特点英语江苏省盐城市响水中学2020-2021学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

2021年1月8日发(作者：冷世光)
江苏省响水中学2020-2021学年度秋学期高二年级期中考试
英语试题
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注意事项：
1.

本试题分第I卷和第II卷，共 8 页。
2.

满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。
第一卷 （选择题， 共95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）

1. What time does the museum close on Sundays?
A. At 4:00 pm. B. At 3:00 pm. C. At 5:00 pm.
2. What does the man mean?
A. He’s willing to help out.
B. He has his hands full.
C. He almost loses the suitcase.
3. What is the man persuading the woman to do?
A. Eat out with him. B. Buy him a burger. C. Have less meat.
4. How will the woman probably go to the gallery?
A. By bus. B. By subway. C. By car.
5. In what aspect is the man weak in Chinese?
A. Reading. B. Writing. C. Speaking.
第二节（共
15
小题；每小题
1.5
分，满分
22.5
分）

听下面一段对话，回答第
6
和第
7
两个小题。

6. What does the man think of horror movies?
A. Exciting.

B. Frightening.
B. Reading.




C. Boring.
C. Skiing.
7. What new hobby will the woman start?
A. Playing music.
听下面一段对话，回答第
8
和第
9
两个小题。

8. What is the man allowed to make for Thanksgiving?
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A. The sauces. B. The salad. C. The desserts.
9. What does the woman say about Thanksgiving in her family?
A. No one takes it very seriously.
B. Her parents try to do everything.
C. Everyone shares the preparation work.
听下面一段对话，回答第
10
至第
12
三个小题。

10. Where are the speakers?
A. In Sydney.
A. Study further.
A. Business.






B. In Toronto.
B. Run a hotel.
B. Law.


C. In Los Angeles.
C. Work in a company.
11. What does Simon plan to do after graduation?
12. What does Lucy major in?
C. Management.
听下面一段对话，回答第
13
至第
16
四个小题。

13. Why are the speakers excited in the beginning?
A. They park near the shopping mall.
B. They are lucky to take the umbrella.
C. They find the shopping mall easily.
14. What would the man like to have for lunch?
A. Fries. B. The lamb burger.
B. Do some shopping.
B. By bike.
C. Chicken sandwiches.


C. Go to the museum.
C. By car.
15. What will the speakers do right after lunch?
A. Learn Spanish.
A. On foot.
16. How will the speakers go to the museum probably?
听下面一段独白，回答第
17
至第
20
四个小题。

17. How long have Earth Boxes been in market?
A. About 15 years. B. About 25 years. C. About 30 years.
18. What can Earth Boxes be used to do in poor countries?
A. Teach students science.
B. Improve soil conditions.
C. Solve hunger problems.
19. What is the advantage of Earth Boxes?
A. Saving much space.
B. Purifying much water.
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C. Making crops grow fast.
20. Why are Earth Boxes used in middle school?
A. To learn math well. B. To grow vegetables. C. To do some experiments.
第二部分：语篇理解（共三节，满分80分）
第一节

阅读理解（共
9
小题
;
每小题
2.5
分，满分
22.5
分）

A
The Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity Challenge
Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!
The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual
Curiosity Challenge. The challenge invites, even dares school students between the ages of 5
and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them
to explore their world.
Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem
that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of
writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue.
Cambridge 02139 by Friday, February 8th.
Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honored
at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also present
prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will be
exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in
celebration and brunch will be served.
Between March 10th and March 15h, each winner will be given the specifics of the
closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration.
The program guidelines and other related information are available at: http://
.
21. Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?
A. CSF winners.





B. School students.
D. MIT artists. C. Cambridge locals.
22. When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?
A. On February 8th. B. On March 10th.
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C. On March 15th D. On April 21st.
23. What type of writing is this text?
A. An announcement.
C. An art show review.



B. An exhibition guide.
D. An official report.
B
Passenger pigeons (
旅鸽
)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable
numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (
群
) so large
that they darkened the sky for hours.
It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, they were more than
3 billion passenger pigeons — a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population
in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as
1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and
320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.
Sadly the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their
undoing
. Where the birds
were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the
thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until
pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The
birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.
By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger
pigeons nested had been damaged by American’s need for wood, which scattered (
驱散
) the
flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and spring storms
contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.
In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons,
but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wild
pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time, a
few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died
at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1, 1914.
24. In the 18th and early 19 th centuries, passenger pigeons ________.
A. were the largest bird population in the US
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B. lived mainly in the south of America
C. did great harm to the natural environment
D. were the biggest bird in the world
25. The underlined word “
undoing
” in paragraph 3 probably refers to the pigeons’ ________.
A. escape B. liberation C. ruin D. evolution
26. What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?
A. To seek pleasure. B. To make money.
C. To protect crops. D. To save other birds.
C
Scientists at Israel’s Tel Aviv University say they have created the world’s first
3D-printed heart with human tissue and blood vessels. Although the organ is only as big as a
rabbit’s heart, the researchers are hoping the technology could one day be developed enough
to help human patients in need of a heart transplant.
Lead researcher Tal Dvir said that while other scientists have managed to 3D-print the
structure of a heart in the past, this is the first time anyone has printed an entire heart. “Our
results demonstrate the potential of our approach for engineering personalized tissue and
organ replacement in the future,” Dvir said in a press statement.
Scientists used fatty tissue taken from human patients to create the heart. Some material
in the tissue was reprogrammed to become stem cells. The remaining material was processed
into a hydrogel. They used the hydrogel as a printing: “ink”. This method plays a key role in
removing the risk that the implant will be rejected by the patient’s body. The team’s next step
is to cultivate the organs in a lab and to teach them how to “behave” like hearts. Dvir’s
3D-printed hearts can currently contract, but the cells still need to develop a pumping ability.
His team eventually plans to test the hearts in animals.
“
Maybe, in ten years, there will be organ printers in the finest hospitals around the
world, and these procedures will be conducted routinely,
”
Dvir said. Heart disease is the
leading cause of death for both men and women, according to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. About 610,000 people die of this disease in America every year
─
amounting
to about 1 in every 4 deaths. There are currently more than 3, 700 people waiting for a heart
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transplant in the United States, according to data from the United States Department of Health
and Human Services.
27. What is the purpose of creating the 3D-printed heart?
A. To connect hospitals with universities B. To develop 3 D-printed technology.
C. To study the hearts of rabbits.
28. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. The procedures of the research. B. The importance of the research.
D. To help patients receive a new heart.
C. The method of the 3D-printed heart. D. The material of the 3D-printed heart.
29. Why does the author mention the current situation of heart disease patients?
A. To appeal to hospitals to reduce medical fees.
B. To explain the main reason for heart disease.
C. To show the need to advance the new technology.
D. To urge researchers to develop effective medical devices.
第二节

完形填空（共
20
小题
;
每小题
1.5
分，满分
30
分）

During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California. I
went to live there in order to be 30 him. I hated the place. I had never 31 been so
unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack(
棚
屋
) alone. The heat was 32 —almost 125
0
F even in the shade of a cactus(
仙人掌
). 33
a person to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the every air I breathed,
were 34 with sand, sand, sand!
I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was 35 and
coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I 36 be in prison! My
father answered my 37 with just two lines — two lines that will always sing in my
38 — two lines that completely changed my life:
Two men looked out from prison bars
One saw the mud, the other saw the stars
I read those two lines 39 , and I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I
would find out what was good in my present 40 I would look for the stars.
I made friends with the natives, and their 41 amazed me. They gave me presents of
their favorite artworks which they had 42 to sell to tourists. I studied the delightful
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forms of the cactus. I watched for the desert sunsets, and 43 for seashells that had been
left there millions of years ago when the desert had been an ocean 44 .
What brought about this 45 change in me? The desert hadn’t changed, 46 I
had. I had changed my 47 . And by doing so, I changed an unhappy experience into the
most unforgettable 48 of my life. I was excited by this new world where I discovered
I had looked out of my self-created prison and 49 the stars.
30. A. off
31. A. already
B. behind C. near
B. before C. then
D. beyond
D. still
D. unbearable
D. Such
D. charged
D. giving up
D. had better
32. A. inflexible B. incomprehensible C. uncontrollable
33. A. Not B. Only C. Many
C. buried
C. getting up
C. ought to
34. A. covered B. filled
35. A. catching up B. keeping up
36. A. would rather B. might well
37. A. request B. call
38. A. comparison B. imagination
39. A. by and by
C. letter
C. consideration
D. question
D. memory
and then
D. relationship
D. purpose
D. happened
D. hunted
D. level
D. puzzling
D. or
D. standard
D. adventure
D. reached
B. over and over C. up and down
C. situation
C. guidance
C. managed
C. waited
C. rock
40. A. company B. occupation
41. A. movement
42. A. refused
B. reaction
B. failed
43. A. asked B. headed
44. A. floor B. surface
45. A. shocking B. challenging
46. A. as B. but
47. A. attitude B. principle
C. amazing
C. for
C. identity
C. affair
C. found



48. A. vacation B. operation
49. A. sought B. counted
第三节

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。

Kids' health
：
Four steps for fighting stress (
战胜压力
)
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Everybody gets stressed from time to time. 50 . Some ways of dealing with
stress—like screaming or hitting someone—don't solve much. But other ways
，
like talking to
someone you trust, can lead you to solving your problem or at least feeling better. Try taking
these four steps the next time you are stressed
：

Get support.
When you need help, reach out to the people who care about you. Talk to a trusted adult,
such as a parent or other relatives. 51 .They might have had similar problems, such as
dealing with a test, or the death of a beloved pet.
Don't take it out on yourself
（不要把什么事情都往自己身上揽）
.
Sometimes when kids are stressed and upset, they take it out on themselves. Oh, dear,
that's not a good idea. Remember that there are always people to help you. Don't take it out on
yourself. 52 .
Try to solve the problem.
After you're calm and you have support from adults and friends, it's time to get down to
（开始做）
business. 53 . Even if you can't solve it all, you can solve a piece of it.
Be positive.
Most stress is temporary(
暂时的
). Remember stress does go away, especially when you
figure out the problem and start working on solving it.
These steps aren't magic, but they do work. And if you can stay positive as you make
your way through a tough time, you'll help yourself feel better even faster 54 .
A. Ask for a helping hand to get you through the tough situation
B. Notice your friends' feelings and find a way to help them
C. Different people feel stress in different ways
D. Ah, it feels so good when the stress is gone
E. You need to figure out what the problem is
F. And don't forget about your friends
G. Then
，
find a way to calm down

第二卷（非选择题，共55分）
第三部分：语言运用（共一节，满分15分）
语法填空（共
10
小题
;
每小题
1.5
分，满分
15
分）

阅读下面材料， 在空白处填入适当的内容（
1
个单词）或括号内单词的适当形式（可多
不积跬步无以至 千里，不积小流无以成江海！
词）。

One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. _____55_____(cook) some delicious food in
the kitchen, suddenly, he _____56______ (find) that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to
his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much
_____57______ too little.”
His son looked surprised. “I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if
I can pay less, ______58_____ not save a bit of money?”
“That would be a very _____59_____ (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could
destroy a small village like ours. ” Nick said.
Nick’s guests, ____60_______ had heard their conversation, asked why they should not
buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied, “The only reason why a man would sell salt
_____61______ a lower price would be that he was desperate for money. And anyone who
took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle
of the man who worked very hard ____62____(produce) it.”
“But such a small thing couldn’t _____63______ (possible) destroy a village.”
“In the beginning, there was only a very small amount of unfairness in the world, but
everyone added a little, always ______64_____ (think) that it was only small and not very
important, and look where we have ended up today.”

第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分
40
分）

第一节 应用文写作（共
1
题，满分
15
分）

假定你是李华，你被自己心仪的大学录取了。请你给你的外教
Mrs. Wilson
写封感谢信，
感谢在校期间她对你的教导和帮助，内容包括：

1.
对老师的辛勤教学工作表示感谢；

2.
感谢在校期间老师对自己的教导；

3.
表达对老师的想念以及衷心祝愿。

Dear Mrs. Wilson,

__________________________________ _________________________________________
_____ __________________________________________________ ____________________
__________________________ _________________________________________________< br>不积跬步无以至千里，不积小流无以成江海！