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明德中学 2020 年上学期网上考试
高二年级英语试卷 2020 年 3 月 28 日
本试卷共 8 页。全卷满分 150 分。考试用时 120 分钟。
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）
第Ⅰ卷
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。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。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. £19.15 B. £9.18 C. £9.15
1. What does the woman want to do?
A. Go to hospital. B. Eat something cool. C. Make the man a cup of tea.
2. What does the man order?
A. Tea. B. Coffee. C. Salad.
3. Where are the speakers?
A. At a hospital. B. At a bank. C. At a school.
4. How will the speakers get to the railway station?
A. By taxi. B. By car. C. By subway.
5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Friends. B. Salesman and customer. C. Boss and employee.
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 are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Chinese tea.
B. Famous places in China.
C. Different kinds of tea in the world.
7. How does black tea taste according to the woman?
A. Sweet. B. Heavy. C. Light.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。
8. What does the man think of literature?
A. It’s helpful. B. It’s hard. C. It’s interesting.
9. What subject does the woman like most?
A. Art history. B. Photography. C. Geography.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。
10. What do we know about the hotel in Sitges?
A. It's far from the beach.
B. It's beside a busy road.
C. It's near a bus stop.
11. What can people enjoy in the hotel?
A. Football games. B. KTV. C. Keep-fit classes.第 2 页 （共 7 页）
12. What will the speakers do next?
A. Ask for a lower price.
B. Look around the hotel.
C. Explain to the manager.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。
13. Whom is the party for?
A. Dan. B. Julie. C. Jane.
14. When will the guests arrive?
A. At 4:00. B. At 5:00. C. At 6:00.
15. What has been prepared?
A.A special cake. B. Drinks. C. Candles.
16. What happened in the party last year?
A. The police came.
B. The building caught fire.
C. The neighbors got drunk.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. What is expected tonight around five or six?
A. Ice. B. Rain. C. Snow.
18. How many inches of snow are predicted?
A. One or two. B. Three or four. C. Five or six.
19. Why did the high schools close?
A. The college has already shut.
B. The roads are dangerous to drive on.
C. The town is unprepared for the weather.
20. Which suggestion does the weatherman make?
A. Buying supplies. B. Closing the schools. C. Pushing snow off roads.
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，从每题所给的四个选项（A 、B 、C 和 D ）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将
该项涂黑。
A
My 12-year-old son Jack hit a milestone last summer. “Mom, I’m quitting the piano,” he said firmly.
Immediately, I said, “You can’t.” “Why?” he asked. “Because I said so.” And the battle followed.
Many of you know the battle I am talking about. It’s the one where all of a sudden instruments that once filled the
home with wonderful music are abandoned in favor of sports, games and all cool things. When Jack started piano
lessons in the second grade, he took to music eagerly, displaying interest and talent. Over the next few years, he
willingly entered competitions recommended by his teacher.
Much to our son’s sadness, my husband and I decided to stand firm. While parents allowed their children to
win battles now and then, this was one that my husband and I were not willing to concede. We decided, however,
to give him a choice of taking up another instrument. We suggested the guitar.
He was open to meeting a couple of instructors. “My hands are too small,” he complained. But the student who
came after us was a 5-year-old girl.
I suggested changing teachers. He said he wanted a teacher who was “nice”. I understood that meant “no
stress”. Finally, we found a male teacher with a gentle voice and a great sense of humor. He said that competitions
were not his thing; playing music was.
After my son’s first lesson with his new teacher, I took a deep breath and braced myself for the usual negative
complaints. “Mom, he makes me like the piano again,” my son announced as we headed to the car.
And then, cheerful piano music filled the house during the long winter evenings. The playing wasn’t as long as I
would have liked or as frequent as it used to be. But it’s sweet, still the same.第 3 页 （共 7 页）
21. What made Jack want to give up the piano?
A. Having no talent in music.
B. Having other cool things to do.
C. Failing in music competitions.
D. Being very busy with his lessons.
22. Why did Jack complain about his small hands?
A. To remind his mom of his weakness.
B. To show his embarrassment in learning.
C. To find an excuse to quit learning the guitar.
D. To prove the difficulty of playing the guitar.
23. What did Jack like his music teacher to do?
A. Play the guitar very well.
B. Not push him too much.
C. Help him win a competition.
D. Not report him to his parents.
B
Rivers are the veins of the Earth, transporting the water and nutrients（营养物）needed to support the planet’s
ecosystems, including human life. While many nutrients are essential to the survival of life, there is one element
transported by water in rivers that holds the key to life and to the future of our planet — carbon.
Carbon is everywhere and understanding the way it moves and is either released or stored by the Earth system
is a complex science in itself. Carbon starts its journey downstream when natural acid rain, which contains carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere, melts minerals in rocks. This helps transform carbon dioxide to bicarbonate（碳酸氢
盐）in the water that then flows in our rivers. This is a very long process, which is one of the main ways carbon
dioxide is removed from the atmosphere. Carbon is transported by rivers to oceans and once that carbon reaches
the ocean, it is stored naturally in deep sea sediments（沉淀物）for millions of years.
As carbon travels down a river, different processes may impact whether it continues to flow downstream or
whether it is released into the atmosphere. For example, human engineering, like extensive dam construction, will
result in dramatic changes to how water and sediments travel down the river. Some carbon that fails to reach the
sea may return to the atmosphere in some way, which causes more warming.
Earth’s climate is closely related to the carbon cycle. We all know about the essential role of plants in
consuming carbon dioxide, but do we know enough about rivers? Changing the chemistry and the course of rivers
may have significant impacts on how they transport carbon. Remember: wherever we live, we all live
downstream.
24. Where is the carbon in rivers originally from?
A. The atmosphere. B. The rocks.
C. The acid rain. D. The upstream areas.
25. Why is human engineering mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A. To show how important to life carbon is.
B. To explain how necessary it is to build dams.
C. To show how a natural process is interrupted.
D. To explain how humans fight global warming.
26. What does the author want to convey in the last paragraph?
A. We’d better move upstream to live.
B. We should protect plants along rivers.
C. We’d better seek more help from plants.
D. We should be cautious about river management.
27. What is the best title for the text?
A. What Humans Do with Rivers
B. How Rivers’ Transporting Carbon Counts
C. What the Carbon Cycle Means to Us
D. How Living Downstream Affects the Earth第 4 页 （共 7 页）
C
Outside, it’s a cold winter’s day. Inside a large shopping center, people are hanging around. But then, without
warning, a pop song starts to play loudly. A teenager boy walks lazily to the center of the open space, and dances
crazily to the music. He’s joined by two of his friends, then some of the old people. Within the space of a few
seconds, more than sixty people are dancing to the music — all in time and all in step. At first, onlookers are
baffled, then they start smiling and clapping. They now know what they’re seeing: a flash mob（快闪）.
According to Wikipedia, the term “flash mob” was created by Bill Wasik, an editor at Harper’s Magazine, in
2003. Within a year, the phrase had entered the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. Since then, hundreds —
possibly thousands — of flash mobs have been carried out around the world, in almost every kind of public space
imaginable!
Each flash mob has its own style, but most flash mobs follow a similar formula（方案）. Often, the organizers
search for willing participants using social media. Instructions and dance moves are given through email or video
download. There are usually several rehearsals（排练）before the big day.
While it’s happening, a few lucky passers-by watch it live. Most people who watch it, however, will see it later
online. Some of the most popular flash mobs on YouTube have been watched more than 10 million times. A famous
example is MP3 Experiment Eight, a flash mob that took place in New York City in July 2011 with over 3,
500 participants. This event differed from normal flash mobs in that much of it was completely silent — and there
were no rehearsals.
Flash mobs provide the participants, onlookers and online viewers with a lot of enjoyment and pleasure. For
this reason alone, they’re a modern, popular art form that should be celebrated.
28. What does the underlined word “baffled” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Excited. B. Puzzled. C. Satisfied. D. Disappointed.
29. Why does the author mention the Concise Oxford English Dictionary?
A. To argue against Bill Wasik.
B. To compare it with Wikipedia.
C. To explain the meaning of “flash mob”.
D. To show the rapid development of flash mobs.
30. What is special about MP3 Experiment Eight?
A. It was played online.
B. It was the earliest flash mob.
C. It was played with no sound.
D. It was most accepted by the audience.
31. What is the author’s opinion on flash mobs?
A. Supportive. B. Hopeless. C. Uncaring. D. Doubtful.
D
In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold fell on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an
unusually bright come（t彗星）shot across the sky, exciting much prediction of a snow storm. Outside the city wall,
a woman was announced dead of a disease that was spreading in that area. Her house was locked up and the
phrase “Lord Have Mercy On Us” was painted on the door in red.
By the following Christmas, the virus that had killed the woman would go on to kill nearly 100, 000 people
living in and around London — almost a third of those who did not flee.
In The Great Plagu（e瘟疫）, historian A. Lloyd Moote and microbiologist Dorothy C. Moote provide a deeply
informed account of this plague year. Reading the book, readers are taken from the palaces of the city’s wealthiest
citizens to the poor areas where the vast majority of Londoners were living, and to the surrounding countryside
with those who fled. The Mootes point out that, even at the height of the plague, the city did not fall into chaos.
Doctors, nurses and the church staff remained in the city to care for the sick; city officials tried their best to fight
the crisis with all the legal tools; and commerce continued even as businesses shut down.
To describe life and death in and around London, the authors focus on the experiences of nine individuals.
Through their letters and diaries, the Mootes offer fresh descriptions of key issues in the history of the Great
Plague: how different communities understood and experienced the disease; how medical, religious, and第 5 页 （共 7 页）
government bodies reacted; how well the social order held together; the economic and moral dilemmas people
faced when debating whether to flee the city; and the nature of the material, social, and spiritual resources
supporting those who remained. Based on humanity（人性）, the authors offer a masterful portrait of a city and its
inhabitants attacked by — and daringly resisting — unimaginable horror.
32. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A. A comet always follows a storm.
B. London was under an approaching threat.
C. London was prepared for the disease.
D. The woman was the beginning of the disease.
33. What do the Mootes say about London during the Great Plague?
A. The city remained organized.
B. The plague spared the rich areas.
C. The people tried a lot in vain.
D. The majority fled and thus survived.
34. Why do the Mootes focus on the nine individuals?
A. They were famous people in history.
B. They all managed to survive the Plague. C.
They provided vivid stories of humanity. D.
They united by thinking and acting as one.
35. What’s the purpose of this text?
A. To introduce a new book. B. To correct a misunderstanding.
C. To report a new research. D. To show respect to the authors.
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。
If you’re struggling to start or complete a task, give yourself some encouragement to keep going.
A bit of pressure can help, so ask a friend, family member, or group to keep you responsible. Here are some ways
to stay responsible.
Create a list of tasks for yourself. Keep the list somewhere visible, such as your desk or computer monitor. As
you complete each task, cross it off the list. 36 . When you’ve finished everything, you’ll feel a
great sense of satisfaction that will keep you going on your next project.
37 . A responsible partner is someone who checks in on you time to time to see how you are
doing with your goals. Ask a friend, or colleague if they would be willing to be your responsible partner.
Join a working group that focuses on the same activity. A group can help you slay on track while giving you
support, feedback, and praise to keep you moving forward. 38 or check with your local community
center, library, or town hall.
Create a routine for yourself. Build a schedule that works for you, and keep it consistent day to day.
39 . Even if you’re not feeling up to the task, a routine can help you get in the right head space to
accomplish it.
Decide ahead of time how you will deal with setbacks. 40 . This will make you more prepared
to deal with them instead of letting them get in the way of your work.
A. It is very convenient
B. Find a responsible partner
C. Turning to help is a probable way
D. Look for groups online through social media
E. This can give you a small boost of motivation
F. Plan for problems and obstacles before they occur
G. Try to do the same activities or tasks at the same time every day
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）第 6 页 （共 7 页）
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。
It’s amazing how one dollar can change the culture of a school.
We have a 41 school of about 30 students. It is really full of 42 and pressure as most of the
kids get good 43 and try to be the best ones. It’s good except that a lot of us middle kids felt really
44 . We got the feeling that we were so selfish — it’s every man for 45 .
46 , my friend and I set out to find a way to 47 the culture. We thought doing things for others
was the only way to 48 our depression（沮丧）about school.
On the first day of school we put a 49 folded into a heart into one of the leaders’ lockers with a piece
of paper that 50 , “Buy yourself a snack. ” We hoped to 51 small gifts every day. We didn’t know
the 52 it would have.
People went 53 over it and everyone was talking about who it might be doing the acts of kindness
and 54 that they should do something too. It is so much fun to see the 55 on everyone’s faces
now! Lots of other people have started sharing 56 now too: chocolate bars, cookies and money left
57 in the vending machine（自动售货机）. And lots of notes are on the thanks board saying: “Thanks to
whoever started. ”
Now I actually expect to go to school to have the chance to 58 people up. I hope kindness will 59
to other schools. If anybody is struggling with being 60 at school and work, I totally suggested doing acts
of kindness.
41. A. small B. large C. lovely D. terrible
42. A. confidence B. competition C. determination D. difficulty
43. A. grades B. books C. results D. teachers
44. A. interested B. pressured C. satisfied D. embarrassed
45. A. others B. yourself C. nothing D. himself
46. A. In return B. In charge C. In response D. In anger
47. A. realize B. enrich C. exchange D. change
48. A. deal with B. live with C. come up with D. keep up with
49. A. paper B. gift C. dollar D. ticket
50. A. wrote B. said C. told D. printed
51. A. give up B. give away C. give in D. give off
52. A. problem B. opinion C. effect D. attitude
53. A. wild B. sad C. angry D. peaceful
54. A. regretting B. disagreeing C. doubting D. deciding
55. A. tears B. pain C. smiles D. terror
56. A. happiness B. selfishness C. kindness D. sadness
57. A. by accident B. as usual C. in surprise D. on purpose
58. A. bring B. cheer C. speed D. hold
59. A. spread B. refer C. react D. take
60. A. ignored B. concerned C. confused D. depressed
第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填写在答
题卡相应的位置上。
With plenty of time at home during the 61 ( extend) Spring Festival break, Leng Yang came up
with an innovative idea involving the use of shells 62 popular Lunar New Year snacks. 63
30-year-old designer spent three days 64 (make) a figure of Mickey Mouse. A video of him putting the
artwork together 65 (view) more than 100 million times online.
Leng said on the video: "Give 66 (shell) a new lease(新生) on life. Salute to the Year of the Rat,"
adding that he decided to make the figure in an attempt to beat 67 (bored).
He was unable to meet friends over Spring Festival 68 the novel coronavirus pneumonia broke第 7 页 （共 7 页）
out, 69 chose to share his work with millions of netizens on social media platforms such as Sina Weibo
and Douyin.
Inspired by his efforts, many kindergarten students have been asked by their teachers to use shells
70 ( create) such figures.
第四部分 写作（共两节；满分 40 分）
第一节 背诵填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分）
根据句子结构，选择正确答案完成句子。
71.Many different people the development of TV.
A. led to B. contributed to C. stuck to D. are addicted to
72. Modern TVs use many of the first discovered by Farnsworth.
A. principles B. principals C. probabilities D. prohibitions
73. They also make TV to people who live far away from cities.
A. separable B. flexible C. accessible D. sensible
74. The telephone is very_ for communication.
A. intelligent B. obedient C. patient D. convenient
75. This article will two drugs that started revolutions in medicine.
A. carry on B. fix on C. focus on D. rely on
76.The company began the medicine in powder form to physicians to use with patients.
A. distributing B. contributing C. separating D. displaying
77. The government approval process for penicillin was , and mass production began in 1944.
A. allocated B. accelerated C. associated D. accumulated
78. These traditional medicines had the of either causing people to bleed or have a severe stomach upset.
A. trial B. professional C. survival D. potential
79. One of the most famous Chinese medical is the art of “ magic needles”, or acupuncture.
A. treatments B. improvements C. developments D. managements
80.A lot of people now these theories relating acupuncture to the production of chemicals to reduce pain.
A. get down to B. come to C. subscribe to D. look forward to
第四节 书面表达（满分 25 分） 假定你是李华，你所在的学校要征集一封英文感谢信，以致
敬奋战在抗击新型冠状病毒肺炎第一 线的医护人员，请你根据下列要点写一封信用于投稿。
1. 表达谢意；
2. 个人感受；
3. 表达信心。
注意：
1.词数 100 左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头语和结束语已为你写好。
参考词汇：流行病 epidemic
疫情 epidemic situation
新型冠状病毒 COVID-19
Dear medical workers,
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