2021-2022学年江西省吉安市万安县高二（下）期中英语试卷（附答案详解）.pdf
2021-2022学年江西省吉安市万安县实验中学高二(下)期中英语试卷AChina has a history of thousands of years,which gives it a lot of historical sites which includethe Summer Place,the Forbidden City,the Terracotta Army,the Potala Palace and the MogaoGrottoe.All of these are UNESCO World heritage.The Summer Palace：Chinas Largest Imperial GardenLocation：BeijingThe Summer Palace is Chinas largest imperial garden.UNESCO added this 300-hectare site tothe World Heritage List in 1998.There are numerous stores in Suzhou Street,selling souvenirslike antiques,snacks,silk jewelry and tea.The shop assistants there are dressed in the costumesof the Qing Dynasty.The Terracotta Warriors：First Emperor Qins Buried ArmyLocation：XianThe museum covers an area of 22,780 square meters.Over 8,000 life-size terracotta soldiersand horses and more than 10,000 bronze weapons were unearthed.The Terracotta Army iscandidate for the title eighth wonder of the world,.The Potala Palace：Masterpiece of Tibetan ArchitectureLocation：LhasaIt was first built as the palace of Songtsen Gampo(617-650),founder of the Tu-BoDynasty.After being rebuilt in the 17th century,it was the residence of Dalai Lamas.There areplenty of precious historical relics in the palace,including over 10,000 Buddha statues made orgold,silver,jade,wood or clay.The Mogao Grottoes：a Holy land of Buddhist ArtLocation：DunhuangThe Mogao Grottoes has 735 grottoes,450,000 square meters of mural paintings,2,415colored 3 uddha statues made of clay,and more than 50,000 historical relics.All of these makethe Mogao Grottoes the largest and the most significant land of Buddhist art.There are some bestsellers including some of these historical sites：,4-Day Lhasa Highlight Tour 11-Day Classic Wonders Tour Beijing,Xi*an,Lhasa 16-Day Memories of China with Yangtze Cruise-Beijing,Xian,Yangtze,ShanghaiYou could always contact us to tailor your own unique tour of Chinas historical sites.1.Where can you buy gifts for your friend who is a tea lover?A.At the Potala palace.B.Al the Terracotta Warriors.C.At the Summer palace.D.At the Mogao Grottoes.2.Which of the following items can you see during 16-Day Memories of China withYangtze Cruise?A.Magnificent mural paintings.B.Buddha statues made of jade.C.terracotta soldiers and horses.D.grottoes with mural paintings.3.What can we learn from the passage?A.The Terracotta Warriors is the eighth wonder of the world.B.The Mogao Grottoes is the most important place of Buddhist art.C.Only three tour packages are available for tourists to choose.D.The Potala Palace was first constructed for the residence of Dalai Lamas.BA four-year-old boy who was crazy about collecting rubbish has finally fulfilled his dream ofbeing a cleaner.Riley McCourt has admired the local rubbish collectors for ages,spending hisdays picking up waste on his street and wheeling bins（垃圾桶）to the side of the road to helpout his neighbors.He loves cleaning and binning waste.His favorite chore is to empty therubbish from the chip shop his mum runs.Two weeks ago,however,a disaster struck：Rileyaccidentally knocked over one of the bins and was accused of causing trouble.Someone posted in the local Facebook group that Riley had put rubbish in the street,clearlyunaware of his love for keeping the streets clean.Thankfully his innocence was quicklyproven,and his local council decided to make his dreams come true by allowing him to workalongside the cleaners for a day.Riley joined the waste collection crew on Wednesday,chatting with the team,helping with therecycling,and riding in the waste collection vehicles.He even got his own jacket.Rileymum,Toni McCourt,said,He loves the bins and trucks.Rileys favorite day is definitely binday.He goes round collecting the rubbish up on the street.The cleaners all know him when theyspot him.He goes outside as soon as he sees them come round.He helps his neighbors put theirbins out for collection.Riley clearly made a good impression during his first day on the job,as community servicesmanager Jane Carrol said she was very pleased with his enthusiasm for the role.Jane said,Riley is clearly a keen recycler and who knows,when he is older Im sure he would make anexcellent member of the team here.It was a pleasure for the team to show him around thevehicles.4.What is Rileys dream?A.To prove his innocence.B.To collect much rubbish.C.To work as a real cleaner.D.To work in his mothers shop.5.What happened to Riley two weeks ago?第2 页，共 19页A.He was wronged by someone.B.He was knocked over by a bin.C.He had an accident in the shop.D.He forgot to empty the rubbish.6.What do people do on bin day?A.People go out to celebrate it.B.The cleaners collect the bins.C.People help Riley collect rubbish.D.The cleaners collect rubbish in the bins.7.How does Jane Carrol think about Rileys action?A.It is dangerous to do so on the street.B.It is good for the community to follow him.C.It is worthwhile to give Riley high remarks.D.It is unnecessary for such a little boy to do so.cSetting goals is common in our life.We look ahead,predict what may make us happy in thefuture,and then narrow down the things to something specific.For the most part,having goals isbetter than not having any,but there are also problems that come with spending an entire lifeliving from goal to goal.For one thing,we attempt to predict an unpredictable future.Who is to say that what you wantnext year is the same thing you.want right now?.What if what you want right now isnt in theright direction over the long term?Secondly,and just as importantly,you only your expectations of happiness and satisfaction tothe goal you have set so that you often forget that other things in your.life can also add just asmuch joy to your experience.This creates a strange conflict.To solve this conflict,we have to move towards something more vague（模糊的）.Going afterinterestingness,!think,is what we should do.Its vague enough to be honest about theunpredictability of the future/mInterestingness isnt hedonism（快乐主义）.Its deeper than that.Ifs taking on that randomproject you had no plan to take on because you have a feeling that you might just learnsomething you didnt know about yourself,It*s seeing a person you just met not as a：potentialpartner or someone who can do something for you but simply as someone who may open anew,unknown and unique world for you.Goals incorrectly assume that we already know what we want.Interestingness is more modest.ltmakes up its mind as it moves,slowly blowing from one thing to another,until it eventuallygrasps something that lies beyond prediction.8.Setting goals is to predict an unpredictable future b e c a u s e.A.it fails to reach our true potentialB.it proves meaningless in the long runC.it may lead us to the opposite directionD.it overlooks possible changes in our life9.What does the underlined wordconfinein Paragraph 3 probably mean?A.Devote.B.Limit.C.Deliver.D.Compare.10.Whats the benefit of pursuing interestingness?A.Bringing us self satisfaction at once.1B.Improving our relationship with others.C.Making us gain something unexpected.D.Helping us successfully predict the future.11.Whafs the purpose of the text?A.To ease our worry about the future.B.To express a new thought on setting goals.C.To point out disadvantages of an aimless life.D.To recommend a new way of achieving success.DBy examining tiny vessels（血管）inside a persons eyes,doctors might one day be able topredict that persons risk of early death,according to a new study.Past research had shown the retina（视网月莫）,light-sensitive layers of nerve tissue at the backof the eye,as a possible indicator of a persons biological age.The retina offers aunique,accessible window“to evaluate underlying pathological（病理的）processes of someserious diseases that are associated with increased risks of death.In the new study,theresearchers turned to a deep-learning technique that could predict a persons risk of death byanalyzing the biological age of the retina.Their deep-learning model,a type of machine learning and artificial intelligence thats modeledto learn similar to a human brain,analyzed more than 80.000 images of fundus（眼底）-theinternal back surface of the eye that includes the retina.They obtained the images from nearly47.000 people between the ages of 40 and 69,stored in the UK.Biobank.TO figure out whethertheir model was accurate,they first analyzed more than 19,000 fundus images taken from morethan 1,100 participants who were in relatively good health.The idea was that the retinalbiological ages of these people should be fairly similar to their chronological age（实际年龄）.The model was fairly accurate in predicting retinal ages,with an accuracy of within 3.5 years tochronological ages.They then used the model to assess the remaining nearly 36,000participants fundus photos collected across a span of 11 years.They found that 51 percent ofthe participants had a retinal age gap”-the difference between biological and chronologicalage-of more than 3 years,28 percent had a gap of more than 5 years and 4.5 percent had a gapof more than 10 years.In other words,these participants had older eyes compared to their第4页，共19页chronological age.Those who had larger age gaps had a 49-67 percent higher risk of death from causes other thancardiovascular disease or cancer.With every one year increase in the age gap,the risk of deathincreased by 2 percent for any cause and 3 percent for causes other than cardiovascular diseaseand cancer.12.What can we know about the retina?A.It causes serious diseases.B.It indicates the risk of death.C.It speeds pathological processes.D.It improves peoples physical health.13.How do researchers know the retinal age?A.By examining the nerve tissue.B.By studying the human brain.C.By checking the eyesight.D.By analyzing fundus images.14.What percentage of the participants had the largest retinal age gap?A.3.5%,B.4.5%,C.28%.D.51%15.Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?A.A new study is conducted on tiny vesselsB.Image technology is used to predict diseasesC.Eyes may reveal a person*s biological ageD.A deep-leaning on the retina is necessaryIts hard to say goodbye to your favorite pair of jeans,even when theyre way beyond wearable.(1)_Netherton-born artist Ian Berry has made quite a name for himself after his unique art took theart world by storm.Its hard to believe the idea of using old denim(牛仔布)as medium for hisart came after a call from his mother,Christine,asking him to clean out his room.It was aboutsix or seven years ago,my mum was clearing out my old room and she wanted me to go throughmy things.I found loads of old jeans and denims and I noticed the different colors and shades.Ikept hold of them but it was only about 18 months later that I began to do something withthem.(2)Ian Berry quit his full-time job in advertising to focus all his attention on art.(3)Andhe remembers his girlfriends parents asking if artists could make a living in this day andage.But his gamble(冒 险)paid off and soon his denim artworks were the stars of sell-outshows in Sweden and the US,and his pieces were sold to private and public collections all overthe world.Iain Barratt,director of the Catto Gallery,told the Examiner,what Ian Berry does isextraordinary.(4)And what absolute treasures they are.Ian makes remarkably detailedportraits and urban landscapes using nothing more than discarded(丢弃的)jeans-the effectis extraordinary.(5)Ian Berry uses old jeans,a pair of scissors and some glue to create all hisincredible detailed works of art.After 12 years of working with denim,the English artist hasmanaged to fill seven closets with old pairs of jeans,so its safe to say he has plenty of materialfor his future works.A.So many people would rather put their jeans away than throw them away.B.He didnt know his experiment would soon make him and his denim art famous all over theworld.C.It was a risky move.D.He thought he would earn a lot of money in his new career.E.But English artist Ian Berry has found a way to use denim to create beautiful works of art.F.Denim art is as simple as it is beautiful.G.People cant see how he*s created these wonderful scenes until they see it close up and touchit.16.A.AEB.BC.CD.DE.F.FG.G17.A.AB.BC.CD.DE.EF.FG.G18.A.AB.BC.CD.DE.EF.FG.G19.A.AB.BC.CD.DE.EF.FG.G20.A.AB.BC.CD.DE.EF.FG.GMost brides are angry when they are outshone(使逊色)at their own wedding.For BrennaKlemen,however,she would not have it any other way.When Brenna married Brock Kendall back in April,she knew she(21)her 83-year-oldgrandmother to play a(22)role in the wedding.While at work as an ICU nurse,Brenna talked toa patient who(23)her to give her grandmother a very unusual role at her wedding.I was(24)a very sick elderly woman who told me a(25)of how she was a flower girl for hergrandchild,Brenna explained.Brenna certainly(26)the idea for her own wedding day,and her grandmother,who prefers to beunnamed,was all for it as well!Grandma was very(27),Brenna said.She was almost in tears because she wanted to makesure she did OK on my special day.On the actual wedding day,Grandma did more than just OK,as she(28)stole the show!All。9)was on her as she walked down the aisle,and the(30)moment was captured by wedding(31)Thomas Felts in images that have since(32)rapidly.Every time she threw more petals in the air,our family cheered loudly and happily,*Brenna第6 页，共 19页said,adding that all of her wedding guests(33).This was a wedding that(34)nobody inattendance will ever(35)!While everyone loved the moment,nobody was(36)than Brennas grandfather,who told thephotographer,Thats my flower girl.The photos have(37)the hearts of people all over the globe.I have(38)that life is too short for us to think about the negatives.As my grandmother wouldsay (39)is a choice.1 Brenna said.She is my inspiration,and I hope that she can inspire youtoo.Were so glad to see that Brenna got the wedding of her dreams,with a little(40)from hergrandma!21.A.employedB.wantedC.forcedD.directed22.A.balancedB.protectiveC.similarD.major23.A.promisedB.encouragedC.invitedD.allowed24.A.competing withB.believing inC.looking afterD.operating on25.A.storyB.theoryC.testD.survey26.A.understoodB.lovedC.abandonedD.explored27.A.disappointedB.confusedC.honestD.emotional28.A.completelyB.secretlyC.carefullyD.formally29.A.pressureB.influenceC.luckD.attention30.A.decisiveB.typicalC.sweetD.final31.A.plannerB.guestC.photographerD.singer32.A.spreadB.shapedC.changedD.appeared33.A.sighedB.laughedC.waitedD.interrupted34.A.commonlyB.fortunatelyC.immediatelyD.absolutely35.A.acceptB.realizeC.forgetD.stop36.A.prouderB.kinderC.politerD.calmer37.A.unitedB.touchedC.brokenD.weakened38.A.supposedB.warnedC.provenD.learned39.A.ForgivenessB.SuccessC.HappinessD.Popularity40.A.helpB.guidanceC.benefitD.respect41.The Palace Museum in Beijing(1)(release)its calendar for 2022 on September 6 in2021 although the Year of the Tiger is still more than four months away.The calendar hasbecome a new way for many people to record their life,Chen Lihua,editor-in-chief of thecalendar,says.Though printed calendars s
