四川省绵阳中学2022-2023学年高二上学期第四次月考英语试题

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绵阳中学高2021级高二英语上学期月考卷（四）
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，选出最佳选项。
1. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a gym. B. In a restaurant. C. In a playground.
2. Who is the man probably?
A. A cook. B. A doctor. C. A pilot.
3. Where did the man want to go?
A. The UK. B. Spain. C. Portugal.
4. What will the speakers be doing at 11:00 am today?
A. Doing exercise. B. Watching a play. C. Having a math class.
5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A teacher. B. A show. C. A textbook.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the woman probably doing now?
A. Giving advice. B. Asking a favor. C. Sending an invitation.
7. When can people visit the museum?
A. At 9:00 am. B. At 10:00 am. C. At 1:00 pm.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What does the woman plan to do in 15 minutes?
A. Make a presentation. B. Chair a meeting. C. Fix the main screen.
9. How does the woman probably feel at first?
A. Annoyed. B. Pleased. C. Worried.
10. What will the man probably do for the woman?
A. Draw the curtains. B. Find a new room. C. Try out the equipment.
听第8段材料，回答第11至14题。
11. How often does the woman see Erica?
A. About once a week. B. About once a month.
C. About once every two months.
12. How long does it take the woman to see Erica every time?
A. About an hour. B. About two hours. C. About three hours.
13. Why does the man suggest the woman take the train?
A. It is cheaper. B. It is quicker. C. It is safer.
14. What do we know about Erica?
A. She is a student. B. She is the man's wife. C. She stays in a new city.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
15. How did the woman's friends feel about her move at first?
A. Disappointed. B. Surprised. C. Excited.
16. Where does the woman do most of her work after her move?
A. In the office. B. At home. C. In the cafe.
17. What problem did the woman face in the early days?
A. There were few shops. B. There was no place to park.
C. There were a lot of power cuts.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. How will the listeners probably go back to the hotel?
A. By bus. B. On foot. C. By car.
19. What are the listeners advised to do?
A. Buy a postcard. B. Book tickets online.
C. Get an information brochure.
20. Where does the speaker advise the listeners to go finally?
A. The shop. B. The Roman room. C. The entrance hall.
第二部分 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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Science World
From Europe's biggest science festival to the coolest projects, check out this month's science events.
Edinburgh Science Festival
For two weeks every April, Scotland's capital city Edinburgh is home to Europe's biggest science festival. This year's festival will have a particular focus on life forms, life cycles and how to fight climate change.
Highlights include the City Art Centre, which has been transformed into a five-floor science playground. Meanwhile, over at the National Museum of Scotland, visitors can become an immunologist ( 免 疫 学 家) for the day and make their own vaccine. For those not in Edinburgh, EdSciFest on Demand is an online resource with workshops and quizzes, which will be free until 7 May. To find out more visit: sciencefestival.co.uk
Dino Kingdom
From 1-18 April, dinosaurs are coming to London's Gunnersbury Park. At Dino Kingdom you can see life-sized models of dinosaurs. To be in with a chance of winning a family ticket to this event, send an email to competitions@science-nature. co. uk by 11: 5 9 pm on 8 April. For rules: sciencenature.theweekjunior.co.uk/terms
Coolest Projects
Do you have an idea for a cool tech project? Why not share it with the world by entering the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Coolest Projects competition? You can enter either as an individual or a team. Judges will score the projects according to how cool they are, how well designed, and how usable. Registration closes on 11 May. To find out more visit: coolestprojects.org
21. Where can visitors make their own vaccine?
A. At the National Museum of Scotland.
B. At London's Gunnersbury Park.
C. At the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
D. At the City Art Centre.
22. How can people get a family ticket to see life-sized models of dinosaurs?
A. They must email competitions@science-nature.co.uk.
B. They should be a member of Dino Kingdom.
C. They have to be a winner of a tech project.
D. They need to take an online test.
23. What is the deadline for entering the Coolest Projects competition?
A. 8 April. B. 18 April. C. 7 May. D. 11 May.
B
Brian Taylor had a successful pet grooming ( 宠物美容) business in New York City. “COVID-19 brought my business to a screeching halt (突然停止),” says Brian. “I had to let all my employees go. That really affected me. So as I was rebuilding my business, I felt the need to give back. I kept thinking about the restaurant industry and what they have done. Even though they were suffering themselves, they started offering meals to the people who were saving lives,” Brian continues.
“That's when I started the Pandemic Pup Relief Fund. The idea was, whatever money a pet parent would donate would go toward free grooming for someone who couldn't afford to have their pups done. In one month, I raised over $2,000,” Brian says.
“The satisfaction of giving help made me want to do more,” shares Brian. “I got the idea of doing a Pandemic Pup Relief Tour and put it out over social media to see if there was any interest from my colleagues to give free grooming to dogs in need. Soon, 55 professional groomers signed up to participate.” In addition, a GoFundMe account was set up and over $27,000 was raised for this amazing project.
Brian drove to each city and hosted a grooming event at a local groomer's salon. Many of the volunteers lived within 50 miles of the locations where they signed up to help, but some came from much farther. At the NYC stop, the Diva Dogg Grooming team of eight traveled from Rhode Island. Candice of Kandi Kutz House Calls, along with a team of four, traveled from Indiana to volunteer. Some groomers from Washington, D.C. offered to travel to Wilmington, North Carolina to lend a hand at that location as well.
The first Pandemic Pup Relief Tour is now over, but it will have a lasting impact on every community they helped, and has laid the groundwork for future projects. “I think I made it fun for groomers to give back,” says Brian. “They got to connect with other groomers and learn different skill sets, as well as helping others — what could be better than that?”
24. What inspired Brian to start the Pandemic Pup Relief Fund?
A. His employees' leaving.
B. People who were saving lives.
C. The satisfaction of giving help.
D. Generous acts of the restaurant industry.
25. What did participants involved in the Pandemic Pup Relief Tour do?
A. They taught pet owners how to attend to their dogs.
B. They provided free grooming services to dogs.
C. They collected money for dogs in need.
D. They built shelters for homeless dogs.
26. What can we learn about the Pandemic Pup Relief Tour?
A. It fueled the pet salon boom.
B. It ran into some financial problems.
C. Its volunteers are from different cities.
D. Its purpose is to call on people to love dogs.
27. What does Brian want to say in the last paragraph?
A. He is planning to launch a second tour.
B. It takes months to see the impact of a project.
C. People should help each other during hard times.
D. The project has brought many benefits to groomers.
C
New Mexico is famed for roasted green chillies with a distinctive smoky flavour, but it comes at a cost — producers in the state typically use propane (丙烷) as fuel, releasing an estimated 7,800 tonnes of CO2 a year. Ken Armijo at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) wanted to see if he could match the flavour without the need for fossil fuels.
Armijo, whose family owns a chilli farm, works with solar concentrators at NSTTF, normally used for experiments boiling liquid to produce electricity, or simulating ( 模 拟) the effect of re-entry on materials used in spacecraft. The facility uses rings of mirrors to focus sunlight on a 60-metre tower at the centre. He improved a traditional chilli roaster and loaded it with 10 kilograms of chillies before placing it in the tower to roast at 480°C.
A group of green chilli connoisseurs ( 品 鉴 师) blind-tasted the solar-roasted version alongside the traditional variety and rated them higher for both flavour and smell. Armijo says infrared ( 红 外 线 的) imaging showed solar heating produced a more even distribution ( 分 布) of heat with fewer hotspots. “Solar-roasted [chillies] appeared to have a much cleaner taste because the localised heat from propane roasting can cause localised burning,” says Armijo.
Although this test took place at a research facility, Armijo says the cost of solar concentrators is dropping and it could be possible to use technology developed at Sandia to build small solar concentrators at low cost. These could produce the high temperatures needed for roasting chillies and other foods.
Armijo is eager to try the technique with other foodstuffs, including cocoa and coffee beans, which are grown in lower-income countries and could be solar roasted.
Pete Schwartz at California Polytechnic State University, who has been exploring solar cooking for many years, said that he was not sure “whether solar concentrators will catch on in lower-income countries, where he has seen many solar projects fail due to lack of training and technical support.”
Armijo says he has been approached by at least 15 companies and is in discussions on ways to commercialise the technology. He is seeking extra funding from the US Department of Energy and other organisations to pursue small solar concentrators for food processing.
28. Why did Armijo roast green chillies using solar concentrators?
A. To increase profits. B. To create a new recipe.
C. To reduce air pollution. D. To improve chillies' taste.
29. What advantage do solar concentrators have over traditional ones?
A. They are lower in production cost.
B. They work with higher efficiency.
C. They spread heat more equally.
D. They are easier to operate.
30. What is Schwartz's attitude to solar concentrators' application in poor countries?
A. Favourable. B. Intolerant. C. Unclear. D. Doubtful.
31. What can we infer about Armijo's technology from the last paragraph?
A. It has been adopted by some companies.
B. It is on its way to the market.
C. It has been officially recognised.
D. It is in need of technical support.
D
“If the self or person of today, and that of tomorrow, are not the same, but only like persons, the person of today is really no more interested in what will befall (降临到……头上) the person of tomorrow, than in what will befall any other person,” Joseph Butler, a well-known philosopher, wrote in 1736.
The theory caught the attention of a researcher called Hal Hershfield, who suspected that a disconnection from our future selves might explain many unreasonable elements of human behaviour — including our unwillingness to exercise often.
To find out, Hershfield first had to find a way to measure someone's “future self-continuity”. He settled on a simple graph that presented pairs of circles representing the current self, and a future self. The circles overlapped (重叠) to varying degrees, and the participants had to identify which pair best described how similar and how connected they felt to a future self 10 years from now.
He then compared these responses to his participants' real-life behaviour. Hershfield first looked at their real-life savings and he found that the more the participant felt connected to their future self, the more money they had already squirrelled away. Later, he found that people's future self-continuity could predict their exercise behaviours and overall fitness; what's more, people who score highly on the future self-continuity measure have higher moral standards than the people who struggle to identify with their future selves.
Hershfield finally confirmed that someone's (in)ability to identify with their future self can have long-term consequences for their overall wellbeing and that our sense of connection to our future selves can be strengthened. You might consider a simple imaginative exercise — in which you write a letter to yourself 20 years from now, describing what is most important for you now and your plans for the coming decades.
It might seem strange to start a “conversation” with an imagined person — but once your future self becomes alive in your mind, you may find it much easier to make the small personal sacrifices ( 牺 牲) that are essential to preserving your wellbeing.
32. What do we learn about the assumed person described by Joseph Butler?
A. He is a self-centred person.
B. He is curious about his future life.
C. He is bored with the same old routine day after day.
D. He is seldom worried about the long-term consequences of his actions.
33. What were the participants required to do in Hershfield's experiment?
A. Draw a simple graph.
B. Select a pair of circles.
C. Predict their overall wellbeing.
D. Compare their real-life behaviours.
34. Which of the following best explains “squirrelled away” underlined in paragraph 4?
A. Cost. B. Taken out.
C. Donated. D. Set aside.
35. What is a way to lead a happier life according to the text?
A. Considering your future self.
B. Being grateful for what you have.
C. Reflecting on your previous behaviour.
D. Making personal sacrifices to help others.
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。
Quizzes help students learn better
Did you know that if you quiz ( 测验) students once a week, they perform better on midterms and final exams? 36 Weekly quizzes, on top of instant teacher feedback (反馈意见), have a positive impact on students.
Not all quizzes are bad.
37 However, after quizzing with low-stakes (minor to no grades), students have been shown to have a grade point 3x higher on their final.
The most helpful kind of quiz is the one that is the least time-consuming. 38 It is as simple as asking students to write down facts from the previous day. And it is often easier to give students a brief quiz on a prior class lesson.
Quizzes prevent students from losing focus.
39 Even when the lecture is about something we're interested in, sometimes it seems inevitable ( 不可避免 的 ) that, at some point, we will lose focus. As a consequence, we will not retain (记住) the information that's taught.
Quizzing students on material as they learn could be a great way to grab their attention. Quizzing students also helps their comprehension levels and helps them retain information better.
40
Quizzes give the teacher an idea of how well the class grasps the concepts. Teachers can understand where students need help. After a quiz, students have a better idea of how well they grasp the material. This will (hopefully) motivate them to study more, and also help them divide their study time more effectively by focusing on the information that needs improvement.
A. Studying is more efficient after a quiz.
B. There is a fear that quizzing students often will lead to anxiety.
C. Quizzed students tend to outperform students who aren't quizzed.
D. They will get into the habit of reflecting on their learning independently.
E. We all know what it's like to be sitting in class and have our minds wander.
F. Students who aren't quizzed quickly forget content without this learning strategy.
G. This is why quick and easy practice quizzes on recently taught content are the most beneficial.
第三部分 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，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I have a collection of all the Our Canada issues in which I have had letters, pictures and stories published. Each one holds a(n) 41 moment for me. And each one always makes me smile and fills me with a sense of 42 for making one of my biggest desires come true.
I remember my mom 43 me to read at the age of three. Not because I was particularly smart, but more out of the need to give me something to do and keep me 44 . Quickly I went from asking to have a book read to me, to “reading” it back the way I thought the story should go, and finally to reading everything 45 . My mom had opened up a world to me that I 46 knew existed.
And so began my 47 for reading and writing. I would read soup can labels in the store and street signs. I branched out into 48 stories in my diary when I was 11. I started 49 pictures when my mom bought me a camera.
In 2016, my mom got me a subscription to Our Canada. She encouraged me to 50 my photos and stories. Gathering up the 51 , I submitted a photo for the Theme Pics Challenge on Our Canada's Facebook page. Imagine my 52 when I got a call from OC editor Maryanne Gallagher saying my photo had been 53 to be published. I was so 54 ! I called my mom and her words were, “This is just the 55 , Debbie. You wait and see.”
My first real 56 was about collecting amber glass, Vaseline glass and tea cups with my mom. I 57 each of my free copies when I am chosen. I keep them 58 and bring them out, smiling, super proud and 59 that I was given this opportunity to 60 what I see and how I feel with so many.
41. A. equal B. special C. brief D. private
42. A. purpose B. humour C. belonging D. pride
43. A. allowing B. reminding C. warning D. teaching
44. A. occupied B. informed C. silent D. normal
45. A. by chance B. in public C. on my own D. for my benefit
46. A. still B. ever C. often D. never
47. A. love B. concern C. request D. study
48. A. reading B. writing C. guessing D. collecting
49. A. drawing B. taking C. trading D. developing
50. A. arrange B. change C. combine D. submit
51. A. courage B. thoughts C. energy D. facts
52. A. shame B. interest C. shock D. curiosity
53. A. selected B. improved C. refused D. replaced
54. A. scared B. puzzled C. excited D. amused
55. A. reward B. beginning C. direction D. achievement
56. A. hobby B. magazine C. feeling D. story
57. A. hold onto B. make use of C. look into D. come up with
58. A. open B. free C. safe D. accurate
59. A. worried B. certain C. grateful D. afraid
60. A. record B. share C. discuss D. remember
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。
The familiar ‘bed’ is Old English in origin. The Old English ‘bedd’is 61. __________ (distant) related to the Germanic word ‘bett’. Modern English has, of course, multiplied its meanings, according to context and usage.
Everyone knows that a bed is a piece of furniture 62. __________ (lie) down and sleep on. By extension, a bed can be an animal's resting place, a garden plot for plants, and so on. How could anyone's 63. __________ (sense) ever fail to linger on (回味) the sweet smell, and breathtaking sight, of a bed of 64. __________ (beauty) roses? Figuratively, one's bed can also be one's tomb where one sleeps in peace forever.
Countries and climates have not gotten in the way of 65. __________ (advise) children as follows: ‘Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise’. Going along with this proverb ( 谚 语) is the reference that Samuel Johnson made to his friend James Boswell. He remarked that nobody 66. __________ does not rise early in the morning will ever do any good.
In his last will, William Shakespeare laid it down that his wife Anne 67. __________ (be) to be given his second best bed in his Stratford home. Remember, it was not because he loved her only second 68. __________ someone else. But 69. __________ was an honourable practice in Shakespeare's time to keep the very best bed ready for a guest.
When a guest calls on us, let us 70. __________ (remind) of this instance of Shakespeare.
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。
Recently, I've read a book on how to survive in the wild. I was especially impressing with the part about dealing with wild animals. If you're out on the hike and see a wild animal, you shouldn't approach them, unless you're an experienced naturalist! Animals in the wild is not used to people and may react defensively, even if you didn't intend to harm them. The advice is to stay calm and walk quiet in a different direction so you don't risk of being hurt. You should stay around only if you're absolutely sure the animal is harmful. Either be ready fight if the animal attacks you, nor run away!
第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，你校近期正在举办一场书籍义卖活动。请给邻近国际中学的学生会主席Frank写封邮件，请他号召他们学校的学生也来参加你校的活动。内容包括：
1. 活动的目的；2. 活动的时间、地点和内容；3. 表达愿望。
注意：词数100左右。
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