重庆市第八中学2022-2023学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题（竞赛班）.docx

重庆市第八中学2022-2023学年（上）高二年级期末考试英语试题（竞赛班）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，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。听对话，选择正确答案。1 .What is the woman trying to tell the man?A. He needs to get his license first.B. He just needs to get gas.C. He has to buy insurance.2 .What1 s the relationship between the speakers?A. Neighbors. B. Boss and employee. C. Husband and wife.3 .When can the woman register for the course?A. During the lunch break. B. At any time. C. Tn two weeks.4 .What did the man do last night?A. He watched television.B. He went to the movies.C. He read a story about whales.5 .What place are the speakers looking for?A. A cafe. B. A bank. C. A bookstore.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，并标在试卷相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你有时间阅读各个小题，每 小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给5秒钟的时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6 .Who went to the zoo with the young man?A. The woman. B. The man1 s family. C. The man1 s classmates.7 . How does the young man feel about the animals?A. He feels sorry for them. B. He is curious about them.C. He is happy for them.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8 .For what reason does the woman want to look for coverings?A. She is an in-house designer.B. Visitors have nowhere to wipe their feet.C. The floors look a little bare.9 .Where does the woman suggest they put the covering?A. In the study. B. In the living room.C. Under the dining room table.10 .What color are the walls?A. Dark brown. B. Yellow. C. White.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。1 l.How was the man behaving at first?A. Coolly. B. Politely C. Awkwardly.12 .Why did the man ask Susan for her name at first?A. He didn1 t know who she was.B. He didn1 t know what else to say.C. He didn1 t realize he knew her already.13 .What type of music is playing at the dance?A. Rock and roll. B. Blues. C. Pop.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14 .Why was the woman up all night?A. She was preparing for her exams.B. Her brother had guests over.C. She had the flu.15 .How is the woman feeling during tests?A. Confident. B. Nervous. C. Disappointed.16 .What exam do the speakers have tomorrow?A. Geometry. B. Chemistry. C. Japanese.17 .What will the man probably do tonight?A. Get together with Gail. B. Study with the woman.C. Go over his Spanish notes. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18 .Why does the speaker encourage visitors to see Oahu?A. To enjoy a variety of activities.B. To relax on its beaches.C. To see the sunrise.19 .What is Waikiki famous for?A. Food and nightclubs. B. Historic sites. C. African art.20 .According to the speech, what do some people dislike about Honolulu?A. The high costs. B. The packed crowds.C. The dangerous volcanoes.第二部分：阅读理解第一节（共15小题;每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分）JOURNEY BY STEAM THROUGH THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDSEnjoy Scotland's magnificent scenery as you travel on the famous Jacobite steam train.Steam locomotion has long been one of the most elegant and memorable ways to travel, and when mixed with the magnificent scenery of the Scottish Highlands it makes for a trip of a lifetime. On this wonderful four-day holiday you will ride on the famous Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig, a 42-mile journey through spectacular scenery.Your trip starts near Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain, passes Loch Morar, its deepest freshwater lake, and the River Morar, and then finally arrives beside the deepest seawater lake in Europe-Loch Nevis. Rober McAlpine's 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct, featured in Harry Potter films, is just one of the engineering wonders youll see on the journey, which is made all the more enjoyable by the sound and fury of the steam train making its way along the Iron Road to the Isles.PriceFour days from $ 945 per person for Times subscribers or from $ 1045 per person for all other readers.Times subscribers save up to $ 200 per couple. Visit mytimesplus. co. uk/TET to redeem （兑换） your code.Departure27 September and 25 October, 2022Price includesV Return train tickets from LondonV Three nights1 stay at the four-star Stirling Highland HotelV Breakfast every dayV Visits to the Falkirk Wheel and Inverary Castle and cruises on Loch Lomond and Loch KatrineCall today on 0808 291 3879 or visit the times. co. uk/scottishhighlands.21 .How will people take the journey?A. By car. B. By steamboat. C. By airplane. D. By train.22 .What can be learned about Glenfinan Viaduct?A. It is the name of a steam train.B. It is the deepest seawater lake.C. It is shown in Harry Potter films.D. It is on the Britain's highest mountain.23 .Which of the following is included in the price?A. Visit to Inverary Castle. B. Three meals every day.C. Cruises on Loch Morar. D. Return flights from London.BOlga Bannova doesn't carry a business card that reads "Space Architect", though she admits that would be pretty cool. Instead, Bannova's title is director of the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) in the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering.SICSA is home to the world's only space architecture graduate program. It's not a huge program yet, accepting only a few graduates every year. But for those who believe our very existence relies on someday moving to a different galactic (专艮丫可的)neighborhood, space architecture has us covered. "You can't stay in your house and think that somehow everything else will be the same. Everything is changing, including our Earth, including us, including the solar system. It*s all changing and moving/ Bannova says. "That's why it's important. Space architecture will consider all that we need in space.0Space architects design buildings and houses and offices and a whole bunch of other stuff that humans need to survive-both here and in space plus design ways to get between them. They deal with problems that Earthbound architects don*t even dream about. For example, a lack of oxygen or atmosphere. A lack of sunlight. Too much sunlight. Microgravity. A lack of material to build what you need. Or no way to ship material that you need to where you need it.It's not hard to imagine the problems that space architects will face, now and in the future. Itfs not hard to imagine either that we can't even begin to imagine some of the challenges they'll be up against. Carving out a space in space for our species to continue is a huge undertaking, perhaps the most daring ever for mankind. But we've taken the first step, haven't we?24 .What is special about SICSA?A. It is the only space research center.B. It trains graduates to become spacemen.C. It accepts lots of graduates every year.D. It has a unique program in the world.25 .What does the underlined part "has us covered" in Paragraph 2 mean?A. Reports the latest news. B. Hides something important.C. Provides what's needed. D. Informs us of the development.26 .Which aspect of space architects is Paragraph 3 mainly about?A. Their duties. B. Their challenges.C. Their dreams. D. Their achievements.27 .What does the author think of space architects1 work?A. Tiring. B. Admirable. C. Problematic. D. Fruitful.CNext time you are struggling with the crossword, try putting the kettle on. Drinking a cup of tea can improve creativity, a study suggests.Researchers gave men and women either tea or water and then asked them to complete a word association game, which was used to measure a form of creativity known as convergent thinking（聚合思维）.In the game, the participants were given sets of words such as "same, tennis, head" and asked to find a meaningful link between them. The answer, in this case, would be "match?”. After analysing the results in a way that ruled out the potential effects of a person's intelligence and language ability, the researchers, from Peking University in China, found that those who drank the tea performed significantly better in the word association game. The tea drinkers scored an average of 13. 89 in the word association game compared with 12. 94 for water drinkers.The researchers said it was not clear why tea has this beneficial effect. Tea contains caffeine and theanine, which can improve attention, but the 100 participants in the study drank only a small amount of tea90ml, on average-and carried out the tests very soon after consuming it, meaning any effect would have been ignored. HThis result showed that the tea drinking event itself-rather than the biological components of teaplayed a positive role/ the researchers said."Previous research has found that people tend to associate tea drinking with a specific set of personality traits, such as smart, creative, elegant, confident, and stable. It may be that when participants are stimulated （刺激）by tea, the mental representation of a tea drinker is also activated, and they unconsciously think that they should be smarter and more innovative/ they added, "Future research should focus on specific mechanisms （机制）and clarify which variables moderate the impact of tea consumption on convergent thinking."28 .What did the participants have to do in the study?A. Pair the words with each other.B. Guess the meaning of the words.C. Find a connection between the words.D. Tell the differences among the words.29 .What helped a participant get a higher score according to the researchers?A. The action of drinking tea itself. B. The participant's intelligence.C. The participant's language ability. D. The biological components of tea.30 .What can be inferred from the previous research?A. Drinking tea makes people more active.B. Drinking tea is popular among the youth.C. People tend to drink tea more than before.D. People drinking tea are often thought smart.31.Whafs the main idea of the passage?A. It will be a popular trend to drink tea.B. Drinking tea helps boost people's creativity.C. Drinking tea influences our life significantly.D. Good health has a lot to do with drinking tea.DAnyone who's tried different weight-loss diets is probably familiar with their pitfalls. Low-calorie diets often leave you tired and hungry. Low-fat diets are also tough to follow and, contrary to popular belief, they do not seem to prevent heart disease.Another diet trend, intermittent fasting （禁食），takes a different approach. Rather than limiting what you eat, this diet limits when you eat. It normally involves eating only during a certain time window, usually eight hours, over a single day. For example, you would eat only during the hours of 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. and then fast during the other 16 hours. For some people, that change may be easier to manage, says Dr. Eric Rim, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.Short-termism studies suggest that people stick to intermittent fasting diets as well as or better than they do to other diets. And according to a 2019 review article in the journal Nutrients, intermittent fasting promotes weight loss and may reduce risk factors linked to heart disease, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and unhealthy blood lipid（油月旨）levels."However, we are currently unsure about how well this diet works over the long term/ says Dr. Rim, noting that there are just two long-term studies of intermittent fasting, each lasting a year. Nor are there large populations of people who've followed this eating pattern for years. That's in contrast to two other diets linked to a healthy heart and healthy body size-the Mediterranean diet and a vegetarian diet.Some experts add that intermittent fasting diets typically don't specify what foods you should eat. "As a nutritional epidemiologist, that makes me a little uncomfortable/ Dr. David Mushen admits. Eating burgers and French fries five days a week and a single breakfast sandwich on your low-calorie day wouldn't be healthy, he says. But with any diet, it's often a good idea to ease into the changes. You could start by trying a 5:2 diet or time-resisted eating. Once you start losing weight, you can gradually introduce more healthy foods, he suggests.32. What does the underlined word "pitfalls” in Paragraph 1 mean?A. Problems. B. Procedures. C. Alternatives. D. Assumptions.33. Why does Rim mention the Mediterranean diet?A. To demonstrate the appropriate approach to dieting.B. To show uncertainty about the effect of the new trend.C. To illustrate the popularity of low-calorie eating patterns.D. To stress the importance of a healthy heart and body size.34. What does Dr. David Mushen suggest?A. Giving priority to nutrition. B. Conducting further research.C. Losing weight step by step. D. Proceeding with extreme caution.35. What might be the best title for the text?A. Ready to Restrict Your Diet?B. Time to Try Intermittent Fasting?C. What's Wrong with Intermittent Fasting?D. How Different Weight-loss Methods Work?第二节（共5小题;每小题2. 5分，满分125分）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。As a student, you have a lot of freedom when it comes to how you spend your time. But with that freedom comes the responsibility to make the most of your studying hours. Here are some tips to help you do just that.Create a scheduleThis means setting aside specific times for studying each day and then sticking to that schedule as closely as possible. Of course, there will be days when things come up, and you have todeviate (偏离)from your plan. (36).Break up your study sessions into smaller periodsOur brain can only focus effectively for so long before we start losing concentration. If you try to study for several hours once, chances are much higher that you won't remember all of the information you're trying to learn. (37).Find a study place that works for you(38) . Some people prefer to study in complete silence, while others find that some background noise helps them focus better. There is no right or wrong answer here-it's all about finding a place to study that allows you to work as efficiently as possible.This will not only help you check your understanding of the concepts but also identify any area that may need more review. And once you know what specific topics or ideas you need to work on, it will be much easier for you to direct your study sessions accordingly and make better use of your time overall.Don't be afraid to ask for helpIf you find that you're struggling to understand the material or just not making progress as quickly as you'd like, seek assistance in time. (40), In fact, it can save lots of time in the long run by getting you the support you need early on.A. Take relevant testsB. Learn to accept failureC. There is no shame in admitting that you need assistanceD. Make sure that every minute you spend studying countsE. However, try not to go off-track too often or for too longF. Where you study can also affect how effectively you use your timeG. Instead, divide your study sessions up int