福建省福建师范大学附属中学2020_2021学年高二英语上学期期中试题

1、福建省福建师范大学附属中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期中试题第卷 (共84分)第一部分 听力(共20题；每小题1分，共20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 offer to do for julie?a. buy her a gift. b. drive her downtown. c. give her a lift home. 2. why did the man miss

2、the second part of the game?a. he was very busy. b. the power was cut off. c. his favorite team wasnt in it. 3. when does the girl promise to finish her cleaning?a. at 5:45. b. at 6:00. c. at 6:15. 4. what happened to the man?a. he made the carpet dirty.b. he got the paper towel wet.c. he poured wat

3、er into red wine. 5. what will anna do next?a. go shopping. b. drink some coffee. c. wait for her order. 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。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。6. how did the man find his trip?a. it was ok.b. it wa

4、s boring.c. it was unbearable.7. how did the man spend the time on the train?a. watching movies on his phone.b. talking with other passengers.c. doing some reading. 听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。8. why does the woman talk to the man?a. to do a survey.b. to persuade him to exercise. c. to inform him of his hea

5、lth problems.9. why doesnt the man sleep well in his opinion?a. he eats too many pizzas. b. he goes running too much in the day.c. he doesnt eat ice cream before going to bed. 听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。10. when does the conversation take place?a. at the beginning of a term. b. in the middle of a term. c

6、. at the end of a term. 11. what relation is the woman to kevin?a. his teacher. b. his mother. c. his classmate. 12. where is kevin from?a. spain. b. germany. c. england. 听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。13. what is the man doing?a. chairing a meeting. b. conducting an interview. c. introducing new products. 1

7、4. what is the major aim of this new home system?a. to save space for people. b. to protect the environment. c. to make life easier. 15. what is the robot designed to do?a. serve in the supermarket. b. do some cleaning. c. make meals. 16. what does the man say about this new home?a. its unrealistic

8、to live in.b. its hard to build. c. its expensive to buy. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。17. at what age did alma compose a sonata (奏鸣曲)?a. 6. b. 7. c. 8. 18. what plays an important part in creating composition?a. dreams. b. inspirations. c. fairies. 19. what is almas attitude toward her success?a. she cant

9、 adapt to a stressful life.b. she is modest about her achievement.c. she is proud to have become a musician. 20. what is the talk mainly about?a. the power of the dream.b. a talented young musician. c. the importance of persistence. 第2部 分 阅读理解 (共两节, 共34分)第一节 (共12小题; 每小题2分, 共24分) 阅读下面短文, 从每题所给的四个选项(a

10、、b、c和d)中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ahave you ever wondered how many cigarettes youre passively smoking while walking through the streets of a polluted, smog-infused city? no? well, a pair of digital developers just invented an app that will definitely and accurately answer that question.shit, i smoke! wa

11、s created by brazilian-born designer marcelo coelho and paris-born app developer amaury martiny in just a week, after they read a study that analyzed air pollution and its equivalent (等量) to cigarette smoking. the article, co-written by richard mueller, a macarthur fellow and physics professor at th

12、e university of california, berkeley, explains a mathematical model that compares smoking and tobacco-related deaths to levels of pm2.5, a microscopic particle (微粒) that is a dangerous, cancerous pollutant after burning.the app shows that parisians can effectively take in between three and six cigar

13、ettes per day, while a person in delhi could be smoking up to 20 cigarettes-without even touching one-on a bad day. other cities have worrying numbers, too (6.5 cigarettes daily in mexico city).“i was surprised to see that buenos aires and sao paulo have the best air quality in all latin america, de

14、spite the fact that these are heavily populated cities,” said coelho, whos originally from the latter, brazils largest city.for both coelho and martiny, the app isnt only a useful tool to inform users about their citys air quality; it also makes this information more accessible and easier to underst

15、and. “these air-quality monitoring stations are just numbers, numbers that are very specific to professionals who work in environmental issues,” martiny said. “so when you make this conversion (转换) to cigarettes, it makes it easier to understand what people are dealing with and the consequences air

16、quality has in the daily lives.”the developers plan now is to keep working on and enriching the apps features. this will most likely include monthly average cigarette rates, and enabling users to get data from cities other than the one theyre in.21. what does the underlined part “that question” mean

17、?a. how much harmful air youre taking in.b. how harmful it is to smoke in urban areas.c. how many cigarettes one usually smokes daily.d. how severely a citys air is polluted.22. according to shit, i smoke!, which city has the worst air quality?a. paris b. mexico city. c. delhi. d. sao paulo.23. befo

18、re coelho used the app, he probably thought that_.a. brazil might have good air condition b. his hometown was a badly polluted cityc. air pollution wasnt a problem in latin americad. buenos aires had the best air quality in latin america24. in the opinion of coelho and martiny, what is the usage of

19、the app?a. encouraging people to abandon the habit of smoking.b. helping people better know their everyday air quality.c. recommending some best places for people to live in.d. reminding people to do something for the environment.bonce i told someone i wanted to get a masters degree of fine arts in

20、creative writing and they told me it was the second-to-worst post-graduation plan theyd ever heard from a student. arts degrees especially fine arts degrees, which usually come in the form of music, studio art, creative writing and theater have been, over the years, labeled (称为) useless.its true tha

21、t for the most part, stem degrees give rise to higher paying jobs than liberal and fine arts degrees, and its understandable why young people care about a higher starting salary and financial security. student loan debt is playing a role in the physical and mental stress of young people.and while st

22、em majors usually have starting salaries that are $20,000 higher than those of liberal arts majors, by the time people reach the age of 40, the salaries between those who majored in the liberal arts and those who majored in stem are virtually the same. for example, women who major in stem earned nea

23、rly 50% more than social science and history majors at ages 23-25, but only 10% more by ages 38-40, a new york times analysis reported. so even in terms of salary, which doesnt solely determine whether or not a degree is useful, liberal arts degrees arent all that far behind stem.it seems too that s

24、ince people nowadays are going to have to work longer, its more important than ever that we actually like and care about what were doing. pursuing (追求) something enjoyable, or else a passion, is continuously found to be a key factor in maintaining healthy relationships, mental health, physical healt

25、h and energy. in other words, not useless.and just because someones primary job isnt in their field of study a writer who teaches high school for example doesnt make the degree useless. it just means that their way of finding a stable income is different. the same goes for artists who have to work m

26、ultiple jobs to support themselves. they might have to find other means of supporting themselves and their artistry. it might be copy editing or it might be tutoring.so i am going to graduate school, and i am going to graduate school for writing. i might be paying rent by way of overnight restaurant

27、 shifts theres so much im not sure of. but one thing i am sure of is this i would rather be a writer working two jobs to pay my bills than be no writer at all.25. a new york times analysis report is mentioned in paragraph 3 to _.a. analyse the value of different majors b. prove the argument against

28、arts wrongc. raise the opinion on majors by example d. present the link between majors and incomes26. why does the author think learning arts is useful?a. following art dreams keeps one in good condition.b. doing what one loves builds up ones confidence.c. arts improves ones understanding of differe

29、nt jobs.d. a love for arts helps one maintain passion for work.27. the author thinks that doing multiple jobs is _.a. unavoidable b. common c. acceptable d. traditional28. what can we infer from the passage?a. arts students concern more about the value of life.b. the man not loving his work wont sti

30、ck with a job.c. income often comes first when people choose majors.d. graduates in arts can find possible development.calthough it has been shown in recent years that plants can see, hear and smell, they are still usually thought of as silent. but now, for the first time, they have been recorded ma

31、king ultrasonic (超声的) cries when stressed, which researchers say could open up a new field of precision agriculture where farmers listen for water-starved crops.itzhak khait and his colleagues at tel aviv university in israel found that tomato and tobacco plants made cries at frequencies humans cann

32、ot hear when stressed by not having enough water or when their stem is cut.microphones placed 10 centimetres from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to 100 kilohertz, which the team says insects and some mammals would be able to hear and respond to from as far as 5 metres away

33、. a moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant that sounds water-stressed, the researchers suggest. plants could even hear that other plants are short of water and react accordingly, they speculate (推断).on average, drought-stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour, while tobacco plants made

34、11. when plant stems were cut, tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour, and tobacco plants 15. unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour, on average.enabling farmers to listen for water-stressed plants could “open a new direction in the field of precision agri

35、culture”, the researchers suggest. they add that such an ability will be increasingly important as climate change exposes more areas to drought.“the suggestion that the sounds that drought-stressed plants make could be used in precision agriculture seems feasible (可行的) if it is not too costly to set

36、 up the recording in a field situation,” says anne visscher at the royal botanic gardens, kew, in the uk.she warns that the results cant yet be broadened out to other stresses, such as salt or temperature, because these may not cause sounds. besides, there have been no experiments to show whether mo

37、ths or any other animal can hear and respond to the sounds the plants make, so that idea is still based on guesses for now, she says.29. the experiment by researchers at tel aviv university shows that_.a. humans can hear water-hungry plants crying clearlyb. plant sounds can be heard by plants quite

38、far awayc. tomato plants cry more often than tobacco when hurtd. moths like laying eggs on stressed plants30. what is anne visschers attitude towards the finding of the experiment?a. cautious. b. disappointed. c. appreciative.d. optimistic.31. taking advantage of the new research finding, farmers ca

39、n_.a. harvest crops in timeb. reduce greenhouse effectsc. detect and remove insects easilyd. identify plant condition faster32. which of the following would be the best title for the passage?a. plants get stressed just like usb. sounds of plants detected far awayc. plants scream in the presence of s

40、tressd. cries of plants break farmers hearts第二节 (共5小题; 每小题2分, 共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佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。 the way individuals collectively remember, forget, and recall event, people, places, etc, has been an important topic of research on collective memory (集体记忆). _33_ he developed the concept

41、of collective memory, arguing that individual memories are only understood within the context of a group through time and space. in all cases, most research on memory studies relies on long procedures. _34_ they include theoretical concepts, the study of historical sources, oral histories, case stud

42、ies, interviews, and surveys. for example, one group of researchers carried out several interviews to investigate younger and older american adults for three wars, namely, the civil war, world war , and the iraq war. _35_ both younger and older adults recalled the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki;

43、 however, they differed in how they rated the bombings.more recently, memory study scholars tend to stress the significance of the media in shaping collective memories: “culture and individuals memory are constantly produced through the technologies of memory.” under this perspective, research often

44、 involves content analysis of news and the use of surveys or interviews for analyzing the public memory. _36_however, developments in digital technologies in recent years have significantly influenced how we keep track of events both as individuals and as a collective. “the internet doesnt forget.”

45、the internet has had strong impacts on memory and the processes of remembering and forgetting. _37_ analyzing different web documents, researchers have shown that more recent past events are remembered more vividly in the present.a. research on collective memory is often based on different aspects.b

46、. there are a few simple things a person can do to help improve their memory.c. maurice halbwachs is recognized as the father of collective memory research.d. although all americans recalled similar events, the interpretation (诠释) changed over the generations.e. also, scholars have studied the role

47、of journalists as collective memory agents by analyzing their stories.f. recently developed information technologies have affected how we create, store and recall information.g. meanwhile, it has transformed collective memory into an observable phenomenon that can be tracked and measured online.第三部分

48、 完形填空 (共20小题; 每小题1.5分, 共30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。when do you stick with something even if you are not the best at it?when people find out my son sam is a(n) _38_ mathlete, they usually ask if my husband and i are “math people”. the answer is definitely not. sams done pr

49、etty well _39_ his parents arent math people. but sometimes i wish i was a math person so i could help him or at least give him better _40_. ninth grade was _41_ for sam, math-wise. he left the _42_ of middle school math, where he was kind of a big fish, and started _43_ with the high school kids. i

50、n the most recent competition, he didnt do as well as hed hoped and was _44_ by a math camp hed applied to. hed set a high goal for himself and hadnt quite _45_ it. he _46_ into my office one day last week, clearly discouraged. “i dont know why i didnt do better,” he said, _47_ on a chair. “maybe i

51、should just _48_. im not good enough.”i knew how he felt. the thought _49_ us all - that we just arent good enough, and that all our hard work wont _50_ in the end and we cant turn our _51_ into success. i dont have an answer for sam. i am still _52_ how to _53_ difficulty, disappointment, rejection

52、, boredom and how to devote ourselves to something because its beautiful and worth our while, not because were _54_ well succeed. “maybe youre not,” i said, looking at my son. to me, he is incredible and accomplished, but i know he is _55_ by doubt just like anyone. “but i, for one, dont think thats

53、 been decided yet.”to devote time to something without ensuring its _56_ is risky and terrifying. but, then again, _57_ is everything. and we dont need to be a math person to know that. 38. a. generousb. sensitivec. competitived. anxious39. a. consideringb. becausec. unlessd. providing40. a. lifeb.

54、tastec. solutiond. advice41. a. interestingb. toughc. boringd. attractive42. a. principleb. worldc. testd. age43. a. runningb. travellingc. huntingd. swimming44. a. admittedb. receivedc. rejectedd. caught45. a. scoredb. pursuedc. reachedd. managed46. a. stoleb. wanderedc. marchedd. jogged47. a. sink

55、ingb. lyingc. slidingd. hiding 48. a. struggleb. quitc. tryd. experience 49. a. interruptsb. suits c. limits d. discourages50. a. matterb. occurc. mindd. differ 51. a. supportb. luckc. effortd. belief52. a. practicingb. riskingc. sufferingd. learning53. a. push throughb. go overc. bring up d. turn d

56、own54. a. optimisticb. happyc. certaind. anxious55. a. warnedb. guidedc. destroyedd. troubled56. a. qualityb. success c. virtued. shelter57. a. sob. norc. suchd. it第ii卷 （共66分）(请将你的答案填写在答案卷上)i. 根据所给首字母写出正确的单词来完成句子或单句语法填空。(每小题1分，共9分)注意：将首字母一起填写到答题卷上，即答案卷上要写出完整的单词。1. the long and tiring journey e_ the children,