2020 -2021学年安徽名校第一学期期末联考
英 语
本试卷由四个部分组成。其中，第一、二部分和第三部分的第一节为选择题。第三部分的第 二节和第四部分为非选择题。考试时间120分钟，满分150分。
考生注意事项：
1.答题前，考生务必在试题卷、答题卡规定的地方填写自己的姓名、座位号。
2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动, 用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时,将答案写在答题卡上,写在本试卷上无效。
3.考试结束,务必将试题卷和答题卡一并上交。
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
回答听力部分时，请先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将你的答案转涂 到客观题答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题;每小题L5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，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 . How often will the woman take the piano lessons?
A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Three times a week.
2. What is the woman looking for?
A. A key. B. A car. C. A bag.
3. What did the woman feed the birds on?
A. Potato chips. B. Ice cream. C. Bread.
4. Where does this conversation take place?
A. At a wine store. B. In a restaurant. C. In the man's house.
5. What is the man going to do?
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A. Take a shower. B. See a doctor. C. Feed the cats and dogs.
第二节（共15小题;每小题L 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，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's the woman ' s major?
A. Computer science. B. Engineering. C. Math.
7. What does the man say about Professor Murphy?
A. He is scary. B. He is not tall. C. He is very big-
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. Where is the school guard?
A. Under a big tree. B. Near a small house. C. In the classroom building.
9. What does the woman suggest the man do?
A. Report it to the school guard. B. Check the classroom again.
C. Go to the Lost & Found office.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What kind of research paper is required?
A. A report. B. A book review. C. A study.
11. What can we learn about the examination?
A. It has at least five pages. B. There are 100 questions to answer.
C. It covers the lectures and outside readings.
12. What will Jane take?
A. The examination. B. The research paper. C. We don't know.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Where does the man teach?
A. In a high school. B. In a primary school. C. In a training centre.
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14. What does the woman think of the children in Asian countries?
A. They learn very fast. B. They are clever. C. They may be tired.
15. What subjects does the training centre teach?
A. Maths and English. B. Painting and English. C. Singing and English.
16. Why do the children like the man's lessons?
A. He tried to teach them very patiently.
B. He tried to make his lessons interesting.
C. He tried to make himself understood.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How old was Florence when she died?
A. Seventy. B. Eighty. C. Ninety.
18. What made Florence want to be a nurse?
A. The sick animals. B. The visits to the poor. C. The war in 1854.
19. What happened to Florence in the Crimea?
A. She was wounded. B. She was caught. C. She became ill.
20. What did Florence do in London later?
A. She started a school B. She taught in a school. C. She worked in a hospital.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，共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、D）中，选出最佳选项。
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Summer
Author ： Ali Smith
Price ： £ 16. 99
Ali Smith's Summer continues the interplay between the recent past and modem day society that marked
out her works as insightful. The top of a hugely ambitious and fast-paced literary project that aims to display the state of the nation with burning immediacy （直观性），Summer is one of 2020' s absolute must-reads.
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Actress
Author ： Anne Enright
Price ： £ 16.99
A beautifully realised novel of mother-daughter relationships and the dark side of fame and adulation （吹 捧）,Actress skillfully unpacks the secrets and lies of a well-known theatre performer and the effects of her bad fame on the child who admired her. With a sharp eye for female interaction and familial meaning, Actress finds the former Booker Prize-winner on excellent form.
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Author ： Anne Tyler
Price ：£ 14.99
Redhead by the Side of the Road is both a deliciously perfect love story and a character study of a lovable eccentric （古怪的人）,stuck in his ways. Showing the emotional warmth that has made her both a critical darling and a beloved popular author, this is Anne Tyler at her winning best.
Grown Ups
Author ： Marian Keyes
Price：£ 20.00
There are few writers as capable of showing the frictions of family life with as much humour and accuracy as Marian Keyes and her latest sees her on flashing form. When one woman's accident leads to an outpouring of long-contained complaints and secrets, it calls into question just how civilised and grown-up" any of us actually are.
21. What is special about Summer?
A. It is about the reflection of the country. B. It shows the bad side of the daily life.
C. It shows how a country grew stronger. D. It tells the fast pace of the present life.
22. What will you see in the book Actress ?
A. The hard work of performance. B. The glory of the film star.
C. The bitter side of a mother. D. The growth of a rising star.
23. Which of the following shows the everyday life of a lovely couple?
A. Actress B. Summer C. Grown Ups D. Redhead by the Side of the Road
B
It was a hot Summer day a few years ago. I had just pulled into the local gas station to fill my tank. After pumping the gas I started to walk inside to pay. That is when I noticed them. Two elderly women stood back
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from their car. There was a mixture of shock, fear, and horror on their faces. I looked and saw what they saw. Five yellow jackets had started to build a nest around their gas cap. My eyes widened. I shared the ladies 5 fear.
Yellow jackets had never been friends of mine. Several times these bad tempered wasps （黄蜂）had attacked me while I was mowing my lawn giving me multiple stings （叮咬）each time I ran over their ground nests. They are the reason why I never repair my lawn in shorts anymore. The worst time, however, happened when I was a young boy. A friend of mine and I were running and playing in my backyard. I must have stepped on one of their hidden nests again because before I knew it both of us were being chased and stung over and over by the yellow jackets while we ran away screaming. I ran to my Mom with tears in my eyes. She immediately ran a cold bath and put us both in it to ease the pain and itching （发痒）before giving us medicine to fight all the poison in our little bodies from the stings.
Still, I knew I couldn’t let fear stop me now. I reached into my back pocket for a paper towel I had there, tore out the nest and stepped on it while the angry wasps buzzed around me. Both of the ladies thanked me and I said, "You're welcome!” with a smile and a happy heart.
24. Why were the two elderly ladies scared in the oil station?
A. They couldn't find the way back home. B. They couldn't afford the things they wanted.
C. They were afraid of being stung by some pests. D. They were afraid of being forced out of the room. 25. What did the writer do in case of being stung when repairing the lawn?
A. Wear a mask. B. Apply some medicine. C. Wear shorts. D. Wear thick and long clothes.
26. Which of the following word can best describe the writer's early experience?
A. Lucky. B. Miserable. C. Exciting. D. Instinctive.
27. How did the writer drove away the wasps?
A. By spraying some medicine. B. By destroying their homes.
C. By covering their nests with paper. D. By burning down them.
C
Even in the first few months of life, children begin to experiment with language. Young babies make sounds that imitate（模仿）the tones and rhythms of adult talk； they “read" gestures and facial expressions, and they begin to associate sounds frequently heard — words — with their objects in the mind. They delight in listening to familiar rhymes, play along in games such as peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake, and play with objects such as board books and alphabet blocks in their play. From these remarkable beginnings children learn to use a variety of symbols.
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In the course of gaining facility with these symbol systems, children acquire through interactions with others the insight that specific kinds of marks — print ——also can represent meanings. At first children will use the physical and visual cues （提示）surrounding print to determine what something says. But as they develop an understanding of the alphabetic principle, children begin to process letters, translate them into sounds, and connect this information with a known meaning. Although it may seem as though some children acquire these understandings magically or on their own, studies suggest that they are the beneficiaries of considerable, though playful and informal, adult guidance and instruction.
Considerable diversity in children's oral and written language experiences occurs in these years. In home and child care situations, children go through many different resources and types and degrees of support for early reading and writing. Some children may have ready access to a range of writing and reading materials, while others may not; some children will observe their parents writing and reading frequently, others only occasionally.
What this means is that no one teaching method or approach is likely to be the most effective for all chil dren. Rather, good teachers bring into play a variety of teaching strategies that can involve the great diversity of children in schools. Excellent instruction builds on what children already know, and can do, and provides knowledge, and skills for lifelong learning. Children need to learn not only the technical skills of reading and writing but also how to use these tools to better their thinking and reasoning.
28. What can a child in the first few months do about language?
A. Speak some simple sentences. B. Understand some body language.
C. Connect the words with the definitions. D. Repeat the word they hear from adults.
29. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us?
A. Children's ability of storing and processing letters and so on.
B. Children's ability of connecting specific marks with meanings.
C. The course of children's developing the physical and visual cues.
D. The importance of adult guidance and instruction in children's growth.
30. What can we know about children's oral and written language development?
A. It develops naturally in children. B. Earlier instruction is of great help.
C. It varies from children to children. D. It is hardly influenced by the surroundings.
31. Which of the following does the writer agree with?
A. There is no standard for good teachers.
B. Teaching strategies should change with children.
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C. Children should have the ability of self-teaching.
D. The perfect instruction is necessary for language learning.
D
You're doing homework online for a science class. A question comes up ： Do newborn human babies see the world in black and white? Do you guess or search for the answer? Searching online for the answer may get you a better grade on the homework. But a study suggests it won't necessarily help you learn.
Psychologist Arnold Glass gave his students a series of quiz-style online homework assignments. The day before a lesson, students answered homework questions about the upcoming material. They answered similar questions in class a week later and again on the exam. If you read about a topic again and again, you're not likely to remember it very well. But if you test yourself again and again, you will have better performance in the end. So the students in Glass's classes should have performed better on each set of questions in the homework series, and then best of all on the exam.
For many years, students had improved through each set of questions and did best on the exam. But later, many students are doing more poorly on the exam than before. Glass wonders “What a bizarre result that is? How can it be?” His students tend to blame themselves, thinking, "I'm not smart enough," or “I should have studied more. " He suspects something else is going on, so he think about what has changed over those 11 years. One big thing is the rise of smartphones. So it is easier today to quickly go online and find the answer to just about any homework question. But students can't use phones during an exam. And that might explain why they aren't doing as well on the tests.
To test this, Glass and Kang asked students in 2017 and 2018 whether they came up with their homework answers themselves or looked them up. Students who tended to look up answers also tended to do better on homework than their exams.
32. What can we infer from the first 2 paragraphs?
A. Doing homework online is a trend. B. Childish question is hard to answer.
C. Thinking over a question helps you a lot. D. It is necessary to find an effective learning method. 33. What can we know about Arnold Glass , tests?
A. Students get enough knowledge from tests.
B. Questions on tests were chosen from homework.
C. Students performed better on tests than on homework.
D. Questions on tests had nothing to do with homework.
34. What does the underlined word "bizarre" mean?
A. Final. B. Strange. C. Possible. D. Obvious.
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35. What would be the best title?
A. Bad Effects of Online Knowledge B. Technology Is not Always Good for Us
C. What Is the Best Way to Get Knowledge D. Guessing Answers or Searching Them Online
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。
Principles of Effective Public Speaking
When we watch politicians, or business leaders speak on television or in public, they seem so at ease that we may wonder： are great speakers made, or are they just born that way? While it is true that some individuals are born with this gift, many effective public speakers have trained themselves to be so- 36 Here are some principles of public speaking that I've developed in my role as a media coach.
Stop trying to be a great “public“ speaker. People want to listen to someone who is interesting, relaxed, and comfortable. In the routine conversations we have every day, we have no problem being ourselves.
37 We focus on the “public” at the expense of the "speaking”. To become effective at public speaking, you must do just the opposite ： focus on the speaking and let go of the “public”.
When you make a mistake, no one cares but you. Even the most accomplished public speaker will make a mistake at some point. Just keep in mind that you'11 notice more than anyone in your audience- 38 .
If you can see it, you can speak it. Winners in all aspects of life have this in common ： they practice visualization to achieve their goals. 39 Athletes close their eyes and imagine themselves making that basket, hitting that home run, or breaking that record. The same is true in public speaking.
40 Your goal is not to be a perfect public speaker. There is no such thing. Your goal is to be an effective public speaker. Like anything else in life, it takes practice to improve those public speaking skills. Remember, even world champion athletes practice every day. Try taking a class where you practice giving speeches.
A. Practice makes perfectly good.
B. Sales people suppose themselves closing the deal.
C. So, what is the true secret to effective public speaking?
D. How can you help your audience members achieve their goals?
E. The most important thing after making a mistake is to keep going.
F. Yet too often, when we stand up to give a speech, something changes.
G. After all, on what subject is your expertise greater than on the subject of yourself?
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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L5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Think about all of the elders that I got to spend time with during my grandmother's five-year stay in the nursing home. I can't imagine what it's been like for them without any 41 at all. So sad. However, they keep 42 each other and keep being kind.
That day, I saw a man alone on a couch, in the front lobby（大厅）that I have been 43 frequently,
lying with his head on the arm. Earlier he had been 44 to push Jean, who has cerebral palsy and can't move far 45 in her wheelchair, with his head, from his wheelchair. The song, "inchworm, inchworm suddenly came to my 46 .
I asked if they would mind my pushing Jean the 47 of the way. Jean said, “Yes, please!” and the man smiled a（ n） 48 "Thank you”. I thanked him for helping and pushed Jean back to her room down the hall.
Now, this same man was alone on the couch and as I got closer, I 49 he had only one leg and the one he did have was dry and 50 with rashes（疹子）.He was scratching it 51 I had a lotion （护肤 液）in my bag, which seemed to be able to 52 his discomfort. I 53 the lotion to his leg and even the other side as well. It just seemed a 54 thing to do. He doesn't speak English but spoke to me in his home 55 , and tears started to come down his face. I 56 his tears with tissues and touched his face 57 .
He kept talking and looking at me as if I 58 I nodded and listened.
We didn't 59 each other and aren't blood-related and yet, at that moment, we shared a 60 that went beyond blood — heart to heart.
41. A. salesmen
B. secretaries C. visitors D. coaches
42. A. loving
B. teaching
C. believing
D. sponsoring
43. A. coining at
B. dropping by
C. working on
D. leaving behind
44. A. preparing
B. refusing
C. deciding
D. trying
45. A. quickly
B. alone
C. precisely
D. comfortably
46. A. way
B. direction
C. mind
D. consideration
47. A. rest
B. back
C. half
D. middle
48. A. friendly
B. serious
C. embarrassing
D. desperate
49. A. guessed
B. realized
C. registered
D. assessed
50. A. decorated
B. painted
C. covered
D. colored
51. A. helplessly
B. delightedly
C. casually
D. continually
52. A. ease
B. fix
C. appoint
D. control
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53. A. tied
B. applied
C. lent
D. dropped
54. A. wonderful
B. hopeful
C. difficult
D. natural
55. A. alternative
B. sound
C. language
D. method
56. A. absorbed
B. swept
C. wiped
D. cleaned
57. A. softly
B. cheerfully
C. rigidly
D. gratefully
58. A. approved
B. ignored
C. doubted
D. understood
59. A. contact
B. reach
C. know
D. trust
60. A. connection
B. hobby
C. memory
D. adventure
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。
Yellow River Valley was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, and for that reason is often called “Mother River. The valley 61. ( surround ) the principal river of northern China and is at the center of thousands of years of Chinese history. At over 5,400 kilometers (3,300 miles) long, the Huang He is China's second 62. ( long) river. It has a drainage (排水)basin of around 750,000 square 63. （ kilometre） , the third largest basin area in China. It is called the Yellow River because its wa ters carry earth, 64. gives the river its yellow-brown color, and when 65. river overflows, it leaves a yellow residue（残留）behind. While the river helps create fertile land that 66. （ suit） for farming, during certain times of the year the Huang He 67. （ frequent） overflows. The water damages housing and crops across the North China Plain, an important 68. （ agriculture） region. Because of this, the Huang He is also nicknamed "China's Sorrow. " For thousands of years, the Chinese have carried out major public works projects 69. （ control） the water from the Huang He. Despite the possibility of flooding, the Huang He Valley basin is home 70. a huge population, and many of China's oldest cities are situated along the river. The valley becomes the center of Chinese culture, society, and learning.
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1。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；
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2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
As a shy girl in my school, when my teachers told me to stand in front of my classmates and give a speech, I would very afraid and didn't dare to face him. Last week, my English teacher give every student a task to make a performance of a short English story. I was in a group with two other classmate. We practiced many times but they always inspired me. At last, I was able to face my classmates and finished a performance. Though the show was not perfectly, I got over my fear, that was an important step for me. I gained with confidence and had the faith to becoming stronger.
第二节书面表达（共1题，满分25分）
假设你是李华。为了提高你们的英语水平，学校将举办一场英语晚会（English Evening）,请给你校 的英语外教Johnson写一封信,邀请他参加并准备一个简短的指导，要点如下：
1.时间：9月16日晚上6：30至8：30；
2.地点:教学楼二楼礼堂；
3.内容:英语剧、英文诗歌朗诵、英语歌曲演唱等。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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