江西省新余市第六中学2021-2022学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷.docx

1、新余六中2021-2022学年下高二年级期中考试英语试卷本卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题;每小题1. 5分，满分7. 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。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19. 15.B. 9. 15.C. 9. 18.1. How much will the man pay for three student tickets?A. 24 dollars.B. 1

2、2 dollars.C. 6 dollars.2. What does the woman want the man to do?A. Buy her a newspaper.B.Stop following her. C.Take a picture of her. 3. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a bookstore.B. In a classroom.C. In a library.4. What is the woman most likely to do?A.Apply for a new job.B

3、. Start a new job. C. Go on a date.5. What will the man do next?A.Go to the railway station. .B.Stay for dinner C. Meet Helen s parents.第二节（共15小题;每小题1. 5分，满分22. 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

4、. What does the woman want to learn?A.How to do some magic. B.How a camera works. C. How to draw a picture.7. Who will the woman turn to for help?A.Her professor.B. The man.C. Her father.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. How did the man learn about the job?A. From an agency.B. From the newspaper.C. From the Interne

5、t.9. What will the man probably do next?A.Fill in a form. B. Start working right now. C. Learn to type faster. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What does the woman want to know?A. Which deal is the best on the website B. Why the website isnt working.C. How to shop online. 11. What does the man tell the woman to

6、 do?A. Call a different number. B. Try to use the website again.C. Ask a different person at the store. 12. How does the woman sound in the end?A. Satisfied.B. Annoyed.C. Nervous.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why did Iris want to give the woman a reward at first?A. She was grateful to her. B. She wanted to h

7、elp her. C. The man told her she should.14. What is left in the wallet?A. Some money.B. A credit card.C. Some pictures.15. What can we learn about the woman who found the wallet?A. She is a hero.B. She is a thief.C. She is kind.16. Where does this conversation probably take place?A. At the police st

8、ation.B. On the street.C. In a store.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Whats the temperature today at the bottom of the Grand Canyon?A. 43 degrees.B. 41 degrees.C. 26 degrees.18. What does the speaker strongly suggest doing?A. Taking along enough water. B. Changing the route if possible.C. Fighting against the

9、heat at any cost.19. Whats the cause of the four peoples death in the Canyon this year?A. Falling into itB. Heat exhaustion.C. Getting bitten by snakes.20. What is the talk mainly about?A. How to avoid heat exhaustion. B. How people died in the Grand Canyon.C. Preparation for hiking in the Grand Can

10、yon.第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)第一节(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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AEndless Adventures for TeenagersThe world is full of mountains to climb, waves to surf and paths to follow. With junior membership youll have unlimited access to all of the amazing places we look after, inside and ou

11、t.Go wild for watersportsEver ridden a crashing wave or rowed under chalky cliffs (峭壁)? Feel alive as you surf the white water at Portstewart Strand on a body board or look at the blue seas of Studland Bay in a glass-bottomed boat. Climb, jump and swim your way around the dramatic Pembrokeshire coas

12、tline, all under the guidance of an expert instructor.Sleep under the starsSpend a week in the wild on a family camping trip at Wicken Fen. Listen for barn owls hooting (大叫) and badgers (獾) snuffling. Wake up beside water at Low Wray campsite. Hire bikes, paddleboards or rowing boats for an action-p

13、acked day out before refueling with tasty pizza from a wood-fired oven.Capture the momentHead for the Fame Islands to shoot puffins landing on the cliffs and grey seals resting on the rocks. On still days youll be able to take pictures of Snowdonias peaks reflected in the lakes clear waters. And wit

14、h 500 photogenic places to visit with your membership, youll never be short of things to capture.Grow your skillsLove being outdoors? Learn practical conservation skills and meet new people at your local Green Academies Project. Whether creating a natural play area or planting trees, youll feel prou

15、d to care for the nature on your doorstep.21.What do adventures around the Pembrokeshire coastline provide?A. Free bike hire.B. A safe campsite.C. Professional guidance. D. Expert recommendation.22.Where can teenagers camp?A. At Porstewart Strand. B. At Wicken Fen.C. At Studland Bay. D. On the Farne

16、 Islands.23.What do we know about the Green Academies Project?A. It is run indoors.B. It teaches photographic skills.C. It is intended for research lovers.D. It encourages conservation efforts.BDelivering medical supplies to hard-to-reach places has been an issue for years. Worldwide, more than two

17、billion people lack access to essential life-saving supplies, such as blood and vaccines（疫苗）. In the African nation of Rwanda, for example, several remote health clinics do not have sufficient quantities of blood and other healthcare products. A company called Zipline is trying to address this probl

18、em. It uses drones（无人机）to transport medical supplies around Rwanda. A drone can now deliver medicine in 30 minutes.Drones are also assisting emergency organizations after natural disasters. In 2015, for example, a powerful hurricane destroyed thousands of buildings in the Pacific island nation of Va

19、nuatu. Around 75,000 people lost their homes, and at least 15 died. After the storm, drones photographed the damage. These surveys helped emergency workers assess the situation quickly and answer important questions: Which areas were hardest hit? Were crops damaged? What roads were affected?Drones a

20、re also helping to protect wildlife populations in parts of Africa and Asia. Every year, poachers（偷猎者） kill thousands of elephants, rhinos, and other endangered animals. To stop them; the environmental organization World Wildlife Fund is using drones to find where poachers are hiding and if they are

21、 carrying weapons. Equipped with infrared video cameras, drones can easily identify people and animals at night. These drones are not only helpful, they are affordable.As well as finding poachers, drones can be used to track animals. Scientists at Liverpool John Moores University （LJMU）plan to emplo

22、y drones for an ambitious conservation project: documenting the worlds wildlife. The long-term project will start with scientific surveys of animal populations. And animal species can then be identified using special software.Ironically（讽刺地）, a tool originally created for military use is increasingl

23、y being used to save lives instead of taking then. Drones have the potential to provide solutions that will benefit both humans and animals.24. What does the text focus on?A. Importance of saving lives. B. Development of drones.C. Applications of drones. D. Ways to protect animals.25. What can drone

24、s be used for according to Paragraph 2?A. Helping predict disasters. B. Providing data for evaluation.C. Organizing emergency workers. D. Reporting local weather.26. What do the scientists at LJMU intend to do?A. Track poachers. B. Design new practical drones.C. Record wild animals in detail D. Deve

25、lop an assessing software.27. What can be inferred about drones?A. They need to be fitted with video cameras. B. They are unavailable to ordinary people.C. They should be limited to military use. D. They have a promising prospect.CFor most people, graduation is an exciting day the celebration of yea

26、rs of hard work. My graduation day. was not.I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had flown in from across the country to watch our class walk across that stage. But like everyone else in my graduating class, I had watched the economy turn from bad to worse. What I thought would

27、take a week dragged into two. and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself in the exact same spot as 1 was before. And the due date to begin paying back my student loans was creeping ever closer.You know that feeling when you wake up and you are just consumed with fear? Fear about s

28、omething you cant controlthat sense of approaching failure that remains over you as you hope that everything that happened to you thus far was just a bad dream? That feeling became a constant in my life. And the most frustrating part was no matter how much 1 tried, 1 just couldnt seem to make any pr

29、ogress.So what did I do to maintain my sanity（理智）？ I wrote. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearera little brighter. Something about writing gave me hope. And if you want something badly enough. sometimes a little hope is all you need! So I channeled my frustra

30、tion into a childrens book. And then one day, without any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world just a lol of hard work and perseveranceI was offered a publishing contract for my first book! After that, things slowly began to fall into place. 1 was offered a second book deal. Then,

31、 a few months later, I got an interview with The Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after.The moral of this story is. dont give up. Even if things look bleak now, dont give up. Things change If you work hard, give it time, and dont give up, things will always get better Oftentimes all we need

32、 is the courage to push beyond the river.28. From Paragraph 2, we can learn that the author probably.A. was having an exciting graduation B. was getting into financial difficultiesC. missed the life in the university D. had just applied for the student loans29. How did the author change the frustrat

33、ing situation?A. By sending applications.B. By offering contracts.C. By keeping writing.D. By publishing books.30. Which of the following can replace the underlined word bleak in the last paragraph?A. Unattractive B. hopeless C. thrillingD. promising31. What is the passage mainly about?A. Success be

34、longs to the persevering. B. A contented mind is a perpetual（长久的）feast.C. A smooth sea never makes a skillful mariner. D. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.DIs there a link between social media and depression? Do Facebook and Instagram have a negative influence on your mental health? Its complex.S

35、ometimes, looking through Instagram just makes you feel bad. You try not to envy your friends, but they always seem to be traveling somewhere cool, eating something fancy, or looking cute in perfect just-rolled-out-of-bed hair. On the other hand, there are times when you laugh at funny memes (表情包），c

36、atch up with old friends, and feel happy to belong to fun social media communities, Clearly, social media isnt all bad.People are increasingly suspecting that therere the potential problems of social media. Things like cyberbullying（网上欺凌）, screen addiction, and being exposed to endless filtered imag

37、es (美颜）that make it impossible not to make comparisons between yourself and others often make the news. In July, a big study came out in the journal JAMA titled “Association of Screen Time and Depression in Adolescence.” This big headline seems to confirm what a lot of people have been saying-screen

38、 time is horrible for young people.The study followed over 3800 adolescents over four years as part of a drug and alcohol prevention program. Part of what the investigators measured was the teens amount of screen time, including time spent on social media, as well as their levels of depression sympt

39、oms. One of their main findings was that higher amounts of social media use were connected with higher levels of depression. That was true both when the researches compared between people and compared each person against their own mental health over time.Case closed? Not so fast. Before we end the d

40、ebate once and for all, lets take a closer look at this and other studies. Lets ask ourselves: what exactly is the relationship between social media use and depression? It turns out there are several warnings.32. Why do people sometimes feel bad when looking through Instagram?A. They can travel nowh

41、ere. B. They dont look perfect. C. They feel unbalanced. D. They lack contact with old friends. 33. Why is the article in journal JAMA mentioned? A. To comment. B.To suggest. C. To prove. D. To explore.34. Which may agree with the findings of the study? A.Social media use contributes to mental healt

42、h. B. Teens amount of screen time is limited.C. It is not easy to tell reasons for depression.D. Depression is related to social media use.35. Whats the best title of the text? A.Does social media cause depression? B. Shall people reduce screen time? C. Why is it time to give up social media?D. How

43、to reduce depression? 第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分.满分12.5分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项。Everyone has worries, but what do you do with your worries? Whether your worries are big or small, you can take three steps to deal with them. Try to find out the causes. 36._ Sometimes you know it, but sometime

44、s you might not. If you cant make sure what your worries are, you will have more and more new problems in your life. So remember that you must try to find out the causes before you start to deal with them even though it might not be so easy. 37._There is always something you can do to help you feel

45、less worried. Sitting there worrying is no fun and it wont solve your problem. 38._ If youre worried about grades, ask yourself these questions:How do I get ready for class? Do I review my notes even when there isnt a test? Do I have a good place to do my homework? 39._If your worry is about a fight

46、 you had with a friend, you might write down all the things you could do write a note to him or her, invite him or her to a basketball game, say sorry to him or her etc. Once you have a list of things you could do, you can choose the one that gets your friend back. Ask for help. When you are worried

47、, you need to find someone to communicate with. 40._ They will help you analyze (分析) your problems carefully and solve them easily. A. The first step is to find out what youre worried about. B. How can I improve my grades?C. Think of the ways to improve grades. D. Think of the ways to make it better. E. Grades at school are often a top worry for students. F. Have I tried different ways of studying? G. You can ask your parents, friends, or teachers for help.第三部分语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)第一节(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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的