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茂名市第一中学2022—2023学年度第二学期期中考试
高二英语试卷（1-4班）
考试时间：120分
总分：120分
第一部分阅读理解（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。
A
Calming, relaxing, full of greenery, beautiful plants and impressive shows—that’s the
Chicago Botanic Garden. It consists of a collection of 27 attractive gardens covering 385 acres and
exhibiting millions of flowers trees and plants. Many colors including pink, purple, and yellow
will make you fall in love with it at first glance. The Midwest Daffodil Society Show puts
hundreds of daffodils on exhibition that will be judged by the authorities. The show includes
flower design and photography competitions. The Ikebana International Show presents an
exhibition of traditional Japanese flower arranging. The Midwest Fruit Explorers presents this
hands-on workshop with step-by-step instructions on how to graft(嫁接) and care for fruit trees.
Why not head to this mysterious and wonderful garden?
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Garden time & admission fee:
Daily Hours
8 a.m.—7 p.m.
Garden View Cafe
Garden Shop
8 a.m.—4 p.m.
10 a.m.—4 p.m.
Members
$7
Nonmembers
Adults
$8
Children (3-12 yrs)
Children (2 and under)
Ten-visit pass
$5
$6
Free
$50
Free
$60
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Accessibility at the garden:
No pets please with the exception of guide dogs and other service animals.
Electronic Convenience Vehicles (ECVs) are available for rent in the Visitor Center on a first
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come, first served basis. The following fees apply: members $15, non-members $20. ECVs will
not be rented for indoor use.
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Wheelchairs are available for free at the Information Desk in the Visitor Center.
1. What can visitors do at the Chicago Botanic Garden?
A. Sell flowers, trees and plants.
C. Judge hundreds of daffodils.
B. Learn about fruit tree planting.
D. Admire Chinese flower arranging.
2. How much will a couple with membership cards pay if they take their two-year-old son to the
garden?
A. $14.
B. $15.
C. $17.
D. $24.
3. What service can visitors enjoy in the garden?
A. Drinking free coffee at 4 p.m
B. Renting indoor ECV anytime.
C. Paying for wheelchair service.
D. Taking their service animals.
B
Struggling for breath, I felt another wave crash against my body. Desperately attempting to
hold onto the sand for my life, at seven years old, I felt completely helpless. Waking up on the
shore, I got up and began to clean the sand off me. My parents had been always drilling water
safety into me and so I felt I should have known much better. But nearly drowning made me even
more of a water baby.
Growing up in South Africa, I have many fond summer memories associated with the water.
However, when I moved to the UK in 2013, I realized how much I missed it. As life went on,
working full-time in media and advertising, I realized I wanted to do something else.
So much so, in 2016, I decided to train as a swimming teacher. I would work evenings and
weekends, but eventually realized it was something I wanted to devote all my time to. I have been
trained to teach a whole range of ages from three years old up to 77!
This desire to help others went even further when, in October last year, I decided to swim the
English Channel with the charity Swim Tayka. I first knew about the charity back in 2019 after
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searching Google for volunteering projects, and I was really inspired by the work they did in
providing disadvantaged children with swimming lessons and drowning prevention education.
“Why did you sign up for the challenge?” one of the charity workers asked me.
Sitting down one evening, I really thought about why I wanted to do this and I remembered
the incident that happened when I was a child.
I just want to help people love and respect the water in the same way I do. Watching by the
pool side as my students splash (溅) about care-free, I smile proudly. It really does make all the
difference knowing you’re helping others and I encourage people to take up the challenge.
4. How does the author feel about his drowning experience?
A. Beneficial.
B. Amazing.
C. Destructive.
D. Embarrassing.
5. Why did the author move to the UK in 2013?
A. To teach all-age people to swim.
B. To further study swimming skills.
C. To escape from childhood memories.
D. To be engaged in media and advertising.
6. How was the author informed of Swim Tayka?
A. By inquiring volunteers.
B. By overhearing a project.
D. By crossing the English Channel.
C. By googling for information.
7. What is the root motivation for the author to take up the challenge?
A. His deep love for swimming.
B. The drowning incident in childhood.
C. The education he received in the training.
D. His determination to improve people’s well-being.
C
On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland
Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human. The 57-year-old
Maryland resident had been hospitalized for months due to a life threatening disease. His heart
was failing him and he needed a new one.
Bennett’s condition left him unresponsive to treatment and ineligible (不合格 ) for the
transplant list or an artificial heart pump. The physician-scientists at the center, however, had
another-also risky- option: transplant (移植) a heart from a genetically-modified pig.
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“It was either die or do this transplant,” Bennett had told surgeons a day before the operation.
“I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s also my last choice.”
It took the medical team eight hours to finish the operation, making Bennett the first human
to successfully receive a pig’s heart. “It’s working and it looks normal. We are thrilled, but we
don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,” Barkley Griffith, who
led the transplant team, told the New York Times.
While it’s only been five days since the operation, the surgeons say that Bennett’s new pig
heart was, so far, functioning as expected and his body wasn’t rejecting (排斥) the organ. They are
still monitoring his condition closely.
“I think it’s extremely exciting,” says Robert Montgomery, transplant surgeon and director of
the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who was not involved in Bennett’s operation. The result of
the procedure was also personally meaningful for Montgomery, who received a heart transplant in
2018 due to a genetic disease that may also affect members of his family in the future. “It’s still in
the early days, but still the heart seems to be functioning. And that in and of itself is an
extraordinary thing. Up to now most experimental heart transplant procedures have been done
between pigs and other animals. This is the first time that surgeons have taken it into a living
human.”
8. What do the words “a shot in the dark” underlined in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Something that costs a fortune.
B. Something impossible to succeed.
C. Something drawing public attention.
D. Something with an uncertain outcome.
9. What is Barkley Griffith’s attitude to Bennett’s post-operation condition?
A. Negative. B. Cautious. C. Optimistic. D. Uncaring.
10. What is the text mainly about?
A. The first successful pig heart transplant into a living human.
B. David Bennett’s contribution to medical research.
C. The first experimental pig heart transplant in the world.
D. The heated debate over the pig heart transplant.
11. In which section of a magazine may this text appear?
A. Political Affairs. B. Global Entertainment
C. Sci-Tech Front.
D. Financial Window.
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D
Researchers say a new electrical device placed in three paralyzed patients has helped them
walk again. The lower bodies of the three patients were left paralyzed after they suffered spinal
(脊柱的) cord injuries. But a device implanted in the spinal cord was able to send electrical
signals to the muscles to permit them to stand, walk and exercise.
Scientists have discovered that neurons—which receive and send signals for muscle
movements—often still work in injured patients with serious spinal cord injuries. However, past
research into spinal cord injuries has centered on the stimulation of neurons. Now in the latest
experiment led by Gregoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Lausanne, three paralyzed men were implanted a new electrical device designed to
copy an action of the brain, in which it sends signals to the spinal cord that result in muscle
movement. When the spinal cord receives the brain signals, it stimulates a collection of nerve cells
that can activate different muscles.
The researchers reported that all three patients who got the spinal cord implants were able to
take their first steps within an hour after receiving them. Over the next six months, the patients
regained the ability to take part in more advanced walking activities, the study found. They were
also able to ride bicycles and swim in community settings.
Unlike other attempts to help paralyzed patients walk by stimulating nerves through the back
of the spine, Courtine said that his team redesigned the devices so signals would enter the spine
from the sides. This method permits more direct targeting and activation of spinal cord areas, he
said.
The team then developed artificial intelligence (AI) systems linked to the device. The AI
controls electrodes on the device to send signals to stimulate individual nerves that control
muscles needed for walking and other activities. However, because the patients’ muscles were
weak from not being used, they needed help with supporting their weight, the researchers said. It
also took some time for them to learn to work with the technology. Still, Bloch said, “The more
they train, the more they start lifting their muscles, the more fluid it becomes.”
12. What can be inferred from paragraph 2?
A. Courtine and Bloch have found that neurons in paralyzed patients still work.
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B. The new electrical device can imitate the brain to send signals to the spinal cord.
C. Three paralyzed men recovered with the help of a new electrical device.
D. Stimulating the neurons is the focus of the latest research into spinal cord injuries.
13. How does the new device stimulate the spinal cord areas more directly?
A. By stimulating nerves through the back of the spine.
B. By using the AI system.
C. By making signals enter the spine from the sides.
D. By sending the signals to the brain.
14. Which can best describe Bloch’s idea in the last paragraph?
A. Every garden has its weeds.
B. Put the cart (运货马车) before the horse.
C. It's hard to please all.
D. Practice makes perfect.
15. What is the writing purpose of this text?
A. To introduce the findings of a recent research.
B. To report the consequence of spinal cord injuries.
C. To compare a recent research with other previous researches.
D. To recommend a treatment for paralyzed patients.
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。
Why Do Brides Wear White?
In many societies the color white has been associated with purity and virtue, and that is one
reason why some brides choose to wear white, especially in the West. Usually, you will hear that
brides wear white because “it`s a tradition”. But, historically, white was not the only color
considered for wedding dresses.
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For many centuries in Western societies, wedding dresses had different colors.
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Brides
tended to buy a wedding dress that could be worn again, or they simply wore the best dress they
already owned. And white is not practical: it is difficult to keep clean and is therefore not ideal for
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many situations or for repeated wear.
Many brides chose to wear dresses of other colors for their wedding and beyond.
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They
do so largely thanks to a trend that started with Queen Victoria`s 1840 wedding to Prince Albert.
Although not in as many different media as we have now, they still had a tendency to
be trendsetting. So Victoria chose to wear a white gown(礼服 ) produced by the British lace
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industry, which was depressed at
newspapers and magazines.
the time. Her fashion choice was widely reported in
Eventually, the trend of a white wedding gown spread
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across all economic levels and it was strengthened as a “tradition” in the 20 century.
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A. So why do so many of today's brides wear white?
B. But why are brides so particular about their dresses?
C. Royal weddings in those years received a lot of reporting.
D. It reflected the growth of the wedding industry at that time.
E. It soon influenced domestic and international wedding trends.
F. In fact, other colors were chosen far more frequently than white.
G. This was for reasons of being practical as much as anything else.
第二部分语言运用（共两节,满分30分）
第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分,满分15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。
Bobbi Wilson is a 9-year-old New Jersey girl. She had recently learned that spotted lantern
flies ___21____ trees because they feed on the sap (汁液) found in leaves and tree trunks． So she
___22____ her own insecticide (杀虫剂 ) to deal with the species from a recipe she had
___23____ on social media. Bobbi was walking through her Caldwell, New Jersey, neighborhood,
simply ___24____ her insecticide when the police came and took her to the police station.
It turned out that a man ___25____ her spraying (喷洒) something on the sidewalk and trees.
Thinking that she was a ___26____little girl or someone with a mental disorder, he was
___27____ and called the police and told them, “There’s a little black girl walking, spraying stuff
on the sidewalk and trees…”.
Bobbi was very confused and ___28____about having to make a trip to the police station
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because she was not only doing something ___29____ for our environment but she was also doing
something that made her feel like a(n) ___30____when the man called the police. The man
apologized to Bobbi and her family for the ___31____
___32____, the incident didn’t affect Bobbi’s spirit and has led to some great ___33____
for her. She has been ___34____to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. She and her family
got a chance to visit with a group of black female scientists at Yale University. They showed her
various labs and even invited her to ___35____lantern fly specimens (样本) for the university.
21. A. decorate
22. A. created
23. A. got over
24. A. testing out
25. A. heard
B. damage
C. recognize
C. purchased
C. pointed out
C. posting
D. abandon
D. exhibited
D. come across
D. improving
D. left
B. restored
B. brought about
B. mixing up
B. suggested
B. curious
C. spotted
26. A. beautiful
27. A. excited
28. A. calm
C. hidden
D. lost
B. worried
C. relieved
C. upset
D. stressed
D. anxious
D. annoying
D. hero
B. hopeful
29. A. amazing
30. A. actress
31.A. misguidance
32. A. Luckily
33. A. attitude
34. A. sent
B. interesting
B. adult
C. disturbing
C. stranger
B. misfortune
B. Particularly
B. answers
B. referred
B. provide
C. misunderstanding D. mismatching
C. Generally
C. wealth
C. invited
C. taste
D. Honestly
D. experiences
D. carried
35. A. transport
D. keep
第二节语法填空（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。
Bird-watching, a hobby favored by many westerners, has been included in a public benefit
program “Park Classes” in Wuhan schools. In the past six years, the program ___36___(carry) out
over 3,000 activities in Wuhan’s thirty urban parks, ___37___(cover) all of the city’s primary
schools and welcomed by over one million students. Buried in books and having little access to
the outside world, many students don’t have the ___38___(little) idea of what nature really is. This
program is designed to enhance the awareness of environmental protection among school kids,
___39___often feel greatly refreshed by appreciating the grace of the adorable creatures through
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cameras.
Among the selective courses ___40___(be) the restoration of small and micro wetlands. As
for this course, what is needed is a lot of hands-on practice. Under the ___41___(guide) of their
teachers, students are required to conduct a research on a 500-square-meter wetland in the city
parks. Focusing their attention ___42___ the wetland’s physical condition, they have recorded the
number of plant and animal species to create a restoration plan. Thanks to ___43___(they) efforts,
the biodiversity of the wetland has been significantly improved.
“It’s very meaningful,” said Li Chenliang, ___44___ eighth grader from this project. “I have
learned a lot of knowledge that cannot be ___45___(direct) got from books. I should make full use
of the city’s ecological advantages and get more chances to get closer to nature.”
第三部分写作（共两节；满分40分）
第一节书面表达（满分15分）
假定你即将代表所在学校，出席以“消极情绪(negative emotions)”为主题的国际中学生在
线讨论会，请写一篇英语发言稿。内容包括：
1.消极情绪的表现
2.应对消极情绪的措施；
3.邀请其他与会者分享其对于消极情绪的见解。
注意：1.写作词数应为 100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
Dear guests and friends,
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
第二节读后续写（满分 25分）
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。
The Price of a Dream
I grew up poor in a family with little money and few worldly goods, but plenty of love
and attention. I was happy and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person
was, they could still afford a dream.
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My dream was sports. By the time I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a
ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field. I was also
lucky: My high-school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who taught me the difference between
sticking to a dream and just showing determination. One particular incident with Coach
Jarvis changed my life forever.
It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and a friend recommended me
for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket – cash for hanging out with
friends, certainly, money for a new bike and new clothes, and the start of savings for a
house for my mother. The prospect of a summer job was appealing, and I wanted to jump at
the opportunity.
Then I realized I would have to give up summer baseball to handle the work schedule,
and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn’t be playing. I was fearing this,
but I had to.
When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as mad as I expected him to be. “You have your
whole life to work,” he said. “Your playing days are limited. You can’t afford to waste
them.”
I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the words that would
explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket
was worth facing his disappointment in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job, kid?” he demanded.
“Three twenty-five an hour,” I replied.
“Well,” he asked, “is $3.25 an hour the price of a dream?”
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:
That question struck me like a flash of lightning. ____________________________
Paragraph 2:
I went on the stage to collect the prize for the best baseball player. _____________ _
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