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1、高 2022 级高二上期 12 月阶段性测试英语试题试卷共 140 分; 考试时间 120 分钟第一局部听力每题 1 分，共 20 分第一节 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 出最正确选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 l0 秒钟的时间来答复有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What did the man do last weekend?A. He went camping. B. He attended a party.C. He stayed home with his friends.2. When did

2、the woman meet Anna?A. At 7:55.B. At 7:58.C. At 8:02.3. Why does the woman remember James so well?A. He has a funny face.B. He was the first person she met at school. C. He was late for school on the first day.4. What do we know about the man?A. He is eager to meet the boss.B. He is going to give a

3、talk on fishing. C. He has the same hobby as the boss.5. What does the woman mean?A. Bob never studies hard.B. Bob has been studying hard lately.C. Bob started preparing for the test long ago.第二节 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三个选项中选出最正确选项，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，每题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出

4、 5 秒钟的作答时问。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料。答复第 6、7 题。6. What did the woman dream about?A. The man had an accident.B. The boss wanted to fire the man.C. The man was going to give up his job.7. Whats the relationship between the speakers?A. Colleagues.B. Doctor and patient.C. Husband and wife.听第 7 段材料。答复第 8、9 题。8

5、. Why did the woman call the man?A. To cancel a booking.B. To make a reservation.C. To change her trip.9. When does the hotel have a special offer?A. In January.B. In February.C. In March.听第 8 段材料，答复第 10 至 12 题。10. Who might Johnny be?A. The mans son.B. The mans brother.C. The womans brother.11. Wha

6、t will the man do today?A. Go shopping.B. Meet some friends.C. Play basketball.12. What kind of life does the woman live?A. Very busy.B. Easy.C. Interesting.听第 9 段材料，答复第 13 至 16 题。13. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. On the phone.B. At the office.C. In a restaurant.14. What does th

7、e woman think is the key part of the whole operation?A. Having early studies.B. Having a good product.C. Getting a good import agent.15. What kind of company does the man work for?A. A phone company. B. A bicycle company.C. A furniture design company.16. What does the woman mean in the end?A. She wi

8、ll sell the product.B. She will help the man with the report. C. She hasnt been convinced by the man.听第 l0 段材料，答复第 17 至 20 题17. Why did the speakers family move to New York City?A. To move into a smaller apartment. B. To go to a better school.C. To experience more cultures.18. What did the speaker d

9、islike about her new building?A. It was noisy outside.B. It was far from her school.C. It wasnt in a safe neighborhood.19. What was the speakers favorite thing about the city?A. Eating delicious food.B. Going to museums and theaters. C. Making a lot of new friends.20. What did the speaker mainly thi

10、nk of the city?A. It was mostly positive.B. Everything was a challenge.C. Things changed from bad to good.13第二局部 阅读理解共三节，总分值 50 分 第一节共 15 小题；每题 2 分，总分值 30 分阅读以下短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出最正确选项，并在答题 卡上将该选项涂黑。AMy wife, daughter, and I moved into our home nine years ago and we spent a lot of time and

11、energy in the yard to get it looking like the way it does today. We live on a corner, higher than street level, and the entire side of the yard is surrounded by a professionally built rock wall. The front of the house though is another story because instead of a wall along the sidewalk, therocks app

12、ear to be just thrown up onto the dirt as if someone were in a hurry to finishWe did the best we could with what we had to work with and called this area our “rock garden. Whenever we had leftover flowers or plants, Denise or I would stick them out front, just to bring some color to the area. We wou

13、ld do all of the yard work on our own, even thetiring weed pullingLast summer I reached the end of the rock garden and found a tiny little plant that I could not immediately identifyI knew I didnt plant it and Denise claimed that she didnt eitherWe decided to let it continue growing until we could f

14、igure out what it wasWeeks passed and as I made my way back to the mystery plant，it appeared to be a sunflower with a tall skinny stalk(茎，秆) and only one head on itI decided to baby it and weed around itAs I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds，I noticed something unusualThe sunflower had

15、not started where I saw the stalk beginIt actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the sunThats when I realized that if a tiny little sunflower didnt let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the ability to do the same thing. Once our environment be

16、gins to seethat we believe in ourselves like that little sunflower，we can attain the same nourishment andgrowth as wellStand tall like the sunflower and be proud of who and what you are and the environment will begin to support youYou will find a way to go under or around your big obstacle in order

17、to reach your desires21The author found it unusual that Athe mystery plant turned out to be a sunflowerBthe sunflower had a tall stalk and only one headCthe sunflower grew under and around a big rockDthe sunflower had started where the stalk was seen22Which of the following best describes the sunflo

18、wer?ABrave and stubbornBConfident and persistentCOptimistic and modestDMysterious and devoted23What can be inferred from this passage?AHuman beings are able to remove ObstaclesBThe Universal truth made the sunflower surviveCA big rock blocked out the sunlight of the sunflowerDWe can achieve success

19、as long as we are self-confidentBThe United Arab Emirates(UAE) government announced it had elected 60 “Chief HappinessOfficers to study happiness and how to spread it abroadCurrently ranked 28th out of over 150countries surveyed in the United Nations 2022 World Happiness Report, the UAE wants to sit

20、 within the top five by 2021. “We seek to create a society where our peoples happiness is primary, declared the UAEs Vice President and Prime Minister.Since the new minister took office，people working in the civil service have attended aseries of happiness seminars to learn more about the plan. Duba

21、i Police has renamed itscommunity service department the “General Department for Community Happiness and theforce often adds #YourSecurityOurHappiness to their tweets( 推特 ). Meanwhile, variousgovernment agencies have changed the language of their customer surveys to find out if people are “happy rat

22、her than just satisfied with the services，and some have investigated social media followers to see if their Instagram and Facebook posts bring happinessMeik Wiking, an independent think tank in Denmark，the country which tops the UNshappy table, thinks governments can and should play a role in public

23、 happiness. “The aim of public policy should be to improve the quality of life for people, he saysSonia Edwards，who has lived in the UAE for over a decade, says：“I think its a bit of apublic relations gimmick to be honestI think the government wants to be seen to be makingthings better through this

24、plan but I dont know how much effect it will really have.Edwards in Dubai adds: “There are a lot of issues here around job insecurity, workplace discrimination，high rents and expensive school fees, so if those were dealt with，wed all be happier, but overall，happiness is not just up to the government

25、, its also up to individuals andtheir own mindsets.24What does the UAE government intend to do?ACreate a perfect society. BBuild a happier country. CPromote international trades.DShow its status in the world.25What is one of the measures the UAE takes?AHold happiness seminars for civil servantsBGive

26、 government agencies new namesCLook through peoples online postsDChange the daily language26What does the underlined word “gimmick in Paragraph 4 mean?AimprovementBprincipleCtransformationDtrick27What might Meik Wiking and Edwards both agree with?AThe government misses the pointBHappiness is somewha

27、t subjectiveCPolicy makers count as to peoples well-beingDThe effects of the happiness plan are uncertainCMARCELA Del Sol first noticed something wasnt right when she stumbled(绊倒) uponmens clothing “hidden around the houseThe 42-year-old originally from Chile says she then discovered dozens of photo

28、graphs in her phone that she did not remember taking. She was the subject but something wasdifferentHer friends started falling away and she did not know whyHer long-term relationship ended suddenlyShe now knows the mens clothing belonged to one of her “alternatives，andthe same person was responsibl

29、e for separating those closest from herIn an interview，Ms. Del Sol said she was not allowed to name any of her six alternative persons“I cant tell you their names because theyre not happy for me to do so, she said“Iknow that sounds very irrationalI am aware that theyre not real people，not physical p

30、eople，but l have a very good opinion of them.Ms. Del Sol has whats known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), a condition characterized by the presence of two or more split personalities that have power over a personsbehaviorIn her case，the condition is blamed on a car accident she was involved

31、in three years agoIt was July 2022，when her vehicle broke down on the side of the roadA speeding driver collided with Ms. Del Sols carShe wasnt physically injured but her brain experienced traumaShortlyafter，she discovered she wasnt alone inside her headSwitching between personalities happensoften b

32、ut there is no real patternIt can be weeks between incidents and then，for whatever reason，it happens more frequentlyShe describes her lifestyle as “secluded(与世隔绝的)but she knows she has to make aneffort. She volunteers for an organization helping abused children. She also spends time speaking out abo

33、ut her condition and has written a book on the subject，hoping to help others who are experiencing the same thing28What led to Del Sols friends breaking up with her?AHer unpleasant photographsBThe male personality inside herCHer love for mens clothingDThe changeable characters of her29What does Del S

34、ol think of the personalities inside her?AThey also deserve respectBThey are gifts given by GodCThey are too strong to resistDThey make her life ridiculous30What do we know about Del Sol?AShe makes her personalities names knownBHer personalities change regularlyCHer physical injury caused DIDDShe tr

35、ies to live a positive life31What is the best title for the passage?AAn unusual presentBAn unhappy experienceCThe effect of DID on a womanDA woman suffering DID after an accidentDDo you have an emotional brain or a rational one? Researchers at Australias Monash University have found actual differenc

36、e in the brains of people who respond emotionally to others feelings compared with those who respond more rationally.A study published in the journal NeuroImage has looked at whether people who have morebrain cells in certain areas of the brain are better at certain types of empathy, according toSci

37、ence Daily. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person, and the two types investigated were cognitive(认知的) empathy and affective empathy.“Every day people use empathy with, and without, their knowledge to get around in the social world, said Robert Eres from Monash

38、 Universitys School of Psychological Sciences. “We use it for communication, to build relationships, and to increase our understanding of others.“People who are high on affective empathy are often those who get quite fearful when watching a scary movie, or start crying during a sad scene. Those who

39、have high cognitive empathy are those who are more rational, for example a psychologist helping someone, explained Eres.The results of the study showed that people with high scores for affective empathy had more gray matter in a part of the brain called the insula, found right in the “middle of the

40、brain. Those who scored higher for cognitive empathy had more in a part called the midcingulate cortexan area above the corpus callosum, which connects the two halves of the brain.The discovery “raises new questionslike whether people could train themselves to have more empathy, and whether those ar

41、eas of the brain would become larger if they did, or whether we can lose our ability to empathize if we dont use it enough, according to Science Daily.“In the future we want to investigate further by testing whether training people in empathy-related tasks can lead to changes in these brain areas. W

42、e also want to investigate if damage to these brain areas, as a result of a stroke for example, can lead to empathy problems, said Eres.Perhaps in the future we will all be able to empathize more with other people. Maybe you will cry at that sad movie after all!32. Empathy can be used in the followi

43、ng situations EXCEPT that.A. when a psychologist is helping a patient with his mental disease B. when a teacher is comforting a student about his fathers death C. when a mathematician is calculating the area of a farmlandD. when people are reading a story with a frightening ending33. What does the r

44、esearch done by Monash University mainly show?A. Differences in the brains of emotional and rational people.B.Whether a rational brain works better than an emotional one.C. What empathy is and how to improve peoples ability to empathize.D. How to effectively train people to have more empathy cells i

45、n their brain.34. Which of the following statements might Robert Eres disagree with?A. People use empathy when they are or arent aware of it.B.People tend to use empathy to build relationships or understand others.C. People with higher affective empathy feel heart-broken when watching sad movies.D.

46、People who are more rational have been found to have more gray matter in their brains.35. Which of the following will be one of the focuses of future investigations according to the article?A. How to train people in empathy-related tasks.B.Whether people can be trained to be more empathetic.C. Wheth

47、er empathy problems can lead to damage to areas of the brain.D. Why people seem to lose their ability to empathize if they dont use it enough.第二节共 5 小题；每题 2 分，总分值 10 分 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最正确选项。选项中有两项为多余选 项请将答案填涂在答题卷上相应位置。Critical ReadingCritical reading applies to non-fiction writing in which the author puts forth a position or seeks to make a statement. Critical reading is active reading. 36 . Here are the things you should do to be a critical reader. Consider the context of wha