2021河南省天一大联考高二上学期阶段性测试（二）英语含解析

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2020－2021学年高二年级阶段性测试(二)

英语

考生注意：

1.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号填写在试卷和答题卡上，并将考生号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。

2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。

3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)

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。

例:How much is the shirt?

A.￡19.15.      B.￡9.18.      C.￡9.15.

答案是C。

1. What is the man speaker going to do on Sunday?

A. Visit his mother.      B. Do some gardening.      C. Move into a new house.

2. What does the man think the building might be?

A. An apartment building.      B. A hotel.      C. A department store.

3. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a store.      B. In a bank.      C. In a classroom.

4. When will the next bus come?

A. At 6:35.      B. At 6:45.      C. At 7:00.

5. When does the conversation probably take place?

A. At 4:30 p. m.      B. At 5:00 p. M.      C. At 5:30 p. m.

第二节(共15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秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What's the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Friends.      B. Neighbors.      C. Customer and waitress.

7. How will Bill and Mary go home?

A. By bus.      B. By taxi.      C. By subway.

听第7段材料，回答第8,9题。

8. What does the woman want to buy?

A. Desks.      B. Chairs.       C. Computers.

9. What discount will the woman get?

A. 15% off.      B. 12% off.      C. 10% off.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. How did the man speaker learn about the house?

A. He heard about it from his wife.

B. He saw it on South Florida Street.

C. He read about it in the newspaper.

11. How many bathrooms are there in the house?

A. Three.      B. Four.      C. Five.

12. What is the man’s main concern about the house?

A. The age.       B. The price.       C. The location.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What do the speakers both probably agree with?

A. People need cars to buy groceries.

B. Having a car can make people lazy.

C. Cars are bad for the environment.

14. Why does the woman drive her car every day?

A. Driving is convenient.      B. She thinks it’s cheap.      C. There is no subway in her city.

15. What can be known about the man?

A. He spends a lot on gas.    B. He gets to work by bike.    C. He needs to get back in shape.

16. Where will the woman probably go next?

A. To a gym.      B. To the supermarket.      C. To a used car market.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How did Jim feel about going to En乡and?

A. Surprised.      B. Nervous.      C. Sad.

18. Where was Shakespeare born?

A. In London.      B. In Cambridge.       C. In Stratford-upon-Avon.

19. What was the main job of Shakespeare’s father?

A. He was a writer.      B. He was a tour guide.       C. He was a glove maker.

20. Why did Shakespeare write unusual plays?

A. He got a free education.   B. He never went to university.   C. He traveled around the world.

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

CityTicket for weekend travel on Metro-North

If you’re traveling on Metro-North Railroad within New York City on weekends, you can get a CityTicket.

Price

CityTickets cost $ 4.50 and are good for one-way travel that begins and ends within New York City as long as riders continue their trips in the same direction. On Metro-North, you can use a CityTicket for trips on Hudson or Harlem line trains between the Bronx and Manhattan.

How to buy a CityTicket

You can buy a CityTicket at a ticket office, a ticket machine, or on the eTix app on your phone. Not all stations have ticket windows open on weekends, but all stations have ticket machines. You cannot buy a CityTicket onboard a train.

·CityTickets are available starting at 12:01 a. m. on Saturday through 11:59 p. m. on Sunday.

·They must be used on the day of purchase(购买).

·You have an extra period that allows you to travel until 4 a. m. on Sunday or Monday morning for tickets purchased on Saturdays or Sundays, respectively(分别地).

CityTicket limitations

You can’t use a CityTicket:

·For travel to or from Belmont Park station which is only open during special events, or the Far Rockaway Station because these trips travel through Nassau County.

·On New Haven Line trains between Manhattan and Fordham Station.

·CityTicket can be used for direct travel only. You cannot change direction at junction points.

·$ 10 is required for per refund(退票).

21. Which trip can the CityTicket be used for?

A. A one-way trip to Belmont Park station.      B. A trip from the Far Rockaway Station.

C. A round trip within New York City.          D. A trip from the Bronx to Manhattan.

22. Where can’t you buy a CityTicket?

A. At a subway station.        B. From a ticket machine.

C. On a mobile phone app.      D. On the train you have taken.

23. When can you use a CityTicket bought on Saturday?

A. At 2 a. m. on Sunday.       B. All through the week.

C. Any time in the month.      D. At 10 a. m. on Monday.

B

Grace Murray was born in New York City in 1906. She liked working out how things worked. When she was 7, she took apart her alarm clock. All the parts flew out of the clock, but she couldn't make sense of the mechanism. Instead of giving up, she dismantled all the other alarm clocks in the house, determined to discover how they worked.

Grace's parents encouraged her curiosity. They took her to museums, libraries, concerts, and lectures. When Grace was 8, her father became ill and had to have both legs cut off. He never complained. His bravery inspired Grace to face challenges head-on. If her father could be so brave, Grace felt that she could conquer anything.

Grace’s father worried that he might not always be able to provide for his daughters. He wanted them to get a good education and be able to support themselves. He encouraged them to go to college and create their better future. Grace started at Vassar College when she was 17. She studied math and physics. Then she went to graduate school at Yale. With a PhD in mathematics, the little girl who’d spent her days dealing with clocks would become one of the greatest computer minds of her generation.

After graduating from Yale, Grace joined the U. S. Naval Reserve(海军预备役), where she worked on the first large automatic(自动的)calculator in the U. S. Her team came up with new ways to interact with computer data. Grace believed the data should be similar to human language. Later, she helped develop a computer language called COBOL, which uses English words.

Grace was a pioneer in computer science. At a time when women were rarely seen in STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)fields, she worked with other experts to develop computer programming as it’s known today.

24. What does the underlined word "dismantled" in paragraph 1 mean?

A. Made…useless.      B. Sold out.      C. Tookto pieces.      D. Fixed over.

25. What did Grace's father bring to her?

A. A lot of wealth.         B. The love for nature.

C. The unique curiosity.      D. The unbeatable spirit.

26. Why did Grace’s father encourage his daughters to go to college?

A. He thought they should stand on their own feet.

B. He couldn’t earn his own living for his poor health.

C. He was unwilling to support his daughters any longer.

D. He wished to leave home for a better education and life.

27. Which of the following is Grace’s achievement?

A. Joining the U. S. Naval Reserve as a woman.

B. Inspiring more women to enter STEM fields.

C. Helping develop a kind of English computer language.

D. Building the first large automatic calculator in the U. S.

C

As climate change affects the planet, the world is turning to seaweed(海草)as a possible settlement. Seaweed can play a huge role in fighting climate change. It is used to create natural fuel and renewable plastics. It helps improve oceanic ecosystems.

People think of forests as the best defense(防护)against climate change. But some researchers say seaweed is a better settlement. Unlike trees, seaweed doesn't need fertilizers or fresh water. It grows faster than trees do. And it doesn't require any land. Most importantly, it absorbs carbon from the environment.

Seaweed could also become a key global food source. Many worry about the environmental influence of eating meat. Could seaweed farms provide enough protein for the world? Carlos Duarte, a professor of oceanic ecology, thinks so. "When you look at how we are going to feed the world population by 2050, in a way that doesn’t harm the environment, there is only one pathway," he says. "Seaweed farming."

In the past decade or so, global seaweed production has doubled. In British Columbia, seaweed farming is becoming popular. For thousands of years, First Nations people, the native people of Canada, have farmed on land and in the ocean. Seaweed farming helps them create economies of their own that agree with their traditions. Their role has always been to connect with the land and repair it.

Seaweed might fight climate change but it isn’t without risks. If it isn’t harvested, it can go bad and give off carbon back into the air or water. Growing too much of it could also affect the amount of light that reaches species living deeper in the water. That would be dangerous for underwater ecosystems. So some scientists think seaweed can be a part of the settlement to climate change, but it’s not a perfect one on its own.

28. What is an advantage of seaweed in fighting climate change compared with trees?

A. Growing taller.   B. Using fewer resources.  C. Living longer.   D. Absorbing more carbon.

29. What is Carlos Duarte’s attitude to growing seaweed to feed the world?

A. Unclear.      B. Doubtful.       C. Uncaring.      D. Supportive.

30. What can we learn from the text?

A. First Nations people have changed their traditions.

B. Seaweed farming has its on乡n in British Columbia.

C. Seaweed farming isn’t risk-free for the environment.

D. Global seaweed production has been less in recent years.

31. What is the best title for the text?

A. Seaweed Farming for Food          B. Seaweed Production in the World

C. Seaweed Creating Natural Fuel       D. Seaweed in Environmental Protection

D

Caleb Arnold loves birds-especially hummingbirds. The 7-year-old boy knows a lot about his favorite animal. "They pollinate(授粉)plants, and they’re pretty and small," he says. But there’s one thing Caleb didn't know: hummingbirds see a wider range(范围)of colors than we do.

It makes sense that Caleb didn’t know this. Few people did for sure, until June 15, 2020, when researchers published a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It confirmed the fact that scientists have long suspected. Birds are experiencing a more colorful world that is above our own. A team of scientists conducted a three-year experiment to find out if hummingbirds are able to tell apart colors that look the same to humans.

To understand the experiment, it’s important to know how color vision works. There are three types of tiny color-sensitive cones(锥细胞)in the human eye. Birds, and some other animals, have a fourth. This means they can also see ultraviolet (紫外线)colors. The ultraviolet cone type allows birds to see combination colors that humans can’t, like ultraviolet green and ultraviolet red. Biologists studying birds have supposed that birds can see these, but it’s been challenging to test this idea.

That’s exactly what the team did. They put two bird feeders in the wild. One contained ordinary water. The other contained sugar water. Both feeders held a specially designed LED light stick-sort of a bird-vision light tube-that changed colors. If we are showed the ultraviolet green tube and the green tube, they’d both just look green to us. But the hummingbirds saw the difference. They could even tell apart two shades of ultraviolet red. The scientists observed that the birds were able to use the colors of the lights to find the sweet water.

Caleb is glad scientists want to better understand birds. "Good!" he said, after hearing the news. "They’re part of nature."

32. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A. To introduce hummingbirds.       B. To explain a natural law.

C. To lead in the topic of the text.      D. To describe a boy who loves birds.

33. What is unknown to most people about hummingbirds?

A. They look very beautiful.      B. They are of a small size.

C. They are helpful to plants.      D. They see more colors than humans.

34. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A. The reason for birds' better color vision.      B. The types of color-sensitive cones.

C. Combination colors unseen by humans.       D. The experiment to test ultraviolet colors.

35. How did hummingbirds find the water they liked?

A. By tasting the water in the two containers.

B. By recognizing the light colors on the feeders.

C. By smelling the water in different tubes.

D. By telling apart the depth of water in different feeders.

第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分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。

Do you want to help yourself achieve your own New Year's resolutions(决心)? Then consider these tips:

A Stanford professor says that we should develop "small habits" for ourselves rather than try to change our behaviors entirely. The "small habits" can be anything. They might be practicing an instrument for 3 minutes per day, flossing(用牙线清洁)just one tooth or a single pushup when you first get out of bed.   36   , so broad goals such as "eating healthy" or "getting in shape" are more ideas than achievable deeds.

   37   . That’s because you’ll carry them out without thinking about it. Examples of these daily habits might include washing your hands before eating a meal. Once someone forms a new habit, soon it turns into a full-blown custom.

Forbes India offers a couple of simple tricks for going all the way with your resolution.   38   . It could help you track your progress. That’s because it will keep you paying attention to whether or not you’re going on with your efforts. Examples might include tracking how far your run or how much time you put into studying a new language. Keeping the scorecard will also create a nice sense of satisfaction.

Some people advise you should keep your resolution to yourself.   39   . It might mean that you’re less likely to follow through. But others advise that you should tell your friends or family members. They say that having social support helps people achieve difficult goals.

   40   , because one tip is not for everyone.

A. You can keep a scorecard

B. It is up to you to choose a more suitable way

C. Changing our behaviors is a more difficult task

D. Announcing your goal suggests a sense of finish

E. You should ask friends to improve your resolutions

F. Simplifying wishes to daily habits is much more practical

G. That’s because you manage to keep on top of your resolutions

第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的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。

Dustin and I were both exhausted, living through the first few weeks of caring for our new baby Randy. We were lacking in   41   and trying to get used to our life as   42   . Caring for the new baby was proving to be more   43   than anyone could have prepared us for.

Last night, we had   44   closed our eyes and were falling asleep when Randy   45   for one of his nighttime feedings. I complained to Dustin that I was much more tired, and   46   him to prepare the milk. Little did I know how exhausted Dustin   47   was that night.

Dustin seemed to be spending a very long time in the   48   so I called out to him to see if he was okay. He   49   back impatiently that he was, but he couldn’t   50   the bottle and was trying to find another one. Finally, he made it back to the room and   51   the baby.

The next morning, as I was washing the   52   , I noticed a flashlight and batteries,   53   from each other, among the dirty dishes. I called Dustin to ask if he knew   54   the flashlight and its batteries were in the sink.

After hearing my doubt, he was also   55   . Suddenly, he began to laugh,   56   that the "broken" bottle he was dealing with the night before was not a bottle   57   . He said he would put in the milk, put on the top, and then turn it over to check the   58   (in case it’s too hot for the baby), but each time he did, it would   59   all the milk out. He made up the baby’s milk in this "bottle" several times, thinking each time that the top was just not on   60   enough. We laughed after learning the truth.

41. A. sleep       B. money       C. patience      D. safety

42. A. couples      B. relatives       C. families      D. parents

43. A. rewarding       B. satisfying       C. relaxing       D. challenging

44. A. finally       B. secretly      C. cautiously       D. occasionally

45. A. came in       B. woke up       C. jumped down       D. went away

46. A. allowed       B. invited       C. required       D. encouraged

47. A. especially       B. obviously      C. actually       D. hardly

48. A. yard       B. kitchen       C. bedroom       D. bathroom

49. A. looked       B. shouted       C. rushed       D. smiled

50. A. fix      B. wash       C. break       D. empty

51. A. trained       B. greeted       C. protected      D. fed

52. A. bottles       B. cars       C. dishes       D. clothes

53. A. free       B. separate       C. absent      D. far

54. A. why       B. when       C. where       D. whether

55. A. confused       B. upset       C. content       D. bored

56. A. predicting       B. imagining       C. realizing       D. insisting

57. A. at least       B. before long       C. at all      D. any longer

58. A. date       B. amount       C. price      D. temperature

59. A. clear       B. figure      C. find       D. pour

60. A. strong       B. tight      C. loose       D. big

第二节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

A team of biologists studied rainfrogs in the forests of northern Ecuador. While doing so, they made a surprising   61   (discover): a Mindo harlequin toad(丑角蟾). It was 30 years since the creature   62   (see) alive. The scientists couldn’t believe their eyes.

The Mindo harlequin is the latest harlequin toad species to come back from the dead. Since 2003, eight others have been found, three of them in Ecuador. Until   63   (recent), 13 of the 25 species of harlequin toads in Ecuador have gone unseen since the 1980s or early 1990s. Scientists thought most of them had been wiped out by a disease   64   (call)chytrid, which is especially   65   (harm)to the harlequin toad. The Mindo harlequin may have developed a resistance(抵抗力)to the disease,   66   would explain their reappearance. And it could spell good news for other harlequins. Since discovering the first one, the team have found five   67   (many).They were all tested for the disease but none of them had. But that doesn’t mean the survival of the species is guaranteed. The harlequin toad is still endangered.

Biologists are developing a conservation plan together   68   a zoology museum in Ecuador. They want to make sure the Mindo harlequin toad doesn’t fall back into extinction. Each reappearance gives us   69   second chance to develop better conservation ways. Not every day do we have the opportunity   70   (save)a species that we believed to be extinct.

第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下而写出修改后的词。

注意：

1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I lived abroad last year. Thank to technology, I could create a home away from home. I chatted with my family online and have them with me on my adventures. Their year abroad was an amazing journey. It taught me so much, not only about other cultures and about myself. There is no doubt if language learning is hard but it is worthwhile. At the first, I found listening and speaking German all the time exhausting. Therefore, the more I did, the less tiredly I became. It is the most satisfied feeling to understand and take part in a conversation.

第二节 书面表达(满分25分)

假如你是李华，将作为一名交换生在一个英国家庭生活一个月。他们来信询问你的基本情况及打算，请给他们写一封回信。

注意：

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Sir or Madam,

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua