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1、江岸区2023-2024学年度第二学期期末质量检测高二 英语试题(考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分) 注意事项：1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用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，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) 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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

2、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? A. 19. 15. B. 9. 18. C. 9. 15. 答案是 C。1. What did the woman do yesterday? A. She played football. B. She watched a game. C. She worked in the lab. 2. Where is Johns father? A. In the dining room. B. In t

3、he living room. C. In the garden. 3. What does the woman say about the course? A. It is tough, B. It is bad. C. It is easy. 4. When will the man leave for the airport? A. At 2: 30 pm. B. At 4: 30 pm C. At 6: 30 pm. 5. How will the speakers go to the exhibition? A. By bicycle, B. By subway. C. By car

4、. 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，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 are the speakers mainly talking about? A. An activity holiday. B. Their hobbies. C. The teamwork spirit. 7. What did

5、the woman get a prize for? A. Climbing. B. Walking. C. Sailing. 听第 7段材料，回答第 8 至 10题。8. What does the woman think of the book? A. It is boring. B. It is stimulating. C. It is serious. 9. Who wrote the book? A. Lori Gottlieb. B. Aaron Esterson. C. Erik Erikson. 10. What will the man probably do next?

6、A. Read the book. B. Recommend the book. C. Find someone to consult. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11. What is the woman doing in Sydney? A. Traveling. B. Studying. C. Teaching. 12. What is purpose of the course? A. To evaluate students? reading difficulty. B. To enhance teachers reading techniques. C. To

7、improve teachers ability to teach reading. 13. Why does the woman choose the course? A. It is multi-task. B. It is cost-effective. C. It is time-consuming. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。14. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Trainer and trainee. B. Boss and advisor, C. Host and gues

8、t. 15. Why does the woman mention losing weight? A. To show how to achieve a goal. B. To stress the importance of healthy food. C. To express her wish to improve her health. 16. What can friends do to help in goal-setting? A. Find problems. B. Tell the truth. C. Give support. 17. What makes most peo

9、ple do badly at reaching goals? A. Failing to keep focused. B. Having many missions. C. Losing their way. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18. What made Chai Lin get his first bike? A. His own efforts. B. His familys help. C. His successful business. 19. What is the museum intended for? A. Education. B. Fame

10、. C. Recreation. 20. What does Chai Lin expect to do? A. Collect more antiques. B. Produce new brand bikes. C. Expand the exhibition area. 第二部分 阅读理解 (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 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A“The days that make us happy make us wise.”John MasefieldWhen I first

11、read this line by Englands Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the opposite was true. But his calm assurance was arresting. I could not forget it. Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here was a profoun

12、d observation. The wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception, not fogged by anxiety nor dimmed by despair and boredom, and without the blind spots caused by fear. Active happiness-not more satisfaction or contentmentoften comes suddenly, like an April shower or the unfolding of a

13、 bud. Then you discover what kind of wisdom has accompanied it. The grass is greener; bird songs are sweeter; the shortcomings of your friends are more understandable and more forgivable. Happiness is like a pair of, eyeglasses correcting your spiritual vision. Nor are the insights of happiness limi

14、ted to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional sadness, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles. The long vista (展望) is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you-people, thoughts, emotions, pressuresar

15、e now. fitted into the larger scene. Everything assumes a fairer proportion. And here is the beginning of wisdom. 21. What was the authors initial reaction to the line in the 1st paragraph? A. Deep agreement B. CasualnessC. Shock D. Complete confusion22. What does the author believe happiness brings

16、 in terms of wisdom? A. A reduction in fear and anxietyB. Pessimistic expectations for the futureC. Discontent and complaints about lifeD. An unclear understanding of the surrounding world23. When the author mentions “The wall crumbles,” what does he refer to? A. A physical obstacle disappearsB. Emo

17、tional distress and troubles fade awayC. Fears and worries about the future decreaseD. The pursuit of happiness becomes easierBI write this on a spring morning, in the van I have called home for two years now. From one small window, I have a view of joggers pounding the sunny path by the Oxford Cana

18、l, and the other looks onto the busy railway line along which trains travel from Southampton Docks to Birmingham. The woods where Ive parked my van have grown up between them. This ancient van, a vehicle designed for freedom and the open road, has proved a stable solution for surviving the current h

19、ousing crisis. I became a travel writer after my studies ended, committing to brief “residencies” with museums and artcentreswhere temporary accommodation is often provided in exchange for producing new work about a community. Over the years that followed, living and working on location in the polar

20、 regions or Scandinavia or the Alps, not settling down for very long, meant wherever I landed was always “home”. During the pandemic it was necessary to adopt a more permanent engagement with locality. Oxford had often drawn me back. Its a crossroads of reality and the imagination, the perfect city

21、for a writer. It takes a surprising amount of work to keep a tiny home in order: buying a used van online; ensuring the smooth running of a gas cooker and car batteries; fetching water and emptying the mobile toilet. I began to enjoy taking care of my immediate surroundings. Over the summer, I worke

22、d to turn waste-ground into a wild garden, replacing weeds with wild plants. I made friends with the self-sufficient boaters living nearby, always ready to share knowledge on the low-carbon simplicity of life without electricity. Ive learnt that comfort can be found away from the bright infrastructu

23、re of urban life: in watching the birds that nest in the tree and the foxes playing in the woods at dawn, in making a cup of coffee on a spring morning. My step away from conventional housing has been a necessary act of personal economy, but the benefits include taking nothing for granted, and unexp

24、ected delight. 24. What do the joggers and the railway line represent in the authors view? A. Two sources of inspiration for writing. B. Two obstacles to the authors daily life. C. Two places the author visits regularly. D. Two ways the author travels around. 25. What does “immediate surroundings” i

25、n Paragraph 6i refer to? A. a used van B. a gas cooker C. a wild garden D. a mobile toilet26. What does the author enjoy most about his living style? A. Driving his van around different places. B. Transforming the waste-ground into a garden. C. The opportunity to meet new friends. D. The sense of ac

26、complishment and self-reliance. 27. Which of the following is the main benefit of unconventional housing? A. Providing temporary shelter. B. Keeping a tiny home in order easily. C. Embracing delightful surprises. D. Allowing for mobility and flexibility. CNot all birds sing, but several thousand spe

27、cies do. They sing to defend their territory and croon (柔声唱) to impress potential mates. “Why birds sing is relatively well-answered,” says Iris Adam, a behavioral neuroscientist. However, the big question for her was why birds sing so much. “As soon as you sing, you reveal yourself,” Adam says. “Li

28、ke, where you are and where your territory is.” In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, Adam and her co-workers offer a new explanation for why birds take that risk. They may have to sing a lot every day to give their vocal (发声的) muscles the regular exercise they need to produ

29、ce top- quality songs. To figure out whether the muscles that produce birdsongs require daily exercise, Adam designed an experiment on zebra finches-the little Australian songbirds. She prevented them from singing for a week by keeping them in the dark cage almost around the clock. Light is what gal

30、vanizes the birds to sing, so she had to work to keep them from warbling (鸣叫). “The first two or three days, its quite easy,” she says. “But the longer the experiment goes, the more they are like, “I need to sing. “. At that point, shed tap the cage and tell them to stop singing. After a week, the b

31、irds singing muscles lost half their strength. But Adam wondered whether that impacted the quality of songs. When she played a males song before and after the seven days of darkness, she couldnt hear a difference. But when Adam played it to a group of female birds, six out of nine preferred the song

32、 that came from a male whod been using his singing muscles daily. Adams conclusion shows that “songbirds need to exercise their vocal muscles to produce top-performance songs. If they dont sing, they lose performance, and their songs get less attractive to females.” This may help explain songbirds c

33、ontinuous singing. Its a good rule to live by, whether youre a bird or a human-practice makes perfect, at least when it comes to singing ones heart out. 28. According to Iris Adam, birds sing so much to _.A. warn other birds of risks B. produce more songsC. perform perfectly in singing D. defend the

34、ir territory29. What does the underlined word “galvanizes” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. Prepares. B. Stimulates. C. Forbids. D. Frightens. 30. Why did Adam conduct an experiment on zebra finches? A. To understand their mating behavior. B. To study their singing patterns. C. To test the effects of darknes

35、s on their singing muscles. D. To analyze the quality of their songs. 31. What is the overall message of the passage? A. Singing is beneficial for those that do. B. Zebra finches are for studying singing patterns. C. Singing is a risk for birds, but they have to. D. Songbirds need to sing regularly

36、for attraction, DWe may weep for the dodo, but could and should we bring this lovely bird back from the dead? De-extinction is the science of restoring lost species and it has been in the news for decades. The story in modern times began in 1990 when Michael Crichton published his science fiction no

37、vel Jurassic Park, in which he imagined a world where scientists were able to bring dinosaurs back to life. Crichton imagined that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology could be a way to amplify (放大) tiny quantities of dinosaur DNA and thus build a living embryo. Sadly, biologists soon realized

38、 that DNA in fact breaks down super-fast; even after 10o years, DNA from museum skins of dodos was decayed (腐烂) beyond repair. They could be sequenced (测 定序列) using massive computational power, but then only with considerable uncertainty. And even if you capture a DNA sequence, theres still the prob

39、lem of how you get living cells to read that sequence and express proteins that make the dinosaur or the dodo. But why would anyone want to see mammoths, or something like them, roaming (漫游) present-day Siberia? Well, they were undoubtedly amazing beasts. As well as hunting them, our distant ancesto

40、rs painted their likenesses in caves across Europe. Fascinating as they may be, theres some ecological justification for the project too. It was this diversity of land surface, broken up by heavy limbs and randomly fertilized by faeces (排泄物), that supported so much flora (植物群) . Without the mammoths

41、, that diversity disappeared. Return them and landscapes would once again be with a variety of species, including flowers and bushes. True, its not de-extinction in the sense of bringing a long-dead species back to life. Instead its more like making a “dodo” by engineering a modern pigeon, its close

42、st relative, to become huge and flightless. The result would be a big, fatty pigeon that, whether it looked like a dodo or not, would probably fulfill some of its ecological roles. As a paleontologist, I would of course love to see living dinosaurs, mammoths and dodos. In some ways, though, I am rel

43、ieved that the optimistic claims for cloning and genetic technologies have not been borne out. The slowdown gives us time to consider the outcomesand hopefully avoid some of Michael Crichtons more fevered imaginings. 32. What is paragraph 2 of the text mainly about? A. A science fiction review. B. T

44、he development of DNA. C. An inspired guess of de-extinction. D. The application of PCR technology. 33. Why are people interested in cloning extinct species? A. They expect to seek hunt fun. B. They lack sources of modern art. C. They want to see biodiversity. D. They need them for research. 34. Wha

45、t does the slowdown in cloning and genetic technologies allow the author to do? A. Witness the birth of cloned dinosaurs. B. Avoid Michael Crichtons imaginings, C. Stop the progress of genetic engineering. D. Consider the potential outcomes of these technologies. 35. Whats the authors attitude towar

46、d cloning extinct species? A. Cautious. B. Unclear. C. Dismissive. D. Approving. 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处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。There are several ups and downs in everyones life. No matter how strong an individual is, there is usually a time when he finds the need of so

47、meone encouraging him to meet the challenges. 36 That may make him feel the power and the energy to deal with all sorts of negativity in life. The power of motivation is beyond explanation. However, the person, who benefits from it, understands its importance instantly he hears it. 37 The fact is th

48、at there exists the gap between the speech of an expert and that of the average. And probably the reason is the experience of a life coach in dealing with the life of countless people on the Earth in his entire career. 38 Or rather, whatever he says or advises is not only the output of the words on the page, but also what