高2022级春季开学前自我定时测试英语试题
测试时间：2月23日 14:00-16:00
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，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．When are Susan’s parents coming
A．In April. B．In June. C．In August.
2．How does the man find the problem
A．Quite tricky. B．Very common. C．Really simple.
3．What does the man advise the woman to do
A．Have lunch first. B．Buy another T-shirt. C．Wear warmer clothes.
4．What is the man doing
A．Telling good news. B．Keeping a secret. C．Planning a vacation.
5．What are the speakers talking about
A．A film. B．A novel. C．A song.
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。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6．What is the woman impressed with
A．The actors in the movie. B．The robots in the movie. C．The plot of the movie.
7．What does the women suggest doing
A．Buying robots with fewer functions.
B．Avoiding boring and dangerous tasks.
C．Letting machines replace part of our work.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8．Why did the man come to the airport
A．To book a flight. B．To see someone off. C．To pick up the woman.
9．Where will the speakers go next
A．To the cafe. B．To the ticket office. C．To the left-luggage office.
10．Why did the woman choose not to take a train to Shanghai
A．She couldn’t get a ticket. B．She had a tight schedule. C．She hated trains.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11．What is the relationship between the speakers
A．Colleagues. B．A couple. C．Classmates.
12．What waste will the man take care of
A．Plastic bottles. B．Paper. C．Cans.
13．What do the speakers decide to do
A．Stop using paper cups.
B．Prepare boxes for different wastes.
C．Reduce the use of paper and plastics.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14．Why does the man go to the woman
A．To seek some advice. B．To make an appointment. C．To inquire about a course.
15．Why does the man consider going to Central University
A．It has fewer requirements.
B．It’s not far from his hometown.
C．It allows him to change the major.
16．What does the man have to do if he goes to Central University
A．Change his major. B．Take additional courses. C．Abandon his credits.
17．What will the man do next
A．Search for more information.
B．Turn to another advisor.
C．Call his parents.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18．Who are probably the target audience of the speech
A．Painting beginners. B．Students majoring in art. C．Sunday painters.
19．Which of the following is a requirement of the course
A．Finishing weekly homework.
B．Completing a final artwork.
C．Doing experiments after class.
20．What event is scheduled to take place after the 10th week
A．Drawing in public.
B．Attending an exhibition.
C．Volunteering at a local gallery.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
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A．A preschool child. B．A university student.
C．A middle-school student. D．A working woman.
22．What can you do to understand how the sessions work
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23．Which column of a website is this text probably taken from
A．Take an Exam. B．UK-China Youth Exchange Program.
C．Learn English Online. D．Our Work in Arts.
B
Between flights, as I sat in the Denver airport, a young man approached me. He tilted (倾斜) his head toward the chair next to mine, then toward my suitcase blocking the chair. There were many open seats. Why this one I thought. When he sat, I noticed the markings on his bag and his faded uniform. I asked. He nodded. I bowed my head slightly. Then he asked where I was headed.
“Home.”
Hands on his knees, he told me he was on vacation and was going home to surprise his mother. I asked how long it had been since he’d seen her (five years). I asked what he was looking forward to at home (a shower). He scanned the room cautiously as he talked. When he looked at me, his eyes kept no distance. He seemed to want something from me. I could not tell what it was.
He said it was hard to stop scanning for danger. Yesterday, he’d been in the desert. Fellow soldiers had been blown into pieces around him. Today, he was in an airport trying to understand anger over flight delays and the rush for coffee. He didn’t know how to be, here in this place.
I thought maybe I understood. One evening after spending hours with a friend who just lost her son, I went to my daughter’s performance. In the crowded lobby, mothers complained about their seats and bemoaned other small slights, but only compassion made sense to me. I felt disoriented and distant. I told the soldier about this. He breathed deeply and showed a small smile.
He’d seen the raw and unbearable. But he did not know how to tell us. This was what he needed from me, I realized. He did not want the seat beside mine. He wanted to sit with me.
I did not know his name, how his surprise would turn out, how long his tour of duty would last. We sat together until our flights were called and then said goodbye, two strangers heading home.
24．How did the author feel when the soldier approached him
A．Angry. B．Confused. C．Respectful. D．Joyful.
25．Why did the man keep scanning the room
A．He attempted to find a coffee shop. B．He formed the habit of staying alert.
C．He was distracted. D．He was checking.
26．What does the word “bemoaned” mean in paragraph 5
A．Showed respect for. B．Added fuel to.
C．Expressed dissatisfaction with. D．Took pride in.
27．What did the soldier really want
A．My support for the soldiers. B．My knowledge of the cruelty of war.
C．A chance to get away from the battlefield. D．A brief sense of security.
C
Wal-Mart is not just the world’s largest retailer. It’s the world’s largest company, which sells in three months what number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year.
Wal-Mart exercises its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached. The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that don’t change, the price Wal-Mart will pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after year. But what almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and none of its 21,000 suppliers know is the high cost of those low prices. To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bikes to jeans have had to close US plants in favor of obtaining products from abroad.
Indeed, the real story of Wal-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer constantly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us “every day low prices”.
The giant retailer’s low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart’s pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line Of course, US companies have been moving jobs offshore for decades, long before Wal-Mart was a retailing power. But there is no question that the chain is helping accelerate the loss of American jobs to low-wage countries such as Thailand.
People ask, “How can it be bad for things to come into the US cheaply ” Sure, it’s great to have bargains. But you can’t buy anything if you’re not employed.
There is no question that Wal-Mart’s drive to squeeze out cost has benefited consumers. By now, it is accepted wisdom that Wal-Mart makes the companies it does business with more efficient and focused. Wal-Mart itself is known for continuous improvement in its ability to handle, move, and track goods. It is legendary for forcing its suppliers to redesign everything from their packaging to their computer systems. It is also legendary for quite straight forwardly telling them what it will pay for their goods.
28．What does the underline word offshore in the passage mean
A．in abroad. B．in the ocean.
C．on the beach. D．on an island not far from shore.
29．Wal-Mart’s low price policy results in
A．more high-paying jobs. B．better designed packages.
C．bigger profit of its partners. D．more jobless American workers.
30．What can we infer from the passage
A．Still more quality goods will be provided.
B．The food you get at Wal-Mart costs least.
C．The value of Wal-Mart is over assessed.
D．Wal-Mart is a very demanding company.
31．What’s the best title for the passage
A．The Fortune Wal-Mart Makes B．The Wal-Mart you don’t know
C．The Biggest Retailer—Wal-Mart D．The Money-saving Tip in Wal-Mart
D
If you know exactly what you want, the best way to get a job is to get specialized training. A recent report shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.
That’s especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor’s degree graduates get an average of four or five jobs offers with salaries ranging from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies especially like a background of formal education coupled with work experience. But in the long run, too much specialization doesn’t pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the influence of a degree washes out after five years.
As further evidence of companies gradually losing faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State’s Scheetz mentions a pattern in hiring practices. Although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. This sounds like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts (文科) graduates. Time after time labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems. David Birch, manager of the Boston Red Sox, says that he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree. “I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,” says Birch.
For a liberal-arts degree, students focus on some basic courses that include literature, history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior, and a computer course or two. With these useful and important courses, you can feel free to specialize. “A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the market place,” says Scheetz.
32．The job market is in great need of people with
A．special training in special fields. B．a bachelor’s degree in education.
C．formal schooling and work experience. D．an MBA degree from top universities.
33．The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means
A．an MBA degree does not help in future promotion.
B．MBA programs will not be as popular as they are now.
C．people will not forget the degree the MBA graduates have got.
D．most MBA programs fail to provide students with a foundation.
34．David Birch says that he only hires liberal-arts people because
A．they will follow others’ ways of solving problems.
B．they can do better in handling changing situations.
C．they are well trained in a variety of specialized fields.
D．they have attended special programs in management.
35．The author supports the idea that
A．on-the-job training is less costly in the long run.
B．formal schooling is less important than job training.
C．specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists.
D．generalists will do better than specialists in management.
第二节（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
The word “art” usually brings to mind images of white-walled galleries, abstract paintings costing millions of dollars, far removed from our everyday experience. 36
The Internet has changed the idea that art appreciation is only for the noble. 37 You can even visit several museums around the world using virtual reality headsets, without leaving your home.
38 Art has always been a vehicle for self-expression, but social media have made it much easier to share amateur work with the whole world. Where an amateur artist or musician might have shared their work with a circle of friends and family, they can now sell their work to anyone in the world.
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is the motto of data visualization enthusiasts. The amount of information available today can be overwhelming, so some statisticians (数据分析师) made it their mission to present this mass of data using infographics that are easy for the public to understand. 39 Of course, graphs can be abused to mislead the audience, so we need to take care to interpret them the right way.
Another way that art facilitates education is by helping us to conceptualize things that are invisible to the naked eye. 40 Likewise, the mind-bending concepts in physics such as black holes can be better understood with the help of illustrators who have backgrounds in both art and science.
A．Many platforms of social media help teaching the public art.
B．Yet art is indeed closer than many would believe it to be nowadays.
C．As most of our environment is man-made, everything in it contains art.
D．Netizens are not only consumers of art but creators and participants, too.
E．Biology students would find videos such as “The inner Life of the Cell” helpful.
F．They present information in visually appealing ways instead of using dry numbers.
G．It has enabled more people than ever to have access to visual art and music of all types.
第三部分 语言知识运用（共一节，满分15分）
第一节（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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Jake and Max Klein are twin brothers who have a passion for volunteering. Their family have always done community 41 . At a young age, they chose to 42 family’s gifts at their birthday parties, but asked them to donate money to a charity. When they were seven, Jake and Max were interested in 43 with a family friend at the local homeless shelter to help cook. 44 , he turned them down because they were too 45 and they had to be fourteen to cook. This led them on an endless 46 to come up with a way to help other kids who were also facing a 47 challenging: wanting to help but 48 because of their age.
So, Kids That Do Good was 49 to show ways to kids or adults, at any age, they could join the community and make a 50 . The small 51 has grown into a large website that brings thousands of 52 visitors each year. Jake and Max say that their website brings 35,000 unique viewers, of those viewers, Kids That Do Good has 53 kids to 16,000 organizations.
Jake and Max are 54 with school and after-class activities and other community service promises. Kids That Do Good also has blog posts that advise kids on 55 their own charitable event.
41．A. surveys B．services C．duties D．businesses
42．A. sort out B．play with C．give up D．put away
43．A. travelling B．volunteering C．cooking D．recycling
44．A. Unfortunately B．Happily C．Honestly D．Gratefully
45．A. shy B．awkward C．weak D．young
46．A. task B．ability C．chance D．determination
47．A. public B．similar C．sharp D．direct
48．A. joked B．blamed C．denied D．praised
49．A. advised B．allowed C．named D．created
50．A. judgment B．difference C．comment D．decision
51．A. plan B．effort C．project D．experiment
52．A. pleased B．satisfied C．amazed D．interested
53．A. connected B．exposed C．contributed D．attracted
54．A. familiar B．patient C．busy D．content
55．A. remembering B．describing C．celebrating D．building
第Ⅱ卷（共55分）
第一节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
Flower arrangement is the 56 (combine) of several elements to produce visually pleasing display of fresh, silk, or dried flowers. General design principles include unbalance and harmony, 57 often involves the use of light, space, and accent. Different parts of the world use various design techniques for flower arrangement.
The art of Chinese traditional flower arrangement, originally 58 (serve) as offerings at temples and decorations in the palace, has survived over the centuries. “With 59 history of more than 3,000 years, the image of flower arrangement sometimes is still limited bunches of flowers in flower shops. That’s a pity.” Zhang Yan, a master of the art, said. 60 , in recent years Zhang has been devotedly popularizing the traditional flower arrangement, hoping people will be familiar 61 the art, take pride in its long history and hold an ability 62 (admire) the beauty in life.
In Zhang’s view, Chinese traditional flower arrangement is not only a decoration, but a form of psychological treatment 63 (true) effective for modern busy bees. The art emphasizes simplicity, and the arranger must decide on 64 is really necessary in his or her work and life. When the arranger fully understands what they want, the healing effect of the art 65 (realize).
第二节 根据假期所阅读的小说，判断正误。正确的在括号内写T，错误的写F.（共15题，每小题1分，满分15分）
( )66．Marianne comes back to life from the coma eventually because of her mother’s persistence. ——Whose face do you see
( )67．Grandfather gets his revenge by smashing Gran’s space-ship to pieces with his little chopper. ——The return of the moon man
( )68．I just left everything there and walked off towards the park to take photos of the goslings waddling around the pool side. ——At the Marketplace
( )69．Alper was finally sad because this was not that he had wanted. ——The Guitar
( )70．With the Age Rager, Old Splodge, the Principal of the school, grows younger and becomes Miss Newham’s boyfriend who wears pink bow tie. ——Pink Bow Tie
( )71．In a sudden surge at one of the stations, Naledi and Tiro were carried forwards, hurling out on to the platform, but fortunately they managed to reach back to the open door before the train began to move on. ——Journey to Jo’burg
( )72．The beggar had intentionally left his bag there. —— The Long Journey Home
( )73．Boffin’s lie detector shows what Sandra says are all lies. ——Ex Poser
( )74．When Clifford came to pick up his son for the holidays, he was surprised to hear the High Master speak with a Yorkshire accent. ——The High Master and Little Billy Clough
( )75．Joha sold their clothes to buy the meat to entertain his friends Mehdi. ——Joha and the End of the world
( )76．Alice got engaged to an up-and-coming dentist. ——The Colourful Life of Calum McCall
( )77．One of the passengers believes the local people will understand their language. ——Emergency Landing
( )78．The choice of Principal Girl reflects a need to give the show a glamorous angle. ——Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
( )79．The girl didn’t accompany her mum to Selda’s Hair Salon because it was too cold. ——Sewing Day
( )80．When the boy plays football, he has lots of confidence. He feels like a lion with a golden mane running towards the goal. ——The Ex-footballer
第三节 读后续写（25分）
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
The excited sound of seventh-grade laughter and voices spilled down the hallway as the students filed into the gym. I weaved my way through the mass of people and sat down next to my best friend, Lauren.
“So, what exactly are we doing here ” she questioned.
“Well, according to Mrs. Marks, we’re supposed to be listening to a speech about bullying and peer pressure.”
As soon as the speaker started talking, I snapped to attention. She had this way about her, as if she knew how to reach into our minds and souls and make us think. I though about the kids who came to school every day, despite knowing that they would have to face cruel comment all day long.
One boy, in particular, came to mind. Every day, this boy came to school late, and I suspected it was because he needed to get medicine from the nurse. But this didn’t stop kids in the class from making fun of him. The boy would put his head down on his desk in shame. The worst, though, was when he tried to fight back. His attackers only laughed and continued the cruelty until the entire room was laughing at his expense.
As I sat in the auditorium, absorbing everything the speaker had to say, thoughts of this poor boy crept into my head.
“Now, before I leave today, I would like to give everyone here an opportunity to say anything he or she wants to on the subject of bullying or peer pressure. You may apologize to a friend, thank someone for his or her kindness, anything, And this is the one time I can promise that no one, will laugh at you.”
The stillness in the room made me believe her. Slowly, I saw a few hands raise tentatively (犹豫地) in the air behind me, One girl wanted to apologize to a friend she had been ignoring recently. Another thanked a boy for his kindness when she slipped on the steps the other day.
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。
It was then that my moment of courage arrived, inspiring me to act.
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Later that day, the boy I had been talking about came up to me privately.
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It was then that my moment of courage arrived,inspiring me to act.
Later that day,the boy I had been talking about came up to me privately.
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