江苏省徐州市铜山区大许中学2020_2021学年高二英语上学期期初考试试题

江苏省徐州市铜山区大许中学2020-2021学年高二英语上学期期初考试试题第一部分听力 (共两节，满分20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小题；每小题1分，满分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。

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 does the conversation take place?A. At a store.B. At a gym.C. At home.2. How will David get to the club?A. By car.B. By train.C. By bike.3. What is Jane studying?A. Biology.B. Chemistry.C. Calligraphy.4. What is the man doing?A. Buying an air conditionerB. Returning an air conditioner.C. Fixing an air conditioner.5. How does the woman probably feel?A. Excited.B. Annoyed.C. Puzzled.第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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、7题。

6. How many people will be travelling?A. Four.B. Three.C. Two.7. When will the man leave for Seattle?A. This Wednesday.B. Next Monday.C. Next Wednesday. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Buying a present.B. Attending a concert.C. Planing a birthday party.9. What will the speakers do later?A. See a movie.B. Read a novel.C. Meet up with Jane.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where is Lisa?A. Liverpool.B. London.C. Paris.11. What kind of people does London Week need?A. Reporters.B. Sales representatives.C. Advertisers.12. How much did Lisa earn monthly in her last job?A. 3,500 pounds.B. 3,000 pounds.C. 2,500 pounds. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What’s the relationship between the speakers?A. Good friends.B. Fellow students.C. Roommates.14. When did Sarah start college?A. A year ago.B. Three months ago.C. A week ago.15. Why does Ricky want to move?A. He wants younger company .B. He wants to be nearer college.C. He doesn’t get along with the host family.16. What will Ricky probably do next?A. Visit a teacher.B. Hang out with friends.C. Give John a phone call.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Who is the speaker?A. A guide.B. A teacher.C. A coach.18. When will the students leave for the museum?A. 6.30.B. 7:45.C. 8:00.19. What will the students do at 1:15?A. See a film.B. Meet at a cafe.C. Visit a gallery.20. Where can the students find more information?A. From teachers.B. From a website.C. From a book.第二部分阅读（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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

APOETRY CHALLENGEWrite a poem about how courage, determination, and strength have helped you face challenges in your life.Prizes3 Grand Prizes: Trip to Washington, D.C. for each of three winners, a parent and one other person of the winner’s choice. Trip includes round-trip air tickets, hotel stay for two nights, and tours of the National Air and Space Museum and the office of National Geographic World.6 First Prizes: The book Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart signed by author Corinne Szabo and pilot Linda Finch.50 Honorable Mentions:Judges will choose up to 50 honorable mention winners, who will each receive a T-shirt in memory of Earhart’s final flight.RulesFollow all rules carefully to prevent disqualification.■ Write a poem using 100 words or fewer. Your poem can be an y format, any number of lines.■Write by hand or type on a single sheet of paper. You may use both the front and back of the paper.■On the same sheet of paper, write or type your name, address, telephone number, and birth date.■Mail your entry to us by October 31 this year.21.How many people can each grand prize winner take on the free trip?A. TwoB. Three.C. Four.D. Six.22. What will each of the honorable mention winners get?A. A plane ticket.B. A book by Corinne Szabo.C. A special T-shirt.D. A photo of Amelia Earhart.23. Which of the following will result in disqualification?A. Typing your poem out.B. Writing a poem of 120 words.C. Using both sides of the paper.D. Mailing your entry onOctober 30.BI.M. Pei, the Chinese-American, who was regarded as one of the last great modernist architects, has died at the age of 102.Although he worked mostly in the United States, Pei will always be remembered for a European project: His redevelopment of the Louvre Museum in Paris in the 1980s. He gave us the glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard, along with three smaller pyramids and a vast subterranean (地下的) addition to the museum entrance.Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French — and everyone else —were won over. Winning the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, he was thought as giving the 20th century “some of its most beautiful inside spaces and outside forms … His talent and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.”After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Pei set up his own architectural practice in New York in 1955.Designing the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in 1964 established him as a name. His East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1978 changed people’s ideas of a museum. The site was an odd trapezoid (梯形) shape. Pei’s solution was to cut it in two. The resulting building was dramatic, light and elegant — one of the first crowd-pleasing cathedrals of modern art.Though known as a modernist, and notable for his forms based on arrangements of simple geometric (几何的) shapes, he once urged Chinese architects to look more to their architectural tradition rather than designing in a western style.In person, I.M. Pei was good-humored, charming and unusually modest. His working process was evolutionary, but innovation (创新) was never an intended goal.“Stylistic originality is not my purpose,” he said. “I want to find the originality in the time, the place and the problem.”24. What can we learn about the result of redevelopment of the Louvre Museum?A. It was criticized by the French.B. It was a success.C. It made the Louvre Museum looks strange.D. It changed the function of the Louvre Museum.25. What can we learn from the underlined sentence in paragraph 3?A. He is a master in applying materials.B. He is skilled in writing poems.C. He often combines poetry and construction.D. He gets inspiration from poetry in designing.26. What’s the correct order of the following events?a. Design the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum.b. Study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard.c. Design the National Gallery of Art.D. Win the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize.A. abcdB. bacdC. bcadD. dacd27. What can we learn about I.M. Pei?A. Innovation was his first goal in design.B. He was talented and serious.C. He preferred western style to the east.D. He liked simple geometric shapes.CScientists in Western Australia claim to have made a new discovery—they have found gold in the leaves and twigs of trees. The researchers believe that the trees suck up the gold from deep underground, over 30 metres down. The discovery has been described as the first of its kind in the world. Australian gold exploration companies are pleased because it will make finding gold cheaper. Rather than drilling deep holes to find gold, they have more ways to examine tree leaves and branches. There is only a tiny amount of gold in the leaves. It would take 500 trees to make one gold ring. The gold is found using a special X-ray machine owned by an Australian government agency. A pure X-ray and a powerful microscope scan the leaves and branches.The claim that this is the first time that gold particles(微粒) have been found in living material might not be true, though. Ancient Chinese wisdom understood the connection between plants and the precious stones and minerals underneath them. They used plant life to find minerals and that was thousands of years ago. In the Zhou Dynasty, it was written in a book that a certain plant grew only near deposits of gold. Over the next 2,000 years, Chinese people wrote about different plants and how they grew, showed where minerals and precious stones such as jade, copper, lead, silver and gold were.Even more importantly, in the 1,000s, Su Song described how copper, gold, silver, lead and tin were observed and taken from certain plants. These were amazing scientific discoveries. Meanwhile, this knowledge was unknown in the rest of the world until about 1,600. This was when a British man realised that oak trees grew larger and greener where there was alum(明矾) in the ground. Maybe ancient Chinese has more knowledge to teach modern scientists.28. What can we know from Paragraph 1?A. 500 dead trees can make one gold ring.B. The trees can absorb the gold from deep underground.C. Scientist have found gold 30 meters below underground.D. The companies find it hard to find gold.29. How do scientists find gold in the leaves?A. By observing the leaves carefully.B. By drilling deep holes.C. By using a special X-ray.D. By referring to ancient books.30. Who first discovered that there was connection between plants and minerals?A. Ancient Chinese people.B. Su Song.C. Australian scientistsD. A British man.31. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?A. To introduce two great scientists in ancient times.B. To provide more evidence to support the writer’s opinion.C. To show how ancient people got gold from certain plants.D. To prove that ancient Chinese has more knowledge than modern scientists.DAccording to a recent study in the Journal of Consumer Research, both the size and consumption habits of our eating companions can influence our food intake. And contrary to existing research that says you should avoid eating with heavier people who order large portions (份), it’s the beanpoles with big appetites you really need to avoid.To test the effect of social influence on eating habits, the researchers conducted two experiments. In the first, 95 undergraduate women were individually invited into a lab to ostensibly (表面上) participate in a study about movie viewership. Before the film began, each woman was asked to help herself to a snack. An actor hired by the researchers grabbed her food first. In her natural state, the actor weighed 105 pounds. But in half the cases she wore a specially designed fat suit which increased her weight to 180 pounds.Both the fat and thin versions of the actor took a large amount of food. The participants followed suit, taking more food than they normally would have. However, they took significantly more when the actor was thin.For the second test, in one case the thin actor took two pieces of candy from the snack bowls. In the other case, she took 30 pieces. The results were similar to the first test: the participants followed suit but took significantly more candy when the thin actor took 30 pieces.The tests show that the social environment is extremely influential when we’re making decisions. If this fellow participant is going to eat more, so will I. Call it the “I’ll have what she’s having”effect. However, we’ll adjust the influence. If an overweight person is having a large portion, I’ll hold back a bit because I see the results of his eating habits. But if a thin person eats a lot, I’ll follow suit. If he can eat much and keep slim, why can’t I?32. What is the recent study mainly about?A. Food safety.B. Movie viewership.C. Consumer demand.D. Eating behavior.33. What does the underlined word “beanpoles” in paragraph 1 refer to?A. Big eaters.B. Overweight persons.C. Picky eaters.D. Tall thin persons.34. Why did the researchers hire the actor?A. To see how she would affect the participants.B. To test if the participants could recognize her.C. To find out what she would do in the two tests.D. To study why she could keep her weight down.35. On what basis do we “adjust the influence” a ccording to the last paragraph?A. How hungry we are.B. How slim we want to be.C. How we perceive others.D. How we feel about the food.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分, 满分10分）阅读下面短文, 从短文后的选项中选山可以填入空白处的最佳选项。