广东省茂名市信宜市2023-2024学年高二上学期1月期末英语试题(无答案)

2023——2024学年度第一学期期末考试
高二英语
本卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。共8页，满分共130分。考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：
1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、就读学校等用黑色钢笔或签字笔写在答题卡上。
2.选择题部分全部使用铅笔涂答，非选择题部分全部使用黑色钢笔或签字笔答题，不按要求不给分。选择题部分每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。不能答在试卷上。
3.考试结束后，监考员只收答题卡。
一、单项选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，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。
1. Her father insists that she ______ music after she leaves school.
A. learn B. learns C. learning D. learned
2. I bought a novel yesterday, ______ was written by a famous writer.
A. that B. when C. which D. whose
3. Believe it or not, I have ______ our primary school Math teacher for ten years.
A. keep away from B. kept in touch with C. made use of D. came up with
4. We ______ our holiday at the seaside this time next year.
A. take B. will take C. would take D. will be taking
5. The minute we arrived home, mother set out ______ supper and I set about ______ the clothes.
A. to prepare, to wash B. preparing, washing
C. to prepare, washing D. preparing, to wash
6. ______ with Mary is a waste of time because she is so stubborn.
A. Argue B. Argued C. Argument D. Arguing
7. They had escaped to country shortly before the war ______.
A. broke down B. broke out C. broke into D. broke up
8. I remember ______ the TV before I left home, but I’m not sure about it.
A. turned off B. turning off C. turn off D. to turn off
9. Tom is really considering ______ himself to ______ these poor children in the village.
A. devoting; educating B. devoting; educate
C. to devote; educating D. to devote; educate
10. ______ is known to us all is that China has launched Shenzhou VII spaceship, ______ made the country’s first spacewalk successful.
A. That; what B. It; which C. What; which D.As; that
11. ______ our hard work, we accomplished the task on time.
A. As a result B. Thanks to C. Owe to D. Because
12. The question remains ______ they will be able to help us.
A. whose B. what C. that D. whether
13. Each child had ______ in extracurricular activities at school.
A. participated B. join C. attended D. took part in
14. It was the second time that she ______ London.
A. visited B. has visited C. had been visited D. had visited
15. On a ______ morning, the little match girl was found ______ at the corner of the street.
A. freezing; frozen B. frozen; freezing
C. freezing; freezing D. frozen; frozen
二、阅读（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
The Best Four Soccer Clubs in Toronto
Toronto is home to a number of soccer clubs. If you are interested in soccer, let’s take a look at four best soccer clubs in Toronto.
Cherry Beach Soccer Club
Cherry Beach Soccer Club, which first opened its door in 2009, now has 56 house leagues, 10 competitive teams and six adult teams. They provide 30,000 children and young people in the downtown area with high-quality and low-cost soccer lessons. It offers a recreational house league, development, and competitive soccer for those aged five to thirty.
Phone:（416）367-4359
North Soccer Club
North Soccer Club, which was established in 1980, is a welcoming environment for everyone who enjoys soccer or wants to try something new. You don’t need to be concerned about your qualifications or experience. However, to take part in practice, you must first complete a health check. It offers a Special Olympics program for players with intellectual disabilities. The fee range is from $230 to $270.
Phone:（416）924-9911
Power Soccer Club
Power Soccer Club, founded in 1996 by a former Galway United player, has grown up to be one of Canada’s most famous soccer schools. You will for sure progress in your skill development with a active and engaging training sessions. The fee can range from $210 to $315.
Phone:（416）425-6062
North York Hearts Soccer Club
North York Hearts Soccer Club was founded in 1990. This club exposes everyone who loves sports to the history of soccer win the help of a group of skilled sports coaches and professors. The fee range is from $210 to $320.
Phone:（416）650-5743
16. Which club was founded in the 21st century
A. Power Soccer Club. B. North Soccer Club.
C. Cherry Beach Soccer Club. D. North York Hearts Soccer Club.
17. What is required for people to join North Soccer Club
A. Rich experience. B. A health check.
C. A wise mind. D. A curious heart.
18. To learn the history of soccer, which phone number should you call
A.（416）367-4359 B.（416）924-9911
C.（416）425-6062 D.（416）650-5743
B
Grace and her family thought they had lost Thor forever when they moved to Windsor, Nova Scotia from British Columbia last August.
“We probably spent seven or eight months looking for Thor,” Grace said. “What made it worse was that there were rumors（谣言）going around that there was dogfighting in our area. We still always hoped that somebody had taken him to be a pet, but you just never knew.”
“It was terrible. My daughter Bronwyn would try to find Thor everywhere, which had been a Christmas present for her. Even while watching TV programmes, she would say, ‘Oh, look! That dog looks like Thor!’” Grace said. Then the family moved, and the hope became impossible.
But one day, the phone rang. It was their former vet in British Columbia, saying Thor was in a rescue shelter（收容所）in High River, Alberta. He had been found at a work camp in the northern part of the place and taken to south by a man planning to keep him. But the man was forced to turn him over to the shelter when he couldn’t keep Thor in his rented home. Luckily, the ring on Thor’s neck gave people some information.
Thor was flown to Nova Scotia last week. The family picked him up at the airport. “Thor was just lying in his box and looking down, and my daughter walked over and said, ‘Hey Thor.’ He immediately stood up, trying to greet my daughter. We let him out and he jumped on her as if he was giving her a big hug and he kissed her face. Then he sat down suddenly at her feet and rolled over for attention. He was cute.” Grace said.
19. Who helped Thor back home
A. The author. B. The former vet. C. Bronwyn. D. Grace.
20. What do we know about Thor
A. He came back by air.
B. He was killed in the dog fighting.
C. He was given to Grace by Bronwyn.
D. He moved to British Columbia with the family.
21. Where can you probably read the passage
A. A travel brochure.
B. A geography text book.
C. A news report.
D. A health magazine.
C
In the United States, most of our electricity comes from power plants（发电厂） that burn coal and oil.
There are two big problems with using these things for electricity. First. their supply is limited（有限的）. Second, burning them causes pollution. So to make sure we always have power and to keep our planet clean, we must find other ways to make electricity.
Some people think that wind power is our best choice. First, there will always be more wind. Also, wind power does not pollute the environment. Best of all, we don’t have to search for wind.
Today, less than 1 percent of our electricity comes from wind. But scientists have been developing better wind machines. As a result, wind power is getting more popular in this country.
Yet wind power may not keep growing so quickly in years to come. Why not Many wind turbines（风力涡轮机）are needed to make much electricity. So wind-power companies try to build wind farms but are competing（竞争）with other uses for the land. A wind farm is a group of turbines placed close together in an area with frequent winds.
In places where companies try to build wind farms, people think that lines of turbines are ugly. Noise from turbines often troubles people. Also, turbines kill birds that fly into them.
Wind-power supporters disagree. They think the sight of wind turbines is lovely. They point out that people have gotten used to living near noisy highways. They say ways can be found to keep birds away from turbines.
In today’s world, we need clean and unlimited power sources more than ever. Unless a better power source comes along, people may just have to accept wind power as a part of their lives.
22. The underlined part “these things” in the second paragraph refers to _______.
A. frequent winds. B. coal and oil.
C. power plants. D. wind turbines.
23. What does the third paragraph mainly discuss
A. How wind power works.
B. How wind power was found.
C. The development of wind power.
D. The advantages of wind power.
24. Why may wind power not keep growing so quickly in the future
A. It is very expensive to build lots of wind turbines.
B. It is difficult to improve the wind power technology.
C. There are few people who accept it as a new power source.
D. Many wind turbines are needed and there is less space for them.
25. What would be the best title for the passage
A. The Power of Wind. B. The Role of Wind.
C. The Cost of Wind Power. D. The History of Wind Power.
第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白外的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑，选项中有两项为多余选项。
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s latest language model, has been on the minds of many of us recently. It becomes the fastest growing app of all time, even surpassing TikTok. 26 , let’s start from some basic things about it below.
How to access ChatGPT
You can access ChatGPT by going to chat. and log in（登录）. If you’re on OpenAI’s website, you can log in to your account, then scroll down until you see ChatGPT on the bottom left corner of the page, and click on it to start chatting.
Practical use of ChatGPT
What’s life without a bit of fun Whether you’re looking for a good laugh or creating some humorous jokes to impress your friends, ChatGPT can come in handy to create original jokes, Besides, ChatGPT is particularlystrong in handling maths problems step by step. 27 . Although ChatGPT, just like any AI system, can’t exactly understand emotions, it can still provide useful tips for managing relationships with friends, family n Windows loved ones. In addition to the above features, ChatGPT can do a large number of things like writing a song, a poem, explaining tough topics and so on.
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ChatGPT uses reinforcement（强化）learning with human feedback to cleverly process its environment using human expressions and adapt to different situations with learned desired behaviors. 29 , and continues learning through the human knowledge users provide, making it able to give educated responses on a large variety of topics.
The limitation of ChatGPT
ChatGPT, like all language models, is not without limitations. 30 . Because ChatGPT is always learning from the text data it is provided, it can give inaccurate and incorrect information.
A. The way ChatGPT works
B. The idea of inventing ChatGPT
C. To know the advantages of ChatGPT
D. To get familiar with ChatGPT further
E. It has been trained on a lot of data before this
F. ChatGPT can also be your personal relationship expert
G. It’s important to double check the information it gives you
三、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When Marco was a boy, he tried everything to get his father’s love and attention. He studied hard to get good 31 and tried to behave well. He was shy and shorter than the other boys. Besides, his father was 32 and had little time for him. Except for his 33 for housework after school, there was no communication. Marco felt very 34 .
One day, his maths teacher called him that some young teenagers were signing up for a public speaking 35 . She thought Marco should give it a 36 . She firmly believed he could perform on stage like other kids. Feeling her strong trust, he agreed to 37 the contest.
All winter, Marco took a bus to 38 twice a week in another city, where the competition would take place. He was taken by a strong 39 he never felt before. Finally, the big day arrived. His father, and yes, his maths teacher, were present. When he stepped onto the stage and began to speak, he felt 40 at home. He was funny, and acted very natural. He won! He noticed his father’s eyes were 41 — he was so proud. It was then that his father 42 he should pay more attention to the child.
As the winner, Marco’s name was 43 in the local papers. He knew this was the 44 of his new life. It all happened because of a phone call, from one who 45 him.
31. A. gifts B. habits C. skills D. marks
32. A. lazy B. silent C. busy D. serious
33. A. suggestions B. orders C. comments D. promises
34. A. puzzled B. surprised C. lonely D. silly
35. A. contest B. exam C. talk D. lesson
36. A. change B. focus C. decision D. try
37. A. organize B. continue C. enter D. quit
38. A. compete B. act C. work D. practise
39. A. energy B. pain C. dissatisfaction D. risk
40. A. actually B. totally C. partly D. usually
41. A. moving B. empty C. shining D. clear
42. A. agreed B. realized C. imagined D. remembered
43. A. shared B. discussed C. collected D. published
44. A. start B. meaning C. lesson D. need
45. A. depended on B. believed in C. heard about D. listened to
四、语篇填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或者括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案写在答题区相应的横线上。
Double Seventh Festival or Qixi, 46 （wide）known as the Chinese Valentine’s Day, often falls on August. Falling on the 7th day of the 7th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, it is the only Chinese festival that 47 （think）to be related to love.
It is a day full of romance because there is 48 very famous love story in China about Niulang and Zhinv, a weaving girl 49 is good at doing weaving. Although the Western Valentine’s Day is very popular with people in China for years, Chinese people attach more and more importance 50 Qixi, their own Valentine’s Day. Lovers and couples exchange gifts with each other on that Chinese lovers day, and some youngsters like to participate in 51 （tradition）activities in ancient Chinese costumes.
Qixi, also called Qiqiao Festival in many places by Chinese people, has another meaning for girls, because 52 is time of a year to pray to Goddess Zhinv for ingenuity（心灵手巧）.That’s the origin of its another name, Qigiao Festival, literally Ingenuity-Begging Festival. Girls in ancient time joined varieties of 53 （competition）on needlework（针线活）, while only part of the interesting games remains today, 54 （play）among girls, the same in the hope of 55 （get）all smart and beautiful things.
五、单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据语境注意形式的变化，并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。
56._______（逐渐地）, the children began to understand.
57. They thought his behaviour was _______（不正常的）.
58. The paintings drawn by my daughter are _______（展览）on the walls.
59. The police said all the _______（目击者）were from the same school.
60. She _______（克服）her injuries and won an Olympic gold medal.
61. Mary is an _______（杰出的）athlete and deserved to win.
62. He studies hard and is _______（乐观的）about the future.
63. A wind _______（出现）, and rain drops began falling all at once.
64. A telephone _______（接线员）asked him to hold.
65. He tried to speak, but she always _______（打断）him.
六、写作（共2题，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
假设你是李华，你的美国朋友汤姆Tom 暑假想来中国游玩，请你给他写一封信向他推荐一个好玩的主题公园。
注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Tom, Yours sincerely, 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，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
A Gift Beyond Measure
At an early age, I was crazy about music, dreaming of possessing a piano on which I could practice and play in the wav a famous pianist did on the stage. Later when I was getting older, on my way to school, there was an instrument shop that I passed by almost every day. When I saw through the window, in the corner of the shop stood a nice piano which would always attract my eyes so deeply that I even forgot everything around me.
To my sadness, my family was truly struggling. In that period, my mother was laid off from her position and my father was only a clerk in a company. It was just a matter of getting by on a low income, not to mention buying me an expensive piano though they knew I was eager to play that piano so much. The increasing wrinkles in my father’s face even stopped me from having this thought.
Then one day after school, I went as usual to the shop window to look at the piano. However, the piano had gone! It was a big surprise. Someone had purchased the piano that I would stare at almost every day! I should not have been surprised as others had the right to buy it, if they could afford to. However, at the thought of not being able to see that piano any more, tears filled my eyes.
Disappointed and helpless, I wandered aimlessly up and down the street. I felt as though something had been stolen in my heart. After what seemed a year, I returned home, dragging my heavy legs. Hardly had I just gone into the house when my mother called my name. Brushing away my tears, I followed the sound of her voice into the dining-room.
注意:1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I couldn’t imagine what was happening in front of me. Then the door opened and my father appeared, with a big smile on his wrinkled face.