2024年5月31日发(作者：琴凡儿)
2021-2022
学年重庆市长寿区七校高二下学期期末联考英语试题
1. When visiting a new place either for vacation, for a honeymoon, or for a function, one of the top
things to look out for is the food and relaxation spots. In this list, we will highlight the most
expensive restaurants in which you can enjoy great food when visiting Singapore.
Tamarind Hill
When you walk into Tamarind Hill, you get a feel of Thailand because the restaurant is located at
the top of a forest reserve in Labrador Park and has a 19th-century black and white cottage that gives
the impression of Thailand. The price of meals in this restaurant starts from $48 per person.
Alma By Juan Amador
Alma by Juan Amador is a fine dining restaurant that is situated at the Goodwood Park Hotel in the
heart of Singapore. This restaurant specializes in modern European dishes and sometimes digs into
Asian and Italian delicacies. Alma’s meals start from $78 per person.
Fat Cow
Fat Cow restaurant is a restaurant that is very popular among locals because it is popular for being
the dining spot for business meetings and special social events. Fat Cow is a steakhouse designed
according to Japanese style and culture, making it a mix of modern and traditional diners. Fat Cow is
located in Camden Medical Centre, Singapore and the prices start from $138 per person.
Cure
Cure restaurant is an extremely beautiful British restaurant in Keong Saik Road, Singapore that
serves food made from fresh ingredients for people with exquisite taste. Cure also serves their
special dish, finger food cured in whisky then brined in bacon fat. This restaurant is the perfect place
to relax and eat good food with a no-dress-code policy and the price starts from $70 per person.
1. Where can you enjoy the atmosphere of Thailand?
A
．
In the Goodwood Park Hotel.
C
．
In Keong Saik Road.
B
．
In Labrador Park.
D
．
In Camden Medical Centre.
2. Which restaurant will you choose if you organize a formal ceremony?
A
．
Fat Cow. B
．
Cure. C
．
Alma By Juan
Amador.
D
．
Tamarind Hill.
3. What is special about Cure?
A
．
It serves European dishes.
C
．
Its expense is cheaper than other
restaurant.
B
．
It has special dishes.
D
．
It allows customers to dress casually.
2. At eleven, I decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A. offering exactly the
opportunity. Mother continually warned against it, and kept fresh in my mind the details of each
drowning in the river. But the Y.M.C.A. pool was safe.
I had a childhood fear of water. This started when I was three years old and father took me to the
beach. The huge waves knocked me down and swept over me.
The pool was quiet. I was afraid of going in all alone, so I sat on the side of the pool to wait for
others. Then came a big boy. He yelled, “Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ducked?” With that he
picked me up and threw me into the deep end. I landed in a sitting position, and swallowed water.
But I was not frightened out of my wits — when my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump,
come out of the surface. It seemed a long way down. I gathered all my strength when I landed and
made what I thought was a great spring upwards. Then I opened my eyes and saw nothing but water.
I tried to yell but no sound came out. I went down, down, endlessly.
When I came to consciousness, I found myself lying on the bed in the hospital. I never went back to
the pool. I avoided water whenever I could. This misadventure stayed with me as the years rolled by.
It deprived me of the joy of boating and swimming. Finally, I decided to get an instructor. Piece by
piece, he built a swimmer. Several months later, the instructor was finished, but I was not.
Sometimes terror would return.
This went on until July. I swam across the Lake Wentworth. Only once did the terror return. When I
was in the middle of the lake, I put my face under and saw nothing but bottomless water. I laughed
and said, “Well, Mr. Terror, what do you think you can do to me?” I had conquered my fear of water.
1. The author’s original fear of water was caused by ___________.
A
．
his poor skill in swimming
C
．
an outing to the beach with his father
2. Who thought I had to and could swim bravely?
A
．
My father. B
．
My mother. C
．
The big boy. D
．
The instructor.
B
．
his mother's warning of drowning
D
．
an unpleasant memory of the pool
3. By the underlined part “but I was not” in paragraph 5, the author probably means “________”.
A
．
he was still a poor swimmer
C
．
he was not afraid of drowning any more
B
．
he had not overcome the fear yet
D
．
he was not satisfied with the swimming
training
4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A
．
Goodbye, Mr. Terror
C
．
A Swimming Adventure
3. Rescue workers found a family in their RV on Tuesday after 17 days in the mountains near the
Oregon Coast.
Peter Stivers, Marlo Hill-Stivers, their two children Sabastyan, 9 and Gabrayell 8 and Hill-Stivers’s
mother and stepfather, Elbert and Becky, were in the vehicle. On their way home from a trip to the
B
．
Hello, Childhood Fear
D
．
My Passion for Swimming
coast, the family got lost in the mountains at an elevation of about 3,800 feet. What’s worse, they
were trapped in four feet of snow. “We had fuel and food, but we were running short,” said Elbert.
“We were rationing.”
When the family was reported missing, rescue teams from Oregon and California searched likely
routes to the coast. But with no leads and no idea where the family was heading, those conducting
the unsuccessful search eventually called it off.
In the evenings, Sabastyan and Gabrayell entertained the adults by reading jokes from Reader’s
Digest aloud. The family members survived mostly on dehydrated food.
On Monday, Hill-Stivers and her husband decided to go for help. They packed a tent, wool blankets,
fish, honey, and hand-warmers to take into the wilderness with them. The children stayed safe in the
RV with their grandparents.
The couple were found the following day by a US Bureau of Land Management worker. A rescue
team in a helicopter located the rest of the family. The family was driven out of the snowbound area
on snow machines. Parents and children were happily reunited.
“They enjoyed it,” Peter Stivers said of his children’s experience. “They didn’t know we were in
trouble.” For the adults, it was quite a tough time. They had to worry about survival and rescue, and
about keeping everyone calm. “I’m so proud of my family,” said Elbert. “They stuck together; they
didn’t lose it.”
1. According to the passage, the number of the troubled family members is__________.
A
．
5 B
．
6 C
．
7 D
．
8
2. What is the main cause of the family’s bad situation?
A
．
They ran short of fuel.
C
．
They couldn’t find their way.
B
．
It snowed heavily.
D
．
Their RV couldn’t move in the snow.
3. If there is a good lesson from the story, it can be that _________.
A
．
people should know how to save themselves when facing trouble
B
．
travel in the mountains should be avoided
C
．
when traveling, people should keep in touch with rescue teams
D
．
children can cause much trouble in travel
4. This passage is probably chosen from a newspaper’s column of _________.
A
．
Education
4. Guanmei, a 65-year-old woman of the Dong ethnic group, is the inheritor of the Grand Song of
Dong (
侗族大歌
), a national intangible cultural heritage in China. Her hometown Zaidai Village in
Guizhou, southwestern China, is home to the Grand Song of the Dong ethnic group.
B
．
News C
．
Health D
．
Economy
The Grand Song of Dong dates from more than 2,500 years ago. The way Dong singers use their
vocal cords (
声带
) is different from how formally trained singers do. It is a folk chorus with multi-
parts, no conductor, and no accompaniment. Organically growing from their natural surroundings, it
is recognized internationally as “the sound of Nature.”
Before the Dong people had a writing system in 1958, the Dong culture, their history and stories
were all recorded by means of songs. As a Dong saying goes, “Rice feeds the body and songs enrich
the soul”. The Dong people sing right from their childhood. While not singing, they all work in their
rice field.
Guanmei has been singing the Grand Song of Dong all her life, making her a famous singing teacher
in her hometown and nearby areas. “The songs are our means of passing on wisdom, knowledge and
life experiences to others. I will not exist in this world 100 years later, but Grand songs will. I’m
honored to do this job, ” Guanmei said.
Kind-hearted, Guanmei has been volunteering to teach the Grand Song of Dong to the Dong children
for over 30 years. Now she has more than 300 students. Guanmei is pleased to see the village
children come to her house willingly when they have free time.
“Nowadays, more and more young people leave the village and settle in cities. Decades later, the
Dong children out of the village might know nothing about Grand songs. We should do something
just now. It’s our mission. What is once lost might be lost forever,” added Guanmei.
1. What makes the Grand Song of Dong known as “the sound of Nature”?
A
．
The outstanding conductor.
B
．
The special musical instrument.
C
．
The attractive natural environment.
D
．
The inspiration from nature.
2. What can we know about the Dong ethnic culture?
A
．
The Dong singers are professionals.
B
．
The Dong culture before 1958 has been largely lost.
C
．
Singing is of vital importance to the Dong people.
D
．
They have a written language with a history of over 2,500 years.
3. How does Guanmei feel about the future of Grand songs?
A
．
Concerned.
C
．
Optimistic.
B
．
Sympathetic.
D
．
Satisfied.
4. What’s the author’s main purpose in writing the passage?
A
．
To call on young people to return to the Dong village.
B
．
To guide the Dong children to learn the Grand Song of Dong.
C
．
To show a woman’s efforts to keep the Dong culture alive.
D
．
To instruct people to appreciate the Grand Song of Dong.
5.
A new app helps blind people know the world around them
One of the best uses of technology is to make life easier. A new product from Micro Corporation can
just do that for people who have trouble seeing. The product, an app called Seeing AI, is currently
available for free for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. “AI” is short for artificial intelligence, a term for
computers with an ability to think and learn like human beings. 1 The app then announces what the
camera sees, so users will know what is in front of them.
People can also use Seeing AI to learn words in English. 2 With Seeing AI, users can hear a
description of not just objects, but other people. It can even tell you about their emotions.
3 It can read products’ bar codes (
条形码
) so users will know whether a can is filled with fruit or
dog food. Microsoft says Seeing AI will soon be able to identify banknotes, so people will know
whether they are holding a bill that is worth $ 100 or $ 1.
People can use Seeing AI to identify images. 4 People even use the app to read signs and get
directions, although Microsoft warns against using it for navigation purposes.
Seeing AI is a new app and will not be 100% correct all the time. For example, that someone is
smiling does not necessarily mean he or she is happy. The app recognizes text, but not handwriting
yet. 5
The app is currently available in Canada, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore and the
United States.
A
．
People can use the app when going shopping.
B
．
That feature may be available in the future.
C
．
The app can identify more than one person in a photograph.
D
．
The app can identify what is in the image, as if it were right in front of you.
E
．
With the app, you can point your iPhone or iPad at any object and Seeing AI will say what
the object is.
F
．
Seeing AI uses both a camera and artificial intelligence to identify places, objects and
people.
G
．
With this intelligent app, just hold up your phone and hear information about the world
around you.
6. Last year my school tried a new way to get students to behave better in class. It’s called the
“secret student”, and the idea is to _________ good behavior. If your class gets enough _________,
they’ll get a prize at the end of the year.
2024年5月31日发(作者：琴凡儿)
2021-2022
学年重庆市长寿区七校高二下学期期末联考英语试题
1. When visiting a new place either for vacation, for a honeymoon, or for a function, one of the top
things to look out for is the food and relaxation spots. In this list, we will highlight the most
expensive restaurants in which you can enjoy great food when visiting Singapore.
Tamarind Hill
When you walk into Tamarind Hill, you get a feel of Thailand because the restaurant is located at
the top of a forest reserve in Labrador Park and has a 19th-century black and white cottage that gives
the impression of Thailand. The price of meals in this restaurant starts from $48 per person.
Alma By Juan Amador
Alma by Juan Amador is a fine dining restaurant that is situated at the Goodwood Park Hotel in the
heart of Singapore. This restaurant specializes in modern European dishes and sometimes digs into
Asian and Italian delicacies. Alma’s meals start from $78 per person.
Fat Cow
Fat Cow restaurant is a restaurant that is very popular among locals because it is popular for being
the dining spot for business meetings and special social events. Fat Cow is a steakhouse designed
according to Japanese style and culture, making it a mix of modern and traditional diners. Fat Cow is
located in Camden Medical Centre, Singapore and the prices start from $138 per person.
Cure
Cure restaurant is an extremely beautiful British restaurant in Keong Saik Road, Singapore that
serves food made from fresh ingredients for people with exquisite taste. Cure also serves their
special dish, finger food cured in whisky then brined in bacon fat. This restaurant is the perfect place
to relax and eat good food with a no-dress-code policy and the price starts from $70 per person.
1. Where can you enjoy the atmosphere of Thailand?
A
．
In the Goodwood Park Hotel.
C
．
In Keong Saik Road.
B
．
In Labrador Park.
D
．
In Camden Medical Centre.
2. Which restaurant will you choose if you organize a formal ceremony?
A
．
Fat Cow. B
．
Cure. C
．
Alma By Juan
Amador.
D
．
Tamarind Hill.
3. What is special about Cure?
A
．
It serves European dishes.
C
．
Its expense is cheaper than other
restaurant.
B
．
It has special dishes.
D
．
It allows customers to dress casually.
2. At eleven, I decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A. offering exactly the
opportunity. Mother continually warned against it, and kept fresh in my mind the details of each
drowning in the river. But the Y.M.C.A. pool was safe.
I had a childhood fear of water. This started when I was three years old and father took me to the
beach. The huge waves knocked me down and swept over me.
The pool was quiet. I was afraid of going in all alone, so I sat on the side of the pool to wait for
others. Then came a big boy. He yelled, “Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ducked?” With that he
picked me up and threw me into the deep end. I landed in a sitting position, and swallowed water.
But I was not frightened out of my wits — when my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump,
come out of the surface. It seemed a long way down. I gathered all my strength when I landed and
made what I thought was a great spring upwards. Then I opened my eyes and saw nothing but water.
I tried to yell but no sound came out. I went down, down, endlessly.
When I came to consciousness, I found myself lying on the bed in the hospital. I never went back to
the pool. I avoided water whenever I could. This misadventure stayed with me as the years rolled by.
It deprived me of the joy of boating and swimming. Finally, I decided to get an instructor. Piece by
piece, he built a swimmer. Several months later, the instructor was finished, but I was not.
Sometimes terror would return.
This went on until July. I swam across the Lake Wentworth. Only once did the terror return. When I
was in the middle of the lake, I put my face under and saw nothing but bottomless water. I laughed
and said, “Well, Mr. Terror, what do you think you can do to me?” I had conquered my fear of water.
1. The author’s original fear of water was caused by ___________.
A
．
his poor skill in swimming
C
．
an outing to the beach with his father
2. Who thought I had to and could swim bravely?
A
．
My father. B
．
My mother. C
．
The big boy. D
．
The instructor.
B
．
his mother's warning of drowning
D
．
an unpleasant memory of the pool
3. By the underlined part “but I was not” in paragraph 5, the author probably means “________”.
A
．
he was still a poor swimmer
C
．
he was not afraid of drowning any more
B
．
he had not overcome the fear yet
D
．
he was not satisfied with the swimming
training
4. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A
．
Goodbye, Mr. Terror
C
．
A Swimming Adventure
3. Rescue workers found a family in their RV on Tuesday after 17 days in the mountains near the
Oregon Coast.
Peter Stivers, Marlo Hill-Stivers, their two children Sabastyan, 9 and Gabrayell 8 and Hill-Stivers’s
mother and stepfather, Elbert and Becky, were in the vehicle. On their way home from a trip to the
B
．
Hello, Childhood Fear
D
．
My Passion for Swimming
coast, the family got lost in the mountains at an elevation of about 3,800 feet. What’s worse, they
were trapped in four feet of snow. “We had fuel and food, but we were running short,” said Elbert.
“We were rationing.”
When the family was reported missing, rescue teams from Oregon and California searched likely
routes to the coast. But with no leads and no idea where the family was heading, those conducting
the unsuccessful search eventually called it off.
In the evenings, Sabastyan and Gabrayell entertained the adults by reading jokes from Reader’s
Digest aloud. The family members survived mostly on dehydrated food.
On Monday, Hill-Stivers and her husband decided to go for help. They packed a tent, wool blankets,
fish, honey, and hand-warmers to take into the wilderness with them. The children stayed safe in the
RV with their grandparents.
The couple were found the following day by a US Bureau of Land Management worker. A rescue
team in a helicopter located the rest of the family. The family was driven out of the snowbound area
on snow machines. Parents and children were happily reunited.
“They enjoyed it,” Peter Stivers said of his children’s experience. “They didn’t know we were in
trouble.” For the adults, it was quite a tough time. They had to worry about survival and rescue, and
about keeping everyone calm. “I’m so proud of my family,” said Elbert. “They stuck together; they
didn’t lose it.”
1. According to the passage, the number of the troubled family members is__________.
A
．
5 B
．
6 C
．
7 D
．
8
2. What is the main cause of the family’s bad situation?
A
．
They ran short of fuel.
C
．
They couldn’t find their way.
B
．
It snowed heavily.
D
．
Their RV couldn’t move in the snow.
3. If there is a good lesson from the story, it can be that _________.
A
．
people should know how to save themselves when facing trouble
B
．
travel in the mountains should be avoided
C
．
when traveling, people should keep in touch with rescue teams
D
．
children can cause much trouble in travel
4. This passage is probably chosen from a newspaper’s column of _________.
A
．
Education
4. Guanmei, a 65-year-old woman of the Dong ethnic group, is the inheritor of the Grand Song of
Dong (
侗族大歌
), a national intangible cultural heritage in China. Her hometown Zaidai Village in
Guizhou, southwestern China, is home to the Grand Song of the Dong ethnic group.
B
．
News C
．
Health D
．
Economy
The Grand Song of Dong dates from more than 2,500 years ago. The way Dong singers use their
vocal cords (
声带
) is different from how formally trained singers do. It is a folk chorus with multi-
parts, no conductor, and no accompaniment. Organically growing from their natural surroundings, it
is recognized internationally as “the sound of Nature.”
Before the Dong people had a writing system in 1958, the Dong culture, their history and stories
were all recorded by means of songs. As a Dong saying goes, “Rice feeds the body and songs enrich
the soul”. The Dong people sing right from their childhood. While not singing, they all work in their
rice field.
Guanmei has been singing the Grand Song of Dong all her life, making her a famous singing teacher
in her hometown and nearby areas. “The songs are our means of passing on wisdom, knowledge and
life experiences to others. I will not exist in this world 100 years later, but Grand songs will. I’m
honored to do this job, ” Guanmei said.
Kind-hearted, Guanmei has been volunteering to teach the Grand Song of Dong to the Dong children
for over 30 years. Now she has more than 300 students. Guanmei is pleased to see the village
children come to her house willingly when they have free time.
“Nowadays, more and more young people leave the village and settle in cities. Decades later, the
Dong children out of the village might know nothing about Grand songs. We should do something
just now. It’s our mission. What is once lost might be lost forever,” added Guanmei.
1. What makes the Grand Song of Dong known as “the sound of Nature”?
A
．
The outstanding conductor.
B
．
The special musical instrument.
C
．
The attractive natural environment.
D
．
The inspiration from nature.
2. What can we know about the Dong ethnic culture?
A
．
The Dong singers are professionals.
B
．
The Dong culture before 1958 has been largely lost.
C
．
Singing is of vital importance to the Dong people.
D
．
They have a written language with a history of over 2,500 years.
3. How does Guanmei feel about the future of Grand songs?
A
．
Concerned.
C
．
Optimistic.
B
．
Sympathetic.
D
．
Satisfied.
4. What’s the author’s main purpose in writing the passage?
A
．
To call on young people to return to the Dong village.
B
．
To guide the Dong children to learn the Grand Song of Dong.
C
．
To show a woman’s efforts to keep the Dong culture alive.
D
．
To instruct people to appreciate the Grand Song of Dong.
5.
A new app helps blind people know the world around them
One of the best uses of technology is to make life easier. A new product from Micro Corporation can
just do that for people who have trouble seeing. The product, an app called Seeing AI, is currently
available for free for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. “AI” is short for artificial intelligence, a term for
computers with an ability to think and learn like human beings. 1 The app then announces what the
camera sees, so users will know what is in front of them.
People can also use Seeing AI to learn words in English. 2 With Seeing AI, users can hear a
description of not just objects, but other people. It can even tell you about their emotions.
3 It can read products’ bar codes (
条形码
) so users will know whether a can is filled with fruit or
dog food. Microsoft says Seeing AI will soon be able to identify banknotes, so people will know
whether they are holding a bill that is worth $ 100 or $ 1.
People can use Seeing AI to identify images. 4 People even use the app to read signs and get
directions, although Microsoft warns against using it for navigation purposes.
Seeing AI is a new app and will not be 100% correct all the time. For example, that someone is
smiling does not necessarily mean he or she is happy. The app recognizes text, but not handwriting
yet. 5
The app is currently available in Canada, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore and the
United States.
A
．
People can use the app when going shopping.
B
．
That feature may be available in the future.
C
．
The app can identify more than one person in a photograph.
D
．
The app can identify what is in the image, as if it were right in front of you.
E
．
With the app, you can point your iPhone or iPad at any object and Seeing AI will say what
the object is.
F
．
Seeing AI uses both a camera and artificial intelligence to identify places, objects and
people.
G
．
With this intelligent app, just hold up your phone and hear information about the world
around you.
6. Last year my school tried a new way to get students to behave better in class. It’s called the
“secret student”, and the idea is to _________ good behavior. If your class gets enough _________,
they’ll get a prize at the end of the year.