2021-2022学年陕西省延安市第一高级中学高二下学期期末考试英语试题 Word版含答案

延安市第一高级中学2021-2022学年高二下学期期末考试

英语试题

（全卷150分；时间120分钟）

本试卷分为第一卷和第二卷两部分

第一卷（选择题，共100分）

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2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。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。

1. How much will the woman pay for the stamps?

A. $1.                   B. $2.                       C. $4.

2. What does the man dislike about the shirt?

A. Its material.           B. Its design.               C. Its color.

3. What does the man mean?

A. He got a wrong ticket.    B. He sat in the wrong seat.     C. He wants to change seats.

4. How does the woman feel?

A. Sad.                  B. Excited.                    C. Disappointed.

5. Why won’t the boy go to the party tomorrow night?

A. He has just recovered from sickness.

B. He has an exam that night.

C. He doesn’t like parties.

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和第7两个小题。

6. What does the man suggest the woman do?

A. Take some medicine.    B. Go home.             C. Call someone.

7. Who might the man be?

A. The woman’s doctor.      B. The woman’s boss.       C. The woman’s assistant.

听第7段材料，回答第8至第9两个小题。

8. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a shop.               B. At home.             C. At a radio station.

9. What would the woman like to do?

A. Choose a new radio.      B. Have her radio fixed.      C. Get her money back.

听第8段材料，回答第10至第12三个小题。

10. Which color jeans will the man be wearing?

A. Grey.                   B. Black.                 C. Blue.

11. Where are the man’s favorite jeans?

A. In the box.             B. In the drawer.            C. In the cupboard.

12. Where is the man going?

A. To a mall.              B. To a cinema.            C. To a restaurant.

听第9段材料，回答第13至第16四个小题。

13. What is the man doing?

A. Asking for advice.       B. Giving directions.         C. Guiding tourists.

14. When were the walls first built?

A. In 71 AD.              B. In 310 AD.            C. In 1300 AD.

15. What does the woman want to see for the second stop?

A. The old shops.          B. The wooden carvings.     C. The Grosvenor Museum.

16. How will the speakers go to the Rows?

A. By car.              B. By bus.                C. On foot.

听第10段材料，回答第17至第20四个小题。

17. How many safety meetings will the employees have every week?

A. One.                  B. Two.                    C. Three.

18. What are the employees allowed to wear in the lab?

A. Necklaces.              B. Loose belts.            C. Sports shoes.

19. Why should the employees wash their hands?

A. To avoid bacteria.

B. To preserve new equipment.

C. To make equipment look clean.

20. What does the speaker mainly talk about?

A. Salaries the employees will receive.

B. Rules the employees should follow.

C. Work the employees will do.

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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Writing Competitions

The Bristol Short Story Prize

It’s an international writing competition founded by the editors of the quarterly cultural magazine Bristol Review of Books in 2007. The 2022 Bristol Short Story Prize is open to everyone. The first prize is ￡1,000. Entries must be unpublished stories with 4, 000 words at most. The judges are Tom Drake-Lee, Irenosen Okojie and Jessica Taylor.

Admission fee:￡9

The Bath Novel Award

Since its launch nine years ago, the international Bath Novel Award has helped spotlight and support new writers. The prize is￡3, 000. In the event of a joint win, the prize money will be shared equally between winners.

It’s open to unpublished and independently published novelists. This year’s judge is Nelle Andrew. All genres（体裁）are welcome. Writers must submit the first 5, 000 words plus one-page synopsis（摘要）of the novel.

Admission fee:￡29

The BBC National Short Story Award

The BBC National Short Story Award 2022 with Cambridge University invites entries of short stories up to 8,000 words. It’s an award that has enriched the careers of writers since it was founded seventeen years ago. The winner of the contest for single short stories will receive￡15,000. This year’s judges are author Elizabeth Day and broadcaster Katie Thistleton.

Admission fee: free

The Creative Future Writers’ Award

Founded in 2013, it’s an annual development program for talented writers who lack opportunities due to health problems or social circumstances. This year’s theme is How It Started. Prizes include￡10,000 of cash and top writing development prizes supplied by publishers and development agencies.

Writers should submit one piece of writing in one category (50-line poetry to the maximum or 2,000-word fiction to the maximum). The judges are Dorothy Koomson, Joelle Taylor, Aki Schilz and Sarala Estruch.

Admission fee: free

21. Who may act as a judge for The Bristol Short  Story Prize in 2022?

A. Joelle Taylor.                         B. Nelle Andrew.

C. Katie Thistleton.                       D. Jessica Taylor.

22. What do the second and the fourth competitions have in common?

A. They were founded in the same year.      B. They have a strict genre requirement.

C. They set the same cash bonus.            D. They require no admission fee.

23. Which competition may favor applicants with physical disabilities?

A. The Bath Novel Award.                 B. The Bristol Short Story Prize.

C. The Creative Future Writers’ Award.     D. The BBC National Short Story Award.

B

Actors Keira Knightley and Kristen Bell have both commented on their worries about using Disney princesses as role models for their children.

On a famous talk show, Knightley said her daughter (who was born in 2015) was “banned” from watching Cinderella, which Disney produced as a cartoon in 1950 and a live-action film in 2015. “Cinderella waits around for a rich guy to rescue her. Don’t. Rescue yourself! Obviously.”

Knightley added that she had also forbidden The Little Mermaid, the 1989 cartoon. “This is the one that I’m quite annoyed about because I really like the film. I mean, the songs are great, but do not give up your voice for a man. Well, that’s a little difficult to handle, but I’m keeping to it.”

Bell, the star of Frozen, expressed her disapproval of the Snow White fairytale, which became a classic Disney cartoon in 1938. In an interview with parents, Bell said: “I look at my girls and ask, ‘Don’t you think it’s very unusual that Snow White didn’t ask the old witch why she needed to eat the apple? Or where she got that apple?’ I say, ‘I would never take food from a stranger, would you?’ And my kids respond, ‘No!’ And I think I’m doing something right.”

Bell, who played a Disney princess in Frozen, said she also used the story to illustrate issues about permission. She says that she asked her children: “Don’t you think that it’s very strange that the prince kisses Snow White without her permission? … Because you cannot kiss someone if they’re sleeping!”

Bell later responded to criticism on social media. To one user she wrote: “Everything is a message to our children, because they are sponges(海绵) that soak up everything and are learning how to be adults through what they see. I want my girls to see and practice critical thinking and respectful behavior.”

24. Why did Knightley stop her daughter from watching The Little Mermaid?

A. Because Knightley disliked it.
B. Because the little mermaid was tricky.
C. Because the film showed wrong values.
D. Because the songs in the film were annoying.

25. What can we infer about Bell from Paragragh 4?

A. Bell thought Snow White behaved well.
B. Bell didn’t know how to persuade her kids.
C. Bell wanted her kids to learn from Snow White.
D. Bell believed her kids should be critical about the film.

26. What qualities do Knightley and Bell expect their children to have?

A. curious and hard-working.      B. smart and generous.
C. critical and proud.             D. independent and good-mannered.

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

A. Say No to Disney Princesses    B. Rescue Yourselves
C. Doing Something Right        D. Practise Critical Thinking

C

America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many ways—education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the graying of America has made us a very different society—one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.

A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position, marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn't surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.

Many people say, ‘I am much younger than my mother—or my father—was at my age.’ No one says ‘Act your age’ anymore. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.

28. It can be learnt from the text that the aging of the population in America         .

A. has made people feel younger

B. has changed people’s social position

C. has changed people’s understanding of age

D. has slowed down the country’s social development

29. The underlined word ‘one’ refers to         .

A. a society       B. America        C. a place           D. population

30. ‘Act your age’ means people should         .

A. be active when they are old

B. do the right thing at the right age

C. show respect for their parents young or old

D. take more physical exercise suitable to their age

31. If a 25-year-old man becomes general manager of a big firm, the writer of the text would most probably consider it       .

A. normal       B. wonderful      C. unbelievable    D. unreasonable

D

Convincing（使……信服）someone to change their mind is really the process of convincing them to change their tribe (部落). If they abandon their beliefs, they run the risk of losing social ties. You can’t expect someone to change their mind if you take away their community too.

The way to change people’s minds is to become friends with them, to combine them into your tribe, to bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being abandoned socially.

The British philosopher Alain de Botton suggests that we simply share meals with those who disagree with us: “Sitting down at a table with a group of strangers has the incomparable and odd benefit of making it a little more difficult to hate them without punishment. Prejudice and conflict between groups of people from different nations or races feed off abstraction. However, during a meal, something about handing dishes around, unfolding napkins (餐巾纸) at the same moment, even asking a stranger to pass the salt makes us less likely to hold the belief that the outsiders who wear unusual clothes and speak in distinctive accents deserve to be sent home or attacked. For all the large-scale political solutions which have been proposed to ease racial or cultural conflict, there are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.”

Perhaps it is not difference, but distance that produces tribalism and unfriendliness. As proximity increases, so does understanding. I am reminded of Abraham Lincoln’s quote, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Facts don’t change our minds. Friendship does.

The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami once wrote, “Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”

When we are in the moment, we can easily forget that the goal is to connect with the other side, cooperate with them, befriend them, and integrate them into our tribe. We are so caught up in winning that we forget about connecting. It’s easy to spend your energy labeling people rather than working with them.

The word “kind (family and relatives)” originated from the word “kin (old fashion of family and relatives).” When you are kind to someone, it means you are treating them like family. This, I think, is a good method for actually changing someone’s mind. Develop a friendship. Share a meal. Gift a book. Be kind first, be right later.

32. People are likely to change their mind when they ________.

A. change their beliefs                 B. are made friends with

C. move to a new community         D. are given somewhere to go

33. According to the passage, sharing meals is effective in building connections because it ________.

A. pleases people with different beliefs or accents

B. makes people focus on eating rather than conflicts

C. brings benefits to the people having dinner together

D. promotes understanding and tolerance among people

34. What does the underlined word “proximity” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Nearness.      B. Action.        C. Communication.      D. Politeness.

35. The author quotes from Haruki Murakami to imply(暗示）that ________.

A. breaking down one’s reality is easy

B. kindness is more important than right

C. arguing and winning are not important

D. losing one’s identity is a painful process

第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10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。

The next time you pick up a glass, notice the place where your fingers touched it. Do you see patterns of these lines?    36     If you look closely at the tips of your fingers, you will see the same raised patterns on your skin.

Fingerprints(指纹) begin to form long before a baby is born.     37     Even if we injure our fingers, the lines of our fingerprints grow back the same way, as long as the injury isn’t very serious.

No two people have the same fingerprints-not even twins. Because fingerprints are unique, they can be used to identify people.    38     Fingerprints can also act like a key, unlocking a phone if a person’s fingerprint matches one that has been stored in the device.

    39     

They might help us improve our sense of touch. Or they might help tell a doctor whether a patient is properly absorbing the medicine they’ve been given. Also they might help police to solve crimes (破案). If a thief stole gold watches from a store and left his fingerprints behind, the police can check those fingerprints. They compare them to their database to find who has a matching fingerprint.

Just imagine our life without fingerprints! It’d be difficult for us to read information and interact with whatever we’re touching or holding in our hands.    40     How do you feel when your fingers are interacting with the buttons of the computer while wearing gloves? Or did you find difficulties in unlocking your phone?

A. Those are your fingerprints.

B. Why do we need fingerprints?

C. Why don’t people have the same fingerprints?

D. Having no fingerprints is like wearing gloves!

E. Well, a fingerprint is formed when a finger makes contact with a surface.

F. Investigators look for fingerprints left to help figure out who had been there.

G. When we enter the world, we have the fingerprints we’ll have for our whole lives.

第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节（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。

Not long ago I wasn’t doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and negative thinking. While on the   41  , I met many new friends, but one in particular   42  . His nickname is Colorful Day and we   43   on the Web. He told me he lost his   44   at age 15, and felt the whole world had closed its door to him.

    He was   45   so fast that I couldn’t believe he was blind! But he continued to   46  , “Five years ago, I realized it was time to change my life. I had read about Helen Keller and understood her life and   47  . So I developed a website about her life   48   mine called Three Days to See.”

    I visited his website which was well    49    and vividly presented.

    I asked, “How did you    50   to build such a website?” He said: “Owing to the new technology, I can use software specially    51    for the blind.    52   I point the cursor(光标), it will just read it out to me. We can do far more things and    53   more information than we could before.”  

    I then asked: “Didn’t you have great difficulty with it?”

    He hesitated and then began his    54    with a smiling face, “Yes, but I have faith in myself to   55    my colorful day, and modern technology gives me this medium and    56   to do it.”

    His   57   attitude towards life made me believe that our fate(命运) offers, not the cup of despair,    58    the cup of opportunity. I returned to my lessons, and this time with a smile on my face and with   59    of a colorful future.

The Internet, which opened to me to experience    60    lives and cultures, has an attractive power you couldn’t find in another wise non-virtual world.

41. A. stage        B. farm          C. street          D. Internet

42. A. stands out    B. turns out       C. comes out      D. looks out

43. A. argued       B. told           C. chatted         D. interviewed

44. A. hearing      B. eyesight        C. courage        D. confidence

45. A. speaking     B. saying         C. typing          D. spelling

46. A. write        B. follow          C. read           D. copy

47. A. friendship    B. marriage       C. hardships       D. happiness

48. A. as soon as    B. as long as       C. as hard as      D. as well as

49. A. helped       B. produced       C. delivered       D. analyzed

50. A. try          B. come          C. attempt         D. manage

51. A. imagined     B. suggested       C. planned        D. designed

52. A. However     B. Wherever       C. Whatever       D. Whichever 

53. A. send         B. lose            C. obtain          D. change

54. A. webpage      B. speech         C. words          D. complaints

55. A. create        B. discover        C. recognize       D. organize

56. A. moment      B. case            C. opportunity     D. occasion

57. A. hopeless      B. disappointed    C. excited          D. optimistic

58. A. but          B. and            C. so              D. then

59. A. eagerness     B. expectations     C. richness        D. nervousness

60. A. strange       B. difficult         C. various        D. dangerous

第二卷（非选择题 共50分）

第二节(共10小题：每小題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。

In your daily life, there are many examples where your parents control hundreds    61     things for you when you are a kid, such as the clothes you wear, the food you eat, where you go and how you get there. It is a good thing. Kids need this kind of    62     (protect) and help because they are not old enough to take care of    63     and make decisions    64     (correct)．But with you growing    65     (old), the part of being a teen is developing your own identity—one that    66     (separate) from your parents’. Different attitudes towards events like partying may lead to arguments, because your parents will always want to protect you and keep you safe, no matter how old you are. As    67     result, your parents feel it hard to get used to the new situation with    68     (increase) anxiety. What kids should keep in mind is    69     in most cases, your parents can relate to what you’re going through because they    70     (be) teens once.

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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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。

People always say that we lack of the eyes of realizing the beauty in life.

I can’t agree much. Last Sunday, I woke up very early and decide to take a walk.

I found several elders bury in feeding birds in the square, there many people

were dancing. Without many cars, I realized the city looked so clean but beautiful.

Some coffee shops were well decorated, which attracted our eyes. The whole city

was covered with green trees, making it green city. At this moment, I found the

city was pretty well. How I regret ignore its beauty before! 

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）

阅读下面这封中学生来信（摘自 China Daily 21 Century）。

Dear Editor:

I am a new student at Beihai Senior Middle School. My home is far from Beihai, so I must live at school. This is the first time for me to get away from my parents. I feel very sad. When I left home, I couldn’t help tearing myself away from them. I do not want to be alone at school, and I am a shy girl. I have been crying in bed at night these days. I want to stay at home forever. I miss my parents very much. Could you tell me what to do?

Your early reply is expected.

Regards

Amy

请根据以上内容，写一封回信（信的开头和结尾已为你写好。词数100左右，不含已写好的部分）。

回信应包括如下要点：

1、鼓励Amy坚定求学信心，志存高远，四海为家；

2、就Amy的目前状况，提两到三个建议。

Dear Amy,

Thank you for your letter. I am so glad to have a talk about your present situation with you.

Wish you happy every day.

Faithfully yours

Big friend