海南省华中师范大学琼中附属中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题.doc

海南省华中师范大学琼中附属中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题

海南省华中师范大学琼中附属中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题

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海南省华中师范大学琼中附属中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题
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，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
3. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。
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。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. £19.15. B. £9.18. C. £9.15.
答案是C。
1. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a library. B. In a bookstore. C.In a classroom.
2. How does the woman feel now?
A. Relaxed. B. Excited. C. Tired.
3. How much will the man pay?
A. $520. B. $80. C. $100.
4. What does the man tell Jane to do?
A. Postpone his appointment. B. Meet Mr. Douglas.
C. Return at 3 o’clock.
5. Why would David quit his job?
A. To go back to school. B. To start his own firm.
C. To work for his friend.
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、7题。
6. What does the man want the woman to do?
A. Check the cupboard. B. Clean the balcony. C. Buy an umbrella.
7. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Husband and wife. B. Employer and employee.
C. Shop assistant and customer.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. Where did the woman go at the weekend?
A. The city centre. B. The forest park. C. The man’s home.
9. How did the man spend his weekend?
A. Packing for a move. B. Going out with Jenny.
C. Looking for a new house.
10. What will the woman do for the man?
A. Take Henry to hospital. B. Stay with his kid.  
C. Look after his pet.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What is Mr. Stone doing now?
    A. Eating lunch.   B. Having a meeting.    C. Writing a diary.
12. Why does the man want to see Mr. Stone?
   A. To discuss a program.  B. To make a travel plan.     C. To ask for sick leave.
13. When will the man meet Mr. Stone this afternoon?
    A. At 3:00.      B. At 3:30.     C. At 3:45.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A company. B. An interview. C. A job offer.
15. Who is Monica Stansfield?
A junior specialist. B. A department manager.
C. A sales assistant.
16. When will the man hear from the woman?
A. On Tuesday. B. On Wednesday. C. On Thursday.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What did John enjoy doing in his childhood?

A. Touring France. B. Playing outdoors. C. Painting pictures.
18. What did John do after he moved to the US?
A. He did business. B. He studied biology.
C. He worked on a farm.
19. Why did John go hunting?
A. For food. B. For pleasure. C. For money.
20. What is the subject of John’s works?
American birds. B. Natural scenery. C. Family life.
第二部分　阅读(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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Nanjing and Hangzhou Summer Camps Offered
We are looking for hard­working and open­minded English teachers to join the Nanjing (Jiangsu Province) and Hangzhou (Zhejiang Province) summer camps!
Both of the summer camps will run from the beginning of July to the end of August. You will be expected to teach spoken English to Chinese students of different ages. We encourage you to bring your own culture to the classes to make things more interesting.
The information of the Nanjing camp：
•Working hours: 40 hours per week,5 working days per week.
•Salary: about 7,000 RMB per month.
•Accommodation: free (single room)．
The information of the Hangzhou camp：
•Working hours: 5 hours per day (＝50 min./class ×6 classes), one day rest per week.
•Salary: 20,160 RMB in total (420 RMB per day ＝70 RMB/class×6 classes).
•Accommodation: free (shared room).
The requirements of the summer camps：
•Native English speakers (US, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
•A university degree.
•Teaching experience.
Please send us your resume (简历), copies of certificates and passport if you are interested in the camps.
E­mail: teacher1324@ .
For more information you can visit our website at http: //www. E.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
21．How long will a teacher work for the summer camps?
A．About five weeks. B．About eight weeks.
C．Less than one month. D．More than two months.

22．Who might be accepted as a teacher at the summer camps?
A．Abhishek, an excellent teacher from India.
B．Robert, a high school student from the USA.
C．Linda, an experienced university teacher from Canada.
D．Jerry, a university student from Australia.
23．Compared with the Nanjing camp, the Hangzhou camp________.
A．has longer working hours
B．has younger students to teach
C．provides better accommodation
D．pays a higher salary
B
Maria(1718-1799) was a famous Italian mathematician. She was described in a book as follows:“Maria was clever, but was also shy.”
She stayed at home, teaching the younger children and following her own studies. When her mother died after giving birth to twenty-one children, Maria took over the running of the household. At the age of twenty she started a ten-year project, a book bringing together the work on calculus(微积分学) of Leibnitz and Newton titled Analytic Institutions. Sometimes she would have trouble with a problem, but her mind went on working even in her sleep; she would sleepwalk to her study and back to bed. In the morning, she would find the answer to the problem waiting on her desk. Her book made her famous; she was living proof of what she had argued at nine years old that women had a right to study science. But Maria had other interests in her life apart from maths. She had always worked with the poor people in her area, and she had asked her father for separate rooms and turned them into a private hospital. She worked at the hospital (and another) until she died at the age of eighty-one. Maria wrote an important book on maths, as well as another unpublished book. She ran a household of over twenty people, and she worked for people who had not had her luck and opportunities. Each one of these things was remarkable, but she did them all.
24. What can we learn about Maria from the passage?
A. Maria was a maths teacher when she was young.
B. Maria lived a rich life in her childhood.
C. Maria was born in a large family.
D. Maria was too shy to teach others.
25. What can we infer according to the passage?

A. There were some good schools for children when Maria was young.
B. Women were not allowed to study science when Maria was a little girl.
C. Women had equal rights to learn anything as men did.
D. Maria had the ability to make enough money to bring up her brothers and sisters when her mother died.
26. According to the passage, Maria was so devoted to maths that she 　　　　.
A. forgot everything when she was studying
B. spent over ten years writing her most famous book
C. never slept while doing researches
D. would go on with her study in her dream
27. Which word can be used to describe Maria according to the passage?
A. Kind-hearted. 　　 B. Beautiful.
C. Well-born.　　 　　 D. Rich.

C
The fact that trees are vital to our life is not a secret. Trees provide us with food, wood and most importantly, oxygen. Now there is one more thing we can add to this list—blocking out harmful bacteria from water.
The discovery was made by a team consisting of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school students who were seeking a natural water filter(过滤器)—one that would help communities in developing countries that do not have access to modern water filter systems.
The researchers, led by Professor Rohit Karnik, decided to turn to trees for help because they could allow liquid to flow through, while blocking out air bubbles.
They began by cutting 1.5-inch-wide sections of tree bark from the branches of a white pine tree. The researchers then tested the wood’s filtering ability by pouring water containing red dye particles of different sizes through. To their surprise, they found that it was effective in trapping all the particles. Encouraged, the team conducted another experiment, this time with water that contained bacteria. Sure enough, the sapwood held back 99% of the bacteria, allowing only 1% to flow through.
Mr. Karnik said that the bark was able to filter water containing much smaller particles. This means that it can be used to get rid of a majority of bacteria, since most are at least 10 times as wide. However, what troubles them is that tree bark isn’t blocking out viruses, which tend to be much smaller.
Also, while the pine sapwood is effective, we must remember one thing—it only works when it is damp. This means that before this natural filter can be put into practical use, the researchers will have to figure out how to keep the wood damp, or find a way to keep the bark’s great filtering ability even when it’s dry!
But the team is not done yet. They plan on testing other types of sapwood, including those from flowering trees which have smaller pores(气孔). They think that these may be more effective in trapping smaller particles and even viruses.
28. What problem troubles the researchers when they use tree bark as water filters?
A. Viruses cannot be blocked out.
B. Not all bacteria will be held back.
C. Viruses don’t make air bubbles.
D. Tree bark needs to be kept in water.
29. We can learn from the passage that tree bark can filter water when it 　　　　. 
A. is damp B. is dry
C. has been cut down D. is processed by researchers
30. The team is planning to conduct other experiments to 　　　　. 
A. find all wood bark with such ability
B. find which trees have the smallest pores
C. improve trees’ filtering ability
D. test other wood bark’s filtering ability
31. In which column of a newspaper can we read this passage?
A. Nature.　　 B. Science.
C. Lifestyle. D. Society.
D
Many people believe eating healthily is expensive—and more costly than buying junk foods. But our new research，published in the BMC Public Health，shows this isn’t the truth.
Most of the Australian family food budget(预算) is being spent on junk foods and drinks that are high in fat，sugar and salt.
Less than 7% of Australians eat healthily. The Australian adults get at least 35% of their energy from junk foods and drinks. As a result，two­thirds of adults (63%) and one­quarter of children are overweight.
We used the Australian Health Survey 2011－2013 and the suggestions of the Australian Dietary Guidelines to model healthy diets for a family of two adults and two children every two weeks. We collected food prices in supermarkets and stores in high­ and low­socioeconomic(社会经济地位低的) areas in Brisbane，and compared the diet prices with family incomes.
In both areas，a family of two adults and two children spends about 18% more on present diets than would be required to buy healthy diets. About 58% of the food budget for present diets is spent on junk foods，including takeaway foods (14%)，and sugary drinks (4%)．
In the low­socioeconomic area，a family of two adults and two children spends $640. 20 every two weeks on their present diets，but could buy a healthy diet for $560. 93 every two weeks. In the high­socioeconomic area，these numbers are $661. 92 and $580. 01.
Supermarket food prices were about 3% higher in the high­socioeconomic location. Takeaway foods

were also relatively more expensive，but sugary drinks were priced similarly in both areas.
Present diets cost more than healthy diets，so causes other than price must be helping to drive preferences for unhealthy choices.
32．What did the researchers find?
A．Australians have a preference for sweet foods.
B．Most Australian kids have fat problems.
C．Half Australians live on junk foods.
D．Most Australians eat unhealthily.
33．How did the researchers get the result?
A．By making a comparison.
B．By doing the study online.
C．By carrying out interviews.
D．By asking personal questions.
34．What can we learn from Paragraph 5?
A．Australian foods are healthier.
B．A healthy diet is actually cheaper.
C．Health foods are becoming more expensive.
D．People choose junk foods for their low prices.
35．What might a following paragraph be about?
A．The harm of junk foods.
B．How we can eat healthily.
C．Why people choose junk foods.
D．The advantages of a healthy diet.
第二节(共5小题;每小题2.5分,满分12.5分)
根据下面短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Ways to protect eyes from screens
Too much screen time may cause serious eye strain (眼疲劳) and even a sharp decline of eyesight. That's a big problem a lot of people are faced with nowadays, especially those who work on a computer. The following tips may be helpful.
Get regular eye tests
Experts recommend having a comprehensive eye exam every year to detect (探测) problems before they develop. During this test, you should tell the doctor how often you use your phone and your computer. __36__ Tell your doctor about it, and your eyes can be tested more accurately(精确地) at that distance.
Give your eyes space
__37__ Studies on computer­related eye strain suggest that screens should be no closer than 40 cm from your face. If this makes it hard for you to read, consider increasing the size of the text rather than moving the screen closer.
Take breaks
This may not always be practical if you're quite busy, but it's important not to stare(盯着) directly at a screen for too long. __38__ While surveys(调查) have shown that many office workers take no more than half an hour a day away from their computer, it's recommended that you take a 15­minute break after every two hours spent at your screen.
__39__
Staring at a screen continuously for hours on end may make it difficult for you to focus. To avoid this, many eye experts recommend the “20­20­20 rule” —looking away from your phone/computer screen every 20 minutes and focusing on an object at least 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. The science behind it is that looking at objects at a distance relaxes the focusing muscle in the eye. __40__
A．Exercise your eyes.
B．Give your eyes a chance to rest.
C．Make your screen more eye­friendly.
D．Studies show it's an effective way to reduce tiredness.
E．You should also measure the distance from your eyes to your screen at work.
F．The closer your phone/computer screen is to your eyes, the harder they have to work to focus.
G．Make sure that you use your phone or computer in a room where the lighting is bright enough.
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Last year a group of friends and I began a project called The World Needs You. Its aim is to