1、1/112021-2022学年度下学期英语期中考试英语试题（考试时间：120分钟试卷满分：150分）命题：陈芳、朱丹审题：谢涛第部分 听（共两节，满分30分）第节（共5题；每题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下5段对话。每段对话后有个题，从题中所给的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题和阅读下题。每段对话仅读遍。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19. 15.B. 9. 18.C. 9. 15.答案是 C。1. Where does this conversation take place?A. In a classroom.B
2、. In a sales department.C. In a museum.2. How long can the man keep the books?A. For only today.B. For six days.C. For two weeks.3. What are the speakers talking about?A. A group project.B. A math project.C. A plan for the week.4. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Boss and employee.B.
3、 Doctor and patient.C. Teacher and student.5. Why does the man call Ginos?A. To call off his book.B. To book a table for four.C. To change his original book.第节（共15题，每题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下 5段对话或独。每段对话或独后有个题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独前，你将有时间阅读各个题，每题5秒钟；听完后，各题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. Wh
4、y is Maria Fernandez not in the office?A. Shes on her lunch break.B. Shes answering a phone call. C. Shes having lunch with her friends.7. What is the mans number?A. 0746-0290128.B. 0746-0990188.C. 0746-0299128.听第7段材料，回答第810题。8. What is Selinas reflection towards seeing Patric?A. Embarrassed.B. Disa
5、ppointed.C. Surprised.2/119. Why is London mentioned in the conversation?A. Patric thought Selina was there.B. Patric wanted to work there.C. Patric lived there for fifteen years.10. How does Selina feel about Patrics situation?A. Amazed.B. Happy.C. Understanding.听第8段材料，回答第1113题。11. What does the ma
6、n want to do?A. Change the meeting time.B. Move to a new place.C. Ask Anna for advice.12. Which suggestion that Anna puts forward suits the man?A. Postpone it to the evening.B. Have a discussion about the time.C. Bring it forward to earlier in the morning.13. How will Anna let Sven get the news?A. B
7、y leaving a message.B. By sending an email.C. By telephoning him.听第9段材料，回答第1417题。14. What does the woman want to know?A. European mathematicians.B. The Middle Ages.C. Fibonacci numbers.15. What is the woman worried?A. Its a silly question.B. The man will be angry.C. The man cant explain it clearly.1
8、6. Whats the mans attitude towards the womans question?A. Opposing.B. Encouraging.C. Disgusting.17. Who was Fibonacci?A. A European mathematician.B. A lecturer in the Middle Ages.C. A programmer good at numbers.听第10段材料，回答第1820题。18. When will the clouds clear up today?A. By breakfast time.B. By lunch
9、time.C. By suppertime.19. Whats the weather like by the weekend?A. Isolated showers.B. Dry and sunny.C. Cloudy skies and rain.20. What will the temperatures be for the weekend?A.Around 21degrees.B.Around 29degrees.C.Around 32degrees.3/11第部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）第节 （共15题；每题2.5分，满分37.5分）阅读下列短，从每题所给的A、B、C 和D 四个
10、选项中，选出最佳选项。ABestApps to Help Kids Learn to ReadInteractiveAlphabetABCsYour little one will sing, trace, and type his way to becoming a reader with this interactive app.Explore mode allows your child to discover letters and sounds at his own pace. Sing mode will havehim singing the alphabet with 26da
11、ncing robots, and trace mode includes letters, words, custom words,and left-handed support.Ages: 1-5Price: $2.99EndlessAlphabetThis educational app focuses on letter recognition, sounds, and vocabulary building. Each wordyour child is given features a puzzle with talking letters, and a short animati
12、on(动画) illustrating thedefinition. The cute monsters that are featured are an added bonus.Ages: 2-5Price: $6.99Learn with HomerBased on Harvard and Stanford research, Learn with Homer offers personalized readinginstruction to help ready children for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. It helps
13、 kids learn to readby progressively covering over 50 reading skills, including phonics, pronunciation, upper- andlowercase letter recognition and more.Ages: 3-6Price: FreeNoodleWordsHas your child ever made the word spin actually spin, or the word jump actually jump? TheNoodle Bugs display the word
14、meanings of each of the words in the app through animated funnybehaviors and your child can interact with the words by using the iPads touch screen.Ages: 4-7Price: $2.9921. Whats special about InteractiveAlphabetABCs?A. It has separate modes.B. It is only for left-handed users.C. It is adapted for k
15、ids of all ages.D. It is aimed to practice kidsreading skills.22.What do EndlessAlphabet and Noodle Words have in common?A. They both provide puzzles .B. They both have insert animation.C. They both stress the importance of reading. D. They both focus on learning the basic alphabet.23. WhichAPPfavor
16、s the kids from rather low-income families?4/11A. EndlessAlphabet.B. Learn with Homer.C. Noodle Words. D. InteractiveAlphabetABCs.BTwelve-year-old Lydia Denton was recently named the winner of CITGOs Fueling EducationStudent Challenge, where she earned $20,000 after creating the Beat the Heat Car Se
17、at, which is aportable device placed in the car seat that not only senses weight over five pounds but monitorstemperature when the baby is in the seat.The soon-to-be seventh grader says she became inspired to make the invention after watching thenews that babies were being left in hot cars, often by
18、 accident.“At first, I thought about raising moneyfor the families, but that wouldnt fix the problem: I wanted to invent something that could prevent thedeaths from happening.”Lydias device is started when it senses the weight of the child and the temperature setting reachesover 100 F (38). At that
19、point, an alarm goes off and a warning is sent via SMS to the parents. If theparents dont reset the device within 60 seconds, a built-in GPS chip sends a message to localauthorities with the vehicles location. After many rounds of testing with her local 911, Lydia is proudto say that Beat the Heat C
20、ar Seat is a success.Though many newer vehicles come with warning systems and smart seat systems, Lydias goalwas to create a device that would reach more people and that could also transfer from car seat to carseat as the child grew. She decided to use her prize money to continue making improvements
21、 on thedevice, which would sell for only about $40.Lydia is now working with an instructor who is helping her with production and teaching herabout business. Lydia hopes that her work will inspire more kids of her age to make their ideas cometrue. “Dont think that you have to accept things in the wo
22、rld. If there is something that bothers you,think of ways to make it better!”24Why did Lydia make the invention?ATo win 20,000-dollar prize.BTo raise money for unlucky families.CTo help stop babies dying in hot cars.DTo guarantee babiessafety in a car crash.25What does Paragraph 3mainly tell us abou
23、t the device?AHow it works.BWhat it consists of.CWhy it raises the alarm.DHow parents respond to it.26How will Lydias future device differ fromother smart seat systems?AIt will be much stronger.BIt will be more affordable.CIt will be less problematic.DIt will be more effective on older kids.27What c
24、an we learn from Lydias story?ANo competition, no progress.BIts never too late to go into business.5/11COne should be open to any suggestion.DCreative thinking is the key to success.CResearchers at CU Boulder have developed a wearable device that changes the human body into abiological battery. The
25、device is stretchy(弹性的) enough that you can wear it like a ring, sport band orany other thing that touches your skin. It also taps into a persons natural heat-employing thermoelectricgenerators to change the bodys internal temperature into electricity. In the future, we want to be ableto power your
26、wearable electronics without having to include a battery, said Jianliang Xiao, anassociate professor at CU Boulder.The concept may sound like something out of The Matrix film series, in which a race of robotshave enslaved humans to harvest their precious organic energy. Xiao and his colleagues arent
27、 thatambitious: Their devices can generate about 1volt (伏特) of energy for every square centimeter of skinspace-less volt per area than what most existing batteries provide but still enough to power electronicslike watches or fitness trackers.Scientists have previously experimented with similar weara
28、ble devices, but Xiaos is stretchy, canheal itself when damaged and is fully recyclable-making it a cleaner alternative to traditionalelectronics. Whenever you use a battery, youre depleting(消耗) that battery and will, eventually, needto replace it, Xiao said. The nice thing about our device is that
29、you can wear it, and it provides youwith constant power.Just pretend that youre out for a jog. As you exercise, your body heats up, and that heat willradiate out to the cool air around you. Xiaos device captures that flow of energy rather than let it go towaste. The thermoelectric generators are in
30、close contact with the human body, and they can use theheat that would normally be sent into the environment, Xiao said.28. What does Xiao expect of his device at present?A. It will be used for medical purposes.B. It will be made smaller and wearable.C. It will change natural power into electricity.
31、D. It will supply constant power to wearable devices.29. Why does the author mentionThe Matrix series in the text?A. To give an explanation.B. To make a comparison.C. To introduce a topic.D. To analyze the cause.30. What does the third paragraph mainly talk about?A. The strengths of Xiaos device.B.
32、The convenience of using a battery.C. The replacement of wearable devices.D. The development of traditional electronics.31. What do we know about Xiaos device fromthe text?6/11A. It operates with plenty of power.B. It is designed for practical use.C. It benefits peoples health in a way.D. Its based
33、on traditional electronics.DThese days its hard not to have an opinion about Amazon. While some choose to focus on thenegative, including workplace environment concerns in some of its warehouses or the impact thatonline retail has had on traditional physical retail stores, many others are extraordin
34、arily grateful for theability the company has provided during the pandemic（流病）to easily order almost anything andreceive it in a timely, reliable manner without having to step outside their homes.The debate is the positive impact that the company is having on small businesses, includingminority-owne
35、d businesses.Amazons Prime Day Event (scheduled for Oct. 13-14) offers an interestingexample.Given the convenience of huge traffic( 物流) on Prime Day, thats powerful motivation forconsumers to purchase from small businesses something that a lot of people may not have tried justyet. The move also enco
36、urages the company which helps small businesses across the US, whichrepresent over 99.5% of all US businesses and employ half the countrys workforce. While many mightassume thatAmazon and other online retailers have only negatively impacted small businesses (and, nodoubt, many small businesses have
37、been hurt by the rapid shift to online shopping brought on by thepandemic), theres a whole range of small businesses that have benefited from being onAmazon.Some of these are existing small businesses that have successfully transitioned to functioning inthe digital world of online shopping, while ot
38、hers are new small businesses that have been createdspecifically for the online world, including app developers, content creators, and more. Toyin Kolawole,an entrepreneur who immigrated to the U.S. from Nigeria about 20 years ago, provides somefascinating experiences. “I started my company with two
39、 products and would go to food shows tryingto get noticed,” she said. “It was very expensive to participate and hard to make an impact.” But sheeventually succeeded in getting some of her products into Walmart and Marianos. “With Amazon, Icould take my flour and just put it in the flour section, so
40、it gave me the opportunity to compete fairly,”she says.32. What is implied aboutAmazon in the first paragraph?A. Most people pay little attention to small business onAmazon recently.B. People are rarely concerned about the workplace environment in some of its warehouses.C. Many people think it has n
41、egative impact on traditional physical retail stores.D. Many are satisfied with the convenience it brings to their shopping during the pandemic.33. What can we know about Prime Day Event onAmazon?A. Consumers are motivated to do online shopping for convenient delivery on that day.7/11B. The interest
42、ing event ofAmazon is scheduled from now to October 13-14.C. The event represents 99.5% of US businesses and employs half the countrys workforce.D. This event has done more harm to small businesses by the rapid shift to online shopping.34. What does the underlined word “transitioned” in Paragraph 4m
43、ean?A.Adapted.B. Related.C. Changed.D. Contributed.35. What does Toyin Kolawole mostly probably think ofAmazon?A. It was very expensive to start the small business onAmazon.B. It was helpful for her to be given the opportunity to compete fairly.C. It was hard to make her products to have an impact o
44、nAmazon.D. It was useless to go to food shows trying to get noticed onAmazon.第节 (共5题；每题2.5分，满分12.5分)根据短内容， 从短后的选项中选出能填空处的最佳选项。 选项中有两项为多余选项。Will Covid-19Kill the Handshake?The handshake might date back to the 14thcentury, when knights and soldiers would extend theirunclenched（松开的） right hands toward
45、each other in greeting to show that they were carrying noweapons.36Or rather, its tendency for picking up and holding onto germs(细菌) from pollutedsurfaces, or fromour own eyes or noses when we have certain illnesses. Those germs can then betransferred into the hands of the people we greet, while we
46、can pick up their germs. We then willprobably touch our own eyes or noses or mouths, potentially sickening ourselves and restarting thecycle.Now that a novel coronavirus is spreading fast, our hands are being cast in a new, doubtful light.37And lately, the Internet has been full of suggestions for s
47、ocially acceptable ways to greet eachother that dont involve passing germs along unintentionally from one person to the next.38In fact, the tradition of shaking hands isnt the only greeting to take a fresh look. A Maoritribe in New Zealand put the brakes on hongi, the traditional nose-to-nose hello.
48、39Maybepeople will stop making fun of the Hollywood air kiss, though its not a huge improvement health-wise.COVID-19is a real threat, and we shouldnt take the warning lightly. We may, indeed, need to keepour hands to ourselves for the time being. But were not ready to send handshake into the dustbin
49、 ofhistory. Humans long for making a physical connection with friends. For now, perhaps, a regretfulsmile and nod might work as a shared acknowledgment.40A. Could we hug each other or nod?8/11B. Could this be the end of the handshake?C. As we all know, shaking hands has become a habit.D. After all,
50、our friendly intentions were not to infect or be infected by others.E. These days, it would seem, the potential weapon isnt a knife, but the hand itself.F. Were being drilled in handwashing techniques as if we were all second-graders.G. The French have been advised to abandon the familiar kiss on th
