江苏省镇江市学年高二上学期期末英语试题.docx

1、江苏省镇江市学年高二上学期期末英语试题【市级联考】江苏省镇江市2020-2021学年高二上学期期末英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、单项选择1One hundred percent_to your studies， though it can be lonely and no fun at all， will leave precious marks on your youthAresponse BoffenceCcommitment Dreaction2In Thailand and other parts of South-east Asia， the normal greeti

2、ng is a slight bow with palms _ togetherAbeing pressed Bhaving pressedCto be pressed Dpressed3Normally， a forest fire and the damage _ causes can be very extensive， especially when you consider the financial and physical lossesAwhich BthatCwhat Dit4-Who will be offered the position of manager when i

3、t becomes _？-A dedicated person with rich work experienceAfree BvacantCrealistic Daccessible5I need a copy of todays China Daily badly，only wondering where I can_ oneAcatch sight of Bget hold ofCtake charge of Dtake control of6To ensure that children from poor areas can receive a better education， t

4、he government has planned to_ more money to improve the conditions of local schoolsAannounce BallocateCadvocate Dapprove7-Where is Jerry？-He is at the library studying for his Japanese test In fact， he _for the test every day over the past weekAhas reviewed Bwas reviewingChas been reviewing Dhad bee

5、n reviewing8Simon put up a picture of Michael Jordan beside the bed to keep himself_of his own dreamsAreminding Bto remindCreminded Dremind9I will think about how Stephen Hawking managed to live a normal life and made great achievements _my life feels unbearableAwhenever BhoweverCwhichever Dwherever

6、10-I hear that Jean is planning to buy a car-I know By next month， she_enough for a used oneAwill have saved Bwill be savingChas saved Dsaves11-Where is my suitcase？-Somebody_it away by mistakeAmust have taken Bcould takeCshould take Dmust take12Difficult as rumours on social media are _，the governm

7、ent will step up supervision （监管）so that people will not be easily misledApreventing Bto be preventedCto prevent Dbeing prevented13-I cant believe it Tom failed the test again!-He would not be so upset now your adviceAwould he follow Bshould he followCdid he follow Dhad he followed14Jane moved aimle

8、ssly down the tree-lined street, not knowing _ she was heading.Awhy BwhereChow Dwhen15When his beloved girlfriend left him， he was_for a couple of weeksAover the moon Bas sly as a foxCdown in the dumps Don cloud nine二、阅读选择Monkeys! A primate storyUntil 28 January 2019 Go bananas for the world of prim

9、ates （灵长类动物）at Queensland Museums latest exhibition， Monkeys! A Primate StorySPECIAL OFFER： From 3-21 December buy a ticket to SparkLab and visit Monkeys for only 5 Present your SparkLab ticket to the ticket desk to buy discounted entry to Monkeys! A Primate StoryDiscounted tickets are available fro

10、m Monday to Friday only Ticket must be used on day of purchase and it cannot be used with any other offer， Annual Pass upgrade not includedMonkeys! is a unique chance to discover a collection thats been over two centuries in the making Many primate animals are becoming endangered due to human activi

11、ty， so its the most important that we understand how a modern， changing world impacts on their environments How can we make sure the survival of these creatures？ And in turn， how have they succeeded in living in urban environments and facing new challenges？Ticket PricesAdult： 12Child （5-15 years）： 1

12、2 Family （2A + 2C）： 40 Annual Pass holder： 10.80Open timeThis exhibition is a timed ticketed experience， and is open daily from 9：40 am to 5：00 pm Entry times begin at 9：40 am daily， then at 20-minute intervals （间隔）through to the last entry at 4：00 pmSeason Pass for Annual Pass holdersDo you have an

13、 Annual Pass？ When you buy a Monkeys! ticket， you can get a Season Pass to Monkeys! A Primate Story This means unlimited re-entry to Monkeys! during the exhibition period （29 September 2018 to 28 January 2019）It is important to point out that no monkeys were harmed for this exhibition The primates c

14、ame from zoos Protecting endangered primates is a strong theme throughout and a key visitor takeaway16If a couple with two 8-year-old children go to Monkeys! on 26January 2019， how much should they pay altogether at least？ _A43.2 B48C40 D2017Which of the following statements is NOT true？ _AThe entry

15、 time is from 9：40 am to 5：00 pm every dayBA Season Pass to Monkeys! means unlimited re-entry to it during the exhibition periodCThe exhibition focuses on the protection of endangered primate animalsDMonkeys! provides people with a unique chance to discover a collection When we see a person in deep

16、sorrow， our immediate reaction is to lend a hand Not to do so would be a moral failure But what if we see an animal in deep sorrow， does the same logic apply？This question was raised following the rescue of a group of penguins from an icy gully in Antarctica It was filmed for the BBC wildlife series

17、 DynastiesThe film crew was alarmed when they saw that a group of penguins had fallen into a gully and been trapped with their young The crew dug a shallow ramp so that a few of the penguins could save themselvesThe case has taken the international media by storm Viewers watching this episode let ou

18、t a sigh of relief on social media Im so glad I understand not getting directly involved， but a helping hand isnt intervening right？ viewer Kathryn Shaw tweetedHowever， others think that human intervention is unnatural Its an unwritten rule among documentary filmmakers that they are there to observe

19、， not to intervene， according to CBS News For example， in another episode of Dynasties， David the chimpanzee， was left to die after he was filmed being beaten up by other chimpsTragedy is a part of life You cant have sunshine throughout your life To have done anything else would only make matters wo

20、rse and distort （扭曲）the truth， said the shows creator David Attenborough，according to The TimesIn this case， however， Mike Gunton， the executive producer of the series， said that this was a one-off situation There were no animals going to suffer by intervening It wasnt dangerous You werent touching

21、the animals and it was just felt by doing thisthey had the opportunity to not have to keep slipping down the slope， he told the BBCSuch cases are familiar to Paul Nicklen， wildlife photographer for National GeographicI have a practical view when it comes to the natural rhythm （节律）of life， he told Me

22、tro If its ever a dangerous situation， no matter how gut-wrenching， you stay out of the way Even when you are watching a male polar bear eat the youngBut he said that he would help animals if he saw no real gain or disruption （扰乱） to the ecosystemIndeed， there will always be two sides to the coin， a

23、nd human beings will forever be conflicted in such circumstances Theres no rule book in those situations You can only respond to the facts that are right there in front of you， Will Lawson， the shows director， told Daily Mail18The case has taken the international media by storm because _ Apeople all

24、 over the world prefer documentaries of AntarcticaBpeople were very curious about how the penguins diedCwhat the film crew did upset people all over the worldDit has caused a heated discussion on human intervention in wildlife19The underlined word gut-wrenching in Paragraph 9 probably means _ Ahighl

25、y embarrassing Bslightly worryingCvery comforting Dextremely upsetting20From this essay， we can learn that human intervention _ Ais a topic rarely mentioned by international mediaBonce resulted in chimpanzees death directlyCis usually not expected in making documentary filmsDsurely breaks the natura

26、l rhythm of life People asked to imagine how flooding or droughts would affect particular people or places were more likely to engage in environmentally friendly actionsMany people view climate change as a distant threat But having them imagine the tangible （有形的） consequences of resulting droughts o

27、r floods may help change this idea and encourage proenvironmental behavior， a new study suggestsResearchers asked 93 college students to read a report on temperature anomalies （异常），floods and other climate change-related events that have affected the island The scientists then asked 62 of the partic

28、ipants to write down three ways in which such phenomena might impact their future lives Half the people in that group were instructed to imagine such situations in detail The remaining 31 students did not complete either the writing or imagining steps， acting as a control groupAll the participants t

29、hen rated their ideas of climate change risks by responding to questions such as How likely do you think it is that climate change is having serious impacts on the world？ They used a scale from 1 （very unlikely） to 7 （very likely） The average score was higher among subjects who had been asked to env

30、ision detailed situations than among those who had not The results were later confirmed in a second experiment involving 102 participantsParticipants in the first experiment who had imagined the effects of climate change were more likely to say they would use air conditioning in an energy-saving man

31、ner In the second experiment， nearly two thirds of people in the visualizing （想象） group signed up to help clean a beach， compared with 43 percent in the nonvisualizing one And when offered a choice of a vegetarian （素食主义的）or nonvegetarian lunch box， nearly half the visualizers selected the environmentally friendlier meatless choice-compared with about 28 percent of the nonvisualizersThe researchers did not t