2020年春四川省宜宾市第四中学高二期中考试
英语试题
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3．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30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1.5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. ￡9.18.
C. ￡9.15. 答案是C。
1．Where is the man’s mother now? A．At home.
B．In a hospital.
C．At a bus stop.
2．When will the man leave for Perth? A．On May 24th.
B．On May 26th.
C．On May 27th.
3．What will the woman do tomorrow afternoon? A．Go to sleep.
B．Have a picnic.
C．Deal with an email.
4．What do we learn about the man?
A．He quitted his job. B．He has got two job offers. C．He is doing a part-time job. 5．When will the man leave? A．At 7:20.
B．At 7: 30.
C．At 7:50.
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。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
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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．What seems to be the man's problem? A．Making a career choice. B．Using self-assessment tools. C．Getting a career counselor(顾问). 7．What's the woman's most important advice? A．Looking at the job description. B．Learning about oneself thoroughly. C．Taking earnings into top consideration. 听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。 8．What subject is the man poor at? A．Science.
B．English.
C．Math.
9．What does the man ask the woman to do after class? A．Give him the pencil back. B．Help him with his homework. C．Lend him some English books. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10．What are the speakers talking about? A．Problems in their study.
B．News in the newspaper.
C．A blood disease.
11．Why won’t Julia go into the city center at night? A．She is too exhausted. B．She is still scared of darkness. C．The news of murder scares her.
12．What is TRUE about the local girl mentioned in the conversation? A．She is seriously ill.
B．Her family is rich.
C．She is now in the US.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
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13．What equipment did the speakers need? A．The string.
B．The compass.
C．The ruler.
14．What does the man say about the method they used to measure wave speed? A．It was simple to carry out. C．It required special equipment.
15．What mistake did the man make when first drawing the map? A．He chose the wrong scale. B．He stood in the wrong place. C．He did at the wrong time.
16．What will the man do next with their map? A．Scan it into the report. B．Check it with photographs. C．Download it from the Internet. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17．Where did the shark attacks occur recently? A．In California.
18．Who is Graham Schwartz? A．A shark expert from a university. B．A researcher from a museum. C．A writer for a magazine.
19．What can people do to avoid being attacked? A．Avoid wearing certain types of bathing suits. B．Make their presence known in the water. C．Only swim where the water is warm.
20．What did the Department of Parks and Recreation do? A．They conducted a study on shark attacks. B．They closed down the beaches.
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B．It provided accurate results.
B．In North Carolina. C．In Florida.
C．They forced boats and fishermen to stop all activities.
第二部分 阅读理解（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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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Pappadavada, a popular restaurant in Kochi, India, is urging customers and the community to put their leftover food in a fridge located outside of the restaurant for the hungry to take.
People who are in need of a meal are encouraged to take from the fridge at any time, for any reason. Minu Pauline, who runs Pappadavada, has nicknamed the fridge, which was placed there on March 23 and is shaded by a neighboring tree, \
The fridge is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and stays unlocked. Pauline asks that people write the date they left the food, so those who take know how long it's been there. But most food doesn't stay in the fridge for long. In spite of a huge response from the community and plenty of donations, the fridge needs to be brought more in to replace in time. Pauling herself adds around 75% to 80% of food from Pappadavada a day in the fridge.
The idea to put a fridge on the street came to Pauline late on night when she saw a lady searching in a dustbin for food. She was especially saddened because that particular night, her restaurant had made a ton of food that they could have easily given the woman, instead of her searching for it. She felt like she contributed to waste, and avoiding waste is what Pauline pays her attention to.
\rather people put their food they bought but aren't going to eat in the fridge instead of the dustbin,\ 21．What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 refer to? A．A tree planted on March 23.
B．The fridge outside for the hungry to take from. C．The popular restaurant in Kochi, India. D．A neighboring tree near Pappadavada.
22．What does the manager of the restaurant advise in the last paragraph? A．People shouldn't throw foods into dustbin. B．Everyone should always avoid waste. C．People shouldn't buy food for that. D．Everyone should help those in need.
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23．What is special about Minu Pauline? A．She runs her restaurant in a different way. B．She saves food and helps others in a wise way. C．She sets a higher standard to deal with waste. D．She makes the community more friendly to each other.
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The English language is changing, and you are responsible! Whether we consider changes in grammar, spelling, pronunciation, or the very vocabulary of the language, you have played your part and continue to do so.
When we first learned basic grammar and spelling, perhaps in elementary school, we might have gotten the impression that these things were sacred. The rules that apply to such things might have been presented as unchanging and unchangeable. While this approach might be beneficial for teaching children, it is far from accurate.
The English language, like many others, is a living, growing, ever-evolving thing. Like it or not, you are involved in this change. These changes take many forms. Grammar and spelling have changed radically over the years and centuries, with the spelling differences in different countries today a reflection of this. While the language of a thousand years ago might be called English, most of us would hardly recognize it today as the same language.
The first involves changes in the pronunciation of words. Many are familiar with the differences between the British and American ways of pronouncing certain words. In addition to these differences, the pronunciation of many words has changed over the years because of how you have decided to pronounce them. For example, consider the word \years, more and more people have been pronouncing it so that it sounds like \
Another change in the language involves the addition and removal of words. The makers of dictionaries decide which words deserve to be officially adopted as part of the English language. Through the centuries, many words have come from other languages. In fact, English has probably done this more than any other language in the world, which is why spelling and pronunciation rules for English have so many exceptions.
Of course many slang words have been just short-lived fads that have died out quickly. Others,though, have been adopted by mainstream society and become respectable, as have many technical terms. So then remember, the next time you repeat the newest expression to hit the street, or make up your own words, you may be contributing to the future of the English language.
24．When we begin to learn English, we think . A．it is interesting to take up a new language B．grammar and spelling rules are unchangeable C．only grown-ups have the ability to affect a language
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四川省宜宾市第四中学校2019-2020学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题及答案
