1、年春荆、荆、襄、宜四地七校英语试题 第 1 页（共 8 页） 英语试题 第 2 页（共 8 页） 2022 高一期中联考 英英 语语 试试 题题 注意事项： 注意事项： 1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的学校、班级、姓名、准考证号填写在答题卷指定位置，认真核对与准考证号条形码上的信息是否一致，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卷上的指定位置。 2. 选择题的作答：选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把机读卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。答在试题卷上无效。 3. 非选择题的作答：用黑色墨水的签字笔直接答在答题卷上的每题所对应的答题区域内。答在试题卷上或答题卷指定区域外无效。
2、 4. 考试结束，监考人员将答题卷收回，考生自己保管好试题卷。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分） 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。 第一节第一节 (共共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分分，满分 7.5 分分) 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。 例：How much is the shirt? A. 19.15. B. 9.1
3、8. C. 9.15. 答案是 C。 1. How many students competed in the race? A. 15. B. 25. C. 40. 2. What sport does the man like best now? A. Football. B. Basketball. C. Tennis. 3. What kind of person is Jim? A. Changeable. B. Quiet. C. Sociable. 4. Where are the speakers? A. In a garden. B. In a restaurant. C. I
4、n a music club. 5. What did the woman do the day before Christmas? A. She donated to the homeless. B. She got the bike she wanted. C. She organized a gift giving event. 第二节 (共 第二节 (共 15 小题；每小题 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 分，满分 22.5 分) 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
5、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 will the man do next? A. Mark the prices. B. Make a list. C. Attend a meeting. 7. Which is the cheapest? A. The hat. B. The trousers. C. The T-shirt. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. What is the conversation mainly about? A. Course design. B
6、. Course registration. C. Course training. 9. What course did the woman choose? A. IT. B. Modern History. C. Program Design. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What problem does the man have? A. He has put on much weight. B. He has not been sleeping well. C. He has trouble with his computer screen. 11. Wha
7、t is the worst about the womans job? A. The long working hours. B. The changeable schedule. C. The great stress. 12. Where will the speakers go this weekend? A. To a park. B. To a mountain. C. To a gym. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. Where is the woman from? A. England. B. America. C. India. 14. What d
8、oes the woman have trouble with? A. English. B. Maths. C. Law. 15. What made the woman decide to be an architect? A. Her teachers suggestion. B. Her parents expectation. C. Her personal character. 16. What can we learn about the woman? A. She will probably work in England. B. English is quite import
9、ant to her future. C. She began to learn in America last year. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. How was Baylis radio powered? A. By electricity. B. By shoes. C. By hand. 18. What do we know about the mobile phone invented by Baylis? A. It is powered by walking. B. It has a small battery in itself. C. It
10、 plays for about half an hour. 19. What is the educational background of Baylis? A. He is a high school graduate. B. He didnt receive a higher education. C. He majored in engineering at college. 20. How did Baylis get his ideas? A. He worked hard for them. B. They came to him by chance. C. Other peo
11、ple inspired him a lot. 英语试题 第 3 页（共 8 页） 英语试题 第 4 页（共 8 页） 第二部分第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分阅读（共两节，满分 50 分）分） 第一节（共第一节（共 15 小题小题; 每小题每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 37.5 分）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 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics presented the world fantastic events and bunches of brilliant athletes, among whom certa
12、in young athletes stood out and went viral among audience. Yuzuru Hanyu Aged just 19, Hanyu became the first Asian man to win an Olympic gold medal in Sochi, becoming the youngest mens champion since 1948. Hanyus technique is outstanding, but he combines his ability with an astonishing creativity an
13、d artistry. Though the “ice prince” tumbled (摔倒) in his performance and thus failed the gold medal in Beijing 2022, he still makes a deserving figure skating icon. Alexandra Trusova Alexandra Trusova is a Russian figure skater who is the Beijing 2022 Olympic silver medalist (representing ROC). The 1
14、7-year-old is best known for her quadruple-jumping abilities. She was the first female to land each of the quad Lutz, flip and toe jumps in competition, and was also the first to land two- and then three-quads in a free skate. Eileen Gu Nicknamed “Snow Princess”, Gu initially represented the United
15、States of America in competition, but she chose to compete for China, the birth land of her mother who is from Beijing. As a Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games gold medalist in big air, the 18-year-old girl is the first female Chinese freestyle skier to top the podium (领奖台). Yiming Su Born in 2004 in
16、 Jilin, Su is the first Chinese snowboarder to ever land on World Cup podium in either big air or slopestyle. He is also the first rider ever to land 1800s two ways in a FIS competition. This year he won Chinas sixth gold medal in the Olympics. Click here for more information about the above athlete
17、s. 21. Who is the youngest among the four athletes? A. Yuzuru Hanyu. B. Alexandra Trusova. C. Eileen Gu. D. Yiming Su. 22. What can we infer about the athletes mentioned in the text? A. They are skilled at big air events. B. They have a big impact on skating. C. They are pioneers in their own fields
18、. D. They won gold medals in the 2022 Olympics. 23. Where is the passage probably taken from? A. A sports website. B. A game brochure. C. A fashion magazine. D. A sports star magazine. B In 2017, Titli Trust began working with Tehri Forest Division to arm the local community with knowledge through a
19、 program named Living with Leopards (豹). The forest officials made a study trip to Mumbai to learn from their experiences there. “Our Mumbai trip has taught us that we need to change the focus from leopards to people,” says Dr Koko Rose from the Tehri Forest Division. This meant reaching out to vill
20、agers to share measures they could take to minimize (最小化) the chances of meeting a leopard or being attacked. They include clearing bushes around homes to minimize hiding spaces for leopards, leaving a light on at night, and ensuring people, especially children, did not go out alone at night. The st
21、rategies are carefully aimed at a leopards known habits: they are shy, tend to avoid human beings, and are more active at night. Forest officials also went to schools and launched a childrens ambassador program, where children dressed up as leopards and performed for their parents in order to create
22、 more understanding of why leopards come near their homes, and how to stay safe. These efforts seemed effective. In the four years before the program started, there were 45 cases of human-leopard conflict in the Tehri area, among them 10 human deaths. Now, the number went down to 14 and four human d
23、eaths. “Our ancestors tell us how they have lived in the forests, grazed (放牧) the animals in the forests, but the leopard has never attacked them,” says Meena, a local villager, “So we too can live with leopards, if we remain watchful and follow the rules.” 24. What did the forest officials learn fr
24、om the study trip? A. The community could be armed. B. People were more attractive than leopards. C. What people could do to help mattered more. D. They could reach out to the villagers for help. 25. What is basis of the strategies? A. The leopards shy nature. B. The forest officials opinion. C. The
25、 villagers measures. D. The geographic features. 26. What did the school children do to help? A. They didnt go out at night. B. They learnt how to stay safe. C. They dressed up to drive leopards away. D. They performed to teach their parents. 27. Which of the following is a suitable title for the te
26、xt? A. Leopards Shy Animals B. Learning to Live with Leopards Again C. Cooperating in Protection of Wildlife D. Measures to Reduce Leopard Movements C Using a raised eyebrow (眉毛) or smile, people with speech or physical disabilities can now operate their Android-powered smartphones without using the
27、ir hands, Google said on Thursday. Two new tools put machine learning and front-facing cameras on smartphones to work, identifying face and eye movements. Users can look at their phone screens and select a task by smiling, raising eyebrows, opening their mouths, or looking to the left, right or up.
28、The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that 61 million adults in the United States live with disabilities, which has pushed Google, Apple and Microsoft to make products and services more accessible to them. “Every day, people use voice instructions, like Hey Google, or their hands to
29、operate their phones,” the tech giant Google said in a blog post. “However, thats not always possible for people with serious physical or speech disabilities.” The changes are the result of two new features: One is called “Camera Switches”, which lets people use their faces instead of taps to intera
30、ct with smartphones. The other is Project Activate, a new Android application which allows people to use those gestures (姿势) to start an action, like having a phone play a recorded phrase, send text, or make a call. The free Activate app is available in Australia, Britain, Canada and the United Stat
31、es at the Google Play Store. Apple, Google and Microsoft have kept rolling out inventions that make Internet technology more accessible to people with disabilities or who find that age has made some tasks, such as reading, more difficult. Voice-instructed digital assistants built into speakers and s
32、martphones can enable people with sight or movement challenges to tell 英语试题 第 5 页（共 8 页） 英语试题 第 6 页（共 8 页） computers what to do. There is software that identifies text on web pages or in images and then reads it aloud, as well as automatic generation of captions (字幕) that display what is said in vid
33、eos. Apple built “AssistiveTouch” into the software powering its smartwatches. It lets touchscreen displays be controlled by sensing movements such as finger pinches (捏) or hand clenches. 28. What is the main role of the two new tools? A. Taking sharper photographs with a phone. B. Using smartphones
34、 with face gestures. C. Curing peoples speech or physical disabilities. D. Increasing the fun of playing with smartphones. 29. What do we know about the Project Activate app? A. Its sold at a high price. B. Its mainly used to send texts. C. Its instructed by voice. D. Its being used in a few countri
35、es. 30. What does the underlined part “rolling out” in Paragraph 5 probably mean? A. Picking out. B. Referring to. C. Bringing out. D. Reacting to. 31. Whats the authors purpose in writing the last paragraph? A. To promote Android-powered smartphones. B. To encourage more movements suitable for the
36、disabled. C. To explain the problems disabled smartphone users have. D. To introduce some other inventions benefiting the disabled. D What happens when we think that others expect us to fail? My research shows that these “underdog expectations” can actually motivate (激励) people to try to prove other
37、s wrong, especially those they find less trustworthy, leading them to perform better. I conducted an experiment asking volunteers to do a computer task that included clicking on rapidly moving circles. They were told that someone was observing their performance on the task. They would receive one of
38、 three messages stating underdog expectations, high expectations, or neutral (中立的) expectations from the observer. Volunteers then performed the task. I found that those who experienced underdog expectations performed the best. There are countless stories about underdogs being successful. For exampl
39、e, Aly Raisman, a three-time Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics, specially mentioned this motivation after reporters suggested she was too old to succeed at the last Olympics, “Its obviously not something that people expected or thats easy to do after youre taking a year off or being the Grandma or
40、 whatever they like to say. So, Im happy I proved everyone wrong.” Of course, there are also many more examples of people failing to overcome the low expectations others set for them. So when does being an underdog lead to success rather than failure? I ran a second study. Before volunteers received
41、 any expectations, they were casually given information about the observers trust. Results show that the desire to prove others wrong only turned into better performance in the face of less trustworthy observers, while it backfired when it came from more trustworthy observers. Trying to prove highly
42、 trustworthy people wrong appears to have caused a sense of anxiety, which weakened the following performance. In contrast, people experiencing underdog expectations from less trustworthy observers were able to use the desire to prove others wrong and perform successfully. My work suggests that more
43、 people can achieve success when they think that others view them as underdogs if they view others as less trustworthy and direct their motivation to prove them wrong toward performing better. 32. In Paragraph 3, the author uses Alys story to show _. A. an old player did better than her competitors
44、B. it was hard for an old player to achieve success C. the reporters thought little of Alys performance D. underdog expectations can actually lead to success 33. What does the underlined word “backfired” in Paragraph 5 probably mean? A. Developed interest. B. Raised motivation. C. Had opposite effec
45、ts. D. Helped avoid failure. 34. Which of the following situation can motivate a person best? A. A stranger online said you would rank first in the coming exam. B. A friend who once lied to you said you would fail the interview. C. A teacher you respect predicted your low scores in the coming exam.
46、D. A coach of the school team said you couldnt get a prize in the match. 35. Which might be the best title for the passage? A. Upside of Being Underdogs B. Ways to Better Performance C. Attempts to Prove Others Wrong D. Causes of Underdog Expectations 第二节第二节 (共共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 12.5 分分)
47、阅读下面短文，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。 Whats the use of language? Why does the human race learn to speak, write, and sign? 36 Certainly the primary purpose of language is for communication. We use language to communicate our ideas and opinions to each other. We use it to tell others our thoughts.
48、 Sometimes we tell the truth. Sometimes we tell lies. But in all these cases, the basic aim is clear: to get the ideas in our head into someone elses head. 37 But there are several other uses of language where the basic aim has nothing to do with communicating ideas. 38 Earlier in the book, I talked
49、 about accents and dialects. These tell people who we are and where we come from. In both ways we express our identities. Heres another use of language: to express our emotions. Imagine youre hammering a nail into a piece of wood, but something goes wrong and you hit your finger instead. What will c
50、ome out of your mouth? 39 But quite a few would shout, “Stupid hammer!” as if it was the hammers fault. What sort of language is this? The hammer doesnt have a brain, so it cant possibly understand us. So what are we doing? Actually, we just want to get rid of our nervous energy. By shouting at the
