广东省第二师范学院番禺附属中学2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题

广东省第二师范学院番禺附属中学2020学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题

本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分，共10页，满分150分。考试用时130分钟。

注意事项：

1.本试卷分第一部分（选择题）和第二部分（非选择题）两部分。答卷前，考生务必用

黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的班级、姓名、考生号填在答题卷指定位置。

2.回答第一部分时，选出每小题答案后，用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。写在本试卷上无效。

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超出答题区域和写在本试卷答案无效。

第I卷 （选择题 70分）

第一部分 阅读理解（共两节 满分40分）

第一节阅读理解（共 15 小题； 每小题 2 分，满分 30 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。

A

The Coolest Inventions

An Oceans Vacuum

There’s a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It’s bigger than Texas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets. That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next year’s trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42% over 10 years.

Easy-On Shoes

In 2020, Matthew Walzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,” he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the Fly Ease. The basketball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike Fly Ease shoes sells for $ 130.

An Airport for Drones (无人机）

As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, in Africa, may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goal is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.

1. What’s the advantage of the Oceans Vacuum?

A. It can be a money-saver. B. It can grow year by year.

C. It can tear plastic into pieces. D. It can be put into wide use soon.

2. What do we know about Nike?

A. It offers free shoes to the disabled.

B. It is designing new shoes frequently.

C. It provides customer-friendly services.

D. It responded to Matthew’s request passively.

3. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”?

A. Because there are too many drones.

B. Because road travel there is rough.

C. Because they’re easier to construct than roads.

D. Because they are receptive to new technology.

B

I really love my job because I enjoy working with small children and like the challenges and awards from the job. I also think my work is important. There was a time when I thought I would never have that sort of career.I wasn’t an excellent student because I didn’t do much schoolwork. In my final term I started thinking what I might do and found I didn’t have much to offer. I just accepted that I wasn’t the type to have a career.

I then found myself a job—looking after two little girls. It wasn’t too bad at first. But the problems began when I agreed to live in so that I would be there if my boss had to go out for business in the evening. We agreed that if I had to work extra hours one week, she’d give me time off the next. But unfortunately, it didn’t often work out. I was getting extremely tired and fed up, because I had too many late nights and early mornings with the children.

One Sunday, I was in the park with the children, and met Megan who used to go to school with me. I told her about my situation. She suggested that I should do a course and get a qualification（资格证书）if I wanted to work with children. I didn’t think I would be accepted because I didn’t take many exams in school. She persuaded me to phone the local college and they were really helpful. My experience counted for a lot and I got on a part-time course. I had to leave my job with the family, and got work helping out at a kindergarten.

Now I’ve got a full-time job there. I shall always be thankful to Megan. I wish I had known earlier that you could have a career, even if you aren’t top of the class at school.

4. What is the author’s present job?

A. Working part-time in a college.

B. Taking care of children for a family.

C. Helping children with their schoolwork.

D. Looking after children at a kindergarten.

5. When staying with the two girls’ family, the author ________.

A. was paid for extra work

B. often worked long hours

C. got much help from her boss

D. took a day off every other week

6. Why did the author leave her first job?

A. She found a full-time job.

B. She was fed up with children.

C. She decided to attend a part-time course.

D. She needed a rest after working extra hours.

7. What has the author learned from her own experiences?

A. Less successful students can still have a career.

B. Qualifications are necessary for a career.

C. Hard work makes an excellent student.

D. One must choose the job one likes.

C

In some islands north of Scotland, head lice, which live on the hair or skin of people or animals, were a part of life. If the lice left their host, he became sick and feverish. Therefore, sick people had lice put in their hair intentionally. There was a method to their madness: As soon as the lice had settled in again, the patient improved. The story explains the confusion of cause and effect. If the lice leave the sick, it is because he has a fever and they simply get hot feet. When the fever breaks, they return. We may laugh at this story, but false causalitymisleads us practically every day.

Consider the headline: “Fact: Women Who Use Shampoo XYZ Every Day Have Stronger Hair.” This statement says very little—least of all, that the shampoo makes your hair stronger. It might simply be the other way round: Women with strong hair tend to use Shampoo XYZ—and perhaps that’s because it says “especially for thick hair” on the bottle.

A further example: Scientists found that long periods in the hospital did harm to patients. This was music to health insurers’ ears, who, of course, are keen to make stays as brief as possible. But, clearly, patients who are dismissed immediately are healthier than those who must stay on for treatment.

Recently I read that students get better grades at school if their homes contain a lot of books. This study was surely a shot in the arm for booksellers, but it is also an example of false causality. This simple truth is that educated parents tend to value their children’s education more than uneducated ones do. Plus, educated parents often have more books at home. In short, a dust-covered copy of War and Peace alone isn’t going to influence anyone’s grades; what counts is parents’ education levels, as well as their genes.

Another example of false causality was the supposed relationship between the birth rate and the numbers of stork (鹳) pairs in Germany. Both were in decline, and if you plot them on a graph, the two lines of development from 1965 to 1987 appeared almost the same. Does this mean the stork actually does bring babies? Obviously not, since this was a purely accidental connection.

In conclusion: Connection is not causality. Take a closer look at linked events: Sometimes what is presented as the cause turns out to be the effect, or just the other way around. And sometimes there is no link at all—just like with the storks and babies.

8. Which is an example of false causality?

A. Women with strong hair tend to use a certain shampoo.

B. Birth rate and the stork population are connected.

C. Longer periods in the hospital benefit patients.

D. Lice can make a person sick and feverish.

9. The underlined phrase “a shot in the arm” in Paragraph 4 means _____.

A. pain B. defeat C. guidance D. encouragement

10. According to the author, students get better grades probably because _____.

A. their homes are full of books

B. they have read War and Peace

C. their educated parents value education

D. their parents are successful booksellers

11. It can be concluded from the passage that _____.

A.linked events may turn out to be unrelated

B. cause and effect are interdependent

C. connections are mostly cause and effect

D. connections are pure accidents

D

An artificial intelligence chatbot (聊天机器人) called TacoBot from fast food chain Taco Bell now lets you order a meal in a smartphone text exchange that might look something like this:

TacoBot: Hello there. I’m your TacBot. I can help you order a meal for you or your team.

You: Can I order one soft taco (墨西哥煎玉米卷) with beef?

TacoBot: Sounds good. Do you want to keep adding stuff? Maybe some bacon?

Brands like Taco Bell and some tech companies are betting that more and more people will start using this conversational way of interacting online instead of clicking through on-screen menus.

If the trend catches on — as firms like Facebook and Microsoft expect — it could transform the digital landscape by allowing smartphone users to find information or make purchases with simple text messages, ignoring apps and search engines. Among the companies already developing or launching chatbots are the Wall Street Journal, CNN and retail giants Sephora and H&M.

“I believe we are headed to a shift where this will become one of the primary ways we interact with the digital world,” says Mark Beccue of Mark Beccue Consulting, who follows trends in the messaging market. “The chat user interface(界面) is what makes sense for a mobile-first world. You can be more specific and be quicker.”

Messaging services have become a natural place for chatbots to reside(居住), since their usage is growing: at least 1.4 billion people used a messaging app last year. According to Business Insider Intelligence, messaging apps have overtaken the largest social networks in the world.

The messaging service Kik meanwhile launched its own “bot shop”, with partners including retailers and game developers. Kik said the move was a response to the trend people using fewer apps and spending more time on chat platforms. “There’s nothing to download, no new registration required, and you can use an interface you’re already familiar with: chat,” Kik said in a statement.

However, some analysts remain skeptical on chatbots as the wave of the future. Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research said the movement is largely driven by Microsoft and Facebook, two firms which would like a greater presence in mobile even though they don’t control the biggest smartphone operating systems. “There’s a lot of hype (炒作) around chatbots,” Dawson said.

Artificial intelligence has come a long way with systems like Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana, but still cannot deal with all possible situations, says Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates. “There’s a kind of hubris (自大) that someone could expand the one-to-many communication method to every human interaction,” Kay said.

12. Why does the author mention the smartphone text exchange at the beginning?

A. To indicate that more and more people begin to hate ordering food by clicking online.

B. To reflect that Taco Bell is turning to a new sales method to compete in the market.

C. To show that chatbot will become more and more popular among people.

D. To inform the readers of a convenient way to purchase what they want online.

13. We can learn from the passage that ____.

A. using chatbots has been a main way we interact with the digital world

B. messaging apps still haven’t taken the place of social networks at present

C. Microsoft thinks that tech companies should no longer develop search engines.

D. people could use chatbots by downloading messaging apps on the Internet.

14. The messaging service Kik launched its own “bot shop” for the following reasons EXCEPT that ____.

A. more and more people tend to use fewer apps

B. some tech companies have developed their own chatbots

C. chatbots are more convenient to use than some apps

D. people are accustomed to chatting in an interactive way

15. Jan Dawson thinks that regarding chatbots as the wave of the future is ____.

A.commercial B. ridiculous C. ambitious D. theoretical

第二节七选五（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，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Children's Games in Ancient China

Unlike the children nowadays, the children during ancient times didn't have smart phone, iPad or computer to entertain themselves. 16 Let's take a look.

Kicking stone balls

During the Qing Dynasty, kicking a stone ball around was a popular sport in the northern part of China, and it was often played in the winter to keep warm. Stones were carved into small balls and kicked along with feet.

Flying kites

Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood, instead of paper. Nowadays, the three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite.17 For example, the swallow-shaped kite is a well-known Beijing style.

Playing hide-and-seek

Hide-and-seek is a traditional game for children, popular around the nation. Even nowadays, many children like playing it. There are two ways to play. One way is covering a child's eyes while other kids run around to tease him.18

19

The closest thing to watching a film or television for entertainment during ancient times was going to see a shadow play. Folk artists manipulate puppets behind the screen, narrating stories and accompanied by music.

Setting off firecrackers

Firecrackers have a history of more than 2,000 years. It is said that there was a beast named Nian in ancient China.20 After gunpowder was invented, it gradually replaced the bamboo joint cracker. Crackers are still set off during Spring Festival to symbolize auspiciousness.

A. Watching shadow plays

B. Each of them has distinctive features.

C. Different materials are used to make the kite.

D. Shadow plays were the popular entertaining form in ancient times.

E. And to scare off the beast, people burnt bamboo joints to make it blast.

F. More commonly, participants hide and one child must try to find them.

G. Instead, they came up with interesting games to play in their childhood.

第二部分 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）

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佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One day after school I was just finishing up some math homework. My dad came back from work and sat right beside me, 21over my homework with me. We made corrections 22. After that we23and my dad said,＂ I will always 24every moment spending time talking with you.＂

I remember my Dad telling me his stories of when he was 25 . My dad didn’t have a father 26. He was always moving from place to place with my 27. My dad wasn’t the easiest kid to 28. He would 29 with kids at school, which made my grandma worried. He’d act out to release the anger he had from not having his father present in his 30and teenage years.

At high school, things got a little 31. He made a football team, he did well and didn’t get into as much 32as before. He also made many friends. 33those friends was my uncle. My Dad and Uncle were friends all throughout high school. It was through my uncle 34my Mom and Dad met35. Later, they got married. After I was born, my dad felt that becoming a 36was an honor and that he would not be 37in my life.

I suddenly looked up to see my Dad 38at me. I could see in my Dad’s eyes how he longed for a39like this. I continued to do my math homework and 40my Dad say,"I love you, always."

21. A. taking B. looking C. getting D. handing

22. A. equally B. instead C. hardly D. together

23. A. thought B. planned C. listened D. talked

24. A. waste B. organize C. treasure D. choose

25. A. young B. old C. tired D. poor

26. A. growing up B. turning up C. settling down D. breaking away

27. A. mom B. uncle C. grandpa D. grandma

28. A. connect B. handle C. change D. recognize

29. A. fight B. dance C. compete D. study

30. A. struggling B. travelling C. childhood D. adulthood

31. A. harder B. easier C. worse D. larger

32. A. trouble B. debt C. sadness D. anxiety

33. A. Between B. Apart from C. Among D. As for

34. A. who B. when C. how D. that

35. A. practically B. officially C. especially D. entirely

36. A. father B. mother C. fighter D. student

37. A. present B. different C. absent D. strict

38. A. glaring B. pointing C. aiming D. smiling

39. A. appearance B. relationship C. background D. behavior

40. A. felt B. found C. heard D. made

第II卷（非选择题 共80分）

第2节 语篇填空 (共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Switzerland is famous 41 its watches. However, this country didn’t invent the watch. It was the British who did it. Here is a story of how the watch42 (bring)to Switzerland.

Many years ago, 43Englishman travelled to Italy and on his way he stopped in a small town 44 （call）Geneva in Switzerland. This Englishman travelled in a carriage inside which there was a carriage watch. This was the 45 （early）kind of watch. A Blacksmith happened to see the watch. He wondered what it was 46 asked the Englishman about it. “It is a carriage watch,” answered the man. “This machine can tell the time but now47 isn’t working.” At once the man offered to try repairing it. So the48（travel）handed him the watch. The man was very clever. It was easy for him49 （repair）it. He even remembered how it was made. And he made a watch of 50 （exact）the same type.

第三部分写作（共三节，满分65分）

第一节基础知识（共两小题，满分30分）

一、根据括号中的中文提示，用单词的正确形式填空。（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

51. The houses are sold out within this price ________________ (范围)。

52. Her finger has _____________ (肿胀) so much that she can’t get her ring off.

53. What happened yesterday cause him _____________(精神) suffering。

54. She _____________( 涂抹) the cream to her face and neck after taking a bath every day.

55. The movie I saw last night made me quite ___________________ （失望）

56. As a matter of fact, fashion is ________________ ( 不断) changing.

57. Miss Green is one of the ________________ （赞助人）of the sports meeting.

58. This textbook ____________________( 组成) of 5 units.

59. Believe it or not, the woman _______________( 收养) 15 children in her life.

60. The Internet keeps us ________________ ( 告知) of the latest news .

61. She sat by the window, ________________( 纺) silk into thread.

62. The food you often buy in this supermarket is _______________ （加工）in some way

63. You may __________ (吸引) attention if you get out socially.

64. The Smiths made a ____________________ （定居）in the countryside.

65. It is __________________ ( 宣布)that a celebration will be held on National Day.

二、补全句子。（共5小题，每小题3分，满分15分）

66. 当时，她是我们班上第一个订阅杂志的学生。

At that time,__________________________________________________________journals in our class.

67 一方面，他想另寻出路，但另一方面，新的环境难以忍受。

On the one hand, he desired to seek his fortune, but _______________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________.

68.20世纪90年代，正是这位科学家对物理学有着重大影响。

__________________________________________________________________ to physics in the 1990’s.

69.只有集中精力学习，你才能取得好成绩。

____________________________________________________________________________good grades.

70.毫无疑问，他的父母为他所做的事情感到自豪。

________________________________________________________________________ what he has done.

第二节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词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。

After school, I was about to enter into my apartment when I saw a little dirty dog lie beside the dustbin. He looked extremely weak. Immediately the homeless dog filled me of sympathy. So I decided to take him home. I gave him some food and a bath. After the bath he looked energy and refreshed. What a lovely dog! When my parents got home, I asked that I could keep the dog. To my surprised and joy, they agreed. Up to now, he has become member of our family and everyone had enjoyed his company. Looking at the cute and happy dog today, I realize that I was right to help him. I offered him a shelter and he brought ourselves great happiness and laughters.

第三节 书面表达（满分 25 分）

为了号召大家多读书，你校于1月3日组织了一次“亲子共读（parent-child reading）”活动。假设你是校英文报的记者，请根据以下要点用英语写一篇短文，报道此次活动。

1. 地点：学校图书馆；

2. 参加者：高二年级学生与家长；

3. 活动内容：亲子共读一本书；......等

4. 简短评论。

注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

2020学年第一学期高二级教学质量检测英语答卷

学校__________班级______姓名__________学号_______试室_____座位号_______

非选择题

第二部分第二节语篇填空(共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)

41.____________ 42._____________ 43. ____________44.__________ 45. _______________

46.___________47._______________48.____________49.___________50.________________

第三部分写作（共三节，满分65分）

第1节 基础知识（共两题，满分30分）

第2节 根据括号中的中文提示，用单词的正确形式填空。（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

51________________52____________ 53_______________54______________ 55________________

56________________57______________58______________ 59______________ 60________________

61________________62_____________ 63_____________ 64______________ 65________________

二、补全句子。（共5小题，每小题3分，满分15分）

66___________________________________________________________________________________

67___________________________________________________________________________________

68___________________________________________________________________________________

69___________________________________________________________________________________

70___________________________________________________________________________________

第二节、改错

After school, I was about to enter into my apartment when I saw a little dirty dog lie beside the dustbin. He looked extremely weak. Immediately the homeless dog filled me of sympathy. So I decided to take him home. I gave him some food and a bath. After the bath he looked energy and refreshed. What a lovely dog! When my parents got home, I asked that I could keep the dog. To my surprised and joy, they agreed. Up to now, he has become member of our family and everyone had enjoyed his company. Looking at the cute and happy dog today, I realize that I was right to help him. I offered him a shelter and he brought ourselves great happiness and laughters.

第三节 书面表达（满分 25 分）

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高二英语试题答案

第一部分 一、阅读理解 1-3A C B4-7 DBCA 8--11 BDCA12-15CDBA

二、七选五16 G17 B18 F19 A20 E

第二部分

一、完形填空21. B 22.D 23. D 24. C 25. A 26. A 27. D 28. B 29. A 30. C

31. B 32. A 33. C 34. D 35. B 36. A 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. C

二、语篇填空 41. for 42. was brought 43. an 44. called 45. earliest

46. and 47. it 48. traveler/traveller 49. to repair 50. exactly

第三部分一、单词拼写

51 range 52.swollen 53. mental 54.applies 55. disappointed 56. constantly 57. sponsors

58.consists59.adopted 60.informed61spinning 62.processed 63. attract 64.settlement65. announced

二、补全句子

1.she was the first student to subscribe to2.on the other hand, the new surroundings were difficult to tolerate.

3.It was this scientist that / who made a big difference4.Only if you concentrate on your study can you get

5.There is no doubt that his parents are proud of

三、改错

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四、书面表达(126 words)

To call on more students and their parents to read books in their spare time, an activity of parent-child reading was organized in our school libraryon January 3rd. Students of Senior 2 and their parents participated in it.

During the activity, each student and his or her parents were asked to choose one chapter from their book and then read it together. After that, they shared their feelings and opinions about it. Many parents said this activity offered a better opportunity for them to get to know each other. Finally, every family recommended to others three great books.

This activity was surely a great success. It not only aroused more students’interest in reading, but made more parents realize the significance of reading with their children.

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