2020届高二第一学期期末执信、广准、二中、六中四校联考英语试卷

2020届高二第一学期期末执信、广准、二中、六中四校联考试卷

命题学校：广州市第二中学

单项选择(共1弓小题每小题1分，满分15分)

16. Can you tell me how the accident_________ on the country road last night?

A. came out   B. came about     C. came up  D. came across

17. It is in the small town __________ you’re going to visit ___________ this kind of chocolate is produced.

A. which... that    B. where... that     C. that... where      D. that... which

18. Though ________ in the accident, the bus driver did all he could __________the passengers to safety.

A. having injured.., help        B. injured... Help

E. injured... to help            D. injured... Helping

19. --- Henry. Hurry up. The train__________ in an hour. You_________ your  luggage before  hand.

--Don't worry. 1 ____________a taxi to the railway station. There is enough time.

A. has left... could have packed up... am taking

B. leaves... should have packed up... am taking

C. is going to leave... have packed up... am to take

D. is leaving... must have packed up... will be taking

20. Beyond the frontier,_______ from the northern hills to the southern coast, _______very real dangers.

A. ranged... Iie  B. ranging …lay        C. ranging ….lying         D. ranged…laid

21. He accidentally______________ he had quarreled with his wife and that he hadn’t been home for a couple of weeks.

A. let out     B. took care        C. made sure            D. made out

22. ____________his age, the little boy read quite well

A.  Regarding      B. Regarded     C. Giving       D. Given

23. The tobacco, which is used to make cigarettes,  was first grown in __________is now part of the United States.

A.  what      B. that     C. where      D. which

24. Suddenly, a tall man driving a golden carriage ___________ the girl and took her away, _________ into the woods.

A. seizing... disappeared                B. seized... disappeared

C. seizing... disappearing                D. seized... disappearing

25. The teacher together with the students_____________ discussing Reading Skills that _________ newly published in America

A.  are… were       B. is…were       C. are... was          D. is... was

26. _______________for your rudeness, you could. Have been promoted by your manager?

A. Had not it been    B. Had it not been   C. If it were not      D. Weren’t it

27. I’m confident that her talents will ______________,

A. make good use of                     B. make good use

C. be made good use                     D. be made good use of

28. I take ____________for granted that____________ matters most before all examination is staying up

reviewing the lessons.

A. that…/      B. it …what    C. what …what    D. it …/

29. Before you quit your job, _________ how your family would feel about yow decision.

A. consider     B. considering      C. to consider          D. considered

30.---Have you___________ Betty yet?

---Not really. She won't forgive me fbr having told her lines.

A. put up with       B. come up with           C. made up with          D. kept up with

阅读理解                             A

Professionals seek career experience outside of their home countries for a variety of reasons. They may feel the need to recharge their batteries with a new challenge. They may want a position with more responsibility that encourages creativity. Or they may wish to expose their children to another culture and the opportunity to learn a second language.

When applying for a job one usually has to submit a resume or curriculum vitae (CV). The two terms generally mean the same thing: a one--or two--page document describing one's educational qualifications and professional experience. However guidelines for preparing a resume are constantly changing. The best advice is to find out what is appropriate regarding the company culture the country culture and the culture of the person making the hiring decision. The challenge will be to include two or more cultures in one document. The following list is a good place to start.

"Educational requirements differ from country to country. In almost every case of 'cross--border' job hunting just stating the title of your degree will not be an adequate description. Provide the reader with details about your studies and any related experience. "

Pay attention to the resume format you use-chronological or reverse-chronological order. Chronological order means listing your 'oldest' work experience first. Reverse-chronological order means listing your current or most recent experience first. Most countries have preferences about which format is most acceptable. If you find no specific guidelines the general preference is for the reverse-chronological format. "

If you are submitting your resume in English find out if the receiver uses British English or American English because there are changes between the two versions. For example university education is often referred to as 'tertiary education' in the United Kingdom but this term is almost never used in the United States. A reader who is unfamiliar with these changes may assume that your resume contains errors

1. The author believes that an individual who applies to work overseas ________

A. is usually creative

B. aims to improve his foreign language skills

C. is dissatisfied with his own life at home

D. seeks either his own or his children's development

2. When writing about qualifications applicants are advised to __________

A. stress their academic potential to impress the decision maker

B. give the title of the university degree they have earned at home

C. provide a detailed description of their study and work experiences

D. emphasize their interest in pursuing a 'cross-border' career

3. According to the author's last piece of advice the applicants should be aware of ________

A. the different educational systems in the US and the UK

B. the differences between the varieties of English

C. the receiver's preference with regard to the format

D. the special characteristics of American and British cultures

B

When a group activity was going on, I didn't introduce myself into the middle of the action. I sat

and watched, waiting to be asked to join in. Sometimes I was asked and sometimes I wasn't. School

was never an issue. In my neighborhood the kids that I became friends with were a grade ahead of

me. This wasn't a problem until I was in the eighth grade, still attending middle school and they

started the ninth grade at the high school.

Suddenly, the bus rides were lonely. For some reason I became the target of three fourth-grade

girls. They got a kickout of pulling my hair. One would mock me with g names.

1 noticed one of the girls, the one who always called me names, held slightly back from the group.

It was as if she was being peer-pressured to be one of the bullies. I started making eye contact with her and smiling even if she was saying cruel things. It started to work. I think my smiles confused her, as they were not the reaction she was expecting.

One day, as they sat behind me calling me names, I started doing the maths in my head. When I

was a senior in high school, they would be freshmen. Everyone knew about Pick on Freshmen Day.

"We'll see who is laughing when I’m a senior and you are a freshman and Pick on Freshmen Day comes."1 said.

All was quiet behind me. Victory! The girls started sitting in the very back of the bus, except for

the one I treated as the weakest link. She moved up front.

One day as I was getting off the bus she stopped me to apologise, saying she never meant to hurt my feelings. It turned out that once they stopped bullying me, her so-called fiends started bullying

her.

I told her I understood and that is why I was always kind to her even when she was being mean It wasn't that I didn’t want to fight back; it's that sometimes you have to do the right thing even when no one is looking.

34. According to the first paragraph, the writer _______________

A. was a shy girl at school ,              B. did poorly at school.

C. was left out by her friends             D. didn't like group activities.

35. What does the underline part “called me names” in paragraph 3 mean?

A. recalled my name         B. called my name          C. Warned me      D. insulted me

36. Why did the writer mention Pick on Freshmen Day?

A. To give the girls a hope.                 B. To give the girls a comfort.

C. To give the girls a warning.              D. To give the girls a suggestion.

37. Which of the following is the best title of the passage

A. The Bullies on the Bus                     B. The Ride to the School

C. The kindness of a Girl                      D. Ways to Fight Bullying

C

A new study supports the view that jobs aren't simply a love-at-first-sight deal. Rather, they say that achieving passion for your work is something you can develop over time.

        Unlike the main way of thinking that you'Il only achieve passion for your work through finding the right fit with a line of work - what the researchers call "fit theory" , the researchers say you can learn to love your job and find meaning in it gradually(“developing theory").

        We probably hear and think a l.t more about "fit theory" than “developing theory" because we've become used to it. "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work," said Steve Jobs. “And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'II know when you find it. "

        Chen and colleagues examined some students' career attitudes and expectations with regard to "fit theory"and "developing theory". "People can achieve similar levels of passion at work by accepting either the fit or develo-ping theory. The key difference lies in how these results are reached : fit theorists(理论家)tend to self-select into lines of work that fit them from the start, while developing theorists grow into that fit over time. "

        Fit theorists tend to value enjoyment at the expense of good pay, while developing theorists are willing to let enjoyment take a back seat to other goals, safe in the knowledge that they'll grow into the role and find enjoyment over time.

        Everyone has moments of being bored with their work,but it's important to keep your thoughts focused on the bigger picture, your Iong-term goals , and whv you took the role in the first place.

38. According to the "fit theory" , a person will_________.

 A. treat his job as a great deal

 B. try to seek passion for a job

 C. find the meaning in his job slowly

 D. learn to achieve his dream gradually

39. The writer quoted Steve Jobs' speech to prove____________.  

 A. the romantic idea of "fit theory"

 B. the difficulty of finding passion for jobs

 C. the influence of "fit theory" on the business

D. the great pursuit of satisfying jobs

40. If you hate your job , you are advised to___________.

 A. consider your situation as a whole

 B. try other new jobs as soon as possible

 C. consider your role in your work first

 D. start your work from the beginning again

41. What might be the best title for the passage?

 A. You Will Have Passion for Your Work

 B. You Can Learn to Love Your Job

 C. You Will Finally Achieve Your Job Goal

 D. You Can Get Enjoyment from Your Work

D

Until recently, voice cloning — or voice banking, as it was then known — was a customized industry which served those at risk of losing the power of speech to cancer or surgery. Synthesizing（合成） a voice was a long and expensive process. It meant recording many phrases, each spoken many times, with different emotional emphases（重音）and in different contexts (statement, question, command and so forth), in order to  the tips on writing good articles online cover all possible pronunciations.

Not any more. Software exists that can store pieces of recorded speech which is merely  five  milliseconds long, each marked with a precise pitch（音高）. These can be put together to make new words, and adjusted individually so that they fit harmoniously into their new sonic homes. This is much cheaper than conventional voice banking, and permits novel uses to be developed.

This year Vivo Text plans to release an app that lets users select the emphasis, speed and level of happiness or sadness with which individual words and phrases are produced. Mr. Silbert refers to the emotive quality of the human voice as “the ultimate instrument”. Yet this power also troubles him. Vivo Text licenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings. Hasbro is aware, Mr. Silbert notes, that without safeguards a naughty child might, for example, type impolite words on his mother’s smartphone in order to see a younger sibling burst into tears on hearing them spoken by a toy using mum’s voice.

More troubling, when tested against voice-biometrics software like that used by many banks to block unauthorized access to accounts, more than 80% of the fake voices tricked the computer. Alan Black, one of Festvox’s developers, thinks systems that rely on voice-ID software are now “deeply, fundamentally  insecure”.

Dr. Saxena and his colleagues asked volunteers if a voice sample belonged  to a person whose real  speech they had just listened to for about 90 seconds. The volunteers recognized cloned speech as such only half the time (ie, no better than chance). The outcome, according to George Papcun, an expert witness paid to detect fake recordings produced as evidence in court, is the appearance of a technology with “enormous potential value for disinformation”.

As might be expected, countermeasures to recognize such deception （ 欺骗 ） are being developed. Nuance Communications, a maker of voice-activated software, is working on algorithms（算法） that detect tiny skips in frequency at the points where slices of speech are stuck together. Adobe, best known as the marker of Photoshop, an image-editing software suite, says that it may add digital watermarks to speech synthesized by a voice-cloning software called VoCo it is developing. Such technology may help computers recognize suspicious speech. Even so, it is easy to imagine the chaos that might be created in a world which makes it easy to put authentic-sounding words into the mouths of opponents — be they colleagues or heads of state.

42. Paragraphs 1 and 2 are mainly about    .

A．significant elements influencing voice cloning

B．possible applications of voice cloning in reality

C．complexities of creating a synthetic copy of a voice

D．differences between traditional and existing voice banking

43. What’s Hasbro’s attitude towards Vivo Test’s new app?

A．Optimistic. B．Conservative.   C．Unconcerned. D．Subjective.

44. The experiment carried out by Dr. Saxena and his colleagues shows that volunteers _______   .

A．identified cloned speech in about 45 seconds

B．preferred a real speech to a voice sample

C．proved only a little harder to fool than software

D．found it hard to use the software to record their voices

45. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Investments should be increased to advance voice cloning.

B．Long-term measures should be taken to popularize the idea of voice cloning.

C．Disagreements among firms about the way to treat voice cloning are getting serious.

D．Problems of voice cloning are unavoidable despite the efforts that have been made.

The power of your own thoughts

It’s awesome to have an ability that can allow you to overcome anything. If you can control your thoughts, you’re most likely to achieve what it is you want to achieve._____46___ If you dedicate time to do things you like, you’ll become good at them. But if instead, you focused all your energy on negatives thoughts, you’ll simply reinforce them.

Many will soon ask Well, how can I control each and every of my thoughts?

The answer is that you do not want NOR need to verify each and every of your thoughts.______47_____ Suppress the bad and keep the good. _____48_______ If for example you swear, if you keep swearing, events will create possibilities for you to swear even more. As soon as you realise swearing is not good for you, try by every possible mean to stop it.

Basically, it’s a frame of mind. ____49_____ The things you want to avoid at all cost will occur more and more. Think about it for a second: if you were to spend each and every minutes looking at your face for signs of acne, would you start creating pictures of you in your mind with acne(粉刺) ? It’s actually making you lose your time as it only reinforce what you do not want. __50____For example, “I want to have a soft skin” would be a better frame of mind. This way, you’ll work on what will help you instead of what you don’t want to occur.

A. Instead, find a way to make it positive.

B. Yes again, it's a bit hard to really think it’s going to work.

C. What you need to do is to realise that some are bad and some are good.

D. Whenever you do something that you feel is not right, stop doing it as soon as possible.

E. That’s why you should not focus on or even think about what you do not want.

F. This is because the energy flows where the attention goes.

G. The more you do something, the more it’s likely to happen once more.

V.完型填空(共20小题每小题1.5分，满分30分)

A Hundred Reasons to Laugh

During one particularly dark period of my life, 1 even forgot to laugh. For a variety of reasons,from anxiety in my 51___ life to overwork and tiredness, I was 52 _____

I felt 53________ by an ocean of problems, professional and personal, with no chance of finding any way out. Everything looked 54________

 I met my colleagues for supper the first evening. To my __55__,we sat around the dinner table telling funny stories. We  __56__ real-life incidents that had happened to each of us. I had to  __57__,even in my sadness, that it was good to laugh. And those turned out to be some of the funniest stories I had ever __58__! My anxiety melted as I relaxed and I found myself Iaughing hard ---harder than I'd laughed for years.

The next day we worked, but we also played. We invented  __59__ using whatever equipment we could lay our hands on. The sheer__60__ 0f playing, something else I hadn't done for far too long,  __61__ something within me I thought I might never recall again.

        The following day I returned home and I felt better than I did in months. __62__ it eventually took a lifestyle change to __63__ the depression for good, laughter became a key ingredient(因素) of that  __64__. I've held to it, and have found that regular and hearty __65__ is essential if I want to maintain inner peace and good health.

        I had discovered a great ____66____ about laughter - it is good for the body, the mind and the spirit. It's a __67___ stress reliever. Have you ever laughed so hard that you doubled over, fell off your chair, spit out your food or wet your pants? You just cannot  __68__ muscle tension when you are laughing.

        Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are __69__to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being __70__  you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

51A. boring

52.A. confused

53.A surrounded

54.A. miserable

55. A. delight

56. A. recited

57. A. prove

58. A. heard

59. A. excuses

60.A. importance

61. A. removed

62. A. Though

63. A. relieve

64. A. style

65. A. exercise

66. A. saying

67. A. mental

68. A. maintain

69. A. sensitive

70. A. around

B. valuable

B. depressed

B. occupied

B. complex

B. anxiety

B. reported

B. admit

B. wrote

B. stories

B. value

B. awakened

B. Till

B. prepare

B. change

B. comfort

B. truth

B. mysterious

B. reduce

B. willing

C. active

C. frightened

C. swallowed

C. unusual

C. curiosity

C. related

C. know

C. read

C. jokes

C. fun

C. buried

C. Unless

C. keep

C. nutrition

C. encouragement

C. story

C. natural

C. balance

C. eager

C. against

D. personal

D. entertained

D. absorbed

D. unique

D. surprise

D. recorded

D. realize

D. met

D. games

D. result

D. covered

D. If

D. experience

D. food

D. laughter

D. proof

D. physical

D. avoid

D. bound

D. after

语法填空(共10个空格，每空1.5分，共15分)

What defines a healthy city? Is it a place with a lot of open spaces___71__ people can exercise and enjoy the fresh air? A place with little or no pollution? A place in which people can 72 ________(free) socialize and express their ideas? Perhaps, it's all that plus more. Other considerations are the availability of health and fitness facilities, an excellent hea1Mcare program and sincere efforts by 73__________ local government to actively promote health and wellness among its citizens. Of all the cities in the world, one of the top six 74_______ (healthy) cities is Copenhagen, Denmark.

Copenhageners love to walk. Foot traffic accounts ____________ 80% of all traffic in the Copenhagen city center. Those who prefer walking can also ride a bike. It is  estimated that more than a third of all work trips in Copenhagen ___________(carry ) out of a bike. As for the climate here, the city does not have the blessing of pleasant weather all year round. 77___________ everything starts to freeze, it turns several city squares into huge skating fields. The frozen parts of the city also make 78________ easier for residents to skate around. The city also has museums and art galleries for the 79 ________(teenage) and grown-ups. It has the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art and the Royal Library 80___________(house) in a rather grand building called the Black Diamond.

单词拼写(共10小题每小题o.5分，满分5分)(请根据中文、英文注释或首字母填写Module6所学的适当单词。

8 I. She worked hard and won a ________________. (奖学金) to Oxford University.

82. According to BBC, the last rocket carried all the __________( 设备) necessary for manned flight.

83. Early retirement is a relatively new _________________ (现象) in Britain.

84. The servant has always shown great respect for the king and carried out his orders f_____________

85. When my friends came to see me, I felt e_________________ about how untidy my room was.

86. The man felt s_____________ out because of heavy responsibilities at work.

87.All the information can be____________ (to communicate or express something) in a simple diagram

88. If you send the application form to me straight away, I can_______________(promise to do something) you an interview

89. Statistics show national economy has grown___________________(continuing or developing gradually or

without stopping) with progress made and quality im A ove

90. What is_____________ (attractive) to me about the job is the opportunity to travel abroad every year?

完成句子(共5空格，每空1分，满分5分)(请用Module 6所学的词组填空!

91._____________________(任何情况下都不)should we betray our friends for personal benefit.

92. It is quite understandable that views on this issue________________ (因人而异).

93. Drunk driving should be banned because no one has the right to ________________(冒 险)with other people's lives.

94, Effective measures should be taken to help areas ________________(快耗尽) drinking water.

95. He _________________(更喜欢) coffee rather than tea.

IX.短文改错(满分10分)

Chinese Dream is made up of ordinary people dreams. If someone asks me what my Chinese

dream is, I will answer it without think twice : to be a good doctor. The reason why I want to be a

doctor is because I want to save as more lives as 1 can. When I was young, I got serious injured in a

terrible accident. Thanks to the doctors' efforts, I brought back to life. Since then, to be a good doctor

had always been an encouragement to me. To make sure of that my dream can be realized, I have been

studying hard to be admitted to the good medical college. Only in this way can 1 achieve my goals

eventually.

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