陕西省西安高新第一中学本部2022-2023学年高二上学期期末英语试题.docx

2022-2023学年第一学期期末考试2024届高二英语试题第一部分听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节（共5小题;每小题1分，满分5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What did the woman forget?A. Her gloves.B. Her scarf.2. What does the boy suggest doing?A. Going to the circus.B. Playing with small animals.C. Taking a trip to a farm.3. How far is the last stop sign?A. Two blocks away.B. Three blocks away.4. Why couldn't the woman hear the man clearly?A. The man was eating.B. The man was in the shower.C. The woman has bad hearing.5. Where are the speakers?A. In a gas station.B. In a clinic.第二节（共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分）C. Her coat.C. Five blocks away.C. In an interview room.听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料、回答第6、7题。6. How many people were going on the trip at first?A. Four.B. Three.C. Two.7. Why does the woman want to reschedule?A. The tickels will be cheaper later.B. The trip will cost more than her budget.C. The event will be changing places.听第7段材料，问答第8、9题。8. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?60 . War has made life almost（bear） for the civilians remaining in the capital.（所给词的适当形式填 空）第二节 短文改错（共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分）61 .假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文章共有10处语言错 误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A）并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1.每处错误及其修改词均仅限一词；2.只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不记分。Over 27 million Chinese watch the first online concert of Irish band Westlife at Friday night. The concert was very worth watching. Hold in London and livestreamed on WeChat, the concert impressed Chinese fans deeply with many hit songs, as well as a Chinese song. Besides the good pronunciation in a Chinese song, the band's interactions also thrilled the audience. For many Chinese, their most favorite English songs were by Westlife. The band left a mark on them during their youth, yet the concert allowed them to share their memories with peer across the globe. This was just WeChafs first move invite more global celebrities, said Zhu Liqun, which leads the marketing department.第三节书面表达（满分10分）62.假设你是李华，你的英国朋友Bruce在给你的邮件中提到他计划今年来中国交换学习，并询问你住在 中国家庭里可能会面临哪些文化差异。请你给Bruce回信，内容包括：1.说明文化差异；2.提出建议。 注意：1 .词数100词左右；2.信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。Dear Bruce,Yours,Li HuaA. Friends.B. Family members.9. Why did bakers put an extra piece of bread in a bag in the past?A. There was more space in the bag.B. They wanted to make the customers happy.C. They were afraid to be punished fbr giving too little.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. How does the woman feel about the dinner?A. Nervous.B. Confident.11. Who does the woman have something in common with?A. The man's sister.B. The man's mother.12. What will the woman bring to the dinner?A. Some decorations.B. Something to eat.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What is the girPs project topic related to?A. History.B. Foreign language.14. When will the trip to Paris begin?A. About half a month later.B. In five days.15. What might help persuade the girPs father to let her go?A. That many other students will be going.B. That almost everything will already be paid for.C. That the group will visit many interesting places.16. Who is the man?A. The school principal.B. A college professor.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. According to the talk, what do most people agree on?A. Peopie should eat less meat.B. The endangered animals shouldn't be hunted.C. Hunting is likely to go down worldwide.18. Why are there so many white-tailed deer in the United States?A. It is illegal to hunt them.B. Other animals don't kill them.C. Their natural environment is improving fast.19. What is the good reason for hunters to shoot the deer?A. The deer cause car accidents.B. The deer damage the crop.C. The deer harm other animals.20. What is the best argunent aainst deer hunting?A. It is cruel.C. Strangers.C. Relaxed.C. The man's grandma.C. Something to drink.C. International relations.C. On Friday.C. A high school teacher.B. It leads to more human deaths.C. It doesn't keep their numbers down.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A1. As a first-time e-paper user, I am not sure if all the momentary pixilation （像素）is normal. The size is ideal fbr my new-teenager. There are hardly any annoyances and the kid seems enjoying the experience. The parental controls are, mildly put, inadequate. I would anticipate being able to define lock-down timings and limit usage duration fbr a device targeted at kids.Miki2. This is such a lifesaver! My son reads books constantly. We were doing our best to buy books and use the library, but it was hitting our wallets hard. With the Kindle Free Time included with this Kindle kids edition, he has access to thousands of books. I get to set the age appropriate limits on the book access. As we live on a tight budget, it's great to have a one-year free subscription to Free Time.Billie3. Just received this device today and I'm ready to throw it out the window. Navigation is horrible and even customer service admitted that they don't know how to help. Ifs a nightmare trying to get your free subscription set up as they just keep redirecting you to set up a 30-day trial and be charged after. I'll be cancelling everything and sending this back as soon as possible.-Catherine4. This is a reader's kindle. We want our children to readnot play video games all day. From the moment we received this device as a gift, our kids had immediate access to 55 books that we had purchased through our Amazon account. Now they can carry around a whole library of books. Not to mention all of the free out of copyright material that is available.-Norah1. What does Billie say about Kindle?A. It can save his son's life.B. It has no parental controls.C. It saves him a lot of money.D. It offers free books permanently.2. Who may give the device the lowest rating?A. Miki.B. Billie.C. Catherine.D. Norah3. What are the four texts?A. Book reports.B. Diary entries.C. Tablet advertisements.D. Customer reviews.BLaurie Horam never thought of himself as musical. At home, his dad never listened to music, while one of his boarding school teachers labelled him tone deaf. But last month he started to play the harmonica （口 琴）on the streetsof Bradford. People clapped, danced and threw coins into his case for the local food bank. Horam caught himself thinking. C4How, at the age of 79, do I come to be playing music to people onthe streets?”The question preoccupied him, because, some years ago at a family gathering, Gavin, his eldest son, said: “You know what, Dad? It can't be coincidental. We must have got our musical abilities from you." Horam has three sons and they cover a range of instruments. He was surprised. "There can't be music in me, because I can't play!” He said.Eight years ago, Horam, a retired civil servant, was on his way back from a trip with his family. Gavin stopped at a music shop. He walked out and said: "Here you are. I bought this for you, Dad. Ifs a harmonica. Til try to show you how to play a bit.”They went to a session at their local pub. Gavin played the guitar and Horam sat in the comer with his harmonica, trying to make a sound that no one would hear. After six months, he was invited into the group. He discovered a talent for improvisation （艮口兴表演），responding to a note within a millisecond without batting an eyelid. "I don't play by ear. I play by heart." Actually, Horam says, “My harmonica plays me-how I feel, what I am, what I've been.Music has enriched life with friendship and made Horam feel "part of something much bigger“ than himself. “At a time when the circle of life might be shrinking mine is expanding/9 he says. "Maybe we never know completely who we are or what we can do.”4. Why did Horam play the harmonica on the streets of Bradford?A. To recall the goodolddays.B. To beg food frompassers-by.C. To live his childhood dream.D. To collect moneyfbr charity.5. What is Gavin's attitude to his father musical ability?A. Favourable.B. Disapproving.C. Doubtful.D. Unclear.6. What does playing the harmonica allow Horam to do?B. Listen to his heart.D. Sharpen his hearing.A. Enjoy the quiet.C. Express himself.7 What does music bring to Horam?A. A better soul.C. A broader circle of life.B. A comfortable life.D. A new perception of family.CDreams, according to Carl Jung, reveal a certain amount of reality hidden during waking consciousness. In Jungian philosophy, the conflict and chaos experienced in dreams finally bring order to our lives. While Jung's mystical theories are debatable, he was not mistaken about the importance of dreaming. A growing number of reports show that a continuous lack of dreaming is damaging our waking hours in many ways.This trend is causing damage to our immune and metabolic （新陈彳弋谢的）systems, let alone the electronic products that keep us up late at night are ruining our sleep patterns, which has long-term consequences on our memory system. One study showed that not allowing mice to have adequate amounts of REM （Rapid Eye Movement） sleep, the stage in which we dream, the mice couldn't strengthen memories.You might think this is just a sleep problem, but dreaming is inseparable from our nighttime rest. We sleep in cycles, each lasting about 90 minutes; in a sleep cycle, we go through non-REM sleep before hitting REM. As the night progresses, REM sleep periods increase in length while deep sleep （one of the stages of non-REM sleep） decreases. The longer we sleep, the more time we spend in REM, which is why we are often dreaming when waking up in the morning. If we sleep less than seven hours, however, it becomes harder to achieve this level of REM.The combination of sleeping and dreaming acts as an emotional stabilizer. We recover from emotional hurt faster when we sleep and dream properly. However, we're not getting enough sleep to cycle through the stages to take advantage of this natural circadian anti-depressant （抗抑郁齐!J）dreams. Instead, we get depressed and turn to alcohol or medicines to get to sleep, which only makes things worse because even one drink leads to late REM while anti-depressants promote deep sleep at the expense of REM.We're paying fbr this lack of dreaming in many ways. For example, a 2021 study stated that compared with quiet rest and non-REM sleep, REM promoted the fbnnation of associative networks and the integration （整合）of unassociated information. Volunteers that experienced more REM sleep were better equipped for solving problems requiring creative solutions.Rowan Hooper, the managing editor at New Scientist, writes that dreams that include an "emotional core“ appear to be a main function of REM sleep and that we should look at sleep patterns as seriously as we do diet and exercise habits.8. Whafs Carl Jung's view about dreams?A. They cause chaos.B. They damage immunity.C. They reveal secrets.D. They mirror reality.9. Why is the sleep process explained in paragraph 3?A. To show a dream mainly occurs during REM sleep.B. To prove the minimum sleep time should be seven hours. C To prove dream problems and sleep problems are attached.D. To show people often dream when waking up in the morning.10. What conclusion can be inferred from paragraph 5?A. REM sleep promotes creativity.B. REM sleep helps fight depression.C. The brain still receives new information during REM sleep.D. The brain is paying the price fbr having more non-REM sleep.11. Whafs the main idea of the passage?A. The importance of sleep lies in dreams.B. The absence of dreams is terrible for us.C. Dreaming patterns are more important than we realize.D. Dreaming has mystical power of strengthening memories.DOur character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap （获得）an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,“ the maxim goes.4-6Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character and produce our effectiveness.or ineffectiveness.As Horace Mann, the great educator, once said, “Habits are like a cable. We weave a part of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.1 personally do not agree with the last part of his expression. I know they can be broken. Habits can be learned and unlearned. But I also know it isn't a quick fix. It involves a process and a tremendous （极 大的）commitment.Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo 11 were transfixed as we saw the first men walk on the moon and return to earth. Superlatives such as “fantastic” and “incredible“ were inadequate to describe those eventful days. But to get there, those astronauts literally had to break out of the tremendous gravity pull of the earth. More energy was spent in the first few minutes of lift-off, in the first few miles of travel, than was used over the next several days to travel half a million miles.Habits, too, have tremendous gravity pull-more than most people realize or would admit. Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination （拖延）,impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate （违 背）basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. “Lift- off9 takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.Like any natural force, the gravity pull can work with us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also the gravity pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force, and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit lo create the cohesiveness and order necessary to establish effectiveness in our lives.12. The author disagrees with Horace Mann because the latter believes.A. habits are like a cableB. habits can be learnedC. habits learning is hardD. habits cannot be broken13. The author compares launching spacecraft and breaking old habits mainly because.A. They both involve a little willpower.B. They can be learned and unlearned.C. They both take a tremendous effort in the beginning.D. Once done, they'll ensure people unlimited freedom.14. What is the structure of the text?1-2c.15. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?A. The breakoff of habitsB. The power of habitsC. The lift-off of gravity pullD. Important habits in our lives第二节（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Learn to Cite Source”引用资料）Durin