湖北省荆州市沙市中学2022-2023学年高二下学期2月月考英语试题.docx

20222023学年度下学期2021级二月月考英语试卷命题人：李艺审题人：吴丽虹考试时间：2023年2月23日第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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。 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。 例：How much is the shirt?B.£9.18.C. £9.15.A. £19.15.答案是C。1. Where did Kate fly kites on the weekend?A. In the field next to the river.B. In the field in front of her house.C. In the field behind her house.2. How much should the man pay for two T-shirts?A. $18.3. What is the man worried about? A. The final exam.B. $14.B. The mid-term exam.C.$13.C. The physics exam.4. What do we know about Christine?A. She wears long dark hair.B. She is dissatisfied with her hair.C. She is talking with her best friend.5. What will the man probably do?A. He will drive to the center of the city.B. He will solve the electricity problem.C. He will go to the Hotel Excelsior.第二节（共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5分）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。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，各小题将 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. Where does the woman work?A. In Tokyo.B. In London.C. In Oxford.7. What are the speakers going to do tomorrow evening?A. Visit Jane.B. Have dinner.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. How did the man find his job at first?C. See some customers.A. Boring.B. Exciting.C. Hard.9. What is the most interesting in the man's eyes?A. Working the machines.B. Talking to the customers. C. Making the juice.假如你是李华，在美国某中学做交换生，你不慎将手提包落在了学校图书馆里，包中的物品 极为重要。请写一篇寻物启事，张贴在校园公告栏处，内容如下：1 .对手提包的描述（形状、大小、颜色及内含物品）；.丢失时间、地点及联系方式；2 .对关注者及帮助者表达感谢。注意：1.词数100左右；.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。第二节读后续写（满分25分）阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。"Im going to miss you so much, Poppy/' said the tall, thin teenager. He bent down to hug his old friend goodbye. He stood up, hugged his parents, and smiled, trying not to let his emotions 什青绪）get the better of him.His parents were not quite able to control theirs. They had driven their son several hours out of town to the university where he would soon be living and studying. It was time to say goodbye fbr now at least. The family hugged and smiled through misty eyes and then laughed.The boy lifted the last bag onto his shoulder, and flashed a bright smile. “I guess this is it J he said. "Ill see you back home in a month, okay?" His parents nodded, and they watched as he walked out of sight into the crowds of hundreds of students and parents. The boy's mother turned to the dog, “Okay, Poppy, time to go back home.”The house seemed quiet as a tomb without the boy living there. All that week, Poppy didn't seem interested in her dinner, her favorite toy, or even in her daily walk. Her owners were sad too, but they knew their son would be back to visit. Poppy didn't.They offered the dog some of her favorite peanut butter treats. They even let her sit on the sofa, but the old girl just wasn't her usual cheerfill self. Her owners started to get worried. "What should we do to cheer Poppy up?” asked Dad. “We've tried everything/9“I have an idea, but it might be a little crazysmiled Mom. "Without anybody left in the house but us, this place could use a bit of fiin. Let's get a little dog fbr Poppy.It didn't take long before they walked through the front door carrying a big box. Poppy welcomed them home as usual but when she saw the box, she stopped. She put her nose on it. Her tail began wagging （摆动）ever so slowly, then faster as she caught the smell.Para 1 ：Dad opened the box and a sweet little dog appeared, Para 2 ：A few weeks later, the boy arrived home from university. C. Nice.C. French.C. Listening.C. Kind.C. Have a talk with Laura.C. Comfort Mamie.C. Teachers.10. What does the man think of the customers?A. Impatient.B. Cool.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. Which language is the woman learning?A. Spanish.B. Japanese.12. What does the man think is easy about Chinese?A. Speaking.B. Writing.13. How will the woman practice the language she is learning?A. By chatting online with native speakers.B. By talking with the man's parents.C. By listening to native speakers.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. Why is Mamie upset?A. Laura always laughs at her.B. She is shy in front of large groups.C. She thinks she41 lose a speech contest.15. What is Laura like?A. Funny.B. Talented.16. What does the man suggest Marnie do?A. Practice more.B. Write a good speech.17. What is the man trying to do?A. Encourage Mamie.B. Persuade Mamie.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. Who is the speaker speaking to?A. Children.B. Parents.19. Why must children carry whistles when camping?A. To save their lives.B. To comfort themselves. C. To carry their voice farther.20. What can a lost child do?A. Turn to others fbr help. B. Wander around to get back. C. Hug a nearby tree and talk to it. 第二部分阅读理解（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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该 项涂黑。Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is road testing a new way to keep winter roads ice-free by spreading on them cheese brine, the salty liquid used to make soft cheeses.Wisconsin, also called “America's Dairyland J is famous for its cheese. The state produced 2.8 billion pounds of cheese last year! As a result, there was a lot of leftover cheese brine. Disposing of （处置）the brine can be expensive. So what should cheese makers do with the waste?Normally, towns use rock salt to de-ice streets. The salt lowers water9s freezing point, causing ice to melt. But using cheese brine could help both cheese producers and cities save money, while keeping roads safe. Cheese brine has salt in it, which, like the rock salt, helps lower water's freezing point.In addition to saving money, cheese brine could also be a more eco-friendly option. Many people suspect that all the rock salt used every winter is harming the environment.Rock salt is made of sodium chloride （氯化钠）,the same compound （化合物）in ordinary table salt. Sounds harmless, right? But while you probably add only a small amount of salt to your food, road crews spread about 20 million tons of salt on U. S. roads every year!The chemical washes off roads and goes into the ground. There it can pollute drinking water, harm plants, and eat away soil. By spreading cheese brine on streets before adding a layer of rock salt, Milwaukee may be able to cut its rock salt use by 30 percent.Cheese brine has a downside too, a smell similar to that of bad milk. "I don't really mind it J Emil Norby told Modern Farmer magazine. He works for one of Wisconsin's county highway commissions and came up with the idea of using cheese brine. "Our roads smell like Wisconsin!” he said.21. Why can cheese brine help keep winter roads ice-free?A. It is soft.B. It has milk in it.C. It is warm.D. It contains salt.22. What is the benefit of using cheese brine on roads?A. Improving air quality.B. Reducing water pollution.C. Increasing sales of rock salt.D. Saving the cheese industry.23. Milwaukee's new way to de-ice streets may be an example of.A. killing two birds with one stone.B. barking up the wrong tree.C. putting the cart before the horse.D. robbing Peter to pay Paul.B“I think I'm nothing more than a dead fish.” "I don't want to do anything.'Tm so beat and so sad/9. The young generation in our country used to enjoy their "happy culture" but now they have become “beat and sad" slowly and secretly. Some people even called it “the beat culture”. The “Beat” youths don't want to do anything. They have no purpose, no desire and they are totally depressed so that they only want to live an aimless life. The “Ge You slouch （葛优瘫）“and the song I feel like having been drained are the examples.Many media concern themselves about this phenomenon and try to persuade the youths into embracing positive and healthy feelings and encourage them to work hard to get rid of decadence. This is really a kind gesture. However, we don't have to worry too much about this "beat culture.In fact, it's not a negative thing. “Beat” never means despair, but a way of sell-mockery （自嘲）and pressure relief.In general, the youths in China are not "beat”. According to a recent international research, the youths in China hold a positive attitude towards the future. 29% of the Chinese interviewees believe they will live and work in peace in China because "as long as you work hard, you can have your own day". Around 93% of the Chinese interviewees believe the future is promising because of medicine industry, renewable energy sources and computer. Compared with Chinese youngsters, youths in developed countries are more pessimistic.Of course there are some social reasons fbr the appearing of "the Beat Culture”. As urbanization develops rapidly, youths living in big cities are facing new challenges that their forefathers have never encountered before. Loneliness and feelings of insignificance and powerlessness are easy to get hold of the young people. Without proper care, they could threaten our mentality and cause many social problems. These problems probably need our attention more.24. "The Beat culture99 includes the following examples except thatA. the young generation don't feel like doing anything.B. the young generation consider themselves dead fish.C. the young generation in big cities are facing new challenges.D. the young generation enjoy the song I feel like having been drained.25. Which word has the most similar meaning with “decadence" in Paragraph 2?A. pessimismB. lazinessC. sufferingsD. lonelinessWhat can we learn from the passage?A. Most people believe that with hard work, people can have their own day.B. These days, young people suffer much more loneliness than their parents.C. Social development does bring some pressure to the younger generation.D. Chinese youths are more negative than young people in developed countries. 27. What's the main idea of the text?A. "The Beat Culture” is popular among the Chinese youngsters.E. How does "the Beat Culture" affect the Chinese youth.F. "The Beat Culture“ is positive to Chinese youngsters.G. The Chinese youths are not the beat generation.CWho is a genius? This question has greatly interested humankind for centuries.Let's state clearly: Einstein was a genius. His face is almost the international symbol for genius. But we want to go beyond one man and explore the nature of genius itself. Why is it that some people are so much more intelligent or creative than the rest of us? And who are they?In the sciences and arts, those praised as geniuses were most often white men, of European origin. Perhaps this is not a surprise. Ifs said that history is written by the victors, and those victors set the standards fbr admission to the genius club. When contributions were made by geniuses outside the club一 women, or people of a different color or belief-they were unacknowledged and rejected by others.A study recently published by Science found that as young as age six, girls are less likely than boys to say that members of their gender（性别）are "really, really smart." Even worse, the study found that girls act on that belief: Around age six they start to avoid activities said to be fbr children who are "really, really smart" Can our planet afford to have any great thinkers become discouraged and give up? It doesn't take a genius to know the answer: absolutely not.Here's the good news. In a wired world with constant global communication, we're all positioned to see flashes of genius wherever they appear. And the more we look, the more we will see that social factors（因素）like gender, race, and class do not determine the appearance of genius. As a writer says, future geniuses come from those with "intelligence, creativity, perseverance（毅力）,and simple good fortune, who are able to change the world.”What does the author think of victors' standards for joining the genius club?A. They're unfair.B. They're conservative.C. They're objective.D. They're strict.28. What can we infer about girls from the study in Science?A. They think themselves smart.B. They look up to great thinkers.C. They see gender differences earlier than boys. D. They are likely to be influenced by social beliefs 30. Why are more geniuses known to the public?A. Improved global communication.C. Acceptance of victors' concepts. 31. What is the best title fbr the text?A. Geniuses Think AlikeC. Genius and IntelligenceB. Less discrimination against women.D. Changes in people's social positions.B. Genius Takes Many FormsD. Genius and LuckDBatman may not have any superpowers, but his inspiration certainly does.More than 1,400 bat species live around the world, except in Antarctica and a few remote islands. Over their 50 million years of evolution, bats have developed clever solutions to lifers challenges, from a built-in sonar （声呐）system fbr finding food to fast, flexible wings that produce the fastest level-flight speed of any animal on Earth.“There is still a lot to learn, but it is clear that bats really do have superpowers/9 says Rodrigo Medellin, an ecologist. "Bats are showing us how to live a better life, fbr instance, by serving as models fbr healthy living and long lives.”As a general rule in biology, smaller animals have shorter lives than larger ones. But bats are rule breakers: they're the longest-lived mammals （哺乳动物）relative to their body size. Recently, scientists looked inside bats' cells fbr the secrets to their exceptionally long lives. They focused on telomeres （端 粒）,which are the protective structures found at the ends of chromosomes （染色体）. In most animals, telomeres tend to get shorter with age. But the telomeres of the longest-lived group of bats, Myotis, do not appear to shrink （"攵缩）with age. Understanding why bats live so long may help humans live longer one day.In addition to living longer, bats remain healthy throughout their lives, with very low risk of developing cancer. Furthermore, bats can carry deadly viruses without getting sick. So further research into their unique immune （免疫的）systems may actually give insight into how people can live with viruses and not get sick.Beyond their own abilities, bats also support many other parts of their ecosystems. Three out of every four bat species eat insects. Many are pests that cause damage to important agricultural crops, such as cotton. Scientists estimate that insect-eating bats may save U.S. farmers about 1 billion per year. In addition, many bat species help improve plant health and diversity.“Bats are unsung heroes of biodiversitysays Medellin. "It's about time we appreciated them.” 32. What can be learned about bats from the text?A. They fly the fastest of all land animals.B. They are at low risk of falling sick with a virus.C. They live mainly on the islands of Antarctica.D. They are the longest-lived animals given their size. 33. What did scientists recently find?A. Animals5 telomeres r