福建省福州第三中学2024-2025学年高二下学期期中英语试卷（答案不全）

福州三中2024-2025学年第二学期高二期中考试
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。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. Who will go back home late tonight
A. The kids. B. The woman. C. The man.
2 What does the man dislike about the movie
A. The actors. B The ending. C. The music.
3. What might the woman be good at
A Looking after kids. B. Taking care of elderly people. C. Teaching people how to find a job.
4. When will the speaking exam begin
A. At 2:00. B. At 2:30. C. At 3:00.
5. Why did Mike go to China
A To have a business trip. B. To meet with his boss. C. To learn about tea culture.
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 is the man looking for
A. A suit. B. A shirt. C. A tie.
7. What does the man think of the second piece of clothing
A. It is tight. B. It is pricey. C. It is informal.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. Who works in the power company
A. The girl’s father. B. The girl’s classmate. C. The man’s classmate.
9. How will the girl go to the power company
A. On foot. B. By car. C. By taxi.
10. What is the girl going to do first
A. Visit the manager. B. Get ready for a picnic. C. Chat with the workers.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Where are probably the speakers
A In a restaurant. B. In a hotel. C. In a supermarket.
12. What do we know about the man’s father
A. He doesn’t like going shopping B. He is fond of cooking by himself.
C. He always selects food with caution.
13. Which of the following is the woman willing to have
A. The apple pie. B. The wholemeal toast. C. The bread and butter.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. What is the woman worried about
A. The popularity of the topic. B The limited time for the presentation.
C. The amount of information to prepare.
15. What is the first main pout of the presentation
A. How to help bees. B. The importance of bees. C. The living environment of bees.
16. Who could Mr Lee probably be
A. A teacher. B. A photographer. C. A reporter.
17. What does the man suggest adding to the presentation
A. Diagrams. B. Statistics. C. Photos.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What was Dyson’s first invention used for
A. Drying wet hands. B. Transporting heavy loads. C. Improving rough ground.
19. What’s the main feature of Wrong Garden
A. It creates a visual trick. B. It is modeled on a piece of art. C. It stops the water from falling down.
20. What does the speaker focus on at the end of the talk
A. Dyson’s inventions for students. B. Dyson’s research at a university. C. Dyson’s contribution to education.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
For the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition, the Musée d’Orsay, which houses the world’s largest collection of this current, is offering a major retrospective (回顾展) of this artistic trend with Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism from March 26 to July 14.
150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, in a luxurious photographer Nadar’s studio in northern Paris, Berthe Morisot, Edouard Degas and Claude Monet came together as a cooperative limited company to open the first Impressionist exhibition, a movement that would forever change the course of art history.
The retrospective will take visitors on a virtual tour to the very moment 150 years ago. During the 40-minute immersive (沉浸的) tour, visitors will spend a virtual evening with the famous impressionists and travel by steam train to Bougival, west of Paris, where many of them worked. Visitors will then tour the main exhibition, which opens into a gallery with Renoir’s La Parisienne and La Danseuse that featured in the 1874 exhibition, and other impressionist paintings, drawings and sculptures.
“The immersive experience is unique and innovative. You can go into this exhibition and relive the evening with the artists and discover the origin of this movement. We want to recreate the emotion for visitors of the 1874 exhibition.” said Abastado, director of digital development at the Musée d’Orsay.
Guidelines:
* The experience is suitable for children of 11 y/o and above; children under 8 y/o are prohibited.
* We remind you that in view of the technology used, virtual reality experiences are not recommended for people with balance or vision disorders.
* Walkers and motorized wheelchairs are not permitted in the space, but manual wheelchairs are accepted.
1. What’s the retrospective mainly aimed at
A. Protecting cultural diversity. B. Fueling people’s love for art.
C. Showing honor to late artists. D. Marking the birth of a movement.
2 What can be experienced during the virtual tour
A. Painting a picture on the spot. B. Driving a steam train in person.
C. Meeting famous impressionists. D. Staying overnight in the gallery.
3. Who is the most suitable to visit the exhibition
A. An eight-year-old boy. B. An adult with a walker.
C. A visually-challenged girl. D. A teenager in a manual wheelchair.
B
I joined the coast guard because I wanted to help people. Hovercraft (气垫船) are rare and special. They’ve been discontinued in most commercial operation, because they are so expensive to make, but when it comes to search and rescue, they’re priceless.
From far away, a hovercraft looks like a normal boat. But if you look under its skirt, the craft is not touching the water — it floats on a cushion of air. That cushion allows us to travel over everything from water to muddy land — and even break through ice. We do all of that as a 70-tonne machine, going a maximum of nearly 120 kilometers per hour. These features allow us to rescue a large number of people quickly get onto land, and get someone into an ambulance far easier than with any other device I can think of.
The advantages of hovercraft can also make them difficult to handle. We’ve got a massive vehicle moving fast, sometimes in a thick fog bank up a narrow river. During assignments on other coast guard ships, I had 20 minutes to make alterations to avoid a crash. In a hovercraft, I have 10 seconds. You have to have enough situational awareness to make the right decision every time.
People call us for all sorts of problems: missing divers, on-board fires, or even when they’ve run out of fuel or had a mechanical breakdown. A container ship could burst into flames. We have a strong network here at the base to help everyone through difficult situations like that. Thankfully, we have captains who train us in a safe environment, but you don’t ever get fully comfortable. Anything can throw the hovercraft off — maybe your lift settings are off a little, or the wind blows with a bit of extra weight. After several years operating a hovercraft, I’m still learning. Every one of the captains here agrees: you can drive this thing for 20 years and still be surprised.
4. What makes hovercraft unsuitable for commercial use
A. Their safety risks. B. Their poor durability. C. Their low efficiency. D. Their production costs.
5. What is paragraph 2 mainly about
A. How a hovercraft works. B. What comprises a hovercraft.
C. What distinguishes a hovercraft. D. How a hovercraft helps victims.
6. What challenge do hovercraft pose to the pilot
A. They have to make faster responses.
B. They often face mechanical breakdowns.
C. They need more people for decision making.
D. They must consider the environmental concerns.
7. What does the author think of operating a hovercraft
A. Dull. B. Demanding. C. Enjoyable. D. Effortless.
C
Initial conversations can have a huge impact on how relationships develop over time. People are often stuck in the impressions they think they might have made the minute they finish speaking with someone for the first time: “Did they like me or were they just being polite ” “Were they deep in thought or deeply bored ”
To find out whether these worries are necessary, we have conducted nearly 10 years of research. In our studies, participants in the UK talked with someone they had never met before. Afterward, they were asked how much they liked their conversation partner and how much they believed that their conversation partner liked them. This allowed us to compare how much people believed they were liked to how much they were actually liked.
Time and time again, we found that people left their conversations with negative feelings about the impression they made. That is, people systematically underestimate how much their conversation partners like them and enjoy their company — a false belief we call the “liking gap”.
This bias (偏见) may seem like something that would occur only in initial interactions, but its effects extend far beyond a first impression. Surprisingly, the liking gap can constantly affect a variety of relationships, including interactions with coworkers, long after the initial conversations have taken place. Having a larger liking gap is associated with being less willing to ask workmates for help, less willing to provide workmates with open and honest feedback, and less willing to work on another project together.
There are numerous strategies to minimize your biased feelings. One place to start is shifting your focus of attention. Try to direct your attention to your conversation partner, be genuinely curious about them, ask them more questions, and really listen to their answers. The more you’re zeroed in on the other person, and the less you’re focused on yourself, the better your conversation will be and the less your mind will turn to all the things you think you didn’t do well.
8. Why did the author carry out 10 years of research
A. To dismiss national concerns. B. To check out a potential bias.
C. To enhance human communication. D. To develop harmonious relationships.
9. What is one effect of people’s liking gap
A. Fewer chances of new projects. B. Underestimation of their ability.
C. Bad relationships with people around. D. Low willingness to interact with others.
10. What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph
A. Restate opinions. B. Deliver warnings. C. Give suggestions. D. Make a summary.
11. Which might be the best title for the text
A. Liking Gap May Influence Work Performances
B. First Impressions Rely On Initial Conversations
C. People Probably Like You More Than You Think
D. How People Like You Matters Less Than You Assume
D
If you live on this planet, there’s a decent chance you’ve seen the classic Star TrekEpisode, in which captain Kirk and several members find themselves in what appears to be another universe.
These days, it seems the idea of the multiverse—many worlds—is having its Hollywood moment. Its appeal as a storytelling device is obvious—characters explore a multi-world with varying degrees of similarity to our own, as well as different versions of themselves. Hence, it has been fully established in mainstream pop culture.
While Hollywood can’t seem to get enough of the multiverse, it remains deeply controversial (有争议的) among scientists. Advocates on the two sides show no mercy toward each other in their books, on their blogs. But physicists didn’t pull the idea out of thin air—rather, several distinct lines of reasoning seem to point to the multiverse’s existence. However, critics warn that making the multiverse legal could make it harder for the public to distinguish speculative (推测性的) theories from established fact, making it more difficult to keep pseudo-science (伪科学) at bay. Giving credit to such speculation risks “turning fundamental physics into pseudo-science”.
The multiverse controversy is rooted in the idea of test ability. If we can’t interact with these other universes, or detect them in any way, some experts insist that reduces them to mere philosophical speculation. But Carroll, an advocate for “many worlds”, argues that mathematics is the language describing our physical theories. Since Schrdinger’s equation (方程), on which Quanturr (量子) mechanic rests, predicts the existence of many worlds, so be it.
Could a more expansive view of the universe itself be the next breakthrough As Siegfried puts it: “Every time in the past that we’ve thought, ‘We’ve got it; this is what the whole universe is’—the people who’ve said, ‘Maybe there’s more than one of those’ have always turned out to be right.”
12. Why is Hollywood so occupied with the multiverse
A It makes for engaging plots.
B. It is a much-talked-about topic.
C. It is helpful to popularize science.
D. It dominates the mainstream pop culture.
13. What do the underlined words in paragraph 3 probably mean
A. Out of date. B. Out of place. C. Out of nowhere. D. Out of question.
14. According to the opponents, the basic standard of fundamental physics is that ______.
A. it can be detected somehow
B. it can be reasoned logically
C. it can be interpreted philosophically
D. it can be predicted by mathematics equation
15. What might be the author’s attitude toward the multiverse
A. Doubtful. B. Dismissive. C. Unclear. D. Approving.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10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 teenage years are a transformative period marked by great physical, psychological, and emotional changes. ___16___ They refer to the feelings that arise during interactions with others, such as gratitude, shame, sympathy, guilt, and pride.
Understanding and managing social emotions can help develop teenagers’ identities. Teenagers experience a wide range of emotions from social interactions, which significantly influences their self-understanding and social awareness. In the process, they learn to understand, and appropriately respond to both their own emotions and those of others. ___17___
In academic settings, social emotional competencies like self-regulation, motivation, and social awareness directly impact a teenager’s ability to learn, participate, and engage in school activities. ___18___ Teenagers with strong social emotional skills are better equipped to handle stress, resist peer pressure, and avoid risky behaviors, reducing the likelihood of developing mental health issues.
Learning social emotions involves a combination of personal experience, guidance, and formal education. ___19___ This environment influences teenagers’ earliest understanding of how to communicate and manage their emotions. They feel safe and supportive to express their emotions freely and learn to manage them without fear of judgment. Schools also play a significant role through social emotional learning programs that teach these skills in a structured munity involvement, extracurricular activities, and peer (同伴) interactions offer additional opportunities for teenagers to practice and refine their social emotional skills.
___20___ It contributes to a teenager’s ability to manage their own emotions, understand others’ emotions, and face social complexities. This learning is a cornerstone for shaping their identity, influencing their interpersonal relationships, academic success, mental health, and future life outcomes.
A. What exactly are social emotions
B. The journey into mature emotion is quite easy.
C. Social emotion learning for teenagers is essential.
D. Central to this phase is the concept of social emotions.
E. This helps shape their own personal principles and beliefs.
F. Families play a crucial role in modeling and developing these skills.
G. Moreover, social emotional skills are closely linked to mental health.
第三部分 语言运用（共三节，满分40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四个选项中选出最佳选项。
It’s been over a year since I started my volunteer work as a caregiver at a well-known location here in Oklahoma. During a recent visit, I had a(n) ____21____ with a nurse there. We discussed how I ran into some issues with my right leg after a terrible fall. I was sharing how my new ____22____ led me to have to make some personal changes and so I ____23____ some at-home projects, such as a vegetable garden, a chicken pen, and my pet birds, when Judith wheeled over and politely introduced herself. She ____24____ offered me a like-new bird cage to replace my ____25____ one, and I gratefully accepted her ____26____.
When I went to Judith’s house to ____27____ the bird cage, she asked if I could ____28____ her for an upcoming surgery since she had no one else to rely on. I felt ____29____ to be chosen to take care of her after the ____30____. Judith, who is also a ____31____ and has devoted many years to working as a hospital volunteer, truly ____32____ to be treated with kindness and respect.
This experience serves as a beautiful example of two ____33____ showing random act s of kindness towards each other. I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason, and I am truly ____34____ for the opportunity to care for Judith. In the future, should I ever need ____35____, I hope to receive the same loving support.
21. A. date B. drink C. argument D. conversation
22. A. jobs B. rules C. challenges D. wishes
23. A. funded B. sold C. created D. studied
24. A. kindly B. proudly C. jokingly D. calmly
25. A. hanging B. struggling C. hand-made D. solar-powered
26. A. offer B. claim C. decision D. donation
27. A. look for B. pick up C. throw off D. put away
28. A. forgive B. thank C. interview D. accompany
29. A. honored B. prepared C. relaxed D. qualified
30. A. checkin B. accident C. operation D. examination
31. A. patient B. doctor C. cleaner D. caregiver
32. A. needs B. expects C. deserves D. continues
33. A. nurses B. elders C. visitors D. strangers
34. A. sorry B. grateful C. responsible D. famous
35. A. advice B. assistance C. information D. guidance
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。
Trends popular among the youth such as “China chic” and the growing influence of young consumers have driven the development of hanfu industry in recent years. Among the various ____36____ (style), the horse face skirt has emerged as the most popular item.
____37____ (combine) classical elegance with modern simplicity, the horse face skirt is said to perfectly suit the contemporary culture and lifestyle of young people, which make ____38____ a fashion icon (标志). This trend has gained popularity in Luoyang City, Central China’s Henan Province, ____39____ numerous performers recently showcased these beautiful skirts in their acts, with many visitors alike ____40____ (dress) in the elegant horse face skirts. In Caoxian County of Shandong Province, one of the ____41____ (country) hanfu production and sales centers, the sales of the horse face skirts during last Spring Festival holiday ____42____ (increase) dozens of times compared to usual volumes. Actually, the skirt has become a very popular ____43____ (choose) for gifts.
The current popularity of hanfu in the country ____44____ (believe) to indicate more than a fashion trend; it represents _____45_____ deeper connection to Chinese tradition and cultural identity.
第三节 选词填空（共10题，每题1分，满分10分。）
阅读下面短文，用方框中所给词正确形式填空。每个词汇限用一次。
set apart from, primitive, subsequent, influential, contemporary, perspective, recognize, anticipate, innovation, emerge
Western art began in ____46____ forms during the Middle Ages, when its main purpose was teaching Christianity. Artists weren’t concerned with realistic scenes — they made important religious figures much larger to ____47____ ordinary people, showing their spiritual significance.
The Renaissance brought an awesome breakthrough in art. ____48____ painters like Masaccio developed ____49____ techniques that made paintings look three-dimensional. Another important ____50____ was oil painting, which reached its peak with Rembrandt. His amazing use of light and shadow earned him great ____51____ as a master artist.
When photography ____52____ in the 19th century, painting changed completely. Artists no longer needed to record reality accurately. From this change, Impressionism was born in France. ____53____ art movements went even further — instead of showing reality, they began to ____54____ modern art by asking the fundamental question: “What is art ”
Today, _____55_____ Western art continues this creative journey. From its primitive religious beginnings to today’s abstract works, art remains a powerful way to express human ideas and emotions. The development of Western painting shows how artistic expression keeps evolving in exciting new directions.
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分40分。）
76. 第一节（满分15分）
56. 请你以上周参加的社会实践活动为写作话题，写一篇英语短文向英语校刊投稿，内容包括：
1. 介绍自己的社会实践经历；
2. 参加活动的感受。
词数：80词左右。
My Social Practice Experience
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77. 第二节（满分25分）
57. 假设你是李华。请根据以下图片顺序，写一篇英语短文，记录时间管理是如何改变你的学习和日常生活的。
注意：1、词数：150词。
2、可适当增添细节以使行文流畅。
Time Management
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英语答案
听力
阅读
1. D 2. C 3. D
4. D 5. C 6. A 7. B
8. B 9. D 10. C 11. C
12. A 13. C 14. A 15. D
16. D 17. E 18. G 19. F 20. C
21. D 22. C 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. A 27. B 28. D 29. A 30. C 31. D 32. C 33. D 34. B 35. B
36. styles
bining
38. it 39. where
40. dressed
41. country’s
42. increased
43. choice 44. is believed
45. a
46. primitive
47. set apart from##set them apart from
48. Influential
49. perspective
50. innovation
51. recognition
52. emerged
53. Subsequent
54. anticipate
55. contemporary
56. My Social Practice Experience
Last week, I participated in a community service activity at a local park. We cleaned up litter and planted new trees. It was hard work, but seeing the park become cleaner and greener made me feel proud. I also met many friendly people who shared the same goal. This experience taught me the importance of taking care of our environment and working together as a community. I felt very fulfilled and look forward to more activities like this.
57. Time Management
Without proper time management, I often found myself staying up late into the night to study. The workload seemed overwhelming, and I couldn’t finish everything during the day. As a result, I was always exhausted. During classes, I couldn’t help dozing off, missing important points from the lessons. My poor time management also led to bad exam results, which made me feel frustrated and discouraged.
Realizing the problem, I decided to change. I started planning my day carefully, setting specific times for studying, resting, and even having fun. By sticking to the schedule, I was able to complete my tasks efficiently and get enough sleep. Gradually, my academic performance improved. I felt more energetic and focused in class. Proper time management not only helped me avoid late-night cramming but also boosted my grades. Now I feel more relaxed in daily life. I can balance my work and leisure, making every day more productive and enjoyable.