湖北省新高考联考协作体2024年高二上学期期末考试英语试题（含解析）.docx

湖北省新高考联考协作体2024年高二上学期期末考试英语试题（含解析）高二英语试卷第一部分听力(共两节，满分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。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 food does the woman suggest?A. Sandwiches. B. Salads. C. Noodles.2. What will the man do first with the womans car?A. Fill up the tank. B. Wash the windows. C. Check the tire pressure.3. What is the man doing right now?A. Walking around. B. Watching TV. C. Eating snacks.4. Where is the conversation probably taking place?A. In an office. B. In a hospital. C. In a restaurant.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Different colors. B. A picture. C. Some flowers.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. Who might the woman be?A. A doctor. B. An assistant. C. A professor.7. When will the man go to see the doctor?A. On Wednesday. B. On Thursday. C. On Friday.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What will the man do tomorrow?A. Rest at home. B. Go shopping. C. Work.9. What will the man buy?A A hat. B. A necklace. C. A coat.10. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Colleagues. B. Mother and son. C. Husband and wife. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What are the speakers doing?A. Doing a test. B. Having an interview. C. Playing a puzzle game. 12. What is Jennifer bad at?A. Focusing. B. Dealing with stress. C. Getting on with others.13. How does Jennifer feel about the result?A. Surprised. B. Disappointed. C. Worried.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. Why will the man miss the school dance?A. He wont be in school. B. He doesnt like dancing. C. Hes busy with other events.15. When is the senior picnic?A. In a week. B. In a month. C. In two months.16. Which event is in June?A. The photo day. B. The graduation party. C. The awards ceremony.17. Where will the woman be this summer?A. In Boston. B. In New York City. C. In Washington, D. C.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. What will the weather be like today in the southeast of the country?A. Rainy. B. Cloudy. C. Dry.19. What will the highest temperature be in the north?A.15 degrees centigrade. B. 20 degrees centigrade. C. 23 degrees centigrade. 20. Which part of the country will likely be sunny tomorrow?A. North. B. Southeast. C. South. 第二部分阅读(共2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。Canadian journeysTravel brings the joy of new worlds, different ways of living, art, and storytelling over shared meals. Often we seek travel in a foreign country to brighten our life this way. But over the past decades, Canadian hosts have developed exceptional experiences that explore geography and diverse cultures closer to home.At Maple Leaf Adventures, weve been part of that evolution(演变) of travel on the West Coast. We design locally run and environmentally conscious trips that are off the beaten track. The following are some short getaways and longer journeys weve developed to take you away from everyday life and into the magic of discovering beauty, ideas and joy in attractive places.Wild BC Coastal SummerThese 5-to-9-day trips along the wild outer coast explore whales and other marine mammals (海洋哺乳动物), and the remote beaches and rainforest inlets that make British Columbia (BC) an impressive nature getaway. Every July and August, charging $4, 500 per person plus taxes.Great Bear RainforestThese 5-to-9-day trips explore the fjords (峡湾) and islands of the world's largest temperate rainforest. Highlights include bears, coastal wolves, whales and new research uncovering their wonders. Every spring, summer and fall, charging $5,300 per person plus taxes.Salish Sea Culinary (烹饪的) AdventuresExplore the breadth of BC food, drinks, people and places through these 5-day culinary adventures in the beautiful southern Vancouver Island / Salish Sea region. Every October, charging $3, 200 per person plus taxes.Haida GwaiiThese 8-day adventures explore the breadth of Haida Gwaii from ancient to modern, north to south, rainforest to outer islands, including a week in Gwaii Haanas, a place of some well-known Haida village sites. Typically, each spring and summer, charging $6,950 per person plus taxes.1. Who might be the author of the text?A. A villager from Gwaii Haanas.B. A tourist traveling on the West Coast.C. A travel agent of Maple Leaf Adventures.D. A Canadian working in a foreign country.2. What do we know about the tour of Great Bear Rainforest?A. It is available in all seasons except winter.B. It is especially designed for bear lovers.C. It provides food and drinks for free.D. It charges no taxes.3. Of the following trips, which one would cost a tourist the least?A. Haida Gwaii.B. Great Bear Rainforest.C. Wild BC Coastal Summer.D. Salish Sea Culinary Adventures.BI learned an important lesson from one of my patients. When I first met Linda, she was only six years old, beautiful and energetic. She had an accident when she fell into the fire on a camping trip, leaving 30 percent of her skin surface damaged. Linda would require several weeks in the hospital and three additional surgeries (手术). Between each operation, nurses daily took her for disinfection (消毒). Overnight, the dressings (敷料) would stick to the wound and have to be pulled away. Each step was more painful for Linda than the previous one. For an adult, the agonizing (折磨人的)pain and daily fear proves overwhelming. For a child, it has an impact forever. Lindas life would never be the same.I took care of Linda for the next several years, revising her scars and freeing areas of tightness in her face and neck. Over that time, her scarring faded and her appearance improved significantly. Eventually, her family moved away and I lost track of her.Years later, at a national meeting, I ran into a plastic surgeon I knew who told me he had met a former patient of mine. It was Linda, she was doing extremely well and she was his colleague and not his patient. Linda had become a nurse and worked with him in a burn unit.She was the nurse the patients most often asked to clean their wounds and change their dressings. Her compassion (同情心) and her courage in returning to a burn unit inspired their confidence and reduced their fears. Linda turned her pain into compassion. She devoted every day of her life toward helping others overcome their pain.Physicians can be frustrated and overwhelmed when we dont have enough time in a day to complete everything we need to do. Linda taught me the importance of slowing down. Among the best gifts we, as physicians, can give our patients, whether in the exam room or at the bedside in the hospital, is to take the time to show the compassion we feel.4. Which of the following words can best describe Linda according to the story?A. Outspoken.B. Well-behaved.C. Painful.D. Strong-minded.5. What step could cause unbearable pain?A. Pulling away the dressings.B. Going through disinfection.C. Revising the scars.D. Freeing the areas of tightness.6. What can help doctors reduce their patients fears?A. Experience.B. Patience.C. Compassion.D. Friendliness.7. What can we infer from the passages?A. Linda was thankful for the authors help.B. Linda was mostly trusted by her patients.C. Lindas experience led her to be a nurse.D. Gifts make patients confident in operations.CNot so long ago, most scientists thought of Mars as dead and cold. But, as we previously reported, microbes (微生物) could be hiding beneath the red planet's surface, kept warm by its core and fed by radiation from rocks. A recent study shows that Mars might have experienced volcanic explosions 50,000 years ago- practically last week in geologic time (地质时期). Such activity raises the possibility that, volcanically, Mars “may still be active, even today,” says David Horvath, a scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.What's more, NASA's InSight mission has picked up Marsquakes coming from the area Horvath studied. The quakes suggest there could still be molten magma (熔化的岩浆) below the surface, warming the frozen underground and making liquid water possible around volcanic hotspots, Horvath says. That could create an underground haven for life on Mars.The team, based out of the University of Arizona, looked at a single fissure (裂缝), one of several fissures in the ground known collectively as the Cerberus Fossae. They found it surrounded by a dark region which they think is ash (灰) from a volcanic eruption. The fissures stretch across the Martian surface for miles, although they're fairly shallow. The one in question is only about 20 meters deep. They focused on this particular fissure because it stands out. It s surrounded by visibly dark material which keeps heat well, Horvath says.If Mars was volcanically active though, it's not impossible that life could be hanging out in little underground islands around the larger Martian volcanoes. If volcanoes on Mars are similar to those on Earth, they could have been active for millions of years, says Erika Rader, a volcanologist at the University of Idaho. But it's still a very extreme environment. By contrast, one deep underground fed by radiation would probably be more stable, she says. How about the possibility of current volcanic activity on Mars? “I want it to be true,” Rader says. “But this paper alone would not convince me of that.”8. What does the recent study show about Mars?A. There are microbes on it.B. It may not be dead and cold.C. A volcano erupted on it last week.D. Its core isn't as warm as expected.9. Which word can best replace “haven” underlined in paragraph 2?A. Lab.B. Prison.C. Museum.D. Shelter.10. Why did the team focus on a single fissure?A. It stretches for miles.B. It is surrounded by magma.C. It offers a sign of volcanic ash.D. It is hidden beneath the surface of Mars.11. What does Rader think of the current volcanic activity on Mars?A. It has proved to be real.B. It is out of the question.C. It calls for more studies.D. It is contrary to expectations.DIn his first year at Harvard, Manny Medrano made a big breakthrough. With the help of his professor Gary Urton. Medrano interpreted a set of six khipus, knotted cora (打结的绳子)used for record keeping in the Inca Empire(印加帝国).The Inca Empire reached the height of its power in 15th- and l6th-century Peru (秘鲁). When the Spanish arrived, the Inca had established the largest and most complex society in the Americas, but they left behind no written records. The only ones the Inca are known to have kept are in the form of khipus. In 2002, Urton began Harvard s Khipu Database Project. He traveled to museums around the world to record the numbers of knots, lengths of cords, colors of fibers, and other details about every Inca: khipu he could find.Urton says he and other researchers in the field have always had a general sense of what the khipus represented. Many had to do with census(人口普查) data. Others appeared to be calendar systems. But, until recently, none of the khipus Urton studied could be understood on a very detailed level.A turning point came when Urton began looking into a set of six khipus from the 17th-centurySanta River Valley region of Northwest Peru. One day, Urton picked up a book and happened to spot a Spanish census document from the same region and time period. “A lot of the numbers that were recorded in that census record matched those six khipus exactly, Urton says. Then he couldn't help mentioning it to his students. Medrano, who was among these students, asked if he could help during spring break.Urton agreed to allow Medrano to look into the Santa Valley khipus and the Spanish census. Medrano recalls looking through spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel. He noticed that the way each cord was tied onto the khipu seemed to correspond to(符合, 对应) the social status (地位) of the 132 people recorded in the census document. The colors of the strings also appeared to be related to the people's first names. After spring break, Medrano told his professor about his theories. Medrano worked with Urton over the next several months and the two wrote a paper together.12. Why did Urton travel to museums around the world?A. To gather data for a project.B. To learn how to make khipus.C. To help Peru connect with the world.D. To collect khipus as one of his hobbies.13. How did Urton probably feel after seeing the Spanish census document?A. Excited.B. Puzzled.C. Grateful.D. Relieved.14. What did Medrano find out about the khipus?A. Local people s first names came from SpanishB. The colors of the strings tended to be the same.C. How a cord was made differed in every periodD. How a cord was tied was related to one's social status15. What is the main idea of the text?A. The Inca Empire had a long history.B. The Inca Empire was a complex society.C. A student assisted his professor in a technical paper.D. A student uncovered the hidden secret of knotted cords.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可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Loneliness is what we feel when our social needs, whether at work, with family, or through friend groups, go unmet. Loneliness is a mental state-when our minds perceive isolation, loneliness settles in. _16_Ways to overcome loneliness_17_ Talk therapy, either one-on-one on Zoom or in a support group, can help navigate feelings of loneliness. A professional can also help identify if feelings of loneliness are impacting our mental health in other ways and help us navigate those scenarios.Be proactive. It can often feel easy to get distracted by day-to-day busyness, and youre not alone. We all have daily responsibilities that can make it challenging to reach out to friends and family. _18_ Take initiative. Sending a friend a text or scheduling a video call may be just the boost others need, too.Consider volunteering Giving our time to others boosts feelings of productivity and value. _19_ Look out for local or national causes that could use some help and sign up for a volunteer information session.The basic need to form, grow and sustain relationships and to belong to a group, team or family, is universal. _20_ Now more than ever, we all need real connection, dependable emotional support, and a feeling of belonging-whoever we are, wherever we are.A. Talk to someone.B. Practise social distancing.C. Concerned that the phones not ringing?D. We are social creatures who desire human interaction.E. Meaningful human connection is a necessity, not a luxury.F. Besides, its a g