板浦高级中学高二上学期期末联考英语试题含答案.docx

1、板浦高级中学高二上学期期末联考英语试题含答案江苏省板浦高级中学2020至2021学年高二第一学期期末联考高二英语试卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）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，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。1How much do the tickets for the concert cost?A.80. B.40. C.60.2What subject does the woman think is less

2、 difficult?AHistory. BMathematics. CLiterature.3What does the woman mean?AShe is only too pleased to come.BShe didnt go in for mountaineering.CShe was an excellent mountainclimber.4Where is the man going first?ATo the Healey Supermarket.BTo the airport.CTo Canada.5What does the woman most probably t

3、hink of the man?ANaughty. BKindhearted. CCareless.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。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。6What time is it now?A11：00 am. B11：30 am. C12：00 noon.7Where does the conversation take place?AOn the train.BAt the train st

4、ation.CAt the restaurant.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8Why cant Adam go boating with the woman tomorrow?AHe is busy preparing for a speech contest.BHe is taking a vacation in China now.CHe has to work overtime tomorrow.9What will the man do tomorrow?AReading a new book.BWriting at home all day.CSpending an hour i

5、n the park.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10Why is the man surfing the Internet?ATo get major news.BTo learn English.CTo get information.11What does the man prefer?AEngineering. BEconomics. CMedicine.12When does the conversation probably take place?AOn February 28.BOn March 30.COn April 6.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13What

6、was the news about?AJennys famous songs.BJennys saving a babys life.CJennys winning a music contest.14How much money did Jenny receive?A2,500 dollars.B3,000 dollars.C5,000 dollars.15What do we know about the woman?AShe performed at the TV station.BShe is well known to the public.CShe is an unknown s

7、ongwriter.16How does the woman feel now?AExcited. BSurprised. CEnvious.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17What was unusual about their first meeting?AThe doctor was not very experienced.BThe doctor hadnt seen the medical reports.CThe patient was misunderstood by the doctor.18How did the doctor treat the patient?AT

8、he doctor treated her with the help of her previous doctors.BThe doctor always listened to her and believed her.CThe doctor treated her with strong medicine.19What did the previous doctors think of her mental health?ASurprising. BHopeful. CSerious.20What did the doctor advise the patient to do?ATo c

9、hange her job.BTo keep a closer relationship with her family.CTo get married.第二部分：阅读理解（满分65分）第一节 阅读（每题2.5，满分37.5）AVICE-DIRECTOR IN EUROPE/DIRECTOR UNU Institute forEnvironment and Human SecurityDuty Station:Bonn,GermanyThe United Nations University(UNU)has been committed to objective research on the

10、 pressing global problems of human survival,conflict prevention,development and welfare,for the past four decades.UNU - EHS Director and UNU Vice-Director in EuropeUNU is advertising publicly for a Director for the UNU Institute for Environment and HumanSecurity(UNU - EHS)who will also serve as UNU

11、s Vice-Director in Europe,dividing his/her time equally between both positions.The Institution:UNU - EHS aims to carry out research on risks and adaptation related to environmental dangers and global change.The Institutes research promotes policies and programsto reduce these risks,while taking into

12、 account the balance between environment and social factors.The Position:The Director is the chief academic and administrative(行政的）officer of UNU -EHS. The UNU Vice-Director in Europe(UNU - ViE)represents the UNU Director in selected high-level UN conferences outside of Japan,in meeting with Member

13、States and UNU institutes located in America,Asia and Africa.Qualifications:The director should have academic qualifications that live up to UNU - EHS position in the international scholarly community;guarantee scientific excellence;and provide leadership and guidance for activities at UNU -EHS and

14、UNU -ViE.Experience:Strong research background and publications in areas related to addressing risks andSocial change.Proven administration experience.Strong international fundraising skills and pastsuccess in securing support from funders. Proven sensitivity to gender(性别）factors.Fluency inEnglish i

15、s required.Fluency in German and official languages of the United Nations is desirable.Application deadline:12 January 2020Full details of the position and how to apply:https:/unu.edu/about/hr1.The accepted applicant will fulfil his/her duty mainly in_A.Africa. B.Asia. C.America. D.Europe.2.What is

16、required for the position?A. Nationality. B.Gender. C.Language fluency. D.Marriage status.3.What is the main duty for the director of UNU - EHS?A.To carry out research on environmental risks.B.To serve as academic and administrative officer.C.To balance between environment and social factors.D.To pr

17、omote policies to reduce environmental risks.BWhen tragedy strikes,some people fall into deep depression(抑郁），sometimes losing hope and even the will to carry on.They may worry continuously about the disaster and suffer nightmares.Other people,however,react differently.Instead of becoming depressed a

18、nd unable to cope,they are able to deal with painful experiences and move on.Boris Cyrulnik is interested in this difference of reaction.To find out why some people are so deeply affected,while others are seemingly able to recover,he has devoted his career to the study of psychological resilience(复原

19、力）。Cyrulnik found resilience is a quality that builds through a natural process.He says thatalone,a child has no resilience.We build resilience from developing relationships. Positive emotions and humour are key factors in resilience.Cyrulniks research has shown that people who are better able to de

20、al with lifes difficulties or traumas(创伤）are able to find meaning in hardship,seeing it as a useful and inspiring experience,and even to find ways to laugh.Resilient people always remain able to see how things may turn out for the better in the future,even if the present is painful.It had previously

21、 been thought that people who show more resilience are less emotional in general,but Cyrulnik believed that the pain is no less for resilient people than it is for others;it is a matter of how they choose to use it.The pain may continue,even over a whole lifetime,but for these people it raises a cha

22、llenge that they decide to meet.The challenge is to overcome what has happened,to find strength in the experience instead of letting it defeat them,and to use the strength to move forward.Given the right support,children are especially able to complete recovery from trauma.Cyrulnik has shown that th

23、e human brain is easily influenced and will recover if allowed.If a child is well supported and loved after the trauma,his brain is able to return to normal within a year. Cyrulnik thinks it important not to label(贴标）children who have suffered a trauma. misleading them to a hopeless future.Trauma co

24、nsists of two things:the injury and the repeated description of that injury.Often the most damaging post-traumatic experience for children is experiencing embarrassing adult descriptions of events.Labels,he says,can be more damaging than the experience.4.According to Cyrulniks research,resilient peo

25、ple are_A.patient and forgiving B.sensitive and controllingC.optimistic and humorous D.considerate and committed5.Whats Cyrulniks attitude towards children with traumas?A.They should be treated differently. B.They should be labeled as poor little ones.C.They should be given the right support. D.They

26、 should be helped to accept the reality.6.What does Cyrulniks research find?A.Resilience is a persons ability to grow in the face of terrible problems.B.Resilience is found in less emotional people in general.C.Resilience is built either by being alone or communicating with others.D.Resilience is a

27、persons power to avoid painful experiences.7.From which is the text probably taken?A.A biology textbook. B.A travel guidebook.C.A psychology book. D.A sports magazine.COn the night of June seventeenth,happily unaware that I was now less than forty-eight hours from my little“date”with Bryan Smith,I s

28、at down at our dining room table and listed all the questions I wanted to answer,all the points I wanted to address in my book On Writing-A Memoir of the Craft.On the eighteenth,I wrote the first four pages of the“On Writingsection. That was where my writing still stood in late July,when I decided I

29、d better get back to work. or at least try.My wife Tabby is the person in my life whos most likely to say Im working too hard,its time to slow down,stay away from that disgusting PowerBook for a little while.When I told her on that July morning that I thought Id better go back to work,I expected a l

30、ecture.Instead,she asked me where I wanted to set up.She thought about it,and said:I can lay a table for you in the back hall.There are plenty of plugins so you can have your laptop,the little printer,and a fan.A couple of hours later,she had made me a wonderful little nest there:laptop and printer,

31、my notes,pens,and reference materials.Standing on the corner of the desk was a framed picture of our younger son,which she had taken earlier that summer.“Is it all right?she asked.“Its wonderful,I said,and hugged her.It was wonderful.So is she.That first writing session lasted an hour and forty minutes,by far the longest period Id spent sitting upright since being struck by Bryan Smiths car.When it was over,I was sweating and almost too tired to sit up straight in my wheelchair.And the first five hundred words were uniquely terrifying-it was as if Id never written anything before t