吉林省长春市第一中学2019-2020学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷含答案.docx

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1、英语试题考前须知：1.答复选择题时，选出每题答案后，在 或电脑上点击所选答案。2.答复非选择题时，将答案写在空白纸上，每道题标好题号，各题之间要留一定的间距。答完题后一道题一拍照一上传。3.考试时间：120分钟;分值 150分。第一局部听力（笔试结束后进行）第二局部阅读理解（共两节，总分值 40 分）第一节（共 15 小题；每题 2分,总分值 30分）阅读以下短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最正确选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AHere are four tourist attractions in Havana in Cuba.Museum of the CityTh

2、e Museum of the City was built in 1791.The building once served as the Presidential Palace and home to colonialgovernors.The museums exhibits include collections of weapons,history and art as well as rooms documenting wars forCuban independence.Tel:+53-7-861-6130.Open:9 a.m.to 6 p.m.,Monday through

3、Saturday.Admission:$3Revolution SquareRevolution Square is one of the largest open public spaces in Cuba and one of the largest public squares in（he world.The site is home to the 138-foot Jose Marl Memorial,the tallest structure in Havana,which celebrates the national hero.Cubasimportant leaders,inc

4、luding Fidel Castro,usually use the platfbmi in front of the memorial to address the large crowds thatgather on the square.The Jose Marti Memorial also includes a museum and an elevator that takes tourists to the lop of themonument.Tel:+53-7-338-6363Open:9 a.m.to 5 p.m.Monday through Saturday.Admiss

5、ion:$5Cigar FactoriesCubans famous cigar-making factories are open to the public.Three cigar factories in Havana offer public tours thatshow how Cubas cigars are hand-rolled in the traditional way.The Partagas Cigar Factory,founded in 1827,is the oldest inHavana.The other two factories open for tour

6、s are La Corona and Romeo Julieta,and they include gift shops.Tel:+53-7-338-060Open:9 a.m.to 2 p.m.,Monday through Friday.Admission:$10A.Tomorrowmorning.B.Today.C.Tomorrowevening.听第 8段材料，答复第 11 至 13题。11.Whats the relationship between the twospeakers?A.Doctorandpaticnt.B.Tcachcrand studcnt.C.Husband

7、and wife.12.What do we learn about theman?A.The man is badlyill.B.The man has caught acold.C.The man doesnt like his job verymuch.13.What did the woman do with the man trouble?A.She prepared some hot water forhim.B.She told him to go tobed.C.She telephoned the doctorimmcdiatcly.听第 9 段材料，答复第 14至 16题。

8、14.Where does the woman want logo?A.To go to thepark.B.Togo to the English Languageinstitute.C.Togo to the King Street.15.Where arc thespeakers?A.In the park.1.In adepartment store.C.At thestation.16.Which road should she take when she comes to the end of thepark?A.The road ontheleft.B.The road onth

9、eright.听第 10段材料，答复第 17至 20 题。17.When will the Buij Dubai becompleled?A.In2021.B.In2021.18.Where is the center of the tallest buildings atpresent?A.In Europe and the MiddleEast.B.In North America andAsia.C.In Asia and the MiddleEast.19.Why do people build so many tallbuildings?A.Tall buildings are wo

10、nderful to lookat.B.Tall building save moreresources.C.People like to live in tailbuildings.C.The road leading to thepark.C.In202l.20.What is(he height of the Empire StaleBuilding?A.About4(X)meters.B.About200nictcrs.C.About 300meters.英语参考答案听力（共 20小题；每题 1.5 分，共 30分）1-5CABCC 6-10ABABC 11-15CBABC16-20B

11、CCBA阅读理解（共 20小题；每题 2分，共 40 分）A 篇：21-23CABB 篇：24-27ADBDC 篇:28-31ADDCD 篇：32-35BBCD36-40CEDFA完形填空（共 20小题；每题 1.5分，共 30分）41-45 AC ABC46-50DABBC 51-55ACDDA 56-60DBCDA语法填空（共 10小题；每题 1.5分,总分值 15分）61.was 62.actually 63.the 64.or 65.toreduce66.cleaner 67.that/which68.amazing 69.changes 7O.patient短文改错（共 10 小题；

12、每题 1 分,总分值 10分）71.that whom.a an72.ad just 后加 to.which that73.determine-determination76.out删掉77.myself me78.steady 一 steadily79.Have Having80.lasts last书面表达（25分）Dear Sir/Madam,Im a middle school student from Chinaand Im going to study in New York in late September.Knowing that an exhibition of tradi

13、tional Chinese clothing is to be held in a local museum,Id liketo apply to be a volunteer to help around.First,Im interested in clothing design and Ive read lots of books on the costume features of differentdynasties.Besides,being a fluent English speaker,I can help introduce the styles and history

14、to the visitors.Mostimportantly,itwould bean honorto spread ourcultureand promotecultural exchangebetweenthetwocountries.Id appreciate it if you could consider my application.Looking forward to yourreply!Yours,Li HuaOld HavanaOld Havana is the capitals historic district,which dates back to 1519 when

15、 Spain used the city as a colonial（殖民的）port Old Havana was important Spanish naval（海军的）base.Presently,Old Havanas stone streets are home to museums,hotels and restaurants among the grand colonial buildings that once housed Spanish power.Tel:+53-7-885-752Open:daily.Admission:free21.When is the Museum

16、 of the City closed?A.Friday.B.Saturday.22.Where might you see FidelCastro?A.In front of the JoseMartMemoriaLC.Inthe Partagascigarfaciory.C.Sunday.D.Monday.B.On the stone streets of OldHavana.D.In the Museum of（he City.23.Which number should you call if you want to know about cigarette production?A.

17、+53-7-885-752B.+53-7-338-060C.+53-7-338-6363D.+53-7-861-6130BPromise Sawyers,a 10-ycar-old girl in Nashville,Tenn.,is inspiring people old and young after making a video beforegoing to school“bigger and better“with her natural hair,just one day after she was made fun of for herafro.Promise Sawyers m

18、otivational video was posted online by her mom Qui Daugherty,after the 5th-grader secretlyrecorded it on Daughertys phone.In it,Sawyers explained that she was feeling“some type of way“after her classmates hadmean things to say after she wore her natural hair the day before.But she was determined not

19、 to let it bring her down,and woreit the same way the following day.Dont allow anyone to steal your joy/Promise said.Dont give them that much power.”Daugherty says that Promise has been surrounded by that type of positivity her whole life.Shes always taught herdaughter to“meet a negative with a posi

20、tivew,even when somebody is trying to bring her down.And although this exampleseems like one of the more disheartening（令气馁的）ones that Promise has faced after starting at a new school,her videoproved that she took her moms advice to heart.Now,nearly 2 million views later,people everywhere are respond

21、ing to the video.We had no idea the impact that it wasgoing to makeand（he amount of messages/Daugherty said.Its made a huge impact behind the scenes that has blessedmepersonally.”Daugherty jokes that Promise doesnt understand how influential her words arc.Instead,the 10-ycar-old is just excitedabout

22、 the millions of views.“I just tell her not to fbcus on the numbers/Daugherty says.Lets find a way we can be impactful behind this and makean influence and inspire people.Thats all wewant.24.What docs the underlined word in Paragraph 1 referto?A.Ahairstyle.B.Adisability.C.Anattitude.D.Avideo.25.What

23、 did Promise decide to do after being teased by herclassmates?A.Seek some advice from hermother.B.Make herselflook bigger andbetter.C.Record her sadness onvidcosilcntly.D.Keep wearing the same hair toschool.26.What will Daugherty advise Promise to do when there5s somethingdisheartening?A.Switch to a

24、newstart.B.Look on the brightside.C.Makenecessarychanges.D.Share her joy withothers.27.How did Daugherty feel abouipeoples response to thevideo?A.Embarrassed.B.Worried.C.Confused.D.Surprised.CScientists think they have answered a mystery:How some ocean creatures got so huge so quickly.A few million

25、years ago,（he largest whales,averaged about 15 feel long.Then seemingly overnight,one type ofwhale,thetoothless baleenwhale（须 鲸 类）becamehuge.Modembluewhalesgelas big as lOOfeet.Nicholas Pyenson of theSmithsonian Natural History Museum said,Why is that?I haonened in the glance of anevolulionarv eye,w

26、hich makes iiharder【o figure out whal har）r）cned,said Grahatn Slater,lead author of the study.Their study has suggested an answer:Iccages in the last 3 to 5 million years started it,changing the oceans and food supply forwhales.The researchers used fossil records of the smaller whales to create a fa

27、mily tree for baleen whales which includebluewhales,humpbacksandrightwhales.Using computersimulations（模拟）andknowledge about how evolution works,theyconcluded that when the size changes started,the poles got colder,ice expanded and the water circulation in the oceanschanged and winds shifted.Slater a

28、nd Pyenson said cold water went deep and movedclosertotheequator（赤道）andthenevenluallymovedbackup withsmallfishand other smallanimals that whaleseat.Baleen whale,which have no teeth,feed by eating huge amounts of fish they caught.Toothed whales,like sperm whales（抹香鲸），hunt individual fish,so the ocean

29、 chants that made food less evenly spread out didnt affect them as much.Butbaleen whales hunt schools of fish.Olivier Lambert at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences calls it a really convincing situationz，.But he said thelack of fossils in certain time periods is an issue.As oceans warm

30、from man-made climate change,the seas will be more like itwas when the whales smaller and they will have a more difficult time surviving.28.What docs the author mean by“It happened in the glance of an evolutionary eye“in the sccondparagraph?A.The changeof baleen whales happened tooquickly.B.The chan

31、ge of baleen whales was too difficult toexplore.C.Researchers paid little attention to the change of balccnwhalcs.D.Researchers thought the change of baleen whales wasunimportant.29.What played the key role in baleen whales becominghuge?A.Man-madeclimatechange.B.Its eating a huge amount offish.C.The

32、 waler circulation inthe oceans.D.The increase of food supply fbrwhales.30.What do we know about sperm whales and blue whales according to thetext?A.Sperm whales catmorcfood.B.Blue whaler live muchlonger.C.Sperm whales prefer（o hunt schoolsoffish.D.Blue whales usually swallow schools offish.31.Whal

33、can we infer from the lastparagraph?A.There arc no whalcfbssils now.B.The whales may become cvcnbiggcr.C.Global wanning has threatenedthe whales.D.Olivier Lamber thinks the study isperfect.DTechnology is supposed to make our lives easier,allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently.But too

34、often itseems to make things harder.This increase in complexity（复杂性），often called44feature creep,“costs consumers time,butit also costs business money.Product returns in the U.S.cost a hundred billion dollars a year,and a recent study by Elke denOuden.of Philips Electronics,found that at least half

35、of returned products have nothing wrong with them.Consumers justcouldift figure out how to use them.Companies now know a great deal about problems of usability and consumer behavior,sowhy is it that feature creep proves unstoppable?In part,feature creep is the product of the so-called internal-audie

36、nce problem:the people who design and sell product arcnot the ones who buy and use them,and what engineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily whats best fbrconsumers.The engineers tend not to notice when more options make a product less usable.And marketing and salesdepartments see

37、each additional feature as a new selling point,and a new way to attract customers.You might think,then,that companies could avoid feature creep by just paying attention to what customers really want.But thats where the trouble begins,because although consumers find overloaded gadgets（酉己彳牛）unmanageab

38、le,theyalso find them attractive.It turns out that when we look at a new product in a store we tend to think that the more features thereare,the belter.It is only once we get（he product home and try to use it that we realize the virtues of simplicity.It seems strange that we donl expect feature tire

39、dness and thus avoid it.But,as numerous studies have shown,people arenot,in general,good at predicting what will make them happy in the future.As a result,we will pay more for more featuresbecause we systematically overestimate（高估）how often well use them.We also overestimate our ability to figure ou

40、t howa complicated prod networks.The fact that buyers want bells and whistles but users want something clear and simple creates an unusual problem forcompanies.A product that doesnt have enough features may fail to catch our eye in the store.But a product with too manyfeatures is likely to annoy con

41、sumers.32.What docs the first paragraph mainlydiscuss?A.The benefits brought by the advancedtechnology.B.The loss caused bythe feature creep oftechnology.C.The recent study conducted by Elke denOuden.D.Many problems of usability known byIheconsumers.33.Which of the following is true according to the

42、 secondparagraph?A.It is the audience problem that leads to featurccrccp.B.Feature creep brings blessings to the people in marketing andsales.C.What matters to designers and marketers is not good fbreonsumers.D.The engineers will not pay attention to the quality of thcproduct.34.What do we know abou

43、t the buyers in paragraph4?A.They are deeply convinced that all the products work in simple way.B.They are fed up with the more and more features of theproducts.C.They are too confident of their ability to use the complicatedproducts.D.They arc quite clear about the products which will make themhapp

44、y.35.Wha（can be a suitable title for thetext?A.The More Features,theBetterSimplicity OutweighsConiplexityB.Feature-heavy Products inDemandSaying No to Feature Creep is No EasyThing第二节（共 5 小题：每题 2分,总分值 10 分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最正确选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两 项为多余选项。What To Do When You Break Your Smartpho

45、ne?As you pick the smartphone you just dropped from the pavement,your mind races.You cant afford a new one.How willyou check your Wechat（微信）messages?Here are some of the things you can try if you break your phone.36Smartphonesarchcld together withscrcws（螺丝）and pins,which means in manycascs,ifyourcha

46、ndy enough,you caneasily fix them.37 One site in particular,ifixit,offers guides for replacing and fixing nearly every part of a wide variety ofsmartphones,ranging from the very first iPhone all the way to the iPhone 7Plus.Bring it to a repair shopSmartphone repair shops are all over（he place these

47、days.38 Depending on the damage（o your phone,（he price forrepairs can range anywhere from$29 to more than$250.Try selling your damaged phoneSo your phone is damaged,and you dont want to spend the money to get it fixed.Why not try selling it?39 Gazelle,for example,will pay you$40 for a 16GB iPhone 5s

48、 with a broken display,while Glyde will pay you$142 fbran iPhone 6 with a cracked screen.Buy a refurbished（翻新的）phoneSo youve sold your broken smartphone and now youve got some extra spending cash,but its still nowhere near enoughto cover the full cost of a new smartphone,which can run more than$600.

49、40Well,if preowned（二手的）phones dont bother you,you can buy a refurbished handset from any number of carriers orstores at a modest discount.A.What can youdo?B.Get insurance nexttime.C.Try repairing ityourself.D.Sowhynot seeifoneohhesestores canflxyour busted（损坏的 handset?E.In fact,there are entire webs

50、ites designed to help you repair your ovvnphone.F.How much you get for your damaged phone depends on the model and what kind of issues ithas.G.And if they dont want your phone and you want to make sure that its at least recycled theyll do thattoo.第三局部英语知识运用第一节完形填空（共 20小题：每题 1.5 分，总分值 30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后