2021省大庆中学高二下学期期中考试英语试题含答案

2020-2021学年度下学期期中考试

高二英语试题

一 单项选择题

1.   He used to be ____ teacher but later he turned ____ writer.

1. a;a     B. the; /     C a; a      D a;/

2.   Here came three_______.

1. Woman teacher    B. women teacher     C. woman teachers     D. women teachers

3.   --Do you like Jane’s new skirt ?

   -- Yes, very much. I’ll ask mum to buy _____ for me.

1. one     B it     C. the other     D. a

4.   Mary lives in the room , the door ______ opens east.

1. Of it     B. of which     C. of what     D. whose

5.   The manager put forward a suggestion _____ we should have an assistant . There is too much time on it.

1. whether     B. that      C. which      D. what

6.   ______ the Internet is of great help, I don’t think it’s a good idea to spend too much time on it.

1. While       B. until      C. if       D . before

7.   The famous musician , as well as his students,______ to perform at the opening ceremony last year.

1. Were invited     B. was invited     C. have been invited      D. has been invited

8.   I am always delighted when I receive an e-mail from you.

   ______ the party on July 1st, I shall be pleased to attend .

1. On account of      B. In response to      C. In view of      D.With regard to

9.   Butterflies ______ a sweet liquid produced by flowers, which bees and other insects collect.

1. carry  on     B. feed on     C. put on      D. focus on

10. Only when Lily walked into the office _____ that she had left the contract at home.

1. She realized     B. has she realized     C. She has realized      D. did she realize

11. The airport _____ next year will help promote tourism in this area.

1. being completed      B to be completed     C. completed     D. having been completed

12. The park was full of people , _______ themselves in the sunshine.

1. having enjoyed     B. enjoyed     C. enjoying    D. to enjoy 

13. Can you believe that in _____ a rich country there should be _____ many poor people .

1. such; such      B. so;so     C. so; such     D. such; so

14. It’s the third time I _____ him this month .

1. had seen     B see      C. saw     D. have seen

15. -- What shall we do tonight then ?

-- _____ whatever you want.

1. Help yourself. B. It’s a deal     C. No problem.     D. It’s up to you.

二 阅读理解题

             A

The Most Tech­friendly School in the World

Forget a pen and paper! This new­fashioned school relies on iPads, touch screens, projectors and even electronic locker keys.The School of the Future's main goal is to equip students with the most knowledge in the technology field.While it struggled back when it opened in 2006, it is now one of the most in­demand schools.

Hamburger University

No, this school isn't about perfecting the hamburger.Actually, it sort of is! The McDonald's training facility is where restaurant managers go to learn the craft (手艺).From making a hamburger to dealing with complaining customers, it takes a lot to handle the running of Micky D's.Also, imagine having Hamburger University on your resume (简历).Now that would make you stand out from the crowd!

Real­life Clown (小丑) College

While movies and television shows love to make fun of kids and adults alike running off to join clown college or the circus but it turns out that it isn't made up.The Ringling Brothers set up a number of courses and schools around the United States to teach willing students the art of clowning around.It's a tough job，right? Imagine wearing a bright red nose while kids scream at you for a balloon animal.

Charles W．Howard Santa Claus School

Set up in the 1930s, this famous institution aims to produce the very best Santas.Potential Santas will learn how to interact with children and of course, how to laugh like the real deal.While you won't take the course unless you plan on being a professional Santa, it surely would be fun to dress up for a day!

16．What do we know about the School of the Future?

A．It has been run smoothly since 2006.

B．It employs digital devices in fruitful ways.

C．Its popularity has declined in recent years.

D．It aims to  spread knowledge in many fields.

17．Which school may help you become a comedian?

A．The School of the Future.

B．Hamburger University.

C．Real­life Clown College.

D．Charles W．Howard Santa Claus School.

18．Which of the following best describes the four schools?

A．Entertaining.　　　　　 B．Ancient.

C．Wild.    D．Unusual.

B

I took a motor rickshaw to the train station in the city of Belapur.The driver didn't speak much English, but understood, “Belapur Railway Station”．I had my tabla, a traditional drum from India, my suitcase with my clothes and other essentials.The feeling of flying by cars in this little machine seems as if you are inside a box with tiny wheels, dashing through disorderly traffic.

I arrived at the station safely, and took a heavy breath as I unloaded my baggage before the ticket office.It was the first time that I had taken a local train to Tilak Nagar, where I was going to learn traditional vocal music.Standing in line, I counted at least 20 people staring at me.I bought my ticket, which was  only 55 cents for a 20­minute train ride.The_prices_still_blow_me_away.

 When the train came after 15 minutes or so, I got on at full speed, as the train only stopped for a few seconds.The locals again stared at me.This was a train especially for local transport.After a while, a young  man asked me if he could talk to me.He wanted to know if I was in a band.I stated no, but I love to play the tabla.Through the conversation I knew he was a student of engineering with his exams being tomorrow. I wished him good luck for the exams sincerely, as I knew what it means to Indian students to get good marks on their exams.If students do not get good enough scores, job opportunities will be few in a highly competitive environment.

The student I met helped me unload my luggage as the train reached Tilak Nagar Station.He shook my hand strongly and looked into my eyes with the mark of genuine kindness, despite us meeting for only 20 minutes.

19．How did the author feel about the ride by a motor rickshaw?

A．Worthless.    B．Worrying.

C．Common.    D．Expensive.

20．What does the underlined part mean in the passage?

A．The train ticket cost him too much.

B．It was quite cheap to take the train.

C．The train was so convenient for him.

D．It was unusual to take a train there.

21．What can we know about the young man mentioned in the passage?

A．He wanted to learn to play the tabla from the author.

B．He was going to a university to learn vocal music.

C．He would take his examinations seriously.

D．He wished to find a job in Tilak Nagar.

22．What is the author's purpose of writing the passage?

A．To tell readers he got to know an Indian young man.

B．To imply it was unsafe to travel alone in India.

C．To complain about the messy and dirty Indian train.

D．To share his first­time experience on a train in India.

C

Until recently, voice cloning — or voice banking, as it was then known — was a customized industry which served those at risk of losing the power of speech to cancer or surgery. Synthesizing(合成) a voice was a long and expensive process. It meant recording many phrases, each spoken many times, with different the history of the KidPass blog emotional emphases(重音) and in different contexts (statement, question, command and so forth), in order to the tips on writing good articles online cover all possible pronunciations.

Not any more. Software exists that can store pieces of recorded speech which is merely five milliseconds long, each marked with a precise pitch(音高). These can be put together to make new words, and adjusted individually so that they fit harmoniously into their new sonic homes. This is much cheaper than conventional voice banking, and permits novel uses to be developed.

This year Vivo Text plans to release an app that lets users select the emphasis, speed and level of happiness or sadness with which individual words and phrases are produced. Mr. Silbert refers to the emotive quality of the human voice as “the ultimate instrument”. Yet this power also troubles him. Vivo Text licenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings. Hasbro is aware, Mr. Silbert notes, that without safeguards a naughty child might, for example, type impolite words on his mother’s smartphone in order to see a younger sibling burst into tears on hearing them spoken by a toy using mum’s voice.

More troubling, when tested against voice-biometrics software like that used by many banks to block unauthorized access to accounts, more than 80% of the fake voices tricked the computer. Alan Black, one of Festvox’s developers, thinks systems that rely on voice-ID software are now “deeply, fundamentally insecure”.

Dr. Saxena and his colleagues asked volunteers if a voice sample belonged to a person whose real speech they had just listened to for about 90 seconds. The volunteers recognized cloned speech as such only half the time (no better than chance). The outcome, according to George Papcun, an expert witness paid to detect fake recordings produced as evidence in court, is the appearance of a technology with “enormous potential value for disinformation”.

As might be expected, countermeasures to recognize such deception(欺骗) are being developed.

Nuance Communications, a maker of voice-activated software, is working on algorithms(算法) that detect tiny skips in frequency at the points where slices of speech are stuck together. Adobe, best known as the marker of Photoshop, an image-editing software suite, says that it may add digital watermarks to speech synthesized by a voice-cloning software called VoCo it is developing. Such technology may help computers recognize suspicious speech. Even so, it is easy to imagine the chaos that might be created in a world which makes it easy to put authentic-sounding words into the mouths of opponents — be they colleagues or heads of state.

23. Paragraphs 1 and 2 are mainly about .

A. significant elements influencing voice cloning

B. possible applications of voice cloning in reality

C. complexities of creating a synthetic copy of a voice

D. differences between traditional and existing voice banking

24. What’s Hasbro’s attitude towards Vivo Test’s new app?

A. Optimistic.      B. Conservative.

C. Unconcerned.     D. Subjective.

25. The experiment carried out by Dr. Saxena and his colleagues shows that volunteers .

A. identified cloned speech in about 45 seconds

B. preferred a real speech to a voice sample

C. proved only a little harder to fool than software

D. found it hard to use the software to record their voices

26. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. Investments should be increased to advance voice cloning.

B. Long-term measures should be taken to popularize the idea of voice cloning.

C. Disagreements among firms about the way to treat voice cloning are getting serious.

D. Problems of voice cloning are unavoidable despite the efforts that have been made.

D

Is It Worth Buying Organic Food?

Organic food, grown without artificial chemicals, is increasingly popular nowadays. Consumers have been willing to pay up to twice as much for goods with organic labels (商标). However, if you think paying a little more for organic food gets you a more nutritious and safer product, you might want to save your money. A study led by researchers at Stanford University says that organic products aren't necessarily more nutritious, and they're no less likely to suffer from disease-causing bacteria, either.

The latest results, published in the Annuals of Internal Medicine, suggest that buyers may be wasting their money. "We did not find strong evidence that organic food is more nutritious or healthier," says Dr. Crystal Smith-Spangler from Stanford. "So consumers shouldn't assume that one type of food has a lower risk or is safer."

For their new study, Smith-Spangler and her colleagues conducted a review of two categories of research, including 17 studies that compared health outcomes between consumers of organic against traditional food products, and 223 studies that analyzed the nutritional content of the foods, including key vitamins, minerals and fats.

While the researchers found little difference in nutritional content, they did find that organic fruit and vegetables were 20% less likely to have chemicals remaining on the surfaces. Neither organic nor traditional foods showed levels of chemicals high enough to go beyond food safety standards. And both organic and traditional meats, such as chicken and pork, were equally likely to be harmed by bacteria at very low rates. The researchers did find that organic milk and chicken contained higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, a healthy fat also found in fish that can reduce the risk of heart disease. However, these nutritional differences were too small, and the researchers were unwilling to make much of them until further studies confirm the trends.

Organic food is produced with fewer chemicals and more natural-growing practices, but that doesn't always translate into a more nutritious or healthier product. The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) states that "whether you buy organic or not, finding the freshest foods available may have the biggest effect on taste." Fresh food is at least as good as anything marketed as organic.

27 The new research questions whether organic food __________.

A. should replace traditional food   B. has been overpriced by farmers

C. is grown with less harmful chemicals  D. is really more nutritious and healthier

28. Smith-Spangler and her colleagues found that __________.

A. organic food could reduce the risk of heart disease

B. traditional food was grown with more natural methods

C. both organic and traditional food they examined were safe

D. there was not a presence of any forms of bacteria in organic food

29. Which of the following is relatively healthier according to the passage?

A. Organic chicken and pork.              B. Organic milk and chicken.

C. Traditional chicken and pork.           D. Traditional fruit and vegetables.

30. What is the author's attitude toward organic food?

A. Skeptical.   B. Neutral.    C. Unconcerned.   D. Approving.

七选五 Good study habits are what separate the good students from the ordinary. It’s natural for one not to want to study, especially when there are video games to play, friends to gossip with and exciting TV programs to watch. After a good  study session, you will enjoy all those activities even more.       31       Read on to learn how.

Pick a place to study. If you find the right place and keep coming back to it, you will be able to focus when the time comes to read the books. Find a place where you can spread out your materials.      32     

Choose a time to study.       33      The moment may happen in the calm morning hours or after minutes of physical exercises. To develop good study habits, start at the same time each day and plan your other activities around this period.

Mix it up.       34       It’s natural to want variety so that you stay interested in what you are trying to learn. If you find a particular subject boring, put it between two subjects you enjoy.

      35       This is an important part of developing good study habits. Deep down (在心底，事实上) we are all five-year-olds who just want a candy bar. Let your treat be a chat with friends, a healthy snack, or even a night on the town if you finish a big project.

三 完形填空

I drove to a local supermarket the other day. My shopping list was ___36__ and my wallet was light. Still, I needed to get a week’s worth of groceries for my family. I parked my car, looked down at my list, and hoped I could __37__it all.

    As I ___38_ the door, I saw a man with kind eyes and a gentle __39___. He said he was collecting for a local food bank that helped to_40__ the hungry in my area. He handed me a second shopping list of things they could use and asked me to _41__ if I could. I smiled back, took the _42__ and walked into the store. I really wanted to help, but wasn’t sure if I could this time.

   I walked through the store, picking up vegetables, soup, spaghetti, bread, milk, cereal, macaroni, bananas,and a dozen other things. I slowly ___43__ each item off my list until I was done. When I looked down at my full cart I _44_ again if I even had enough to pay for it all. Then, as I put my own list back into my pocket, I saw the food __45__ list under it. I smiled and decided to trust my heart.

With the food bank in mind,I went over and __46___ two of the biggest boxes of rice the store had and put them in my cart. It took_47__ six dollars out of my wallet to pay for them,__48__ my heart felt six times larger when I did. And when everything was _49___, I had just enough to pay for it all.

It  50__ so little to make our world a better place. A few dollars can help to fill a child’s _51__ belly(肚子). A smile and hug can help to ___52__ a hurting heart. An encouraging word can inspire someone else to live and to love. A random__53__ of kindness can change another’s day and life. It is up to us,_54__. If we can ___55___ a few dollars on rice , then we can share a love that will last forever.

36.A.short       B.long      C.frequent    D.heavy

37.A.offer     B.exchange   C.afford    D.accept

38 A.approached   B.painted      C.cleaned            D.left

39 A.attitude     B.manner     C.smile        D.anger

40.A.share       B.train     C.protect        D.feed

41.A.help         B.write     C.advertise     D.search

42A.name       B.project    C.list          D.budget

43A.signed    B.marked       C.rid        D.separated

44A.wandered      B.wondered   C.fancied          D.amazed

45A.store             B.cart           C.nutrition    D.bank

46A.picked out   B.lifted up    C.picked up   D.folded up

47A.other    B.others    C.more       D.another

48A.so       B.but           C.and       D.since

49A.ordered     B.totaled      C.replaced        D.packed

50A.takes    B.spends      C.pays       D.wastes

51A.hungry      B.adequate      C.anxious        D.full

52A.cure        B.treat          C.heal     D.recover

53A.ability    B.allowance   C.appreciation      D.act

54A.although         B.though         C.yet        D.still

55A.save          B.rescue           C.accumulate   D.reserve

四 语法填空

British English56.____________(difference) from American English in many ways. The most obvious way is in the vocabulary. Sometimes, the same word has a 57____________(slight) different meaning, which can be 58____________(confuse)．Besides, there are some differences in grammar，spelling and pronunciation between the two varieties, 59.____________ sometimes makes people from different places have 60.____________(difficult) in understanding each other. Despite the differences, they still have much 61.____________ common, and62.        (communicate)across the Atlantic develops steadily, which has led to them 63.____________(move) closer. Though there seem to be many “Englishes” and people speak English with different64.____________(accent), users of English will all be able to understand each other, 65.____________ they are.

五 短文改错（满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文，文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

A city, whether big and small, should be clean. Only when we live in a clean city we live a happy life. As we know, a clean city, that disease may be reduced and people’s health may be better, are good both for our mind and body. No one believes people lived in a dirty city with waste everywhere can live happy. However, for much people moved into our city, it is not easy to keep our city clean. Beside, some factories will pour waste into the air, the river and onto the ground, making it is hard to keep our city clean. To make our city the better place to live in, we still have a lot to do.

六 写  作

假定你是李华，将于今年七月从新星外语学校毕业。你从报纸上得知B&B公司要招聘一名英文秘书,你很感兴趣。请给该公司写一封求职信，包括下列要点：

1.年龄；         

2.学习情况和英文水平；

3.兴趣特长；    

4.性格特点。

注意：1.词数100左右。

      2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

      3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入词数。

Dear Sir/Madam ,

 I learned from the newspaper that your company needs an English secretary. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ I' m looking forward to your reply .

                                                  Sincerely yours, 

Li Hua

高二英语答案

单选题

1-5 DBABA  6-10  ABDBD   11-15BCDDD

阅读理解

A篇 BCD   B篇 BBCD   C 篇  DBCD  D 篇 DCBA

完形填空：

36-40 BCACD   41-45 ACBBD  46-50CDBBA  51-55 ACDBA

语法填空

答案：1.differs　2.slightly　3.confusing　4.which

5．difficulty　6.in　7.communication　8.moving

9．accents　10.wherever

短文改错

1  and —or  2. we 前加can / will   3.that —where   4. are — is    5. lived —living

6 happy —happily  7 much—many  8. Beside — Besides  9.去掉 is  10. the —a

Dear Sir or Madam,

I learned from the newspaper that your company needs an English secretary. I’m really interested in the position and would like to apply for it.

I’m 24 years old and will graduate from the school this July. I’m an excellent student, among the top 5 in my class. I’m good at English, especially spoken English. Also I’m experienced in computer operation. In my spare time, I read a lot, which broadens my horizons. Being an active young person, I like sports and outdoor activities. Besides,I’m easy to get along with and like to make friends. So I’m convinced that I’m equal to the job.

I’d appreciate it if you could take my application into consideration. I am Looking forward to your reply.