2021-2022学年广东省汕头市金山中学高二上学期期末考试英语试题含答案

  汕头市金山中学2020 级高二第一学期期末考试

英语科试卷

第一部分  阅读 （共两节，满分 50 分）

第一节 （共 15 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 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Online courses offer people abundant opportunities to learn. Try some of the Harvard online courses about humanities.

The Path to Happiness

From Confucianism to Daoism, the philosophies developed over two thousand years ago are among the most powerful in human history. This course brings voices from the past into modern contexts to explore the path to a good life today.

Duration: June 16, 2021-February 1, 2022

Fees: Free of charge

Pace: Self-paced

Difficulty: Introductory

Introduction to the Ancient Greek World

This course is about ancient Greece with its unique places, ways of life and historical changes. We survey the most important social institutions and cultural traditions. We also study everyday features such as food and dress.

Duration: June, 21-November 9, 2021

Fees: $3400+

Pace: Instructor-led

Difficulty: Introductory

Biotechnology and the Human Good

Biotechnology offers exciting and promising prospects for healing the sick and relieving the suffering. In this course we consider possible functions beyond medical treatments like making people look younger, perform better and become perfect.

Duration: June 21-August 6, 2021.

Fees: $ 3400+

Pace: Instructor-led

Difficulty: Intermediate

Superheroes and Power

What makes superheroes popular? How can they help us think about super powers? In this course, we explore those questions in Marvel and DC favorites（especially the X-Men）as well as independent comics novels.

Duration: June 22-August 6, 2021

Fees: $ 3400+

Pace: Instructor-led

Difficulty: Intermediate

1. Which course can you take if you are free in December, 2021?

A. The Path to Happiness.

B. Introduction to the Ancient Greek World.

C. Biotechnology and the Human Good.

D. Superheroes and Power.

2. What does Biotechnology and the Human Good deal with?

A. Powers of superheroes.      B. Ways to increase happiness.

C. More uses of biotech.      D. Clinical practices of biotech.

3. What do the four courses have in common?

A. They are of the same level.     B. They are free of charge.

C. They are instructor-led.      D. They belong to the same subject.

B

Some say everyday miracles are predestined — the right time for the appointed meeting. And it can happen anywhere.

In 2001, 11-year-old Kevin Stephan was a bat boy for his younger brother’s Little League team in Lancaster, New York. It was an early evening in late July. Kevin was standing on the grass away from the plate, where another youngster was warming up for the next game, swinging his bat back and forth, giving it all the power an elementary school kid could give. The boy brought the bat back hard and hit Kevin in the chest. His heart stopped.

When Kevin fell to the ground, the mother of one of the players rushed out of the stands to his aid. Penny Brown hadn’t planned to be there that day, but at the last minute, her shift at the hospital had been changed to see her son’s performance. She was given the night off. Penny bent over the senseless boy, his face already starting to turn blue, and giving CPR, breathing into his mouth and giving chest compressions. And he revived in the end.

After his recovery, he became a volunteer junior firefighter, learning some of the emergency first-aid techniques that had saved his life. He studied hard in school and was saving money for college by working as a dishwasher in a local restaurant in his spare time.

Kevin, now 18, was working in the kitchen when he heard people screaming, customers in confusion, employees rushing toward a table. He hurried into the main room and saw a woman there, her face turning blue, her hands at her throat. She was choking.

Quickly Kevin stepped behind her, wrapped his arms around her and clasped his hands. Then, using skills he’d first learned in Scouts. The food that was trapped in the woman’s throat was freed. The color began to return to her face. “The food was stuck. I couldn’t breathe,” she said. She thought she was dying. “I was very frightened.”

Who was the woman? Penny Brown.

4. The underlined word “predestined” is closest in meaning to _______.

A. planned by fate        B. appointed between friends

C. chosen among colleagues      D. suggested by professionals

5. Which of the following statements is True of Kevin Stephan?

A. He was hit on the face by a boy and almost lost his life.

B. He was a volunteer junior firefighter, teaching the players first-aid skills.

C. He worked part-time in a local restaurant to save money for college.

D. He saved Penny Brown though he didn’t really know how to deal with food choke.

6. Why did Penny Brown change her shift and was given the night off that night?

A. She was invited to give the players directions.

B. She volunteered to give medical services.

C. She was a little worried about his son’s safety.

D. She came to watch her son’s game and cheered him.

7. When Kevin knew the woman was Penny Brown, probably he first felt _______.

A. pleased    B. surprised    C. sad     D. worried

C

“Clean your plate!” Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent. Often, it is accompanied by an appeal: “Just think about those starving orphans in Africa!” Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites. Instead of staying “clean the plate”, perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.

According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government, according to a USA Today story. Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little.

Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waistline began to expand.

Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparently, some customers are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade believed restaurants serve portions that are too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed. But a closer look at the survey indicates that many Americans who can’t afford fine dining still prefer large portions. 70 percent of those earning at least $ 150,000 per year prefer smaller portions; but only 45 percent of those earning less than $ 25,000 want smaller.

It’s not that working class Americans don’t want to eat healthily. It’s just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal. They live from paycheck to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next year’s Christmas presents.

8. “Clean your plate!” in the first paragraph means _______.

A. to wash the plate       B. not to eat too much

C. not to waste the food      D. to help the starving orphans

9.American restaurants serve large portions because _______.

A. Americans are good at eating

B. Americans value the amount

C. the restaurants want people to keep healthy

D. the government recommends the amount

10.What happened in the 1970s?

A. The government recommended serving small portions.

B. Americans began to realize the importance of health.

C. Health experts predicted that restaurant portion sizes began to grow.

D. People in the United States began to gain weight.

11. What does the survey indicate?

A. Many poor Americans want large portions.

B. 20 percent Americans want smaller portions.

C. 70 percent Americans earn at least $ 150,000 per year.

D. 45 percent Americans earn less than $ 25,000 per year.

D

Positive thinking is a significant element of happiness. In order to become a positive thinker, determination and consistency are important. The first thing to know about positive thinking is that everyone can do it. With certain cognitive and behavioral changes, we can all become positive thinkers. Another important factor is that being a positive thinker does not mean you become numb to anything that is not working properly in your life or is negative — it just means that you approach life and face challenges with a healthier outlook.

Instead of selectively attending to negative events, focus on the positive ones. Then pay attention to the delayed consequences of your behavior rather than the immediate ones. For example, if a job is not going like you want, focus on the fact that you have a job and how you can take your time to make the situation better.

Challenge any internal attributions and see if you compare your behavior to standards that are excessively rigid and perfectionistic. If so, change these and be reasonable with your comparisons. For example, if you constantly compare your weaknesses with other people’s strengths, then switch this and compare yourself with those who are doing poorer than you as well. Overall, people who focus more on their strengths than their weaknesses but at the same time are aware of their weaknesses have a healthier self-evaluation result.

When you are faced with too much fear about a situation, imagine the worst case and visualize a solution for it, then let go of fear. This way, you will be prepared for anything and your fear will not block you from being open and creative to different solutions. For example, if you are constantly worried about losing your job up to a point where it is creating a lot of anxiety and fear and is affecting your performance and your happiness negatively, then think of losing your job, visualize how you will handle it, find solutions in your mind and then let go of the thought and the fear attached to it.

So positive thinkers are better problem solvers and have better interactions. In addition to that, people who are positive thinkers are happier and more satisfied with their life.

12. Why is positive thinking a significant element of happiness?

A. It means that one is blind to the troubles and difficulties that exist.

B. It means that one constantly compares everything with other people’s.

C. It means that one is strong in mind and has nothing to be afraid of.

D. It means that one approaches life and faces challenges more healthily.

13. What does the text suggest about the job you don’t like?

A. Quitting it and finding a better one.

B. Keeping and trying to make it better.

C. Being negative and numb to it.

D. Challenging yourself with a new outlook.

14. What does the author intend to tell us in paragraph 4?

A. Be prepared for the worst and let go of fear.

B. Being constantly worried will lose your job.

C. Fear will prevent you being open and creative.

D. There is nothing to fear if well prepared.

15. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. How to focus on the positive events

B. How to be a positive thinker

C. What to do when faced with fear

D. What to know of self-evaluation

第二节 （共5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。

Robots have been taking our jobs since the 1960s. However, humans haven’t become completely redundant (多余的) because these robots may be very efficient but they’re also kind of stupid. They do not think. They just act in very accurate but very limited ways.   16  . They do the jobs the machines can’t do and fix them when they get stuck.

  17  . This change will be so significant that it will create a new industrial revolution.

The era(时代) of “Industry 4.0” is being driven by the same technological advances that enable the abilities of the smartphones in our pockets. It is a mix of low-cost and high-power computers, high-speed communication and artificial intelligence. This will produce smart robots with better sensing and communication abilities.   18  .

  19  . Today’s industrial artificial intelligence operates at a narrow level, which gives the appearance of human intelligence exhibited by machines, but designed by humans.

  20  . Similar to big data analysis, it processes large quantities of data in real time to make decisions about what is the best action to take. The difference is that the machine learns from the data so it can improve its decision-making. A perfect example of deep learning was presented by Googles Alpha-Go software, which taught itself to beat the world’s greatest Go(围棋) players.

A. Humans are still needed to work around robots

B. But there is still some way to go

C. While these machines are getting smarter, they are still not as smart as us

D. What’s coming next is known as “deep learning”

E. It comes down to the question of what a robot really is

F. But this is all set to change, thanks to a new wave of smarter machines that can adapt to multiple tasks

G. They can adapt to different tasks, and even organize their work to meet demands without the input of humans

第二部分  语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）

第一节 （共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后 21-35 小题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Emergency on the Mountain

Ana was a 12-year-old girl living in the mountain. Her   21   was to become a village nurse like Leta, her neighbor. She spent almost all her spare time reading the first-aid book by herself.

This morning, Leta went to Santiago to   22   a short-term training class by a group of volunteer doctors for first aiders to learn medical   23  . Before she left, Ana begged Leta to take her along but Leta   24  , saying that it was a   25   potato because Ana was too young to learn anything important. Ana was very   26  , so she decided to wander around to refresh herself. On the hillside, she saw Rafi standing on a donkey’s bare back, some kids around him. Rafi was only 13, but he was always doing something to get attention. “No wonder adults don’t   27   kids with anything important”, Ana said to herself. She had just turned away when she heard a few   28   and Rafi fell off the donkey. Ana ran to where Rafi was lying and   29   that one of his legs bent a little sideways between the knee and the ankle and that all the other kids were   30   not knowing what to do. She remembered what the first-aid book said about broken legs.

“Vin!” Ana called to one of the boys. “Go and get Rafi’s mama and find someone with a truck.” She turned to the other kids. “Give me your shirts. We need something to   31   his leg with so it doesn’t move around.” Ana found a strong, straight stick, which she’d use to   32   his leg. She carefully wrapped the boys’ shirts around his leg and the stick. When Ana was done, Rafi came back to himself. Ana   33   comforted him until Rafi’s mama came over. Behind her was a neighbor in a pickup truck. They lifted Rafi into the truck, then drove down the dusty hillside toward the hospital.

The next day, Leta came to Ana’s home. “I heard what you did,” Leta said. “You kept your   34   in an emergency. That’s an important skill.” Ana’s face burned. “Now, listen. The volunteer doctors are coming here tomorrow with vaccines. We need some extra   35  . Can you help?” Ana didn’t hesitate. “I would love to and I’ll bring my first-aid book.” Ana said excitedly.

21. A. dream  B. hobby  C. plan  D. motivation

22. A. give  B. attend  C. learn  D. follow

23. A. theory  B. skills  C. knowledge  D. qualifications

24. A. banned  B. stopped  C. refused  D. prevented

25. A. spicy  B. burning  C. hard  D. hot

26. A. upset  B. relieved  C. motivated  D. mature

27. A. bother  B. present  C. trust  D. provide

28. A. screams  B. sobs  C. sounds  D. voices

29. A. stated  B. predicted  C. anticipated  D. noticed

30. A. surprised  B. frozen  C. urgent  D. involved

31. A. handle  B. cover  C. tie  D. defend

32. A. carry  B. fix  C. raise  D. lift

33. A. sincerely  B. tightly  C. practically  D. gently

34. A. promise  B. head  C. mind  D. feet

35. A. neighbors  B. volunteers  C. assistants  D. hands

第二节  语法填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Welcome back to the hot topic of studying abroad! Last time, we talked about the general “software”   36   (need) to have a successful studying experience overseas,   37   refers to the ability to understand western culture, and problem solving skills when   38   (face) critical situations, etc.

Now, I   39   (dig) deeper into the concept of “software”. Everyone is talking about culture shock nowadays, but you may wonder   40   it actually means. Simply put: culture shock is the difficulty people may experience when being exposed and adjusting to a   41   (remarkable) different new culture. Usually, people often go   42   four distinct phases: the honeymoon phase, the negotiation phase, the adjustment phase and the mastery phase. Culture shock can happen immediately upon your   43   (arrive) in the country.

For international students, perhaps the most direct impact of culture shock is the variety of accents, especially in multicultural countries like the US. Canada or Australia. There are two main reasons: Firstly, these countries have highly diversified groups of   44   (resident) from different cultural backgrounds. Secondly, there are many international students from all around the world every year studying in these countries, so you shouldn’t be surprised to find all kinds of   45   (familiar) accents around the university campus.

第三部分  写作（共两节，满分 40 分）

第一节 （满分 15 分）

假定你是李华，上周你校举办了一年一度的体育节。你的英国笔友 David 想了解星期六下午学生 400 米接力赛（relay race）的情况。请给他回信，内容包括：

1. 参赛人员；

2. 时间和地点；

3. 过程及意义。

注意：1. 词数 80 左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以行文连贯。

Dear David,

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Yours,

Li Hua

第二节（满分 25 分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

There was something in the elderly woman’s grace that caught my eye. Although slow and unsure of her steps, the woman moved with deliberation(从容), and there was no hesitation in her gestures.

It was a few years ago, and I had taken a part-time holiday-season job in a video store at the local shopping mall. From inside the store, I could see the people outside rushing by.

The elderly woman entered the store, along with her daughter, who was displaying a serious case of impatience, rolling her eyes, sighing and checking her watch every few seconds. I guessed if she had possessed a rope, she would have fastened it to her mother to drag her along to keep step with the rush of other shoppers.

The elderly woman separated from her daughter and began to seek through the DVDs on the nearest shelf. After the slightest hesitation, I walked over and asked if I could help her find something. The woman smiled up at me and showed me a title written on an old piece of paper.

Rather than rush off to locate the DVD for the woman, I asked her to walk with me so I could show her where she could find it. Looking back, I thought I wanted to enjoy her company for a moment. Something about her deliberate movements reminded me of my own mother, who’d passed away the previous Christmas. I missed my mom and still felt regretful about the moments when I’d used my impatience to make her life unhappy.

As we walked along the back of the store, I introduced its floor plan: old television shows, action movies, cartoons, science fiction. The woman seemed glad of the unrushed company and casual conversation.

We found the DVD and she thanked me, saying that it was the one she’d enjoyed when she was her daughter’s age. Unwillingly, I accompanied her to the cash register, realizing I had to return the elderly woman to her daughter, who was still tapping her foot at the front of the store.

注意：1. 续写词数应为 150 左右；

2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。

As the elderly woman was waiting in the queue at the cash register, I walked over to her daughter. ____________

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Together they made their way toward the store’s exit. ____________________________________________________

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汕头市金山中学 2020 级高二第一学期期末考试英语科试卷

参考答案

第一部分  阅读 （共两节，满分 50 分）

第一节 （共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分）

1-3 ACD  4-7 ACDB  8-11 CBDA   12-15DBAB

第二节 （共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分）

16-20 AFGCD

第二部分  语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）

第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）

21-25ABBCD  26-30ACADB  31-35CBDBD

第二节  语法填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）

36. needed  37. which  38. facing  39. will dig 40. what

41. remarkably  42. through  43. arrival/arriving  44. residents   45. unfamiliar

第三部分 （共两节，满分 40 分）

第一节 （满分 15 分）

One possible version:

Dear David,

I’m glad that you’re interested in the 400- meter relay race held in our school last week. I am writing to give you detailed information about it.

As part of the annual\yearly Sports Festival of our school, the race took place on our school playground last Saturday afternoon. It was widely welcomed by all the classes. Four best runners from each class took part in the fierce competition and all of them tried their best to win, with the other classmates and some teachers cheering them on beside the running route. The race turned out to be a great success. Not only does it build up our body but it also strengthens our teamwork and cooperation.

My best wishes! Looking forward very much to seeing you and your family.

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节（满分 25 分）

One possible version:

As the elderly woman was waiting in the queue at the cash register, I walked over to her daughter. “Mind some advice?” I asked. She rolled her eyes, saying, “Of course not.” But clearly there was annoyance in her reply. I smiled to show her I wasn’t criticizing. “Cherish every single moment you can stay with your mother,” I said. Then I answered her curious expression by saying, “When she’s gone, it’s these little moments that’ll come back to you.” Just then, the elderly woman was moving with deliberation back to her daughter.

Together they made their way toward the store’s exit. They stood there for a moment, side by side, watching the rush of the holiday current and for their place in it. Then the daughter glanced over her elderly mother. And slowly, almost unwillingly, she placed her arm with apparently unaccustomed affection around her mother’s shoulders and gently guided her back into the crowd. Tears filled my eyes when I watched them disappearing in the crowd.