2022连云港东海县高二下学期期中考试英语含解析（含听力）

2021～2022学年度第二学期期中考试

高二英语试题

说明：1.本试卷共10页，满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

2.在答题卡/纸的规定区域内填写学校、班级、姓名、考号等，否则无效。

3.请将所有答案按照题号填涂或填写在答题卡/纸相应的答题处，否则不得分。

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个小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

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What will the woman do next?

A. Sit next to the man.

B. Buy a map for the man.

C. Direct the way for the man.

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Why is the man dressed up?

A. He’s going to a party.

B. He’s going to a wedding.

C. He’s going for Halloween.

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How much will the man pay?

A. Three dollars. B. Five dollars. C. Seven dollars.

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Where are the speakers?

A. In the bedroom. B. In the kitchen. C. In the living room.

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What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. The woman’s sister. B. Their friend Julie. C. A dress.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，共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。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. How long will the speakers be off work?

A. Three weeks. B. Two weeks. C. One week.

7. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Cousins. B. Friends. C. Husband and wife.

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. What will the speakers do tonight?

A. Join a sports event. B. Go camping. C. Watch a soccer match.

9. What will the weather be like tonight?

A. Warm. B. Cold. C. Windy.

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. Where are the speakers now?

A. At the Space Museum.

B. At the Transport Museum.

C. At the Aerospace Museum.

11. How does the man probably feel?

A. Disappointed. B. Surprised. C. Happy.

12. What will be likely to impress the man?

A. Trucks. B. Buses. C. Beautiful cars.

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 does the man do?

A. He is a tour guide.

B. He is a hotel clerk.

C He is a real estate agent.

14 What did the woman originally order?

A. A family room. B. A family house. C. A family apartment.

15. Why does the woman’s husband need a separate room?

A. He likes to be private. B. He sleeps loudly. C. He uses a laptop.

16. How much extra will the woman pay per night?

A. 100 yuan. B. 200 yuan. C. 300 yuan.

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. Which two places does London Bridge connect?

A. Cannon Street and Southwark.

B. Southwark and the City of London.

C. The City of London and Tower Bridge.

18. Where is the monument to the Great Fire of London?

A. On the south side of London Bridge.

B. On the west side of London Bridge.

C. On the north side of London Bridge.

19. When did the construction of London Bridge finish?

A. In 1973. B. In 1972. C. In 1967.

20. What is London Bridge well-known as around the world today?

A. A very long bridge. B. An ancient structure. C. A popular tourist attraction.

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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 closed on February 20. More than an event, the Games are also for exchanging goodwill and friendship. The design details of various elements such as the medals, emblem(图案) and mascots(吉祥物) serve this purpose. Let’s take a look at these Chinese elements through the designs.

Medals

The front side of the Winter Olympic medals was based on the ancient Chinese jade concentric circle pendants, with five rings representing “the unity of heaven and earth and the unity of people’s hearts”. The opposite side of the medals was inspired from a piece of Chinese jadeware(玉器) called “Bi”, a double jade disc with a round hole in the center.

Emblem

Inspired by the Chinese character “冬” for “winter”, the upper part of the emblem resembles a skater and its lower part a skier. The ribbon-like decoration in between mainly symbolizes the host country’s rolling mountains, Games venues, ski courses and skating rinks.

The blue color in the emblem represents dreams, the future and the purity of ice and snow, while red and yellow—the colors of China’s national flag – present passion, youth and vitality.

Mascots

Bing Dwen Dwen, the cute mascot of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, attracts attention with the panda’s full-body “shell” made out of ice. The inspiration came from traditional Chinese snack “ice-sugar gourd,” (tanghulu), while the shell also resembles a space suit—embracing new technologies for a future of countless possibilities. “Bing” is the Chinese character for ice, which symbolizes purity and toughness. Dwen Dwen is a common nickname in China for children that suggests they are lovely, healthy and clever.

21. Which of following is an inspiration of the emblem?

A. A Chinese snack. B. Chinese jadeware.

C. A Chinese character. D. Chinese children.

22. What does “Dwen Dwen” refer to in Chinese?

A. A space suit. B. New technologies.

C. Pure and tough ice. D. Health and cuteness.

23. What is the purpose of displaying Chinese elements?

A. To make this year’s Games more interesting.

B. To draw people’s attention to Chinese culture.

C. To show the power and development of China.

D. To promote kindness and friendship worldwide.

B

To this paper-cutting artist, Shi Qinling, scissors are like what brushes are to painters, or what pens are to writers. Always having a pair of scissors on her also allows her to create art whenever inspiration hits. “Some people like to pen their feelings in diaries. I prefer to cut them out,” says the 35-year-old, who is currently working at the Fenglin community cultural activity center in Shanghai.

Shi developed an interest in handicraft when she was a child who often found herself alone at home. Out of boredom, she would play with paper, folding and cutting them into different shapes. This interest later developed into a passion, one that she decided to pursue by majoring in arts and crafts design during her time in university.

After graduation, however, she found herself working at a ship design company as she was unsure about what she wanted to do with her future. About a year later, the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Research Institute offered her a position in their paper-cutting department. Realizing that she still had a love for the craft, she switched her career.

In 2010, she started learning paper-cutting from Xi Xiaoqin, the national inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage for paper-cutting. Three years later, one of her works, The Fighting Fish, won third place at the Baihua Cup, a competition for Chinese arts and crafts. Six years later, Shi was named a Shanghai paper-cutting inheritor and become the city’s “youngest inheritor” of the paper-cutting heritage.

24. What can we learn about Shi from Paragraph 1?

A. Scissors are important for her for self-protection.

B. Scissors are significant for her for artistic expression.

C She creates art by drawing whenever she has inspiration.

D. She is a paper-cutting artist as well as a painter and writer.

25. Why did Shi work at a ship design company after graduation?

A. She was at a loss what to do in the future. B. She majored in ship design in university.

C. She was sure that she loved to design ships. D. She wanted to be an inheritor of the company.

26. What does the underlined word “switched” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Adopted. B. Hatched. C. Changed. D. Reformed.

27. What can we infer from Shi’s experience?

A. Interest is the best teacher. B. Pride goes before a fall.

C. It’s never too late to learn. D. All roads lead to Rome.

C

In May 2020, as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic swept Texas, I went to an Austin nature store and bought several bird feeders. Various birds, drawn by seed and other food, came soon afterward. I wasn’t alone. Feeders have long been a popular way to connect with nature and draw in native or nonnative species. But over the past two years, bird feeding has suddenly increased in popularity.

The benefits of all of this supplying have tended to go unquestioned. After all, habitat destruction from human activity is a leading cause of bird population declines, so feeding birds seems like an obvious way to help make up for that loss. But a recent review paper raises a troubling possibility: bird feeding could be reshaping some local environments. “If you’re throwing millions of tons of additional nonnatural resources into an environment, you’re going to get massive, massive impacts,” says lead study author Jack Shutt, a conservation ecologist at Manchester Metropolitan University in England. “And they’re not always going to be the ones that you’re expecting.”

Bird feeding carries a few well-recognized risks. The first among them is disease spread. In 2005 scientists concluded that shared feeders in the U.K. may have helped dove trichomoniasis (滴虫病) jump into European Greenfinches, as a result, it killed up to half a million birds. In the U.S., trichomoniasis outbreaks connected with dirty feeders are common bird killers. “You’ve got different species pecking (啄食) at the same bit of plastic, which is covered in various bird bodily liquid,” says study co-author Alexander Lees, an bird expert at Manchester Metropolitan University. “It’s a cause of disaster.”

What’s necessary, Lees says, is taking the potential impacts seriously enough to carry out further study, which would allow experts to make much more recommendations about where to feed and where to avoid it. Such studies could also help researchers make targeted recommendations about what sorts of food to offer.

28. What do people tend to believe about bird feeding?

A. It can protect native species.

B. It can attract nonnative species.

C. It can prevent more birds being killed.

D. It can prevent bird population declining.

29. Which of the following statements would Shutt and Lees agree to?

A. Bird feeding should be prohibited.

B. Bird feeding is a commercial activity.

C. Bird feeding can be a disaster for birds.

D. Bird feeding will not influence ecosystem.

30. What might experts do in the future in Lees’ opinion?

A. Call on people to stop feeding birds.

B. Encourage more people to feed birds.

C. Help people feed birds more scientifically.

D. Advocate birds’ pecking at the same plastic.

31. What is the best title for the text?

A. Bird feeding: Spreading diseases

B Bird Feeders: Good or bad for birds

C. Bird Feeders: Of great benefit to birds

D. COVID-19: A terrible disaster for birds

D

Perhaps unsurprisingly, buffoonery(滑稽) was one of few careers acceptable for women to pursue in the Middle Age. And it was not uncommon for women to enjoy this career.

However, in the 17th century, comedians were forced to society’s edge as their tendency to truth-telling was no longer tolerated among high society and women, bearing the weight of gender prejudice, were seldom among this career.

This slowly began to change in the mid-19th century when women began to enter the workforce and, in the circus(马戏表演) industry, a growing minority of female performers were employed. They promoted the industry’s “New Woman” movement which introduced female performers into the traditionally male stage.

In 1895, among the women breaking the prejudice was Josephine Williams or “Lady Evetta” called the “The Only Lady Clown(小丑)”.

Williams told The New York Times: “I believe that a woman can do anything for a living that a man can do and do it just as well as a man. All my people laughed at me when I told them that I was going on stage as a clown. But they do not laugh now.”

Despite her being optimistic, the article concluded: “The men in the clown business rather enjoy Miss Williams’ odd performances but they do not regard her as a serious competitor or believe that any other women are likely to follow her example.”

How wrong they were. In the 1970s, French-born Annie Fratellini opened the circus school Académie Fratellini encouraged by her film-making husband Pierre Etaix.

Fratellini’s Auguste was recognizable as the clown familiar today. Her unique make-up was made up of a big red nose, tears, a black mouth and shiny decorations fixed to her eyes. When asked whether the character she acted was male or female, she insisted that “clowns have no gender”.

32. What happened in the 17th century from Paragraph 2?

A Few women worked as comedians.

B. Comedians disappeared in the society.

C. Male comedians were forced out of society.

D. Comedians were popular among high society.

33. What is people’s attitude to Williams as a clown at first?

A. Supportive. B. Appreciative. C. Impatient. D. Unacceptable.

34. Who created the clown image familiar to us today?

A. Pierre Etaix. B. Annie Fratellini.

C. Lady Evetta. D. Josephine Williams.

35. What is the text mainly about?

A. The history of female clowns. B. The development of buffoonery.

C. Women suffered from prejudice. D. How women broke the prejudice.

第二节（共5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分）

根据短文内容，从短文后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。

In modern times, most people feel stressed the majority of the time. Our stress comes from work, family, responsibilities, relationships, and the fast pace of life.

___36___ According to a study, reading just 6 minutes per day can lower pressure by 68%. Researchers analyzed cortisol levels(皮质醇水平) and heart rates of participants before observing how they responded to different tasks. ___37___

This included listening to music (61%), having a cup of tea or coffee (54%), and taking a walk (42%). They also found that playing video games lowered stress levels by 21%, but increased heart rate.

“Losing yourself in a book is the best relaxation,” Dr. David Lewis, researcher, and neuropsychologist(神经心理学家) said. “___38___ You can escape from the worries and stresses of the everyday world through reading.”

___39___ If you mostly read the news, you will likely feel even more stressed due to the harmful content. However, if you read about light-hearted positive topics such as how to start a garden or how the planets affect our moods, you will notice a decrease in stress.

You may not think reading books can really change your life that much. ___40___ Reading can do more than reduce stress and make us happier. Let’s spend more time reading than we do on our smart phones.

A. Reading books increased heart rate.

B. It really doesn’t matter what book you read.

C. Whatever you read doesn’t have effects on your stress.

D. What you choose to read determines your stress degree.

E. Reading books lowered their stress levels more than all the other activities.

F. However, we can find ways to turn everything off for a while and relax our minds.

G. But the study shows that this small activity can make a big difference in our health.

第三部分 完形填空（共15小题; 每小题 1分, 满分15分）

认真阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Bilibili star, Zhao Hongcheng, uses her platform to promote greater understanding of the lives and needs of disabled people.

According to the ____41____ data from the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, as of February 2020, the total number of disabled people in China reached 85 million, ____42____ 6.21 percent of the country’s total population.

Compared to most people with disabilities, Zhao is ____43____.

Born in 1990, a ____44____ has been part of Zhao’s life since she was 1 year old due to the aftereffects of a disease. However, it did not stop her from completing her ____45____ and graduate studies before becoming a ____46____ worker in Shanghai.

Her childhood was relatively ____47____ thanks to the support of her parents. They attached great importance to her education, so she ____48____ completed her studies. Zhao ____49____ in English at a university in Hunan province and later pursued a master’s degree in English literature at a university in Shanghai.

After graduating, Zhao was ____50____ by e-commerce giant Alibaba in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. She spent the next five years working in the Internet industry as a product manager.

In 2019, the rising popularity of short videos ____51____ Zhao.

She felt that she should make some videos of what she ____52____ in her daily life. If it went well, it could give people with disabilities references and suggestions, and if not, ____53____ it would draw people’s attention to related issues.

After her fourth video spread widely on the Internet, she ____54____ to make short videos and, in 2021, became a full-time content creator on Bilibili.

And now, as a video content creator who has over 84,000 followers on the video-sharing platform Bilibili, Zhao wants to be a ____55____ between the disabled and the rest of society.

41. A. scary B. subjective C. decent D. latest

42. A. accounting for B. belonging to C. allowing for D. approving of

43. A. lucky B. competent C. calm D. genuine

44. A. platform B. video C. wheelchair D. scar

45. A. appointment B. feedback C. interview D. college

46. A. research B. white-collar C. part-time D. health

47. A. permanent B. smooth C. royal D. curious

48. A. successfully B. extensively C. humbly D. precisely

49. A. applied B. negotiated C. appreciated D. majored

50. A. rejected B. forgiven C. blessed D. hired

51. A. embraced B. annoyed C. inspired D. discouraged

52. A. witnessed B. heard C. experienced D. earned

53. A. at least B. at large C. at last D. at once

54. A. intended B. continued C. promised D. prayed

55. A. specialist B. client C. bridge D. zone

第四部分 短文填空（共10题；每小题1.5分, 满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。

While some communities are pessimistic about the exchange between languages, there are also other communities that readily welcome ____56____ (borrow) words. English, especially, ____57____ (base) on a mix of Latin, Greek and Germanic languages. The English-speaking community does not hesitate about absorbing foreign words into ____58____ (it) daily vocabulary.

In fact, there have never been any formal ____59____ (academy) restrictions on new borrowed words. Borrowing words allows the language ____60____ (continue) to develop, ____61____ (enable) the community to have ____62____ more efficient language which makes it possible for them to share their experiences with new-found ease. It is also through those words ____63____ novel ideas are spread and different ____64____ (belief) are exchanged more conveniently and quickly.

For better or for worse, the tendency to borrow words has never gone out of style. The     more international and globalized the world _____65_____ (become), the more language characteristics will be shared between nations and cultures.

第五部分 书面表达（共2小题，满分40分）

应用文写作（满分15分）

66. 假定你是李华，第五届花博会将于2022年6月1日至10日在北京举行，组委会面向社会招募志愿者。请你用英文写一封申请信，内容包括：

1.写信目的；

2.个人优势；

3.你的愿望。

（参考词汇：第五届花博会the Fifth Flora Exposition）

注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。

Dear Sir/Madam,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

读后续写（满分25分）

67. 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

I wanted everyone’s praise and acceptance, but I was my own toughest critic. After I graduated from high school and moved out on my own, I began to put pressure on myself to succeed in the adult world. Meanwhile, I was feeling very inadequate and unsuccessful.

I had always been a thin-to-average sized person. But suddenly, I was convinced that I was overweight. In my mind, I was FAT! I began to control my food by trying to diet, but nothing seemed to work. I slowly cut back on what I ate each day. With every portion I didn’t finish or meal I skipped, I told myself that I was succeeding, and in turn, I felt good about myself — attractive, strong, successful, almost super-human. I could do something others couldn’t: I could go without food. It made me feel special, and that I was better than everyone else.

People around me began to notice my weight loss. At first they weren’t alarmed; maybe some were even envious. But then the comments held a tone of concern. “You’re losing too much weight.” “Elisa, you’re so thin.” “You look sick.” “You’ll die if you keep this up.” All their words only pleased me that I was on the right path, getting closer to “perfection”.

I cut back on my food more and more, until a typical day consisted of half a teaspoon of nonfat yogurt and coffee in the morning, and a cup of grapes at night. It even got to the point where I no longer went out with my friends. I couldn’t — if I went to dinner, what would I eat? I avoided their phone calls. If they wanted to go to the movies or just hang out at home, I couldn’t be there — what if food was around?

My poor nutrition began to cause me to lose sleep. I found it hard to concentrate on my work or to focus on anything for any length of time. I was pushing myself harder and harder at the gym, struggling to burn the calories that I hadn’t even eaten. My friends tried to help me but I denied that I had a problem.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。

Then one night, when I tried to relax, my heart felt as though it might beat its way out of my chest.

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Luckily, I recovered gradually.

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