河北省石家庄市第二中学教育集团2024学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题（含解析）.docx

石家庄二中教育集团2024学年度高二年级下学期期中考试英语试卷第一部分 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。1. What does the man prefer to drink?A. Tea. B. Cold water. C. Coffee. 2. What does the man dislike?A. Traveling. B. Driving. C. Flying. 3. What does the man think of the blouse?A. It's of good design. B. It's up-to-date. C. It's old-fashioned. 4. When will the man meet Mr. Smith?A. At 2:15 p. m. B. At 2: 00 p. m. C. At 1: 45 p. m.5. What is probably wrong with the man?A. He has caught a cold. B. He ate something bad. C. He has got an upset stomach. 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。听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。6. What is in the middle of Victoria Square?A. A big fountain. B. A golden statue. C. A large clock. 7. How is the woman going to the square?A. On foot. B. By bus. C. By taxi. 听下面一段对话，回答第8、9题。8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. A date. (约会) B. A net friend. C. A meal. 9. What do we know about the woman?A. She often chats with Jacky online. B. She will follow the man's suggestions. C. She told Jacky nothing about herself. 听下面一段对话，回答第10至12题。10. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In a police station. B. In a school. C. In the woman's friend's house. 11. How long has Max been away from home?A. Two days. B. A whole day. C. The whole morning. 12. What color shoes does Max wear?A. Red. B. Blue. C. White. 听下面一段对话，回答第13至16题。13. Where does the woman come from?A. America. B. Canada. C. Australia. 14. Which place does the woman suggest the man visit?A. Bondi Beach. B. The Opera House. C. The Blue Mountains. 15. What do we know about the small hotels in Sydney?A. They are well-equipped. B. Some of them can be found on-line. C. Most travelers like to stay in them. 16. What is the best way to travel around according to the woman?A. The air. B. The car. C. The bus. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至20题。17. Why did the speaker move to Florida?A. She went to university there. B. Her father wanted to live there. C. Her mother had to work there. 18. What did the speaker use to do in New York?A. She went bowling. B. She played in the fields. C. She went to an under-20 club. 19. What does the speaker think of Florida?A. Exciting. B. Safe. C. Awful. 20. What do we know about the speaker?A. She speaks with a strong accent. B. She misses Katie very much. C. She is 15 years old. 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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ASea Life Melbourne AquariumLocated in the heart of Melbournes CBD, the all-new Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is one of Victorias leading visitor attractions and is really an unforgettable outing for the whole family. Having 12 amazing zones of discovery, it is the very place that you cannot miss when you visit the city.Opening TimesSea Life Melbourne Aquarium is open from 9:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. every day of the year, including public holidays. Last admission is at 5:00 p.m., one hour before closing.LocationSea Life Melbourne Aquarium is located on the corner of Flinders Street and King Street, Melbourne. It is situated on the Yarra River, opposite Crown Entertainment Complex.Train to Sea Life Melbourne AquariumSea Life Melbourne Aquarium is a short walk from either Flinders or Southern Cross train stations.Tram(有轨电车)The Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium tram stop is located on the free City Circle Tram route and also routes 70 and 75. City Circle trams run every 10 minutes in both directions.Shuttle BusThe Melbourne City Tourist Shuttle is a free bus service, stopping at key tourist attractions in and around the City. Running daily, every 15 minutes from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.Car ParkingWhile there is no public car parking at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, there are several public car parking lots available only a short walk away.Wheelchair AccessSea Life Melbourne Aquarium provides people in wheelchairs with full access to all 12 zones. Each floor also has wheelchair accessible toilets.TermsTickets will be emailed to you immediately after purchase or you can download and print your tickets once payment has been accepted. Please print all tickets purchased and present at the front entrance of Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium. No ticket, no entry!1. What do we know about Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium？A. It has 12 the most attractive places in Melbourne.B. It allows visitors to enter from 9:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.C. It is opposite the Yarra River.D. It is located at the center of the CBD in the city.2. What can visitors enjoy in Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium?A. Free car parking.B. Wheelchair access.C. Internet connection.D. Transportation service.3. Tickets to Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium _ .A. are free to all visitorsB. can be purchased by emailC. neednt be checked at the entranceD. can be emailed to you after purchase without delay.BGregory Talley used to sleep in a park or under a bridge. The 50-year-old has been homeless for more than 10 years.“It is hard. Its hard to live homeless. You filled every day trying to find cut where you are going to get something to eat. If I hadnt found wonderful Fairfax County Kennedy Shelter, I wouldnt know where I would be by now. I might be dead,” Talley said.The Kennedy Shelter is one of the facilities New Hope Housing provides for homeless people.Pam Micheli has devoted her life to making the lives of this vulnerable(易受伤的)population better as executive director of the non-profit organization.“I went to Africa in 1985. And I saw a huge amount of poverty, but I saw so much hope. And I decided that I should try to do something that would bring hope to people,” Michell said.When Michell began working with New Hope Housing 25 years ago, its three shelters had about 80 beds. Now, it has 350 beds and serves about 1,500 homeless people every year. She has expanded the program beyond just providing beds for the night.“We do outreach(拓展), we do prevention, we do permanent housing. We do transitional housing. We have an education program with all sorts of different things to move people to end their homelessness,” she said, “Our Out of Poverty program is not just about money. Its about you could be spiritually poor, you could be relationship poor . you could be educationally poor. So it is focusing on how you get out of this poverty that has brought you to being homeless. The program tries to teach the shelter residents self-reliance(自立)and work values, and includes courses on planning and personal responsibility.“I learned I still have opportunities to change it and I can change it,” said shelter resident Lewis Webster. “It is just about going forth in doing necessary work to do it. I mean if you really want better, you would do better and thats the frame of mind of me now.”4. Gregory Talleys story is told at the beginning of the text to .A. tell readers the situation for the poor in the US is getting worseB. introduce a non-profit organization that is trying to help the poor in the USC. disclose the truth that more and more homeless people are dying from hungerD. remind readers that the homeless people in the US have no trouble getting food5. According to Paragraph 6, Pam Michell started to bring hope to the homeless by .A. providing dothes for themB. offering food for themC. building new houses for themD offering them shelters for the night6. What is the final purpose of the education program?A. To tell the homeless people the ways to make money.B. To help the homeless people find the causes of their poverty.C. To encourage the homeless to work and rely on themselves.D. To teach the poor how to live a better life in the shelters.7. What may be the best title for the text?A. Comfort in the Kennedy ShelterB Ways to Achieve SuccessC. An Opportunity to Fight HomelessnessD. An Organization to End HomelessnessCYou can remember the face but can't put a name to it. Many of us have been caught in this embarrassing situation. But researchers say it is often easier to remember someone's name than what they look like.Twenty-four volunteers were shown 40 pictures of strangers, paired with random(随机的) names. They were given time to memorize the faces and names before being tested on which they thought they had seen before.The participants could remember up to 85 percent of the names but only 73 percent of the faces. When they were shown a different picture of the same person, the participants could recall only 64 percent of faces, according to the study, led by the University of York.That may be because faces are only recognized visually(视觉地), while names can be both spoken and written down so appear in our visual and audio memory. When people were shown famous people, they also remembered their names more accurately than their photographs. Co-author Dr Rob Jenkins, from the universitys psychology department, said, ''Our study suggests that, while many people may be bad at remembering names, they are likely to be even worse at remembering faces. This will surprise many people as it is against our initial understanding. Our life experiences with names and faces have misled us about how our minds work. '' Remembering names gets harder with age, leading to many uncomfortable moments for middle-aged people when they run into people they know.But to study whether names are harder to recall than faces, the researchers, whose findings are published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, used a ''fair test'' where the participants were presented with strangers' names and faces.8. What can we know according to the research in Paragraph 3?A. It is certain that names are harder to recall than faces.B. Remembering names is more easily than remembering faces.C. Most participants can remember the face not the name to it.D. The participants can recall 73% faces of the same person.9. Which of the following will the author agree with?A. Age will weaken the ability to remember names.B. Unlike faces, names are only recognized visually.C. Faces can appear in our visual and audio memory.D. Rob Jenkins has proved people can remember faces better.10. What does the underlined word ''initial'' in Paragraph 4 mean?A. Clear.B. first.C. Unusual.D. Creative.11. What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. People can't remember strangers names and faces.B. Recalling names is more difficult than remembering faces.C. The researcher uses the same method to study another problem.D. Whether names are harder to recall than faces is further proved.DWhen youre working your way through one of lifes storms, it is human nature to focus on getting back to normal, to “bounce back” as quickly as possible to a place where things are calm, familiar and comfortable.However, actually it is unrealistic to think we can ever truly return emotionally and intelligently to where we were before the storm because every experience changes us in some way. For example, when we experience a major health scare, possibly involving some hospital time, we can never go back to being the person we were before the event even if we fully recover because we have experienced firsthand the fragility(脆弱) of life, not to mention coming face to face with death.So, now that we can never return, what should we do?Consider this how is it that two people can be faced with the same hardship and while one becomes hopeless and feels anger and upset, the other is able to overcome their circumstances and grow stronger than ever as a result of the experience?At one extreme, we may choose to accept the role of unlucky victim, or become trapped in the “Why is it always me!” negative and frustrating(令人沮丧的) situations. Either way is the result of a fixed mindset(思维模式) that is resistant to growth and change. If this is your approach to life, you will be far less likely to be active in effectively managing change and recovering from bad situations.But there is another choice. If you are honest enough, you may consider what was once “normal” for you was just the main cause of your storm. You can choose to hug change and uncertainty and learn to grow forward through all of your experiences. Of course, this means doing the work to develop the skills and habits that will enable you to handle lifes occasional storms.In conclusion, it is up to each of us to choose the meaning we apply to our situations at all times. Different choices will lead to different lives. Of course you can grow forward if you are determined to choose live a positive life regardless of whatever hardships you are facing.12. What does the author try to convey with the example in the second paragraph?A. We will understand life much better after an escape from death.B. It usually takes a long time to recover from a health problem.C. Its unlikely to return to where we were after certain events.D. We can recover from an emotional problem much more easily.13. When faced with hardships, some people choose to be a victim because of _.A. their terrible experiencesB. their negative thoughtsC. their poor healthD. their bad luck14. What is the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To advise us to manage bad emotions.B. To persuade us to get back to normal.C. To offer us useful skills to work with.D. To encourage us to overcome hardships.15. If youre determined to grow forward you have to _.A. experience lifes fragilityB. welcome uncertainty and changeC. develop new skills and habitsD. overcome the fear of death第二节.七选五(共5小题；每小题2. 5分，满分12. 5分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Volunteering is a great way to support an organization and make a difference in your community. It can also be an opportunity to meet new people and learn new skills. _16_ And what should we plan for? Heres a guide for beginners.Step 1: _17_Do you want to help the world, or your community? Do you want to build your own skills, make new friends, and learn? Do you love what you do? Do you want to share your gifts with others or give something back? Think about these kinds of questions. That can help you to choose the right direction for your volunteer work.Step 2: Choose an organization that is meaningful to youIf you feel strongly about literacy (读写), for instance, volunteer at your local library or find out if there is an organ