甘肃省天水市秦安县第一中学2022-2023学年高二下学期4月期中英语试题

秦安一中2022—2023学年度第二学期期中考试卷

高二英语

第I卷

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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

Hello everyone! Do you know how to be a healthy kid? Here are some rules you should follow.

First, eat different foods, especially fruit and vegetables. You may have a favourite food, but you’d better eat something different, if you eat different foods, you will probably get more nutrients(营养物质) your body needs.

Second, drink water and milk as often as possible. When you’re really thirsty, cold water is the No. l choice. Milk is a great drink that can give you more calcium(钙) your body needs to grow strong bones.

Third, listen to your body. How do you feel when you are full? When you are eating, notice how your body feels and when your stomach feels comfortably full. Eating too much will not make you feel comfortable and make you fat.

Fourth, limitscreen time. Screen time is the time you watch TV, DVDs and videos, or using computers. It is good to take more exercise such as basketball, bike riding and swimming. You can’t watch TV for more than two hours a day.

Fifth, be active. One thing you’d like to do as a kid is to find out which activity you like best. Find ways to be active every day.

Follow these rules and you can be a healthy kid.

1.You should eat different foods especially __________.
A.meat    B.hamburgers   C.sweets    D.fruit and vegetables
2.Which kind of drinks can give you more calcium?
A.Juice.    B.Milk.     C.Cold water.   D.Tea.
3. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. When you’re eating, you don’t have to notice how your body feels.
B.You can eat your favourite food as much as possible.
C.You can watch TV for more than two hours a day.
D.We should try to live in an active way in our life.

B

The number of accidents involving pedestrians (行人) wearing headphones is on the rise, a report suggests, causing fresh warning from road safety groups in Britain.

A US-based study found a total of 116 reports of death or injury to pedestrians wearing headphones between 2004 and 2011, jumping from 16 in 2005 to 47 in 2011.

Most victims were men (68%) and under the age of 30 (67%), with around one in ten of all cases (9%) under the age of 18.Some 89% of the cases occurred in urban areas and more than half (55%) of the victims were struck by trains .

Eighty-one of the 116 accidents (70%) resulted in the person’s death—even though a warning was sounded in around a third of the cases.

The study concluded, “The use of headphone may be a safety risk to pedestrians , especially in environments with moving vehicles（cars）. Further research is needed to determine if and how headphone use threatens pedestrian safety.” British road safety groups warned pedestrians to be careful.

Floor Lieshout, director of Youth For Road Safety, said, “ This study shows once more the importance of using all of our senses while we are near traffic. It is important that we find an attractive way to make youth learn about the risks of wearing headphones in traffic.”

Andrew Howard , who is the head of road safety at the Automobile Association, added that some pedestrians can be “so focused in their own little world they forget the world going on around them”.That can include headphone wearers, Howard said, but also people talking on phones.

However, Howard said that more researches needed to be done.

Earlier studies have shown that people wearing headphones or talking on phones can suffer “inattentional blindness” which makes them isolated (孤立) from the world around them .

Ian Harvey, at the charity Civic Voice, said that “ to defeat isolation and to help build a civic(文明的) society, people need to interact(交往) with each other .

He said, “ A basis for any civilized society is communication—Surfing the web, listening to MP3s, reading blogs or sending e-mail is not interacting with a person; it’s interacting with a machine.

“If people feel socially isolated, they need to have more face-to-face interactions with other human beings and in time, will begin to feel happier and more connected to the world and place they live in.”

4. What does the text mainly discuss?

A. Safety problems caused by wearing headphones.  

B. Recent research on the risks to pedestrians .

C. The advantages and disadvantages of headphones. 

D. Traffic accidents in the United States.

5. We can learn from the Us-bases study that _________ .

A. most accidents were caused by cars    B. most victims died in the accidents

C. most accidents happened in the countryside   D. most victims are under eighteen

6. Howard will probably agree that ____________ .

A. it is safe if you wear headphones in a proper way 

B. it is dangerous to talk on phones while walking

C. most people wear headphones because of loneliness

D.people wearing headphones are more likely to go blind

7. What Lan Harvey said shows the importance of ___________ .

A. beating isolation         B. new technologies

C. building a civilized society       D. communication between people

C

People fear earthquakes. There are some places that have few or no earthquakes. Most places in the world,however,have them regularly.Countries that have a lot of earthquakes are usually quite mountainous.
    The earthquake which was talked about most in the United States was in San Francisco in 1906. Over 700 people died in it. The strongest one in North America was in 1964. It happened in Alaska.
    Strong earthquakes are not always the ones that kill the most people. In 1755,one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded was felt in Portugal. Around 2,000 people died.
    In 1923,a very strong earthquake hit Tokyo,the Yo-kohama area of Japan. One hundred and forty thousand people died. Most of them died in fires which followed the earthquake.
   One of the worst earthquakes ever was in China in 1976. It killed a large number of people.The worst earthquake ever recorded was also in China, in which about 80,000 people were killed or injured. This earthquake happened in 2008.
    Earthquakes worry people a lot. The reason is that we often do not know when they are coming. People can not prepare for them.
8.Earthquakes happen             .
A.in all the places in the world     B.only in the countries that have a lot of mountains
C.regularly in most places in the world   D.only in a few places along the mountains
9.When and where was the worst earthquake ever recorded?
A.1964; Alaska.  B.2008;China.   C.1923; Japan.  D.1976;China.
10.According to the passage, which of the following isNOT true?
A.The stronger the earthquake is, the more people are killed.
B.Earthquakes can cause fires.
C.People still don’t know when an earthquake will come.
D.Earthquakes often come unexpectedly (出乎意料地).
11.What may be talked about in the paragraph followed?
A.How do earthquakes worry people?
B.What will people do to prepare for earthquakes?
C.How can we save people when earthquakes happen?
D.How do earthquakes happen?

D

On average, Americans spend about 10 hours a day in front of a computer or other electronic devices and less than 30 minutes a day outdoors. That is a claim made by David Strayer, a professor of psychology at the University of Utah. In his 2017 TED Talk , Strayer explained that all this time spent with technology is making our brains tired.

Using an electronic device to answer emails, listen to the news and look at Facebook puts a lot of pressure on the front of the brain, which, Strayer explains, is important for critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making.

So it is important to give the brain a rest. And being in nature, Strayer claims , helps get a tired brain away from too much technology. More than 15,000 campers from around the world attended an international camping festival in September. That is when friends and family take time off and escape to nature for several days. They take walks, climb, explore, swim, sleep, eat and play. Camping may be just what a tired brain needs.

Take Carl for example. He lives in West Virginia and enjoys camping. He says that staying outdoors makes him feel at ease. It also prepares him for the work he must do. Kate Somers is another example who also lives in West Virginia. She says she enjoys camping with her husband and two children. She calls it a “regenerative” experience.

At the University of Utah, David Strayer has studied both short-term and long-term exposure to nature. He found that spending short amounts of time in nature without technology does calm the brain and helps it to remember better. However, he found it is the long-term contact with nature that does the most good. He and his research team found spending three days in nature without any technology is enough time for the brain to fully relax and reset itself.

12. What is David Strayer’s opinion?

A. Americans dislike outdoor activities.   B. Electronic equipment should be quitted.

C. New technologies are a double-edged sword. D. Electronic equipment brings great convenience.

13. Why does Strayer insist we go outdoors?

A. To refresh our brain   B. To try another lifestyle

C To make better decisions.      D. To play with our family and friends

14. What does the underlined word “regenerative” mean?

A. Exhausting   B. Ridiculous   C. Relevant.   D. Reborn

15. Which is the proper title for the passage?

A. How to Use New Technologies.    B. Good Rest Develops Good Memory.

C. Being in Nature Is Good for the Brain.   D. Electronic Equipment Harms the Brain.

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。

After a long day at work, coming home is a breath of fresh air. Home is a comfortable place to sit back and relax. ___16___ Below are a number of things we can do to create a healthy home environment that will help to ease the workday stress and promote our physical and mental health.

Cleaning the house regularly is the first thing we should do. It may seem like a tiring thing to clean but there is a reason for doing so. We can remove dust by cleaning the house. Leaving layers of dust everywhere means that there is a build-up of dust. And where do these layers of dust go?___17___

Making sure the rooms are full of sunlight is also important. We may not realize it but sunlight is an important part of our growth. We all know that sunlight promotes better working conditions. ___18___ Think about using a Parans system where sunlight does not reach. This technology gathers the sunlight by using solar panels. It can send out sunlight wherever we are.

___19___ Going green will help to remove toxins(毒素）in the air. They also give off oxygen, which can lower stress and improve our moods.

Along the lines of being green, it can also be vital to think about what things we are bringing into the house. Try to avoid specific plastics that are harmful to health. ___20___ They may contain poisonous chemicals that can be breathed in, or simple absorbed through the skin.

A. Into our lungs.

B. However, is it as healthy as it can be?

C. Is our home as comfortable as it used to be?

D. It is also a good idea to add more plants in our house.

E. The same thing applies to things like carpets and paint.

F. Besides it can reduce both stress and high blood pressure.

G. It is acknowledges that a greener lifestyle is linked to better health.

第二部分  英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节   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四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I always come across random acts of kindness in my life. Many years ago, I was ___21___Costa Rica when I found myself in an ___22___situation: my credit cards and bank cards went out of ____23____ abroad, and I only had $5 to my ____24____.

I had no way to get money. I didn’t know anybody in this country. I only knew basic Spanish, and besides the cash the only ____25____I had was a return ticket to my country in almost two ____26____. Back then, there was no such thing as mobile phones, and____27____email was very limited. To find help, I decided to go to the countryside . With the only coins I had, I ____28____the bus terminal(终点站）and found a village, which ____29____almost the exact amount. About 4 hours later, I arrived at Santa Rosa Abajo at midnight.

I knocked door to door,____30____in my very poor Spanish that I was a foreigner travelling in Costa Rica with no money but I ____31____to stay here for over ten days. I begged them for a _____32_____－such as cooking , cleaning and looking after their kids, anything like that. Everybody ____33____, “oh my, but so poor are we that we have no ___34___ food or space. Maybe you can try the next ____35____.” And they’d point me to another house.

____36____, I arrived at a Chinese restaurant. The owner of the restaurant was very ____37____. She gave me food and called the Red Cross to come to ____38____me. With the help of the Red Cross , I spent my____39____days in Costa Rica.

This is one of the best trips I’ve ever had, because I realized that when you’re in a position to be able to ____40____, it actually makes you feel happy.

21. A. Circling   B. entering         C. visiting   D. considering

22. A. absurd    B. impossible    C. ordinary   D. awkward

23. A. date    B. use     C. range    D. control

24. A. name    B. delight    C. wonder   D. advantage

25. A. necessity   B. memory    C. impression   D. possession

26. A. months    B. weeks     C. days    D. hours

27. A. again    B. thus     C. yet    D. even

28. A. looked for   B. stayed at    C. headed to   D. thought of

29. A. cost    B. saved     C. earned   D. created

30 A. reminding   B. explaining    C. apologizing  D. informing

31. A. needed    B. agreed    C. failed    D. hesitated

32. A. conversation  B. meal     C. room    D. job

33. A. accepted   B. nodded    C. replied   D. withdrew

34. A. prepared   B. wasted    C. extra    D. cheap

35. A. family    B. chance    C. time    D. restaurant

36. A. Normally   B. Naturally    C. Finally   D. Directly

37. A. generous   B. sensible    C. wealthy   D. outstanding

38. A. comfort   B. rescue     C. interview   D. encourage

39. A. frightening   B. training    C. exciting   D. remaining

40. A. help    B. receive    C. succeed   D. travel

第II卷

第二部分  英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下列材,在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Two new satellites of BeiDou Navigation (导航) Satellite System (BDS)_____41_____(send) into space on a Long March-3D carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province, China at 2:07 a.m. on November 19, 2018. The satellites entered a Medium Earth orbit (轨道) ____42____(safe) more than three hours later and will work with 17 other BDS-3 satellites already in space. They are also the 42nd and 43rd_____43_____(member) of the BDS satellite family.

China launched these satellites with the aim of providing navigation services_____44_____countries and regions which participate in the Belt and Road Proposal by the end of 2018. “This is a key and______45______(value) step for BDS developing from a Chinese experimental system to a regional and then a global navigation system,” said Yang Changfeng, chief expert_____46_____contributed much to the BeiDou system. The positioning_____47_____(accurate) of the BDS-3 system has been improved to 2.5 meters to 5 meters, said Yang.

___48___(name) after the Chinese term for the Big Dipper, the BeiDou system has been serving China for 18 years where another six BDS-3 satellites will be put into the Medium Earth orbit from 2019 to 2020. The system is expected______49______(provide) first-class services around______50______globe by the end of 2020.

第三部分  写作（共两节；满分35分）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

Our class joined in a meaningful activity during the winter vacation. First, we went to visit the old lady who lived all alone. Some chatted with her but others helped do a thorough cleaning for us. When the work was done, the house looked real neat and tidy. Then we went to the sport center, where all equipment needed polished. We set out to work at once. Everything was dust-free at no time. Having done all this, we saw a pleasant community than before. Tiring as we were, we felt happy as all of our work was paid off.

第二节 书面表达（25分）

假定你是李华，你的美国笔友John来信请你介绍中国传统节日清明节。请根据下表要点，用英语给他写封回信。

要求：1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，；3.开头和结尾已经写好，但不计入总词数。

Dear John,

Glad to hear from you, I’d like to tell you something about the Qingming Festival.

_________________________________________                                                _________________________________________                                                _________________________________________                                                _________________________________________                                                

                                                                                 Yours,

                                                                                 Li Hua

高二英语答案

1.D; 2.B; 3.D4 A.; 5.B; 6.B; 7.D; 8.C; 9.B; 10.A; 11、B

12,C  13,A  14,D   15,C

16-20  BAFDE

二.完形填空

21-25  CDBAD    26-30  BDCAB    31-35  ADCCA   36-40 CABDB

三：语法填空

41.were sent    42.safely    43.members   44. for    45.valuable  

46.who/that   47.accuracy         48.Named       49. To provide      50.the

四.短文改错

Our class joined in a meaningful activity during the winter vacation. First, we went to visit the old lady

                                                                         an

who lived all alone. Some chatted with her but others helped do a thorough cleaning for us. When the work

                                   and/while                           her

was done, the house looked real neat and tidy. Then we went to the sport center, where all equipment needed

                      really                           sports

polished. We set out to work at once. Everything was dust-free at no time. Having done all this, we saw a polishing                                           in                               

pleasant community than before. Tiring as we were, we felt happy as all of our work was paid off.

More                         Tired

五. 写作

Dear John，

Glad to hear from you．I'd like to tell you something about the Qingming Festival．

The Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four seasonal division points in China．It usually falls around April 5 every year．During this period，people will go to clean the graves and pay respect to their ancestors．At the same time，people can also go outing and enjoy the coming of spring，the bright and warm sunshine and the green trees and grass．It seems as if everything is back to life．People have been following the custom of spring outings since ancient times．Children love to fly kites high in the blue sky．

Now we can have three days off on this Chinese traditional festival．（106 words）

Best wishes，

L