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1、江苏省江阴市二中要塞中学等四校学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案2019-2020学年第二学期高二期中考试英语学科试题第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)第一节听下面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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. What does the man ask the woman to do?A. Buy a desk for him. B. Get a key for Joe. C. Share the cupboard with him

2、.()2. How does the woman feel now?A. Nervous. B. Confident. C. Surprised.()3. What is the woman doing?A. Watching a movie. B. Buying a ticket. C. Waiting for James.()4. What does the woman say about the new clothes shop?A. Its crowded on Saturday. B. The clothes are expensive.C. There are many chang

3、ing rooms there.()5. What will the man probably do?A. Have the fax machine repaired. B. Call Mr. Steven in Washington.C. Get the paper faxed next door.第二节听下面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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. Why does

4、 the man call the woman?A. To make an appointment. B. To change an appointment.C. To cancel an appointment.()7. What does the woman ask the man to do?A. Have her pipes checked. B. Repair her front stairs. C. Replace her back door.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。()8. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a res

5、taurant. B. Over the phone. C. In the office.()9. When can the man order?A. At 10：30 pm. B. At 10：00 pm. C. At 8：00 pm.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。()10. What does the woman plan to do?A. Rent a house. B. Buy some furniture. C. Move her house.()11. Whats the relationship between the two speakers?A. Landlord and

6、 renter. B. Agent and customer. C. Neighbors.()12. How much should the woman pay altogether?A. $260. B. $390. C. $650.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。()13. What can we know about the couples TV set?A. It has been sold. B. It has been given away. C. It is being repaired.()14. What kind of film will be on at the Sil

7、ver Star Theater?A. A war movie. B. A western film. C. A comedy.()15. Why does the man refuse to see the film The Killer?A. He has no money to pay for it. B. The film is not his preference.C. The theater is far from their home.()16. What time is it now?A. 8：00 pm. B. 7：30 pm. C. 7：00 pm.听第10段材料，回答第1

8、7至20题。()17. What is the season now according to the text?A. Winter. B. Spring. C. Autumn.()18. Which place does the speaker suggest visiting?A. A beach. B. A national park. C. A camp.()19. How many people died in 2014 in national parks?A. 1，025. B. 129. C. 145. ()20. What may get people into trouble

9、?A. Extra batteries. B. Poor judgment. C. Over preparation.第二部分： 阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)第一节（共10小题，每小题2.5分）请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AIslands that could disappear in your lifetimeIsland vacations are dreams for many tourists, but climate change has lifted ocean temperatures, raised sea levels an

10、d worsened storm severity. As a result, some islands are threatened and could disappear in the coming decades.Federal States of Micronesia2019 Population: 112，640The average rate of sealevel rise worldwide has been 3.1 mm per year since 1993. But the rate around Federated States of Micronesia is thr

11、ee times faster. The country is at risk of disappearing because of coastal flooding, erosion, and frequent storms.Tuvalu2019 Population: 11，508.Tuvalu is a small chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean. For more than 25 years, its representatives have raised alarms that climate change could raise sea

12、levels enough to flood the islands. Even if waters never get that high, Tuvalu could still become uninhabitable as rising sea levels have polluted the nations groundwater resources with salt.Marshall Islands2019 Population: 58，413Residents of Marshall Islands, a chain of volcanic islands and coral a

13、tolls in the central Pacific Ocean, have known for years that they have to either build new artificial islands to relocate or raise the existing ones.Shishmaref, Alaska2019 Population: 617In 2016, people living in Shishmaref, Alaska, located near the Bering Strait, voted to relocate before melting i

14、ce and land erosion would forced them to. Alaska had granted the city $8 million toward the move, but officials say it will cost $200 million.()21. The sea level around Federal States of Micronesia is rising as much as _ or so a year.A. 1.1 mm B. 3.1 mm C. 6.6 mm D. 9.3 mm()22. Which island has been

15、 granted some funds to relocate by the state government?A. Federal States of Micronesia B. TuvaluC. Marshall Islands D. ShishmarefBThe term “crocodile tears” refers to insincere sadness. This term has an etymology dating back several centuries. As early as the fourth century, crocodile tears are ref

16、erenced in the literature with the meaning of insincere sorrow. It is said that crocodiles weep while eating their hunted animals because they are sad; however, this sadness is not honest.The term crocodile tears became widely popular after it was documented in a fifteenthcentury book titled The Voy

17、age and Travel of Sir John Mandeville, Knight. A passage from the book reads: “These crocodiles kill men and they eat them weeping.” As you may already know, crocodilians(鳄目动物) likely feel bad about littleespecially feeding. However, the assumption of the crocodiletears metaphor may be true. In a 20

18、07 paper published in BioScience titled “Crocodile Tears: And thei eten hem wepynge”(“Crocodile Tears: And they eat them weeping”), researchers observed 7 crocodilians in cages during feeding time at a reserve(4 caimans and 3 American alligators). The researchers observed the animals outside of wate

19、r at feeding stations to better find out whether tearing developed. Five of the 7 crocodilians developed something like tears in their eyes before, during or after feeding. The researchers suggest that these crocodile tears occur because a crocodilian hisses(发出嘶嘶声) while it eats, and this hissing fo

20、rces air through the spaces in the bone behind the nose and out the eye, in the process picking up nasolacrimal secretions(鼻泪管分泌物)In humans, “crocodile tears” is a medical condition that causes a person to tear up while eating. Crocodile tears typically occur because of a temporary loss of facial co

21、ntrol due to damage of the facial nerve. Specifically, when the facial nerve grows again, it does so incorrectly thus resulting in tears during chewing food.()23. The underlined word “etymology” in Paragraph 1 refers to _A. a reference book containing articles on various topicsB. the origin and hist

22、ory of a particular termC. a printed sheet of paper that are given free to advertiseD. the application and influence of a new theory()24. The term “crocodile tears” _A. is a medical condition that causes a crocodile to tear upB. became widely popular as early as the fourth centuryC. refers to preten

23、ded sadnessD. proved to be only an assumption()25. From the 2007 paper published in BioScience, we can know that _A. crocodilians especially feel bad about feedingB. not all the 7 crocodilians developed tearingC. the crocodilians were carefully observed inside waterD. crocodile tears occur because a

24、 crocodilian hisses after it eats()26. The passage is mainly about _A. what the real truth is about crocodile tearsB. when the term “crocodile tears” got popular in literatureC. how researchers made the experiment on crocodiliansD. why crocodile tears typically occur in humansCFor several decades, t

25、here has been an organized campaign intended to produce distrust in science, funded by those whose interests are threatened by the findings of modern science. In response, scientists have tended to stress the success of science. After all, scientists have been right about most things, from the struc

26、ture of the universe to the relativity of time and space.Stressing successes isnt wrong, but for many people its not persuasive. An alternative answer to the question “Why trust science？” is that scientists use the socalled scientific method. But what is called the scientific method isnt what scient

27、ists actually do. Science is dynamic: new methods get invented; old ones get abandoned; and at any particular point, scientists can be found doing many different things. False theories sometimes lead to true results, so even if an experiment works, it doesnt prove that the theory it was designed to

28、test is true. If there is no specific scientific method, then what is the basis for trust in science? The answer is the methods by which those claims are evaluated. A scientific claim is never accepted as true until it has gone through a long process of examination by fellow scientists.Scientists dr

29、aft the initial version of a paper and then send it to colleagues for suggestions. Until this point, scientific feedback is typically fairly friendly. But the next step is different: the revised paper is submitted to a scientific journal, where things get a whole lot tougher. Editors deliberately se

30、nd scientific papers to people who are not friends or colleagues of the authors, and the job of the reviewer is to find errors or other faults. We call this process “peer review” because the reviewers are scientific peersexperts in the same fieldbut they act in the role of a superior who has both th

31、e right and the responsibility to find fault. It is only after the reviewers and the editor are satisfied that any problems have been fixed that the paper will be printed in the journal and enters the body of “science”Some people argue that we should not trust science because scientists are “always

32、changing their minds”. While examples of truly settled science being overturned are far fewer than is sometimes claimed, they do exist. But the beauty of this scientific process is that science produces both creativity and stability. New observations, ideas, explanations and attempts to combine competing claims introduce creativity; transformative