福建省厦门市湖滨中学2020_2021学年高二英语上学期期中试题.doc

福建省厦门市湖滨中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期中试题考试时间： 2020年11月 12 日本试卷分四部分，满分150分，时间120分钟，试卷附有答题卡第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）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。

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. In a restaurant.C. In a hotel.2. How much should one pay for a dress if its normal price is $ 100?A. $ 75.B. $ 100.C. $ 50.3. What does the woman think of the price?A. Too low.B. Reasonable.C. Too high.4. What is the man’s attitude toward the woman?A. Worried.B. Angry.C. Appreciative.5. Why does the woman learn Spanish?A. She will study in Madrid.B. She will travel to Madrid.C. She will move to Madrid.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. Why is the woman upset?A. She broke her laptop.B. Her desktop computer broke.C. Her laptop broke.7. What will the woman probably do?A. Repair her laptop.B. Buy a desktop computer.C. Buy a new laptop. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。

8. Who got married?A. The woman’s sister.B. The man’s sister.C. Betty’s sister.9. What is Betty’s dream?A. To find her true love.B. To be on top of the world.C. To find a man to marry.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。

10. What does the woman need?A. A hand.B. A project.C. Some tape.11. What do we know about the two speakers?A. They do the same project.B. They are both busy.C. They need help each other.12. What does the man think is important?A. Getting out of hand.B. Staying in control.C. Making good preparations.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。

13. Where is Tom now?A. In the office.B. At a meeting.C. On the road.14. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Boss and customer.B. Neighbors.C. Colleagues.15. What is the man late for?A. A meeting.B. An appointment.C. An interview.16. Who will the man call next?A. Eric.B. Jacks.C. Sue.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. What does the speaker mainly talk about?A. Ways to learn a language.B. The importance of English.C. The efficiency of regular study.18. How long do experts suggest studying every day?A. 20 minutes.B. 30 minutes.C. A few hours.19. What is the recommended way to learn a language?A. One task at a time.B. Learn grammar first.C. Several tasks at a time.20. What will it lead to if one watches TV repeatedly?A. A good command of the language.B. Too much time wasted.C. Progress only in pronunciation.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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。

AIt was an old day when I set out for a run in Moab, Utah, with my dog, Taz. As an athlete I often went for a run by myself. While running along a canyon (峡谷) road, I hit a piece of ice. I slipped down the rock face and fell 60 feet into the canyon, landing on a ledge (岩脊). Taz found his way to me, so I knew there must be a way out of the canyon, but I couldn’t stand, as I had broken an important bone.I shouted for help but then decided to move to the bottom of the canyon first. The ledge was too dangerous to stay. It took me five hours to go a quarter of a mile. Eventually it got dark, and I decided to stay where I was for the night, next to a puddle of water. All I had on me was a water bottle and some chocolates. At night, I avoided sleeping for fear of dying of hypothermia (低体温症). Taz stayed with me, providing some warmth. The next morning, I couldn’t move at all. But I was sure somebody would hear me screaming for help. The second night in the canyon seemed even colder. My feet were frostbitten (冻伤). On the third day, I accepted the fact that I might die. I called Taz over and told him to go and get help.Taz returned, alone. Then I heard an engine in the distance. I started shouting for help, and then I saw a man walking towards me. It turned out that my neighbor noticed I hadn’t come home, and Taz had found the rescue team. I was airlifted to hospital, where doctors found I was seriously wounded, having lost half of my blood.Five years on, I still think about the experience. I couldn’t run like I used to due to the after-effects of the accident, and cold weather brings back bad memories, but I’m married with two kids, and Taz is still alive. Realizing you ha ve a second chance to live puts things into perspective.21. Why did the author try to move to the bottom of the canyon?A. To avoid being attacked by wild animals.B. To come across some helper.C. To climb back to the road.D. To reach a safe place.22. What was the biggest challenge the author faced during the nights in the canyon?A. Low temperature.B. Physical pain.C. Lack of food.D. Fear of death.23. What can we infer from the rescue?A. The rescue team was required by the author's neighbor.B. The author didn’t hold out much hope of his dog.C. The author stayed in the canyon for 3 nights.D. Taz turned to the author’s neighbor for help.BA new research, presented on Monday, suggests that parents who go down slides with their kids are actually making slides even riskier for their little ones.Led by Dr. Charles Jennissen, a professor at the University of Iowa, the research found that placing children (especially infants and toddlers蹒跚学步的小孩) on adult laps increases the risk of injury to their lower legs, including broken bones."I've seen a lot of these injuries all through my career, and I hadn't seen anybody talk about this problem," says Jennissen.So Jennissen and his colleagues found that about 350,000 children under the age of six were injured on slides in the U.S. from 2002 to 2015. Injuries were most common among kids from 12-23 months of age, and the most common injury was lower leg fractures (骨折).The researchers found that 94 percent of 600 cases include lower leg injuries. This is important, because that's not how a kid falling off a slide alone would usually get hurt. The fact that so many kids are getting lower leg injuries—and that those injuries seem to get less common as kids get older—suggests something else is at play.Jennissen thinks that when children are sliding alone, they aren’t going fast enough or carrying enough body weight to hurt themselves. When they’re sitting on an adult’s lap and their foot gets caught, they have the added momentum of an adult body."We think a lot of these lower extremity injuries are because they're on the lap," says Jennissen. "We don't know that for sure, because no parents say that. But from my experience, and the data that suggests it, we think almost all of these are kids are on the lap."Jennissen isn’t arguing that you should never go down the slide with your kid—he agrees that it’s fun and that he’s done it with his own kids—but he thinks adults should realize the risks.24.What can we learn about the research from the passage?A. Many parents are hurt when going down slides with their kids.B. More and more adult laps are found hurt in the accidents.C. The research issue has not yet concerned many people.D. Many people have discussed the possible reasons for the injuries.25.The underlined phrase at play in Para.5 probably means _____.A. paying attentionB. taking effectC. solving problemsD. making efforts26.What is Jennissen’s attitude towards parents’ goi ng down slides with kids?A. He supports it.B. He is against it.C. He doesn’t care about it.D. He is careful about it.CWalmart will soon use 360 robot cleaners across a few hundred of its stores. Using maps input by human employees, the AI-powered cleaners will travel in the store with no difficulty, sweeping the floor--just as human employees used to do.Perhaps the most striking thing about these robot workers is how not-striking they are. Sci-fi movies suggest a future full of human-like robots who appear with their horrible qualities. Now the future is coming into view, and it looks like a giant lie. It's easy to imagine walking past an Auto-C on a shopping trip without even noticing its presence.AI has already started to become a part of our everyday life. In New Jersey this week, dozens of workers were hospitalized after a robot at an Amazon fulfillment centre accidentally broke a can and enveloped workers in eye-and-lung-damaging gas. Days earlier in California, an auto-piloted Tesla drove a drunk, sleeping driver down a highway, which no doubt did some potential risk to the other drivers on the road. Highway patrol officers figured out on the spot how to stop the AI car.Of course, industrial accidents and drunk drivers existed well before AI. Tools with the power to release the burden of physical labor—horses, steam machines, self-driving cars—also come with the power to injure. And the presence of AI-powered machines just steps away from us is, for now, still a rare thing for most people.But the nature of robots’ coming into our daily life lives will make it harder to recognize—or object to—the bigger changes they bring later. Walmart insists that the robot cleaners give employees more time for customer service and other tasks. Critics point out that they could just as easily become an excuse to reduce staff and wages.27. What is the difference between sci-fi movies and the reality?A. Now it is easy to ignore the robots.B. Now the human-like robots can tell lies.C. Now people don’t go to see the sci-fi movies.D. Now the human-like robots are hard to recognize.28. Why were some workers in hospital in New Jersey?A. They damaged the robot first.B. The robot made a mistake by chance.C. The robot caused an accident on purpose.D. The robot driving them on the highway had an accident.29. What is the attitude of the author to AI?A. Supportive.B. Indifferent.C. Doubtful.D. Objective.30. What is the main idea of the passage?A. We should say no to artificial intelligence.B. Artificial intelligence is dangerous to our life.C. Walmart will soon use 360 robot cleaners across its stores.D. Artificial intelligence is bringing great effect to our daily life.第二节根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。