2022届重庆市育才中学高三下学期二诊模拟考试（二）英语试题.docx

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1、2022届重庆市育才中学高三下学期二诊模拟考试（二）英语试题学校:姓名:班级:考号：一、阅读理解Ready to escape the world and spend some time in nature? Here are some good options for you.The Woodlands Cabin-Sandy, ORThe Woodlands Cabin sits on five acres of wooded property. It is a beautiful 3-bedroom home （plus a kids room）. The two outdoor dec

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6、er, I began noticing how other kids were separating into groups. I wasnt sure where I belonged. I found it hard to fit in.Our teacher had assigned secret friends fbr the coming week. She wrote each kids name on a piece of paper and threw them into a glass; then we each closed our eyes and drew the n

7、ame of a classmate who we were to secretly befriend and support over the next five school days. By the middle of the week, everyone, including me, had turned this assignment into a contest to see whose secret friend could leave the best gift. We left cards, pens and even money. It seemed that everyo

8、ne was getting cool presents from their friend except me.On the last morning of our assignment, I walked into my classroom and noticed there was a package. I opened the wrapping paper and inside was a box of powder （胭月旨粉）.The girls sitting near me laughed the gift I had received. To make matters wor

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13、in common?A. They all have playrooms for kids.B. They all have some sports facilities.C. They are all surrounded by beautiful mountains.D. They all provide an opportunity to get close to nature.1. How much should a couple with a child pay for a one-night stay in Pineland Chalet?A. $450.B. $400.C. $3

14、00.D. $250.2. What is the purpose of the text?A. To recommend some cabins for a stay.B. To compare some cabins at the same place.C. To tell about some cabins the writer owns.D. To encourage people to do some outdoor activities.The Kyiv City Ballet danced to a full theater in Paris fbr the companys l

15、ast show of its French tour. The tour has left the dancers without a place to go after the war started in Ukraine. In other times, performing at the Theatre du Chatelet would be a dream come true for the dancers. But with the ongoing war in their country, the dancers feel only a deep sadness.“We are

16、 both physically and emotionally exhausted.Ekaterina Kozlova said. She is the companys assistant director. Everyone in the ballet is worried about their families, loved ones, friends, colleagues at home. Ifs been very difficult.The Theatre du Chatelet, in the center of Paris, offered them the stage

17、on Tuesday for the groups final show of a French tour. The dance director of the Paris Opera and some members of her company joined the Ukrainians for a class before performing several ballet classics together. They danced parts of Russian composer Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovskys Swan Lake and The Nutcrack

18、ery.For many of the dancers, the chance to train and dance was a way to think about something other than the conflict in Ukraine,Kozlova said. One of the dancers will be going to the Ukrainian border in the coming days to pick up her young daughter who was taken out of the country. Only some members

19、 of the company were traveling around France. Many of the ballets best dancers stayed behind, waiting to join their friends after they reached Paris.“Most of our artists are detained in Paris. Director Ivan Kozlova told the Paris crowd. The city of Paris and the ballet community have helped find tem

20、porary housing for the Ukrainian dancers who say they hope to continue dancing in France and elsewhere. The Chatelet theater offered the whole group a residency. But for now, Tuesdays last-minute performance was their last. All sales from their performances will go to nongovernmental organizations c

21、ollecting and sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine and neighboring countries. 4. What would the dancers feel about performing at the Theatre du Chatelet before the war? A. Pleased.B. Indifferent.C. Sorrowful.D. Sympathetic.5 . What do we know about the Ukrainian dancers?A. They would leave Paris soon

22、.B. They would prevent the conflict.C. Many best dancers stayed in Paris.D. Some would go to the Ukrainian border.6. What does the underlined word “detained“ in Paragraph 5 mean?A. Arrested.B. Stuck.C. Promoted.D. Educated.7. Which of the following words can best describe the dancers?A. Enthusiastic

23、 and kind.B. Generous and professional.C. Cooperative and ambitious.D. Courageous and calm.Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), perhaps the most famous artist in the world, is perceived by many as the mad artist. His artistic genius is often overshadowed by those who see his paintings as only visual expres

24、sions of his troubled mind. While in part this may be true, in reality his innovative and unique artistic style was of enormous importance to a host of artists who followed in his wake. Even when openly influenced by his predecessors or contemporaries （前辈或同辈），his art remained identifiably his own, d

25、eveloping a distinctive style that failed to be accepted by the art-buying public in his own time. The career of Vincent van Gogh as a painter was short, but his extraordinary boldness of his technique created masterpieces that exercise a profound influence on the art of the twentieth century.Althou

26、gh the artisfs first formal job after leaving school was art-related, he did not actually begin painting until years later. At 16, Vincent van Gogh entered an apprenticeship （学徒身份）at his uncles branch of Goupil & Cie, a Paris-based art dealership. The position involved travel and certainly exposure

27、to the contemporary art of his day, but van Gogh would move on to religious work and a bookseller before producing the first Van Gogh painting.His earliest works, completed from 1881 through 1883, reflect a new-comers attention to detail as well as hints of the new genius that would fully emerge in

28、his later paintings. Although his sketches and watercolor drawings may, at first glance, seem two-dimensional and amateurish, they are fascinating in terms of their testament to the van Goghs early studies in Realism.Vincent van Gogh produced his first drawings while staying at his parents home in E

29、tten, the Netherlands, schooled chiefly by books on artistic technique. The artist restricted his first drawings to a black and white palette （调色板）,believing mastery of this discipline to be essential before attempting works in color.8. Why do many people think of van Gogh as a mad artist according

30、to paragraph 1?A. Because his artistic style failed to be accepted by the public.B. Because his art was openly influenced by others and lacked his own style.C. Because his paintings proved to be untrue from the perspective of reality.D. Because his painting were often seen as confusing expressions o

31、f his mind.9. What does paragraph 2 mainly want to tell us?A. Vincent van Gogh was rarely exposed to art before producing paintings.B. Vincent van Gogh lived a miserable life before becoming a painter.C. Vincent van Gogh experienced many different jobs before painting.D. Vincent van Gogh was also su

32、ccessful in many other fields besides art.10. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs of the text?A. Vincent van Gogh had difficulty in distinguishing different colors.B. Vincent van Gogh had great abilities in teaching and training himself.C. People thought highly of Vincent van Goghs earlie

33、st works at first sight.D. Vincent van Gogh preferred staying at home to going to school while drawing.11. What is probably the authors attitude towards Vincent van Gogh?A. Appreciative.B. Suspicious.C. Objective.D. Confused.Fritillaria plants can be easily spotted. The usually bright green plants o

34、ften stand alone amid the rocks at the top of the Himalayan and Hengduan mountains in southwestern China 一 easy pickings for traditional Chinese medicine herbalists, whove ground the bulbs （鳞茎） of Fritillaria into a cough-treating powder for more than 2, 000 years. The demand for the bulbs is intens

35、e, since about 3,500 of them are needed to produce one kilogram of the powder, worth about $480.But some Fritillaria are remarkably difficult to find, with leaves and stems that are barely distinguishable from the gray or brown rocky background. Surprisingly, the plants, camouflage （伪装）seems to have

36、 evolved in response to people.In wide open areas with little cover, like mountaintops, blending in can help the plants avoid hungry herbivores, says Yang Niu, a botanist at the Kunming Institute of Botany in China. But after five years of studying camouflage in Fritillaria, he did not spot any anim

37、als feeding on the plants. So Niu, his colleague Hang Sun and sensoiy ecologist Martin Stevens of the University of Exeter in England decided to see if humans might be driving the evolution of the plants camouflage.During their research, local herbalists noted the total weight of the bulbs harvested

38、 each year from 2014 to 2019 at seven study sites. These records indicated contemporary harvesting pressure on the plants. In the meantime, the researchers assessed the ease of harvesting by recording how long it took to dig up bulbs at six of those sites. On some slopes, bulbs are easily dug up, bu

39、t in others they can be buried under rocks. Both measures have revealed a striking pattern: The more harvested a site is, the better the color of a plant matches its background.However, camouflage can present some challenges. Pollinators （花粉传播者）might have a harder time finding the camouflaged plants

40、, and the gray and brown coloration couldimpair photosynthetic （光合）activity. Still, these Fritillaria show how adaptable the plants can be. The plants can better change their appearance than we might have expected.12. What does the first paragraph mainly talk about?A. The living environment of Friti

41、llaria.B. The appearance of Fritillaria.C. The reasons for picking Fritillaria.D. The history of traditional Chinese medicine.13. What do the researchers find during their research?A. Fritillaria usually exist under rocks.B. Animals drive Fritillaria to hide themselves better.C. Frequent human activ

42、ities make it easier to spot Fritillaria.D. Fritillaria camouflage themselves better where harvested more often.14. Which of the following statements is true according to the last paragraph?A. All plants are poor at camouflaging.B Fritillaria are constantly changing how they look.C. Camouflage can b

43、ring some side-effects to Fritillaria.D. Fritillaria camouflaged to be gray which can promote growth.15 . Whafs the main idea of this passage?A. The demand for the Fritillaria is intense.B , Fritillaria are remarkably difficult to find.C. Camouflage can present some challenges to the Fritillaria.D.

44、Human activities drive the evolution of the Fritillaria camouflage.二、七选五September 23 marks the start of a new season. 16 In Great Britain, the third season of the year usually has only one name: autumn. But if you travel across the Atlantic, youll find that people use both fall and autumn interchang

45、eably when referring to this time of year, making it the only season in the English language with two widely accepted names.17According to D, fall isnt a modem name that followed the more traditionalautumn. The two terms are actually first recorded within a few hundred years, with the term试卷第6页，共10页

46、fall being used even a bit earlier.18 The word is of Germanic origin and meant “picking or “collecting，a nod to the act of gathering and preserving crops in the field before winter. In the 1500s, English speakers began referring to the season separating the hot and cold months as either the fall of

47、the leaf or the spring of the leaf, or fall and spring for short. 19 By the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word “automne“ and the Latin “autumnus”, had overtaken fall as the standard British term for the third season.Around the same time England adopted autumn, the first-ever British Amer

48、ican colonists （殖民者）were voyaging to North America. 20 While the former fell out of fashion overseas, it established itself in the local vocabulary by the time America won its independence. Today, using both words to describe the season before winter is still a unique American behavior.A. With them they brought the words fall and autumn.B. The Americans prefer using fall to using autumn.C. However, what exactly you should call that season depends on where you are.D. But for some