湖南省邵阳市2022-2023学年高二下学期7月期末联考英语试题含答案.pdf

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1、2023 年 邵 阳 市 高 二 联 考(英 语)第 1 页(共 10 页)秘 密 启 用 前 姓 名 准 考 证 号2023 年 邵 阳 市 高 二 联 考 试 题 卷英 语本 试 卷 共 10 页,67 个 小 题。满 分 150 分。考 试 用 时 120 分 钟。注 意 事 项:1.答 卷 前,考 生 务 必 将 自 己 的 姓 名、准 考 证 号 填 写 在 答 题 卡 上。将 条 形 码 横 贴 在 答 题 卡上“贴 条 形 码 区”。2.作 答 选 择 题 时,选 出 每 小 题 答 案 后,用 2B 铅 笔 在 答 题 卡 上 对 应 题 目 选 项 的 答 案 信 息点 涂

2、黑;如 需 改 动,用 橡 皮 擦 干 净 后,再 选 涂 其 他 答 案。答 案 写 在 试 题 卷 上 无 效。3.非 选 择 题 必 须 用 黑 色 字 迹 的 钢 笔 或 签 字 笔 作 答,答 案 必 须 写 在 答 题 卡 各 题 目 指 定 区 域内 相 应 位 置 上;如 需 改 动,先 划 掉 原 来 的 答 案,然 后 再 写 上 新 答 案;不 准 使 用 铅 笔 和 涂 改 液。不 按 以 上 要 求 作 答 无 效。4.保 持 答 题 卡 的 整 洁。考 试 结 束 后,只 交 答 题 卡,试 题 卷 自 行 保 存。第 一 部 分 听 力(共 20 小 题,满 分

3、30 分)第 一 节(共 5 小 题;每 小 题 1.5 分,满 分 7.5 分)做 题 时,请 先 将 答 案 标 在 试 卷 上。录 音 内 容 结 束 之 后,你 将 有 两 分 钟 的 时 间 将 试 卷 上 的答 案 转 涂 到 答 题 卡 上。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。例:How much is the shirt

4、?A.19.15.B.9.18.C.9.15.答 案 是 C。1.What does the woman find difficult?A.Deciding which chocolate to choose.B.Identifying different chocolates.C.Making different chocolates.2.Where does this conversation probably take place?A.At the woman s home.B.At a hotel.C.At a hospital.3.What does the woman plan t

5、o do?A.Stay at school.B.Visit her family.C.Go camping.4.Why will the woman move out of the present flat?A.It is too noisy.B.It is too expensive.C.It is too small.2023 年 邵 阳 市 高 二 联 考(英 语)第 2 页(共 10 页)5.What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A.Working in Paris.B.Telling the truth.C.Traveling.

6、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.What is playing on the radio station now?A.Com

7、mercials.B.A talk program.C.A musical show.7.What can we know about the man?A.He likes to browse Twitter.B.He prefers detailed news stories.C.He has lots of free time.听 第 7 段 材 料,回 答 第 8、9 题。8.What can we know about Mike and Janice?A.They are from New Zealand.B.They can play the piano.C.They have ta

8、ken violin lessons.9.How many people are expected to attend the party?A.Four.B.Five.C.Six.听 第 8 段 材 料,回 答 第 10 至 13 题。10.What is the man doing?A.Waiting for a friend.B.Inviting the woman for dinner.C.Reading books.11.How does the woman feel about her major?A.Boring.B.Interesting.C.Difficult.12.Why d

9、oes the woman hurry to leave?A.To buy a book.B.To go home.C.To catch the bus.13.What s the probable relationship between the speakers?A.Neighbours.B.Classmates.C.Brother and sister.听 第 9 段 材 料,回 答 第 14 至 17 题。14.In which field is the man looking for a job?A.Education.B.Medicine.C.Technology.15.What

10、are the benefits the company provides?A.Insurance and a company vehicle.B.Paid vacation and health insurance.C.Opportunities for promotion.2023 年 邵 阳 市 高 二 联 考(英 语)第 3 页(共 10 页)16.What kind of position does the man get?A.Customer service.B.Technical support.C.Management position.17.How does the man

11、probably think of his new job?A.Promising.B.Unstable.C.Challenging.听 第 10 段 材 料,回 答 第 18 至 20 题。18.What can the Internet programs be used to do?A.Help the robot work efficiently.B.Lower the price of the robots.C.Make different size robots.19.How many people have ordered the robots online?A.Dozens of

12、.B.Hundreds of.C.Thousands of.20.What does the speaker mean to do?A.To make rules for vegetable growing.B.To introduce a robot.C.To recommend an online program.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,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。AT o p E x h i b i t

13、i on s t o S ee i n L on d on i n 2 02 3A rch i t ect u ral:V a n i s h i n g P o i n t sWhile we like to think of architecture existing purely in the real world,emerging designers andarchitects are using platforms like Instagram to create structures in the virtual world.This collectionof works,whic

14、h range from the practical to the fantastical,are all by architects who have gatheredsignificant social media followings.In the Digital Universe at ROCA London.8 February 31 July,free.F l o w ery:O rch i d sThis annual festival is back in bloom,this time inspired by the beauty and biodiversity ofCam

15、eroon.Just like previous years,the orchids are spread throughout the various zones of thePrincess of Wales conservatory and accompanied by sculptures that are just as colourful as the flowerson display.At Kew Gardens.4 February 5 March,16.50 entrance to the gardens included.F em al e A b s t ract i

16、o n:A ct i on,G es t u re,P ai n tArt history has often shone a light on the men of Abstract Expressionism,such as JacksonPollock and Mark Rothko.Well,now s the time to let the most important women of the movementtake the limelight in an exhibition that includes works by American artists such as Lee

17、 Krasner andHelen Frankenthaler,but spreads the net wider to include the female abstract artists from Europe,Asia and the wider world,with whom most of us will be unfamiliar.At Whitechapel Gallery.9 February 7 May,16.50 concessions available.2023 年 邵 阳 市 高 二 联 考(英 语)第 4 页(共 10 页)P ow erf u l P ort r

18、ai t s:A l i ce N eelThe largest UK exhibition to date of American painter Alice Neel s work will bring together herfigurative pieces from across her 60-year career.Neel went against the popular grain by paintingfigures when abstract works were most popular,and she painted subjects that other artist

19、s ignored pregnant women,labour leaders,black children,civil rights activists and strange performers.It shigh time we had a major show of her work in London,and the Barbican has duly provided.At Barbican Art Gallery.16 February 21 May,16.50.21.What do newly-developing designers and architects like t

20、o do?A.To gather significant social media.B.To design purely real architectural structures.C.To create platforms like Instagram.D.To create virtual architectural structures.22.When can visitors appreciate Helen Frankenthaler s works?A.On February 8.B.On January 7.C.On March 10.D.On May 8.23.What can

21、 we learn about the artist Alice Neel?A.She is 60 years old now.B.Her works didn t follow the trend.C.She often ignored some common subjects.D.She is the most popular American painter in the UK.BThere s another universe not far from land.It lacks buildings,trees,cars,cellphones and theInternet.Seemi

22、ngly limitless water extends uninterruptedly in all directions.Civilization goes away,along with any sign of humanity.And it is why I m really into sailing.I grew up around boats.Myfather liked sailing and built them.My older sister and I were stuffed into a car nearly every summerweekend until my l

23、ate teens to make the trip from northeast Indiana to the south shore of Lake Erie inOhio,where Talisman built by my father waited patiently through the week.As a kid,I read the adventures of Robin Lee Graham,a traveller exploring the sea alone,in thepages of N a t i onal G e ogr a phi c and,later,in

24、 Graham s book,D ov e.However,it wasn t until about 20years ago,well into my adulthood,that I took up sailing in a serious way.I ve made voyages in fairstormy weather,on my own boats and those of my friends,and ranging from nearshore day sails toblue-water passages.Still,I ve made plenty of mistakes

25、.While living in Asia,a sailing friend and I set off across theSouth China Sea and intended to get to Thailand,only to be pushed by a late-season typhoon thatforced us to make landfall in Vietnam,glad to be alive.Years later,my wife and I lived aboard our 37-foot ship,Symbiosis,while we saved enough

26、 totake a two-year leave from our jobs to journey down the U.S.Atlantic coast and through the Bahamasand the Caribbean.We visited many places that never see ships or airplanes and that are nearlyimpossible to reach anyway other than at the helm(舵 柄)of a small boat.But boats are expensiveand time-con

27、suming.After returning from the Caribbean a few years ago,we decided to sellSymbiosis,resolving instead to sail only“other people s boats”.It didn t last,though.A few monthsago,we found a good deal on a smaller sailboat easier to maintain but still capable of some shortoffshore journeys.I think we l

28、l name her Talisman.2023 年 邵 阳 市 高 二 联 考(英 语)第 5 页(共 10 页)24.What would the author do on summer weekends as a kid?A.He would help his father build Talisman.B.He would bring human civilization to sailing.C.He would explore northeast Indiana in a car.D.He would sail with his father and his sister.25.W

29、hat can we learn about the book D ov e?A.It has something to do with exploring the sea.B.It was published in National G e ogr a phi c.C.It is the most famous work by Graham.D.It was an inspiration for the author s writing.26.Why did the author sell his ship Symbiosis?A.It didn t function well.B.He c

30、ouldn t afford to maintain it.C.He found a better one to replace it.D.It was damaged seriously during a storm.27.What is the author s main intention of writing the text?A.To discuss the problems of sailing on the sea.B.To stress the influence of adventures on him.C.To show his passion for sailing bo

31、ats.D.To share his success in exploring the world.CComputers are pretty good at answering questions.Just ask Alexa,Amazon s voice assistant,who can tell you the weather or directions.Computers are good at spitting back facts,but haven tshown the same critical or creative thinking that humans have.Th

32、at could be changing,at least whenit comes to reading,because of advances in AI(artificial intelligence).Research teams at Microsoft and Chinese tech company Alibaba reached what they described as amilestone(里 程 碑)earlier this January.Their Al systems outperformed the estimated human scoreon a readi

33、ng comprehension test.The test was developed at Stanford University.It showed that,in at least some situations,computers can beat humans at quickly“reading”hundreds of Wikipedia articles.AI machines couldcome up with accurate answers to questions about warrior-king Genghis Khan,or the Apollo spacepr

34、ogram.The computers,however,also made mistakes that many people wouldn t have.Microsoft,forinstance,failed an easy football question.The computer was asked which member of the CarolinaPanthers football team intercepted(拦 截)the most passes in the 2015 season.The correct answerwas Kurt Coleman,not Jos

35、h Norman.Any person who carefully read the Wikipedia passage wouldhave discovered the right answer.However,the computer made a mistake in the word“most”anddidn t understand that seven is bigger than four.“We re still a long way from computers being able to read and comprehend general text in thesame

36、 way that humans can,”Kevin Scott,Microsoft s head of technology,wrote.He praised the Alsystem for passing the test,calling it a major achievement by the company s researchers.“It strikes me for the kind of problem that they re solving that it s not possible to do better thanpeople,because people ar

37、e defining what s correct,”Littman said.“The impressive thing here isthat they met human performance,not that they ve exceeded(超 越)it.”2023 年 邵 阳 市 高 二 联 考(英 语)第 6 页(共 10 页)28.Why did the research team describe their work as a milestone?A.Because their computers showed critical and creative thinking

38、 like humans.B.Because their AI systems beat humans in reading comprehension.C.Because their AI systems could tell you weather and direction.D.Because their computers are good at answering questions.29.Which of the following are TRUE according to paragraph 3?A.AI machines could propose incorrect ans

39、wers to Genghis Khan.B.Smart AI machines were answering questions.C.AI machines did better than humans in reading.D.AI machines can do everything that human can t do.30.What can be inferred from paragraph 4?A.Al still struggles with logical reasoning.B.Computers often mistake seven for four.C.Comput

40、ers seldom make stupid mistakes.D.The Wikipedia passage was controversial.31.What does the underlined word“met”in the last paragraph mean?A.visited.B.contacted.C.greeted.D.satisfied.DBack in 1975,economists planned rising life expectancy(预 期 寿 命)against countries wealth,and concluded that wealth its

41、elf increases longevity.It seemed self-evident:everything people needto be healthy from food to medical care costs money.But it soon proved that the data didn t always fit that theory.Economic booms didn t alwaysmean longer lives.In addition,for reasons that weren t clear,a given gain in gross domes

42、tic product(GDP)caused increasingly higher gains in life expectancy over time,as though it was becomingcheaper to add years of life.Moreover,in the 1980s researchers found gains in learning wereassociated with greater increases in life expectancy than gains in wealth were.Finally,the moreeducated pe

43、ople in any country tend to live longer than their less educated fellow citizens.But suchpeople also tend to be wealthier,so it has been difficult to make out which factor is increasing lifespan.Wolfgang Lutz and his colleagues have now done that by collecting average data on GDP per person,lifespan

44、,and years of education from 174 countries,dating from 1970 to 2010.They found that,just as in 1975,wealth was associated with longevity.But the association between longevity and years of schooling was closer,with a direct relationship that did not change over time,the way wealth does.Lutz argues th

45、at because schooling happens many years before a person has attained their lifeexpectancy,this association reflects cause:better education drives longer life.It also leads to morewealth,which is why wealth and longevity are also associated.But what is important,says Lutz,is thatwealth does not seem

46、to be longevity,as experts thought in fact,education is driving both of them.He thinks this is because education permanently improves a person s cognitive abilities,allowingbetter planning and self-control throughout the rest of their life.This idea is supported by the fact thatpeople who are more i

47、ntelligent appear to live longer.32.What do we know about economists conclusion in 1975?A.Lifespan could be increased by wealth.B.Economic growth didn t always mean longer life.C.Education influenced longevity more than wealth did.D.A given growth in GDP caused higher gains in longevity.2023 年 邵 阳 市

48、 高 二 联 考(英 语)第 7 页(共 10 页)33.What did Wolfgang Lutz and his colleagues find from the collected data?A.Wealth and longevity did not have any association.B.Differences in wealth predicted differences in longevity.C.Longevity and education were more closely associated.D.Relationship between education a

49、nd longevity changed over time.34.What part does education play permanently according to Lutz?A.It enables people to have better planning and self-control.B.It always leads to a longer but not necessarily richer life.C.It improves people s imaginative and innovative abilities.D.It helps people acqui

50、re time-managing and learning habits.35.What s the passage mainly about?A.Wealth influences longevity.B.Education influences longevity.C.Wealth has nothing to do with longevity.D.The relationship between education and wealth.第 二 节(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 入