2019学年高二英语下学期期末联考试题 人教版新版.doc

1What is so special about TOKNOW magazine? Well, it has no ads or promotions insideinstead it is jam-packed with serious ideas. TOKNOW makes complex ideas attractive and accessible to children, who can become involved in advanced concepts and even philosophy（哲学）and they will soon discover that TOKNOW feels more like a club than just a magazine.Whats inside? Every month the magazine introduces a fresh new topic with articles, experiments and creative things to makethe magazine also explores philosophy and wellbeing to make sure young readers have a balanced take on life.20192019 学年下期期末联考学年下期期末联考高二英语试题高二英语试题本试卷分试题卷和答题卷两部分，试题卷共本试卷分试题卷和答题卷两部分，试题卷共 1010 页，答题卷共页，答题卷共 2 2 页。请按要求把答案涂、页。请按要求把答案涂、写在答题卡规定的范围内，超出答题框或答在试题卷上的答案无效。满分写在答题卡规定的范围内，超出答题框或答在试题卷上的答案无效。满分 120120 分，考试时分，考试时间间 100100 分钟。考试结束只收答题卡。分钟。考试结束只收答题卡。第第卷（选择题；共卷（选择题；共 7070 分）分）第一部分第一部分 听力听力（略）第二部分第二部分 阅读理解阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节第一节（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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A AInspiringInspiring youngyoung minds!minds!TOKNOW Magazine is a big hit in the world of childrens publishing, bringing a unique combination of challenging ideas and good fun to young fans every month.SoundsSounds tootoo goodgood toto bebe true?true?2Take a look onlineevidence shows that thousands of teachers and parents know a good thing when they see it and recommend TOKNOW to their friends.HappyHappy BirthdayBirthday AllAll Year!Year!What could be more fun than a gift that keeps coming through the letterbox every month? The first magazine with your gift message will arrive in time for the special day.SUBSCRIBESUBSCRIBE NOWNOWAnnualAnnual SubscriptionSubscriptionEurope £55 Rest of World £65AnnualAnnual SubscriptionSubscription withwith GiftGift PackPackIncludes a Mammoth Map, a passport Puzzle Booklet, and SubscriptionEurope £60 Rest of World £70Refund Policythe subscription can be cancelled within 28 days and you can get your money back. 21. Why is TOKNOW a special magazine?A. It entertains young parents.B. It provides serious advertisements.C. It publishes popular science fictions.D. It combines fun with complex concepts.22. What does TOKNOW offer its readers?A. Online courses.B. Articles on new topics.C. Lectures on a balanced life.D. Reports on scientific discoveries.23. How much should you pay if you make a 12-month subscription to TOKNOW with gift pack from China?A. £55. B. £60. C. £65. D. £70.24. Subscribers of TOKNOW would get .A. free birthday presentsB. full refund within 28 daysC. membership of the TOKNOW clubD. chances to meet the experts in person3B BDisease, poverty, hate, loveCharles Dickens stories opened his readers eyes to the most important themes of his age. Two hundred years later, his stories still speak volumes across the world, proving that Dickens legacy (遗产) was far greater than just “great literature”.February 7 marks the 200th anniversary of the writers birthday. To mark this date, BBC writer Alex Hudson listed six things Dickens gave the modern world. Lets take a look at two of them.A A whitewhite ChristmasChristmasDickens is described as “the man who invented Christmas” not the religious festival, but the cultural aspects that we associate with the festive (喜庆的) season todayIn the early 19th century, Christmas was barely worth mentioning, according to critic and writer Leigh Hunt. The committee which ran the Conservative Party even held ordinary business meetings on Christmas Dayunthinkable in the West nowadays, when everyone, but the most necessary workers takes at least three days off.Many people believe that Dickens popular descriptions of the festive period became a blueprint for generations to come. In his classic novel, A Christmas Carol, he not only put forward the idea of snow at Christmas, but also painted a picture of glowing warmth“home enjoyments, affections and hopes”.In his biography of Dickens, Peter Ackroyd wrote, “Dickens can be said to have almost single-handedly created the modern idea of Christmas.”“Dickensian”“Dickensian” povertypovertyDickens was one of the first to take an honest look at the underclass and the poor of Victorian (the period during British Queen Victorias reign from 1837 to 1901) London.He helped popularize the term “red tape” to describe situations where 4people in power use needless amounts of bureaucracy (官僚作风) in a way that particularly hurts the weaker and poorer members of society.“Dickensian” has now become a powerful word for describing an unacceptable level of poverty. In 2009, when the president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in the UK wanted to talk about poverty in some areas of Britain, she did not use words like “terrible” or “horrific”, but rather described it as “life mirroring the times of Dickens”.25. The article is mainly about _.A. Charles Dickens impact on the world.B. An introduction to Charles Dickens classic novelsC. Charles Dickens amazing charactersD. Why Charles Dickens is popular across the world26. Why is Dickens called “the man who invented Christmas”?A. Because he created the religious festival.B. Because one of his novels helped to shape Christmas celebrations.C. Because many of his novels have something to do with Christmas.D. Because he was the first man to have proposed celebrating Christmas.27. According to the passage, the underlined phrase “red tape” refers to _.A. rules or procedures that are required to accomplish a taskB. a situation in which poor members of society are hurtC. conflict between people in power and weaker peopleD. pointlessly time-consuming official procedures28. We can learn from the passage that _.A. Charles Dickens novels reflect the true life at his ageB. everyone can take three days off for ChristmasC. Dickens invented ChristmasD. Dickens gave the modern world six things5C CWe live in a sweet world. The average American kids eat more than 20 teaspoons of sugar per day, and adults eat 50% more sugar today than they did in the 1970s. We all know that too much sugar isnt good for us. Researchers at the University of Utah used mice to do a study on the bad effects of sugar. They found it could have serious effects on peoples health seriously.During the 58-week-long study, mice were fed a diet containing 25% more sugar. This percentage equals a healthy human diet along with three cans of soda daily. The team found that these mice were twice as likely to die as mice fed a similar diet without the sugar. Though the mice did not show signs of obesity or high blood pressure, male mice produced 25% fewer offspring (后代) than the other mice.Scientists often use mice for research because they have a similar genetic (基因的) structure to humans. “Since most substances (物质) that are dangerous in mice are also dangerous in people; its likely that those physical problems that cause those mice to have increased deaths also work in people,” says the study author James Ruff of the University of Utah. Findings from this study show bad effects that are not as noticeable as weight gain or heart problems. Sugar can contribute to long-term changes in the body that can change development and even shorten lives.Different types of sugar have different effects on the human body. Some of the sugar we consume comes from foods we might expectcandy, soda and cookies. But much of the sugar that we eat is hidden. Food companies add large amounts of sugar to items we may not classify as sweets. To help cut down extra sugar consumption, nutrition experts suggest looking at the ingredients on food packages. Cutting sugar out of the American diet altogether may be difficult. But making the effort to control our nations desire for sugar will avoid a sweeter future.29. According to Paragragh 2, we can know _.6A. mice eating more sugar will live longerB. the study on mice lasted less than a yearC. the study showed the bad effects of more sugar on mice D. mice eating more sugar will become fatter and fatter30. Why did the scientists choose mice to do the study?A. Because a substance may have the same effects on mice and humans.B. Because mice have a longer lifespan (寿命) than other animals.C. Because mice take in the harmful substances easily and quickly.D. Because mice are sensitive to the sweet taste.31. Which would be the best title for the passage?A. Living a sweet life B. Kids eat much more sugarC. Genetic structure of humans D. Danger of too much sugarD DAlmost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart. They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will knowor even think to askwho it was that invented them. Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging groceries around in baskets they had to carry.One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.On June 4, 1937, Goldmans first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldnt wait to see them using his invention.But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they werent using his carts. “Dont you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping 7basket?”one shopper replied.But Goldman wasnt beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony（假冒的）customers.As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people comethose who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.Todays shopping carts are five times larger than Goldmans original model. Perhaps thats one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937before the coming of the shopping cart.32. What do the underlined words “chrome-plated contraptions” in Paragraph1 refer to?A. Baskets. B. Private cars. C. Suitcases. D. Shopping carts.33. What was the purpose of Goldmans invention?A. It was to prove him to be a good inventor.B. It was to reduce the burden of his employees work.C. It was to make shopping easier and attract more business.D. It was to help the disabled make shopping easily in his market.34. Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market in order to _.A. attract people to buy things in his marketB. encourage people to use his shopping cartsC. make his market different from the othersD. keep the groceries from being stolen835. What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. Goldman will become very famous because of his invention.B. Goldmans invention will be regarded as the greatest one in the world.C. Supermarket business has benefited a lot from Goldmans invention.D. There will be nothing that can replace Goldmans invention.第二节第二节 （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填入空白处的最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning and put the blame on the alarm clock. In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resting your body clock 36 Here is how to make one.37 In order to make a change, you need to decide why its important. Do you want to get up in time to have breakfast with your family, get in some exercise, or just be better prepared for your day? Once you are clear about your reason, tell your family or roommates about the change you want to make.Rethink mornings. Now that you know why you want to wake up, consider re-arranging your morning activities. If you want time to have breakfast with your family, save some time the night before by setting out clothes, shoes, and bags. 38 Thats a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.Keep your sleep/wake schedule on weekends. If youre tired out by Friday night, sleeping in on Saturday could sound wonderful. But compensating on the weekends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following week, a recent study found. 39 Keep a record and evaluate it weekly. Keep track of your efforts and write down how you feel. After youve tried a new method for a week, take a look at your record. 40 If not, take another look at other methods you could try.A. Get a sleep specialist.B. Find the right motivation.9C. A better plan for sleep can help.D. And consider setting a second alarm.E. If the steps you take are working, keep it up.F. Stick to your set bedtime and wake-up time, no matter the day.G. Reconsider the 15 minutes you spend in line at the café to get coffee.第三部分第三部分 英语知识运用英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节第一节 完形填空完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 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。Nowadays, more and more young people are becoming too 41 and over-confident. They think they can do everything. So they simply 42 their old parents, and believe that their parents 43 are out of date. Actually I used to be one of them, but after hearing a story told by my father, I changed my mind 44 . Now I would like to 45 it with you.Once, there was a young man who 46 the old. He always thought that the old, including his father, were 47 . One day, the father and the son went for a walk in the 48 . As they walked, a beautiful 49 came into their sight. The son 50 to one pretty flower and said, “We young people are like this fragrant (芳香的) flower, so healthy, vigorous, and full of spirit. What about you oldsters? Just like the 51 leaves from a dying tree.” Hearing this, the father smiled but said 52 . They continued the walking in silence. When they passed a(n) 53 , the father stopped and went in. He bought a walnut (核桃) and showed it to his son, and said, “We old are like this walnut. Weve 54 many hard events in life. So we built up such a 55 shell, and at the same time we built up a 56 inner world. Every fruit is so full-grown.”“But every fruit was born by a 57 .” argued the son.“Yes, but not every flower can bear fruit”From then on, I always keep this 58 in mind. It has taught me a lot. We 10should try to be a flower that can bear fruit. we also have to know that our 59 arent falling leaves but experienced walnuts, masterpiece of 60 . They are the ones we should appreciate forever.41. A. proud B. clever C. rude D. genuine42. A. blame B. respect C. igno