河南省鹤壁高中2020-2021学年高二英语下学期第一次段考试题.doc

河南省鹤壁高中2020-2021学年高二英语下学期第一次段考试题

河南省鹤壁高中2020-2021学年高二英语下学期第一次段考试题

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河南省鹤壁高中2020-2021学年高二英语下学期第一次段考试题
第一部分：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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
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Best Cookbooks for Kids
Best Overall: Cooking Class: 57 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love to Make (and Eat!)

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With the help of this best-selling cookbook, your kids will become masters in the kitchen! Cooking Class: 57 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love to Make (and Eat !) is ideal for children aged 6 to 12, as it includes detailed explanations of basic cooking techniques, plus more than 50 kid-friendly recipes. This award-winning cookbook is a comprehensive guide for cooking novices, explaining skills and recipes in kid-friendly language.
Best for Basic Learner: Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook

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If you want to teach your kids cooking terms, tools and techniques, you need the Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook. This 128-page cookbook has more than 65 kid-friendly recipes, and it’s perfect for introducing kids aged 5 to 12 to the wonderful world of cooking. It includes a detailed section on cooking terms, kitchen safety, tools (including pictures), and healthy cooking. It also addresses how to measure ingredients and how to read recipes.
Best Classic: Betty Crocker’s Cookbook for Boys and Girls

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The first edition of this classic kids’ cookbook was published more than 60 years ago, and the Betty Crocker’s Cookbook for Boys and Girls is still a favorite for kids and adults alike. The recipes are ideal for children aged 8 to 12. This cookbook is an authentic reproduction of the original 1957 edition, which many baby boomers learned from themselves! Many older buyers write that they had the same cookbook growing up and love sharing the classic recipes with the next generation.
Best Vegetarian: The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids

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This vegan cookbook is best for children aged 6 to 12, and its aim is to teach kids about healthy eating by involving them in the cooking process. The book features 60 plant-based recipes for you to make with your family, including meals, snacks, drinks and desserts.
21.Which cookbook can be purchased on Target?
A. Cooking Class: 57 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love to Make (and Eat!).
B. Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook.
C. Betty Crocker’s Cookbook for Boys and Girls.
D. The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids.

22. What can we know about Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook?
A. It is an award-winning cookbook.
B. It teaches the kids about kitchen safety.
C. It includes 60 plant-based recipes.
D. It was published more than 60 years ago.
23. What is the similarity between Cooking Class: 57 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love to Make (and Eat !) and The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids?
A. They are both designed for kids aged 6-12.
B. They have recipes based on plants.
C. They have recipes for whatever you want.
D. They explain how to measure ingredients.
B
A new TV documentary is being made which charts the lives of three children who are making a home in Britain. In each case, the children have travelled to the UK alone to join their mothers after a separation of several years.
Imran is 11 and lived in Pakistan with his grandmother before coming to a village near Peterborough in the East Midlands to join his mother and his new stepfather, whom he had not met before. He speaks Urdu and Punjabi, but not a word of English. Imran soon gets into trouble at school because he is at a disadvantage among his confident English-born classmates. The other children tease him because they think he is not cool, so he covers up his awkwardness by playing the fool. After school he sits drawing a picture of himself with tears on each cheek.
Like Imran, 10-year-old Altynay from Kyrgyzstan, spoke no English when she arrived at her new home in Penistone, Yorkshire, but she was lucky to have Kanykei, who has lived in England for three years, to interpret for her. Even so, this little girl, who was the head girl at her old school, found her first few months here very hard. Early in the film she is shown laughing and dancing with Kanykei, while later she appears to be homesick and disappointed by the language barrier at her village school. But that was a few months ago. Kanykei confirms that Altynay is happier now because she has learned more English.
Compared with the two, Marshal has a huge advantage, having been educated at English-language schools in Zimbabwe. He is also outgoing. When asked if settling into a new country is hard for him, he shakes his head, “No, it was not hard for me. I am a brave person.” But his new life is not without difficulties. “It is his reading I am worried about, ” says his mother Josephine. “He didn’t have my support when he needed it.”
24. What concerns Imran in the UK?
A. His foolish classmates.
B. His poor drawing skills.
C. His bad relationship with his stepfather.
D. His unpleasant experience at his new school.
25. What does Kanykei say about Altynay?
A. She is adapting to the new life speedily.
B. She finds it easy to learn a new language.
C. She is experiencing a positive change now.
D. She has become the top student in her new class.
26. How is Marshal different from Imran and Altynay?
A. He is good at reading.
B. He lacks parental love.
C. He has fewer difficulties in language.
D. He faces more challenges in his new life.
27. What’s the best title for the passage?
A. A Lonely Life in a New Country B. Breaking the Barrier
C. Great Expectations D. Happy life in the UK
C
Africa Water Week --- nearly one billion people around the world have no access to drinking water, and that lack of clean water association with improper hygiene and shortage of toilets kills 3.3 million a year. And this is a common problem in many parts of the developing world, but its effect is not widely known, according to experts at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
As part of the World Water Day tradition, the center is screening films about international water issues at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C. The films describe a variety of conflicts over water.
“The challenge in presenting these films,” says Peter Sawyer, project coordinator at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, “is to share with a wider audience the urgent issues surrounding water.” “Our goal for this screening is to just get these issues out there,” he says.“We don't feel that they attract public attention and we think that they should because they are really important.”
In Dhaka's Challenge, filmmaker Stephen Sapienza explores one of the fastest growing cities in Asia. He says one-third of the 15 million people in the Bangladeshi capital live in places where safe water is limited. Each year 400, 000 newcomers join Dhaka's urban poor. City water from Dhaka's Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) comes at a price, available only to land owners. The film records how a non-profit group helped change the law to give the same equal water rights to the urban poor.
Diabalok Sing Ha, who is the group's founder, said, “A win-win situation actually occurred because Dhaka WASA wanted their incomes and on the other hand, poor people wanted the service and they immediately see the economic advantage of getting Dhaka WASA water supply because that is cheap, so they immediately buy in. ”
“ My story was just trying to point out that these problems are solvable even if you have to start small and it's possible in the long run to save many lives, ” says Sapienza.
28. Which of the following is the main purpose of the films?
A. To show the number of people lacking clean water.
B. To let more people know the serious water problems.
C. To attract people to pay attention to the world conflicts.
D. To get people to have a good knowledge of water.
29. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?
A. Ways to get cheap water. B. The film Dhaka's Challenge.
C. Filmmaker Stephen Sapienza. D. A non-profit group.
30. Which of the following does Diabalok Sing Ha agree with?
A. Most people can't afford the water supply.
B. Rich people in Dhaka will buy in at once.
C. Poor people in Dhaka need the service of water.
D. Dhaka WASA will see soon the economic advantage.
31. What does Sapienza intend to tell us by making the film Dhaka's Challenge?
A. The problem of water can possibly be solved.
B. All the people cannot get city water from WASA.
C. A win-win situation is expected by every filmmaker.
D. Dhaka WASA is very popular with the local people.
D
For the past 3000 years, when people thought of money, they thought of cash. From buying food to paying bills, day-to-day dealings involved paper or metal money. Over the past decade, however, digital payments have taken off—tapping your credit card on a machine or having the QR Code (二维码) on your smart phone scanned has become normal. Now this revolution is about to turn cash into an endangered species in some rich countries. That will make the economy more efficient, but it also brings new problems.
Countries are getting rid of cash at different speeds. In Sweden the number of retail cash transactions (交易) per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years. Cash accounts for just 6% of purchases by value in Norway. Britain is probably four or six years behind it. America is perhaps a decade behind. Outside the rich world, cash is still king. However, in China, digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017.
Cash is dying out because of two forces. One is demand—younger consumers want to enjoy their digital lives with payment systems. But equally important, suppliers such as banks and tech firms are developing fast, easy-to-use payment technologies from which they can pull data and pocket fees.
In general, the future of a cashless economy is excellent news. When cash payments disappear, people and shops are less likely to be stolen. Besides, digitalisation greatly expands the playground of small businesses by enabling them to sell beyond their borders. It also creates a credit history, helping consumers borrow. Yet it is not without problems. Electronic payment systems may suffer technical failures, power blackouts and cyber-attacks. What’s more, in a cashless economy, the poor, the elderly and country folk may be left behind.
32. What do we know about digital payments in paragraph 1?
A. They've been used in daily dealings for 3000 years.
B. They have become popular in the past ten years.
C. They can only be made on the smart phones.
D. They are leading to cash's dying out worldwide.
33. Which country is the slowest in getting rid of cash?
A. America. B. Britain. C. Sweden D. Norway.
34. Which of the following would the author most probably agree with?
A. Cash payments are less likely to disappear.
B. Digitalisation enables small businesses to sell nationally.
C. Customers can have their credit history built through digital payments.
D. Digital payments may benefit the poor, the elderly and country folks.
35. What do the underlined words mean?
A. have fallen off B. have become a trend
C. have been out of fashion D. have been substituted

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最佳选项填入空白处，其中有两项为多余选项。

Four Ways to Beat Summer Weight Gain

When we think of the summer holiday, most of us think of outdoor fun. So it seems like we should naturally lose weight over the summer holiday. In reality, the summer holiday isn’t all beach volleyball and water sports. Therefore, we can gain weight easily in the summer holiday. 36 Here are four ways to beat summer weight gain.
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When we don’t have a plan, it’s easy to spend the summer holiday moving from the couch to the computer, with regular stops before the fridge. Avoid this by aiming for a specific goal, like volunteering, mastering a new skill, or working at a job. Just be sure to plan for some free time so you can relax a little!
Stay busy.
When we’re bored, it’s easy to fall into a trap of doing nothing and then feeling low on energy. In addition to helping you avoid the cookie jar, filling your days with stuff to do can give you a sense of accomplishment. 38
Beat the heat.
Don’t let summer heat put your exercise plans on hold. 39 If a gym isn’t your scene, try bowling or an indoor climbing wall. If you love being outdoors, move a regular run or soccer game to early morning or evening.
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With school out, we lose our daily routines. If you don’t have a specific job or an activity to get up for, it’s easy to sleep late, watch too much TV, and snack more than usual. Make sure your summer days have some structure—like getting up at the same time each day. Plan activities for specific times, like exercising before breakfast.
A. Stick to a schedule.
B. Get going with goals.
C. Relax by walking outside.
D. Move your workout indoors.
E. We usually stay at home in the summer holiday.
F. That’s especially true if a dream summer job falls through.
G. However, it’s easy to avoid this problem if we know what to look out for.

第二部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（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。
A few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I knew well, rushed up to me. She was full of 41 .
　 “Do you know 42 you and I are?” she asked. 43 I could answer, she gave out the reason for her question. She had just returned from renewing her driver’s license at a government office. The woman 44 desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated, 45 how to answer it. “What I mean is,” explained the woman, “do you have a job, or are you just a ...?” “Of course I have a job,” answered Emily. “I’m a (an) 46 .” “We don’t 47 ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said.
　 I forgot all about her story 48 one day I found myself in the same situation. This time it was at our own Town Hall. The clerk was a woman.
　 “And what is your occupation?” she asked. What 49 me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an) 50 in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
　　The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen 51 in mid-air. She looked up 52 she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly.
　　“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your 53 ?” Coolly, I heard myself 54 “I have a continuing program of research in the laboratory and in the field. I’m working for my masters (the whole family) and already have 55 .
credits (all daughters). I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). The job is more