2021-2022学年安徽省滁州市定远县育才学校高二下学期5月月考英语试题Word版含答案

育才学校2021-2022学年高二下学期5月月考

英语试题

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．What has the woman’s granny been doing all afternoon?

A．Cooking. B．Gardening. C．Surfing the Internet.

2．What does the man need?

A．Some books. B．New trousers. C．Music CDs.

3．Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A．In a shop. B．In a hotel. C．In a hospital.

4．How was the weather yesterday?

A．Rainy. B．Sunny. C．Cloudy.

5．What does the man plan to do?

A．To see more road movies.

B．To have a holiday in California.

C．To drive down the coast of California.

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2至4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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6．What can people buy from the Medbury market now?

A．Cheese. B．Butter. C．Traditional baskets.

7．What is the long building now?

A．A leather goods market. B．A shoe factory. C．A museum.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8．Where can people find the cinema?

A．In the market. B．Beside the bank. C．Opposite the park.

9．What is the speaker?

A．A tourist guide. B．A policeman. C．A shopping assistant.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10．How many days has the woman taken off in the past two years?

A．At most 25. B．No more than 10. C．More than 40.

11．What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A．Colleagues. B．Classmates. C．Boss and employee.

12．What does the woman say about the bus?

A．It is very cheap. B．It is very slow. C．It is crowded.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13．How will the man go to work?

A．By bike. B．By car. C．By bus.

14．Where did the speakers agree to meet?

A．At the corner by the post office.

B．By the cash machine in the shop.

C．By the statue in the shopping center.

15．How long did the woman wait for the man?

A．20 minutes. B．30 minutes. C．60 minutes.

16．Why did the woman fail to get the man’s message?

A．Her phone was off. B．She lost her phone. C．The place was too noisy.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17．Who will run third?

A．Andy. B．Pete. C．Dave.

18．Which team does the man belong to?

A．Ashgrove College. B．Lancaster College. C．Highland Park College.

19．When will the high jump start?

A．At 3:00 pm. B．At 4:00 pm. C．At 5:00 pm.

20．What is the woman’s race?

A．The 100-metre race. B．The long jump.  C．The long distance race.

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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Fall 2021 Story Contest

Our Fall Contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We're looking for short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts (摘录) from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries (参赛作品) must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest.

As always, we are looking for works with a strong narrative drive, with characters we can respond to, and with effects of language, situation, and insight that are intense and total. We look for works that have the ambition of enlarging our view of ourselves and the world.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR WORKS

Awards: First Prize is $2,500, second Prize is $l,000, Third Prize is $500, and up to ten finalists will receive $100 each. All entries will be considered for publication.

Submission Fee: There is a $27 fee for each entry. With your entry, you'll receive three months of free access to Narrative Backstage.

All contest entries are qualified for the $4,000 Narrative Prize and for acceptance as a Story of the Week.

Timing: The contest deadline is November 30, 2021, at midnight, Pacific standard time.

21．Which of the following will be accepted by the contest?

A．A short story once published in a magazine. B．A novel that entered the 2020 year ten finalists.

C．An essay not ever published with 2,000 words. D．An essay having won honorable mention in other contests.

22．What will you receive if your entry is accepted?

A．$27 for submission. B．Qualification for prize money.

C．A guarantee of publication. D．Free lifetime access to Narrative Backstage.

23．What can we say about the contest?

A．It is held in the UK. B．It is free for every entry.

C．It charges $100 as entrance fee. D．It has a deadline of November 30, 2021.

B

So many things can keep you from seeing your loved ones in person, from busy schedules to long distances to a rather unexpected pandemic. Fortunately, thanks to modern technology, the people we miss are often only a phone call or text message away. But if you're someone who's more prone to typed out messages than verbal ones, you may want to reconsider. According to science, if you want to feel more connected to the people you're talking to, you should call them instead of texting.

A new study, published in the? Journal of Experimental Psychology, found that communication interactions that included voice, like a phone call or video chat, created stronger social bonds than communication through typing, like text messaging（发信息）or email.

In the study, researchers used various experiments to gauge（测量）connectedness. In one, they asked 200 people to make predictions about what it would be like to reconnect with an old friend by email or by phone and then assigned people at random to do one or the other. Although people anticipated that a phone call would be more awkward, hearing someone's voice actually made the experience better.

"People reported they did form a significantly stronger bond with their old friend on the phone versus email, and they did not feel more awkward, " study co-author Amit Kumar, an assistant professor of marketing at the McCombs School of Business, said in a statement.

In another experiment, the researchers had strangers connect by either texting, talking over video chat, or talking using only audio. They found that both forms of voice communication—whether video or audio only—made the strangers feel significantly more connected than when they communicated via text.

Sabrina Romanoff, a Harvard trained clinical psychologist based in New York City, says people tend to text or email instead of calling because of convenience, as they see it as a controlled form of communication where they can "correspond information exactly in the way they intend without unexpected additions by the other person."

Romanoff says that in reality, texting can make it hard to determine the true meaning behind a conversation. "A phone call is actually more convenient when considering the net effects of the message," she explains. "Each party is more present, and therefore, able to gauge the meaning behind the content without ruminating on the endless possible meanings behind words and punctuation."

24．According to the passage, which of the following will NOT prevent you from visiting your friends?

A．Long distance. B．Busyness.

C．A certain pandemic. D．Bad relationship.

25．How did the researchers confirm their judgment?

A．By publishing their articles. B．By Making experiments

C．By interviewing some famous people. D．By sending emails to strangers.

26．Why do people tend to text or email instead of calling?

A．Because they think to text or email cost less fees.

B．Because they think it is more convenient to text or email than to call.

C．Because they intend to discuss with another person.

D．Because they think it is more convenient to save the data.

27．Which is the best title of the passage?

A．Voice Communication Is Better Than Texting Massage

B．Remember To Get In Touch With Your old Friends

C．Strengthen The Communication Interaction

D．Control Your True Meaning Behind A Conversation

C

On the Yucatan Peninsula, people are working to protect and expand mangrove forests. The low trees grow in watery areas near ocean coasts. Years ago, mangroves were all along the Yucatan shores. Today, there are few.

A team of villagers from the area is trying to renew the forests. Scientists and donations support the effort. The Mexican government helps pay training costs for the team. The villagers joined the renewal effort more than 10 years ago with scientist Jorge Alfredo Herrera. He told them how to dig canals (运河). The dig was going to be hard work and the pay was only four dollars a day. Recently, the workers finished the second part of the process: planting young mangroves near the city.

This mangrove renewal effort is similar to others around the world. Scientists and community groups are increasingly recognizing the need to protect and bring back the forests. Mangroves are a very important ecosystem to fight climate change. While these trees only grow on less than 1 percent of the Earth’s land, they can bury around five times more carbon in the sediment (沉积物) than a rainforest.

Yet, around the world, mangroves are being destroyed. From 1980 to 2005, as much as 35 percent of the world’s mangroves disappeared.

In Mexico, as in much of the world, development is the main threat to mangrove existence. The area of Cancun lost most of its mangroves to roads and hotels starting in the 1980s. Mangroves on the country’s southern Pacific Ocean coast also have been cleared to make room for fish farms. Oil industry operations in waters off the Gulf of Mexico threaten mangroves there too.

There have been restoration efforts around the world to protect mangroves. In Mexico, the successes have arrived slowly. Manuel Conzalez is a 57-year-old fisherman. He helped regrow many mangroves. González says storms do not cause much damage and the fish and wildlife have returned.

But the mangroves face a new threat. “In 10 years, you have a very nice mangrove for someone with a chainsaw (电锅) to come and take it,” Gonzalez said. “That’s something that hurts me a lot.”

28．What can be known about the renewal effort?

A．It was started by the government. B．All parts of it have been finished.

C．It is guided by some villager. D．It is hard work for little pay.

29．Why do we need to protect and bring back mangrove forests?

A．They can stop climate change completely. B．They can act as a defence against storms.

C．They are efficient in storing carbon. D．They can bring great financial benefits to the locals.

30．How does the author develop the fifth paragraph?

A．By giving examples. B．By presenting numbers.

C．By explaining concepts. D．By drawing conclusions.

31．What is Conzilez mainly worried about?

A．Not enough fish and wildlife have returned.

B．Powerful storms may do harm to many mangroves

C．The successes of regrowing mangroves arrive too slowly.

D．Mangrove forests may be destroyed by humans in the future.

D

It’s late in the evening, time to close the book and turn off the computer. You’re done for the day. What you may not realize, however, is that the learning process actually continues in your dreams.

It might sound like science fiction, but researchers are increasingly focusing on the relationship between the knowledge and skills our brains absorb during the day and the often strange imaginings they generate at night. Scientists have found that dreaming about a task we’ve learned is associated with improved performance in that activity (suggesting that there’s some truth to the popular idea that we’re “getting” a foreign language once we begin dreaming in it). What’s more, dreaming may be an essential part of understanding, organizing and retaining what we learn. While we sleep, research indicates, the brain replays the patterns of activity it experienced during waking hours, allowing us to enter what one psychologist calls a neural virtual reality.

A vivid example of such replay can be seen in a video researchers made recently about sleep disorders. They taught a series of dance moves to patients suffering from sleepwalking and related conditions. They then videotaped the subjects as they slept. Lying in bed, eyes closed, one female patient on the tape performed the dance moves she learned earlier — “the first direct and unambiguous demonstration of behavioral replay of a recently learned skill during human sleep, ” writes lead author Delphine Oudiette.

Of course, most of us are not quite so energetic during sleep — but our brains are busy nonetheless. While our bodies are at rest, scientists theorize, our brains are extracting what’s important from the information and events we’ve recently encountered, then integrating that data into the vast store of what we already know—perhaps explaining why dreams are such an odd mixture of fresh experiences and old memories. A dream about something we’ve just learned seems to be a sign that the new knowledge has been processed effectively. In a 2010 study published in the journal Current Biology, researchers at Harvard Medical School reported that college students who dreamed about a computer maze task they had learned showed a 10-fold improvement in their ability to navigate the maze compared to participants who did not dream about the task.

Robert Stickgold, one of the Harvard researchers, suggests that studying right before bedtime or taking a nap following a study session in the afternoon might increase the odds of dreaming about the material. Think about that as your head hits the pillow tonight.

32．What happens when one enters a dream state?

A．The body continues to act as if the sleeper were awake.

B．The neural activity of the brain will become more intense.

C．The brain once again experiences the learning activities of the day.

D．The brain behaves as if it were playing a virtual reality video game.

33．What does the brain do while we are sleeping?

A．It replaces old information with new material.

B．It processes and absorbs newly acquired data.

C．It classifies information and places it in different files.

D．It systematizes all the information collected during the day.

34．Which of the following can enhance learning according to Robert Stickgold?

A．Staying up late before finally going to bed.

B．Having a period of sleep right after studying.

C．Having a dream about anything you are interested in.

D．Thinking about the chances of dreaming about the material.

35．What is the text mainly about?

A．How study affects people’s dreams.

B．Why people learn more after sleeping.

C．What time students should study and sleep.

D．How dreaming may lead to improved learning outcomes.

第二节 七选五（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项。

A strong memory depends on the health and vitality（生命力）of your brain. They say that you can't teach an old dog new tricks，but when it comes to the brain，scientists have discovered that this old saying simply isn't true. ___36___

Give your brain a workout. Memory, like muscular strength, requires you to“use it or lose it”. The more you work out your brain, the better you' ll be able to process and remember information. ___37___

Don't skip the physical exercise. While mental exercise is important to brain health, that doesn't mean you never need to break a sweat. Physical exercise helps your brain stay sharp. It increases oxygen to your brain and reduces the risk of disorders that lead to memory loss.

Get enough sleep. There is a big difference between the amount of sleep you can get now and the amount you need to function at your best. ___38___

Keep stress in check. Stress is one of the brain's worst enemies. Over time, stress destroys brain cells. Studies have also linked stress to memory loss.

Have a laugh. ___39___ That holds true for the brain and the memory, as well as the body. Unlike emotional responses, which are limited to specific areas of the brain, laughter involves multiple regions across the whole brain.

___40___ Just as the body needs fuel, so does the brain. You probably already know that a diet based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains,“healthy”fats and lean protein will provide lots of health benefits, but such a diet can also improve memory. For brain health, though, it's not just what you eat — it's also what you don't eat.

A．Play games with memory.

B．Keep a brain-enhancing diet.

C．Laughter is the best medicine.

D．But oversleeping is not good for your brain.

E．Even skipping a few hours makes a difference!

F．You have to do some workouts from time to time!

G．The human brain has an astonishing ability to adapt and change.

第三部分  英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节语法填空（共20小题; 每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China used to be called the “Kingdom of Bicycles” in the 1980s and the 1990s, but since then, cars __41__ (take) over the country. Because of traffic jams, __42__ can be difficult to travel across major Chinese cities. Even __43__ (go) a few kilometers can take up to an hour. Now, new apps that help people use bikes are being used more and more across cities.

Cheng Li started using bike share services about six __44__ (month) ago. He said now he was using a car less and the metro (地铁) __45__. “After I get off the metro, I usually have to walk another kilometer or two, so I’ll grab a bike share and go. It is convenient.”

For many, it is great to have shared bikes. __46__, many of its bike share stations were not placed in convenient places. Now, it is easy to find a bike, and to register with __47__ smartphone.

Meanwhile, there is now a lot of __48__ (compete) among bike ——sharing providers because of their __49__ (popular). Some providers are trying to flood the streets with bikes to be more visible. Sometimes there are so many bikes that they __50__ (complete) block the sidewalks.

第二节完形填空（共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从51─70各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In the lobby(休息室) after a long day at work, I found myself standing next to a handsome young man with a nice smile. A ___51___ showed what we had in common: I had ___52___ in New York city from Germany while he had ___53___ from South America.

We exchanged stories about the ___54___ of starting a new life in a new country. “I’ve been ___55___ apartment within walking distance from my ___56___. And what I want is to have a good ___57___ of Central park! But I’m dreaming. I can’t ___58___ to rent a room like that myself and I haven’t found a roommate to share in expenses（费用）.” The young man wrote a ___59___ down on a piece of paper. “Her name’s Carol and she is a good girl,” he said. “You’ll ___60___ her, and she needs a roommate.”

I called her right away. “I’ve been ___61___ to hear from you,” said Carole, who lived near Central Park. ___62___, she became my best roommate, and has been my ___63___ for 34 years.

“We were sure lucky to ___64___ each other,” Carole said to me recently. “But I wondered what took you so ___65___ to call.” I said. “I called right after I ___66___ your South American friend.” Carole looked amazed. “Not a friend, ___67___ I met him only once, and he told me about you. But that was a whole week before you finally ___68___.” “But I don’t understand; I didn’t know him until that afternoon.” “Maybe he know of you before because you were ___69___ known in the company for your achievement.”

Though you are a small potato, if you work hard and do ___70___, people will find you sooner or later.

51．A．chat B．action C．letter D．sentence

52．A．got B．arrived C．reached D．approached

53．A．returned B．appeared C．heard D．come

54．A．pleasure B．difficulties C．excitement D．danger

55．A．finding out B．adopted C．decorated D．searching for

56．A．job B．home C．school D．friend

57．A．sight B．visit C．view D．point

58．A．realize B．provide C．afford D．stand

59．A．number B．sign C．mark D．note

60．A．meet B．like C．believe D．agree

61．A．looking B．staying C．waiting D．keeping

62．A．And B．However C．Then D．Indeed

63．A．wife B．friend C．roommate D．partner

64．A．receive B．find C．notice D．see

65．A．short B．fast C．long D．slow

66．A．came across B．heard from C．knew of D．referred to

67．A．hurriedly B．rapidly C．commonly D．exactly

68．A．said B．called C．spoke D．visited

69．A．far B．much C．well D．rather

70．A．everything B．anything C．nothing D．something

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节  短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分， 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。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），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。

My schedule is tight than ever because I’m in a final year of high school. However, I still manage to do what I can help my parents with the housework. I’ve gotten into the habit of washing dishes after dinner when I turned ninth. I also do thing like washing and folding clothes. I even begin to cook for my family last month.

I find that doing housework with my parents is extreme fun and meaningful. We can chat with and sometimes even sing together! Do housework with them also lets me learn to take responsibility at home and, in the long term, in society.

第二节  书面表达（满分25分）

假定你是校学生会主席李华，为了帮助英国交换生更好地了解中国文化，培养本国学生的文化意识，学生会将举办一个“中国文化日”活动，请你根据以下提示，用英语写一则通知，内容包括：

1. 活动的目的；

2. 活动的时间、地点、内容、对象等；

3. 期待加入。

注意：1. 写作词数为80左右；2. 可适当增加内容以使行文连贯。

Notice

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The Students’ Union

参考答案

1．C2．A3．B4．A5．C6．C7．C8．B9．A10．B11．A12．B13．C14．C15．A16．A17．C18．B19．B20．A

21．C22．B23．D24．D25．B26．B27．A28．D29．C30．A31．D32．C33．B34．B35．D 36．G37．F38．E39．C40．B

41．have taken/have been taking

42．it

43．going

44．months

45．more

46．However

47．a/your

48．competition

49．popularity

50．completely

51．A52．B53．D54．B55．D56．A57．C58．C59．A60．B61．C62．D63．A64．B65．C

66．A67．D68．B69．C70．D

1.tight→tighter   2. a→the/my  3.在help前添to  4.when→since  5.ninth→nine 6.thing→things  7.begin→began  8.extreme→extremely  9.将chat后的with删去

10.Do→Doing

In order to make the exchange students have a better understanding of Chinese culture and develop everyone’s cultural awareness, the Students’ Union will organize a Chinese Culture Festival on the afternoon of October 9th, which will be held in the school hall. Here are some relevant details about it.

To begin with, various activities will be arranged to experience traditional Chinese culture, such as paper cutting, kung fu and Chinese calligraphy. What’s more, you will be welcome to enjoy the Peking Opera performed by our students.

Wish you would like the activities and join us.

The Students’ Union