2022-2023学年河南省顶尖名校联盟高二下学期5月期中考试英语试题含答案

河南省顶尖名校联盟2022-2023学年高二下学期5月期中考试

英语

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第一部分   听力(略)

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。

A

As one of the most adventurous places to visit in South America, Patagonia deserves some serious travel time. These are my top recommendations for backpacking in Patagonia:

·Patagonia is probably the safest part of South America. I've hitchhiked(搭便车) in Chile without problems and would thoroughly recommend this as a form of transport.(Get tips on hitchhiking in South America here.)

·Car hire is also an interesting and rewarding way of seeing Patagonia, although booking in advance during high season is again recommended. I recommend using Rental Cars and suggest you check out this complete guide to planning a Patagonia road trip for essential tips and tricks.

·The shoulder seasons(平季), October-November and March-April, are far quieter and cheaper for backpacking in Patagonia. Accommodation and agencies in some towns are sometimes not running in October or April though.

·Bus schedules vary depending on the season and change year-to-year. Always visit the bus station when you get to a new place to confirm timings and buy tickets for the next leg of your journey. It's also important to plan additional days into your Patagonia backpacking trip in case you can't travel on the day you had initially intended. For more information about this subject, check out this detailed guide about getting to Patagonia.

•Self-catering(自理膳食) is by far the best way of keeping costs down on these Patagonia backpacking trips. Where possible,I've highlighted the best places to stock up on food. I've also written in more detail about visiting Patagonia on a budget.

·However, crossing the border between Argentina and Chile, you cannot take fresh fruit, vegetables, cheese or meat. It will be confiscated(没收) and if you don't own up to it (particularly when heading into Chile), you may be fined.

21. Which means of transportation is strongly recommended to Patagonia?

A. Going hitchhiking.                       B. Taking a taxi.

C. Going hiking on foot.                    D. Taking a bus.

22. What does the text help you know about Patagonia if you want to travel there?

A. Bus schedule in all bus stations are always fixed.

B. You’d better hire the local car ahead of time.

C. It's the best season in October-November and March-April.

D. You’d better take self-catering to save cost when crossing Chile.

23. Where is the passage probably taken from?

A. A book review.                        B. A biography.

C. A guidebook.                          D. A product advertisement.

B

How many bicycles do you need in your life? For 67-year-old Chai Lin, the answer is 1,300 and counting.

Chai's passion for bicycles dates back to the 1960s when he saw some people riding the two-wheeled vehicle in his home city of Lanzhou, capital of north-west China's Gansu Province. However, in that era,a bicycle was still a luxury for ordinary Chinese. To get enough money sooner, Chai made use of his talent in calligraphy and painting—a skill he started to learn from six years old——by selling artworks on the street. Thanks to all the efforts and“crowd-funding”in his family, Chai got his first bike in 1980.

After becoming a businessman years later and earning enough to buy fancy motorbikes and cars, Chai's passion for bikes, however, didn't dwindle at all. He began to collect bikes of various brands and ages, especially antiques, from around the world through auctions and other ways.

With his collection growing, there was no space big enough to keep it. In 2009, with the support of the Gansu provincial government, he invested 200 million yuan for a museum just for his bikes.

After 10 years'efforts, the Gansu Sanmu Bicycle Museum, located in Chengguan District of Lanzhou, finally opened to the public in January 2019 free of charge.

The museum has been designated as an off-campus research centre for local primary and middle school students and is also popular with tourists. In the first half of this year alone, it received more than 900,000 tourists. Due to limited space,a large part of Chai's collection is not yet exhibited and has to be stored in the warehouse, driving him to improve the museum.

“Bikes carry unique and precious memories of our generation. I hope to expand the scale of the displaying area of the museum and provide a comfortable ‘home’for my bikes,”he said.

24. What's the main idea of the second paragraph?

A. Chai has a talent for calligraphy and painting.

B. Chai knew the skill of life when he was very young.

C. Chai has a unique love for bicycles more than others.

D. Chai managed to get his first bicycle through all efforts.

25. What's the meaning of the underlined word“dwindle”in the third paragraph?

A. Exist.             B. Decrease.          C. Strengthen.        D. Develop.

26. How does the author develop the text?

A. By giving examples.                       B. By giving data.

C. By comparison with others.                 D. By the order of time.

27. What will be continued to describe next?

A. Chai will make more speeches in various occasions.

B. Chai will expand the museum to treasure the memory of bikes.

C. Chai’s Bicycle Museum will be open to visitors from the world.

D. Chai’s Bicycle Museum will display all collections in the warehouse.

C

China is betting on its successful hybrid rice varieties to fight food shortage in Africa.

“We’re no longer suffering from hunger,”55-year-old Georges Ranaivomanana,a Madagascan farmer who took the lead in planting Chinese hybrid rice in his town of Mahitsy.Georges told Xinhua that he hoped that all Madagascan farmers would use the seeds to raise their living standards.

China has been helping African countries develop productive rice farming for years with its hybrid rice. For farmers on the continent like Ranaivomanana, they are“very grateful”to the Chinese as the hybrid rice is the key to better food security and higher incomes.

In May, the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Centre opened a research centre in Madagascar to select hybrid rice varieties based on the island nation's diverse ecological environment, in an effort to find more productive crops for a continent long troubled by insufficient grain output.

In the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi, Chinese expert Wang Xuemin stood in a rice field, surrounded by green rice plants.“This year, we are using a new technology,”he said,adding that“it can significantly reduce labor and other costs.”“The land, climate and rice farming methods in Nigeria are very different from those in China. We had a lot of problems at the beginning,”said the 51-year-old who has been in Nigeria for 16 years.

In 2006, after Wang and his colleagues had sown the seeds, their field management techniques and large-scale farming equipment could not adapt to the operating environment,and hundreds of hectares of rice fields were almost completely taken over by weeds.“We came to realize that blindly copying the Chinese model is not feasible(可行的). It is necessary to constantly innovate our techniques to fit the local situation in Africa,”he said.

After more than ten years of research and innovation, the Nigerian farm now becomes a major training and mechanized production centre in the country, training more than 1,000farmers and agricultural machinery management staff.

28. What's the attitude of African farmers about Chinese hybrid rice?

A. A little skeptical.                    B. Much disappointed.

C. Full of gratitude.                    D. Extremely curious.

29. How old was Wang Xuemin when he came to Nigeria?

A.35 years old.                          B.51  years old.

C.55 years old.                          D.67 years old.

30. What can we infer from what Wang Xuemin said?

A. Chinese technology of hybrid rice can't be applied in Africa.

B. Different technologies should be applied to different areas.

C. Chinese experts contribute to raising African living standards.

D. Chinese technology of hybrid rice wastes more labor and costs.

31. What's the best title of the text?

A. Chinese Hybrid Rice Research Has Not Been Open in Africa

B. The Sowing of Hybrid Rice Should Vary from Country

C. China's Hybrid Rice Sows Hope for Africa

D. Africans Fight Food Shortage with Chinese

D

Most students do an IQ test early in their school career. Even if they never see their results, they feel that their IQ is what determines how well they are going to do in life. When they see other students doing better than them, they usually believe that those students have a higher IQ and that there is nothing they can do to change their situation. However, new research into EQ suggests that success is not simply the result of a high IQ.

While your IQ tells you how intelligent you are, your EQ tells you how well you use your intelligence. Professor Salovey suggests that when predicting someone's future success, their character, as measured by EQ tests, might actually matter more than their IQ. For example,have you ever wondered why some of the smartest students in your class, who you think deserve good grades, sometimes end up failing exams? Perhaps their failure is because of their lower EQ.

It is generally believed that people with high EQs are open to new ideas and have positive attitudes towards life. They are also less likely to be troubled by internal problems. On the other hand, there is little doubt that people with low EQs often have problems getting on with other people and dealing with difficult situations;hence they have a harder time adjusting in life and in their careers.

People generally believe that a person's IQ is determined by birth. However, most social scientists agree that EQ has a lot to do with education. Some are trying to study the possibility of improving a person's EQ, especially in terms of “people’s skills”, such as understanding and communication.

To get ahead in the world and lead a happy successful life requires getting on well with other people and being able to understand and react to situations in the best way possible. A high EQ is necessary for this—the higher the better.

32. Most students think others' better performance in studies is due to         .

A. high IQ                                B. teachers'assistance

C. good luck                              D. hard work

33. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

A. Only EQ determines someone's future success.

B. EQ plays a more important role in one's future success.

C. Some smartest students fail exams because of their low IQ.

D. The most intelligent students deserve good grades.

34. What will people with a high EQ tend to do?

A. Refuse new ideas.                        B. Be troubled by problems.

C. Have a negative attitude.                   D. Get along well with others.

35. What contributes to a higher EQ according to most social scientists?

A. Education.           B. Parents.           C. Friends.            D. Environment.

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。

Up until the 1980s, people in many countries regularly followed in their parents’ footsteps by working in the family business or joining the same profession as them. In your grandparents'time, there was the prospect of doing the same job from graduation until retirement.   36   Most people now have no intention of following in their parents' footsteps or even staying at one job for very long.

In fact, planning to work in the same field or industry for your entire working life just isn't practical anymore.   37   The skills you have now are unlikely to remain relevant and be enough to help you through your entire career. In fact, they will probably be out of date very soon.   38   Work hard? Win the lottery? Hope for the best? You might be lucky. These strategies might bring you a nice and comfortable life:working at a job you like, earning a decent salary and retiring while you' re still young and healthy.   39   

If you think you can work eight hours a day and build a career, think again. You might be able to keep your job if you finish what you are asked to do, but this is hardly a recipe for great career success.   40   You ’ ll need to be a risk taker, an innovator,a problem solver,and a hard worker. Keep doing this, and you can become an expert in something one day. You have a chance to choose to build a career, rather than being told to stay or to go.

A. How times have changed!

B. And then what will you do?

C. One reason for this is technology.

D. Learning new technology skills can help you seek a job.

E. But most of us today have to look beyond the little box called“career”.

F. Then how do your parents'job choices affect your own choices?

G. Instead, you'd better keep looking for smarter ways to do your work.

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。

I'd been staying in Punta del Este for a few days, just enjoying the end of a holiday, and the day before I was going to go back to Argentina I was walking on the beach and   41   lots of dead penguins covered in oil and tar. Rather than   42   round and walking away,I walked on just to get some idea of how many were dead. And while doing that I   43   one of them move.

My first   44   was to walk away but I thought if I put him out on the rocks, as the waves came in he would   45   and just swim off and he would be fine. So I placed him out on the rocks, went back to   46   , and the wave came in and he disappeared. But while I was saying “ Goodbye and good luck little bird ”, out he came again and came   47   back to me!So I tried again and again and he wouldn't go. He kept coming back.

   48   I decided if I abandoned him there, if I just left him and walked off the beach and went back, he wouldn't be able to climb up the wall. So I walked off and I left him. And then he came   49   up the beach after me, like a small child!

Then I   50   him home.I suppose the   51   moment I spent with the penguin was sitting there, with him — doglike- leaning his head on my foot, and   52   “I ought to write a book about you.”

And he just looked up, and the shiver(抖动) of   53   that ran from his beak down to his bottom gave me absolutely   54   about what he thought of my idea. That's the moment I will   55   remember.

41. A. washed                B. encountered        C. attracted              D. picked

42. A. turning              B. looking              C. wandering           D. showing

43. A. noticed              B. realized            C. recognized          D. kept

44. A. experience            B. warning              C. thought               D. hope

45. A. hide                B. escape              C. disapprove          D. disappear

46. A. think                B. calm                C. watch               D. shout

47. A. straight              B. secretly            C. aimlessly             D. firmly

48. A. Eventually           B. Obviously           C. Suddenly            D. Initially

49. A. taking               B. clearing            C. running               D. saving

50. A. sent                B. threw              C. fetched             D. brought

51. A. memorable            B. little              C. rush               D. useful

52. A. promising             B. saying              C. ordering             D. repeating

53. A. curiosity              B. regret              C. satisfaction          D. excitement

54. A. no hope           B. a relief             C. no doubt              D. much help

55. A. seldom               B. never              C. always               D. only

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。

Reading a book and watching a film   56   ( be) two very different experiences, but it's normal to have high expectations when a film of a favourite book   57   ( make). There are many times I have been pessimistic or even disappointed by a film of a book I love.

A key question is   58   ( obvious) how close to the original the film is. Another problem area is the cast. Finding actors   59   ( accept) to film audiences can mean the difference between success and failure. Some books are just too difficult to be adapted for technical reasons.CGI technology has had a huge impact   60   the film industry. It allowed the previously unfilmable to become a reality.

One may think that it is the book writer   61   is in the best position   62   ( do) film adaptations. In fact, sometimes authors are very involved in the process   63   may even be the screenwriter. This can actually be a disadvantage because they may be too close to the material and find   64   difficult to adapt to a new form. Sometimes   65   ( writer) have been very unsatisfied with the film versions of their work. For me, anyway, it is always a bad idea to watch a film of a book you love.

第四部分   写作(共两节，满分４０分)

第一节   (满分15分)

假定你是李华，你们学校将举办主题为“我的未来职业”的中文演讲比赛，你想邀请你们学校的美国交换生Peter参加，请你用英文给他写一封电子邮件。内容包括：

1.介绍比赛的时间、地点、主题等情况；

2.邀请他参加；

3.鼓励他认真准备。

注意：

1.写作词数应为80左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

第二节   (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。

After sixteen years of waiting, Brian finally got his driver's license. Just about two months after receiving his license, Brian asked if he could take the family car and spend a day at the state fair with a friend. His parents agreed happily and wished him a pleasant trip. So with that, Brian pulled out of the driveway and waved goodbye to his parents.

Colin didn't live far—maybe ten or fifteen minutes away. And it wasn't long before both boys were on their way downtown to the fair. Their drive was on a winding two-lane road with a few small hills. They followed the road to the left, slowly curved back to the right, and then proceeded up toward the crest of a hill. All of a sudden, there was a crash. It all happened so fast.

“Are you OK?” Brian asked his buddy.

“I think so. What just happened?” Colin responded.

“We just had an accident.”

Slowly the boys began to regain their senses. Brian unbuckled(解开) his seat belt and stepped outside to assess the damage. It looked as if the entire left side of the car were one big dent(凹陷). The windows on the driver's side were in a thousand pieces, and the doors were crunched. Soon the police arrived and surveyed the scene. The police dealt with the accident quickly, then they let all people leave and go back on their way.

The fair was unthinkable under the circumstances. Brain thought it's best to get Colin home safe before making the journey to his own house. When they reached Colin's house, Colin climbed out of the car and wished his shaken friend luck.

“Be honest to your parents and don't worry. It wasn't your fault.” Colin said, trying to be upbeat.

“I know... I think. But it's not going to be easy to break this to them. It's their car.” Brian pointed the car in the direction of his house and drove.

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。

参考答案

一、   听力理解（略）

二、   阅读理解

21-23ABC   24-27DBDB   28-31CABC  32-35ABDA  36-40ACBEG

三、   完形填空

第一节

41-45BAACB  46-50CAACD  51-55ABDBC

第二节

56.are 57.is made 58.obviously  59.acceptable 60.on

61.who 62.to do  63.and  64.it   65.writers

四、   书面表达

第一节

Dear Peter，

I'm writing to invite you to take part in the My Future Career Contest to be held in our school.

The school will hold the contest next month with the aim of planning your life well and be prepared for life in the future. There will be a variety of events helping me to establish lofty ideals. There maybe have been many ideas for the future and I think you should put it aloud. It will be a good chance for you to show your dream. Believe in yourself. I believe you will benefit from the experience and gain a better understanding of personalities.

Best wishes,

Yours，

Li Hua

第二节

Paragraph 1:

The very thought of facing his parents filled Brian with anxiety. Getting closer to home, Brian beat his brains out to think of ways to deliver the bad news. He thought about starting with," It wasn't my fault, and I'm OK. Someone else would cover the cost of the repairs, and there were no injuries." It seemed simple enough. But in his mind appeared the looks on the face of his parents when he broke the news to them. He concluded that in no way was this going to be a pleasant experience.

Paragraph 2:

As he neared the house, Brian saw his parents working in the front yard. Their jaw dropped as he rolled in front of the house. Brian stopped the car, and before he got out, his mother was at the window." Are you hurt? "she asked nervously. Brian could tell the concern in

her voice, and he assured them he was OK." Are you sure you are OK?" asked his father." Don't worry about the car. We're thankful you are all right." Brian could hardly believe his ears, but he sensed his parents' evident love for him.