2023怀化高二上学期期末考试英语试题含解析

怀化市2022年下期期末考试试卷

高二英语

1．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号写在答题卡上，并认真核对条形码上的姓名。准考证号和科目。

2．考生作答时，选择题和非选择题均须做在答题卡上，在本试题卷上答题无效，考生在答题卡上按答题卡中注意事项的要求答题。

3．考试结束后，将本试题卷和答题卡一并交回。

4．本试题卷共8页，如缺页，考生须声明，否则后果自负。

第一部分  听力(共两节，满分30分)

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

例：How much is the shirt?

A. £19. 5.

B. £9. 18.

C. £9. 15.

答案是C.

1. What does Lily think of the new skirt?

A. Elegant

B. Old-fashioned.

C. Ordinary.

2. Why did Joe go to Miami?

A. To go sightseeing.

B. To take a business trip.

C. To meet a friend.

3. What time is it now?

A. 3:15p. m

B. 3:30 p. m.

C. 4:00p. m

4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. How to bake fish pie.

B. Where to learn cooking skills.

C. A history program.

5. What does Mandy want to watch?

A. A comedy.

B. A sports documentary.

C. What to eat for supper.

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，每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6. 7题。

6. What is Haley going to do tonight?

A. See a movie.

B. Work overtime

C. Watch TV.

7. What does the man ask Haley to do?

A. Buy some sweets.

B. Pay attention to her study.

C. Avoid coming home too late.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Colleagues.

B. Old friends.

C. Classmates.

9. How does Gloria usually get design inspiration?

A. From the Internet.

B. From magazines.

C. From TV programs.

10. What might Andy do next?

A. Go to the mall.

B. Visit Gloria’s design studio.

C. Put on a newly designed tie.

11. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In a club.

B. In a restaurant.

C. In a concert hall.

12. How did the woman learn to play the guitar after she was 10?

A She learned from her father.

B. She taught herself.

C. She joined a band.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

13. Why does the woman want to make more money?

A. She needs to support her studies.

B. She wants to buy a new guitar.

C. Her band is short of money.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. How does the woman feel at first?

A. Worried.

B. Excited.

C. Disappointed.

15. What was the speakers’ previous apartment like?

A. Small and old.

B. Small but nice

C. Big and bright.

16. What does the woman plan to do in the backyard?

A. Plant some flowers.

B. Walk her dog.

C. Hold barbecue parties.

17. What do the speakers place in the new house first?

A. The coffee table.

B. The mirror.

C. The small sofa

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What do many experts think of “book blind boxes”?

A. Interesting.

B. Meaningful

C. Wasteful.

19. How are the books in many book blind boxes?

A. They are of high quality.

B. They are of poor quality.

C. They are expensive.

20．Which year had the highest retail(零售)sales of books?

A. 2019.

B. 2020.

C. 2021.

第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分，满分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。

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Museum VR Creates New Ways for Visitors to Explore

The National Museum of Natural History, Paris

Since 2018, visitors to the National Museum of Natural History have been able to enjoy a fascinating VR experience. De Realite Virtuelle was the first permanent museum room in the country dedicated to VR technology. Once they enter the room, guests enjoy a specially designed programme: Joumey into the Heart of Evolution. Here they will discover the links between species and can zoom in on different creatures to learn more.

The Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C

Using a free app, visitors to this museum can use their own device to view the whole views of the gallery，alongside video interviews with the curator (馆长) and some of the artists. Thanks to VR technology, the works by nine leading artists are available to experience in a new way even though the physical exhibition at the museum has ended.

Peterson Automotive Museum, Los Angeles

Peterson Automotive Museum worked with Microsoft HoloLens to create a new VR exhibition. Visitors were able to interact with a classic American sports car, the Ford GT40.The HoloLens allows visitors to see the car up close. Visitors were further drawn into the experience by the addition of surround sound. While learning about the history of the cars, they could also hear the roar of the engines.

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Fans of the Lewis Carroll classic will be able to “travel down the rabbit hole” into a virtual space. People can join a “trip” into Wonderland without having to leave the sofa. The opening of the Alice exhibition has been postponed until March 2021 because of the pandemic. But the museum said an at-home, virtual reality event, ahead of the opening, will transport “visitors into the world of Wonderland”.

1. For visitors who are interested in biology, which museum can they choose?

A. The Renwick Gallery.

B. The National Museum of Natural History.

C. Peterson Automotive Museum.

D. The Victoria and Albert Museum.

2. What can we know from the passage?

A. Visitors to the Renwick Gallery can have face-to-face interviews with the artists.

B. Fans of the Lewis Carroll classic can travel down the rabbit hole into a real space.

C. Both the Renwick Gallery and Peterson Automotive Museum are in America.

D. Peterson Automotive Museum enables visitors to drive the car for themselves.

3. Where is this text most probably taken from?

A. A lecture.

B. A news report.

C. A film review.

D. A science magazine.

B

After schools moved online a year ago because of COVID-19 Jonte Lee, a teacher in Washington, DC. was determined to make his chemistry labs interactive and accessible. He figured the way to do so was to connect to the students on social platforms.

As a result, Lee has been livestreaming (网络直播) his lessons on Instagram and Facebook, inspiring students to follow along at home. Lee’s principal suggested he livestream a lab last April. “Our thought behind it was students know how to use Instagram and Facebook,” Lee said,

Realizing that most of his students would not have access to lab equipment when they had online lessons, Lee largely uses items that can be found in most kitchens. “And if there’s something a student doesn’t have, I don’t mind shipping it to the student,” he said.

Since beginning his lessons, Lee has heard from viewers across the country about how his classes have improved their experience of attending online school. One woman told Lee she had been worried about supervising her grandchildren’s classes at home. “She was like, ‘I know nothing about science, what’s going to happen?’ and then she came across my page,” said Lee. “Stories like that really touch my heart.”

Lee also has bought and delivered backpacks, school supplies, and even Amazon Fire tablets to each of his students. Lee poured his summer school teaching salary into the endeavor, calling is an “incredible experience”. Lee’s favorite lesson described how to make ice cream in three different ways, because of how engaged his students were even after the livestream ended.

Lee plans to continue posting videos even after students go back to school in person. “As a public school teacher, I have no intention to be famous or make money. I simply want to give back to all the taxpayers that fund my salary,” said Lee. “This allowed me to be a community teacher, and not a teacher that is bound by the four walls in my classroom.”

4. What can we learn about Jonte Lee?

A. He didn’t know how to make his online classes interesting.

B. His idea was not supported by the principle in his school.

C. He mostly chose items found in kitchen for his online lessons.

D. He guided students to use Instagram and Facebook.

5. What does the underlined word “supervising” probably mean in Para.4?

A. managing

B. skipping

C. teaching

D. attending

6. What can we conclude from the last two paragraphs?

A. Lee’s classes have a negative effect on people.

B. Lee’s students show no interest in his classes at all.

C. Lee plans to continue posting videos to earn money.

D. Lee’s purpose is to pay back to society as a teacher.

7. Which word can best describe Jonte Lee?

A Cautious.

B. Determined.

C. Humorous.

D Awkward.

C

Our cities have never been denser, taller, or busier than they are now, and with that comes the constant battle for land. But if we look at images of any city center, we can quickly spot plenty of unused space-the rooftops. What can we use this precious resource for?

In many cities, it is dedicated to recreation like bars and pools. But when a rooftop offers access to sunlight, there are two more choices for its use-agriculture and solar power.

Green roofs have been growing in popularity for more than a decade, and in some cases growing in scale too. They can provide a habitat for birds and insects in an otherwise unfriendly environment. They are also used to keep the building cool and decrease storm water runoff. Green roofs come with the added benefit of reducing the terrible urban heat island effect, whereby, as a result of heat-absorbing materials like asphalt(沥青)and concrete, cities can be several degrees warmer than the surrounding cntryside. In contrast, trees and green spaces can absorb shortwave radiation, and use it to evaporate(蒸发)water from their leaves a kind of double cooling effect.

As food security and urban nutrition creep ever-higher on the agenda for the United Nations, there’s also a worldwide movement of using green roofs for food production. In regions with suitable climates, hundreds of different vegetables, fruits, herbs and salad leaves can be grown on rooftops. Beehives and chicken nests are also becoming commonplace amongst the high-rises.

With so many cities now stopping using fossil fuels, and the cost of solar panels dropping dramatically, PV(光伏)systems have become a good option to produce electricity. The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory have estimated that rooftop PV systems could generate almost 40% of the electricity demands nationwide.

However, the use of rooftops for food production could have higher local value than solar PV energy production, according to a recent paper by some US researchers focusing on the rooftops of a mixed-use neighborhood in Lisbon. Of course, in another city, you may come to exactly the opposite conclusion.

8. Why does the author raise a question in the first paragraph?

A. To invite readers to answer it.

B. To introduce the topic.

C. To show off his knowledge.

D. To explain what green rooftop is.

9. What is the benefit of city green rooftops?

A. Providing habitats for all animals.

B. Increasing storm water runoff.

C. Keeping the building warm.

D. Relieving the urban heat island effect.

10. Which of the following is Not True?

A. Cities can be several degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside.

B. Green roofs are used for food production all over the world.

C. Rooftop PV systems could generate 40% of the electricity demands in the US.

D. Using rooftops for food production has higher value than solar PV energy production.

11. What is probably the best title?

A. The Rise of Green Rooftop

B. The Benefits of the Urban Rooftop

C. The Advantage of PV Energy System

D. The Reason for Urban Rooftop’s Popularity

D

A burger shop called the No Brand Burger in the South Korean capital is a bit different from typical fast-food restaurants: Its key staff are robots. From order to pick-up, customers don’t need a single face-to-face interaction. All they need to do is to click the menu they want on a kiosk (售货亭) touchscreen, pay and wait for a serving robot to bring their takeout bag to the pick-up spot.

While waiting for their food, customers take photos or stare with curiosity at the capsule-shaped robots, which remind people of the popular characters from the animated film “Despicable Me.” The yellow and black colors of the No Brand Burger restaurant also give the place the look of a toy shop. “This is the first time I’ve actually seen such robots, so they are really amazing and fun,” said Shin Hyun Soo, a 31-year-old office worker trying out the service.

The human staff do have a role to play, the restaurant’s manager Bae explained, adding toppings to the cooked ingredients before wrapping them and passing them over to a robot to serve. “The customer can take the food without any direct contact with the staff,” Bae said.

Before Monday, South Korea had for the last few weeks allowed restaurants to provide only deliveries and takeout meals after 9 p.m. In August, takeout orders accounted for 58% of No Brand Burger’s total sales, up by 16% from July, according to Shinsegae Food, the South Korean food company that operates No Brand Burger.

No Brand Burger isn’t the only local restaurant using robots to serve customers. South Korea’s major IT company KT has partnered with the family restaurant chain Mad for Garlic to provide Al serving robots.

Using 3-D space mapping and other technology, the robot can freely move through the narrow lanes between tables and avoid obstacles to reach its destination, said Lee Youngjin, team leader of AI Platform Business Team at KT. The robot can serve up to four tables per trip. “Children customers often like to see the robot. Also, customers in general feel it is fresher to receive their food through the robot because of the COVID-19,” said Lee Young-ho, the manager of one Mad for Garlic restaurant using the robots.

12. Why is the No Brand Burger restaurant so special?

A. Because most staff are robots.

B. Because it employs no human staff.

C Because its colors are yellow and white.

D. Because it is also a toy shop.

13. What is Shin Hyun Soo’s attitude towards the robots?

A. Uninterested. B. Positive. C. Negative. D. Neutral

14. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Most restaurants use robots to serve customers now.

B. It is no use having human staff in the restaurant.

C. Most customers show no interest in serving robots.

D. Robots brings greater profits for No Brand Burger.

15. What is the passage mainly talking about?

A. New technology helps change the world.

B. Serving robots bring a lot of advantages.

C. AI robots serve restaurants in South Korea.

D. Restaurants use robots to attract customers.

第二节(共5小题：每小题2.5分，满分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。

Get a Healthy Home

Most of us have spent more time recently at home than we ever imagined possible. Maybe you took the opportunity to clean, or maybe you plan to do it...tomorrow.____16____

Think about keeping your home clean the minute you walk in.____17____ A University of Arizona study found that the average shoe harbors nearly 421,000 different bacteria and cleaning chemicals can also get tracked into your home via your shoes. Leave a pair of slippers by the front door. It also makes sense to use some alcohol to freshen your sheets and smelly gym clothes.

Even if you think you’ve disinfected everything, you might have overlooked some small items like the toothbrush holder .____18____Another thing you should pay attention to is the kitchen sponges (海绵).As they may carry large quantities of bacteria, they’ve been banned from restaurant kitchens.

____19____The gold standard is a high-efficiency air filter. The Department of Energy requires that they remove 99.97 percent of pollutants and particles in the air. Portable filters can clean a single room or the entire house. Filters may cost you some money, but there are cheaper ways to clean the air-start by opening a window. Indoor air can have two to five times more pollutants than outdoor air.

Many viruses don’t spread as well in wet air as they do in the cold, dry months.____20____However, cool-mist humidifiers (增湿器) can harbor bacteria if they aren’t cleaned regularly. Old-fashioned steam humidifiers are the best. But too much humidity can worsen some problems and encourage the growth of dust mites (螨虫) and mold．The ideal humidity level, especially for sleeping，is 40 to 60 percent.

A. Take off your shoes at your door.

B. Freshen the walls up with a new paint.

C. Don’t forget to clean the air in your home too.

D. The following is what to do to help keep you energetic.

E. Wash it daily and run it through the dishwasher regularly.

F. One easy solution for the winter is to use a humidifier.

G. These tips can help make your home better for your body and your mind.

第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分30分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题1分，满分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。

On February 12, 2019, Brendon Fontaine blew out five candles on a birthday cake covered in strawberry icing and topped with a plastic figure of his favorite character. Brendon’s____21____ came from Cakes for Kids, a group of home bakers who recognize that a simple birthday cake can be impossible for families like the Fontaines. The group was ____22____ three years ago by Christy Rogowski and her partner Wendy Singleton. “Imagining a child who wasn’t going to have a birthday cake was really ____23____,” Rogowski says. A Facebook call-out for volunteers ____24____added 150 bakers to their list, which includes people of all skill levels. When volunteers first apply, they’re asked why they want to ____25____ . “Some people have said that they didn’t have a cake on their birthday growing up, and they know how ____26____ it is,” says Singleton. More commonly, though, they say they want families in need to know that their neighbors____27____ them.

The cake receivers are decided by community organizations and Winnipeg Child and Family Services, which send Rogowski and Singleton information about each kid’s interests and favorite    ____28____. A child might receive a cake because of the family’s lack of____29____. Cakes also go to children living in foster care. Jodi Korolyk, a family services worker has so far ordered birthday cakes for five of the almost 800 kids in their system. “It _____30_____ the children that they have a lot of people there to _____31_____ them,” she says. “For most kids, it doesn’t really_____32_____what the cake looks like; just getting one is_____33_____ .” Korolyk sometimes arranges for parents whose children are in foster care to bring the cake to their kids themselves. “It’s a really good tool to help_____34_____a relationship between them,” she says, adding that it can also build the parents’_____35_____in her. By the end of last year, Cakes for Kids had provided over 575 cakes to mark kids’ birthdays, and the baking continues.

21. A. surprise B. anger C. sorrow D. pity

22. A. applauded B. complained C. bunded D. blamed

23. A. amazing B. upsetting C. confusing D. pleasing

24. A. hardly B. accidentally C. frequently D. eventually

25. A. quit B. contribute C. agree D. play

26. A. important B. boring C. terrible D. complex

27. A. laugh at B. talk about C. care about D. rely on

28. A. sports B. films C. songs D. flavors

29. A. money B. water C. education D. clothes

30. A. frightens B. worries C. shows D. shocks

31. A. share B. stop C. memorize D. support

32. A. matter B. occur C. work D. exist

33. A. annoying B. exciting C. convincing D. disappointing

34. A. change B. hurt C. promote D. accept

35. A. delight B. pride C. disbelief D. trust

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。

Advertising refers to the activity of promoting a product or service. In addition to making people aware of a product or service, a successful advertisement will also create a desire____36____(buy), thus boosting business. To achieve the goal, so far advertisers ____37____(develop) ways of persuading people into purchasing their products or services. One common technique is to create a____38____(memory) slogan, ____39____ uses simple but impressive language to make us aware of the product or service being advertised. Some of these slogans may also appeal ____40____ our emotions. Another technique advertisers often employ is to link their company or product to ____41____ “brand ambassador”. The more we like the ambassador, the more we ____42____ (attract) to buy a product. Besides, there are also some advertisements that are not so obvious. Produce placement is____43____(typical) used in films with huge box-office and TV shows with high ratings.

Now advertising is becoming more digital and more personalized compared with that of the past, we are very likely to receive special discounts and ____44____ (promote) targeted specifically at us. In the future, advertising will be even more about understanding individual customers and_____45_____(send) them advertisements that are tailored to specific needs.

第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(满分15分)

46. 假设你校英语社团举办以“保护视力，从我做起”为主题的征文活动，请你以“Protect  our eyes”为题，写一篇倡议书。

要点提示：

1．青少年近视的现状令人担忧；

2．倡议：保持好的阅读习惯，多进行户外运动等。

注意：

1．词数80词左右；   2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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第二节(满分25分)

47. 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。

Tom was a fishing amateur. He once came to a wet place in the roadless forest to fish with his friends William and Tony. They put up their tent upon the top of a pine-clothed mountain and then began fishing. However, none of them was successful fisherman. They were either made lazy by the sun or wet by the rain. After two days of fishing, they got nothing. Finally they ate the last bit of bacon and smoked and burned the last fearful corncake. If they didn’t get anything to eat, they would have to starve.

Immediately Tom volunteered to stay and hold the camp while the remaining two should go miles away to a farmhouse for supplies. Hearing Tom’s suggestion, the two friends gazed at him jokingly. “ There is only one of you-be careful, for bears may appear and keep you company!” Tom didn’t take what they said seriously. Then the two men disappeared down the hill in the known direction of a distant wooden house.

Night came, but the two men did not return. Tom sat close to his companion, the campfire. He lit a cigarette and felt a thousand shadows were about to come towards him. Suddenly he heard the approach of something unknown, rackling the small branches and rustling (使沙沙作响) the dead leaves. Feeling a bit scared, Tom rose slowly to his feet. His cigarette dropped from his mouth and his knees shook with fear. “Hah!” he shouted in a loud voice in the hope of scaring his opponent away. A roar (咆哮) replied and a bear paced into the light of the fire.

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。

Paragraph 1:

Tom supported himself upon a tree and observed his unexpected visitor.

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Paragraph 2:

Tom breathed a sigh of relief

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