2020-2021学年度上学期苏州新区期初考试
高二英语
第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分20分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节 (共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)
听下面5段对话。B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、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. Where does the conversation take place? A. At a store.
B. At a gym.
C. At home.
2. How will David get to the club? A. By car.
B. By train.
C. By bike.
3. What is Jane studying? A. Biology.
B. Chemistry.
C. Calligraphy.
4. What is the man doing? A. Buying an air conditioner B. Returning an air conditioner. C. Fixing an air conditioner. 5. How does the woman probably feel? A. Excited.
第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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. How many people will be travelling? A. Four.
B. Three.
C. Two.
B. Annoyed.
C. Puzzled.
7. When will the man leave for Seattle? A. This Wednesday.
B. Next Monday.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Buying a present. B. Attending a concert. C. Planing a birthday party. 9. What will the speakers do later? A. See a movie.
B. Read a novel.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Where is Lisa? A. Liverpool.
B. London.
11. What kind of people does London Week need? A. Reporters.
B. Sales representatives.
12. How much did Lisa earn monthly in her last job? A. 3,500 pounds.
B. 3,000 pounds.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What’s the relationship between the speakers? A. Good friends.
B. Fellow students.
14. When did Sarah start college? A. A year ago.
B. Three months ago.
15. Why does Ricky want to move? A. He wants younger company . B. He wants to be nearer college.
C. He doesn’t get along with the host family. 16. What will Ricky probably do next? A. Visit a teacher. B. Hang out with friends. C. Give John a phone call.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
C. Next Wednesday.
C. Meet up with Jane.
C. Paris.
C. Advertisers.
C. 2,500 pounds.
C. Roommates.
C. A week ago.
17. Who is the speaker? A. A guide.
B. A teacher.
C. A coach.
18. When will the students leave for the museum? A. 6.30.
B. 7:45.
C. 8:00.
19. What will the students do at 1:15? A. See a film.
B. Meet at a cafe.
C. Visit a gallery.
20. Where can the students find more information? A. From teachers.
第二部分阅读（共两节, 满分40分）
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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
POETRY CHALLENGE
Write a poem about how courage, determination, and strength have helped you face challenges in your life.
Prizes
3 Grand Prizes: Trip to Washington, D.C. for each of three winners, a parent and one other person of the winner’s choice. Trip includes round-trip air tickets, hotel stay for two nights, and tours of the National Air and Space Museum and the office of National Geographic World.
6 First Prizes: The book Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart signed by author Corinne Szabo and pilot Linda Finch.
50 Honorable Mentions: Judges will choose up to 50 honorable mention winners, who will each receive a T-shirt in memory of Earhart’s final flight.
Rules
Follow all rules carefully to prevent disqualification.
■ Write a poem using 100 words or fewer. Your poem can be any format, any number of lines. ■ Write by hand or type on a single sheet of paper. You may use both the front and back of the paper. ■ On the same sheet of paper, write or type your name, address, telephone number, and birth date. ■ Mail your entry to us by October 31 this year.
B. From a website.
C. From a book.
21. How many people can each grand prize winner take on the free trip? A. Two
B. Three.
C. Four.
D. Six.
22. What will each of the honorable mention winners get? A. A plane ticket. C. A special T-shirt.
B. A book by Corinne Szabo. D. A photo of Amelia Earhart.
23. Which of the following will result in disqualification? A. Typing your poem out.
B. Writing a poem of 120 words. D. Mailing your entry on October 30.
C. Using both sides of the paper.
B
I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American, who was regarded as one of the last great modernist architects, has died at the age of 102.
Although he worked mostly in the United States, Pei will always be remembered for a European project: His redevelopment of the Louvre Museum in Paris in the 1980s. He gave us the glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard, along with three smaller pyramids and a vast subterranean (地下的) addition to the museum entrance.
Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French — and everyone else — were won over. Winning the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983, he was thought as giving the 20th century “some of its most beautiful inside spaces and outside forms … His talent and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.”
After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Pei set up his own architectural practice in New York in 1955.
Designing the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in 1964 established him as a name. His East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1978 changed people’s ideas of a museum. The site was an odd trapezoid (梯形) shape. Pei’s solution was to cut it in two. The resulting building was dramatic, light and elegant — one of the first crowd-pleasing cathedrals of modern art.
Though known as a modernist, and notable for his forms based on arrangements of simple geometric (几何的) shapes, he once urged Chinese architects to look more to their architectural tradition rather than designing in a western style.
In person, I.M. Pei was good-humored, charming and unusually modest. His working process was evolutionary, but innovation (创新) was never an intended goal.
“Stylistic originality is not my purpose,” he said. “I want to find the originality in the time, the place and the problem.”
24. What can we learn about the result of redevelopment of the Louvre Museum? A. It was criticized by the French. B. It was a success.
C. It made the Louvre Museum looks strange. D. It changed the function of the Louvre Museum.
25. What can we learn from the underlined sentence in paragraph 3? A. He is a master in applying materials. B. He is skilled in writing poems.
C. He often combines poetry and construction. D. He gets inspiration from poetry in designing. 26. What’s the correct order of the following events?
a. Design the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum.
b. Study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard. c. Design the National Gallery of Art. D. Win the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize. A. abcd
B. bacd
C. bcad
D. dacd
27. What can we learn about I.M. Pei? A. Innovation was his first goal in design. B. He was talented and serious. C. He preferred western style to the east. D. He liked simple geometric shapes.
C
Scientists in Western Australia claim to have made a new discovery—they have found gold in the leaves and twigs of trees. The researchers believe that the trees suck up the gold from deep underground, over 30 metres down. The discovery has been described as the first of its kind in the world. Australian gold
江苏省苏州高新区2020-2021学年高二上学期期初考试英语试题 Word版含答案
