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1、2022-2023-1雅礼中学高二上期中考试时量：120分钟满分：150分第一部分听力（共两节,满分30分）略第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节（共15小题;每小题25分，满分37.5分）隹选项。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出If youd rather eat out on Thanksgiving or order the meal to go, you have no shortage of options. Here are some Chicago restaurants celebrating the holiday with a variety of

2、 dishes on offer.Cyranos Bistrot and Wine Bars, 546 N. Wells StGo French for Thanksgiving, with Cyranos six-course to-go menu. Ifs packed with four appetizers; four vegetable sides; pumpkin soup; a choice of turkey, duck or chicken; a cheese plate, and desserts. Also included: reheating instructions

3、. The cost is US$39 a person. To order, call (312)467-0546.Fairmont Chicago, 200 N. Columbus DriveThe hotel is going retro (怀旧 的)and green this year with its Thanksgiving to-go menu, from organic green bean casserole (砂专禺)made with mushroom soup to organic mashed potatoes with bacon bits and sour cr

4、eam. The meal, which serves 8 to 10, is US$195, plus tax. Orders must be in by 3 p.m. Wednesday. To order, call (312)565-6665.Kit Kat Lounge and Supper Club, 3700 N. Halsted StThe restaurant celebrates Thanksgiving a day early with a three-course menu on Wednesday. Menu items include a wild mushroom

5、 tart (馅饼)with Gruyere and Cabemet-marinated steak with Havarti mashed potatoes. The US$35 dinner each, tax and tip not included, includes a martini. For reservations, call (773)525-1 111.Lawrys The Prime Rib, 100 E. Ontario StThe star of the Thanksgiving menu is organic, free-range turkey from Penn

6、sylvania. To-go dinner package also will be offered, with 10 percent of proceeds (4攵益)going to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Carry-out packages range from US$27 for an individual turkey dinner to US$480 for a meal serving 12 to 14. Orders must be placed by Tuesday. Call (312)787-5000.Popeyes,

7、 various locationsThirteen of the chicken chains Chicago locations are taking orders now fbr takeout fried turkeys. The turkeys, which serve 8 to 10, range from US$40 to US$45. Use the restaurant locator at fbr locations and phone numbers.yellow of each of the twelve eggs, and I could almost smell t

8、he vanilla( ) filling the house while the cake baked.注意:1 .所续写短文的词数应为150左右;.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好;Paragraph 1As I daydreamed, there was a knock on thedoor.Paragraph 2How had she managed to afford it?1. If a person wants to order sweet food like pudding, he or she should dial.A. (312)467-0546B. (312)7

9、87-50000 C. (773)525-1111D. (312)565-6665Which restaurant offers the cheapest meal for each person?A. Cyranos Bistrot and Wine Bar.B. Fairmont Chicago.C. Kit Kat Lounge and Supper Club.D. Lawrys The Prime Rib.2. If a 13-member family wants to celebrate Thanksgiving at home, they should order food in

10、.A. Kit Kat Lounge and Supper ClubB. Fairmont ChicagoC. Cyranos Bistrot and Wine BarD. Lawrys The Prime RibBI enjoy throwing stuff away. Td love to go full minimalism (极简主义),but my wife and two teenage kids do not share my dream of a house with almost nothing in it. I have tried. When the kids were

11、little, I taught them my two favorite games - Do We Need It? and Put It in Its Place”- and made them play every few months. Their enthusiasm never matched mine.If Im going to be honest, my own tidying skills are not as great as Id like. My “discarded pile is never quite the trash mountain I want bec

12、ause I make up excuses fbr why things are useful. I consider this unhealthy. I want to be better at moving on.So, this time I found help - the classics fbr people like me: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo. Kondos commitment to her craft is astonishing. Her philosophy is only to

13、keep things you love. Can I go full Kondo? I will try. One central idea is to clean by category. You start by collecting all clothes and gathering them together for consideration. It makes you rethink how you organize. Next, hold each item and ask if it brings you joy. This way youre choosing what t

14、o keep. And thats how I find myself with all my clothes on my bedroom floor. My wife walks by and gives me a look that says Im nuts. Shes probably not wrong.Somewhere near the bottom of this chaos is my special jacket. I move through the pile: pants, shirts, suits and shoes. Then my last category ja

15、ckets. I havent worn the thing in about 30 years. Somehow, it has survived. Now that Im striving to follow Kondo - surely, its time has come?I hold it in my hand. There is a tear just below the collar that widens as I hold it. Its literally foiling apart. Will I ever wear it again? Not a chance. Doe

16、s it feel good to wear? Does it bring me joy? Actually, yes. At this moment, my daughter walks in. She asks about the jacket. I tell her the story. She thinks I should keep it. Ifs cool and unique and full of memories. She is arguing that nostalgia (怀念)is the very reason.Im not entirely convinced by

17、 my daughters arguments. I believe in looking ahead, not backward. Nevertheless, sometimes its hard to let go. So I gently place the jacket on the “keep” pile.3. What does the underlined word discarded“ probably mean in Paragraph 2?A. adjustedB.reservedC.abandonedD. tidied4. What drives the author t

18、o read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up?A. To learn how to categorize.C. To persuade his family members.B. To improve his tidying skills.D. To develop passion fbr minimalism.5. What is the attitude of the authors family members toward minimalism?A. They dont understand it.C. They are strongly o

19、pposed to it.7. Whafs the best title for the text?A. Knowing when to let goC. Throwing worn-out clothesB. They completely support it.D. They are less passionate about it.8. Classifying what you loveD. Keeping valuable possessionsCRunning is often tiring and a lot of hard work, but nothing beats the

20、feeling you get after finishing a long workout around the track.But while its long been believed that endorphins （脑 内 啡）chemicals in the body that cause happiness are behind the so-called runners high，a study suggested that there may be more to this phenomenon than we previously knew.According to a

21、recent study published by a group of scientists from several German universities, a group of chemicals called endocannabinoids （内源性大麻素）may actually be responsible fbr this familiar great feeling.To test this theory, the scientists turned to mice.Both mice and humans release high levels of endorphins

22、 and endocannabinoids after exercise, along with many other chemicals. After exercising on running wheels, the mice seemed happy and relaxed and displayed no signs of anxiety.But after being given a drug to block their endorphins the change. However, when their endocannabinoids were block with a dif

23、ferent drug, their runners high symptoms seemed to fade.“The long-held notion of endorphins being responsible for the runnefs high is false. Endorphins are effective pain relievers, but only when it comes to the pain in your body and muscles you feel after working out J Patrick Lucas Austin wrote on

24、 science blog Lifchacker.Similar studies are yet to be carried out on humans, but its already well known that exercise is a highly effective way to get rid of stress or anxiety.The UKs National Health Service even prescribes （开药方）exercise to patients who are suffering from depression.“Being depresse

25、d can leave you feeling low in energy, which might put you off being more active. Regular exercise can boost your mood if you have depression, and its especially useful fbr people with mild to moderate （中 等的）depression,it wrote on its website.It seems like nothing can beat that feeling we get after

26、a good workout, even if we dont fully understand where it comes from. At least if were feeling down, we know that all we have to do is put on our running shoes.8. What did scientists from German universities recently discover?A Working out is a highly effective way to treat depression.B. The runners

27、 high could be caused by endocannabinoids.C. Endorphins may contribute to ones high spirits after running.D. The level of endorphins and endocannabinoids could affect ones mood.9. The scientists gave mice drugs in their experiment to.A. find what reduces the runners high symptomssee the specific sym

28、ptoms of the runners highB. identify what is responsible for the runners hightest what influences the level of endocannabinoids released10. The underlined word “notion” in Paragraph 7 has the closest meaning to.A. effectB. goalC. questionD. belief11. According to the UKs National Health Service, reg

29、ular workouts.A. are the best way to treat depressioncan help ease depression symptomsC only work fbr those with serious depressionD. can help people completely recover from depressionDA team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanic

30、al fly has become a platform fbr a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.“Its extremely important fbr us to think about this

31、as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch ofindividual components “ said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project fbr over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficult

32、y with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own J he said.They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependenc

33、ies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything its connected to J said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that th

34、e flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.While this first robotic fly is linked to a small o伍board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with abuilt-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers5 fields or

35、on the battlefield. Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,he said.Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. You can start thi

36、nking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead J he said. So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to d

37、ay basis.”Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly?A. They did not have sufficient fund.B. No ready-made components were available.C. There was no model in their mind.D. It was hard fbr them to assemble the components.12. What do we know about t

38、he robotic fly?A. The robotic fly has been put into wide application.B. The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system.C. The robotic fly can collect information from many sources.D. The robotic fly can fly well with the cooperation of individual components.13. Which of the followi

39、ng can be learned from the passage?A. The robotic fly can replace animals in some experiments.B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.C. The robotic fly is designed to learn about insects.D. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.14. What is the main idea of the passage?A. T

40、he development of robotic fly.B. Robotic fly promotes engineering science.C. Harvards efforts in making robotic fly.D. Robotic fly imitates real life insect.第二节（共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分125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。There is an English saying: “16 Until recently few people took the saying ser

41、iously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. 17Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laug

42、hter has similar effects to physical exercise. 8 If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio progr

43、ams. The group that tolerated the pain fbr the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. 920 They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.A. Laughter can

44、 prolong ones life.B. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics in which they help to improve their patients9 condition by encouraging them to laugh.C. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals

45、 in the brain which diminish both stress and pain.D. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet.E. Although laughter helps cure the disease, doctors still cannot put this theory into clinic practice

46、.F. Laughter is the best medicine.G. They have found that laughter really can improve peoples health.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。When Pete Eckert started going blind, he decided to channel his feelings of loss into art. In his 20s at the time, Ec

47、kert would spend whole days preparing drawings and woodcuts before asking his wife to 21 the results to him. But the process was driving his wife 22. So, in search of a more instant medium, he turned his hand tophotography.“When I started out, digital cameras hadnt 23 traditional photography shops y

48、et J Eckert said on the phone from his home in Sacramento, California. I would go to those photography shops and buy two rolls of film and ask ten 24 questions. I went every day. And by asking questions and getting 25,1 learned.”More than two decades after entirely losing his sight from an eye disease, Eckert has 26 a successful career as a self-taught photographer now. When he first 27 the world of photography, Eckert would go on short trips at night with his dog for 28. He began by photographing statues, though he soon 29more interesting subject matter. To t