2022-2023学年陕西省西安市雁塔区第二中学高二上学期第一次月考英语试题 Word版含答案

雁塔区第二中学2022-2023学年度第一学期月考

高二年级英语试题

 班级__________ 姓名___________

(考试时间：120分钟   满分：120分  )

第一部分 听力 (共两节，20小题，每小题1分；满分20分)

第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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.Where does the conversation most probably take place?

 A. In a library.          B. In a classroom.          C. In a computer shop.

2.Where will the woman probably go for her holiday?

 A. To the seaside.        B. To the countryside.      C. To the capital of the USA.

3.What does the woman suggest the man should take?

 A. A sweater and boots.   B. A raincoat and a sweater.  C. Medicines and a sweater.

4.What are the speakers mainly talking about?

 A. A job.              B. A baby.             C. A letter. 

5.How much does the man actually want to make a week?

 A. 100 pounds.           B. 600 pounds.           C. 700 pounds

第二节 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。

6.Why does the woman want to read the paper?

 A. Sunday papers have a lot to read.              

 B. She is only interested in Sunday papers.

 C. She has some free time only on Sundays.

7.What information is the woman going to read?

 A. News about women.    B. News about some food.   C. News about her business

听第7段材料,回答第 8、9 题。

8.When does the conversation probably take place?

 A. In the morning.         B. In the afternoon.        C. In the evening.

9. What does the man think of his journey to work?

A. The fare is reasonable.

B. The traffic is always terrible.

C. It takes too much time and money.

 听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。

10. What does the woman think of making friends online?

A. It's interesting.       B. It's dangerous.           C. It's meaningless.

11.Why does the man spend so much time online?

A.To find real friends.   B. To improve his English.    C. To play games.

12.What is the man’s attitude towards the woman's advice?

1. He will stick to his own idea.

B. He accepts what the woman said.

C. He agrees to think it over.

听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16三个小题。

13.When will the visitors come?

A. In March.             B. In April.             C. In May. 

14. How many visitors are coming?

A. 8.                      B.6.                  C.12. 

15. What will the visitors do on the second day?

A. Go to a party.         B. Attend a lecture      C. Visit the schools. 

16. What will the visitors do on the final day?

A. Visit London.       B. Walk along the coast.         C. Visit Scotlan 

听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。

17.What do we know about the school?

A. It was built on a farm.  

B. It was built in the woods. 

C. There were less than twenty pupils.

18.Where did the students usually have their lunch?

A. In the woody classroom.  B. In the shade of trees.    C. At the teachers office.

19.Why did the girl laugh at the speaker when the speaker first came to school?

A. Because the speaker did not smoke.    

B. Because the speaker was too young.

C. Because the speaker used her left hand.

20. How old is the speaker now?  

A. 60.                  B. 67.                  C.70.

第二部分  阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

A trip to the capital wouldn't be complete without seeing the following attractions in London.

The London Eye    (Tickets from £24.50)

Explore London from above on the London Eye. Your ticket includes a 30-minute flight with breathtaking views over London as well as an amazing 4D experience. Book ahead to save money and skip most of the queues with a fast-track entry ticket.

Tower of London    (Tickets from £25)

Hear the many stories of the Tower of London on a Yeoman Warder (Beefeater) tour. See the famous Crown Jewels, the White Tower and find out what it was like to be a prisoner in the Tower of London.

Kidzania London    (Tickets from £18.50)

Test out a range of professions and activities including journalism, animal care, cabin crew and tour guiding at KidZania London. Work to earn KidZos and save them for next time or spend them in the Airport Shop. Great for kids to learn and have fun.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich    (Tickets from £16)

Visit the home of time and explore outer space at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. See and stand astride the Prime Meridian line (子午线), the reference point for Greenwich Mean Time. Learn about the history of longitude (经线), touch a piece of rock from outer space, and enjoy amazing views over London.

Coronavirus information: London is currently subject to a four-week national lockdown from 5 November, which means attractions are temporarily closed. You can still book tickets in advance ready for when they reopen with social distancing and other safety measures in place. Cycle or walk to these attractions where possible.

21．What can you do when visiting the London Eye?

A．Spend £24.50 at the most.

B．Buy the ticket on your arrival.

C．Get a special entry ticket to save time.

D．Pay extra money to enjoy the 30-minute flight.

22．What is special about Kidzania London?

A．It combines learning with entertainment.

B．It enables visitors to have a good view of London.

C．It offers visitors an experience of being a prisoner.

D．It is not influenced during the four-week lockdown.

23．Which attraction will you choose if you are interested in natural science?

A．The London Eye.   B．Tower of London.

C．Kidzania London.   D．The Royal Observatory Greenwich

B

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers”, because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she hid herself into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.

In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the University’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely—a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “creative voice”.

“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalanced in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”

Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a shortstory collection.

24．Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?

A．She had seven brothers.             B．She felt herself a nobody.

C．She was too shy to go to school.      D.She did not have any good teachers.

25．The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _______.

A．make a lot of friends     B．develop her writing style

C．run away from her family    D．work for a school magazine

26．According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success?

A．Her early years in college.    B．Her childhood experience.

C．Her training in the Workshop.   D．Her feeling of being different.

27．What do we learn about The House on Mango Street ？

A．It is quite popular among students.

B．It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.

C．It wasn't a success as it was written in Spanish.

D．It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.

C

Scientists have always been interested in the high level of organization in ant societies. American researchers have watched ants build life-saving rafts to keep afloat during floods. They also have recorded how ants choose their next queen — the female whose job is to produce eggs.

New technology is helping to improve researchers’ understanding of the insects. But there is still a lot to be learned.

Fire ants living in Brazilian forests are perfectly at home in an environment where flooding is common. To save themselves, the insects connect their legs together and create floating rafts. Some ant rafts can be up to 20 centimeters wide.

David Hu is an engineer with the Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, saying, "If you have 100 ants, which means 600 legs, 99 percent of those legs will be connected to a neighbor. So they’re very, very good at keeping this network."

David Hu and other Georgia Tech researchers wanted to study ants and the secret of their engineering. They froze ant rafts and then looked at them with the help of computed technology, or CT images. The pictures showed that larger ants serve in central positions to which smaller ants hold. The larger ants create pockets of air that keep the insects afloat.

Scientists say small robots or materials that can change shape could be programmed in a similar way, working towards a shared goal.

Researchers at North Carolina State University are also studying ants. They examined how Indian jumping ants choose the leader of the colony when they lose their top female or queen.

28．The author takes fire ants as an example to tell us ________.

A．how ants survive        B．how ants seek food

C．how ants communicate    D．how ants live together

29．What can we know from what David Hu said in paragraph 4?

A．Ants know the way to keep in touch in the river.

B．Ants know the way to join together closely.

C．Ants know the way to look for each other.

D．Ants know the way to build a large raft.

30．Why did the larger ants serve in central positions in their ant rafts?

A．To stress their importance.      B．To help all the ants float.

C．To fight against the enemies.   D．To defend their top female.

31．What ideas do the ants give us according to the passage?

A．We can use similar-shaped machines in flooding areas.

B．We can combine small robots or materials into larger ones.

C．Small and shape-changeable things might work just like ants do.

D．Small robots or materials in the shape of ants can be made.

D

Though its effects are not always visible to the human eye, plastic is choking life on Earth. The process for manufacturing plastic worsens climate change, and the spreading of plastic in the environment has led to heartbreaking sights.

Then there came a daydream: Can we create something that will consume it?

A new study suggests that an enzyme(酶) which targets polyethylene terephthalate(PET)—a widely-used substance found in a majority of consumer packaging products that contains 12 percent of all global waste—could make that scientific dream, which is also necessity, into a reality.

The key ingredient was n natural enzyme known as PETase, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature. Using a machine learning model, scientists at the University of Texas figured out what changes would cause the enzyme to be able to quickly break down the targeted types of plastic waste.

“It has been a well-explored problem in many industries,” Hal AIper, a professor in Chemical Engineering, said, “Therefore, we feel that this part of the problem is easily achievable in a short period of time. The more challenging aspect will be making enzyme break down on a large scale with mixed plastics waste.”

This was not the first effort to solve the plastic pollution problem. In March 2016, Japanese researchers found a bacteria that would “eat“ the plastic until it turned into sludge(泥浆). Last year, scientists at the University of Edinburgh announced that E. Coli, a common bacterium, could be used to change PET into a kind of material, which might be able to be safely consumed by humans.

Joanna Sadler, a biotechnology professor at the University of Edinburgh, characterized the new enzyme as the “fastest enzyme reported to date” in terms of the speed of breaking down different plastics. “This makes it a very promising technological development in the field, and demonstrates the better adapted usage of this enzyme,” Sadler said.

32．What’s the function of the first paragraph?

A．To explain a unique phenomenon.

B．To stimulate the readers’ curiosity.

C．To analyze the cause of the situation.

D．To provide some background information.

33．What is the challenging problem scientists are facing?

A．Turning the scientific dream into a reality.

B．Causing the enzyme to work more effectively.

C．Putting a machine learning model into practice.

D．Making the enzyme dissolve plastics massively.

34．Why are the examples mentioned in Paragraph 6?

A．To evaluate the scientists’ previous efforts.

B．To introduce some similar biological means.

C．To prove the possibility of recycling plastics.

D．To stress the importance of plastic-eating bacteria.

35．Which word best describes Sadler’s attitude to the enzyme?

A．Skeptical.  B．Objective.  C．Optimistic.  D．Critical.

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。

Do you want lots of success in school and in your friendship? If you want to learn how to balance your friendship and study, read on.

• Talk about your goals for school.

Share what academic success looks like for both of you. ____36____ Before the semester starts, sit down and discuss what you’d both like to achieve.

• Share tips and tricks with each other.

Exchange study techniques to learn how to be more successful. Maybe you know some learning methods like making a list of key ideas and reviewing them one hour a day. Chat about how you’ll both try to master your subjects. ____37___

• Remind each other to take your health seriously.

Put your wellness above everything else to succeed in school. ____38____ Get at least 8 hours of rest. Make sure to eat nutritious meals that will keep you energized. When you take care of yourselves, you’ll both reduce stress and improve your academic performances.

•____39___

Remember that you both can overcome any challenges with enough effort. In order to get the most out of your studies, keep a “growth mindset”, an optimistic outlook that lets you see any difficult topic or task as an opportunity to learn.

• Prioritize (优先安排) exams and finals.

____40____ When you and your friend are in the middle of a finals week or have a huge assignment to prepare for, that should come first. Block out times on your schedules that need all your focus.

A．Keep positive attitudes about school.

B．Fight for any challenges enthusiastically.

C．Your methods will be always encouraging.

D．Give each other space during more intense periods.

E．It’s important to be clear about what your goals are.

F．You’ll lift each other up and get an extra edge in class.

G．So you can both be at your best physically and mentally.

第三部分 语言知识运用（共二节，满分35分）

第一节（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I had not hugged a friend or a family member for more than two years until recently when my sister-in-law flew in for a brief visit. For everyone’s safety, we met outside. Despite the wintry weather, her hug____41____me from the inside out. It’s strange, but only now do I truly realize how much I’ve ____42____embracing loved ones — the warmth that remains long after our arms have untwined (松开).

Growing up through war in my hometown of Sarajevo, Bosnia, every moment was full of____43____. On one peaceful morning, I had begged my mom to let me go outside. She finally____44____. I was outside for only 10 minutes when I was caught in an explosion. I ran to my neighbor’s house for ____45____ before my legs collapsed. She hugged me with both arms and____46___me into her house. I was still in her arms when the ambulance arrived. Thankfully, I made a full physical____47___, but the emotional scars never left me. Years later there was another ____48____ near my house. I was safe, but my father had left to buy a loaf of bread. He had only just ____49___ the blast. When he came back, I gave him the biggest hug _____50____. I was caked in tears as I held him _____51____. That same night my parents _____52____ to arrange my escape from our war-torn city. They _____53_____ wanted at least some of my childhood to be normal. I was 16 and came to America on my own. A _____54_____ host family took me in and I began learning English and going to school. They had a large dog called Oscar. Over the next several months, I secretly struggled with feeling _____55_____and worried about my family back home. Despite getting on quite well at school, I couldn’t _____56____ my feelings. The only way I shared how I felt was by giving Oscar a big hug.

Perhaps we have undervalued the_____57_____of a simple hug. As I look back on my past, I _____58____myself truly lucky to have been held,_____59_____ and encouraged at some of the most key moments of my life by the almost otherworldly (超世俗的) power of a hug. I pray that in the not-so-distant future we can safely _____60_____ one another again-a friend, relative, or even a stranger.

41．A．inspired      B．saved     C．confused  D．warmed

42．A．resisted      B．missed     C．avoided      D．suggested

43．A．stress      B．wonder     C．danger      D．curiosity

44．A．agreed      B．refused     C．replied      D．laughed

45．A．advice      B．solution     C．information   D．safety

46．A．dragged      B．drove     C．pushed       D．showed

47．A．appearance  B．recovery     C．examination    D．education

48．A．meeting   B．coincidence   C．explosion    D．accident

49．A．adjusted  B．encountered    C．remembered  D．escaped

50．A．imaginable  B．available     C．desirable  D．acceptable

51．A．rarely      B．tightly      C．awkwardly     D．gratefully

52．A．managed  B．demanded  C．pretended  D．forgot

53．A．reluctantly  B．strangely  C．dramatically  D．desperately

54．A．modest      B．generous  C．humble     D．stubborn

55．A．delighted  B．ashamed    C．homesick    D．annoyed

56．A．Express     B．withdraw   C．control     D．adjust

57．A．habit      B．harm      C．impact     D．chance

58．A．count      B．comfort      C．receive     D．advise

59．A．discovered  B．abandoned  C．declined     D．protected

60．A．ignore      B．hold       C．review     D．admit

第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

   用所给词的适当形式填空或在空白处填入一个恰当的词。

The digital identities, ___61__ (know) as avatars, are a key part of how people use the Internet to communicate and express ___62___ (they).

The first simple 2D avatars ___63__ (appear) in role-playing computer games in the 1980s. Yet, very few people knew that future avatars would have such a wide ___64___ (vary) of forms and uses. People had the power ___65__ (create) new identities that didn’t look or act like their real selves at all. One person could have several avatars.

The avatar you choose says a lot about your personality. However, nearly all avatars are tall, young and nice-looking, so people ___66___ (obvious) make their avatars look better than they do in real life.

Nowadays, avatars are everywhere. The avatars in online worlds can talk, walk and fly around, meet people, go shopping and attend classes.

Of course, the wide use of avatars has led ___67___ a few concerns. Some users are concerned that they are spending ___68___ much time in virtual worlds that they are becoming afraid of meeting people in the real world. The use of several avatars can also be a risk, as people can use avatars to cheat others online. However, other users view avatars in a more positive light.They look forward to a time ___69___ their avatar will act like a real person and travel around bigger, _____70_____ (exciting) virtual worlds.

第四部分 写作(共两节，满分25分)

第一节 短文改错 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意: 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I wanted to visit Hangzhou before returning back to London. One of my tasks were to decide where to go. I took out my guidebook that there was lots of informations about the city’s famous sights. At that moment, the attractive young lady came up to me and introduced himself. She offered to show me the city. She suggested we first go to the West Lake and walk along the Broken Bridge. I liked the idea. Therefore, I was worried about crossing the Broken Bridge. If it were broken, I would fell in and drown. It was probable not a good idea, so I politely refused her invitation, closing my book and walked away.

第二节：书面表达(满分15分)

假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Tom上个月来到北京学习．十月国庆期间你将去北京参加中学生英语演讲比赛（speech contest），你在资料搜集、语言运用等方面遇到了困难．请根据以下要点给Tom写一封电子邮件：
1．询问Tom的生活和学习情况；
2．谈谈你的困难并请Tom帮忙；
3．告诉Tom你打算赛后去看他．
注意：1．词数：100字左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯．

Dear Jack,

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua