1、20202021 学年安徽名校第一学期期末联考英语本试卷由四个部分组成。其中，第一、二部分和第三部分的第一节为选择题。第三部分的第二 节和第四部分为非选择题。考试时间 120 分钟，满分 150 分。考生注意事项：1. 答题前，考生务必在试题卷、答题卡规定的地方填写自己的姓名、座位号。2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本 试卷上无效。3. 考试结束，务必将试题卷和答题卡一并上交。第一部分听力（共两节，满分 30 分）回答听力部分时，请先将答案标在试卷上。听力部
2、分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将你的答案 转涂到客观题答题卡上。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。1. How often will the woman take the piano lessons?A. Once a week.B. Twice a week.C. Three times a week.2. What is the woman looking for?A.
3、 A key.B. A car.C. A bag.3. What did the woman feed the birds on?A. Potato chips.B. Ice cream.C. Bread.4. Where does this conversation take place?A. At a wine store.B. In a restaurant.C. In the mans house.5. What is the man going to do?A. Take a shower.B. See a doctor.C. Feed the cats and dogs.第二节（共
4、 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， 并标在试卷的相应位置。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 至 7 题。6. Whats the womans major?A. Computer science.B. Engineering.C. Math.7. What does the man say about Professor Murphy?A. He is
5、scary.B. He is not tall.C. He is very big.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。8. Where is the school guard?A. Under a big tree.B. Near a small house.C. In the classroom building.9. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Report it to the school guard.B. Check the classroom again.C. Go to the Lost & Found office.
6、听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What kind of research paper is required?A. A report.B. A book review.C. A study.11. What can we learn about the examination?A. It has at least five pages.B. There are 100 questions to answer.C. It covers the lectures and outside readings.12. What will Jane take?A. The exam
7、ination.B. The research paper.C. We dont know.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Where does the man teach?A. In a high school.B. In a primary school.C. In a training centre.14. What does the woman think of the children in Asian countries?A. They learn very fast.B. They are clever.C. They may be tired.15. Wh
8、at subjects does the training centre teach?A. Maths and English.B. Painting and English.C. Singing and English.16. Why do the children like the mans lessons?A. He tried to teach them very patiently.B. He tried to make his lessons interesting.C. He tried to make himself understood.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至
9、20 题。17. How old was Florence when she died?A. Seventy.B. Eighty.C. Ninety.18. What made Florence want to be a nurse?A. The sick animals.B. The visits to the poor.C. The war in 1854.19. What happened to Florence in the Crimea?A. She was wounded.B. She was caught.C. She became ill.20. What did Floren
10、ce do in London later?A. She started a school.B. She taught in a school.C. She worked in a hospital.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，共 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（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。ASummerAuthor: Ali SmithPrice: 16. 99Ali Smiths Summer continues the interplay between the recent past and modern day
11、 society that marked out her works as insightful. The top of a hugely ambitious and fastpaced literary project that aims to display the state of the nation with burning immediacy（直观性）, Summer is one of 2020 s absolute must-reads.ActressAuthor: Anne EnrightPrice: 16. 99A beautifully realised novel of
12、 mother-daughter relationships and the dark side of fame and adulatio（n 吹捧）, Actress skillfully unpacks the secrets and lies of a wellknown theatre performer and the effects of her bad fame on the child who admired her. With a sharp eye for female interaction and familial meaning, Actress finds the
13、former Booker Prize-winner on excellent form.Redhead by the Side of the Road Author: Anne TylerPrice: 14. 99Redhead by the Side of the Road is both a deliciously perfect love story and a character study of a lovableeccentric（古怪的人）, stuck in his ways. Showing the emotional warmth that has made her bo
14、th a critical darling and a beloved popular author, this is Anne Tyler at her winning best.Grown UpsAuthor: Marian KeyesPrice: 20. 00There are few writers as capable of showing the frictions of family life with as much humour and accuracy as Marian Keyes and her latest sees her on flashing form. Whe
15、n one womans accident leads to an outpouring of long- contained complaints and secrets, it calls into question just how civilised and “ grown-up” any of us actually are.（）21. What is special about Summer?A. It is about the reflection of the country.B. It shows the bad side of the daily life.C. It sh
16、ows how a country grew stronger.D. It tells the fast pace of the present life.（）22. What will you see in the book Actress?A. The hard work of performance.B. The glory of the film star.C. The bitter side of a mother.D. The growth of a rising star.（）23. Which of the following shows the everyday life o
17、f a lovely couple?A. ActressB. SummerC. Grown UpsD. Redhead by the Side of the RoadBIt was a hot Summer day a few years ago. I had just pulled into the local gas station to fill my tank. After pumping the gas I started to walk inside to pay. That is when I noticed them. Two elderly women stood back
18、from their car.There was a mixture of shock, fear, and horror on their faces. I looked and saw what they saw. Five yellow jackets had started to build a nest around their gas cap. My eyes widened. I shared the ladies fear.Yellow jackets had never been friends of mine. Several times these bad tempere
19、d wasp（s 黄蜂） had attackedme while I was mowing my lawn giving me multiple stings（叮咬） each time I ran over their ground nests. They are the reason why I never repair my lawn in shorts anymore. The worst time, however, happened when I was a young boy. A friend of mine and I were running and playing in
20、 my backyard. I must have stepped on one of their hiddennests again because before I knew it both of us were being chased and stung over and over by the yellow jackets while we ran away screaming. I ran to my Mom with tears in my eyes. She immediately ran a cold bath and put us both in it to ease th
21、e pain and itching （发痒） before giving us medicine to fight all the poison in our little bodies from the stings.Still, I knew I couldnt let fear stop me now. I reached into my back pocket for a paper towel I had there, toreout the nest and stepped on it while the angry wasps buzzed around me. Both of
22、 the ladies thanked me and I said, “You re welcome! ” with a smile and a happy heart.（）24. Why were the two elderly ladies scared in the oil station?A. They couldnt find the way back home.B. They couldnt afford the things they wanted.C. They were afraid of being stung by some pests.D. They were afra
23、id of being forced out of the room.（）25. What did the writer do in case of being stung when repairing the lawn?A. Wear a mask.B. Apply some medicine.C. Wear shorts.D. Wear thick and long clothes.（）26. Which of the following word can best describe the writers early experience?A. Lucky.B. Miserable.C.
24、 Exciting.D. Instructive.（）27. How did the writer drove away the wasps?A. By spraying some medicine.B. By destroying their homes.C. By covering their nests with paper.D. By burning down them.CEven in the first few months of life, children begin to experiment with language. Young babies make soundsth
25、at imitate（模仿） the tones and rhythms of adult talk; they “ read” gestures and facial expressions, and they begin to associate sounds frequently heard words with their objects in the mind. They delight in listening to familiar rhymes, play along in games such as peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake, and play wi
26、th objects such as board books and alphabet blocks in their play. From these remarkable beginnings children learn to use a variety of symbols.In the course of gaining facility with these symbol systems, children acquire through interactions with othersthe insight that specific kinds of marks print a
27、lso can represent meanings. At first children will use the physical and visual cues（提示） surrounding print to determine what something says. But as they develop an understanding of the alphabetic principle, children begin to process letters, translate them into sounds, and connect this information wi
28、th a known meaning. Although it may seem as though some children acquire these understandings magically or on their own, studies suggest that they are the beneficiaries of considerable, though playful and informal, adult guidanceand instruction.Considerable diversity in childrens oral and written la
29、nguage experiences occurs in these years. In home and child care situations, children go through many different resources and types and degrees of support for early reading and writing. Some children may have ready access to a range of writing and reading materials, while others may not; some childr
30、en will observe their parents writing and reading frequently, others only occasionally.What this means is that no one teaching method or approach is likely to be the most effective for all children.Rather, good teachers bring into play a variety of teaching strategies that can involve the great dive
31、rsity of children in schools. Excellent instruction builds on what children already know, and can do, and provides knowledge, and skills for lifelong learning. Children need to learn not only the technical skills of reading and writing but also how to use these tools to better their thinking and rea
32、soning.（）28. What can a child in the first few months do about language? （）A. Speak some simple sentences.B. Understand some body language.C. Connect the words with the definitions.D. Repeat the word they hear from adults.（）29. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us?A. Childrens ability of storing and
33、 processing letters and so on.B. Childrens ability of connecting specific marks with meanings.C. The course of childrens developing the physical and visual cues.D. The importance of adult guidance and instruction in childrens growth.（）30. What can we know about childrens oral and written language de
34、velopment?A. It develops naturally in children.B. Earlier instruction is of great help.C. It varies from children to children.D. It is hardly influenced by the surroundings.（）31. Which of the following does the writer agree with?A. There is no standard for good teachers.B. Teaching strategies should
35、 change with children.C. Children should have the ability of selfteaching.D. The perfect instruction is necessary for language learning.DYoure doing homework online for a science class. A question comes up: Do newborn human babies see the world in black and white? Do you guess or search for the answ
36、er? Searching online for the answer may get you a better grade on the homework. But a study suggests it wont necessarily help you learn.Psychologist Amold Glass gave his students a series of quizstyle online homework assignments. The day before a lesson, students answered homework questions about th
37、e upcoming material. They answered similar questions in class a week later and again on the exam. If you read about a topic again and again, youre not likely to remember it very well. But if you test yourself again and again, you will have better performance in the end. So the students in Glasss cla
38、sses should have performed better on each set of questions in the homework series, and then best of all on the exam.For many years, students had improved through each set of questions and did best on the exam. But later, many students are doing more poorly on the exam than before. Glass wonders “Wha
39、t a bizarre result that is? How can it be? ” His students tend to blame themselves, thinking, “I m not smart enough,” or “I should have studied more.” He suspects something else is going on, so he think about what has changed over those 11 years. One big thing is therise of smartphones. So it is eas
40、ier today to quickly go online and find the answer to just about any homework question. But students cant use phones during an exam. And that might explain why they arent doing as well on the tests.To test this, Glass and Kang asked students in 2017 and 2018 whether they came up with their homework
41、answers themselves or looked them up. Students who tended to look up answers also tended to do better on homework than their exams.（）32. What can we infer from the first 2 paragraphs?A. Doing homework online is a trend.B. Childish question is hard to answer.C. Thinking over a question helps you a lo
42、t.D. It is necessary to find an effective learning method.（）33. What can we know about Amold Glass tests?A. Students get enough knowledge from tests.B. Questions on tests were chosen from homework.C. Students performed better on tests than on homework.D. Questions on tests had nothing to do with hom
43、ework.（）34. What does the underlined word “ bizarre” mean?A. Final.B. Strange.C. Possible.D. Obvious.（）35. What would be the best title?A. Bad Effects of Online KnowledgeB. Technology is not Always Good for UsC. What Is the Best Way to Get KnowledgeD. Guessing Answers or Searching Them Online第二节（共 5
44、 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）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。Principles of Effective Public SpeakingWhen we watch politicians, or business leaders speak on television or in public, they seem so at ease that we may wonder: are great speakers made, or are they just born that way? While it is true that
45、some individuals are born with this gift, many effective public speakers have trained themselves to be so.36Here are some principles of public speaking that Ive developed in my role as a media coach.Stop trying to be a great “public” speaker. People want to listen to someone who is interesting, rela
46、xed, andcomfortable. In the routine conversations we have every day, we have no problem being ourselves.37We focus on the “public” at the expense of the “ speaking” . To become effective at public speaking, you must do just the opposite: focus on the speaking and let go of the “ public” .When you ma
47、ke a mistake, no one cares but you. Even the most accomplished public speaker willmake a mistake at some point. Just keep in mind that youll notice more than anyone in your audience.38If you can see it, you can speak it. Winners in all aspects of life have this in common: they practice visualization to achieve their goals.39Athletes close their eyes and imagine themselves making that basket, hitting that home run, or breaking that record. The same is true in public speaking.
