四川省射洪中学2022-2023学年高二英语下学期期中考试试卷（Word版附答案）

射洪中学高2021级2023年上期半期考试

英语试题

（考试时间：120分钟，满分：150分）

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第I卷

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. £19.15.    B. £9.15.    C. £9.18.

答案是B.

1. Which animal is in the field?

A. A sheep.   B. A cow.    C. A horse.

2. What is the problem?

A. The woman doesn’t like orange juice. 

B. The man was looking for orange juice.

C. The man broke the container of juice.

3. What did the man win in his dream?

A. A holiday.  B. A new car.   C. Some money.

4. What does the woman like best?

A. Oranges.   B. Watermelons.   C. Apples.

5. Which subject is interesting to the woman?

A. Math.   B. Chemistry.   C. Physics.

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。

6. What happened to the boy in the basketball match?

A. He injured his leg. 

B. He failed to score the ball. 

C. He left the match half way.

7. Why was the boy disappointed?

A. His team lost the match. 

B. He performed badly in the match. 

C. His teammates didn’t treat him as a hero.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A family story.   B. A garden.     C. A travel plan.

9. Where are the trees by the house from?

A. Australia.    B. America.     C. New Zealand.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

10. Why does Dad ask the girl to go to bed?

A. They have a holiday tomorrow.

B. She has to go to school tomorrow.

C. Her exams are coming up next week.

11. What subject does the girl need to study the most?

A. Math.     B. English.     C. History.

12. What will the girl do next?

A. Play video games.  B. Review her textbook.  C. Go to sleep.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

13. How long did the man live in San Francisco?

A. Ten years.    B. Five years.    C. One year.

14. How do Americans behave in restaurants?

A. They are very outgoing. 

B. They are usually quiet. 

C. They often drink much.

15. Where can one enjoy international food better?

A. In America.    B. In China.     C. In Middle East.

16. Who might the woman be?

A.A guide.     B. A hostess.     C. A traveler.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

17. What does the speaker do?

A. He is an engineer.   B. He is a scientist.   C. He is a businessman.

18. What was the speaker’s major in college?

A. Business.    B. Computer.    C. Marketing.

19. Where did the speaker get the idea of starting his career in AI?

A. From his teacher.   B. From Apple’s Siri.   C. From a famous scientist.

20. How do people feel about the development of AI according to the speaker?

A. Glad.     B. Worried.     C. Unconcerned.

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15个小题;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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Are you looking for somewhere special to go this weekend? Do you want to try something new?

Check out one of these hot new restaurants.

Fast Best

Fast food doesn't have to be junk food, as this café proves. Do you fancy a really good hamburger made with the best ingredients, or old-fashioned fish and chips fried to perfection, all on the table in super-quick time? Speed and quality are important here, and the prices aren't bad either.

Your Local Caff (小餐馆)

Remember when cafés served full English breakfasts—sausages, beans, fried bread, bacon and eggs—with a strong cup of tea? Well, this place still does and you can have your breakfast at any time you like during the day while you listen to your favourite tunes from the 1980s.

Last Days of the Raj

A centrally located Indian restaurant, perfect for eating before or after the cinema or a show. In summer enjoy your meal in the beautiful garden. The most popular dishes are lamb and chicken cooked with mild, medium or hot spices. For brave customers there is extra hot!

The Chocolate Box

The owner of this small café used to cook all kinds of food, but then she realised she preferred desserts to anything else. If you want meat or fish, don't come here. They only do desserts! Lots of different kinds of sweets. Chocolate lovers will be excited by the range of chocolate cakes.

21. Fast Best suits a person ______.

A. who has a sweet tooth 

B. who loves spicy food

C. who wants to have good breakfast 

D. who gets 30 minutes off for lunch

22. Which is true about Last Days of the Raj?

A. You can listen to great music in it. 

B. It serves hot food with pepper.

C. It serves an all-day breakfast. 

D. It is prefect for vegetarians.

23. Which restaurant serves only desserts and sweets?

A. Fast Best. B. Your Local Caff.

C. Last Days of the Raj. D. The Chocolate Box.

B

When Ryad Alsous arrived in England, he knew one thing: he wanted to keep bees. The insects had been a major part of his life in Syria, and fleeing his war-torn homeland, it was a precious certainty amid so much chaos（混乱）.

As a lecturer at the University of Damascus, Ryad had built a respected reputation for his research on Syrian bees. With over 500 hives（蜂房）, he produced over ten tons of honey every year. Fleeing his country in 2013, he lost everything.

Yet even with all his knowledge and experience, Ryad didn’t know if his dream would be possible in the UK. “I found that there is a lot of rain and the temperature isn’t very high. All the time I was thinking, How can I set up another project here? ”

The wet weather wasn’t Ryad’s only challenge. The language barrier and a vastly overqualified CV made it difficult to find work. Eventually, Ryad volunteered at the Huddersfield Beekeepers’Association, but he was still without a colony（蜂群）of his own. Finally, Facebook brought him into contact with a woman in Manchester who was willing to donate an entire colony of rare British black bees.

“In one year, I was able to split the colony she gave me into seven. I realised that the beekeeping project could become very profitable and successful in the UK. ”

Soon, Ryad found himself with 17 hives, but he wasn’t finished yet. His inner teacher was itching to get out. Through City of Sanctuary, a British refugee charity（难民慈善机构）, Ryad began to run beekeeping workshops for refugees and job seekers. The Buzz Project was born.

Today, the Buzz Project houses 14 hives, where Ryad shares his expertise（专长）. It has started to bear fruit. Last year, they produced half a ton of honey（around 1, 000 jars）. But for Ryad, the most important thing is bringing people together.

“We have local people, jobseekers and volunteers, in addition to refugees. All of them work together doing the same job. The exchange between the groups, the information and skills, helps them integrate very well and improve their language skills, ” he says.

24. Why did Ryad come to England?

A. To keep bees.    B. To do research.

C. To seek shelter.    D. To run business.

25. Which factor posed a challenge to Ryad at first?

A. The hot weather.

B. His poor English.

C. His inadequate qualification.

D. The cultural differences.

26. What does the underlined sentence mean?

A. He wanted to share his beekeeping skills.

B. He decided to establish a beekeeping school.

C. He wanted to expand his business.

D. He decided to find a teaching job.

27. Which of the following can best describe Ryad’s character?

A. Persistent and charitable.

B. Ambitious and reliable.

C. Cautious and responsible.

D. Independent and respectable.

C

Mount Qomolangma, meaning “Holy Mother” in Tibetan, is the world’s highest mountain above sea level. No wonder most people consider climbing to its top as one of their biggest achievements. More than 4, 000 climbers, ranging from 13 to 80 years old, have managed to reach the top. Three people from the Sherpa community hold the current record at 21 times each!

You may be surprised at these numbers but that’s just the start of it. Last year, cleanup crews collected as much as 8. 4 tons of garbage from Mount Qomolangma’s North Base Camp in Tibet at 5,150 meters. And in the regions below that level, more than 335 tons of waste was collected. What a sad fact it is that the highest mountain in the world is turning into the highest mountain of trash!

To reverse the trend, the Chinese government recently announced that it had closed the North Base Camp to tourists. From now on, ordinary tourists will only be able to travel as far as Rongbuk Monastery, about 5, 000 meters above sea level. No more than 300 climbers with special permits will be allowed to climb Qomolangma each year. They are supposed to follow stricter rules, including carrying all their waste out with them and only climbing in spring.

Despite these tough measures, it is clear that tourism has caused enormous damage to the natural environment. Mount Qomolangma is not alone. Some popular parks around the world are also struggling to preserve their environments and keep up with increased tourism. Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. has long been troubled by the overflowing trash piles. Joshua Tree National Park suffered a wave of vandalism (破坏), with graffiti（涂鸭）sprayed on rocks and ancient trees destroyed. In order to protect the environment, the National Park Service had no choice but to close the park temporarily.

As we can see, the natural environment can be destroyed by human activities in less than five minutes, but it might take hundreds of years to recover. Now it’s time for ordinary tourists to leave “Holy Mother” alone and wait for her to restore her beauty.

28．Why are the figures listed about Qomolangma in paragraph 2?

A．To describe it is extremely vast and high.    

B．To show it is difficult to collect trash there.

C．To indicate it is a popular tourist attraction.  

D．To illustrate it is suffering serious pollution.

29．What does the underlined word “reverse” mean in paragraph 3?

A．Fit with. B．Follow up. C．Turn around. D．Speed up.

30．What is the author likely to support to protect Qomolangma?

A．Developing its tourism. B．Reducing human activities.

C．Forbidding any entry in spring. D．Building more base camps.

31．Which section of a newspaper might this article come from?

A．Environment.   B．Society. C．Tourism. D．Education.

D

The average bear, it seems, is getting ever smarter. First, it turned out that at least one can use a comb. Now it appears that some can count, too.

Jennifer Vonk, of Oakland University, in Michigan, and Michael Beran, from Georgia State University, set three American black bears the task of distinguishing between numerically larger and smaller groups of dots(点)on a computer screen. In return for a food reward one bear, Brutus, would touch the more heavily dotted pattern with his nose. The others, Bella and Dusty, would touch the screen with their claws(爪子).

As the researchers report in Animal Behavior, the bears did best with patterns where the coloured dots did not move and where more of them also took up a larger coloured area. This could be explained by the bears' distinguishing the different areas of colour rather than truly counting the dots. However, the three bears managed to pick out the bigger number of dots even in pairs of patterns where fewer dots took up a larger area.

Moving patterns, where each dot followed its own path around the screen, were more of a challenge. But Brutus, at least, was not defeated. He seemed to be counting mobile dots even when the scientists tried to mislead him by moving the total coloured area of the dots at the same time.

It is not entirely surprising that bears should have a high degree of intelligence. They face a lot of challenges when trying to get food. They are, however, always alone, and so do not have the complex social systems that contribute to animal smarts. Perhaps, then, their maths skill developed because they cannot count on their friends for help.

32. What task did the scientists set for the three bears?

A. Distinguishing different colours.

B. Figuring out different colours of dots.

C. Putting the dots into differently coloured groups.

D. Picking out the group with a larger number of dots.

33. For the bears, the task was easier when__________.

A. the coloured dots were moving slowly

B. the dot patterns were regular in shape

C. the dots followed a path on the screen

D. more dots covered a larger coloured area

34. What may explain the bears' high degree of intelligence?

A. They learn skills from other animals.

B. They face life challenges on their own.

C. They feed on a diverse range of food.

D. They have complex social networks.

35. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Bears Taught to Distinguish Colours

B. New Evidence of Bear Intelligence Found

C. Three Bears Learned How to Count

D. The Smartest American Black Bear Brutus

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。

Do You Have a Positive Attitude?

Who would you rather hang around with? Someone who always acts in low spirits? Or someone who manages to see the good around him，even when things aren't always going great? ___36___

Having a positive attitude can help you in many ways. ___37___Your friends will definitely appreciate you more if you see the silver lining rather than just the dark clouds!

___38___The less pressure you feel, the better you will feel overall. So if you've been feeling tired, put on a happy face and you just might feel better soon.

But how can you have a positive attitude when life is hard? It's more than just turning life's lemons into lemonade. ___39___But it's worth it.

A positive attitude doesn't mean ignoring life's troubles. It just means looking for the good in things, rather than being a pessimist and concentrating on the bad in things. Sometimes your attitude can make all the difference.

Identify (识别) those areas of your life that might not be going so well. ___40___Focus on one at a time and think of ways you can find the positive in things.

A. The answer is to have a positive attitude.

B. Having a positive attitude can take some hard work.

C. They are likely to make you have negative thoughts.

D. Having a positive attitude can also reduce your stress level.

E. If you have a positive attitude, you're more fun to be around.

F. When you feel better physically, you naturally feel better mentally.

G. It's no surprise that people enjoy being around positive people rather than negative people.

第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节  完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从题中所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I walked into a restaurant and ordered some food. After 20 minutes a group of guys came in and ordered theirs.

To my    41   , these folks got served first. I watched as they began to eat and laugh    42   .I even overheard one of them bragging (吹嘘) about how he was   43  to everyone in the restaurant and I felt   44   .Unable to stand it anymore, I called the   45  .

He explained to me, "Yours is a special order, being prepared by the   46   chefs themselves.  Their orders were   47   prepared by students on assignment; please have some juice as you wait."

 I   48  and waited. Shortly after that, my meal was served by six chefs. Unknown to me, the owner of the restaurant, who  49  to be an old long lost friend of mine,   50   me when I entered and decided to   51  me. She changed my simple meal to a five‐star meal. The group at the other  52  were shocked. They couldn't stop  53  .Suddenly they were the ones   54  , asking why they didn't get that kind of   55   and meal.

Such is life! Some people are   56  you, eating and laughing at you. You  57 mockery (嘲笑) and are waiting   58   ,wondering why it takes so long to break through. The owner of the world has seen you and doesn't want you to be served a quick meal like those   59   of you. You are waiting long because yours is a(n)   60   meal, which costs time to prepare.

41. A. astonishment  B. excitement C. relief    D. embarrassment

42. A. bitterly   B. rudely  C. joyfully   D. roughly

43. A. remembered    B. connected  C. recommended  D. introduced

44. A. encouraged  B. inspired  C. moved    D. teased

45. A. waiter      B. boss   C. cashier     D. chef

46. A. strict       B. top   C. careful    D. junior

47. A. fully       B. slowly  C. cautiously     D. hurriedly

48. A. calmed down   B. sat down  C. lay down   D. broke down

49. A. seemed      B. managed  C. happened   D. pretended

50. A. saw        B. tracked  C. welcomed   D. heard

51. A. trap        B. surprise  C. move    D. terrify

52. A. desk       B. corner  C. table     D. side

53. A. eating       B. staring  C. helping    D. spying

54. A. greeting     B. walking  C. whispering    D. leaving

55. A. service      B. order   C. food     D. drink

56. A. from under   B. from among C. on top of      D. ahead of

57. A. accept        B. tolerate  C. refuse     D. imagine

58. A. automatically   B. sincerely  C. enthusiastically  D. patiently

59. A. taking advantage  B. making use C. making fun    D. taking account

60. A. valuable        B. unique  C. expensive     D. special

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。

For some people in China, the aim of travel is to create 15-second videos. It's not about where you've been, but about where you're seen to have been.

Situated on cliffs above a river, Hongyadong is a stilt house complex (建筑群) in

  61    city of Chongqing. The bars, restaurants and golden neon lights   62     (be) a popular draw since it was built in 2006. Last year the number of visitors increased   63     (sharp).

The main reason, it seemed, was Hongyadong's sudden popularity on an app, Douyin,

    64   aim is not to produce a well-crafted video, but simply    65   (show) that you have also been to the popular places. The beauty of the    66   (attract) is less important than the fact that people are flocking there to daka.

A subculture of young people who embrace daka as a lifestyle has developed. So-called daka

Zu—"daka tribes"—can   67   (find) roaming various scenic spots, checking out as many hot locations   68  possible within a single day.

The daka craze may have  69  (practice)origins. China's young urban professionals don't have so much free time. Sometimes, they need to work overtime. So they have to make the best use of their    70   (limit) leisure time. Douyin captures the mood with its slogan." Make every second count."

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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。

Today, I bought a cup of coffee for the old lady which was selling fruits and vegetables in the market near our school. At first, she was surprising and had a question mark on her face. She asked myself, "What is this for?" I replied, "This is appreciation for all your hard works in this cold weather." Then, she had bright smile on her face and was very happy. The look on her face made me proudly. Now, I realize in that every part of the world had a connection. The biggest thing I need to learn is what to connect and I believe kind is the master key.

第二节书面表达（满分25分）

假定你是李华，注意到你校学生很少进行英语文学阅读。请给全校学生用英语写一封倡议书，倡导大家多阅读英语文学作品。内容包括：

1.介绍现状；2.你对英语文学阅读的看法；3.发出倡议

注意：1.词数在100左右；2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：英语文学English literature

My fellow students,

射洪中学高2021级2023年上期半期考试

英语试题参考答案

听力：1-5:BCABC    6-10: ACBCB   11-15:ACCBA   16-20:BACBA

阅读：21-23 DBD    24-27 CBAA    28-31 DCBA    32-35 DDBB

七选五：36-40 GEDBC

完形填空：41-45 ACBDA    46-50 BDACA      51-55 BCBCA      56-60 DBDCD

语法填空：61.the     62. have been   63. sharply    64. whose    65. to show 

66. attraction   67. be found   68.as     69. practical   70. limited

短文改错：1.which—who/that    2.surprising—surprised    3.myself—me

4.works—work    5.had后加a      6.proudly—proud 

7. 去掉in    8.had—has      9.what—how    

10.kind—kindness

作文参考范文：

My fellow students,    

Currently, most students in our school read little English literature, not only because they consider it too difficult, but because they don’t think it necessary. In my view, however, English literature is what we can’t afford to miss. It offers us an opportunity to appreciate the beauty of English and have a taste of a different culture. Better yet, it allows us to communicate with those great minds.        

I hereby appeal to every one of you to read more English literature and you won’t regret it!

听力材料

1 .M: What is in that field over there? I think it is a sheep.

W: I see it. No, it’s actually a cow. I wish we would see a horse. I’ve always wanted to ride one!

2. W:I just bought some juice orange juice,but now I can’t find it.I can’t find it.Do you know where it is?

M: I broke the bottle.Didn’t you hear the crash last night?

3. M: Last night I had an interesting dream. I dreamed I won a competition.

W: Oh, that sounds cool. What did you win, money or a new car?

M: A holiday on an amazing island. How I wish it could come true!

4. M: What would you like to have for dessert, apples or oranges?

W: As for dessert, I’d like to have oranges rather than apples. But usually I prefer watermelons to anything else.

5. M: How is everything going in your classes?

W: Well, it’s a little hard for me to follow everything my teachers say, especially in my math and chemistry classes. I first thought physics would be difficult, but it turns out pretty interesting to me.

6-7题W: Tell me about the basketball match, John.

M: Well, our team played well. We scored lots of points. Then I fell and hurt my leg, but I carried on playing. The other team was really better than us, though.

W: So did you lose?

M: No, because in the final seconds, I managed to get the ball, jump up to the basket and score. That meant we’d won! I thought my team might carry me out of the gym like a hero, but they didn’t. So I was a bit disappointed.

W: Well, maybe next time.

8-9题M: The trees here in the garden are beautiful. But they don’t look native to this place.

W: Yeah. My grandfather planted them himself. He got seeds from different parts of the world. The ones by the house are from New Zealand. But the tall ones in the back garden are from Australia. This one in the front garden is from California, and it’s my favorite tree to climb.

M: Are the flowers from different places, too?

W: No, they’re all from here in Florida.

10-11题M: Time for bed, Susie. Christmas break is over, and you have to be in class at 8:00 tomorrow.

W: But I’m not tired, Dad. Can’t I just play one more video game?

M: It’s already 10:30.

W: I know, but I promise I won’t be tired. Please?

M: Don’t you have exams soon? If you’re going to stay up, shouldn’t you be studying?

W: Oh, I forgot all about that.

M: You’ve been doing well in English and history, but you’ve had problems with math, haven’t you?

W: Yeah. Maybe I can go to sleep now and then get up early and look at my math textbook.

M: That’s a good idea.

W: Dad, can I just play for thirty more minutes? It’s the last bit of my holiday!

M: No.

W: Fine.

13-16题.W: We’re talking with Yang Wei, who just returned home to China after living in San Francisco for one year. What would you say is the biggest difference between your life in America and your life in China?

M: I guess the most obvious one would be the food culture. In Beijing, people eat out a lot, and people tend to be much more loud and outgoing in restaurants. For example, in China, it is common to see people drinking and talking loudly in the middle of a restaurant. In America, however, people like to enjoy a quiet meal. If you are too loud, the waiter might come over to your table and remind you to keep it down, and they would certainly not serve you drink if you appeared drunk.

W: What about the variety of food?

M: This is where America might have the advantage. Although Chinese food is unbelievably varied, I would have to say that the quality of food from all over the world is better in the States. While there are many Africans, Europeans, and North Americans in China, there are even fewer people from the Middle East, South America, and the Caribbean. As a result, it is harder to find really good food from those areas. But America has always been a country of immigrants (移民), so this is one area in which it just might be No.1 in the world.

W: Interestingly. Why don’t we take some questions from the audience?

17-20题Hello, everyone. I’m an engineer from Apple. It’s my great honor to be here to share my knowledge with so many international scientists and business owners. I’m grateful for your coming. I’ve spent my entire career trying to advance the quality of artificial intelligence, or AI for short. But back in college, I majored in marketing and had absolutely no idea of AI at all.So how did I start my career in this field? Apple’s Siri was the first application of AI that I had ever known. From that invention, I knew AI would change the world one day. I then put my heart and efforts into it. That was 10 years ago. Luckily, it turns out that I have made the right choice. Now the industry has made much progress and is playing an increasingly important role in people’s life. The public nowadays feels excited about its development. AI frees them from boring and low-skilled tasks, making life a lot easier and more enjoyable.But I feel that we are still in the early days of AI. We are viewing current AI technology as we viewed computers in the 1990s. There is still a long way to go.