广东省揭阳市普宁市勤建学校2022-2023学年高一下学期期末模拟英语试题

勤建学校高一年级下学期期末调研考试

            英语试卷          2023.5

考试时间 120分钟  卷面分 120分

第I卷（选择题）

第一节        阅读理解  （共15小题，每小题2.5分，共37.5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选项

A

It can be really hard to learn a language well without living in a country full of native speakers! You have to find something interesting! Here’s the solution: TV Series.

Game of Thrones

You should really start watching it. The language is beautiful and easy to understand. Drama, love and good characters mark the show and there are actors from all around the world. You won’t know what’s going to happen at the ending. This is a must-see!

Sherlock

A British masterpiece. Is there any language learner who has not heard of Sherlock Holmes and his friend John Watson? The writers placed the stories into London in the 21st century, so it’s basically a modem version of the original stories. Here you have everything that an English language learner could wish for: British accents, good acting, long and interesting conversations with a lot of humor.

Friends

Everybody knows Friends, which couldn’t be missed off of this list. With many different accents to be heard and lots of dialects, this is the perfect show for English learners. The plot is relatively simple to understand. Six friends battle with tough jobs, complicated relationships and life in Manhattan, New York. In parts of the show there are also British accents to listen to and learn.

How I Met Your Mother

It is one of the most successful situation comedies in the United States, attracting the audience all around the world. Ifs about the life of five friends that live in New York, focusing on their work and their favorite free time activity: sitting in their favorite bar. You get to know many modern American expressions and can enjoy a lot of dialects that make the show even more interesting.

21．Which of the following has an unexpected ending?

A．Friends. B．Sherlock. C．Games of Thrones. D．How J Met Your Mother.

22．What can audience learn from both Sherlock and Friends!

A．Humorous conversations. B．British accents.

C．American dialects. D．Wonderful performances.

23．What do we know about How I Met Your Mother!

A．It attracts audience from all over the world.

B．It is about five American students.

C．There are many formal expressions in the show.

D．It’s the only successful sitcoms in the United States.

B

The job description of a postman doesn’t always include travelling through thick forests, fast-flowing waters and occasionally being run after by wild animals, but for D．Sivan, that is exactly what it is.

Every day for 30 years, this humble postman has been delivering post to some of the most remote villages in Coonoor which are inaccessible by road. Carrying the mail, he walks along the Nilgiri Mountain Railway track, walking through thick forests, crossing slippery streams and walking on railway bridges. Having travelled through the difficult path for 30 years, Mr. Sivan has grown fond of the wild animals he encounters on his daily walks, going so far as to say that they’ve all become his friends. But even his friends have occasionally caused him some trouble, with an elephant once having run after him. He was saved by a truck driver who spotted him and honked at the elephant. The animals recognize him now, though.

As the years rolled by, emails started replacing letter writing. And as more and more people moved from the Nilgiri hills to the plains-the towns of Mettupalayam and Coimbatore, Sivan’s bag became lighter and lighter every day. Many weeks he ended up carrying just 3-4 letter to each village.

One day Sivan noticed that a man to whom he was supposed to deliver his pension had moved to Coimbatore. The man had fallen very sick and was hospitalized. Sivan tracked down the hospital, travelled 80 kms by bus and later car, and delivered the pension. The kind postman even paid for the whole trip himself!

Not all heroes wear a cape(披风);some have white hair and carry a simple bag full of letters. Not all heroes write cool stories on Instagram; some just sit outside a door and read out a son’s letter to his mother.

24．Which of the following best describes Sivan’s daily delivery journey?

A．Awkward.   B．Comfortable.   C．Uneventful.   D．Adventurous.

25．What do the underlined words “his friends” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Postmen.   B．Wild animals.   C．Truck drivers.   D．Villagers in Coonoor.

26．Why did Sivan travel to Coimbatore?

A． To get hospital treatment.     B．To enjoy a trip to the plains.

C． To send a pension check.      D．To draw his pension.

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

A． Capeless hero with a bag      B．The world’s busiest postman

C．The postal service in Coonoor     D．Letters or emails

C

Biologists in the United States are sounding an alarm about a deadly disease that has been attacking a quiet, intelligent animal: the bat. The disease, called white-nose syndrome, is an infection caused by a fungus (真菌) that attack the nose, wings, and other skin areas on the bodies of bats while they are hibernating (冬眠) in large groups in their caves. The disease was first discovered in a New York cave in the winter of 2006, and it is spreading quickly. Infected caves have been discovered in 19 states and in Canada.

Scientists have discovered that the source is a strain of a cold-loving fungus usually found in polar regions. They are not sure how the fungus kills bats. One theory is that the fungus causes discomfort. The bats began to become upset and partially wake up from hibernation. This activity causes them to burn precious stored body fat and die of starvation. Experts estimate that over 5. 5 million bats across nine species have disappeared because of the disease. Wildlife experts fear that if the infection spreads to more bat populations in the Southeast and Midwest, endangered bat species, such as the Indiana bat and Virginia big-eared bat, may be in grave danger of extinction.

Why should Americans care about the loss of these creatures? In warm months, bat fly at night, eating up to their body weight in insects. They control the populations of insects that bite, eat crops, destroy forests, and spread disease. Because of this, the United States government is getting involved. It has heard announcements from bat experts and is taking seriously their pleas (请愿) for funding to study the disease. The possibility of what one lawmaker called “an ecological and economic disaster” is very real if the deadly disease spreads further.

28．What causes white-nose syndrome among the bats?

A．Ecological pollution.    B．A cold-loving fungus.

C．The freezing climate.    D．The lack of food.

29．What is the main idea of paragraph 2?

A． Where the experts discovered the disease.  B．Why the bats’ hibernation is disturbed.

C． How the fungus possibly affects bats.   D．What contributed to the concern of the experts.

30．What is the main concern about the extinction of the bat in the US?

A．The imbalance of the ecosystem.    B．The destruction of the forests.

C．The spread of the disease.    D．The decrease of the insect population.

31．What is the US government most likely to do in the future?

A．To introduce laws to protect bats.

B．To appeal to people to stay away from infected bats.

C．To declare the coming of an ecological disaster

D． To approve funding for bat disease research.

D

“I’ll be there in a few minutes. I’m playing a game with a friend, a guy named Scuzzball,” my 15-year-old son shouted from his room. “Oh, what is Scuzzball’s real name?” I asked. “I have no idea.” He said. “Where is he from?” I continued. He responded, “I think somewhere in Canada. Oh, wait, it doesn’t even matter because Scuzzball just left the game and he has been replaced with a robot.”

“Your friend is replaced by artificial intelligence?” “It doesn’t matter, Dad. It happens all the time! The game continues.” My son doesn’t mind playing with a person or a robot, which is typical of gamers these days. I wonder whether the face-to-face experience of friendship that I grew up with will be lost by our children.

Aristotle, a great thinker and educator, has pointed out that shallow friendship is easily formed but also easily abandoned because such bonds are fragile. Deep friendship, by contrast, is when you care for your friend for his sake, not for any benefit you can get. This is selfless friendship. You can have only a couple of these friends because they require lots of time and effort. You must make sacrifices for each other.

Presence in friendship requires “being with” and “doing for”. Perhaps the most defining feature of deep friendship is “doing for”, as my friend has my back in trouble or brings me soup when I’m sick. Only strong bonds have the power to motivate real sacrifices. But it is unclear why online “friends” would bother to do the hard work of friendship. When I asked my students whether they had people in their lives who would bring them soup when they were sick, they laughed at my Stone Age question and said they’d just order soup online themselves.

Digital life fills and absorbs waking life time so that people do not join in example case of friendship, like sports, collective arts, free range childhoods, etc. In this way, digital life produces false friendships.

32．How does the author lead in the topic of the text?

A．By quoting famous mottoes.

B．By presenting a parent-child conversation.

C．By showing robots’ irreplaceable role.

D．By introducing an online game.

33．What does the author mainly explain in Paragraph 3?

A．The meaning of deep friendship.

B．Impact of selfish friendship.

C．Selfless sacrifices in friendship.

D．The formation of shallow friendship.

34．What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A．Ordering food online for friends is an example of “being with”.

B．The students thought highly of the teacher’s question.

C．Virtual friends won’t make real sacrifices.

D．Robots will have our back in trouble.

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

A．The Benefits of Digital Life

B．The Sacrifices of Online Friends

C．Face-to-face Communication

D． Digitalized Friendship

第二节  七选五（共5小题，每小题2.5分，共12.5分）

     阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

A choir teacher is a music teacher who specializes in helping students learn to use their voices in an ensemble (合奏) setting. ____36____ He or she also teaches students skills for managing the sound one produces and interacting with the other singers in the choir.

Like other teachers, choir teachers in public schools are required to be certified by the state in which they teach. Choir teachers frequently have other music skills. ____37____

In some schools, all students attend a choir class, while in others, choir is an elective (选修课). In the first case, many of the students most likely have no special training. ____38____ In the second case, students may have both a particular talent for singing and an interest in devoting time to learning how to do it better.

Within choir class, the choir teacher helps students warm up their voices, learn singing techniques, and learn specific songs that he or she has chosen as appropriate for the specific voices. ____39____ Meanwhile, older students learn to sing in parts that are appropriate to the range of their voices, which the choir teacher determines.

____40____ He or she may teach at many schools in a district or in many districts. In addition, the choir teacher may give private voice lessons within the school day as an elective, or outside of school. Coaching students who have a lead role in a school musical and rehearsing the chorus singers is another role that may fall to the choir teacher.

A．They may have no special interest in the class at all.

B．Students learn to listen to each other as they sing.

C．There may be many ways to become a choir teacher.

D．The backgrounds of these choir teachers are varied too.

E．This involves learning information about music and reading music.

F．A full-time choir teacher may not be limited to working in a single school.

G．For example, they might be singers themselves or be good at playing an instrument.

第三节  完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，共15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

Oak Middle School organized a school talent show on Saturday night where Jagger, a teenager with autism(自闭症)sang “Let It Go”. Suddenly he forgot the ____41____. The children watching Jagger’s performance offered ____42____ and spontaneously(自发)started to ____43____ along with him.

The added support gave the 13-year-old boy enough confidence to ____44____ the words of the song again. Jagger ended his appearance to loud applause(鼓掌). “It was just that ____45____ moment when it just felt like the entire community gathered around him,” Jagger’s mother Stacey said.

What ____46____ Jagger was that everyone did that for him. The kids ____47____ around him. They showed him that he is not disabled but he is just differently ____48____. Olivia Klein, Jagger’s teacher recorded the ____49____ moment on camera. “You could sec an obvious ______50______ in his emotions,” Klein said. “He got really happy and he  ______51______ the song.”

Jagger didn’t ______52______ any of the kids in the audience because he attends a different school out of town. It made the ______53______ even more special. “I just feel so ______54______ to live here and for the way the kids and the community ______55______ him,” his mother added.

41．A．fears B．words C．performance D．music

42．A．guidance B．explanation C．services D．assistance

43．A．sing B．cry C．applaud D．come

44．A．make up B．pick up C．refer to D．search for

45．A．disastrous B．awkward C．magical D．annoying

46．A．excited B．frightened C．attracted D．confused

47．A．turned B．danced C．ran D．gathered

48．A．impressive B．able C．fluent D．calm

49．A．difficult B．quiet C．heartwarming D．sacred

50．A．change B．feature C．injury D．stress

51．A．challenged B．started C．chose D．finished

52．A．know B．request C．admire D．greet

53．A．disease B．community C．moment D．camera

54．A．anxious B．lucky C．responsible D．lost

55．A．reminded B．contacted C．supported D．honored

第II卷（非选择题）

第四节  用单词的适当形式完成短文（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30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

Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia’s biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top ____56____(attract).

So it was a great honor to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research. I ___57___(allow) to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre center. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will be ____58____(official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back ____59____ my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, ____60____ I was the first Western TV reporter ____61____(permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial duties will include ____62____(introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research center in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.

On my recent visit, I held a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by ____63____(it) mother. The nursery team switches him every few ____64____(day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, ______65______ other is with mum—she never suspects.

第五节  根据句意以及所给的首字母或汉语意思，用单词的正确形式填空。（填入答题卷上的答案必须完整，否则答案无效。每小题1分，共10分）

66. Everyone wants to make a good _____________(印象)on the first school day.

67. I couldn’t _______________(集中精力)on the experiment because it was noisy outside.

68. I know I’ll have to study harder as a senior high school student and get used to being ________________(有责任的)for a lot more.

69. After reaching your __________________(目的地),you will have a day to explore it.

70. In time of disaster, people must unify and show the __________(智慧)to stay positive.

71. My adviser r________________ that I should sign up for advanced literature because I like English and I am good at it.

72. A committee was e_____________ to limit damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the loss of cultural relics.

73. Only when we learn to exist in h______________ with nature can we stop being a threat to wildlife and to our planet.

74. There are countless articles telling us how the Internet has made our lives more c___________________.

75. Since then, the virtual choir has become a worldwide p_________________.

第六节  应用文写作 （15分）

假定你是李华，下周有新西兰学生访问你校，你将作为学生代表致欢迎辞。请为此写一篇发言稿，内容包括：

1. 表示欢迎;2. 介绍活动安排;3. 表达祝愿。

注意：1. 词数 80 左右;2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear friends from New Zealand,

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第七节  读后续写（15分）

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。

Erika and the Necklace

Erika and her little sister Beth sneaked into their mommy’s room. “I’m just going to try on some jewelry,” said Erika. She took a necklace and tried to put it on her neck. “Oh, no,” said Beth. “Mommy doesn’t like us playing with her stuff.” “Okay, you be the lookout,” instructed Erika. “Stand by the door and let me know if Mommy comes up the stairs.”

Before Beth got to the door, Bouncer, the family’s Bernedoodle dog, bounded into the room and almost knocked Erika down. The necklace went flying. It had barely hit the floor when Bouncer bit it and raced off.

“Bouncer! Bouncer!” yelled Erika. “Beth, help me get the necklace back.” The girls were hot on Bouncer’s tail. “Stop!” they yelled. Bouncer dashed down the stairs and into the living room. He stopped just long enough for the girls to get close to him. Then of he went. “Stop!” yelled Erika. “Beth, you go the other way. We’ll corner him in the dining room.”

Erika met Beth in the dining room. Sure enough, Bouncer was there waiting for them. He was down low on his front legs with his tail in the air, ready to play. “Grab him!” screamed Erika.

Just as Beth was about to grab him, Bouncer took off. He whizzed (嗖地移动) by Beth and Erika. “Stop, you troublemaker!” yelled Erika as she raced after him. The girls were getting close again, but Bouncer zoomed down the basement stairs. The girls raced after him. “I don’t see him,” said Beth. Erika scratched her head. “He’s got to be down here. He’s hiding.”

Just then Mom called to the girls. “Erika, what’s all the noise? What’s wrong? I heard you from the yard.” “Uh, oh,” whispered Erika. “Uh.. nothing’s wrong,” she shouted.

Beth dashed up the stairs. Erika heard her telling Mom everything. “That blabber mouth (多嘴的人),” said Erika under her breath.

“ERIKA!” said Mom. “Up here right now.” Hurrying upstairs, Erika could feel her blood rushing to her face. While she was trying hard to find an excuse, Mom’s voice broke in. “Where is he now?” asked Mom, with arms crossed. Not daring to look into Mom’s eyes, Erika just pointed to the basement as a reply. The three remained silent, wondering how to get the necklace back. Suddenly, an idea flashed across Erika’s mind. She went straight to the kitchen counter and took some snacks. “I know what to do. Just come with me,” she smiled.

注意：

1.所续写短文的词数应为100左右；

2.续写部分的开头语已为你写好。

Mom and Beth followed her into the basement (地下室) , Erika carrying the snacks.

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