浙江省宁波市效实中学2021-2022学年高二上学期期中英语试题 Word版含答案

宁波市效实中学高二英语期中试卷 (说明:本卷满分为100 分, 考试时间为100 分钟。所有试题必须答在答题卷上，否则无 效。) I. 听力（共两节，满分10 分） 第一节（共5 小题；每小题0.5 分，满分2.5 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 will the man do on Monday? A. Attend a wedding. B. Take an exam. C. Write an essay. 2. What did the woman like to eat? A. Vegetables. B. Fruit. C. Meat. 3. What is the man’s suggestion? A. Stopping taking medicine. B. Doing more stretching exercises. C. Reducing the amount of medicine. 4. What is Donna busy doing? A. Working. B. Studying. C. Moving house. 5. How does the man find his living place? A. Too crowded.B. Quite noisy. C. All right. 第二节（共15 小题；每小题0.5 分，满分7.5 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5 秒钟 的时间阅读各个小题；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 至7 题。 6. What does the man ask the woman to do? A. Give him a lift. B. Study in the library. C. Play soccer with him. 7. When will the woman have a class? A. At 3:00. B. At 3:15. C.At 5:00. 听第7 段材料，回答第8 至10 题。 8. What does the man invite the woman to do? A. Visit the Smiths. B. See a film. C. Go to a bookstore. 9.What time will the speakers meet? A. At 3:30. B.At 4:00. C. At 4:15. 10. How will the speakers go there? A. By bus. B. By bike. C. On foot. 听第8 段材料，回答第11 至13 题。 11. What is the basic requirement for joining the library? A. Being 18 years old. B. A college degree.C. A student card. 12. How much does it cost the man per quarter? A.£ 25.B. £35. C. £125. 13. What can the man borrow at a time? 2021 学 年 第一学期 A. Ten books. B. Two magazines. C. Six books. 听第9 段材料，回答第14 至16 题。 14. How often does the group meet? A. Once a week. B. Once a month.C. Twice a month. 15. What can we learn about The Kite Runner? A. It was set in Afghanistan. B. It was written in the 1970s. C. It was mainly about making kites. 16. Why does the woman talk with the man? A. To ask his opinion about a book. B.To borrow a book from him. C. To invite him to the club. 听第10 段材料，回答第17 至20 题。 17. What outdoor activity is recommended? A. Hunting birds. B. Visiting ice mountains. C.Herding sheep and cattle. 18. How are tourists advised to see rural New Zealand? A. By car.B. On foot. C.By helicopter. 19. Where is Rotorua located? A. In the South Island. B. In the East Island. C. In the North Island. 20. What can tourists experience in Rotorua? A. Beautiful landscape. B.Maori culture. C.Farming lifestyle. II.阅读理解（共两节；满分25 分） 第一节（共10 小题；每小题2 分，满分20 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、和D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题 卡上将该项涂黑。 A Fifteen years ago, my world ended. My husband of 19 years was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Over the course of seven months, Bill went from beating me silly at tennis to needing my help to go to the bathroom. It was the best seven months of my life. Perhaps I don’t actually mean that. But it was certainly the time when I felt most alive. I discovered that the minor complaint of an annoying co-worker, or a flat tire pales in comparison with the beauty of sincere laughter, or the smells of a bakery. There were moments of joy, laughter, and tenderness. After Bill’s diagnosis and brain surgery, I found clinical trials and talked to doctors in Texas, Pennsylvania, and New York. It gave me a sense of purpose. In the latter days, being Bill’s caregiver also meant being fully present for as many moments of every day as possible. During his last weekend, we had dinner together. Later, a relative visited. I noticed that she’d changed her appearance, and not in a good way. It was the kind of thought I’d usually keep to myself. Just then, Bill voiced exactly what I’d been thinking, in that truthful way he had, and I found myself laughing out loud. I thought I could look after this man forever. However, he would be dead in four days. Fifteen years later, I haven’t started a foundation to cure cancer. I haven’t left the news business to get a medical degree. But every day, I try to again be the person I became during those seven months. I try to be a little less judgmental, a little more forgiving and generous. I am a better person for having been Bill’s caregiver. It was his last, best gift to me. 21. What is true about her husband? A. He was a poor tennis player. B. He had to talk to doctors in different cities. C. He had to be accompanied mostly during his illness. D. His brain didn’t function well because of the surgery. 22.What does the underlined word “pales” in Paragraph 2 mean? A. Proves unavoidable. B. Becomes more significant. C. Turns whiter than usual. D. Seems less important. 23.What is the best title of the passage? A. A Caregiver’s Hard Work B. The Greatest Gift to Me C. The Best Time of My Life D. My Loving Husband B Everyone has a phone in their pocket nowadays, but how often do we really use them for their original purpose—to make a call? Telephone culture is disappearing. What brought us to this moment, and what are its effects? “No one picks up the phone anymore,” wrote Alex C. Madrigal on The Atlantic. “The reflex (习惯性动作) of answering—20th-century telephonic culture—is gone.” The shift is of course due in large part to more communication options: Texting with photos, videos, emojis, reaction gifs, links and even voice messages can be a more attractive option. Texting is light and fun, not nearly as demanding of your attention as a phone call. It can also be done with multiple people at the same time. Social media, email and video calls have also eaten away at traditional phone calls. In recent years, another reason has caused people to ignore phone calls completely: robocalls. Robocalls are automated messages from organizations verifying (核实) your phone number or telemarketers trying to sell something. Americans received 22.8 billion robocalls halfway through 2020, equaling an annual rate of 45.6 billion, slightly below 2018 numbers, according to YouMail, a robocall protection service and blocking app. As telephone culture disappears, what is the loss of a singular family phone doing to the family unit? Early landline phones unified family members, whereas mobile phones isolate(隔 离) them. “The shared family phone served as an anchor for home,” said Luke Fernandez, a Weber State University computer-science professor and co-author of Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Feelings About Technology, From the Telegraph to Twitter. “With smart phones, we have gained mobility and privacy. But the value of the home has been decreased, and so has its ability to guide and monitor family behavior and perhaps connect families more closely,” Fernandez said. Of course, as technology progresses, lives always change for better or for worse. With the loss of telephone culture, families will need to find other ways to unite. 24. What has caused the traditional telephone to lose its appeal according to the text? A. People’s wide range of communication choices. B. People’s preference for robocalls. C. People’s addiction to social media. D. People’s growing need for privacy. 25. What can we infer from Fernandez’s remark? A. Smart phones make families closer. B. Smart phones help people monitor family behavior. C. The use of mobile phone has affected family bonds. D. The value of home depends on how phones are used. 26. What does the article mainly talk about? A. The past and future of the telephone. B. The downfall of traditional telephone culture. C. The development of communication tools. D. The relation between phone use and family bonds. C Tokyo University laboratory has developed a robot that never loses at the game of Rock Paper Scissors. That is because its visual processing abilities and fingers work together faster than any human brain. A video of the robot has been watched by more than 3 million viewers on YouTube since going online at the end of June. Tokyo University engineering professor Masatoshi Ishikawa has a good-natured response to frustrated human losers who accuse him of essentially creating a robot that cheats. “I