2023银川二中高二上学期期中考试英语试题含答案听力

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银川二中2022-2023学年第一学期高二年级期中考试

英  语  试  题

命题：魏晓荣 陈冲       审核：段富宏

注意事项：

1. 本试卷共两卷，满分150分。考试时间为120分钟。
2. 答案写在答题卡上的指定位置。考试结束后，交回答题卡。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共90分）

第一部分 听力（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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. What’s the weather like now?

A. Snowy. B. Sunny. C. Windy.

2. What does the woman plan to do tonight?

A. See a French singer. B. Meet a friend. C. Get some extra sleep.

3. Why didn’t the woman go to Yunnan with her boyfriend?

A. She couldn’t get time off work. B. She went to Germany.    

C. She will go there with someone else.

4. What is the man’s hobby?

A.Taking photos. B. Collecting stamps. C. Feeding fish.

5. Where is the man?

A. In a restaurant. B. In a hotel. C. At his home.

第二节 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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至7题。

6. What are the speakers doing?

A. Looking for someone. B. Playing a game. C. Drawing pictures.

7. What does Mike look like?

A. He has brown eyes. B. He has a beard. C. His hair is curly.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What do we know about War Horse?

A. It’s a sad movie. B. It doesn’t win any awards. C. It’s an action movie.

9. Why does the man enjoy action movies?

A. He is an action star. B. They are very exciting. C. They have a great story.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does the woman think of her city?

A. It’s exciting. B. It’s small. C. It’s noisy.

11. What is true about the city center?

A. There is a famous statue there. B. Life is interesting there.       C. It’s not crowded at all.

12. What’s the weather like in the city?

A. It’s hot most of the time.  B. It’s quite wet.    

C. Temperatures are too high in summer.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What will the man do this summer?

A. Buy a suit for his friend. B. Go to a wedding.       C. Go to China.

14. According to the woman，how much are the suits at H&M?

A. About 200 yuan.      B. Over 500 yuan.      C. About 5000 yuan.

15. Why does the woman want to get a dress made in China?

A. She wants a Chinese style.  B. It’s very popular nowadays in China.     

C. It’s inexpensive.

16. What else will the woman probably buy this week?

A. Shoes.      B. A scarf.      C. Silk.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How long has the speaker been getting headaches?

A. For about ten days. B. Only since yesterday.  C. For the past ten years. 

18. What did the speaker do about his headache yesterday?

A. He took some medicine.       B. He asked his neighbor to come over.     

C. He did nothing about it.

19. How did the speaker’s neighbor help him?

A. He sent for a doctor. B. He gave the speaker some painkillers.

C. He gave the speaker a special kind of treatment.

20. What does the speaker mean in the end?

A. His headache was already cured.                  B. The pain almost killed him.    

C. The pain had gone by itself.

二、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分） 

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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

A famous magazine, Amusement Today, does a survey among park lovers every year both in the US and overseas, based on which, “Top 5 List of the Best Amusement Parks in the World” has come out as follows:

Disneyland, California

Disneyland is a theme park in Anaheim, California, the US. More than 515 million guests have traveled to this American landmark from around the world since the park first opened to guests on July 17, 1955. The park consists of many world-famous sections, such as Main Street, Adventure land, New Orleans Square, and so on.

Magic Kingdom, Disney World, Florida

Magic Kingdom is a theme park within the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando opened on October 1, 1971. It is the most famous theme park in Florida. The park’s design and attractions don’t make much difference from Disneyland Park in Anaheim.

EPCOT, Disney World, Florida

EPCOT is the second theme park built at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. The park opened on October 1, 1982, and was named EPCOT Center from 1982 to 1993. It was the largest Disney theme park in the world until 1998, when Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened.

Disney­MGM Studios, Florida

MGM’s streets are the home for some great movie­themed attractions with a history of less than 30 years. With the addition of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and the Rock and Roller Coaster, the park is now home to Disney World’s most thrilling rides.

Universal Studios, Florida

Go behind the scenes, beyond the screen and jump right into the action of your favorite movies at Universal Studios, the number one movie and TV theme park in the world.

21. Which of the following theme parks have similar attractions?

A. Disneyland & Universal Studios.            B. Disneyland & Magic Kingdom.

C. EPCOT & Disney­MGM Studios.             D. Magic Kingdom & Universal Studios.

22. Which park has the longest history?

A. Disneyland, California.                    B. Magic Kingdom, Disney World, Florida.

C. EPCOT, Disney World, Florida.             D. Disney­MGM Studios, Florida.

23. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To attract tourists to these theme parks.       B. To increase the sales of Amusement Today.

C. To introduce world’s best amusement parks.  D. To compare attractions in different theme parks.

B

Saisri Akondi was visiting a friend in Manipal just before the lockdown. Trapped by the travel ban, the researcher found herself frustrated at not being able to help during a national emergency. Back home, her colleagues at the National Chemical Laboratory worked on creative methods to deal with the pandemic（流行病）. She wanted to contribute in her own way. Soon, she spotted the opportunity.

On the evening of 11 May, she came across 50 migrants being questioned by the police. Akondi learned that they were railway construction workers, abandoned（抛弃）by their employer after the lockdown and were making their way to Mahabubabad, 680 kilometers away. “I immediately thought of helping them, noticing there were 10 children and a lady to give birth to a baby among them,” recalled Akondi.

Her first task was to register the group on a government entrance to help them get movement passes within the state. Then, she arranged for food and convinced the railway administrations to let the migrants stay at the Udupi station until their transport was arranged. Akondi next turned her attention to the women, arranging for vitamins for her. She continued to make frequent posts to the social media handles of the Telangana chief minister’s office, seeking attention and help. There was no response for days, but she did not give up. Her continuous efforts paid off. The Telangana government paid for the migrants’ travel back. On 19 May, the happy migrants were saying a tearful goodbye to Akondi and on 20 May, they reached their homes.

Akondi continued to help other stranded migrants reach their homes. Even as the world came to a standstill, this large-hearted woman became the ant that moved mountains.

24. What were the 50 migrants doing when Akondi first met them?

1. Buying tickets.                    B. Doing construction work.

C. Being questioned by the police.       D. Staying at a train station.

25. Which of the following can best describe Akondi?

1. Kind and creative.
2. Brave and knowledgeable.
3. Generous and wise.
4. Helpful and considerate.

26. What does the underlined word “stranded” in the last paragraph mean?

1. Trapped       B. Lost.       C. Infected.       D. Fined.

27. What is the text mainly about?

1. Akondi was allowed to work for the travel ban.
2. Akondi contributed in a different way during the lockdown.
3. Construction workers suffered a lot during the lockdown.
4. Some construction workers were abandoned by their employer.

C

Endless queues and long waits at the ticket inspection desks at China’s major train stations were the characteristic of the Spring Festival travel rush before 2018. Every year, as the country’s biggest national holiday unfolded, a huge flow of travelers would leave staff at the check-in desks facing a dilemma（进退两难的境地）.

But with the application of artificial intelligence(AI) in dozens of train stations in 2018, including a facial recognition system which is able to process passenger identification within five seconds and therefore speed up the waiting process, busy scenes started to become something of the past.

When a passenger approaches the camera inside the facial recognition system at the station, it scans his face and then quickly compares it with the photograph shown on his identification card in real time. If the information matches, the gates will open and allow the passenger to go through.

Such use of facial recognition technology is in line with discussions heard at the recent two sessions meeting, a key annual political event, which focused on the widespread application of a security network named Tianwang (“Sky Net” in English) currently being used by China’s public security department.

The network, according to reports by the People’s Daily, is able to recognize the facial features of anyone in the world and match them on the spot with photographs on a database of criminal（犯罪的）suspects. In fact, it can analyze photographic identity so quickly that it can scan every single Chinese face on the planet in just one second, and it would only take two seconds to scan every face in the world, with an accuracy（精确）rate of up to 99.8 percent.

Those are just two examples that stress the development of Chinese visual AI technology, which industry insiders（内部人员）predict could lead to powerful growth in the technology field all over the world this year.

28. What’s the function of the first paragraph?

A. To explain the dilemma of the staff.               B. To describe the Spring Festival.

C. To inform readers of the development of China.  D. To introduce the following topic of the passage.

29. What’s the solution to the Spring Festival travel rush?

A. Opening more barrier gates.                  B. Using artificial intelligence.

C. Limiting the number of passengers.            D. Increasing more staff at the check-in desks.

30. What can we know about facial recognition technology?

1. Its accuracy rate is very high.   
2. Its application is useless to policemen.
3. Its operating speed is not yet high enough.
4. Its application leads to a heated discussion.

31. What’s the author’s attitude towards Chinese visual AI technology?

 A. Depressed.       B. Doubtful.       C. Positive.       D. Indifferent.

                                       D

Some of the world’s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO ( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its importance, and its potential（潜力）as an unified voice across cultures.

Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to decrease and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible（易懂的）, and protect its history and culture.

“Jazz seems like it’s not really to Americans’ taste,” Moran tells National Public Radio’s reporter Neal Conan. “What I’m hoping to achieve is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and white anymore. It’s actually color, and it’s actually digital.”

Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. “The music can’t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,” says Moran.

Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller’s music for a dance party, “Just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,” says Moran. “For me, it’s the recontextualization（语境重构）. In music, where does the emotion lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any deep understanding on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract（抽象的）as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,” says Moran, “so I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to develop.”

32. Why did UNESCO set April 30 as International Jazz Day?

A. To protect cultural variety.              B. To remember the birth of jazz.

C. To recognize the value of jazz.           D. To encourage people to study music.

33. What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Jazz becoming more accessible.              B. The jazz audience becoming larger.

C. The production of jazz growing faster.     D. Jazz being less popular with the young.

34. What can we infer about Moran’s opinion on jazz?

A. It should keep up with the times.          B. It will disappear gradually.

C. It remains black and white.               D. It changes every 50 years.

35. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. The Rise and Fall of Jazz.               B. Exploring the Future of Jazz.

C. Celebrating the Jazz Day.                D.  The Story of a Jazz Musician.

第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

  根据短文内容，从短文中的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Ways to get your laughter back

Through all my school years, laughter was part of my life. My best friend and I came up with a name for the “really good” laughs. We called them Belly Rolls. That may sound silly, but it is the truth. However, after I realized I had “lost” my laughter, the first thing I thought of was how silly I was going to look and sound.  36 . This is how you do it.

 37. It will be a forced laugh. I know it sounds silly, but trust me, if you can’t laugh by yourself and be comfortable, it’s even harder to laugh in a social situation where you think people are judging you.

Watch only funny programs on TV and at the movies. Be very selective of what you watch.  38 . If you cannot give up those programs absolutely, then watch only half an hour of them a day. Give yourself a fighting chance and make it a point to bring laughter into your life.

Invite your friends and family to make it funny! Don’t wait too long before you start laughing socially. Ask someone close to you to point out the fun in life. Maybe they can promise to tell a joke to you every day or sit with you during a half-hour situation comedy.  39 .

While driving, go over your day and remember everything funny.  40 . Not only will this help you laugh more, but it will keep you feeling happy. If you are spending all your time remembering the good times you had for the day, it doesn’t leave much time to think over negative things!

1. Look in a mirror and laugh.
2. Use this time in a positive way.
3. Laughter is so much more fun when you’re with someone else.
4. In our busy world, laughter seems to have been lost along the way.
5. One easy way to find laughter is to go to funny movies or watch them on TV.
6. If you haven’t truly laughed for a long time, you have to Fake It until you Make It.
7. If you’re a heavy watcher of news programs and political stations, it’s hard to feel happy.

三、完形填空 （共20小题;每小题1.5分, 满分30分）

阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C和D 四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Do you think you have what it takes to be a successful scientist? A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full  41  of the facts he observes. He doesn’t accept ideas which are not   42  on obvious facts, and therefore  43  to accept authority（权威）as the only reason for the truth. He always checks ideas  44  and makes experiments to prove them.

The rise of modern science may be considered to  45  as far back as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who lived between the years 1214 and 1293. He was probably the first in the Middle Ages to  46  that we should learn science by  47  and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself  48  many important truths.

Galileo (1564-1642), however, who lived more than 300 years later, was the greatest of several great men in Italy, France, Germany, and England,  49  began to show how many important  50    could be discovered by observation by degrees. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more  51  towards the earth than small ones,  52  Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the    53  of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let two  54  stones fall and proved Aristotle was wrong. It is Galileo’s  55  of going direct to nature, and proving our  56  and theories by experiment, that has    57  all the discoveries of modern science.

What  58  those people good scientists? From the example of Galileo, we know clearly that    59  scientists are those whose observations have  60  better results.

41. A. speed B. sense C. use D. trust
42. A. relied B. centered C. insisted D. based
43. A. intends B. desires C. rejects D. regrets
44. A. carefully B. casually  C. quickly D. privately
45. A. keep B. date C. look D. come
46. A. command B. suspect C. conclude D. suggest
47. A. informing B. reminding C. observing D. comparing
48. A. discovered B. brought C. handled D. announced
49. A. when B. who C. that D. where
50. A. subjects B. problems C. investigations D. truths
51. A. rapidly B. slowly C. lightly D. heavily
52. A. although B. when C. because D. if
53. A. place B. ceiling C. foot D. top
54. A. big B. unequal  C. similar D. small
55. A. spirit B. skill C. theory D. wish
56. A. plans B. opinions C. world D. ability
57. A. turned to B. led to C. set up D. put forward
58. A. makes B. prevents C. considers D. promises
59. A. enthusiastic B. cautious C. successful D. famous 
60. A. foreseen B. refused C. challenged D. produced

第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，共60分）

注意：请将答案写在答题卡上。写在试卷上无效。

第一部分：语言知识运用（共两节; 满分25分）

第一节  单词拼写（每小题1分, 满分10分）

注意：按照汉语或首字母提示填空，一空一词，请在答题卡上写出完整的单词

61. I’d appreciate it if you could reply to me at your earliest ________（方便）.
62. To his d________（高兴）, he has gained admission to his dreaming college.
63. ________（暴露）to strong sunlight directly, your skin is likely to get sunburnt.
64. In the past decades, China has made many ________（进步）in space exploration.
65. The US alone is to ________（谴责）for its severe domestic problems and divisions.
66. With joint efforts, the researchers succeeded in a________（完成）the task on schedule .
67. In the fair, ________（各种各样的）paper-cuttings are on display for you to choose from.
68. Though defeated many times, he still takes an ________（乐观的）attitude towards the life.
69. He was ________（不断地）disturbing me when I was doing the experiment，making me very angry.
70. Some traditional Chinese customs should be well p________（保存）and handed down generation  after generation.

第二节 语法填空（每小题1.5分, 满分15分）

With the International Conference on Food Loss and Waste closed on Saturday in Jinan, Shandong Province, the country has sent a signal to  71  world that China will deal with issues concerning food security by reducing loss and waste in agriculture. With the theme of reducing food loss and food waste and promoting  72  (globe) food security, the three-day event  73  (hold) both online and offline attracted more than 300 participants.

The current world grain production is about 2.8 billion tons a year. Therefore, the loss of only one percentage is equal to the loss of 28 million tons of food,  74  can feed about 70 million people.

In recent years, China  75  (make) great progress in controlling loss and waste in food, with main efforts including upgrading facilities and  76  (equip). In Shandong Province, China’s major grain producer, the Sinograin (中粮集团) grain storage site is equipped with 4,500 high-definition cameras and 280,000 temperature sensors  77  (ensure) that the stock (储备) is in the best condition. Data shows that during China’s 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020) , about 13 million tons of food had been saved  78  (year) after production.

We can not end hunger  79  we do not deal with the high levels of food loss and waste. Cooperation and innovations (创新) in business models, technologies and digital solutions could all contribute  80  reducing food loss and waste.

第二部分： 写作（共两节; 满分35分）

第一节 单句改错（每小题1分, 满分10分）

请修改以下句子，每句只有一处语言错误。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（/\），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

Last Thursday afternoon, I attended for a special online class given by the Shenzhou-13 crew members from Tiangong Space Station.

The amazing class started at 3: 40 but lasted about 45 minutes. At the beginning of the class, under the help of the other two workmates, Wang Yaping showed us their living and working areas. He is the first female astronaut enter China’s space station. To my astonished, they have a fully functional kitchen. After the “house tour”, the crew worked together to conduct some experiments linking to cells and liquids in the weightless environment. They also explained the reason that astronauts couldn’t walk as they use to do on Earth.

How fun it was!

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）

假设你是晨光中学高二（1）班的班长李华，得知美国学生Chris作为交换生，即将到你班学习。请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1. 表示欢迎；
2. 介绍本地生活相关信息（如天气、饮食等）以及本班情况；
3. 表达你的期望。

注意：词数在100左右，提示词不计入总词数。

Dear Chris,

    I’m Li Hua, monitor of Class one, Senior Two.___________________________________________

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                                                                           Yours,

                                                                           Li Hua