江苏省扬州市广陵2022_2023高二英语下学期期中考试试题

这是一份江苏省扬州市广陵2022_2023高二英语下学期期中考试试题，共18页。

江苏省扬州2022-2023高二下学期期中试题
英语试题
（本试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟）

注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。
2. 作答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
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4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁；考试结束后，将答题卡交回。

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
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。
1. What will John do after school tomorrow?
A. See a movie. B. Play badminton. C. Go to Grace’s house.
2. What color of shirt will the man choose?
A. White. B. Black. C. Blue.
3. What’s the relationship between the speakers?
A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Headmaster and teacher.
4. Who is worried about gaining weight?
A. The son. B. Aunt Louise. C. The mother.
5. Why does the woman give up buying the coat?
A. It is expensive. B. The size doesn’t fit her. C. She doesn’t like the color.

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. Where does the conversation take place?
A. At a clothing store. B. At a work event. C. At the laundry.
7. When will the woman return?
A. Tomorrow morning. B. This afternoon. C. Tonight.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. How will the woman send the package?
A. By air mail. B. By registered mail. C. By express mail.
9. How much should the woman pay?
A. ￡20. B. ￡23. C. ￡26.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why did the woman go to New York?
A. To have meetings. B. To go sightseeing. C. To study a program.
11. What may help avoid jet lag?
A. Coffee. B. Alcohol. C. Exercise.
12. What did the woman say about most passengers?
A. They preferred alcohol.
B. They liked to do exercises.
C. They could hardly make a choice.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What do we know about the area?
A. Lightning strikes mostly in December.
B. The area is near the Andes Mountains.
C. The people there worry about getting hit.
14. What did NASA call the area?
A. The Never Ending Storm of Catatumbo.
B．The Lightning Capital of the World.
C. The Light of Venezuela.
15. Which helps the area get so many storms?
A. Warm mountain winds.
B. Warm sea air.
C. The crowded population.
16. What does the man say in the end?
A. He’s scared of storms.
B. He’ll never visit Venezuela.
C. He’d be careful if he lived in the area.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the speech mainly about?
A. Music and dancing in Guanajuato.
B. Traditional Mexican dresses.
C. The speaker’s career.
18. Which kind of music does the speaker like best?
A. Rock music. B . Pop music. C. Traditional Mexican music.
19. What is the most critical factor to be a folk dance?
A. Teamwork.
B. Hard work
C. Love for the culture and music.
20. How do folk dancers get dance dresses?
A. By buying them at the store.
B. By making them on their own.
C. By borrowing them from their grandparents.

第二部分 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
Travelling by rail holds a romantic and old-fashioned appeal that can’t be matched by flying or driving.
1. The Rocky Mountaineer
Where: Canada, from Vancouver to Banff, Jasper and Calgary.
When: In June, which is springtime in the Rockies, complete with blooming flowers and abundant wildlife.
Duration: Between two and eight days, travelling only in daylight, staying in deluxe hotels.
Highlights: Incredible luxury at every stage of the trip, traditional native storytelling, wine classes.
2. The Chepe
Where: Mexico. It begins its journey in the mountains of Chihuahua and finishes on the Sinaloa coast.
When: In the rainy season, from June to October.
Duration: 14 hours.
Highlights: The train winds its way down through 656 km of the breathtaking Copper Canyon which is deeper than the Grand Canyon, over 37 precarious-looking bridges and through 86 tunnels. Natives sell crafts and local foods along the route.
3. The Ghan
Where: Australia, from Adelaide to Darwin via Alice Springs.
When: Going during the wet season (December, January) will allow you to see more wildlife.
Duration: 52 hours.
Highlights: Going through Australia’s Red Centre with cobalt-blue skies, red earth.
4. The Royal Scotsman
Where: Travels around the Scottish Highlands.
When: Warmer weather in June makes it the perfect time to watch ospreys flying over mirror-like lakes, or go in October for autumn colors.
Duration: Trips can be as short as two days or as long as seven.
Highlights: Indulgent cuisine, fine wines and carriages that look like rooms at Balmoral Castle.
21．What can you do while traveling on the Chepe?
A．You can taste local foods.
B．You can make crafts with natives.
C．You can admire the Grand Canyon.
D．You can listen to traditional native stories.
22．Which train is bound for Darwin?
A．The Rocky Mountaineer. B．The Chepe.
C．The Ghan. D．The Royal Scotsman.
23．When is the perfect time to enjoy the fall scenery in the Scottish Highlands?
A．In June. B．In July.
C．In October. D．In December.
B
About 400 pounds of food is wasted per day from 5 pm to 8 pm in Douglass Dining Hall. “We scrape (刮掉) the food from the conveyor belt into the buckets by hand. Working for Dining Team Green, I don’t expect to basically become a garbage girl,” Roll said. “We do the work because we care much about it. We all have a responsibility to take care of the environment.”
To have more approachable composting (把……制成堆肥) machines on campus, Roll now has a new sustainable project investing in Lomi, an automated compost machine. “I learned about Lomi through an ad,” Roll said. “Funny enough, I just saw it and thought it perfect. It really interested me how the mechanism worked. ”
Lomi is a new technology that can break down food waste into natural compost. According to Roll, it breaks down waste in the way: grinding (碾碎) the food into plant fertilizer. Unlike most composting machines, Lomi can compost animal products, such as small bones. Another huge benefit is that it doesn’t have smell and can convert waste to compost in a shorter time.
Roll plans on using the compost in the Gilbert community garden so that Dining Team Green can give back to the community. “It’s very exciting to see our food waste that would otherwise have gone in the trash and pollute the environment go to our community,” she said.
Roll is excited to introduce a new form of composting to the residents. She hopes that this machine will inspire other composting machines in all residential buildings. “I want Lomi not only to be a way to reduce food waste on the floor, but an educational tool to make people compost in a real way and not just talk about it in a theoretical sense,” Roll said.
24．Which of the following can best describe Lomi?
A．Elegant. B．Widespread.
C．Low-powered. D．Environmentally friendly.
25．What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?
A．The reasons for designing Lomi. B．The impact of wasting food.
C．The solution to food waste. D．The advantages of Lomi.
26．What may be Roll’s expectation?
A．More people will get involved in composting initiatives.
B．Dining Team Green will become an educational tool.
C．More developed composting machines will be invented.
D．Dining Team Green will build community gardens.
27．What can we know about Roll?
A．She lives in the Gilbert community.
B．She is a member of Dining Team Green.
C．She knows a lot about residential buildings.
D．She plans to design more composting machines.
C
“I’ll be there in a few minutes. I’m playing a game with a friend, a guy named Scuzzball,” my 15-year-old son shouted from his room. “Oh, what is Scuzzball’s real name?” I asked. “I have no idea.” He said. “Where is he from?” I continued. He responded, “I think somewhere in Canada. Oh, wait, it doesn’t even matter because Scuzzball just left the game and he has been replaced with a robot.”
“Your friend is replaced by artificial intelligence?” “It doesn’t matter, Dad. It happens all the time! The game continues.” My son doesn’t mind playing with a person or a robot, which is typical of gamers these days. I wonder whether the face-to-face experience of friendship that I grew up with will be lost by our children.
Aristotle, a great thinker and educator, has pointed out that shallow friendship is easily formed but also easily abandoned because such bonds are fragile. Deep friendship, by contrast, is when you care for your friend for his sake, not for any benefit you can get. This is selfless friendship. You can have only a couple of these friends because they require lots of time and effort. You must make sacrifices for each other.
Presence in friendship requires “being with” and “doing for”. Perhaps the most defining feature of deep friendship is “doing for”, as my friend has my back in trouble or brings me soup when I’m sick. Only strong bonds have the power to motivate real sacrifices. But it is unclear why online “friends” would bother to do the hard work of friendship. When I asked my students whether they had people in their lives who would bring them soup when they were sick, they laughed at my Stone Age question and said they’d just order soup online themselves.
Digital life fills and absorbs waking life time so that people do not join in example case of friendship, like sports, collective arts, free range childhoods, etc. In this way, digital life produces false friendships.
28．How does the author lead in the topic of the text?
A．By quoting famous mottoes.
B．By introducing an online game.
C．By showing robots’ irreplaceable role.
D．By presenting a parent-child conversation.
29．What does the author mainly explain in Paragraph 3?
A．Impact of selfish friendship. B．The meaning of deep friendship.
C．Selfless sacrifices in friendship. D．The formation of shallow friendship.
30．What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A．Ordering food online for friends is an example of “being with”.
B．The students thought highly of the teacher’s question.
C．Virtual friends won’t make real sacrifices.
D．Robots will have our back in trouble.
31．Which of the following can be a suitable title for the text?
A．The Benefits of Digital Life B．Digitalized Friendship
C．Face-to-face Communication D．The Sacrifices of Online Friends
D
Take a look at that tree in the local park. What might it be feeling? Could it be thinking? Experiments are exploring the idea of plant cognition (认知), even going so far as to suggest they possess some form of consciousness.
As wild as it sounds, it isn’t a new idea. The field of “plant neurobiology (神经生物学)” began in 2006, aimed at understanding how plants process information from their environment.
It is now clear that plants are capable of complex communication and can sense their surroundings, which were originally dismissed. But advocates of plant consciousness take things further and draw parallels between the electrical signaling that can be found from root to stem and that present in the nervous system of animals. They claim to show that plants are capable of intentionally choosing to perform certain behaviors, of learning and perhaps even having personalities. If plants are experiencing a conscious inner world, they argue, it becomes vital that we find ways to test and understand it.
Extending the concept of cognition to plants would mean a significant shift in our view of the uniqueness of humanity, not to mention how we treat our botanical friends, so the bar of acceptance is high. Researchers rising to the challenge are hoping to explore plants with tools usually reserved for the human brain.
The research can appear persuasive, but it is in its early stage and suffers from repeated failure. Critics say the field is a high guess and that the behaviour can be explained through inborn response.
Whether we decide that plants have cognition may come down to our ability to describe consciousness itself-something we are far from doing. But rather than dismiss the idea, we should welcome the chance to think up new ways to test our understanding of consciousness. It might just improve our grasp of the human mind. At the very least, our trees and plants should benefit from the extra attention-consciously or not.
32．What do supporters of plant consciousness believe?
A．Plants can only perform native reaction.
B．Plants can perceive their surroundings and adapt to them.
C．Plants possess the same level of consciousness as humans.
D．Plants can communicate complicatedly and choose actions deliberately.
33．What is the main challenge in accepting the idea of plant consciousness?
A．The need to develop tools to test plant cognition.
B．The dramatic change in our view of humanity.
C．The lack of evidence in the field of plant neurobiology.
D．The inability to describe consciousness itself.
34．What is the current state of research in the field of plant cognition?
A．The field is highly based on guesses and has no evidence.
B．Researchers are using tools reserved for the human brain to study plant behaviors.
C．There is not enough evidence to support the idea of plant consciousness.
D．Plants have been proven to possess a form of consciousness.
35．What is the potential benefit of studying plant consciousness?
A．Enhancing our understanding of the human brain.
B．Developing new ways to test plant behaviors.
C．Promoting our relationship with plants.
D．Proving the existence of plant cognition.

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。
Emotions are part of human nature. They give us information about what we’re experiencing and help us know how to react. 36 . Young children react to their emotions with facial expressions or with actions like laughing or crying. They feel and show emotions, but they don’t yet have the ability to name the emotions or say why they feel that way.
37 Instead of just reacting like little kids do, we can identify what we feel and put it into words. With time and practice, we get better at knowing what we are feeling and why. This skill is called emotional awareness.
Emotional awareness helps us know what we need and want (or don’t want). 38 That’s because being aware of our emotions can help us talk about feelings more clearly, avoid or resolve conflicts better, and move past difficult feelings more easily.
Some people are naturally more in touch with their emotions than others. The good news is that everyone can be more aware of their emotions. 39 Emotional awareness is the first step toward developing emotional intelligence, a skill that can help people succeed in life.
All emotions tell us something about ourselves and our situation. 40 We might judge ourselves by feeling a certain way, like if we feel jealous, for example. But instead of thinking we shouldn’t feel that way, it’s better to notice how we actually feel.
A. It helps us build better relationships.
B. It just takes practice, but it’s worth the effort.
C. We sense our emotions from the time we’re babies.
D. Learning how to express emotions is very important.
E. But sometimes we find it hard to accept what we feel.
F. Most of us feel many different emotions throughout the day.
G. As we grow up, we become more skilled in understanding emotions.

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和D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Every year I’d read over 2,000 college applications from students all over the world. It is quite 41 to choose whom to admit. 42 , in the chaos of SAT scores and recommendations, one 43 is always irresistible in a candidate: kindness.
The most surprising 44 of kindness I’ve ever 45 came from a student who had excellent scores and a supportive recommendation from his college counselor (顾问). Even with these qualifications, he might not have 46 . But one letter of recommendation caught my eye. It was from a school security guard. Letters of recommendation are 47 written by people like former presidents, celebrities, and Olympic athletes.
The security guard wrote that he supported this student’s admission because of his 48 . This young man was the only person in the school who knew the names of every member of the guard staff. He turned off lights in empty rooms, consistently 49 the hallway monitor each morning and tidied up the classroom after his peers left school 50 nobody was watching. This student, the security guard wrote, had a(n) 51 respect for every person at the school, regardless of position, popularity or power.
It gave us a 52 onto a student’s life in the moments when nothing “counted”. That student was admitted by unanimous (一致的) vote of the admissions committee.
Next year there might be a flood of security guard recommendations 53 this essay. But if it means students will start paying as much 54 to the people who clean their classrooms as they do to their principals and teachers, I’m happy to help start that 55 .
41. A. decent
42. A. However
43. A. ability
44. A. signal
45. A. come out
46. A. stood up
47. A. typically
48. A. wisdom
49. A. bothered
50. A. as if
51. A. demanding
52. A. passion
53. A. due to
54. A. money
55. A. policy
B. difficult
B. Otherwise
B. quality
B. image
B. pick up
B. stood out
B. brilliantly
B. bravery
B. answered
B. now that
B. amusing
B. trouble
B. in need of
B. notice
B. trend
C. delicate
C. Besides
C. limitation
C. appearance
C. come across
C. given up
C. vividly
C. encouragement
C. visited
C. even if
C. refreshing
C. method
C. except for
C. attention
C. arrangement
D. desperate
D. Therefore
D. assumption
D. indication
D. bring up
D. given out
D. constantly
D. consideration
D. thanked
D. in order that
D. puzzling
D. window
D. along with
D. curiosity
D. career

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。
Zu Chongzhi was a famous mathematician and scientist in ancient China. He lived in Southern and Northern Dynasties. When he was young, he had a broad range of interests, such as ____56____ (nature) science and philosophy. And he was interested in mathematics, astronomy and machinery. The achievement Zu Chongzhi made in the calculation (计算) of the value of pi has been ____57____ (international) acknowledged.
Liu Hui, a mathematic in Three Kingdoms period, proposed a way ____58____ (work) out the value of pi-cyclotomic method (割圆术). Based on ____59____ earlier research, Zu Chongzhi concluded that the value of pi falls among 3.1415926 to 3.1415927 after more than 1,000 times of calculation. He also put forward the viewpoint ____60____ the approximate value of pi was 55/113, which was called “Milü”. It ____61____ (boost) the calculation of pi to a new phase. The value of pi Zu Chongzhi calculated is more than 1,000 years ahead of the western mathematics. Thus the value of pi is also called “Zulü” ____62____ memory of him.
Besides the achievement in mathematics, he wrote the book Zhui Shu ____63____ gathered his accomplishment in mathematics and ____64____ (take) as a teaching material during Tang Dynasty. Besides the achievements in mathematics, he also made a great ____65____ (contribute) to the astronomy and machinery.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
为了让学生近距离接近大自然，上周六你们班组织了一次春游踏青活动，请你写一篇文章报道此次活动，内容包括：
1. 具体的活动安排；
2. 活动的意义；
3. 你的感受。
注意：
1. 词数100字左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
A Spring Outing
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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。
The boys and girls picked up the bus to Fort Lauderdale. Vingo was on board from the beginning.
As the bus passed through Jersey, they began to notice that Vingo never moved. He sat in front of the young people, frozen into silence.
Somewhere outside of Washington, the bus pulled into a Howard Johnson’s, and everybody got off except Vingo. He sat rooted in his seat, and the young people began to wonder about him, trying to imagine his life. When they went back to the bus, the girl sat beside him and introduced herself.
“Want some wine?” she said. He smiled and took the bottle. He thanked her and retreated again into silence. After a while, she went back to the others, as Vingo nodded into sleep.
In the morning they awoke outside another Howard Johnson’s, and this time Vingo went in. The girl insisted that he join them. When they went back on the bus, the girl sat with Vingo again, after a while, slowly and painfully and with great hesitation, he began to tell his story. He had been in jail in New York for the last four years, and now he was going home.
“When I was in jail I wrote to my wife,” he said. “I told her, I understand if you can’t stay married to me, get a new guy and forget about me. And she didn’t write to me. Not for three and a half years.”
“And you’re going home now, not knowing?”
“Yeah,” he said shyly. “Last week, I wrote to her. I told her that if she had a new guy, I under-stood. But if she didn’t, if she would take me back she should let me know. We used to live in Brunswick, with a great big oak tree. I told her if she would take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and I would get off and come home. If she didn’t want me, forget it, no handkerchief, and I’d keep going on.”
“Wow,” the girl said. “Wow.”
She told the others, and soon all of them were in it, caught up in the approach of Brunswick, looking at the pictures Vingo showed them of his wife and three children.
注意：
1．续写词数应为150左右；
2．请按如下格式作答。
Now they were twenty miles from Brunswick. ___________________________________
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Then suddenly all of the young people were up out of their seats. ____________________
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高二英语参考答案
听力： 1-5 AABCB 6-10 CBCBA 11-15 CABBB 16-20 CACCB
阅读理解：21-23 ACC 24-27 DDAB 28-31 DBCB 32-35 DDCA
七选五： 36-40 CGABE
完形填空：41-45 BABDC 46-50 BADDC 51-55 CDACB
短文填空：
56. natural     57. internationally    58. to work     59. the     60. that   
61. boosted     62. in     63. which/that     64. was taken    65. contribution
应用文：
A Spring Outing
Spring is a good time for outing. Aiming to understand each other better and build up our bodies, our class had a spring outing last Saturday.
As scheduled, we gathered together at 8: 30 am at the gate of our school. We went to our destination by bus, laughing and singing all the way. Much to our delight, the trip involved mountain climbing as well as a picnic. Hardly had we reached the top of the mountain when we enjoyed an awesome view of the whole city.
Exhausted as we were on the way back to school, we all regarded this outing as an unforgettable experience, for it not only made us get close to nature with fresh air and fantastic scenery, but also enhance the friendship between us students and promote our mutual cooperation.
读后续写：
Now they were twenty miles from Brunswick. And the young people took over window seats on the right side, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face into the ex-con’s mask, as if fortifying himself against still another disappointment. Then it was ten miles, and then five. The bus acquired a dark hushed mood, full of silence, of absence, of lost years, of the woman’s plain face, of the sudden letter on the breakfast table, of the wonder of children, of the iron bars of solitude.
Then suddenly all of the young people were up out of their seats. They were screaming and shouting and crying, doing small dances, shaking clenched fists in triumph and exaltation. All except Vingo. Vingo sat there stunned, looking at the oak tree. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs twenty of them, thirty of them, maybe hundreds, a tree that stood like a banner of welcome blowing and billowing in the wind, turned into a gorgeous yellow blur by the passing bus. As the young people shouted, the old con slowly rose from his seat, holding himself tightly, and made his way to the front of the bus to go home.

听力原文：
1. W: Hi, John, Would you like to go to a badminton game after school tomorrow?
M: I’d love to, Sandy, but I’ve already arranged to go to the cinema with Grace.

2. M: I don’t think I should wear a dark shirt for a wedding. It just isn’t appropriate.
W: Well, the only clean shirts you have are the white one, the black one and the dark blue one.
M: So, there is only one choice.

3. M: Sorry, Miss Green. I failed your subject again but I really tried my best.
W: No one is sure to succeed every time. Cheer up, young man. You will have more chances.
M: Thank you, Miss Green. I’ll try harder next time.

4. W: I don’t know how you can eat so much yet never put on any weight, son. Your father’s got the same luck. I can’t take a bite without calculating how many calories I am taking.
M: But remember Aunt Louise, Mom? She ate a lot and never gained a pound.

5. M: Don’t you like the coat you just tried on?
W: Well, I like the color and fabric.
M: And it is really nice and reasonably priced.
W: Yes. I would have bought it right away if they had had it in my size.

6. M: Good morning. How can I help you?
W: Hello, I need to get this dress cleaned. I spilled pasta sauce on it last night. It’ s silk, so I can’t wash it at home. Is it ruined?
M: Oh, no, I can get that out for you. It will be ready tomorrow morning.
W: I’m going to a work event tonight and I need to wear it. Can you have it ready by this afternoon?
M: Sure, I can do that for you. Why not come back around 4: 00 pm?
W: That’s perfect. Thank you so much.

7. W: Excuse me. I’d like to have the package and the letter posted.
M: Would you like to mail by air or by sea?
W: How long will it take to mail things to the US by air?
M: About 10 days. You can send it by express mail if you need it faster. It will only take three or four days.
W: Then, express mail for the package. It’s urgent. The faster, the better. And the letter by registered mail.
M: OK. The package is 3 kilograms. That’ll be £ 20 for postage.
W: Yes. And the letter?
M: Registered. That is £ 3. So give me £ 23.
W: Here you go.

8. M: Hi, Gina! How was your trip to the States?
W: Very busy. Having a lot of meetings, I didn’t have much time to see New York.
M: What a pity! Actually, I’ll have a trip there too next week.
W: Do you? Then take my advice, do watch the “Health in the Air” program on the plane. It really works.
M: Oh, really?
W: Yes, I followed the directions in the program, and when I arrived in New York, I felt good and no jet lag at all.
M: Em, So, what did you do?
W: Well, I didn’t drink any alcohol or coffee, but a lot of water and I did some of the exercises in the program.
M: How many passengers did the exercises?
W: Not many.
M: And how much alcohol did they drink?
W: A lot! It was more popular than mineral water.
M: So, basically, it’s a choice. Mineral water and exercises, or alcohol and jet lag.
W: That’s right!

9. W: There’s a place in Venezuela where lightning strikes about 200 days a year.
M: Are you serious?
W: Yep. Locals call it “the Never-Ending Storm of Catatumbo” because the area is near the Catatumbo River. Scientists found that most of the lightning strikes between April and November. NASA named the area “the Lightning Capital of the World”.
M: Why does the area get so many storms?
W: The Andes Mountains are on one side of the river, and the Cabben Sea is on the other side. Cool mountain winds move into the valley and hit warm sea air, creating the perfect conditions for lightning.
M: Are the people there afraid of getting hit?
W: Most people stay inside at night, but they don’t really worry about it. The chances of being struck by lightning are pretty slim. In the US, about one in every 12, 000 people get hit in their lifetime.
M: Yeah, but we’re talking about an area that gets struck by lightning about 50% of the time.
W: True. This article says that near the Catatumbo River, one in three people get struck every year.
M: Wow. That’s really scary! I would never go outside if I lived there.

10. Hello, everyone. My name is Alicia, and I live in the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico. Today, I’d like to tell something about my hometown and people here. Here in Guanajuato, music and dancing are a big part of life. There are a lot of festivals here, and many kinds of music. Many young people like rock or pop music but my favorite is traditional Mexican music, which is the kind of music my grandparents and great grandparents listened to. I don’t know why but I’m just crazy about it. I’m a folk dancer, and I love to perform at special events, which gives me chances to enjoy myself. To be a folk dancer, you have to love the culture and the music here. That’s the most important thing, but we also need to work hard and practice a lot. We dance in groups, and every person has to know the steps. And we can’t buy traditional folk dance dresses at the store, so we have to make our own. We wear traditional dresses that only come from this part of Mexico.

阅读理解详解：
A
【导语】这是一篇应用文。坐火车旅行有一种浪漫和老式的吸引力，这是乘飞机或开车所无法比拟的。文章对几条火车旅游路线进行了介绍。
【21题详解】细节理解题。根据“2. The Chepe”部分Highlights中最后一句“Natives sell crafts and local foods along the route.(当地人沿路出售手工艺品和当地食品。)”可知，在奇佩河上旅行时，你可以品尝到当地的食物。故选A。
【22题详解】细节理解题。根据“3. The Ghan”部分Where中的“Australia, from Adelaide to Darwin via Alice Springs.(澳大利亚，从阿德莱德经爱丽丝泉到达尔文。)”可知，甘号火车是开往达尔文的。故选C。
【23题详解】细节理解题。根据“4. The Royal Scotsman”部分When中的“Warmer weather in June makes it the perfect time to watch ospreys flying over mirror-like lakes, or go in October for autumn colors.(六月天气回暖，是观赏鱼鹰在镜面般的湖面上飞翔的最佳时节，也适合在十月欣赏秋色。)”可知，十月是在苏格兰高地欣赏秋天景色的最佳时间。故选C。
B
【导语】本文是篇记叙文。为了解决食物残渣问题，Roll专注于推广一台制作堆肥的机器。
【24题详解】推理判断题。根据第三段“Lomi is a new technology that can break down food waste into natural compost. ”（Lomi是一种可以将食物垃圾分解成天然堆肥的新技术。）可知，Lomi将食物垃圾分解成天然堆肥，避免了食物垃圾对环境的污染，有着环保作用。故选D。
【25题详解】主旨大意题。根据第三段“According to Roll, it breaks down waste in the way: grinding（碾碎）the food into plant fertilizer. Unlike most composting machines, Omi can compost animal products, such as small bones. Another huge benefit is that it doesn’t have smell and can convert waste to compost in a shorter time.”（根据Roll的说法，它通过这样的方式来分解废物:将食物研磨成植物肥料。与大多数堆肥机不同，Omi可以堆肥动物产品，如小骨头；另一个巨大的好处是它没有气味，可以在更短的时间内将废物转化为堆肥。）可知，第三段主要讲述了Lomi的优点。故选D。
【26题详解】推理判断题。根据最后一段“I want Lomi not only to be a way to reduce food waste on the floor, but an educational tool to make people compost in a real way and not just talk about it in a theoretical sense,”（我希望Lomi不仅是一种减少食物浪费的方式，而且是一种教育工具，让人们真正地堆肥，而不仅仅是在理论上谈论它。）可知，Roll可能是希望Lomi能够教育人们积极地、用实际行动去堆肥，让更多的人参与到堆肥计划中。故选A。
【27题详解】细节理解题。根据第一段“Working for Dining Team Green, I don’t expect to basically become a garbage girl,”（在Dining Team Green工作，我不期望从根本上成为一个垃圾女孩）和第四段“Roll plans on using the compost in the Gilbert community garden so that Dining Team Green can give back to the community.”（Roll计划在Gilbert社区花园使用堆肥，这样Dining Team Green就可以回馈社区。）可知，Roll为Dining Team Green工作，是其中一员。故选B。
C
【导语】这是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章对虚拟世界的友谊进行了探讨并产生了结论——作者认为数字生活产生了虚假的友谊。
【28题详解】推理判断题。根据第一段““I’ll be there in a few minutes. I’m playing a game with a friend, a guy named Scuzzball,” my 15-year-old son shouted from his room. “Oh, what is Scuzzball’s real name?” I asked. “I have no idea.” He said. “Where is he from?” I continued. He responded, “I think somewhere in Canada. Oh, wait, it doesn’t even matter because Scuzzball just left the game and he has been replaced with a robot.”(“我几分钟后就到。我在和一个朋友玩游戏，一个叫Scuzzball的家伙，”我15岁的儿子在他的房间里喊道。“哦，Scuzzball的真名是什么？”我问。“我不知道。”他说。“他是哪里人？”我接着说到。他回答说：“我想在加拿大的某个地方。哦，等等，这根本不重要，因为Scuzzball刚刚离开了比赛，他被一个机器人取代了。”)”可知，作者通过呈现一段亲子对话来引出文章的主题。故选D。
【29题详解】主旨大意题。根据第三段最后四句“Deep friendship, by contrast, is when you care for your friend for his sake, not for any benefit you can get. This is selfless friendship. You can have only a couple of these friends because they require lots of time and effort. You must make sacrifices for each other.(相比之下，深厚的友谊是你关心你的朋友是为了他，而不是为了你能得到什么好处。这就是无私的友谊。你只能有几个这样的朋友，因为他们需要大量的时间和精力。你们必须为彼此做出牺牲。)”可知，作者主要在第3段解释了深厚友谊的意义。故选B。
【30题详解】推理判断题。根据第四段第三句和第四句“Only strong bonds have the power to motivate real sacrifices. But it is unclear why online “friends” would bother to do the hard work of friendship.(只有牢固的纽带才能激励人们做出真正的牺牲。但目前尚不清楚为什么网上的“朋友”会费心去做艰难的友谊工作。)”可知，虚拟朋友不会做出真正的牺牲。故选C。
【31题详解】主旨大意题。根据第二段最后一句“I wonder whether the face-to-face experience of friendship that I grew up with will be lost by our children.(我不知道我们的孩子是否会失去我成长过程中面对面的友谊体验。)”，第三段第一句“Aristotle, a great thinker and educator, has pointed out that shallow friendship is easily formed but also easily abandoned because such bonds are fragile.(伟大的思想家和教育家亚里士多德指出，肤浅的友谊很容易形成，但也很容易放弃，因为这种联系是脆弱的。)”，第四段第一句“Presence in friendship requires “being with” and “doing for”. (友谊的存在需要“与”和“为”。)”和最后一段“Digital life fills and absorbs waking life time so that people do not join in example case of friendship, like sports, collective arts, free range childhoods, etc. In this way, digital life produces false friendships.(数字生活充满并吸收了清醒的生活时间，因此人们不会加入友谊的例子，如体育、集体艺术、自由放养的童年等。就这样，数字生活产生了虚假的友谊。)”可知，文章对虚拟世界的友谊进行了探讨并产生了结论。故选B。
D
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章就植物是否有意识以及其引发的讨论展进行了介绍。
【32题详解】细节理解题。根据第三段的“They claim to show that plants are capable of intentionally choosing to perform certain bchaviors, of learning and perhaps even having personalitics.(他们声称，这表明植物能够有意选择进行某些行为、学习，甚至可能具有个性)”可知，认为植物有意识的支持者认为植物能进行复杂的交流，进行有意的选择。故选D。
【33题详解】细节理解题。根据最后一段的“Whether we decide that plants have cognition may come down to our ability to describe consciousness itself--something we are far from doing(我们是判定定植物具有认知能力，可能取决于我们描述意识本身的能力——这是我们远未做到的)”可知，接受植物意识这个想法的主要挑战是我们不能描述意识本身。故选D。
【34题详解】细节理解题。根据第五段“The research can appear persuasive, but it is in its early stage and suffers from repeated failure. Critics say the field is a high guess and that the behaviour can be explained through inborn response.(这项研究可能看起来很有说服力，但它还处于早期阶段，而且一再失败。批评者说，这个领域是一个高度猜测，这种行为可以通过天生的反应来解释)”可知，目前植物意识的研究仍处于早期阶段，而且遭遇了不断的失败，所以没有足够的证据证明。故选C。
【35题详解】 细节理解题。根据最后一段的“It might just improve our grasp of the human mind.(它可能会提高我们对人类大脑的理解)”可知，研究植物意识潜在的好处是可以提高我们对人类大脑的认识。故选A。

读后续写分析：
【导语】本文故事情节的发展为线索展开，讲述了刚刚在纽约监狱出来的Vingo与一群前往劳德代尔堡的孩子们在一辆公共汽车上，他的始终沉默引起了年轻人们的注意，他向年轻人们讲述了与妻子的约定，现在一直期待着见到约定好的在大橡树上挂着的黄色手帕，离目的地越近，Vingo越是紧张，年轻人们也跟他一起期待着这一刻的到来。
【详解】1.段落续写：
①由第一段首句内容“现在他们离不伦瑞克二十英里。”可知，第一段可描写年轻人们以及Vingo在接近目的地时的心理状态以及车上气氛。
②由第二段首句内容“突然间，所有的年轻人都从座位上站了起来。”可知，第二段可描写年轻人们都站起来的原因以及接下来所看到的一切以及Vingo的喜悦之情。
2.续写线索：接近目的地——汽车上的气氛——全体起立——黄手帕出现——Vingo激动的表现
3.词汇激活
行为类
①．加强：fortify/strengthen/enhance
②.坐着：sit/be seated
③.回家：go home/return home
情绪类
①.紧张：tighten one’s face/stressed out/nervous
②.惊讶：stunned/surprised/shocked
【点睛】[高分句型1]. And the young people took over window seats on the right side, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. （运用了现在分词作状语）
[高分句型2]. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face into the ex-con’s mask, as if fortifying himself against still another disappointment. （运用了状语从句的省略）
[高分句型3]. The bus acquired a dark hushed mood, full of silence, of absence, of lost years, of the woman’s plain face, of the sudden letter on the breakfast table, of the wonder of children, of the iron bars of solitude. （运用了形容词短语作状语）