甘肃省会宁县第三中学2023-2024学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题（无答案 无听力音频 无听力原文）

会宁三中2023--2024年度第一学期高二英语期中试题
（试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟）
命题人： 审题人：
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 does the man advise the woman to do
A. Check the map. B. Get off immediately. C. Ask the conductor.
2. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers
A. Classmates. B. Husband and wife. C. Brother and sister.
3. How old is the man
A. 19 B. 30 C. 22
4. Where does the conversation take place
A. In a shop. B. In a restaurant. C. In a police station.
5. What are the two speakers mainly talking about
A. The clothes. B. The visit. C. The weather.
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. How many foreign languages has the man ever learnt
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.
7. What do we know about the man
A. He thinks Japanese grammar difficult.
B. He knows German a lot.
C. He is interested in Chinese characters.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. Why does the man come to Beijing
A. To visit the computer exhibition. B. To meet Stephen.
C. To spend a holiday.
9. What can we learn about the man
A. He likes staying in a room with someone.
B. He wants a large and bright single room.
C. He won’t work in the present company.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Where did the woman go on Saturday
A. A farm. B. A garden. C. A park.
11. What was the problem with the tree
A. It was too small to live on. B. It was too long to put in the car.
C. It was too expensive to get.
12. What was the weather like that day
A. Warm. B. Hot. C. Cold.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is wrong with the man
A. He often feels tired. B. He needs to see a doctor.
C. He didn’t sleep well last night.
14. What did the man’s doctor say
A. There was nothing serious. B. He needed further check.
C. He should rest and eat well.
15. What caused the man’s sickness
A. Staying up too late. B. Changeable weather in spring.
C. Doing too much sports.
16. What will the woman do next
A. Go running. B. Have a rest. C. Play ping pong.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Who are the listeners
A. Teachers. B. Parents. C. Students.
18. What is the purpose of the museum
A. To show more computers. B. To help school children. C. To develop the industry.
19. Why does the company invite the listeners
A. To sell them computers. B. To get some advice.
C. To introduce the history of the company.
20. When will the speaker come back
A. In half an hour. B. In an hour. C. In more than an hour.
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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
The National Gallery
Description:
The National Gallery is the British national art museum built on the north side of Trafalgar Square in London. It houses a diverse collection of more than 2,300 examples of European art ranging from 13th-century religious paintings to more modern ones by Renoir and Van Gogh. The older collections of the gallery are reached through the main entrance while the more modern works in the East Wing are most easily reached from Trafalgar Square by a ground floor entrance.
Layout:
The modern Sainsbury Wing on the west side of the building houses 13th-to 15th-century paintings, and artists include Duccio, Uccello, Van Eyck, Lippi, Mantegna, Botticelli and Memling.
The main West Wing houses 16th-century paintings, and artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Cranach, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bruegel, Bronzino and Veronese.
The North Wing houses 17th-century paintings, and artists include Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Claude and Vermeer.
The East Wing houses 18th-to early 20th-century paintings, and artists include Canaletto, Goya, Constable, Renoir and Van Gogh.
Opening Hours:
The National Gallery is open every day from 10 am to 6 pm (Fridays from 10 am to 9 pm) and is free, but charges apply to some special exhibitions.
Getting There:
Nearest underground stations: Charing Cross (2-minute walk), Leicester Square (3-minute walk), Embankment (7-minute walk), and Piccadilly Circus (8-minute walk).
In which century's collections can you see religious paintings
A. The 17th. B. The 13th. C. The 18th. D. The 20th.
Where are Leonardo da Vinci's works shown
A. In the East Wing. B. In the Sainsbury Wing.
C. In the main West Wing. D. In the North Wing.
Which underground station is closest to the National Gallery
A. Piccadilly Circus. B. Leicester Square. C. Embankment. D. Charing Cross.
B
When I think of the word perfect, I think of something few can achieve, like high beauty standards, Helen, the super-smart girl in my class, or anything I can compare myself to. For weeks, I have been noticing this girl who is in a few of my middle school classes. She has fabulous long dark hair, big eyes, and the most beautiful face. She always wears the prettiest outfits and seems to be the most popular girl in school, at least in my eyes. It seems like she has a perfect life.
One day, I was in language arts talking to my teacher about one of the upcoming tests, when I saw the girl staring at me. I immediately felt nervous, thinking, “Why is she looking at me Did I do something wrong Is my hair messed up ” When the class was dismissed and everyone rushed to their next class, Helen caught up to me and said, “I just thought you should know, I think you are really pretty.” I replied doubtfully, “Oh my god, thank you!” I then watched her as she walked away and thought, “She thinks I am pretty ”
The whole day, I thought about one thing: Why does she think that After thinking about that topic in my head through each second of the day, I came to learn one big lesson. I learned that everyone has their own insecurities even though it may not seem like it on the outside. In this case, I was thinking that she was everything I wanted to be and she thought the same of me. Neither of us are perfect. We are just us and that’s OK. We are all that perfect person we have been comparing ourselves to in our own special way. It is our choice to either accept that and love ourselves or keep torturing (折磨) ourselves with cruel comparisons. When I really look at myself, not from my point of view but a fresh one, I do see everything I want to be. I see a beautiful, smart, kind girl who is unique. I think that being able to fully love yourself is the true meaning of the word perfect.
24. What does the underlined word “fabulous” in paragraph 1 probably mean
A. Messy. B. Ugly. C. Wonderful. D. Ordinary.
25. Why did Helen talk to the author after class
A. She wanted to challenge her. B. She found her hair messed up.
C. She thought the author was beautiful. D. She wanted to make friends with her.
26. How did the author feel when praised by Helen
A. Doubtful. B. Sorrowful. C. Satisfied. D. Excited.
27. What lesson did the author learn at last
A. Practice makes perfect. B. Everyone is perfect in any aspects.
C. Beauty means perfect sometimes. D. Full love for yourself just means perfect.
C
Humans have been living and working on the space station for over 20 years. Their meals are packaged, though sometimes astronauts receive fresh treats from resupply missions. The longer that packaged food is stored, the more it loses nutrients like vitamin C and vitamin K.
Astronauts have successfully grown 10 different crops on the space station since 2015 and had the chance to sample (品尝) each one. The International Space Station hosted a party for astronauts on Friday as they celebrated the harvest of the first chili peppers (辣椒) grown in space. The crew finally had a chance to taste the peppers after initially kicking off the plant experiment on the space station in July.
Plant Habitat-04 is one of the most complex plant experiments on the orbiting laboratory to date because peppers take much longer to grow than the previous experiment plants. After growing for four months, the peppers were harvested on Friday.
Peppers provide a great source of vitamin C, as well as other key nutrients. Pepper plants self-pollinate (自花授粉), so they are easy to grow, and they are a pick-and-eat crop that doesn’t have to be cooked. They are also safe to eat raw.
A side effect of life in zero gravity is that astronauts often lose some of their taste and smell, so spicy or well-seasoned foods are a favorite. Adding fresh greens or peppers to the menu allows astronauts to liven up their regular meals. But growing and tending to the plants can also produce other benefits.
Astronauts have described the joy from seeing — as well as smelling and caring for — leafy green plants on the space station that remind them of Earth.
“Growing colorful vegetables in space can have long-term benefits for physical and psychological health,” said Matt Romeyn, principal investigator for the experiment. “We are discovering that growing plants and vegetables with colors and smells helps to improve astronauts’ well-being.”
28. How is the food astronauts eat on the space station
A. Always fresh. B. Lack of nutrients. C. Never tasty. D. Full of vitamins.
29. What makes Plant Habitat-04 one of the most complex plant experiments
A. The technology. B. Growing process.
C. The varieties of plants. D. Growing time required.
30. Which is the most probable reason for adding peppers to food for astronauts
A. Peppers are delicious. B. Peppers can improve memory.
C. Peppers help prevent diseases. D. Peppers can restore appetite.
31. Which of the following could be the best title for the text
A. The Fun of Growing Chili Peppers in Space
B. The Agricultural Goal in the Space Mission
C. The First Chili Peppers Grown in Space
D. The Chili Peppers Used in the Space Mission
D
Failure is an unavoidable part of life. Though science has named some life skills that promise success, we’re told over and over again that no great success was ever achieved without failure—or many failed attempts. One of life’s most important lessons, therefore, has to be how to handle failure best. But what is the message
For starters, ignore advice from anyone that tells you, “Don’t beat yourself up about it, ” no matter how well-meaning they are. According to the new research from the University of Kansas, we absolutely should be beating ourselves up when we fail. Marketing professor Noelle Nelson and her team found that the more emotional a person’s response is to failure, the more likely they are to achieve better results the next time they deal with a related task.
The researchers carried out two experiments in which undergraduate students were required to perform specific tasks. In one experiment, they were asked to search online for a squeezer and report the lowest price they could find with the possibility of winning a $50 cash prize. However, the task was controlled, and all participants were told (by a computer) that the lowest price was $3.27 less than their reported price. Consequently, no participant won the cash prize. When the results were announced, some participants were asked to focus on their emotional response, and others on their cognitive (认知的) response. During the next similar task, participants who focused on their emotional response to failure made more effort than those who focused on a cognitive response.
Everybody has their own unique challenges, responsibilities, duties, and projects, but these findings are related to all of us. Your personal failure may be a cake that fails to rise, a presentation that goes wrong, or a deadline that gets missed—it doesn’t matter. What matters is how you react to it. Instead of thinking about the failure, let yourself feel bad about it. Then follow this advice on how to bounce back after your failure.
32. What’s the relationship between failure and success
A. Failure promises success. B. Failure is the key to success.
C. Failure does damage to success.
D. Well-handled failure is good for success.
33. Why does the writer support beating oneself up when failing
A. It’s a well-meaning suggestion for failure.
B. It’s been proved by the study of a university.
C. Being emotional is good for one’s future success.
D. It can make people less emotional about failure.
34. What is the purpose of the two experiments
A. To test the participants’ abilities to search online.
B. To improve the participants’ cognitive response.
C. To teach the participants to avoid failures.
D. To test the benefit of emotional response to failure.
35. Which can be the best title for the passage
A. Personal Failure Is a Cake That Fails to Appear
B. The Most Productive Way to Handle Any Failure
C. Different Methods to Change Failure into Success
D. The Reason Why Failure Is the Mother of Success
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。
Four Practical Ways to Improve Yourself
Are you someone who likes to grow Do you constantly seek to improve yourself and become better Here are some ways to self-improve.
Read a book every day. ____36____ The more books you read, the more wisdom you expose yourself to. What are some books you can start reading to enrich yourself Some books are very useful, such as Think and Grow Rich, Who Moved My Cheese, 7 Habits.
Pick up a new hobby. Beyond just your usual favorite hobbies, is there something new you can pick up ____37____ Your new hobby can also be a recreational hobby. Learning something new requires you to stretch yourself in different aspects, whether physically, mentally or emotionally.
____38____ Everyone has amazing qualities in them. It’s up to how we want to tap into them. With all the friends surrounding you, you can find many things you can learn from them. Try thinking of several good friends right now. Think about just one quality they have which you want to adopt.
Show kindness to people around you.____39____ In fact, most of us don’t show enough kindness to people around us. Being kind helps us to cultivate other qualities such as compassion, patience, and love. Now start showing more kindness to the people around you, and see how they react.____40____ Chances are you will feel even better than yourself.
A．Learn from your friends.
B．Speak to your friends if you need to.
C．You can never be too kind to someone.
D．Often go to the library with a list of books.
E．Books are concentrated sources of wisdom.
F．Besides, notice how you feel as you behave kindly to others.
G．You can learn a new sport, such as rock climbing, football, or ice skating.
第三部分. 英语知识运用（共两节，满分30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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
My wife and I moved into our home two years ago. We had a yard with a lot of 　41　.Very often when we have flowers, Denise or I would plant some between the rocks, just to add some 　42　 to the area.
Last summer, I found a tiny little plant in the yard that I could not immediately identify. I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise said she didn’t either.
We decided to let it 　43　 growing until we could find out what it was.
Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the 　44　 plant, it appeared to be a sunflower .I decided to 　45　 the weeds(杂草) around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something 　46　.The sunflower had not 　47　 where I saw it begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the 　48　.
That’s when I 　49　 that if a tiny little sunflower didn’t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we also have the ability of doing the same thing. If we 　50　 ourselves like that little sunflower, we can reach where we 　51　 to go and get what we need for growth.
We need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the 　52　 to achieve our goals. Like the sunflower, it knew it had the ability to get over the rocks because it had 　53　 in itself that it would succeed. Stand tall like the sunflower and be 　54　 of who and what we are, and then the environment will begin to 　55　 us. We will find a way to go under or around any “rocks” in order to reach our goals.
41. A.flowers B. insects C. vegetables D. rocks
42. A.water B. fertilizer C. color D. shape
43. A.stop B. continue C .improve D. escape
44. A.weak B. strange C. lonely D. pretty
45. A.collect B. tend C. remove D. watch
46. A.unusual B. wonderful C. terrible D. valuable
47. A.passed B. started C. left D. died
48. A.air B. top C. sun D. house
49. A.hoped B. realized C. doubted D. regretted
50. A.fill in B. put in C. worry about D. believe in
51. A.forget B. hate C. aim D. wait
52. A.wish B. plan C. ability D. idea
53. A.faith B. energy C. virtue D. courage
54. A.aware B. afraid C. proud D. tired
55. A.forgive B. support C. upset D. affect
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
China is a big old country__56 __has a history of more than five thousand years. We are proud of __57 __ (it) culture and part of the culture even influences the world__58__ (great), for example, the thought of Confucius (孔子). As Chinese economy develops very fast and plays __59__important role in the world, more and more__60 __(foreigner) learn Mandarin (普通话) in Confucius institutions. The Chinese traditional culture can __61 __ (test) by the time. It unites (团结) the whole nation and no matter what kind of disaster comes, we will fight together for the county’s future. Today, many young people lose faith in traditional culture and they are crazy__62 __the western culture. They follow the western fashion, __63 __(think) we are the old style. But some day, they__64 __ (realize) they are wrong __65 __(ignore) traditional culture.
第四部分．书面表达（共两节，满分40分）
（满分15分）
你校英语墙报正在征集以“保护环境，从我做起”为主题的稿件。请你写一篇短文投稿。内容:
(1)简要介绍保护环境的原因；
(2)提出切实可行的建议；
(3)简述这些建议的理由。
注意：(1)词数80左右;
(2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
What can I do for our environment
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（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 MOTHER’S DAY SURPRISE
The twins were filled with excitement as they thought of the surprise they were planning for Mother’s Day. How pleased and proud Mother would be when they brought her breakfast in bed. They planned to make French toast and chicken porridge. They had watched their mother in the kitchen. There was nothing to it. Jenna and Jeff knew exactly what to do.
The big day came at last. The alarm rang at 6 a.m. The pair went down the stairs quietly to the kitchen. They decided to boil the porridge first. They put some rice into a pot of water and left it to boil while they made the French toast. Jeff broke two eggs into a plate and added in some milk. Jenna found the bread and put two slices into the egg mixture. Next, Jeff turned on the second stove burner to heat up the frying pan. Everything was going smoothly until Jeff started frying the bread. The pan was too hot and the bread turned black within seconds. Jenna threw the burnt piece into the sink and put in the other slice of bread. This time, she turned down the fire, so it cooked nicely.
Then Jeff noticed steam shooting out of the pot and the lid starting to shake. The next minute, the porridge boiled over and put out the fire. Jenna panicked. Thankfully, Jeff stayed calm and turned off the gas quickly. But the stove was a mess now. Jenna told Jeff to clean it up so they could continue to cook the rest of the porridge. But Jeff’s hand touched the hot burner and he gave a cry of pain. Jenna made him put his hand in cold water. Then she caught the smell of burning. Oh dear! The piece of bread in the pan had turned black as well.
注意：
续写词数应为150左右；
请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
As the twins looked around them in disappointment, their father appeared.
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The twins carried the breakfast upstairs and woke their mother up.
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