广东省梅州市2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题.doc

广东省梅州市2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题

广东省梅州市2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题

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广东省梅州市2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题
本试卷共10页，满分150分。考试用时130分钟。
注意事项：
1.选择题每小题选出答案后，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，答案不能答在试卷上。不按要求填涂的，答案无效。考生必 须保持答题卡的整洁。
2.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答,答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相 应位置上;如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不 按以上要求作答的答案无效。
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分25分）
第一节 听力理解（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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. Why should the man hurry?
A. The store will close soon.
B. He has to get to work on time.
C. Only few T - shirts are still on sale.
2. When was the man supposed to arrive at Paul, s house last night?
A. At 7：45. B. At 8 ：00. C. At 8：15.
3. Where are the speakers?
A. At their home. B. At a restaurant. C. In a grocery store.
4. What will the man do after he makes a phone call?
A. He will prepare dinner.
B. He will get ready for bed.
C. He will clean the bedroom.
5. What does the woman offer to the man?
A. Fruit juice. B. Milk. C. Water.
第二节（共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面2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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。
听下面一段对话,回答第6和第7两个小题
6. （Question 录音）
A. She wants to send a letter.
B. She needs to give it to Jill.
C. She puts her PIN number in it.
7, （Question 录音）
A. To find Jill. B. To go to the kitchen. C. To buy an envelope.
听下面一段对话,回答第8至第10三个小题
8. （ Question 录音）
A. Her father. B. Her teacher. C. A bank clerk.
9. （Question 录音）
A. She will have a credit card.
B. She's paying her own bills.
C. She has a full - time job.
10. （Question 录音）
A. Very excited. B. Really bored. C. A little upset.
第三节 情景问答（共5小题,每小题2分，满分10分）
In this part, you are required to act as a role and complete three communicative tasks： listen to
a speaker, ask the speaker three questions and then answer five questions.
Now please listen to the speaker.
情景介绍
角色:你是Kate。
任务:（1）与Luke谈论有关梦想的话题。
（2）根据谈话内容回答另一同学的提问。
Now please ask the speaker three questions.
Q1.你父母对你的职业有什么要求吗？
Q2.你有多少兄弟姐妹？
Q3.那为什么不让他去管理舞蹈室？
Now please get ready to answer five questions.
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第二部分:阅读理解（共两节，满分37.5分）
第一节（共10小题;每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列3篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项，并在答题卡 上将该选项涂黑。
A
Vacation Camps
Lake Idaho Camp
When : 2 weeks in July
Join our fun - filled camp on the banks of lake Idaho! You can take part in exciting water sports, including canoeing and swimming. All equipment is provided. Oar highly qualified instructors lead groups for all levels, including beginners. In the evenings, we organize campfire activities for children with singing, drama, and storytelling, while adults can explore the nearby town of St. Albans.
Cost： $400, including all your delicious healthy meals.
Everwell Forest Camp
When： 1 week in August
Teachers Mat and Alice Branson run our camp in the Everwell Forest. Open to children 8-12 years of age, the camp also offers participants the chance to try various arts and crafts, including paintings, pottery, and woodwork. Places are limited to 20, so early booking is advised.
Cost： $150, including all meals.
Happy Shells Camp
When： 3 weeks in August
Happy Shells volunteer organization is looking for young people aged 15 -20 to join our camp on the Florida coast. Participants will help to build protective fences around the nests of sea turtles which come to the beaches during the summer to lay their eggs. At the end of the camp, participants receive a certificate （证书）that can be used for credit on high school and a college course.
Cost： $ 120 per week to cover food and hotel.
Powerhouse Boot Camp
When ： 2 weeks in July or August
The name of the event could give some people the wrong idea. Participants actually stay in a hotel, not an outdoor camp. But it definitely is an intensive （集中的）course of physical training. If you want to get into shape fast, Powerhouse Boot Camp is for you.
Cost ： $ 520 for two weeks.
16. Which camp provides a good chance to learn arts?
A. Lake Idaho Camp. B. Everwell Forest Camp.
C. Happy Shells Camp. D. Powerhouse Boot Camp.
17. How much will participants pay if they go to protect sea turtles?
A. S150. B. $260. C. $360. D. $400.
18. What can campers do in Powerhouse Boot Camp?
A. Camp outside the city. B. Take exercise in a hotel.
C. Sail and swim in the lake. D. Enjoy the sun on the beach.
B
It was a very hot day in late Summer. I was a young dad working in a local wood mill. It was dangerous, back - breaking work that paid very little. In the year I worked there, only four other people hadn't quit and been replaced with new feces （渣滓）.Those of us who stayed did so only because there was no other work to find to support our families.
On this day all of us were covered in sweat and dust. When I looked around, every face I saw looked angry and frustrated. Suddenly, a voice called out, "Hey! There's a deer in here. " A lost little female deer had wandered through the open loading bay doors and was now cowering （蜷缩）in between the huge piles of wood. All of us stopped working and went looking for her as she ran about looking for a way out.
Now most people where I live hunt deer for meat in the Fall but also treat them with great kindness the rest of the year. Many will even buy 50 bags of com to help feed them during the harsh Winter months. It was no surprise then that all of us were soon quickly working together to free this little creature. By blocking off all the other routes, we were able to guide her frantic （紧张忙乱的） search back to the open bay doors. We watched as she jumped out of the building and back into the woods. Then we walked back in to work. I noticed something, though. On every face there was a joyful smile. It was as if this one single act of kindness had strengthened us again and reminded us of what life is all about.
19. Why were few people willing to work in the wood mill?
A. They were dissatisfied with the pay and working conditions.
B. They were tired of wood cutting and wanted more freedom.
C. They wanted to move to big places to seek more pleasure.
D. They disliked the treatment of the boss and animals around.
20. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?
A. The deer made the workers unable to work.
B. The workers there wanted to kill the deer for meat.
C. It was common for the workers to see a deer there.
D. The deer was a ray of light to the dull workers there.
21. Which of the following can best describe the workers?
A. Cruel and impatient. B. Hard - working and caring.
C. Cautious and courageous. D. Bad - tempered and demanding.
C
On Saturday 24 August t 1918, it was raining cats and dogs and thundering over a city called Sunderland on the northeast coast of England. The storm lasted for only about ten minutes. People were surprised to see that it was not just rainwater falling from the sky. There were fish falling down, too! People came out to find out what was happening. They could not believe their own eyes. There were thousands of fish - sand eels- lying on the ground. They were about seven centimeters long, and all were frozen solid.
Sand eels swim together in large groups, often in sandy water, and are often found in large numbers in the North Sea, which reaches out to the east of Sunderland. How was it possible for these sand eels to fall from the sky and land on Sunderland?
Scientists believed the heavy thunderstorm that afternoon may have caused a waterspout. Waterspouts can be formed when strong winds move quickly in a circle over water. They are so powerful; anything less than one meter in length can be taken into them and forced into the clouds. The clouds carry whatever has been taken into them for long distances - sometimes over 150 kilometers. It's very cold up there and everything soon freezes solid.
For hundreds of years there have been reports of small animals being taken into the sky through waterspouts. In 2009, dead tadpoles rained down on the city of Nanao in Japan. In 2012, fifty kilos of prawns fell from the sky over Sri Lanka. In 2017, fish fell on the coastal city of Tampico in Mexico.
It must be a very strange experience to see fish raining down on you. It would probably hurt if one fell on your head! With climate change, global wanning and many reports of terrible natural disasters ,will the time ever come when it may really begin to rain cats and dogs?
22. What was the rain like on 24 August, 1918?
A. It was very heavy. B. It fell around England.
C. It lasted quite a long time. D. It caused many human deaths.
23. What do we know about the sand eels that landed on Sunderland?
A. They were few in number. B. They came in different sizes.
C. They were still alive when landing. D. They probably came from the North Sea.
24. What does the underlined word "them" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Clouds. B. Waterspouts.
C. Strong winds. D. The waters of the sea.
25. In the end, what does the author probably care most about?
A. Our health. B. Our environment.
C. The wild animals. D. The news reports.
第二节 七选五（共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。
Learning Is Everywhere and Anytime
Employees nowadays are faced with major changes in their working life. Besides their daily tasks and responsibilities, they are also learners. Specifically, they are learners faced with an information overload and above all, a limited amount of time. In order to catch all the opportunities learning has to offer, learning should be able to occur anywhere, at any time. 26 .
This first challenge for all the learners involved in the e - learning area is that your contents should be available on smartphones and mobile Internet devices, or you won't have any chance to be competitive in the e - learning field. 27 . Did you know that the rate of information has tripled （增长三倍）in the last 3 years alone? People are overloaded with tools and need guidance to learn how to learn in the digital age.
28 . Micro - learning makes learning easier with smaller learning units and short - term - focused activities. As experts say, repetitive learning through putting the learning process into daily routines is highly effective. And you can improve the learner experience by offering so - called learning nugget in an ATAWADAC style ： Any Time, Any Where, Any Device, Any Content.
To boost the learner experience ,you need to select only content that is relevant to you. Create your own personalized on - demand learning library, by piling up interesting learning content that you can easily get. 29 ,you can create your daily learning journey by consuming bite - sized learning content on.
30 .
• Increase the completion rate.
• Give visibility to onboarding programmes ： newcomers can have access to entry - level programmes everywhere and at any time.
• Give feedback before or after training lessons.
A. How to increase micro - learning?
B. Here are some benefits of micro - learning.
C. It' s important to know repetitive learning too.
D. Micro - learning forms an answer for learner's challenges.
E. Besides, people are faced with an information overload.
F. It should also take into consideration of the limitations of the individual
G. By means of one mobile device （tablet, phone, application）
第三部分:英语知识运用（共两节，满分37. 5分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题;每小题L 5分，满分22.5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。
Door - to - door food delivery service has become increasingly popular in cities due to the fast development of e - commerce and the fast - paced life in China. As food delivery is extremely 31 in China, it creates large amounts of waste due to the plastic containers, bags, and chopsticks that come with each 32 . This in turn has 33 great environmental concerns for the waste packaging materials. We have therefore estimated and predicted the volume of food delivery packaging waste in China. The 34 show that the total amount of packaging waste 35 from 0.2 million metric tons in 2015 to 1.5 million metric tons in 2017.
Over packaging is also a（n） 36 . The food delivery packaging is not the 37 , the better. Instead, it is the more environmental friendly, the better. Therefore, it is high time that regulations were 38 to stop restaurants and companies from spending too much on unnecessary packaging and wrapping. Also, smart policy suggestions should be provided to 39 the pressing issues, particularly using the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle environmental friendly practices.
As the largest city in China, Shanghai has an important role in innovating and contributing to a global 40 to the problem of waste. With over 24 million people living in Shanghai, materials sustainability （可持续性）, particularly that of plastics, is a great issue. 41, delivery companies like Saucepan have begun to 42 the plastic usage of the food delivery in Shanghai by using biodegradable（可降解的）packaging in the delivery process. 43, it encourages consumers to both recycle their plastic bags and stay in the business by rewarding customers for every 10 used bags that they return to the company.
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