2023_2024学年吉林白山抚松县抚松县第一中学高二下学期期中英语试卷（5月）

这是一份2023_2024学年吉林白山抚松县抚松县第一中学高二下学期期中英语试卷（5月），共6页。试卷主要包含了阅读理解，完形填空，语法填空，书信写作，书面表达等内容，欢迎下载使用。
2023~2024学年吉林白山抚松县抚松县第一中学高二下学期期中英语试卷（5月）
一、阅读理解
Searching the OED
Hw t use the quick search
The quick search bar can be fund n the OED (Oxfrd English Dictinary) hmepage and at the tp f every entry page, and finds main dictinary
entries, such as alphabet, break, xylphne. It als finds phrases and cmpunds listed within main entries, such as t lk up r alphabet bk, and
different frms f spellings such as dictinaries.
Wildcard searches
A wildcard is a symbl which stands fr any character. The questin mark? represents the ccurrence f any ne single character, and the asterisk*
represents the ccurrence f any number f characters (r n character at all). Wildeards are useful if yu d nt knw hw t spell a wrd, r if yu
want t find several terms beginning with the same rt.
Hw t use the advanced search
An advanced search is a full search f the entire dictinary text which is fr readers wh have lgged in r subscribed t the dictinary. Advanced
search can be especially useful fr very specific searches. Yu can use the search area functinality t search by each sectin f an entry. Yu can als use
filters t narrw yur search t match certain criteria.
Brwsing by categries
Categries allw yu t explre the dictinary thrugh grupings f wrds in, fr instance. a subject r frm a particular rigin. If yu want t find
all the Caribbean brrwings in English, r find the first wrd related t friend t enter the dictinary, this is the functin fr yu.
Further explre yur search by using the ptins that appear n the right-hand side f the results page.
【小题1】What will yu use if yu want t lk up sme terms beginning with the same rt?
A．The quick search.
B．The advanced search.
C．Wildcard searches.
D．Brwsing by categries.
【小题2】What’s the requirement f using the advanced search?
A．Matching certain criteria.
B．Registering fr the dictinary.
C．Searching with specific wrds.
【小题3】What is the purpse f the text?
A．T prmte a search engine.
D．Searching with purpse.
B．T recmmend a shpping website.
C．T tell learners hw t surf the Internet.
D．T explain hw t use an nline dictinary.
I started playing the pian when I was arund fur years ld—that was 15 years ag!—and since then, the lngest I haven’t tuched pian keys
was prbably tw mnths. This was an enrmus amunt f devtin t smething that I wasn’t even planning t make mney ff f—s there must
have been smething wrth hlding n t, right?
The easy guess is that I was always s purely in lve with music and pian that I culdn’t bear t let them g. Hwever, it’s a bit mre cmplicated
than that. I struggled a lt with pian. I felt pressure t imprve, innvate, and be the best in rder t prve smething t thers. The seed f my musical
interest was grwn with cmpetitin and dubt.
It’s difficult t learn t lve smething that yu didn’t chse in the first place. But smehw, smetime, lve grew. And by high schl, it was
strng enugh that I fund the strength t hld n tighter, dig further, and find smething f my wn t grw. In a way, I had t start ver.
And s, I tk a pause. I switched teachers, and gt incredibly lucky with ne wh encuraged me and helped me tunnel int what I lved, nt what
I was tld I shuld learn. Anything I had was gd enugh t be lved.
This summer, I started learning the guitar. I deliberately wanted t learn n my wn—this was just fr me, t frm a new relatinship t music. Even
thugh my guitar skills are miles lwer than my pian skills, I feel I can express myself even mre whlly thrugh strings than keys. There’s just
smething abut ding it all fr myself that has helped me heal the damages t my relatinship t music.
The lve and hate I’ve had fr the pian were bth planted and grwn. If yu t have learned t hate smething yu nce lved—r smething
yu never chse—remember that with dedicatin, it can be uprted, and lve can make a hme in its place. There is always time. There is always rm.

【小题1】What can we learn abut the authr’s experience frm Paragraph 1?
A．He prbably spent tw mnths in playing the pian.
B．He began t play the pian when he was 15 years ld.
C．He thught it necessary t start playing the pian early.
D．He cmmitted himself t the pian nt fr financial factrs.
【小题2】Which f the fllwing wrds best describes the authr’s relatinship with the pian?
A．Bittersweet.
B．Harmnius.
C．Painful.
D．Passive.
【小题3】What inspired the authr t learn the guitar?
A．His teacher’s cnstant encuragement.
C．His interest in strings rather than keys.
【小题4】What is the best title fr the text?
A．Practice makes perfect
B．His desire fr a new relatinship with music.
D．His talent fr playing musical instruments.
B．Lve cannt be frced
C．Lve is a thing that grws
D．There is n end t learning
Mst air cnditiners and fridges rely n cntracting and expanding a liquid t either absrb r release large quantities f heat. While these systems
are relatively cheap and simple t prduce, they aren’t very efficient and require lts f energy. Besides, many f the clants used are envirnmentally
harmful.
Nw, Emmanuel Defay at the Luxemburg Institute f Science and Technlgy and his clleagues have develped a clant-free refrigeratin device
made frm the metals lead, scandium (钪) and tantalum (钼). It can reach maximum efficiencies f mre than 60%, almst duble that f typical single-
rm air cnditining units. The technlgy is based n a principle called electrcalric cling, in which an electric field applied acrss a material
changes the directin f electric charges, causing a temprary increase in temperature and a succeeding decrease when the electric field is remved.
T make their cling system, Defay and his clleagues piled up eight strips f the material knwn as lead scandium tantalate, which is electrcalric,
n tp f ne anther and dipped them in a heat-carrying liquid, silicne il. When an electric field is switched n and the strips heat up, the liquid
mves t the right, and when it cls dwn, it mves t the left, creating permanent regins f ht and cld f abut 20℃difference. These regins can
be used as ht and cld reservirs frm which the il can be circulated thrugh pipes t cl r heat rms r bjects as desired.
“Althugh the efficiency f the device is theretically 67%, the efficiency f the current design is arund 12%. This culd be imprved if a better
cnductr f heat than the lead scandium tantalate were fund,” said Defay.
“A highest perfrmance has been achieved by cmbining knwn elements,” said NeilMathur at the University f Cambridge. Hwever, he added,
the team nly lked at the cling pwer f the pile f metal strips themselves, while it wuld be interesting t see hw the entire device perfrms
tgether.
【小题1】What des the authr think f the system f traditinal air cnditiners?
A．Efficient.
B．Expensive.
C．Highly energy-cnsuming.
D．Envirnmentally-friendly.
【小题2】What is the third paragraph mainly abut?
A．The aim f Defay and his clleagues.
C．The prpsal f Defay and his clleagues.
B．The material f the new cling system.
D．The wrking principle f the new cling system.
【小题3】What matters in the current efficiency f the device researched by Defay’s team?
A．The extensive experiments.
B．The prper equipment.
C．The ideal temperature.
D．The apprpriate materials.
【小题4】What’s the authr likely t talk abut next?
A．The perfrmance f the new cling system.
C．The sales prmtin f the new device.
B．The research team’s next arrangement.
D．Neil Mathur’s cmments n the device.
Mthers wh eat apples in early pregnancy culd be prtecting the brain health f their children and grandchildren. The discvery is part f a
prject that fund a mther’s diet can affect nt just her child’s brain but als thse f her grandchildren. Published in Nature Cell Bilgy, the study

fund that certain fds culd help prtect against the deteriratin (退化) f brain functin. Mre specifically, the study used rundwrms as the
genetic mdel because many f their genes are als fund cnserved in humans, allwing insights int human cells.
The researchers fund that a mlecule (分子) present in apples helped reduce the breakdwn f cmmunicatin cables needed fr the brain t wrk
prperly. Senir authr Prfessr Rger Pcck and his team investigated nerve cells in the brain that cnnect and cmmunicate with each ther
thrugh abut 850, 000 kilmeters f cables called axns. Prfessr Pcck explained that a breakdwn that caused the axns t becme weak led t
brain dysfunctin. He said his team used a genetic mdel with fragile (脆弱的) axns that break as animals age.
“We asked whether natural prducts fund in the diet can stabilize these axns and prevent breakage,” he said. “We identified a mlecule fund
in apples(urslic acid) that reduces axn fragility. Hw? We fund that urslic acid causes a gene t turn n that and makes a specific type f fat. This
particular fat als prevented axn fragility as animals age.”
Prfessr Pcck said this type f fat, knwn as a sphinglipid, had t travel frm the mther’s intestine, where fd is digested, t eggs in the
uterus fr it t prtect axns in the next generatin. “This is the first time that a fat has been shwn t be inherited,” he said. “Further, feeding the
mther the sphinglipid prtects the axns f tw subsequent generatins. This means a mther’s diet can affect nt just their ffspring’s brain but
ptentially subsequent generatins.” He said while the results were prmising, they still need t be cnfirmed in humans.
【小题1】What is the finding f the study?
A．Rundwrms help understand human cells.
B．What a mther eats decides the child’s future.
C．Rundwrms have similar genes with human beings.
D．Sme fds taken by the pregnant benefit children ‘s brain.
【小题2】What des “dysfunctin” underlined in paragraph 2 prbably mean?
A．Quality.
B．Abnrmality.
C．Unavidability.
D．Flexibility.
【小题3】What d the researchers aim t cnfirm with natural prducts?
A．Prductin f urslic acid.
B．The success f gene therapy.
C．The aging prcess in rundwrms.
【小题4】What might the fllw-up study fcus n?
A．Clinic trials.
D．The cnnectin between diet and axn fragility.
B．Benefits f urslic acid.
C．Functins f sphinglipids.
D．Specific brain-influencing fds.
As fall appraches, like many f us wh either fllw an academic calendar fr ur wrk r have children in schl, I’m preparing fr a significant
change in my schedule. As I anticipate mre demands n my time, I reflect n hw t maintain sme sense f balance in my life.
First f all, it is sensible t think small. We ften feel like ur values-based actins need t take a significant amunt f time.
【小题1】
【小题2】
Lk
ver the areas that yu are having truble fitting int yur life. Is there a way t engage in a small part daily r weekly? Maybe instead f 90 minutes f
yga, yu can d a few pses in the mrning r stretch during wrk break.
【小题3】
A gd friend f mine ften sets up calls with me while she is taking her daily walks. She still gets her exercise and her time
utside, and we als get t cnnect. Ding husewrk as a family can help parents have valued family time while still keeping their hmes running
smthly.
As we knw, life is messy and ever-changing. It’s als imprtant t pay attentin while we are ding the actins that matter t us. It can be easy t
think f the areas we aren’t engaged in.
One mre thing that needs t be added is the fact that n matter hw much attentin we bring t balancing ur lives, we will unavidably fall ut f
balance again. 【小题5】 Please be gentle with urselves. And it may be helpful t think f the saying, “Fall dwn seven times; get up eight.”
【小题4】
Bringing mindfulness t ur actins makes them mre rewarding.
A．Dn’t take it t much t heart
B．We may put meaningful actins tgether.
C．Hwever, we dn’t ntice what we are ding.
D．Balancing ur lives requires planning and actin.
E．I ften underestimate hw lng it takes me t d a task.
F．Hence, I can d what matters t me acrss many areas f my life.
G．Even small numbers f values-based actins can be meaningful, thugh.

二、完形填空
With my degree in educatin and an internship (实习) in a high schl under my belt, I felt ready fr my first real jb teaching furth graders. I
prepared clear lessn
and plans. I brke dwn
ideas int cncepts kids at this level culd understand. Then I gt int the classrm, and
it all
. “Why isn’t this wrking?” I thught at the end f anther
day.
It was easy t think my jb was impssible, but I knew that wasn’t true. I had
right acrss the hall, in Marcia’s
. Marcia taught third
grade. She was a ray f sunshine in her kids’
The next day, I asked Marcia if I culd
immediately. What a cntrast!
. The children ran up t her in the hall, giving her hugs.
her fr a while in her class. “Hw abut a ?” she asked, taking ut a guitar. The children
Marcia seemed t have all the time in the wrld — nt just fr singing, but fr each child. When ne
student’s desk and drpped t her knees t give up-clse attentin.
lked a bit lst, she walked ver t the
my lessn plans. But I discvered I enjyed
I culdn’t
t put sme f the things I’d learned int practice. It wasn’t easy at first t
walking frm desk t desk, talking t my students ne-n-ne, getting t knw them as
.
Marcia left ur schl at the end f the year, but she
A．qutes B．bjectives
me every day f my 40-year career.【小题1】
C．instructins
D．remarks
【小题2】
A．interesting
【小题3】
B．infrmal
C．serius
C．wrked ut
D．cmplicated
A．fell apart
【小题4】
B．went ver
B．shameful
D．gt thrugh
A．exciting
【小题5】
C．discuraging
D．impressive
A．experience
【小题6】
B．selectin
C．cmpany
D．prf
A．classrm
【小题7】
B．cncert
C．club
D．jurnal
A．dreams
【小题8】
B．lives
C．schedules
D．assignments
A．describe
【小题9】
B．disturb
C．assess
D．bserve
A．discussin
【小题10】
A．cheered
【小题11】
A．even
B．game
C．sng
D．quiz
B．fled
C．allwed
D．perfrmed
B．instead
C．regularly
D．purpsely
【小题12】
A．mean
B．refuse
C．chse
D．wait
【小题13】
A．review
B．ignre
C．prepare
D．acknwledge
【小题14】
A．students
【小题15】
A．reminded
B．strangers
C．supermen
D．individuals
B．fllwed
C．inspired
D．greeted

三、语法填空
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适当形式。
On Jan 23, the third batch f natinal-level ski turism resrts was annunced.
【小题1】
the seven successful entries natinwide, the
Changbai Muntain Ski Resrt in the Chibei area f Nrtheast China’s Jilin prvince was listed, ptentially becming the prvince’s fifth natinal-level
ski resrt destinatin.
Prir
【小题2】
this annuncement, Jilin prvince was already hme t fur natinal-level ski resrts, including Lake Snghua Resrt,
Changbai Muntain Wanda Internatinal Resrt, Beidahu Ski Resrt, and Wanfeng Tnghua Ski Resrt.
Up t nw, a ttal f 26 resrts
【小题3】
【小题5】
(becme) natinal-level ski resrt destinatins, with Jilin prvince
【小题4】
(hld) five
spts, the highest number natinwide.
yu’re a beginner r an 【小题6】 (advance) skier, there are suitable ski slpes fr yu.
【小题7】
(emply) its abundant ice and snw resurces, Jilin has been actively prmting the develpment f its ice and snw ecnmy. It is
fcusing n cultivating new mmentum fr this sectr and transfrming its “cld resurces” int “ht industries”, which attract many ski enthusiasts
frm hme and abrad.
Jilin is nw hme t 75 ski resrts, making it
(exceptin) winter resurces 【小题10】
【小题8】
attractive destinatin fr winter activities. The Changbai Muntains ffer
【小题
9】
are cnsidered ne f the wrld’s tp three pwder snw destinatins, alngside the Swiss Alps
and the Rcky Muntains.
四、书信写作
假设你是高二学生李华，你校将于下周一举行成人礼（cming-f-age ceremny），请你作为学生代表进行发言，内容包括：
1. 你对师长亲友的感谢；2. 你的收获与感想；
注意：
1. 词数不少于80词；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear fellw schlmates,
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Thanks fr yur attentin!
五、书面表达
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Michael saw the truble cming. There standing in the hallway was Frank, the by wh enjyed making fun f anyne at any given mment. Frank
was tall and strng, s few f his victims std up t him. Michael hated the idea that Frank always gt away with his wrngding. Yet like mst kids wh
were picked n, he just tk it quietly and waited fr the unpleasant t pass.
Frank walked up, his eyes lcked n the bks in Michael’s arms. When they met, Frank stpped unexpectedly, “Hey, let me see thse bks!”
Sme students watched as Michael held ut the bks he was carrying, trying nt t give away his nervusness.
Frank tk a bk, lked inside fr a secnd, and then threw the bk at Michael, wh drpped all the ther bks. “Hey, thse are schl
prperty,” Frank barked, “Be careful!” Then he walked away, laughing ludly.
Michael, his cheeks turning red, half kicked the fallen bks. Suddenly a hand picked up ne bk. “Yu lk like yu culd use a p ally (盟友),” a
friendly vice said. It was Ramn, the mst athletic by in the high schl. Michael culdn’t believe Ramn was stpping t help him as they barely
spke.
“Thanks,” Michael sighed with relief. “It’s cnfusing. I dn’t knw what his prblems is.”
“Well, as I see it,” Ramn said, “yu need t find a way t end this.” Michael ndded, stuck fr what t say. Ramn cntinued, “Yu knw my
grandmther used t tell me whenever I had a prblem with smene. She’d say, ‘Yu can catch mre flies with hney than with vinegar (醋).’”
Lking puzzled, Michael asked, “What des that mean?”
“It means kindness may be mre effective than anger,” Ramn explained.

“Can yu just tell Frank t stp picking n me?” Michael suggested.
“That’s vinegar,” Ramn laughed as he walked away. “Try hney instead.”
Ramn’s wrds left Michael thinking.
The next schl day brught Michael’s usual pain. There std Frank, and Michael knew it wuld be just secnds befre he had t face him in the
middle f the hall. Frank came nearer.
注意：
（1）续写词数应为150个左右；
（2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Then, suddenly, the unexpected happened.
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Michael bent dwn and quickly picked up Frank’s bks n the flr.
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