1、2022-2023学年高二第二学期期中测试英 语 试 卷（完卷时间：120分钟 满分：140分） 出卷人： 审卷人：2023年04月第I卷（共100分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short
2、 conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which on
3、e is the best answer to the question you have heard.1.A. In a coffee shop.B. On a farm.C. In a furniture store.D. In a theatre.2.A. Cleaning a house.B. Finding things in the house.C. Living a simple life.D. Doing housework efficiently.3.A. Calming the woman down.B. Playing bridge. C. Reading a book.
4、D. Reflecting on himself. 4.A. The man recommends people to speak the same language.B. The woman thinks it unnecessary to save dying languages.C. The woman admires those devoted to preserving dying languages.D. The man appeals for more action to be taken to protect dying languages.5.A. He has
5、realized his own problem.B. The woman is sure to get a second job.C. He disagrees with the womans comments.D. The woman should care more about money.6.A. She has many friends to text. B. She cant focus her mind on study.C. She cant make long speeches.D. She has many classes to attend.7.A. Enjoy her
6、college life.B. Put off hard assignments.C. Set a post-college goal.D. Ease academic pressure. 8.A. It makes no sense.B. It needs training.C. It cant solve her problem.D. It is worth trying.9.A. She is a music lover. B. She is good at asking questions.C. She prefers art to sports.D. She knows Brazil
7、ians well.10.A. The specials are the mans best choice.B. She is fully confident of the quality-steak.C. Her house is a suitable place for having steak.D. The man should find by himself the nicest wine.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear one longer conversation and two short passages. Af
8、ter each conversation or passage, you will be asked several questions. The conversation and the passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the questio
9、n you have heard.Questions 11 through 14 are based on the following conversation.11.A. Cars.B. Computers. C. Dollars.D. Services.12.A. Its the real money paid to purchase items.B. Each Time Dollar records the value of trading stuff.C. Different music lessons equal different Time Dollars.D. It repres
10、ents the service time you exchange with others.13.A. To provide him with a part-time job.B. To ensure him that he can serve others.C. To guarantee him that he can make a living.D. To demonstrate to him how barter is kept on.14.A. To apply for membership. B. To sign up for walking.C. To use the free
11、pass.D. To check the time for barter.Questions 15 through 17 are based on the following passage.15.A. Have a whole idea of the characters look.B. Examine the actors or the actress face and body.C. Try various colors on actors or actresses hair.D. Get a clear picture of the characters skin tone.16.A.
12、 A film with a magic ending.B. A film stimulating her creativity.C. A film reflecting her delicacy. D. A film with several celebrities.17.A. They both lead the fashion.B. They both emphasize details.C. They both tell good stories. D. They both require harmony. Questions 18 through 20 ar
13、e based on the following passage.18.A. The ability to recall. B. The invention of camera. C. The chance of revisiting. D. The application of wi-fi.19.A. To send us to sleep.B. To develop technology.C. To refresh our memory.D. To offer us comfort.20.A. Digital camera.B. Fantastic daydream
14、.C. Memory journey.D. Virtual reality.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other
15、 blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Dear Easy,I wouldnt put too much stock in what your “literary” friends say; they sound like bores. When it comes down to it, people who think about reading in terms of what “counts” dont seem to actually enjoy books all that much. Their moralistic
16、 (说教的) gloom is evident in the extent (21)_ _ reading has come to resemble exercise, with readers tracking their word-count metrics, trying to improve their speed.(22)_ some disciples of this culture are quick to dismiss audiobooks as a shortcut, they cannot seem to agree on why, exactly, listening
17、is an inferior form of engagement. Some cite studies that have shown people who listen to books retain less than those who read them, which (23)_ (bind) up with how tempting it is to do other things while listening. (24)_ insist that audiobooks eliminate the readers responsibility to interpret thing
18、s like irony, tone, and inflection, given that the person on the recording is doing the work of conveying the emotions in the book for them. The larger problem, however, is in viewing books as (25) _ means to some other end. Many people who aspire to read more are motivated by the promise that doing
19、 so will prevent cognitive decline, improve brain connectivity. Some assume that the purpose of reading is (26)_ (absorb) knowledge or nuggets of trivia that one can use in order to demonstrate being “well read”. Id be willing to bet, Easy Listening, that your earliest experiences with the joy of li
20、terature were aural. Most of us were read to by adults before we learned to read ourselves, and listening to audiobooks recalls the distinctive delight of (27)_ (tell) a story.If youre like most people I know, you probably find it difficult to recall the last time a book regardless of (28)_ you cons
21、umed it succeeded in altering your consciousness, suggesting that many books youve encountered have failed to live up to their potential. My advice, Easy, is to be (29)_ (discriminating) about the medium and more choosy about the books you pick up. If you find that your mind is wandering or that you
22、re not able to fully enter into the reality of the narrative, (30)_ (consider) that this might be a problem with the content, not the mechanism through which you are experiencing it. Faithfully,CloudSection BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only
23、 be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. struggle B. roughlyC. major D. causesAB.chargedAC.feature AD.significantly BC.motives BD.identify CD.potentialABC.ruledThe Science Behind Why People Give Money to CharityThis question has fascinated behavioral scientists for deca
24、des: why do we give money to charity?The explanations for charitable giving fall into three broad categories, from the purely altruistic(利他的). The “impurely” altruistic I donate because I obtain value from knowing I contribute to the social good for the charity. And the the not-at-all altruistic I d
25、onate because I want to show off to (31)_ mates how rich I am.But are these (32)_ strong enough to enable people to donate as much as they would want to? Most people support charities in one way or another, but often we (33)_to make donations as often as we think we should. Although many people woul
26、d like to leave a gift to charity in their will, they forget about it when the time comes. Our research shows that if the will-writer just asks someone if they would like to donate, they are more likely to consider it and the rate of donation (34)_ doubles.Many people are also aware that they should
27、 donate to the (35)_ that have the highest impact, but facts and figures are less attractive than narratives. In a series of experiments, it was found that people are much more responsive to charitable requests that (36)_ a single, identifiable beneficiary(受益者), than they are to statistical informat
28、ion about the scale of the problem being faced. When it comes to charitable giving, we are often (37)_ by our hearts and not our heads.Another of the (38)_ findings from the research in this area is that giving is fundamentally a social act. One study shows that people give (39)_ more to their unive
29、rsity if the person calling and asking for their donation is their former roommate. Researchers found that when JustGiving donors see that the donor before them has made a large donation, they make a larger donation themselves.In summary, behavioural scientists (40)_ a range of factors that influenc
30、e our donations, and can help us to keep giving in the longer term. This is great news not just for charities, but also for donors. III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with th
31、e word or phrase that best fits the context.I forgot to pay my property tax last year. Was it a sign of early onset dementia(痴呆)? Had I spent last September as an anti-government tax resister and the entire month of September had (41) _ my mind? Then I realized the real problem: I have notification
32、(42) _.Since 2020, many of us have lived (43) _ online, relying on a trillion apps to send helpful, pinging notifications. So many notifications that theyve become a waterfall of sound I no longer hear. Ive grown (44) _ of every notification. I live in a continuous state of “oops.” My bad decisions
33、and my (45) _ are to blame. My first error was inviting these pings and beeps into my life decades ago. As someone with a memory as reliable as an inattentive goldfishs, I once depended on a detailed paper calendar and to-do list system to keep me on (46) _. My careful notes worked for years. But I
34、was eventually (47) _ transferring all the birthdays from one years calendar to the next. The coming of the PalmPilot (掌上电脑) thrilled me: I could enter the info once and, five days before each loved ones birthday, the device would automatically inform me of the coming date.That little PalmPilot was
35、a gateway drug. I eventually (48) _ my brain to more powerful devices. And for years, generally they were at a (49) _ level. Then the pandemic hit and my notification stream became a series of alerts and even alerts for other unimaginable demands of alertness.Then the other factor (50) _ kicked in.
36、My actual hearing loss, a genetic gift from my fathers side, started getting worse, turning the world into a series of dull noises. Even with my hearing aids in, maybe I didnt hear a notification. Having become deaf to alerts both (51) _ and metaphorically, I reasoned that enduring a little wrist vi
37、bration with every notification would bring me back into being a responsible adult. (52) _, I felt like I had severe nerve damage. After month 13 of the pandemic, my general stress level was peaking and I was too (53) _ to turn some off. “Youre not the boss of me!” I yelled one afternoon when seven
38、notifications popped up (54) _. I turned away like a bad-tempered teen. The solution? Im turning off all notifications and moving my life back to (55) _. Yes, it will be a tough adjustment. But it will force me to grab responsibility for my daily life back from all the devices.The good news: Paper d
39、oesnt chirp, buzz, flash or “pop up.” Paper just waits, quietly, non-judgmentally and trust you.41.A. failed B. slippedC. lostD. bent42.A. attentivenessB. alertnessC. unwillingness D. deafness43.A. largely B. barelyC. closely D. specially44.A. guiltyB. i
40、gnorantC. unawareD. incapable45.A. gene B. ageC. jobD. lifestyle 46.A. feet B. toes C. trickD. track47.A. used toB. tired of C. exposed toD. involved in 48.A. outsourced B. positioned C. swayedD. split49.A.tangible B. manageableC. approachableD. measurab
41、le 50.A. at lengthB. at play C. at oddsD. at intervals51.A. frantically B. accidentally C. literally D. excessively52.A. FurthermoreB. MeanwhileC. TherebyD. However 53. A. overwhelmedB. overblownC. overflownD. overtaken54.A. contemporarilyB.instinctively C. spontaneouslyD. simultaneously
42、55.A. easeB. workC. paperD. optimismSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the pa
43、ssage you have read.(A)Around this time last winter, at a gymnasium 45 minutes outside Budapest, I was surprised to come across a group of roughly 30 men and women with wooden axes. They had gathered to practice something called Baranta, perhaps the youngest of the worlds so-called traditional marti
44、al arts.While they took turns swinging and blocking, one member of the group, a beefy man with a tight, gray, military-style haircut, walked over to where I was standing and began excitedly talking to me in Hungarian. Even with the help of a translator, I had difficulty keeping up with what he was s
45、aying. Perhaps sensing this, he pulled out his phone to show me a series of videos, in which several groups of them were practicing Baranta.The name Baranta, I later learned, originates from an old Hungarian word meaning, roughly, “to attack.” Today, it refers to a fighting style based on a mixture
46、of Hungarian folk dancing. Mongolian wrestling, and the imagined fighting skills of its practitioners ancestors. Kata Babinszki, a student the University of Pcs who is writing an essay on Baranta, told me that the practice dates to the early 1990s. At that time, small groups of Hungarians began plun
47、ging into their countrys past, looking back to its history as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, to its time as a kingdom, and even to the period when Hungarians were horsemen travelling across the edges of eastern Europe and possibly central Asia.Baranta clubs have formed in most major Hungarian cities and in many smaller villages, Babinszki says. These new “traditionalists” are interested in taking up archery (射箭) and horseback riding and organizing giant “tribal meetings” at which they dress in Mongo
