2022-2023学年内蒙古赤峰二中高二下学期第二次月考英语试题含答案

   赤峰二中2021 级高二下学期第二次月考

英语试题 

第 Ⅰ  卷

第一部分：基础知识（共20小题，每题1.5分 满分30分）

1. If you work well，you _________get a chance of promotion.

2.—Did Jim come?

 --- I don’t know. He _____________( come) while I was out.

3.--- He will leave for Hong Kong tomorrow.

 --- But I’d much rather he _______( leave) the day after tomorrow.

4. ________a well-known man is he that everyone wants to take a photo with him.

5.They have a good knowledge of English but little _____they know about French.

6.It must be he that has stolen Mr. Smith’s purse, _________it?

7.I’m really puzzled ______to think of and express.

8.Was it five o’clock _______ the earthquake broke out?

9.It was not long before she was born _______her mother died.

10.Mr. Smith saved an old lady out of the river. ______ great courage he showed!

11. The files can’t be helpful to _________ takes over the job.

12.If you have a job, do devote yourself _____ it and finally you will pay for it.

13.It was too late for there _________(be) no bus.

14.---Why does the lake smell terrible?

  ---- Because large quantities of water ___________(pollute).

15.--- Your phone number again? I________ catch it (do).

  ----It’s 4331577.

16. By the end of 1900s, English____________(speak) in a majority of countries.

17. The storm left, _____ (cause) a lot of damage to this area.

18.You can have food _______( deliver) to you using food delivery apps and sites.

19.In a society _______ being thin is often seen as beautiful, teenagers sometimes turn to extreme methods to slim down.

20.Sarah is all sweetness and light _______( provide) that you are doing what she wants.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，20小题，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和D)中,选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑

A

SIX-WEEK PROGRAM

All 6-week courses offered through Summer College are college-level courses. Students earn up to seven college credits. Courses are offered in many areas of study and in two enrollment types: programs/courses that are only for Summer College students and programs/courses that are open to both Summer College students and students at Syracuse University (SU). Students are enrolled in two courses, with the exception of Architecture, due to the number of study hours. And the second course need to be chosen from the courses with the tag in the following table.

Liberal Art Courses

      The liberal arts program gives Summer College students the opportunity to enroll in undergraduate courses (本科课程) at Syracuse University. More than 40 courses are opened to high school students each summer. Opportunities can be found in a variety of departments. Click here for a full listing of the 2014 SU Liberal Arts Courses.

21. If Jack took the course of Architecture, he ________.

A. must be an excellent college student
 B. can also choose Forensic Science-1
 C. has to choose Liberal Arts at the same time
 D. can not choose any other course

22. All the courses offered by the Liberal Arts program ________.

A. are for summer students only 

B. are for the postgraduate
 C. are not for high school students 

D. are undergraduate courses

23. What does the passage aim at?

A. Introducing the summer courses to students.
 B. Explaining the courses of Syracuse University.
 C. Telling students how to study more at university.
 D. Reminding students what to study at university.

B

A zoo in Memphis, Tennessee, is returning two giant pandas that had been on loan from China for 20 years, prompting celebrations by animal advocates who said the health of the animals had worsened due to neglect.

The announcement on Wednesday came after months of criticism by In Defense of Animals and other advocacy groups that have accused the zoo of providing inadequate care to the pandas, Ya Ya and Le Le. Critics called on the zoo to provide them with better food, more un-caged time and ultimately a transfer to a panda refuge.

IDA posted a video on Twitter in February that showed the pandas pacing in circles around their enclosure as proof they were suffering from “physical, mental, and emotional deprivation.” It received thousands of likes and was retweeted by singer Billie Eilish.

A spokesperson for the zoo said the decision to return the pandas to China had nothing to do with pressure from animal advocates. China requires foreign zoos that host pandas on loan to allow older animals to spend their final days on Chinese soil. At 24 and 22, respectively, Le Le and Ya Ya have exceeded the giant panda life expectancy in the wild by almost 10 years, according to the spokesperson.

Giant pandas, whose black and white faces have made them beloved around the world, are considered a vulnerable species, with much of their mountainous natural habitat in southwest China under threat from deforestation.

According to the World Wildlife Fund, about 1,800 pandas are left in the wild and another 500 in zoos around the world. With the return of Ya Ya and Le Le to China, U.S. zoos will have a total of 10 giant pandas.

24．What is the purpose of the video posted by IDA?

A．To reveal the unknown habits of the pandas.

B．To demand the release of the ill-treated pandas.

C．To attract public attention and receive more likes

D．To appeal for improvement in the care of the pandas

25．Why did the zoo decide to return the pandas?

A．The pandas have reached a ripe old age. 

B．The zoo was in financial difficulties.

C．Visitors have lost interest in the pandas. 

D．Animal advocates put pressure on the zoo.

26．What is the current status of giant pandas in the wild?

A．They have short life expectancy. 

B．They are critically endangered.

C．They are losing their natural habitat. 

D．Their population is dramatically increasing.

27．Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．IDA Calling for Release of Abused Pandas 

B．Memphis Pandas to Be Returned to China

C．Ya Ya and Le Le Dying for a Home 

D．A Video of Pandas Drawing Criticism

C

Using the power of artificial intelligence (AI), scientists have revealed new insights into the creation and destruction of mass extinction. Contrary to conventional knowledge, their study suggests that larger extinctions are not always a form of “creative destruction” that allows new organisms to radiate (向周围辐射出去) and evolve. Instead, it suggests that mass extinction is rarely associated with new species of radiation.

Dr. Hoyal Cuthill, the lead study author from the University of Essex in the UK and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, said in a statement, “Some of the most challenging things to understand the history of life are the vast timelines involved and the number of species. New machine learning applications can help us understand the information in human-readable form. This means that we can, so to speak, hold the evolution of half a billion years in the palm of our hand and gain new insights from what we see.”

They concluded that mass extinction and later radiation were not connected as previously thought. Within 5 percent of the most significant periods of disruption (中断), AI detected “big five mass extinctions, seven more mass extinctions, two mass extinction-radiation events and 15 mass radiations. Most importantly, it discovers that massive radiation and extinction rarely occurred with each other, changing the view that greater extinction leads to a kind of deep cycle-like species radiation of nature. It appears that larger extinctions are certainly not the engine of evolutionary radiation. Take the Cambrian Explosion for example and it was about 41 million years ago when a large group of animals first appeared on the first fossil record and the dawn of a high mobile animal equipped with modern physical features.

This new study found that a handful of other notable explosions of biodiversity, including the Cambrian Explosion, usually occurred at a time when they were largely isolated (孤立的) from extinction. Dr. Nicholas Guttenberg, a study co-author from the Tokyo Institute of Technology explained, “Ecosystems are dynamic and you don’t need anything to exist to allow something new to appear.”

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

A．To analyze the cause of creative destruction.

B．To tell us the result of the new study.

C．To explain the power of artificial intelligence

D．To present the conventional idea of mass extinction.

29．What do Dr. Hoyal Cuthill’s words imply?

A．New AI machines learn applications better.

B．It’s difficult to understand the history of life.

C．New species appear before mass extinction.

D．AI contributes a lot to the study of evolution.

30．Why is the Cambrian Explosion mentioned in the text?

A．To provide knowledge of history.

B．To highlight the importance of AI.

C．To support the new study.

D．To prove the previous view is right.

31．What is the text mainly about?

A．A new understanding of mass extinction.

B．The processes of biological evolution.

C．Animal species with modern physical features

D．The relationship between mass extinction and radiation

D

As the pandemic continues to influence consumer behavior, the use of non-plastic payment methods is rising. But does this spell the end of the plastic credit card era?

Since the first Diners Club credit card was unveiled in 1950 much has changed. Recent technological developments and in-store consumer preferences could suggest times are changing. For some years now, various founders of financial institutions, as well as industry experts, have foreseen plastic credit cards or any other means of physical payment methods including cash will not be around much longer. They based their predictions on the light-speed growth of digital payment.

At the beginning of the global pandemic, governments took measures to protect their citizens, leading to lockdowns of varying degrees. The fear of contracting the virus through high-traffic ATMs and the refusal of merchants to accept cash can only be seen as a great addition to an already declared war on cash. Meanwhile, the urgency to spend a minimum time period in stores in order to avoid interactions led consumers towards digital solutions.

Furthermore, options like QR codes (二维码), NFC, and PINs have been around for a while but a true market breakthrough seems to only have happened since the beginning of the pandemic. According to Worldpay, without these telecommunication innovations, the shift in people’s payment behavior is out of the question. 86% of contactless adapters built into smart devices have seen themselves proceed with contactless payment. This trend will help to wipe out cash and plastic credit cards.

From a different perspective, countries like France, Italy, and Germany had almost 150 million smartphone users in 2019 alone. And it’s been reported that 80% of the transactions (交易) will be done via Internet-backed devices by 2025. And this figure will keep rising as more and more cheap smartphones are pouring into the global market. It is expected that e-wallets are going to be the most preferred payment method by then.

So, will there be a comeback for our beloved plastic spending power? I would put away my cash and plastic cards, switch on my phone instead of inserting cards, and present QR codes at a self-checkout instead of queuing behind a mass of people. I believe that many people think the same way.

32. What are the predictions in the financial circle about?

A. The Diners Club credit card will make a comeback.

B. Consumers’ preferences will be varied around the world.

C. The era of traditional payment will come to an end soon.

D New technologies will cause the decline of physical stores.

33. What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A. The worldwide efforts to fight against the pandemic.

B. The economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.

C. The impact of the health crisis on ways of payment.

D. The public’s tendency to shop online during lockdowns.

34. What set the stage for the trend in payment methods according to Worldpay?

A. The fast update rate of smart devices.

B. The existing digital payment technologies.

C. Many physical stores’ excellent online service.

D. The acceptance of digital payment among customers.

35. What can be inferred from Paragraph 5?

A. E-wallets will achieve increasing global popularity.

B. Smartphones will become cheaper and cheaper in the future.

C. Developed countries have high rates of Internet popularization.

D. The number of global smartphone users will rise by 80% by 2025.

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。

Why Boundaries at Work Are Essential

What is a boundary, you ask? A boundary is a limit defining you in relation to someone or something. ____36____ If you have informed someone that this is your office space, your desk, or your chair, you have attempted to set physical boundaries.

Letting co-workers know you are not comfortable shaking their hands or hugging them at a holiday party, especially with Covid at this time, is another example of setting a physical boundary. It is often easier to understand a physical boundary. Emotional or mental boundaries may be subtler (更微妙的). ____37____

Emotional boundaries are related to our feelings and how something or someone’s behavior affects us. For example, if a boss treats you disrespectfully by yelling at you or a colleague frequently interrupts you in meetings, you are likely to feel hurt, embarrassed, and perhaps angry. Understandably, by having a courageous conversation with both your boss and co-worker about their behavior, the impact it has on you, and your expectations regarding future behavior, you are setting healthy emotional boundaries for yourself at work.

Sometimes we set a boundary that is a combination of both a physical and emotional one. ____38____ One example of this is being repeatedly asked to work late during the week/weekends or while on vacation. Another example is being required to see too many clients or patients to the point we feel tired at the end of the day and exhausted by Friday. Often, the above workplace demands lead to increased stress and a high potential for burnout (倦怠) over time.

Mental boundaries are related to our beliefs, values, cultural norms, ethics (道德), and standards. For example, you value a workplace culture that treats employees and clients with respect and dignity and acts ethically. After six months, you realize that company leaders are repeatedly behaving in ways not consistent with this. ____39____ Over time, this may lead to significant stress and physical symptoms within.

____40____ Boundaries serve many functions. They help protect us, clarify our responsibility, preserve our physical and emotional energy, and live our values and standards. Learning the skill of boundary setting helps empower us to prioritize our values and well-being and better manage our stress. Identifying, setting, and maintaining boundaries are skills — valuable skills that, unfortunately, we are often not taught in school or the workplace.

A．Why are boundaries important?

B．However, they are equally, if not more, important.

C．Therefore, we need to tell the difference between them.

D．Setting a boundary in the above example may be quite helpful.

E．Boundaries can be physical, mental, emotional, tangible, or intangible.

F．Your values and ethical standards don’t match with your company’s, which likely will lead to internal conflict.

G．Such boundaries often involve being asked to do more than we feel capable of for an extended period of time.

第三部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节 完型填空（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。

People say one man's trash is another man's treasure. That   41  comes to me as I    42  the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed away in 1996. My father left the house   43  my sister and me when he died a few months ago.

After Dad was   44  , we looked around the   45  house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we feel so   46   at all the stuff left. Like so many of their generation, my parents   47   everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious   48   about what to abandon and what to keep.

As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every    49   my parents ever saw, I also  50  many hidden treasures. Mom's pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it,   51  her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran（退伍兵）and a world traveler,  52  everything-from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the   53  . The letters he wrote during the war   54  his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I  55  our old kitchen table, which brought back    56   of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together.

I'm realizing all these things  57   my parents' life journey. Each time I go to the    58 , I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I   59  knew.   60  , from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.

41．A. thought     B. goal   C. notice   D. coincidence

42．A. looked for    B. looked into C. looked through  D. looked after

43．A. with      B. to   C. for    D. by

44．A. retired     B. ill   C. gone    D. injured

45．A. clean     B. strange  C. modern   D. empty

46．A. pleased     B. familiar  C. disappointed  D. astonished

47．A. saved     B. enjoyed  C. purchased   D. designed

48．A. decisions     B. bargains  C. challenges  D. responsibilities

49．A. person     B. neighbor  C. doctor   D. child

50．A. bought     B. discovered C. buried   D. lost

51．A. even      B. just   C. only    D. yet

52．A. liked      B. bought  C. kept    D. lost

53．A. school     B. army   C. college   D. countryside

54．A. receive     B. direct   C. sense    D. describe

55．A. repaired     B. spotted  C. cleaned   D. set

56．A. memories   B. introductions C.  descriptions  D. communications

57．A. recognized    B. represented C. instructed   D. confirmed

58．A. supermarket   B. church   C. office      D. house

59．A. merely     B. always  C. really    D. never

60．A. Anything     B. Nothing  C. Everything  D. Something

第二节（共10小题，每题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

China’s courier sector    61    (see) rapid growth in the last five-day May Day holiday, with parcels    62    (collect) and delivered both surpassing 1 billion pieces, People’s Daily reported. A total of 1.1 billion parcels were collected during the period, up 41.8 percent year-on-year, while 1.04 billion parcels were delivered, up 38.93 percent from a year    63    (early), the State Post Bureau said Wednesday. China’s express    64    (deliver) business rebounded from a low level in January, and experienced positive growth in February. At present, the growth remained    65    a high level of over 30 percent.

The online shopping festival,    66    runs from April 28 to May 10 and is jointly launched by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Post Bureau and the China Consumers Association,    67      (promote) express deliveries in the near term,    68    official from the bureau said. The booming online sales of food, daily    69    (necessary) and electronic devices has stimulated small and medium-sized enterprises to resume work, the bureau said,       70    (add) that online sales of agricultural products also maintained fast growth thanks to sufficient supply and demand.

第 Ⅱ 卷

第四部分：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)

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

增加：把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。

    注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

           2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I always had a dream to be a fluency speaker. However, such shy was I that I didn’t dare to utter a word in public. That was just beyond my wildest imagination was that fortune should bless me with a chance to realize my dream. One day, my English teacher asked me to go to her office and told me I was given an unique opportunity to take part in an English speaking competition. Hearing this, I could hardly hide my excitement, hoped to give it a shot immediately. When making preparation for the competition, I wrote my speech heart and soul. After finishing the composition, I discussed it with my teacher and got much advice on how to improve it. Under the help of my English teacher, I didn’t lose heart and that made great progress. Only then I realize that it was great beneficial to turn to teachers for help when confronted with difficulties.

笫二节  书面表达（满分25分）

假定你是某学校的学生会主席李华，你校即将举行100周年校庆活动(100th School Anniversary)，请你作为学生代表进行发言。请你写一篇发言稿，要点如下：

1. 表达祝福；

2. 收获与成长；

3. 你的祝愿。

注意：写作词数应为100左右；

赤峰二中2021 级高二下学期月考（二）

第一部分：基础知识（共20小题，每题1.5分 满分30分）

1.shall/will

2.might /could have come

3.left

4.Such

5.do

6.isn't

7.what

8.when

9.that

10.What

11.whoever

12.to

13.to be

14.have been polluted

15.didn't

16.had been spoken

17. causing

18.delivered

19. where

20.provided/providing

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，20小题，每题2分  满分40分）

21-23 DDA      24-27 DACB    28-31 BDCA    32-35 CCBA

36-40  E B G  F A

第一节 完型填空（共20小题, 每小题1.5分，满分30分）

41-45 ACBCD     46-50 DAACB      51-55 ACBDB    56-60 ABDDC

第二节（共10小题，每题1.5分，满分15分）

61. saw/has seen  62. collected  63. earlier  64. delivery  65. at  66. which  67. has promoted                68. an  69. necessities  70. adding

第一节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

1.fluency→fluent   2.such→so   3.That→What  4.an→a

5.hoped→hoping   6.preparation→preparations    7.Under→With

8.删除that    9. I前添加did      10.great→greatly

作文 25分

Dear fellow students,

As we approach our school's 100th Anniversary, I am honored to address you on behalf of the Students Union. It is with great sincerity that I express our appreciation for our school that has provided us with a wealth of knowledge and opportunities.

High school is not only a time for academic learning, but also a crucial period of personal growth and development. Throughout the years here, we have gained invaluable experiences and met individuals who have shaped us into the people we are today.Our school has been instrumental in facilitating our journeys towards adulthood. We have had the privilege of being taught by remarkable educators who have served as our biggest inspirations and mentors. These teachers have instilled in us a passion for learning and a desire to succeed in all aspects of our lives.

As we celebrate this momentous occasion, let us extend our best wishes to our esteemed school. May our school continue to flourish and provide future generations with the same opportunities we have had. Here's to a fruitful future for our school!

Sincerely,

LiHua