2020-2021学年北京市平谷区高二上学期期末考试英语试卷及答案
一、完形填空
It was just about this time last year that my wife announced that she was no longer going to cut our lawn (草坪);instead,she wanted to let it go wild.
In fact,I did not accept her announcement.First,I could cut the lawn mylf,something I hadn’t done for years and was unwilling to do.Second,I could try to hire a1to do it but the teenagers here didn’t em exactly the type of people to be interested in2lawns.Third,I could acquiesce(勉强同意)to her suggestion.
Putting aside my pride and kissing goodbye to any hope of winning the first place in the shortest cut lawn competition,I drained(抽干)the oil in our lawn mower,pushed it into a corner and3it with a plastic cloth.
I hope that once the lawn began to look too high,my wife would4her decision.
By the end of the third week of her“not work”,things were not working out as planned.The grass of the lawn was almost a foot in5,and the neighbors were beginning to6.“Hey Mike,what’s the matter? Is your
lawn mower on strike?”one7joked.I replied,“No,the lawn mower isn’t.My wife is stopping working.”After six weeks,the lawn had begun to8a wild look,the sort of look that an old hou has. But like a9haircut that turns out to be great once it grows,by the end of spring our lawn was beginning to show signs of real promi.
When in summer,people were stopping to look at the“jungle”.They stopped to admire the island of green. The once lifeless yard was filled with birds hunting for the bugs that now crawled on the moist ground.The10 of the birds filled the air from dawn to dusk.Many a night we lay in bed listening with pleasure to the birds chattering about their day’s events.
father
1．A．teenager B．driver C．worker D．cleaner
2．A．sowing B．cutting C．growing D．treating
club是什么意思3．A．changed B．picked C．covered D．colored
4．A．recall B．retell C．rewrite D．reconsider
5．A．width B．weight C．height D．depthwinds
中考数学模拟试题6．A．enjoy B．notice C．forgive D．argue
7．A．colleague B．relative C．classmate D．neighbor
8．A．take on B．put on C．go on D．bring on 9．A．fashionable B．bad C．good D．broken
10．A．songs B．scream C．voice D．nois
二、用单词的适当形式完成短文
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
priorityIf you want to get fit,make friends with people11．enjoy exercising.It may be the best way to stay in shape becau12．(go)to the gym is infectious(有传染性的),scientists claim.Staying physically active with someone el inspires you to run faster and further,according to the first study of its kind.But it’s bad news for men as the technique only works for women becau they13．(encourage)by each other.And another study found happiness spreads through social groups,and the clor you are to someone with a sunny character,the more likely you are to be happy as well.
Failures always come before success.You need only to look at history to e that countless failures always come before success.The world’s most outstanding inventors didn’t succeed the first time.Ne
ither did famous architects,engineers,designers,painters,photographers,chefs,politicians,and so on.They14．(fall),got injured and went on to design,create and found something better,15．(strong),more memorable and valuable.For them, failure wasn’t the end,16．the beginning of a journey to success.It gives you a starting point to move on.
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
The Burning Man Festival is a special activity17．(found)by the organization“Black Rock City”.The festival first18．(start)out as a celebration in1986.The yearly event draws thousands of people from the community, during which people are able to express themlves in grand,joyful ways.For a week,attendees(出席者)will participate in a number of19．(activity).Each year the festival choos a different theme.Various events and shows will take place and there also will be plenty of camps for attendees.The Burning Man Festival
aims20．(cheer)the human spirit,deal with social problems and inspire a n of culture and community.
三、阅读选择
If you’re looking to buy cheap theater tickets,then you’ve come to the right place!Whether it be on Broadway(百老汇),or a show at your local theater,here at Sizzling Tickets we’ve got some great deals for you! Aladdin the Musical
Run Time:2hours and15minutes,including one intermission(幕间休息)of15minutes
Audience:All ages
This musical comedy provides generous family entertainment with lively dance routines and constant action.
weightWell-loved songs such as A Whole New World and Prince Ali will have members of the audience singing along. This timeless story and its beauty,energy and magic will take your breath away.
Lion King the Musical
Run Time:2hours and45minutes,including one intermission of15minutes
Audience:All ages
The Lion King musical was first staged on Broadway in1997,when it achieved great success.In fact,the Lion King musical has won veral awards over the years for the way that this popular story has been displayed and the cartoon characters really come to life in a very exciting way when they reach the stage.
The Book of Mormon
Run Time:2hours and30minutes,including one15-minute intermission
Audience:Young teens and older
Winner of nine Tony Awards,including Best Musical and many other awards,the Book of Mormon is entertaining from start to finish and looks t to stay on Broadway in the near future.
Phantom of the Opera
Run Time:2hours and30minutes,including one intermission of15minutes
Audience:All ages
The box office revenue(票房收入)for this show is higher than for any other movie or stage production. Some people love it so much that they have en it twice,perhaps even again and again.The opera has been playing continuously at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London since its first performance in1986.And it’s not just audiences that love the show.Phantom has won many awards,including Olivier Awards and Tony Awards. 21．If you want to e a play longer than2hours and30minutes,you can choo_____.
A．Aladdin the Musical B．Lion King the Musical
C．The Book of Mormon D．Phantom of the Opera
22．The Book of Mormon_____.
A．is suitable for all ages
ill
B．will not be played on Broadway in the future
C．has won a lot of awards
D．is telling an unhappy story
23．What do we know about the Phantom of the Opera from the text?
A．Its box office revenue was the highest in1986.
B．It was first staged on Broadway.
C．It has won two awards.
D．It is worth eing again and again.
Despite the fact that motherhood has not been easy,Maxi Aubi believes that her son,Gianluca,has taught her much.
Gianluca was born13years ago with Angelman Syndrome(天使综合症),a genetic dia.Maxi was never afraid about the fact that she did not know what this condition was about.She had to get out there and face the music.“When he was a newborn baby,he ud to cry all day long.He wouldn’t eat or sleep.It was an endless cycle.We ran some tests and doctors told us his progress depended on us.But it was clear that something was wrong with him.So we visited veral doctors and ran some other tests until he was five,”she explains.
Despite all of this,Maxi designed a treatment plan for Gianluca.It did not matter what he was suffering from; she believed love was the“medicine”that could cure him.She formed a group of ten people of different ages outside her family who were willing to help Gianluca’s development.The people would come to her hou in shifts from9AM to7PM with only one goal:to show Gianluca that he could achieve whatever he wanted.“We started encouraging him with games.During tho two or three years,he learnt how to walk and he made huge progress,”she remembers.
Learning about her child’s diagnosis(诊断)was a starting point for Maxi.To help relieve the pain of parents who children suffered from the same condition,she created the Association for Parents coping with Angelman Syndrome(APSA)which currently has about a hundred families.Living with the children is very enriching. This is why the association is not only working to provide support and guidance for the families of children with this condition;it also wants to tell people that they can also learn from the children.“We want them to come and experience what we learnt from our children,”she says.
24．What does the underlined phra“face the music”in the cond paragraph probably mean?
A．Enjoy the music.
becket
B．Accept the situation.
C．Finish one’s work.
D．Share the burden.
25．How did Maxi Aubi react to her son’s illness?
什么是万圣节A．She was afraid.
B．She felt helpless.
C．She cried a lot about her son’s suffering.
D．She made a treatment plan for her son.
26．The ten people in the group______.
A．visited Maxi’s hou to look after Gianluca in turn
B．were Maxi’s relatives and friends
印尼语
C．helped Gianluca to design a study plan
D．were doctors contributing to the treatment of rare dias
27．What can we learn about Gianluca from the text?
A．He complained his mother a lot about Angelman Syndrome.
B．He liked playing games with people.
C．He made great progress becau of love.
D．He ate and slept well when he was a baby.
In“Social Robots for Education”,a study published last August in Science Robotics,the summary is:“Social robots can be ud in education as private teachers or peer learners.They have been shown to be effective in increasing cognitive（认知的）and emotional results and have achieved results similar to tho of human teaching on some tasks.This is largely becau of their physical prence,which traditional learning technologies lack.”
The study showed a few reasons why educational robots are becoming a teaching fashion.Firstly,they can help cut school budgets.Secondly,teachers em at a loss as there are growing numbers of students per classroom. Besides,educational robots can meet the demand for greater personalization of students.Instead of just ating students in front of a computer screen with software to teach them，many teachers can choo a more interactive （互动的）educational experience through robots.“Robots are an ideal choice when the material to be taught requires direct physical prentation.For example,teaching physical skills,such as handwriting or basketball free throws,the study expresd.But,don’t expect Siri or Alexa to replace real teachers right away.
“Although robots can operate independently in certain contexts,fully autonomous social teaching behavior in all environments remains difficult to achieve,”the study said.“Although automatic speech recognition and social signal processing have improved in recent years,speech recognition for younger urs,for example,is still not strong enough for most interactions.”
Robots are already ud for science,technology,engineering and math,which is called STEM education.
