2022-2023学年甘肃省兰州市高二上学期期末模拟测试英语试题Word版含答案

兰州市2022-2023学年高二上学期期末模拟测试

英 语           2022.12

注意事项：

1. 本试卷包含选择题和非选择题两部分．考生答题全部答在答题卡上，答在本试卷上无效．本次考试时间为90分钟，满分值为120分．

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第一部分阅读理解（共两节，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、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

A

We all need inspiration. Dealing with neck to neck competition in the modern era, sometimes we get tired of trying and want to give up. But movies make us look inside ourselves and, often, can be used as inspiration themselves. So, without further ado(废话), here are our Top 3 Motivational Movies for students:

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Robin Williams is on top form as the iconoclastic(打破旧习的) John Keating, the unconventional English teacher who uses his love of poetry and classic literature to break down barriers at the oppressive Welton Academy. Keating inspires his students to “seize the day” rather than just wasting hours, challenge the school’s strict rules, and truly be themselves.

The film is packed with emotionally-charged, touching scenes; but the one that won’t fail to make the hairs on your arm stand up is this one where Keating’s students demonstrate what he means to them – “Oh Captain, My Captain…”

Forrest Gump (1994)

This classic movie starring Tom Hanks is very motivating. It’s about a man who has low IQ but manages to be part of many important moments in modern history, able to achieve a lot, and even given a Medal of Honor for his bravery. Gump inspires a popular dance for Elvis Presley and even plays ping pong in China. No student should miss out on this movie. Nothing is impossible if you have the will to do it…and a box of chocolates.

The Pursuit of Happiness (2006)

The Pursuit of Happiness is the amazing real-life tale of Chris Gardner who, with the power of hard work and perseverance, takes himself from sleeping on the subway all the way to the millionaire founder of his own brokerage house.

Never missing an opportunity and studying hard, after a few years, Chris works his way up the career ladder from medical equipment salesman to financial hotshot. If there’s one story that demonstrates that you should never give up, no matter how bad things get, it’s Chris’.

1．Which of the following best explains “seize” underlined in paragraph 2?

A．make sure of B．make up for

C．make the most of D．make a mess of

2．What is Forrest Gump mainly about?

A．It tells a story about a man who plays ping pong in China and becomes famous.

B．It tells a story in which the main character with a low intelligence achieves a lot unexpectedly.

C．It is a classic motivational movie teaching how to gain a Medal of Honor.

D．It shows the evidence and arguments for the importance of high IQ.

3．Who is the original model of The Pursuit of Happiness?

A．Tom Hanks B．John Keating

C．Robin Williams D．Chris Gardner

B

If you live in the U.S., you’re probably used to throwing banana peel into the trash. But people in other countries, including India, have been taking advantages of their nutritional benefits for many years.

While the flesh of a banana is soft and sweet, the skin is thick, hard and slightly bitter. To eat the peel, you can fry, bake, or boil it for at least 10 minutes. Also, the riper bananas get, the thinner and sweeter banana peel will become. That’s because of a natural plant hormone(激素) called ethylene(乙烯) that fruits release as they ripen. Ethylene interacts with the sugars and fiber in the banana skin, changing complex sugars into simple sugars and breaking down pectin, a form of fiber in bananas that keeps them stiff. That’s why the older your banana is, the flimsier(不结实的) it feels.

The sweet flesh of a medium-sized banana contains great percentages of your daily recommended intake of various nutrients, such as:

·12% of your daily fiber, which helps with digestion and may help lower your risk of diabetes(糖尿病)

·17% of your vitamin C, which is important for your immune system as well as your growth

·20% of your vitamin B6, which aids the body’s ability to turn food into energy

·12% of your potassium, which helps with the development of cells, tissues, and organs throughout the body

If you eat the skin along with the flesh, you will get an even bigger increase in these same nutrients.

Eating the peel is not only good for your body but also better for the earth. The average American ate 11.4 pounds of bananas in 2014. Since a medium-sized banana weighs about 0.3 pounds, that equates to about 38 bananas per person, or about 12 billion for the whole of the U.S. And since most of us throw away the peel, that also means a lot of organic waste.

4．We can learn from the text that in the U.S. people                .

A．like eating bananas

B．waste a lot of food every year

C．don’t make good use of banana peel

D．know little about the value of the flesh of bananas

5．What’s the role of ethylene in bananas?

A．Helping bananas grow faster.

B．Making banana peel stay strong.

C．Keeping banana flesh from going bad.

D．Helping to soften and sweeten banana peel.

6．Which of the following helps humans digest?

A．Vitamin C． B．Potassium.

C．Vitamin B6. D．Fiber.

7．The last paragraph mainly shows that eating banana peel benefits our      .

A．diet B．economy

C．environment D．physical health

C

The kakapo is the world’s heaviest and only flightless parrot. Now, some scientists are using advanced technology to rescue the endangered kakapos. If successful, the techniques used may help save other bird species as well.

The few remaining kakapos live on three small islands, where their progress can be monitored through a smart device. Once found in large numbers across New Zealand, the cute bird, which can weigh up to 11 pounds (5 kilograms), is now heading to extinction. While cruel predators (捕食者) such as foxes, cats, and snakes are largely to blame, the kakapo’s strange habits of laying eggs don’t help either. For starters, the parrots, which can live up to 100 years, do not start laying eggs until the age of five.

Scientists have set up individual feeding stations for all the birds to keep track of how much they eat. Given the difficulties to increasing the population, it is not surprising that only 114 adult parrots remain. Though the number is low, it is a great improvement over the 51 kakapos that remained on Earth in 1995. The increase of its population results from the government’s decision to remove the 51 birds to three small predator-free islands off the coast of New Zealand, and the efforts of a team led by Andrew Digby, a kakapo scientist for the New Zealand Department of Conservation.

A four-day-old kakapo chick will receive a health check. Young chicks in nests are examined and weighed every night, to ensure they are healthy.

Once the birds lay eggs, the eggs are carefully moved from the nests and taken to a hatching (孵化) room to hatch. “We tend to be more successful at raising kakapo eggs than the kakapo,” says Digby. “We break less of them. ” Once the eggs hatch, each mother is given only one chick, while the rest of the newborns are hand-fed (人工喂养). This helps ensure they all receive enough food.

8．What makes the kakapo unique in the parrot family?

A．Its food. B．Its way of hatching.

C．Its feather. D．Its flightless heavy body.

9．What do we learn about the kakapo from paragraph 2?

A．The way it feeds the young. B．The environment it needs to live in.

C．The nature of its natural enemies. D．The cause of its being endangered.

10．What effort did the government make to protect the kakapos in 1995?

A．Giving the kakapos a new home without natural enemies.

B．Setting up individual feeding stations for the kakapos.

C．Building a fence to keep the predators away.

D．Driving all the predators nearby away.

11．Why is each mother kakapo given only one baby chick?

A．To help the mother kakapo keep laying eggs.

B．To make every chick get enough food to survive.

C．To protect the mother kakapo from the predators.

D．To protect the chick from being killed by accident.

D

The good news is that more people bought electric vehicles (EVs) in 2020. The bad news is that sport utility (多用途的) vehicles (SUVs) continued to grow in popularity, too. “The fall in oil consumption due to the first trend was completely canceled out by the second,” said Laura Cozzi, an officer at the International Energy Agency (JEA).

Between 2010 and 2020, global carbon dioxide emissions (排放) from conventional cars fell by nearly 35 billion tons, due to reasons such as fuel efficiency improvements as well as the switch to electric cars. Emissions from SUVs rose by more than 50 billion tons. “While the growth in EVs is encouraging, the boom in SUVs is heart-breaking,” says Peters at the Cicero Climate Research Centre in Norway.

There are many reasons for the growing popularity of SUVs. For example, rising economic boom in many countries means more people are able to afford them. Some people see them as status symbols. Also, SUVs are heavily advertised by car-makers, whose profit is higher on these vehicles. Some countries, including France, have introduced plans under which more taxes are paid on heavier cars. But Peters thinks that people who are rich enough to afford SUVs won’t be deterred by slightly higher taxes. “There are now some electric SUVs available, but I hope one day you will see more electric vehicles brought to the SUV market,” says Peters.

Even if it happens, switching to electric SUVs isn’t a good solution. Due to their size and bigger batteries, it takes more resources to build electric SUVs, and they consume around 15 percent more electricity. That means higher emissions unless the electricity comes entirely from renewable sources, and higher electricity demand makes it harder to green the electricity supply.

12．What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

A．Scientists should devote themselves to improving fuel efficiency.

B．Electric vehicles will certainly take the place of sport utility vehicles.

C．The popularity of SUVs destroys some efforts at environmental protection.

D．The emission of carbon dioxide of motor vehicles has hit a new low.

13．What does the underlined word “deterred” probably mean?

A．Encouraged. B．Blocked.

C．Removed. D．Connected.

14．What is one of the reasons that SUVs are popular with consumers?

A．SUVs are discounted heavily.

B．SUVs are often advertised by car producers.

C．SUVs are taxed at a lower rate in some countries.

D．SUVs consume fewer resources than other vehicles.

15．What point does the author try to make in the last paragraph?

A．The electric SUVs should be made smaller and lighter.

B．The electric SUVs are a good guarantee for less pollution.

C．More electric SUVs don’t necessarily mean “environment-friendly”.

D．Future electric SUVs will be powered with completely green energy.

第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

To raise money for wildlife conservation, Mozambique in Africa will allow sports hunting. The plan is to sell 80 hunting permits a year at $11,000 each for elephants and about 60 permits for lions at $4,000 each. The government will collect most of the profits, but 20% will go to the communities in the conservation areas.

Critics fear legal hunting can destroy Mozambique’s fragile elephant population. ____16____ Others argue that hunting, if properly managed, can be a tool for protecting wildlife.

Here are two primary school students to share their views.

A 9-year-old girl from Beaufort, South Carolina supports the idea. She thinks that hunters kill animals without contributing a single dollar to conservation. But if hunting were permitted, they might pay for the chance to get a big-game trophy（战利品）. ____17____ For example, the money could be used to pay the guards to make sure those breaking the hunting rules were punished. ____18____

However, a 10-year-old girl from Atlanta, Georgia disagrees. She thinks that if sports hunting were allowed, endangered species could become extinct. ____19____ It would teach the children of the world about killing, death and sorrow instead of peace, love and kindness. We have to protect big-game animals so that future generations can experience them. ____20____ These protected areas will attract tourists, who will pay for a chance to see such amazing creatures in their natural habitat.

A．That would be a permanent loss for the mankind.

B．Is this the best way to save animals from extinction?

C．Well-regulated sports hunting can benefit the conservation of listed species.

D．Illegal hunters have already wiped out nearly half of the country’s elephants.

E．The money raised from legal hunting would contribute to protecting the wildlife.

F．So instead of raising money by hunting, the country should build more wildlife preserves.

G．The money could also be used to buy more protected lands where animals can wander freely.

第二部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

The auction(拍卖)took place on a mild morning. _21_ , standing in front of an expectant _22_ with a sign with his pig's picture, 15-year-old Wayion Klitzman was sweating.

Waylon called his pig "Roo". The farm boy hoped the money from Roo's _23_ would help with cancer research.

It started with a _24_ .

In August 2017, Wayion _25_ 9th grade and in those first weeks of school, Wayion _26_his algebra teacher, Kim Katzenmeyer, for support. Their special _27_ grew over the last school year. "She saw the _28_ in me and we just connected that way," said Wayion.

Then Katzenmeyer's niece was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare cancer that mostly _29_children. After months of watching her niece receive cancer treatments, Katzcnmcyer _30_her teaching job to volunteer full time at the cancer research charity, Beat NB．

Katzenmeyer meant a lot to Wayion and he just wanted to _31_ . Then he had an _32_to auction his pig to _33_ money for the cancer charity. So before the auction day, Wayion sent letters to people explaining his _34_ to sell his pig and donate the profits to Beat NB．The letter _35_ his beloved teacher whose niece was battling cancer.

The auction turned out to be particularly _36_ . Buyers kept _37_ Way Ion's pig so he could sell it over and over. Wayion had thought that, with luck, his pig would bring in _38_ over $ 600. In the end, Roo fetched more than $ 10,000 for Beat NB．

“We give back to the community _39_ we can. We are blessed to be able to be doing what we do," said one of the buyers with a _40_ of pride.

21．A．Therefore B．Otherwise C．Yet D．Besides

22．A．staff B．crowd C．niece D．seller

23．A．sale B．performance C．show D．action

24．A．boy B．teacher C．doctor D．farmer

25．A．completed B．continued C．began D．skipped

26．A．relied on B．picked up C．devoted to D．came across

27．A．favor B．response C．touch D．bond

28．A．first B．least C．best D．worst

29．A．affects B．owes C．follows D．faces

30．A．held B．quit C．started D．found

31．A．interrupt B．change C．stop D．help

32．A．offer B．appeal C．idea D．effort

33．A．demand B．convey C．store D．raise

34．A．request B．desire C．promise D．approval

35．A．described B．reminded C．informed D．ignored

36．A．attractive B．acceptable C．appropriate D．successful

37．A．feeding B．returning C．admiring D．introducing

38．A．even B．still C．just D．exactly

39．A．unless B．because C．once D．wherever

40．A．sense B．thought C．mind D．state

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Climate change makes wildfires, hurricanes and heat waves more frequent ____41____ stronger than before. The bad effects are in the headlines ____42____ (regular). The warming climate also changes lives ____43____ subtler (不易察觉的) ways.

In Tampa, Fla. , Sara Brogan says summers are getting ____44____ (hot). Going to the beach to cool off is a decades-long tradition for her family. They ____45____ (go) to the beach once this summer. There was a red tide. These algae (水藻) blooms are increasing, likely because of human ____46____ (pollute) and warming temperatures. They produce toxins (毒素) that kill sea life. That is ____47____ Brogan is staying away from the beach. A lot of times it's—before you even get there, you can feel the smell of dead fish is very strong.

Wildfire smoke obviously is not good for people and the animal. Heather Duchow and her husband celebrated ____48____ (they) 20th anniversary in Montana's Glacier National Park. When they got there, it was very smoky. She felt disappointed: the smoke made it difficult ____49____ (see) the awe-inspiring views she remembered. For future anniversaries, they may go sooner in the summer,____50____ (hope) to avoid the worst of fire season. It's strongly recommended that some measures should be taken to control the warming climate.

第三部分写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节短文改错（满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词语；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Kevin,

As president of our School's Sinology Club, I'm writing to show our warm welcome and tell you some detail about it.

First, since it is challenged to learn about Sinology, you will have to pass a related interview after being admitted. But don't be too nervous. You may just to tell us your knowledge about Chinese civilization, like its history, classics, arts, philosophy, etc. Once stepping in, you'll be absorbed in their magnificent activities. As routine, we meet every Wednesday evening to take lectures, appreciate distinctive cultural show or freely exchange ideas. I'm sure you will gladly find yourself made out what Sinology really mean and why it enjoys so much popularity worldwide.

Thank you for your trust, and looking forward to your participate.

Yours,

Li hua

第二节书面表达(满分25分）

．假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你校将于下周五上午举行中国诗词朗诵比赛 (Chinese Poetry Recitation Contest)，请你以学生会的名义，结合以下要点用英语写一份通知张贴于学校的通告栏，希望同学们参加。

1. 活动目的、内容；

2. 活动时间、地点；

3. 报名及奖励情况。

注意：

1. 开头，结尾已经给出，直接写正文词数100左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Notice

Dear fellow students,

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Students’ Union

December, 01 -2021

参考答案

1．C    2．B    3．D  4．C    5．D    6．D    7．C  8．D    9．D    10．A    11．B  12．C    13．B    14．B    15．C  16．D    17．E    18．G    19．A    20．F   21．C    22．B    23．A    24．B    25．C    26．A    27．D    28．C    29．A    30．B    31．D    32．C    33．D    34．B    35．A    36．D    37．B    38．C    39．D    40．A   41．and    42．regularly    43．in    44．hotter    45．went    46．pollution    47．why    48．their    49．to see    50．Hoping

短文改错1.detail→details

2. challenged→challenging

3. after→before

4.去掉to

5.their→our

6.routine前加a

7.show→shows

8.made→making

9. mean→means

10. participate→participation

52．Notice

应用文写作Dear fellow students,

In order to make students learn about ancient Chinese culture, enrich school life and promote friendship between each other, a Chinese Poetry Recitation Contest will be held at the meeting room next Friday morning.

The contest will last about two hours and it will be very interesting and instructive. You will have a chance to gain access to a series of activities related to ancient Chinese culture. If the activity appeals to you, please sign up for it before Tuesday next week. Additionally, five teachers, two American teachers included, will be invited to be the judges. The first six winners will be given awards.

Everyone is expected to attend it on time.

The Students’ Union

February 23, 202