山东省诸城市学年高一英语下学期期末考试试题08240397.docx

1、山东省诸城市学年高一英语下学期期末考试试题08240397某某省诸城市2020-2021学年高一英语下学期期末考试试题本试卷共4页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。注意事项：1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的某某、考生号和座号填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。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

2、)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. Who is the tallest in the class?A. Don. B. Edward. C. Jimmy.2. Where will the speakers go next?A. A gym. B. A park. C. A souvenir store.3. When will the man arrive in Sydney on Tuesday?A. At 5:00 a. m.

3、 B. At 9:00 a. m. C. At 9:30 a. m.4. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At the dry cleaners. B. In a fitting room. C. At the tailors.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. A romantic movie.B. The mans new book.C. Some research results.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

4、对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三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4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. What grade did the man get in the history quiz?A.AC. B.AD. C. AnF.7. What will the woman do next?A. Relax at home. B. Buy some books. C. Prepare for another test.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What are

5、the speakers planning to do today?A. Have a piic. B. Go shopping. C. Watch a volleyball game.9. What is the season now probably?A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Winter.10. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Strange weather. B. Outdoor activities. C. Serious pollution.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What is

6、the man?A. A host. B. A news reporter. C. A fitness coach.12. When will the fitness center open?A. On June 16. B. On July 10. C. On August 21.13. Which sport can people do on the third floor?A. Swimming. B. Volleyball. C. Basketball.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. Where did the speakers usually have the New Ye

7、ars Eve dinner?A. At a restaurant. B. At their house. C. At the mans parents.15. What does the woman want the man to do for the New Year?A. Shop for food. B. Do some cleaning. C. Reserve a table.16. What does the man say about the restaurant food?A. Its delicious. B. Its too expensive. C. Its suitab

8、le for children.17. How does the man feel in the end?A. Worried. B. Satisfied.C. Excited.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. When will Dr. Gupta give a lecture?A. On the 12th. B. On the 23rd. C. On the 26th.19. Where will Mr. Collins give his lecture?A. In Room 173. B. In the Lecture Hall. C. In the Science Cente

9、r.20. What is the topic of Professor Prices talk?A. The Study Skills. B. The Future of puter. C. Life and Culture in the U. K.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375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。AThe thrill of space exploration is an exciting context for teaching the primary curriculum. On thi

10、s course, youll learn how to use examples from space exploration to teach science and technology in school, and discover hands-on activities for your pupils aged 5-11 to enjoy.Who developed the course?The National STEM Learning Centre provides world-class professional development activities and reso

11、urces to support the teaching of STEM(science, technology, engineering and mathematics)subjects. What will you achieve?By the end of the course, youll be able toInvestigate opportunities to link space exploration with your lessons.Develop lesson plans that involve working scientifically, using space

12、 as a context.Explain using models and scientific concepts involved in space exploration.Who will you learn with?Tom LyonsESERO-UK Teacher Fellow, working for STEM loaming, York. Using the context of space to inspire STEM teaching and learning. Teacher of physics, satellite engineer, father of two.R

13、achel JacksonI spent 10 years working as a primary classroom teacher,7 as a science subject leader. Ive also supported schools as a leading science teacher before joining STEM learning as a primary specialist.21. Who are the target readers of the text?A. Would-be space scientists. B. Students in pri

14、mary schools.C. Primary science teachers. D. Parents with kids in schools.22. How long will the course take?A. One week. B. Three weeks. C. One month. D. Half a year.23. What can we know about the teaching staff?A. They are satellite engineers. B. They are primary school teachers.C. They are leaders

15、 of the learning centre. D. They are experienced in STEM teaching.BMy first job out of college laid me off after just a few years. It was part of a cruel rebination and lots of my co-workers also lost their jobs. Part of our severance package(解雇补偿金)was a career consulting service but I didnt want an

16、ything to do with it. I was depressed, and blamed myself for not being good enough. I was convinced I was a terrible worker and no pany would ever want to hire me again.About a month after the layoff, I was suffering greatly when a career coach from the consulting pany called and told me to just e i

17、n and talk to him. When I said I thought it was a waste of time, he told me to trust him and just try it. Plus it was already paid for, so what did I have to lose?I went in and met with him. Not only did he totally revise my resume but he gave me a ton of good advice. He helped me see how unhappy Id

18、 been in my previous position and that I really wanted to focus on a different area in my field. I ended up going to graduate school on his advice to get an advanced degree in a more specialised area. My new resume also got me a lot of interviews and within a couple of months I was in a graduate pro

19、gram for professionals and working at an amazing job. Its been nearly 10 years and now I dare say that trusting that career coach was the best choice that Ive ever made.24. How did the author feel about his job prospects after being laid off?A. Optimistic. B. Hopeless. C. Unconcerned. D. Doubtful.25

20、. Why did the author decide to meet with the coach?A. Jobs were hard to find. B. He had nothing to lose.C. He suffered depression. D. It was a must for a new job.26. How did the career coach help the author?A. By offering him a new job. B. By giving him an advanced degree.C. By providing him with a

21、job interview. D. By helping with his resume and career planning.27. What did the author learn from the experience?A. Trust has power. B. Hard work counts.C. Practice makes perfect. D. Success es with patience.CSearches on Google, finding friends through Facebook and being able to buy simply anythin

22、g on Amazon have all been made possible thanks to major leaps forward in technology over the past 15 years.However, that conies at a price. As our lives are gradually automated, many people are losing their jobs. And advancing technology has not delivered jobs as it should. At the end of 2015 a tota

23、l of 74,505 employees were working for Googles Alphabet and Facebook, accounting for less than a third of Microsofts total staff. However, the bined stock-market value of these panies was twice as big as Microsofts. Newer tech giants in the market are in need of even fewer workers. In 2016, semicond

24、uctor manufacturers slashed their number of workers by half to just 359,000.Despite major concerns about the future of jobs and the economy in general, 140 years of data has shown technology as a whole has actually brought to life more jobs than it has ended. Technology has been described as a great

25、 job-creating machine. For instance, while roles in the agriculture, washers, and examples of repetitive services, have decreased, there has been a rise in caring posts, such as teaching, educational support assistants; welfare, housing, youth and munity workers; and care workers and home caring.The

26、 aging battle between man and machine will continue as it has for centuries. The question is Are machines taking over our jobs, or is our workload being eased by their presence? This will be an ongoing debate especially with the current rise in machine learning technology and artificial intelligence

27、.28. What does the underlined word slashed in Paragraph 2 mean?A. Cut. B. Increased. C. Counted. D. Predicted.29. What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 3?A. Introduce a view. B. Prove a theory.C. State the opposite. D. Draw a conclusion.30. What posts are on the rise thanks to the developme

28、nt of technology?A. Farmers. B. Washers. C. Miners. D. Teachers31. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?A. Is technology leading us nowhere?B. Is technological progress real progress?C. Does technology destroy or create jobs?D. Does technology bring convenience to humans?DIn a sma

29、ll tent in the middle of Panamas rainforest, Aaron Pomerantz, a biologist at the University of California, set up a field lab filled with microscopes and other lab equipment. He was looking for something nearly invisible-transparent(透明的)butterflies known as glasswings.The glasswing butterfly, a base

30、ball-size flier that lives throughout Central and South America, is one of hundreds of butterfly species with transparent wings. This rare adaptation helps it escape potential dangers. pared with other see-through species, such as dragonflies, glasswings are even more skilled at flying through the r

31、ainforest unnoticed because their wings dont shine in sunlight.Patel, Pomerantzs Ph. D adviser, has a lifelong interest in glasswings. To understand what makes the glasswings so mysterious, he asked a group of graduate students to take microscopic images of the wings of a dozen or so species of tran

32、sparent butterflies.A butterflys wings are made up of a thin layer of a natural polymer(聚合物), which is typically covered with tiny scales(鳞屑). Species with transparent wings have found ways to move light around these scales by producing fewer of them, turning them straight up, or simply getting rid of them. The group found that glasswings not only produce fewer scales, but they also change many of those scales into ha