2022-2023学年四川省眉山中学校高二上学期12月月考英语试题（Word版含答案，含听力音频无文字材料）

眉山中学校2022-2023学年高二上学期12月月考

英语

第Ⅰ卷（满分100）

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）

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,并标在试卷的相应位置。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. What are the speakers doing?

A. Working.        B. Jogging.      C. Having a drink.

2. What made the man so worried?

A. The exam.     B. The paper.      C. His teacher.

3. How long will the man stay in France?

A. Five weeks.     B. Three days.      C. Two days.

4. What was wrong with Jack?

A. He had a fever.    B. He was in hospital.    C. He was late for work.

5. Why was the man late for work?

A. He was in an accident.  B. His car was being repaired. C. He couldn't get his car going.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分）

 听下面5段对话或对白，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7题。

6. How many most beautiful subways are there on the earth?

A. Nine.        B. Nineteen.          C. Eight.

7. When did the woman go to Shanghai?

A. Two days ago.    B. Last week.          C. Last month.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The boss left very early.

B. The speakers enjoyed themselves at the party.

C. The man regretted having invited his wife's boss.

9. What is the boss like?

A. Nice.        B. Impolite.        C. Shy.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does the man want to sell?

A. Furniture.       B. Garden supplies.         C. An apartment.

11. Why does the man want to sell his belongings?

A. He needs money.      B. He is moving.      C. He likes new things.

12. How is the man going to pay?

A. By check.       B. In cash.           C. By credit card.

听第9段材料，回答第13至1 6题。

13. What's the relationship between Mary and John?

A. Classmates.       B. Mother and son.        C. Brother and sister.

14. What is John doing?

A. Putting his shoes on.   

B. Making a telephone call.   

C. Getting ready to go to school.

15. How does John go to school?

A. By taxi.      B. By bus.        C. By bike.

16. How many people are there in Mary's family?

A. Three.      B. At least five.      C. No more than four.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How can people avoid forgetting things according to the speaker?

A. By keeping a diary.   B. By making a schedule.   C. By being reminded by others.

18. What does “a master schedule” mean?

A. A schedule made for yourself.

B. A schedule made for your boss.

C. A schedule with all important things and the time to use.

19. How many different schedules are mentioned?

A. One.       B. Two.         C. Three.

20. What can you use your daily schedule to do?

A. Plan time well.    B. Achieve short-term goals.  C. Achieve long-term goals.

第二部分  阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

A

For some in China, the aim of travel is to create 15-second videos on a social-media app, dou yin. As a matter of fact, tourism is for recreation and leisure. The world Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four hours.Nowadays, apart from the traditional forms , a variety of new types of traveling are emerging.

Experiential travel

Last year's travel trend was "experiential travel". This is where tourists look for ways to get to know local culture and interact with local people so they feel less like an outsider but more like a resident.

Transformative travel

It usually goes through three stages – you go to a place that has a very different background than where you come from, you learn wisdom from the new culture and the people you meet, and finally you return home and apply the knowledge to your own life and the lives of those around you.

This last stage is how the “transformation” is completed and what separates transformative travel from experiential travel.

Eco-friendly travel

One way to plan a low-impact trip is to travel a shorter distance, which can reduce your carbon footprint. "One trans-Atlantic flight equals a year's worth of driving, so consider planning an adventure closer to home," according to US News.

Dark travel

Chernobyl is one of the most popular examples of the phenomenon known as dark tourism — a term for visiting sites associated with death and suffering, such as Nazi concentration camps in Europe or the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York.

21. In which column can we read this passage in the newspaper?

A. Advertising    B. News   C. Sports.  D. Entertainment

22. Choosing the Transformative travel, you can__________

A. feel less like a local resident 

B. reduce carbon emission

C. put what you have learned into practice 

D. pay a visit to the sites related to sufferings .

23. Which of the following is suitable for the environmentalists?

A. Experiential travel B. Transformative travel

C. Eco-friendly travel D. Dark travel

  B

I'll never forget the day when Mary came into my office and said,“I am too old to learn how to use a computer.” I shook my head. Here was a woman who had raised 6 children and who had made great progress in her career telling me that she was too old to learn something new. I told her that I always believed people were never too old to learn.

Mary followed my advice and did learn how to use the computer. Now, she is retired and leading a very active life volunteering in her community( 社区 ),using her computer skills and helping anyone that needs help.

When she was in her sixties, one day she called me and said she had played the piano for others all her life, and now she was going to make a CD of her own. My mind flashed back to the day when she told me she was too old to learn. You can imagine my surprise and delight.

To produce the CD, she had a lot of things to learn. It was not just sitting at the piano and playing. She had to research the songs, learn about copyright(版权),and learn about marketing. It was pretty amazing for someone who once said she was too old to learn. And finally she made it. Now she has her own CD-Mixed Blessings.

Most of you probably have heard about some people who have gone back to university in their seventies and have also graduated. They are on their way again to charging themselves with a new skill and a new attitude towards life. The point is you are unable to learn anything at any age if you believe you are too old. On the contrary, you can achieve anything at any age if you believe you can.

24. When Mary said she was too old to learn, the author________.

A. did not agree with her               B. felt sad and decided to help her

C. became disappointed with her         D. thought what she had said was true

25. Why did Mary call the author one day in her sixties?

A. To ask him for some help.            B. To tell him about her plan

C. To ask him to make a CD.            D. To talk about her new CD

26. The author thought it________ for Mary to make a CD.

A. impossible      B. interesting        C. unnecessary      D. difficult

27. What does the text mainly tell us?

A. We should always learn new skills.     B. You're never too old to learn.

C. Interest is the best teacher.            D. Some people succeed for a reason.

C

A facial recognition app，recently developed by scientists，will make it easier to identify（辨认）pandas.

Wan Yongqing，a Beijing photographer，visits Sichuan Province to take photos of pandas every other year. He has watched them for more than a decade. "My friends say I’m a big panda fan. It is a shame that I find all pandas look the same，with black eyes and white fur. It does not matter as all the pandas are cute to me，"he said.

Yet，identifying one panda from another does matter to researchers，according to Zhang Zhihe，chief of the Chengdu panda research base.

“Identifying individual pandas is important for conservation（保护）management and research. For captive（圈养的）pandas，it is important for their daily feeding schedules，family background and data management. For wild pandas，it helps researchers study their population structure and provides scientific support for their protection and management，”he said.

China has carried out four scientific surveys on wild pandas，and now has a big databank about them. The number of wild pandas in China is mostly known. However，it is still difficult to determine the age，sex，health and other specific information about the population.

“It is difficult to track and watch the structure because wild pandas tend to live alone, deep in the mountains, and their living environment is vast,”Zhang added.

In 2017, the Chengdu base began researching individual panda identification technology by analyzing images. Over the past two years, they have built a databank of more than 120,000 images, over 10,00 video clips, and completed organizing nearly 10,000 images.

Using the databank, researchers have started a facial recognition app that can accurately recognize captive pandas by analyzing and comparing the unique features of panda faces.

Panda researchers hope the data and Al technology will help them analyze data for both captive and wild pandas.

28. How does Wan Yongqing feel about the pandas?

A. They are boring to him.            B. They seem attractive to him.

C. They are easy to recognize.         D. They look different to him.

29. Why is it important to identify individual captive pandas?

A. It is helpful for further research and data management.

B. It is useful for studying their population structure.

C. It provides proof that they need protection in the wild.

D. It helps researchers build up their living environment.

30. What makes it difficult to track and watch wild pandas?

A. They only live in a small area.       B. They don’t leave enough tracks.

C. They are difficult to see in the forest.  D. They live alone deep in the mountains.

31. What is necessary for the facial recognition app to work well?

A. The databank of pandas.            B. The structure of pandas.

C. The invention of AI technology.      D. The unique features of panda faces.

D

From the cold Arctic to the African plains, every society seems to have some form of music as part of their culture. Music is so common and widespread that most people don’t even question it anymore. But until recently, there were researchers who doubted it: How could we know that music was really a part of all known societies?

Now, Harvard researchers, Samuer Mehr and Manvir Singh, have found further evidence to support the argument. They gathered music from different countries, media and time periods, and collected descriptions of many different pieces of music. Rather than focusing on music first and then looking at where it could be found, they started by studying a record of detailed descriptions of more than three hundred known global societies, and found that all of them have music as part of their culture.

To see if people could recognize the functions of songs from around the world, the researchers also created a listening experiment in which people tried to guess the behavioral context(行为环境）of a song. This went surprisingly well. Particularly music that was intended for dancing or to calm a baby were easy to recognize as either dance music or lullabies. Love songs were a bit more difficult to qualify, because they tend to be very diverse even within cultures.

This systematic study of connections sounds like the way that researchers in other fields would study biological patterns. “There’s a field known as cultural phylogenetics(文化系统发生学),” says Singh. Whereas biological characteristics are only received from parent to child, cultural characteristics (like music) are also shared between people of the same generation. That makes it much more difficult to figure out where the characteristic has come from.

“Finally,” Singh says, “We still don’t know why music developed gradually. Our study shows that humans everywhere share cognitive mechanisms (认知机制) that make certain sounds seem appropriate in particular contexts.”

32.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 1 refer to?

 A．The fact that music is part of every culture.

 B．The question whether music is widely spread.

 C．The doubt whether further research has been done.

 D．The idea that Africa and the Arctic have cool music.

33．What did Mehr and Singh do first?

 A．They found out further evidence. B．They studied various societies.

 C．They sought the origins of music. D．They focused mainly on music.

34．What’s the purpose of the listening experiment?

 A．To comfort a baby.  B．To pick out love songs.

 C．To create a context. D．To tell functions of songs.

35．What is the main idea of the text?

 A．Music shapes societies in different cultures.

 B．Global music shares common characteristics.

 C．Musical systems display cultural differences.

 D．Multi-culture is based on biological patterns.

第二节 七选五（共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）

根据短文内容，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。

Most of us have been there: Families can be very difficult, and family problems are very painful. However, how you approach the family member and what you say can make a difference.    36   .

Schedule a time to talk as a group. Facing and overcoming family problems can seem impossible. When you work together, however, solving family differences becomes possible. The first step is agreeing that there is a problem in the first place.    37    .Make everyone aware that you want them to arrive with suggestions and solutions ready.

Focus on the issue at hand. When disagreements occur, people tend to bring up other problems they have ever had with the other parties.    38    .Make efforts to uncover what is actually important about the current problem. Building a case or bringing up old misdeeds will not assist you in resolving（解决） this issue.

     39    .To reach an agreement during a family conflict, listening is important. Only by actively listening to each party can you understand what he is trying to communicate. Active listening involves allowing the other to speak without interruptions and expressing what was said afterwards to ensure you understood correctly.

Decide on a solution together. Once everyone has shared their needs and concerns, then strive for a compromise（妥协，方案）. Consider all the suggestions that each party has provided and look for a solution.   40   . If necessary, develop a written agreement outlining how you will manage the problem.

A.Seek some professional advice.

B.Listen to others without interrupting.

C.This has a bad effect on conflict resolution.

D.Have everyone state what they really want to say.

E.Schedule a meeting when it is convenient for everyone.

F.Everyone present there should feel good about the solution.

G.So it's important to learn some effective problem-solving skills.

第三部分  英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

   I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch (养马场). He introduced himself to me by saying, “I want to tell you a story. It all  41  back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant (流动的) horse trainer. When he was a senior, he was 42 to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do  43  he grew up.

  “That night he wrote a seven-page paper  44   his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a  45  of a 200-acre ranch, showing the  46  of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house.

  “He put a great deal of his  47  into the project and the next day he 48  it in to his teacher. Two days later he  49  his paper back. On the front page was a large red “F” with a note that read, ‘ See me after class.’”

  “The boy  50  the dream went to see the teacher after class. The teacher said, ‘ This is a(n)   51  dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You  52  an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch  53  a lot of money. There’s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher  54  , ‘ If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will   55  your grade.’”

  “The boy went home and thought about it  56  and hard. However, he thought it was a very important  57  for him. Finally, after a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all.”

  “The boy is me. Now, my dream has come  58  . That teacher said to me, ‘Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was  59  of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams.  60  , you had enough determination not to give up on yours.’”

41. A. comes    B. goes    C. returns    D. falls

42. A. asked    B. invited    C. ordered    D. forced

43. A. before   B. while       C. as    D. when

44. A. talking   B. telling   C. describing  D. explaining

45. A. picture   B. article   C. construct  D. project

46. A. location   B. space    C. position   D. condition

47. A. money   B. thought    C. spirit   D. heart

48. A. took    B. handed     C. passed   D. got

49. A. obtained   B. accepted   C. received   D. deserved

50. A. of    B. with     C. for    D. to

51. A. unrealistic  B. fanciful.   C. imaginable  D. practical

52. A. come from  B. make from  C. receive from  D. bring from

53. A. requests   B. means    C. requires   D. provides

54. A. quarrelled  B. debated   C. asked   D. added

55. A. reconsider  B. reread   C. recount   D. rearrange

56. A. short    B. long    C. thick   D. thin

57. A. matter   B. plan     C. decision   D. choice

58. A. true    B. vain     C. real    D. pure

59. A. something  B. everything   C. nothing   D. anything

60. A. Strangely   B. Regrettably   C. Anxiously  D. Fortunately

第II卷

第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

    The world’s longest cross-sea bridge —— Hongkong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) opened on October 24, 2018. The Guardian described it as one of the seven 61.  _________ (wonder) of the modern world. The HZMB, 62.  ____links Hong Kong and Macao to the Chinese mainland city of Zhuhai, began in 2009 and cost about 120 billion yuan. It’s designed 63.  ___(have) a service life of 120 years, 20 years longer than most bridges. And it’s not only a bridge, but also part tunnel and part island.

   In one section, the bridge turns into a 6.7km undersea tunnel that 64.  _____(pass) through two man-made islands. The tunnel is 65.  _____world’s longest undersea tunnel for road traffic, allowing large ships to continue passing through the sea area above the tunnel. The bridge’s engineers had to take many environmental factors 66._  ____  consideration in order to protect the surrounding environment while 67._  ______(build) the bridge. Chinese white dolphins, an 68.  ________(endanger) species living in this area, were a particular concern. The HZMB will make 69.  ______ much more convenient to shorten the travel time from Hong Kong to Zhuhai from four hours to about 45 minutes.

By drawing local cities and religions closer together,the bridge will aid the area’s development 70._  _____(great). It is expected to drive the economic development of Hongkong, Macao and nine Guangdong cities.

第四部分 写作 （共两节，满分35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。

Hearing a news that the 2022 Winter Olympics would be hold in China, I felt very excited. It struck to me how I learned skating when I was a child. At 7, I began to go crazy about skating, like all my friend. In the beginning, it was extremely tough for me to keep my balance. I always fall over on the ground, as a result which, I thought I had no talent for skating. So I gradually lost confidence and became impatient. The more impatient I was, the more terrible I did. I was about to give up while my father came to my assistance. Encouraged by her, I restored confidence and stood up again. As I practiced skating, he always created a relaxed atmosphere and put forward some specific advice. Eventually, I made it.

第二节 书面表达（满分25分） 

假如你是李夏。你看到美国留学生Sharon在网上发帖，希望有人能帮助她提高普通话(Mandarin)水平，她可以教英语作为回报。请根据以下提示用英语给她写一封电子邮件。

  1. 表达给她提供帮助的意愿；   2. 说明你能胜任辅导的理由；

  3. 给出讲好普通话的两点建议； 4. 提出你学习英语的具体要求。

注意：1. 词数120左右，开头语不计入词数；

      2. 可以适当增加细节，已使行文连贯；

      Dear Sharon,

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