河南省洛阳市2020—2021学年高二第一学期期中考试
英语试卷
本试卷共1页，全卷满分150分，考试用时120分钟。
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号等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，用铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，在选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试上无效。
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，共7. 5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的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。
1.Why is the man going off?
A. To meet Hellen.
B. To meet his friend.
C. To meet his parents.
2.What size of shoes does the woman want?
A.Size 10.
B. Size 9.
C. Size 8.
3.Whom does the man suggest inviting?
A.Henry.
B. Cathy.
C. Sara.
4.What may the speakers buy?
A. A table.
B. A fridge.
C. Some chairs.
5.How does the woman find The Big Bang?
A.It’s great.
B. It’s amusing.
C. It’s boring.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，共2.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的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。
6.Where are the speakers?
A.At a restaurant.
B. At a supermarket.
C. At a bookstore.
7.How much is the book?
A.$40.
B. $30.
C. $20.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8.How many double rooms are there left?
A.One.
B. Two.
C. Three.
9.What room will the woman get?
A.Two double rooms.
B. Two single rooms.
C. A family suite.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10.What does the man suggest doing?
A.Staying at home.
B. Watching a movie.
C. Hanging out.
11.Why does the woman refu to go to Cool Guy Bar?
A.Its too expensive.
B. Its too far.
C. Its too noisy.
12.What kind of friends does the woman want to make?
A.Sincere ones.
B. Learned ones.
C. Friendly ones.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13.Why does the woman come to the shop?
A. To return the shoes.
B. To buy new shoes.
C. To look at her shoes.
14.On what condition can a purcha be returned?
A.Within 3 days of purcha.
B.Within a week of purcha.
C.With no damage of the purcha.
15.When were the shoes sold?
A. This Sunday.
B. This Thursday.
C. Four days ago.
16.What color does the woman like?
A. Red.
B. Pink.
C. Black.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.From where did the speaker learn about waterfalls?
A. From the Internet.
B. From the newspaper.
C. From the TV shows.
18.How many waterfalls does the speaker talk about?
A. One.
B. Two.
C. Three.
19.Which is the highest waterfall?
A. The Angel Falls.
B. The Niagara Falls.
C. The Rhine Falls.
20.When were the Rhine falls formed?
A. 979 years ago.
B. 6 million years ago.
C. 17 ,000 years ago.
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。
A
Casablanca：Time Did Go By
If the Hollywood image of Casablanca is important to you, prepare for a shock from Casablanca. The city is further away from eastern romanticism (浪漫主义）than any other in Morocco，and Casablanca is a modem city — and beautiful in its own aspect.
Colony(殖民地）White
A walk around Casablanca will decide clearly that Casablanca was the place that the French colonial
government gave most attention and money. The buildings are of a French version (版本）of Arabo-Andalucian architecture，white with soft lines，and often plenty of details.
The area to explore is south of Avenue des Forces Arms Royales ，but of special interest is the Place des Nations Unies，which has the largest structures.
Town Market
Right in from the long Boulevard Muhammad 5, you will find the Marche Central of Casablanca. The place is a small but high-quality version of the traditional suuqs of Morocco, and everything is aiming at the needs of the locals.
The Marche Central has vegetables，meat，all kinds of a food，as well as handicrafts (手工艺品）.Turtle soup should therefore be an option for tho visiting Casablanca.
Old City
The old city of Casablanca is conveniently located — just off the main town square from where roads lead to all directions, and off the a. But as you enter, you will e that it is not all that old after all，that the hous here often have a form and size which would have made them natural features in th
e new parts of many other Mococcan cities.
21.Which of the following colonial governments put most money into Casablanca?
A.Moroccan.
B. French.
C. American.
D. Arab.
22.If you want to enjoy a food，which would you like to choo?
A.Colony White.
B.Old City.
C. Town Market.
D. Casablanca Time.
23.What’s the writer’s attitude towards Casablanca in this passage?
A.Passive.
B. Appreciative.
C. Disappointed.
D. Indifferent.
B
While a new school term is about to begin, perhaps we should reconsider the matter of examinations. In July, two writers( Letters to the Editor) praid the cancellation of exams becau they believe “tests don’t tell the whole story.”
As a teacher who has worked for many years, I have had the experience that a student who earns good marks is generally a good student, and that a student’s final mark in a subject is usually a grade average of the year’s work. Of cour there are exceptions , but they do not have the frequency that would give an unfair picture of a student’s ability. The simple fact is that proper class work , hard-working exam studies and good marks are almost certain indicators of a students
future performance. The opposite , almost certainly , unfitness.
There is no acceptable substitute for competition and examination of quality. How can teachers and future officials determine what a student has learned and remembered? Should we simply take the student word for it? Any organization that ts students free from fair and formal exams is misguided. And surely the “graduates” of such organisations will lack trustworthiness, not to mention being refud by foreign universities for graduate or other studies.
When all is said and done , I n that a fear of failure and a fear of unpleasant comparison with others is the basic reason for most ban-exams talk.Excellence and quality fear nothing. On the contrary , they ek competition and desire the satisfaction of being the best.
24.What’s the purpo of the two writers mentioned in the first paragraph?
A.To fight against judging students by the results of exams.
B.To come up with other ways of testing students.
C.To determine exams as a way of punishing students.
D.To express worries about the poor marks of their students.
25.What would happen if a student graduated from an organisation without exams?
A.He would have a chance to continue his studies.
B.He would have a feeling of failure.
C.He would be more competitive.
D.He wouldn’t be admitted by foreign universities.
26.What are tho who dislike the idea of examinations probably afraid of?
A. Competing with other students.
B. Being graded unfairly.
C. Working too hard.
D. Being punished by school.
27.What does the underlined word “ substitute” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Strength.
B. Association.
C. Replacement.
D. Correction.
C
To call someone bird-brained in English means you think that person is silly or stupid.
But will this description soon disappear from u in the recent rearch? It ems English may have been unfair in association bird’s brains with stupidity.
In an attempt to find out how different creatures e the world，psychologists at Brown University in the USA have been comparing the behaviour of birds and humans. One experiment has involved teaching pigeons to recognize letters of the English alphabet. The birds study in “classrooms”，which are boxes equipped with a computer. After about four days of studying a particular letter, the pigeon has to pick out that letter from veral displayed on the computer screen. Three male pigeons have learned to distinguish all twenty-six letters of the alphabet in this way.
A computer record of the birds7 four-month study period has shown surprising similarities between the pigeons’ and human performance. Pigeons and people find the same letters easy, or hard，to tell apart. For example, 92 percent of the time the pigeons could tell the letter D from the letter Z. But when faced with U and V ( often confud by English children)，the pigeons were right
only 34 percent of the time.
The results of the experiments so far have led psychologists(心理学家）to conclude that pigeons and humans obrve things in similar ways. This suggests that there is something basic about the recognition process. If scientists could only discover just what this recognition process is, it could be very uful for computer designers. The disadvantage of a prent computer is that it can only do what a human being has programmed it to do and the programmer must give the computer preci，logical instructions. Maybe in the future，though，computers will be able to think like human beings.
28.Why does the writer suggest the expression “bird-brained” might be out of u?
A.It is silly.
B.It is impolite.
C.It is unnecessary.
D.It is inappropriate.
29.According to the experiment, who could be confud by U and V?
A.92 percent of pigeons.
B.Many English children.
C.Most people learning English.
D.34 percent of English children.
30.Which can best explain the similarities in obrving things by pigeons and humans?
A.Pigeons and humans find letters equally fast.
B.Pig eons have brains more developed than other birds.
C.Their basic ways to know the world are the same.
D.Pigeons and humans have similar brains.
31.Who can benefit from the rearch?
A.Computer designers.
B.Computer salesmen.
C.Psychologists.
D.Teachers.
D
Faces, like fingerprints,are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people?Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child or even an animal, such as a dolphin can learn to recognize faces.
We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone’s personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks , thinks and feels make that person different from others.
Like the human face ,human personality is very complex. But describing someone’s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what a “nice face” looked like, you probably would have a difficult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a “nice person” , you might begin to think about someone who was kind , considerate , friendly , warm and so on.
There are many words to describe how a person thinks , feels and acts. Gordon Allport , an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in people’s behavior. And many of us u this information as a basis for describing or typing his personality.
