四川省泸州市龙马潭区天立学校2020学年高二英语上学期期末模拟试题

四川省泸州市龙马潭区天立学校2020学年高二英语上学期期末模拟试题第一部分听力（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’s the possible relationship between the two speakers?A. Strangers.B. Neighbors.C. Teacher and student.2. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In an office.B. In a bank.C. In a hospital.3. What will the man drink?A. Coca Cola.B. Beer.C. Soda water.4. What does the man want to order?A. TV sets.B. Machines.C. Personal computers.5. What is the man’s problem?A.He is homesick.B. He is sick.C. He is tired.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道小题。

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，每小题将给出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. What happened to the man?A. He locked himself out.B. He was knocked down by a car.C. He found his house broken into.7. What is the woman probably?A. A driver.B. A doctor.C. A policewoman.8. What is the woman most probably going to do?A. Look round the house.B.Talk to the man’s wife.C. Lock all the windows.听第7段材料,回答第9至11题。

9. What’s the possible relationship between the two speakers?A. Interviewer and interviewee.B. Employer and employee.C. Professor and student.10. Where do the woman’s foreign teachers come from?A. America.B. England.C. Australia.11. How many hours will the woman work every day if she is employed?A. Four hours.B. Five hours.C. Six hours.听第8段材料,回答第12至14题。

12. Why does the woman mention the Sahara Desert?A. She watched a TV program about it last night.B. She thinks it is the largest desert in the world.C. She knows that the man likes foreign things.13. What kind of film does the woman like actually?A. Love films.B. Travel films.C. Horror films.14. What can we learn about the man?A. He does not like eating lunch with the woman.B. He likes to try new food.C. He gets sick of chips.听第9段材料,回答第15至17题。

15. How did Rebecca lose much weight?A. She was on a diet and exercising.B. She had too much work.C. She had too much sport.16. What sport does Rebecca like best?A. Baseball.B. Volleyball.C. Soccer.17. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The man was on the school football team.B. Teamwork is of great importance in the match.C. The football team practiced five hours a day.听第10段材料,回答第18至20题。

18. What were dogs mainly used for in the old days?A. Food.B. Hunting.C. Protection.19. Why do people in cities keep dogs now?A. They want them to watch houses.B. They need friendship.C. They love animals.20. What can we learn from the text?A. Most people in the West still keep dogs for protection.B. The dog is useful for both children and adults.C. People feel more and more lonely.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。

AThe world of animals is always full of surprises. No matter where you look, you can see some animals that can truly make our jaws drop.Ghost mantis (螳螂) When people see ghost mantises for the first time, many of them would certainly say they are leaves. This small type of mantis can be found across Africa. They are very small and can grow only up to 2 inches long. They come in various colors: several shades of brown and greenish gray. In fact, most parts of their body look like leaves that have dried up. They live for up to two years.Green plant-hopper Also called the torpedo bug, this beautiful animal feeds on plants and looks like a leaf. When they are at rest, their green wings cover their bodies much like a sloping roof (有坡度的屋顶). They are usually small, with a length of half an inch. They are native to Australia but they can now be found in Hawaii and New Zealand as well.Stick insect They actually look more like a eucalyptus twig (桉树枝). They have long and thin bodies but they can also fly. They can grow up to 12 inches long. These animals are natives of the southern part of Australia. They have made the woodlands of New South Wales and Victoria home.Leafy sea dragon When you take a close look at them, you will realize that they are fish like the seahorses. Under the water, they look like floating seaweed. They have leaf-like body parts that are not used for moving under the water. What they use to move are fins (鳍状物), difficult to see, making the leafy sea dragon look more like the plant it imitates. A fully grown leafy sea dragon grows to about 18 inches long. They are usually found in the ocean waters of Australia.21. The underlined part “make our jaws drop” in the fi rst paragraph means “_____”.A. hurt usB. amaze usC. frighten usD. entertain us22. What do we know about ghost mantises?A. They feed on leaves.B. They move very fast.C. They can live a long time.D. They look like dead leaves.23. This text is mainly about four animals that all can _____.A. imitate plantsB. change colorC. move without feetD. be found in AustraliaBIn early societies, people relied on a simple system of exchange. Perhaps a good hunter had more animal skins than he could use. His neighbor, a good fisherman, might have too many fish but needed furs to protect his children from the cold. Both soon realized that their problems could be easily solved by exchanging what they did not need for what they did need. This method of exchange is called barter. The word comes from the Italian barattare and the French barater, which mean “to trade.”As societies developed, people in ancient times turned to many different things in the search for a good way of exchange, or money. One of the earliestforms of money was cattle (牛). The richest person was the one who owned the most farm animals, such as cows and sheep. Cattle were called capitale in Latin, and from that Latin word we get the English word “capital,” meaning “wealth.”But people came to realize that this new method often failed to produce satisfactory results. A cow or a sheep must be fed and cared for. Sometimes they died of disease. Some animals were fat and some were thin. A person who wanted to sell something might believe that it was worth much more than one cow. The buyer might not be willing to give the seller two. Paying a cow and a half was certainly not a good way to solve the problem.When people began to trade with people who lived far away, again a new way of exchange had to be found. Soon such things as grain (谷物) and salt came into use. They could be weighed exactly. They could be stored and transported easily. Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt. And it is from salarium, the Latin word for “salt money,” that our own word “salary (薪水)” comes. We s till speak of people as not being worth their salt if they do not do their jobs well.24. The author explains the trade method of barter by _____.A. presenting research findingsB. giving simple explanationsC. making a comparisonD. using an example25. The buyer in Paragraph 3 probably felt _____.A. his cows were healthy and fatB. the price set by the seller was too highC. using cows as money had disadvantagesD. he should give the seller sheep instead of cows26. The performance of someone worth his salt is _____.A. worryingB. satisfyingC. surprisingD. disappointing27. The text probably comes from an article about _____.A. the history of moneyB. the development of societyC. simple systems of exchangeD. some interesting Latin wordsCOver 30 years ago Patricia C. Wright, a Brooklyn social worker, was on her way to a Hendrix concert when she entered a pet shop and found an owl monkey. “I looked into his eyes and realized there was a connection there,” Wright said. That connection led to a huge life change.In the 1960s, it would have seemed improbable, if not impossible, that Wright would start her career as a primatologist (灵长类动物学家). But she bought that pet shop monkey, Herbie, and watching him excited Wright’s interest in monkeys. On her own, she went to the Amazon rainforest to find a partner for Herbie.Without any training, Wright published a paper in a science magazine but realized she needed a degree and went to graduate school. After graduating with a Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 1985, Wright worked at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, N.C. There, her adviser suggested she go to Madagascar and try to find the greater bamboo lemur (大竹狐猴), a speciesthought to have died out. The environment of the island had been destroyed. People there led a poor life. Lemurs weren’t national treasures but a sometime source of meat.In 1991, her efforts led to the creation of Ranomafana National Park. And then she created the Centre ValBio project, which not only protects the lemurs, but also provides benefits in the form of jobs and improved health care.Her influence on the island is everywhere. The national park has created an eco-tourism industry, which in turn has created jobs and improved the standard of living. Her efforts have led to a worldwide movement to save the lemurs, so in May, 2020, Wright became the first woman to win the famous Indianapolis Prize, an award given to a scientist every two years for saving animal species.28. What made Wright become a primatologist?A. Her adviser's advice.B. Her visit to a pet shop.C. Her visit to a concert.D. Her work in Brooklyn.29. What was happening to the greater bamboo lemurs before RanomafanaNational Park was set up?A. They were well protected there.B. They had different food sources.C. They got along well with people.D. They were in danger of disappearing.30. It can be inferred from the text that Wright's work in Madagascar _____.A. reduced the villagers' incomeB. improved the local food qualityC. helped set up the Indianapolis PrizeD. was very popular with the local people31. What is the text mainly about?A. Patricia C. Wright and what she did.B. The importance of protecting lemurs.C. The discovery of greater bamboo lemurs.D. The creation of the Centre ValBio project.DIn the atmosphere, carbon dioxide acts rather like a one-way mirror or the glass in the roof of a greenhouse which allows t he sun’s rays to enter but prevents the heat from escapingAccording to a weather expert's prediction , the atmosphere will be 3℃warmer in the year 2050 than it is today, if man continues to burn fuels at the present rate．If this warming up took place．the ice caps in the poles would begin to inch，thus raising sea level several meters and severely flooding coastal cities．Also．the increase in atmospheric temperature would lead to great changes in the climate of the northern hemisphere(北半球)，possibly resulting in an alteration of the earth’s chief food growing zones．In the past，concern about a man-made warming of the earth has concentrated on the Arctic because the Antarctic is much colder and has a much thicker ice sheet．But the weather experts are now paying more attention to West Antarctic．which may be affected by only a few degrees of warming，in other words，by a warming on the scale that will possibly take place in the next fifty years from the burning of fuels．Satellite pictures show that large areas of Antarctic ice are already disappearing．The evidence available suggests that a warming has taken place．This fits the theory that carbon dioxide warms the earth．However, most of the fuel is burnt in the northern hemisphere，where temperatures seem to be falling．Scientists conclude，therefore ,that up to now natural influences on the weather have gone beyond those caused by man．Thequestion is：Which natural cause has most effect on the weather?One possibility is the variable behavior of the sun．Astronomers at one research station have studied the hot spots and ‘cold’ spots (that is, the relatively less hot spots)on the sun．As the sun rotates(使旋转)，every 27.5 days，it presents hotter or colder faces to the earth，and different aspects to different parts of the earth．This seems to have a considerable effect on the distribution of the earth atmospheric pressure，and consequently on wind circulation．The sun is also changeable over a long term：its heat output goes up and down in cycles，the latest trend being downward．Scientists are now finding shared relations between models of solar weather interactions and the actual climate over many thousands of years，including the last ice Age．The problem is that the models are predicting that the world should be entering a new Ice Age and it is not．One way of solving this theoretical difficulty is to assume a delay of thousands of years while the solar effects overcome the inertia(惯性)of the earth‘s climate．If this is right, the warming effect of carbon dioxide might thus be serving as a useful opposed balance to the sun’s fading heat．32.It can be concluded that a concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere wouldA．mean a warming-up in the ArcticB．raise the temperature of the earth’s surfaceC．prevent the sun’s rays from reaching the earth’s surfaceD．explain the cause of great changes in the climate in the northern hemisphere 33.The article was written to explain ．A．the green house effectB．the solar effects on the earthC．the causes affecting weatherD．the models of solar weather interactions34.On the basis of their models, scientists are of the opinion thatA the climate of the world should be becoming coolerB the new Ice Age will be delayed by the greenhouse effectC the man-made warning effect helps to increase the solar effectsD it will take thousands of years for the inertia of the earth’s climate to take effect35.If the assumption about the delay of a new Ice Age is correctA ice would soon cover the northern hemisphereB the greenhouse effect could work in favor of the earthC the best way to overcome the cooling effect would be to burn more fuelsD the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could warm up theearth even more quickly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。