广东省广州市越秀区2020-2021学年高二第二学期学业水平调研测试
英语试卷
本试卷共11页，满分120分。考试用时120分钟。
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第一部分阅读（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1-15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。
A
China’s first panda-themed tourist train, known as the “Panda train” left Chengdu Railway Station in Sichuan’s provincial capital for Zunyi in neighboring Cuizhou province on Sunday night. The train is decorated with giant panda images, and attendants carry panda toys and pasngers can even try panda-shaped food. The “panda train” will start operation on March 28. It will rve on fixed lines and customized lines to connect tourist attractions in Sichuan and neighboring provinces.
In the future, the train will operate on a number of rail lines linking Chengdu and Chongqing, Chongqing and Guiyang, Shanghai and Kunming in Sichuan, Guzhou provinces and Chongqing municipality (自治区).
Ticket offer:
The three-day trip costs 1,280 yuan, including food, accommodation and entrance tickets to scenic s
pots in Guizhou.
Facilities:
The train, which doubles as a mobile star-rated hotel, can accommodate 252 pasngers. It has a dining room, bar, karaoke room, dance hall and mahjong room. The 12 cars have individual rooms for two or four pasngers, and each room has a washroom with a toilet and shower facilities.
The mahjong room might be the biggest attraction for pasngers from Sichuan, who people are known for their fondness of the game. There’s an old joke that an airplane pasnger bound for Chengdu can sleep soundly, only to be woken by the clicking of mahjong tiles in the city before landing. In fact, Chengdu is better known for its love of mahjong than its other attractions, such as the giant panda, Sichuan Opera and Sichuan cuisine, according to an online survey conducted two decades ago.
Booking information:
Tickets are only available in advance through Chengdu Railway International Business Travel Group website during the trial runs.
减肥计划
1. Who are the intended readers of the passage?
A. People who like pandas.
B. People who enjoy travelling.
C. People interested in decoration.
宿舍楼英文D. People fond of playing mahjong.
2 What makes the train attractive for pasngers from Sichuan?
A. The dance hall for travelers.
B. The mahjong room on the train.
C. The beautiful giant panda images.
D. The dining room rving Sichuan cuisine.
3. How can people buy tickets during the trial runs?
A. They can buy tickets in advance online.
B. They can buy tickets at the railway station.
C. They can buy tickets in the star-rated hotel.
D. They can buy tickets from Business Travel Group.
B
I had only really known the little girl for a few weeks, but I carried her with me every day. We met in the Children’s Hospital of Columbus.
I was 11, I was born with a hole in my heart. So was the five-year-old girl in the bed beside me.
We were both recovering from the same surgery. Being older and wir, I thought it was-my job to look out for her. “Do you want to hear a story?” I recalled asking her one afternoon. “Great!” she said.
It was so easy to make her happy. She emed always to be smiling or laughing or singing songs. Li
fe wasn’t fair. She pasd away. My own recovery went well. “You’re really lucky,” a nur told me. “But how come my operation was so easy and hers wasn’t?” I asked. “Easy?” my dad said. “Mary, your surgery wasn’t easy at all. We thought we were going to lo you becau of the amount of internal bleeding (内出血).You can’t remember it becau you were in a coma (昏迷).” Dad said. “For two weeks after your operation many things could go wrong.” “I’m really lucky. I wasn’t too old to need someone to look out for me.” “You wouldn’t remember this either. When you were in the coma, she ud to come over to your bed and sing to you. She was watching over you.”
My surgery scars were hidden under my shirt. But I knew they were there, along with the memory of that little girl, the one who’d been at my side like a tiny angel when I didn’t even know she was there. I was older now and hopefully somewhat wir. Wi enough to know that I have angels watching over me, when life is fair and when it’s not.
4. The author looked after the little girl becau___________.
A. the girl was riously ill
B. she thought it was her duty
C. the girl wanted to hear stories
D. they were in the same hospital
5. What did the author think of the girl?
A. Confident.
B. Optimistic.
C. Wi.
D. Independent.
6.What can be inferred from paragraph 3?
A. The girl came to the author’s bed and watched over her.
B. The gird died becau of the amount of internal bleeding.
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学生日C. The author had a poor memory and couldn’t remember what happened.
D. The author thought her operation was easy becau she was unconscious.
7.What most probably made the girl into the author’s memory?
关于体育的手抄报A. The help- from the girl.
B. The unfair life of the girl.
C. The conversation with her dad.
D. The experience of the operation.
C
As people are becoming more socially conscious about where their food comes from and how it impacts the planet, they are choosing animal-free plant-bad options. Cow-free meat has been around for quite some time and the popularity of brands of the cultivated meat is rising. While there are a large number of plant-bad milk substitutes, none of them have the same taste of cow’s milk. Now, a food-tech company created real dairy products without harming a single cow or the planet.
The company stress that their product produced in the lab is not a milk substitute but rather is the real deal. And it is very healthy. The company also says that the lab-produced milk tastes identical to
the real thing and they hope to eventually replace cows by creating every dairy product sold. They expect to roll out plant-bad chee and yogurt in addition to milk. “Our company was founded with the mission to stop using animals to produce -our food becau, as dairy lovers, we realize that giving up on milk is not an option,” John said. “But today’s milk comes with an unreasonable price tag. The dairy industry is destructive to our planet, our health, and our animals, and is simply not sustainable (可持续的) anymore.”
The environmental price tag of dairy farming is way too high. According to the World Wildlife Fund, dairy cows add a huge amount of greenhou gas to the atmosphere and-contribute to global warming and climate change as well as pollute the air around them. Dairy operations consume large
amounts of water and run-off of manure (粪肥) and fertilizers from the farms get into local waterways. The production us only 5 percent of the resources and produces only 1 percent of the waste of producing cow’s milk according to the company. And they accomplish this by being 100 percent cruelty-free unlike dairy farms.
8. The food-tech company’s milk mentioned in the text differs from other milk substitutes in_______.
A. its various plant-bad flavour
B is tastes the same as cow’s milk
C. its highest output from the farms
D. its broad popularity home and abroad
9. What can we know from John’s words in paragraph 2?
A. Prices of cow’s milk are rising the days.
B. The destructive dairy industries should be shut down.
C. The food-tech company was t up for animal protection.
D. The food-tech company aims to produce animal-free food.
10.What does the underlined word “them” probably refer to in the last paragraph?
A. Dairy cows.
B. Dairy operations.
C. Climate changes. D Greenhou gas.
11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Healthier Milk.
B. New Milk Saves Planet.
暴王龙C. Fresher Milk, Better Future.
D. Making Milk without Cows.
D
Have you ever had the feeling that you can’t think when there is too much noi around Did you ever think a fish could experience that feeling too? A recent published paper, combined over10,000 scientific papers, confirms that undera life knows that exact same feeling, more often than not. Anthropogentic ocean noi, also known as underwater noi pollution, has created a huge impact on a life due to “human-caud” activity within and neighboring our oceans.
The film Finding Nemo educated us about the ocean, and specifically within the ordinary world of a clown fish. A fact many may not know is that clown fish spend the first part of their lives as larvae (幼虫),moving slowly with the current of the ocean until they become strong enough to swim against it. Once they are powerful and strong, they head home in sheltered coral reefs. There is only one drawback—the fish can’t physically e the reef, but they can hear it. The only problem is, if they can’t hear it, will they ever make it home?春气
Our ocean noi, such as cargo ships, ship and boat propellers (螺旋桨),surfing, deep a mining, etc. are causing destruction of a life. Some rearches found that sound is the nsory
signal that travels the farthest through the ocean. The ocean noi drowns out the natural soundscapes, putting a life under great stress. Altogether, this stress then affects their general health, disturb their behavior, reproduction and, in extreme cas caus death. Marine life can adapt to noi pollution, however, only if they can escape it This only caus further complications of straying（使偏离）species from their traditional breeding regions or parating them from their families.
Now, what if we told you there is already a solution? Multiple ways, ideas and designs are currently i
n the works or already exist to remove the damage of the ocean noi. As the previous rearch explains, from wind-powered ships to noi-reducing propellers, a great many solutions are already available and in some cas, cost-effective. The authors of the paper hope it will catch the attention form the society.
12. What does the underlined word “Anthropogentic” probably mean?
A. Produced by nature.
B. Caud by ocean lives.
C. Related to human beings.
D. Made by underwater activities.
13.The author mentioned the clown fish in paragraph 2 is to__________?
A. educate us to protect a-life
B. introduce the film Finding Nemo
C. illustrate the harmful effect of ocean noi
D. show how terrible their living conditions are
14. Which of the following solutions is already available according to paragraph 4?
A. The noi control techniques.
B. The attention from the society.
C. The application of relevant laws.
D. The restriction of human activities.仓鼠能晒太阳吗
15.What’s the tone of the passage?
A. Narrative and rious.
B. Persuasive and critical.
C. Descriptive and positive.
D. Informative and objective.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的16-20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。
Many people avoid apologizing becau the idea of admitting to wrongdoing makes them terribly uncomfortable. We might also fear that the victim won’t accept our apology, further compromising our positive n of ll. For the reasons. an apology can be very difficult to give. __16__ Rearch shows that it can improve your mental health. repair damaged relationships and boost lf-esteem. Would you like to apologize but aren’t sure how? Experts offer the advice:
Build Your Apology
Rearchers have determined that effective apologies have some factors: expressing regret, explaining what went wrong, acknowledging responsibility, offering to repair the situation and requesting forgiveness. The pore of the factors that are included, the more likely the apology is en as acceptable.
__17__
“Sometimes an immediate apology is called for” says a psychology professor. “But if the other part is angry at your wrongdoing. It may be more effective to wait, becau their anger may stop them being receptive to an apology. The best time to apologize is when one feels ready to sincerely apologize. There is nothing wor in the situations than insincere apologies.”
Choo Your Words
Choosing appropriate words is very important when you plan an apology. __18__ Examples include “I certainly apologize if I offended anyone”, and “I’m very sorry, but in my defen, you started it.”
