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1、- 1 - 江苏省常熟市2019-2020 学年高二下学期期中考试英语 2020.05 注意事项： 1.本试卷分为第I 卷 (选择题 )和第 II 卷 (非选择题 )，满分 150 分。考试时间120 分钟。 2.请将第 I 卷的答案填涂在答题卷上，第II 卷请直接在答题卷上规定的地方作答。答题前，务 必将自己的学校、姓名、考试号等相关信息写在答题卷上规定的地方。 第 I 卷(选择题，共75 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 分，满分5 分) 听下面 5
2、 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. What will the woman do today? A. Go on a date. B. Visit a museum. C. Make ice cream. 2. Why was the man late? A. He didnt feel well. B. He set off late. C. He got lost. 3. What does the woman probably
3、 think of working while in college? A. Useful. B. Difficult. C. Unnecessary. 4. What are the speakers talking about? A. A rock. B. A movie. C. A spacecraft. 5. When is Simon supposed to arrive? A. 7:30. B. 8:00. C. 8:10 第二节 (共 15 小题，每小题1 分，满分 15 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
4、。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 is the mans twin sister? - 2 - A. A model. B. A doctor. C. A TV star. 7. How old is the man? A. 22. B. 24. C. 20. 听第 7 段材料，回答第8、9 题。 8. What color was the hall before? A. Silver. B. Grey. C. White. 9. Which pl
5、ace will be finished soon? A. The ticket office. B. The snack bar. C. The bookstore. 听第 8 段材料，回答第10 至 12 题。 10. What does the man want to do? A. To exchange for some cash. B. To put aside some money. C. To lend some money. 11. Which is better in cashing a travelers check according to the woman? A. A
6、 stocking center. B. A hotel. C. A bank. 12. Which of the following neednt the man offer to the woman? A. Foreign exchange request. B. Passport number. C. ID card. 听第 9 段材料，回答第13 至 16 题。 13. For what was Google fined $5 billion? A. Breaking competition rules. B. Presenting wrong search results. C. P
7、roducing poor-quality products. 14. What is the size of the fine like according to the woman? A. Very small. B. Rather large. C. Acceptable. 15. When did the EU fine Google $ 2.8 billion? A. In 2016. B. In 2017. C. In 2018. 16. Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. In a classroom.
8、 B. At the office. C. At home. 听第 10 段材料，回答第17 至 20 题。 17. What is the passage mainly about? A. The history of the school. B. The courses for the term. C. The plan for the day. 18. Where can the visitors learn about the subjects for new students? - 3 - A. In the school hall. B. In the science lab. C
9、. In the classroom. 19. What can students do in the practical areas? A. Take science courses. B. Enjoy excellent meals. C. Attend workshops. 20. When are the visitors expected to ask questions? A. During the lunch hour. B. After the welcome speech. C. Before the tour of the labs. 第二部分阅读理解 (共 20 小题，每
10、小题2 分，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(A 、B、C、和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑。 A During the outbreak of novel coronavirus, cities are locked down and borders are closed. Science, on the contrary, is becoming more open. And this open science is already making a difference. Soon after
11、the epidemic started in China, a research team from Fudan University in Shanghai successfully sequenced(测定序列 )the DNA of the virus. But they didnt keep the information to themselves. Instead, they placed the sequences on GenBank, an open-access data platform, so researchers around the world could do
12、wnload them for free and start studying the virus. Due to this openness, pharmaceutical( 制药的 )companies across the globe are now able to work simultaneously( 同时地 )to develop a vaccine. There may be room for multiple different vaccines for different purposes and different age groups, Amesh Adalja, a
13、senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security in the US, told Al Jazeera. The bigger menu we have of vaccines, the more resilient( 有适应力的 )well be against coronavirus outbreaks in the future. Major drug companies around the world are also sharing their study results. Remde
14、sivir, a drug originally developed by US company Gilead Sciences to treat Ebola, is found to be promising in fighting against the novel coronavirus. Currently, two trials of the drug are already underway in China, and the results might be available as soon as April, according to The Verge. This open
15、ness in science is going to be even more critical in the future. With climate change, increasing globalization, and population shifts, epidemics will not go away, and might even become more frequent, Dan Barouch, a Harvard Medical School professor, told Harvard Magazine. He said, No one group can do
16、 everything. It has to be a coordinated(合作的 )approach. But I - 4 - do think that the world has a greater sense of readiness this time to develop knowledge, drugs, and therapeutics(疗法 )very rapidly. Every epidemic is indeed a crisis, but it can also be a learning opportunity. One redeeming(补 偿的 )factor of the COVID-19 outbreak is that it is helping science adapt for the better. 21. What does the article mainly talk abo
