黑龙江省牡丹江市第二高级中学2023-2024学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷(无答案，无听力原文，无音频)

牡丹江二中2023—2024学年度第二学期高二学年期中考试
英语
考生注意：
1．本试卷分四部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
2．考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上。选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；主观题请用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上各题的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷、草稿纸上作答无效。
3．本试卷命题范围：选择性必修第三册Units 2～5。
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。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．How does Cindy know much about animals
A．By having classes.
B．By spending time on the farm.
C．By listening to stories from her father.
2．What painting does the woman like better
A．One about the countryside.
B．One with modern style.
C．One with imaginative colors.
3．What is the woman writing about in her report
A．A forest fire. B．A terrible rainstorm. C．Some lovely pet animals.
4．Who is the woman’s second oldest child in the photo
A．Tom. B．Lily. C．Mike.
5．What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A．Host and guest. B．Workmates. C．Customer and repairman.
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。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、7题。
6．What does the woman want to buy
A．A toy. B．A sofa. C．A bed.
7．Where are the speakers
A．In a furniture store. B．At a supermarket. C．In a bedding shop.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8．Why does the woman take two English classes
A．To graduate early. B．To practise spoken English.
C．To finish English homework.
9．What does the woman say about The Grapes of Wrath
A．It is humorous. B．It is hopeful. C．It is sad.
10．What does the man have to finish
A．A research paper. B．A book. C．An English class.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11．What has made working at home possible
A．Different job opportunities.
B．Living far from workplaces.
C．Communication industry.
12．What is the advantage of working at home according to the woman
A．Saving a lot of time.
B．Improving family members’ relationship.
C．Offering an environment for free movement.
13．What might happen in the future in the woman’s opinion
A．A company no longer needs workers.
B．All workers will be foreigners in a company.
C．People can work at home for a foreign company.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14．What’s the woman’s new problem
A．She has a sore throat. B．She has a toothache. C．She has an earache.
15．How often should the woman take the medicine
A．Once a day. B．Twice a day. C．Three times a day.
16．When does the woman need to see the doctor again
A．Next Monday. B．Next Tuesday. C．Next Thursday.
17．What does the doctor suggest the woman do finally
A．Make an appointment. B．Buy medicine outside. C．Write down the date.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18．What does the speaker think of controlling traffic accidents
A．Difficult. B．Easy. C．Uncommon.
19．How many causes of traffic accidents are mentioned
A．Two. B．Three. C．Four.
20．What can help to make highways much safer
A．Driverless cars. B．Traditional design. C．Improved design.
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）
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。
A
With the new semester about to start, our school is welcoming a group of new international students. We have some apps here with an English version that will make your life easier. We hope you will have a wonderful life here.
★ WeChat
WeChat is now the most popular social media app in China. Almost everyone is using WeChat. You can send both text and voice messages on WeChat. You can also make voice and video calls. You can also post texts, pictures and video clips. If your friends in your home country have this app, you can also chat with them through voice or video. WeChat is also widely used now as a form of payment which can be used in stores, online, and in other shopping apps.
★ Alipay
Alipay is a similar app to PayPal. It was first used on Taobao and now people can use it as a mobile payment option. You can even use mobile payment at street vendors, so if you have this app, you can leave your wallet at home.
★ Didi
Now Didi seems to be the smartest way to travel around. With one tap, a car comes directly to you. Didi is a Chinese car-hailing service app. It has a function called “ride sharing”, which saves a lot of money for passengers, but it does not have an English version, so if you want to use it, you will have to learn some Chinese.
★ Pleco
This is one of the top Chinese/English dictionary apps and it covers 130,000 Chinese words and includes 20,000 example sentences with pinyin. It is perfect for those who want to learn Chinese, and also for tourists who need to translate words or phrases from English to Chinese.
21．Alipay was originally developed to ______.
A．pay for a car-hailing service
B．compete with WeChat in payments
C．be used on online shopping website Taobao
D．be convenient for people who leave their wallet at home
22．If a foreign friend wants to use Didi, he should ______.
A．learn some Chinese B．know how to use WeChat
C．have a passenger to ride with D．download an English version app
23．Which app is helpful for learning Chinese
A．Didi. B．Pleco. C．WeChat. D．Alipay.
B
When Kyle Jauregui recently went to pick up his younger sister’s birthday cake, he met with a bittersweet surprise.
On arriving at the baker’s, he learnt that Madison’s cake had already been paid for—by a complete stranger. It was a touching act of kindness, but, as it turned out, not a random（随机的）one. The cake had been paid for by a lady known simply as “McKenna’s mum” —as a mother who lost her daughter, and for a heartbreaking reason.
While Madison was set to celebrate turning 11, McKenna Jodell Fox would have turned ten on the same day. McKenna was only nine months old in 2008, when she was crushed（砸到） by a falling TV set as her family prepared to move house.
It’s a painful accident for her mum, but one she has transformed into something positive. The cake she bought was accompanied by a card which read as follows:
“Dear Birthday Girl Family, In honour of my daughter’s 10th birthday, I have chosen your birthday cake to pay for. Each year I do this random act of kindness because I am unable to buy my daughter a cake of her own. Today is her big double-digit birthday. Please enjoy your day.”
By Kyle’s own admission, the whole family was left speechless. “We just want to say thank you to McKenna’s mom,” he wrote, “and wish McKenna a happy birthday. There’s still good in this world.”
24．What do we know about the birthday cake
A．It tasted bittersweet. B．It was paid by McKenna’s mum.
C．It made the family heart-broken. D．It was free of charge.
25．Who died according to the passage
A．Kyle Jauregui. B．Madison. C．McKenna Jodell Fox. D．McKenna’s mum.
26．Which of the following can best describe McKenna’s mum
A．Warm-hearted and cheerful. B．Strong-willed but depressed.
C．Broken-hearted but generous. D．Kind-hearted and positive.
27．Which of the following would be the best title for the text
A．A Painful Accident B．A Speechless Birthday
C．One Birthday Cake for Two Girls D．World Full of Surprises
C
How clever can a computer be Maybe you can get the answer after reading the following passage about a newly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child.
If you ran into Smarter Child online, you would be surprised at this kid’s huge memory（记忆）. It can remember many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season and the weather in every city across the US. He also knows every word in the dictionary. However, if you ask Smarter Child other private questions, you will get strange answers. A question about Smarter Child’s age returns, “I’ll be older than you after further study!”, and asking where he lives, you will get, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”
Smarter Child uses the huge information on the World Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, for example, Smarter Child goes to www.ahdictionary. com. For the weather, he visits www.. He turns to www.the- for scientists and www. for a fantastic movie.
Some scientists believe that by joining many systems of the Internet, an Artificial Intelligence （AI） with the combined （结合的） knowledge of, say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However, Smarter Child has difficulty in discerning whether a behavior is right or wrong, which is clear to any young child. If he wants to think and learn without any help from the programmers like boy-computer David in the movie Artificial Intelligence （AI）, he must solve two problems.
The first is that computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files are sorted in different ways. That’s why programmers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It would be a much more difficult task to let him find it by himself. Another problem is that while Smarter Child can deal with information more exactly and faster than any human, he needs programmers to make better systems that allow machines to solve problems of common sense, which is a huge challenge.
28．What may be unknown to Smarter Child
A．His age. B．The weather in New York.
C．A word in the dictionary. D．A player’s name of the Boston Redsox.
29．Which website can Smarter Child visit to answer the questions about scientists
A．www. B．www.
C．www.the- D．www.ahdictionary.com
30．What does the underlined word “discerning” in Paragraph 4 mean
A．Preventing. B．Copying. C．Inventing. D．Telling.
31．How is boy-computer David different from Smarter Child
A．He has a huge memory. B．He can think and learn independently.
C．He can make a weather forecast. D．He deals with information fast.
D
While Ellard Hunting and fellow researchers were out studying the weather at a field station in England, they noticed something unexpected on their instruments. Though there was no storm coming, the scientists’ electric field monitors recorded a strange increase in atmospheric electric charge（电荷）.
Nearby, honeybees that lived in on-site hives were swarming （蜂拥） as they tried to find a new home. When the team took a closer look at their data, they discovered that the swarming honeybees had created an atmospheric electric charge. The researchers shared more details about their findings in the journal Science.
“This is the first report of biology as a source of space charge.” says Hunting, a biophysicist at the University of Bristol in England. Scientists had known that individual bees carry a small charge while flying through the air, caused by the friction of their body parts against the air and each other. It’s similar to how rubbing a balloon on a piece of cloth creates static electricity（静电）. Scientists believe a bee’s charge helps pollen （花粉） stick to it and signals to other bees which flowers have already been visited. But until now, researchers had never recorded such a high voltage （电压）among swarming honeybees.
In terms of electricity generation, a bee swarm’s charge isn’t so impressive: It would take about 50 billion bees to power an LED light. But compared to the charges produced by common weather events, the bees’ charge density was six times greater than an electrified dust storm and eight times greater than a thunderstorm cloud.
Scientists hope to continue exploring how biology influences physics and are curious to know if something similar is happening with other wildlife, such as birds and bats.
32．What were the researchers doing when something unexpected on their instruments happened
A．Studying weather events. B．Testing their instruments.
C．Recording insects’ behavior. D．Looking for honeybees’ new home.
33．What’s the function of a bee’s charge
A．To help the bee fly fast. B．To signal to other bees.
C．To find pollen more easily. D．To avoid losing their way.
34．What will the scientists continue to study next
A．The wide application of biology. B．Measures to protect birds and bats.
C．The influences of dust storms on wildlife. D．Whether other wildlife can produce electric charge.
35．Where is the text from
A．A novel. B．A fiction. C．A magazine. D．A leaflet.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Although a gym membership can be nice, you don’t have to have one to get into great shape! All you need is a little bit of time and space at home for yourself. 36
Spend 5 to 10 minutes warming up before every workout. 37 Try jumping jacks, leg or arm circles, or even dancing. Just get your blood pumping. Do a progressive aerobic activity that uses the same muscles you want to work out. For instance, slowly jog if you are going for a longer run.
38 Strength training, also called resistance training, makes you stronger and builds endurance. Try to do exercises that work a lot of muscles and add weight to increase your resistance. This helps you do a harder workout every time you exercise.
39 You might be eager to just stop your workout when you’ve finished your last set of activity, but take a few minutes to do low-intensity exercises that lower your heart rate. You might drop your run into a walk or slow down your cycling, for instance.
Set achievable goals that you can break into smaller tasks. It’s one thing to say you want to get fit, but that means something different for everyone. 40 It should be specific, realistic, and meaningful. Then, break down each goal into small, actionable steps so it feels like you’re making progress regularly.
A．Not sure what to do
B．Want to build muscle without buying equipment
C．Do strength training twice a week to build muscle.
D．If you’re struggling to fit in workout time, don’t worry.
E．Spend five to ten minutes cooling down after each workout.
F．Figure out what you plan to achieve and make that your goal.
G．But before everything, you need to create an at-home fitness routine.
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）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
One day a famous painter painted a picture. He put it on exhibition with the title, “Not for 41 ”. However, it was so beautiful a painting that whoever 42 that exhibition asked the painter to sell that painting for whatever amount he would 43 it. But he said, “I’m very sorry but I can’t sell this for any amount. I will sell it to only that person who will understand its 44 .”Then, an old man came over and said, “I want to buy this painting and here is the 45 in this small box for it.” There was a paint brush and colors in it. Then, he gave that painting to the old man.
All the other people asked the painter with 46 , “Why did you sell it for a paint brush and a few colors to this old man We were 47 you a huge amount for this painting.” The painter said, “If you 48 the painting, there is a man who is teaching a kid to paint with so much 49 . So, the man in the picture is this old man and that kid is me. He is my teacher who taught me to paint and made me become what I am today just thanks to his devotion and 50 . And, the real value of this painting is just a paint brush which is 51 by my teacher as this paint brush is more 52 than your wealth. With this paint brush I can paint many more paintings.” All people understood and 53 the bonding of a teacher and his student.
A teacher always gives his best wealth to his student in the form of knowledge, wisdom and art with a（n） 54 that his student will 55 make use of it.
41．A．show B．sale C．play D．rest
42．A．attended B．held C．organized D．appreciated
43．A．check for B．pay for C．leave for D．charge for
44．A．money B．use C．value D．time
45．A．service B．ticket C．passport D．price
46．A．regret B．surprise C．embarrassment D．anger
47．A．repaying B．offering C．rewarding D．lending
48．A．realized B．caught C．confirmed D．noticed
49．A．determination B．devotion C．attraction D．participation
50．A．desire B．relief C．blessings D．pities
51．A．given B．paid C．lost D．borrowed
52．A．sensitive B．original C．useful D．precious
53．A．respected B．inspected C．reported D．shared
54．A．expectation B．destination C．creation D．position
55．A．essentially B．desperately C．necessarily D．properly
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。
Confucius（孔子） was born into a middle class family in Lu State, an area with the modern city of Qufu now, in China’s Shandon g Province. Now, he 56 （remember） for his teachings, which, along with the works of his students, formed the rule of Confucianism （儒学） many 57 （ year）after his passing away.
Confucius also lived 58 active political life. From his job as Minister of Crime, he took part in a campaign（运动） to distance Lu from the rule of the state instead of 59 （work） for the central government. However, the plan failed. After a short period of being sent to live in another country, Confucius could finally return to Lu state 60 （spend） the rest of his life as a teacher of philosophy.
Even up to the time of Confucius’s 61 （die）, his teachings were not 62 （wide）accepted in China, and most of 63 （ they） were lost when the emperor Qin ordered the burning of Confucius’s books.
Yet, his philosophical （哲学的） ideas survived during the later Han Dynasty. Emperor Han Wudi, 64 was inspired by the social and political wisdom of Confucius, accepted Confucianism and applied his systems of morality everywhere from classrooms 65 law courts. The teachings of Confucius still spread far across China and the Far East.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （满分15分）
假定你是某国际学校学生会成员，学生会将于暑期邀请某知名书法家举办汉字书法培训班，请你用英语写一则通知，要点如下：
1．培训班的目的；
2．上课时间和地点：7月21日～8月10日，下午3:00～5:00，201室；
3．欢迎大家踊跃参加。
注意：1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：书法培训班 a Chinese Calligraphy course 书法家 calligrapher
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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，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
It was the middle of winter some 30 years ago. I was a young father with three little children depending on me. My college education, however, wasn’t helping me to find a good job in our depressed area. My work as a teacher had dried up and now I was working in a saw mill （锯木厂） for just above the minimum wage（工资）.
As I got ready to go to work I wrapped band-aids（创可贴） around my fingers and put more in my pockets. Cutting and piling wood for 8 hours a day had caused my fingers to split（裂口） and bleed at their tips in the cold, dry, winter air. Then I walked down to my car in the snow and hoped it would star.
That day at work was harder than normal. The machines kept breaking down. And we had to rush to catch back up as the wood piled up. On top of it all the heaters in the building weren’t working and we could see our breath as we spent hours chopping, piling, carrying, and packaging the hard wood flooring to be shipped out.
When the work day finally ended, I walked tiredly toward the time clock, took off my work gloves and inspected my aching fingers. The splits were worse than ever and I had bled through the band-aids again. I tried to straighten out but my bad back cramped（绞痛） up as I did. I started my car and drove back home. I looked at the snow and blinked back tears. I wondered how long I could keep doing this, if things would ever get any better, and why life was so hard.
I tried to put a smile on my face as I opened my front door, but instead one appeared naturally. My daughter ran up to me, yelling “Daddy”, and wrapped her little arms around my neck. I lifted her up and my heart exploded with love.
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。
My tired body didn’t feel so tired any more. ____________________________________________________
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“Happy birthday!” my wife greeted me warmly. _________________________________________________
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