福建省龙岩市一级校联盟2023-2024学年高二下学期4月期中英语试题(无答案 无听力音频 无听力原文)
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1092200011049000龙岩市一级校联盟2023—2024学年第二学期半期考联考
高二英语试卷
(考试时间:120分钟 总分:150分)
命题学校：连城一中
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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。
例:How much is the shirt?
A.?19.15. B.?9.18. C.?9.15.
1. Where does the man plan to put the painting?
A. In the front hallway. B. In the kitchen. C. In the living room.
2. What did the woman do yesterday?
A. She finished her daily report.
B. She had a meeting.
C. She typed an e-mail.
3. What will the woman do first?
A. Design a water system. B. Go over the instructions. C. Finish her homework.
4. Why does the man make the phone call?
A. To organize a business trip.
B. To cancel an appointment.
C. To offer some information.
5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Doctor and patient. B. Journalist and player. C. Employer and employee.
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. When will the woman take her flight?
A. At 12:45. B. At 21:00. C. At 9:25.
7. How will the woman pay for the ticket?
A. By check. B. In cash. C. By credit card.
听第7段材料，回答第8至 10题。
8. Why does the woman come to the man?
A. To make a complaint. B. To change a tie. C. To express thanks.
9. What does the woman like about the wallet?
A. The design. B. The colour. C. The material.
10. How much is the wallet today?
A.20 dollars. B. 10 dollars. C.18 dollars.
听第8段材料，回答第11 至 13题。
11. What is the man doing?
A. Doing a survey. B. Taking an interview. C. Hosting a program.
12. What did Wang Yaping do in 2008?
A. She became an astronaut.
B. She flew for 1,567 hours in total.
C. She contributed to the Beijing Olympics.
13. What does the woman think of Wang Yaping?
A. Calm and interesting. B. Strong and encouraging. C. Inspiring and cooperative.
听第9段材料，回答第14 至 17题。
14. Who is the woman most probably speaking to?
A. A patient. B. A librarian. C. A retiree.
15. What does the man need to do with the records?
A. To collect them. B. To update them. C. To return them.
16. Why does the lunch club need more drivers?
A. It is located in a neighboring community.
B. It promises to provide a lift for its members.
C. Many members are from other communities.
17. When will Mrs. Carroll go to the hospital?
A. Next Monday. B. Next Friday. C. Next Tuesday.
听第10段材料,回答第18 至 20题。
18. What products does Stevenson’s produce?
A. Medical tools. B. Metal goods. C. Machine parts.
19. Who is Ronald Stevenson?
A. The manager of the company.
B. The founder of the company.
C. The director of the company.
20. What is the school unable to do this year?
A. Arrange a morning presentation every week.
B. Hire a teacher to observe and talk to the students.
C. Send a teacher to find out about the group’s progress.
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
Home delivery meal kits have been one of the bits of the pandemic: They have enabled diners to carry on getting a taste of restaurant-quality food, while helping restaurants to stay in business, and even make you an excellent chef. Here are four of the best offering delivery in our region:
Berenjak (berenjakbazaar. com)
“The kabab kits from this London-based Iranian restaurant—which range in price from?25 to ?45—are a ‘class act’,” says Jay Rayner in The Observer. “My kit even included a pair of plastic gloves for me to wear while dealing with the raw meat. This is the best kind of meal kit—the cooking is fun, and the finished product is utterly delicious.”
Gujarati Rasoi (gujaratirasoi.co.uk)
“I love this vegetarian restaurant,” says Marina O’Loughlin in The Sunday Times. “And its meal boxes are ‘electrifyingly good’ too. Family boxes for four cost ?65, and I especially love the starter (?15.50). The dishes were complicated, yet quite easy to cook.”
Lyle’s (lylesprovisions.com)
“This Michelin-starred London restaurant delivers its’ exquisitely delicious’ menu boxes each Friday,” says Candy Clay in The Daily Telegraph. “At ?140 for two, they aren’t cheap, and with multiple courses, they do take a bit of work and concentration to cook.”
Santo Remedio (santoremedio. co.uk)
“Order a Remedy kit from Santo Remedio and what you will get is an incredibly generous, sharing-style Mexican feast for two,” says Anna Lawson on BBC’s “Good Food”. “The kits come with a choice of slow-cooked meat, accompanied by all the ingredients to make your own pancake. Preparation is simple, thanks to a color-coded instruction.”
21. What can be found in all the introductions to home delivery meal kits?
A. Small gifts. B. Nice discounts.
C. Cooking instructions. D. Personal recommendation.
22. Which restaurant best suits vegans?
A. Gujarati Rasoi. B. Lyle’s. C. Santo Remedio. D. Berenjak.
23. What can we know about Santo Remedio?
A. It is a famous fast food restaurant in Britain.
B. It is recommended by BBC’S “Good Food”.
C. It changes the traditional Mexican cooking styles.
D. It provides delicious pancakes of the same ingredients.
B
In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one Scottish school has returned to basics. It’s teaching children the ignored art of writing with a fountain pen. There is no clicking of keyboards in most classrooms at the Mary Erskin e and Stewart’s Melville Junior School, although there is a full range of facilities (设施) for computer lessons and technology isn’t being ignored. The school’s headmaster believes the old-fashioned pens have helped strengthen the academic performance and self-respect of his 1,200 pupils.
“The pens improve the quality of work because they force the children to take care, and better work improves self-respect”, headmaster Bryan Lewis said. “Proper handwriting is as relevant today as it ever has been.” Students as young as 7 have been instructed to give up their ballpoint pens and begin to deal with the more artful predecessor. By the time they reach grade five, at age 9, they are expected to write mainly with fountain pens. Lewis said the school’s 7- and 8-year-olds use fountain pens for 80 percent to 90 percent of their work, returning to pencils for such subjects as math. “I don’t see fountain pens as old-fashioned or out of date. Modern fountain pens are beautiful to use. It’s not like in the old days of broken metal points and dirtying writing paper,” Lewis said. “We have a particular writing style and we have developed it very carefully and found a way that allows left- and right-handed people to write without dirtying paper.”
Some people argue that handwriting is becoming less important because of the growing use of cell phone text messaging and typing on computers, but the school disagrees. “We talk of the paperless office and the paperless world, but this is not true,” Lewis said. “You still need to have proper handwriting skills.”
24. What can be inferred about the Scottish school?
A. It does not think highly of modern technology.
B. It values fountain pens more than anything else.
C. It pays special attention to the use of fountain pens.
D. It takes action which is considered stupid by many people.
25. What does the underlined word “predecessor” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The pencil. B. The keyboard. C. The ballpoint pen. D. The fountain pen.
26. Which of the following may be the view of the headmaster?
A. Fountain pens have helped to build up students’ self-respect.
B. Using fountain pens may slow down students’ speed of writing.
C. Handwriting skills are more important than typing skills nowadays.
D. Children should be required to use fountain pens when they are five.
27. What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. Schools should stay away from tech. B. Old-fashioned fountain pens are coming back.
C. Fountain pens strengthen academic performance. D. Handwriting should not be ignored in modern times.
C
Cartoons suit the way we like information to be presented these days: vividly and in small amounts. We are used to cartoons and comic series that take a biting look at modern life or provide a bit of escapism. But recently we have seen an increase in the number of comic books: book-length comics with a single, continuous narrative. Historically, comic books were not popular outside France, Belgium, Japan, and the US. The exception is the worldwide popularity of a young reporter-detective from Belgium, Tintin.
The creation of the Belgian cartoonist Herge, The Adventures of Tintin first appeared in a Belgian newspaper in 1929. Each story appeared as a cartoon series week by week, but soon after was republished in book form. One of the main attractions for readers was that they were taken to parts of the world they had never seen and probably never would: Russia, Congo, America. Herge himself only traveled outside Belgium later in life, but his passion was educating his readers about other cultures and places.
Two things set Herge apart as a comic novelist. The first was his technical drawing skills: with just a few simple lines he could communicate a particular facial expression or movement. The second was the careful research he put into his stories. In The Crab with the Golden Claws, Tintin follows an opium-smuggling (鸦片走私) ring to North Africa; in King Ottakar’s Scepter, he makes an attempt at a military coup (政变) in a central European country. While telling these stories, Herge also made a fine balance between serious topics and humor.
Tintin had more than his fair share of adventures, but perhaps the greatest is his journey to the Moon, told in Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. Written in 1953, sixteen years before the first Moon landing, the stories show a remarkable eye for technical detail and feeling for the nature of space travel. In the early 1950s, few could imagine what it was like to be looking down at our planet from outer space. And that is Herge’s true gift: to understand what a place was like without ever having been there.
28. What can be learned about comic books from the passage?
A. They mostly involve detective stories. B. They present information in small amounts.
C. They are taking a positive look at modern life. D. They were popular outside Belgium historically.
29. Which of the following was an attraction of The Adventures of Tintin for readers?
A. The stories were the first comic novel published in book form.
B. The stories used to be cartoon series that appeared week by week.
C. The stories had a good balance between serious topics and humor.
D. The stories enabled them to learn about places they had never been to.
30. Why are The Crab with the Golden Claws and King Ottakar’s Scepter taken for examples?
A. To show Herge had a good sense of humor.
B. To show Herge liked touching on serious topics.
C. To illustrate Herge based stories on research results.
D. To illustrate Herge was expert at technical drawing skills.
31. Which of the following can best describe Herge according to the passage?
A. Creative. B. Devoted. C. Serious. D. Humorous.
D
Solar panels—also known as “photovoltaic” panels—are used to turn sunlight into electricity. Most solar panels are placed on land in large collections called solar farms. But recently people have begun to explore putting floating solar panels on water. Because these panels float, some people call them “floatovoltaics”.
The idea isn’t as unusual as it might seem. After all, any solar panel has to be waterproof, since it will be out in the rain. There are already several large floatovoltaic farms in Asia. On land, so panels are held up by special frames (框架). On the water, floatovoltaics are placed on a floating platform attached to the bottom of a lake or reservoir (水库). Floating solar panels cost about 25% more than those placed on land.
The researchers behind the new study looked at 145,555 reservoirs worldwide. They used computer programs to figure out how much electricity could be produced yearly by covering30% of these reservoirs with floating solar panels. The answer was surprisingly large—more than twice the amount of energy the United States generates in a year and 10 times as much energy as all the solar power currently being generated in the world.
Floatovoltaics can also help save water by limiting evaporation (蒸发) from reservoirs. The scientists say that solar panels covering just 30% of the reservoirs’ surfaces could save as much water as 300 million people would use in a year. There are several other reasons that make floatovoltaics a good idea. Photovoltaic panels work better when they’re not extremely hot. The water helps cool the panels so that they create more energy.
Floatovoltaics aren’t perfect. Covering too much of a reservoir with panels could affect the plants and animals in the water. The scientists say it will be important to study how floating panels will affect water in each reservoir. Focusing first on man-made reservoirs will avoid some of those problems.
32. What is the purpose of paragraph 2?
A. To list solar panels’ unusual functions.
B. To introduce the workability of floating solar panels.
C. To show disadvantages of solar panels on land.
D. To make a comparison between different solar panels.
33. How did researchers carry out the new study?
A. By looking at reservoirs worldwide. B. By building floatovoltaic farms in the US.
C. By making computer-aided estimates. D. By processing data given by specialists.
34. What do we know about floating solar panels?
A. They may cause potential harm to water ecosystem.
B. They will eventually replace photovoltaic panels.
C. They function well in extreme hot weather.
D. They are perfect except for the high cost.
35. What is the suitable title for the text?
A. Floating Solar Panels—Our Final Choice
B. Floating Solar Panels—Taking Us Back to Water
C. Floating Solar Panels---A New Way to Cool the Planet
D. Floating Solar Panels—Making Energy, Saving Water
第二节 (共5小题;每小题2.5分,满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Self-doubt happens to us during normal days or whenever we start something new. Living with self-doubt can be very challenging. Being self-confident is not easy and not everyone can do it. 36 Here are some strategies that you can employ to overcome self-doubt and build up confidence.
Never compare yourself with others. Comparing yourself with others is a terrible act. 37 Why would you compare yourself with a family member, a friend, or even your colleague when each of your lives is different? You should focus on yourself and only your achievements. This will allow you to accomplish your goals without any worries.
Only you are your biggest critic. There is no bigger inner critic of ourselves than ourselves; only we should be able to judge our progress in life, and no one else should have that power. 38 If you won’t do anything like that, then why are you stressing yourself out over situations like these?
39 In life, there will come many events that we are thankful for, especially our awesome achievements. It is better to start keeping track of them. This will be really helpful when you are doubting yourself. Compare yourself to the time when you felt great, and convince yourself that you can be that person again.
Seek professional help if necessary. 40 This is the time when we need some specialist advice. Self-doubt can become a permanent hurdle if not taken care of. Talk about your feelings often, let all the negative emotions out, and this will make you feel a lot better.
A. Start keeping a journal of events.
B. Yet it doesn’t need to be that difficult.
C. Reflect back on your past achievements.
D. Actually, it falls into the category of self-harm.
E. Sometimes the situation can become too much to handle.
F. If your sister failed to achieve something, would you let her go?
G. This sort of feeling may limit your potential and break your confidence.
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)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I often read of incidents of misunderstanding or conflict. I’m left 41 . Why do these people create mistrust and problems, especially with those from other 42 ?
I was 43 in Kuala Lumpur in the early 1960s, when children from different races and religions played and studied together in harmony. At that time my family lived a stone’s 44 from Ismail’s. And no one was bothered that Ismail was a Malay Muslim and I was an Indian Hindu—we just 45 our differences. Perhaps, our elders had not filled our heads with unnecessary advice, well meant or otherwise. We were nine when we became friends. During the school holidays, we’d 46 the countryside on our bicycles, hoping to 47 the unexpected. At times Ismail would accompany my family as we made a rare shopping trip to town. We would be glad of his 48 . When I was twelve, my family moved to Johor. Ismail’s family later returned to their village, and I lost touch with him.
One spring afternoon in 1983, I stopped a taxi in Kuala Lumpur. When I 49 my destination, the driver acknowledged (告知收到) my 50 but did not move off. Instead, he looked fixedly at me. “Raddar?” he said, using my childhood nickname. I was astonished at being so 51 addressed (称呼). Unexpectedly! It was Ismail! Even after two 52 we still recognized each other. Grasping his shoulder, I felt a true 53 , something hard to describe.
If we can allow our children to be themselves without 54 , they’ll build friendships with people 55 race or religion, who will be by their side through thick and thin. On such friendships are societies built and then we can truly be, as William Shakespeare once wrote, “We happy few. We band of brothers.”
41.A. satisfied B. confused C. frustrated D. restricted
42.A. parties B. cities C. regions D. races
43.A. growing up B. showing up C. building up D. bringing up
44.A. move B. drop C. throw D. roll
45.A. removed B. accepted C. admired D. reformed
46.A. discover B. dominate C. explore D. search
47.A. take away B. come across C. deal with D. go through
48.A. company B. choice C. inspection D. absence
49.A. stated B. traced C. deleted D. ordered
50.A. guarantees B. attempts C. commitments D. instructions
51.A. similarly B. familiarly C. differently D. dramatically
52.A. seasons B. years C. decades D. months
53.A. infection B. grief C. motivation D. affection
54.A. sympathy B. patience C. prejudice D. discipline
55.A. regardless of B. other than C. rather than D. or rather
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 Grand Canal is the 56 (long) and oldest canal in the world. It forms a vast inland waterway system in China, running from the capital Beijing in the north 57 the Zhejiang Province in the south.
Constructed in sections from the 5th century BC and completed and 58 (maintain) by several dynasties, it formed the backbone of China’s inland communications system, 59 enabled the supply of rice to feed the population. The Grand Canal 60 (reach) a new peak in the 13th century, providing an inland shipping network consisting of more than 2,000 km of artificial 61 (waterway), which linked five of the most important river basins in China, including the Huanghe River and the Changjiang River. Still the major means of internal communication today, it has played an important role in ensuring 62 prosperity (繁荣)and stability of China over the ages.
The Grand Canal is an essential technological achievement 63 (date) from before the Industrial Revolution. It 64 (be) a perfect example of dealing with difficult natural conditions, as is reflected in the many constructions that are 65 (full) adapted to the diversity and complexity of circumstances. It best demonstrates the technical capabilities of Eastern civilizations.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节 (满分 15 分)
你们学校正在举办“我最喜欢的励志格言”的征文活动,请以“My Favourite Motivational Motto”为题写一篇征文稿。内容包括：
1.简述你对此格言的理解；
2.结合个人经历谈论意义或启示。
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。
My Favourite Motivational Motto
第二节 (满分 25 分)
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。
Throughout our lives, we have encountered a lot of people that have influenced us in some sense. Their effect may be for one day or a lifetime. Often, you don’t realize how much influence someone has had on you until a particular moment. The man who had a big influence on me was my father.
Three months after turning fourteen, my life was great. I was getting settled into a high school; my grades were already getting better and I was making friends.
One day, when I got back from school, I went to the sitting room and saw my parents having a conversation. They came up to me and asked me to take a seat, because they wanted to say something very important. I soon found out that my dad’s liver (肝脏) was failing and he needed an immediate transplant (器官移植). I was surprised and bewildered (不知所措的), because my father looked all right. He worked, and he didn’t seem ill. My parents said I shouldn’t be afraid, because it was going to be all right. Four months had gone by, and my father had yet to get a new liver. It looked as if his body was steadily worsening, but he kept saying, “Dear, everything will be just fine.”
It was becoming difficult for me and my family. My father had to give up work, and my mother was the sole breadwinner (养家糊口的人). I had to bear the responsibilities of cleaning up the house, making food, and looking after my father when my mother was at work. I had to limit my time with my friends, because my father started coming in and out of the hospital. My concentration on the subject was beginning to slip away. So were my grades. The day before my school spring break, my mother got a phone call from the doctor saying that there was a liver that matched my dad’s body and that he needed to get to the hospital immediately.
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。
My parents and I hurried to the hospital.
I had to take on so many responsibilities at home.
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