黑龙江省大庆铁人中学2021-2022学年高二下学期期中考试 英语

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铁人中学 2020 级高二学年下学期期中考试
英语试题
试题说明：1、本试题满分 150 分，答题时间 120 分钟。
2、请将答案填写在答题卡上，考试结束后只交答题卡。
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 20 分）
第一节 （共 5小题，每小题 1分，满分 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。
1. Where are the speakers probably?
A. In an office. B. In a lift. C. On the stairs.
2. Why did the man refuse the job?
A. He dislikes having business trips. B. The office is far from his home.
C. The company is terrible.
3. What will the man do in the afternoon?
A. Write a report. B. Lend the woman books.
C. Help the woman fill out the forms.
4. How many students are good at basketball this year?
A. About 20. B. About 30. C. About 40.
5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Customer service. B. A piece of news. C. Their business.
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，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. Why can’t the man meet the woman on Sunday?
A. He never works on Sunday. B. He has another meeting on Sunday.
C. He must meet his parents on Sunday.
7. When will the speakers meet on Saturday?
A. At 2:00 p.m. B. At 2:15 p.m. C. At 3:00 p.m.
听第 7段材料，回答第 8、9题。
8. What will the man do next Thursday?
A. Visit his parents. B. Watch a tennis game. C. Have a job interview.
9. How will the man go to the station?
A. By bus. B. By car. C. By taxi.
听第 8段材料，回答第 10 至12 题。
10. How does the man book the rooms?
A. In his company’s name. B. In his guests’ names. C. In his name.
11. How will the man’s guests arrive in Washington D.C.?
A. By bus. B. By train. C. By car.
12. What does the man ask the woman to do for his guests?
A. Offer them the best service. B. Give them his phone number.
C. Arrange one conference room for two days.
听第 9段材料，回答第 13 至16 题。
13. Why is the man upset?
A. He has lost his job. B. He has lost lots of money.
C. He had a quarrel with his boss.
14. How long has the man worked in his company?
A. For 5 years. B. For 6 years. C. For 7 years.
15. What do we know about the man’s recording studio?
A. It will offer a lower price. B. It will open to famous musicians.
C. Its price will be increased before long.
16. What is the man’s plan in the end?
A. Running a big company. B. Being a musician. C. Being an agent.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至20 题。
17. How many times did the speaker marry?
A. 2. B. 3. C. 4
18. What was the speaker probably?
A. A singer. B. An actress. C. A writer.
19. Where does the speaker live now?
A. In Sydney. B. In New York. C. In Los Angeles.
20. What does the speaker plan to do next year?
A. Travel around the world. B. Move to another city. C. Get married again.
第二部分 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。
A
These are the life-changing apps that will help you build better habits in 2022.
Streaks
Streaks lets you create up to 24 different tasks that you can complete each day. Complete a task,
mark it on the app, and you’ll start building your progress. Streaks also has other features available,
like reminders and statistics, to help you keep your habits on track. It collects no fees.
Strides
Strides makes your goals easy and attainable. You’ll be able to track your progress and see how
far along you are with progress reports and charts that’ll show you your advancement and your
success rate on any given goal. You can create unlimited reminders and build up your routine from
the ground up. The app asks you to join their monthly subscription.
ATracker
With ATracker, time all your activities and stop wasting time on unimportant tasks. You can
create and define your daily and weekly goals to avoid losing track of your good and bad habits.
Having tracked, you can see what you’ve done in a beautiful chart. You can also see a goal report to
make sure you’re staying on track with your new year’s resolutions. The app is 4.99, but it’s only a
one-time payment.
Coach.me
Coach.me is mostly free. You’ll get to track your progress and get bonus points for achieving
your goals. What’s cool about Coach.me is that you can join a community of people like you where
they are willing to help out each other. You can even take it one step further by hiring a coach,
although that’s going to cost you extra.
21. Which app is free of charge?
A. Streaks B. Strides C. ATracker D. Coach.me
22. What do Strides and ATracker have in common?
A. They help to time vital tasks. B. They offer a progress chart.
C. They have reminding functions. D. They update information every month.
23. What can you do with Coach.me?
A. Earn cash rewards. B. Employ a coach for free.
C. Get support from other users. D. Make progress in your studies.
B
Gabby Goodwin and her mother, Rozalynn, had a problem ：Even after careful styling,
barrettes（发夹）kept slipping out of the 5-year-old's hair. Gabby hated losing bows, and her mom
was tired of buying replacements. As Rozalynn shared her frustration with other parents on social
media, someone suggested that the Goodwins try creating their own barrettes.
"I was super excited," said Gabby, now l4. "I was nagging（唠叨）my mom every single day
about these barrettes." Gabby's persistence persuaded her mother, and they began to deal with the
problem.
First they examined Gabby's hair bows to see why they were falling out. Then they came up with
a design for a double-face, double-snap barrette that attaches securely to hair.
When the Goodwins first showed their design to business investors, it was rejected. The product
wasn't the right fit or the business plan wasn't good, companies told them. The setbacks made Gabby
more determined.
Gabby and her mother didn't give up, and in 2014 they began selling the bows online. The
barrettes were so popular that the Goodwins received a patent. Today Gabby is chief of Confidence
by GaBBY Goodwin, and the barrettes--called GaBBY Bows--are available online and in 74 Target
stores across the country. In 2018 Black Enterprise selected Gabbyas its Teenpreneur of the year. The
following year, Gabby and Rozalynn set up a virtual academy to help girls learn business skills.
If you watch Gabby deliver a speech on a Facebook video, it's hard to imagine the South
Carolina eighth-grader as anything other than confident. But learning to be the public face of her
company was "really hard at first," she said.
Over the years, with a lot of practice speaking to audiences, Gabby grew more comfortable in
her role.
She offers this advice to kids："Keep doing what you're passionate about, then you'll be able to
grow in confidence."
24. What did the Goodwins do after listening to someone's suggestion？
A. They asked for help online.
B. They designed a new barrette.
C. They looked for stylish barrettes.
D. They bought more replacements.
25. How did Gabby react to some companies' rejection？
A. She sold her products online.
B. She gave up working on barrettes.
C. She decided to redesign her barrettes.
D. She told her business plan to a virtual academy.
26. How is Gabby's business going？
A. It has suffered a downturn.
B. It is expanding fast.
C. It has failed to get a patent.
D. It hardly makes ends meet.
27. What does Gabby's advice to kids show？
A. Every dog has its day.
B. Never be ashamed to fail.
C. Confidence is important in public speaking.
D. Interest and hard work lead to success.
C
The idea of low material desire, low consumption and refusing to work, marry and have
children, concluded as a "lying down" lifestyle, recently struck a chord with many young Chinese
who are eager to take pause to breathe in this fast-paced and highly-competitive society.
Many millennials and generation Zs complained to the Global Times that burdens, including
work stress, family disputes (纷争) and financial strains, have pushed them "against the wall". They
said they hate the "involution (内卷)," joking that they would rather give up some of what they have
than get trapped in an endless competition against peers.
"Instead of always following the 'virtues' of struggle, endure and sacrifice to bear the stresses,
they prefer a temporary lying down as catharsis ( 宣 泄 ) and adjustment," said a scholar. "It is no
wonder that some young people, under the growing pressures from child-raising to paying the
mortgage (按揭) today, would try to live in a simple way and leave the worries behind."
Interestingly, the majority of millennials and Gen Zs reached by the Global Times, who claim to
be big fans of the lying down philosophy, acknowledged that they only accept a temporary lying
down as a short rest. It is true that with the great improvement of living conditions, some Chinese
youth have partially lost the spirit of hardship and are not willing to bear too much hard work. But in
fact, lying down is not entirely comfortable. Young people who lie down always feel guilty about
their constant loss of morale (士气) far beyond their reach.
"Young people on campus have both aspirations and confusion about their future, but most of us
have rejected setting ourselves up in chains to waste opportunities and challenges," a postgraduate
student told the Global Times. "It's no use running away. I have to 'stand up' and face the reality
sooner or later."
28. What does the underlined phrase in paragraph 1 mean?
A. warned. B. criticized. C. touched. D. amused.
29. What might have caused the "lying down" lifestyle among the young?
A. Improvements in living conditions.
B. Growing pressure from family and social life.
C. Increasing material possessions from families.
D. Temporary adjustment to failure in competitions.
30. What's the scholar's attitude toward the "lying down" group?
A. Understanding. B. Intolerant. C. Supportive. D. Unclear.
31. What can be inferred about the young generation from the text?
A. They never really drop their responsibilities.
B. They really enjoy the "lying down" lifestyle.
C. They find their dreams far beyond their reach.
D. They would rather escape than take challenges.
D
Humans' overconsumption of resources is a leading contributor to global climate change, says
University of Arizona researcher Sabrina Helm. Therefore, it's increasingly important to understand
the choices consumers make and how those decisions affect the health of a planet with limited
resources. In a new study, published in the journal Young Consumers, Helm and her colleagues
explore how materialistic values influence pro-environmental behaviors in millennials, who are now
the nation's most influential group of consumers.
The researchers focused on two main categories of pro-environmental behaviors: reduced
consumption, which includes actions like repairing instead of replacing older items; and "green
buying," or purchasing products designed to limit environmental impacts. The researchers also looked
at how engaging in pro-environmental behaviors affects consumer well-being.
More materialistic participants, the researchers found, were unlikely to engage in reduced
consumption. However, materialism did not seem to have an effect on their likelihood of practicing
"green buying." That's probably because "green buying," unlike reduced consumption, still offers a
way for materialists to fulfill their desire to get new items, Helm said.
Study participants who reported having fewer materialistic values were much more likely to
engage in reduced consumption. Consuming less was, in turn, linked to higher personal well-being
and lower psychological suffering. Green buying—which may have some positive environmental
effects, although to a smaller degree than reduced consumption—was not found to improve consumer
well-being, Helm said.
The take-home message for consumers:" The key is to reduce consumption and not just buy
green stuff. Having less and buying less can actually make us more satisfied and happier," Helm said.
"If you have a lot of stuff, you have a lot on your mind," she said. "For example, it requires
maintenance and there's a lot of burdens of ownership, and if you relieve yourself of that burden of
ownership, most people report feeling a lot better and freer."
Helm and her colleagues additionally looked at how materialism affects millennial consumers'
proactive financial behaviors, such as budgeting and saving. Examining financial behaviors alongside
pro-environmental behaviors provides a picture of how young adults proactively deal with resource
limitations in two contexts: environmental and financial, Helm said.
As expected, Helm and her colleagues found that those who reported having more materialistic
values engaged in fewer proactive financial behaviors than their less materialistic counterparts (对应
的人). The researchers also found that, consistent with previous studies, proactive financial behaviors
were associated with better personal well-being, life satisfaction and financial satisfaction, as well as
lower psychological suffering.
Understanding how materialistic values impact consumer behaviors, and how those behaviors in
turn affect personal and environmental well-being, is important, Helm said. However, she
acknowledges that for many consumers, shifting behaviors to be more financially proactive and
consume less will be challenging.
32. What do we know about pro-environmental behaviors?
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