江苏省扬州市2021-2022学年高二下学期期初调研测试英语试卷

2021-2022 学年度第二学期期初调研测试试题 高二英语 第一部分 听力（共20 小题:每小题1.5 分, 满分30 分） 第一节 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 is the family out of? A. Milk. B. Soda. C. Fruit juice. 2. How much more does David need for the car? A. $5,000. B. $20,000. C. $25,000. 3. Where was the man yesterday afternoon? A. By a lake. B. In a cafe. C. In a cinema. 4. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Health. B. Education. C. Environment. 5. What does the woman do? A. A policewoman. B. A doctor. C. A teacher. 第二节 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 至7 题。 6. What time is it now? A. 7:00 pm. B. 7:10 pm. C. 7:30 pm. 7. Why is Sara coming? A. To deliver a shirt. B. To attend a party. C. To do babysitting work. 听第7 段材料，回答第8 至10 题。 8. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Classmates. B. Co-workers. C. Neighbors. 9. What grade did the man get in the math quiz? A. F. B. D. C. C. 注意事项: 1.本试卷满分150 分。 考试时间120 分钟。 2.答题前，务必将自己的学校、姓名、考试号等相关信息写在答题卡上规定的地方。 3.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；回 答 非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 10. What will the woman do next? A. Borrow some books. B. Prepare for another test. C. Relax at home. 听第8 段材料，回答第11 至13 题。 11. What is Mr Stone doing now? A. Eating lunch. B. Having a meeting. C. Writing a diary. 12. Why does the man want to see Mr Stone? A. To discuss a program. B. To make a travel plan. C. To ask for sick leave. 13. When will the man meet Mr Stone this afternoon? A. At 3:00. B. At 3:30. C. At 3:45. 听第9 段材料，回答第14 至17 题。 14. What’s the matter with the woman? A. She is nervous. B. She feels tired. C. She got a cold. 15. What makes the woman wake up so early in the morning? A. Muscle pain. B. Headache. C. Backache. 16. What’s the best way to control stress? A. Drink lots of water. B. Take some sleeping pills. C. Take care of the body. 17. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a classroom. B. At a hospital. C. At home. 听第10 段材料，回答第18 至20 题。 18. Who should you focus on in your toast speech? A. Yourself. B. All the guests. C. The person you’re toasting. 19. Why should you outline a toast speech? A. To avoid forgetting something. B. To make the speech interesting. C. To be the best speech writer. 20. How should you start a toast speech? A. By introducing yourself. B. By telling a short story. C. By singing a song. 第二部分 阅读理解（满分45 分） 第一节 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。(共 11 小题；每小题2.5 分，满分27.5 分) Easier is better with the Jitterbug Today, cellphones are hard to hear, difficult to dial and overloaded with functions you may never use. That’s not the case with the Jitterbug Flip2, which has a large screen, big buttons and a powerful speaker. Wherever you go, a built-in camera makes it easy and fun for you to share your favorite memories. Plus, the special built-in functions help you see in dark areas. 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C. To advertise. D. To educate. B For most of our history, humans have been short, a study has found. Until around 150 years ago, few people grew taller than 170 cm – not even those who had ready access to food. The new discovery adds to growing evidence that being unusually short isn’t a strong proof of poor nutrition. Instead of being a sign of a good diet, growing taller may reflect competition in some societies. Christiane Scheffler combined an existing data set of more than 6000 prehistoric human remains with various studies of more recent historical populations from Europe and the US. He also included his own data on 1666 present-day schoolchildren from Indonesia. In the prehistoric populations, the maximum height for men was 165 to 170 cm, while women reached 160 cm. Today, by comparison, men in England have an average height of around 175 cm, while for women it is about 162 cm. The average heights of men and women are several centimetres higher in Germany. He found that similar patterns to the prehistoric heights held in the historical populations. Even a group of upper-class German boys from the late 1800s were all much shorter than modern children, so much so that over half of them would be considered short by modern standards. But there is great difference between modern countries. The Indonesian schoolchildren in the study were shorter than similarly aged children from the US, despite good food. If food availability isn’t the key to height, what is? Scheffler believes growing tall is more or less connected with the hope of a better life. In societies where it is possible to move up through the social classes, opportunities favour those who reach a greater height. S. V. Subramanian at Harvard University isn’t convinced by this explanation. His team argue that the best sign of a child’s height is the height of their parents. This suggests that the influence of social factors is limited. Subramanian agrees that being unusually short isn’t a perfect sign of poor diet. A person’s nutritional condition should be judged by looking at their diet not their height. 24. What assumption does the new discovery confirm? A. Social struggles possibly affect a person’s height. B. Human height remained unchanged for 150 years. C. A person’s height strongly depends on his/her food. D. Modern times witnessed no growth in human height. 25. How did Scheffler carry out his study? A. By interviewing school children. B. By analyzing various data available. C. By making practical experiments. D. By teaming up with other researchers. 26. What can be drawn from the findings of Scheffler’s study? A. The population height is the highest in England. B. Height standards differed in different periods of history. C. Children in Asia are shorter than those in America. D. Women were taller than men in historical populations. 27. Which statement would Scheffler and Subramanian both agree with? A. Height can be passed down in a family. B. Tall people have easy access to a better life. C. Diet does not necessarily decide human height. D. Poor nutrition prevents children from growing tall. C For the past three years, I’ve been dealing with a personal challenge that caused a great deal of stress. When the problem first appeared, I found myself reacting to the story from the place of being a sufferer. But it wasn’t long before I realized how unhelpful my response was and decided to change track. I turned to a rule – the 51 per cent rule. The 51 per cent rule can be applied when you find yourself in a difficult situation where you feel strongly that you are in the right and someone else is not. According to the rule, whatever the given challenge, your starting point becomes you taking 51 per cent responsibility for the problem. This often stops people in their tracks and gets them to start thinking differently in the moment. For this exercise, it’s important to set aside time to use pen and paper. ● Start by w