2019-2020年高一英语上学期第二次段考12月试题 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节 听力理解 （共6小题；每小题2分，满分12分） 每段播放两遍。各段后有两个小题，各段播放前每小题有5秒钟的阅题时间。请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题，在5秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。听下面一段对话，回答第1-2题。1. A. The class is boring. B. The class is expensive. C. The teacher is strict.2. A. Talk to his professor. B. Attend a class.C. Go skating.听下面一段对话，回答第3-4题。3. A. Ask the woman a few questions about herself. B. Ask the woman to e for a job interview. C. Tell the woman about his decision.4. A. Her parents are sick. B. She doesnt want to leave her parents. C. Her family doesnt want her to go abroad.听下面一段独白，回答第5-6题。5. A. The man is a mess. B. The man looks very old. C. The man has gained some weight.6. A. Start working out. B. Stop going to bars.C. Stop eating junk food.第二节 回答问题（共4小题；每小题2分，满分8分） 听下面一段短文，然后回答问题。短文读两遍。 7. When did Amelia fly across the Atlantic Ocean? _8. How long did it take her to fly across the Atlantic Ocean? _9. What did Amelia set out for on July 2, 1937? _10. Who plan to search for the wreckage of the plane? A team of _ and rescuers.第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）第一节 阅读理解（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。AArchitects often have to deal with difficult clients (客户), but Lee Ehmkes customers are especially hard to work for. They sleep through meetings. They never pay. They dont even use bathrooms when they have to go.However, Ehmke puts up with such rude behavior, and he does it happily. Why? Because he designs homes for gorillas, bears, lions, and other zoo animals. And he enjoys the challenge of looking at the world through their exotic (奇异的) eyes.“The role of a zoo designer is to think as much as possible about what will make each animal fortable, happy, and active,” says Ehmke, director of the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley.“It would be wrong to say you can know what an animal is thinking and feeling,” he adds. “But we do our best to get as close to that as possible when were designing homes for them.”Most zoo visitors focus on the animals, not on the habitats and barriers that fence the animals in. But details like these have received extra attention since December, when a female Siberian tiger escaped from her enclosure (围栏) at the San Francisco Zoo. The 4-year-old, 350-pound cat killed one person and injured two others.The incident raised fears among zoo goers and sent staff at zoos across the nation rushing to evaluate how safe their own exhibits are. Still, experts say, the tragic event should not scare people away from zoos.“There have probably been 5 billion visits to zoos in the last 50 years,” Ehmke says. “This is the first time this has happened.”11. What is Lee Ehmke?A. An official.B. A professor.C. A designer.D. A feeder.12. What does the underlined expression “Lee Ehmkes customers” refer to?A. Architects.B. Animals.C. Bathrooms.D. Visitors.13. Focusing on the habitats and barriers begins with _.A. architects designing homes for the zoo animalsB. animals looking at the world through their exotic eyesC. a female Siberian tigers escaping and killing personsD. the nation rushing to evaluate how important the zoos14. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. All the zoo animals in the passage are very easy to deal with.B. The purpose of a zoo designer is to make the zoo animals life easier.C. Many of the zoo visitors would pay attention to the animals enclosures.D. There are 5 billion tragic events that happened in the zoos in the last 50 years.15. Whats the best title of the passage?A. The other side of the zoo fence.B. The other side of the tiger.C. The habitat of the tiger.D. The escape of animals.BNot all vegetables need lots of sunshine. Mark Hoffman and his wife own a bed-and-breakfast guesthouse in rural Kempton, Illinois. They often serve their guests fresh products from the garden.The Hoffmans have been growing food and flowers for twenty-five years. For almost ten of those years, Mr. Hoffman has been experimenting and working with shade (阴凉) plantings. He says, “The bottom line here is that most plants will produce more in full sun. But if you do not have full sun, there are other choices.”For example, he grows tomatoes near oak trees. Oak trees can produce a lot of shade. But Mr. Hoffman says his tomato plants grow as long as they get five hours direct sunshine a day, especially morning sun. Not only does this go against the traditional advice that tomatoes need six, eight, even twelve hours full sun a day. It also shows how plants and tree roots can share nutrients and water.Mr. Hoffman says plants with wider leaves seem to do better in shady environm