湖北省新高考联考协作体2024学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题（含解析）.docx

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1、2024年湖北省新高考联考协作体高二春季期中考试高二英语试卷注意事项：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。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，用签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。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. 【此处可播放相关音频

2、，请去附件查看】What does the man ask the woman to do?A. Join a tennis team.B. To try to win an awardC. Have more tennis practice.2. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】Why is the man going to Chicago?A. To visit a friend.B. To persuade Mr. Black.C. To take a vacation.3. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】How will the man help the woman?A. H

3、ell get a map for herB. Hell drive her to New York.C. Hell take her to the bookstore.4. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】What will the weather be like tomorrow?A. Dry and cloudy.B. Cool and rainyC. Warm and sunny.5. 【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】Where are the speakers?A. In an office.B. In a supermarket.C. In a restaurant第二节(

4、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，从中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，听每段对话成独白前，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。听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】6. What will the woman do next week?A. Take exams.B. Go to HarvardC. Relax in the park7. What does the man want to study?A. Math.B. Litera

5、ture.C. Business听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】8. Why is the man calling the woman?A. To discuss a business project.B. To inform her of a meeting.C. To ask her for help.9. How will the woman go to the mans house?A. By carB. By bus.C. By subway听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】10. What does the ma

6、n want to know?A. Where Shirley has gone.B. If the woman has made a reservation.C. How many people will turn up tonight.11. What does the woman advise the man to do?A. Check with Shirley.B. Come to her office after lunch.C. Book a table at a nearby restaurant.12. What is Shirley most likely doing no

7、w?A. Having lunch.B. Sending a mail.C. Making a telephone call.听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】13. What are the speakers talking about?A. A narrow escape.B. A sad story.C. A strange dream.14. How did the woman feel when she saw the cloud?A. Curious.B. Excited.C. Frightened.15. How did the woman an

8、d Dave react to the coming cloud?A. They climbed up trees.B. They ran back to the tent.C. They covered themselves with dirt.16. What did the woman think of falling into a hole?A. Exciting.B. Dangerous.C. Lucky.听下面一段独白，回答以下小题【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】17. How long do most American university students study fo

9、r a bachelors degree?A. For at least four years.B. For less than four yearsC. For less than three years18. What do American graduate students expect from their future jobs?A. Promotion.B. Challenges.C. Fun and high salaries.19. What is the graduate students life like in America?A. InterestingB. Diff

10、icult.C. Boring.20. What do we know about most American graduate students?A. They give up studying before getting degrees.B. They are willing to spend time on their studiesC. They dont have to spend much on their school fees.第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。AAre you seeking wil

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17、pport you every step of the way!Contact:infovolunteerhq.org+64-6-758-7949 /International21 What do we know about IVHQ?A. It was founded over two decades ago.B. It aims to build a wildlife conservation organizationC. It can provide high-quality volunteer projects.D. It has more volunteer projects at

18、home than it does abroad22. Which is a suitable destination for participants wanting to help little pet animals?A. Portugal.B. South America.C. Sri Lanka.D. North America.23. What is a requirement for the program?A. Paying a fee for registration.B. Having some related experience.C Working for at lea

19、st 24 weeks.D. Applying for a project one week in advance.BSome people believe that a career change at 50 is almost impossible because no one wants to invest in someone with such limited working life left. However, fortunately Ive achieved a career change unexpectedly. The key is that you should try

20、 your best to grasp the opportunity.What is the secret to achieving my later-life career change? It is the right attitude that works. For 15years, I had the same job under various managers. I enjoyed the work itself, but grew tired of the constant monitoring and management of the company. The inflex

21、ibility of the work affected my work-life balance and my opportunity to be promoted seemed out of reach. With my 52nd birthday around the corner, I came to realize that I would have to make a career change, or I would never escape the harmful work.Two months later, my wife spotted an occupation adve

22、rtised online and encouraged me to have a try. So, I applied. Lacking experience in that particular role, I was pessimistic. However, I was surprised to be offered an online interview. Luckily the interview went well overall, and they told me Id hear from them next week if I passed the interview. So

23、 when three weeks passed with no word, you can imagine how frustrated I felt. I carried on looking for other chances, but my search was interrupted one afternoon when the companys HR team phoned and invited me to come in for a second interview! I was shocked, and at this point I began to feel anxiou

24、s. Then my wife suggested that I should try to show my true self in the interview as I had nothing to lose. I got her point and tried to calm myself. I answered their questions as best I could, and eventually the boss offered me the job!Its proved that companies do invest in people over 50. Ive real

25、ized midlife career changes are more common than I first thought. I hope that anyone attempting a midlife career change can take the plunge! With the right attitude, you can achieve almost anything and get what you want if you have a try.24. Why did the author want to leave his original company?A. B

26、ecause of the low salary.B. Because of the boredom of doing the same workC. Because of its lack of challenging assignments.D. Because of its frequent monitoring and annoying management.25. What was the authors wifes attitude towards his career change?A. Opposed.B. Supportive.C. Concerned.D. Indiffer

27、ent.26. What does the underlined phrase “take the plunge” in the last paragraph meanA. Try something bravely.B. Give a helping hand.C. Think twice.D. Take the lead in doing something.27. What does the author try to tell us through the text?A. Its necessary to plan your careerB. One should never be l

28、imited by his or her age.C. Its important to have a work-life balance.D. One should learn to accept unexpected changes in life.CIn todays youth culture, it seems as if teens are permanently glued to their cellphones, constantly receiving beeping, buzzing and blinking social media notifications (通知).

29、 We often hear of the harm of social media to teens and young people, but our latest research on young girls and boys has revealed that social media is not always negative.In some cases, we found that social media can positively influence their health and well-being, by helping them learn about heal

30、thy eating or new workouts to try. Besides, social media provides space for young people to talk to each other about issues of health.For our study, conducted by researchers from the University of Birmingham and Orebro University, we invited over 1,300 young girls and boys, aged 13-18, from ten UK s

31、chools. We were interested in better understanding how young people use social media, and how they feel it impacts their health and well-being. To do this, we selected 84 participants from the main sample and had them take part in small group interviews.The results showed that social media often had

32、 a positive influence on young peoples motivation for being physically active and on their ability to make conscious diet choices. Social media also allowed them to access the information they found inspirational, and learn about different apps they could use to be physically active or monitor their

33、 progress. They reported that likes, comments, and views on their social media posts also helped them stay motivated to exercise.Encouragingly, the young people we spoke to were also highly discerning users of social media. They thought carefully about the content they were engaging with online. For

34、 instance, the teenagers reported that they would often ignore content that had the potential to lead to harm, such as images or videos that presented unrealistic workouts or expectations for their bodies.While the risks should certainly not be overlooked, our findings show that social media can hav

35、e a positive effect on young peoples health and well-being. A benefit of social media is that it provides real-time, low-cost information, and support from their peers. Making young people use social media safely, critically and responsibly may thus help them continue to lead a healthy life.28. What

36、 is the main finding of the latest research mentioned in the text?A. Young people make better use of social media.B. Teenagers use social media more than expected.C. Social media proves to be of great benefit to young people.D. New evidence adds to the harm of social media29. How did the researchers

37、 carry out their study?A. They made thorough analyses at two universities.B. They collected data from the database of ten UK schools.C. They referred to the findings of several previous studies.D. They conducted group interviews with young girls and boys.30. The underlined part “discerning users” in

38、 Paragraph 5 probably refers to the young people who A. have great freedomB. enjoy special privilegesC. show good judgmentD. have an influence on others31. What is the authors advice for young social media users?A. Making full use of their online timeB. Using social media in a smart wayC. Taking ful

39、l responsibility for their health.D. Keeping informed of low-cost information.DIn many peoples eyes, artist Mark Rothkos enormous paintings are nothing more than masses of color. Yet, a painting can be worth nearly $100 million. Besides, Pablo Picassos twisted faces attract some viewers but terrify

40、others.Why does the phenomenon happen? The answer may lie in our brain networks. Researchers have now developed an algorithm(算法) that can predict art preference by analyzing how a persons brain breaks down visual information and decides whether a painting is “good”. The findings show for the first t

41、ime how basic features of a painting combine with human judgment to give art value in our minds.Most people, including researchers, consider art preference to be various, says Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist(神经学家) at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the study. In some cases, pe

42、rsonal preference is rooted in biology. For instance, sugary foods help us survive. and people tend to share similar standards of beauty when it comes to human faces and landscapes. However, when it comes to art, we seem to care about and value relatively arbitrary(任意的) things, according to Chatterj

43、ee.To figure out how the brain forms value judgments about art, neuroscientist Kiyohito ligaya and his colleagues first asked more than 1,300 volunteers on the website Amazon Mechanical Turk to rate a selection of 825 paintings from four Western types including impressionism, cubism, abstract art an

44、d color field painting. Volunteers were all over the age of 18, but researchers didnt give exact information about their familiarity with art or their ethnic (种族的) or national origin.The researchers revealed that paintings preferred by the same groups of people tended to share certain visual charact

45、eristics. These characteristics all fell into two categories: “Low-level” characteristics, like contrast and color, were intrinsic (固有的) to an image; “High-level” characteristics, like the emotion a painting brought about, required human understanding. Once the method was trained, it could analyze t

46、hese characteristics in new paintings and accurately predict which works a person would like.32. What do the cases in Paragraph I mainly indicate?A. The value of different works of art.B. The characteristics of different artists.C. The importance of facial appearances.D. The differences in peoples a

47、ppreciation of beauty.33. Which of the following ideas may Anjan Chatterjee support?A. Peoples preference is mainly rooted in biology.B. People usually share common feelings towards scenery.C. Researchers art preference is different from others.D. Art works have fewer arbitrary things to value34. Wh

48、ich of the following factors was taken into account during the study?A. The identity of the participants.B. The background of the paintings.C. The wide range of paintings.D. The national origin of the participants.35. Whats the last paragraph mainly about?A. The findings of the study.B. The researchers different viewpoints.C. The process of the study.D. The researchers prediction for related research.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