高二上学期英语期末考试试卷第6套真题

高二上学期英语期末考试试卷
一、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
1. 阅读理解
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Camp Cayuga
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Camp Rockmont
Camp Rockmont is a Christian summer camp for boys, aged 6-16, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Rockmont’s duty of developing boys into healthy young men is accomplished through age-appropriate skills, activities, and challenges that help campers to know themselves better.
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Primitive Pursuits Overnight Camps
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（1）Where should a girl of 7 go camping?
A . Toyon Way, San Bruno.
B . 611 County Rd 13, Van Etten.
C . 375 Lake Eden Road, Black Mountain.
D . 321 Niles Pond Road- Suite ISC, Honesdale.
（2）What is special about Camp Rockmont?
A . It’s targeted at older boys.
B . It provides skills training.
C . It is located in the mountains.
D . It has something to do with religion.
（3）Who is the text most likely intended for?
A . Campers.
B . Educators.
C . Parents.
D . Children.
2. 阅读理解
Prateek Sharma was born into a family of farmers. After 10 years of being
a chief manager of Kotak Mahindra Bank, he did a good jo
b and earned a good pay. But Prateek couldn’t continue the corporation life with ease, as his heart was always in farming. So he worked as a banker on weekdays and on weekends travelled 100 km to get to his 5-acre in Dhaba Khurd.
By the end of 2015, Prateek had set up a house on his farm to grow offseason vegetables. Prateek thought he’d quit his job once he was able to earn enough from farming, but this wasn’t an easy decision to make. This was because costs to grow these vegetables were very high, along with the fact that farmers weren’t a part of the value chain and thus couldn’t decide the price of their own vegetables.
Fortunately, Prateek met Vinay Yadav, another educated farmer. They then decided to start their own value chain and sell their vegetables and grains, while skipping the middlemen. The variety of vegetables they grew wasn’t enough, so they decided to form a group of farmers.
Once the plan was ready, the group was registered by the name of Farmer Producer Organization . However, the trial failed in the first year as most of the farmers were grain growers and had limited knowledge of growing vegetables. However, the largest reason was the switch to organic from chemical.
Luckily, once the soil was used to organic methods, the next round of crops were successful and the FPO had a good amount of produce. So at the end of 2017, Prateek finally quit his job and devoted all his time to farming. Now he’s successful and recently his team has started two farmer resource centers at Dhaba Khurd and Nathrula Canj.
（1）Why did Prateek have trouble continuing his life as a banker?
A . He felt it so boring to be a banker.
B . He almost never satisfied his boss.
C . He found farming easier to do well.
D . He was enthusiastic about farming.
（2）Why was it difficult for Prateek to decide on quitting his job?
A . The prices of organic products were low.
B . The income from farming wasn’t much.
C . He had no money to put into farming.
D . He found farming produce hard to sell.
（3）What did Prateek and Vinay Yadav set about doing after they met?
A . Building their own marketing system.
B . Raising the prices of their products.
C . Switching from chemical to organic.
D . Adding the kinds of vegetables grown.
（4）What mainly resul ted in the failure of FPO’s first year trial?
A . Their no experience in growing vegetables.
B . Their poor management on the employees.
C . The soil’s not adapting to organic farming.
D . The wrong ways of doing organic farming.
3. 阅读理解
Science is finaly beginning to embrace animals who were,for a long time, considered second-class citizens.
As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickensdistinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individualseven after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason:hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediatefood
reward for a slightly later one. Healthy hens may aidfriends, and mourn when those friend die.
Pigs respond meaningful to human symbols. When a researchteam led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocksmarked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food tothe animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O’s. Then theteam switched from real-life objects to T-shirts printed with X or O symbols.Still, the pigs walked only toward the O-shirted people: they had transferredtheir knowledge to a two-dimensional format, a not inconsiderable feat ofreasoning.
I’ve been guilty of p rejudiced expectations, myself. At thestart of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeysand apes out-think and out-feel other animals. They’re other primates, after all, animals from our own mammalian class. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closestliving relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and elephantsexpress profound joy and mourning with their social companions. Long-termstudies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a viewpoint shift in oursociety: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painfulprocedure kin laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, anddolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks.
Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even furtherand explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, I startedto wonder: Will the new science of “food animals” bring an ethical revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will ourethics start to catch up with the development of
our science?
Animal activists are already there, of course, committed tonot eating these animals. But what about the rest of us? Can paying attentionto the thinking and feeling of these animals lead us to make changes in who weeat?
（1）According to Annie Potts, hens have the ability of_____________.
A . interaction
B . analysis
C . creation
D . abstraction
（2）The research into pigs shows that pigs___________.
A . learn letters quickly
B . have a good eyesight
C . can build up a good relationship
D . can apply knowledge to new situations
（3）Paragraph 4 is mainly about________.
A . the similarities between mammals and humans
B . the necessity of long-term studies on mammals
C . a change in people’s attitudes towards animals
D . a discovery of how animals express themselves
（4）What might be the best title for the passage?
A . The Inner Lives of Food Animals
B . The Lifestyles of Food Animals
C . Science Reports on Food Animals
D . A Revolution in Food Animals
4. 阅读理解
Language learning apps are very popular now and offeropportunities to learn vocabulary and practice grammar. But there has been adiscussion about just how effective such apps can be.
Among the most popular apps are Duolingo and Busuu. Aprevious research found positive results on the use of them. But it mainlyconcentrates on studies with learners who had signed up for language coursesand these
apps worked as an after-class support, so the results were not alwaysreliable. A recent study of 4,095 Busuu users has been carried out to find outif users can actually learn a language with an app.
Busuu provides learning materials for 12 differentlanguages. It offers special models where some contents are available for freewhile some contents are not, We find that its users are an even mix of men andwomen. More than half consider themselves to be at the beginner level as thereis a decrease in users as their language levels go up. Most people use the appbecause of personal interest, or because they want to study or live abroad.Females tend to use it less often but for longer periods of time than maleusers.
Getting any feedback on Busuu depends on whether youranswer is correct or not. While it is helpful, this is not the sort of feedbacklanguage teachers prefer, as it does not explain why the answer is right orwrong. In spite of this, feedback in the app is very highly rated.
More than 92% of the people state that the app has mettheir expectations and 86% consider the app as very good or good. In fact, morethan 80% of the users surveyed strongly agree that using the app has helpedthem improve their knowledge of the language they are learning.
Besides, language learning apps also create an environmentwhere mistakes are only known to the users, and this can address the performance anxiety that many learners sufferfrom when asked to speak a foreign language. So language teachers shouldencourage their students to use them to do the grammar work, leaving preciousclass time for more language communication.
（1）Why weren’t the results of the former research always dependable?
A . Because it used out-of-date methods.
B . Because it just focused on positive results.
C . Because it was only carried out before class.
D . Because it only considered users of a limited type.
（2）What can we learn about the app Busuu from the text?
A . All the contents are free to use.
B . It’s used by more advanced learners.
C . Most users consider it satisfying.
D . It’s more popular with female learners.
（3）Which of the following can probably replace the underlined word address?
A . Deal with.
B . Write down.
C . Turn to.
D . Speak of.
（4）What is the main idea of the text?
A . Students won’t suffer anxiety in learning languages by using Busuu.
B . Language learning apps are effective and satisfactory to language learners.
C . Language learning apps are very popular with most language teachers.
D . Students should be required to use apps for homework after class.
二、任务型阅读（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
5. 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。

Time is something that we all are taking for granted thesedays. We spend hours watching TV or playing mobile games, thinking that this isjust normal. I find this a waste of time. ________ Every second is valuable and we should rethink of ways ofspending our time.
Firstly, spend time in doing things that really matter.Spend time with your family and friends. Enjoy a nice hot meal and eat itslowly. Give yourself time to play and spend enough time in sleeping. ________But the truth is the little things matter most in life.
Secondly, you have to know what is done cannot be undone.Do not allow your mind to stay in the past. Every day is a new adventure. ________It may not be an opportunity like an immediate get-rich chance,but it may be an opportunity for new experiences.
________If you have only one chance to do something for someone, why notdo it to the best of your ability? It should not matter whether you are beingrewarded or not. You will take pride in your work because you’ve done yourbest. Trust me, quality efforts will be rewarded in time.
Lastly, every moment you spend in doing things is the timetaken from your life. Don’t waste your time away working day and night just formoney. ________The value of your time ismeasured by how you spend it and whom you choose to spend it with.
A. You will get whatever you want from working.
B. Spend more time on the important tasks instead of time-wasters.
C. Do your best in every task as if the world will end tomorrow
D. That is not your life’s worth.
E. It is hours of our lives that we can never get back.
F. Little things like this may seem meaningless.
G. You have to keep your eyes and ears open to the newopportunity.
三、完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）
6. 阅读下面的短文，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佳选项。

“Paul must have been trying to car ry his waste paperto garbage can and dropped a few pieces.” I1, picking them up.2later I found more pieces.No quiet sighing this time. I3, “Who is throwinggarbage?” No answer. Instead, I saw more bits of paper4floating down fromupstairs. Looking up. I saw my seven-year-old son, Paul.
“Stop making a mess.” “It’s not a mess. They’re5.” “Sorry, whatdid you say?” I hadn’t heard him clearly.
He didn’t answer me. Paul has autism and6answers a question,especially when he’s7attentively on somethingelse. He ran d own the stairs. “Where are my other butterflies he asked,8around. Every time Paul9five or more wordstogether, my heart says a10of thanks. But lately heseems to11that the benefits offorming complete sentences when communicating are12of the effort.
Butterflies. Of course. I rushed to13them from the garbage,14them off and handed them tomy young artist “Want to see them15again?” he asked witha shy smile. “Oh yes! They’re beautiful.” I whispered. He ran backupstairs to float his16down again. They really didlook like beautiful butterflies.
That day Paul17me to look up at18instead of down at garbage.How many other masterpieces do I miss because I’m toocaught up in my19to take time
to appreciatewhat’s right in front of me? Life is not what happens to us. It’s20we look at it Now, I lookup.
（1）A . shoutedB . amazedC . sighedD . laughed（2）A . WeeksB . MomentsC . YearsD . Days（3）A . added toB . turned upC . got inD . called out （4）A . angrilyB . loudlyC . silentlyD . peacefully（5）A . planesB . butterfliesC . leavesD . papers（6）A . frequentlyB . eagerlyC . willinglyD . rarely（7）A . focusedB . addictedC . devotedD . depended（8）A . lookingB . showingC . drawingD . playing（9）A . spellsB . pushesC . putsD . accumulates（10）A . remarkB . prayerC . reportD . sound（11）A . refuseB . realizeC . mindD . hear （12）A . fondB . awareC . worthyD . typical（13）A . rescueB . hideC . destroyD . remove（14）A . toreB . seizedC . cutD . dusted（15）A . landB . flyC . throwD . flow（16）A . imaginationB . schoolworkC . inventionsD . masterpieces（17）A . forcedB . remindedC . intendedD . permitted（18）A . beautyB . weaknessesC . mistakesD . scenery（19）A . houseworkB . amusementC . homeworkD . communication（20）A . whetherB . howC . whenD . where四、语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
7. 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Access to electricity has always been limitedfor people living in Nuevo Saposoa, ________remote village in Peru. However, things went from bad to ________in March 2015 after a flood damaged the power station in thearea. The villagers ________to turn to kerosenelamps, which are not only expensive but give off poisonousmatter.
Fortunately,the researchers and students at the UTEC in Lima, Peru heard
about it and cameup with a ________idea. They designeda lamp that can be powered by plants and soil, both of ________can be found in the Amazonian rainforests where the village ________. Called Plantalamparas, the lights draws energy from a plant________in the rainforestsand uses it to light up an LED bulb. So far, the bulbs have been a hugesuccess.
This is not the firsttime the students and professors of UTEC ________up with a clever approach ________a problem. In 2014, ________with Peru’s severeair pollution they created a large advertising board that could be used as anair purifieras well.
五、短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
8. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线划掉。

修改：在错的词下划—横线，并在该下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2）只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

A photo on my desk always takes me back to themoment that I gave a talent show for foreign friend. In the picture, I can beseen delicate performing Erhu. When I introduced myself at English, theaudience applauded encourage me. I was no longer nervous. I devoted myselfwholeheartedly to play. My performance was quite a success. Before theperformance, an American was
named Amy, who was of my age, sang the song God Isa Girl to me. We even make a deal that we would teach each other my mothertongues.
六、书面表达（满分25分）
9. 假定你是李华，你市将举办国际马拉松赛，请你给外教John发一封电子邮件，邀请他一起报名参加。

内容主要包括：
1）告知马拉松比赛的具体信息；
2）说明邀请理由；
3）希望对方参加。

注意：1）词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）；
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：马拉松marathon
Dear John,
I’m pleased to tell youthat an international marathon will take place in our city.
Yours,
Li Hua。