1. 佛山一中2021-2022学年高二级期中考英语试题

佛山一中2021-2022 学年度第一学期高二级期中考试题 英 语 命题人：朱葵 黄佳宁 聂晓兰 2021 年10 月 本试卷共10 页, 76 小题, 满分150 分, 考试时间120 分钟。 注意事项： 1. 答题前,考生务必用黑色笔迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡上。 2. 每小题选出答案后, 用2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动, 请用橡皮擦干净后, 再选涂其他答案, 答案不能答在试卷上。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答,答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内 相应位置上；如需改动, 先划掉原来的答案, 然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂 改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20 分） 第一节 听力理解 （共6 小题；每小题2 分，满分12 分） 材料及问题播放两遍。每段后有两个小题, 各段播放前有5 秒钟的阅题时间。 请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题的问题, 在5 秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C 项 中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 听第一段材料, 回答第1-2 题 1. A. Walk straight. B. Go left. C. Go right. 2. A. To a museum. B. To a bank. C. To a post office. 听第二段材料，回答第3-4 题 3. A. The monthly reports. B. The weekly tests. C. The term paper. 4. A. By looking through the books. B. By reading the magazines. C. By doing the interviews. 听第三段材料，回答第5-6 题 5. A. Around 12 at noon. B. Around 1:00 pm. C. Around 2:00 pm. 6. A. Its model. B. Its color. C. Its number. 第二节 回答问题 （共4 小题；每小题2 分，满分8 分） 听下面一段材料，然后回答问题。材料及问题读两遍。 7. ___________________________________________________________________ 8. ___________________________________________________________________ 9. ___________________________________________________________________ 10. __________________________________________________________________ 第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50 分） 第一节 阅读理解（共15 小题；每小题2.5 分，满分37.5 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 AQUILA Children’s Magazine is the most intelligent read for curious kids. Full of enthusiastic articles and challenging puzzles, every issue covers science, history and general knowledge. AQUILA is a quality production, beautifully illustrated with contemporary artwork throughout.  Intelligent reading for 8-12-year-olds  Cool science and challenging projects  Inspires self-motivated learning  Exciting new topics every issue AQUILA is created and owned by an independent UK company. It has 28 pages, printed on high-quality paper and there are no advertisements or posters. Instead it is full of well-written articles, thought-provoking (令人深思的) ideas and great contemporary artwork. Each monthly issue is centred around a new topic. AQUILA works as a superb learning extension to current primary (or KS2 and KS3) curriculum (课程), but it is much more than that! Entertaining and always surprising, AQUILA is recommended because it widens children’s interest and understanding, rather than encouraging them to concentrate only on their favourite subjects. It gives children a well-rounded understanding of the world, in all its complexity. The concepts in AQUILA can be challenging, requiring good comprehension and reading skills. Eight years is usually a good age to start. Some gentle interest from an adult is often helpful at the start. In 2021 AQUILA will have been in publication for 29 years, but it has never appeared in newsstands or shops. We are subscription only. AQUILA Subscription UK：12 Months￡55－4 Months￡30 Europe：12 Months￡60－4 Months￡35 World：12 Months￡70－4 Months￡35 Birthdays Select the Birthday option, write a gift message and choose the birthday month. We will dispatch to arrive at the start of the month you have entered. The package posts in a blue envelope marked “Open on your birthday”. 11. What is special about AQUILA? A. It is available in shops. B. It is for kids of all ages. C. It prints readers’ artwork. D. It has no advertisements. 12. What does AQUILA offer its readers? A. Articles on modern art. B. Family reading materials. C. Knowledge beyond school subjects. D. Ideas on improving reading skills. 13. Who are the target readers of AQUILA? A. Foreign language learners. B. Children with learning difficulties. C. Parent-child reading lovers. D. Curious kids with good comprehension. B Author Walter Dean Myers died at the age of 76 after a brief illness. Walter Dean Myers was the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults and received many top awards. The prolific author was loved for his vivid description of the lives of African American children, and for writing books for young people that covered different subjects. “Myers has written about all those subjects with deep understanding and a hardwon, qualified sense of hope, ” said Leonard S. Marcus in 2008. He was born in 1937 and was adopted by Florence Dean and Herbert after his mother died while giving birth to his younger sister. They loved him very much and his mother read to him from a very young age. Reading pushed him to discover worlds beyond his landscape. He began writing at an early age. He wrote well in high school and an English teacher recognized this and advised him to keep on writing no matter what happened to him. “It’s what you do, ” she said. He dropped out of high school at 17 and joined the army. After finishing his service, he entered a dark period in his life. Myers began writing at night to pull himself through that miserable time. In an essay published in The New York Times earlier this year, Myers described how a short story by James Arthur Baldwin helped change the course of his life. “I didn’t love the story, but I was lifted by it, ” he wrote, “for it took place in Harlem, and it was a story concerned with black people like those I knew. By humanizing the people who were like me, Baldwin’s story also humanized me. The story gave me a permission that I didn’t know I needed, the permission to write about my own landscape, my own map.” “I write books for the troubled boy I once was, ” he wrote, “and for the boy who lives within me still.” 14. What does the second paragraph mainly talk about? A. How popular Myers was. B. How Myers became successful. C. What makes Myers’ works popular. D. What people think of Myers’ works. 15. What does the underlined word “prolific” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? A. Productive. B. Wealthy. C. Conservative. D. Humorous. 16. Who discovered Myers’ writing talent? A. James Arthur Baldwin. B. His mother. C. Leonard S. Marcus. D. One of his teachers. 17. Why was the short story by James Arthur Baldwin so important for Myers? A. It helped him survive the dark period. B. It inspired him to pursue his writing career. C. He learned many writing techniques from it. D. The author of the story permitted him to write. C During a decline in tourism, one national park in Thailand has seen a dramatic rise in “visitors” recently. So many are the hermit crabs (寄居蟹) flooding into the otherwise empty beaches of Koh Lanta that shells (贝壳) for them to live in have become in short supply. The Thai government moved quickly to ease the housing shortage, launching a public appeal for empty shells that netted over 200 kg. On December 5 these were distributed around the park in a ceremony. Hermit crabs rely on shells to protect their soft bodies, moving to larger shells as they grow. On Koh Lanta and the surrounding smaller islands, their rapid increase seems to be a natural phenomenon, rather than directly related to the absence of tourists. But the shortage of shells may be man-made: pretty ones have long been gathered to be sold as goods. Crabs had begun to make do with potential death-traps such as plastic caps and bottles. The shell drive was part of a government initiative to “regain the balance of nature”. “I have instructed all national parks to do whatever it takes,” says Varawut Silpa-archa, the minister for natural resources. His inspiration comes from the pause in tourism brought on by COVID-19. A ban on international visitors and the closure of national parks have helped nature recover, bringing endangered leatherback turtles back onto Thai beaches. In the coastal provinces of Phang Nga and Phuket, turtles have laid the largest number of eggs for 20 years. The government has decided to try to copy the short break forced on it by COVID-19 in future. From now on, all national parks will be required to close for a short period during the off-season and to limit the number of tourists through a reservation system when they are open. Although such restrictions mean