辽宁省锦州市2023-2024学年高二下学期期末考试 英语试题 （含答案，无听力原文及音频）

2023~2024学年度第二学期期末考试
高二英语
考生注意：
1.本试卷考试时间为120分钟，满分150分。
2.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
3.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在
答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
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）
听下面五段对话，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 was the weather during the woman’s travel in southern China
A. Rainy. B. Snowy. C. Sunny.
2. Where has the woman found her keys
A. On the table. B. On the bar counter. C. In her pocket.
3. What is Tony’s occupation
A. A teacher. B. A photographer. C. A writer.
4. When will the speakers’ plane take off
A. At 3: 00 pm. B. At 4: 00 pm. C. At 7: 00 pm.
5. What did the man do this morning
A. He took a class.
B. He had a meeting.
C. He watched a live competition.
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。
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6. What do the club members do most of the time
A. Practice painting.
B. Take part in competitions.
C. Recognize the good qualities of pictures.
7. When does the club close at 6: 00 pm
A. On Tuesday. B. On Wednesday. C. On Thursday.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
8. What size cake will the man choose
A. 8 inches. B. 10 inches. C. 12 inches.
9. What day is it today
A. Thursday. B. Friday. C. Saturday.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
10. What is the woman doing
A. Selling books. B. Hosting a program. C. Doing a survey.
11. What kind of books does the man like best
A. Historical novels. B. Adventure stories. C. Biographies.
12. How did the man get most of his books
A. From some book fairs. B. From online bookstores. C. From physical bookshops.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
13. Why is the woman unwilling to eat Thai food
A. She has eaten too much. B. She doesn’t like its taste. C. She is allergic to peanuts.
14. Where do the speakers decide to eat dinner
A. At a cafe. B. At the man’s home. C. At a Mexican restaurant.
15. Who can help with grilling (烧烤) food
A. The man’s father. B. The woman’s father. C. The woman.
16. How will the speakers go to the supermarket
A. On foot. B. By car. C. By bus.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
17. Why does the speaker get excited about the Screen Machine
A. It screens movies on a boat.
B. It usually shows the latest movies.
C. It enables him to see movies easily.
18. How long does it take to change the Screen Machine into a cinema
A. 30 minutes. B. 60 minutes. C. 80 minutes.
19. What is the Screen Machine’s driver responsible for
A. Fixing the motors. B. Selling tickets. C. Showing movies.
20. What does the speaker mainly tell us in the end
A. The way of buying tickets.
B. The benefits of the Screen Machine.
C. The cost of building a mobile cinema.
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
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21. Which of the following is the work of the position
A. Building small teams. B. Mastering different languages.
C Cooperating well with others. D. Assigning work to other auditors.
22. What is a must for the candidates
A. A professional qualification. B. Enthusiasm and confidence.
C. Having British nationality. D. Being healthy and young.
23 How can the candidates contact the company about their own information
A. By email. B. By telephone.
C. By clicking . D. By visiting the company.
B
A Hempstead woman who is visually impaired(损害) hosted a fashion show in Valley Stream, featuring 16 models with similar conditions in an event designed to bring awareness to the disabled.
Annalee Smith, 41, who is diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa(色素性视网膜炎), which can result in loss of eyesight, says the show will raise money for the Foundation Fighting Blindness while showing, “regardless of our disability, we can still threw light on every step that we take through fashion”. Putting together the event has been her way of trying to change the fashion world.
Originally from Barbados, Smith moved with her family to New York City at age 12 and went through the Hempstead school district. While at Long Island University in Brooklyn, Smith originally majored in nursing but changed to occupational therapy(职业疗法) as her eyes got worse. A passion for fashion and modeling always remained in her. She applied to different model agencies and other opportunities but didn’t hear back except for one.
A clothes company LaTeffaney Scott holds a model competition, now in its 10th year, in which the winner is the face of the company for the year. Smith won last year. “No one expects a visually impaired young lady to take on a runway,” said Scott. “She did some reflection and she came up with this idea of doing the fashion show.”
Kenya Brown, who developed glaucoma(青光眼) shortly after birth, said after finding out about the event via social media she wanted to be a part of the message. “I think the general public does not understand that people that live with disabilities have to actively work to be part of society. Those of us that are able to motivate ourselves enough to do productive things, or function well in society should be celebrated,” said Brown, who will be one of the models at the fashion show.
24. Why did Annalee Smith hold the fashion show
A. To make a big fortune. B. To make herself accepted as a model.
C. To realize her dream in her childhood. D. To help people understand those with disabilities.
25. What made Annalee become a model
A. Her eye disease. B. Her family’s support.
C. Her major in the college. D. Her love for fashion and modeling.
26. Which of the following words can best describe Annalee Smith
A. Considerate and stubborn. B. Confident and generous.
C. Determined and ambitious. D. Miserable and respectable.
27. What can we know from Brown’s words in the last paragraph
A. People with disabilities are working passively.
B. The disabled helpful to society should be praised.
C. All the people with disabilities should be respected.
D. The disabled have the potential to change themselves.
C
Coffee is one of the world’s favorite drinks that regular drinkers in the US consume more than three times a day. But the coffee bean itself is under threat from climate change. Now a Finnish research group has planted beans in the lab to offer the world sustainable coffee.
The result is a drink that smells and tastes almost the same as the conventional coffee. “It’s not perfect,” admitted lead researcher Heiko Rischer, “because good coffee making is an art, but this could be the start of something beautiful. I estimate we are only four years away from ramping up production and having regulatory (监管的) approval from the FDA in place.
Scientists say the issues with coffee as a commercial crop are widely known. However, environmental decline and climate change are real threats to the practicability of the coffee industry. Deforestation (毁林) alongside water pollution and biodiversity loss are some of the worst outcomes. Rising temperatures, drought and flood, or pests, can destroy harvests.
Although growing coffee in bioreactors (生物反应器) takes a lot of energy, chemicals are not needed at all, and any water employed in the process can be reused. Therefore, lab-grow n coffee could actually do a huge favor for the planet. We have now proved that lab-grown coffee can be a reality, said Rischer. “The true impact of this scientific work will happen through companies that are willing to rethink food production. Eventually, all efforts should result in more sustainable and health y food for the benefit of the consumers and the planet.”
Coffee is one of the growing list of commercial crops that has problems caused by climate change. The Sustainable Coffee Challenge thinks coffee consumption could be three times as much by 2050, so society will need to produce the drink in much more efficient ways. Solving some of its toughest problems is a priority, but with science on our side, at least we have better alternatives.
28. What does the underlined phrase “ramping up” in Paragraph 2 probably mean
A. Increasing. B. Delaying. C. Reducing. D. Relieving.
29. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about
A. The popularity of coffee.
B. The threats to coffee planting.
C. The necessity of planting lab-grown coffee.
D. The disadvantages of planting lab-grown coffee.
30. What can we know about the lab-grown coffee from the text
A. It has gained FDA’s approval.
B. It tastes better than the conventional coffee.
C. It will contribute a lot to the consumers and the planet.
D It appeals to the companies that emphasize food production.
31. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage
A. Lab-grown coffee has become a reality.
B. Coffee bean production is under threat.
C. Drinking coffee is becoming a global trend.
D. Problems of coffee growing will be solved.
D
China’s eight-day Spring Festival holiday for the Year of the Dragon witnessed a booming consumer market, highlighting the vitality (活力) and strength of the Chinese economy.
Data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism shows that 474 million domestic tourism trips were made during the Spring Festival holiday, marking a 34.3 percent increase from the same period last year and an increase of 19 percent compared to the pre-pandemic level in 2019. Domestic tourists spent about 632.69billion yuan (about $ 89.07 billion)in total, up 7.7 percent from the same period in 2019.
The online transactions (交易) also saw a powerful sUnion Clearing Corporation, a Chinese online payment clearing house, and card payment giant China UnionPay processed about 2.63 billion online transactions or around 1.25 trillion yuan in value per day from Feb. 9 to 17. The figures represent an increase of 18.6 percent and 8.0 percent respectively compared to the previous Spring Festival holiday.
Different from the Western dragon, the Chinese dragon symbolizes good luck and prosperity in traditional Chinese culture. Consumption during the festival is encouraging and illustrative of the increasingly important role that consumption plays in the country’s economic growth. This positive trend marks a solid start for China as it begins the newyear.
China’s super-large market, ongoing urbanization and evolving consumption structure provide broad space for consumption growth. And such huge potential will continuously translate into real consumption as the country expands domestic demand, through developing digital, green and health promotion consumption and boosting spending on big-ticket item s such as new energy vehicles and electronic products, among other moves.
Given the sustained economic recovery and overall improvement of the employment landscape, residents’ income is expected to continue growing steadily, thereby releasing their purchasing power. The consumption potential of the Chinese market will be further enhanced this year, boosting the momentum of China’s economic recovery.
32. What is the purpose of presenting the figures in Paragraph 2 and 3
A. To highlight the big increase in tourism.
B. To boom the large consumer market in China.
C. To prove the vitality of the Chinese economy.
D. To show online payment is very common in China.
33. What can we infer from the passage
A. Dragons may stand for misfortune in the west.
B. The Year of the Dragon in the favorite year in China.
C. There must be good luck in the Year of the Dragon in China.
D. People in the west will become more wealthy in the Year of the Dragon.
34. How can China transform the potential market into real consumption according to the passage
A. By building larger market.
B. By expanding native demand.
C. By evolving consumption structure.
D. By inventing more electronic products.
35. What is the author’s attitude towards the Chinese economy
A. Tolerant. B. Indifferent. C. Critical. D. Optimistic.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
Many scientists and marine biologists are quite worried about the state of coral reefs around the globe. They have been experiencing “bleaching” (白化) which is a process that involves the slow starvation and eventual death of coral reefs. ____36____ This has huge effects on the organisms that rely on the coral reefs in the ocean and us humans.
____37____ In the Turks and Caicos Islands, it has been reported that the coral reefs have been relatively untouched by the bleaching events. Even more surprising is the news that even the ones affected have recovered very well.
The problem is caused by many reasons. Pollution, introduced species, over-fishing, and over-tourism have all contributed to the issue. ____38____ Since the 1970’s, about 80% of the coral reefs in the Caribbean have died out.
An organization has taken steps to help out. They asked divers to observe over 100 reef sites off the South Caicos Island and set up a database. After scanning the data, they found surprising results. ____39____ But other corals did suffer bleaching. But they quickly rebounded to normal within months of the irregularly high thermal stress (热应力).
Two years later, when the same corals were observed, they were even more colored. ____40____ There were theories that Hurricanes Irma and Maria helped, as they resulted in much less tourism and thus decreased damage to the surrounding ecosystems.
Experts are continuing to observe the phenomenon to see if there is anything going on that can help save other reefs.
A. It meant their health improved.
B. So they are dying out at alarming rates.
C. Many coral reefs can survive bleaching.
D. Some corals proved no significant bleaching.
E. The worst of bleaching events took place in 2017.
F. But the coral reefs are doing surprisingly well in one region.
G. The warming temperatures of the oceans have also caused great harm.
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）
“This used car is beginning to be a pain,” I thought to myself. First, the battery had ____41____ in the first few months that I had it. Then a recall notice had arrived shortly afterwards. This meant ____42____ it to a dealership (代理经销商) 25 miles from my home and sitting for 2 hours while they ____43____ the faulty parts on it.
Now here I was pulling it in and ____44____ to spend most of the morning sitting in a hard plastic chair. I____45____ the key and walked into the waiting room. Every chair was full and all the news channels were ____46____ speaking loudly from the televisions on the wall. I went out to ____47____a bite to eat at a local restaurant.
Then I decided to walk a quarter of a mile in the other ____48____ and buy a gift for each of my sons at an old store. I started off at a nice ____49____. In fact, it felt good walking in the sunshine.
I reached the traffic light and saw that I wasn’t _____50_____ . A black dog with a bright purple collar seemed eager to cross the road but afraid to do so. “Wait!” I said _____51_____ to him. He looked up at me with _____52_____ brown eyes. As we reached the grass on the other side, he ran away happily and headed home.
I could see clearly that this was no _____53_____ series of events. We are all _____54_____ in this universe in a billion different ways. All we need do is _____55_____ it and add our love to it as well.
41. A. existed B. happened C. died D. worked
42. A. applying B. driving C. devoting D. attaching
43. A. sent B. bought C. lost D. replaced
44. A. getting B. preparing C. wanting D. trying
45. A. set down B. took up C. picked up D. dropped off
46. A. initially B. immediately C. constantly D. completely
47 A. grab B. put C. pick D. hit
48. A. way B. reason C. direction D. field
49. A. voice B. pace C. pulse D. breath
50. A. alone B. helpless C. ashamed D. anxious
51. A. suddenly B. frequently C. simply D. firmly
52. A. empathetic B. understanding C. forgiving D. watery
53. A. random B. particular C. various D. extra
54. A. supported B. surrounded C. connected D. separated
55. A. seek B. promote C. reflect D. embrace
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。
The Inuit (因纽特人) live in the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska. They have traditionally been fishers and hunters ____56____ they still hunt whales, seals, polar bears, birds and fish. And at times they hunt other less ____57____ (common) eaten animals, like the Arctic fox. The typical Inuit diet is high in protein and fat. In their traditional diets, the Inuit consume ____58____ average of 75% of their daily energy intake from fat. While ____59____ is not possible to sow plants or food in the Arctic, the Inuit have traditionally gathered those that are naturally available. Grasses, roots, berries and edible seaweed ____60____ (collect) and kept. In fact, there are ____61____ (vary) of different hunting technologies that the Inuit use ____62____ (gather) their food.
The natives hunt sea animals from single-passenger boats. The design is copied by Europeans and Americans ____63____ still produce them under the Inuit name kayak. The Inuit also make wide open boats ____64____ a flat bottom, which are made of wood _____65_____ (cover) with animal skins, for transporting people, goods, and dogs. In winter, both on land and on sea ice, the Inuit use dog sleds for transportation.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （满分15分）
66. 假定你是李华，你答应上周给新西兰朋友Mike邮寄一套英文版的《西游记》，但是由于某种原因耽误了。请你给Mike写封邮件表达歉意，内容包括：
1.表达歉意；
2.耽误的原因；
3.弥补措施。
注意：
1.词数 80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：《西游记》The Journey to the West
Dear Mike,
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Yours,
Li hua
第二节（满分25分）
67. 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。
In my twenties, I went far from home to study in America. Due to limited financial resources from my parents, I worked part-time on campus to pay for my bills. In addition, I did cleaning every Friday for an American family. If I was lucky enough, I could occasionally babysit a child for extra money.
Like most poor people, I had to be careful with every penny I spent, from food and clothing to rent and transportation. Because of a tight grocery budget, I couldn’t afford to buy fish, beef or certain other nutritious food. Due to an imbalanced diet, I would easily feel weak and tired.
As soon as Dai Mom realized that I was encountering financial hardship she lovingly invited me to her home for dinner every Friday and weekend. In addition, whenever it was time to return home, she would always prepare me with some homemade dessert or food to take home. Her kind actions, like the seeds of love planted in my heart, profoundly changed my life. In particular, there was one event that I would always remember.
One early evening, while I was walking out of the library, I felt my blood sugar running low. I started to feel dizzy, and my hands started to shake a little. Searching my pockets, I found that I only had a few dollars left. I was dying for a free and tasty dinner. Without a second thought, I quickly headed for Dai Mom’s home, rather than go back to my apartment.
As I got to the door, Dai Mom immediately noticed my fatigue (疲劳). She seated me at the dining table, and before long, a plate of food was set in front of me on the table. “Have dinner. Don’t make yourself work so hard,” she said to me with a nice smile.
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。
I cannot forget how tasty the dinner was.
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Dai Mom was an angel to be my guardian.
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66.Dear Mike,
How is everything going I had promised to present you a set of The Journey to the West in English last week but I failed to do it. Now I’m writing to express my deep apology to you.
The Journey to the West that I had intended to present to you was seriously damaged by my little brother and couldn’t be read. I bought a new set on the Internet for you, but for some reason, it wasn’t delivered to me until yesterday. In order to make up for my mistake, I will post you a small toy attached to this book.
I hope it won’t bring so much inconvenience to you. I’m sorry again.
Yours,
Li Hua
67.I cannot forget how tasty the dinner was. Staring at the meat, vegetables, and fish on my plate, I was so moved that tears started welling up in my eyes, rolling down on my face. I ate up all the food with indescribably bitter-sweet feelings. It was just like a Christmas gift from Heaven. To this day, I remember it as the most delicious dinner that I have ever had. Not only did the food satisfy my physical hunger, but also it deeply filled my spirit with genuine love.
Dai Mom was an angel to be my guardian. She came by my side, not for a day, not for a month, but for many years. She gave me the considerate love that a mother gave to her own child. She let me know what the true love is. How lucky I am! A small act of love can make a great difference. In particular, because of her, I have now become a person who can pass her love to others in need of help or support.