浙江省慈溪市2020-2021学年高二下学期期末考试英语Word版含解析

2020学年慈溪市高二第二学期期末试题 英语试卷 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分） 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. What are the speakers discussing? A. Where to go for a school trip. B. When to see paintings and sculptures. C. How to get to the art museum. 2. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. Inside a cinema. B. Outside a cinema. C. At home. 3. Why is the man in a hurry? A. He is eager to have his meal. B. He has an appointment. C. He has a train to catch. 4. What was the woman’s job before? A. A cleaner. B. A cashier. C. A shop assistant. 5. What will the speakers do after the baseball game? A. Eat something. B. See a movie. C. Play a game. 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 most probable relationship between the speakers? A. Teacher and student. B. Brother and sister. C. Classmates. 7. What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Get some rest. B. Study harder. C. Talk to her Dad. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What size does the man want? A. Medium. B. Small. C. Large. 9. How much change should the man get back? A. $7.05. B. $12.95. C. $20. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What are the speakers talking about? A. A part-time job. B. A gardening business. C. A new computer. 11. What does the man usually do on weekends? A. Make charts. B Make some money. C. Hang out with friends. 12. What is the man most likely to do after the conversation? A. Finish his homework. B. Take the offer. C. Learn how to garden. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. How does the man feel about Denmark as the happiest country in the world? A. Interested. B. Surprised. C. Doubtful. 14. Which country probably has the smallest income gap? A. France. B. Italy. C. Denmark. 15. How does the Danish government use the taxes it collects? A. To develop a fine food culture. B. To fund social clubs. C. To pay for people’s shopping and spending. 16. What matters the most for people in Denmark? A. Money. B. Natural scenery. C. Friends and family. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. Who is the speaker most likely to be? A. A worker. B. An expert on Stonehenge. C. A tour guide. 18. How long did it take to build Stonehenge? A. 1,500 years. B. 30 years. C. 5,000 years. 19. What still remains unknown about Stonehenge? A. How much the stones weigh. B. Where the stones came from. C Why Stonehenge was built. 20. Which may not be the reason for the origin of the Stonehenge? A. It may be a religious place. B. It may be a place to perform. C. It may be a place to observe the stars and planets. 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25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。 A Everyone fails from time to time. We try to learn from our mistakes and move on, leaving them behind. But one museum is doing quite the opposite. It’s a showcase (展示)for failures, both famous and forgotten. Inspired by the Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia, Samuel West, a psychologist from Sweden, decided to make our silly mistakes public. He founded the Museum of Failure in 2017. Now the museum is hitting the road, with a traveling exhibition in Shanghai from Jan 18 to March 17. The Museum will display over 100 “failed” products from big-name companies such as Nokia, Apple and Coca-Cola. “I really hope you see that these mega-brands (大牌)that everybody respects screw up too,” West told The New York Times. “I hope that makes you feel less apprehensive (惴惴不安的)about learning something new.” West’s opinion isn’t new. The famed German-American physicist Albert Einstein once said, “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” This idea has even been embraced (接纳)by big companies in the US. Silicon Valley, for example, is the home of some of the worlds most innovative tech companies. A common slogan is, “Fail fast, fail often.” However, there are reasons for this. The best companies are those that encourage failure, embrace out-of-the-box thinking and allow employees to make mistakes and see what happens,wrote Simon Casuto of Forbes. This may lead to carelessness and a lack of effort. Some people are skeptical of this so-called “culture of failure”. They are worried that if failure becomes “a badge (奖章)of honor”，as Wired magazine put it, it may even be seen as “uncool” when someone tries to reduce the risk of failure. “Sometimes people hide behind failure, when they could have prevented it,” wrote Anna Isaac of The Telegraph. So it’s important that you set apart the two kinds of failure — the kind that shows laziness or incompetence and the kind that takes you forward. The key is whether you’ve learned something from your mistakes. 1. West founded the Museum of Failure mainly to________. A. help people avoid failure B. encourage people to try new things C. teach people how to learn from fa