江苏省常州高级中学2023-2024学年高二上学期期末质量检查英语试题（含答案，无听力音频及文字材料）
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江苏省常州高级中学
2023～2024学年第一学期期末质量检查高二年级
英语试卷
说明：1.以下题目的答案请全部填写在答卷纸上。
2.本卷总分150分，考试时间120分钟。
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1. 5分，满分7. 5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 is the woman doing now
A. Watching TV. B. Taking part in an activity. C. Preparing for an exam.
2. Where does the conversation probably take place
A. In an office. B. In a store. C. In a hotel.
3. When will the speakers meet
A. At 6: 20. B. At 6: 10. C. At 5: 40.
4. In which country does Jane want to spend her holiday
A. America. B. Korea. C. Japan.
5. What do we know about the woman
A. She is fired. B. She didn't work hard. C. She can take a day off tomorrow.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟。听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。
6. What could the man be
A. A taxi driver. B. A policeman. C. A hotel clerk.
7. Where does the woman think she lost her cell phone
A. In a park. B. In a supermarket. C. On her way to the hotel.
听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。
8. Where will The Magic Flute be on this weekend
A. At the Orpheum theatre. B. At the Caldonion theatre.
C. At the Poseidon theatre.
9. What will the man do tonight
A. Invite Joan to dinner. B. Give Joan a call. C. Buy tickets.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。
10. What is Isabel's
A. A restaurant. B. A toy shop. C. A clothing shop.
11. Who bought an evening dress
A. Cindy. B. Wendy. C. Mrs. Miles.
12. What will the speakers do first
A. Refuel the car. B. Go to a party. C. Have lunch.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。
13. What is the man
A. A salesman. B. A teacher. C. A student.
14. What is the second point being talked about
A. The man's education. B. The man's marriage. C. The man's demand.
15. How does the man find the job
A. Challenging. B. Relaxing. C. Interesting.
16. What will the man do
A. Have another interview. B. Wait for the reply. C. Think about the business trips.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。
17. What did the speaker like best
A. Big Ben. B. Tower Bridge. C. The Tower of London.
18. Where did the speaker take a photo
A. At Trafalgar Square. B. At Madame Tussauds.
C. At the Royal Shakespeare Theater.
19. How old are the houses in Stratford
A. About 500 years old. B. About 1, 000 years old.
C. About 2, 000 years old.
20. Why does the speaker give the message
A. To introduce his blog. B. To tell about his trip in England.
C. To recommend people to visit London.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15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
In the Commonwealth Games England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have separate Olympics teams, unlike the Olympics where they compete together as Britain.
What are the Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games are held every four years between members of the Commonwealth of Nations—a group of independent countries, most of which used to be part of the Britain. The Games were first held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada. The event was named the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
The history of the Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games have been held every four years since they started and have grown much bigger. At the first Commonwealth Games, only 11 nations and 400 athletes were involved in six sports. For a long time, the Games only included individual sports such as athletics, boxing and swimming. In 1998, team sports such as cricket, hockey and netball were introduced. The Commonwealth Games have featured many fantastic feats and the athletes have broken a wide range of records.
Paralympic progress
At the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, Canadian athlete Chantal Petitclerc became the first athlete with a disability to win a gold medal in the wheelchair 800-meter race. She said, “It meant so much to me that the Commonwealth Games decided that a performance is a performance-and it doesn't matter if you accomplish it in a wheelchair. Paralympic athletes continue to take part in the Commonwealth Cames' main sports programs, and many have broken records and made history.
21. Which countries take part in the Commonwealth Games
A. Independent countries. B. Members of the Commonwealth of Nations.
C. The former members of the Britain. D. All the countries from around the world.
22. How many sports were there at the first Commonwealth Games
A. 11. B. 4. C. 6. D. 400.
23. Why do Paralympic athletes compete in the Commonwealth Games
A. To make historic records. B. To enjoy sports programs with other athletes.
C. To show their disabilities. D. To prove themselves with good performance.
B
One of the biggest concerns about today's tech giants is their market power. In many countries, Google, Facebook, and Amazon dominate online search, social media, and online retail respectively. And yet economists have largely failed to address these concerns in a proper way. To help regulators as they struggle to address this market concentration, we must make economics itself more relevant to the digital age.
Digital markets often become highly concentrated, with one dominant firm, because larger players enjoy significant returns. For example, data generation plays a self reinforcing (自我强化的) rule; more data improves the service, which brings more users, and then generates more data.
As several recent reports have pointed out, the digital economy poses a problem for competition policy. Competition is vital for boosting productivity and long term growth, because it drives out inefficient producers and encourages innovation. Yet how can this happen when there are such dominant players
Today's digital giants provide services that people want: one recent study estimated that consumers value online search alone at a level which is equal to about half of media income. Rather than assessing likely short-term trends in specific digital markets, they need to be able to estimate the potential long-term costs.
This is no easy task, because there is no standard methodology (方法) for estimating uncertain futures. Economists ever disagree on how to measure static consumer valuations of free digital goods such as online search and social media. And although the idea that competition operates dynamically through firms entering and exiting the market dates back at least to Joseph Schumpeter, the standard approach is still to look at competition among similar companies producing similar goods at a point in time.
The characteristics of digital technology pose a great challenge to the entire discipline. As I pointed out more than 20 years ago, the digital economy is “weightless”. Moreover, many digital goods are non-rival “public goods”. You can use software code without stopping others from doing so, whereas only one person can wear the same pair of shoes.
24. What makes the regulators worry about the tech giants
A. Market dominance. B. Market profits. C. Digital high-tech. D. Economic stability.
25. How does a digital platform get profits
A. By enlarging the platform. B. By collecting more data.
C. By avoiding network effects. D. By encouraging innovation.
26. What causes the difficulty in estimating a digital company
①Lack of standard methodology. ②Disagreements among economists.
③Innovation from producers. ④Use of digital products at the same time.
A. ①②③ B. ②③④ C. ①③④ D. ①②④
27. Where does the passage probably come from
A. A business magazine. B. A science report.
C. A marketing guide. D. An IT textbook.
C
It is reported that the sense of smell plays a dominant role in the social interactions of all land animals except humans. Then the question arises: Is this because humans don't use their noses in social settings the way all other land animals do Or is this behavior covert (隐蔽的), rather than overt, in humans
In fact, this is exactly what Inbal Ravreby, a graduate student in Prof. Noam Sobel's laboratory in Weizmann's Brain Sciences Department, tried to answer. And as several lines of evidence suggest that humans are constantly, although mostly subconsciously, sniffing themselves and others, Ravreby supposed that the latter is the case.
To test her idea, Ravreby conducted the study with pairs of click friends: same-sex non-romantic friends whose friendships had originally formed very rapidly. Because such friendships emerge before an in-depth acquaintance, they may be particularly influenced by physiological (生理的) characteristics such as body smell. She then collected body smell samples from these click friends and conducted two sets of experiments to compare the samples with those collected from random pairs of individuals. In one set of experiments, she performed the comparison with a device known as an electronic nose, or eNose, which assessed the chemical signatures of the smells. In the other, she asked volunteers to smell the two groups of body smell samples in order to assess similarities measured by human perception. In both types of experiments, click friends were found to smell significantly more like each other than the individuals in the random pairs.
Next, to rule out the possibility that body smell similarity was a consequence of click friendships, rather than a contributing cause, Ravreby performed an additional set of experiments, in which she used the eNose to “smell” a number of volunteers who were complete strangers to one another, and then asked them to engage in nonverbal (非言语的) social interactions in pairs. After each such structured interaction, the participants rated the other individual in terms of how much they liked that person. The following analysis revealed that the individuals who had more positive interactions indeed smelled more like each other, as determined by the eNose.
“These results imply that, as the saying goes, there is chemistry in social chemistry”, Ravreby concludes. However, Sobel offers words of caution, “This is not to say that we act like dogs or goats—humans likely rely on other far more dominant signals in their social decision-making. Nevertheless, our study's results do suggest that our nose plays a bigger role than previously thought in. our choice of friends.”
28. What did Inbal Ravreby want to figure out
A. Whether humans have a sharp sense of smell.
B. Whether humans' noses can detect all types of smells.
C. Whether it is necessary for humans to sniff other people.
D. Whether the sense of smell plays a role in humans' interaction.
29. What makes the first two sets of experiments different from each other
A. The ways to make comparisons. B. The participation of random pairs.
C. The ways volunteers used the eNose. D. The number of pairs of click friends.
30. Why did Ravreby involve complete strangers in the following experiments
A. To make the experiments much more interesting
B. To avoid interactions between click friends.
C. To determine the reliability of the finding.
D. To test the accuracy of the eNose in smell analysis.
31. What is Sobel's attitude towards the study finding
A. Disapproving B. Doubtful. C. Positive. D. Indifferent
D
“Few articles change owners more frequently than clothes. They travel downwards from grade to grade in the social scale with remarkable regularity,” wrote the journalist Adolphe Smith in 1877 as he traced a coat's journey in the last century: cleaned, repaired and resold repeatedly; cut down into a smaller item; eventually recycled into new fabric. But with the improvement in people's living standards, that model is mind-boggling in the era of fast fashion. The average British customer buys four items a month. And it is reported that 350, 000 tons of used but still wearable clothes go to landfills in the UK each year.
Yet gradual revival (复兴) of the second-hand trade has gathered pace in the past few years. At fashion website Asos, sales of vintage clothes (古董) have risen by 92%. Clothing was once worn out of necessity, and now it is simply a way of life. Busy families sell used items on eBay, teenagers trade on Depop and some fashion people offer designer labels on Vestiaire Collective. Strikingly, it has become big enough business that mainstream retailers (零售商) want a slice of the action.
For some buyers and sellers, the switch to the second-hand is born of financial difficulties. Only a few have become worried about the impact of their shopping habit on the planet. But the shift is only a partial solution. Some people worry that some mainstream brands may “greenwash” -using second-hand goods to improve their image, rather than engaging more seriously with sustainability.
However, the biggest concern may be that people keep buying because they know they can resell goods, still chasing the pleasure of the next purchase but with an eased conscience. Boohoo, a powerful fast fashion company, has seen sales and profits rise, despite concerns about environmental problems in its supply chain that led to an investigation last year.
A new Netflix series, Worn Stories, documents the emotional meanings that clothes can have: Each old item is full of memories. Actually, a handbag from a grandmother and a scarf passed on by a father are both valuable for us. A love of style is not a bad or an unimportant thing. But a committed relationship is better than a quick flash. Can we learn to appreciate our own old clothes as well as others'
32. What does the word “mind-boggling” underlined in paragraph 1 probably mean
A. Influential. B. Popular. C. Reasonable. D. Unbelievable.
33. With the business mentioned in paragraph 2, the author wants to show ___________.
A. old clothes are more popular than new pieces
B. the online second-hand markets are booming
C. the fashion world begins to favor vintage clothes
D. many clothing brands are innovative in their new products
34. How does the second-hand trade impact people according to paragraph 4
A. It makes people feel free to pursue fast fashion.
B. It makes people more cautious about their budgets.
C. It encourages people to choose eco-friendly clothes.
D. It pushes people to be more engaged with sustainability.
35. Which of the following views does Worn Stories advocate
A. Old items have lost favor with the public.
B. Old items are worthy of being long cherished.
C. Older generations attach great importance to old items.
D. Older generations care about the quality of their clothes.
第二节（共5题；每小题2. 5分, 满分12. 5分）
根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Dive into icy depths may not sound appealing. 36 though, especially for those who are enthusiastic about cold-water therapy. Participants claim jumping into or swimming in water no warmer than 15 degrees Celsius leaves them energetic and clear-headed, and even relieves pain.
Cold-water therapy has become more mainstream in recent years, in part due to the influence of Wim Hof, a famous Dutch extreme athlete who developed his own method of cold therapy coupled with conscious-breathing techniques. 37 . 2, 000 years ago, ancient Greeks used water therapy to relieve fatigue and treat fever.
In Scandinavian countries, a traditional sauna (桑拿) session is sometimes followed by a cold swimming. 38 . High-performance athletes also use ice baths or cold showers to help reduce the delayed-onset muscle pains that follows intense exercise. And recent research suggests impressive benefits for mental health and stress management.
“ 39 ,” says Harper Phillie, one of a study's authors. Swimming is also good exercise and often a social activity, which helps to get rid of anxiety and allows the body to feel both pleasure and motivation. Harper has been cold-water swimming for nearly two decades and compares the stress of cold-water therapy to that of intense exercise. “Done safely, it's a pretty effective way to train the body,” he says. “But if you've got a heart condition, you have to be careful.”
If open water isn't your thing, consider cold showers. For those wanting to try cold-water swimming in a lake or ocean, ease into it with short exposure times—just long enough for your body to get past the shock. 40 and always swim with a friend. Gradually increase the time you spend in cold water to three or four minutes, at least once a week. “That's all you need to get the benefits,” says Harper.
A. Cold exposure increases “feel-good” hormones B. The cold shock may hurt you C. It made him popular among the cold-water enthusiasts D. Never start by submerging your entire body in at once E. Changing between hot and cold temperatures enables blood to move quicker in the skin F. But it's not a new trend G. The benefits greatly outweigh any short-term discomfort
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完型填空（共15题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I have struggled with feelings of unworthiness since forever. My most painful moments were at parties. My friends made fun of me because I was rhythmically (有节奏地) 41 and I couldn’t get my 42 body to imitate the latest dance moves. I was never chosen to dance. I felt like I didn't 43 .
Around age 12, I decided that the way to 44 these feelings of unworthiness was perfection. If I was just perfect then I would fit in. But this strategy didn’t 45 .My self-esteem (自尊心) was high when I got good grades and felt 46 , but crashed when I didn't do well 47 , or was left out.
After several years of spiritual growth, it 48 me that for many of us, self-worth is tied to our 49 . We experience low self-worth 50 we fail or lose approval. So I have begun to cultivate an unconditional self-worth. It's not about doing things perfectly. 51 ,” Unconditional self-worth” is the
52 that you deserve to be alive, to be loved and cared for.
The 53 to unconditional self-worth is not always easy. It takes courage to free yourself from the 54 you've placed on your worth. But this journey is beautiful and worth taking. So I challenge you to embrace yourselves and find your metaphorical (隐喻的) 55 floor and move freely.
41. A. adjusted B. bothered C. challenged D. compromised
42. A. twisted B. annoyed C. limited D. awkward
43. A. belong B. appeal C. match D. deserve
44. A. solve B. cure C. release D. arouse
45. A. sustain B. work C. hatch D. dismiss
46. A. included B. excluded C. inspired D. appreciated
47. A. internally B. academically C. professionally D. contemporarily
48. A. occurs to B. happens to C. calls on D. knocks on
49. A. desires B. strengths C. accomplishments D. harmony
50. A. as well as B. as soon as C. as much as D. as far as
51. A. Still B. However C. Meanwhile D. Rather
52. A. definition B. resolution C. sense D. pose
53. A. discovery B. access C. journey D. experience
54. A. emphasis B. burden C. demand D. conditions
55. A. valley B. forest C. dance D. balcony
第二节 短文语法填空（共10题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
After waking up, you may feel frustrated that you cannot recall the dreams you had last night. Artificial intelligence (AI) may be 56 (capacity) of helping you, because they 57 (learn) all the time from large amounts of data from both tests and images. Researchers from Osaka University in Japan have gone to great 58 (long) to train an AI system called Stable Diffusion to re-create images based on people's brain scans.
The researchers used an online data set provided by the University of Minnesota, US, 59 consisted of brain scans from four participants as they each viewed 60 set of 10, 000 photos.
The AI then learned about the brain activities on the basis of the 61 (analyze)of changes in blood flow and then matched the brain activities with the photos. Through this method, AI learned how human brains would react when seeing different photos.
62 (ultimate), the researchers tested the AI on additional brain scans from the same participants when they viewed photos of a toy bear, airplane, clock and train. If the person looked at an airplane, for example, the AI would use the brain scan data to create an image of a vague airplane. Then, it would turn 63 the previous “text-to-image” model and improve the quality of the image by feeding itself the keyword “airplane”. The final images were “convincing” with about 80 percent of 64 (accurate), according to the researchers.
The new study created a novel approach to 65 (combine) texts and images to “decode the brain”, In the future, scientists hope that the technology can be used to record imagined thoughts and dreams.
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，你校交流生Tom最近对太极拳这项体育运动特别感兴趣，请你用英文给他写一封信，向他介绍太极拳并邀请他加入学校的太极拳社团，
内容包括：
1.太极拳的历史和文化；
2.太极拳对身心的好处；
3.邀请他加入社团。
注意：1.总词数80词左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tom, Yours, Li Hua
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，使之构成篇完整的短文。
Lots of times, I’ve looked at that tree on the sandbank across the estuary (渡口). One day, I'm sitting on the beach with my friend Duncan. The tide is in, it's all the way across to the sandbank. "I could swim to that tree,” I say.
“Go on, then,” says Duncan. I put down my towel and walk to the edge. I surge into the water with three heaves of butterfly stroke (蝶泳), just to feel how strong I am in the water and how the sun feels on my back as I fling out of the sea like a fish.
One, two, three, I’m breathing steadily and my arms are lifting in rhythm (有节奏地). Then I remember that story in the paper last week. A man jumped into the water and grabbed a shark by its tail. How could I forget that shark I'm sprinting (冲刺) through the water, which is suddenly so immense (无边无际的), so deep. Soon my arms and legs feel heavy. It's that feeling I get at the end of a race when I've given it everything.
I've got to pace myself, I think. The tree is far off ahead somewhere. When I turn and look back at Duncan, he seems so far away. I must be nearly halfway, I think. I tread water for a moment, looking across at my tree.
It hasn't come any closer. Up out of the sea I rise in a butterfly surge, breathing one, two, three, “It's easier,” I say to myself, even though I can now feel the tugging (拖、拽) of the outgoing tide, and the salt water slaps my face more than I want.
I must be nearly there, I think, and stop and look back at Duncan. His T-shirt is just a red blur (模糊不清的事物) on the beach. I smile to myself, thinking that not many people would do this swim, but I can. I turn my head to look for my tree.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
But something was wrong. My heart stops pounding (怦怦跳) in my ears so much.
江苏省常州高级中学2023~2024学年第一学期期末质量检查
高二年级 英语试卷参考答案：
1-5：CCBBA 6-10: BCBBC 11-15: AACBA 16-20: BCBAB
21-23: BCD 24-27: ABDA 28-31: DACC 32-35: DBAB
36-40: GFEAD 41-45: CDABB 46-50: ABACB 51-55: DCCDC
56. capable 57. have been learning 58. lengths 59. which
60. a 61. analysis 62. Ultimately 63. on
64. accuracy bining
作文
第一节
Dear Tom,
Delighted to know you are interested in tai chi, I’m writing to share with you something about it.
Tai chi, rooted in the philosophy of yin and yang, was said to have been invented and developed based on martial arts which have a long-standing practice of imitating animals. That’s why some tai chi moves are named after animals.
Practicing tai chi can bring about a state of physical balance and mental peace, which has a positive effect on our everyday life. Why not join our tai chi club and enjoy its benefits (92 words)
第二节
One possible version:
But something was wrong. The tree is as far away as ever. It’s still a fuzzy outline on the sandbank. And the tide has pulled me toward the open sea. Then beside me is a silver flash. A flip into the water like a stone throw. Plop. And again. Would a fish know if there was a shark around Would it be showing off in the water like that, flipping up and down
My heart stops pounding (心脏怦怦跳) in my ears so much. My arms and legs settle down. One, two, three. I count my breathing. I think of how much bigger and stronger I am. I think of all the lengths I do and training at the swimming pool. I want to be back at home. I want to be sitting under that tree with Duncan, bathed in the sun. Suddenly the water is warmer. I stretch one foot down, and surge out of the water, arms up high. There’s the sand. I made it!
2023～2024学年第一学期期末质量检查高二年级
英语试卷
说明：1.以下题目的答案请全部填写在答卷纸上。
2.本卷总分150分，考试时间120分钟。
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1. 5分，满分7. 5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 is the woman doing now
A. Watching TV. B. Taking part in an activity. C. Preparing for an exam.
2. Where does the conversation probably take place
A. In an office. B. In a store. C. In a hotel.
3. When will the speakers meet
A. At 6: 20. B. At 6: 10. C. At 5: 40.
4. In which country does Jane want to spend her holiday
A. America. B. Korea. C. Japan.
5. What do we know about the woman
A. She is fired. B. She didn't work hard. C. She can take a day off tomorrow.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟。听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。
6. What could the man be
A. A taxi driver. B. A policeman. C. A hotel clerk.
7. Where does the woman think she lost her cell phone
A. In a park. B. In a supermarket. C. On her way to the hotel.
听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。
8. Where will The Magic Flute be on this weekend
A. At the Orpheum theatre. B. At the Caldonion theatre.
C. At the Poseidon theatre.
9. What will the man do tonight
A. Invite Joan to dinner. B. Give Joan a call. C. Buy tickets.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。
10. What is Isabel's
A. A restaurant. B. A toy shop. C. A clothing shop.
11. Who bought an evening dress
A. Cindy. B. Wendy. C. Mrs. Miles.
12. What will the speakers do first
A. Refuel the car. B. Go to a party. C. Have lunch.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。
13. What is the man
A. A salesman. B. A teacher. C. A student.
14. What is the second point being talked about
A. The man's education. B. The man's marriage. C. The man's demand.
15. How does the man find the job
A. Challenging. B. Relaxing. C. Interesting.
16. What will the man do
A. Have another interview. B. Wait for the reply. C. Think about the business trips.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。
17. What did the speaker like best
A. Big Ben. B. Tower Bridge. C. The Tower of London.
18. Where did the speaker take a photo
A. At Trafalgar Square. B. At Madame Tussauds.
C. At the Royal Shakespeare Theater.
19. How old are the houses in Stratford
A. About 500 years old. B. About 1, 000 years old.
C. About 2, 000 years old.
20. Why does the speaker give the message
A. To introduce his blog. B. To tell about his trip in England.
C. To recommend people to visit London.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15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
In the Commonwealth Games England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have separate Olympics teams, unlike the Olympics where they compete together as Britain.
What are the Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games are held every four years between members of the Commonwealth of Nations—a group of independent countries, most of which used to be part of the Britain. The Games were first held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada. The event was named the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
The history of the Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games have been held every four years since they started and have grown much bigger. At the first Commonwealth Games, only 11 nations and 400 athletes were involved in six sports. For a long time, the Games only included individual sports such as athletics, boxing and swimming. In 1998, team sports such as cricket, hockey and netball were introduced. The Commonwealth Games have featured many fantastic feats and the athletes have broken a wide range of records.
Paralympic progress
At the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, Canadian athlete Chantal Petitclerc became the first athlete with a disability to win a gold medal in the wheelchair 800-meter race. She said, “It meant so much to me that the Commonwealth Games decided that a performance is a performance-and it doesn't matter if you accomplish it in a wheelchair. Paralympic athletes continue to take part in the Commonwealth Cames' main sports programs, and many have broken records and made history.
21. Which countries take part in the Commonwealth Games
A. Independent countries. B. Members of the Commonwealth of Nations.
C. The former members of the Britain. D. All the countries from around the world.
22. How many sports were there at the first Commonwealth Games
A. 11. B. 4. C. 6. D. 400.
23. Why do Paralympic athletes compete in the Commonwealth Games
A. To make historic records. B. To enjoy sports programs with other athletes.
C. To show their disabilities. D. To prove themselves with good performance.
B
One of the biggest concerns about today's tech giants is their market power. In many countries, Google, Facebook, and Amazon dominate online search, social media, and online retail respectively. And yet economists have largely failed to address these concerns in a proper way. To help regulators as they struggle to address this market concentration, we must make economics itself more relevant to the digital age.
Digital markets often become highly concentrated, with one dominant firm, because larger players enjoy significant returns. For example, data generation plays a self reinforcing (自我强化的) rule; more data improves the service, which brings more users, and then generates more data.
As several recent reports have pointed out, the digital economy poses a problem for competition policy. Competition is vital for boosting productivity and long term growth, because it drives out inefficient producers and encourages innovation. Yet how can this happen when there are such dominant players
Today's digital giants provide services that people want: one recent study estimated that consumers value online search alone at a level which is equal to about half of media income. Rather than assessing likely short-term trends in specific digital markets, they need to be able to estimate the potential long-term costs.
This is no easy task, because there is no standard methodology (方法) for estimating uncertain futures. Economists ever disagree on how to measure static consumer valuations of free digital goods such as online search and social media. And although the idea that competition operates dynamically through firms entering and exiting the market dates back at least to Joseph Schumpeter, the standard approach is still to look at competition among similar companies producing similar goods at a point in time.
The characteristics of digital technology pose a great challenge to the entire discipline. As I pointed out more than 20 years ago, the digital economy is “weightless”. Moreover, many digital goods are non-rival “public goods”. You can use software code without stopping others from doing so, whereas only one person can wear the same pair of shoes.
24. What makes the regulators worry about the tech giants
A. Market dominance. B. Market profits. C. Digital high-tech. D. Economic stability.
25. How does a digital platform get profits
A. By enlarging the platform. B. By collecting more data.
C. By avoiding network effects. D. By encouraging innovation.
26. What causes the difficulty in estimating a digital company
①Lack of standard methodology. ②Disagreements among economists.
③Innovation from producers. ④Use of digital products at the same time.
A. ①②③ B. ②③④ C. ①③④ D. ①②④
27. Where does the passage probably come from
A. A business magazine. B. A science report.
C. A marketing guide. D. An IT textbook.
C
It is reported that the sense of smell plays a dominant role in the social interactions of all land animals except humans. Then the question arises: Is this because humans don't use their noses in social settings the way all other land animals do Or is this behavior covert (隐蔽的), rather than overt, in humans
In fact, this is exactly what Inbal Ravreby, a graduate student in Prof. Noam Sobel's laboratory in Weizmann's Brain Sciences Department, tried to answer. And as several lines of evidence suggest that humans are constantly, although mostly subconsciously, sniffing themselves and others, Ravreby supposed that the latter is the case.
To test her idea, Ravreby conducted the study with pairs of click friends: same-sex non-romantic friends whose friendships had originally formed very rapidly. Because such friendships emerge before an in-depth acquaintance, they may be particularly influenced by physiological (生理的) characteristics such as body smell. She then collected body smell samples from these click friends and conducted two sets of experiments to compare the samples with those collected from random pairs of individuals. In one set of experiments, she performed the comparison with a device known as an electronic nose, or eNose, which assessed the chemical signatures of the smells. In the other, she asked volunteers to smell the two groups of body smell samples in order to assess similarities measured by human perception. In both types of experiments, click friends were found to smell significantly more like each other than the individuals in the random pairs.
Next, to rule out the possibility that body smell similarity was a consequence of click friendships, rather than a contributing cause, Ravreby performed an additional set of experiments, in which she used the eNose to “smell” a number of volunteers who were complete strangers to one another, and then asked them to engage in nonverbal (非言语的) social interactions in pairs. After each such structured interaction, the participants rated the other individual in terms of how much they liked that person. The following analysis revealed that the individuals who had more positive interactions indeed smelled more like each other, as determined by the eNose.
“These results imply that, as the saying goes, there is chemistry in social chemistry”, Ravreby concludes. However, Sobel offers words of caution, “This is not to say that we act like dogs or goats—humans likely rely on other far more dominant signals in their social decision-making. Nevertheless, our study's results do suggest that our nose plays a bigger role than previously thought in. our choice of friends.”
28. What did Inbal Ravreby want to figure out
A. Whether humans have a sharp sense of smell.
B. Whether humans' noses can detect all types of smells.
C. Whether it is necessary for humans to sniff other people.
D. Whether the sense of smell plays a role in humans' interaction.
29. What makes the first two sets of experiments different from each other
A. The ways to make comparisons. B. The participation of random pairs.
C. The ways volunteers used the eNose. D. The number of pairs of click friends.
30. Why did Ravreby involve complete strangers in the following experiments
A. To make the experiments much more interesting
B. To avoid interactions between click friends.
C. To determine the reliability of the finding.
D. To test the accuracy of the eNose in smell analysis.
31. What is Sobel's attitude towards the study finding
A. Disapproving B. Doubtful. C. Positive. D. Indifferent
D
“Few articles change owners more frequently than clothes. They travel downwards from grade to grade in the social scale with remarkable regularity,” wrote the journalist Adolphe Smith in 1877 as he traced a coat's journey in the last century: cleaned, repaired and resold repeatedly; cut down into a smaller item; eventually recycled into new fabric. But with the improvement in people's living standards, that model is mind-boggling in the era of fast fashion. The average British customer buys four items a month. And it is reported that 350, 000 tons of used but still wearable clothes go to landfills in the UK each year.
Yet gradual revival (复兴) of the second-hand trade has gathered pace in the past few years. At fashion website Asos, sales of vintage clothes (古董) have risen by 92%. Clothing was once worn out of necessity, and now it is simply a way of life. Busy families sell used items on eBay, teenagers trade on Depop and some fashion people offer designer labels on Vestiaire Collective. Strikingly, it has become big enough business that mainstream retailers (零售商) want a slice of the action.
For some buyers and sellers, the switch to the second-hand is born of financial difficulties. Only a few have become worried about the impact of their shopping habit on the planet. But the shift is only a partial solution. Some people worry that some mainstream brands may “greenwash” -using second-hand goods to improve their image, rather than engaging more seriously with sustainability.
However, the biggest concern may be that people keep buying because they know they can resell goods, still chasing the pleasure of the next purchase but with an eased conscience. Boohoo, a powerful fast fashion company, has seen sales and profits rise, despite concerns about environmental problems in its supply chain that led to an investigation last year.
A new Netflix series, Worn Stories, documents the emotional meanings that clothes can have: Each old item is full of memories. Actually, a handbag from a grandmother and a scarf passed on by a father are both valuable for us. A love of style is not a bad or an unimportant thing. But a committed relationship is better than a quick flash. Can we learn to appreciate our own old clothes as well as others'
32. What does the word “mind-boggling” underlined in paragraph 1 probably mean
A. Influential. B. Popular. C. Reasonable. D. Unbelievable.
33. With the business mentioned in paragraph 2, the author wants to show ___________.
A. old clothes are more popular than new pieces
B. the online second-hand markets are booming
C. the fashion world begins to favor vintage clothes
D. many clothing brands are innovative in their new products
34. How does the second-hand trade impact people according to paragraph 4
A. It makes people feel free to pursue fast fashion.
B. It makes people more cautious about their budgets.
C. It encourages people to choose eco-friendly clothes.
D. It pushes people to be more engaged with sustainability.
35. Which of the following views does Worn Stories advocate
A. Old items have lost favor with the public.
B. Old items are worthy of being long cherished.
C. Older generations attach great importance to old items.
D. Older generations care about the quality of their clothes.
第二节（共5题；每小题2. 5分, 满分12. 5分）
根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Dive into icy depths may not sound appealing. 36 though, especially for those who are enthusiastic about cold-water therapy. Participants claim jumping into or swimming in water no warmer than 15 degrees Celsius leaves them energetic and clear-headed, and even relieves pain.
Cold-water therapy has become more mainstream in recent years, in part due to the influence of Wim Hof, a famous Dutch extreme athlete who developed his own method of cold therapy coupled with conscious-breathing techniques. 37 . 2, 000 years ago, ancient Greeks used water therapy to relieve fatigue and treat fever.
In Scandinavian countries, a traditional sauna (桑拿) session is sometimes followed by a cold swimming. 38 . High-performance athletes also use ice baths or cold showers to help reduce the delayed-onset muscle pains that follows intense exercise. And recent research suggests impressive benefits for mental health and stress management.
“ 39 ,” says Harper Phillie, one of a study's authors. Swimming is also good exercise and often a social activity, which helps to get rid of anxiety and allows the body to feel both pleasure and motivation. Harper has been cold-water swimming for nearly two decades and compares the stress of cold-water therapy to that of intense exercise. “Done safely, it's a pretty effective way to train the body,” he says. “But if you've got a heart condition, you have to be careful.”
If open water isn't your thing, consider cold showers. For those wanting to try cold-water swimming in a lake or ocean, ease into it with short exposure times—just long enough for your body to get past the shock. 40 and always swim with a friend. Gradually increase the time you spend in cold water to three or four minutes, at least once a week. “That's all you need to get the benefits,” says Harper.
A. Cold exposure increases “feel-good” hormones B. The cold shock may hurt you C. It made him popular among the cold-water enthusiasts D. Never start by submerging your entire body in at once E. Changing between hot and cold temperatures enables blood to move quicker in the skin F. But it's not a new trend G. The benefits greatly outweigh any short-term discomfort
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完型填空（共15题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I have struggled with feelings of unworthiness since forever. My most painful moments were at parties. My friends made fun of me because I was rhythmically (有节奏地) 41 and I couldn’t get my 42 body to imitate the latest dance moves. I was never chosen to dance. I felt like I didn't 43 .
Around age 12, I decided that the way to 44 these feelings of unworthiness was perfection. If I was just perfect then I would fit in. But this strategy didn’t 45 .My self-esteem (自尊心) was high when I got good grades and felt 46 , but crashed when I didn't do well 47 , or was left out.
After several years of spiritual growth, it 48 me that for many of us, self-worth is tied to our 49 . We experience low self-worth 50 we fail or lose approval. So I have begun to cultivate an unconditional self-worth. It's not about doing things perfectly. 51 ,” Unconditional self-worth” is the
52 that you deserve to be alive, to be loved and cared for.
The 53 to unconditional self-worth is not always easy. It takes courage to free yourself from the 54 you've placed on your worth. But this journey is beautiful and worth taking. So I challenge you to embrace yourselves and find your metaphorical (隐喻的) 55 floor and move freely.
41. A. adjusted B. bothered C. challenged D. compromised
42. A. twisted B. annoyed C. limited D. awkward
43. A. belong B. appeal C. match D. deserve
44. A. solve B. cure C. release D. arouse
45. A. sustain B. work C. hatch D. dismiss
46. A. included B. excluded C. inspired D. appreciated
47. A. internally B. academically C. professionally D. contemporarily
48. A. occurs to B. happens to C. calls on D. knocks on
49. A. desires B. strengths C. accomplishments D. harmony
50. A. as well as B. as soon as C. as much as D. as far as
51. A. Still B. However C. Meanwhile D. Rather
52. A. definition B. resolution C. sense D. pose
53. A. discovery B. access C. journey D. experience
54. A. emphasis B. burden C. demand D. conditions
55. A. valley B. forest C. dance D. balcony
第二节 短文语法填空（共10题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
After waking up, you may feel frustrated that you cannot recall the dreams you had last night. Artificial intelligence (AI) may be 56 (capacity) of helping you, because they 57 (learn) all the time from large amounts of data from both tests and images. Researchers from Osaka University in Japan have gone to great 58 (long) to train an AI system called Stable Diffusion to re-create images based on people's brain scans.
The researchers used an online data set provided by the University of Minnesota, US, 59 consisted of brain scans from four participants as they each viewed 60 set of 10, 000 photos.
The AI then learned about the brain activities on the basis of the 61 (analyze)of changes in blood flow and then matched the brain activities with the photos. Through this method, AI learned how human brains would react when seeing different photos.
62 (ultimate), the researchers tested the AI on additional brain scans from the same participants when they viewed photos of a toy bear, airplane, clock and train. If the person looked at an airplane, for example, the AI would use the brain scan data to create an image of a vague airplane. Then, it would turn 63 the previous “text-to-image” model and improve the quality of the image by feeding itself the keyword “airplane”. The final images were “convincing” with about 80 percent of 64 (accurate), according to the researchers.
The new study created a novel approach to 65 (combine) texts and images to “decode the brain”, In the future, scientists hope that the technology can be used to record imagined thoughts and dreams.
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，你校交流生Tom最近对太极拳这项体育运动特别感兴趣，请你用英文给他写一封信，向他介绍太极拳并邀请他加入学校的太极拳社团，
内容包括：
1.太极拳的历史和文化；
2.太极拳对身心的好处；
3.邀请他加入社团。
注意：1.总词数80词左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tom, Yours, Li Hua
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，使之构成篇完整的短文。
Lots of times, I’ve looked at that tree on the sandbank across the estuary (渡口). One day, I'm sitting on the beach with my friend Duncan. The tide is in, it's all the way across to the sandbank. "I could swim to that tree,” I say.
“Go on, then,” says Duncan. I put down my towel and walk to the edge. I surge into the water with three heaves of butterfly stroke (蝶泳), just to feel how strong I am in the water and how the sun feels on my back as I fling out of the sea like a fish.
One, two, three, I’m breathing steadily and my arms are lifting in rhythm (有节奏地). Then I remember that story in the paper last week. A man jumped into the water and grabbed a shark by its tail. How could I forget that shark I'm sprinting (冲刺) through the water, which is suddenly so immense (无边无际的), so deep. Soon my arms and legs feel heavy. It's that feeling I get at the end of a race when I've given it everything.
I've got to pace myself, I think. The tree is far off ahead somewhere. When I turn and look back at Duncan, he seems so far away. I must be nearly halfway, I think. I tread water for a moment, looking across at my tree.
It hasn't come any closer. Up out of the sea I rise in a butterfly surge, breathing one, two, three, “It's easier,” I say to myself, even though I can now feel the tugging (拖、拽) of the outgoing tide, and the salt water slaps my face more than I want.
I must be nearly there, I think, and stop and look back at Duncan. His T-shirt is just a red blur (模糊不清的事物) on the beach. I smile to myself, thinking that not many people would do this swim, but I can. I turn my head to look for my tree.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
But something was wrong. My heart stops pounding (怦怦跳) in my ears so much.
江苏省常州高级中学2023~2024学年第一学期期末质量检查
高二年级 英语试卷参考答案：
1-5：CCBBA 6-10: BCBBC 11-15: AACBA 16-20: BCBAB
21-23: BCD 24-27: ABDA 28-31: DACC 32-35: DBAB
36-40: GFEAD 41-45: CDABB 46-50: ABACB 51-55: DCCDC
56. capable 57. have been learning 58. lengths 59. which
60. a 61. analysis 62. Ultimately 63. on
64. accuracy bining
作文
第一节
Dear Tom,
Delighted to know you are interested in tai chi, I’m writing to share with you something about it.
Tai chi, rooted in the philosophy of yin and yang, was said to have been invented and developed based on martial arts which have a long-standing practice of imitating animals. That’s why some tai chi moves are named after animals.
Practicing tai chi can bring about a state of physical balance and mental peace, which has a positive effect on our everyday life. Why not join our tai chi club and enjoy its benefits (92 words)
第二节
One possible version:
But something was wrong. The tree is as far away as ever. It’s still a fuzzy outline on the sandbank. And the tide has pulled me toward the open sea. Then beside me is a silver flash. A flip into the water like a stone throw. Plop. And again. Would a fish know if there was a shark around Would it be showing off in the water like that, flipping up and down
My heart stops pounding (心脏怦怦跳) in my ears so much. My arms and legs settle down. One, two, three. I count my breathing. I think of how much bigger and stronger I am. I think of all the lengths I do and training at the swimming pool. I want to be back at home. I want to be sitting under that tree with Duncan, bathed in the sun. Suddenly the water is warmer. I stretch one foot down, and surge out of the water, arms up high. There’s the sand. I made it!
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