2023_2024学年四川高二下学期期中英语试卷（成华某校）

这是一份2023_2024学年四川高二下学期期中英语试卷（成华某校），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学年四川高二下学期期中英语试卷（成华某校）
一、阅读理解
Art and magic ften g hand in hand. These fur new releases explre the magic f the arts and art f magic.
Wlfwd by Marianna Baer
Indig’s mm used t be a celebrated artist. Finishing the painting series — Wlfwd, which shws fur teenagers in a terrifying jungle, can make
her famus and wealthy again, but she is unwilling t. Desperate, Indig begins wrking n the paintings herself, but sn she realizes there’s a
hrrifying reasn why her mther stpped painting Wlfwd.
Bld Debts by Terry Bentn-Walker
Twins Chris and Clem’s family nce ruled ver the magic wrld in New Orleans until a hrrible incident ended that frever, and since then the
family has suffered and Chris has swrn ff magic. Then they discver their mther is being slwly killed by a curse (诅咒). The twins begin t pick apart
the secrets and lies, and realize the nly way t make things right is t fight fr justice.
That Self-Same Metal by Brittany Williams
Jan Sands has a special bnd with metal. She uses her pwers t help her gldsmith father in his wrkshp and t tend the stage weapns used by
William Shakespeare’s acting cmpany. When sme evil pwers fld Lndn, Jan discvers she may be the nly ne t stp them and that she must
decide hw t prtect the peple she lves.
Unraveller by Frances Hardinge
In a wrld where anger can grw int curses, yu might end up turned int a frg. A by named Kellen can unravel (解除) yur curse, setting yu
free. With the mysterius pwer, he tries t right the wrngs with his cmpanin Nettle, which in turn made himself cursed. S they must g int the
unpredictable wilds t seek ut the truth behind curses nce and fr all.
【小题1】What discurages Indig’s mther frm finishing Wlfwd?
A．Surprising difficulty.
B．Hrrifying secrets.
D．Serius diseases.
C．Declining interest.
【小题2】What des That Self-Same Metal mainly talk abut?
A．Dealing with metal.
B．Designing stage weapns.
C．Fighting against evil pwers.
D．Intrducing an acting cmpany.
【小题3】What d the fur bks have in cmmn?
A．They slve real-life prblems.
C．They cntain supernatural elements.
B．They shw the pwer f friendship.
D．They transfrm art wrks int magic.
When he went utside during the break, Jhn Buettner wuld dream f learning the mnkey-bars. He uses a wheelchair, s they aren’t accessible
t him — in fact, mst f the playgrund at Glen Lake Elementary Schl isn’t. Betsy Julien wuld lk ut at the students in their wheelchairs, and
thught, “Our playgrund is nt set up fr everybdy in the schl t play and have fun.”
Nw, thanks t this teacher and her students, that dream is abut t cme true in a bigger way.
Last fall, Julien and a few f her clleagues applied fr, and wn, a grant fr an accessible swing and merry-g-rund. The grant fell ＄35,000 shrt
f the amunt the schl needed, s Julien asked her class t help raise the rest.
Her students jumped at the idea, and tk it a step further. “Why can’t we make the whle playgrund accessible?” said Hadley Mangan. They
brainstrmed ideas n hw t raise mney: dr-kncking, partnering with restaurants, handing ut flyers, and even cld-calling lcal businesses. They
gt t wrk and reached their gal in a matter f weeks. Nw, they aim t raise ＄1 millin s they can cmpletely transfrm their playgrund.
Last week, Julien laded the students fr a field trip t see hw the equipment is built and even gt t clr in a blueprint f the playgrund design.
Buettner said he culd hardly believe hw quickly an idea turned int reality. “All f this equipment is big enugh fr my friends and I t play n. I just

feel sme sense f capability.”
Julien speaks thrugh tears, t, when reflecting n the prject and the transfrmatin. “Anything we raise beynd ur gal will g twards
accessible equipment at neighbring schls. I hpe that the wrld is accepting and inclusive fr every child.”
【小题1】What’s the prblem with the schl playgrund?
A．Little playing space.
B．Limited accessibility.
C．Pr cnstructin funding.
D．Narrw wheelchair passage.
【小题2】What des the underlined phrase “a step further” refer t?
A．Dnating mre mney.
B．Achieving riginal gals.
C．Asking mre peple fr help.
D．Transfrming the whle playgrund.
【小题3】What can we infer frm Buettner’s wrds?
A．He engages mre in dnatin.
C．He becmes an expert in sprts.
【小题4】What can we learn frm Julien’s stry?
A．Hard wrk matters.
B．He has mre faith in himself.
D．He gets mre invlved in cntests.
B．Kindness bears fruits.
C．Gd ideas win favr.
D．Trust prmtes friendship.
“Twards thee I rll, thu all-destrying but uncnquering whale; t the last I grapple with thee; frm hell’s heart I stab at thee; fr hate’s sake I
spit my last breath at thee.” Captain Ahab’s dying declaratin f defiance (抗争) is amng the mst famus passages in Herman Melville’s nvel.
In reality, such victries f the hunted ver the hunter were a fantasy in the cruel wrld f industrial whaling. The biggest cetacean f them all, the
blue whale, had all but disappeared frm the Suthern Ocean by the time a ban n hunting it was intrduced in 1967.
Sightings f the largest mammal ever t live n the earth had been rare in the regin since then. Nt any mre. A survey f castal waters arund
the island f Suth Gergia in the sub-Antarctic has had remarkable results.
In just ver three weeks, in the krill-rich waters f what was nce their main feeding grund, the mvements f 55 Antarctic blues were recrded by
the British Antarctic Survey. The finding was described as “truly, truly amazing” by ne cetacean specialist. It suggests that when a cmprehensive
audit (审计), due in 2021, is carried ut, there is a gd chance that the species will prve t be in full recvery mde, as are humpbacks and ther
whales in the suthern hemisphere.
Three years ag, the Natural Histry Museum established a 25m skeletn (骨架) f a blue whale and named it Hpe, intending t inspire new
generatins t build a sustainable future.
The return f the wrld’s mst splendid cean travellers t suthern waters shuld serve as an example fr wider pssibilities f cnservatin.
Eclgical wrngs can be righted, r at least mitigated, with sufficient will and rganisatins.
The mre general cmeback f the whale - fr which envirnmental campaigners shuld take a great deal f credit — can be an inspiratin fr
victries yet t be wn. It culd als act as an added mtivatin t actin n the climate emergency.
【小题1】What’s the authr’s purpse f mentining the famus passage in Herman Melville’s nvel?
A．T describe a hunters’ bravery.
B．T intrduce the tpic f the text.
C．T stress the ppularity f the nvel.
D．T ffer infrmatin abut whale hunting.
【小题2】Why was a 25m skeletn f a blue whale named Hpe?
A．T attract turists t visit the museum.
B．T shw the unkindness f whale hunters.
C．T mtivate humans t live harmniusly with nature.
D．T call n peple t pay attentin t the blue whales’ habitat.
【小题3】What des the underlined wrd “mitigated” in paragraph 6 prbably mean?
A．Develped.
B．Prmted.
C．Reduced.
D．Slved.
【小题4】What’s the best title f the text?
A．The blue whales’ cmeback
B．The cruelty f industrial whaling

C．The imprtance f prtecting whales
D．The sustainable develpment f the Antarctic area
What d yu want frm life? Perhaps yu want t spend mre time with yur family, r get a mre secure jb, r imprve yur health. But why d
yu want thse things? Chances are that yur answer will cme dwn t ne thing: Happiness.
Yet there is sme evidence that t much pursuit f happiness is assciated with a greater risk f depressin. Mdern cnceptins f happiness are
primarily practical, fcusing n what we might call the techniques f happiness. The cncern is nt what happiness is, but instead n hw t get it.
But maximizing pleasure isn’t the nly ptin. Every human life, even the mst frtunate, is filled with pain. Painful lss, painful disappintments,
the physical pain f injury r sickness, and the mental pain f lng-suffering bredm, lneliness, r sadness. Pain is an unavidable cnsequence f
being alive. All the gd things in life invlve suffering. Writing a nvel, running a marathn, r giving birth all cause suffering in pursuit f the final,
jyus result.
There are ther factrs as well. In the eyes f Aristtle, we get happiness by exercising ur uniquely human capabilities t think and reasn. But
thinking and reasning are as much scial activities as they are individual. Happiness requires thers; it is nt an emtinal state s much as it is the
excellence f the relatins we cultivate with ther peple.
But even that cannt guarantee happiness. Aristtle recgnised that ur happiness is hstage（人质）t frtune. Events beynd any individual’s
cntrl—war, pverty, and glbal pandemics—will ften make happiness impssible. Happiness is nt a mental state that can be permanently wn, but
instead it’s a practice which we hne（磨练）, imperfectly, in circumstances nly partly f ur making.
Recgnizing this will nt secure a gd life, but it will avid the illusry（虚幻的）hpe f permanent cntentment. N life wrth living shuld meet
the nly standard. Instead, aim with Aristtle t embrace thse faults and t flwer in spite f them.
【小题1】Where can yu find negative effects f fcusing t much n “happiness”?
A．In paragraph 2.
C．In paragraph 4.
B．In paragraph 3.
D．In paragraph 5.
【小题2】Hw des the authr prve that pain is an unavidable result f being alive?
A．By making cmparisns.
B．By analyzing causes.
D．By telling stries.
C．By giving examples.
【小题3】What is Aristtle’s view n happiness?
A．Happiness is a stable emtinal state.
B．Gd persnal relatinships lead t happiness.
C．Taking part in scial activities guarantees happiness.
D．Happiness prmtes independent thinking and reasning.
【小题4】What is the text mainly abut?
A．Happiness is what humans pursue frever.
B．Happiness lies in the prcess f pursuing it.
C．Our pursuit f happiness may be imperfect.
D．Depressin and happiness are equally imprtant.
During jb r schl interviews, yu’re likely t be asked what yur strengths and weaknesses are, because the interviewers are interested in hw
yur areas f strengths and weaknesses might affect yur perfrmance in this psitin.
if yu’re applying fr an ffice jb, this strength may be irrelevant.
【小题1】
Fr instance, yu may be skilled in cking, but
Hwever, knwing yur persnal areas f strengths and weaknesses is nt a piece f cake. It takes self-awareness and self-reflectin.
Or, ask sme f yur friends what they see as yur best qualities r shrtcmings.
【小题
2】
【小题3】
getting there in very different ways. If I did smething creative t get my dream jb and yu planned carefully, we’d bth likely be successful. But if I
tried planning and yu tried smething creative, bth f us might fail. 【小题4】
Having a weakness desn’t have t be a bad thing. It culd be smething yu struggle with, but it culd als be smething yu haven’t spent
time develping yet. 【小题5】 Fr example, maybe yur area f weakness is relevant t gratitude. Yu just haven’t spent a lt f time thinking
Fr example, let’s say my strength is creativity and yurs is planning; we bth want t have the same career. We might g abut

abut gratitude befre. But nw yu engage in a bunch f activities that help yu turn gratitude int an area f strength. Hey, nw yu’ve gt ne
mre skill!
A．Is it prper t begin with a truthful answer?
B．S ask yurself what yu are gd r weak at.
C．Our areas f strengths can help us achieve ur gals.
D．Thus, it’s helpful t knw yur strengths related t the rle.
E．Many jb applicants are unsure hw t apprach this questin.
F．By turning a weakness int a strength, yu build ther imprtant skills.
G．That’s why it is imprtant t knw and use ur strengths t reach gals.
二、完形填空
As my sn entered adlescence, we spent mst f ur time in separate rms. I knw it’s
smetimes I find myself trying t think up ways t him ut f his bedrm.
by this desire, I bked tw tickets t Beijing fr the September schl hlidays. With hurriedly packed luggage and a basic plan built arund
sme last-minute Ggle searches, we the airprt. We landed and excited at 4: 30 am. There is smething very freeing abut arriving in a
place where yu have n . We just walked fr hurs every day, when we were hungry, wandering back streets, sharing mre than
fr teenagers t shut themselves away, but
we’d shared since he was very little. Within a day he’d becme the
when we arrived at Xiangshan. He shwed me hw t accelerate and led me speeding up and dwn hills.
I saw him in China, nt the child running late fr schl r frgetting t eat carrts and peas, but as smene taller than me wh understd
when t n a train s smene lder culd take his seat, and hw t buying things with his wn mney.
Travelling meant we were mre like . And instead f cmplaining abut the versin f him, I saw the adult he was becming.
, and I was the lst ne. He taught me hw t
shared electric bikes
【小题1】
A．interesting
【小题2】
B．natural
C．steady
D．legal
A．detect
【小题3】
B．keep
C．draw
D．talk
A．Driven
【小题4】
B．Burdened
C．Tuched
D．Generated
A．drpped by
【小题5】
B．linked with
C．lked up
C．sleepy
D．headed t
D．busy
A．lucky
B．gradual
【小题6】
A．friends
【小题7】
B．plans
C．evidence
D．leisure
D．hunting
A．fighting
【小题8】
B．stpping
C．chewing
A．space
B．news
C．virtues
D．necessity
【小题9】
A．assistant
【小题10】
A．maintain
【小题11】
A．differently
【小题12】
B．candidate
C．master
D．guide
B．invest
C．bserve
D．emply
B．bjectively
C．accurately
D．apprvingly

A．rise
B．ccupy
C．freeze
D．expand
【小题13】
A．cnsider
【小题14】
A．residents
【小题15】
A．delicate
B．resist
B．turists
B．child
C．negtiate
D．disturb
C．passengers
D．equals
C．selfish
D．genuine
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正确形式
The Wuhan silk flwer is a famus specialty f Hubei. It has been prduced and sld fr many years and enjys a high reputatin.
Over the past hundred years, Wuhan silk flwer 【小题1】 (adpt) the traditinal silk flwer making techniques frm the ryal curts. It draws
spirit frm the flk silk flwer making techniques thrughut China, while perfecting
have been knwn far and wide due t its fine wrkmanship.
【小题2】
(it) n the basis f the traditinal flwer skills that
Silk flwers are the flwers
【小题3】
(typical) made with silk, satin and ther high-grade fabrics. The flwers lk vivid and are unique skills.
【小题4】 (decrate) effect, silk flwers were cmmn accessries f the ancient wmen.
Whether due t its lng histry r the strng
Amng Chinese traditinal skills, making flwers
【小题5】
fabrics emerged mre than 1,700 years ag. In the Tang Dynasty, it was recrded
【小题6】
wmen wre flwers made with silk.
The silk flwer
making silk flwer
【小题7】
【小题8】
(artist) in Wuhan have handed dwn and carried frward silk flwer wrkmanship frm generatin t generatin,
art craft specialty with lcal characteristics. The varieties f the flwers 【小题9】 (make) with silk include
peny, rse, Chinese rse, and ther flwers in ttal f mre than 400 varieties. The finished flwers are classified int inserted flwers, hat flwers and
mre, 【小题10】 (enjy) great ppularity amng cnsumers.
四、书信写作
假设你是晨光中学高二学生李华，你校于 5 月 8 号为高三学生举办了成人礼活动， 你的英国朋友 Chris 很想了解这个活动。请结合你刚学习的选必二 Unit 1 Grwing
up 内容，给 Chris 回一封 80 词左右的电子邮件。内容包括：
1.成人礼活动内容
2.你对活动的感受
3.你对自己未来的展望
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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。
An egg sandwich in hand, I quickly grabbed my bag and climbed int the hnking car. I tk ut my physics ntes and started skimming thrugh
them nce mre.
Tday was a very imprtant exam-f physics. Fr me, it is a really hard subject and I had wrked really tugh and intended t d my best in it.
I entered the queue utside the assigned classrm where the invigilatr(监考老师)was checking ur pencil cases. All the senirs and junirs were
mixed and we were sitting in an English letter rder. Upn lking at my name, I was surprised t see smene else sitting n my seat. She was a senir.
“Um. . . excuse me, I think yu gt the wrng seat… ” my squeaky(细的)vice faltered(支吾).
She stared in frnt in a bred way. I had the feeling she was deliberately ignring me. I had enugh truble scializing with peple, s I decided t
leave the matter t the invigilatr. The invigilatr came sn enugh.
“Katie, dear, yu need t mve ne seat back fr Aliya here, ” the invigilatr explained.

The girl, Katie, shifted and I settled dwn. The girl in frnt f me turned arund and rlled her eyes at me. Nw, I was puzzled. What was wrng? I
had annyed tw peple at the same time?
These thughts drifted away as I started fcusing n the paper. Minutes passed when ut f the blue,there was a tap n my shulder.
The girl behind me, Katie, whispered, “Quick! Change places with me.”
I frze. It tk me a mment t prcess her wrds. Withut even waiting fr a respnse, she grabbed my arms, pulled me up and made me sit n
her seat, exchanging ur papers t. Then she and the girl in frnt f her started t exchange sme ntes. I didn’t knw what t d. I fught hard t
cllect enugh curage and raised my hand, but the invigilatr was busy with anther candidate.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Suddenly the dr pened with a bang and in came a teacher.
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“As fr yu, Aliya, ” he turned t me, “cmplete yur paper here. ”
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