1、湖北省孝感市重点高中联考协作体高二英语下学期联合考试试题湖北省孝感市重点高中联考协作体2021-2022高二英语下学期联合考试试题本试卷共8页，67题。全卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟。祝考试顺利注意事项：1.答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡的指定位置。2.选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。3.非选择题的作答：用黑色签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。4.保持卡面清洁，不要折叠、不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用
2、涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。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)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。例:How much is the shirt?A.19. 15. B.9. 18. C.9. 15.答案是C。1. What did the woman see?A. A helicopter. B. A d
3、og. C. A neighbor.2. What seems to be the problem?A. Jane cant type fast. B. The report is too long. C. The computer may break down.3. Who will look at the boys report?A. His mother. B. His father. C. His boss.4. What did the woman do at the weekend?A. She watched TV. B. She went for a ride. C. She
4、climbed a mountain.5. What does the man say about Sam?A. He is now in America. B. He will hold a goodbye party. C. He has returned from abroad.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。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的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. What i
5、s the relationship between the speakers?A. Teacher and student. B. Classmates. C. Strangers.7. Where is the Language Arts building?A. On the right of the bridge.B. At the end of Campus Centre Walk.C. Opposite the Physical Education building.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What does Tina use to cure a cold?A. Medi
6、cine. B. Ginger. C. Cold water.9. How old is Tinas grandmother now?A. 93 years old. B. 94 years old. C. 95 years old.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. How does the woman go to work?A. By car. B. By running. C. By bus.11. What feeling does the woman get from running?A. Free. B. Peaceful. C. Tired.12. How will the
7、 man train for the big race?A. Run to work. B. Run at a gym. C. Run around a park.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What is the man doing?A. Asking for help. B. Making an appointment. C. Offering suggestions.14. What will Jane and Helen do next weekend?A. Enjoy themselves with Susan.B. Go hiking in the mountains
8、.C. Do some holiday shopping.15. When did the woman go climbing last time?A. About two years ago. B. About a year ago. C. About a month ago.16. What do we know about Susan?A. She is familiar with Helen.B. She has good organization skills.C. Shes Johns girlfriend.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What kind of pl
9、ace is the speaker mainly describing?A. A famous restaurant chain.B. A local cafe in South Africa.C. An unknown restaurant.18. What might you see when you go to the dining room?A. Forest. B. Fish. C. Real wild animals.19. How would the speaker like the visitors to feel?A. Concerned about the environ
10、ment.B. Happy with the delicious food.C. Willing to help the poor.20. What are the main dishes served with?A. Traditional drinks. B. Beautiful flowers. C. Cultural stories.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2.5分，满分37.5分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中，选出最佳选项。AEvents at The University of ManchesterTelesco
11、pe Walking ToursWell be hosting our popular Telescope Walking Tours daily from 5 July to 5 August, 2021. You can join one of our friendly Explainers as they take you for a walk around the base of the impressive Lovell Telescope. Youll explore its amazing history and discover some of its ground-break
12、ing research. Walking Tours last about 45 minutes, will take place indoors if wet, and are available on a drop-in basis.Art BasketAre you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic basket with a difference.Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special bask
13、ets-free and available at any time during gallery opening hours, daily from 31 May to 31 August, 2021. Pack your basket full of art materials and head off to our galleries. Come back later, and wed love to see what youve done.Elizabeth PriceBringing together many new and well-known works, including
14、drawings, sculptures and videos, the exhibition will start on 1 March.2021 and it runs till 25 May. 2021.Her Turner Prize winning THE WOOLWORTHS CHOIR of 1979, remembering that terrible fire in Manchester, will he shown in the city for the first time.Childrens Story CompetitionFrom The Very Hungry C
15、aterpillar and Charlottes Web to Spiderman, insects have inspired countless much-loved stories and comics. Enter your ideas into our story competition lasting from 5 March to 1 June, 2021. Winners in each age category will he chosen by experts and professional writers and will be featured in a speci
16、al exhibition publication in summer 2021.21. What can you do on Telescope Walking Tours?A. To experience a space walk. B. To take exercise indoors or outdoors.C. To learn some knowledge of astronomy. D. To explore the historic buildings on foot.22. When will the exhibition event close?A. On May 25,
17、2021. B. On August 5, 2021. C. On June 1, 2021. D. On August 31, 2021.23. Which event will last longest?A. Telescope Walking Tours. B. Art Basket.C. Elizabeth Price. D. Childrens Story Competition.BFor a long time hikers in Japan have considered a bear bell essential. Its tinny ring is said to scare
18、 off huge creatures. Nowadays, however, bear bells are increasingly useful on the way to the shops as well as in the wild. The number of animals-whether hears, boars or monkeys-is expanding, and they are going into villages and towns, says Hiroto Enari of Yamagata University.Japan is home to many sp
19、ecies of wild animals, including both black and brown bears. Estimates of their numbers are unstable, but since the 2000s the number of bear sightings has been rising. There were close to 13,000 in 2021 alone. The reappearance has its roots in the truth: the shrinking of Japans population is especia
20、lly sharp in rural areas, where it is more serious by ongoing urbanization. The reducing quantity of people, in turn, has emboldened(使大胆)animals. Bears are less limited about entering villages in broad daylight if there are few folks around, Mr Enari says. Indeed, the biggest jumps in sightings have
21、 been where the population is falling fastest.Hunting is declining in Japan, too. Government data suggest that the average hunter is now 68 years old. The countrys many forests and mountains provide an expansive habitat for wild animals. Indeed, the true wilderness is growing as foresters and farmer
22、s die off. Bears become particularly bold in years when acorns(橡实)are scarce, sneaking into orchards(果园)to steal fruits.While some welcome their reappearance, others suffer from it. Every year bears injure scores of people, and kill a handful. Deer cause damage to farmland and speed up erosion by, f
23、or example, eating up grass. Simple solutions, such as changing the layout around villages or putting up fences, are rarely used. Instead，many bears are captured or killed. In 2013 the government decided to halve the number of certain types of deer, boars and monkeys by 2023. Japan is struggling to
24、adapt to the changing power balance between animals and people, says Mr Enari.24. In Japan, what were the bear bells first used for?A. Warning people of bears appearance. B. Safeguarding the shops and villages.C. Driving away various wild animals. D. Scaring off bears for the hikers.25. What can we
25、learn from paragraph 2?A. It is hard to see a brown bear in Japan.B. The number of bear sightings has declined since 2000.C. Japans reducing population is a main cause for bears reappearance.D. Bears appear most frequently where the population increases fastest.26. What is the other cause for wild a
26、nimals reappearance?A. The increase of forests. B. The decline of hunting.C. The reduction of their habitats. D. The death of foresters and farmers.27. What is the last paragraph mainly about?A. The problem wild animals bring about and related measures to handle it.B. Japanese peoples attitude to th
27、e reappearance of wild animals.C. Methods for killing wild animals and the governments attitude to them.D. The wild animals future Japanese experts expect.CAs scientific meetings are canceled worldwide, researchers are rethinking how they network a move that should have done earlier. At some point,
28、we need to he having conversations about What is the point of a conference now? says Sarah Horst, a planetary scientist.Meeting spaces that are inaccessible to some disabled scientists, health considerations, a lack of access to childcare and travel restrictions can all end up alienating(疏远)potentia
29、l attendees from physical conferences. Theres a large appetite for alternative conference set-ups, says Divya Persaud, a planetary scientist. She and Eleanor Armstrong, a UCL sociologist of space science, have a grant from their university to hold an experimental virtual conference, called Space Sci
30、ence in Context, in May. The conference aims to improve accessibility. Participants will watch recorded talks ahead of time and then join in online conversations on the day of the conference. Persaud says that the response to plans for the meeting, which launched its save-the-date website last week,
31、 has been overwhelmingly positive. But she also points out that many of the adjustments that conferences are making, such as introducing virtual participation, are accommodations for which disabled scientists have been demanding loudly for years, and its a shame that it took a global health crisis t
32、o make them happen.Still, as conference organizers are finding out, making these changes, especially on short notice, is no easy thing. The European Geophysical Union(EGU)general conference is scheduled for 3-8 May in Vienna, and session leaders are making other plans in case it is canceled. Those intending to participate in the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this week in The Woodlands. Texas, fou
