上学期期末调研考试高二英语试题卷注意事项：1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用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．考试结束后，将答题卡交回。

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，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。

例：How much is the shirt?A．£19．15．B．£9．18．C．£9．15．答案是C。

1．How many times has the woman been to China?A．Once. B．Twice. C．Three times.2．How much will the man have to pay in all?A．$60 B．$70 C．$763．What is the woman probably going to do?A．Perform a concert. B．Give a speech. C．Practice singing.4．What is probably the woman’s job?.A．Secretary. B．Coach. C．Manager.5．Where does the woman advise the man to apply for a job?A．At a shop. B．At a school. C．At a factory.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，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’s the probable relationship between the speakers?A．Mother and son. B．Aunt and niece. C．Teacher and student. 7．How does the woman sound?A．Strict B．Polite. C．Honest听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8．Where are the speakers?A．At school. B．At the police station. C．At the hospital. 9．When did the woman see the doctor?A．At 5:15．B．At 6:30．C．At 7:00．听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10．What’s the relationship between the woman and Mr Brown?A．Coworkers. B．Neighbors. C．Husband and wife. 11．When did the man borrow Mr Brown’s laptop?A．Friday. B．Saturday. C．Sunday. 12．Where did Mr Brown probably go?A．To a bookstore. B．To his office. C．To a grocery store. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13．What kind of house is it?A．A house with a backyard. B．A house with a small kitchen.C．A house with one bedroom.14．What are they going to do for the kitchen?A．Paint the walls. B．Buy some appliances.C．Change the curtains.15．What aspect of the house is the woman worried about?A．Its price. B．Its size. C．Its neighborhood. 16．How many children does the couple have?A．One. B．Two. C．Three.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17．Who is the speaker probably talking to?A．A manager. B．A customer. C．A cleaner. 18．What happened to the dress after the wash?A．It become tight. B．It become loose C．It became faded.19．What does the speaker mainly complain about?A．The price. B．The quality. C．The service.20．How many times has she called before?A．Once. B．Twice. C．Three times.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。

AWhen Maleficent first appeared in cinemas five years ago, with her sculpted cheekbones and twisted devil horns, she became an instant hit with audiences around the world. Now, she’s back with a new movie.The sequel to Disney’s 2014 film, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, hit Chinese mainland cinemas on Oct 18．It was expected to be one of the hottest film releases of the month.What makes this film popular with audiences?“Maleficent （2019）is a fierce fairy tale about the joy of being uniquely individual,”Carla Renata, a US film critic, wrote on Twitter.The sequel features new and distinctive characters, Maleficent, played by US actress Angelina Jolie, is an evil fairy witch who hates human beings for the betrayal of her human lover. Then we have Princess Aurora, played by US actress Elle Fanning, who is kind and strong. Even though Maleficent cursed her and took her captive, Aurora refuses to hate fairies. A new character, Queen Ingrith, is Aurora’s mother-in-law. She’s a typical villain who will spare no effort to divide Maleficent and Aurora. She hopes lo divide humans and fairies forever.“These characters are so unique that you would remember even many years after you finished watching the movie,”said Renata.Apart from the strong cast of characters, the movie’s theme of inclusiveness and cooperation between two distinct groups is meant to enlighten audiences. Both fairies and humans must find a way to understand each other if they want to protect the peaceful land where magical creatures live together.“The film is about kindness and acceptance and tolerance,”Fanning told Metro, “We want people to be kind to one another... to understand that it is wrong to out people that arc different.”With such a powerful theme, there’s no wonder that USA Today says it’s among Disney’s best live-action sequels.21．What do we know about the character Maleficent?A．She fights for human beings. B．She betrays her human lover.C．She sees humans as her enemies. D．She makes friends with Aurora.22．What did Renata think makes the 2019 Maleficent film special?A．A fairy tale. B．Unique characters.C．A powerful theme. D．Many film stars playing roles.23．What does the 2019 Maleficent film want to tell viewers?A．Peace is the key to happiness.B．It takes effort to make the world a better place.C．Humans should care about other creatures.D．We should be kind to and tolerant of others.BReading books and looking at pictures is great, but nothing assists learning like travel, especially for teenagers. Not only do they get to see a world beyond their neighborhood, they also gel to experience it - feel it, taste it, hear it and better understand the world around them. After nearly four decades in the classroom and traveling the world, Phyllis Duvall Bailey knew this perhaps better than anyone else.Becoming involved with the work in AKA Sorority Inc in US, she worked to educate children about the United Nations. There was no doubt in Bailey s mind that the lessons would mean so much more if the students could see things for themselves Starting in 2015, Bailey, 82, set out to take her students to the UN Headquarters m New York City to give them a “Window Seat to the World”，and thus transform them into global citizens. Indeed, it is a great opportunity to give students national and international exposure. Since Bailey saw the students as future leaders, she was desperate to expose them to the UN, its mission, its agendas （议程）and its supporting organizations. She decided to give ＄10，000 （70，720 yuan）of her own money to pay for the late June trip, enough to take 10 student ages 14-17 on a four-night stay in New York. There, they had guided tours of the UN Headquarters and the New York City harbor.It was Quenyaun Payne’s first trip to the city and Taylor Sappington’s second. Payne, 17，is a senior at McEachern High School in the state of Georgia, US. Sappington, 15，is a junior at Therrell High School in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Both said their visit to the UN was inspiring, “I liked how countries are not only working together, they’re focused on common goals like global warming and keeping the peace,”Sappington said. Payne commented, “The trip was amazing. I’m so thankful Mrs. Bailey made it possible.”Actually, there are a lot of people grateful for the retired teacher’s effort. The United Nations Association of Atlanta recently gave Bailey its Humanitarian Award, and the United Notions Association of the US awarded her with the National Education Award. But Bailey wasn’t looking for recognition or even gratitude. Over those fourdays in New York, she’d already felt it, seen it in the eyes of those 10 teenagers, Payne and Sappington included, who made the trip. “It has been a real joy to get to see and watch their reaction to new experiences,”she said. 24．How did Bailey help students?A．She offered students volunteer opportunities at the UN.B．She paid for them to go to school.C．She paid for trips that helped students see the worldD．She taught students life-long learning skills.25．What can we know from Sappington’s words?A．He is determined to work for the UN in the future.B．He would like to contribute to global affaire.C．He found the trip to the UN meaningful.D．He wants to visit New York City again26．What would Bailey probably agree with?A．Students today are more willing to seek new experiences.B．Winning an award motivated her to work hard.C．Classroom teaching limits students’ development.D．Students’ gains arc more important than the recognition of her efforts.CArtificial intelligence products arc not new. However, researchers have been working to improve the technology. Now virtual assistants, like Sin and Alexa, can have short conversations with us. AlphaGo taught itself to play Go and became better than the top human players.Now an AI system has been tasked with passing a multiple-choice exam. The goal is to improve machines’language understanding and logic with so-called computer vision.A system named Anslo was developed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a lab in the United States city of Seattle. It recently passed an eighth-grade science exam taken by many US students, The New York Times reported. It correctly answered more than 90 percent of the questions. Then it was given a twelfth-grade exam. It scored more than 80 percent.It’s an example of the progress in AI development. Four years ago, 700 computer scientists tried to develop AI systems that could pass these kinds of exams. None scored higher than 60 percent.Aristo was able to pass the exams because it can not only understand language but also use logical thinking to solve difficult problems. For example, it can understand what a forest fire is and how it could endanger animals likesquirrels or decrease the food supply they need.The system used BERT, a kind of neural （神经的）network technology developed by Google, to answer the questions. BERT has “read”thousands of English articles If it looks at a sentence with a missing word, it can correctly guess what the word is With BERT’s help, Aristo “read”many multiple-choice questions and answers. Over time, it was able to find logical patterns on its own.It may still be in the earliest stages, said Jingjing Liu, a Microsoft researcher who has been working on similar technologies “We can’t compare this technology to real human students and their ability to reason.”However, Aristo’s success means that AI systems are getting better at understanding users, and we might see improved search engines and hospital databases （数据库）in the near future.27．Why did scientists develop Aristo?A．To make better multiple-choice exams.B．To improve AI’s ability to teach itself.C．To shorten the time AI needs to “read”information.D．To improve the language understanding and logic of AI.28. What can we know about Aristo from its exam results?A．It was smarter than most US students.B．It could only deal with science questions.C．It was best at understanding English.D．It did better than other AI systems in similar tasks.29．What does the sixth paragraph talk about?A．How Aristo teaches itself. B．How Aristo reads English articles.C．How Google developed BERT. D．How Google designed Aristo.30．What can we learn from Jingjing Liu’s words?A．AI will soon replace humans in many tasks.B．Aristo still cannot compare to human reasoning skills.C．Humans can’t live without AI in the future.D．Aristo performs better with a larger database.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。