2020-2021学年度上期高2022届半期考试
英语试卷
考试时间：120分钟满分：150分
第一部分听力（共两节；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音结束后，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，共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 old is the man’s own car?
A.One month old.
B.One year old.
C.Five years old.
2.Who did the woman buy the shirt for?
A.Herself.
B.Her daughter.
C.Her son.
3.What did the speakers think of the movie?
A.Meaningful.
B.Confusing.
C.Violent.
4.What does the man like most about the park?
A.It’s clean there.
B.It’s relaxing there.
C.It’s beautiful there.
5.What will the woman do tonight?
A.Paint the living room.
B.Visit her friend Jason.
C.Have dinner at her parents’.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，共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至7题。
6.What is the speakers’ relationship?
A.Friends.
B.Neighbors.
C.Renter and owner.
7.Why does the woman complain about her neighbor?
A.He is always rude to her.
B.He always fixes things late at night.
19. Where did Mrs. Smith feel the pain?
A. In her arm.
B. In her lung.
C. In her shoulder.
20. How long has Mrs. Smith worked at the company?
A. Over five years.
B. About three months.
C. Less than two weeks.
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
Are you interested in working with animals? Now here comes the CHANCE. Kirby Wildlife Park has set up the unique Keeper Experience package. The fantastic experience is available to anyone over the age of 18 who is reasonably fit. We regret that for health and safety reasons, participants who are pregnant, in a wheelchair or suffering from illnesses cannot take part.
A typical day
9:15 Arrival
9:30 Health and Safety Briefing
10:00 Apes and Monkeys
While cleaning out the enclosure (围场) you will find out about how enclosures are enriched with novel items and new smells to stimulate the animals’ senses and imitate their natural environment.
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Big Cats
As one of the highlights of this volunteer experience, you will feed the cats and learn about their nutritional needs. The keeper will give you an introduction to how cat behavior can be read to get an idea of their welfare and health.
16:30 Meet the Team
Meet more of the staff and learn how you can get further involved with work at the park. Learn about our animal adoption plan, what it takes to be a good keeper and where to obtain the right qualifications for a career in animal welfare.
Booking and cancellation
The Keeper Experience is available on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year, and must be booked at least two weeks in advance. Full payment is needed when booking.
Cancellations must be made more than fourteen days before the event. Otherwise, you won’t receive a full refund.
21. What kind of people can experience working with animals in Kirby Wildlife Park?
A. A pregnant woman.
B. A man who is quite healthy.
C. A teenager sitting in a wheelchair.
D. A student under the age of 18.
22. When can you know something about an animal adoption plan?
A. At 12:00.
B. At 9:30.
C. At 10:00.
D. At 16:30.
23. It can be learned from the text that __________.
A. a booking should be made over two weeks before the event
B. people are allowed to cancel a booking with a full refund at any time
C. cancellations need to be made on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
D. participants can have the unique experience every day throughout the year
B
Short and shy, Ben Sanders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless,” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Sanders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Sanders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s brave and exciting cold-water travels. Intrigued, Sanders read all he could find about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, and then decided that this would be his future.
Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people thought of his dream as fantasy. John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, “You are completely crazy.’’
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Sanders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a close encounter with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit. Sanders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he has skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Sanders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
24. The turning point in Sander’s life came when __________.
A. he started to play ball games
B. he got a mountain bike at 15
C. he ran his first marathon at 18
D. he started to receive Ridgway’s training
25. What do we know about Ridgway?
A.He considered Sanders’ dream unrealistic.
B.He built up his body together with Sanders.
C.He hired Sanders for his cold-water travels to the Arctic.
D.He established his reputation by his voyage across the Atlantic.
26. The underlined word “Intrigued” in Paragraph 3 probably means __________.
A. Fascinated
B. Grateful
C. Frightened
D. Pleased
27. According to the passage, Sanders’ journey to the North Pole __________.
A. made him well-known in the 1960s
B. was favored by other Artic explorers
C. was accompanied by his old playmates
D. set a record in the North Pole expedition
C
In the Amazon rainforest of Venezuela, Y anomami hunter-gatherers exist on cassava, palm hearts and wild bananas. They also hunt frogs and monkeys using techniques that would have been familiar to their ancestors 11,000 years ago. The extraordinary continuity of their culture, and the fact that some of the groups have had little contact with outsiders, led biologists to wonder whether the Y anomami might reveal what the human digestive system looked like before industrialization supplied the world with processed foods and antibiotics.
In 2019, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine had a chance to find the answer in a previously unknown Y anomami village. Health workers collected feces (排泄物) from about 30 villagers. When the researchers cultured and analyzed microbes (微生物) from the feces in their laboratory, they discovered whole categories of bacteria that were absent from the guts (肠道) of people from industrialized countries. Even more strikingly, they found the microbial population in the average Westerner to be about half as diverse as the community inside these hunter-gatherers. The researchers realized that the microbes might have implications beyond basic science. People’s microbial communities are believed to play a role in disorders like obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, which shorten lives and overburden health care systems. These disorders don’t trouble these preindustrial hunter-gatherers, however. Therefore, researchers want to learn which microbes protect them and figure out how to reintroduce them in modern societies. It has the potential to affect health more profoundly than the discovery of the fabled Fountain of Youth.
But the opportunity might be more fleeting than youth itself.“The world is becoming urban so fast.” says microbiologist Maria Gloria, co-author of the study that reveals the Y anomami microbiome (微生物群). “Our lifestyles are killing microbial diversity.” Although nobody has yet determined exactly what the Yanomami mystery bugs are doing and how they improve an individual’s health, she believes that scientists need to collect and preserve as many microbes as possible for future breakthroughs. “We cannot afford to wait,” she says, “or we’ll have lost the high diversity of the human microbiome of traditional peoples before we understand how to use the microbiome to improve health.”28. What did the researchers find out in 2019?
A. The hunter-gatherers had a different digestive system.
B. Microbial communities were to blame for many disorders.
C. People from industrialized countries had less diverse microbes.
D. Some categories of bacteria did not exist in the villagers’ guts.
29. How did the researchers make their discovery?
A. By collecting health data.
B. By conducting experiments.
C. By interviewing the villagers.
D. By recording the Y anomami’s daily life.
30. What does the author mean by “the opportunity might be more fleeting than youth
itself”?
A. The opportunity seems more precious than youth.
B. The opportunity enables people to stay young forever.
C. The opportunity is of great significance to modern society.
D. The opportunity disappears so quickly that we cannot afford to miss it.
31. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. We are close to solving the mystery of Y anomami microbiome.
B. Processed foods and antibiotics have changed human digestive system.
C. Treating diseases by introducing beneficial bacteria has been made possible.
D. The discovery of those microbes will help cure many life-threatening diseases.
D
After years of observing human nature, I have decided that two qualities make the difference between men of great achievement and men of average performance: curiosity and discontent. I have never known an outstanding man who lacked either. And I have never known an average man who had both. The two belong together.
Together, these deep human urges (驱策力) count for much more than ambition. Galileo was not merely ambitious when he dropped objects of varying weights from the Leaning Tower at Pisa and timed their fall to the ground. Like Galileo, all the great names in history were curious and asked in discontent, “Why? Why? Why?”
Fortunately, curiosity and discontent don’t have to be learned. We are born with them and need only recapture them.
“The great man,” said Mencius, “is he who does not lose his child’s heart.” Yet most of us do lose it. We stop asking questions. We stop challenging custom. We never doubt. We just follow the crowd that desires only the calm and restful average. The crowd encourages us to occupy our own little corner, to avoid foolish leaps into the dark, to be satisfied. We will have to force ourselves to do just the opposite so as to waken our curiosity and discontent.
How should you start, modestly, so as not to become discouraged? I think of one friend who couldn’t arrange flowers to satisfy herself. She was curious about how the experts did it. Now she is one of the experts, writing books on flower arrangement.
One way to begin is to answer your own excuses. You haven’t any special ability? Most people don’t; there are only a few geniuses. You haven’t any time? That’s good, because it’s always the people with no time who get things done. Harriet Stowe, mother of six, wrote parts of Uncle Tom’s Cabin while cooking. Y ou’re too old? Remember that Thomas Costain was 57 when he published his first novel, and that Grandma Moses showed her first pictures when she was 78.
However you start, remember there is no better time to start than right now, for you’ll never be more alive than you are at this moment.
32. In writing Paragraph 1, the author aims to ________.
A. give an example
B. present an argument
C. propose a definition
D. make a comparison
33. What does the example of Galileo tell us?
A. Trial and error leads to the finding of truth.
B. Creativity results from challenging authority.
C. Greatness comes from a lasting desire to explore.
D. Ambition is more important than curiosity and discontent.
34.What can you do to recapture curiosity and discontent?
A. Lead a life of adventure.
B. Follow the fashion.
C. Develop a questioning mind.
D. Observe the unknown around you.
35. What could be the best title for the passage?
A. The Keys to Achievement
B. Never Too Late to Learn
C. Curious Minds Never Feel Content
D. Reflections on Human Nature
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10 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。
The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place
Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. 36
Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale (秤) instead. 37
On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
38 Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients (营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional. 39 Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them to reduce weight. 40 Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the harm that comes from using them.
A. It’s believed diet products contribute to losing weight.
B. Chemicals that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
C. We all know the danger of diet products, but it’s hard to resist them.
D. The danger of diet products lies also in the physical harm they cause.
E. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically.
F. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals.
G. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.
第三部分英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.
One morning I 41 a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its 42 , so I jumped out of the tractor to 43 it while Don stayed in his seat.
Lamb and mother 44 , I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so 45 because I had put the handbrake on when I jumped out. 46 Don had somehow made the 47 move.
My heart froze in my chest as I 48 the tractor heading towards the 49 . I ran desperately but failed to 50 . It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The 51 thing I saw was Don’ s face, looking calmly back at me.
Heart in mouth, I 52 the fence and looked over. The tractor was 53
against the crash barrier in the central reservation (中央分道带), having crossed the 54 road with fast-flowing traffic by a miracle. I couldn’t see Don, but as I 55 the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently 56 , and dashed back to me.
The police 57 and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn’t quite believe my 58 . It turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been 59 . Don was given a special 60 that night — I didn’t want him to think I was angry with him.
41. A. dropped B. carried C. spotted D. returned
42. A. kids B. friends C. owner D. mother
43. A. ask about B. tend to C. play with D. run into
44. A. freed B. switched C. reunited D. examined
45. A. unexpected B. dangerous C. embarrassing D. difficult
46. A. Fortunately B. Obviously C. Immediately D. Generally
47. A. lamb B. fence C. seat D. vehicle
48. A. saw B. stopped C. remembered D. drove
49. A. crowd B. motorway C. field D. hill
50. A. take off B. catch up C. hold back D. get out
51. A. real B. best C. basic D. last
52. A. reached B. noticed C. fixed D. closed
53. A. parking B. running C. resting D. turning
54. A. steep B. long C. rough D. busy
55. A. abandoned B. approached C. recognized D. repaired
56. A. unclean B. uncertain C. unhurt D. unhappy
57. A. arrived B. replied C. survived D. waited
58. A. ability B. dream C. luck D. idea
59. A. awful B. guilty C. desirable D. common
60. A. lesson B. test C. job D. meal
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。
The origins of carnival are ancient. People 61 (hold) festivals similar to carnival before the Christian era. They celebrated the return of spring after winter. In the Roman period the date of the festival was decided by the Christian calendar. People wanted to enjoy 62 (they) because carnival was followed by forty days without meat.
When the new world was discovered, the 63 (Spain) and Portuguese settlers brought carnival with them. But in the New World, many elements of African culture, such as music and costume were added 64 the festival by people of African origin. Today, carnival has become a 65 (true) international festival.
In Venice the carnival 66 (celebrate) for five days in February. It begins on Thursday with a ceremony 67 is known as the volo della colombina—the 68 (fly) of the dove. A young woman 69 (dress) up as a dove climbs to the top of the bell tower in St. Mark’s Square, and flies to the ground. This event is watched by thousands of masked people in the square. When the dove lands, two big guns are fired. It is a signal for the celebrations 70 (begin).
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修改作文，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。
Tourists climb for two hours to reach the top of a mountain in Peru, struggled for breath. But they are happy to see the beautiful sceneries there. Lines of rich colors form that has become known as “Rainbow Mountain”. The colors come from special rock remains. It’s five years since the world has learned of the existence of this natural wonder. Many people come to see them. To villagers who take up their traditional transport trade, the bigger difference is that they now move tourists instead goods. Tourism has provided much-needed economic help for an area. Environmentalists, besides, fear tourists will
destroy everything which makes this place distinctive.
第二节书面表达（满分25 分）
假设你是李华。第31届世界大学生夏季运动会(the 31st FISU Summer World University Games) 将在成都举行，大赛组委会现面向全市高中生招募志愿者，负责与运动员沟通协调、会议翻译，以及运动员市内参观等工作。你想申请成为一名志愿者。请根据以下要点，用英文写一封申请信：
1. 表达申请意愿；
2. 简单自我介绍并说明自己能够胜任该工作的条件；
3. 希望组委会考虑你的申请。
注意：1. 词数100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：协调coordinate vt.coordination n. coordinator n.
英语答案
听力
1-5 CCBAC6-10 CCABA11-15 CBBBA 16-20 CCBAA
阅读
21-23 BDA24-27 BDAD28-31 CBDB32-35 BCCA
七选五
36-40 EGDBF
完形填空
41-45 CDBCA 46-50 BDABB 51-55 DACDB 56-60 CACAD
语法填空
61.held/had held62.themselves63.Spanish64.to65.truly
66.is celebrated67.which/that68.flight69.dressed70.to begin
短文改错
1.struggled改为struggling
2.sceneries改为scenery
3.that改为what
4.去掉has learnt前面的has
5.them改为it/this
6.bigger改为biggest
7.在instead后添加of
8.an改为the/this
9.besides改为however/nevertheless10.which改为that
书面表达
One possible version
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Li Hua, a Senior Two student from Chengdu. I am writing to apply for the position as a volunteer at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games.
Considering my personal conditions, I confidently think I am qualified for the position. Above all, I have achieved a relatively high level of oral proficiency in English, which enables me to be an efficient coordinator of the players and a qualified conference interpreter. Furthermore, as a local, I am so familiar with the major tourist attractions in Chengdu that I can be responsible for taking the players on a sightseeing tour of the city.
I would appreciate it if you could take my application into full consideration. Thank you very much.
Yours,
Li Hua 听力原文
Text 1
W: I know. I’ve played before, and I know the general rules of the game. (11) I’m just not very good at it.
M: Do you have a basketball? (12)
W: Yes, I just bought a new one today. There was a man selling them on the street by my house.
(12) What do you think about it? Is it a good one?
M: It’s not bad. How much did you pay for it?
W: It was only $5.
M: That’s a good deal. So, is there a basketball court near here?
W: We can use the one at the school down the road. No one is ever there.
M: OK. Let us just run home first to change. (13) Do you have any basketball shoes?
W: Do I need special shoes to play basketball?
M: No. Just make sure you have a pair of shoes that will support your ankles.
Text 9
M: Do you mind if I sit here?
W: No, of course not. Go ahead.
M: Don’t I know you?
W: Yes. Now that you mention it, I think we had a chemistry class together in high school. (14) M: You’re right! (14) How are you? It’s been a long time!
W: What did you do after high school? (15)
M: I went straight to university afterwards. (15) What about you?
W: I took a year off to go traveling.
M: That sounds exciting. Where did you go?
W: I went all over the world. It was the best year of my life. Where did you go to school?
M: I went to a small school in Connecticut. It has a very good reputation for its foreign language department. (16)
W: Oh, did you study a foreign language?
M: Yes, I received some money to study Chinese.
W: That’s a very difficult language to learn, isn’t it?
M: It is, but it’s very enjoyable.
W: So, you can actually speak Chinese?
M: I can, but not as well as I’d like to. I’ll probably be studying Chinese until the day I die!
W: I think most languages take a lifetime to learn well. (17)
Text 10
Hello, folks. Thanks for coming to this staff meeting. I want to update all of you on Mrs. Smith’s situation. (18) As most of you know, Mrs. Smith was told that she had cancer a few months ago. She went to the doctor because of the pain in her arm, (19) and a tumor was found in her upper lung near her shoulder. Mrs. Smith has two young children and a husband. Most of you know her family very well, since she has worked at our company for over five years. (20) First, I want to say how impressed I am with your kindness to her family. For the last three months, someone has brought her family a meal to eat every single night! Your concern for her and her loved ones moves me. Mrs. Smith is very thankful for all your help during this difficult time. And lastly, I want to give you some good news. The doctor told Mrs. Smith that she is much better. She will have an operation in two weeks. If all goes well, she will survive. Thank you all for caring!