河南省信阳高级中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期回顾测试试题.doc

河南省信阳高级中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期回顾测试试题

河南省信阳高级中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期回顾测试试题

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河南省信阳高级中学2020-2021学年高二英语下学期回顾测试试题

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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。
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，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. How did the speakers get to the post office?
A. By car. B. By bike. C. On foot.
2. What will the speakers do tomorrow?
A. Stay with their children. B. Go to a party. C. Visit the woman’s mother.
3. Why is Wendy angry with the man?
A. He broke her iPad. B. He speaks ill of her. C. He doesn’t work carefully.
4. Why is the man going to the States?
A. For a holiday. B. To study. C. On business.
5. What does the man think of the film?
A. He has no idea. B. It is boring. C. It is interesting.
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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。
听6段材料，回答第6-7题。
6. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A. In the street. B. In a shop. C. In a restaurant.
7. What does the man need to do if he wants to return the watch?
A. Pay 10% of the price. B. Wait for 30 days. C. Keep the receipt.
听第7段材料，回答第8-9题。
8. What is Scott busy doing now?
A. Writing a paper. B. Looking for a book. C. Reading a book.
9. What will the woman do next?

A. Go to a bookshop to buy a book.
B. Get a book from the man’s shelf.
C. Borrow the book she needs from a library.
听第8段材料，回答第10-12题。
10. How is the man?
A. He has a little pain in the area of his wound.
B. There is blood coming from his wound.
C. He feels terrible because of his wound.
11. What should the man eat more?
A. Porridge and vegetables. B. Fish and meat. C. Spicy food.
12. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Watch a little more TV.
B. Talk more with others.
C. Walk around for a while.
听第9段材料，回答第13-16题。
13. Where is Sue studying now?
A. In Australia. B. In Beijing. C. In Hong Kong.
14. When do students have a two-week holiday in Australia?
A. In March. B. In April. C. In June.
15. What will Sue do after finishing high school?
A. Go to university.
B. Teach Asian languages.
C. Come to China for a holiday.
16. When will Sue fly to Australia?
A. Four days later.
B. On Saturday.
C. One month later.
听第10段材料，回答第17-20题。
17. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Cultural Changes in Hong Kong.
B. The languages spoken in Hong Kong.
C. The history of Hong Kong.
18. In which language are the road signs in Hong Kong printed?
A. Chinese and Japanese.
B. English and Japanese.
C. Chinese and English.
19. What was the official language of Hong Kong in 1970?
A. Chinese. B. English. C. Chinese and English.
20. How many Japanese people are living in Hong Kong?
A. About 20,000. B. About 2,500. C. About 25,000.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）
第一节 （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A、B、C 和D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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Later this month, Tate Britain will host its first Van Gogh（梵高）exhibition since 1947. Here we've rounded up 4 of his best paintings before the show.
Potato Eaters
Potato Eaters was Van Gogh's first major work and, despite a distinct lack of colour, it was one that he was most proud of, His aim was to represent the difficulties of country life, so the farmers are painted in earthy tones with rough faces and bony hands. He was more concerned with conveying his message than achieving technical perfection in this painting.
Irises
Van Gogh finished almost 142 pieces during his stay in the Saint Remy de Provence asylum(精神病院) where he was a voluntary patient from 1889 to 1890. This piece was started shortly after he arrived there. The hospital garden provided much inspiration for the artist during his stay there. Originally, the flowers in this work were painted purple but the red pigment(色素) faded over time and has now turned blue.
Cafe Terrace at Night
Despite being painted more than 130 years ago, this cafe still exists in France and has since been renamed the Cafe Van Gogh. This artwork marks the first time Van Gogh's famous post- impressionistic star-filled sky was seen in a piece, and it was painted on the ground, in person, rather than from memory. While the artwork doesn't bear his signature, it's widely known to be Van Gogh's, as he mentioned Cafe Terrace at Night in a number of his letters.
Wheat Field With Cypresses
This piece was inspired by the view from Van Gogh's asylum window and was finished on the spot. The work was the title of three paintings that offer an insight into his stay at the hospital. Van Gogh was 80 pleased with the summer landscape that he made three copies there, one of the same size- which hangs in the National Gallery and two smaller copies which he planned to gift to his mother and sister.
21. Which painting did Vincent van Gogh take most pride in?
A. Irises. B . Potato Eaters.
C. Cafe Terrace at Night. D. Wheat Field With Cypresses.
22. What is the original color of the flowers in Irises?
A. Purple. B.Blue. C. Red. D. Yellow.
23. What do the last two paintings have in common?
A. They were the same in size. B. They had more than one copy.
C. They were signed by the artist. D. They were painted on the ground.

B
Steve Sterner’s job as a pianist playing music for silent movies started on a fancy idea about four decades ago.
He was at a friend’s party and decided to make sound by beating the ivories（象牙）while a silent cartoon played. Impressed with the performance, his friend invited him to play along to a full-length feature silent film at the theater.
This fall, Mr. Sterner, 67 years old, is celebrating his 35th anniversary as a piano accompanist at Film Forum by playing 12 silent movies of his choice at the theater in Greenwich Village, He has picked movies starring Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton and ones directed by Frank Borzage. The series started in August and goes until early November.
“All these films are wonderful.” said Mr. Sterner, who is also an actor and a singer. People might not have heard of or seen them, but they are little gems（宝石）waiting to be discovered. The silent-film era peaked almost a century ago and fizzled out with the arrival of the talkies, or

movies with synchronized（同步的）sound. But now, silent films are making a comeback in New York City, drawing more attention of young people.
Film Forum, a nonprofit, puts on two to three silent movies with live accompanying music every quarter, including at least one silent comedy for its junior audience. These showings are always popular and often sold out, with at least 100 people typically attending each screening, according to its program director Bruce Goldstein.
Over the past three decades, he said he has seen more people, especially younger audiences, coming to see silent films.
“For many years people didn’t pay attention to silent films,” Mr. Goldstein said. “But now people discover that silent films are the roots for movies,”
“I feel like today because of smart phones and social media, our left brain is filled with information. Silent films, more than other forms of cinema, engage your right brain and use your imagination, 99 Mr. Model said.
24. Why did Steve Sterner begin to accompany silent films?
A.He was invited by his friends. B. He was a famous actor and singer.
C. He was impressed with the cartoon. D. He liked beating ivories. 25.What do we know about Film Forum?
A. It was started by Steve Sterner. B. It makes money by giving shows.
C. It’s designed to show popular films. D. It contributed to making silent films popular. 26.Which can replace the underlined phrase “fizzled out” in Para. 4?
A.Found its way. B. Became less popular.
C. Took off. D. Died out.
27. What is the purpose of this passage?
A. To introduce silent films.
B. To advertise the Film Forum.
C. To praise Steve Sterner’s job.
D. To show the comeback of silent films.
C
The unusual whistle language used as a means of communication by villagers in the remote and mountainous northern Turkey has been added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. (非物质文化遗产）
The language is a highly developed high-pitch system of whistling to communicate in rugged(崎岖的) areas where people mostly cannot see each other. It can allow people to communicate across great distances, up to 5 kilometers. Compared with other similar whistle languages in Spain’s Canary Islands, in Mexico, or in Greek villages, it has a higher tone and larger vocabulary.
This unusual form of communication, which dates some 500 years ago, to the Ottoman Empire, was born from sheer necessity and widespread across the Black Sea regions.
But 50 years ago, it suffered the impact of the progression of technology and nowadays the rapid growth of cellular mobile systems has put this cultural heritage(遗产)under serious threat.
For centuries, the language has been passed on from grandparent to parent, from parent to child. Now, though, many of its most skilful speakers who use their tongue, teeth and fingers are aging all becoming physically weak. Young people are no longer interested in learning the language or in finding ways to update its vocabulary with new words, and in a few generations it may be gone for good.
“Our bird language is very convenient and efficient to communicate across the valleys. It has many benefits over yelling, which is bad for our throats.” said Avni Kocek, head of the bird

village adding that despite setbacks because of technology, “Bird language is still used by many of us. Whistle language is transmitted from our elders to us and we have the duty to transmit it to our children. We are making efforts to keep our culture alive through the annual Bird Language Festival.”
Besides, the bird language has been required to be taught at primary schools since 2014 by district authorities in order to instill(逐步实施)the practice in younger generations.
28. What is the bird language’s advantage over other similar whistle languages?
A. It is used as a means of communication.
B. It is older and has a larger number of users.
C. It can send more messages to farther places.
D. It is a completely different system of whistling.
29. What’s the biggest threat to the bird language?
A. Other whistle languages are more effectively protected.
B. The need to use it in everyday life is disappearing.
C. Many of its most skilful speakers are growing old.
D. Young people find it too difficult to learn well enough.
30. What’s the most effective measure so far taken to protect the bird language?
A. It has become a subject at primary schools.
B. Bird Language Festival is celebrated every month.
C. Cellular mobile systems are not allowed in the area.
D. All parents are required to transmit it to their children. 31.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Preserving the Endangered Bird language
B. The Story of a Bird Language Speaker
C. Celebrating the Bird Language Festival
D. The Disappearance of Bird Language
D
In a recent series of experiments at the University of California, researchers studied toddlers’ (学步儿童) thinking about winners and losers, bullies (欺凌) and victims.
In the first experiment, toddlers watched a scene in which two puppets (木偶) had conflicting goals: One was crossing a stage from right to left, and the other from left to right. The puppets met in the middle and stopped. Eventually one puppet bowed down and moved aside, letting the other one pass by. Then researchers asked the toddlers which puppet they liked. The result: 20 out of 23 toddlers picked the higher-status puppet — the one that did not bow or move aside. It seems that individuals can gain status for being dominant (占优势的) and toddlers like winners better than losers.
But then researchers had another question: Do toddlers like winners no matter how they win? So, researchers did another experiment very similar to the one described above. But this time, the conflict ended because one puppet knocked the other down and out of the way. Now when the toddlers were asked who they liked, the results were different: Only 4 out of 23 children liked the winner.
These data suggest that children already love a winner by the age of 21-31 months. This does not necessarily mean that the preference is inborn: 21 months is enough time to learn a lot of things. But if a preference for winners is something we learn, we appear to learn it quite early.
Even more interesting, the preference for winners is not absolute. Children in our study did not like a winner who knocked a competitor down. This suggests that already by the age of 21-31 months, children’s liking for winners is balanced with other social concerns, including perhaps a

general preference for nice or helpful people over aggressive ones.
In a time when the news is full of stories of public figures who celebrate winning at all costs, these results give us much confidence. Humans understand dominance, but we also expect strong individuals to guide, protect and help others. This feels like good news.
32. One of the purposes of the experiments is to .
A. teach toddlers how to gain higher status
B. offer toddlers a chance to watch a scene
C. observe the process of toddlers’ solving a conflict
D. find out toddlers’ attitude toward winners and losers
33. The toddlers regarded bowing and moving aside as a sign of .
A. obeying rules
B. gaining status
C. giving in to the other
D. showing good manners
34. What does the second experiment tell us about toddlers?
A. They are excellent learners.
B. They are always changeable.
C. They show mercy to the loser.
D. They value kindness over winning.
35. What does the author think of the results of the series of experiments?
A．Disappointing. B．Encouraging. C．Unexpected. D．Controversial.
第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 2.5 分,满分 12.5 分)
阅读下面短文，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。
I don’t know anyone who has been handed only roses. We all encounter hardships. Some we see coming; others take us by surprise. 36 The question is: When these things happen, what do we do next?
When someone is suffering, we need to follow the Platinum Rule: 37 Put ourselves in others’ shoes and respond with understanding or better yet, action.
38 It comes from deep within us and from support outside us. It comes from gratitude for what’s good in our lives and from leaning in to the suck. 39 I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.
Although it can be extremely difficult to grasp, the disappearance of one possible self can free us to imagine a new possible se