湖北省学年部分高中联考协作体高二下学期期中考试英语试题.docx

1、湖北省学年部分高中联考协作体高二下学期期中考试英语试题2021年春季湖北省部分高中联考协作体期中考试高二英语试卷考试时间: 2021年4月21日14: 00-16: 00 试卷满分: 150分祝考试顺利注意事项: 1. 本试卷由四个部分组成。其中, 第一、二部分和第三部分的第一节为选择题。第三部分的第二节和第四部分为非选择题。2. 答卷前, 考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。3. 回答选择题时, 选出每小题答案后, 用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑;用0. 5毫米黑色签字笔回答非选择题, 将答案写在答题卡上, 写在本试卷上无效。4. 考试结束后, 将试卷和答题卡一并交回。

2、第卷（共95分）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。录音内容结束后, 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。1. On which day doesnt the woman like to go to the zoo?A. Friday. B. Sunday. C. Saturday. 2. How will the woman d

3、eal with the machine?A. She will repair it herself. B. She will ask the man to repair it. C. She will find a repairman to repair it. 3. How many children are there in the dassroom?A. Twelve. B. Seven. C. Five. 4. Where is the man going next?A. To the lecture room. B. To his dormitory. C. To the libr

4、ary. 5. What will the man have to do?A. Change for a new room. B. Come back earlier. C. Paint the room. 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 hurt the mans finger?A. A piece

5、of glass. B. A piece of paper. C. A sharp knife. 7. What does the woman advise the man to do?A. Put a bandage on his cut. B. Go to see a doctor. C. Leave the cut alone. 听第7段材料, 回答第8、9题。8. Why does the woman apply for this job?A. To gain more experience. B. To have better future development. C. To ma

6、ke more friends. 9. What does the man think determines the womans future development?A. Her age B. Her experience. C. Her performance. 听第8段材料, 回答第10至12题。10. What do we know about the woman?A. she likes taking buses for short journeys. B. She doesnt like taking buses at all. C. She thinks taxis are c

7、onvenient. 11. What does the woman think is the best way lo travel in London?A. By bus. B. By underground. C. By taxi. 12. What are the speakers talking about?A. Life in London B. Traveling in Britain. C. The traffic of London. 听第9段材料, 回答第13至16题。13. Where was George yesterday?A. At the Town Hall. B.

8、 At home. C. In the newspaper office. 14. Whose baby did George take care of?A. Georges sisters. B. Georges. C. Jessies. 15. Which of the following didnt George do yesterday?A. Repairing. B. Washing. C. Shopping. 16. Why did the woman want to speak to George yesterday?A. To ask him to help her. B. T

9、o ask him to a concert. C. To invite him to dinner. 听第10段材料, 回答第17至20题。17. Where did the accident happen?A. In front of a hospital. B. Near the top of a hill. C. At a station. 18. What was the cause of the accident?A. High speed and wet road. B. The driver was sleepy. C. Too much traffic on the road

10、. 19. Who called the First Aid Center for help? A. A policeman. B. A young woman. C. The speaker. 20. What did the policeman do?A. He sent the driver to hospital. B. He took the driver out of his car. C. He questioned the speaker carefully. 第二部分 阅读理解（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,

11、从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项。ASmith, Williams, Brown are common surnames that you will meet in Britain. However, you may come across some strange English surnames. The following surnames are rare, but they are real. GotobedYou are not going to meet many people with the surname “Go-to-bed”. The first r

12、ecorded person to have this surname was John Gotobedde of Cambridge in 1269. Professor Reaney, an authority on English surnames, explains the surname originated from people who had a bed, which was rare back in the 12th century. People were proud that they could afford to have a bed, thus adding it

13、to their name. Strange but true!OnionsThis surname, which was first popular in France and Ireland before coming over to the UK, dates back to l279 and identified （显示） a persons job. He was either a seller or a grower of the vegetable. NutterNutter means a crazy or silly person in spoken English. You

14、 wouldnt usually call yourself a nutter, but its genuinely a surname that originates from Yorkshire and Lancashire. Its a variation of the old English surnames “Notere ”, which means a clerk, and “Nothard”, which means a person that keeps oxen. Hardmeatmight have guessed that “Hardmeat” must have so

15、mething to do with a family of butchers. In fact, it might just have been a misspelling of the village that the name came from, which was “Hardmead” in England. Wish they had a spellchecker back then!（ ）21. Which of the following surnames can tell a familys wealth?A. Nutter. B. Onions. C. Gotobed. D

16、. Hardmeat. （ ）22. What do Onions and Nutter have in common?A. They originated in the UK. B. They mean silly people. C. They date from the l3th century. D. They show the jobs. （ ）23. Where does the surname of Hardmeat come from?A. An incorrectly-spelt village name. B. A place famous for hard meat. C

17、. A village without a spellchecker. D. A family of butchers. BThe 2020 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to former U. S. Poet Laureate （桂冠诗人） Louise Gluck. The prize committee stressed “her unmistakable poetic voice that with plain beauty makes individual existence universal”. Gluck is the

18、first American woman to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993. Gluck, 77, joins a list of literary giants and previous Nobel Prize winners, including, in this century, Canadian short-story master Alice Munro, Chinese magical-realist Mo Yan, etc. Glucks work includes 12 collections of poetry and

19、a couple of volumes of essays on literary writing. “ All are characterized by striving for（力求） clearness. Childhood and family life, the close relationship with families is a theme that has remained central to her, ” Anders Olsson, the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, said. “ She seek

20、s the universal, and in this she takes inspiration from myths（神话）and classical themes, ” Olsson added, citing her 2006 collection Averno, which the committee described as “ masterly ” for its “ visionary interpretation of the myth of Persephones fall into hell in the captivity （囚禁） of Hades, the god

21、 of death ”Gluck is a professor at Yale and a resident of Cambridge, and she also served as U. S. Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2004 and is no stranger to awards. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection of poems titled The Wild Iris, in which “she describes the miraculous return of life a

22、fter winter”, the Nobel Literature Committee said on Thursday. She also won the 2014 National Book Award for poetry for Faithful and Virtuous Night . In 2016, President Obama awarded the National Humanities Medal to Gluck in a White House ceremony. Being publicly shy, Gluck did not immediately give

23、any comment about the latest honor for her body of work, which spans more than half a century. In a 2012 interview, she acknowledged that prizes can make “ existence in the world easier ” but did not mean the immortality （不朽） of a true artist. （ ）24. What makes Glucks works popular according to the

24、prize committee in Paragraph 1?A. Magical realism. B. The clue of the novel. C. Simple beauty. D. Fictional structure. （ ）25. Which of the following is the main theme Gluck uses in her works?A. Thought about classic myths. B. Life of childhood and family. C. Experience of personal life. D. Reflectio

25、n on modern works. （ ）26. What do the collections of poems Averno and The Wild Iris have in common?A. They won the same book awards. B. They have become best-sellers. C. They gave rise to Glucks fame. D. They talk about life and death. （ ）27. What does Gluck imply in the last paragraph?A. Being famo

26、us is important to a struggling writer. B. Being rewarded is not that vital to a true artist. C. Being popular is not necessary for the writing. D. Being shy is not a weakness for a famous writer. CYou may have heard the expression “crocodile tears” when it comes to someone who is not showing true e

27、motion and is being insincere. While this may extend to the phrase, some research shows that crocodile tears may be more similar to ours than previously thought. In the study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science, a group of researchers collected tears from a variety of animals including maca

28、ws, owls, parrots, hawks, sea turtles, tortoises and caimans. Additionally, they collected tears from 10 healthy humans. The tear samples were then examined and were found to be similar when it came to electrolyte （电解质） composition with one slight difference being in that bird and reptile （爬行动物） tea

29、rs had a slightly higher concentration than other species. Additionally, in the tears of the sea turtles and owls, there were higher levels of protein found. Where variation eventually did come in was when the researchers examined how tears became solid as they dried. They found that the tears from

30、different animals form totally different patterns, much like snowflakes （雪花） each has individual and unique shape. They noticed that the turtles and caimans tears were especially different. They owed this to their adaptation （适应） in some way in order to be able to better function in their habitats.

31、One note that the researchers made was that the tear samples they collected were from captive （圈养的） animals, which could be completely different from animals found in the wild. However, the study still is one of the biggest studies of its kind in comparing tear compositions across varying species. L

32、ead author Arianna P. Oria from Brazil said, “This discovery is vital for understanding the evolution and adaptation processes, and is essential for the discovery of drugs to treat eye diseases. This knowledge helps in the understanding of the evolution and adaption of these species, as well as in their conservation. ”（ ）28. How does the author introduce the topic in Paragraph 1?A. He warns us of pe