1、德阳市高中2020级质量监测考试(二)英语试卷注意事项:1.本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第卷(非选择题)两部分,全卷150分,考试时间120分钟。2.答题前,考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上指定的位置。3.全部答案在答题卡上完成,答在本试卷上无效。考试结束后,将答题卡交回。第1卷(选择题 共100分)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
2、段对话后,你都有10秒种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。1. Where does the conversation take place ?A. At school. B. At home C. At a shop.2. Whats the season now?A.Summer. B. Fall. C.Winter. 3. When does the man want to go to the library?A. On Saturday.B. On Sunday. C. On Monday.4. What does the woman suggest the man
3、 do? A. Get some more wood from outside.B. Turn up the gas in the fireplace. C. Let the wood burn a bit more.5. Why didnt Mary sleep well? A. She had a headache. B. She was troubled by noise. C. She had a stomachache.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,从每题所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应
4、位置，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 will the mar do on Saturday night?A. Pick up the womans sister. B. Watch a DVD. C. Go to a club.7. What day is it today? A. Friday. B. Saturday. C. Sunday. 听第7段材料,回答第8.9题。8. Where does the woman plan to go?A. San Fr
5、ancisco. B.Sacramento. C. Los Angeles. 9.Whats the best way to see California according to the man? A. Go there by plane.B. Take the train along the coast.C. Go through the center of California.听第 8段材料回答第10至 12 题。10. Why does the man like to go listening to music?A. To make new friends. B. To kill t
6、ime. C. To learn from others. 11. What hobby do the speakers share?A. Going to concerts.B. Playing musical instruments. C. Listening to pop music.12. How will the speakers improve their theory of music?A. By turning to the mans uncle for advice. B. By practicing playing music every day. C. By exchan
7、ging experience with each other.听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。13. How did the woman get the computer?A. She ordered it. B. She borrowed it. C. She got it as a gift. 14. What surprises the man about the computer?A. The size.B. The price. C. The color.15. What did the woman do in the cafe today?A. She talked with
8、a friend. B. She worked on her resume. C. She looked for a job there.16. How does the woman feel about noisy cafes?A. She dislikes the noise,B. She ignores the noiseC.she is inspired by the noise.听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至20 题。17. Whats the talk mainly about?A. A history of electronics. B. Hearing loss caus
9、ed by loud music C. Different ways to listen to music, 18. How many students involved in the study probablyset no limit on their listening time? A.Over 150. B. About 120. C. Around 300. 19.Who was asked about their use of musicplayers?A. Only students. B. Only adults. 5 Both students and adults. 8.
10、What do studies show about hearing loss? A. It happens very quickly.B. It will last throughout your life. C. It is caused by noise below level 90. 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分,满分30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(、B.C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AHere are live online conversations for the International Booker
11、Prize.At Night All Blood Is Black Thu 13 May 19:30-20:30French-Senegaleseauthor David Diops short novel AtNight All Blood Is Black,paintsa completely different picture of the cruel 1914-18 conflict.This event includesa short performed reading from the novel by actor Ken Nwosu. The EmployeesThu 29 Ap
12、r 19:30-20:30Sinceshepublished her first novel Celestine in 2015,Olga Ravn has come to be regarded as one ofthe most influential writers in contemporary Danish literature. Her new book, The Employeestakes readers aboard the Six-Thousand Ship as it flies through the far universein the 22nd century.Th
13、is event includes a short performed reading from The Employees by actor Lucy Phelps.We Cease to Understand the World Thu 20 May19:30-20:30It isLabatuts third book, which has been translated from the Spanish version by writer and translator Adrian Nathan West who used his knowledge of World War ll an
14、d soughtout original documents from scientific history into English.This eventincludes a short performed reading from the novel by actor Fiona Shaw, The War of the PoorThu 27 May 19:30-20:30Writerandfilm-maker Erie Vuillard became famous in his native France when he won the Prix Goncourt in 2017 for
15、 his novel The Order ofthe Day, set in Austria during the Second WorldWar.Hell join us this evening to discuss his latest work.This event includes short performed reading from the novel by actor Ken Nwosu.21. Who wrote a book about space lie?A. David Diop. B. Olga Ravn. C. Labatut. D. Eric Vuillard.
16、 22.Which books author will appear in the online conversations?A. At Night All Blood Is Black. B. The Employee C. We Cease to Understand the World. D. The War of the Poor. 23.What do the four conversations have in common?A. The guests do some reading of the novels. B. The guests have a talk about th
17、e novels. C. They refer to some brief reviews.D. They start at the same time. BWe sat at home, waiting forthe COVID-19 cases to decrease and for the weather to improve. Weall dreamed of what we would do when we could finally go outside.Irode my old bike faithfully for almost 20 years before getting
18、the replacement, which the got stolen forcing me back to Old Faithful. The weak-minded might have abandoned biking completely at that point, but not me. Biking means freedom.Everyspring Iget Old Faithful ready. She is getting old, with more replacement parts than originals. But with all bikestores b
19、eing low on new models, she is all I have. On my bike, as long as Im alive and eating, Ive got fuel and can pedal to the ends of Earth if l want. No obstacle is impassable. Jammed roads mean nothing. I can still weave between cars in traffic. This memory of freedom means even more to me with the exp
20、erience of lockdown.Society gritted its teeth(咬紧牙关)in the knowledge that we just had to tough it out for a year to get to the other side.ThenDelta hit. Then Omicron. A year turned into two, and thats when the walls really started closing in. Thats when we really/needed hope. So, l count the days unt
21、il I can return to my bike. On my bike, I achieve another state of mind. I would push myself to reach the top each time. I wanted to feel that little thrill of making it to the summit, knowing that doing so told me once again that I could go anywhere and that nothing could hold me back. I was free.E
22、very few yearsI add a new ache or pain. I am starting to get old. I cant cycle as fast asIusedto. But every timeI encounter a hill,I dont give up. Im waiting for that first warm day when Ill escape the pandemic walls. I want to put on my helmet and for onebrief, beautiful moment, be free again. 24.
23、What caused the author to ride Old Faithful? A. He had his bike stolen unluckily. B. He wanted to replace the old one. C.He hopedto go through hisisolation.D. He wished to avoid its becoming dusty.25. What does Paragraph 3 want to say? A.The limitation of driving vehicles. B. The advantages of ridin
24、g his bike. C. The hardship to find bike originals. D The special experience of lockdown.26.What does the underlined sentence “Society gritted . in Paragraph 4 mean?A. Keep something for a rainy day. B. Be a playboy without ambition. C. A good medicine tastes bitter. D. Holding on makes life hopeful
25、. 27. Whats the main idea of the passage?A. Tough situations make me stronger and smarter.B.The pandemic lockdown can not lock my dreams away C.What I want to do when the pandemic lockdown ends.D.How Irelieved my pressure during the pandemic lockdown.CWHATSFOR dinner? The answer matters, at every le
26、vel. Globally, food prices have risen in 13 of the past 15 months and are close to their peak of 2011, owing to poor weather and the outbreak of a swine-flu in2018. In reality, agriculture uses half the worlds habitableland and accounts for morethan 30% of global emissions. When one such factory inT
27、eesside,innorthernEngland, recently threatened to shut down because of high natural gas prices, the government had to step in to preventfood supply chains from collapsing.Fortunately,technologies are emerging that promise to produce food in new ways. These range from bioreactors that grow meat to in
28、door“vertical” farms and new ways of producing fish. So it is easy to see how steaks made from plant-based protein, or grown in vats(桶)from cells, could greatly reduce factory farming and land and water use, and produce fewer emissions.That does not mean people will be willing to eat it, however. Gi
29、ven foods cultural importance, people dont respond actively to new foodstuffs and production processes, because they feared it caused something harmful.At the same time traditional foods and farming model are adored. Many Western consumers are willing to pay extra for food, because it avoids“chemica
30、ls”. Yet supposedly timeless food traditions are often shallower than they seem. Potatoes were eventually widely adoptedin Europe(theinvention of French fries helped). Coffee from Arabia and tea from China were unknown in Europe before the 17th century.The new foods and processes on offer today pres
31、ent opportunities to create delicious and sustainable newtraditions.Western consumers should put aside their reservations about eating crickets and give plant-based burgers and 3D-printed steaks a try.Regulators should be more opento gene-editing crops, and speed up approval of eatable insects for a
32、nimal feed and human consumption.28. What does the author aim to stress in paragraph 1?A. Food system faces pressure from some factors. B.Food production causes more serious pollution. C.Agriculture plays important roles in the world. D. Food safety is vitally significant for people29. What can we i
33、nfer from Paragraph 2?A.Livestock tends to decline in the futureB.Plant-based protein will be more popular. C. Technology will make a huge difference. D.Agricultural land should be well protected30. Whats consumers attitude to new foodstuff?A.Favorable. B. Skeptical. C. Indifferent. D. Unclear. 31.
34、Whats the suitable title for the passage? A.To eat or not to eat: thats a question that you have. B.What you eat: a diverse food culture appealing to youC. New ways to make food are coming-but will you bite? D.A new era in technology is approaching-but are you ready? DFor years, the conventional wis
35、dom among Silicon Valley futurists was that artificial intelligence andautomation indicated doom(厄运)for blue- collar workers whose jobs involved repetitive physical labor. Truck drivers, retail cashiers and warehouse workers would all lose their jobs to robots, they said, while workers in creative f
36、ields like art, entertainment and media would besafe.Well, an unexpected thing happened recently:A.I. entered the creative class.In the past fewmonths,A.I.-based image generators like DALL-E 2,Midjourney and StableDiffusion havemade it possible for anyone to create unique,hyper-realistic images just
37、 by typing a few words into atext box. These apps, though new, are already surprisingly popular.Its still too early totell whether this new wave of apps will end up costing artists and illustrators their jobs. What seemsclear,though, is that these tools are already being put to use in creative indus
38、tries.SarahDrummond，a servicedesigner in London, started using A.I.-generated images afewmonths ago to replacethe black-and-white sketches she did for her job. These were usuallybasic drawings that visually represented processes she was trying to design improvements for.Instead of spending hours cre
39、ating what she called“blob drawings”manually，Ms. Drummond，36，nowtypes what she wants into DALL-E 2 or Midjourney. Ms. DrummondacknowledgedthatA.Iimage generators had limitations. They arent good at more complex sketches, for example, or creating multiple images with the same character. And like the
40、other creative professionals,she said she didnt think A.I. designers would replace human illustrators completely.“Would I use it for final output? No. I would hire someone to fully make what we wanted to realize,she said.“But the throwaway work that you do when youre any kind of designer,whether its
41、 visual, architectural, urban planner - youre sketching, sketching sketching. And so this is a sketch tool.”32. Whats the conventional wisdom about?A.AI can learn to create unique images. B. Robots will be popular in all the fieldsC.AI will take the place of physicallabor.D. Apps will give birth to
42、some problems. 33.Whats the character of DALL-E 2or Midjourney according to Sara? A.It gets drawing skills improved. B. It helps in some basic drawings C.It makes sketches more diverseD. It is creative as well as humans.34.What does the underlined word “manually in Paragraph 5 mean?A. By machine. B.
43、 By imagination C. By technology.D. By hand. 35, Whats the passage mainly about? A. A.I.-generated art is already transforming creative work.B. The apps are getting artists losing their jobs at present being.C. Science and technology completely change peoples life now.D. Two useful drawing tools are
44、 designed for artists in their life.第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)根据短文内容,从短文后的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。If you are still a student,then your financial picture is much different than someone just starting out in the workforce.You have not yet started making real money, and your focus is primarily on your s
45、tudies and having fun 36 In fact,when youre away from home, your parents expect you to be responsible for yourself and this includes taking care of your own finances, Your parents give you money every month. 37 The first thing that you should do is to write down your allowance and expenses for the m
46、onth. What you are doing is actually budgeting your money. In this way, you can set aside a small amount for your savings.38 One way of cutting cost is eating in. It is cheaper than eating out. Moreover, by booking your own meals. you have greater control over what you eat. And you also have a quiet
47、er environment as well. 39 If you know of your classmates who live in the same area as you, you can consider driving to college together. This saves on petrol and parking.In addition,when you are shopping, compare prices from one shop to another before making your purchase.40 However, sales where pr
48、ices are marked down greatly ca sometimes persuade you to buy things which you dont really need. Therefore, be careful and dont give in to temptation(诱惑).A. Besides that, take win- win policies.B.How can you save money to purchase what you like?C.However, it is important to establish good financial habits D.Then what should you do to manage your money sensibly? E.you can, wa
