2020-2021学年湖北省咸宁市通城县高二上学期期中考试英语试题

2020－2021学年度上学期高二年级期中考试

英语试卷

注意事项：

1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。

第一部分听力(共两节，满分30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1.5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．When will the speakers discuss the report?

A．During lunch. B．After lunch. C．In a few days.

2．What does the man mean?

A．He is glad to call the doctor.

B.He wants to change the appointment.

C.He doesn’t remember the exact date.

3．What is probably the man?

A．A cyclist. B．An assistant. C．A repairman.

4．What will the man probably do?

A．Have a big dinner. B．Eat the pie. C．Control his appetite.

5．Where does the man want to go?

A．Phoenix. B．Chicago. C．New York.

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至7题。

6．Who will come to meet the woman at the airport?

A．Her son. B．Her husband. C．Her secretary.

7．What would the woman like to know?

A．The man’s room number.

B．The changes on the flight.

C．Something about the weather.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8．What’s a lucky thing for the woman?

A．Going boating. B．Watching a boat race. C．Travelling by boat. 9．Why is the event held every year?

A．To honor a poet named Qu Yuan.

B．To attract foreign visitors.

C．To practice the skills of saving people.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10．What’s the matter with the man’s aunt?

A．She has a backache.

B．She has got her legs hurt.

C．She has heart trouble.

11．When was the man’s aunt sent to the hospital?

A．Last night. B．Last week. C．This morning.

12．When can the man visit his aunt?

A．In the morning. B．In the afternoon. C．In the evening.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13．What does the woman probably do?

A．A driver. B．A waitress. C．A bank clerk.

14．What does the nearest hotel look like?

A．Natural. B．Traditional. C．Modern.

15．How far is the family style hotel?

A．Two minutes’ drive. B．Two minutes’ walk. C．Ten minutes’ ride. 16．What can we say about the woman?

A．She is helpful. B．She is honest. C．She is careful.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17．How much is the man’s coin collection worth?

A．$250. B．$2，500. C．$25，000.

18．What does the speaker’s brother collect?

A．Matchboxes. B．Coins. C．Model airplanes.

19．What do people want to get from hobbies?

A．Money. B．Pleasure. C．Knowledge.

20．What does the speaker mainly talk about?

A．What a hobby means.

B．How a hobby affects our life.

C．Why we have different hobbies.

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）

第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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Stepinac has become one of the first high schools in the country to drop all textbooks and replace them with a “digital library”. When students started classes on Monday, they wer e zipping to an app on their laptops and had instant access to all 40 texts in the Stepinac curriculum (课程).

Dennis Lauro, director of an information center which provides technical support to public schools in New York, said neither he nor his colleagues were aware of a similar digital effort in a public school setting. “This is the wave of the future.” Lauro said. “I’m not surprised that a private school would beat the public schools to it. They have the ability to just do it. There is so much politics involved in public schools, when it comes to a move like that, needing approval from boards and committees.”

For Tom Collins, Stepinac’s president, the commitment to digital source material was not so difficult a decision. In the past, students’ families had to spend up to $ 700 a year on textbooks. This year — after the one-time purchase of a laptop — families only need to pay $ 150. Using the digital library is almost as easy as opening a new book. A student can instantly lap into a digital book and open a map of Egypt or a speech by President John F. Kennedy. A teacher can show a page from a digital book on a whiteboard at the front of the class or send students a link to a particular math problem with notes added in.

The first few weeks may bring some challenges. Stepinac officials expect some parental discomfort over dropping concrete books. They recognize there may be technical faults at first. And they will have to encourage students to leave space-eating photos and music off their laptops — and to keep their laptops charged.