湖南省邵东县第一中学2019-2020学年高二下学期期末考试
英语试题
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，共8页。时量120分钟，总分150
第Ⅰ卷
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，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 does the man want to tell the woman? A.She should help with the repair work. B. She should choose another way. C. Her bus has gone wrong.
2. What does the woman think of the movie? A.Very interesting. A. Jane.
4. What are they talking about? A. Building a toy factory. 5. What has happened? A. A dog was killed. damaged.
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。 听下面一段材料，回答第6至7题。 6. What do we know about Mr Hunter? A. He is in his hometown now. B. He knows the owner of the wallet. C. He lost a wallet yesterday. 7. What will they do next? A. Give the wallet to Mr Hunter. a notice.
听下面一段材料，回答第8至9题。 8. What is the man doing now? A. Having dinner.
B. Very bad. B. Mike.
B. Visiting America. B. The man was injured.
C. Very moving. C. Helen. C. Bill’s wife.
C. The man’s car was
3. Who might have taken the boy’s dictionary?
B. Go to Mr Hunter’s home. C. Put up
B. Cleaning a meeting room. C. Preparing for a meeting.
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9. Whose office does the man have to clean? A. Mr Brown’s.
B. The manager’s.
C. His own.
听下面一段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. How many children does the woman have? A. Only a daughter. A. In Seattle.
B. A son and a daughter. B. In California.
C. Two sons. C. In Washington.
11. Where does the man’s sister live now? 12. What might happen next year? A. The man’s sister will move her home. B. The man’s sister will buy another farm. C. The man will go and see his sister. 听下面一段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. How old is Alice’s grandfather? A. 83.
14. Who owns a bookstore? A. Alice’s father.
B. Alice’s grandmother.
C. Alice’s brother.
15. What do we know about Alice’s grandmother? A. She was a college teacher. B. She has poor eyesight now. C. She gave up teaching last year. 16. Where is probably Alice now? A. At home.
B. At school.
C. In a hospital.
听下面一段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What does the long holiday offer to people? A. A new way to live and work. B. A long time to deal with difficulties. C. A chance to do different things.
18. Which of the following can NOT be achieved during the long holiday? A. Taking intensive courses.
B. Becoming an expert at something new. C. Learning to cook.
19. What is the advantage of most national parks?
A. People can take sports there. B. They provide privacy. C. People can rent cabins there.
20. How long do some organizations offer intensive courses? A.Two days.
B. Three days.
C. Two or three days.
B. 79.
C. 73.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）
第一节（ 共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下面短文，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。
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At first glance, there is little in Horton to attract people. The other nearby towns have much more to offer: Bradfield has its river and historic buildings, while Newtown has shops and entertainment. The buildings of Horton look dirty and unloved. For shops, there is a small supermarket, a few bargain shops, a bakery which, strangely, does not sell bread and a florist (花店) which has one stand of sad-looking flowers. Even so, Horton has several advantages over its neighbouring towns.
Firstly, it has a country park. Four thousand years ago, this was an important fort. There are no historic remains here now, but there are wonderful views over the countryside. On sunny weekends you can often see kids out with their parents, kicking balls or flying kites.
There aren’t many job opportunities in Horton, and the roads to nearby cities aren’t really fast, but there are excellent rail links. You can be in London in an hour and a half, and other cities are less than an hour away. That means that parents can earn a good salary and still get home in time to spend the evenings with their families. Houses in Horton aren’t pretty, but they’re functional and cheap. The streets are quiet and safe, and there are plenty of parks and playgrounds. It has a library, three primary schools and a secondary school, St. Mark’s. It is friendly and offers a wide range of subjects and activities to children of all abilities and backgrounds. The town also has a swimming and a sports center, and the community halls hold regular clubs and events for people of all ages. 21. What is the writer’s main purpose? A. To explain what tourists can do in Horton. B. To explain why Horton is a good place to live in. C. To explain why Horton is not as pleasant as other towns. D. To describe the history of Horton.
22. Which part of Horton does the writer find disappointing?
A. the shops B. country park C. transport links D. the schools 23. What advantages does Horton bring to workers? A. There are plenty of jobs available in the town. B. You can drive to nearby cities in a short time. C. You can get to several cities quickly by train.
D. Working conditions are better here than in other towns.
B
Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholder. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”
For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help,Mumbet sued(起诉)for her freedom.
While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new
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Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom—the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.
Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Sedgewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B.Du Bois, one of the founders of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part:“She was born a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.” 24. What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1? A. She was born a slave. B. She was a slaveholder.
C. She had a famous sister. D. She was born into a rich family. 25. Why did Mumbet run away from the Ashleys?
A. She found an employer. B. She wanted to be a lawyer. C. She was hit and got angry. D. She had to take care of her sister. 26. What is the text mainly about?
A. A story of a famous writer and spokesperson. B. The friendship between a lawyer and a slave.
C. The life of a brave African American woman. D. A trial that shocked the whole world.
C
Working with a group of baboons(狒狒)in the Namibian desert, Dr. Alecia Carter of the Department of Zoology, Cambridge University set baboons learning tasks involving a novel food and a familiar food hidden in a box. Some baboons were given the chance to watch another baboon who already knew how to solve the task, while others had to learn for themselves. To work out how brave or anxious the baboons were, Dr. Carter presented them either with a novel food or a threat in the form of a model of a poisonous snake.
She found that personality had a major impact on learning. The braver baboons learnt, but the shy ones did not learn the task although they watched the baboon perform the task of finding the novel food just as long as the brave ones did. In effect, despite being made aware of what to do, they were still too shy to do what the experienced baboon did.
The same held true for anxious baboons compared with calm ones.The anxious individuals learnt the task by observing others while those who were relaxed did not, even though they spent more time watching.
This mismatch between collecting social information and using it shows that personality plays a key role in social learning in animals, something that has previously been ignored in studies on how animals learn to do things.The findings are significant because they suggest that animals may perform poorly in cognitive(认知的) tasks not because they aren’t clever enough to solve them, but because they are too shy or nervous to use the social information.
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The findings may impact how we understand the formation of culture in societies through social learning. If some individuals are unable to get information from others because they don’t associate with the knowledgeable individuals, or they are too shy to use the information once they have it, information may not travel between all group members, preventing the formation of a culture based on social learning. 27. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A.The design of Dr.Carter’s research. B.The results of Dr.Carter’s research. C.The purpose of Dr.Carter’s research. D.The significance of Dr.Carter’s research. 28. According to the research, which baboons are more likely to complete a new learning task?
A.Those that have more experience. B.Those that can avoid potential risks. C.Those that like to work independently. D.Those that feel anxious about learning. 29. Which best illustrates the“mismatch”mentioned in Paragraph 4? A.Some baboons are intelligent but slow in learning. B.Some baboons are shy but active in social activities. C.Some baboons observe others but don’t follow them. D.Some baboons perform new tasks but don’t concentrate.
30. Dr.Carter’s findings indicate that our culture might be formed through . A.storing information B.learning from each other C.understanding different people D.travelling between social groups
第二节 七选五（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
A garden that's just right for you
Have you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum(总和) of its parts? 31 . But it doesn't happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process.
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Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers (肥料). 33 . However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years. ●Recall(回忆) your childhood memories
Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma's rose garden and Dad's vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that's not what's important. 34 — how being in those gardens made us feel. If you'd like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth. 35 . Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.
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2019-2020学年湖南省邵东县第一中学高二下学期期末考试英语试题(Word版) 听力
