2022-2023学年山东省青岛第二中学高二上学期12月月考英语试题 .docx
青岛第二中学2022-2023学年高二上学期12月月考英语第一部分阅读(共两节,满分50分)第一节(共15小题:每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。ACave ExploringFEBRUARY 7, 8 AM-6 PMCome explore undeveloped caves without the use of built-in electricity, walkways, or stairs. Prepare to get muddy! On this trip, cavers will climb slowly through tight cave entrances that open into large caves, some of which have been forming fbr thousands of years.Do remember that there are delicate ecosystems you should protect well.Location: VallecitoCost: Student $ 351 Public $ 75Utah Spring Break Road TripAPRIL 15-20, 5 AM-6 PMExplore the southwest on this Utah Road Trip with Peak Adventures! See huge rock arches, sweeping desert views, and glowing sunsets reflecting off orange Utah sandstone. Daily activities will include camping, hiking, and sightseeing. Opportunities for higher adventure activities as detennined by the group.Location: UtahCost: Student $ 480 Public $ 700Tahoe Day HikeDECEMBER 10, 7 AM-6 PMExperience the fresh air and grand Lake Tahoe views while hiking in D. L. Bliss State Park. Destinations may include Balancing Rock, Rubicon Point, and the highest lighthouse in the United States. If weather and snow pack pennit, wc may have the opportunity to try snowshoeing! Be sure to pack your camera!Location: TahoeCost: Student $ 35 Public $ 75Full Moon HikeFEBRUARY 6, 4 PM-11 PMCome hike under the full moon! Experience nature in di ft erent views, first by the colorful sunset, then by the light of the full moon! This beginner adventure is a great way to make new friends.Location: Cronan RanchCost: Student $ 25 Public $ 40Which activity can you join in during spring?Student Union 47.参考答案“Seo”(快走)he said to me with a wink (眨眨眼),and see me when you get back'' For the next two and a half hours I climbed those old walls and had the time of my life. Later I met with my grandfather to tell him about my adventure. Til never forget what he said. "Fred J he said, grinning, 4tyou made this day a special day just by being yourself. Always remember, there's only one person in this whole world like you, and I like you exactly as you are.”Many years have passed since then, and / am now a host of a well-known television program. I host the television program Mister Rogers5 Neighborhood seen by millions of children throughout America. There have been changes over the years, but one thing remains the same: tny message to children at the end of almost every visit, “There's only one person in this whole world like you, the kids can count on hearing me say,“ and people can like you exactly as you arc. A.Cave Exploring.B.Tahoe Day Hike.C.Full Moon Hike.D.Utah Spring Break Road Trip.1. What should you especially pay attention to in Cave Exploring?A.Proper equipment.B.Environmental protection.C.Safety items.D.Avoiding getting lost.2. Which destination is best if you like night activities?A. Cronan Ranch. B. Vallecito.C. Utah.D. Tahoe.BI once met a young woman who had dreams of swimming fbr the U.S Olympic team. She had to get up every morning at 4 a.m. to swim fbr 3 hours before going to school. She did not party with her friends on Saturday night. She had to study and keep her grades up, just like everyone else.When I asked her what compel led her with such super-human ambition and sacrifice (牺牲). She simply said, “I do it fbr myself and the people I love. It's love that gets me over the hurdles and sacrifices.”A reason or a purpose is a combination of “wants" and "don't wants”. When people ask me what my reason fbr wanting to be rich is, it is a combination of deep emotional “wants" and "don't wants”.I will list a few. First the "don't wants”,fbr they create the “wants”. I don't want to work all my life. I don't want what my parents aspired fbr, which was job security and a big house. I don't like being an employee. I hated it that my dad always missed my football games because he was so busy working on his career. I hated it when my dad worked hard all his life and the government took most of what he worked fbr at his death.Now the “wants”. I want to be free to travel the world and live in the lifestyle I love. I want to be young when I do this. I want control over my time and my life. I want money to work fbr me.Those are my deep-seated, emotional reasons. What are yours? If they are not strong enough, the reality of the road ahead may be greater than your reasons. I have lost money and been set back many times, but it was the deep emotional reasons that kept me standing up and going forward. I wanted to be free by age 40, but it took me until I was 47 with many learning experiences along the way.I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose anything in life is hard.3. The passage is started by.A. giving an exampleB. explaining the causesC. pointing out similaritiesD. describing the differences4. The underlined word “compcncd” in Para. 2 probably means.A. committed B. inspiredC. forcedD. combinedWe know from the passage that.A. the “wants” lead to the "don't wants”the "wants” come from the "don't wantsB. the "don't wants'' have little to do with the "wants”the "don't wants” arc more important than the “wants”5. What can we learn from the underlined sentence in Para. 6?A. The reality is greater than the deep emotional reasons.B. With stronger emotional reasons, life must be much easier.C. With deeper emotional reasons, the road ahead is likely to be harder.D. In reality, we may meet many more obstacles without deeper emotional reasons.CThe United States has about 475,000 school buses -all painted yellow. Each day they carry more than 25,000,000 children, half of all schoolchildren in the country. But these buses, on average, use four liters of diesel (柴油) fuel to travel less than sixteen kilometers. When the school year began last fall, diesel averaged 55 cents a liter nationally. The price nearly doubled, to a dollar and 8 cents, by the end of school in June.Bob Riley speaks for the American School Bus Council. He says fuel prices for schools arc not much lower than others have to pay. As a result, schools are looking fbr ways to reduce transportation costs. Bus routes arc being redrawn or, in some cases, canceled. Some areas arc buying buses that use natural gas or other alternative fiiels. Other steps include fewer field trips and less travel by sports teams. And some school districts may end any bus service not required by law.Studies show that school buses arc the safest form of transportation to and from school. The American School Bus Council says cuts in bus service are bad fbr children and possibly the environment. It says removing buses from the road will mean an increase in other vehicles transporting students. Spokesman Bob Riley says another concern is that reducing bus services might reduce attendance.But it could also get more children to walk or bicycle to school. And that would surely make people happy at the National Center fbr Safe Routes to School. More kids walking or biking safely to school is the aim of a thrcc-year-old federal program, part of an international movement. The goal is to increase physical activity and reduce air pollution. The United States will celebrate Walk to School Day on October eighth this year. But fbr some students, high fuel prices could make every day a walk-to-school day.6. What does this passage mainly tell us?A. High fuel prices' influences on school buses.B. New measures to transport school students.C. The safest fbrm of student transportation.D. The origin of Walk to School Day.7. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?A. Cuts in bus sen ice will have negative results.B. The US government is encouraging cuts in bus scniccs.C. The US schools are searching tor the safest transportation means.D. Reducing bus service will do a lot of good to the environment.8. In order to cut down transportation cost, many schools take the following measures EXCEPT_.A. changing some bus routesstopping some bus routesB. asking parents to drive children to and from schoolusing other types of fuels9. The National Center for Safe Routes to School encourages more children to walk or bike to school in order to.A. save more fiicls and diesel fbr the countrykeep the children safe on their way to schoolB. make the children live a simple lifekeep the children healthy and the environment cleanDEvery year, companies like GoPro manage to pack more and more fimctions into smaller and smaller action cameras that are less noticeable to wear. But a team of researchers from the University of Washington have managed to build a live-streaming wireless camera that's so small that even an insect can wear il. Il's not quite small and light enough to be held to a fly, but at around 250 milligrams, the camera was successfiilly carried by a beetle.Although the camera inside a modem smartphone is certainly tiny, il's too large and heavy fbr an insect to carry once the batteries are added. Capturing millions of pixels (像素)with every shot requires a lot of image processing, which in turn requires a lot of power. Taking an alternate route, the researchers copied nature's approach to how flies see the world. Their large compound eyes can not only detect motion across a wide field of view (it's why they're so difficult to hit) but also feature a small, high-resolution (分辨率)region that can fbcus on their targets, which helps reduce the load on their tiny brains.Given its size and low-power approach, the camera's streaming abilities are similarly limited, with a Bluetooth connection that maxes out at a distance of roughly 120 meters, requiring a remote operator to be fairly close to the camera at all times. However, battery life is suiprisingly decent. The camera can run fbr up to two hours, but to extend that, the researchers included an accelerometer so that il's only capturing and broadcasting images whenever the beetle is moving That can increase the camera's battery life to over six hours.The researchers acknowledge that their design certainly raises some privacy concerns, given how easy it is fbr insects to find their way into your home. But the camera could provide entomologists (昆虫学者)with new insights into how insects cross their environment, respond to threats in the wild, and even provide a closer look at their social stmetures.10. What is the feature of the new camera?A. It's small-size and low-weight.B. It takes much clearer pictures.C. It can perform tasks in the open air.D. It protects beetles from their enemies.11. What do the researchers learn from flies fbr the new camera?A. How to enlarge its vision.B. How to capture the target.C. I low to save power of its battery.D. How to make sharp turns during flying.12. What can best replace the underlined word “decent” in Paragraph 3?A. casualB. adequateC. beneficialD. unsatisfactoryWhat's the author's attitude to the design of the new camera?A. Critical.B. Doubtful.C. Favorable.D. Objective.第二节(共5小题;每小题2.5分,满分12.5分)阅读下面短文,从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项 为多余选项。Every year, thousands of students choose to study overseas. 16 The following steps may prove useful in their preparations to study overseas. Get to know your new home before you land in it.There is no substitute fbr good preparation. 17 Learning about the history, culture, tradition, language and even details such as food, music, transport, weather and social activities of your new host country are all important.Thanks to the Internet, most of this can be found at the click of a button. Pack using your head and your heart.18 Whatever you bring, make sure that it will be something that you think might help your chances of succeeding.This includes practical items such as study materials, old class notes, favorite textbooks or pens and even the contact details of previous teachers. 19It is important to realize that while new and exciting things may be happening to you in your new environment, things and people back at home will also be changing.When you return home fbr a visit after a long period of time away, it is possible to feel isolated and experience “reverse(颠倒的)culture shock''. Therefore, with the ease and convenience of communicating via the Internet nowadays, there is no excuse not to keep in touch!Learn from all experiences.Value both your achievements and disappointments as learning experiences that can be applied to future situations in life.Don't ignore negative experiences. 20 A. Talk to your close friends and family about your thoughts, drcams and fears.B. Instead, learn from mistakes and turn them into opportunities fbr future improvement.C. It's not easy being practical when deciding what to pack.D. If you arc fortunate enough to meet a foreigner, be sure to ask them as much information as possible.E. Keep in touch with your roots.F. At first thought, the task of preparing to begin life away from home can seem frightening. G. Ann yourself with background knowledge by researching information about the counlry you are going to.第二部分语言运用(共两节,满分30分)第一节(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选 项。Driving on the mountain road where I live can be both a delight and an adventure. Yet, you should also watch fbr deer and squirrels 21 the road as well as fallen trees and rocks that may break loose from and 22 down the side of the hill.1 23 upon one big rock just the other day. I saw a car just ahead of me narrowly turnaround it. But the stone was 24 there, which might cause traffic accidents. I turned roundand then 25 over to a wide spot. I knew a rock of this 26 would break parts of a low riding car like mine if the driver didn't see it 27. So I walked over and moved the hugestone. It must have weighed 50 pounds, but with all my strength, I removed it. I felt relieved and walked back to my car.The happening reminded me too of an old 28 I had read once: In a faraway land, a king had placed a huge rock on the way to his palace. Many nobles walked by and surrounded it, complaining that the king didn't keep the road up better. Finally, a 29 farmer pulling a cart (马车)of vegetables arrived. He 30 and pushed the rock off the road. Then he saw under it was a bag of gold coins that the king had left fbr the one who 31 the path fbr those who came after. Later, he was not as badly off as before.Now while there wasn't any 32 under the rock I moved, my heart did feel more33 as I was driving back home. Maybe the real 34 is the joy wc spread, and the35 we share.21.A. destroyingB. beatifyingC. crossingD. transforming22.A. setB. fallC. tearD. bum23.A. cameB. steppedC. beatD. looked24.A. seldomB. everC. alreadyD. still25.A. watchedB. pulledC. knockedD. handed26.A. sizeB. quantityC. lengthD. smoothness27.A. in tu