西藏林芝市第二高级中学2020┄2021学年高二下学期期末试题英语
第I卷
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5个小题：每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的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. Where is the woman going first？
A. The cinema.
B. The bank.
C. The museum.
2. How much does the woman weigh now？
A.110 pounds.
B. 120 pounds.
C. 130pounds.
3. When will the woman go to see Dr. White？
A. On Monday.
B. On Tuesday.
C. On Wednesday.
4. How will the woman go to John`s home？
A. By bus.
B. On foot.
C. By car.
5. What will the woman probably do？
A. Go somewhere else.
B. Go to the front of the line.
C. Wait in line for two hours.
第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或对白，每段对话或对白后有几个小题，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6~7题。
6. What is the man`s problem？
A. He bought a broken DVD.
B. He couldn`t play the DVD.
C. He bought the wrong DV
D.
7. What does the man want to do？
A. Get his money back.
B. Exchange the DVD.
C. Copy the film.
听第7段材料，回答第8~9题。
8. When did Terry Fox start the Marathon of Hope？
A. In 1977.
B. In 1980.
C. In 1982.
9. Why did Terry Fox start the Marathon of Hope？
A. To raise money for cancer research.
B. To encourage more people to run.
C. To encourage a healthy lifestyle.
听第8段材料，回答第10~12题。
10. How long is the man`s lunch break now？
A. 2 hours.
B. 1 hour.
C. Half an hour.
11. What does the man have more opportunities to do than he did before？
A. Learn new skills.
B. Go out with workmates.
C. Exercise in the gym.
12. Why does the man still work here？
A. He can work on his own.
B. He can travel a lot.
C. The pay is much better
听第9段材料，回答第13~16题。
13. Which program did the man watch tonight？
A. A talk show.
B. A football game.
C. Some news.
14. How many students got hurt in the accident？
A. 2.
B. 18.
C. 20.
15. Who was badly injured？
A. The teacher.
B. The bus driver.
C. The truck driver
16. What caused the accident？
A. Poor weather.
B. Drunk driving.
C. Speeding
听第10段材料，回答第17~20题。
17. When do the people in the group usually answer the phone？
A. After four rings.
B. After three rings.
C. After two rings.
18. What was the group`s score for friendliness as a whole？
A. 6 out of 10.
B. 7 out of 10.
C. 8 out of 10.
19. What was suggested to improve friendliness on the phone？
A. Asking the caller`s name.
B. Removing the hold music.
C. Using some good phrases.
20. To whom is the speaker probably speaking？
A. Customers.
B. Employees.
C. interviewers.
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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．
A
New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Price：￡28. 00
Publication Date：30/11/2006
Publisher’s description
Collects Doyle’s fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four novels, editor biographies（传记）of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well as literary and cultural details about Victorian society.
Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind
Price：￡16.00
Publication Date：11/10/2006
Brief introduction
This is a book about the adventure life that can offer each of us if we seize it, and about the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope. For Daniel Libeskind, life’s adventure has been through architecture, which he has found has the power to reshape human experience. Although often relating to the past, his buildings are about the future. This memoir（自传）of one man’s journey brings together history, personal experience, our physical envir onment and a fresh international vision.
In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
Price：￡16.00
Publication Date：02/09/2006
Brief introduction
On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the World Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead. Once she was found safe -- in her school at the foot of the burning towers -- he returned home, to meditate（反省）on the trauma（创伤）, and to work on a comic strip（连环漫画）. In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman’s extraordinary account of “the hijacking on 9.11 and the following hijacking of
those events” by America.
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Price：￡14.00
Publication Date：07/10/2006
Publisher’s description
This is the 11th novel by Anita Shreve, the critically accepted bestseller. A moving story of love and courage and tragedy and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.
21. Who is the writer of the book latest published among the four books？
A. Arthur Conan Doyle.
B. Daniel Libeskind.
C. Art Spiegelman.
D. Anita Shreve.
22. If one would like to know something about cultural details about Victorian society, he
or she may read ______.
A. Light on Snow
B. In the Shadow of No Towers
C. Breaking Ground
D. New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
23. Of the four books listed above, there are two referring to tragedies. They are ______.
A. Light on Snow & Breaking Ground
B. In the Shadow of No Towers & Breaking Ground
C. Light on Snow & In the Shadow of No Towers
D. New Annotated Sherlock Holmes & In the Shadow of No Towers
B
“Some day, there’ll be no Americans left in the NBA,” said 12-year-old Xing Tao, who joined his school team two weeks ago after watching Yao Ming in a televised NBA game, “The
players will all be Chinese, like Yao.”
To China, Yao is a home-grown superstar who helped make the world’s first basketball league closer to Chinese players. To the NBA, the 2.23-meter center offers an opening of a different sort into the world’s largest new market. Yao’s NBA first appearance against the Indiana Pacers in October reached 287 million families in the US. That game might have been a bit of a letdown to Yao’s fans：He played just 11 of the 48 minutes, had two rebounds（篮板）and got no points. Comparing that with his performance on December 19, also against Indiana, Yao won 29 points and 10 rebounds. “This was one of the most exciting games I’ve had,” Yao said after Houston’s 95-83 victory. The NBA has to be excited about his on-count success. In all his games, he’s averaging 12.7 points and 7.7 rebounds, quite good for a new star. “Yao Ming has brought the NBA closer to the Chinese,” said NBA spokeswoman Cheong Sau Ching, “That makes the dream seem practical for other people in China and proud to be Chinese.”
The 22-year-old Yao is not the country’s first p layer in the NBA：Wang Zhizhi broke down the Dallas Mavericks in November But Yao’s combination of modesty（谦虚）and skills make him a favorite back home.
24. What’s the direct reason for Xing T ao to join the school basketball team？
A. He watched an NBA game.
B. He liked basketball.
C. He hoped to play for the NBA.
D. He had dream that he would become a basketball star.
25. How many points did Yao Ming win in his first game in the NBA？
A. zero
B. two
C. 29
D. 10
26. What does the word “letdown” in line 6, paragraph 2 mean？
A. failure
B. surprise
C. disappointment
D. sadness.
27. Why does Yao Ming win more popularity than Wang Zhizhi at home？
A. He has performed excellently.
B. He is modest
C. More and more Chinese people like to watch his games.
D. both A and B
C
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission（录取）to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.
In 1849, after graduation from medical school, she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon（外科医师） , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.
Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women.
28. Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon？
A. She couldn’t get admitted to medical school
B. She decided to further her education in Paris
C. A serious eye problem stopped her
D. It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States
29. What main obstacle（障碍）almost destroyed Elizabeth’s chances for becoming a
doctor？
A. She was a woman.
B. She wrote too many letters.
C. She couldn’t graduate from medical school.
D. She couldn’t set up her hospital.
30. How many years passed between her graduation from medical school and the opening of
her hospital？
A. Eight years
B. Ten years
C. Nineteen years
D. Thirty-six years
31. Eilzabeth Blackwell spent most of her life in _______.
A. England
B. Paris
C. the United States
D. New York City
D
Have you ever wondered why birds sing？ Maybe you thought that they were just happy. After all, you probably sing when you are happy.
Some scientists believe that birds do sing some of the time just because they are happy. However, they sing most of the time for a very different reason. Their singing is actually a warning to other birds to stay out of their territory.
Do you know what a “territory” is？ A territory is an area that an animal, usually the male, claims （声称） as its own. Only he and his family are welcome there. No other families of the same species are welcome. Your house is your territory where only your family and friends are welcome. If a stranger should enter your territory and threaten you, you might shout. Probably this would be enough to frighten him away.
If so, you have actually frightened the stranger away without having to fight him. A bird does the same thing. But he expects an outsider almost any time, especially at nesting （筑巢）season. So he is screaming all the time, whether he can see an outsider or not. This screaming is what we call a bird’s song, and it is usually enough to keep an outsider away.
32.Some scientists believe that most of the time bird’s singing is actually ________.
A. an expression of happiness
B. a way of warning
C. an expression of anger
D. a way of greeting
33.Why do birds keep on singing at nesting season？
A. Because they want to invite more friends.
B. Because their singing helps frighten outsiders away.
C. Because they want to find outsiders around.
D. Because their singing helps get rid of their fears.
34.How does the writer explain birds’ singing？
A.By comparing birds with human beings.
B. By reporting experiment results.
C. By describing birds’ daily life.
D. By telling a bird’s story.
35.What does the underline word “screaming” in paragraph 4 mean？
A. 哭喊声
B. 令人惊愕的
C. 尖叫声
D. 尖叫的
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。
All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.
36 They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.
37 Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! 38 Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or
Canada.
Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet 39 Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. 40 One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.
A．And think of people in cold countries.
B．Sports help to train a person’s character.
C．Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves.
D．Many people like to watch others play games.
E．People aren’t inventing new sports or games.
F．Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.
G．People are inventing new sports or games all the time.
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I spent two months with an American family last year when I studied in America. It is said, “The best house is in the U.S.A., the best wife is in Japan， and the best food is in China. ”So I took 41 and pleasure to 42 “the best food” for my American family. Each day, regardless of my poor skill of cooking, I performed my play in 43 way：changing the dishes` colour, the meat`s type or the soup`s style. Thus, my American friends could discover the 44 of eating Chinese food. Because of my“45” job, I was often rewarded by their 46 of appreciation
such as “very tasty”, “excellent”, etc. But the joke was here：yesterday, I cooked Sichuan—style 47 for dinner. I was 48 at my achievement. When all the family members arrived at the table, they first looked 49 at the fish, then looked at me. “Why do all the fish have their 50？” they asked, “It’s horrible!” Horrible or beautiful？I don’t know. But I 51 know that fish heads are delicious. The 52 is the best part of fish; in 53 only the respectable guest can have the special 54 of enjoying it. Another 55 thing is:the American friends often said to me“ 56 ”as they 57 fruits or other things. According to Chinese tradition, I would simply smile in answer to their kindness 58 actually helping myself to any of the food. 59, I said “help yourself” to them whenever I brought home fruits. Dear me, no matter how much or how often I brought home food, as long as it was nice to their taste, they 60 hesitated （犹豫） to use their hands to “help themselves” until all was finished.
41. A. worry B. attention C. delight D. pride
42. A. buy B. fetch C. cook D. leave
43. A. their B. a new C. the same D. a simple
44. A. way B. joy C. trouble D. importance
45. A. hard B. daily C. good D. new
46. A. expressions B. sentence C. doing D. smile
47. A. meat B. fish C. soup D. egg
48. A. praised B. pleased C. bad D. surprise
49. A. pleasedly B. excitedly C. surprisedly D. worriedly
50. A. bones B. flesh C. tails D. heads
51. A. do B. will C. want to D. should
52. A. tail B. head C. soup D. flesh
53. A. fact B. China C. USA D. the West
54. A. honour B. seat C. table D. plate
55. A. real B. exciting C. interesting D. easy
56. A. please help us B. excuse me C. help yourself D. eat them please
57. A. brought home B. wanted C. were buying D. were eating
58. A. not B. but not C. without D. nor
59. A. At last B. Above all C. After all D. In return
60. A. usual B. often C. never D. had
第Ⅱ卷
第三部分英语知识运用
第二节（共10分；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 Educated people in the twenty-first century may find it`s hard 61 （believe）that two hundred years ago people did not link illness 62 problem in the environment. We all know that in London drinking 63 （pollute） water caused many deaths from cholera. There was 64 clue to its cause because it always started in the poor neighbourhood. Then it spread to the richer areas as the servants passed it on. Many 65 （doctor） suspected that 66 （poison）water was to blame and clean water was the cure. John Snow`s investigation proved that the 67 （dirty）the water, the severer the illness. So the government and the doctors drew the 68 （conclude） that water must be purified. They instructed people 69 （remove） the handle from pumps if the water was infected. Thus cholera 70 （defeat） in the end.
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10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处错误，
每句中最多有两处。错误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（Λ），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；2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Recently we had a class meeting on the topic of My Chinese Dream. Some mentioned the inspired Chinese Dream that was put forward by President Xi. And others talked
enthusiastically about his understanding of the Chinese Dream. We are all believe that this dream will come true in the future. I also talked about my own dream. I had always wanted to be a doctor. Not only can doctors save people’s life but also they are doing a
respectably job. Doctors can also help people to live a better life without their professional knowledge. T o realize my dream, I should try to work hardly from now on. I must learn as much as I can get into a good medical college, which I can prepare myself fully for the job of a doctor.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
随着人们生活水平的提高，越来越多的人拥有了自己的汽车，你班同学就此展开了一次讨论，提出了两种不同的观点和看法。一方认为：1.方便、快捷、舒适的交通工具；2.反映出国民生活条件提高，国家富强；3.带动其他行业发展。另一方认为：1.废气污染严重；2.过多则影响交通，导致更多事故；3.停车问题日益突出。请你以扎西的名义，给报社写一封信，客观介绍你们班的这次讨论。
注意：1.信的开头已为你写好；2.词数：100左右；3.参考词汇：方便的convenient;交通transportation;
私家车 private car
Dear editor，
I’m writing to tell you about the discussion we recently had about whether it is good or not
for families to own cars..
答案
第一部分
1~5 BCCBA 6~10 CBBAC 11~15 ACCAA 16~20 CAACB
第二部分
21—25ADAAA 26—30CDCAA 31—35CBBAC 36—40 DFAGB
第三部分
41—45DCBBC 46—50ABBCD 51—55ABBAC 56—60 CACDC
61. to believe 62. to 63. polluted 64.a 65.doctors 66.poisonous 67. dirtier 68.conclusion 69. to remove 70. was defeated
第四部分
改错：
Recently we had a class meeting on the topic of My Chinese Dream. Some mentioned the inspired （改成inspiring）Chinese Dream that was put forward by President Xi. And others talked enthusiastically about his （改成their）understanding of the Chinese Dream. We are （去掉） all believe that this dream will come true in the future. I also talked about my own dream. I had （改成have）always wanted to be a doctor. Not only can doctors save people’s life （改成lives） but also they are doing a respectably （改成respectable）job. Doctors can also help people to live a better life without （改成with）their professional knowledge. To realize my dream, I should try to work hardly （改成hard） from now on. I must learn as much as I can （加to） get into a good medical college, which （改成where） I can prepare myself fully for the job of a doctor.
作文
One Possible Version
Dear editor，
I’m writing to tell you about the discussion we recently had about whether it is good or not for families to own cars.
With the development of people’s living conditions，more and more people have their own cars. Some of us think it good to own a car. Firstly，it’s a convenient，fast and comfortable means of transportation tool. You can go to a lot of places at any time. Secondly，it shows that people are becoming richer，and the country stronger. It also makes businesses and industries develop faster. Others have different opinions. They think that cars give off waste gas and pollute the environment. Too many cars will have some bad effects，such as more accidents. Besides，parking cars is another big problem. Maybe people should think carefully before they buy a car.
Yours truly，
Zhaxi