广东省麻涌，塘厦，七中，济川四校联考2023-2024学年高二下学期5月期中联考英语试题(无答案)

2023-2024学年下学期段考二四校联考高二英语试题
考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分
注意事项：
1．答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。
2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4．考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）
第一节 听力理解（两段共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
每段播放两遍。各段后有几个小题，每段播放前每小题有5秒钟的阅题时间。请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题，在5秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C 项中选出最佳选项。
听第一段对话，回答第1～2题。
1．Which sport does the woman love most
A．Table tennis. B．Badminton. C．Basketball.
2．Where does the man usually watch NBA games
A．On the Internet. B．In the stadium. C．On TV.
听第二段对话，回答第3～5题。
3．Why is the man reading about houses for sale
A．He wants to buy a house.
B．He likes looking at nice houses.
C．He is choosing one for his sister.
4．What’s the problem with the wooden house
A．It’s too small. B．It has no garden. C．It costs too much.
5．What’s the most probable relationship between the speakers
A．Colleagues. B．Brother and sister. C．Saleswoman and client.
第二节 听取信息（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
听下面一段材料。请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入标号为6～10的空格中。听录音前，你将有10秒钟的阅题时间，录音读两遍。你将有60秒钟的作答时间。
Ellie Wiesel
6．______ date 30 September, 1928
As a child Living a 7．______ life with his family
In 8．______ Being taken prisoner with all his family
In 1945 Becoming free and being sent to 9．______ with other homeless children
Later Beginning to write about his 10．______ during the war.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分37.5分）
第一节 （共10小题，每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Kristin Schell is the founder of The Turquoise（蓝绿色） Table, a movement of ordinary people who want to create community right in their own front yards. Ten years ago, she and her family moved to a new home in Austin, Texas.
One day, Kristin tried to connect with her new neighbors by hosting a party. She bought a few picnic tables but the delivery driver set one table down in her front yard by mistake. “After the party, I painted the table turquoise—my favorite color—and put it in the front yard, just a few feet from the sidewalk,” she says.
That turquoise table became the place where Kristin and her kids hung out. They played games, did crafts and ate snacks. “We got intentional about where we spent our time,” Kristin says. “We became ‘front yard people’.”
Neighbors began to stop by to introduce themselves and sit down for a chat. Kristin invited people to join her at the table for coffee or iced tea. Then neighbors asked Kristin if their family could put a picnic table in their front yard too. A movement was born. It was a simple way to slow down and connect with others,” she says. The turquoise table was inviting and had a shared feel.
People often hesitate to invite others into their homes. They think their house is too messy, it’s not big enough or they don’t have enough time. “Our perfectionism can cause us to miss out on the joy of connecting with others,” Kristin says. Her picnic table takes away the excuses—and the pressure.
She likes how it enables her to take a small step toward easing loneliness and building relationships in her community. “People’s greatest need is to know that they are loved and that they belong,” she says.
A decade after their Texas beginnings, thousands of Turquoise Tables exist in all 50 states and in 13 countries around the world. Not all of them are actually turquoise. “No matter what color it is, it’s a friendship table,” Kristin says.
11．Why did Kristin Schell start the movement
A．To host more parties in her front yard. B．To entertain her friends and neighbors.
C．To engage with people in the neighbourhood. D．To create harmonious communities worldwide.
12．Which of the following words best describe Kristin Schell according to the text
A．Creative and sociable. B．Friendly and humorous.
C．Generous and ambitious. D．Cautious and responsible.
13．What can be inferred from the text
A．People don’t like others to step into their houses.
B．The campaign has a big impact at home and abroad.
C．Kristin Schell bought the turquoise table to host a party.
D．People feel unwilling to join in the front yard chat at first.
B
Scientists from the University of Tsukuba designed a text message mediation （调节） robot that can help users control their anger when receiving upsetting news. This device may help improve social interactions as we move towards a world with increasingly digital communications.
While a quick text message apology is a fast and easy way for friends to let us know they are going to be late for a planned meeting, it is often missing the human factor that will accompany an explanation face to face, or even over the phone. It is likely to be more upsetting when we are not able to notice the emotional weight behind our friends’ regret at making us wait.
Now, researchers at the University of Tsukuba have built a robot that they called OMOY, which was equipped with a movable weight driven by mechanical parts inside its body. By shifting the internal weight, the robot could express simulated emotions（模拟情绪）. The robot was designed as a mediator for reading text messages. A text with unwelcome or frustrating news could be followed by a suggestion by OMOY. The robot tries to make the user not get upset, or even expresses sympathy for the user.
“With the medium of written digital communication, the lack of social feedback shift focus from the sender and onto the content of the message itself,” author Professor Fumihide Tanaka says. The mediator robot was designed so that it can control the user’s anger and other negative motivations.
The researchers tested 94 people with a message like “I’m sorry, I am late. The appointment slipped my mind. Can you wait another hour ” The team found that OMOY was able to reduce negative emotions. “The mediation robot can relay （播放）a frustrating message followed by giving its own opinion. When this speech is accompanied by the appropriate weight shifts, we saw that the user would feel the intention’ of the robot to help them calm down,” Professor Tanaka says.
14．Why is OMOY designed
A．To send apology messages to friends on behalf of users.
B．To provide users a way to avoid receiving bad messages.
C．To show sympathy to users by sending encouraging messages.
D．To help calm users down when they receive negative messages.
15．What does Paragraph 3 intend to tell us
A．How OMOY comes to work. B．How OMOY chats with users.
C．How OMOY responds to users. D．How OMOY judges bad messages.
16．What can we learn from Tanaka’s words
A．OMOY is popular with all users. B．OMOY is sensitive to any messages.
C．OMOY is the perfect robot at present. D．OMOY is helpful to users in a way.
C
Is there actual evidence that a coin toss —the act of spinning a coin in the air with your thumb and catching it in your hand— tends to favor one side over the other Or is a coin flip（轻抛）50/50 A new study questions the fairness of the flip.
One side of the coin is, in fact, more likely to come up than the other, according to a team of scientists led by University of Amsterdam PhD candidate Franti ek Barto . Their study, which is still undergoing peer review, collected and analyzed the results of 350,757 coin flips in 46 different currencies and registered that the coins landed on the same side they started on 51% of the time. This research was done in an effort to confirm an assumption proposed earlier by Stanford University statistics professor Persi Diaconisand his team. According to that theory, “vigorously flipped coins tend to come up the same way they started.”
According to Diaconis’s team, when people flip an ordinary coin, they introduce as small degree of “precession”, meaning a change in the direction of the axis（轴） of turning throughout a coin’s track. Consequently, the coin tends to spend more time in the air with the initial side facing up. This makes a coin flip not quite 50/50.
In 2007, Diaconis’s team estimated the odds of a “same-side outcome” as approximately 51%. Nearly a decade and a half later, Bartos and his team found this very result. They published a preliminary report stating, “Our data lend strong support to the previous assumption — The coins landed on the same side more often than not.”
Moreover, this was true for both sides of the coin and for all of the different coins tossed. As Diaconis stated back in 1986, “The more you think about randomness, the less random things become. But sometimes, you can take advantage of a lack of randomness.”
Indeed, when it comes to flipping a coin, the quickest shortcut to making your own luck might just be calling it literally as you see it.
17．What’s the purpose of conducting the study
A．To find evidence for the fairness of a coin toss.
B．To prove an assumption put forward years ago.
C．To state the definite chance of one side of a coin coming up.
D．To analyze the result of over 300,000 coin flips in different currencies.
18．What does the underlined word “precession” in paragraph 3 probably mean
A．Progressing B．Bouncing C．Spinning D．Dropping
19．Which of the following may Diaconis agree with
A．There is no need to consider randomness too much.
B．We have to make good use of a lack of randomness.
C．Whatever coin it is, randomness turns out to be fair ultimately.
D．The harder we flip a coin, the greater chance we gain its randomness.
20．What can be the best title for the text
A．Is a Coin Flip 50/50 You Bet! B．Is a Coin Flip 50/50 Think Twice!
C．Is a Coin Flip 50/50 A Mysterious Guess D．Is a Coin Flip 50/50 A Perfect Randomness.
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 Sunday scare is a feeling of worry and anxiety about going to work or school the next day. They are common but manageable. 21
Structure your Sunday
Structure can be a best friend when feeling the Sunday scare. Instead of sitting on the couch and watching the clock, go to do something. 22 But that feeling is harder to hold on to when you’re focusing on something.
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If you’re feeling more stress in general, it’s important to make space for relaxing activities to ground yourself. And there’s no right way to relax. You can do anything that is restful, such as baking, exercising, or connecting with a friend.
Identify your anxiety sources
Anxiety is a normal human experience, and one of the main ways to manage it is to identify your personal anxiety sources. 24 . Is it a deadline, meeting or presentation Even there’s not a single reason behind your Sunday anxiety.
End your Sunday with the right energy
Make Sunday night s about doing something for yourself, to counteract （抵消） the anxiety you’re feeling about Monday. Maybe that means planning some favorite food to enjoy while watching football. 25 Leave the work emails for Monday mornings.
A．Plan for a restful Sunday
B．Do things to relax yourself
C．You might still feel that sense of fear.
D．Once you have a better idea of what to do, take note of it.
E．Here are some suggestions for you to deal with the Sunday scare.
F．Try to find out what’s really causing you to worry the next week.
G．Do your best to enjoy yourself and make Sunday night s all for you.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满分52.5分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）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。
Smith brought his three-month-old son out for breakfast one day. He was playing with his son and tending to him while eating, and just doing his 26 thing.
But then he noticed a 27 staring at him. He was 28 . “What is going on ” “They kept 29 at me,” he wrote in a post.
As it 30 , the strangers were just happy to see a dad spending time with his son, and they felt inspired while watching the 31 . Smith had no way of knowing that until he paid for his meal. He was given by the waiter a 32 from the couple, saying what a great father he was and that they would like to leave some 33 for his meal.
“Today your meal is on my wife and me,” it read. “ 34 that baby as long as possible. The Masons.”
For Smith, it was a happy moment of reassurance （认可） and feeling 35 . He was touched by the generosity and noted that he didn’t have a father figure growing up, so spending this time with his son is super 36 to him.
He wrote that he’ll share this 37 with his son when he’s older and that he wants to teach him kindness and about the 38 of giving back.
“I make sure I’m 39 ,” Smith wrapped. “I get blessed —I want to 40 someone else.”
26．A．unusual B．rare C．big D．regular
27．A．stranger B．woman C．couple D．waiter
28．A．embarrassed B．confused C．worried D．scared
29．A．shouting B．aiming C．smiling D．getting
30．A turns out B．turns on C．strikes out D．goes on
31．A．relationship B．appreciation C．friendship D．instruction
32．A．bill B．note C．excuse D．notice
33．A．credit B．cash C．change D．fortune
34．A．Enjoy B．Share C．Protect D．Cheer
35．A lost B．exposed C．wronged D．seen
36．A．significant B．occasional C．grateful D．influential
37．A．idea B．breakfast C．joy D．story
38．A．feeling B．comfort C．power D．consequence
39．A．carrying it through B．paying it forward C．making it up D．putting it down
40．A．approach B．address C．bless D．watch
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
根据句子结构的语法性，在下面空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在标号为41～50的相应位置上。
41．Yesterday the thief who stole the important documents ______（arrest） and sentenced to prison.
42．Growing up in an English atmosphere, she can speak English ______（fluent）.
43．______ matters most is not what you think but what you do to pave the way for your future.
44．He pushed a chair onto the balcony, and climbed up ______（see） them.
45．The stores in Chinatown offer ______ unique range of souvenirs and goods.
46．______（compare） with my opponent, I deserved more recognition for my hard work.
47．So loudly did Tony speak that he could make ______（he） heard by others.
48．Robin told me firmly that he had an important business ______（appoint） the next day.
49．Her son was accused ______ cheating by the police, which made it difficult for her to go to sleep.
50．I communicated with a lawyer, ______ point of view on the global affair was very novel.
第三节 句子考查 根据以下每个句子的要求，完成、改写或翻译句子。
（共7小题，满分15分，其中51～54每个空格0.5分，55～57每小题3分）
51．After testing out for several times, they ______ ______ ______ ______（得出结论） that the rice could grow in the salty sand.
52．I stared at him ______ ______（震惊） and a faint sound of surprise escaped my throat.
53．Despite the continuous humid weather, we should be in a good mood.（同义句转换）
______ ______ ______ the continuous humid weather, we should be in a good mood.
54．What the teacher said had an effect on the students and they worked hard since then.（同义句转换）
What the teacher said ______ ______ ______ to the students and they worked hard since then.
55．The professor came into the lab, and was followed by a group of students.（用分词改写句子）
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56．The boy didn’t begin to prepare his lessons until his father came in.（用强调句改写句子）
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57.只有保持积极的生活态度，我们才能克服困难。（用only引导的倒装句翻译）
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第四部分 写作 （共两节，满分40分）
第一节 应用文写作 （满分15分）
你们学校最近组织了一次植树活动，请以“An Interesting Tree-planting Activity”为题写一篇报道，向校英语报投稿，内容包括：
1．时间、地点及参与者：
2．植树的过程：
3．你的体验和感受。
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。
An Interesting Tree-planting Activity
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________第二节 读后续写（满分25分）
阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
I was a shy 13-year-old boy that year, afraid to speak before people and poor at communicating with others. My parents were worried so they introduced a part-time job in a restaurant to me during the summer vacation, hoping it would have an effect on me. Although I hated it and didn’t believe it would bring any change to me, I had to accept it. The part-time job fell on Monday of each week.
On the first Monday, I simply dared not look at people in the restaurant. And when I was speaking with them, my face turned red and my voice was low. On my way back home, I felt so bad. But when I reached home, my bad feelings disappeared. I found my parents had brought home a pet cat, which I had expected to get for a long period of time. The cat was so lovely.
However, one Thursday, he secretly ran out and disappeared. We looked for him everywhere the whole day but found nothing. We lived in the city, close to a high-traffic road, and this cat didn’t have “street smarts”. I guessed he would probably die and wouldn’t be home again. And after three days of looking for the cat with no sign of him, I quite believed he wouldn’t be home again. My parents told me “A miracle may happen as long as you don’t give up.” However, I quite doubted it.
On the morning of the following Monday, I left for work 45 minutes earlier and started walking to the bus stop a block away. While waiting for the bus there, I thought about the work and felt upset. It wouldn’t be helpful to me and it was tiring! How much I wanted to quit the job! And thinking of the cat, I felt even worse.
Since it was still early, I suddenly wanted to spare some time to look for the cat again though I had little hope. I told myself, “If I still fail to find him this time, I won’t look for him again.” Then, I decided to walk to the next bus stop to look for him around. Minutes later, suddenly, a dirty and weak cat sitting by a tree caught my eye.
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。
Paragraph 1:
My eyes widened, and I was surprised to find it was just our cat. ___________________________________
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Paragraph 2:
Encouraged, I rushed to the bus stop and decided not to give up the part-time job. _____________________
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