精品试卷：2020-2021学年高二英语下学期期中测试卷03（外研版2019）

2020-2021学年高二新外研版英语

期中测试卷

（考试时间：120分钟  试卷满分：150分）

注意事项：

1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

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3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一部分  阅读理解(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

Need a Job This Summer?

The provincial government and its partners offer many programs to help students find summer jobs. The deadlines and what you need to apply depend on the program.

Not a student? Go to the government website to learn about programs and online tools available to help people under 30 build skills, find a job or start businesses all year round.

Jobs for Youth

If you are a teenager living in certain parts of the province, you could be eligible（符合条件）for this program, which provides eight weeks of paid employment along with training.

Who is eligible: Youth 15—18 years old in select communities（社区）.

Summer Company

Summer Company provides students with hands-on business training and awards of up to $3,000 to start and run their own summer businesses.

Who is eligible: Students aged 15—29, returning to school in the fall.

Stewardship Youth Ranger Program

You could apply to be a Stewardship Youth Ranger and work on local natural resource management projects for eight weeks this summer.

Who is eligible: Students aged 16 or 17 at time of hire, but not turning 18 before December 31 this year.

Summer Employment Opportunities（机会）

Through the Summer Employment Opportunities program, students are hired each year in a variety of summer positions across the Provincial Public Service, its related agencies and community groups.

Who is eligible: Students aged 15 or older. Some positions require students to be 15 to 24 or up to 29 for persons with a disability.

1. What is special about Summer Company?

   A. It requires no training before employment.

B. It provides awards for running new businesses.

C. It allows one to work in the natural environment.

D. It offers more summer job opportunities.

2. What is the age range required by Stewardship Youth Ranger Program?

   A.15—18.      B.15—24.      C.15—29.         D.16—17.

3. Which program favors the disabled?

   A. Jobs for Youth.         B. Summer Company.

   C. Stewardship Youth Ranger Program.     D. Summer Employment Opportunities

B

Grandparents Answer a Call
  As a third generation native of Brownsville, Texas, Mildred Garza never pleased move away. Even when her daughter and son asked her to move to San Antonio to help their children, she politely refused. Only after a year of friendly discussion did Ms. Gaf finally say yes. That was four years ago. Today all three generations regard the move to a success, giving them a closer relationship than they would have had in separate cities.
  No statistics show the number of grandparents like Garza who are moving closer to the children and grandchildren. Yet there is evidence suggesting that the trend is growing. Even President Obama’s mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, has agreed to leave Chicago and into the White House to help care for her granddaughters. According to a study grandparents com. 83 percent of the people said Mrs. Robinson ‘s decision will influence the grandparents in the American family. Two-thirds believe more families will follow the example of Obama’s family.
  “In the 1960s we were all a little wild and couldn’t get away from home far enough fast enough to prove we could do it on our own,” says Christine Crosby, publisher of Grate magazine for grandparents. We now realize how important family is and how important to be near them, especially when you’re raining children.”
  Moving is not for everyone. Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is willing to make sacrifices, but sometimes it is wiser to say no and visit frequently instead. Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling, but giving up the life you know may be harder.

4.Why was Garza’s move a success?
A. It strengthened her family ties.
B. It improved her living conditions.
C. It enabled her make more friends.
D. It helped her know more new places.

5. What was the reaction of the public to Mrs. Robinson’s decision?
A. 17% expressed their support for it.
B. Few people responded sympathetically.
C. 83% believed it had a bad influence.
D. The majority thought it was a trend.

6. What did Crosby say about people in the 1960s?
A. They were unsure of raise more children.
B. They were eager to raise more children.
C. They wanted to live away from their parents.
D. They bad little respect for their grandparent.
7.. What does the author suggest the grandparents do in the last paragraph?
A. Make decisions in the best interests’ of their own
B. Ask their children to pay more visits to them
C. Sacrifice for their struggling children 
D. Get to know themselves better

C

Self-driving cars have been backed by the hope that they will save lives by getting involved in fewer crashes with fewer injuries and deaths than human-driven cars. But so far, most comparisons between human-driven cars and automated vehicles have been unfair.

Crash statistics for human-driven cars are gathered from all sorts of driving situations, and on all types of roads. However, most of the data on self-driving cars' safety have been recorded often in good weather and on highways,where the most important tasks are staying in the car's own lane and not getting too close to the vehicle ahead. Automated cars are good at those tasks,but so are humans.

It is true that self-driving cars don't get tired, angry, frustrated or drunk. But neither can they yet react to uncertain situations with the same skill or in anticipation of an attentive human driver , nor do they possess the foresight to avoid potential perils. They largely drive from moment to moment, rather than think ahead to possible events literally down the road.

To a self-driving car, a bus full of people might appear quite similar to an uninhabited cornfield. Indeed, deciding what action to take in an emergency is difficult for humans , but drivers will sacrifice themselves for the greater good of others. An automated system's limited understanding of the world means it will almost never evaluate(评估）a situation in the same way as a human would do. And machines can't be programed in advance to handle every imaginable set of events.

Some people may argue that the promise of simply reducing the number of injuries and deaths is enough to support driverless cars. But experience from aviation(航空）shows that as new automated systems are introduced,there is often an increase in the rate of disasters.

Therefore comparisons between humans and automated vehicles have to be performed carefully. To fairly evaluate how well driverless cars fulfill their promise of improved safety, it's important to ensure the data presented actually provide a true comparison. After all, choosing to replace humans with automation has more effects than simply one-for-one exchanging.

8. What makes the comparisons between self-driving cars and human-driven cars unfair?

A.Self-driving cars never get tired.

B.Statistics are collected differently.

C. Machines can make decisions faster.

D.Self-driving cars know the world better.

9 . What does the underlined word " perils " in Paragraph 3 most probably mean?

A.Dangers.              B.Self-driving cars.

C.Pedestrians.            D.Human-driven cars.

10.In which aspect can self-driving cars beat human drivers?

A. Driving steadily.             B. Climbing steep slopes.

C.Evaluating the cost of loss.     D.Making complex decisions.

11. Why does the author write this text?

A.To support human-driven cars.

B.To show his doubts about self-driving cars.

C. To call for exact evaluation of self-driving cars.

D.To stress the importance of reducing car accidents.

D

I was in the Santa Cruz Mountains not long ago, speaking and singing at a women's conference. We were focusing on the theme of loving others in practical ways through our gifts, and something in particular happened during one of the sessions will remain imprinted on my memory

A young Syrian woman(Lilith)was invited to the conference at the last minute, and everyone seemed surprised and delighted that she'd actually come. Just a few days earlier,Lilith had fled her country and found refuge with one of the women attending the conference. As an orthodox Christian in Syria, she and her loved ones had become targets for violent terrorist groups in the country's ongoing civil war.

Lilith had witnessed horrors no one of her young age should ever see and decided to leave her home and her family to fi safety here in America. Her story broke my heart.

Lilith's story touched all of us, including Pam, who was a quilt maker. Pam had just finished a beautiful quilt, and had brought it with her. She, along with a few of the leaders,decided to give it to Lilith as a symbol of their comfort and love.

During our last session, Lilith was called forward and prayed for , hugged , and wrapped up in that beautiful quilt .thought of the many hours Pam undoubtedly spent working or it, and the terrible events that led Lilith to this moment-surrounded by beauty and love the quilt embodied. I wept. Wher they told her it was for her, she wept.

12.What is the purpose of the women's conference?

A.To help others in a practical way

B.To win equal rights for women.

C.To get together to dance and sing.

D.To exchange gifts with each other.

13.Why did Lilith go to America?

A.To attend the women's conference.

B.To find safety.

C.To find her family.

D.To find a better job.

14.From this passage,we know that the writer

A.enthusiastic

B.sympathetic

C.intelligent

D.talented

15.What is the meaning of the underlined word?

A.A place of interest. B.A place of danger.

C.A place of trust.

D.A place of shelter.

第二节  (共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。

Have you ever had times questioning yourself and feeling discouraged? If you answer yes, what you've experienced is negative self-talk.    16       . You say to yourself untrue things like,"I'm not good enough. I'm a disappointment." These false beliefs stop us in our tracks. So, how do you stop negative self-talk?

·   17      

Know you're special. You are one of a kind! There is no other person that thinks exactly like you. When you begin to sincerely believe how special you are, it's easier to fight negative self-talk.

·Change your associations

Your negative self-talk comes from your environment. You didn't just accidentally wake up one day thinking of bad things about yourself. It may be because someone, somewhere in your life has told you negative things about you and you believe them. However, if you surround yourself with the right people, they will build you up, inspire you and make you feel better.     18       .

·Change your dialogue

Read and say all the wonderful things about yourself at least 5times per day. Look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I am amazing!"      19      , and you'll believe you are awesome pretty soon Of course, there are other things to stop negative self-talk.

      20      , but if you are determined to think positively in every situation, that will bring a positive change in your life.

A.Think the same way

B. Change is not easy

C. Change your position

D.It begins in your brain

E. Change your state of mind

F.You'll seek out the right people to help change your thoughts

G.You'll start to believe the great things they tell you

第二部分　语言知识运用(共两节，满分30分)

第一节  完形填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。

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。

I always knew that I depended too much on my phone. But I didn't know how much, so I decided to do this _____21 _____to find out.

Every morning since I got a smartphone , I've used The Weather Forecast App to find out what to _____22 ______On the first morning I had to dress without guidance. but_____ 23______ I was able to guess that the day would be cold and foggy by looking out of my window.

I couldn't know what time it was.I haven't worn a _____24 ______for more than a year, because my phone told the time. So I was late for _____25 ______friends who had been on the bus for two hours from Santa Monica to Palos Verdes. I was also_____ 26 ______for my part-time job. And even worse,I couldn't call people to tell them that I was running late.

Getting places was harder , too . I got _____27______because I couldn't use the GPS on my phone. My driving, though, got a lot _____28______ because I no longer had my phone in one hand checking directions while 29 ______with the other.

But the number one trouble was not having my contact list. I forgot to write down my friends' and family members' phone numbers before I _____30_____ the challenge. It was sad to realise that I couldn't remember my brother's and my mum's cellphone numbers. Oh,how I_____ 31______ to turn on the phone for just a second to look up phone numbers!

Even with all the problems, however, I found_____ 32_____ not worrying about missing a text message an email.

This challenge was a ( n ) _____33______ learnin experience. It surprised me how I'd taken no notice even the _____34_____ things like remembering phone numbers. We all should _____35______ some time to think about how we can depend less on our cellphones.

21.A.task    B.duty    C.challenge    D.job

22.A.carry   B.wear    C.take     D.see

23.A.carefully   B.strangely   C.thankfully    D.surprisingly

24.A.watch   B.hat    C.suit     D.ring

25.A.making out  B.bringing up   C.calling out    D.picking up

26.A.delayed   B.attached   C.relieved    D.replaced

27.A.caught   B.changed   C.lost     D.hurt

28.A.easier   B.safer    C.slower     D.quieter

29.A.driving   B.chatting   C.writing     D.moving

30. A . supported  B.forgot    C.started     D.reported

31.A.felt    B.wished    C.liked     D.hated

32..A.peace   B.silence    C.patience    D.confidence

33.A.curious   B.unbelievable  C.comfortable    D.common

34.A.happiest   B.nicest    C.simplest    D.clearest

35.A.spend   B.spare    C.enjoy     D.waste

第二节  (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Your next car could have two seats, three wheels-two in front and one in the back and a top speed of more than 100 miles per hour .Elio Motors plans to make such a tiny car      36     ( name ) the Elio . Its two seats sit front and back instead of side      37       side. The driver is positioned in the center with the passenger directly behind.

The selling price of the car       38      (be) just $ 6,800. It has only one door, on the left side,        39    cuts a few hundred dollars off the manufacturing costs. Having three wheels also makes it      40     ( cheap ) . It has air conditioning , power windows, door locks and     41     AM/FM radio. More features can be ordered through Elio's long list of suppliers. Elio will also sell the ears directly through its own stores and not through franchised dealers(特约经销商）.

Paul Elio dreamed as a kid that one day he      42     (own) a car company called Elio Motors. In 2008, tired of high gas prices, he started working on a car that burned gas in a more effective way .      43   ( equal ) important to him was creating U . S . manufacturing jobs and making the car inexpensive enough     44   ( attract ) buyers who might be stuck in their old ,unreliable cars. "Whatever matters to you, this type of car can make a       45      (different) to you, "he said.

第三节  书面表达（满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）

假定你是李华，目前在英国一所学校交流学习。你的老师请你就中国饮食与同学们进行口头交流。内容要点如下：

1.中国人对饮食的理解；

2.经典中国美食推荐。

注意：1.词数80左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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第二节   读后续写（满分25分）

阅读下面短文，根据所给其内容和所给的段落开头语续写成两段，使之构成一个完整的短文。

Thanks to my conservative(保守的）family background,I didn't believe in angels(天使）.That is,not until Christmas Eve of 1979, when an angel brought unexpected  joy to my home.

After divorce,my two daughters not only lost the safety of a whole family,they also tearfully(泪汪汪地）left behind neighborhood friends, a familiar school, and a large house. These had all been replaced with a narrow two-bedroom apartment in a poorer part of town .

I arranged to take my vacation during my children's winter holiday. We spent evenings planning activities: games, a pizza night , and evening car rides to view neighborhood holiday lights .With expectation , they seemed to be in good spirits .

The week before the school break, however, I was fired because of the company's poor performance. By Christmas Eve,sadness covered our vacation plans. An afternoon outing did little to improve our mood .

On returning to our apartment, we were astonished to see a beautiful,six-foot Christmas tree propped(支撑）against our front door. In silent wonder, we looked back and forth, from the tree to one another and around the empty street. Excitement built,and the girls begged to keep the tree.

"Maybe it's for us,"my older daughter guessed.

"Yeah,"repeated my younger child,"I bet an angel brought it to us!"

I laughed aloud at the idea of an angel bringing a Christmas tree to my family. Caught up in their happiness, I announced the tree "ours".

We moved it inside and headed out to the only upermarkets in our small town open that late on Christmas Eve. With holiday goods down to half price,I agreed to buy a tree stand(底座）,two boxes of colorful balls , some colorful lights , and one paper angel.

注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2.到使用5个短文中标有下画线的关键词语；

3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4.续写完成后，请用下画线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

Back home , we moved " our " tree into our tiny living room .

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Paragraph 2:

The annual winter holiday became a family tradition.

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