湖南省长沙市长郡中学2022-2023学年高二英语上学期期中考试试卷（Word版附答案）

长郡中学2022年下学期高二期中考试

英 语

时量：120分钟满分：150分得分

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（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.f9.18.  C.£9.15.

答案是C.

1.What is the girl looking for?

A.Her school bag.

B.Her pencil-box.

C.Her pencil.

2.Who got injured in the accident?

A.A baby.

B.Three women.

C.Nobody.

3.What do we know about the man?

A.He wants to get a new position.

B.He is asking the woman for help.

C.He has left the woman a good impression.

4.What does the man mean?

A.He can't afford the new car.

B.His friend has bought the car for him.

C.He has already made the down payment on the car.

5.How does the woman go to Philadelphia probably?

A. By car.

B. By subway.

C. By taxi.

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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至8题。

6.What does Vinnie Jones do now?

A. He is a soccer player.

B. He is an actor.

C.He is a director.

7.What is special about Vinnie Jones?

A.He is a famous British singer.

B. He is famous in America but not in Britain.

C.He used to be a well-known soccer player.

8.What do we know about Wimbledon?

A. It was once led by Vinnie Jones.

B. It is more competitive than Manchester United.

C.It once defeated Liverpool and won the championship.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9.What did the woman do last weekend?

A.She relaxed at the beach.

B.She visited her parents.

C.She prepared for a paper.

10.Why did the woman come home so soon?

A.She had work to do.

B.She had an appointment.

C.She was invited only for the weekend.

11.What did the woman think of playing volleyball on the beach?

A.Easy  B.Challenging. C.Exciting

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12.What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A.They are relatives.  B.They are colleagues. C.They are strangers.

13.What do we know about the woman's family from the conversation?

A.She has an extended family.

B.Her grandfather used to be a handsome actor.

C.Her grandparents live in a big house behind hers

14.What does the woman's mother look like?

A.She looks beautiful.

B. She looks young.

C.She looks plain.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15.What would the woman and her husband prefer to do for their weekend?

A.Visit Las Vegas.

B. Take a long trip.

C.Relax themselves.

16.What does the man advise the woman to do at the sea?

A. To surf and ride the wave.

B. To play volleyball on the beach.

C.To have a good sleep on the soft sand.

17.Who would most probably make the final decision?

A.The travel agency.

B.The woman.

C.The woman's husband.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18.What kind of person did Clemente's parents want him to be?

A.Independent and honorable.

B. Honest and kind.

C.Friendly and selfless.

19.Which team did Clemente play for as a professional player?

A.Nine professional teams.

B. The Brooklyn Dodgers.

C.A city team.

20.Why did Clemente make the trip to Nicaragua?

A.To provide relief supplies for people there.

B.To receive an award as a great baseball player.

C.To collect money for people in the quake-hit area.

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。

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Fill Your Cup

Fill Your Cup is a personalized one-hour session held on Mondays or Thursdays.Looking for a way to be social while still being safe? This program is designed to help you recharge your batteries in a way suitable for you.Bring your coffee and we'll chat! Bring your exercise shoes and we can stretch together! Whatever helps you "fill your cup”,we can figure out aplan together.Connect 2 Nature

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Join us as we explore a range of topics related to nature and discover how the environment impacts our health and well-being.We will learn from local experts and share in casual conversation about all things environmental.

New Device Tech Help

Thursdays;December 3,December 17 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

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Do you have questions about a new device or just need some help with your device? Bring in your cell phone,tablet,iPad,or any other technology item that you may have and La Crosse Library staff will be ready to help with your questions.

21.How can participants benefit from Fill Your Cup?

A. By taking stretching exercises alone.

B. By designing team plans to improve skills.

C. By enjoying friendly talks with free drinks.

D.By enlarging social circle in a relaxing way.

22.Which program is suitable if you are available only on Fridays?

A.Coping Skills. B. Fill Your Cup.  C .Connect 2 Nature. D.New Device Tech Help.

23.What do the programs have in common?

A.They feature online activities.

B.They promote social interaction.

C.They provide professional instructions.

D.They advocate environmental protection.

B

While some feel that bookstores are fading away,onc Chinese bookstore has found new life by marching into rural areas in China to bring colorful cultural life and higher incomes to local residents.

By absorbing local rural characteristics,the village branches of the Librairie Avantgarde Bookstore(LAB) chain have transformed into important platforms to display local history, culture and folk traditions.Not just bookstores,they are foundations helping to relieve spiritual poverty and centers for gathering and displaying rural cultures.

To better fit in the lives of local residents,each village branch has its own characteristics, like the branch in Shaxi,southwest China's Yunnan province. Many of nearly 20.000 books in the store are associated with the history,geography and folk customs of Yunnan and the Bai people."Turning in profits is not our only aim.Our bookstore has become a public gathering space for villagers.Not only young people,but many elderly residents come here.They do not buy books,but pass the time by reading or chatting with each other in our store."Liu Xia,the bookstore owner explained.

She added that this is a cultural atmosphere that bookstores offer the area.Some residents have grown accustomed to turning to the books of the store to find answers to the troubles they face,such as operating a business or attracting tourists from urban areas. The biggest benefit of opening bookstores in villages is that it helps provide a healthy environment for children's growth.“My kids often come to the store.They love reading books here.They gain knowledge and curiosity about outside world." one villager said.

The arrival of the bookstore means a lot to the village when young residents have been leaving for urban areas in recent years.During the 2020 May Day and National Day holidays,the daily number of tourists traveling to the village reached 5,000,a record high.Visitors were attracted by the bookstore.Surrounding it,several restaurants and hotels have opened.

24.Which of the following best describes village branches of the LAB?

A.They are disappearing gradually.

B.They feature local rural cultures.

C.They could make much higher profits.

D.They have set up poverty-relief foundations.

25.What do we know about the branch in Shaxi?

A.It specializes in history-related books.

B.It creates a public gathering space for business.

C.It shares the same features with other branches.

D.It helps villagers know more about the Bai people.

26.What's the greatest influence of village bookshops on the local areas?

A. Attracting more people to pay a visit.

B.Offering kids a healthy atmosphere.

C.Helping residents to acquire knowledge.

D.Encouraging the young to go to big cities.

27.Which of the following can be the best title of the text?

A.LAB:A Bookstore on the Rise

B.Local Culture Welcomed by Tourists

C.Village Bookshops Promote Rural Life

D.Great Ambitions of Village Bookstores

C

Discoverics at the famous Sanxingdui ruins in Southwest China show that the region's ancient Shu Kingdom Civilization shared similarities with the Maya.

The Sanxingdui ruins belonged to the Shu Kingdom that existed at least 4,800 years ago and lasted more than 2,000 years,while the Mayan civilization built its city-states around 200 AD.

The bronze-made remains of tress unearthed at the ruins of the Shu Kingdom resemble the sacred ceiba tree,which symbolized the union of heaven,carth and the underworld in the Mayan civilization.＂They are very important similaritics，＂says Santos，a Mexican archacologist（考古学家），stressing that ＂the representations of tress in both cultures provide a symbolism that is very similar”.

The findings at the Sanxingdui ruins,considered one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century,also show a new aspect of Bronze Age culture,indicating the ancient civilization already had technologies that were thought to have been developed much later.

While the time span between the Shu kingdom and the Mayan culture is great,the findings highlight the closeness between the two civilizations.They developed in areas with comparable climates and reflected their worldview through related symbols. "In the end,man is still man, independent of time and space.What we have is that，at this latitude（纬度），both the Shu people and the Mayans looked at the same sky and had the same stars on the horizon,"the expert says.

One notable feature of the recent discoveries at Sanxingdui was the cross-subject work and technology applied by teams of Chinese archacologists,which allowed the unearthing of artifacts as fragile as silk remains,which other types of less careful digging methods would not have been able to register.

Cooperation between Chinese and Mexican archaeologists could benefit projects in the Mayan world, where the rainy climate and humidity are problematic for the conservation of ruins.

"Every time our cultural knowledge increases, regardless of whether we speak one language or another, what it shows us is that we continue to be sister cultures and,therefore,the exchange of such knowledge is fundamental," says Santos.

28.What is a similarity between the Shu Kingdom and Maya civilization?

A.Their starting time.

B.Their historical origins.

C.Their cultural symbols.

D.Their ceremony traditions.

29.The findings at the Sanxingdui ruins have proved that

A.silk was a common clothing material then

B.some technologies were developed much carlier

C.the Bronze Age started carlier than previously assumed

D.the Shu Kingdom and the Mayan world had close contact

30.What is a common challenge for the conservation of both ruins?

A.Damp weather.

C.High latitude.

B.Positioning of ruins.

D.Language barriers.

31.What is the focus of Santos' quote in the last paragraph?

A.The future of the China-Mexico cooperation.

B.The benefits of speaking a different language.

C.The importance of the exchange of cultural knowledge.

D.The increasing sisterhood in culture between China and Mexico.

D

In a fascinating paper published last year in Science,a team led by Andreas Nieder of the University of Tübingen in Germany showed that crows-already known to be among the most intelligent of animals--are even more impressive than we knew.In fact,the evidence suggests that they are self-aware and，in an important sense，conscious（有意识的）.

Crows had been observed previously to use tools to solve certain problems. Nieder's experiment showed that the birds were actively evaluating how to solve a particular problem;in effect,they were thinking it over. This ability to consciously assess a problem was associated with the cerebral cortex（大脑皮层）in the brains of humans，which birds don＇t have.

Other studics support the idea that the bird brain can,in principle,support the development of higher intelligence.It had been dismissed in the past due to the small size of birds' brains. But recent research has shown that in birds，the neurons（神经元）are smaller and more tightly-packed, which makes sense to reduce weight and makes it easier to fly.The total number of brain cell in crows(about 1.5 billion) is about the same as that in some monkey species. But because they are more tightly-packed,the communication between the neurons seems to be better，and the overall intelligence of crows may be closer to that of gorillas（猩猩）.

This research has important consequences for our understanding of the evolution of higher intelligence.First,a cerebral cortex is not needed,and there are other means to achieve the same outcome. Second,  either the evolution of consciousness is very ancient,tracing back to the last common ancestor of mammals and birds about 320 million years ago, or,equally interesting, consciousness arose at least twice later on, independently in mammals and birds.Both options raise the possibility that higher intelligence on other planets may not necessarily be mammals or human-like,but could very well be birdlike.

32.What did Andreas Nieder's team find out about crows?

A.They are more intelligent than other animals.

B.They have left people a very good impression.

C.They are much cleverer than previously thought.

D.They can use tools to solve certain problems.

33.What does the underlined"it" in paragraph 3 refer to?

A.The idea.

C.Thedevelopment.

B.The bird brain.

D.Higher intelligence.

34.Why do crows have high-level intelligence?

A.They have more tightly-packed brains.

B.They have a small number of brain cells.

C.Their brain neurons could communicate well.

D.Their brain cells are the same with the monkeys'.

35.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A.Cerebral cortexes are necessary for the evolution of higher intelligence.

B.Both mammals and birds got their intelligence from common ancestors.

C.Higher intelligence has already developed separately in different species.

D.Higher intelligence on other planets might be different from what we imagine.

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。

Philadelphia is a city known for many things. It is where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776,and it was also the first capital of the United States.              36 It is home to nearly 3,000 murals（壁画）painted on the side of homes and buildings around the city． That＇s more murals than any other city on Earth.              37

More than 20 years ago,a New Jersey artist named Jane Golden started a program pairing troubled youth with artists to paint murals on a few buildings around the city.              38              The teenagers involved helped to create magnificent pieces of art,and there were other,even more important,benefits.The young people learned to cooperate and get along with many different kinds of people during the painting.They learned to be responsible,because they needed to follow a schedule to make sure the murals were completed.              39 It is hard for anyone to see the spectacular designs and not feel proud to be a part of Philadelphia.

Take a walk around some of the poorest neighborhoods in Philadelphia and you will find beautiful works of art on the sides and fronts of buildings.Of course the murals are not just in poor neighborhoods, but richer ones as well.Special buses take tourists to different parts of the city to see the various murals,which show the diverse ethnic groups that call Philadelphia home.

40 It is also a model for other cities throughout America seeking to help troubled youth.

A.How did this come to be?

B.What happened to the murals on carth?

C.They also learned to take pride in their community.

D.But one fact about Philadelphia is not so well-known.

E.From this small project, something magical happened.

F.The program encouraged troubled youth to paint together with their teachers.

G.As a result of its success, the murals program has now become the nation's largest public art program.第三部分              语言运用（共三节，满分35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。

Camogli looks like any other small Italian coastal town.The little 41 houses face the sea.The sunlight warms their beauty. But,look carefully and you'll see many things that seem 42...but they're not.

This fishing village is full of trompe l'oeil-an art form in which nothing is what it appears to be. While some flowers die, others live for years.Why? Because they're 43 on the building!                                                                                                                                            Trompe I'oeil has been around for centuries.              44,Camogli's fishermen painted their houses in bright colors and unusual designs, so that they could see their homes 45 from the water. Then, in the 1700s,it became a way to make small. Simple buildings look 46 and high-valued.

And today? There are still many trompe l'oeil houses in villages like Camogli, but only a few artists are 47 to paint them.Carlo is one of this ever-decreasing band of artists who's managed to make a business out of it.

His 48 are often people who want to improve their home's 49.But for Carlo trompe I'oeil's purpose is to bring something              50 to a new place, such as bringing the city to the sea or even the deserts to the cities.

Carlo's painting style 51 the past. He only uses old-style paints and mixes them by hand. He does so for one reason: to protect the trompe l'oeil              52.He also believes this art should be 53 everywhere.

Fortunately, in Camogli, local art and culture are still 54.But remember, don’t always 55 your cyes!

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Students of a Nanjing senior high school brought joy to the elderly and brightened up their day by 56.                                          (volunteer) at a local nursing home last weekend. The nursing home, 57.               (locate)on a housing estate, has more than 150 senior citizens, some of 58.               are over 90 years old.

Though it was the first time many of the students 59.       (take) part in a volunteer programme like this,they were eager to share various interesting 60.                                          (topic) with the residents,such as how to use mobile phones and go online on the computer.After lunch the residents and the young volunteers amused themselves 61.                                                        art activities which included Chinese painting and calligraphy.They enjoyed each other's company so much 62.                            Su Ming,16,said he hoped to return to the nursing home regularly 63.              (spend) time with the seniors that he made friends with.

Wang Hong,the programme organizer,said,“64.    (basic),I was concerned that the students and the senior residents wouldn't get along easily, but it turned out to be the exact opposite. I can say that today's activities 65.                                          (make)a big difference to the lives of the residents as well as the students."

第三节 课文默写（共5小题：每小题1分，满分5分）

66.When we come across such factual differences, we should not rush to the        that one of the news reports gives false information.

67.News reports written at different stages of an event could contain different information as new facts                           

68.Though journalists        presenting the truth, it is better to use our own judgement than rely entirely on news reports.

69.Almost nobody likes to come second, and sometimes it is difficult to       

70.Whether you come first or last, it is important to remember that at any sporting event, you face two                                                        : your fellow competitors and yourself.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节（满分15分）

假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Jack在社交媒体上看到了你参加运动会的照片，写信向你了解相关情况，请给他写一封回信，内容包括：

1．时间地点：

2．你的项目；

3．你的感受。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。

第二节（满分20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。

Charles Rose lived in the country with his father,who taught him to read and to write. Mr. Rose told his son that,when his morning lessons were over, he might amuse himself for one hour as he pleased.

There was a river near by.On its bank stood the hut of a poor fisherman, who lived by selling fish. His careful wife kept her wheel going Carly  and late.They both worked very hard to keep themselves above want. But they were greatly troubled for fear that their only son should never learn to read and to write.They could not teach him themselves, and they were too poor to send him to school.

Charles called at the hut of this fisherman one day, to inquire about his dog, which was missing. He found the little boy,whose name was Joc,sitting by the table,on which he was making marks with a piece of chalk. Charles asked him whether he was drawing pictures.

"No.I am trying to write,"said little Joc,"but I know only two words.Those I saw upon a sign,and I am trying to write them.”

"If I could only learn to read and write," said he,"I should be the happiest boy in the world.”

"Then I will make you happy,"said Charles.“I am only a little boy,but I can teach you that.”“My father gives me an hour every day for myself. Now,if you will try to learn,you shall

soon know how to read and to write."

Both Joe and his mother were ready to fall on their knees to thank Charles. They told him it was what they wished above all things.

So,on the next day when the hour came,Charles put his book in his pocket,and went to teach Joe.Joe learned very fast,and Charles soon began to teach him how to write.

Some time after,a gentleman called on Mr.Rose,and said,"Charles did not always amuse himself.I often see him go to the house of the fisherman. I fear he goes out in their boat." 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。