2021十堰高二上学期期末英语试题缺答案

十堰市2020~2021学年度上学期期末调研考试

高二英语

本试题卷共12页，全卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟。

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注意事项：

1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

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3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一部分  听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结東后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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。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。

例: How much is the shirt?

A. £19.15.             B. £9.18.             C. £9.15.

答案是C。

1. What time is it now?

A.10:25.              B.9:55.              C.10:15.

2. What does the woman advise the man to do?

A. Move the desk back.

B. Ask someone for help.

C. Go to see the doctor.

3. Why is the man trying to call David?

A. To invite him to see a movie.

B. To tell him that he is busy.

C. To ask him to keep in touch.

4. What does the man's father like?

A. Running.          B. Drinking.         C. Singing.

5. Why does James refuse to go to school this day?

A. It's the weekend.

B. He is too tired for school.

C. His school is closed down.

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几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；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 is the special at the Chinese restaurant?

A. A special drink.           B. A kind of soup.          C. Corn cakes.

7. What will the speakers do next?

A. Go to the Italian restaurant.

B. Go to the Chinese restaurant.

C. Have dinner at home.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Where did the man learn about the job?

A. From the TV.            B. From the Internet.        C. From the newspaper.

9. What will the man probably do next?

A. Learn to type faster.

B. Start working right away.

C. Pick up an application from the woman.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What season is it now?

A. Autumn.               B. Winter.           C. Summer.

11. What does the woman think of watching movies?

A. It's so exciting.          B. It's too boring.        C. It's too expensive.

12. What do we know about the woman?

A. She hasn't been used to the weather in San Francisco.

B. She will have a date with the man tonight.

C. She paid much to watch a movie.

听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。

13. Where are the speakers?

A. In Los Angeles.          B. In Chicago.         C. In London.

14. What does the woman finally buy?

A. A light coat.             B. A heavy coat.        C. A light jacket.

15. How much discount does the woman get for the coat?

A. Five percent.            B. Ten percent.         C. Fifteen percent.

16. What does the man recommend to the woman in the end?

A. Some scarves.           B. Some gloves.        C. Some shirts.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Who is the speaker probably talking to?

A. Students.              B. Teachers.           C. Parents.

18. What is the speaker talking about?

A. How to read a book.

B. How to love studying.

C. How to find a place to study.

19. What is the advantage of changing studying places?

A. It can make people healthy.

B. It can let people meet with friends.

C. It can make people feel pleasant.

20. What is the purpose of adding color to the studying process?

A. To make it shorter.         B. To make it more fun.          C. To make it more colorful.

第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Four Great Destination Cities to Visit on a Vacation to Australia

Adelaide

Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, is known for its beauty and outdoor natural areas, many of which are protected and preserved for the use of the people that live there and those that visit there too. Adelaide has a number of popular attractions including attractive swimming beaches, an exciting nightlife, interesting shopping opportunities, great restaurants, and much more.

Canberra

The city of Canberra dates back to 1913 when it was purposefully built to be the capital of the nation of Australia. It has grown over time to not only be the location of the government of the nation, but also a city in its own right with a particular culture and atmosphere of its own. Canberra offers the chance to see the more official side of Australia and learn a little bit about how the country was founded, formed, and how it developed.

Darwin

Unlike other major cities in Australia, Darwin is of the rather small size. Darwin sits in the north-central region of Australia, right on the Timor Sea. The lifestyle in Darwin has been described as laid back by many who have visited there before. A visit to Darwin is a visit to one of Australia's truly unforgettable cities.

Sydney

The most famous, most traveled to, and most popular city in all of Australia is the city of Sydney. Sydney sits on the shores of Sydney Harbour and is an exciting city that offers an unbelievable experience to those travelers. Sydney has been the main point of tourism in Australia for decades and it will continue to be that so long as it keeps offering the amazing experiences that it does right now.

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21. What can visitors learn about in Canberra?

A. The development of Australia.           B. The outdoor natural areas.

C. An exciting art show.                   D. The attractive swimming beaches.

22. What is Darwin special for compared with the other three places?

A. Its position.                          B. Its history.

C. Its size.                             D. Its attractions.

23. Which city attracts the most tourists?

A. Adelaide.                             B. Canberra.

C. Darwin.                              D. Sydney.

B

One day, Lisa Holman told her family she would be out that night visiting her friend, only about half an hour drive from her house. So it was not alarming as the night grew on and she did not arrive home. As 11 pm passed, her family began to worry. They called her but did not get any answer. They then reached out to Lisa's friend, who said Lisa had left to drive home at 9 that night.

The family thought about calling the police that evening but the police typically don't define a person missing unless there is no contact for 24 hours. The next morning there was still no sign of Lisa. All the family could do was sit home and wait. Lisa's son decided to drive along Lisa's route and carefully look for her. He found Lisa's car had crashed into a tree. What's worse, there was no sign of Lisa at all.

The family called the police. The police began their search. But due to the heavy rain the search team was called back. The family was very disappointed but still hopeful and continued the search. 700 feet from Lisa's car, they finally found Lisa under a rock.

After a few days in hospital, Lisa recovered. She explained that she passed out after her car slid off the road in the rain. After she came to herself, Lisa managed to climb out of the car. While walking to find help, Lisa was exhausted and unable to figure out the direction. So she couldn't walk on and climbed under a rock as it started raining again. Scared as she was, she turned to her faith in hopes of living to see her son again.

24. When should Lisa arrive home after visiting her friend?

A. About 9 pm.                      B. About 9:30 pm.

C. About 11 pm.                     D. The next morning.

25. Why did the family give up calling the police that night?

A. The police usually refused to come at night.

B. The heavy rain had blocked all the roads up.

C. They thought Lisa would come back herself.

D. They had been out of touch with Lisa for less than a day.

26. Who found Lisa under the rock?

A. Lisa's family.                  B. A hiking team passing by.

C. The police search team.           D. The friend she had visited.

27. Why was Lisa unable to go home by herself?

A. She was caught by heavy rain.

B. Her legs were badly injured.

C. She was locked in her car.

D. She was lost.

C

A new app uses Artificial Intelligence（AI）to tell- you what your pet is thinking. It's called Happy Pets and it analyses an animal's facial features, tells you what breed（血统）it is and indicates which of the five most common animal emotions—happy, angry, neutral, sad and scared.

The Happy Pets app uses AI, or machine learning. It's a technology that's used for vision in robotics and self-driving cars and it works by taking in images and assigning importance to them. One common use for AI is in facial recognition technology. Many of us can unlock our mobile phones with an image of our face and it's an important part of security processes in, for instance, airports.

But this is the first time this kind of technology has been used for animals. It then had to learn to recognise facial features. This is sophisticated because photos can be taken in so many different ways: from the side, above, below, in bright light. And different animals can have such different facial features, Think about how different the noses of a border collie（边境牧羊犬）and a bulldog are, for instance, Once the AI behind Happy Pets had learned all this, it then had to be able to detect emotions based on specific facial features that are associated with each emotion, which it has learnt from thousands of examples. For instance, if a dog tightens its eyes and mouth while changing the position of its ears in a particular way, it's a sign of being scared.

In an online article for Melbourne University's Pursuit, the researchers write they're happy with how the app performs. The researchers would love feedback about how they could develop the app further.

28. Which of the following may go beyond Happy Pets' function?

A. Learning the kinds of pets,

B. Teaching pets' facial recognition.

C. Showing pets' main feelings.

D. Analyzing the pets' facial features.

29. What is the facial recognition technology commonly used as now?

A. The robots' eyes.                   B. The vision of self driving.

C. A security system.                  D. A machine learning system.

30. What does the underlined word "sophisticated" in paragraph 3 mean?

A. Typical.            B. Complex.          C. Scientific.          D. Traditional.

31. Why does Happy Pets have to learn to recognize faces?

A. Because faces can show animals' feelings.

B. Because it wants to have emotions of humans.

C. Because it is learning to use facial expressions.

D. Because the types of animals are based on the looks.

D

The word "orange" describes both a color and a fruit. Which one came first might be surprising. "Orange" when used as the name of the fruit came before "orange" as a word to describe color. While the shade itself existed before the fruit, there was not a name in the English language for the color. Before the introduction of the fruit to English-speaking countries, the color was usually described as a shade of red or yellow.

In the early 16th century, Portuguese traders brought oranges from India to Europe. The Europeans had not seen the bright colored fruit before and didn't have a name for it. The fruits were named "narancia" by Italians and "narange" by the French and were sometimes referred to as "golden apples" by English speakers.

"Orange" was first used in a phrase to describe shades of colors, including in a third-century Greek text translated into English, in 1576. It describes Alexander the Great's servants as dressed in "orange colour velvet（天鹅绒）". In 1578, a Latin-American dictionary defined "melites" as "a precious stone of orange color". While orange represents the color of the objects, it needed the word "color" to follow it in order for the meaning to be clear. In the mid-1590s, Shakespeare described a beard as "orange tawny", one of the first instances of "orange" without the word "color" as part of the expression. Tawny is a brown color often used on its own. Orange was not yet a color, just a shade of brown.

In 1616, in an account describing varieties of tulips（郁金香）that can be grown, orange was used as a stand-alone color. When Isaac Newton performed his experiments on the color spectrum（色谱）, he listed it as one of the seven basic colors. After almost half a century, orange was recognized as a color on its own.

32. Which is the right time order of the appearance of "orange"?

A. As a fruit→as a color→the shade itself.

B. The shade itself→as a color→as a fruit.

C. As a color→the shade itself→as a fruit.

D. The shade itself→as a fruit→as a color.

33. What were oranges called by the British in the early 1500s?

A. Melites.         B. Narange.        C. Golden apples.           D. Narancia.

34. Which of the following would be the right usage of "orange" in the 16th century?

A. My ball is a melite.

B. The ball is orange colour.

C. The orange ball is beautiful.

D. I have an orange ball.

35. What is the best title for the text?

A. How to plant oranges                    B. The spread of oranges

C. Orange used as a color                   D. Shakespeare and oranges

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

How to Stay Focused While Working from Home

Right now, many people have been forced into the work-at-home life suddenly.   36   However, you can learn to boom at home as productive as in a traditional office. Here are some tips for focusing while working from home.

   37   When you work from home, chances are that you're going to have more control over your day than when you're office-based. So, get organized and structure your day accordingly. Know when you're at your peak, and actively schedule the tasks that require more creativity and brain input for that time.

Take breaks, So many people seem to be copying their office life but at their kitchen table—tied to their laptop all day without having a rest. The good news is that most of us are much more productive at home.   38   It's not avoiding your responsibilities—it's really important, as research shows that if we don't rest for certain time, we become touchy and less productive.

Don't get distracted. You've swapped the interruptions of coworkers for many other things: pets, the fridge, the laundry, movies, Set your work hours, and focus on the work that matters in that time! You can grab a snack, pet the dog or put the washing machine on when you take a break.   39   Stay focused.

Move around your house or apartment. When I'm working with teams in workplaces, I always advocate walking around the office building or campus to stay energized, and not staying at a desk all day long. The same goes for working from home.   40  

A. Think like a designer.

B. Prepare for the unexpected.

C. But you must pause from time to time.

D. Their working circumstances are under less- than-ideal.

E Set rules about when you'll check social media, or use an app.

F. Even walking a short distance inside your home can re- energize you.

G. Also check in with others and ask how they are and how you can help.

第三部分  语言运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Zipper was an ordinary gray cat and she practically raised my sister and me. My parents   41   her as "The Mommy Cat". She walked us to school, slept in our beds, and   42   us whenever we cried. In return, we dressed her in doll clothes, nursed her with baby bottles of milk, and   43   her under the table secretly.

At Thanksgiving dinner, when the turkey was carved, my sister and I   44   waited to seize the wishbone, which is a symbol of luck and would be put on the window to dry for Christmas Eve. We ate only one turkey a year, so this was super   45   . Every Christmas Eve, though, the wishbone would have gone   46   . My mother always thought she must have   47   thrown it in the rubbish.

I was twelve when we discovered the   48   . Zipper was caught   49   the wishbone. Over the years, we gave up on that wishbone. My mother still put it on the window, but with full   50   that Zipper was going to have her traditional   51   .

Zipper passed away when I was nineteen. It was like losing a family member. That Thanksgiving, my mother put the   52   on the window as usual, but I knew how   53   she felt. Forty years passed and I still   54   a wishbone on my window at Thanksgiving. About ten years ago, a gray cat walked into my apartment and made herself at home. Mommy Cat came again and my children became hers. She has now taken over the traditional wishbone   55   . She's everything I want in a cat!

41. A. referred to        B. heard of       C. watched over        D. suffered from

42. A. upset            B. bothered       C. comforted          D. reminded

43. A. trained           B. fed           C. caged             D. hid

44. A. curiously         B. secretly        C. nervously         D. eagerly

45. A. creative          B. popular        C. special           D. convenient

46. A. crashing         B. missing        C. breaking          D. burning

47. A. accidentally       B. pitifully        C. exactly          D. obviously

48. A. result            B. strategy         C. truth            D. solution

49. A. observing        B. stealing         C. counting          D. protecting

50. A. memory         B. doubt           C. knowledge        D. love

51. A. idea             B. daydream       C. clothes           D. snack

52. A. turkey           B. dinner          C. rubbish          D. wishbone

53. A. sad              B. shameful        C. lonely           D. helpless

54. A. beat             B. leave            C. exchange         D. revive

55. A. theft             B. threat           C. guideline         D. belief

第二节（共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15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's first artificial intelligence（AI）theme park opened to public in early November, after 10 months repair of a municipal（市政的）park in northern Beijing. Newly   56   （apply）to the AI theme park, driverless shuttle buses and smart lamp posts can record exercise data. Besides, intelligent speakers that can   57   （instant）respond to human instructions have been installed in Haidian Park,   58   covers about 34 hectares near the Fourth Ring Road.

The district government of Haidian and Internet company Baidu signed   59   agreement in January to jointly explore "smart city"   60   （build）. Haidian Park, which received about 1.2 million tourists last year, was chosen    61   （run）the pilot program. "A total of 10 government   62   （department）and companies have participated in the rebuilding   63   the park over the past 10 months," said Che Jianguo from the district's park administration office.

In recent years, Chinese high-tech companies   64   （set）foot in the AI industry, while the government also stressed in October that it would boost the development of the   65   （country）new generation of artificial intelligence.

第四部分  写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

假如你是李华，为了帮助贫困地区的学生，上周日你校举办了募集旧衣物的活动。请你就此用英语写一篇短文，内容包括：

1.活动的目的；

2.活动的过程；

3.你的感悟。

注意：

1.写作词数应为80左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

第二节（满分25分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

After the final bell rang, the students were reminded that there was no school on Monday. The teacher told her class to enjoy their extra day off. As the students reached for their backpacks, Kayla, a young girl asked her friend what was Labor Day. The young boy didn't know, either and said that he just knew they got an extra day off from school.

An extra day of fun suited Kayla just fine. She loved breaks. In fact, break was Kayla's favorite part of the school day. After the school bus dropped Kayla off, she ran into the arms of her mom. Learning about Kayla's no school on Monday, Kayla's mom wondered if children needed a break only two weeks after they had started back to school.

Kayla smiled at her mom. She picked up a basketball that lay on the edge of the drive-way. She dribbled（运球）it a couple of times and then threw for a goal. A perfect shot!

"Great shot, Kayla!" said her dad.

"Thanks, Dad," said Kayla. "Hopefully my friends can come over and play basketball this weekend!"

"I'll call their parents and see, Kayla," said her mom. "Your homework needs to come first, though." Kayla said that she wasn't assigned any homework for the holiday weekend. So, she was going to have as much fun as possible.

Kayla slept in the next morning. Saturday was her favorite day of the week. It rained most of the day, so Kayla enjoyed playing games inside. On Sunday, her friends came over and played basketball for several hours.

Then it was Labor Day, you know, that extra day off that Kayla was so looking forward to. But Kayla was awakened early that morning by her dad. He told Kayla that in honor of Labor Day, the family would be cleaning both inside and outside the house. Kayla couldn't believe it. This was a holiday. A day when she was supposed to be enjoying lemonade while playing in her tree-house.

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。