2020-2021学年北京市延庆区高二（下）期末英语试卷

第一部分： 知识运用 （共两节； 每小题1.5分，满分15分）第一节： 完形填空（共1小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）

• 1．A school bus driver returned to college to become a high school history teacher，thanks to some （1）

  students．
     Clayton Ward is a history lover，and as such，（2）

  the time he'd spend chatting with students about their history classes as he（3）

  them to and from school．
     "After several of these discussions，some of the students would tell me they wanted me to be their（4）

  ，" he said．"That small mention from those kids…it（5）

  me and gave me the motivation to complete a goal I had started years ago．"
     （6）

  ，Ward went to college after his high school graduation；but after a year，he had to leave and soon started driving buses．But he still valued（7）

  ，and talking with the students on the bus route renewed his sense of passion for expanding and teaching young minds．
     Ward enrolled（注册）at a community college in May 2019，and（8）

  to take his classes full time while also still driving his bus．
     "It wasn't always（9）

  ．I would drive my route in the morning and afternoon，take classes in between shifts and take night classes，" he said．"I would think of those students and all the years I wanted to make this happen，and it helped me focus my energy．"
     "You wouldn't think that kids can do something like that，to give me the（10）

  and ambition to go back to school，" Ward said．"It's kind of crazy that such a small thing can make such an impact on your life．"
  
  

  （1）	A．energetic	B．supportive	C．considerate	D．generous
  （2）	A．enjoyed	B．found	C．saved	D．missed
  （3）	A．attended	B．watched	C．bussed	D．trained
  （4）	A．driver	B．adviser	C．friend	D．teacher
  （5）	A．aimed at	B．stuck with	C．occurred to	D．called on
  （6）	A．Initially	B．Consequently	C．Apparently	D．Ultimately
  （7）	A．success	B．communication	C．responsibility	D．education
  （8）	A．hesitated	B．offered	C．managed	D．happened
  （9）	A．suitable	B．hopeful	C．lucky	D．easy
  （10）	A．right	B．drive	C．chance	D．freedom
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第二节：语法填空（共1小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）

• 2．A Our school planned a trip for us to study English in another country this holiday.I was excited for it was my first time（1）

  （travel） abroad.I packed everything I thought I（2）

  （need）into my backpack.I knew I was going to have so much fun.After（3）

  （board） the bus to the airport，I said goodbye to my parents.I looked out the window of the bus and dreamed about（4）

  we would do while on our trip.
  B Cloning is the process of making an exact copy of a plant or animal and developing it either naturally（5）

  artificially.Natural cloning has been going on for generations.For example，gardeners（6）

  （use）a form of cloning when they take a cutting from a plant and place it in a suitable medium，such as soil.Another example of natural cloning is identical twins，（7）

  are produced from the same egg.
  C China，（8）

  June 17，successfully launched the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou Ⅻ，which is expected to send three（9）

  （astronaut） to its space station core module Tianhe for a three-month mission.The spacecraft，atop a Long March-2 F carrier rocket，（10）

  （launch） from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch C enter at 9：22 a.m.，according to the China Manned Space Agency（CMSA）.It is China's seventh crewed mission to space and the first during the construction of China's space station.
  组卷：10引用：1难度：0.6

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第二部分 阅读理解（共二节，满分28分）第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共4小题；每小题6分，共28分）

• 3．Don't you think robots are a part of your life？In factories，robots put together everything from toys to cars.Some homes have robots that sweep floors or mow the lawn（剪草坪）.And more robots are soon to come.
  

  	Like a Human Robots don't expect any thanks for all the work they do for us.After all，they don't have feelings.But that may be changing with Nexi，a robot created by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Nexi can move its face to show anger，happiness，or sadness.It can also raise its eyebrows to show surprise.
  	Robots at Work Need a lift out of bed？RIBA，short for "Robot for Interactive Body Assistance"，will lend its helpful arms!Some patients at hospitals and nursing homes have a hard time getting in and out of bed.RIBA can gently lift a patient out of bed and help him or her into a wheelchair.The robot can safely pick up and carry people weighing 135 pounds.
  	Water Bots Robots that work in water—and look like familiar sea creatures—are making news lately.One of them is a robotic fish.Researchers built the robo-fish to swim in water to detect pollution.There's even a robotic penguin called the AP，which uses flippers（鱼鳍） to paddle and can move in all directions.
  	________________ How would you like a robot to help clean up your toys，or one that plays hide-and-seek with you？Nao can be programmed to do both those activities，and more.A two-foot-tall robot，Nao was designed by a company in France to be a helper and companion.It can talk，walk and even remember faces，voices，and places.Also，it can be programmed to assist with daily tasks，such as checking e-mails.

  Experts predict that by 2025 we could have robots in every household!You might be living or working with one of them every day!
  
  （1）By moving its face，Nexi might show its

  .
  A．feelings
  B．power
  C．interest
  D．opinions
  （2）According to the passage，a robotic fish might be used for

  .
  A．discovering fish
  B．picking up rubbish
  C．studying sea creatures
  D．finding out pollution
  （3）Which subtitle can be filled in the blank？

  
  A．Household Helpers
  B．Programme Designers
  C．Hotel Cleaners
  D．Game Players
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第三部分 书面表达（ 共两节；32分）第一节：阅读表达（共1小题；第40、41题各2分，第42题3分，第43题5分， 共12分）。阅读下面短文，根据短文内容写下相关信息，完成对该问题的回答。

• 8．Discovered by Amateurs Some astronomers spend their entire careers looking for new discoveries in space，but a 10-year-old Canadian girl found one on her first try.In January，2011，Kathryn Gray，who often studied stars，was looking at recent pictures of outer space and comparing them to pictures taken years earlier.The pictures were just thousands of tiny spots of light，but Gray spotted a star that looked different in the recent pictures.Could it possibly be a supernova （超新星）？Usually a supernova is brighter，and it becomes visible through a telescope due to the brightness.Later Gray's discovery was confirmed，and she became the youngest person to discover a supernova.
      Throughout history，important discoveries in astronomy have been made by amateurs.An early example is William Herschel，who discovered Uranus in 1781.Uranus had been observed before，but expert astronomers thought it didn't belong to our solar system.When Herschel saw it with a telescope he had designed and built himself，he realized that it was orbiting the sun.This meant that Uranus was a planet.And so，the map of our night sky was changed forever.
      Then in 1930，a major discovery was made by a 24-year-old man，a farmer's son，with no college education or formal training in astronomy.Clyde Tombaugh had built a homemade telescope using instructions from an article in a boy's magazine.He used to draw detailed pictures of the surfaces of Mars and Jupiter.He sent the pictures to Dr.V.M.Slipher at the Lowell Observatory，who was so impressed and offered him a job on his team.Within a year，Tombaugh discovered a ninth planet，Pluto.It was regarded as a planet for 76 years，but scientists decided in 2006 that Pluto didn't meet all of the criteria for a true planet.It was then considered to be a dwarf planet.
      John Dobson is another influential amateur astronomer because he enabled so many others to take up astronomy as a hobby.In 1956，after constant attempts，he built a powerful telescope out of low-cost materials，such as paper tubes used in construction.With affordable tools like Dobson's telescope，more amateurs today have the technology that is needed to make discoveries of their own.
  
  （1）How did Kathryn Gray discover the supernova？

  
  （2）Why did Clyde Tombaugh get a job at the Lowell Observatory？

  
  （3）Please decide which part is false in the following statement，then underline it and explain why.
  The four amateur astronomers were all interested in astronomy and did some research，so they finally made discoveries of their own.

  
  （4）Which of the amateur astronomers mentioned in the passage has impressed you most？Why？（about 40 words）
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第二节 应用文写作（共20分）

• 9．假设你是红星中学高三学生李华． 英国交换生Jim在给你的邮件中提到他对你校的学生社团非常感兴趣，计划下学期参加其中一个．他向你征询建议．请给他回邮件，内容包括：
  1． 推荐的社团；
  2． 推荐的理由；
  3． 建议他做哪些准备．
  注意：1． 词数不少于50；
  2． 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数．
  Dear Jim，
  _______
  Yours，
  Li Hua
  组卷：20引用：9难度：0.4

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