辽宁省沈阳市实验中学2019-2020高二下学期期中考试英语试卷

英语试卷考试时间：120分钟试题满分：150分第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）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 is the weather like?A. It’s raining.B. It’s cloudy.C. It’s sunny.2.Who will go to China next month?A. Lucy.B. Alice.C. Richard.3.What are the speakers talking about?A. The man’s sister.B. A film.C. An actor.4.Where will the speakers meet?A. In Room 340.B. In Room 314.C. In Room 223.5.Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In a restaurant.B. In an office.C. At home.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，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，每个小题5秒钟；听完后，每个小题将给出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至8题。

6.Why did the woman go to New York?A. To spend some time with the baby.B. To look after her sister.C. To find a new job.7.How old was the baby when the woman left New York?A. Two months.B. Five months.C. Seven months.8. What did the woman like doing most with the baby?A. Holding him.B. Playing with him.C. Feeding him.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9.What are the speakers talking about?A. A way to improve air quality.B. A problem with traffic rules.C. A suggestion for city planning.10.What does the man suggest?A. Limiting the use of cars.B. Encouraging people to walk.C. Warning drivers of air pollution.11.What does the woman think about the man’s idea?A. It’s interesting.B. It’s worth trying.C. It’s impractical.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12.How long will the man probably stay in New Zealand?A. One week.B. Two weeks.C. Three weeks.13.What advice does the woman give to the man?A. Go to New Zealand after Christmas.B. Book his flight as soon as possible.C. Save more money for his trip.14.What can we learn about flights to New Zealand at Christmas time?A. They require early booking.B. They can be twice as expensive.C. They are on special offer.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15.Why did Jane call Mike?A. To ask him to meet her.B. To tell him about Tom.C. To borrow his car.16.Where will Jane be in about one hour?A. At Mike’s place.B. At the airport.C. At a garage.17.What can we infer from the conversation?A. Jane has just learned to drive.B. Jane’s car is in bad condition.C. Mike will go to the airport.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18.What did the speaker ask the students to do the week before?A. Write a short story.B. Prepare for the lesson.C. Learn more about the writer.19.Why does the speaker ask the questions?A. To check the students’ understanding of the story.B. To draw the students’ attention to reading skills.C. To let the students discuss father-son relationships.20.What will the students do in 10 minutes?A. Ask more questions.B. Discuss in groups.C. Give their answers.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50 分）第一节（共15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分37.5 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Have you ever dreamed of having a fashionable watch of great value?A small watchmaker in Switzerland in 1922 designed the first automatic watch to show the day, month, and date. Only seven of these splendid watches were ever made and these watches were almost lost to history. Today, it is so hard to get an original watch that some watch historians are even willing to offer $200, 000 for one.These watches attracted a lot of people for their splendid color, fashionable style, and new uses in the 1920s. The owners of the watches were admired and set apart from the crowd. Because the number of the original watches is very limited, owning such a watch will make you feel very special.Today, you are offered the same kind of watch with improvement. It has a 24-jewel mechanical movement, the kind desired by watch collectors. The watchmaker has made the movement of the watch much more modern with an automatic rotor so that the watch never needs to be wound by hand. The watch comes in a very beautiful case with a crocodile design on it. To get a watch in such a perfect design means to get a chance to know a piece of watch-making history and to wear such a watch will show your personal taste and social position.You can get the watch either in person or by mail at an affordable price. You will also receive good service from the watch seller. If you are not satisfied with the watch after you get it, you may simply return it within 30 days. Don’t miss the chance to realize your dream.21. The original automatic watches are valuable because ________.A. the watches were made many years agoB. only a few watches of the kind were madeC. only rich people can afford the watchesD. the watches were made by a Swiss watchmaker22. Watch collectors want to get the improved watch, especially for its________.A. new usesB. splendid colorC. fashionable styleD. mechanical movement23. The passage is probably taken from a _______.A. magazineB. reportC. text bookD. science bookBUnlike modern animal scientists, dinosaur scientists cannot sit on a hillside and use telescopes to watch dinosaurs in order to know how they lived and whether they were good parents. Instead, they have to search hard for information from dinosaurs’ fossils because dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.It’s very difficult for the scientists to reach an agreement because different results can be got from the same fossils. Many fossils of the same kind of dinosaurs have been dug out from one place. They might have formed when an entire group of dinosaurs got stuck all at once, or they might have learnt the result of dinosaurs getting stuck one after another over a course of a few centuries. Thus we can say that dinosaurs might have in the first case lived in big groups and in the second lived alone.Though there are two different results, dinosaur scientists now generally agree that at least some kinds of dinosaurs lived in big groups. “That’s pretty much settled at this point,” says Paul Sereno. A kind of dinosaurs called Sauropods left behind tracks in the western United States that appear to run north and south, suggesting that they even moved long distances together.As to whether dinosaurs cared for their young, dinosaur scientists have turned to the closest living relatives of dinosaurs — birds and crocodiles — for possible models. Birds give a lot of care to their young, while crocodiles just help their young to the water. The discovered fossils of dinosaurs sitting on their eggs and staying with their young suggest the parents were taking care of their babies, but we still cannot say that all dinosaurs did the same.There is still a long way to go before the above questions could be answered. Dinosaur scientists will have to find more proof to reach an agreement.24. Dinosaurs scientists can get information directly by ________.A. examining modern animalsB. studying dinosaur fossilsC. watching dinosaursD. using telescopes25. What is pretty much settled according to Paul Sereno?A. Half of the dinosaurs lived alone.B. Most dinosaurs moved long distances.C. Many dinosaurs settled in the north.D. Some dinosaurs lived in big groups.26. Dinosaur scientists can probably know whether dinosaurs were good parents by ______.A. watching many kinds of animalsB. following the tracks left behindC. studying dinosaurs’ living r elativesD. working on dug-out dinosaur eggs27. Which of the following is true according to the last but one paragraph?A. Some dinosaurs took care of their young.B. Birds hardly pay attention to their young.C. Baby crocodiles can look after themselves well.D. Birds and crocodiles take good care of their young.CA recent study shows that more than 90% of adults report hearing earworm songs on a weekly basis. They can’t walk into their office without Rihanna’s voice singing “wor k, work, work” in their mind. That was commonly known as earworm songs —those sticky tunes that continue to play in their heads.Luckily, most people report earworm songs as pleasant. But others find them annoying or even maddening. “Some people are troubled by them to the point that it disturbs life,” says Elizabeth Margulis, a professor who has studied earworm songs.Margulis says earworm songs tend to have some predictable characteristics. For one thing, they tend to be small parts of a song —not the whole track. And “the songs you’ve heard recently also have the most possibility to get stuck in your memory,” she says.But sometimes something strange and unpredictable can also start a track playing in your head. “Once I was at the doctor’s office and saw a poster of a ma n who I thought looked like Gaston —a character from Beauty and the Beast,” Margulis recalls. A couple minutes passed, and she realized she couldn’t get “Be our Guest”, the song in the movie, out of her head, even though she hadn’t thought of the tune in years. In that instance, she was able to identify what touched off her earworm: the Gaston-looking man in the poster. “But the connections can be really unclear,” she says.Margulis points out that, in all of human history, recorded music is a very new phenomenon. She says some have inferred that earworm songs are also new —the unintended consequence of being able to hear the same song played everywhere in the same way over and over again. So far, the convincing explanation for why human beings experience earworm songs remains a mystery. But there are some well-established ways to cast off the earworm songs.“Finding a mentally demanding task and putting your mind on it usually shifts attention away from internal music. People tend to get earworms when p erforming tasks that don’t require their full attention —stuff like doing the dishes,” Margulis says.Chewing gum can also help. When a song is stuck in our heads, it’s almost like we’re singing along with it. If you make your mouth do something else —chewing gum, eating a meal or talking with a friend — that can kick out the earworm.You could also face your enemy. By listening to the full track that includes the passage stuck in your head, you may find “closure” and relief.28. You probably experience an earworm song in ______.A. A song worth memorableB. A song sung by a recently famous singer.C. A song heard very often recentlyD. A song in a famous movie29. The underlined words touched off in paragraph 4 means ______.A.left offB. set offC. took offD. put off30. We can infer that earworm songs may ______.A. stem from modern technologyB. hurt one’s feelingC. be experienced whenever someone sees a posterD. help regain lost memories31. The purpose of the last three paragraphs is to introduce ________.A. Why we hear earworm songsB. Where to find earworm songsC. How to get over earworm songsD. When we hear earworm songsDModern buildings are set up on a large scale in the city. Should they be allowed to be built next to older buildings in a historic area of a city? In order to answer this question, we must first examine whether people really want to preserve the historic feel of an area. All historical buildings are not attractive. However, there may be other reasons —for example, economic reasons —why they should be preserved. So, let us assume that historical buildings are both attractive and important to be the majority of people. What should we do then if a new building is needed?In my view, new architectural styles can exist perfectly well alongside an older style. Indeed, there are many examples in my hometown where modern designs have been placed very successfully next to old buildings. As long as the building in question is pleasing and does not dominate its surroundings too much, it often improves the attractiveness of the area.It is true that there are examples of new buildings which have spoilt the area they are in, but the same can be said of some old ones too. Yet people still speak against new buildings in historic areas. I think this is simply because people are naturally conservative（保守的）and do not like change.Although we have to respect people’s feelings as fellow users of the buildings, I believe that it is the duty of the architect and planner to move things forward. If we always reproduced what was there before, we would all still be living in caves. Thus, I would argue against copying previous architectural styles and choose something fresh and different, even though that might be the more risky choice.32. What is the author’s view of historical buildings in Paragraph 1?A.Some of them are unattractive.B.Many of them are too old to preserve.C.They don’t offer the historic feel of an area.D.They are more pleasing than modern buildings.33. Which of the following does the author mostly agree with?A.We should reproduce the same old buildings.B.Buildings shouldn’t fit in with their surroundings.C.Some old buildings have reduced the interest of the area they are in.D.No one knows why people are against new buildings.34. The underlined words “move things forward” mean______.A. destroy old buildingsB. put things in a different placeC. respect people’s feelingsD. choose new architectural style35. What is the main purpose of the passage?A.To explain why people dislike changeB.To warn that we could end up living in cavesC.To answer the questions people show great interest inD.To argue that modern buildings can be built in historic areas第二节（共5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分12.5 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。