江苏省徐州市睢宁县下邳中学2020-2021学年高二英语期末试题含解析

1、江苏省徐州市睢宁县下邳中学2020-2021学年高二英语期末试题含解析一、 选择题1. traditionally, chinese people _ the chinese characters double happiness and stick them onto walls or doors for weddings. a. cut out            b. cut off        

2、   c. cut up                     d. cut down参考答案：a2. the great changes _ have taken place _ carrying out the economic reform in our country.a. may not; unlessb. could not; withoutc. never; b

3、ut for    d. would; besides参考答案：b3. a serious study of physics is impossible         some knowledge of mathematics.a. against         b. before         c. beyond 

4、60;       d. without参考答案：d4. when _ for his views about his teaching job, tommy said he found it very interesting and rewarding.  a. asking       b. asked          c. having asked   

5、60; d. to be asked参考答案：b5. scientists have many theories about how the universe_into being. a. came             b. was coming     c. had come       d. would come参考答案：a略6. _ shenzhen many tim

6、es but we still don't know the city well.a. we have gone to      b. though we have gone to    c. we have been to      d. having been to参考答案：c试题分析：句意：尽管我们去过深圳多次了但仍然不太了解这个城市。英语中连词though和but不能同时使用；have been to“去过某地，现在已经回来”， have gone

7、to“去了某地，现在还没回来”。根据英语习惯和句意选c.考点：考查连词和近义词。7. nowadays, there is a _ increase in childrens creativity, for they are greatly encouraged to develop their talents.    a. sharp            b. small        

8、60;    c. natural                    d. much参考答案：a8. when did you last hear _ jay?he phoned me this morning, and we agreed_ a time and place to meet. a. of, to      

9、                  b. about, with c. from, with                d. from, on参考答案：a9. the manager and general engineer _ very strict _ his employees

10、and _ his work as wellais; with; in   bare; with; in cis; with; with dare; in; in 参考答案：a略10. with the release of the latest version of ipad, users can have easy          to ever-growing incredible on-line games.      

11、60;   a. desire                             b. privilege                 &#

12、160;      c. certificate                     d. access参考答案：d11. the effect that 20 years ago the car accident _ on him _ being fully realized now.a. have; are   

13、0;                   b. had; are                  c. had; is           

14、;                d. have ;is参考答案：c略12. the spring festival is         special holiday for most chinese when          whole family will get t

15、ogether.a.a,the        b.the,the        c.a,a         d.the,a参考答案：a3. young children are often advised not to spoil their appetite by eating sweets _ the three meals.    a. am

16、ong       b. during         c. between        d. through参考答案：c略14. the factory _ well visit next week is not far from here.a. where        b. to which 

17、0;  c. which          d. in which参考答案：c略15. scientific research shows that animals can show          emotions like human beings. they are sometimes lively, and sometimes bad-tempered.acontradictory  b

18、instant        cappropriate       dflexible参考答案：d16. 从每小题的a、b、c、d四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。1steamabreast                     

19、    bfeather                     ceager                        dgreat2

20、character                          achart           bscholarship          &

21、#160;    capproach                 dsatchel3.  expectation a. exactly          b. extra            c

22、. examination     d. except4.  author  a.brother          b.method          c.southern       d.therefore5.  invaded a.shocked    &

23、#160;     b. encouraged     c. suspected      d.refused参考答案：cbdbc二、 翻译17. 完成句子（共5小题，每小题1分，共5分）根据单词的首字母提示完成句子。56. the determination and patience of the scientists was rewarded in 1996 with a b_ - the cloning of dolly the sheep.57.

24、in 1846 the united states d_war on mexico and after it lost the war, mexico had to give california to the united states.58. henry wanted eliza to make the a_ of the american ambassador, so he could act as a referee and judge whether he had passed her off as a lady.59. what are your c_ for evaluating

25、 the quality of a bottle of wine?60. he was a specialist in the study of bones and found it challenging to search for and i_ bones of early peoples.  参考答案：56. breakthrough  57. declared   58. acquaintance    59. criteria    60. identify略三、 阅读理解1

26、8. i consider lily to be my best friend because she is always very good to me. shes always with me in times of difficulties and she is always there waiting for me. when i have problems and feel empty and upset, shes always by my side to comfort me. weve been together for two years. i met her during

27、our college days. she was my classmate, but i can tell that we were not so close at that time, maybe because we had our own friends and maybe our attention was always on them, so i didnt even notice her. yet there were times that she was with me during my lunch break. that is why we slowly became cl

28、ose. we had our lunch together in the boarding house but sometimes not, probably because we had our own friends.and when we took our break, we bought our favorite food together, but not that often since we didnt have enough money. furthermore, we were together in the student union, which was nice fo

29、r me to know her better. i can say that she is really a nice friend. she is the kind of person that is very approachable in times of emptiness.she is a friend whom i can call every time i need help. definitely, i am so glad that i have her. currently, we are working together as freelance writers onl

30、ine. we both work as contractors (承包人) in odesk. we are very happy with working together, and we are looking forward to earning some money so that we can go on vacation together. friendships may not last. friendships can lose importance and die gradually. however, i believe she will be a lifelong fr

31、iend of mine. 56.which of the following statements is not true?a. they have been friends for two years.b. they often had lunch in the boarding house.c. the author is good at writing.d. lily is a full-time teacher at college. 57.the author considers her friend lily to be _. a. distantb. innocentc. he

32、lpfuld. wealthy58.according to the passage, the author is _ about their friendship.    a. optimisticb. embarrassedc. nervousd. unsure59.the author mainly wants to tell us _.   a. their close and valuable friendship    b. the education they have received   c. h

33、ow to work part-time effectively     d. how to build good relationships参考答案：dcaa19. 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出最佳选项。   as a young boy, i sometimes traveled the country roads with my dad. he was a rural mail carrier, and on saturdays he would ask me to go with him. driving t

34、hrough the countryside was always an adventure: there were animals to see, people to visit, and chocolate cookies if you knew where to stop, and dad did.   in the spring, dad delivered boxes full of baby chickens, and when i was a boy it was such fun to stick your fingers through one of th

35、e holes of the boxes and let the baby birds peck on your fingers. ks5u   on dad's final day of work, it took him well into the evening to complete his rounds because at least one member from each family was waiting at their mailbox to thank him for his friendship and his years of servi

36、ce. "two hundred and nineteen mailboxes on my route," he used to say, “and a story at every one. " one lady had no mailbox, so dad took the mail in to her every day because she was nearly blind. once inside, he read her mail and helped her pay her bills.   mailboxes were som

37、etimes used for things other than mail. one note left in a mailbox read, "nat, take these eggs to marian; she's baking a cake and doesn't have any eggs. " mailboxes might be buried in the snow, or broken, or lying on the ground, but the mail was always delivered. on cold days dad m

38、ight find one of his customers waiting for him with a cup of hot chocolate. a young girl wrote letters but had no stamps, so she left a few buttons on the envelope in the mailbox; dad paid for the stamps. one businessman used to leave large amounts of cash in his mailbox for dad to take to the bank.

39、 once, the amount came to $ 32,000.   a dozen years ago, when i traveled back to my hometown on the sad occasion of dad's death, the mailboxesalong the way reminded me of some of his stories. i thought i knew them all, but that wasn't the ease.   as i drove home, i notice

40、d two lamp poles, one on each side of the street. when my dad was around, those poles supported wooden boxes about four feet off the ground. one box was painted green, and the other was red, and each had a long narrow hole at the top with white lettering: santa claus, north pole. for years children

41、had dropped letters to santa through those holes.   i made a turn at the comer and drove past the post office and across the railroad tracks to our house. mom and i were sitting at the kitchen table when i heard footsteps.  there, at the door, stood frank townsend, dad'spostmaster

42、 and great friend for many years. so we all sat down at the table and began to tell stories.  at one point frank looked at me with tears in his eyes. "what are we going to do about the letters thischristmas?" he asked.  "the letters?"  "i guess you never knew.

43、 "  " knew what?"  "remember, when you were a kid and you used to put your letters to santa in those green and red boxes on main street? it was your dad who answered all those letters every year. "  i just sat there with tears in my eyes. it wasn't hard for me to imagine dad sitting at the old oak table in our basement reading those letters and answering each one. i have since spoken with several of the people who received christmas letters during their childhood