高二英语上学期期末考试试题 25

第二高级中学2021-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题
本卷贰O贰贰年贰月捌日编写；出题人：令狐学复；欧阳化语；令狐理总。

〔本套试卷分第一卷和第二卷两局部。

满分是100分，考试时间是是90分钟〕
第一卷〔选择题满分是60分〕
第一局部阅读理解〔一共两节，满分是40分〕
第一节〔一共15小题，每一小题2分，满分是30分〕
阅读以下短文，从每一小题所给的四个选项〔A,B,C和D〕中，选出最正确选项。

A
A Tour of Thun Switzerland
Welcome to Thun, Switzerland—a beautiful town by the River Area, at the west end of Lake Thun. Join us on a three-hour tour and discover some of Thun’s amazing buildings and sights.
●We begin our tour at the bus station. Next, we cross a bridge over the River Aare to th e island of Balliz. This is Thun’s shopping area. There are a lot of expensive clothing stores here, but you can also buy fruit, vegetables, and flowers on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the market.
●Next, we cross another bridge to visit Castle Thun in the old town. The castle is more than 800 years old. It is now a museum and concert hall. After we visit the castle, it’s time for lunch! If the weather is sunny, we can eat at one of the outdoor cafes by the river.
●After lunch, we walk to Schadau Park, a beau tiful garden on the shore on Lake Thun. Here, we can also see the famous Thun-Panorama (全景). A Swiss artist painted this 360-degree image of the town in 1814.
●Finally, we return to the old town and visit one of the many cafes for some coffee and
a piece of delicious cake.
1. Tourists can be offered a ______ tour in Thun.
A. Three-hour
B. six-hour
C. three-day
D. five-day
2. When can the tourists buy fruit, vegetables and flowers in Balliz?
A. On Mondays and Wednesdays
B. On Wednesdays and Saturdays
C. On Tuesdays and Thursdays
D. On Saturdays and Sundays
3. Castle Thun is now used as ______.
A. a museum and concert hall
B. a park
C. a market and shopping center
D. a station
4. How can tourists get to Schadau Park?
A. By bike
B. By bus
C. By boat
D. On foot
5. Which of the following is true according to the tour description?
A. Thun’s shopping area is in Schadau Park.
B. Castle Thun is less than 800 years old.
C. Thun, Swizerland is at the west end of Lake Thun.
D. The Thun-Panorama was painted by a French artist
B
The Nenets people are from Western Siberia. Some Nenets live in towns and villages, but many are nomadic. Nomadic people move from place to place. Nomadic Nenets follow their reindeer herds (驯鹿群) and travel around Siberia all year. They live in camps. Some Nenets children travel with their families and learn at a special nomadic school. Teachers travel with the families, and the classrooms are in the camps. Some classes are the same as classes at
traditional schools, but in other classes, the children also learn about Nenets traditions and skills.
At a primary school in South Korea, children have a new English language teacher. It’s a robot. A teacher in Australia looks into a camera and speaks. In their classroom in South Korea, the children hear the teacher’s voice and see her face on the robot’s screen. They follow her instructions and practice their English.
In Bangladesh, it’s often difficult for children to get to school because of heavy rain. But thousands of students now study at floating (漂浮的) schools. It’s easy for these students to go to school even in bad weather because floating schools are on boats. There are also floating libraries, with a lot of books and laptops(手提电脑).
Wha t’s your classroom like? Do you get your homework from a robot? Do you learn on the land or on the water?
6. What does the underlined word “nomadic〞 probably mean in Paragraph 1?
A. 定居的
B. 游牧的
C. 聚居的
D. 分散的
7. Where do the nomadic Nenets live?
A. In towns.
B. In cities
C. In villages
D. In camps
8. How do the children follow their teacher’s instructions at a primary school in South Korea?
A. They hear the teacher’s voice and see her face on the robot’s screen.
B. They look into a camera and speak.
C. They travel with the teacher
D. They communicate with the teacher by laptop.
9. In Bangladesh, why is it often difficult for children to go to school?
A. Because their teacher is a robot.
B. Because they don’t have books.
C. Because it rains heavily.
D. Because they are nomadic.
10. What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To get teachers to work there.
B. To attract students to study there.
C. To collect money for the schools.
D. To introduce some unusual schools
C
Be ing a teenager can be challenging, but it can also be exciting. You’re becoming more independent and making decisions for yourself. You are also learning to take risks and solve problems better than you could before. And changes are happening throughout your body, even in your brain.
You can’t see the changes in your brain, but they’re affecting (影响) how you develop into an adult. At this time in your life, there is a process going on inside your brain that makes it work faster and more efficiently (有效地). Imagine that the structure (构造) of your brain is like a big road map. There are lots of roads leading to different destinations (目的地).when you were a child, as you learned new things, your brain created more and more roads leading to different destinations. By the time you become a teenager, the most important places on the map have many different roads leading to them. Now your brain’s job is to make that map more efficient. It removes the roads that you don’t need and works to make the other roads faster.
As a result, your experiences as a teenager actually affect the way that your brain develops.
If you spend hours playing video games, what skills do you use? You learn to see something with your eyes and respond to it with your hands, right? As you develop those skills, your brain is making sure that the roads leading to them are especially fast and efficient. So, your video-game playing could be preparing you for a future job such as a fighter pilot.
This is a great time for you to practice new skills and discover what you’re good at and what you love doing. Go out and try different activities, and stick with them if you think they’re useful. Remember that with everything you do, you’re shaping your brain for the future.
11. What is the structure of our brain like according to the passage?
A. Nets
B. Branches
C. A bird nest
D. A road map
12. By the time we become a teenager, our brain’s job is to ________.
A. create more and more roads
B. make the map more efficient
C. make decisions for ourselves
D. become more independent
13. Playing video games could be preparing a teenager to be ________.
A. an English teacher
B. a fighter pilot
C. an athlete
D. a lawyer
14. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Teenagers should shape their brains.
B. Teenagers should practice new skills.
C. Teenagers should try different activities.
D. Teenagers should play video games.
15. Where is the passage possibly taken from?
A. A book review
B. A tourist guide.
C. A science magazine
D. A detective novel
第二节〔一共5小题；每一小题2分，满分是10分〕
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项里面选出能填入空白处的最正确选项。

选项里面有两项为多余选项。

All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.
__16__. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.
___17___. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! ___18___. Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.
Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. ___19___ Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become food friends. ___20___ One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.
A.And think of people in cold countries.
B.Sports help to train a person’s character.
C.Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves.
D.Many people like to watch others play games.
E.People aren’t inventing new sports or games.
F.Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.
G.People are inventing new sports or games all the time.
第二局部英语知识运用〔一共两节；满分是35分〕
第一节完形填空〔一共20小题；每一小题1分，满分是20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正确选项。

It was a sunny winter day. I had gone down the tower when a blind man __21__ toward me. He kept close to the wall, touching it lightly with __22__ arm. I stood still and looked at him __23__ toward the ticket office. “What does a blind man want to climb up the __24__ for?〞I wondered, “Not the view certainly, perhaps he wants to jump.〞 Thinking of this __25__ reason, I thought I should follow him. He went up __26__ and stopped at times. I __27__ him a few steps behind. __28__ he got to the first corner of the bell tower, I approached him. “Excuse me,〞I said as politely as I could, “but I am very __29__ to know why you came up.〞
“You’d never __30__.〞 he said.
“Tell m e, then.〞
He smiled. “Perhaps climbing up the tower, you have noticed—and yet, not being blind, perhaps you won’t – how the sun __31__ into the tower through the windows here and there, so one can __32__ the cool steps suddenly become quite warm, even in __33__. But behind the wall there is shade. There is no place so good as this for feeling the contrast (比照) __34__ light and darkness. __35__ I’m blind, I also want to feel the happiness __36__ by the sunlight. In fact, it isn’t my first time to be here.〞 He said and seemed as __37__ as a child.
I had never thought that even a __38__ man could have his way to enjoy the beautiful life. But we often paid no attention to its __39__ because we never lost it. We went down the tower __40__ and I left him. From then on I began to treasure what life has given me.
21. A. went B. climbed C. came D. traveled
22. A. her B. his C. my D. your
23. A. running B. jumping C. rushing D. walking
24. A. house B. tower C. mountain D. hill
25. A. wonderful B. interesting C. terrible D. exciting
26. A. suddenly B. slowly C. madly D. carelessly
27. A. followed B. stopped C. held D. pulled
28. A. When B. What C. How D. Where
29. A. angry B. sad C. curious D. worried
30. A. say B. dare C. guess D. wonder
31. A. puts B. cuts C. looks D. pours
32. A. feel B. look C. sound D. smell
33. A. Spring B. Autumn C. Summer D. Winter
34. A. on B. to C. from D. between
35. A. So B. Since C. Though D. Because
36. A. fetched B. brought C. taken D. bought
37. A. pleased B. foolish C. clever D. sad
38. A. blind B. sick C. healthy D. deaf
39. A. height B. value C. possibility D. appearance
40. A. separately B. alone C. together D. lonely
第卷〔非选择题一共40分〕
第二局部英语知识运用〔一共两节；满分是35分〕
第一节〔一共10小题；每一小题分，满分是15分〕
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或者括号内单词的正确形式。

We waste 1.3 billion tons of food every year. This is too much __41__ (waste) food. There are millions of people that don’t have enough __42__ (eat). Food waste isn’t just bad for humans, though. It’s also bad __43__ the environment.
When we put food waste into the landfill(废物填埋场), it produces a dangerous gas that can keep heat inside of __44__ atmosphere of the earth. That’s why it’s one of the __45__(cause) of global warming. There are also chemicals __46__ come out of the food and go into the soil. When it __47__(rain), the chemicals then go into our rivers and lakes. As a result, food waste harms our bodies of water.
People don’t think about how food is made when they’re throwing it away. A lot of water __48__(use) to grow plants that make food. We use a lot of energy because we need fuel to transport food from the field to the supermarket, and then to __49__(we) homes. If we waste this food, we waste our planet’s natural resources(资源).
For these reasons, it is __50__(importance) for us all to reduce our food waster.
第三局部书面表达〔一共1小题，满分是25分〕
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请你给他写封邮件，向他推荐近期举办的中国书法作品展，以便他能更好地理解中国书法。

内容要点：
注意：
1.开头语和完毕语已给出，不计入总词数；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连接；
3.词数100左右。

Dear Peter,
I’m glad to know that you are interested in Chinese calli graphy. _____________ ________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
本卷贰O贰贰年贰月捌日编写；出题人：令狐学复；欧阳化语；令狐理总。

本卷贰O贰贰年贰月捌日编写；出题人：令狐学复；欧阳化语；令狐理总。

本卷贰O贰贰年贰月捌日编写；出题人：令狐学复；欧阳化语；令狐理总。