved with the ability to be dishonest. Its part of our evolutionary psychological make-up because if we can gain an advantage over the people around us, we have a greater chance of surviving”So why do we place such importance on being honest if we benefit from being dishonest? Its because it is selfish behavior. If everybody acted selfishly and dishonestly all the time, the world would be a very unpleasant place. As Philip Graves says:“ There is a balance to strike between the extent to which we can feather our own nest, and the risk of being ostracized(排斥)by the group” So, for societies to work together we need to trust each other and therefore we need to be honestBeing trustworthy with money is of course vital for an economy to survive. But being honest with words is another matter, saying what we think to someone can get us into hot water. However, a new anonymous messaging app has been designed that lets anyone with a link to your profile (简介) send you a message without knowing who its from. The app now has 300 million users which perhaps indicates how honest we really like to bebut in all honesty, do you want to know what people think about you? Is honesty always the best policy?28. What does an honesty box require people to do?A. Get the change out of it freely B. Put the correct amount of money in itC. Donate the pocket money to others D. Pay a larger amount of money29. What does the underlined phrase mean in Para 3?A. act honestly B. trust others C. benefit ourselves D. stop telling lies30. What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?A. The reason for being honest B. The benefit of being dishonestC. The oute of selfishness D. The importance of group work31. What can we infer from the text?A. Honesty is always the best policy. B. The author is in favor of dishonesty.C. The market of the new app is promising. D. Being honest with words is sometimes improper.DWhen its five oclock, people leave theiroffice. The length of the workday, for many workers, is defined by time. They leave when the clock tells them theyre done.These days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cell-phones and puters. Thatmaybe a bad thing, particularly at work. New research shows that clock-based work schedules hinder creativity and morale（士气）.Clock-timers organize theirdayby blocks of minutes and hours. For example, a meetingfrom9 a.m. to 10 a.m., research from 10 a.m. to noon, etc. On the other hand, task-timers have a list of things they want to acplish. They work down the list; each task starts when the previous task is pleted. It is said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of planning.What, then, are the effects ofthinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activitiesfromproject planning,holidayshopping, to yogaby time or to-do list to measure how they performed under “clock time” vs “task time.” They found clock-timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives. Task- timers are happier and more creative, but less productive. They tend to enjoy the moment when something good is happening, and seize opportunities that e up. The researchers argue that task-based organizing tends to be undervalued and under-supported in the business culture. Smart panies, they believe, will try to bake more task-based planning into their strategies.This might be a small change to the way we view work and theoffice, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time. While most people will still probably need, and be, to some extent, clock-timers, task-based timing should be used when performing a job that requires more creativity. Itllmakethose tasks easier, and the task-doers will be happier.32. What does the underlined word “hinder” in paragraph 2 probably mean? A. promote B. hold back C. take up D. decline 33. What did the researchers find in their experiments on clock-timers?A. They seize opportunities as they e up.B. They always get their work done in time.C. They have more control over their lives.D. They tend to be more productive. 34. What is the researchers opinion about todays business culture?A. It does not support the strategies adopted by smart panies.B. It aims to bring employees potential and creativity into full play.C. It does not attach enough importance to task-based practice.D. It places more emphasis on work efficiency than on workers lives.35. What can we conclude from the passage?A. Task-based timing is preferred for doing creative work.B. It is important to keep a balance between work and life.C. Performing creative jobs tends tomakeworkers happier.D. A scientific standard should be adopted in job evaluation.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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Rich and FamousTwenty years ago the most mon ambition of American children was to be a teacher, followed by working in banking and finance, and then medicine. But todays situation is quite different. _36_ Instead they most monly say they want to be a sports star, a pop star, or an actorin other words, they hope to bee a celebrity.According to experts, young people desire these jobs largely because of the wealth and the fame. _37_ Lets take athletes and singers as an example. Their careers are short-lived. Many athletes best time only lasts a few years and singers can have a very limited career. The field that was once the focus of their lives bees something they have little or no involvement in. As a result, theyll have a feeling of worthlessness and a lack of control. _38_ The truth is quite simple: they have been so far removed from it for so long.In spite of these disadvantages, there is greater ambition than ever among young people to achieve that status. They are not satisfied just making a livingthey want to be rich and famous. Globally, more and more TV shows provide talent petitions where winners can achieve their goals in just a few weeks or months. _39_ They unrealistically believe that this lifestyle is easily obtained and leads to great satisfaction.While many people argue that there is nothing wrong with having such ambitions, others feel that this trend will finally lead to dissatisfaction as more and more people are unable to reach their goals. _40_ That means they ignore the simple fact that great effort is needed before success. As a result, many people wont realize their childhood dreams, which could have a negative effect on their happiness.A. The reason is that they dont realize it takes talent and hard work to be rich and famous.B. People no longer have a sense of satisfaction once their goals have been achieved.C. Besides, it can be difficult for them to adapt back to a normal everyday life.D. Unfortunately, they do not always have a positive effect on peoples life.E. The younger generation dont favor these professions any more.F. In many ways this has been brought about by the celebrity culture.G. This quick way of gaining wealth and fame creates a celebrity culture among people.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）On a wild July night, the storm was getting worse and worse. Kate Shelley, who lived between Honey Creek(小溪) and Des Moines River, was _41_ looking out of the window, wondering _42_ it would wash away the bridges over them, when suddenly came the loud _43_ of breaking wood, then followed by a great splash(飞溅的水花). She realized the bridge over the creek was _44_. At that time, the midnight train was almost _45_. If no one told the engineer to stop the train, it would fall into the creek with a hundred or more _46_. The situation was so urgent that Kate _47_ to go to Moingon Railway Station to get help. Immediately she _48_ out into the storm with her fathers railway lantern. Moingon lay on the far side of Des Moines River. The only way to get there was to cross a long wooden railroad bridge. Even in the daytime, it was _49_ to walk on it because there was no foot walk or railing(栏杆) except only rails and ties. The ties were _50_ enough apart for the girl to fall through. Kate stopped when she came to the _51_. She had never seen the river rising so high that she was _52_. Her father had been killed in a train accident by that river and her brother had drowned there. But she soon managed to _ 53_ thinking more of the past happenings for she knew that train had to be stopped _54_ it was too late. She started to step on that dangerous bridge, knowing she might fall into the rush water at any moment. Whats worse, she broke her lantern while making her way, exposing herself to the_55_. She had to climb on her hands and kneesIt seemed like a long time. At last she _56_ the other side. She stopped just long enough to catch her breath. Then she ran _57_ to the railway station. When she finally got there, she was out of _58_, wet all over, her hat blown away, her hands and knees still bleeding and her eyes looking _59_. She told the station man what had happened to the Honey Creek Bridge before her fainting. Finally, the passengers were saved. The girls heroic deed was rewarded. For her _60_ act, Kate enjoyed a right of getting on or off the train at her door when she wanted. 41. A. angrily B. eagerly C. hopefully D. anxiously42. A. when B. that C. whether D. how 43. A. crash B. cry C. blow D. voice44. A. removed B. broken C. pleted D. blocked45. A. late B. delayed C. arrived D. due46. A. conductors B. passengers C. customers D. engineers47. A. expected B. tried C. decided D. agreed48. A. fell B. rode C. climbed D. rushed 49. A. dangerous B. foolish C. harmful D. strange50. A. long B. wide C. far D. thick51. A. train B. station C. bridge D. rail52. A. moving B. running C. escaping D. shaking 53. A. avoid B. admit C. forget D. risk54. A. though B. before C. unless D. because55. A. darkness B. calmness