上海市杨浦高级中学2021-2022学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷

1、上海市杨浦高级中学2021-2022学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷考生注意: 1. 考试时间90分钟, 试卷满分115分。2. 本次考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。试卷分为第I卷（第1页-第8页）和第II卷（第9页）, 全卷共9页。所有答题必须通过问卷星提交, 1-70直接在问卷星勾选或输入答案, 71-75在答题纸上作答后, 分别拍照上传到问卷星对应序号区域。第I卷（90分）I. Listening Comprehension（25分）Section ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between t

2、wo speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to

3、the question you have heard. 1. A. The experiment turned out well. B. The experiment took a lot of time. C. He hasnt had time to do the experiment. D. He only did part of the experiment that day. 2. A. In a courthouse. B. In a warehouse. C. In a department store. D. In a fashion designers studio. 3.

4、 A. Linda doesnt want any birthday gifts. B. Linda would probably prefer some coffee. C. There is no reason to buy this book for Linda. D. She was thinking of giving Linda the same copy. 4. A. The boxes might be too heavy for her to lift. B. There are a lot of boxes in the way. C. Hes checking the t

5、onnage. D. Hes almost finished. 5. A. Keep the check. B. Send a wire. C. Inspect the wiring. D. Replace the lamp. 6. A. He doesnt have any idea about what he wants to do. B. He wonders whether the woman has a job. C. He cant decide where to go on vacation. D. Hed like to work this summer. 7. A. He w

6、ent to see a film on campus. B. He was taking pictures of the campus. C. His photographs were on the evening news. D. His television appearance was unintentional. 8. A. Orchestra seats are best. B. Theres standing room only. C. All tickets are essentially the same. D. The man should play in the orch

7、estra. 9. A. It is in the center of the campus. B. It provides a city map. C. It organizes the summer camps. D. It provides a campus map. 10. A. She knows shell like the dish. B. She cooked every bit of the food. C. She likes the current temperature. D. She wishes the weather would get hotter. Secti

8、on BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once, when you hear a question

9、, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. A final copy of the research project. B. Copies of the midterm. C. A textbook and pencils. D. A few pens. 12

10、. A. It will include both multiple-choice and essay questions. B. It will include nothing but multiple-choice questions. C. It will include an oral and a written section. D. It will include nothing but essay questions. 13. A. It will be easy to understand. B. Students must complete all parts of it.

11、C. It will cover topics from a wide variety of academic fields. D. Students will be tested on all the material discussed in class. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage14. A. They should go through some natural process of decay. B. They should be put into boiling water for a lit

12、tle while. C. They should be preserved by any other method first. D. They should be exposed to air for some time. 15. A. To state that blanching is expensive but every effective. B. To show that many people waste food by blanching improperly. C. To warn that not blanching will harm the foods nutriti

13、onal value. D. To emphasize the importance of blanching only a few times a time. 16. A. It eventually causes vegetables to spoil. B. It stops after the vegetables have ripened. C. It preserves the flavor of frozen vegetables. D. It is a necessary step in the blanching process. Questions 17 through 2

14、0 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. A line drawing. B. An oil painting. C. A wood carving. D. A stone sculpture. 18. A. Highly functional. B. Both abstract and realistic. C. Brightly colored. D. Large but lightweight. 19. A. The seal. B. The caribou. C. The polar bear. D. The white wha

15、le. 20. A. White snow. B. Survival skills. C. A tasty food. D. An artists model. II. Grammar and Vocabulary（20分）Section ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with t

16、he proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Mini-Biographies Help Clinicians Connect with PatientsBog Hall was recovering from yet another surgery in March 2014 when a volunteer walked into his hospital room. The volunteer wasnt there to check on h

17、is lungs or breathing. Instead, she asked Hall（21）_he wanted to tell his life story. The interview was part of a program （22）_（call） My Life, My Story. Volunteer writers seek out veterans （老兵） at the hospital like Hall, and ask them all about their lives. Then they write up a thousand- word biograph

18、y, and go over it with the patient, （23）_can add more details or correct any mistakes. When the story is finished, it（24）_（attach） to the patients electronic record, where a doctor or nurse（25）_（work） anywhere in the Veterans Affairs medical system can read it. Today more than 2, 000 patients at the

19、 Madison VA（26）_（share） their life stories. Project organizers say it could change the way providers interact with patients. “（27）_clinicians can access a lot of medical data through a patients electronic medical record, theres nowhere to learn about a patients personality or learn about his career,

20、 passion or values, ” said Thor Ringler, who has managed the My Life, My Story project （28）_2013. （29）_idea for My Life, My Story came from Dr. Elliot Lee, a medical resident who was doing a training programme at the Madison VA in 2012. The typical programme for medical residents lasts only about a

21、year, so Lee wanted to find a way to bring new, young doctors up to speed on the VA patients. He wanted a way for them（30）_（absorb） not just their health histories, but more personal pieces of knowledge. Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be

22、 used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. generation B. inevitable C. killerD. marksE. occasionally F. outbreakG. overstatedH. promising I. recognizes J. remainsK. usuallyAtishoo, we all fall downFLU season has arrived in the northern half of the planet. That is not news -

23、it happens every year, and for most of us it is 31_ little more than a nuisance （令人讨厌的事物）. But the flu of 2018 could be as bad as an annual winter _32_ gets. You may think you have heard it all before, but you probably havent. To be clear, we are not talking about bird or swine flu, the kind that ke

24、eps virologists awake at night fearing a pandemic （流行疾病）. Right now the warnings are about regular winter flu. But it looks like a bad one. For people who are weak because of age, pregnancy, obesity or other risk factors, it could be a（n）_33_.And yet the world _34_ astonishingly uncaring about a vir

25、us that regularly kills hundreds of thousands and _35_ more. We defend ourselves against it half-hearted with a vaccine from the 1940s, which is better than nothing - but we know we can do more. We spend a small amount of money on developing vaccines that will actually defeat it, even though researc

26、hers have some very _36_ leads. Why？ Partly because of complacency （自满）: most of us have flu and lived to tell the tale. Partly because denialists push the lie that the threat is _37_ so medical companies can sell vaccines and drugs. And partly because a better vaccine wont be very profitable. This

27、month also_ 38 _the 100th year of the so-called Spanish flu, the worst pandemic we know about. This years “Aussie flu” is a later _39_ of that virus. It wont be as bad, but we must hope that its_40_ impact is enough to tell the world that ordinary flu is still a serious disease and that a repeat of

28、1918 is supposed to happen. III. Reading Comprehension（45分）Section ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. The 6th-century dramatist Ben Johnson generously called

29、 Shakespeare a writer “not of an age, but for all time. ” And so it has proven to be, for Shakespeares plays are still the most translated and most _41 _of any playwriters in the world. But if you ask people what accounts for Shakespeares _42_ popularity, you will get a number of different answers.

30、Some will say that he was a great storyteller, others that the _43_ lies in the beauty of his poetry. Some scholars point out that he was born in a lively period of Englands history, time of great national confidence and cultural activity, particularly in the theatre. _44_, they claim, he was able t

31、o produce an extraordinary volume of work. This last explanation seems a little _45_. Amore interesting answer is put forward, although a little over-enthusiastically, by Harold Bloom in his book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Bloom argues that Shakespeare gave us something in his writing

32、that the world had not seen in _46_ before: characters with a strong personality. These lifelike characters gave us a real insight into the human _47_: Iago, the trusted advisor of Othello, whose jealousy leads him to betray his honest master; Rosalind, the heroine in As You Like it, who remains tru

33、e to her friends and family despite the danger to herself. Through the mouths of such characters, we learn truths about life that we can all _48_ . These truths are made more moving and more memorable by the way in which they are _49 _: briefly and poetically. Shakespeare has been dead almost 400 ye

34、ars, but the words and saying attributed（归功于）to him still _50_ the English language today. So whether you are “fashionable” or “sanctimonious, ” thank Shakespeare, who probably _51_ the terms. In fact, it is amazing just how great Shakespeares influence on everyday language has been. Take, for examp

35、le, these phrases from Michael Macrones light-hearted book Brush Up Your Shakespeare. foregone conclusionseen better daysfull circlethe world is （my） oysterat one fell swoopneither here nor thereMacrone is more interested in the Shakespearean language that has survived than the reasons for its _52_.

36、 According to his research, some of these sayings are slightly different from their original meaning once taken out of the _53_ of the plays in which they first appeared. For example, “the be all and end all” is used today to mean “the most important thing”, but in Macbeth, it means “the end of the

37、matter”. Regardless of such technicalities, it is still remarkable that so many of Shakespeares words have survived the large _54_ in language between their time and the present day. The beauty of those words is certainly one reason, but as Johnson suggested, it is the humanity and lasting relevance

38、 （相关性; 实用 性）of their _55_ that brings them to life. 41.A. selectedB. performedC. evaluatedD. revised42.A. temporaryB. varyingC. individualD. enduring43.A. magicB. evidenceC. creativityD. count44.A. In a wordB. As a consequenceC. By contrastD. To some degree45.A. possibleB. convincingC. unsatisfactor

39、yD. annoying46.A. manB. literatureC. historyD. focus47.A. conditionB. emotionC. languageD. status48.A. qualify forB. judge fromC. specialize inD. identify with49.A. provedB. phrasedC. believedD. understood50A. colorB. defineC. maskD. involve51.A. honoredB. improvedC. coinedD. chose52.A. significance

40、B. varietyC. livelihoodD. popularity53.A. conceptB. timeC. contextD. outline54.A. shiftsB. conflictsC. similaritiesD. trends55.A. pronunciationB. wordingC. originalityD. messageSection BDirections: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by questions or unfinished statements. For each

41、of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. （A）I hesitated when the editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine told me in late 2014 that I would be editing a new front-of-book column call

42、ed “Letter of Recommendation”, about stuff people really like. The column was the brainchild of our staff writer, Sam Anderson, who figured that there was no shortage of places to find out what writers hate but few spaces for writers to talk about what they love. We would push against this trend, 90

43、0 words a week, 40-something times per year. The reason for my hesitation was a simple, unfortunate fact about writing. Writing about things you hate is easy. The criticism tends to entertain, even if you disagree, but the ode doesnt. The writerly tone is well-suited to our age, but its hard not to

44、see it as a collective defense mechanism - as if revealing your true feelings exposes your unmentionable secrets to the public. Fascination, meanwhile, are inseparable from our peculiarities as people - we come to love things for often strange reasons. When the column really works, its as revealing

45、about the author as it is its subject. One writer, a man in his late 30s, for example, recommended Pedialyte, which he drinks to balance the effects of both drinking and exercise, and to cheat his way back to youth. I probably see about three to five “Letter of Recommendation” pitches a day. Its a g

46、reat spot for trying out new writers in the magazine, so I try my best to keep up with all the email, but I often fail. Determining which to assign involves seeing how it meets the various criteria weve settled on over the years. We dont like the column to be timely - everything else in the world is

47、 timely. But on the other hand, we need to put a headline on the thing that people might reasonably recognize, stop and read about. There should be a personal angle to the recommendation, but also some universally recommendable aspect. But then again, it shouldnt be too recommendable; this isnt a co

48、lumn for lifehacks （生活妙招）. The recommendation itself should be attractively unexpected, but really, its just an excuse to cut brilliant writers loose to amuse or inspire us. 56. Sam Anderson proposed a column called “Letter of Recommendation” because he found _.A. the fashion trend was not easy to p

49、ush againstB. there was a shortage of good quality columnsC. writers could hardly find a place to share their likesD. his brainchild could sometimes increase readership57. The word “ode” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _.A. praiseB. blameC. hesitationD. determination58. Why is “the writer in

50、 his late 30s” mentioned in paragraph 2?A. To give an example of the writerly tone. B. To highlight the way that the column selects writers. C. To show how a collective defense mechanism works. D. To illustrate how writers reveal themselves in the column. 59. The writer hopes that in the column, _.A

51、. the recommended items are quite familiar to readersB. the recommended items should follow the latest trendC. readers can learn about life skills from the recommendationsD. readers will find the recommendations beyond their expectation（B）Nowadays, bikes are getting smarter. Although it may seem con

52、fusing to mess with the simplicity of a bicycle, e-bikes are actually the perfect fit for a variety of circumstances, including living in a hilly area, looking for a greener transportation alternative or just to make riding a bike more fun. Here are four typical models of e-bikes. Best for a tight b

53、udget: Schwinn Monroe 250Not interested in breaking the bank? Try Schwinns Monroe 250. Its an urban rider with a single speed and is great for zipping across town or around campus. It lasts up to 50 miles and requires a five-hour battery charge from zero. Plug it in before bed, and youre golden in t

54、he morning. Best for the tech-savvy: Specialized Turbo VadoSpecializeds entry-level Turbo Vado 2. 0 comes equipped with a customized touchscreen smart computer. With it, you can control the assist mode and connect through Bluetooth to the Specialized Mission Control app. The app lets you map out you

55、r ride, and then the motor will adjust to that specific distance so you never have to worry about the battery dying mid-route. It also offers direction and diagnostics and stores your ride history and personal preferences. Best for all-around use: Cannondale Quick NeoFor those who want a does-it-all

56、 option, the Cannondale Quick Neo is your best bet. It was designed for people who lead active lifestyles but may not be “cyclists”. The Quick Neo has three assist modes - eco, normal and high - and the battery lasts up to 70 miles before it needs a four-hour recharge. It also has front suspension,

57、so itll handle bumps, pot-holes and even dirt paths well, and its brakes make it easier to stop if the weather gets wet. Best for replacing a car: Trek Super Commuter+If you live in a big city and owning a car is not an option, then the Super Commuter+ could be for you. Its expensive, but less expen

58、sive than most cars when you allow for the amount of money you spend on gas, maintenance, insurance, parking or public transportation, an e-bike is a more economical choice for urban citizens looking for a new way to get around. With four assist modes, it can go up to 28 mph and as far as 120 miles

59、on a battery that takes just three to five hours to charge, so its basically like the Ferrari of e-bikes. 60. If you are not an experienced cyclist, which of the following might be your best choice?A. Schwinn Monroe 250. B. Specialized Turbo Vado. C. Cannondale Quick Neo. D. Trek Super Commuter+. 61

60、. Which e-bike is most suitable for those who knows much about technology?A. Schwinn Monroe 250. B. Specialized Turbo Vado. C. Cannondale Quick Neo. D. Trek Super Commuter+. 62. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?A. Schwinn Monroe 250 is the most economical choice amo