安徽省安庆市重点中学东区2023-2024学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题（含答案）

安庆二中东区2023-2024学年第一学期期末考试
高二英语试题
第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Here are some jobs that let you make a direct impact on others' lives.
A career advisor
Career advisors help to lighten graduates' load, often working at high schools, colleges or universities.
In addition to consulting with students to help them make career decisions, the advisors also help students practice important job-seeking skills. Although some employers prefer applicants to have a master s degree in counseling（咨询）, not all require one. Pursuing a bachelor of psychology or counseling is a great place to start.
A nutritionist
As far as industries go, health care likely offers the most jobs that help people. Nutritionists work in hospitals, schools or nursing homes to help create meal plans to improve the health of their clients（客户）. Along with a bachelor's degree in food and nutrition, clinical nutrition or a related field, you'll need to be licensed in most states.
A personal trainer
Personal trainers work with people of all ages to build custom fitness plans. Along with performing physical assessments and creating training programs, personal trainers also inspire their clients to stick to a plan so they achieve desired results. You should have a college diploma, along with an associated degree in a health or fitness field, and you will need to pass an exam to receive your license.
A special education teacher
A special school can be a place for students with emotional, behavioral or learning challenges. Special education teachers are there to teach them to reach their full potential. As a special education teacher, you should plan and teach lessons according to students' specific needs and abilities. Special education teachers must have a bachelor's degree and a state-issued certification.
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1. What do the four jobs have in common
A. The income is high. B. They are helpful.
C. They are in demand. D. The requirements are low.
2. Which job requires you to take an exam
A. A career advisor. B. A nutritionist.
C. A personal trainer. D. A special education teacher.
3. What is a must for a special education teacher
A. Full potential. B. A driving license.
C. A master's degree in psychology. D. Professional teaching abilities.
B
For a scholar focusing on Australia's public diplomacy（外交活动）, working as a recreational manager in China may never be part of his career path. But Bradley does have lots to say now about his special experience at a resort in the picturesque tropical coastal city of Sanya in South China's Hainan province.
The 33-year-old Australian is actually a student in international relations completing his PhD through Griffith University. He came to Beijing for a cooperative research at Peking University less than two years ago. Such an academic life was just added color with a chance offered by the cultural exchanges project, “I'm in China”.
“What I liked most about the experience was it was something completely different that you would never be able to do as a regular tourist,” Bradley said in an interview. Bradley was chosen to work as a recreational manager for a Chinese wedding.
The film crew took them to many “amazing sites” and the staff at the resort taught them a lot about how to “incorporate modem Chinese features while still keeping traditional customs”, Bradley said.
“I would have to say two things stick out as the most memorable: the helicopter ride and talking with the staff at the hotel about how they organize weddings here in China,” he said.
That was Bradley's first time to be in a helicopter, and he was too absorbed with the “stunning” view of the beautiful coastline.
“I think it is so important to show other Australians the different landscapes China has to offer. I think so many Australians when they think about China, imagine the historical sites of Beijing and the exciting things to see in Shanghai but have no idea about other beautiful places, like Sanya or the many other places people have been taken to in this TV series,” Bradley said.
“I'm in China” is a project sponsored by China Intercontinental Communication Centre and other institutions under the guidance of China's State Council Information Office. It invites foreign natives worldwide to experience unique jobs and participate in activities that one can find nowhere else except in China. More than 10, 000 photos and articles were submitted from around the globe by over 6, 00 applicants.
4. Bradley actually is ________.
A. an Australian PhD student B. a regular Australian tourist
C. a recreational manager D. an Australian diplomat
5. What does the underlined word “incorporate” in paragraph 4 mean
A. get rid of B. take advantage of C. take in D. keep off
6. What impressed Bradley most
A. The beautiful scenery of Sanya and special activities.
B. Flying in a helicopter and organizing Chinese wedding
C. The historical sites of Beijing and the exciting things in Shanghai.
D. Chinese traditional customs and many amazing sites.
7. From the last paragraph, we can infer that the project “I'm in China” is _________.
A. unique but unattractive to foreigners B. special but helpless to know about China
C. uninteresting and rejected by foreigners D. unique and popular with foreigners
C
Up to 40% of all food in the United States is wasted. Producing food that people don't consume swallows up roughly 20% of America's cropland and agricultural water, and produces greenhouse gas emissions（排放物） equal to 37 million passenger vehicles each year. Yet, 37 million Americans lack consistent access to adequate and nutritious food.
NRDC's Food Matters Initiative partners cities to confront food waste. Food Matters is piloting all-round, cutting-edge strategies that are easy to follow and share. The first two strategies—and arguably the most critical ones—are to estimate a local baseline level of food waste and then assess the potential for rescuing surplus food. A baseline is necessary in order to understand the scale and natural of the problem. It is also a prerequisite（先决条件） to assessing any progress made, which will help inform future program development.
Using a calculator tool NRDC developed based on the Food Matters research models, the Atlanta's Mayor's Office of Resilience had a better understanding of the qualities of wasted food and where it was likely occurring. This allowed the city to focus the attention on the solutions that were more closely related to the situation in Atlanta.
As in many cities across the U. S. , much of the food wasted in Atlanta occurs in households and consumer-facing businesses such as restaurants. Armed with this information, the Mayor's Office of Resilience, creates a restaurant challenge encouraging restaurants to work on the entire system of reduction, rescue, and recycling. After 90 days and participation from 6 restaurants at Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson airport, the program rescue 21, 000 meals and saved owners over $62000.
Atlanta's restaurant challenge is one of a handful of examples where cities have engaged（吸引）consumer-facing food businesses to reduce their food waste. New York led the charge with a Mayor's challenge to restaurants. Denver recently completed a series of neighborhood restaurant challenges. Nashville has an ongoing Mayor's Food Saver Challenge including not just restaurants but other food businesses as well. Several other cities and countries throughout the country have similar business engagement success stories.
8. What are the data mainly about in paragraph 1
A. the harm of food waste B. the cause of food pollution
C. the importance of food safety D. the solution to food waste.
9. How does Atlanta benefit from the calculator tool of NRDC
A. It makes new plans for banning food waste
B. It helps the city better work on the solutions.
C. It tests the work efficiency of the government
D. It increases the potential for recycling food waste.
10. What is the restaurant challenge mainly about
A. Inspiring customers to order food based on actual need
B. Teaching waiters to deal with food waste in the greener way.
C. Encouraging restaurants to reduce food waste in every process.
D. Making restaurants compete with each other in waste recycling.
11. What can we learn from the last paragraph
A. Restaurant challenges only work in America
B. More and more cities are focusing on food waste.
C. Food businesses are the main sources of food waste.
D. It is difficult to complete the restaurant challenges.
D
Forty years ago, when Marilyn Loden, then 31 and a manager at a telephone company, made a speech at the 1978 Women's Exposition, she didn't know that a phrase she came up with on that day would still be alive after all these years. “It seemed to me there was an invisible barrier to advancement that people didn't recognize,” Loden said at the expo when talking about how hard it was for women to climb the career ladder. And that barrier, according to her, could all be boiled down to one phrase- “glass ceiling”.
Since then, there have been major advances in gender equality. We've seen women achieving bigger and bigger things in cinema, education, politics and even business. But sadly, there's one field that's still run mainly by men: science.
That's why it was inspiring when Zhang Miman, 82, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was given a L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science award on March 22.
According to China Daily, the number of women working in science around the world has increased by 12 percent in the past 20 years. But even so, the glass ceiling is still there. Indeed, less than 30 percent of researchers are women, and only 3 percent of Nobel Prizes for Science have been awarded to women. Of course, it has little to do with the stereotype（思维定势） that “women are bad at science”. In fact, a study found that nearly half of the “highly qualified” scientists and engineers in the US are women.
“Since so few are in the upper ranks, there aren't female instructor to guide women through challenges and support them for promotions,” wrote Tara Weiss on Forbes.
May 24 marks the 40th anniversary of the phrase “glass ceiling”. Even though the ceiling is still there things are changing. And with Zhang winning her award, one more crack has been added to the ceiling.
12. Why does the author introduce Marilyn Loden at the beginning of the text
A. To attract readers' attention. B. To introduce the topic of the text.
C. To make Loden well-known. D. To amuse readers with Loden's story.
13. What does the underlined phrase “glass ceiling” in the first paragraph refer to
A. the good news for women to be promoted.
B. the shortest way for women to succeed.
C. the unseen barriers for women to advance.
D. the unknown advantages for women to develop.
14. What can be inferred from paragraph 4. 5 and 6
A. Women scientists have very high status in the world.
B. Women are naturally not good at science at all.
C. Women's liberation in science still has a long way to go.
D. Women don't like challenges in career.
15. What is the author's purpose in writing the text
A. To praise Zhang Miman. B. To remember Marilyn Loden.
C. To encourage women to break the barrier. D. To introduce a phrase “glass ceiling”.
第二节 选句填空（共5小题；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。
School doesn't have to be a prison. Whether you find school difficult, boring or just stressful, you can learn to make school easier and bring a lot more fun. 16
Try a team sport. Some schools offer team sports that allow you to make friends with your fellow students. Soccer, track and field, basketball and football, can all make school have a little more fun. 17 If you don't want to play sports, consider joining in the games and cheering for your team with your friends.
18 One of the most stressful parts of school can be making sure you have everything you're supposed to have. Where's your English homework Where's that math assignment Is your pencil sharp The less you have to worry about these little things, the more you'll be able to focus and enjoy school. Be prepared for class and everything will be easier.
Take it easy on your teachers. Teachers are like students: some are great; some are less than great. But teachers are in charge of the classroom. So even if you're feeling frustrated or bored in class, you should be nice to your teachers. 19
Ask for help if you are having trouble with homework. 20 Make it easy. Ask for help at school by joining an after-class study group, if your school has one. Ask your teacher if you can stay 10-15 minutes after school to ask a few questions about your homework, if you're embarrassed to ask during class. It's always better to ask after class.
A. Stay organized.
B. Manage your time better.
C. Here are some ways to help you.
D. So you can choose one of them to take up.
E. Try to find kids you can talk to and play with.
F. As a result, they will possibly be friendly back to you.
G. If you're struggling in school, don't try to take it all on by yourself.
第二部分 语言应用（共两节，满分25分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One pet parrot（鹦鹉）Louie managed to save a Tennessee family. The Kleins were woken up by the bird's repeated and 21 cries. “If it hadn't been for him, I probably would have been asleep during the disaster.” Barbara Klein recently told a news agency, “Louie is a true 22 . He started shouting ‘Fire’. He had never said that 23 before.”
When they woke up, they were shocked to find the 24 had spread across the rooms of the house. Barbara immediately carried her 5-year-old granddaughter and 25 out of the house. But her husband Larry 26 escaped, and then was sent to hospital for the 27 “Larry ran to the kitchen and was trying to 28 the fire with water,” Barbara said. “Later he ran back into the house to try to 29 our pets and his guitar. He kept saying he couldn't breathe and I was shouting at him to 30 the house. I quickly told him to get down and he crawled（爬）out.” Barbara said her husband had to 31 in hospital while doctors tried to cure him so that he was able to attend the sixth birthday party of his cute 32 .
Although there was nothing left in their home, the family received 33 from a large number of kind people. 34 , Louie didn't survive with them. However, to everyone's relief, a generous person provided a flat to the Kleins and 35 a new baby parrot to the family. “We call him Louie Jr. , ” said Barbara.
21. A. polite B. noisy C. soft D. usual
22. A. friend B. pet C. hero D. volunteer
23. A. word B. signal C. story D. accident
24. A. news B. cries C. fire D. air
25. A. drove B. ran C. looked D. jumped
26. A. quickly B. constantly C. narrowly D. occasionally
27. A. tiredness B. reality C. complaints D. bums
28. A. put out B. pick up C. take down D. look over
29. A. meet B. save C. hide D. check
30. A. remember B. protect C. leave D. repair
31. A. work B. wait C. end D. stay
32. A. granddaughter B. student C. neighbour D. parrot
33. A. excuses B. invitations C. advice D. support
34. A. Unfortunately B. Strangely C. Surprisingly D. Actually
35. A. threw B. gifted C. drew D. rented
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Ambassadors and counselors 36 eight embassies in Beijing watched the Chinese dance drama, Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting, at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Aug 13 and 14. The dance drama, 37 first show was at the same venue a year ago and 38 （become）one of the most successful dance dramas in China so far, was directed by Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, both from the China Oriental Performing Arts Group. 39 （perform）by dancers of the Beijing-based company, the dance drama 40 （inspire）by the classic Chinese painting. A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains, by the artist Wang Ximeng during the Song Dynasty. It is 41 （universe）acknowledged to be one of the 42 （significant） works in the history of Chinese fine art history. The 11-meter-long scroll painting is a 43 （fantasy）record of people's lives and the natural scenery of that time, 44 （mix）realism with creative imagination. “ 45 we want to display in the two-hour-long dance drama is the beauty of the painting and China's landscape,” the creative team said.
第三部分 写作（15分）
假定你是李华，将于今年七月从实验中学（Experimental MiddleSchool）毕业。你从网站上得知一家电脑公司要招聘英语实习生（intern），你很感兴趣。请给该公司写一封求职信，内容包括：
1. 自己的学习情况及英语水平；
2. 自己的优势。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir/Madam,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
【参考答案】
阅读理解：1-5 BCDAC 6-10 BDABC 11-15 BBCCC
16. C 17. D 18. A 19. F 20. G
完形填空21-25 BCACB 26-30 CDABC 31-35 DADAB
语法填空36. from 37. whose 38. has become 39. Performed 40. was inspired
41. universally 42. most significant 43. fantastic 44. mixing 45. What
作文：
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have learned from the website that your company needs an English intern. I'm dying for the job and I think I am quite fit for it.
I'm an 18-year-old boy who will graduate from Experimental High School this July. My academic achievement ranks among the top ten in my school. Proficient at English, both written and spoken, I believe I will meet your demands. Besides, having been working for our student union for three years, I have learnt how to cooperate with others well. In addition, as an outgoing and optimistic boy, I'm very popular with my fellow classmates. I am sure that I can perfectly live up to your expectations. I would be much appreciative if you could take my application into consideration.
Looking forward to your earliest reply! Thank you very much!
Yours,
Li Hua