辽宁省辽阳市学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题.docx

1、辽宁省辽阳市学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题辽宁省辽阳市2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题注意事项：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。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分 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。AThe best festivals in AugustE

2、dinburgh Festival FringeThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. Last year, the festival lasted 25 days, including 55,000 performances of 3,548 shows in 317 places. The festival started in 1947. Anyone can join in with the performance of their choice.Wilderness Festiv

3、alWilderness Festival takes place in one of the oldest woods in England. Taking place over four days in nature, people will experience music, comedy, theatre, and dance from Sadlers Wells. All the campsites are made-to-order for different needs, including family camping.Notting Hill CarnivalNotting

4、Hill Carnival takes place on the streets of Notting Hill in London, England in each August lasting three days. Attracting around one million people each year, its one of the biggest street festivals in the world. Happening since 1966, Notting Hill Carnival is an essential cultural experience in Lond

5、on.La TomatinaEach year, the Valencian town of Bunol gets changed into a red mess as locals and tourists take to the streets and throw tomatoes at each other, creating the biggest food fight in the world, all for fun. This tomato festival has been happening since 1945 and is held on the last Wednesd

6、ay of August each year.1. Which festival lasts the longest?A. Wilderness Festival. B. Edinburgh Festival Fringe.C. Notting Hill Carnival. D. La Tomatina.2. Whats special about the Wilderness Festival?A. The campsites are specially offered. B. People can dance with famous stars.C. People will experie

7、nce wilderness adventure. D. It is the biggest street festival in the world.3. What can people do during the La Tomatina?A. Get dressed in red. B. Experience classic music.C. Eat as many tomatoes as possible. D. Throw tomatoes at each other for fun.BOne day, Lisa Holman told her family she would be

8、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 Lisas friend, who said Lisa had

9、left to drive home at 9 that night.The family thought about calling the police that evening but the police typically dont 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. Lisas son decide

10、d to drive along Lisas route and carefully look for her. He found Lisas car had crashed into a tree. Whats 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

11、but still hopeful and continued the search. 700 feet from Lisas 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. Whil

12、e walking to find help, Lisa was exhausted and unable to figure out the direction. So she couldnt 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.4. When should Lisa arrive home after visiting her friend

13、?A. About 9 pm. B. About 9:30 pm. C. About 11 pm. D. The next morning.5. 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

14、with Lisa for less than a day.6. Who found Lisa under the rock?A. Lisas family. B. A hiking team passing by.C. The police search team. D. The friend she had visited7. 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 ca

15、r. D. She was lost.CA new app uses Artificial Intelligence(AI)to tell you what your pet is thinking. Its called Happy Pets and it analyses an animals 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 H

16、appy Pets app uses AI, or machine learning. Its a technology thats 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 Al is in facial recognition technology. Many of us can unlock our mobile phones with an image of

17、our face and its 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 s

18、ide, 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 Al behind Happy Pets had learned all this, it then had to be able to detect emotions based on spec

19、ific 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 cars in a particular way, its a sign of being scared.In an online article for Melbourne Universitys Pursui

20、t, the researchers write theyre happy with how the app performs. The researchers would love feedback about how they could develop the app further.8. 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 feelin

21、gs. D. Analyzing the pets facial features.9. 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.10. What does the underlined word sophisticated in paragraph 3 mean?A. Typical. B. Complex.

22、 C. Scientific. D. Traditional.11. 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.DThe word orang

23、e 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 introducti

24、on 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 didnt have a name for it. The fruits were name

25、d 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-cen-tury Greek text translated into English, in 1576. It describes Alexander the Greats servants a

26、s 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 b

27、eard 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

28、 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.12. Which is the right time order of the appearance of orange?A. As a fruitas a colorth

29、e shade itself.B. The shade itselfas a coloras a fruit.C. As a colorthe shade itselfwas a fruit.D. The shade itselfas a fruitwas a color.13. What were oranges called by the British in the early 1500s?A. Melites. B. Narange. C. Golden apples. D. Narancia.14. Which of the following would be the right

30、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.15. What is the best tile for the text?A. How to plant oranges B. The spread of orangesC. Orange used as a color D. Shakespeare and oranges第二节(共5小题：每小题2.

31、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。Reading more is one of the top goals that many people set for themselves. 16 If reading is a habit youd like to get into, there are a number of ways to cultivate(培养)it.Make a list. Keep a list of all the great books you want to read. You can keep

32、this in your journal, in a pocket notebook, wherever, 17 Keep a running list, anti cross out the ones you have read.Find a quiet place. Find a place at your home where you can sit in a comfortable chair and read a good book without interruptions. There should be no television or computer near the chair to minimize distractions(干扰). 18 19 If you really want to read more, try cutting back on TV or Internet consumption. This may be difficult for many p