重庆市第八中学校2022-2023学年高二下学期入学测试英语试题.docx

重庆市第八中学校2022-2023学年高二下学期入学测试英语试题学校:姓名：班级：考号：一、阅读理解Jim Thorpe is one of the greatest athletes of all time. He had amazing athletic abilities and was well-known during his lifetime, yet that did not make Thorpe a stranger to adversity.Thorpe was an American Indian from Oklahoma who developed his extraordinary athletic skills in his youth through hard labor. It was also in his youth that he learned to endure hardship brought upon by racial prejudice. Many would say his childhood was not easy. He grew up poor and at age 9, his twin brother passed away and a few years later he lost both of his parents.But that did not stop him from doing what he loved and pursuing his dreams. Nothing seemed to stop him, not even stolen shoes. Just hours before Thorpe was going to compete in the 1912 Olympics, somebody stole his shoes. Thorpe improvised by getting shoes out of the garbage. The shoes were two different sizes. He wore an extra pair of socks on one foot to even them out.He still went on to win two gold medals - winning each event he competed in except for one, the javelin （标 枪）.The javelin was the only event he didn't win, probably because he had never competed in that event before. It is interesting to note that Thorpe had tried to throw the javelin once before in the Olympic trials. At the time, he didn't know that he could throw it with a running start He threw it standing still and was placed second.At the Olympics, he also took part in the decathlon （十项全能运动）.He finished first in two events, third in four events, and fourth in two more. Thorpe ended up finishing third in the world. He was undoubtedly a dominating force that couldn't be stopped and just kept on going.I think Paul Dughi said it best, "It's hard to imagine now that pro athletes get paid millions of dollars just to wear a particular brand of shoes. For Jim Thorpe, it didn't matter what kind he wore.”What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?A. The adversity Thorpe met with led to his success.B. Thorpe's success was no guarantee of a better life.C. Thorpe's career brought him both gains and losses.D. Thorpe suffered many hardships despite his success.1. Why did Thorpe wear more socks on one foot?A. To prevent the toot from injury.B. To make the shoe fit the foot.This was my second year of high school, but my first year of school in St. Louis. I had decided the night before that I would be much happier in a new school if I made friends that were so-called “popular”. Getting in with the right group of people would make my life a whole lot better. I even bought a new outfit and had my hair styled just so the first day would be perfect.Scared, yet anxious to begin my new life, I walked up the stairs to the front door. The halls were packed with kids yelling and laughing and telling stories of their summer adventures. My first class was geometry, but where was that?I was standing in the hall looking confused, when a short, blond girl wearing glasses came up and asked, “Are you new? You look lost. Do you need help? My name is Diane. Whafs yours? Even though she seemed a bit strange, definitely not the kind of person I wanted to be associated with, I decided to answer her anyway. I was, after all, lost.After exchanging names. I followed her up the stairs and down a hallway on the right, making polite conversation the whole way. When we reached my room she said, "Well, here you are. Welcome to JFK, and I hope your day goes all right.”I said thanks and waved good-bye. Once inside the classroom, I saw one big group of people huddled around someone who seemed to be telling some sort of story. I walked over and got close enough to overhear. All eyes were glued to the guy in the middle of the circle who was wearing a letter jacket covered with patches. I decided that this guy was popular, so I managed to get a seat right next to him. I said, "Hi, my name is Lisa and I'm new here. He said, "Johnny." 注意：1 所续写短文的词数应为150左右： 2 ,请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置答题。At the end of the class, I turned to him and asked, "Tm not sure where my next class is, could you help me?”Just at that time, someone came up and tapped me on the shoulder.参考答案:1. D 2. B 3. C4. D 5. D 6. A 7. C8. B 9. D 10. A 11. D12. C 13. D 14. D 15. B16. B17. F 18. E19. G 20. C21. B22. D23. A24. D 25. C 26. B 27. A 28. D 29. C 30. C 31. B 32. A 33.D 34. C 35. B36. interrupted37. interrupted38. was choking 38. stuff39. whether 40. to41. witnessing 42. why43. substantially 44. exposure 45. what46 .范文Now, COVID-19 not only appears in China, but also in many countries and regions of the world. People are frantically stocking up on medical supplies for fear of contracting COVID-19. Such behavior brought out a heated discussion in my class.40% believed it is necessary because the virus spreads quickly, the chances of infection are high and there may be a shortage of medicine, while 60% hold the belief that it is unnecessary. They insisted that this behavior takes up resources and produces panic, and medical treatment will be guaranteed.In my opinion, at this particular time, we should have faith in the ability of government to solve problems, especially livelihood issues. Meanwhile, we should trust the medical workers on the front lines of the epidemic, whose expertise has given us a new understanding of the virus and boosted our confidence in defeating it. As manyChinese say, "come on China.47 . One Possible Version:At the end of the class, I turned to him and asked, 'Tm not sure where my next class is, could you help me?” With a frown, he looked at me and then said a quick no, turned back to his friends, and walked out of the classroom. As they were walking out I heard him say, “Did you guys see that new girl trying to get into our group? That outfit was too strange." They all laughed and some of them turned around and stared at me. My face hot with shame, I stood stock-still, not believing what had just happened.Just at that time, someone came up and tapped me on the shoulder It was Diane. Like a ray of sunshine, the big smile on her face swept away my gloom. I struggled to hold my feelings back and told her what I had encountered. A gleam of concern in her eyes, she said she was sorry and offered to find my next class. At that moment I realized how wrong I was in wanting to only be friends with popular people. Maybe I shouldn't decide whether a person is worth being my friend or not by their reputation, but by who they are.C.To stop the shoe from being stolen.D.To show his problem-solving skills.3. Which of the following wordscanbest describe Jim Thoipe?A.Loyal and enthusiastic.B.Genuine and creative.C. Tough and strong-minded.D.Selfless and good-tempered.It isn't just the beauty of vast natural wonders like the Grand Canyon that can take your breath away. You can find awe in everyday things. A new research, published in the journal Emotion, found that older adults who took “awe walks" felt more positive emotions in their daily lives.In the study, 52 older adults aged 60 to 90 were divided randomly into two groups. They were told to take at least one 15-minute walk each week for eight weeks. Volunteers in the “awe group“ were instructed in how to inspire awe as they walked. "We asked them to try to see the world with fresh eyesto take in new details of a leaf or flower, fbr example,9, Sturm says. For example, one participant from the awe group wrote about "the beautiful fall colors and how the leaves were no longer crunchy（嘎吱响）underfoot because of the rain一the wonder that small children feel as they embrace their expanding world. However, people in the other group were less focused on the world around them. One participant wrote, "I thought about our vacation in Hawaii next Thursday.In addition, participants were asked to take selfies（自拍）in the beginning, middle, and end of each walk. Researchers found that participants who took awe walks showed a "small self', in that they filled less of their photographs with their own image and more with the background scenery. "When we feel awe, our attention shifts from focusing on ourselves to focusing on the world around us, Sturm says. " Awe affects our social relationships because it helps us to feel more connected with the world, universe, and other people/Their smiles also grew broader by the end of the study. "We analyzed the intensity of their smiles in the selfies, and participants who took awe walks displayed greater smiles over time than those who took control walks. The former reported greater positive emotions in general, including more joy and gratitude/9Participants in the control group took more frequent walks than those people in the awe group, the researchers discovered. But walking more didn't result in positive changes in emotional health or in the way their selfies were taken. This suggests that the results were mainly due to experiencing awe, and not just in spending time exercising. 4. What were participants in the “awe group“ required to do in Paragraph 2?A. To take a walk each week.B To focus on their inner world.C. To collect leaves after the rain.D. To explore with childlike curiosity.5 . What can we see in the selfies from the awe walks?A. Close-up images with wide smiles.B , More attention on themselves.C. Simply the background scenery.D. Small figures with bigger smiles.6. What can we know from the last paragraph?A. Experiencing awe counts.B , More walks, more joy.C. Exercises can benefit us.D. Awe comes with walking.7. Which of the following can be the best title?A. Awe Walks Promote Your Physical FitnessB Experiencing Awe Does Wonders for EveryoneC. Awe Walks Improve Your Positive EmotionsD. Frequent Walks Contribute to Emotional HealthCan you imagine someone hunting you down with a gun? Most of us would be terrified. So, ifs no surprise that that's how animals respond, too.Orcas, a species that have been systematically hunted- even with machine guns-dramatically decreased in number in the twentieth century. These so-called "killer whales“ hunted the same fish that fishermen prized and were therefore seen as competition. Consequently, killer whales began avoiding certain locations and routes. But while North America largely banned their killing in the 1970s, they continue to be hunted in Greenland to this day.Elephants also have to deal with human hunters. Ivory poachers（象牙偷猎者）have greatly reduced the African elephant population, which used to cover the entire continent. The ivory trade was banned in 1990, but animal habitats and food supplies have still declined. In Kenya, the human population has increased four times over the last 40 years while the elephant population declined by four-fifths.This has caused the elephants to adopt unique responses to people. For instance, elephants are terrified of the spear-waving Maasai, an ethnic group of Kenya and Tanzania who have often hurt elephants when trying to protect their own cattle.So once in an experiment by a group of zoologists, when elephants living close to the Maasai were presented with three different T-shirts, one belonging to a Maasai, another to a different local and one to a researcher, they only reacted with fear to the Maasai shirt, literally smelling the danger.However, neither elephants nor killer whales commonly show anger and hate for people. In fact, elephants are generally friendly to humans. And the only instances of killer whales harming a person occurred when the whales were kept in a water cage. Orcas have even been reported to aid humans in need, protecting them from other animals.8. Why are killer whales often hunted?A. They are hugely profitable.B They harm people's interests.C. They threaten fishermen's safety.D. They compete with other wildlife for food.9. What does the underlined word "This" in Paragraph 4 refer to?A. Less illegal ivory trade.B The decline of food supplies.C. Elephants5 traveling to other continents.D. The population change of humans and elephants.10. Why is the experiment mentioned?A. To prove humans9 influence on animals.B To show the defensive nature of the Maasai.C. To illustrate the cleverness of the wild animals.D. To highlight the urgency of animal conservation.11. What's the best title of this text?A. Fierce Animals Can Feel Frightened TooB Animal Kingdoms Are Sounding an AlarmC. Animals Are Trying to Fit in Human WorldD. Human Actions Have Shaped Animal ConsciousnessIt's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful magazine cover story "I love My Children, I Hate My Life" is arousing much chatter nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that bringing up a child is not a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be extremely hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment damage our moods can later be sources of intense content and delight.”The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive and newly single mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation (繁衍),is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children. Unhappy parents rarely are encouraged to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the wide-open baby-size holes in their lives.Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like US Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear celebrities tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.It is hard to imagine that many people are stupid enough to want children because it looks so fantastic - most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it is interesting