2020-2021 年北京市密云区高二英语下学期期末试题及答案
第Ⅰ卷(共 62 分)
第一部分: 知识运用(共两节,共 30 分)
第一节: 完形填空(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分,共 15 分)
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上
将该项涂黑。
A Welcome Gift
Dario and his mother loved their new apartment. The living room was large enough
for their piano. That night, the two of them
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side by side at the piano,
playing jazz music to celebrate their new home happily.
However, their happiness disappeared the next morning. Someone had left a
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under their door during the night. One of their neighbors complained about the sound
of the piano. Later that morning, Dario suggested that they write a letter to their
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and apologize.
“Maybe we could go and
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everyone in person.” his mother said. “What
if we invited them to come here for a party instead? Dario asked. They both loved
the
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. Then they started to prepare for it.
Finally, the day of the party arrived. Some guests brought presents. Others
brought flowers. One woman, Mrs. Gilbert,
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Dario's mother with a book of
piano music by Chopin.
“I heard you playing the other night," she said.” The sounds woke me out of
bed. I
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that you might play like this every night. So I wrote a short note
I hope you don't think I disliked the playing."
Dario's mother smiled at Mrs. Gilbert. "We should apologize to you." she said.
"I didn't
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how late it was when we were playing.”
“You play, you play!” Mrs. Gilbert pointed to the book she had given them and
said, “These songs are not such
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music.”
“These songs are beautiful music. And we won't play so loud or late!” Dario
said. The big smile on his mother's face gave him a feeling of
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and made
him feel that they were home at last.
1. A. sax
2. A. bill
B. lay
B. note
C. stood
D. walked
C. poster
D. report
3. A. friends
B. relatives
C. neighbors
D. audience
4. A. blame
B. visit
C. question
D. instruct
5. A. experience
B. idea
C. performance
D. action
6. A. treated
B. helped
C. served
D. presented
7. A. promised
B. admitted
C. agreed
D. worried
8. A. realize
B. accept
C. remember
D. understand
9. A. sweet
B. strange
C. funny
D. loud
10. A. equality
B. freedom
C. warmth
D. sympathy
第二节: 语法填空(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分,共 15 分)
阅读下列短文,根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1 个适当的单词,在
给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
A
My grandfather is a Party member. He often shares stories about the Communist
Party of China
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me. One day, he talked about his fight in the Anti—Japanese
War. He admitted that he had been afraid, but his determination to defend the country
helped him overcome his fear. I thought my grandfather was a hero. He often reminds
me that our
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(peace) and happy life today is because of revolutionary
martyrs( 烈 士 ). Our generation should be grateful to our great Party.
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(inspire)by these stories, I make up my mind to study hard and make our country more
powerful.
B
Books were my true friends. I spent hours reading
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attracted my interest.
I
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(work)as a full—time author of teen novels since 2007. Today I would
like to recommend a well—known Chinese book titled The Ordinary World to you. In
the 1980s, the book
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(write) by a famous Chinese writer, Lu Yao. It centers
on the life and destinies (命运) of three families of Sun, Tian and Jin in a village.
It pictures the tough process of building up a better and wealthier life during the
very beginning of reform and open—up in China.
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(read) the book ,you will
be greatly affected by the courage and spirit of the main characters.
C
Tu Youyou was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery of artemisinin,
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is a life—saving drug for malaria on December 7th, 2015. Tu Youyou majored in medicine
in university and later studied Chinese medicine with experts in the field. In 1969,
Tu Youyou was given the mission of setting up a team
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(find) a cure for
malaria. When worldwide scientists failed to find a cure using modern chemicals,
Tu Youyou turned to Chinese herbs for help. Despite their limited resources and
hundreds of failed
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(experiment), they found a possible chemical. They
tested the medicine on their own bodies. And they finally discovered the most
effective drug to cure the disease.
第二部分: 阅读理解(共两节,共 32 分)
第一节:(共 11 小题;每小题 2 分,共 22 分)
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选出最佳选项,在答题卡上将
该项涂黑。
A
You're never too young to make contributions to your community.
Members of Gen Z are creative and responsible, making them perfectly ready to
help handle the world's problems through volunteering.
If you want to make a difference in your community, or be a part of something
bigger than yourself, then this is the place to start Here are a few organizations
of Gen z with volunteer opportunities for teens!
Habitat for Humanity
Everyone deserves to have a place they call home. By volunteering with Habitat
for Humanity, you can play a role in building up your community. Their Habitat Youth
Programs accept volunteers between the ages of 5 and 40.
Meals on Wheels
For those teens who just got their licenses(执照),here's a volunteer opportunity
that will make driving worthwhile. 200 million meals have been delivered so far.
You can connect with your local provider to get involved. Meals on Wheels is on a
mission to meet the nutritional and social needs of the elderly.
Key Club
As the oldest service program for high school students, the Key Club has quite
a history of helping teens get involved in volunteering. Because clubs are
student—led, you get a direct say in the kinds of service projects you want to do.
Chances are, there's already a chapter in your school, but if not, you can try taking
the lead in one.
Best Buddies
Volunteer with Best Buddies to help people with intellectual and developmental
disabilities and you can make them connected with other people. Join a school chapter
(or start your own) to use friendship as a tool to improve the sense of belonging
in your community.
And don't worry. Even if you can't volunteer physically, there are also tons
of online volunteer opportunities available! Find out more about joining a
worthwhile volunteer organization at www. Gen Z.org.
21. If you want to help people with disabilities, you can join
.
A. Key Club
B. Meals on Wheels
C. Best Buddies
D. Habitat for Humanity
22. Teens with a driving license can volunteer to
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A. make nutritional meals
B. drive the seniors around
C. teach the seniors to drive
D. send meals to the elderly
23. What does the underlined word “chapter” mean in the passage?
A. A branch of a club
life.
B. A period of
C. An office on campus.
D. A part of a
book.
B
It all started this morning just before noon. Mrs. White was returning from the
supermarket with her daughter and a friend, their neighbor. They stopped on the
stairway of their building a their fifth—floor apartment. The neighbor opened her
door first, and little Lily ran past her. She knew the apartment well, since she
had visited it many times. The friend put down her keys and shopping bags, and turned
back a moment to Mrs. White.
At that moment. there was a sudden gust of wind and the door to the apartment
was closed. Lily was inside, alone.
Then the friend remembered that she had left her kitchen window open. She and
Mrs. White rushed to Mrs. White's apartment and telephoned the police. But there
was no time to get help in opening the neighboring apartment. They could see that
Lily was already leaning out of the kitchen window. She had climbed onto a chair.
and soon she was climbing out onto the window sill(窗台).
Mrs. White called to Lily to go back inside. But the little girl did not
understand the danger and did not want to go back. She only waved to her mother.
Then she lost her balance and her feet slipped off the window sill. She managed
to hold on for a while with her hands, but then she became weak and she began to
be afraid. Her mother screamed for help, and now Lily was crying loudly.
And then she could hold on go longer Fortunately, several people had run out
into the street on hearing all the screaming. They saw the child hanging onto the
window sill and got ready to catch her. Down she fell five long stories and landed
safe and sound in the arms of three strong men. They were Luis. Augusto. and Alfonso
Nunes, father and sons. who live in the next building in her community. When they
heard the screams, they rushed out of their home.
24. Who saved Lily eventually?
A. Lily's parents.
B. The nearby policemen.
C. Mrs. White's friends.
her community.
25. What can we learn from the story?
D. Neighbors in
A. Lily couldn't hold on the window sill because she was frightened and weak.
B. Lily was left alone in the apartment due to her father's mistake.
C. Lily was rescued before she was falling from the window sill.
D. Lily waved to her mother because her mother smiled at her.
26. From what Alfonso said, we can tell that he was
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A. intelligent
B. humorous
D. strong—willed
C. responsible
27. What's the title of the passage?
A. A Naughty Girl
B. An Amazing Rescue
C. A careless Mother
Danger
D. An Unexpected
C
Plastic—Eating Worm
Greater wax moth
Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic every year. Almost half
of that ends up in landfills(垃圾填埋场) ,and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.
So far there is no effective way to get rid of it, but a new study suggests an answer
may lie in the stomachs of some hungry worms(幼虫).
Researchers in Spain and England found that the worms of the greater wax moth(大
蜡螟) can break down polyethylene(聚乙烯),which accounts for 40% of plastics.
That is to say, part of plastics can be consumed by this kind of worms. The team
left 100 wax worms on a plastic shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed
and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it. To confirm that the worms'
chewing alone was not responsible for the polyethylene breakdown, the researchers
made some worms into paste(糊状物)and applied it to plastic films. 14 hours later
the films had lost 13% of their mass—apparently broken down by enzymes(酶)from the
worms' stomachs. Their findings were published in Current Biology.
Federica Bertocchini, co—author of the study, says the worms' ability to break
down their everyday food—beeswax—also allows them to break down plastic." Wax is
a complex mixture, but the basic bond in polyethylene, the carbon—carbon bond, is
there as well," she explains. "The wax worm developed a method or system to break
this bond."
Jennifer Debruyn, a microbiologist at the University of Tennessee, who was not
involved in the study, says itis not surprising that such worms can break down
polyethylene. But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking
down in this one exciting. The next step, DeBruyn says, will be to identify where
the enzyme comes from. Is it an enzyme produced by the worm itself
or by its gut
microbes(肠道微生物)?
Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help make use
of the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills. But she expects using the chemical
in some kind of industrial process—not simply "millions of worms thrown on top of
the plastic."
28. What can we learn about the worms in the study?
A. They take plastics as their everyday food.
B. They can consume plastics.
C. They end up in landfills.
D. They are new creatures.
29. According to Jennifer DeBruyn, the next step of the study is to
.
A. prove the research findings
B. discover other kinds of worms
C. increase the breakdown speed
D. find out the source of the enzyme
30. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the chemical might
.
A. help to raise worms
B. help make plastic bags
C. be used to clean the oceans
D. be produced in factories in future
31. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To propose new means to keep eco—balance.
B. To present a way to break down plastics.
C. To introduce the diet of a special worm.
D To explain a study method on worms.
第二节:(共 5 小题;每小题 2 分,共 10 分)
根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填空入白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为
多余选项。请把答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
The Case for Classics
Many high school students complain when they look at a
course syllabus(大纲) for Chinese and know they should read TheStoryoftheStone
and other pieces of classic literature.
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But there are some good reasons
why reading the classics is an important part of a 21st century education.
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As students explore texts that were written hundreds of years before,
they know the world as it was in those days. Being able to hear those voices from
the past is a good chance young people should be grateful to have.
Furthermore, as students read classic works, they begin to see history in a new
way. Living in the modern world, most teens don't think about that human civilization
has been around for a longtime.
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Yet the experiences of those people can
help students deal with the challenge today. The wording and writing style may have
changed, but the deep themes (love, loss, and courage) are as true today as they
were for the authors of these early works.
One of the most important reasons to study classic literature, however, is to
expand one's mind.
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To prove this, a group of scientists gathered volunteers
who agreed to have their brains canned while reading phrases from classic literature
in both their original form and in modern translations. The result of the study showed
a significant increase in the brain activity of people reading the original
literature works.
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It connects students to history, helps them solve today's problems
and improves their thinking. Therefore, if today's teens are going to grow as readers,
writers, and critical thinkers, it is important that elassic literature remains a
part of their education.