2020会宁县四中高二下学期期中考试英语试题含答案

会宁四中2019-2020学年度第二学期高二期中考试英语试卷

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第一部分：阅读理解（共两节， 每小题2分，满分40分）

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Great Activities for Nature Lovers

Hiking

One of the easiest and most accessible ways to get close to nature is by setting out on a good old fashioned hike. Hiking generally doesn't require any fancy equipment or special skills, just a piece of map and a thirst for adventure. This activity can be as relaxing as you make it.

Backcountry Camping

Why limit yourself to just a day hike when you can have a full weekend for a longer adventure? Backcountry camping involves packing your tent, sleeping gear, food, and water on your back to set up camp in a remote location. If you’re an experienced hiker and camper, this is an excellent way to test your survival skills and explore the wilderness.

Mountain and Road Biking

Biking allows you to cover more ground and travel farther in nature, unlike long hikes through the woods and backcountry camping. Mountain biking typically involves riding up and down steep slopes, between trees, and over rocks. If this sounds too intense or your tires aren't suited for rugged terrain( 地形) , consider taking a road bike on paved trails through forest preserves or along country roads.

Gardening

Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to travel beyond your own backyard to experience the beauty of nature every day. If your personality is less adventurous or your mobility restricted, consider planting a garden to grow your own vegetables , fruit , herbs，or flowers. There's something truly satisfying about mixing up a salad with fresh ingredients you grow yourself. One of the best parts about spending time in gardening is that it doesn't have to break your budget and anyone can do it.

1．What do hikers need for hiking?

A．Practical skills. B．Necessary equipment.

C．A useful map. D．A relaxed mood.

2．What's NOT the advantage of gardening according to the text?

A.  It’s easy to start it for anyone who likes it.

B．It doesn't take any energy or money to do it.

C．You don't need to go far to enjoy the beauty of nature.

D．It gives you a sense of satisfaction when cooking with fresh ingredients.

3．Which of the following can take you to travel farthest?

A．Hiking. B．Backcountry Camping.

C．Mountain and Road Biking. D．Gardening.

B

Finding a suitable name for a baby is a big deal in China. When picking out a Chinese name, parents usually select two or three characters that have a carefully thought out meaning, but when deciding on an English name, many of them struggle. That's where Jessup and her company, Special Name, come in. In the last few years, Jessup has helped name 677,900 Chinese babies, and earned over $400,000 in the process, more than enough to pay her college fees.

Jessup came up with the idea for Special Name in 2015,after accompanying her father on a business trip to China. One of her dad's business partners, a Mrs. Wang, asked her to help choose an English name for her daughter. Jessup felt honored and quickly realized the importance of choosing a proper name in Chinese culture. The woman wanted people to be surprised by the things her daughter could achieve, so Jessup suggested the name "Eliza" after the character Eliza Doolittle from the play Pygmalion. Mrs. Wang seemed delighted with Jessup's choice."If Mrs. Wang needed this service, maybe other parents would as well, "Jessup thought.

After returning to UK, Jessup borrowed ￡1,500 from her parents and paid a web designer to build a website. She then spent her free time filling up a database(数据库)with around 4,000 English names, associating them with five major personality characteristics, like honesty and optimism.

In the beginning, Jessup offered the service for free to promote the website, but later, she started charging fees. The business is almost completely self-sufficient, requiring only a small team in China that manages technical operations. She updates the database each month, allowing her to focus full-time on studies.

4. What's the purpose of Special Name?

A. To help Chinese teens go abroad.          B. To strengthen children's personalities.

C. To pick an English name for a Chinese baby.  D. To make a deal with Chinese parents.

5. What inspired Jessup to set up Special Name?

A. A suggestion from a business partner. B. Her interest in Chinese culture.

C. A Chinese mother's request. D. A character from a play.

6. What did Mrs. Wang want her daughter to be in the future?

A. A woman with achievements. B. A famous actress.

C. A successful businesswoman. D. A western culture expert.

7. What can we infer from the last paragraph about Special Name?

A. It offers free service. B. It's updated every day.

C. It's operated completely by itself. D. It is easy to manage.

C

Having an older brother comes with plenty of benefits. However, a new study finds an interesting downside: children with older brothers take longer when it comes to developing language skills.

The study, conducted by a group of researchers in Paris, France, builds upon early research that having older brothers is associated with poor linguistic(语言的)development. Now, researchers say they have come to a more specific conclusion: only children with an older brother show these linguistic difficulties. One would assume(假设) that children with older brothers would grow up around more conversation on a daily basis, thus speeding up their language development. But researchers say such children actually take longer than their older brothers to begin developing these skills. Researchers studied more than 1,000 children from birth to the age of five-and-a-half years old. Each child’s language skills were tested at ages 2, 3, and 5.5, using tests specially designed to measure many aspects of language development such as vocabulary and syntax(句法). What the research team discovered was significant: children with an older brother had, on average, a two-month delay in their language development compared to studied children with an older sister. As far as explaining this phenomenon, researchers have given two assumptions. The first is that older sisters tend to talk more often than older brothers, which would make up for parents being less present than they were for their first child. The second assumption is that older sisters usually compete with their brothers and sisters less than older brothers for their parents’ attention.

So far, the study’s authors say they can’t say for certain why children with older brothers have a harder time developing language skills. In the future they’d like to investigate it further.

8. What does the word “downside” mean in the first paragraph?

A. slide.            B. advantage.     

C. upside down. D. disadvantage.

9. What can be learned from the passage?

A. Children with older brothers will speak earlier.

B. No one knows exactly the reason why children with brothers speak later.

C. Children with an older sister had a two-month delay in speaking.

D. Researchers studied over 1,000 children of all ages.

10. What’s the weakness for the children with older brothers?

A. The parents will never care about them any more.

B. The older brothers will always fight with them.

C. The development speed of their linguistic skills will be put off.

D. They won’t enjoy life-long close relationships with the older brothers.

11. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Young brothers usually speak earlier? 

B. Having older brothers always benefits you?

C Parents love older brothers more?    

D Sisters often compete with brothers?

D

From my earlier memory of Mother, it seemed quite natural to think of her as different, nor of everyday things as Father was. In those days he was a young-looking man. He did not hesitate（犹豫） to make friends with children as soon as they were able to talk to him and laugh at his stories. Mother was older than he was. She must have been a woman of nearly forty, but she seemed even older. She changed little for a long time, showing no indication of growing old at all until, towards the end of her life, she suddenly became an old lady.

I was always inquisitive about Mother’s age. She never had birthdays like other people, nor did anyone else in our family. No candles were ever lit or cakes made or presents given in our house. To my friends in the street who talked delightfully about their birthday parties, I would repeat my mother’s words that such celebrations were only foolish.

“Nothing but deception（骗局）,” she would say. “As though life can be marked by birthdays. It’s deeds, not years, that matter.”

Although I often repeated her words and even prided myself on not having birthdays, I once could not help asking Mother when she was born.

“I was born. I’m alive as you can see, so what more do you want to know?” she replied, so sharply that I never asked her about her age again.

In so many other ways Mother was different. Whereas all the rest of the women I knew in the neighboring houses took pride in their housewifely abilities, their new furniture, the neat appearance of their homes, Mother regarded all those things as of little importance. Our house always looked as if we had just moved in or were about to move out.

12. How did Father impress the author?

A. He liked writing stories.    

B. He talked a lot.

C. He was a very young man.   

D. He was popular with children.

13. Before the end of her life, Mother ______.

A. looked quite young     

B. looked like an old lady

C. looked younger than she was   

D. looked like a40-year-old woman

14. What does the underlined word “inquisitive” (in Paragraph 2) probably mean?

A. Certain      B. Curious.  

C. Cautious.      D. Confident.

15. What do we learn about Mother?

A. She was lazy.     B. She was strict.

C. She was proud.        D. She was special.

E

What To Do When You Break Your Smartphone?

As you pick the smartphone you just dropped from the pavement, your mind races. You can't afford a new one. How will you check your Wechat（微信）messages? Here are some of the things you can try if you break your phone.

16            

Smartphones are held together with screws（螺丝） and pins，which means in many cases，if you're handy enough，you can easily fix them. 17                 .

One site in particular, ifixit.com, offers guides for replacing and fixing nearly every part of a wide variety of smartphones, ranging from the very first iPhone all the way to the iPhone 7Plus.

Bring it to a repair shop

Smartphone repair shops are all over the place these days. 18           .Depending on the damage to your phone, the price for repairs can range anywhere from﹩29 to more than﹩250.

Try selling your damaged phone

So your phone is damaged, and you don't want to spend the money to get it fixed. Why not try selling it? 19                .Gazelle, for example, will pay you﹩40 for a 16GB iPhone 5s with a broken display, while Glyde will pay you﹩142 for an iPhone 6 with a cracked screen.

Buy a refurbished（翻新的） phone

So you've sold your broken smartphone and now you've got some extra spending cash, but it's still nowhere near enough to cover the full cost of a new smartphone, which can run more than $600.  

      20     .

Well,if preowned（二手的）phones don't bother you, you can buy a refurbished handset from any number of carriers or stores at a modest discount.

A. What can you do?

B. Get insurance next time.

C. Try repairing it yourself.

D. So why not see if one of these stores can fix your busted（损坏的 handset?

E. In fact，there are entire websites designed to help you repair your own phone.

F. How much you get for your damaged phone depends on the model and what kind of issues it has.

G. And if they don't want your phone and you want to make sure that it's at least recycled，they'll do that too.

第二部分  英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45分）

第一节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the West Face of the Siula Grande in the Andes mountains．They reached the top 　21　，but on their way back conditions were very　22　．Joe fell and broke his leg．They both knew that if Simon 　23　 alone，he would probably get back　24　．But Simon decided to risk his　25　 and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope（绳）．

As they　26　 down，the weather got worse．Then another   27    occurred．They couldn't see or hear each other and，　28　，Simon lowered his friend over the edge of a precipice（峭壁）．It was 　29　 for Joe to climb back or for Simon to pull him up．Joe's　30　 was pulling Simon slowly towards the precipice．　31　，after more than an hour in the dark and the icy cold，Simon had to 　32　．In tears，he cut the rope．Joe 　33　 into a large crevasse（裂缝）in the ice below．He had no food or water and he was in terrible pain．He couldn't walk，but he 　34　 to get out of the crevasse and started to　35　 towards their camp，nearly ten kilometers 　36　．

Simon had　37　 the camp at the foot of the mountain．He thought that Joe must be　38　，but he didn't want to leave 　39　．Three days later，in the middle of the night，he heard Joe's voice．He couldn't　40　 it．Joe was there，a few meters from their tent，still alive．

第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）

During the summer I_41_____(go) to England to visit several places,_42   I have learned that the United States and the United Kingdom are different in cultures.For one thing,England is a lot cleaner,_43     _   (include) the streets and the air.Throughout my whole traveling experience,I have learned that England and the United States are similar but are also unlike in many_44      _(culture) ways?

In England,they have a different dialect so some of their words differ from_45   _(us).They also use more bicycles cars.Their method_46   _driving is different too.Americans drive on the left side of the car and in England they drive on the right side of the car.

There are many_47    _(different) in the way we eat,too.In England,they eat with a knife and fork.In America,we eat French fries with our fingers and we don't use forks and knives for those kinds of foods.In America,coffee is _48      _most popular drink that adults usually drink.In England,they have tea instead of coffee.

_49    _(general),I think that the way people in Britain live their lives is much_50    _(simple).

第三部分   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）

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。

Our school was going to set up a science club for the students interested in science. I think you should join in the club, where you can learn much knowledge about science. Beside, the club will provide you with the chances make friends with other students. Anyone who share your interests may become one of your friends. You can also discuss our study experience with them. What’s more, joining a club will enable you to take part in various activities and to attend the lectures giving by some famous scientists. To be brief, it will be beneficial for you to join the club, which you can get acquainted with other students and learn new thing.

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

假如你是李华，你的美国笔友Mark本学期选修了汉语课程。最近，他来信询问你如何学好汉语。请你根据如下提示给与他一些建议。

1认真听讲，积极练习

2 广泛阅读

3 欣赏影视作品

注意：1.  可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

 词数： 不少于100词

会宁四中2019-2020学年度第二学期期中考试高二英语答案

第一部分：阅读理解（共两节， 满分40分）

  1-5 CBCCC    6-10 ADDBC  11-15 BDCBD   16-20 CEDFA 

第二部分  英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45分）

第一节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

21-25 CADBD   26-30 CDADB   31-35 ACBAC  36-40 BDACB

第二节（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）

41.went  42.where   43.including  44.cultural   45.ours 

46.of  47.differences  48. the   49.Generally   50. simpler 

第三部分   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）

61.was→is  62.去掉in  63.Beside→Besides  64.chances后添加to  65.share→shares

66.our→your  67.a→the  68.giving→given  69.which→where  70.thing→things

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

One possible version：

Dear Mark,

Knowing from your letter that you are learning Chinese this semester, I am more than pleased to provide you with some advice on how to acquire a good knowledge of Chinese.

To begin with, there is no better way to learn a language well than to listen attentively to your teacher in class and constantly practise after class as mastering a language does require a great deal of practice. Besides, I think it beneficial if you read as much as possible, which contributes a lot to enlarging your vocabulary. Finally, you can gain idomatic Chinese through movies and songs.

I genuinely hope the suggestions will turn out useful. Wish you a suceessful semester.

                                                                                                 Yours sincerely,

                                                                                                 Li Hua