山东省淄博第五中学2022-2023学年高二下学期期中英语试题.docx

20222023学年度下学期期中阶段检测高二英语试题第I卷 选择题部分（共95分）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。1. What is Sonya responsible for?C. Deciding on explorers.C. Cancel an appointment.C. A cashier.C. In a train station.C. Something to drink.A. Doing some research. B. Looking up the dates.2. What is the woman trying to do?A. Make an appointment. B. Reschedule an appointment.3. Who is the man?A. A banker.B. A shopper.4. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a furniture store. B. In a restaurant.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. The man's daughter. B. A birthday party.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。6. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. House owner and renter.B. Gym clerk and customer.C. Hotel clerk and guest.7. What will the woman do?C. Have something to eat.C. They climbed a mountain.C. Difficult.A. Clean the room.B. Pack her suitcase.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What did the speakers do just now?A. They met a writer. B. They saw a doctor.9. What does the man think of the stories?A. Boring.B. Interesting.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What does the woman want to do?Harlem. However, when we called the rentacar places, we were told that they were all out of vans（小型货 车）.注意：1 .续写词数应为150左右；2 .请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。Looking at the vans running on the streets, I believed there must be one available.The driver refused the money we offered and was willing to take us.A. Work out a plan.B. Look for an apartment. C. Ask the man for help.11. What will the man do?A. Move on to his new job.B. Give new employees training.C. Work on an important project.12. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Wait for him for two weeks.B. Extend the deadline.C. Turn to Mr. Cortez.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What do the speakers agree about a GPS?A. It is not entirely reliable.B. It is very convenient.C. It is quite useless.14. Why are some people better at finding their way?A. They are more focused.B. They were born with the skill.C. They go to the place more frequently.15. What helped the man find his friend place?A. A street.B. A building.16. What will the woman do next?A. Take a look around. B. Share her experience. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is the speaker?A. A tour guide. B. A hotel clerk.18. Where are the speaker and the listeners?A. In a hotel.B. On a bus.19. What do we know about Ibiza?C. A tree.C. Visit her friend.C. A bus driver.C. On a bridge.A. It is a coastal city. B. The death rate there is high. C. It is famous for its restaurants. 20. What does the speaker remind the listeners to do in the end?A. Drink some water. B. Take care of their luggage. C. Contact Manuel in advance.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，）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。AThere are a lot of museums in London. Of course, there are worldfamous names like the British Museum and Natural History Museum. But then there are many tiny plain peculiar museums in every corner of the city.18 Stafford TerraceThe Kensington address provides a chance to see a lateVictorian, middleclass home that has survived largely unchanged. The house was passed on from one generation of the family to the next and almost all the original decoration remains unchanged. The house closes during summer for maintenance.Opening hours: 2 pm 一 5:30 pm Wed, Sat, SunBrunel MuseumAn exhibition celebrates the Thames Tunnel as the birthplace of the tube system, and the Great Eastern steamship as the first modern ocean liner. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and International Landmark Site above the oldest tunnel in the Underground, which tells the story of the men who worked in the dark, dodging flames and raw sewage every day.Opening hours: Daily 10 am - 5 pmThe Cinema MuseumThis collection of artifacts, memorabilia and equipment telling the history of cinema from the 1890s to the present is open by tour (advance booking required) while the museum raises funds to secure its future. Among the displays are cinema seats and signs, stills and posters, projectors and other machinery.Opening hours: 11 am - 5 pm MonFri by appointment onlyDennis Severs9 HouseDennis Severs9 House is a time capsule attraction in which visitors are immersed in a unique form of theatre. The tour takes you through the cellar, kitchen, dining room, smoking room and upstairs to the bedrooms. It feels as though the inhabitants had deserted the rooms only moments before. The Dennis Severs House tour is unsuitable for children as tours are conducted in silence.Opening hours: Wed, Fri 5 pm - 9 pm21. If you are interested in the life of Victorian, which museum should you choose to visit?A. 18 Stafford Terrace.B. Brunel Museum.C. The Cinema Museum.D. Dennis Severs9 House.22. What are you required to do before visiting The Cinema Museum?A. Learn the history of cinema.B. Book ahead.C. Raise money.D. Collect posters.23. What do the listed museums have in mon?A. They are worldfamous.B. They are accessible on Wednesday.C. They feature tube system.D. They are suitable for children.BRichard Proenneke did what most nature lovers can only dream of: At age 51 he quit his job as a mechanic and moved to the Alaskan wilderness to bee one with nature.In 1962, Proenneke encountered the area Twin Lakes, now called Lake Clark National Park andPreserve. Its wild beauty struck a chord with Proenneke. He thought the area was a perfect place to settle.In 1968, he built a small cabin there and remained for the next 30 years.Going such long periods without panionship would tax many a person. But that was not the case for Proenneke. An obsessive observer and diarist, Proenneke once noted he was so busy with his life that he was never lonely. He spent most of his free time writing about the weather, the environment and the animals, some of which he befriended with regular treats. He hiked thousands of miles per year, being quite familiar with the miles of wilderness around his cabin. He caught and ate fish from the lake. Having no refrigerator, he dug into the ground and created a chilly storage box that helped to prolong his fresh foods.Yet Proenneke wasn't a bitter or angry isolationist （习K立主义者）.He happily wrote replies to just about anyone who sent him letters. During the 30 years, Proenneke filled up more than 250 notepads with his diary entries. He also carried a camera to record some of his daily activities. Along with a biography posed by his friend Sam Keith, Proenneke's notepads and camera footage were later turned into a documentary, Alone in the Wilderness.In his will, Proenneke left behind his Twin Lakes cabin to the park rangers （护林员）as a gift. Actually, he had bee such an important part of the park's ecosystem that the rangers had trouble imagining life without him.24. What made Proenneke different from other nature lovers?A. He loved outdoor activities.B. He built a cabin in the forest.C. He quit his job in his fifties.D. He settled alone in the wilderness.25. Which word can best replace the underlined "tax" in Paragraph 3?A. Impress.B. Benefit.C. Defeat. D. Transform.26. What might Proenneke think of his life in Twin Lakes?A. Bitter but fruitful.B. Lonely but peaceful.C. Risky but thrilling.D. Simple but fulfilling.27. What might be a suitable title for the text?A. One Man's "Alaska"B. Gift from a Nature LoverC. A Volunteer RangerD. Survival in the WildernessCCalled “America's wolf the red wolf is the only large predator whose historic range is found entirely within the United States, stretching from Texas to New England. But hunting gradually reduced its range, and it was declared extinct in the wild in 1980.Recovery efforts in the wild began in 1987 on the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. Tn a groundbreaking successful experiment, eight captive （圈养的）wolves were released this year into North Carolina, eventually growing into a population over 100, reaching a peak of around 120 wolves in 2012.But illegal hunting and management changes by the Fish and Wildlife Service resulted in their numbers plummeting.In the spring, conservationists celebrated a small bit of good news when four captiveborn pups （幼 兽）were placed into a cave and successfully adopted by a wild red wolf mother. Meanwhile, another four adults were released into the wild. The pups are thought to be still alive and healthy. But the adults didn't go well. In the months after release, three were struck by cars and killed, and the fourth was fatally shot on private land.To boost the population after these deaths, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in November that it planned to release nine adult red wolves into their recovery area this winter, land within and surrounding two wildlife reserves.The Service also recently announced it would withdraw a 2018 proposal to shrink （缩小）the red wolves' protected area in North Carolina by 90 percent, after a lawsuit accused the agency of going against the Endangered Species Act. Ron Sutherland of the Wildlands Network says it's crucial that the agency has abandoned this wrongheaded proposal. And yet the situation now is even more urgent than it was in 2018 this should launch the conservation munity in the U. S. into crisis mode to save this species and bring it back from the extinction.28. What does the underlined word “plummeting“ in paragraph 2 mean?A. Promising.B. Declining. C. Multiplying. D. Increasing.29. What can we infer from paragraph 3?A. The released wolves lived well.B. The population boosted after the release.C. The red wolf faced greater threat than before.D. The released red wolves still needed protection. 30. What would the Service do to save red wolves? A. Shrink the red wolves' reserves.B. Make a proposal to protect the red wolves.C. Put some red wolves in some specific places.D. Force the protected area into the state of emergency. 31. What does the text focus on?A. The protection of red wolves. B. Challenges faced by red wolves.C. Reasons for red wolves extinction. D. The relationship between red wolves and humans.DAs race season approaches, many runners have the same goal: go faster. But in a study published in the journal Current Biology, researchers show that speeding up might require us to resist our natural biology. By bining data from runners monitored in a lab along with 37,000 runs recorded on wearable fitness trackers, scientists have found that humans, natural tendency is to run at a speed that conserves caloric loss something that racers seeking to shave time off their miles will have to get over.The research group have been studying the mechanics of running in labs for 15 years but hadn't gotten a chance to study running in the wild before. "We joined the two datasets to gain new insights and bine the more messy wearable data with the gold standard lab experiments to learn about how people run out,“ says coauthor Jennifer Hicks.What surprised the team was the consistency they found across the bined datasets. "We had assumed earlier that people ran faster for shorter distances and then would slow their pace for longer distances/9 says first author Jessica Selinger. But this wasn't the case. Most of the runners analyzed stuck with the same speed, whether they were going for a short run or a long one over ten kilometers.From an evolutionary （进化）standpoint, it makes sense that people would run at the speed that uses the least amount of energy. This caloric conservation is something that has been observed across the animal kingdom. But humans' reasons for running have changed, and if the goal is speed, there are some tricks runners can use.Listening to music with a faster pace has been shown to help speed up stride （步伐）frequency, which increases running speed. In addition, picking faster running partners can give you a boost.Hicks hopes that having large pools of fitness data from wearables will help researchers gain insights about populations. "You can look at connections with the built environment and access to leisure resources and start to layer all of that data to really understand how to improve physical activity and health more broadly J says Hicks.32. What do the racers have to overe during the race?A. Energy consumption.B. Muscle loss.C. Weakness of humanity.D. Lack of nutrients.33. What was the team's initial idea concerning running?A. People would run in the wild rather than in labs.B. People adjust their speeds to different distances.C. People run at a constant speed regardless of distance.D. People possess enormous potential for running faster.34. Why are "listening to music" and "picking partners mentioned in paragraph 5?A.To evaluate the advantages of running.B. To offer tips on speed increase.C. To explain the importance of fast running.D. To reveal the change in human running goals.35. What's Hicks' attitude to the information obtained from wearables?A. Unclear.B. Critical. C. Favorable D.Doubtful.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Digital Technology is the major engine of modern life. It provides us with our means of munication, entertainment, and social lives. The last few years especially have shown how important digital technology is to our lives, as the pandemic forced us to move online. Everywhere, there are many apps that claim to help people find happiness: heartrate trackers, exercise apps, sleep apps, etc.36Actually, there are three things you can do to ensure that your digital technology tools are helpful. Firstly, be certain that the app is designed in such a way that it serves your purposes and not the pany's purpose. Some apps will overwhelm you with notifications （通矢U） and data. 37 After all, you neverwant to feel bad about an app which always tells you what you should or should not do.38 Before downloading an app that claims to make your life better, do a quick Google search and read up on the science behind it. Sometimes app designers start with the best intentions, but then get too invested in the engineering and details and lose sight of the science that they are basing themselves on.Finally, make sure you try out the app before you use it. 39 Read the fine print and inform yourself regarding return policies and trial periods when you download a new app. Don't use an app that isn't right fbr you.Digital Technology may help, but you still need to go outside to take a walk, and do something to make someone else happy. 40 Use the tools that are helpful to you, digital or otherwise, and find your way.A. Not every app is right for every person.B. You may find these notifications useful