浙江省杭州市八校联盟2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题.doc

浙江省杭州市八校联盟2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题

浙江省杭州市八校联盟2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题

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浙江省杭州市八校联盟2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中试题（无答案）
考生须知：
1．本卷满分 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟；
2．答题前，在答题卷密封区内填写班级、学号和姓名；座位号写在指定位置；
3．所有答案必须写在答题卷上，写在试卷上无效；
4．考试结束后，只需上交答题卷。
第Ⅰ卷（选择题部分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）
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. Why does the man come here?
A. To return a form. B. To buy a computer. C. To find a part-time job.
2. What did David do last night?
A. He read a book. B. He watched a movie. C. He did some writing.
3. What is the weather like now?
A. Cloudy. B. Sunny. C. Stormy.
4. How did the man get to work today?
A. By car B. By bike. C. On foot.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. An air conditioner. B. The weather report. C. The temperature.
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，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，完成第 6 和第 7 题。
6. What happened to Angela last month?
A. She lost her wallet. B. She had a car accident. C. She broke her cellphone.
7. What caused the accident?
A. Speeding. B. Drunk driving. C. Angela’s carelessness.
听下面一段对话，完成第 8 至第 9 题。
8. When will the exhibition be held?
A. In 3 days. B. In 14 days. C. In 25 days.

9. What does the manager want to do?
A. Test the materials. B. Put off his delivery. C. Return some parts.
听下面一段对话，完成第 10 至第 12 题。
10. When does the conversation take place?
A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.
11. What does the man think of the woman’s life?
A. It is rather dull. B. It is very colorful. C. It is too busy.
12. How many pieces of pills should the woman have a day?
A. 2. B. 3. C.6.
听下面一段对话，完成第 13 至第 16 题。
13. What damage has Hurricane Dorian caused on the islands?
A. At least five deaths. B. Thousands of injuries. C. Missing of many people.
14. What problem do people on the islands face now?
A. They lack food and drinkable water.
B. They can’t receive good treatments.
C. They are not provided with sheltering.
15. What category was Hurricane Dorian on Tuesday?
A. Category 2. B. Category 3. C. Category 5.
16. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Colleagues. B. Classmates. C. Teacher and student.
听下面一段对话，完成第 17 和第 20 题。
17. What is Jane Brown in the company?
A. The information officer. B. The production manager. C. The marketing manager.
18. What will the listeners do next?
A. Have lunch. B. Watch a video. C. Visit the production area.
19. Who will the listeners meet after watching the video?
A. John White. B. Jane Brown. C. Matthew Durston.
20. Where will the listeners meet at 7:15pm?
A. In a hotel. B. In a restaurant. C. In a meeting room.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 35 分）
第一节（共 10 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A
My family and I never talked about school as the ticket to a future. I was in the classrooms, but I wasn’t there to learn to write, read or even speak. When it was my turn to read, I wanted to hide. I was 13 years old, but I already hated being who I was.
I had an English teacher, Mr. Creech, who knew I couldn’t read. In one of my first lessons the teacher said that anyone who had a reading age below six had to stand up. I felt so embarrassed. But

at the same time, it made me realize that I needed to change the situation. I was determined it wouldn’t happen again. Later that day, Mr. Creech encouraged me and promised he would try his best to help me learn to read. From then on, I never gave up practicing reading.
Then when I was 41 years old, one day, I planned to fly back to Texas to visit my friends and family. On my way from the airport, I saw Mr. Creech buying himself a drink. I rushed over and reached into my pocket to pay for him. “Do I know you?” he asked. “Yes, sir, you do know me,” I answered excitedly. “My name is Anthony Hamilton. You taught me English.” The look on his face told me that he remembered the boy he’d once encouraged.
“I’m so glad I had a chance to see you,” I said. “And Mr. Creech, I have great news to share.” I told him I had learned to read. But that wasn’t all. I had become a published author and an active speaker. “The next time you get another Anthony Hamilton in your classroom, please encourage him to read as well,” I added.
The experts say what once worried me has a name: dyslexia（诵读困难症）. But I can tell you it
was a lack of desire for education.
21. Why did the author want to hide?
A. Because he couldn’t read. B. Because he didn’t want to show himself.
C. Because he felt sorry for himself. D. Because he didn’t have a ticket.
22. Why couldn’t the author read before meeting Mr. Creech?
A. Because his reading age was not long enough.
B. Because his parents didn’t teach him how to read.
C. Because he didn’t have inner driving force to learn to read.
D. Because he was afraid of reading before the class.
23. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Mr. Creech looked down upon the author.
B. The author was grateful to Mr. Creech.
C. Dyslexia was the real reason that made the author unable to read.
D. Mr. Creech taught two students called Anthony Hamilton.
B
Diving under the ice first started over 100 years ago when divers still used heavy suits to stay dry while getting their oxygen from ships on the surface. Today, divers use lightweight flexible suits and SCUBA (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) gear that allow them to do much more under the water, while using modern technology to stay in communication with the surface and document what they find.
Though Antarctica may seem like a desert place, under the ice, cold water creates some of the most nutrient-rich waters in the world’s oceans. There are beautiful creatures of all shapes and sizes that a diver can get close to. The water is too cold, and most animals that have adapted to the cold conditions are smaller than their cousins in warm places.
Diving under the water requires more experience than your average tourist on holiday. Kelly recommends that only very experienced divers attempt the cold waters. Everything is more difficult in the cold.
It’s also important to watch out for seal attacks, which are highly uncommon but have become

more of a concern in recent years, with one reported death in 2004. Kelly recommends at least one diver carry a stick while in the water.
In spite of the risks, the waters under the Antarctic seas offer incredibly novel and great experiences that most people could never imagine. Besides whales, seals and penguins, lucky divers will get to see a great variety of underwater wildlife, including beautiful worms, sponges, corals and kelp.
Surprisingly, while the world above the water in Antarctica is often shades of white and gray, and everything seems still, under the surface there is an amazingly colorful world.
24. When diving under the ice first started, divers .
A. breathed the air from ships on the sea B. wore very light suits to keep warm
C. communicated with the surface by phone D. got their oxygen from the water under the ice
25. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Being a desert place, Antarctica lacks nutrition in its cold water.
B. Divers can take a close look at various beautiful creatures under the ice.
C. Only very experienced divers are recommended to attempt the cold waters.
D. Divers are advised to carry sticks to protect themselves from seal attacks.
26. What’s the best title for the text?
A. The creatures in Antarctica B. Travel in Antarctica
C. Diving under the ice in Antarctica D. The colorful world under the ice C.
Everyone has a phone in their pocket nowadays, but how often do we really use them for their original purpose –to make a call? Telephone culture is disappearing. What brought us to this moment, and what are its effects?
“No one picks up the phone anymore,” wrote Alex C． Madrigal on The Atlantic. “Telephone
culture is gone.”
The change is of course due to more communication choices: Texting with photos, videos, emojis, reaction gifs, links and even voice messages can be a more attractive choice.
Texting is light and fun, not nearly as demanding of your attention as a phone call. It can also be done with some people at the same time. Social media, email and video calls have also eaten away at traditional phone calls.
In recent years, another reason has caused people to ignore phone calls completely: robocalls. Robocalls are automate messages from organizations verifying your phone number or telemarketers trying to sell something. Americans received 22.8 billion robocalls halfway through 2020, equaling an annual rate of 45.6 billion, slightly below 2018 numbers, according to YouMail, a robocall protection service and blocking app.
As telephone culture disappears, what is the loss of a traditional family phone doing to the family unit? Early landline phones join family members together, whereas mobile phones separate them.
“The shared family phone served as an ancho（r 支柱）for home,” said Luke Fernandez, a Weber
State University computer-science professor and co-author of Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Feelings About Technology, From the Telegraph to Twitter. “With smartphones we have gained mobility and

privacy. But the value of the home has been diminished, which has its ability to guide and monitor family behavior and perhaps connect families more closely,” Fernandez said.
Of course, as technology progresses, lives always change for better or for worse. With the loss of telephone culture, families will need to find other ways to unite.
27. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. To point out the disadvantages of the traditional phone call.
B. To call for the traditional phone to advance with the times.
C. To encourage people to make more phone calls and be closer to family.
D. To introduce the causes and effects of the disappearing telephone culture.
28. What does the underlined word “diminished” in Paragraph 7 probably mean?
A. changed B. continued C. strengthened D. decreased
29. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The telephone culture disappeared just because of too many robocalls.
B. Some communication choices are more attractive than the traditional phone calls.
C. Early landline phones are inconvenient and they separate family members.
D. Texting with some people at the same time takes up our attention too much.
30. What's the author's attitude to the effects of the disappearing telephone culture?
A. Indifferent. B. Objective. C. Pessimistic. D. Skeptical.

第二节（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。
Sometimes, the stress, fear and grief feelings can overwhelm ( 压 倒 ) us. It’s fortunate that self-care is more widespread for people of any age to use. It is used to describe guidance on what people can do to get healthy. 31 .
Settle your mind. Self-care can help ease the mental burden. What happens to be simple, efficient and free is meditation ( 冥 想 ). 32 . The positive effect of meditation on anxiety,
depression, focus and even physical pain has been so well-established that it is now used in schools, on sports teams and in corporate offices.
Roll away stress. When you're under stress, overwhelmed, regular exercise can be one of the first healthy habits to go. Moving your body is a core principle of self-care and one of the best defenses against stress. Melanie Caines, a yoga teacher, suggests movement needn’t mean doing a serious workout every day. “A little goes a long way. 33 .” she says.
34 . An important self-care way is to be mindful about what you’re eating and consider adding some nutritional support. This means a balanced diet that is right for your needs. But one commonly overlooked piece, according to Toronto naturopathic (自然疗法的) doctor Nikita Sander,
is Vitamin D. She notes that the nutrient is protective in many ways and the key to mental health. It helps protect against mood disorders like depression.
Generally speaking, self-care, as the name suggests, is whatever you make it. 35 You can develop your own self-care routine, a set of practices and habits to follow.

A. Keep balanced diets.
B. Get your vitamins.
C. Here are some starting points.
D. Self-care can extend in many directions.
E. Gentle exercises can do a lot to relax your entire body.
F. That is, letting your mind wander freely allows it to settle.
G. It can be difficult to maintain a regular meditation practice.
第三部分 语言运用（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，从短文后各题所给四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Catherine decided to rescue Khan after seeing him at the animal shelter. Khan was a(an) 36 dog and had broken ribs(肋骨) from being beaten. 37 her family heard about dogs and babies
not getting along, to their pleasant surprise, Khan 38 right over to their 17-month-old daughter Charlotte when they were 39 . The two sat on the grass and played together, forming a 40 that the family hoped would continue for the rest of Khan’s life.
One day, 41 , Khan seemed to be slightly aggressive towards Charlotte. He even attempted to 42 her away from where she played. The family kept a close eye on Khan and that’s when 43 caught their attention. A deadly snake was hiding right 44 Charlotte. Khan tried numerous times to push her out of the way but it wasn’t 45 and the snake was determined to 46 baby Charlotte. The family screamed 47 as their daughter’s life was in danger.
In one last 48 , Khan grabbed Charlotte by the back of her shirt and 49 her over his shoulder. She 50 more than 3 feet away and the family ran over to Charlotte. As it 51 , Khan had been bitten as he tried to get in between Charlotte and the snake.
While Khan was at the 52 , local news sites were covering the incident. They couldn’t
53 an abused rescue dog who had only been with this family for four days would be so heroic. 54 after a couple of days in the hospital, Khan was 55 to return home and he was doing much better.
36．A．experienced
B．fierce
C．abused
D．trained
37．A．As
B．Although
C．Since
D．Because
38．A．walked
B．climbed
C．cycled
D．rolled
39．A．introduced
B．examined
C．recommended
D．teased
40．A．habit
B．circle
C．boundary
D．bond
41．A．otherwise
B．instead
C．therefore
D．however
42．A．push
B．lift
C．drag
D．guide
43．A．nothing
B．everything
C．something
D．anything
44．A．away from
B．near
C．over
D．across from
45．A．moving
B．looking
C．working
D．trembling
46．A．follow
B．strike
C．touch
D．protect

47．A．in relief
B．in horror
C．in surprise
D．in excitement
48．A．test
B．fight
C．pull
D．attempt
49．A．passed
B．held