江苏省徐州市2022-2023学年高二下学期期中联考英语试卷含答案.pdf
江苏省徐州市 2022-2023学年高二下学期期中联考英语试卷含答案 20222023 学年第二学期期中学业质量监测试卷高二英语试题第一部分 听力（共两节，总分 30 分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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。1.What does the woman mean?A.Jane doesnt want to go home.B.Jane is looking for a summer job.C.Jane is eager to go home for the summer.2.What are the speakers discussing?A.How to cut business costs.B.When to start the autumn sale.C.Whether to order more products.3.Where does the conversation take place?A.In a cafe.B.In a plane.C.In a car.4.What did the woman order?A.Some milk.B.Some coffee.C.Something to eat.5.What are the speakers talking about?A.A picture.B.The mans brother.C.The womans hair.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.What season are the speakers in now?A.Winter.B.Spring.C.Summer.7.Why will the two speakers cycle?A.To lose weight.B.To have fun.C.To go to work.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8.What did Jay do every day in the hotel?A.He swam.B.He played tennis.C.He played golf.9.What does the man think of the hotel?A.Fine.B.Noisy.C.Expensive.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10.Where did the boy break his leg?A.At home.B.In the classroom.C.On the playing field.11.What made the boy slip and fall?A.Water.B.A stone.C.Banana skins.12.What does the boy like?A.Studying.B.Eating bananas.C.Playing football.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13.What are the speakers talking about?A.Studying abroad.B.Working abroad.C.Traveling abroad.14.Which country does the woman want to go to?A.The USA.B.The UK.C.Australia.15.How can the woman get an unconditional offer?A.By getting a high IELTS score.B.By having some particular talent.C.By getting a letter of recommendation.16.Whats the advantage of being in America?A.There re more job offers.B.The living cost is lower.C.It has the most famous universities.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17.Who took the speaker to Markham?A.His maths teacher.B.His art teacher.C.His geography teacher.18.What did the speaker want to explore?A.The stream.B.The waterfall.C.The black hole.19.What did the speaker find the most exciting rock shaped like?A.A snake.B.A horse.C.A rabbit.20.What impressed the speaker most?A.The old machines.B.The brave divers.C.The videos about the caves.第二部分 阅读（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、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。Spring is here.From vibrant tulips（郁金香）to delicate cherry blossoms（樱花）to surprisingly hardyorchids（兰花），flowering plants cover the planet.Here are some places to celebrate abundance and beautyin the natural world.Blue Ridge Mountains,North CarolinaTravellers can find a wealth of plant species in North Carolinas mountains-the most in any similarlysized area in North America.The most famed may be the rosyrhododendrons（杜鹃花）that blanket theslopes（斜坡）of the Blue Ridge Mountains in summer.Numerous hiking trails leading to floral sights arejust 30 miles from downtown Asheville,via the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway.Lisse,NetherlandsThe Netherlands produces nearly 90 percent of the worlds tulips,making it the ultimate destination for atypical spring experience.Cycle along the 25-mile Bollenstreek Route(also known as the Bloeman Route,orFlower Route),where flower fields paint the countryside in dazzling colour.Travellers can also visitKeukenhof Gardens,a 79-acre stretch located 16miles southwest of Amsterdam.Akureyri,IcelandJust 50 miles outside of the Arctic Circle,this town in northern Iceland is home to the Arctic BotanicalGardens,one of the worlds northernmost botanic gardens.Nearby,travellers find short hiking trails and birdwatching sites in the Kjarnaskgur Forest,daringski slopes,and a local obsession with junk food.The mostpopular is a massive burger stuffed with French fries,called the Akureyringur.Carmona,SpainCarmona is one of many pueblos blancos（白色村庄），villages painted with white wash made ofslaked lime（熟石灰），that cap hilltops in Andalusia（安达卢西亚），in southern Spain.During spring,sunflowers bloom across more than 74,000 acres around the city.The best time to see them is from May toJune,and you dont need a car to get there.Buses from Seville take 40 minutes.21.Which destination is a great place to enjoy tulips?A.Carmona,Spain.B.Lisse,Netherlands.C.Akureyri,Iceland.D.Blue Ridge Mountains,North Carolina.22.What can travellers do in Akureyri,Iceland?A.Watch birds.B.Go cycling.C.Visit Keukenhof Gardens.D.Take part in a great night sky program.23.Which column of a website is the text most probably taken from?A.Travel.B.Science.C.Environment.D.Entertainment.BOne of the most deeply-rooted myths in parenting is the so-called Mozart effect,which says that listeningto music by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart can increase a childs intelligence.The ideahas been promoted by advocates for arts education and by retailers（零售商）who sell special recordings ofMozarts works for infants（婴儿）and toddlers（学步的儿童）.Some pregnant women have even gone sofar as to play Mozart recordings on headphones pressed against their bellies.So,if you have kids or youre expecting to have them,how seriously should you take the Mozart effect?Will the child who has no access to Mozarts music when born live a life of mediocrity（平 庸）？Relax.There is no scientific evidence that listening to Mozart improve childrens cognitive abilities.The whole idea came from a small study done in 1993,which found that college students who listened toMozarts Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major(K 448)showed slight improvement in a test of spatial reasoning（空间推理）.This finding was later turned into something unrealistic by the musician and entrepreneur（企业家）Don Campbell，who in 1997published the best seller The Mozart Effect:Tapping the Power of Musicto Heal the Body,Strengthen the Mind,and Unlock the Creative Spirit.Campbells claims about the amazingpower of Mozarts music was repeated endlessly in the media and sped up the enthusiasm for Mozart-basedenrichment activities.Since then,scientists have examined the claim that Mozart boosts intelligence and found no evidence forit.The original experiment with college students was reviewed in 1999,and the increase in the students spatialskills was found to be negligible.In 2007 the German Federal Ministry of Education and Researchcommissioned a team of experts to examine the scientific literature regarding Mozart and child development,and they found no reason to believe that it boosted intelligence.24.Who might be in favor of Mozart effect?A.People who are opposed to arts education.B.Musicians who admire Mozart very much.C.Businessmen who sell toys and infant food.D.Pregnant women who want to make their children cleverer.25.What sped up peoples behavior of listening to Mozarts music?A.People have benefited a lot from listening to Mozarts music.B.Don Campbell successfully sold Mozarts music recordings.C.The media repeatedly stressed the the amazing power of Mozarts music.D.A small study showed Mozarts music could make students much smarter.26.What does the underlined word“negligible”in the last paragraph mean?A.obvious.B.little.C.strong.D.sudden.27.Whats the purpose of the passage?A.To introduce the Mozart effect.B.To correct a misunderstanding in parenting.C.To stress the importance of listening to music.D.To show parents how to make children smarter.CAn artificial skin is even better than human skin at sensing objects,because it can detect and identifyitems that it hasnt touched yet.Even without touching an object,Wang and his colleagues artificial skin can sense if it is close by andcan also figure out some clues about the type of material it is made of.The skin is made up of two outer layers of conductive fabric（导电织物）covered with nickel（镍）toserve as electrodes（电极）.These surround a porous sponge（多空海绵），soaked（浸泡）in ionic（离子）liquid，which acts as a conduit（导管）for electricity.The two layers act as a capacitor（电容器），storing electrical energy in an electric field.The sensing performance of the capacitor,which Wang claims is between 10 and 100times more sensitivethan a standard capacitor,means it is also able to detect very minor changes in the electric field around theskin,allowing it to sense when objects are near.Whats more,those subtle changes can help it identify whattype of material a nearby object is made of.“The process is relatively simple.As the component comes close to contact,it enters the edges of theelectric field of the capacitive structure,”says Jonathan Aitken at the University of Sheffield,UK.“There areseveral interesting future routes,”he says,but at present the skin relies on machine learning techniques toidentify how the object it detects compared with data on known materials.Wang thinks the skin could work on a robotic finger to allow factory robots to better understand whichobjects to pick up and which to leave without having to grasp them,as well as being useful for prostheses（假体）.28.What might be the function of the artificial skin?A.It can tell the color of an object.B.It can figure out the material of an object.C.It is far better than the human skin in every way.D.It can only detect and identify items that it has touched.29.What do you know about the sensing performance of the capacitor?A.It can tell the exact distance of an object.B.It can sense the object even it is not near.C.It is much more sensitive than a standard capacitor.D.It can sense very big changes in the electric field around the skin.30.What can you infer from Jonathan Aitkens words?A.The future routes of the skin is limited.B.The skin will be applied to various fields.C.The artificial skin still has room for improvement.D.At present the skin relies on itself to identify how the object it detects.31.What might be the best title of the passage?A.Artificial skin:the future skin of robots.B.Artificial skin:a new breakthrough in space.C.Artificial skin:a perfect alternative to human skin.D.Artificial skin:detect nearby objects without even touching them.DIn 2016，Luncz and her colleagues realized that Brazilian capuchins（卷尾猴）produced stoneflakes（小薄片）from the rocks they used to pound（击打）food and dig without necessarily meaning to.Itmade the team wonder whether the artefacts（人工制品）really reflected any technical planning by thoseearly humans.Since then,Luncz and her colleagues have been studying tool use in long-tailed macaques（猕猴）onthe islands of Phang Nga Bay in Thailand（泰国的攀牙湾）.The team setup motion-activated cameras（动作感应摄像头）to study the behaviour of the wild macaques.During 100 hours of footage（镜头），theteam witnessed monkeys accidentally creating flakesas they struck nuts between two stones and then leavingthe broken stones to find new,whole stones.This is almost exactly what the capuchins did in the earlier study.The team then compared 1119 stoneflakes from the macaques nut-cracking sites with artefacts found athominin（古人类）sites in Ethiopia，Kenya and Tanzania.The monkeys thin，flat，wide stone flakes-ranging from 1.3 to 7.9 centimetres inlength-were“almost the same”with flakes that were associated with ancient humans up to 3.3 million yearsago,says Tomos Proffitt,another member of the research team at the Max Planck Institute for EvolutionaryAnthropology.The findings could challenge the current understanding of early stone technology,says Proffitt.“Iwouldnt go so far as to say that all of the old material is not intentional,”he says.“But what our study shows isthat we cant be 100 per cent certain that every single flake in the early Stone Age archaeological record wasintentionally made.There may be a component within that record thats unintentional.”32.What did Luncz and her colleagues realize in 2016?A.Brazilian capuchins used the stone flakes to cook food.B.Brazilian capuchins could make artefacts like humans.C.Brazilian capuchins didnt produce stone flakes from the rocks on purpose.D.Brazilian capuchins were more capable of producing stone flakes than early humans.33.What might capuchins do in the earlier study?A.They kept the broken stones for future use.B.They created flakes when they searched for food.C.They were desperate to find new,whole stones to make stone tools.D.They accidentally created flakes as they struck nuts between two stones.34.What did the team find out after they made the comparison in Paragraph 3?A.The monkeys flakes were associated with ancient humans.B.The flakes used by hominins were actually made by monkeys.C.The monkeys stone flakes ranged from 1.3 to 7.9 centimetres in width.D.The monkeys stone flakes were quite similar to those from early humans.35.What do you know from the last paragraph?A.All of the old stone material was unintentional.B.We could be sure to say all the flakes were made out of purpose.C.The findings confirmed the current understanding of early stone technology.D.Some flakes in the early Stone Age archaeological record might be unintentional.第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2.5分，满分 12.5 分）阅读下面短文，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。Looking back at my younger years,I am sometimes amazed at how life has turned out.Nothing is exactlywhat I had originally planned for.If I could go back in time and hang outwith my younger self for a day,36Everything happens for a reason.Without mistakes and failure,you would never have learned.37.Onceyou understand this,you will know that everything comes in to serve a purpose.So dont stress or think thatlife is unfair.38.You can have it all but not all at once.It is not surprising that many of us are doing too many things atonce.We need to make ends meet.But if you are working three jobs at a time,it is not likely that you willsucceed at any of them.You have to keep your eyes on the big picture.Achieve your goals one by one.You can plan ahead,but your plan will definitely change when the time comes.You can plan aheadbecause sometimes planning ahead can give you a clearer direction of where you want to go.39Its okay to be unsure about your purpose in life.You might be graduating or have hit a turning point withyour career.You might feel a bit lost and unsure of where to go.40 Go out there and try as many differentthings as you can.Dont ever feel like youre wasting your time.Enjoy the journey.Dont rush.Every littlepath will lead you somewhere.And looking back,you will be able to connect the dots.It will all make sense.A.Its okay.B.I would give her some tips.C.Focus on one thing at a time.D.Without pain,you would never have grown.E.If you dont suffer pain,you will never grow.F.Please make sure you make preparations in advance.G.However,plans will almost always change,so be prepared!第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。People in my life tell me that a successful life comes from many different things.With every different_41coming at me,I did not know what true success could be.My life was 42 changed until I walked into my junior year history class.The history teacher,Mr.ScottMyers love for history and my excitement abou
