2021-2022学年重庆一中高二上英语期末考试卷

1、2021-2022学年重庆一中高二（上）期末英语试卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分7.5分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面的5段对话。每段对话后都有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时问来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What did the weather report say about today? A. It would rain. B. It would be sunny. C. It would be cloudy. 2. Who is the woman looking for? A

2、. Wendy. B. Jane. C. Claire. 3. How does the woman deal with difficult lectures? A. By taking notes only. B. By listening carefully. C. By recording them. 4. What does the man want to do? A. Pay for the womans gas. B. Drive to the countryside. C. Visit the womans parents. 5. What is the mans opinion

3、 of the exam? A. It was too difficult. B. It was hard to finish on time. C. It had little connection with the book. 第二节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时问。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What does the woman probably disli

4、ke? A. Sausage. B. Cheese. C. Mushroom. 7. How much will the woman pay? A. Ten dollars. B. Twenty-five dollars. C. Thirty dollars. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Weekend plans. B. Countryside life. C. A dinner party in the mans house. 9. Who will definitely go to th

5、e countryside? A. The mans brother. B. The mans girlfriend. C. The womans cousin. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. When did the man call to make an appointment? A. Last week. B. Yesterday. C. This morning. 11. What time is it now? A. 10: 45 a.m. B. 11: 00 a.m. C. 11: 15 a.m. 12. What will the man do with the fo

6、rms? A. Leave them empty. B. Fill them out completely. C. Write down his name and ID number. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Where are the speakers now? A. At a bookstore. B. At the main library. C. At the graduate school library. 14. What does the man want? A. Journals. B. Videos. C. Newspapers. 15. What does

7、 the woman suggest the man do on the computers? A. Write out a list of books. B. Check some pictures. C. Search by author. 16. What does the woman say about outside books? A. They need to be typed. B. They cannot be checked out. C. Theyre all from other universities. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What did J

8、oel hear at the burning building? A. A baby crying. B. A man shouting. C. A woman crying. 18. What did Joel see inside the building? A. A lot of smoke. B. A safe way out.C. A person in trouble. 19. Why didnt Joel go back inside the building? A. He thought everyone was safe. B. He was seriously injur

9、ed. C. The fire was too hot. 20. What can we learn about Sparky? A. He survived the fire. B. He saved two lives. C. He lost his human partner. 第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分37.5分）第一节（共4小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）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。AYosemite National Park Yosemite is all about restoration this year. This month

10、the parks main corridor is being repaired. The parks gallery reopened to the public in April after remodeling to allow full accessibility for the disabled. Even John Muir, known as the father of the national parks, is being revived(使复活) by the actor Lee Stetson, who will answer audience questions ab

11、out the park and its history at the Yosemite Theater. Petrified Forest National Park Petrified Forest National Park is now mapping self-guided hikes to its more remote destinations, in part to remind visitors that the parks are theirs to wander. In August, a new field institute will begin offering c

12、lasses led by geologists, photographers and other experts. And next year, look for electric vehicle charging stations to appear at the north and south entrances of the park. Acadia National Park Acadia National Park is to begin managing a new campground on Maines Schoodic Peninsula this fall. The si

13、te will offer almost 100 R. V. and tent sites, as well as new hiking and biking trails connecting to Gouldsboro Village and existing park trails leading to the peninsulas tip. Wetherill Mesa Wetherill Mesa will have an extended season this year(through mid-October), giving cyclists much time to enjo

14、y new access to the parks six-mile Long House Loop, a paved path formerly used for tram service, and the backcountry routes on the parks most popular hike. Naturally, plans are in the works to open an on-site bike rental operation within the year. 21. What do we know about Yosemite National Park? A.

15、 Its gallery is accessible to the disabled. B. It will be closed for repairs all the year. C. Lee Stetson is well-known as its founder. D. It will offer almost 100 R. V. and tent sites. 22. In which national park will you be able to rent bikes? A. Wetherill Mesa. B. Acadia National Park. C. Yosemite

16、 National Park. D. Petrified Forest National Park. 23. What is the purpose of this passage? A. To appeal to people to preserve the national parks. B. To share his own discoveries at the national parks. C. To introduce something new at the national parks. D. To describe the natural scenery of the nat

17、ional parks. BAlmost everyone knows the saying, “Dont judge a book by its cover. “, which means you should not guess the worth or value of something based on how it looks. That message was clear at a recent event called the Human Library Project. The event took place at the Northern Virginia, or NoV

18、a, Community College, outside of Washington. D. C. The Human Library began 19 years ago in Denmark. It grew from a youth organization called “Stop the Violence”. Today, it is a worldwide movement. At the NoVa event, students got the chance to learn from a persona “human book”instead of a library boo

19、k. Patricia Cooper organized the event. She said that human books celebrate variety by telling their life stories in an easy-going setting. The goal of the human library is to talk to people in your community who you may otherwise not speak to because you have your own prejudices and hopefully to br

20、eak down some of these barriers. This is the third year that NoVa has held such an event. The collection of human books included a civil rights activist, a scientist from the American space agency NASA, and an opera singer. Artist Brian Dailey was a human book. He spoke about his travels to 113 coun

21、tries in seven years. Dailey said that, during his travels, he asked people whom he took pictures of for a one-word answer to a series of other words-such as love, freedom and war. He discovered that people in different countries often had very different reactions to the same word. When Dailey asked

22、 people in Africa about the word “war” they used words like justice, liberation and peace. When he asked the same question to people in Syrian refugee(难民) camps, the answer was: “tears, hunger, fear, destruction”. 24. According to the text, how to understand the saying “Dont judge a book by its cove

23、r.”? A. Readers may miss a lot if they read a book just between lines. B. People can learn more life lessons from others in the human library. C. People can really understand the value of a book in the human library. D. Readers cant underestimate the worth of a book because of its plain cover. 25. W

24、hats the purpose of organizing the human library? A. To provide more information for readers. B. To satisfy the needs of the new generation. C. To make people communicate with each other. D. To improve the environment of the community. 26. What do we learn from the human book of Brian Dailey? A. His

25、 reactions to different cultures. B. His international travel experiences. C. His strong devotion to human rights. D. His contributions to advances in society. 27. Which of the following is the suitable title for the text? A. Dont Read Books just Between Lines. B. Prefer a Human Book to a Real Book.

26、 C. Enjoy Reading with the Help of Others. D. Talk with a Fellow Human from This Library. CIts believed that after a poor nights sleep, a strong coffee is the kick-start that many people need in the morning, but a new research suggests that it might be best to have a bite to eat first. A study has f

27、ound that drinking coffee first can have a negative effect on blood sugar control a risk factor for diabetes(糖尿病) and heart disease. “We know that nearly half of us will wake in the morning and, before doing anything else, drink coffeesubjectively the more tired we feel, the stronger the coffee,” sa

28、id Professor James Betts, at the University of Bath in the UK. For their study, researchers at the University of Bath got 29 healthy men and women to take part in three different overnight experiments, with at least a week between them. In one, the participants had a normal nights sleep, roughly fro

29、m 11 p. m. to 7 a. m., and were asked to consume a sugary drink on waking in the morning. They then experienced an interrupted nights sleep, where the researchers woke them every hour for five minutes by sending them text messages to which they had to respondand upon waking were given the same sugar

30、y drink. On another night, participants experienced the same sleep interruption, but this time, were first given a strong black coffee 30 minutes before consuming the sugary drink. They found that one night of interrupted sleep did not worsen the participants blood sugar and insulin(胰岛素) responses w

31、hen compared to the normal nights sleepalthough previous research suggested that losing many hours of sleep or many nights of poor sleep could have a negative effect. However, strong black coffee consumed before breakfast actually increased the blood sugar response by around 50%suggesting that relyi

32、ng on coffee after a bad night to stop feeling sleepy could limit your bodys ability to tolerate the sugar in your breakfast. 28. What does the underlined word “kick-start” in paragraph 1 refer to? A. A kind of drink. B. A kind of habit. C. A kind of power. D. A kind of medicine. 29. Which of the fo

33、llowing is right according to the text? A. If we feel tired, we should choose stronger coffee. B. Drinking coffee first may cause some serious diseases. C. It shows that having breakfast first can refresh sleepy people. D. Half of people are hard to kick the habit of drinking strong coffee. 30. What

34、 increased the participants blood sugar response most before breakfast? A. A cup of strong black coffee. B. A normal nights sleep. C. An interrupted nights sleep. D. A normal sugary drink. 31. How did researchers draw the conclusion? A. By listing some examples. B. By observing the process. C. By ex

35、plaining a phenomenon. D. By comparing the results. DAlmost everyone gossips. And a new study finds that people spend about 52 minutes per day, on average, talking to someone about others who are not present But heres the surprise: Despite the assumption that most gossip is trash talk, the study fin

36、ds the majority of gossip is nonjudgmental chat. “People love to talk about others,” says Jeremy Cone, a psychologist at Williams College. “Think about your own conversations with a family member or friend; You talk about everyday things that keep you connected. You share your daughter got her drive

37、rs license or your uncle has a kidney stone. Much of it is just documenting facts.” Of course, the study also finds that some gossip is negative or mean-spirited. About 15% of the gossip included some type of negative judgement. But even negative gossip can serve a purpose, as more research has foun

38、d. “I think gossiping can be a smart thing to do,” says Elena Martinescu who has studied gossip in the workplace. “It allows people to keep track of whats going on and form social connection with other people.” Research has shown that gossip can help build group cohesion (凝聚力) and cooperation. “When

39、 you gossip, you can keep track of who is contributing to the group and whos being selfish,” Martinescu explains. “And by sharing this information, you can exclude those group members who are social loafers (游手好闲的人).” “We also found negative gossip makes people likely to repair the aspects of their

40、behavior that they were criticized for,” Martinescu says. So, say, for instance, you were criticized for always arriving at work late. Hearing that gossip about yourself may motivate you to want to be on time. Of course, this isnt a license to be loose lips or to repeat baseless claims that can dama

41、ge someones reputation unfairly. But confiding(吐露个人隐私) in your friends and colleagues and sharing impressions about another personeven when theyre negativemay be helpful. 32. Why do people often gossip according to Jeremy Cone? A. Because gossip can satisfy their curiosity. B. Because they can share

42、 social information. C. Because they want to correct others mistakes. D. Because spreading negative facts is unavoidable. 33. In Elena Martinescus opinion, what can people benefit from gossip? A. People can be improved in an all-round way. B. People can get rid of immoral behavior rapidly. C. People

43、 can be kept informed of others privacy. D. People can change their behavior for the better. 34. Which of the following statements is right according to the text? A. It is plain to see that people gossip all the time. B. Based on the study, the majority of gossip is trash talk. C. Its advisable that

44、 we turn a deaf ear to negative gossip. D. Its likely that gossip helps us know more about ones quality. 35. What conclusion can we draw about gossip? A. Gossip is the last thing people could do. B. Gossip should be advocated by the society. C. Gossip may not be as harmful as it sounds. D. Gossip is

45、 the best way to build social bonds. 第二节（共1小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Pain is usually connected to a nervous system. When you put your hand too close to a hot stove, nerve cells send a warning of danger to your brain. 36 That, in turn, causes you to pull your hand a

46、way before any serious damage is done. Plants dont have nerves or brains, so they cant feel pain like you do. 37 And since they cant escape a potentially dangerous situation, they need other ways of fighting back. 38 Some plants discourage plant-eaters from chewing on them by growing thorns or sharp

47、 little hairs, like a rose or a cactus does. Other plants produce bad-tasting or even toxic chemicals. These force potential attackers to abandon their meals. But a plant called bittersweet nightshade does something even more smartly. When a slug, a small creature, chews holes in a nightshades leaf,

48、 a kind of sweet juice begins dripping out of the edges of the wound, almost as if the plant were bleeding. 39 In order to collect the juice, the ants gather all over the injured nightshade plant and attack anything that stands in their wayincluding the slug that damaged the plant in the first place

49、. In short: Slug attacks plant；plant calls army of ants to come closer to kill slug. 40 Plants may look like passive victims. But they have armies of cold-blooded killers always ready to obey their orders. A. Your brain recognizes that signal as pain. B. The biggest threat to a plants life is gettin

50、g eaten. C. This sweet juice successfully drives the slug away. D. Your brain is definitely a complex nervous system. E. The sweet juice happens to be a favorite food of ants. F. But plants definitely do recognize when something is hurting them. G. Thus, the plant can help itself by calling the enem

51、ies of its own enemies. 第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分15分）第一节（共1小题；每小题15分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Saul and Keon have never felt bored with a day of work picking up trash in Miami Beach. They were especially thrilled when they were _41_ their route as usual this week because a _42_ awaited th

52、em. When their huge truck rolled down the street into the North Bay Road community, they found most residents lining the street with signs and balloons, all to _43_ say “we love you”. Jennifer Elegant, a community teacher, wanted to show her familys appreciation so she organized the socially-distanc

53、ing surprise “thank you” _44_ to honor the workers. Even the Miami Beach mayor(市长), Dan Gelber, showed up to _45_ the two heroes-because Saul Scruggs and Keon Richardson do so much more than _46_ trash. “They bring incredible energy to the entire neighborhood,” Jennifer said, “In a word, they spread

54、 joy.” What is _47_ about the two men is the positive energy that they bring with them. They always have smiles on their faces and never _48_ a chance to say hello and _49_ someones day. They also go out of their way to help others and _50_ nothing in return. Once, Saul spent 45 minutes helping a ne

55、ighbor _51_ through her trash to find her lost wedding ring. He also waited for over an hour with another colleague who was having heart problems and needed a(n) _52_. Jennifer has had “meaningful discussions” with the amazing workers about their inspiring levels of happiness and often shares their

56、_53_ with her students. “Every day we are _54_ by heroes who bring us inspiration but too often we are unable to _55_ these great people. I want Saul and Keon to know that we are thankful.”41. A. abandoningB. coveringC. entitlingD. comprising42. A. displayB. journeyC. surpriseD. dream43. A. graduallyB. regularlyC. legallyD. simply44. A. celebrationB. invitationC. conversationD. foundation45. A. followB. greetC. saluteD. assist46. A. sort outB. give awayC. put asid