黑龙江省齐齐哈尔市恒昌中学2023-2024学年高二4月份月考英语试卷 (无答案)

2023-2024学年度下学期高二学年
齐齐哈尔市恒昌中学四月份素养能力测试
英语试卷
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。
1. What is the woman going to do this evening
A. Cook dinner. B. Eat out C. Go to the park.
2. What is Nick doing now
A. Doing the washing. B. Playing football. C. Watching TV.
3. Why does the woman feel upset
A. She has no money to buy a car.
B. Tom didn’t lend his car to her.
C. She quarreled with Tom.
4. Where does the conversation take place
A. In a hotel. B. In a club. C. In a store.
5. When will the conference call start
A. At 2:30 pm. B. At 4:30 pm. C. At 5:00 pm.
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。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Manager and worker. B. Husband and wife.
C. Neighbors.
7. What does the man have to do now
A. Talk with the woman.
B. Meet Mr. Brown at the airport.
C. Wait for two more hours.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Why does the man say sorry to the woman
A. He had her wait for a while.
B. He wasted some of her paper.
C. He can’t mail packages for her.
9. What does the woman need the form for
A. Moving out of the dormitory.
B. Canceling the campus mailbox.
C. Applying for the mailbox service.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. How long will it take the speakers to go to the club by car
A. About an hour. B. About half an hour. C. About 10 minutes.
11. What is the woman going to do in the Students’ Club
A. Have a swim. B. Play basketball. C. Do some running.
12. Where will the speakers meet
A. At the school gate. B. At the man’s home. C. At the club.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What does Lydia like to do in her spare time
A. Go camping. B. Stay with her family.
C. See foreign films.
14. What do we learn about David
A. He hates camping.
B. He likes outdoor activities.
C. He lives near the Boundary Waters.
15. How does David find photography
A. Boring. B. Difficult. C. Interesting.
16. What are the speakers going to do this weekend
A. Visit the art gallery.
B. Take a photography class.
C. Hold a photography exhibit.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the talk mainly about
A. TV programs. B. Sports competitions. C. Entertainment activities.
18. What time is it now
A. 8:20 am. B. 8:40 am. C. 9:00 am.
19. How is the weather today
A. Cloudy. B. Rainy. C. Sunny.
20. What do we know about the movie
A. It is free of charge.
B. It will start at 9:00 pm.
C. It will be showed in the Ship’s Gym.
第二部分 阅读（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）
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Some architecture books worth reading
This list of books would serve as both essential reading and an excellent gift for those studying architecture or working in the field. These editions are filled with so many artistically impressive works that they’re accessible to non-professional beauty and design lovers and even young readers.
World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History
Richard Ingersoll
Paperback $125.95
This book is primarily a college-level text, yet its collection of more than 800 superb color pictures makes it appealing to anyone who appreciates interesting buildings. It also includes an instructor’s CD of PowerPoint presentations.
· Exploring related societal issues
· Useful timelines and case analysis
Architecture: A Visual History
Jonathan Glancey
Hardcover $30
Want to explore architecture but lack experience in the field Here’s a great choice. This in formative but easy-to-understand book covers everything from ancient stupas (舍利塔) to contemporary skyscrapers. Its clean format together with more than 400 images also provides abundant information that engages readers’ interest.
· Thirteen 3D artworks
· Structures around the globe
Seeking New York: The Stories Behind the Historic Architecture of Manhattan –One Building at a Time
Tom Miller
Paperback $22.5
This book allows readers to revisit Manhattan’s splendid past through its incredible architecture. Those who appreciate city planning, construction, or the Big Apple should never miss it.
Lots of specific information
Showing destroyed structures
The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond Patrick Dillon
Hardcover $19.99
This one can be used as a wonderful way to introduce architecture to children. The book has a unique format, with detailed drawings that take readers inside well-known buildings. At the beginning of each chapter, there’s an overview of a certain historical stage.
· Featuring 16 famous buildings
· Plenty of double-page images
21. What do we know about World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History
A. It has a low price.
B. It includes numerous color photos.
C. It offers online access to presentations.
D. It presents an analysis of political issues.
22. Who wrote a book intended for city planning lovers
A. Richard Ingersoll. B. Jonathan Glancey.
C. Tom Miller D. Patrick Dillon
23. Why is The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and
Beyond Patrick Dillon a great choice for children
A. It’s a hardcover.
B. It features 3D artworks.
C. It begins with a general introduction to history.
D. Its drawings show inner structures of famous buildings.
B
Writer Andrew Leland started losing his sight 20 years ago, when he was in high school, as a result of a progressive eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa (色素性视网膜炎). His first experience of loss of sight happened temporarily at night, in which he was confused that everyone else seemed to see in the dark so much better than he did. Over the years, his disease has progressed gradually. He’s now legally blind, although he still has a narrow field of vision, which allows him to see about 6% of what a fully sighted person sees.
Leland analogized his vision to the view you might get by looking through a toilet paper tube or a keyhole. He said, “Imagine having that toilet paper tube tied to your head and trying to walk down the street; there’s a whole bunch of things you don’t see but that you really ought to, like dogs.”
In his new book, The Country of the Blind, Leland writes about losing his vision and preparing for blindness, how his condition impacts his identity, how the world sees him and his marriage, and something valuable he has learned.
He said he was not going to try to tell people that having vision was not an unbelievably useful thing for a human being for many reasons. When talking about the experience of being alive and being conscious, he referred to James Joyce — Joyce believed that he was only losing one world among many, and that vision was only a tiny part of experiences when he was going blind.
He thought if you looked at the things that blind people were capable of imagining, like John Milton writing Paradise Lost as a blind person, there was this unbelievable richness in humans’ consciousness that vision had nothing to do with. Other realms (领域) such as the mental and emotional realms were all so rich that they could also help unfold things on earth before you.
24. What do we know about Leland
A. He went totally blind in high school.
B. He experienced night blindness at first.
C. He was born with a narrow field of vision.
D. He was aware of his condition throughout.
25. Which is closest in meaning to “analogized” underlined in paragraph 2
A. Connected. B. Reduced. C. Compared. D. Exposed.
26. Why is James Joyce mentioned
A. To help explain an opinion.
B. To stress the value of good vision.
C. To state his considerable influence.
D. To show the inconvenience of blindness.
27. What message is conveyed in the last paragraph
A. Practice is the best teacher.
B. The blind have more vivid imagination.
C. Things are not set in concrete.
D. Vision is not the only window in the world.
C
People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions — and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.
Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly (均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.
“We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions,” Jack said. “Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth.”
According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.
The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.
It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. “The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions,” Jack said. “Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.”
In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.
28. The discovery shows that Westerners ______.
A. consider facial expressions universally reliable
B. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth
C. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways
D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions
29. What were the people asked to do in the study
A. To make a face at each other. B. To get their faces impressive.
C. To observe the researchers’ faces. D. To classify some face pictures.
30. In comparison with Westerners, Easterners are likely to ______.
A. examine the eyes more attentively
B. study the mouth more frequently
C.do translation more successfully
D. read facial expressions more correctly
31. What can be the best title for the passage
A. The Eye as the Window to the Soul
B. Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills
C. Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions
D. How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding
D
For most of my life, I didn’t like being seen. I went bright red when it was my turn to speak in a group. I hated the teacher asking me something. I even didn’t like my family all looking at me! I often tried to hide away and avoid being seen by others! So, it’s not strange that I feared speaking in front of others.
Luckily, I’ve learned to overcome my problem. Now I love helping others who have the same problem that I once had but want to speak up because they have valuable things to share. I particularly love helping entrepreneurs (企业家) to become more confident. When you help a leader, the impact is so much greater.
Over the years I’ve discovered that there are three main problems that people have when it comes to speaking in public. The first is a lack of self-belief. They doubt themselves and question whether what they have to say is valuable. The second is a fear of being seen as arrogant (傲慢的). The third is a fear of rejection or a fear of not being liked.
All of these problems are related to mindset, specifically, a fear-based mindset, which is common. These fears stop people from stepping up as the leader and influencer they were born to be.If you want to become a more effective influencer, it is so important to work on any fears you have of judgment or rejection. They will be a ball and chain that will hold you back from success. We need to take action despite feeling fear. We can’t wait for the fear to go away as it won’t go away itself. We have to act while we still feel it. And to overcome fears, we should practice. Confidence is attached to progress, and we only progress if we practice. If you don’t feel you’re progressing, you’ll start to lose your confidence and stay stuck in fear.
32. What does the author like doing now
A. Giving speeches in front of people.
B. Helping others gain confidence in speaking in public.
C. Making friends with famous entrepreneurs.
D. Sharing experiences with her followers.
33. What can we learn about the problems that prevent people from talking publicly according to the author
A. They are very difficult to overcome.
B. They lead to a very uncommon mindset.
C. They are no problem for leaders or influencers.
D. They exist mainly because of people’s fears.
34. What does the author suggest people do
A. Practice hard to make progress in spite of fears.
B. Avoid failure to become more confident.
C. Refuse judgment or rejection from others.
D. Wait for the fear to disappear.
35. What can be the best title for the text
A. Finding the Courage Inside You
B. Becoming a more Influential Person
C. Expressing Your Ideas more Effectively
D. Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
A great skill to have is the ability to solve problems effectively, specifically interpersonal and behavioral problems. In order to achieve this, you need to follow a few key requirements. 36
First, you should understand “why” the problem exists. 37 If you know something about why the problem exists, you’ll have a better time to resolve the problem. Let’s take the example of a child who doesn’t want to come to school. Before you can reach a solution, it is important to find out why the child doesn’t want to come to school.
Once you have clearly identified the problem, you need to understand what you have control over and what don’t. 38 You may not control whether a child comes to school, but you are able to deal with the barrier to the child not wanting to attend school.
Don’t jump to conclusions. Once you have all of your information, analyze it carefully and look at it from various viewpoints. Be as objective as possible and don’t be quick to judge.
39 This is a time for you to use your critical thinking skills.
40 How many options do you have Are you sure Which options seem reasonable Have you weighed the pros and cons (事物的利与弊) of your options Are there any limitations of your options Are there any options better than others and why Are there advantages and disadvantages you need to take into consideration
A. Now determine your options for solutions.
B. Remain judgment-free as much as possible.
C. Ask yourself questions about what options you have.
D. That means figuring out the actual root cause of the problem.
E. Read on to find how to become a more effective problem solver.
F. The strategies in problem-solving are good lifelong skills to have.
G. Your efforts must be within the areas where you are in the driver’s seat.
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
It was 1:20 a.m. I had just gone to bed, a bit 41 after celebrating my 31st birthday. Before dinner, I’d placed 42 outside my garden door and prepared the cell phone just 43 . After all, it had been 44 that week, resulting in flood warnings.
I was awakened by the 45 of rushing water. When I swung my legs off the bed, I was shocked to feel cold water already up to my knees and 46 fast. Shaking in darkness, I 47 my phone and turned on its flashlight. Then by the light I could 48 water was from the garden door. It must have breached (在……上打开缺口) the sandbags. The river, usually such a quiet, slow moving river in my region, had 49 burst its banks. And now I had to 50 ! I took 51 action. Any effects of the alcohol before sleep were gone; 52 sobers (使清醒) one up. After I went outside, I learned the river had flooded the neighbourhood. Therefore, if I had woken up just a few minutes later, I would have drowned.
In the end, I think the experience made me 53 and determined to live each day to its fullest. I came very close to drowning that day. But rather than dwell on (沉湎于) what happened, I prefer to 54 what my mother told me afterwards, “Don’t remember the day when you lost everything. Remember the day you 55 . That day marked the beginning of a new chapter in your life.”
41. A. relieved B. drunk C. excited D. content
42. A. stones B. sandbags C. wood D. boxes
43. A. in doubt B. in advance C. in turn D. in case
44. A. thundering B. snowing C. pouring D. blowing
45. A. roar B. taste C. rhythm D. smell
46. A. appearing B. spreading C. freezing D. rising
47. A. grabbed B. charged C. dropped D. studied
48. A. realize B. guess C. see D. check
49. A. extremely B. violently C. narrowly D. certainly
50. A. get out B. check out C. calm down D. move out
51. A. brave B. immediate C. determined D. calculated
52. A. fear B. shock C. stress D. responsibility
53. A. active B. proud C. grateful D. amazed
54. A. ask B. assess C. hear D. follow
55. A. loved B. gained C. survived D. graduated
第二节（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。
Chinese weddings are as much about the happy couples as they are about their families. The weddings are 56 (impress) affairs that focus on blessings of happiness. The date of the wedding ceremony is chosen not 57 chance. Many couples carefully choose a favorable date 58 (bring) success to their marriage. The ceremony can last anywhere from four hours to three days, 59 depends on how many Chinese wedding traditions are observed. The Chinese wedding invitation is 60 (typical) red with a golden Double Happiness symbol, with dates for the wedding and names of the couple 61 (include) inside. While Chinese wedding traditions have modernized, the journey to pick up the bride 62 (be) still a lively affair. It can involve 63 use of firecrackers, playing drums, or even a lion dance.
Another vital tradition, the Chinese tea ceremony (JingCha), 64 (perform) at Chinese weddings to show the new couple’s respect, gratitude, and 65 (appreciate) for their parents’ love and effort in raising them. A red tea set with a Double Happiness symbol is used for the tea ceremony.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
你班正在围绕“健康饮食”制作一期英文板报。请你根据以下提示撰写一篇文字稿，内容包括：
1.健康饮食建议；
2.表达期望。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右
2.首句已给出可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
As the living standards getting higher, nowadays people pay more attention to their health. _______________
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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。
Sarah, a high school student, had a great passion for baking (烘焙). With her parents’ support, Sarah dreamed of opening her own bakery, a place where she could turn her interest into a business. However, she knew the importance of improving her skills and gaining real-world experience.
Therefore, every Saturday, without fail, she would set up a small but charming table at a local park. The park, filled with families and laughter, was the perfect place for Sarah to sell her creations. Her table, neatly laid out with colorful homemade cookies and cakes, attracted passers-by with the desserts’ smell.
On a particularly bright and sunny afternoon, as Sarah was carefully arranging her chocolate cookies and cakes, her attention was drawn to an elderly woman sitting alone on a bench. The woman, with her silver hair and sad eyes, seemed lost in thought. As the hours went by, Sarah noticed that the woman remained where she was, seemingly forgotten by the world. A sense of concern washed over Sarah. So she decided to act. She poured a cup of warm tea carefully and cut a generous slice of her rich chocolate cake, a crowd favorite, and approached the woman.
“I thought you might like some snacks,” Sarah said with a warm, inviting smile. The woman’s face lit up as she accepted the treat. “Thank you, dear. I haven’t had such a delicious treat since my retirement,’ she responded, her voice soft yet filled with gratitude. As she enjoyed the cake, tears rolled down her face.
A little shocked, Sarah asked what had happened. The woman introduced herself as Mrs. Wilson, who had been a baker before she retired. Since losing her husband to cancer a week ago, she had been living alone. Her visits to the park were her escape from the loneliness that filled her quiet home. Sarah listened attentively, her heart touched by the woman’s story.
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。
Sarah decided to help Mrs. Wilson out.
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Over time, their friendship became famous in the park.
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