1、长郡中学2021-2022学年度高二第二学期期末考试英 语时量：120分钟 满分：150分得分： 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 19.15B 9.18C 9.15答案是C。1What will the speakers most li
2、kely do next？AGo to a restaurantBMake dinnerCEat dumplings2When will the speakers watch the movie？AAt 3：00 pmBAt 4：00 pmCAt 5：00 pm3What is the relationship between the speakers？AMother and sonBBrother and sisterCFather and daughter4What is the womans attitude toward the mans failure？AOptimisticBUnc
3、oncernedCUpset5What are the speakers talking about？AThe streetBThe colorCThe house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。6Why does the woman feel bad for her friends？AThey dont get paidBThey
4、work long hoursCThey dont have free lunch7What does the man do？AA rocket engineerBA firefighterCA scientist听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8Where does Tim plan to live？AIn the dormBWith a host familyCAt home9What does Tim suggest the woman do？ALive in the dormBFind a host familyCAsk Albert for help听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。1
5、0Which book did the woman mention first？AThe NecklaceBThe Art of WarCThe Gift of the Magi11Who will make use of The Art of War？AThe manBTeachersCBusiness managers12What do we know about the woman？AShes been busyBShe cant afford the booksCShe wants to run a business听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13How many colleag
6、ues of the two speakers are going to the barbeque？ATwoBThreeCFive14What will the mans brother bring？ASmoked meatBHamburgersCSnacks15What do the speakers need to buy for the barbeque？AJuiceBHot dogsCSalad16What is the price of potato salad this weekend？A20 dollarsB18 dollarsC10 dollars听第10段材料，回答第17至2
7、0题。17How long does the speaker live in the US？AFor about 10 yearsBFor about 20 yearsCFor about 25 years18In which country tips are considered to be impolite？APortugalBBelgiumCJapan19What is good about shopping in America？AIt has a good return policyBIt doesnt need to pay a tipCIt has many cheap holi
8、day gifts20What kind of USbill is a bit pink？AA 10-dollar oneBA 50-dollar oneCA 100-dollar one第二部分 阅读（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。AMy favourite BooksPosted by Catherine Chung，a great writerStories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangThis collection contains s
9、everal maths storiesThe one I recommend is Division By Zero，about Jane Parkinson，a brilliant German mathematicianTo her great despair，she ends up proving that mathematics is inconsistent and is able to prove that any two numbers are equalA beautiful，thought-provoking（发人深省的）story about belief，underst
10、anding，and faithThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko OgawaIts about a woman who comes to work for a once-great mathematicianDue to a brain injury，he has only 80 minutes of short-term memory available to him before he forgets everythingIt is filled with beautiful maths，simply and clearly describ
11、ed alongside finely drawn relationships between the charactersToo Much Happiness by Alice MunroKovalevskaya was a 19th-century mathematician at a time when women were not allowed in most of Europe to attend universityShe married a man who promised to take her to Germany to studyShe made major contri
12、butions to the field and became the first woman in Russia to obtain a doctorate in mathematicsThe Ore Miners Wife by Karl IagnemmaIt is about a miner who thinks hes discovered the proof to the problem：construct a square，equal in area to a given circleHis wife，not knowing what has suddenly taken his
13、attention and his time，fears he is being unfaithfulIn fact，what he does is a moving exploration of the joys of entering a problem21Which book is about a pioneering Russian woman mathematician？AStories of Your Life and OthersBThe Housekeeper and the ProfessorCToo Much HappinessDThe Ore Miners Wife22W
14、hat do the listed books have in common？AThey tell stories of woman mathematiciansBThey involve mathematicsCThey explore human relationshipDThey reveal peoples inner world23What can we learn from this text？AJane Parkinson fails to show math was inconsistentBThe mathematician in Yoko Ogawas book has p
15、roblem memorizing thingsCIn the 19th century，women in Europe didnt have chance to get higher educationDThe miner in Karl Iagnemmas book is unfaithful to his wifeBTufa grew up in Australia so she couldnt understand why her father insisted on teaching her Oromo，a language spoken in Ethiopia“Dad never
16、spoke about his life back in Ethiopia and yet he insisted on teaching us this language” Tufa said“There were so many resources at my fingertips for the other languages I was learning and so many people that speak themBut when Dad was teaching us Oromo，there were no textbooks or learning materials at
17、 allAnd that struck me as really strange”But as Tufa got older and began doing her own research，she discovered why speaking about Oromo was so painful for her fatherThe Oromo are the largest racial group of EthiopiaBut since their land was seized in the 1880s，the people have suffered a lotThe Oromo
18、language was banned，including from political life and schoolsOromo texts were destroyedTufas father，an Oromo，fled to Egypt and，in the late 1970s，he was given asylum（庇护）in AustraliaBy the time the Oromo ban was lifted，Tufas father had established a small，private Oromo school in Melbourne to teach the
19、 language to the children of asylum seekersAs she helped to teach the students，Tufa realised the teaching resources were awfulShe decided to create posters and worksheets for her fathers students，using her own money to get them printedThree other Oromo schools that had opened in Victoria by then hea
20、rd about the materials and all of them wanted copiesTufa realised that if there was a demand for Oromo child education materials in Australia，there must be other communities around the world where resources were also neededShe launched a crowdfunding campaign so she could print more Oromo learning m
21、aterialsBy the end of 2014，in just six weeks，she had raised almost $ 125，000Word of her project spreadHer resources have also found their way to Ethiopia，with people sending copies to family members who still live thereThis year，she plans to launch an online store for her publishing company24What di
22、d Tufa feel strange about when learning Oromo？AHer fathers life in EthiopiaBHer fathers way of teachingCThe lack of learning materialsDThe appearance of other languages25What is the purpose of the third paragraph？ATo explain a reasonBTo give an exampleCTo present an argumentDTo clear a misunderstand
23、ing26How did Tufa meet the increasing demand for Oromo learning materials？AShe created posters and worksheetsBShe turned to his fatherCShe dipped into her own pocketDShe crowdfunded27What is the passage mainly about？AWhy the Oromo suffered in EthiopiaBWhat schools need in teaching OromoCHow a girl h
24、elps to keep Oromo aliveDWhere the Oromo language is taughtCPinocchio may be just a childrens story，but Spanish scientists at the University of Granada recently investigated the so-called “Pinocchio effect” and found that our noses dont grow longer when we tell a lie，but actually get a little bit sm
25、allerDrGmez Miln and his team developed a lie detector test that used thermal（热成像的）cameras to tell if people were lying，and found that whenever participants in their research were being untruthful，the temperature of their nose dropped up to 1.2，while the temperature of their forehead increased up to
26、 1.5They also found that drop in temperature at nose level actually caused it to become slightly smaller，although the difference could not be seen by the human eye“One has to think in order to lie，which raises the temperature of the forehead，” DrGmez Miln explained the findings“At the same time we f
27、eel anxious，which lowers the temperature of the nose”For this study，researchers asked a number of 60 students to perform various tasks while being scanned by thermal camerasOne of these tasks involved making a 3-to-4-minute call to their parents，partners or friends and telling an important liePartic
28、ipants had to make up the lie themselves during the call，and the thermal cameras picked up this opposite Pinocchio effect caused by the changes in temperature in the nose and foreheadInterestingly，the thermal lie detector picked up the temperature difference in 80 percent of test participants，which
29、is a better rate of success than that of any modern lie detector used by the police“With this method we have increased accuracy and reduce the chances of false positives，something that is frequent with other methods，” said DrGmez Miln，who added that police could one day combine other lie detection t
30、echnology with their technology to achieve better results28Why did the temperature of the participants foreheads go up during the test？AThey had to think hardBThey felt ashamedCThey were scaredDThey got embarrassed29What phenomenon does the “opposite Pinocchio effect” refer to？AThe nose becomes smal
31、lerBThe nose gets longerCThe temperature gets higherDThe temperature remains the same30What can we learn about the research？AThe thermal lie detector may assist the policeBThe thermal lie detector has proven a popular oneCResearchers conducted the study by interviewingDResearchers designed different
32、 lies for participants31Which might be the best title for the text？AWill Lie Detectors Tell the Truth？BWill Thermal Technology Be Reliable？CWill Lying Make Your Nose Longer？DWill Lying Make Your Temperature Rise？DThey say procrastination（拖延）is the thief of timeactually deadlines areNew research has
33、found that if you want someone to help you out with something，it is best not to set a deadline at allBut if you do set a deadline，make it shortProfessor Stephen Knowles tested the effect of deadline length on task completion for their researchParticipants were invited to complete an online survey co
34、ncerning a charity donationThey were given either one week，one month，or no deadline to respondProfessor Knowles says although the topic of the survey is about charity，the results are true of any situation where someone asks another person for helpThe study found responses to the survey were lowest f
35、or the one-month deadline and highest when no deadline was specifiedNo deadline and the one-week deadline led to many early responses，while a long deadline appeared to give people permission to procrastinate，and then forgetProfessor Knowles wasnt surprised to find that specifying a shorter deadline
36、increased the chances of receiving a response compared to a longer deadlineHowever，he did find it interesting that they received the most responses when no deadline was specified“We interpret this as evidence that specifying a longer deadline，as opposed to a short deadline or no deadline at all，remo
37、ves the urgency to act，” he says“People therefore put off undertaking the task，and since they are inattentive or forget，postponing it results in lower response rates”He says of the research that it is possible that not specifying a deadline might still have led participants to assume that there is a
38、n unspoken deadlineProfessor Knowles hopes his research can help reduce the amount of procrastinating people do“Many people procrastinateThey have the best intentions of helping someone out，but just do not get around to doing it”32Why did Professor Knowles do the research？ATo study the role a deadli
39、ne plays in procrastinationBTo find out whether people are interested in charityCTo attract public attention to the effects of procrastinationDTo test the effect of procrastination on task completion33What most likely leads to procrastination？ANo deadlinesBShort deadlinesCSpecific deadlinesDLong dea
40、dlines34Whats the attitude of Professor Knowles to the findings of the study？AInterestedBConservativeCConfusedDUnsurprised35Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined word“inattentive？AcarelessBunimportantClazyDdifficult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
41、项中有两项为多余选项。Food is part of who we areWe all need it，survive because of it and derive happiness from itSo if food matters so much，why do we let so much of it go rotten in our fridges，or get thrown out in our stores？Sadly，we love food，but we dont take care of it_36_ Here are ways to help us love our f
42、ood better and grow respect for the world behind what we eatReduce your food wasteBuy only the food you need，store food wisely，donate excess and turn leftover food into the next days mealsWhen we waste food，all the resources used for growing，processing，transporting and marketing that food are wasted
43、 too_37_Support your local food producersChefs get awards，stars and recognition for their creationsBut what about our farmers？_38_ Shop at your local markets and get to know your farmersGiving them your business is giving them your recognition and respectAdopt a healthier，more sustainable diet_39_ W
44、e get energy and maintain health from good foodWe normally dont care the power that food and nutrition have over our bodiesToo much of it，or too much of only one kind of it，can lead to obesity，deficiencies or diet-related diseases_40_By treating each meal with pride，we respect the farmers who produc
45、ed it，and the resources that went into itRespect can be passed onTalk to the people around and to the next generation about making informed，healthy and sustainable food choicesRespecting food means appreciating the back-story of foodWhen we know the full picture，it is easier to see what our food rea
46、lly stands for and how precious it really isAHave a conversationBLearn where food comes fromCOur bodies consume calories and nutrientsDFor many people on the planet，food is givingEFood is so much more than what is on our platesFOne third of all food produced globally is lost or wastedGWithout them，we wouldnt have the fresh food we need on a daily basis第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。“New Recruit Wanted” this sign caught my eye and revived the dream I had since my chil
