2020学年第一学期天河区期末考试
高二英语
（本卷满分150分，考试时长120分钟）
注意事项：
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第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题3分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York,when one of my students, 15-year-old Mikey,gave me a note from his mother.It explained his absence from class the day before.
I had seen Mikey himself writing the note at his desk.Most parental-excuse notes(请假条)I received were penned by my students.If I were to deal with them,I’d be busy24hours a day.
The forged excuse notes made a large pile,with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy.The writers of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually:“Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.”
“Isn’t it remarkable,”I thought,“how the students complained and said that it was hard putting200words together on any subject?But when they produced excuse notes,they were brilliant.
So one day I typed out a dozen excuse notes and gave them to my class.I said,“They’re supposed to be written by parents,but actually they are not.True,Mikey?”The students looked at me nervously.
“Now,this will be the first class to study the art of the excuse notes---the first class ever,to practice writing them. You’re so lucky to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a subject worthy of study.”
Everyone smiled as I went on,“You used your imagination.So try more now.Today I’d like you to write‘An Excuse Note from Adam to God’or‘An Excuse Note from Eve to God’.”Heads went down.Pens raced across paper. For the first time ever I saw students so careful in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.
The next day everyone had excuse notes.Heated discussions followed.The headmaster entered the classroom and walked up and down,looking at papers,and then said,“I’d like you to see me in my office.”
When I stepped into his office,he came to shake my hand and said,“I just want to tell you that that lesson,that
task,whatever the hell you were doing,was great.Those kids were writing on the college level.Thank you.”
1.The underlined word“forged”in the third paragraph means_______.
A.former
B.copied
C.false
D.honest
2.The teacher had the students practice writing excuse notes so that students could learn______.
A.the importance of being honest.
B.how to write excuse notes skillfully.
C.the value of writing skills.
D.how to be creative in writing.
3.Which of the following can best describe the teacher?
A.Creative and intelligent.
B.Patient and optimistic.
C.Cautious and encouraging.
D.Considerate and hardworking.
B
In many films,when the owner is in trouble,his or her beloved dog would run home to seek help without fail. While this image has become an unforgettable part of our pop culture,few people know that the same sort of response applies to service dogs.
Once a blind man fell flat on his face,which was awful but finally harmless.His service dog was trained to get an adult if the owner had a seizure(癲痫),and it was sure this was a seizure.While the dog did what it was taught,the woman it found was merely annoyed but not alarmed.Thankfully,the dog’s owner was not in the situation of a medical emergency.However,the experience inspired him to share this information on social media.“If a service dog without a person approaches you,it means the person is in need of help.”the owner explained.“Don’t get scared,don’t get annoyed,follow the dog!If the first person doesn’t cooperate,it moves on.”
Referring to the accident,a TV presenter asked a dog trainer,Olivia,some basic questions about service dogs, including how humans should react if an unaccompanied service dog approaches them.
“What they’re going to do is sniff and gently push your leg.”the trainer explained,specifically noting that service dogs are not usually trained to jump or bark.“If you see a dog in vest without a person around it,follow it.”When asked if one should say something to indicate they’re prepared to follow the dog,Olivia said there’s no clear command.“The spoken language is not going to be a secret password.”she said.“You can say‘What?’or‘Where?’or just start walking wherever the dog leads.”
Olivia concluded the TV show by adding that those who rely on service dogs can train their companion to move along to someone else,if the first person the dogs come upon reacted negatively to its request.Doing so could finally save the owner’s life.
4.Why does the author mention the films in the first paragraph?
A.To recommend films about service dogs.
B.To introduce the topic of service dogs.
C.To stress the importance of service dogs.
D.To show our close relationships with service dogs.
5.In the owner’s emergency,a service dog will generally______.
A.ask the nearby person for help
B.run home for help from families
C.jump or bark to draw humans’attention
D.stay beside the owner until he or she recovers
6.How should people react to a separate service dog?
A.Follow it to somewhere it leads.
B.Take it to the nearest police station.
C.Keep it home until finding its owner.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/fa12883365.html,municate with it through commands.
7.What is the author’s purpose of sharing the story?
A.To teach how to train service dogs well.
B.To introduce a talk show about service dogs.
C.To encourage everyone to help disabled people.
D.To spread knowledge of dealing with service dogs.
C
Every year,the Joint Mathematics Meeting brings more than5,000math lovers together.It’s the largest math meeting in the world.In January2019,mathematicians flew to the meeting in Baltimore,Md.,to learn about new ideas and talk about their works.Many even came to admire the latest in mathematical art.
The meeting included an entire art exhibition.Visitors felt amazed at sculptures made from metal,wood and folded paper.One was based on a supersized Rubik’s cube.Many like triangles(三角形)were arranged in strange and surprising sizes and colors.The collection also included drawings and paintings inspired by the study of numbers, curves(曲线)and patterns.
Art and math may seem like a strange pairing.People usually experience art through their senses.They see a painting or listen to music.If this art moves them,they will have an emotional response.Working at math problems is usually viewed as something you think about—not feel.But connections between the two fields reach far back in time. Sculptors and architects in some ancient civilizations included numbers and math ideas into their works.
“A mathematician,like a painter or a poet,is a maker of patterns,”wrote British mathematician G.H.Hardy in 1940.“If a mathematician’s patterns are more permanent,”he continued,“It is because they are made with ideas.”
Henry Segerman is a mathematician and artist.When he was in high school,in England,he was good at math and art.But he had to choose.“I went in the math direction back then,”he says.He thought it difficult to succeed as an artist.
Still,Segerman’s math studies led him into the visual areas of math,such as geometry.In2015,Segerman and some math art friends created a virtual-reality artwork.Participants can put on a pair of VR goggles to float around and through four-dimensional shapes.Art makes it possible to interact with these shapes,which would be impossible to create in our three-dimensional world.As beautiful as it is to see,Segerman’s work also offers a new view on mathematical ideas.
8.What is special about the exhibits at the meeting?
A.They reflect the long history of math.
B.They are made based on math ideas.
C.They are art works with high technology.
D.They turn abstract art into specific math.
9.Henry Segerman’s story suggests that________.
A.one can’t easily succeed in science
B.math makes art easier to understand
C.math is actually the origin of fine art
D.math learning helps the creation of art
10.What is the main idea of the text?
A.Real artists will stand the test of math.
B.Artists make math become a kind of art.
C.Math and art turns out a great combination.
D.Modern artists turn into mathematicians.
第二节（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15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。
Today,people who are deaf and blind can receive a standard education.Schools and organizations help them make the necessary adaptions.___11___At one time,educators had few ideas about how to teach children who were both deaf and blind.
Laura Dewey Bridgman may have been the first deaf and blind person to learn how to read and write.She was born in New Hampshire on December21,1829.Scarlet fever destroyed both her hearing and her sight at age two. ___12___Only her sense of touch was not affected.A local handyman,Asa Tenny,taught her to communicate using a system of signs.A professor heard about this and wrote a newspaper article about Laura.
___13___He was head of the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston.Most educational experts believed it was impossible to teach a deaf and blind student reading,writing or arithmetic.Dr.Howe wanted to meet a new challenge—teaching Laura.At age8,Laura began living at the Perkins School.___14___He had Laura feel an item,such as a spoon,and then ran her fingers over alphabet that had the word spoon spelled in raised letters.Initially Laura struggle to understand the relationship between the item and the word.Finally,after several weeks,her face lighted up with human expression.
Laura learned to read words,and then she worked backward to learn the alphabet and numbers.___15___
Previously,people had little knowledge of what went on in the mind of a deaf and blind https://www.doczj.com/doc/fa12883365.html,ura showed that she was as intelligent and capable as anyone.She helped show the world how intelligent and successful a deaf and blind person could be.
A.However,this was not always the case.
B.The article attracted the attention of Dr.Samuel Howe.
C.The illness also damaged her senses of smell and taste.
D.In the school,Laura successfully learned how to read and write.
E.Eventually she was able to keep a journal of her thoughts and experience.
F.She had few ways of expressing her thoughts or interesting with other people.
G.Dr.Howe needed to develop new methods of teaching because of Laura’s deafness.
第二部分英语知识运用（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 believe that the stories we tell our children shape the future stories of their lives.As a father of four,I consider storytelling a vital part of__16__life.Young children need the imaginative nourishment(营养)that storytelling provides.__17__,that’s really not what I’m talking about.
All the bedtime storytelling I did when my kids was just laying the groundwork for the lives I wanted them to have.With my kids,the__18__bedtime stories,like Snow White and Little Red Cap,gave way to the stories of my own life growing up with my brothers.One__19__like this:Uncle Rick fell asleep on the bus coming home from school.My Dad had to run after the bus like a madman,__20__and begging the bus driver to__21__the kid at the back of the bus.
Then came__22__story about Uncle Chris.He had to be rushed to the emergency room to__23__a sliver(碎片) of glass from his“behind”after he sat on a small glass tumbler he had brought into the tub(浴缸)with him.
My children never__24__hearing them.Soon,the place of the storytelling changed from the__25__to the dinner table.
The stories of my youth are__26__of who they’re now.They like to__27__them at family get-togethers and I believe they’ve learned valuable life__28__during the retelling.They’re beginning to tell their own stories now too. There’s__29__sweeter to my ear than hearing my twenty-one-year-old kids say:“Remember the time when...”It’s like a(n)__30__of the old scenes.
These stories built a sense of family that could never have been__31__or learned in any school or church.What my kids were__32__in these stories was the understanding that they were part of something larger than themselves.
The stories I told my children about my__33__offered up a world to them at which they were able to laugh.But to me,these stories gave me a way to__34__each child with the other and then with me.This is how we__35__ present the world to them,after all,and this is how we finally begin to change it.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/fa12883365.html,munity B.school C.family D.society
17.A.Besides B.Therefore C.However D.Otherwise
18.A.typical B.funny C.sad D.touching
19.A.moved B.went C.spoke D.passed
20.A.whispering B.speaking C.screaming D.murmuring
21.A.wake B.pat C.call D.disturb
22.A.the rest B.the other C.next D.another
23.A.check B.remove C.scan D.pick
24.A.got tired of B.felt like C.showed interest in D.got involved in
25.A.tub B.living room C.school bus D.bedroom
26.A.all B.half C.top D.part
27.A.act B.recite C.reread D.repeat
28.A.rules B.lessons C.experiences D.purposes
29.A.nothing B.something C.everything D.anything
30.A.challenge B.reappearance C.origin D.reunion
31.A.observed B.taught C.made D.improved
32.A.looking into B.looking up C.looking at D.looking for
33.A.motherhood B.fatherhood C.childhood D.adulthood
34.A.unite https://www.doczj.com/doc/fa12883365.html,pare C.match D.concern
https://www.doczj.com/doc/fa12883365.html,st B.honestly C.first D.immediately
第二节语法填空（共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Experts have started working on___36___unbelievable project to make a robot made by NASA act like a human.
___37___(name)Valkyrie,the robot looks like a woman and may be used to explore Mars one day.It ___38___(invent)by NASA scientists last year to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge(DRC).It is1.9meters tall and___39___(weigh)125kilograms.It comes with a series___40___cameras and sonar,and other sensors spread across its body to help it move around.
Valkyrie is powered by a battery on its back,which can keep it___41___(work)for an hour.It can walk on ___42___(it)own,pick up objects and control many objects and tools,___43___is part of the requirements for the
DARPA challenge.
The machine can walk on two legs and perform basic___44___(move)at present.___45___,the team from Scotland’s University of Edinburgh wants to give it more skills.It is hoped that the new and improved robot will work along with astronauts in space.
第三部分基础知识（共三节，满分30分）
第一节单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据中文提示用一个单词填入下列句子，使句意完整。
46.Has the government________(宣布)that they will build a new highway to the mountain?
47.Our class is usually________(划分)into two groups during a discussion.
48.He is quite successful but sometimes seems to________(缺乏)confidence.
49.I felt________(内疚的),for not being able to help you.
50.We’d like to live a life full of_______(多样化).
51.Many elderly people expressed a strong________(偏好)for living with their children.
52.We’d better make our plan________(灵活的)enough to meet the needs of everyone.
53.It’s________(非法的)to read people’s private letters without permission.
54.I________(瞥一眼)quickly to see who had come in.
55.Working as a volcanologist in Hawaii is my________(珍贵的)memory.
第二节短语填空（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
用所给短语的恰当形式填入下列句子，使其意义完整，有两个短语多余。
consist of inform...of remind...of in total
be addicted to in particular put up with
56.The Sydney Opera house,which__________almost900rooms and halls of different sizes,is our first stop in Australia
57.The film_________me__________my life in the countryside,which was unforgettable.
58.The speaker first talked about sports in general and then football__________.
59.The boy__________playing computer games and lost all interest in his lessons.
60.To make a living,they had to__________many of the disadvantage of city life such as heavy traffic and pollution.
第三节补全句子（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据中文提示和所给的英文部分完成下列句子。
61.他不仅擅长绘画，而且在摄影上也很有天赋。（倒装句）
__________good at painting,but also__________photography.
62.如果他大学的时候再努力一点，他就已经拿到毕业证了。
If he____________________in the college,he____________________his diploma.
63.我正要放弃的时候，突然想到了一个主意。
I____________________give up____________________.
64.老师对他的表现很满意，所以表扬了他，这使得他更自信了。
__________his performance,the teacher praised him,______________________________.
65.直到在国外旅游，他才明白学好英语的重要性。
It was____________________that he came to realize______________________________.
第四部分书面表达（满分30分）
21世纪英文报Teens Senior“Learning Kit”专栏以A memorable experience为题征稿。现你向该报社投稿，描述自己在高中阶段一次难忘的经历。
注意：
1.词数130左右；
2.文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称。
A memorable experience
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2020学年第一学期天河区期末考试
高二英语答案
第一部分阅读理解（共两节；满分45分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题3分，满分30分）
1-3：CDA4-7：BAAD8-10：BDC
第二节（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
11-15：ACBGE
第二部分英语知识运用（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）
16-20：CCABC21-25：ADBAD26-30：DDBAB31-35：BDCAC
第二节语法填空（共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分）
https://www.doczj.com/doc/fa12883365.html,d38.was invented39.weighs40.of 41.working42.its43.which44.movements45.However
第三部分基础知识（共三节，满分30分）
第一节单词拼写（共10小题，满分10分）
46.announced/https://www.doczj.com/doc/fa12883365.html,ck49.guilty50.variety/diversity 51.preference52.flexible53.illegal54.glanced55.precious
第二节短语填空（每小题2分，共10分）
56.consists of57.reminds/reminded of58.in particular
59.was addicted to60.put up with
第三节补全句子（每小题2分，共10分）
61.Not only is he,(he)has a gift/talent for;(he)is gifted/talented in
62.had worked harder,would have got
63.was about to,when an idea hit/struck/occurred to me
64.Satisfied/Content(ed)with,making/which made him more confident
65.not until he travelled abroad,the importance of learning English
第四部分书面表达（满分30分）
A Possible Version:
A memorable experience
I remember being really nervous seeing other competitors in full sportswear,thinking,Do you really want to run with the champions?But I quieted that voice because I well remember my hard training for the last six months.
The gun cracked and everyone dashed off like arrows.Everything went smooth in the first lap.However in the second,I felt it hard to breath.My heart pounded wildly,my hands felt clammy and my legs felt like jelly.Dizzy and exhausted,I thought I was going to die.Then I heard my classmates screaming,“Go Carly!You can do it!”.I noticed my best friend John jumped onto the route and ran the last bit with me!I quickened my pace with all my strength and pushed harder.
The finish line was close!Students called out our names,giving us a boost of energy.I CAN DO IT! Finally I crossed the finish line and clocked3’02,setting the school record in the1000-meter race.
This experience teaches me perseverance prevails.