2019-2020 学年第二学期高二期中考试英语学科
试题
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分 30 分)
第一节
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. What does the man ask the woman to do?
A. Buy a desk for him. B. Get a key for Joe. C. Share the cupboard with him.
( )2. How does the woman feel now?
A. Nervous. B. Confident. C. Surprised.
( )3. What is the woman doing?
A. Watching a movie. B. Buying a ticket. C. Waiting for James.
( )4. What does the woman say about the new clothes shop?
A. It's crowded on Saturday. B. The clothes are expensive.
C. There are many changing rooms there.
( )5. What will the man probably do?
A. Have the fax machine repaired. B. Call Mr. Steven in Washington.
C. Get the paper faxed next door.
第二节
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、7 题。
( )6. Why does the man call the woman?
A. To make an appointment. B. To change an appointment.
C. To cancel an appointment.
( )7. What does the woman ask the man to do?
A. Have her pipes checked. B. Repair her front stairs. C. Replace her back door.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。
( )8. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a restaurant. B. Over the phone. C. In the office.
( )9. When can the man order?
A. At 10：30 p．m. B. At 10：00 p．m. C. At 8：00 p．m.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。
( )10. What does the woman plan to do?
A. Rent a house. B. Buy some furniture. C. Move her house.
( )11. What's the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Landlord and renter. B. Agent and customer. C. Neighbors.
( )12. How much should the woman pay altogether?
A. $260. B. $390. C. $650.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。
( )13. What can we know about the couple's TV set?
A. It has been sold. B. It has been given away. C. It is being repaired.
( )14. What kind of film will be on at the Silver Star Theater?
A. A war movie. B. A western film. C. A comedy.
( )15. Why does the man refuse to see the film The Killer?
A. He has no money to pay for it. B. The film is not his preference.
C. The theater is far from their home.
( )16. What time is it now?
A. 8：00 p．m. B. 7：30 p．m. C. 7：00 p．m.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
( )17. What is the season now according to the text?
A. Winter. B. Spring. C. Autumn.
( )18. Which place does the speaker suggest visiting?
A. A beach. B. A national park. C. A camp.
( )19. How many people died in 2014 in national parks?
A. 1，025. B. 129. C. 145.
( )20. What may get people into trouble?A. Extra batteries. B. Poor judgment. C. Over preparation.
第二部分： 阅读理解(共两节，满分 35 分)
第一节（共 10 小题，每小题 2.5 分）
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Islands that could disappear in your lifetime
Island vacations are dreams for many tourists, but climate change has lifted ocean temperatures,
raised sea levels and worsened storm severity. As a result, some islands are threatened and could
disappear in the coming decades.
Federal States of Micronesia
2019 Population: 112，640
The average rate of sealevel rise worldwide
has been 3.1 mm per year since 1993. But
the rate around Federated States of
Micronesia is three times faster. The country
is at risk of disappearing because of coastal
flooding, erosion, and frequent storms.
Tuvalu
2019 Population: 11，508.
Tuvalu is a small chain of islands in the Pacific
Ocean. For more than 25 years, its representatives
have raised alarms that climate change could raise
sea levels enough to flood the islands. Even if
waters never get that high, Tuvalu could still
become uninhabitable as rising sea levels have
polluted the nation's groundwater resources with
salt.
Marshall Islands
2019 Population: 58，413
Residents of Marshall Islands, a chain of
volcanic islands and coral atolls in the
central Pacific Ocean, have known for years
that they have to either build new artificial
islands to relocate or raise the existing ones.
Shishmaref, Alaska
2019 Population: 617
In 2016, people living in Shishmaref, Alaska,
located near the Bering Strait, voted to relocate
before melting ice and land erosion would forced
them to. Alaska had granted the city $8 million
toward the move, but officials say it will cost $200
million.
( )21. The sea level around Federal States of Micronesia is rising as much as ________ or so a year.
A. 1.1 mm B. 3.1 mm C. 6.6 mm D. 9.3 mm
( )22. Which island has been granted some funds to relocate by the state government?
A. Federal States of Micronesia B. Tuvalu
C. Marshall Islands D. Shishmaref
B
The term “crocodile tears” refers to insincere sadness. This term has an etymology dating
back several centuries. As early as the fourth century, crocodile tears are referenced in the literature
with the meaning of insincere sorrow. It is said that crocodiles weep while eating their hunted
animals because they are sad; however, this sadness is not honest.
The term crocodile tears became widely popular after it was documented in a fifteenthcentury
book titled The Voyage and Travel of Sir John Mandeville, Knight. A passage from the book reads:
“These crocodiles kill men and they eat them weeping.”
As you may already know, crocodilians( 鳄 目 动 物 ) likely feel bad about little—especially
feeding. However, the assumption of the crocodiletears metaphor may be true. In a 2007 paper
published in BioScience titled “Crocodile Tears: And thei eten hem wepynge”(“Crocodile Tears:
And they eat them weeping”), researchers observed 7 crocodilians in cages during feeding time at a
reserve(4 caimans and 3 American alligators). The researchers observed the animals outside of water
at feeding stations to better find out whether tearing developed.
Five of the 7 crocodilians developed something like tears in their eyes before, during or after
feeding. The researchers suggest that these crocodile tears occur because a crocodilian hisses(发出
嘶嘶声) while it eats, and this hissing forces air through the spaces in the bone behind the nose and
out the eye, in the process picking up nasolacrimal secretions(鼻泪管分泌物)．
In humans, “crocodile tears” is a medical condition that causes a person to tear up while
eating. Crocodile tears typically occur because of a temporary loss of facial control due to damage of the facial nerve. Specifically, when the facial nerve grows again, it does so incorrectly thus resulting
in tears during chewing food.
( )23. The underlined word “etymology” in Paragraph 1 refers to ________．
A. a reference book containing articles on various topics
B. the origin and history of a particular term
C. a printed sheet of paper that are given free to advertise
D. the application and influence of a new theory
( )24. The term “crocodile tears” ________．
A. is a medical condition that causes a crocodile to tear up
B. became widely popular as early as the fourth century
C. refers to pretended sadness
D. proved to be only an assumption
( )25. From the 2007 paper published in BioScience, we can know that ________．
A. crocodilians especially feel bad about feeding
B. not all the 7 crocodilians developed tearing
C. the crocodilians were carefully observed inside water
D. crocodile tears occur because a crocodilian hisses after it eats
( )26. The passage is mainly about ________．
A. what the real truth is about crocodile tears
B. when the term “crocodile tears” got popular in literature
C. how researchers made the experiment on crocodilians
D. why crocodile tears typically occur in humans
C
For several decades, there has been an organized campaign intended to produce distrust in
science, funded by those whose interests are threatened by the findings of modern science. In
response, scientists have tended to stress the success of science. After all, scientists have been right
about most things, from the structure of the universe to the relativity of time and space.
Stressing successes isn't wrong, but for many people it's not persuasive. An alternative answer
to the question “Why trust science？” is that scientists use the socalled scientific method. But
what is called the scientific method isn't what scientists actually do. Science is dynamic: new methods get invented; old ones get abandoned; and at any particular point, scientists can be found
doing many different things. False theories sometimes lead to true results, so even if an experiment
works, it doesn't prove that the theory it was designed to test is true.
If there is no specific scientific method, then what is the basis for trust in science? The answer
is the methods by which those claims are evaluated. A scientific claim is never accepted as true until
it has gone through a long process of examination by fellow scientists.Scientists draft the initial
version of a paper and then send it to colleagues for suggestions. Until this point, scientific feedback
is typically fairly friendly. But the next step is different: the revised paper is submitted to a scientific
journal, where things get a whole lot tougher. Editors deliberately send scientific papers to people
who are not friends or colleagues of the authors, and the job of the reviewer is to find errors or other
faults. We call this process “peer review” because the reviewers are scientific peers—experts in the
same field—but they act in the role of a superior who has both the right and the responsibility to find
fault. It is only after the reviewers and the editor are satisfied that any problems have been fixed that
the paper will be printed in the journal and enters the body of “science”．
Some people argue that we should not trust science because scientists are “always changing
their minds ” . While examples of truly settled science being overturned are far fewer than is
sometimes claimed, they do exist. But the beauty of this scientific process is that science produces
both creativity and stability. New observations, ideas, explanations and attempts to combine
competing claims introduce creativity; transformative questioning leads to collective decisions and
the stability of scientific knowledge.
Scientists__do__change__their__minds__in__the__face__of__new__evidence,__but__this__is__a_
_strength__of__science,__not__a__weakness．
( )27. Scientists stress the success of science in order to ________．
A. promote basic knowledge of science
B. remind people of scientific achievements
C. remove possible doubts about science
D. show their attitude towards the campaign
( )28. What can we learn about the socalled scientific method?
A. It's an easy job to prove its existence. B. It usually agrees with scientists' ideas.
C. It hardly gets mixed with false theories. D. It constantly changes and progresses.( )29. What can we learn about “peer review”？
A. It seldom gives negative evaluation of a paper.
B. It is usually conducted by unfriendly experts.
C. It aims to perfect the paper to be published.
D. It happens at the beginning of the evaluation process.
( )30. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies that ________．
A. it is not uncommon for science to be overturned
B. scientists are very strong in changing their minds
C. people lose faith in those changeable scientists
D. changes bring creativity and stability to science
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。
Pick up Your Game
A youth soccer coach，Hugo Grajeda，director of Pro Youth Soccer Academy in Chester，New
York，shares some tips to help you improve your soccer skills.
Start with basic drills.“Go outdoors，get a ball and keep it close to your feet，” Grajeda
says.“ 31 If you have a backyard，work on shooting.”
32 “It’s a good way of building skills without having the pressure of games.Choose a
camp that emphasizes building skills and go to one of those.There are plenty of camps that begin
right after school ends.”
Don’t forget to stretch. 33 Then do a series of stretches to loosen up your
muscles.Don’t forget to take a drink of water before you even step on the field.“Water is
important，especially in summer，” Grajeda says.
Watch the World Cup.Grajeda will be telling his athletes to watch as many games as they can.
34 Then，you should try to bring some of their moves into your own game.“Pick up something
that you like and practice it，” Grajeda says.
Keep practicing.Practice may not seem like the most fun part of playing soccer. 35 Look
for ways to make practice fun by adding some competition to simple drills ， and don’t be
discouraged if it takes time to master new skills.“If someone were struggling to improve，I would
tell them to keep practicing，keep trying.Practice makes perfect.”
A．Sign up for a soccer camp.
B．Reduce the pressure of games.C．Study how the best players move with the ball.
D．A game is sometimes used as an educational tool.
E．However，it’s the best way to develop good techniques.
F．That will help improve your ability to run with the ball close to you.
G．Before each game or practice，start with a proper tenminute warmup.
第三部分 语言应用（共两节，满分 60 分）
第一节： 完形填空(共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
My father was a Jamaican(牙买加) immigrant while my mother was a white woman. They
never got married but I was born. However, my father never __36__ his family about my existence.
Whatever the case, I didn't know I was a __37__ until my thirteenth birthday.
Walking into my aunt's apartment brought a lot of emotions. What if my __38__ didn't want
anything to do with me because I was half white? How __39__ can I learn the jokes that my family
members told? Should I __40__ them for all the years they didn't spend with me? My mind was full
of thoughts when I was __41__ to everyone, trying desperately to understand family members who
almost were __42__ strangers. Meanwhile, I was __43__ to just remember everybody's name.
One of my aunts, who'd been quiet for most of the morning looked at me with tearful eyes. She
mentioned how __44__ she was for my father to have a daughter, saying, “He's always dreamt of
having a daughter”. However, she then expressed her __45__ towards my father for keeping the
family in the __46__ about me. From this __47__， I have learned more about what it means to be
biracial(代表两种人种的). Can I still __48__ myself Jamaican even though my first time trying
curry goat, a traditional dish, was not until my teenage years?
I've become aware that no matter how much DNA you might __49__ with a particular race, you
won't feel truly connected if you did not __50__ with that culture's customs. I believe this event has
__51__ me into becoming a more understanding person when analyzing someone's actions. I have
realized that I am far from a __52__. I am determined to prove that I'm here for a reason by using
my talents to __53__ those around me. I have grown in not __54__ on my parents and families to tell
me who I am, but I have understood my uniqueness and __55__ my real self. I really feel proud that
among strangers I eventually know who I am!
( )36. A. told B. said C. talked D. spoke( )37. A. success B. secret C. failure D. burden
( )38. A. father B. mother C. family D. aunt
( )39. A. often B. badly C. quickly D. strangely
( )40. A. praise B. blame C. miss D. invite
( )41. A. offered B. devoted C. delivered D. introduced
( )42. A. complete B. strict C. kind D. helpful
( )43. A. pretending B. struggling C. competing D. cheering
( )44. A. nervous B. shameful C. embarrassed D. happy
( )45. A. anxiety B. anger C. excitement D. enthusiasm
( )46. A. hope B. regret C. dark D. future
( )47. A. accident B. program C. coincidence D. experience
( )48. A. consider B. imagine C. leave D. teach
( )49. A. share B. replace C. deposit D. exchange
( )50. A. pick up B. take up C. grow up D. make up
( )51. A. frightened B. cheated C. tricked D. turned
( )52. A. mistake B. master C. milestone D. miracle
( )53. A. tolerate B. dismiss C. hate D. benefit
( )54. A. agreeing B. relying C. working D. passing
( )55. A. protected B. saved C. found D. forgiven
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。
On Sept.4,2017，Gulangyu Island,56. the coast of Xiamen，Fujian，was certificated
a world heritage site by UNESCO.China now has 52 such sites，which spread across the entire
country.Millions of people visit Gulangyu Island every year to enjoy its natural 57._________
(delight)．
The recognition of this beautiful,58. (culture) remarkable island is 59. honor.The
word“heritage” refers to the invaluable things that we inherit from the past. Like a time machine，
it takes us back to our ancestors and even earlier,60. (enable) us to wonder at both the
natural world and human history.
Heritage can also be a reminder of a lifestyle of the past.Just look at Vienna’s coffee culture：
the award was for 61. happened there，not for the places 62. (they)．
At the end of the 19th century，the cafes 63. (pack) with artists and intellectuals(知识分 子 ) ． The popularity of these places reached its height during the last period of the great
AustriaHungarian Empire.
Just like Gulangyu Island and Vienna cafes，every world heritage item is worthy of care and
64. (protect)．They remind us of our rich and 65. (vary) cultural pasts，and the things
that made us who we are.
第三节 单词拼写(共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）
66. A fishbone stuck in Janet’s throat and made her ____________ (哽咽).
67. There is a ____________ (急剧的) drop in temperature after the storm.
68. The workers were asked to be _______ (准时的) when they were about to have a meeting.
69. Does the name on the envelope _______ (相一致) with the name on the letter inside?
70. My friend is applying for another two positions as an _____ (保障) against not passing the
interview for this one.
71. It was impossible to predict the o_________ of the election.
72. On opening the door, she found a baby lying on the ground, wrapped in a blanket, obviously
a_______ by his parents.
73. Unmarried mothers, plus other social p______ call for our immediate attention.
74. Nowadays many of the successful movies, like Pride and Prejudice, are a_______ of classic
literary works.
75. Teachers have to constantly update their knowledge in order to maintain their professional
c____________.
第四部分：写作（25 分）
阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
My mother used to ask me what the most important part of the body is．Through the years I
would take a guess at what I thought was the correct answer．When I was younger，I thought sound
was very important to us as humans，so I said，"My ears，Mommy．"She said，"No． Many people
are deaf．But they are doing well in their life．You keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon．"
Several years passed before she asked me again．Since making my first attempt，I had
contemplated (深思) the correct answer．So this time I told her，"Mommy，sight is very important
to everybody，so it must be our eyes．"She looked at me and told me，"You are learning fast，but the
answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind．"Over the years my mother asked
me a couple more times and always her answer was："No，but you are getting smarter every year，
my child．"Then last year，my grandpa died．Everybody was hurt．Everybody was crying．My Mom
looked at me when it was our turn to say our final goodbye to grandpa．She asked me，"Do you know
the most important body part yet，my dear？"I was surprised when she asked me this on this
occasion．
I always thought this was a game between her and me．She saw the confusion on my face and
told me，"This question is very important．How you answer it shows whether you have learned about
life．For every body part you gave me in the past，I have told you were wrong and I have given you
a reason why．But today is the day you will know the answer．"I look puzzled．"All your previous
answers-ears，eyes，hands，heart…They are all very important to yourself．But this time I need you
to think of something that is important to others．"
注意：
1．所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右；
2．应使用 5 个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3．续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4．续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语．
"My dear， the most important body part，" she said,_________ ___________ ______________
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_______________________________________________________________Paragraph 2：
"Mom，
I understand． And you can cry on my shoulder too．"_____________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________________听力
1～5 BABAC 6～10 BABCA 11～15 BCCAB 16～20 CBBCB
阅读理解
21-22 DD 23-26 BCBA 27-30 CDCD
七选五
31-35 FAGCE
完形填空
36～40 ABCCB 41～45 DABDB 46～50 CDAAC 51～55 DADBC
语法填空
56. off
解析 考查介词。根据常识可知，鼓浪屿是一座海岛，与厦门市所在的陆地不相连。off the coast
of...是固定短语，表示“离……海岸不远的地方”，故需填介词 off。
57. delights
解析 考查名词单复数。句意为：每年都有数百万的游客来到鼓浪屿领略它的自然乐趣(风光)。
delight 在此处指“乐事，乐趣”，为可数名词。且由常识可知，鼓浪屿的自然乐趣肯定不止
一个。故这里应该表达复数概念。故填 delights。
58. culturally
解析 考查词性转换。所填词修饰形容词“ remarkable”，所以应用副词形式。故填
culturally。
59. an
解析 考查冠词。空后的 honor 是抽象名词具体化，表示“一种荣幸”，需用不定冠词修饰；
且 honor 发音以元音音素开头，故填 an。
60. enabling
解析 考查非谓语动词。句意为：像时光机一样，遗产(可以)把我们带回到我们祖先生存的时
代，甚至更早，让我们为自然世界和人类历史惊叹不已。分析句子成分可知，本句已有谓语
动词 takes，故此处为非谓语动词。结合句意可知，所填词与其后部分在句中作结果状语，表
示一种必然的结果，应用动词的现在分词形式。故填 enabling。
61. what
解析 考查从句引导词。分析句子结构可知，所填词为宾语从句引导词，且宾语从句中缺少
主语。故填 what。
62. themselves
解析 考查代词。所填词指代“the places”，为了强调，加强语气，所以用反身代词。故填themselves。
63. were packed
解析 考查动词时态、语态及主谓一致。根据本句的时间状语 At the end of the 19th century 可
知，谓语动词需用过去式；由于主语 the cafes 与动词 pack 为逻辑上的动宾关系，所以用被动
语态；又因主语 the cafes 为复数概念，故填 were packed。
64. protection
解析 考查词性转换。所填词和名词 care 并列作介词 of 的宾语，所以需用名词形式。故填
protection。
65. various
解析 考查词性转换。所填词和形容词 rich 一起并列修饰名词 pasts，所以用形容词形式。故
填 various。
单词拼写
66. Choke 67. sharp 68. puncture 69. correspond 70. insurance 71.outcome 72. abandoned 73.
pressure 74.adaptations 75. competence
书面表达;
【答案】Paragraph 1：
"My dear， the most important body part ，" she said， "is your shoulder．""Is it because it holds
up your head？"I asked． "No， it is because it can hold the head of a friend or loved one when they
cry，"she replied， "Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on sometime in life， my dear． I only hope
that you have enough love and friends that you will always have a shoulder to cry on when you need
it．"（高分句型一）I saw her eyes well up with tears．（简单介绍肩膀重要的原因）
Paragraph 2：
"Mom， I learned． And you can cry on my shoulder too．"And silently， my mother put her head
on my shoulder and started to cry． It was not heavy at all， and the wetness didn't make me
uncomfortable either． In fact when her warm tears damped my shoulder， I felt the pain in her heart，
and I knew how hurt and lonely and vulnerable she was at that moment．（高分句型二） I felt
important． I felt like a man． I was there when someone I loved dearly needed me most．（女儿理
解关爱他人的含义）
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