湖南省衡阳市衡阳县2020-2021学年高二（创新实验班）上学期期末考试英语试题

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湖南省衡阳市衡阳县2020-2021学年高二（创新实验班）上学期期末考试
英语试题
本试题卷共 8页。时量120分钟。满分 150分。
第一部分 听力(共两节，满分 30分)
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。
1. Why is the woman so upset?
A. Tom forgot to give her $15.
B. Tom broke his promise to her.
C. Tom didn't return any money to her.
2. Why did the man want to change jobs?
A. The salary was not good.
B. It took him too much time to get to work.
C. The woman offered him a job within walking distance.
3. How many pounds does the woman weigh now?
A.153. B.160. C.163.
4. What does the man offer the woman?
A. He'll cook a meal.
B. He'll wash her car himself.
C. He'll take her car to the car wash.
5. What is the man's problem?
A. He injured his hand.
B. The book is confusing.
C. The lectures are not very clear.
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 is the man doing?
A. Booking tickets. B. Watching an opera. C. Visiting a theatre.
7. How much will the man have to pay?
A.10 pounds. B. 12 pounds. C. 16 pounds.
听第7段材料，回答第8至 10题。
8. What was the nature area supposed to be according to the man?
A. A nature park. B. A football field. C. A place for birds.
9. When can people visit the nature area in June?
A. Four days a week. B. Any day of the week. C. Three days a week.
10. What does the woman say about the nature area?
A. It will be closed soon.
B. It is next to a football field.
C. She wants to walk through it.
听第 8段材料,回答第 11至 13题。
11. How does the woman feel about her upcoming vacation?
A. Anxious. B. Excited. C. Disappointed.
12. What languages do the woman's parents speak?
A. Spanish and French. B. Spanish and English. C. English and French.
13. Where will the woman probably decide to go?
A. Costa Rica. B. Hawaii. C. Spain.
听第9段材料，回答第 14至17题。
14. When are the man's books due?
A. In three weeks. B. In two weeks. C. In one week.
15. What day is it today?
A. Wednesday. B. Thursday. C. Friday.
16. How old is the man's daughter?
A. She's a small child. B. She's a teenager. C. She's in her twenties.
17. What will the man probably do tomorrow?
A. Take a jewelry class.
B. See a famous author read.
C. Attend a Read to a Dog program.
听第 10段材料,回答第 18至 20题。
18. What will the temperature be on Wednesday?
A. Around sixty degrees. B. About seventy degrees. C. About eighty degrees.
19. What will the weather be like next week?
A. Very hot. B. A little warmer. C. A Kitcooler.
20. What will the audience hear next?
A. Another weather report.
B. An advertisement.
C. A sports report.
第二部分阅读(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、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Being a polite airline passenger starts with just a few easy steps.
Help your fellow traveler
While you're loading your carry-on bag into the overhead space, offér to lift a fellow passenger's up there, too. Not only is it kind, but it could make the boarding process more efficient for everyone else.
Keep your personal things well, personal
It's important to be mindful of your personal belongings. Avoid hitting other passengers with your bag, as you walk down the aisles(过道), by keeping it in front of you and close to your body. And once you sit down, you should stay there, and make sure you have everything you will need for the flight once you settle in your seat. Reaching over other passengers to access the overhead storage during the flight is uncomfortable for everyone.
Respect your (limited) space
In the narrow space of an airplane, maintaining your personal space will go a long way towards making a smoother ride for everyone. Let the middle-seat passenger use the armrests (it's the least you can do), and keep your legs within the width of the chair frame、Be willing to swap seats with a family
Airlines sometimes reserve certain seats for special passengers or charge extra fees for Adjacent (毗连的) ones, making it tough for family members to buy seats together. If
you're traveling alone, offer to switch seats so that a family can sit beside each other; it's a kind gesture that they won't forget. But be sure to delay swapping until the plane has reached the safe altitude, as switching seats while everyone is boarding can be an inconvenience for those standing in the walkways.
21. To be a polite airline passenger, you need to do the following except .
A. lending a helping hand to your travelling companion
B. using the armrests to support your arms if you want
C. avoiding reaching over others to open the overhead storage
D. keeping your bag in front of you while walking down the aisles
22. If a man wants to swap the seat with you, you should .
A. put off swapping unless it is safe enough
B. offer your seat and stand in the walkways
C. charge extra fees for offering adjacent seats
D. ask him to reserve the seat online in advance
23. Where can you most probably find the text?
A. In a daily newspaper. B. In a literature book.
C. In an airport guidebook. D. In an official document.
B
“You’ll be blind by the time you’re twenty-five,”a doctor at Children’s Hospital predicted.“Your blood sugars are much too high.”It consumed me. No matter where I was or what I was doing, it was overhead like a dark cloud, waiting for just the right opportunity to break open and destroy my world.
I liked painting. Losing myself in painting filled me with peace. Painting provided me with the only place where I could escape from those threatening words.
When I was twenty-one, my right eye went blind. Precisely three months after my twenty-fifth birthday, I had a massive hemorrhage(大出血) in my left eye because of an accident. For the next twenty years, vision came and went. I went through many eye operations in an attempt to keep my vision. But after one final operation, I lost the battle and all remaining vision. And I buried all dreams of painting.
Desperate, I enrolled In(注册) a sixteen-week program for the blind and visually impaired(损伤的). I learned personal adjustment and the use of a computer with adaptive software. A whole new world opened up to me through this program.
“JAWS and Window-Eyes are leading software for the blind,” my instructor told me.“You can use the Internet, e-mail and Microsoft with all its tools and features.”It's amazing!Hope went up for the first time in years.“By learning how to use hot keys to control the mouse,you can use Microsoft Access, Excel and Powerpoint,”my instructor added.
For the next several years, I learned that when one door closes, another door opens. There are plenty of choices available for the blind and visually impaired through the gift of technology.Not only do I have a speaking computer, but I have a speaking watch, alarm clock and calculator.
24. What does the underlined word“it”in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. The right opportunity. B. Losing my sight in the future.
C. Consuming too much sugar. D. The children's hospital.
25. What happened when the author was 25 years old?
A. He gave up painting. B. He went blind completely.
C. He injured one of his eyes. D. He picked up a new hobby.
26. What brought a turning point to the author?
A. A special course. B. A meaningful event.
C. An inspiring speech. D. An important interview.
27. What does the author intend to tell us?
A. No pain, no gain. B. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
C. Every man has his price. D. Be optimistic in the face of life's difficulties.
C
As we slide even closer to Father's Day during these pandemic (流行病) times, I can ' t help but feel super privileged to tell you about one extraordinary dad. He's a dad so good that after he was done raising his own kids, he took to YouTube to do some more dadding to millions of complete and total strangers in need.
Rob Kenney's childhood had a theme that, sadly, is not at all uncommon for American kids:fatherlessness. His father left his family when he was just twelve years old, and statistics say that lines up with the experience of about 25% of kids today. Many lessons a dad would teach a kid, he just had to learn on his own. However, Kenney swore that his own kids would not have that experience, and after successfully raising two kids into two adults, he's branching out to help fatherless kids just like him in the coolest way possible.
Kenney has started a YouTubc channel called“Dad, How. Do I?" to show fatherless kids a variety of“how to’s" over the everyday tasks of living. From “how to tie a tie” to "how to shave your face" to "how to check your car's oil" , Kenney ' s videos are readily understood, though almost entirely unedited.
In the past week, thanks to some viral posts on Twitter and Facebook by influencers, Kenney's channel has gone from a handful of subscribers to 1.97 million! It just goes to show you how much his " Practical 'Dadvice' for everyday tasks" is needed and appreciated by fatherless kids everywhere --- not to mention adults who just plain don't know how to do stuff. The viewers'comments on Kenney's YouTube channel can move even the hard-hearted to tears.
28. What's the author's main purpose of writing the text?
A. To celebrate Father's Day.
B. To introduce a kind father.
C. To stress the major role fathers play..
D. To warn people against the pandemic.
29. Why did Kenney create his YouTube channel?
A. To make a name for himself.
B. To set an example to his kids.
C. To direct parents to bring up their kids.
D. To teach fatherless kids to do everyday things.
30. What does the author think of Kenney's videos?
A. Complex. B. Well edited. C. Slightly abstract. D. Straightforward.
31. What does the last paragraph tell us about Kenney?
A. The popularity of his channel.
B. His thanks to enthusiastic posters.
C. The necessity of updating his videos.
D. His comments on hard-hearted viewers.
D
Before the end of the year, employees at Ubiquitous Energy, a company in Redwood City,Calif, will gather in a window-lined conference room to stare toward the future. That's because their new glass windows will offer more than an amazing view of the North California landscape. They will also be able to power the company's lights, computers and air conditioners.
Several years in the making, Ubiquitous'energy-producing glass is a remarkable technological
achievement. Its power lies in the layers of organic polymers(聚合物) between sheets of glass. As light enters the window, the flow of electrons between the polymer layers creates an electric current,which is then collected by tiny wires in the glass.
“It's sort of like a transparent computer display run in reverse(反过来),”says Veeral Hardev,director of business development at Ubiquitous Energy.“Instead of electricity being shuttled to different points in a display to light them up, light is producing electricity to be shuttled out of different points in the window.”
Right now the windows produce about a third as much electricity from a given amount of sunlight as the typical solar cells used in roof panels(板). These windows, about half as transparent as ordinary glass, don't work as well as transparent ones. Hardev says the company is likely to improve the transparency significantly. As for the lower output of electricity, he notes that windows can cover a much greater surface area than a roof, so numerous windows will produce a surprisingly larger amount of electricity than the production from a rooftop full of higher-efficiency solar panels.“You could do both.”says Hardev.“But you'll get more from the windows. The biggest challenge,he adds, is increasing the windows from less than two square fect currently to about 50 square feet.”
32. What makes the new glass windows special?
A. They can offer an amazing view. B. They are controlled by computers.
C. They can power the conference room. D. They can help star e toward the future.
33. What is Hardev trying to explain in Paragraph 3?
A. The source of light.
B. The significance of different points.
C. The similarity of computer and glass.
D. The working principle of energy-producing glass.
34. What can affect power production according to the passage?
A. The transparency of the glass. B. The quality of the rooftop.
C. The height of the solar panels. D. The thickness of the glass.
35. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Power: A Pressing Problem in the Near Future
B. Power:Not Enough from Rooftop Solar Panels
C. Windows: No Longer Just for Letting in the Light
D. Windows: A New Challenge of Technology
第二节 (共5小题;每小题 2.5分,满分 12.5分)
根据下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
If you're a resident of the United States, chances are good that you might be familiar with polar vortexes(漩 涡 ). In the past year, the country has faced several outbreaks of extremely cold temperatures! 36 Well, why is this happening? A polar vortex is a large whirlwind(旋 风 ) of cold air that parks itself in the North or South Pole. If it breaks,cold weather conditions can be observed in more southern or northern areas.
The polar vortex is always present near the poles and corresponds to the cold temperatures that we typically associate with these regions. 37 During the winter season,it becomes less stable and expands, resulting m the movement of this mass of cold air southwards over the United States, carried along with a jet stream.
Now you can probably guess how dangerous these vortexes are. Regions like Chicago and Florida saw temperatures that were much. lower than the average for these areas. As a result, almost.21 people lost their lives. 38
It seems that climate change plays a role in almost every catastrophe these days.Whether it is the melting of polar ice, rising sea levels, or even big wildfires around the globe, climate change has a hand in them all. 39 Some scientists think so! A senior scientist at Woods Hole Research Center argues that the melting sea ice in the Arctic regions is somehow linked to changes in the polar vortex.
40 They claim that the earth's atmosphere is an incredibly complicated system,so there is no rock-solid proof if these polar vortex occurrences and atmospheric breakdowns are increasing or not. Basically, we require a lot more research before we can blame climate change for this phenomenon.
A. However, some experts hold different opinions about that.
B. Well, is the polar vortex also one of climate change's symptoms?
C. Will the polar vortex make an appearance in what's left of winter?
D. This mass of cold air weakens in summer and strengthens in winter.
E. In Chicago, the temperatures dropped to minus 43 degrees centigrade.
F. Besides, hundreds of people were injured due to the abnormally cold weather.
G. Compared with the northern vertex, the southern vortex is larger and stronger.
第三部分 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，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。
Jarrett Little was road testing his mountain bike outside of Columbus, Georgia, when his riding partner, Chris Dixon, stopped suddenly. Something 41 in the distance among the trees had caught her attention. It 42 out to be a sandy-colored five-month-old puppy.
“He was really thin, his ribs were showing, and he had a broken leg,”Little told John Parks, a reporter from CBS News. The cyclists 43 the friendly pup and shared their water.They also quickly realized that the dog was coming with them, although they had no idea how. They were more than seven miles from downtown and riding bikes.“We couldn't 44 him,” Little said. “Out there, next to the Oxbow Meadows, he was going to 45 as the food of alligators living in the river.”
Little, a 31-year-old businessman, had an idea. He carefully picked up his new 46and slipped the 38-pound dog's hind legs into the back pockets of his cycling coat. Then he put the dog's front paws 47 his shoulders.
“He was 48 , so he wasn't trying to fight,”Little says. He was also 49 that we were there, touching him, and hadn't left him behind.”
The group's 30-minute 50 into town ended at a biké store, where they got more water and food for the dog. That was when Andrea Shaw, an accountant from Maine in town on business, happened to come by.“The dog ran to her straight, licking and rubbing against her,”says Dixon. Shaw was a little surprised. 51 , learning what had happened,she declared her 52 :“I am keeping this dog.”
Shaw called him Columbo after the town where they'd 53 and scheduled an 54 on his leg. Today Columbo is living a happy life on a farm with a horse, a pony, a six-year-old boy, to keep him company. As Dixon told John Parks,“He is literally the 55 dog alive.”
41. A. jumping B. moving C. yelling D. flying.
42. A. came B. ran C. turned D. found
43. A. fed B. seized C. picked D. caught
44. A. leave B. lake C. possess D. save
45. A. give away B. eat up C. end up D. come across
46. A. gift B. friend C. coat D. bike
47. A. around B. against C. beyond D. over
48. A. abandoned B. beaten C. bound D. injured
49. A. happy B. upset C. calm D. scared
50. A. walk B. march C. ride D. tour
51. A. Finally B. Afterwards C. Moreover D. Still
52. A. adventure B. emotion C. approach D. intention
53. A. fought B. met C. lived D. knew
54. A. investigation B. plan C. experiment D. opération
55. A. luckiest B. best C. richest D. coolest
第二节 (共 10小题; 每小题 1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The International Space Station (ISS) is an 56 (extreme) high-tech spacecraft.It's packed with advanced instruments and the fact 57 it's basically a floating science lab tells you all you need 58 (know)abouthowimportantitistoNASA,the European Space Agency, and Russia's Roscosmos. But, like any machine, it needs some love every now and then, and a couple of 59 (spacewalk) will provide the ISS 60 some much-needed upgrades.
According to 61 schedule provided by NASA, the first took place on June 26th and the other 62 (happen) on July 1st. During both spacewalks, astronauts were tasked with 63 (change) old and outdated batteries to new, higher-capacity batteries.
The ISS uses a great amount of power, and it has a solar power array(太阳能阵列) to provide that power. However, because the space station completes over ten trips around the Earth every single day, the spacecraft is often covered by the shadow 64 (produce) by our planet. During those dark moments, the space station maintains its power supply by using juice 65 is saved in its batteries. The old, outdated batteries are in need of replacement, and work on the project began three years ago.
第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分 15 分)
第一节(满分15分)
假如你是某国际学校学生会主席李华。随着网络的普及，学生的书写能力有所降低。为了改变这种情况，请你根据以下内容提示，以学生会的名义为你校的同学们写一封英文倡议书。
内容要点：
1.少上网，多读书；
2.养成练字和写日记的习惯；
3.自拟一项其他方面的倡议内容。
注意：
1.词数80左右:
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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。续写的词数应为 150左右。
There was once a boy in ragged clothes running to ask a building contractor(包工头)who wore elegant clothes in a construction site of a skyscrapcr(摩天大楼), “How could I become as rich as you when I grow up?”
With a glance at the boy, the tall and strong-build contractor replied,“I would like to tell you a story first about three diggers. The first digger liked holding a spade(锹 ) without doing anything but saying that he wanted to be a boss in the future. The second digger liked complaining about the long-time work and his low salary. The third digger always quietly devoted himself to digging without making any claims. Several years later, the first digger was still holding his spade in the original place and the second took an excuse of work injury for early retirement. Only the third digger became the boss of the building company.Do you understand the moral of this story? Just go to buy a red shirt and work hard.”
The little boy was puzzled and could not figure out the implication of the story. So he asked the contractor to explain further. Pointing to the builders who were working on the scaffold(脚手架), the contractor talked to the little boy,“Look at those people! They are all my workers. I can't remember all of their names, and even I have no impression of some of them. But if you look carefully, you will notice a sunburned man in red among them. I notice him very early. He seems to be working harder with higher spirits than others. He is always the first one to work every clay while the last one to leave. It is exactly his red shirt that makes him stand out among all the workers. Now I am about to ask him to be my taskmaster and I believe he will work even much harder from now on. Maybe he will soon be promoted to my assistant.”
Paragraph 1:
The contractor told the boy that was also how he had got where he was then.


Paragraph 2:
After hearing his words, the boy thought alot.


高二创新实验班期末质量检测英语答案
第一部分 听力
1-5 BBACB 6-10 ABCCC 11-15 ACBAA 16-20ABABC
第二部分 阅读
21-23 BAC 24-27 BCAD 28-31 BDDA 32-35 CDAC
36-40 EDFBA
第三部分语言运用
完形填空
41-55 BCAAC BDDAC BDBDA
语法填空：
56 extremely 57 that 58 to know 59 spacewalks 60 with
61 the 62 happened 63 changing 64 produced 65 that/ which
第一节[参考范文]
Dear Friends,
With the popularity of the Internet, most of our time is occupied by cellphones and computers. We use cellphones to record our everyday life and contact our friends... As a result, our handwriting is becoming worse and worse. As for this, we'd like to offer some suggestions.
First, we should spend less time online so that we can have more time to read books. It is better
to form a habit of practicing our handwriting and keeping a diary every day. Besides this, it will be good if we can read and memorize some classics every day. Your handwriting shows your personality. Beautiful and neat handwriting is beneficial to us students. So put your cellphone down and pick up your pen right now!
Let's take action together!
The Students’ Union
February 20,2021
第二节[参考范文]
The contractor told the boy that was also how he had got where he was then. Actually the building contractor had once worked hard and outperformed others through his own constant efforts. If he had worn the same shirt just like other workers and hadn't devoted himself to working. by no means would he have been noticed by his boss. As a matter of fact he wore his red shirt every day and worked arduously. Soon his day came. He obtained his boss's appreciation and was then promoted as taskmaster. After he had earned enough money. he became a boss eventually.
After hearing his words, the boy thought a lot. Success can only be born in action. Working hard
is all winncrs' shared and indispensable cxperince for achieving their dreams in their lives.Actually the contractor's experience was just one good example to prove the truth of it. The boy knew that if he wanted to stand out among people, there was no shortcut or alternative but hard work. Then he thanked the contractor for his reply and said goodbye to him. Leaving the construction site of the skyscraper he already had a fi rm resolution in his mind that he would start his own journey right then in order to fulfill his dream in time.