2021诸城高二下学期期末考试英语含答案

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高二英语

2021.7

注意事项：

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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。

1. Why will the woman set up a drama club?

A. To improve students' spoken English.

B. To make new friends with the same interest.

C. To create more opportunities for drama lovers.

2. What does the girl mean?

A. She wants to pursue her own career.

B. Her father should enjoy his retirement.

C. She is willing to take over the business.

3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A painter.      B. Some pictures.      C. A museum.

4. Why did the man make the phone call?

A. To get his TV exchanged.

B. To get his address checked.

C. To get his cable TV box repaired.

5. What time is it actually?

A. 5:00 p. m.      B. 5:15 p.m.      C. 6:50 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 is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Manager and worker.      B. Fellow workers.      C. Husband and wife.

7. What does the man think of Diana?

A. She is a difficult person.    B. She seems bad-tempered.    C. She is easy to get along with.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why does the man buy the flowers?

A. For his wife's birthday.

B. For the wedding anniversary.

C. For his daughter's graduation.

9. How much does the man save on the roses?

A. $ 5.       B. $ 20.      C. $ 25.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. When can the woman sign up for the contest?

A. On March 14th.      B. On March 17th.      C. On March 18th.

11. Where will the contest be held?

A. In the school hall.      B. In the meeting room.      C. In the Student Union office.

12. What will the man do first?

A. Enter the contest.      B. Return to his dormitory.      C. Go to the Student Union office.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What happened to the woman two years ago?

A. She left school.      B. She went to college.       C. She became a pilot.

14. What is the man doing?

A. Applying for a job       B. Introducing himself.      C. Conducting an interview.

15. What language is the woman learning at evening classes?

A. Spanish.      B. French.      C. Italian.

16. What is the woman's shortcoming in her own opinion?

A. Shyness.      B. Inexperience.      C. Overconfidence.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What will the weather be like this afternoon?

A. Cloudy.      B. Rainy.      C. Sunny.

18. Which day is the warmest?

A. Friday.       B. Saturday.       C. Sunday.

19. What season is it?

A. Autumn.       B. Winter.      C. Spring.

20. How does the speaker sound in the end?

A. Serious.      B. Worried.      C. Humorous.

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

As the popularity of hiking vacations grows, scores of walkers have discovered hiking over trails(路线) sparks an instant connection with the land. This interaction with nature also provides fantastic exercise, combining sightseeing and workouts into one.

Inca Trail, Peru

The four-day, 27-mile trail starts outside the tiny town of Ollantaytambo and winds through a number of passes in the Andes Alone the wav the trail passes nearly a dozen archaeological sites that serve as evidence of the Inca culture.

Cape Scott Trail, British Columbia

The new five-day, 36-mile Cape Scott Trail begins gradually. From the trailhead at Cape Scott Provincial Park, the trail follows an old settler's road along a stream. The highlights of this hike are its river crossings. Hikers must pull themselves across the cable-car crossings for both water ways, an effort that leaves shoulders suffering pain from overuse. Still, the thrill of crossing wilderness rivers is hard to get anywhere in life.

Skeleton Gorge(峡谷), South Africa

The three-day trail through Skeleton Gorge is absolutely a natural feast to the eyes. The trail begins just outside Kirstenbosch, one of eight National Botanical Gardens in the country. Starting at Cecilia Forest, the trail is flat for the first section, and then climbs steeply into the gorge. This second part of the hike is tricky, with two ladders and loose river stones to negotiate as the peak comes into view.

Larapinta Trail, Australia

Australia's Larapinta Trail, a 130-mile hike across the northern desert of the island continent, is divided into 12 sections, each of which can be completed in l or 2 days. Each section is accessible by off-road vehicle. The route itself passes some of the most spectacular natural features: Simpsons Gap, Ellery Creek Big Hole, Ormiston Gorge and Glen Helen.

21. Which trail takes the longest time?

A. Inca Trail, Peru.                 B. Larapinta Trail, Australia.

C. Skeleton Gorge South Africa.      D. Cape Scott Trail, British Columbia.

22. What attracts hikers most about Cape Scott Trail, British Columbia?

A. Little effort to complete it.               B. An old settler's road of exploring.

C. Great pleasure to swim in the stream.      D. A unique experience of crossing rivers.

23. What do Skeleton Gorge and Larapinta Trail have in common?

A. Various natural features.       B. Different botanical gardens.

C. Wonderful desert scenery.      D. Convenient off-road vehicles.

B

Craig grew up on “a gentleman's farm” in Colorado with horses, cows, and chickens. When he was 18, Craig was already running some of the businesses. He planned to earn a business degree in college, but on a fateful trip to Florida, he visited a friend who worked as a grounds-keeper at a zoo. "I just wanted to say hi, but he showed me around, and in the back, I saw lions and tigers in these cages that were so small that you wouldn't want to keep a dog in them," he says. The animals were surplus(过剩)and would likely be euthanized(使安乐死).

When a sad Craig returned to Colorado, he called the Denver Zoo about taking the animals, but Denver's zookeepers also had a surplus. Then it occurred to him: Perhaps he could bring the animals to the family farm. He was only 19, but he studied local regulations and formed a nonprofit organization. He next wrote zoos nationwide offering to help if they planned to euthanize animals.

After about five years, he bought a second, larger property before moving to the shelter's current location northeast of Denver. The goal, he says, is to provide the animals with plentiful space and to treat them with dignity and respect. "We have prides of lions that live together, just like they would in the wild," he says. "They're wandering free and playing and doing what they want. We just give them medical care and food."

Craig opened the shelter to visitors in 2002. Although he was originally unwilling, Craig now sees it as an opportunity to educate more people. "We want the public to know, if they hear about some guy driving around in his Ferrari with a tiger or a lion, they should say, 'What are you doing? That animal is going to end up dead or in some dirty roadside zoo.'" The shelter receives 150,000 guests a year. Given his goal of treating the animals with respect-the shelter prohibits feeding and hands-on human contact-visitors observe the animals from a 30-foot-high, 1.5-mile-long elevated walkway.

24. What made Craig decide to help animals?

A. The need to run his farm.

B. The influence from his friend.

C. The concern for animals to be euthanized

D. The plan to earn a business degree from a college.

25. Why did Craig pay for a larger property?

A. To draw visitors.             B. To play with animals.

C. To live a comfortable life.      D. To offer animals more space.

26. How do visitors observe the animals in the shelter?

A. By riding a car.                  B. By taking an elevator.

C. Through contact with animals.      D. From the passage above the ground.

27. Which of the following best describes Craig's work in the animal shelter?

A. Admirable.      B. Well-paid.      C. Boring.      D. Appealing.

C

Aristotle was among the first thinkers to become interested in the red snow on Mount Parnassus in the 4th century BC. The Greek philosopher owed the colour to hairy worms living in freezing conditions at high altitude. The phenomenon has puzzled scientists ever since. Now a team of French researchers find that snow is getting redder all the time.

The red is indeed produced by organisms in the snow-not by hairy worms, but by microalgae(微藻类)that inhabit ecosystems up to 3,000 metres above sea level. The microalgae that are green and invisible in the winter become loaded with pigments(色素)in the summer which protect them from the sun, turning the snow reddish. It's when the sun's rays become strong that the microalgae create a protective layer of red molecules(分子) that are like a sun cream.

The researchers say on their website, "The appearance of 'red snows' seems to be more and more frequent at high altitudes, as well as in the Arctic and Antarctic regions." One explanation for the spread of red snows could be global warming, the scientists say. Microalgae capture carbon dioxide when exposed to light, turning it into organic matter and placing it at the foundation of ecosystems in soil, water and snow. With climate change, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing. "It is therefore expected that certain microalgae respond positively to this increase, behaving as markers of climate change," the website says.

Yet scientists are unsure about what impact the microalgae have on melting glaciers and snow. They suspect that because the red pigments absorb the heat they are accelerating environmental change. "Even if it is fantastic to see microalgae developing in the snow, one of the consequences is the disappearance of their environment," the researchers added.

28. What caused the red snow according to the Greek philosopher?

A. High altitude.        B. A kind of worms.

C. The microalgae.      D. The freezing conditions

29. Why do the microalgae turn red in the summer?

A. To generate a sun cream.        B. To be loaded with pigments.

C. To attract people's attention.      D. To defend themselves from the sun.

30. What can we learn about the red snow in paragraph 3?

A. It can contribute to global warming.

B. It can indicate the rise of carbon dioxide.

C. It increases carbon dioxide in ecosystems.

D. It disappears from the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

31. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A. Red snow sends a warning.           B. Microalgae grow in red snow.

C. Microalgae stand climate change.      D. Red snow dances at high altitude.

D

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a debatable Alzheimer's treatment, the first that promises to slow the disease's destruction in the brain.

The drug, aducanumab, is also the first new Alzheimer's treatment approved since 2003. However, in 2019, aducanumab was nearly abandoned after it appeared unlikely to succeed in two clinical trials. But after reanalyzing more data, the drug's developer Biogen saw signs indicating the drug might work, and decided to pursue FDA approval.

Still, today's decision concerns some doctors and scientists because they aren't convinced that the drug actually works. Approving a drug that's not effective would offer patients false hope, those experts argue. "This is a great day for Biogen but a dark day for the field of Alzheimer's research," says Michael Greicius, a neurologist at Stanford. Pushing forward on the "illusion of progress," he says, "will come at a cost to genuine progress in finding an effective treatment for this destructive disease."

Others disagree that the evidence is slim, and are excited about having a new tool to fight a disease that has escaped an effective treatment for so long. "We have been waiting decades for this," says Maria Carrillo, an expert at the Alzheimer's Association. A drug that delays decline due to Alzheimer's promises patients "to sustain independence and to hold onto memories longer," she says.

The drug targets the sticky protein-A-beta(淀粉样蛋白). Some researchers suspect that in Alzheimer's, A-beta confuses connections between nerve cells and damages brain tissue, ultimately causing Alzheimer's symptoms. But that idea is still unsettled. Brain scans reveal that aducanumab is effective at reducing A-beta in the brain. What's less clear is whether this reduction comes with consistent improvements in people's quality of life.

32. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about aducanumab?

A. Its bitter failure in clinical trials.            B. Its tough path to getting recognized.

C. Its medical value in treating Alzheimer's.     D. Its challenging process of being produced.

33. What does the underlined word "illusion" in paragraph 3 mean?

A. Proof.     B. Significance.     C. Prospect.     D. Misunderstanding.

34. What is Maria Carrillo's attitude toward aducanumab?

A. Unconcerned.     B. Doubtful.     C. Positive.     D. Intolerant.

35. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. A-beta in human body should be removed.

B. Aducanumab has potentially serious side effects.

C. A-beta's decrease improves people's quality of life.

D. Further tests on aducanumab need to be carried out.

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。

During World War II, Shelley Mydans and her husband Carl were captured. But despite spending two years as prisoners, both Mydanses survived and lived long and productive lives. The Mydanses' story was narrated in The Longevity(长寿)Project, a book that summarizes an 80-year study based on health data collected from 1,500 people. Its authors came to an unlikely conclusion.   36  

The Mydanses appeared to turn their experience into a source of motivation. They didn't see their stress as meaningless.   37   And this ability to think about the hard things we go through as ultimately beneficial seems to be important.

   38   They are often regarded as the necessary ingredients for a long and healthy life. But these oversimplifications tend to prioritize action over attitude. While day-to-day habits matter, a person's approach to life-the way he or she reacts to hardship-is the more important side of the longevity coin.

Faced with difficult times, lots of people form unhealthy habits that can be hard to kick.   39   Experts say one quality consistently tops the list. In terms of personality characteristics, the strongest predictor of a long life was being high on conscientiousness(认真).Conscientiousness refers to someone who is a little worried, organized and persevering in their pursuits.

Being worried all the time is a problem, but a little worrying-when you're thinking ahead and working through scenarios-can help you to be better prepared. Conscientious worriers tend to put their worry to good use.   40   Their worrying is productive, not pointless. They tend to avoid sources of undue risk and adopt healthy habits. All of these tendencies promote a long and healthy life.

A. Instead, it seemed to fuel them.

B. Eat right, exercise, and avoid stress.

C. They commit their time and efforts to things that matter.

D. They make choices or changes in response to their concerns.

E. Most people are passionate and engaged after living through wars.

F. Many people who lived through hard times went on to live long lives.

G. However, certain qualities seem to safeguard some people from such habits.

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，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A few nights ago we had a light projector(投光灯) taken from our yard; it was an insignificant decoration for Christmas. But I still made a post on Nextdoor, a neighborhood website. It wasn't a   41   post at all. I tried to gather all the   42   and sympathy I could for whoever took it. In fact, many neighbors   43   that it was a good approach.

Then, out of the blue, I got a message of someone wanting to   44   and introduce themselves to me. I drove up just in time and was   45   by Cynthia and Ken, along with their son Nikhil. Cynthia had   46   my post and didn't want me to lose   47   in humanity. To show me that there are   48   people in our neighborhood, they went out and   49   a new projector for us and gave it to us-a Christmas gift, all wrapped up   50   .

To say that I was   51   to tears isn't an act. There is so much   52   in the world; so many remarkable human beings. Often times they are right there so   53   we may not even notice them. My heart is   54   with love for all beings right at this moment. It's a feeling I don't want to ever   55   . And I owe it all to the person who took our light projector.

41. A. open-minded      B. new-fashioned      C. mean-spirited      D. high-leveled

42. A. freedom      B. fantasy      C. guilt      D. love

43. A. commented      B. anticipated      C. reconsidered      D. prayed

44. A. calm down      B. come over      C. sign up      D. give away

45. A. selected      B. spotted      C. approached      D. mentioned

46. A. read      B. recorded      C. left      D. assessed

47. A. interest      B. faith      C. judgment      D. imagination

48. A. influential      B. considerate      C. capable      D. dynamic

49. A. purchased      B. made      C. booked      D. designed

50. A. casually      B. roughly      C. carefully      D. respectively

51. A. dedicated      B. moved      C. related      D. exposed

52. A. progress      B. beauty      C. relief      D. pleasure

53. A. close      B. active      C. attractive      D. expert

54. A. filled      B. sank      C. panicked      D. burst

55. A. express      B. care      C. keep      D. lose

第二节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读短文内容，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Taking time to think about your career is an essential exercise for young people.

Some people know what they want to do from   56   young age, but many others just have a few ideas   57   (bounce) around in their heads. There are many free tests online,   58   give one a try. Getting a head start in considering your future career may help you for the rest of your life. You don't, want to look back in years   59   (come) and say, "I wish I   60   (think) more about what I really wanted to be."

There are many different kinds of career aptitude tests. One popular test asks the participants to grade their preferences for a   61   (various) of work tasks. Their answers are then analysed   62   (scientific) and divided up between six different types of work personalities. Then, the participant is given a chart showing   63   (they) score for each type of work personality.   64   indicates the participant's overall work personality is a code made up of the top three scores.

In conclusion, the secrect to a good career is finding something that you are passionate     65   .

第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(满分15分)

6月8日，你校举办了庆祝“世界海洋日”的宣传活动，请你就此为校英文报写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：

1.活动目的；

2.活动过程(设计海报、听报告等)；

3.活动意义。

注意：

1.写作词数应为80左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

World Oceans Day

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，使之构成一篇完整短文。续写的词数应为150左右。

Jim was born and raised in New York City for his entire life. He was the captain of the Fire Department of New York, which was no surprise as he came from a family of firefighters. He loved serving his local community.

While on the job, Jim had suffered a sad event that left him confused about what he was supposed to do with the rest of his life. Jim had lost a good man that was on his team. The grief had eaten the captain up for weeks. He couldn't seem to get himself out of the deep hole he had found himself in. That's when a massive change came his way.

A young boy walked up to Jim with a special request. It was normal for Jim to have young and excited children come up to him to see the fire engine. However, he could immediately sense that this boy had something else in mind. This young boy was named Trucker. He was dressed in regular jeans and a T-shirt, but he had a firefighter jacket above this. Jim found this to be absolutely adorable and it also showed him how much Trucker cared about firefighting.

Trucker explained to Jim that he loved firefighters more than anything on the planet. His mother nodded in agreement with her son's statement. Trucker was fascinated by the fire department. This was common but Jim was surprised to hear Trucker's mother said he was only 5 years old and had neuroblastoma(成神经细胞瘤), a rare form of cancer that typically affects young children. There's no cure for patients like Trucker who suffer from the disease. There was nothing more they could do but help him realize his dream.

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

After knowing Trucker's story, Jim was curious to hear the boy's request.

Everyone was happy to see Trucker fulfilling his wish, especially Jim.