河南省2020-2021学年高二下学期期末联考英语Word版含答案

河南省“顶尖计划”2020-2021学年高二下学期期末联考 英语试卷 考生注意： 1.本试卷共8页。时间100分钟，满分120分。答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、考生号填写在试卷指定位置，并将姓名、考场号、座位号、考生号填写在答题卡上，然后认真核对条形码上的信息，并将条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。 2.作答选择题时，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。作答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在本试卷上无效。 3.考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并收回。 第I卷(选择题，共70分) 第一部分 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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Pale Horse, Pale Rider Katherine Anne Porter was a celebrated American journalist, essayist, short story writer and novelist. Her works deal with dark themes including justice and the unforgiving nature of the human race. Pale Horse, Pale Rider(1939)is her short novel set during the influenza pandemic(流感大流行)of 1918, which killed five times as many Americans as did World War I. Its main character, Miranda, is a young reporter who falls in love with a soldier； the book's fever-dream style captures the experience of the disease. The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton was one of the most successful novelists of his generation. The Andromeda Strain(1969)is his best-selling techno-thriller that begins when a military satellite crashes to the earth and releases an organism that kills almost everyone in a nearby small town. Then things get bad. Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a major Latin-American author of novels and short stories, a central figure in the so-called magical realism movement in Latin American literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982. Love in the Time of Cholera(1985)is his great Colombian authors attractive tale of a 50-year courtship, in which lovesickness is as stubborn as disease. "My best," he said of it. "The novel was written from my soul." The Road Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. The Road(2006)is his beautifully written, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set after an unspecified extinction event has wiped out most of humanity. An unnamed man and a boy travel on foot toward a southern sea, having to avoid cannibals(食人者)and despair. The Road is a specially moving story1 of a journey. 1. What can be inferred from the first two books mentioned in the text? A. They're the bestsellers. B. They're fairly tales. C. They're about disasters. C. They're non-fiction. 2. Which book is written by the author who couldn't think highly of it too much? A. Pale Horse, Pale Rider B. The Andromeda Strain C. Love in the Time of Cholera D. The Road 3. Who wrote the book that described an adventurous journey? A. Katherine Anne Porter. B. Michael Crichto. C. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. D. Cormac McCarthy. B I'm Alice. When 1 was young, my mother made the same dish five nights a week because we were low on cash. She boiled potatoes, carrots, and sometimes, other vegetables on the kitchen stove. Only small amounts of the roast beef that she cooked once a week were added to the bowls. She called it stew(炖菜). I would hear other children talk about hamburgers, fries, and milkshakes from fast food restaurants, which were expensive at the time. I wished we could eat like that once in a while, but my parents couldn't afford it. But I look back and I think how blessed I was. My mom took the time to prepare the stew nearly every night. Her portions were right-focusing on the vegetables and not on the meat-and we weren't eating the fat and salt we would have had in take-out food. I had a lot fewer head colds and flus than my classmates then. If I did get sick, I'd be home for a day or two, not a whole week like many of them. Though I became ill more often in my thirties, I have to admit I'd been eating lots of fast food, making up for not getting it as a child. But when I went back to prepare homemade meals without those extra fat and salt, I started to feel healthier. Today I often find myself enjoying a bowl of my mother's stew. I realize how lucky I was to have a mother who would like to take the time to prepare the slew for her family five evenings a week. That stew was made with love and it has left me with a memory that will warm me forever. 4. Why did Alice's mother cook the stew nearly every night when she was young? A. Because it was a balanced meal. B. Because it was their favorite. B. Because it was easily cooked. D. Because it might cost less. 5. What is the author's purpose of writing paragraph 4? A. To show us how to cook the stew. B. To explain the effects the stew has on her. C. To tell us how great her mother is. D. To warn us of the danger of fast food. 6. Which of the following can best describe Alice's mother? A. Caring B. Strict. C. Humorous. D. Cautious 7. What is the best title for the text? A. My Mothers Daughter B. My Unforgettable Childhood C. Grateful for the Stew D. Serving Food and Kindness C Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work with zoo or aquarium animals? Kylene, an animal care specialist from Sea World San Diego, who car