学年河南省焦作市普通高中高二下学期期中考试英语试题.docx

1、学年河南省焦作市普通高中高二下学期期中考试英语试题焦作市普通高中20202021学年（下）高二年级期中考试英语考生注意：1.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号填写在试卷和答题卡上，并将考生号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡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 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2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

2、，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。例：How much is the shirt?A.19.15. B.9.18. C.9.15.答案是C。1.Where does Tom come from?A.China. B.France. C.Singapore.2.When does the man want to see Mr.Smith next Monday?AAround 9:00 a.m. B.Around 4:00 p.m. C.Around

3、 5:00 p.m.3.What music does the woman like when she is sad?A.Pop music. B.Classical music. C.Rock music.4.What is the weather like now?A.Snowy. B.Rainy. C.Cloudy.5.What do we know about the woman?A.She is very free these days.B.She likes Yoga very much.C.She has no hobby at all.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分2

4、2.5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.Whats the woman busy doing?A.Taking a test. B.Finding a job. C.Dealing with cases.7.What does the woman suggest the man become?A.A teacher. B.A lawyer. C.A journalist.听第7段材

5、料，回答第8、9题。8.What can we infer about Mr.Wang?A.He didnt listen to the man speakers presentation.B.He seemed to be a gentleman.C.He focused on the man speakers speech.9.How does the man speaker feel after the presentation?A.Confident. B.Upset. C.Inspired.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.Whats the probable relation

6、ship between the speakers?A.Colleagues. B.Husband and wife. C.Teacher and student.11.What did the man dream last night?A.He ran after a man.B.He looked for a report.C.He fell down from the sky.12.What is the womans suggestion in the end?A.Seeing a doctor. B.Taking some pills. C.Taking a long vacatio

7、n.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.What does the man want to know?A.Where the woman studies.B.Leeds fees for international students.C.How to apply to a foreign university.14.What is the man going to do?A.Do research on higher education.B.Perform in a famous musical.C.Further his education.15.What might make the

8、man get a scholarship at the University of Leeds?A.His outstanding musical talent.B.His academic excellence.C.His strong leadership.16.What is the woman planning to do after graduation?A.Teach overseas.B.Found an international school.C.Settle down in England.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.What is the talk abo

9、ut?A.A show. B.A survey. C.A book.18.How many guests are there in an average wedding in India?A.524. B.433. C.91.19.How long do Colombian couples usually prepare for a wedding?A.9 months. B.8 months. C.7 months.20.Who pay about 60% of wedding costs in Italy?A.Couples. B.Parents. C.The government.第二部

10、分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AYMCA Camp Widjiwagan3788 North Arm RdEly, MN 55731, USAPhone: 651-645-6605High quality canoes and backpacking adventures and wilderness trips in the BWCAW, Quetico Provincial Park and in the finest wilderness areas

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12、 800-944-7112St.Olaf is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the United States and is located just south of Minneapolis. Campers will train in softball on Mabel Shirley Field, home of St.Olaf softball. The field sits in short walking distance of the Tostrud and Skoglund Centers and will also have

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17、 the course.1. Which phone number can you dial if you want to learn softball skills?A. 651-645-6605. B. 800-944-7112. C. 612-261-2300. D. 916-476-8132.2. Whats special about Discovery Day Camp?A. It provides outdoor activities. B. It has enthusiastic workers.C. It runs in different places. D. It off

18、ers the longest programs.3. Which one can 18-year-old Tom choose if he wants to take part in the camp?A. YMCA Camp Widjiwagan. B. Revolution Camp.C. Discovery Day Camp. D. PGA Junior Golf Camp.BA four-year-old girl stunned paleontologists after she found a perfectly-preserved dinosaur footprint that

19、 dates back 220 million years.Lily Wilder made the discovery on January 23 while walking along a beach in South Wales with her father and their dog.The family was on their way to the supermarket when Wilder saw the footprint imprinted on a rock.“It was on a low rock, shoulder height for Lily, and sh

20、e just spotted it and said, Look, Daddy,” her mother, Sally Wilder, said.“She is really excited but doesnt quite grasp how amazing it is.”At first, the family thought the print, which is just over 10 cm (4 inches) long, was scratched out on the rock by an artist.But mother Sally was aware that simil

21、ar footprints had been found along that piece of the coast before, so she posted about their discovery on social media.“I found this fossil identification page on Facebook and I posted it on there and people went a bit crazy,” she told Wales Online.Shortly after, the National Museum of Wales got in

22、touch with the Wilder family, and officials have since retrieved the print and put it in the museum.Experts believe the footprint was most likely left by a dinosaur that stood about 75 centimeters (29.5 inches) tall and 2.5 meters (about 8 feet) long and walked on its two hind feet.It is impossible

23、to identify exactly what type of dinosaur left it, although experts typically classify the print as a Grallator.Welsh scientists are calling the girls discovery “the finest impression of a 215 million-year-old dinosaur print found in Britain in a decade,” according to Wales Online.The family says th

24、eir daughters interest in dinosaurs has been inspired since the discovery and that shes been playing with a collection of dino toys and models.“If her name goes down as the finder in the museum, it could be her grandchildren going to visit that in the museum one day, and for years and years and gene

25、rations to come, which is quite amazing,” mother Sally told Wales Online.4. Why did Sally choose to post the print on Facebook?A. To honor an artist. B. To test her popularity.C. To make people crazy. D. To identify their discovery.5. What does the underlined word “retrieved” in paragraph 5 probably

26、 mean?A. Divided. B. Repaired. C. Improved. D. Gained.6. What can we know about the footprint?A. It was left by a young dinosaur. B. Its true maker is still unclear.C. Its finder will soon be forgotten. D. It was the finest ever found in a decade.7. What influence does the discovery have on Lily Wil

27、der?A. She likes walking along the beach. B. She often asks for toys and models.C. She has been attracted by dinosaurs. D. She likes drawing dinosaur footprints.CThe Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins of Shark Bay in Western Australia have an unusual way of obtaining food.They drive fish into a large,

28、 empty marine gastropod shell. Then they carry the shell and captured(捕捉)fish up to the surface, and shake it upside down. Then, the fish go straight down into the dolphins stomachs. Its called shelling, only the second tool use recorded among dolphins, and the first that dolphins have been seen lea

29、rning from their friends, just like great apes.The dolphins were first observed using tools over 20 years ago, slipping sea sponges over their beaks(喙)to protect them as they searched for food. This behaviour is called sponging, and it allows the dolphins to access food in deeper water channels than

30、 non-sponging dolphins.Sponging is a skill passed down from mothers to daughters-a type of learning called vertical transmission. But there is another kind of learning horizontal social transition, in which individuals pick up skills from their social peers-their friends.There are similarities betwe

31、en dolphin and great ape societies that have led scientists to believe that dolphins should be capable of horizontal leaning.Now a team of researchers led by behavioural ecologist Sonja Wild of the University of Konstanz in Germany has finally identified it.Their data comes from over a decades worth

32、 of observations. Between 2007 and 2018, the researchers documented over 1.000 individual dolphins across nearly 5,300 encounters with the animals.They used genetic, behavioural and environment data to model the likely transmission pathways, and found that shelling was likely spread among friends, rather than passed down from parents.This opens the door to a new understanding of how dolphins ma