2023~2024学年度第一学期大通县期末联考
高二英语
考生注意：
1.本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
2.答题前，考生务必用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将密封线内项目填写清楚。
3.考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上。选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑;非选择题请用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上各题的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷、草稿纸上作答无效。
4.本卷命题范围：外研版选择性必修第一册~选择性必修第二册。
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 time does the first movie start
A. At 9:00. B. At 7:00. C. At 2:00.
2. Why did the man fail to see the woman at lunchtime
A. She went to the wrong dining hall.
B. She didn’t want to have lunch.
C. Her class ran overtime.
3. What is the book about
A. England. B. Texas. C. Paris.
4. What did the speakers do last night
A. They had a party. B. They went dancing. C. They saw a film.
5. What does Tom look like according to the man
A. He is a short man.
B. He is at all man with glasses.
C. He is pretty thin with a moustache.
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. When will John’s novel be published
A. Today. B. Next week. C. Next month.
7. What does the woman think of John
A. He is smart and friendly.
B He is gifted and hard-working.
C. He is clever and helpful.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Salesman and customer. B. Boss and secretary. C. Host and guest.
9. What size does the woman wear
A. Small. B. Medium. C. Large.
10. How much is the change
A. 15 dollars. B. 50 dollars. C. 85 dollars.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Where does the conversation take place
A. On a bus. B. On the phone. C. In a shop.
12. Where does the man want to go
A. A bank. B. A shoe shop. C. The woman’s house.
13. What can we know about Susan’s house
A. It is the seventh house from the corner on the man’s right.
B. It is the seventh house from the corner on the man’s left.
C. It is the seventeenth house from the corner beside the shoe shop.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. How long did the woman work in the travel agency
A. A few days. B. Several months. C. One year.
15. Why did Joe go to Canada
A. To find a job. B. To visit his friends. C. To spend his holiday.
16. What is the man going to do
A. Have dinner. B. Make a call. C. Take a train.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Why did the speaker decide to leave the college
A. He didn’t like the big lecture classes.
B. He couldn’t afford further education.
C. He was not interested in working.
18. What is American Core
A. A school. B. An organization. C. A project.
19. What did the speaker think of his work experiences
A. They should be part of school life.
B. They were personally rewarding.
C. They gave him a chance to learn German.
20. What does the speaker want to be
A. A house designer. B. A camp officer. C. A teacher.
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
2 Days Xi’an-Luoyang Tour by Bullet Train
Tour Overview
Xi’an and Luoyang are two of the four most famous ancient capital cities in China. Taking a bullet train from Xi’an, one will arrive in Luoyang in about 2.5 hours.
Day 1: Xi’an-Luoyang by Bullet Train
AM: At around 7:00, a local driver will pick you up from the hotel. Then you’ll transfer to North Xi’an Railway Station for the bullet train to Luoyang. Upon your arrival in Luoyang, you’ll meet a local guide holding a name board.
The guide will lead you to visit the Longmen Grottoes, which is a treasure house of ancient stone-carving artworks. There are over 100 thousand stone statues along the two banks of the Yi River.
PM: After lunch. you will pay a visit to the Museum of Luoyang Eastern Zhou Royal Horse and Chariot Pits. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty is the last slavery dynasty in Chinese history. The last stop is Luoyang Museum which is a historical museum of China and houses over 1,700 cultural and historical relics in 5 showrooms.
Accommodation: Hotel booked by your own
Day 2: Luoyang-Xi’an by Bullet Train
AM: After breakfast on your own, please meet your driver and guide in the hotel at 9:00 and then drive for about 1 hour 20 minutes to Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of Chinese Zen Buddhism and Shaolin Martial Arts. Here you will see the Kungfu show performed by Shaolin monks.
PM: Finish the sightseeing, you will take the bullet train back to Xi’ an. Your 2 days Xi’ an-Luoyang tour ends here.
Tour Price Per Person
Travelers 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4 Person 5 Person
Tour Price $512 $317 $255 $223 $220
Travelers 6 Person 7 Person 8 Person 9 Person 10+ Person
Tour Price $205 $192 $185 $178 Contact us
1. Which city does the tour begin from
A. Xi’an. B. Luoyang. C. Beijing. D. Shanghai.
2. Which is the first stop on Day 1
A. Shaolin Temple. B. Luoyang Museum. C. Longmen Grottoes. D. Yi River.
3. How much should a couple pay for the tour
A $317. B. $510. C. $512. D. $634.
【答案】1. B 2. C 3. D
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了一个为期两天的西安洛阳之旅。
【1题详解】
细节理解题。根据Day 1: Xi’an-Luoyang by Bullet Train部分中“Upon your arrival in Luoyang, you’ll meet a local guide holding a name board.(抵达洛阳后，您会遇到一位手持名牌的当地导游)”可知，旅游从洛阳开始。故选B。
【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据Day 1: Xi’an-Luoyang by Bullet Train部分中“The guide will lead you to visit the Longmen Grottoes, which is a treasure house of ancient stone-carving artworks.(导游将带你参观龙门石窟，这是古代石雕艺术品的宝库)”可知，第一天的第一站是龙门石窟。故选C。
【3题详解】
细节理解题。根据Tour Price Per Person(每人旅游价格)部分中可知，两个人的单价是317美元，故一对夫妇应该支付317+317=634美元。故选D。
B
When a woman bought a painting that appeared to bear the signature (签名) of N. C. Wyeth at a store in 2017, she joked that the 4-dollar item might actually be a real work by the Maine painter. Her joke was no laughing matter, and the painting is now estimated to fetch as much as $250,000 at auction (拍卖会) in September.
According to experts at Bonhams Skinner auction house, the seller unknowingly bought the work at a Savers store in Manchester, New Hampshire, while searching for frames to reuse. At that time, the Wyeth painting had been put against a wall along with mostly damaged posters and prints.
The woman took the piece home, and then made a quick Internet search but could not find any information about the work. After hanging the painting in her bedroom for several years, she eventually stored it in her study.
She rediscovered the painting this past May while doing cleaning, and this time posted images of the work on an online page titled “Things Found in Walls”, which is devoted to “stories of things you have found in walls, dug up in your backyard, or in that spare house across the street from your grandma’s”, according to the group’s description.
Comments on the post led her to contact Lauren Lewis, a former curator who worked with paintings by three generations of the Wyeths: N. C. Wyeth, his son Andrew Wyeth and his grandson Jamie Wyeth. So she did.
“After seeing the piece in person, Lewis was 99% certain it was authentic instead of a copy,” she told The Boston Globe. “While it certainly had some small scratches (划痕), it was in remarkable condition considering none of us had any idea of its journey over the last 80 years.”
Wyeth often produced cover art for publishers of periodicals and novels. The painting up for sale in September is one of four he completed for a 1939 edition of Helen Hunt Jackson’s book Ramona, originally published in 1884. In it, Wyeth painted the young title character facing her elderly mother.
4. What was the woman’s joke
A. The storekeeper was lazy and foolish.
B. The painting she bought might be valuable.
C. The signature of N. C. Wyeth was wrong.
D. The Maine painter would appear at auction.
5. How did the woman deal with the painting shortly after she got home
A. She put it in her study. B. She sold it to Lauren Lewis.
C. She sent it to her friend. D. She searched online about it.
6. What does the underlined word “authentic” in paragraph 6 mean
A Real. B. Damaged. C. Famous. D. Stolen.
7. What is the text mainly about
A. A world-famous artist in the US. B. A novel by Helen Hunt Jackson.
C. A painting getting its recognition. D. An expert going on a treasure hunt.
【答案】4. B 5. D 6. A 7. C
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了一名女士花4美元买到的一幅画作，最终被认为是画家的真迹。
【4题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段中“When a woman bought a painting that appeared to bear the signature (签名) of N. C. Wyeth at a store in 2017, she joked that the 4-dollar item might actually be a real work by the Maine painter. Her joke was no laughing matter, and the painting is now estimated to fetch as much as $250,000 at auction (拍卖会) in September. (2017年，一名女子在一家商店买了一幅似乎有N. C. Wyeth签名的画，她开玩笑说，这幅4美元的画可能是这位缅因州画家的真迹。她的玩笑可不是闹着玩的，这幅画现在估计将在9月份的拍卖会上拍出25万美元的高价。)”可知，这位女士开玩笑说她买的那幅画可能会很值钱。故选B项。
【5题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段中“The woman took the piece home, and then made a quick Internet search but could not find any information about the work. (这位女士把作品带回家，然后在网上快速搜索了一下，但没有找到任何关于这件作品的信息。)”可知，这个女士回家后在网上查找这幅画的相关信息。故选D项。
【6题详解】
词句猜测题。划线词的后文“instead of a copy (而不是复制品)”说明这幅画是真迹，从而推知“After seeing the piece in person, Lewis was 99% certain it was authentic (在亲眼看到这件作品后，Lewis 99%确信它是authentic)”其中划线词汇意思是“真的，真迹”。故选A项。
【7题详解】
主旨大意题。通读全文，根据第一段中“Her joke was no laughing matter, and the painting is now estimated to fetch as much as $250,000 at auction (拍卖会) in September. (她的玩笑可不是闹着玩的，这幅画现在估计将在9月份的拍卖会上拍出25万美元的高价。)”和倒数第二段的“After seeing the piece in person, Lewis was 99% certain it was authentic instead of a copy(在亲眼看到这件作品后，Lewis 99%确信它是真迹)”可知，本文主要讲的是一幅得到认可的画。故选C项。
C
Have you ever imagined being able to communicate with your pet at home and have it understand everything you say It sounds too good to be true, but scientists have started using artificial intelligence (AI) to help communicate with animals.
Professor Karen Bakker—who is the author of a book called The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants—said that AI is already helping humans communicate with bats and honeybees and this could change what we know about nature and our non-human relationships.
Scientists have worked out how bats speak to each other to argue over food and how mother bats communicate with their young.
Professor Bakker explained how researcher Yossi Yovel had used recordings and AI to understand bats.
“Bats argue over food; they actually distinguish between genders when they communicate with one another; they have individual names, or ‘signature calls’,” she said.
“Mother bats speak to their babies in a kind of ‘motherese’.
Bats learn to ‘speak’ with signals from their mothers.
But while human mothers raise the pitch(音高) of their voices when talking to babies，mother bats lower the pitch.
She said it was a great example of how animal patterns could be revealed using sensors and microphones that would otherwise never be heard with the human ear.
AI makes this possible because a computer can be trained to listen like a bat.
With honeybees, the computer combines listening with vision of the bees’ body movements to understand what they are communicating. Researchers now know how be essay things such as “hush” or “stop”.
Researcher Tim Landgraf even created a robot honeybee that entered a hive(蜂房) and was able to communicate with other bees when it wanted them to stop doing something or fly.
8. What is the role of AI in communicating with animals
A. Allowing humans to speak to animals.
B. Translating human language into animal language.
C. Transforming human thoughts into animal language.
D. Helping humans understand what animals are saying.
9. What do scientists know about bats
A. They use unique names given by human.
B. They live together like early human groups.
C. They share their food with each other without arguing.
D. They can distinguish between genders when communicating.
10. How do mother bats communicate with their young
A. By using a kind of “motherese”.
B. By raising the pitch of their voices.
C. By using sensors and microphones.
D. By making body movements.
11. What do we know about the robot created by Tim Landgraf
A. It can speak with other bats.
B. It can build a hive with bees.
C. It can communicate with other bees.
D. It can teach other bee show to fly and stop.
【答案】8. D 9. D 10. A 11. C
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了科学家们已经开始使用人工智能来帮助与动物交流，文章对此进行了举例说明。
【8题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段中“It sounds too good to be true, but scientists have started using artificial intelligence (AI) to help communicate with animals. (这听起来好得令人难以置信，但科学家们已经开始使用人工智能(AI)来帮助与动物交流。)”可知，科学家们开始使用人工智能帮助人类与动物交流，因此人工智能在人与动物交流中的作用是帮助人类理解动物在说什么。故选D。
【9题详解】
细节理解题。根据第五段“Bats argue over food; they actually distinguish between genders when they communicate with one another; they have individual names, or ‘signature calls’,” she said. (“蝙蝠为食物争吵；它们在相互交流时实际上是区分性别的；它们都有自己的名字，或者叫‘签名叫声’，”她说。)”可知，蝙蝠可以在彼此交流时分辨出不同的性别。故选D。
【10题详解】
细节理解题。根据第六段““Mother bats speak to their babies in a kind of ‘motherese’. (“蝙蝠妈妈用一种‘妈妈语’和它们的孩子说话。)”与第七段“Bats learn to ‘speak’ with signals from their mothers. (蝙蝠学会用母亲发出的信号“说话”。)”可知，母蝙蝠会用一种类似于“妈妈语”的方式与它们的幼崽进行交流。故选A。
【11题详解】
细节理解题。根据最后一段“Researcher Tim Landgraf even created a robot honeybee that entered a hive (蜂房) and was able to communicate with other bees when it wanted them to stop doing something or fly. (研究人员蒂姆·兰德格拉夫甚至发明了一种进入蜂巢的机器人蜜蜂，当它想让其他蜜蜂停止做某事或飞走时，它能够与它们交流。)”可知，研究人员Tim Landgraf创建了一个使用人工智能的机器人蜜蜂，可以与其他蜜蜂进行交流。故选C。
D
WHY SHENNONGJIA
As we know, in 2016, Shennongjia made it on to the UNESCO World Heritage List. But there are so many important places not yet on this list. So you might ask: why Shennongjia
UNESCO awarded Shennongjia this status because it meets two criteria required by the list. It contains a naturally-balanced environment that allows the many and various species to live and prosper. It is also one of the rare locations in the world where scientists can observe in real time the ecological and biological processes that occur as the plants and animals develop and evolve.
For the first criterion, Shennongjia is apparently one of the most “complete” natural areas in the world. The region rises from about 400 metres to over 3, 000 metres above sealevel, giving it the name the “Roof of Central China”.
For the second criterion, we can see that Shennongjia has incredible biodiversity. Look at this slide. According to official statistics, over 3, 000 plant species have been recorded there. This represents more than ten percent of China’s total floral richness.
It is a challenge to look after so many species. In winter, scientists brave heavy snow and freezing temperatures to supply food to the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey. Thanks to their efforts, the monkey’s population has doubled since the 1980s.Their number reached over 1, 300 in 2015 and continues to grow.
But the most impressive aspect of Shennongjia is the local people, who take things from nature without causing damage. I visited a local village which is known for its home-made honey. What is special about the honey is that it is produced by the earliest species of Chinese bee. All of this explains why Shennongjia earned—and deserves—its place on the UNESCO World Heritage List, as well as highlighting how understanding, awareness and hard work have contributed towards protecting a unique and wonderful part of our natural world.
12. Why is Shennongjia included in the UNESCO World Heritage List
A. Because its forests stretch on and on like great green seas.
B. Because it is the legendary father of Chinese herbal medicine.
C. Because it satisfies the two requirements for the status.
D. Because it has the mysterious creature called “Yeren”.
13. Shennongjia is also called the“ ”.
A. Roof of Central China B. Roof of Northern China
C. Roof of Eastern China D. Roof of Southern China
14. How does the author think of the scientists in Shennongjia
A. Patient. B. Careful. C. Confident. D. Hard-working.
15. According to the text, what impressed the author most
A. A local village. B. The local people.
C. Some special monkeys. D. The wild bees.
【答案】12. C 13. A 14. D 15. B
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了神农架被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产名录的原因。
【12题详解】
细节理解题。根据第二段中“UNESCO awarded Shennongjia this status because it meets two criteria required by the list. (联合国教科文组织授予神农架这一地位，是因为它满足了名录所要求的两个标准。)”可知，联合国教科文组织将神农架授予这一地位，因为它符合清单所要求的两个标准。故选C。
【13题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段中“giving it the name the “Roof of Central China”(因此被称为“华中屋脊”)”可知，该地区被誉为“华中屋脊”。故选A。
【14题详解】
推理判断题。根据第五段中“It is a challenge to look after so many species. In winter, scientists brave heavy snow and freezing temperatures to supply food to the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey. (照顾这么多的物种是一项挑战。在冬天，科学家们冒着大雪和寒冷的气温为金丝猴提供食物。)”可推断，作者认为照顾如此多的物种的科学家们是努力的、辛苦的。故选D。
【15题详解】
细节理解题。根据最后一段“But the most impressive aspect of Shennongjia is the local people (但神农架最令人印象深刻的是当地人)”可知，神农架最令人印象深刻的方面是当地人。故选B。
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。
Here are some habits to help you enjoy a longer and better life.
Eat better. You don’t have to adopt some crazy diet or give up all sweets. Instead, try to eat a few more vegetables and fruits. ____16____ . A whole food is an ingredient in its natural state, one that comes in its own wrapper. While it’s even better to eat cuisine that is organic, locally grown or pesticide-free, start by shopping for groceries that require no packaging.
Check with your doctor. When you feel good, it’s easy to avoid going to the doctor. No matter how you feel, though, it’s a good idea to visit your doctor for an annual check up. ____17____. In addition, depending on your age and family history, the doctor may recommend other necessary tests or screenings. For example, your doctor may also do blood tests to check your cholesterol or screen for hormonal imbalances. ____18____
Keep moving. Exercise lowers blood pressure, controls our weight, strengthens our bones and muscles, reduces our risk for cancers, and improves mood. Some research also says it has the power to keep us young. Physical activities including exercises can improve our flexibility, strength and balance. ____19____ Just work more movement into your day.
____20____. Simply said, we are better together. Steps to build a social network include getting involved with joining a cause or volunteering for an organization or checking out a support group.
A. Do volunteer work
B. Connect with people
C. You can also eat more whole foods
D. You don’t have to take up running marathons .
E. They not only have health benefits, but taste good
F. The doctor will most likely carry out some routine tests
G. Each of these tests can help identify any potential problems
【答案】16. C 17. F 18. G 19. D 20. B
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章认为养成好习惯可以帮助你享受更长更好的生活，针对这一问题，本文给了几个建议。
【16题详解】
根据下文“A whole food is an ingredient in its natural state (全食品是一种食品成分为自然状态的食品)”可推理出上文提到了全食品，C项“You can also eat more whole foods(你也可以多吃全食品)”符合语境，故选C项。
【17题详解】
根据上文“it’s a good idea to visit your doctor for an annual check up(每年去看医生做一次检查是个好主意)”推知，空处内容应与医生做体检有关，F项“The doctor will most likely carry out some routine tests(医生很可能会做一些常规检查)”符合语境，故选F项。
【18题详解】
空处位于段末应承接上文。根据上文“For example, your doctor may also do blood tests to check your cholesterol or screen for hormonal imbalances.(例如，你的医生也可以做血液测试来检查你的胆固醇或筛查激素失衡。)”可知，检测可以识别潜在的问题，G项“Each of these tests can help identify any potential problems(这些测试中的每一项都可以帮助识别任何潜在的问题)”符合语境义一致，故选G项。
【19题详解】
根据上文“Physical activities including exercises can improve our flexibility, strength and balance(包括锻炼在内的体育活动可以提高我们的灵活性、力量和平衡)”以及下文“Just work more movement into your day.(只需在一天中多运动)”可知此处上下文说的是体育活动对身体有益，但是不必做剧烈的运动，只要每天多运动，分析待选项，D项“You don’t have to take up running marathons(你不必参加马拉松比赛)”符合语境，故选D项。
【20题详解】
根据下文“Simply said, we are better together.(简单地说，我们在一起会更好。)”可知此处上下文说的是要多与别人建立连接，与B项“Connect with people(与他人建立联系)”表达的含义一致，故选B项。
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。
My son Timmy was born with several rare developmental disabilities. By age 13, he had had at least 10 surgeries on his legs and feet. Balancing and walking was very ____21____ for Timmy, and he needed a great deal of help with mobility.
Meeting Janice, who ____22____ treat Timmy, changed Timmy’s life. Janice and Timmy ____23____ an immediate bond. That bond led us to get our Larry, the biggest dog I’ve ever seen. Janice, being so ____24____ with my son and her dogs, knew Timmy and Larry would make a perfect ____25____.Larry, not usually easy to bond with, was ____26____ like glue to my son the minute they walked in the door.
Larry has changed Timmy, s life so much for the better. Not only does Larry give my son ____27____ for his mobility issues by keeping him steady on his feet and protecting him from ____28____, but he is also his best friend. If Timmy is sleeping, Larry does not ____29____ his side. If Timmy does not feel ____30____, Larry still will not leave his side, even to ____31____ or go out.
Larry slows to Timmy’s pace and watches every ____32____ he makes. They walk along together in perfect steps. It is truly ____33____ to watch the two of them together. This year, Timmy and Larry began their journey in high school together. The ____34____ that Larry gives Timmy is priceless. Larry is always there to support Timmy for mobility, for falling, for companionship, and is his best ____35____.
21.
A. suitable B. difficult C. easy D. perfect
22.
A. used to B. seemed to C. had to D. failed to
23.
A. motivated B. pushed C. anticipated D. formed
24.
A. disappointed B. strict C. careful D. familiar
25.
A. judgement B. day C. match D. task
26.
A. dressed B. stuck C. pulled D. invited
27.
A. support B. message C. highlight D. news
28.
A. bleeding B. falling C. following D. screaming
29.
A. take B. come C. leave D. see
30.
A. sad B. excited C. angry D. well
31.
A. eat B. drive C. read D. laugh
32
A. plan B. decision C. move D. conclusion
33.
A. amazing B. shocking C. boring D. annoying
34.
A. exercise B. security C. account D. tension
35.
A. doctor B. journey C. school D. friend
【答案】21. B 22. A 23. D 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. A 28. B 29. C 30. D 31. A 32. C 33. A 34. B 35. D
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了狗狗拉里和行动不便的蒂米相遇的过程，和拉里给蒂米的无价的安全保障。
【21题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：对蒂米来说，保持平衡和行走是非常困难的，他在行动方面需要很多帮助。A. suitable合适的；B. difficult困难的；C. easy容易的；D. perfect完美的。根据空前的“My son Timmy was born with several rare developmental disabilities. By age 13, he had had at least 10 surgeries on his legs and feet. Balancing and walking ”可知，“我”的儿子蒂米出生时患有几种罕见的发育性残疾。到13岁时，他的腿和脚已经做了至少10次手术。对蒂米来说，保持平衡和行走是非常困难的。故选B项。
【22题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。句意：珍妮丝曾经治疗提米，遇见珍妮丝改变了提米的生活。A. used to曾经；B. seemed to似乎；C. had to不得不；D. failed to未能。根据后文的“treat Timmy, changed Timmy’s life.”可知，珍妮丝曾经治疗提米，她改变了提米的生活。故选A项。
【23题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：珍妮丝和蒂米很快就建立了联系。A. motivated使产生动机；B. pushed推动；C. anticipated预期；D. formed形成。根据后文的“an immediate bond. That bond led us to get our Larry”可知，珍妮丝和蒂米很快就建立了联系，并且这种联系让“我们”得到了拉里。故选D项。
【24题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：珍妮丝对我儿子和她的狗非常熟悉，她知道蒂米和拉里会是完美的一对。A. disappointed失望的；B. strict严格的；C. careful小心的；D. familiar熟悉的。根据后文的“with my son and her dogs, knew Timmy and Larry would make a perfect 5 . Larry, not usually easy to bond with, was 6 like glue to my son the minute they walked in the door.”可知，因为珍妮丝对“我”儿子和她的狗非常熟悉，所以她才知道蒂米和拉里会是完美的一对。故选D项。
【25题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：珍妮丝对我儿子和她的狗非常熟悉，她知道蒂米和拉里会是完美的一对。A. judgement判决；B. day天；C. match相配的人（或物）；D. task任务。根据前文的“Larry, not usually easy to bond with, was 6 like glue to my son the minute they walked in the door.”可知，拉里，通常不容易相处，但是从他们进门的那一刻起，就像胶水一样粘在我儿子身上了，说明蒂米和拉里是相配的一对。故选C项。
【26题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：通常不容易相处的拉里，从他们进门的那一刻起，就像胶水一样粘在我儿子身上了。A. dressed穿着；B. stuck粘贴，粘住；C. pulled拉动；D. invited邀请。根据前文的“like glue to my son”可知，拉里就像胶水一样粘在我儿子身上了。故选B项。
【27题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：拉里不仅为我儿子的行动不便提供支持，帮助他站稳，防止他摔倒，他还是他最好的朋友。A. support支持；B. message消息；C. highlight ；D. news新闻。根据后文的“for his mobility issues by keeping him steady on his feet and protecting him from 8 ”可知，拉里为行动不便的儿子提供支持，帮助他站稳，防止他摔倒。故选A项。
【28题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：拉里不仅为我儿子的行动不便提供支持，帮助他站稳，防止他摔倒，他还是他最好的朋友。A. bleeding出血；B. falling摔倒；C. following ；D. screaming尖叫。根据前文的“by keeping him steady on his feet and protecting him from”可知，拉里为行动不便的儿子提供支持，帮助他站稳，防止他摔倒。故选B项。
【29题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：如果提米睡着了，拉里不会离开他。A. take拿；B. come来；C. leave离开；D. see看见。根据后文的“his side”和“Larry still will not leave his side”可知，提米睡着了，拉里不会离开他，蒂米感觉不舒服，拉里仍然不会离开他的身边。故选C项。
【30题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：如果蒂米感觉身体不好，拉里仍然不会离开他的身边，甚至吃饭或外出的时候。A. sad悲伤的；B. excited兴奋的；C. angry愤怒的；D. well健康，身体好。根据前文的“If Timmy does not feel”和后文“Larry still will not leave his side”可知，如果蒂米感觉身体不好，拉里仍然不会离开他的身边。故选D项。
【31题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：如果蒂米感觉不舒服，拉里仍然不会离开他的身边，甚至吃饭或外出的时候。A. eat吃；B. drive驾驶；C. read读；D. laugh笑。根据前文的“If Timmy does not feel 10 , Larry still will not leave his side, even”和后文“or go out”可知，如果蒂米感觉不舒服，拉里仍然不会离开他的身边，甚至吃饭或外出的时候。故选A项。
【32题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：拉里放慢了脚步，看着蒂米的每一个动作。A. plan计划；B. decision决定；C. move动作；D. conclusion结论。根据前文的“Larry slows to Timmy’s pace and watches every”和后文“They walk along together in perfect steps”可知，他们以完美的步伐一起行走，是因为拉里放慢了脚步，看着蒂米的每一个动作。故选C项。
【33题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：看到他们俩在一起真是太棒了。A. amazing惊人的，棒的；B. shocking令人震惊的；C. boring没趣的；D. annoying烦人的。根据前文的“Larry, not usually easy to bond with, was 6 like glue to my son the minute they walked in the door.”和后文“to watch the two of them together”可知，看见他俩形影不离的在一起真是太棒了。故选A项。
【34题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：拉里给蒂米的安全保障是无价的。A. exercise练习；B. security安全；C. account账户；D. tension紧张。根据后文的“Larry is always there to support Timmy for mobility, for falling, for companionship”可知，拉里总是在那里支持蒂米，防他跌倒，给他陪伴，可以看出拉里给蒂米的安全保障是无价的。故选B项。
【35题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：拉里总是在那里支持蒂米，防他跌倒，给他陪伴，做他最好的朋友。A. doctor医生；B. journey旅程；C. school学校；D. friend朋友。根据前文的“Larry is always there to support Timmy for mobility, for falling, for companionship, and is his best”可知，拉里总是在那里支持蒂米，防他跌倒，给他陪伴，所以拉里是他最好的朋友。故选D项。
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。
In order to make young people realize the ____36____ (important) of the Social Media Detox, we held ____37____ activity. Over 100 students had been persuaded ____38____ (stop) using social media for seven days, most of whom ____39____ (be) excited and nervous. It took Anna two days to be aware of the seriousness of ____40____ (check) phone. Doing the detox not only ____41____ (make)Devon realize the value of ____42____ (really) contact but also motivated Cindy to visit a different friend every day. An hour’s sport each day let George become healthier and healthier. It is a pity that Max threw in the towel ____43____ the first day. In a word, the Social Media Detox is successful, ____44____ helps teenagers step away from social media and communicate with each other ____45____ (well).
【答案】36. importance
37. an 38. to stop
39. were 40. checking
41. made 42. real
43. on 44. which
45. better
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要介绍了为了让年轻人意识到社交媒体脱瘾的重要性，举行的一场活动的细节和意义。
【36题详解】
考查名词。句意：上周，为了让年轻人意识到社交媒体脱瘾的重要性，我们举行了一场活动。空处由定冠词the修饰，应填名词importance作 realize的宾语，表示“重要性”。故填importance。
【37题详解】
考查冠词。句意：上周，为了让年轻人意识到社交媒体脱瘾的重要性，我们举行了一场活动。此处泛指“一场活动”，且activity以辅音音素开头，应用不定冠词an。故填an。
【38题详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意：100多名学生被说服在7天内停止使用社交媒体，他们中的大多数人既兴奋又紧张。本句谓语为had been persuaded，此处应用非谓语动词，persuade sb. to do sth.“说服某人做某事”，应用stop“停止”的不定式形式。故填to stop。
【39题详解】
考查动词时态。句意：100多名学生被说服在7天内停止使用社交媒体，他们中的大多数人既兴奋又紧张。分析句子结构可知，逗号后为定语从句，本空为从句系动词，结合句意和空前的had been persuaded可知，事情发生在过去，故时态用一般过去时，且主语为most of whom，be动词用were。故填were。
【40题详解】
考查动词时态。句意：100多名学生被说服在7天内停止使用社交媒体，他们中的大多数人既兴奋又紧张。分析句子结构可知，逗号后为定语从句，本空为从句系动词，结合句意和空前的had been persuaded可知，事情发生在过去，故时态用一般过去时，且主语为most of whom，be动词用were。故填were。
【41题详解】
考查一般过去时。句意：戒瘾不仅让德文意识到真正接触的价值，也激励辛迪每天去拜访不同的朋友。空处谓语动词与后面的motivated并列，由not only...but also连接，所以空处也应用make“使得”的过去式形式。故填made。
【42题详解】
考查形容词。句意：戒瘾不仅让德文意识到真正接触的价值，也激励辛迪每天去拜访不同的朋友。空处修饰名词contact，应填形容词real作定语修饰，表示“真正的”。故填real。
【43题详解】
考查介词。句意：很遗憾，麦克斯第一天就认输了。具体某一天前用介词on，结合空后的the first day可知，本空填介词on。故填on。
【44题详解】
考查定语从句。句意：总之，社交媒体脱瘾是成功的，它帮助青少年远离社交媒体，更好地与他人交流。分析句子结构可知，本空引导非限制性定语从句，先行词是the Social Media Detox，指物，关系词代替先行词在从句中作主语，应用关系代词which引导。故填which。
【45题详解】
考查副词比较级。句意：总之，社交媒体脱瘾是成功的，它帮助青少年远离社交媒体，更好地与他人交流。根据空后than before可知，空处应填副词比较级better，表示“更好地”。故填better。
第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是某国际学校的学生会主席李华。最近你校组织留学生外出参观。请给负责此事的老师Smith写一封邮件，向他推荐本市的民俗文化馆(Folk Culture Museum)。内容包括：
1.说明写信事由；
2.介绍文化馆特色。
注意：1.写作词数应为80个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Mr. Smith,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
【答案】Dear Mr. Smith,
Knowing that our school is organizing foreign students to go out to visit, I am writing to recommend the local Folk Culture Museum.
There are many things to do in the museum. What impresses visitors most is that a variety of cultural handicrafts, such as musical instruments, farm tools, etc. are exhibited in different halls. What’s more, with the help of professional guides, visitors will have a better understanding of the history and development of Chinese folk culture.
I believe the students will be deeply attracted by the folk culture and fall in love with it
Yours,
Li Hua
【解析】
【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文。学校组织留学生外出参观，要求考生以学生会主席的身份给负责此事的老师Smith写一封邮件，向他推荐本市的民俗文化馆。
【详解】1.词汇积累
组织：organize→ plan
给……留下深刻印象：impress sb. → leave a deep impression on sb.
各种各样的：a variety of→ various
专业的：professional→ specialized
2.句式拓展
同义句转换
原句：Knowing that our school is organizing foreign students to go out to visit, I am writing to recommend the local Folk Culture Museum.
拓展句：Because I know that our school is organizing foreign students to go out to visit, I am writing to recommend the local Folk Culture Museum.
【点睛】【高分句型1】What impresses visitors most is that a variety of cultural handicrafts, such as musical instruments, farm tools, etc. are exhibited in different halls.（运用了what引导的主语从句和that引导的表语从句）
【高分句型2】I believe the students will be deeply attracted by the folk culture and fall in love with it.（运用了省略引导词that的宾语从句）
第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
It was a hot day. The sun scorched (炙烤) down and everywhere you looked, you could see the heat waves blowing above the sand. John rolled over, realizing that half of his body was well and truly burnt. He had not meant to sleep in the sun but the heat and late nights studying for his examinations made him miserable. Stretching, he got to his feet, picked up his surfboard and looked around. The beach, which had earlier been crowded in the sun, was now comparatively empty. Seagulls flew down to clean up the food of people’s picnic lunches.
The ice-cream van had gone, and so were the lifeguards who were doing first aid on the beach. John looked up to where the sun was and estimated it was about five o’clock. Time to head home. It was “Mum’s Kitchen Rule” that had him moving homewards. If he did not get home in time for dinner, he would go hungry. Wandering along the water’s edge, he happened to glance out to sea. What made him look up at that particular moment, he never knew, but it was the right time for the swimmer he spotted. His hand was up, signaling distress (险情) and he was calling out something.
Quickly John glanced around the beach — no one else was close enough to help the man, and crucially, no one had noticed. Cupping his hands to his mouth, he shouted “Help” to get the attention of other people on the beach. Someone waved back to him and John pointed to the swimmer. “Get help,” he shouted. Then without hesitation, he jumped into the sea with his surfboard. John was a strong swimmer and had a good skill for distance swimming. His coach had tried hard to persuade him to go into competitions but he was not interested.
注意：1.续写词数应为150个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Now he was swimming for more than enjoyment or medals.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fortunately, the sea was not rough and there was no wave.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】
Now he was swimming for more than enjoyment or medals. He was swimming to save someone’s life. He swam very fast. “I must be close to him now,” he thought. Then he heard the man cry anxiously. “Help me, I’m hurt.” As John reached him, he started to reassure him, “It’s OK, mister. I’ll get you to the shore.” “Easier said than done,” John thought to himself. “This man’s big.” He helped the man get on his board.
Fortunately, the sea was not rough and there was no wave. As John reached the shallow water, willing hands appeared to help carry the man ashore. John sat down and began to recover his breath. A small crowd gathered around the swimmer. “They must know what to do,” John thought with relief, reaching for his board and standing up. He figured that since no one needed him, he had better go home before he missed out on his dinner. No one noticed him leave.
【解析】
【导语】本文以人物为线索展开，讲述了约翰正准备从海边回家，发现海中有一个人的手举着，表示遇险，他在喊什么。约翰迅速扫视了一下海滩——没有其他人离得足够近来帮助这个人，关键的是，没有人注意到他。他把双手捧在嘴上，大喊“救命”，以引起海滩上其他人的注意。他毫不犹豫地拿着冲浪板跳进了海里。约翰是一名游泳健将，而且擅长长距离游泳。
【详解】1.段落续写
①由第一段句首内容“现在，他游泳不仅仅是为了享受或获得奖牌。”可知，第一段可以描写约翰进入海中后二人的交流和约翰对他的救助。
②由第二段句首内容“幸运的是，海面并不汹涌，没有波浪。”可知，第二段可以描写翰进把人救上岸后的心理活动人们的反应。
2.续写线索：跳入海中——努力救人——上岸——有人帮忙——回家
3.词汇激活
行为类
①拯救：save/ rescue
②呼喊：cry/ shout
③开始：start/ begin
情绪类
①焦急地：anxiously/ worriedly
②欣慰地：with relief/ thankfully
【点睛】【高分句型1】As John reached him, he started to reassure him, “It’s OK, mister. I’ll get you to the shore.” ( 运用了As引导的时间状语从句)
【高分句型2】“They must know what to do,” John thought, reaching for his board and standing up. ( 运用了现在分词reaching作状语)
【高分句型3】He figured that since no one needed him, he had better go home before he missed out on his dinner. (运用了that引导的宾语从句和before引导的时间状语从句)
听力答案：1~5BCACB 6~10CBACA 11~15BCABA 16~20CABBC2023~2024学年度第一学期大通县期末联考
高二英语
考生注意：
1.本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
2.答题前，考生务必用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将密封线内项目填写清楚。
3.考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上。选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑;非选择题请用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上各题的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷、草稿纸上作答无效。
4.本卷命题范围：外研版选择性必修第一册~选择性必修第二册。
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 time does the first movie start
A. At 9:00. B. At 7:00. C. At 2:00.
2. Why did the man fail to see the woman at lunchtime
A. She went to the wrong dining hall.
B She didn’t want to have lunch.
C. Her class ran overtime.
3. What is the book about
A. England. B. Texas. C. Paris.
4. What did the speakers do last night
A. They had a party. B. They went dancing. C. They saw a film.
5. What does Tom look like according to the man
A. He is a short man.
B. He is at all man with glasses.
C. He is pretty thin with a moustache.
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. When will John’s novel be published
A. Today. B. Next week. C. Next month.
7. What does the woman think of John
A. He is smart and friendly.
B. He is gifted and hard-working.
C. He is clever and helpful.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Salesman and customer. B. Boss and secretary. C. Host and guest.
9. What size does the woman wear
A. Small. B. Medium. C. Large.
10. How much is the change
A. 15 dollars. B. 50 dollars. C. 85 dollars.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Where does the conversation take place
A. On a bus. B. On the phone. C. In a shop.
12. Where does the man want to go
A. A bank. B. A shoe shop. C. The woman’s house.
13. What can we know about Susan’s house
A. It is the seventh house from the corner on the man’s right.
B. It is the seventh house from the corner on the man’s left.
C. It is the seventeenth house from the corner beside the shoe shop.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. How long did the woman work in the travel agency
A. A few days. B. Several months. C. One year.
15. Why did Joe go to Canada
A. To find a job. B. To visit his friends. C. To spend his holiday.
16 What is the man going to do
A. Have dinner. B. Make a call. C. Take a train.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Why did the speaker decide to leave the college
A. He didn’t like the big lecture classes.
B. He couldn’t afford further education.
C. He was not interested in working.
18. What is American Core
A. A school. B. An organization. C. A project.
19. What did the speaker think of his work experiences
A. They should be part of school life.
B. They were personally rewarding.
C. They gave him a chance to learn German.
20. What does the speaker want to be
A. A house designer. B. A camp officer. C. A teacher.
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
2 Days Xi’an-Luoyang Tour by Bullet Train
Tour Overview
Xi’an and Luoyang are two of the four most famous ancient capital cities in China. Taking a bullet train from Xi’an, one will arrive in Luoyang in about 2.5 hours.
Day 1: Xi’an-Luoyang by Bullet Train
AM: At around 7:00, a local driver will pick you up from the hotel. Then you’ll transfer to North Xi’an Railway Station for the bullet train to Luoyang. Upon your arrival in Luoyang, you’ll meet a local guide holding a name board.
The guide will lead you to visit the Longmen Grottoes, which is a treasure house of ancient stone-carving artworks. There are over 100 thousand stone statues along the two banks of the Yi River.
PM: After lunch. you will pay a visit to the Museum of Luoyang Eastern Zhou Royal Horse and Chariot Pits. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty is the last slavery dynasty in Chinese history. The last stop is Luoyang Museum which is a historical museum of China and houses over 1,700 cultural and historical relics in 5 showrooms.
Accommodation: Hotel booked by your own
Day 2: Luoyang-Xi’an by Bullet Train
AM: After breakfast on your own, please meet your driver and guide in the hotel at 9:00 and then drive for about 1 hour 20 minutes to Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of Chinese Zen Buddhism and Shaolin Martial Arts. Here you will see the Kungfu show performed by Shaolin monks.
PM: Finish the sightseeing, you will take the bullet train back to Xi’ an. Your 2 days Xi’ an-Luoyang tour ends here.
Tour Price Per Person
Travelers 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4 Person 5 Person
Tour Price $512 $317 $255 $223 $220
Travelers 6 Person 7 Person 8 Person 9 Person 10+ Person
Tour Price $205 $192 $185 $178 Contact us
1. Which city does the tour begin from
A. Xi’an. B. Luoyang. C. Beijing. D. Shanghai.
2. Which is the first stop on Day 1
A. Shaolin Temple. B. Luoyang Museum. C. Longmen Grottoes. D. Yi River.
3. How much should a couple pay for the tour
A. $317. B. $510. C. $512. D. $634.
B
When a woman bought a painting that appeared to bear the signature (签名) of N. C. Wyeth at a store in 2017, she joked that the 4-dollar item might actually be a real work by the Maine painter. Her joke was no laughing matter, and the painting is now estimated to fetch as much as $250,000 at auction (拍卖会) in September.
According to experts at Bonhams Skinner auction house, the seller unknowingly bought the work at a Savers store in Manchester, New Hampshire, while searching for frames to reuse. At that time, the Wyeth painting had been put against a wall along with mostly damaged posters and prints.
The woman took the piece home, and then made a quick Internet search but could not find any information about the work. After hanging the painting in her bedroom for several years, she eventually stored it in her study.
She rediscovered the painting this past May while doing cleaning, and this time posted images of the work on an online page titled “Things Found in Walls”, which is devoted to “stories of things you have found in walls, dug up in your backyard, or in that spare house across the street from your grandma’s”, according to the group’s description.
Comments on the post led her to contact Lauren Lewis, a former curator who worked with paintings by three generations of the Wyeths: N. C. Wyeth, his son Andrew Wyeth and his grandson Jamie Wyeth. So she did.
“After seeing the piece in person, Lewis was 99% certain it was authentic instead of a copy,” she told The Boston Globe. “While it certainly had some small scratches (划痕), it was in remarkable condition considering none of us had any idea of its journey over the last 80 years.”
Wyeth often produced cover art for publishers of periodicals and novels. The painting up for sale in September is one of four he completed for a 1939 edition of Helen Hunt Jackson’s book Ramona, originally published in 1884. In it, Wyeth painted the young title character facing her elderly mother.
4. What was the woman’s joke
A. The storekeeper was lazy and foolish.
B. The painting she bought might be valuable.
C. The signature of N. C. Wyeth was wrong.
D. The Maine painter would appear at auction.
5. How did the woman deal with the painting shortly after she got home
A. She put it in her study. B. She sold it to Lauren Lewis.
C. She sent it to her friend. D. She searched online about it.
6. What does the underlined word “authentic” in paragraph 6 mean
A. Real. B. Damaged. C. Famous. D. Stolen.
7. What is the text mainly about
A. A world-famous artist in the US. B. A novel by Helen Hunt Jackson.
C. A painting getting its recognition. D. An expert going on a treasure hunt.
C
Have you ever imagined being able to communicate with your pet at home and have it understand everything you say It sounds too good to be true, but scientists have started using artificial intelligence (AI) to help communicate with animals.
Professor Karen Bakker—who is the author of a book called The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants—said that AI is already helping humans communicate with bats and honeybees and this could change what we know about nature and our non-human relationships.
Scientists have worked out how bats speak to each other to argue over food and how mother bats communicate with their young.
Professor Bakker explained how researcher Yossi Yovel had used recordings and AI to understand bats.
“Bats argue over food; they actually distinguish between genders when they communicate with one another; they have individual names, or ‘signature calls’,” she said.
“Mother bats speak to their babies in a kind of ‘motherese’
Bats learn to ‘speak’ with signals from their mothers.
But while human mothers raise the pitch(音高) of their voices when talking to babies，mother bats lower the pitch.
She said it was a great example of how animal patterns could be revealed using sensors and microphones that would otherwise never be heard with the human ear.
AI makes this possible because a computer can be trained to listen like a bat.
With honeybees, the computer combines listening with vision of the bees’ body movements to understand what they are communicating. Researchers now know how be essay things such as “hush” or “stop”.
Researcher Tim Landgraf even created a robot honeybee that entered a hive(蜂房) and was able to communicate with other bees when it wanted them to stop doing something or fly.
8. What is the role of AI in communicating with animals
A. Allowing humans to speak to animals.
B. Translating human language into animal language.
C. Transforming human thoughts into animal language.
D. Helping humans understand what animals are saying.
9. What do scientists know about bats
A. They use unique names given by human.
B. They live together like early human groups.
C. They share their food with each other without arguing.
D. They can distinguish between genders when communicating.
10. How do mother bats communicate with their young
A. By using a kind of “motherese”.
B. By raising the pitch of their voices.
C. By using sensors and microphones.
D. By making body movements.
11. What do we know about the robot created by Tim Landgraf
A. It can speak with other bats.
B. It can build a hive with bees.
C. It can communicate with other bees.
D. It can teach other bee show to fly and stop.
D
WHY SHENNONGJIA
As we know, in 2016, Shennongjia made it on to the UNESCO World Heritage List. But there are so many important places not yet on this list. So you might ask: why Shennongjia
UNESCO awarded Shennongjia this status because it meets two criteria required by the list. It contains a naturally-balanced environment that allows the many and various species to live and prosper. It is also one of the rare locations in the world where scientists can observe in real time the ecological and biological processes that occur as the plants and animals develop and evolve.
For the first criterion, Shennongjia is apparently one of the most “complete” natural areas in the world. The region rises from about 400 metres to over 3, 000 metres above sealevel, giving it the name the “Roof of Central China”.
For the second criterion, we can see that Shennongjia has incredible biodiversity. Look at this slide. According to official statistics, over 3, 000 plant species have been recorded there. This represents more than ten percent of China’s total floral richness.
It is a challenge to look after so many species. In winter, scientists brave heavy snow and freezing temperatures to supply food to the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey. Thanks to their efforts, the monkey’s population has doubled since the 1980s.Their number reached over 1, 300 in 2015 and continues to grow.
But the most impressive aspect of Shennongjia is the local people, who take things from nature without causing damage. I visited a local village which is known for its home-made honey. What is special about the honey is that it is produced by the earliest species of Chinese bee. All of this explains why Shennongjia earned—and deserves—its place on the UNESCO World Heritage List, as well as highlighting how understanding, awareness and hard work have contributed towards protecting a unique and wonderful part of our natural world.
12. Why is Shennongjia included in the UNESCO World Heritage List
A. Because its forests stretch on and on like great green seas.
B. Because it is the legendary father of Chinese herbal medicine.
C. Because it satisfies the two requirements for the status.
D. Because it has the mysterious creature called “Yeren”.
13. Shennongjia is also called the“ ”.
A Roof of Central China B. Roof of Northern China
C. Roof of Eastern China D. Roof of Southern China
14. How does the author think of the scientists in Shennongjia
A. Patient. B. Careful. C. Confident. D. Hard-working.
15. According to the text, what impressed the author most
A. A local village. B. The local people.
C. Some special monkeys. D. The wild bees.
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。
Here are some habits to help you enjoy a longer and better life.
Eat better. You don’t have to adopt some crazy diet or give up all sweets. Instead, try to eat a few more vegetables and fruits. ____16____ . A whole food is an ingredient in its natural state, one that comes in its own wrapper. While it’s even better to eat cuisine that is organic, locally grown or pesticide-free, start by shopping for groceries that require no packaging.
Check with your doctor. When you feel good, it’s easy to avoid going to the doctor. No matter how you feel, though, it’s a good idea to visit your doctor for an annual check up. ____17____. In addition, depending on your age and family history, the doctor may recommend other necessary tests or screenings. For example, your doctor may also do blood tests to check your cholesterol or screen for hormonal imbalances. ____18____
Keep moving. Exercise lowers blood pressure, controls our weight, strengthens our bones and muscles, reduces our risk for cancers, and improves mood. Some research also says it has the power to keep us young. Physical activities including exercises can improve our flexibility, strength and balance. ____19____ Just work more movement into your day.
____20____. Simply said, we are better together. Steps to build a social network include getting involved with joining a cause or volunteering for an organization or checking out a support group.
A. Do volunteer work
B. Connect with people
C. You can also eat more whole foods
D. You don’t have to take up running marathons .
E. They not only have health benefits, but taste good
F. The doctor will most likely carry out some routine tests
G. Each of these tests can help identify any potential problems
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。
My son Timmy was born with several rare developmental disabilities. By age 13, he had had at least 10 surgeries on his legs and feet. Balancing and walking was very ____21____ for Timmy, and he needed a great deal of help with mobility.
Meeting Janice who ____22____ treat Timmy, changed Timmy’s life. Janice and Timmy ____23____ an immediate bond. That bond led us to get our Larry, the biggest dog I’ve ever seen. Janice, being so ____24____ with my son and her dogs, knew Timmy and Larry would make a perfect ____25____.Larry, not usually easy to bond with, was ____26____ like glue to my son the minute they walked in the door.
Larry has changed Timmy, s life so much for the better. Not only does Larry give my son ____27____ for his mobility issues by keeping him steady on his feet and protecting him from ____28____, but he is also his best friend. If Timmy is sleeping, Larry does not ____29____ his side. If Timmy does not feel ____30____, Larry still will not leave his side, even to ____31____ or go out.
Larry slows to Timmy’s pace and watches every ____32____ he makes. They walk along together in perfect steps. It is truly ____33____ to watch the two of them together. This year, Timmy and Larry began their journey in high school together. The ____34____ that Larry gives Timmy is priceless. Larry is always there to support Timmy for mobility, for falling, for companionship, and is his best ____35____.
21.
A. suitable B. difficult C. easy D. perfect
22.
A. used to B. seemed to C. had to D. failed to
23.
A. motivated B. pushed C. anticipated D. formed
24.
A. disappointed B. strict C. careful D. familiar
25.
A. judgement B. day C. match D. task
26.
A. dressed B. stuck C. pulled D. invited
27.
A. support B. message C. highlight D. news
28.
A. bleeding B. falling C. following D. screaming
29.
A. take B. come C. leave D. see
30.
A. sad B. excited C. angry D. well
31.
A. eat B. drive C. read D. laugh
32.
A. plan B. decision C. move D. conclusion
33.
A. amazing B. shocking C. boring D. annoying
34.
A. exercise B. security C. account D. tension
35.
A. doctor B. journey C. school D. friend
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。
In order to make young people realize the ____36____ (important) of the Social Media Detox, we held ____37____ activity. Over 100 students had been persuaded ____38____ (stop) using social media for seven days, most of whom ____39____ (be) excited and nervous. It took Anna two days to be aware of the seriousness of ____40____ (check) phone. Doing the detox not only ____41____ (make)Devon realize the value of ____42____ (really) contact but also motivated Cindy to visit a different friend every day. An hour’s sport each day let George become healthier and healthier. It is a pity that Max threw in the towel ____43____ the first day. In a word, the Social Media Detox is successful, ____44____ helps teenagers step away from social media and communicate with each other ____45____ (well).
第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假定你是某国际学校的学生会主席李华。最近你校组织留学生外出参观。请给负责此事的老师Smith写一封邮件，向他推荐本市的民俗文化馆(Folk Culture Museum)。内容包括：
1.说明写信事由；
2.介绍文化馆特色。
注意：1.写作词数应为80个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Mr. Smith,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节(满分25分)
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
It was a hot day. The sun scorched (炙烤) down and everywhere you looked, you could see the heat waves blowing above the sand. John rolled over, realizing that half of his body was well and truly burnt. He had not meant to sleep in the sun but the heat and late nights studying for his examinations made him miserable. Stretching, he got to his feet, picked up his surfboard and looked around. The beach, which had earlier been crowded in the sun, was now comparatively empty. Seagulls flew down to clean up the food of people’s picnic lunches.
The ice-cream van had gone, and so were the lifeguards who were doing first aid on the beach. John looked up to where the sun was and estimated it was about five o’clock. Time to head home. It was “Mum’s Kitchen Rule” that had him moving homewards. If he did not get home in time for dinner, he would go hungry. Wandering along the water’s edge, he happened to glance out to sea. What made him look up at that particular moment, he never knew, but it was the right time for the swimmer he spotted. His hand was up, signaling distress (险情) and he was calling out something.
Quickly John glanced around the beach — no one else was close enough to help the man, and crucially, no one had noticed. Cupping his hands to his mouth, he shouted “Help” to get the attention of other people on the beach. Someone waved back to him and John pointed to the swimmer. “Get help,” he shouted. Then without hesitation, he jumped into the sea with his surfboard. John was a strong swimmer and had a good skill for distance swimming. His coach had tried hard to persuade him to go into competitions but he was not interested.
注意：1.续写词数应为150个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Now he was swimming for more than enjoyment or medals.
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Fortunately, the sea was not rough and there was no wave.
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听力答案：1~5BCACB 6~10CBACA 11~15BCABA 16~20CABBC
