2023沧州东光县等三县联考高二下学期4月月考英语试题含答案

2022～2023学年度第二学期高二年级4月份月考

英 语

考生注意：

1．本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

2．答题前，考生务必用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将密封线内项目填写清楚。

3．考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上。选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；非选择题请用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上各题的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷、草稿纸上作答无效。

4．本卷命题范围：人救版选择性必修第三册Unit 4～选择性必修第四册Unit 1。

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。

1.Which is the best way for the woman to get to Red Square?

A.On foot.

B.By bus.

C.By subway.

2.What did the man do last night?

A.He watched TV.

B.He visited his parents.

C.He did cancer research.

3.What might Mr. Roe be?

A. A judge.

B.A teacher

C.A manager.

4.What is the main topic of this conversation?

A.How to make a bookcase.

B.How to choose a new desk.

C.How to arrange furniture.

5.What is the woman probably looking for?

A.Some keys.

B.Her car.

C.The man's house.

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.What is the relationship between the speakers?

A.Teacher and student.

B.Family members..

C.Photographer and customer.

7.What will the man do next?

A.Take photos of the woman.

B.Go to work.

C.Do some cleaning.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8.What is the woman's favorite animal?

A.The dog.

B.The bird.

C.The cat.

9.What does the man think of pets?

A.They can teach kids responsibility.

B.They are not easy to care for.

C.They are kids' friends.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.Why does the man come here?

A. To make an appointment.

B. To date the woman.

C.To see a doctor.

11.What time is it now?

A.10:45 am.

C.11:15 am.

B.11:00 am.

12.What will the man do with the forms?

A. Leave them blank.

B. Fill them out completely.

C. Write down his key information.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.Where are the speakers probably?

A.At a party.

B. In a store..

C.In a college.

14.Which is a purpose of the party?

A.To welcome new professors.

B.To provide freshmen with some useful advice.

C.To help seniors graduate successfully.

15.Who is organizing the event?

A. The Student Union.

B.The whole college.

C.The speakers' department.

16.What's one reason for going to the party?

A.Professors will make speeches.

B.The pie there will be delicious.

C.Students will learn to make pies.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.Why did Joel run to the building?

A.To hear a story.

B.To exercise.

C.To help.

18.Who found the woman?

A.Sparky.

B.Joel.

C. The speaker.

19. Why did Joel fail to go back inside the building?

A.The fire was too hot.

B.He was seriously injured.

C.He thought everyone was safe.

20.What can we learn about Sparky?

A.He survived the fire.

B. He saved two lives.

C.He lost his human partner.

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。

4 Free Poetry Contests to Enter in 2023

Here you'll find free poetry contests that'll help you grow as beginners and support your writing career at the same time.

Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest

Deadline: January 3,2023

Submission requirements： It’s a poetry contest where submitted poems can be rhyming（押韵） or non-rhyming. There's no limited entries. Winners will be contacted within 45 days of the deadline date. Published as well as unpublished works are accepted.

Prize:First Prize-$350;Second prize-$200;Third prize-$100.

In addition. the winning poems will be displayed on its website.

Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest

Deadline: April 2,2023

Submission requirements: Held by WINNING WRITERS, this poetry contest seeks today's best humor poems. Submission should be of maximum of 250 lines. There's no age restriction to the contest. Published as well as unpublished works are accepted.

Prize:First Prize-$2,000 plus a two-year gift certificate from our co-sponsor, Duotrope(a $100 value);Second Prize-$ 500;Third Prize-$100.

Alpine Fellowship Poetry Contest

Deadline: January 1,2023

Submission requirements: Applicants must be aged 18 or above with all entries in English. A single poem or a collection of poems is accepted at a time with maximum of 500 words per entry. Published as well as unpublished works are accepted.

Prize: First prize-£3,000 cash; Second prize-£2,000 travel expense; Third place-£1,000 travel expense.

Poet Lore Contest

Deadline: April 1,2023

Submission requirements: They accept 5 poems (maximum 10 pages) in 1 single document. They do not accept works that have been previously published.

Prize:First Prize-$1,500;Second Prize-$750;Third Prize-$500.

21.Where can you see your works if you win the Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest?

A.On its website.

C.In a poetry book.

B.In a newspaper.

D.On a gift card.

22.Which contest offers a travel expense as a prize?

A.Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest.

C.Alpine Fellowship Poetry Contest.

B.Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest.

D.Poet Lore Contest.

23.What's special about Poet Lore Contest?

A. It has a line limit on works.

C.It has no age limit for participants.

B. It only accepts unpublished works.

D.It has the latest deadline.

B

Born blind is unfortunate in any case. But things were even harder for Srikanth Bolla who was born in a small village in India, where the common belief was that kids with disabilities were “of no use” and therefore, better off dead. Fortunately, Srikanth's parents loved their son and refused to give him up. Instead, they encouraged the blind boy to dream big and reach for the stars.

Srikanth did not disappoint his parents. The now twenty-four-year-old man is the founder and CEO of Bollant Industries.

Of course, getting here was not easy. Being both blind and poor meant that Srikanth had to face hard challenges. As a young boy, Srikanth attended a regular school near his home. Unfortunately, the students and teachers didn't quite like him because of his disability. As a result, the young boy was largely ignored and often spent the entire day alone.

Concerned this would hold back Srikanth's development, his family decided to send him to a special school in Hyderabad. Sure enough, the young boy soon rose to the top of his class, earning awards in speech and debate competitions. But Srikanth was prevented from studying science when he reached 10th grade, because it was thought too dangerous for a blind student. Not wanting to give up, Sriksanth took legal action and became the first blind student in the country allowed to study science.

Later, after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Srikanth set up Bollant Industries in 2012. For just four years, it has become a powerhouse with over 450 employees,70% of whom are physically challenged.

Being disabled doesn't mean being unable. “If the world looks at me and says 'Srikanth, you can do nothing’, I will look back at the world and say I can do anything,” says the young man. 24.What made little Srikanth live?

A.His luck.

C.A wonderful dream.

B.His parents' love.

D.A village's common belief.

25.How did Srikanth's family deal with his challenges in the regular school?

A.By letting the child bear them.

B.By moving to another place.

C.By sending him to a special school.

D.By complaining to relevant departments.

26.Why was Srikanth refused to study science at first?

A. He was too young to study it.

B.He was disliked by his teachers.

C.It was illegal for him to do so.

D.It was considered unsafe for the blind man.

27.What kind of person is Srikanth?

A. Determined.

B.Dishonest.

C.Outspoken.

D.Impatient.

C

People perform graceful moves, all while standing on a bamboo strip in the river. You may think it's a scene from an art movie, but actually it is a form of intangible cultural heritage: bamboo drifting（独竹漂）.

Bamboo drifting dated back to over 2,000 years ago in the Chishui River area of Guizhou. During the Qin Dynasty,the Bozhou district of Zunyi city was known for its high-quality nanmu. It was in great demand by the royal court more than 2,000 kilometers to the north. With no transportation along the Chishui River， people had to stand on one log（原木）to drift down the river. Later, local people began to compete along the way and the game of wood drifting was born. In the Qing Dynasty, wood drifting became bamboo drifting because of bamboo's lower price.

Now, communities in Guizhou hold bamboo drifting competitions every year during Dragon Boat Festival. Due to the great strength and balance it takes for one to get the hang of this act, bamboo drifting was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.

Yang Liu，24，is an inheritor（继承人） of bamboo drifting． Yang said the most challenging part of bamboo drifting was keeping one's balance. “I fell in the water several times when I was practising,” she said.

But the love for the ancient skill keeps Yang going. In the past 17 years, she has drifted all year round, in winter cold and summer heat.

Yang also produces new ideas when spreading the culture of bamboo drifting. For example, she connects dance with bamboo drifting to make it more graceful and wears hanfu when performing, creating a beautiful feel. In 2020, Yang registered on social media platforms and posted her videos. “I want to spread it to other countries so that more people around the world will like Chinese culture,” she told China Daily.

28.Why did bamboo drifting replace wood drifting?

A.The bamboo was cheaper.

B.The bamboo was more beautiful.

C.The bamboo was more convenient.

D.The bamboo was much easier to control.

29.What does the underlined phrase “get the hang of" in paragraph 3 mean?

A.Prepare.

B. Change.

C.Master.

D.Improve.

30. What is the most difficult for bamboo drifting in Yang Liu's opinion?

A.Designing moves.

C.Choosing bamboos.

B.Transporting goods.

D.Keeping balance.

31.What can we infer about Yang Liu?

A.She inherits bamboo drifting creatively.

B.She learned bamboo drifting very easily.

C.She has become the leader of bamboo drifting.

D.She began learning bamboo drifting at 17.

D

Hidden in the trees, behind the leaves, look closely and you'll see eyes staring back at you. This is SlothBot， a robot inspired by the famously slow animal-sloth（树獭）.

For the next several months, visitors to the Atlanta Botanical Garden will be able to observe the testing of the new high-tech tool in the battle to save some of the world's most endangered species. Researchers are testing the SlothBot near the Garden's popular Canopy Walk.

Built to take advantage of the low-energy lifestyle of real sloths,  SlothBot demonstrates how being slow can be ideal for certain applications. Powered by solar panels and using innovative power management technology, SlothBot moves along a cable strung between two large trees as it monitors temperature, weather, carbon dioxide levels, and other information in the Garden's 30-acre midtown Atlanta forest.

“Slowness is a design principle of SlothBot,” says Magnus Egerstedt, professor and chair in the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “That is not how robots are typically designed today, but being slow and energy-efficient will allow SlothBot to stay in the environment to observe things we can only see by being present continuously for months, or even years.”

About three feet long, SlothBot's imaginative 3D-printed shell helps protect its motors, gearing, batteries and sensing equipment from the weather. The robot is programmed to move only when necessary, and will locate sunlight when its batteries need recharging.

“The most exciting goal we'll demonstrate with SlothBot is the union of robotics and technology with conservation,” says Emily Coffey, vice president for conservation and research at the Garden. “We do conservation research on endangered plants and ecosystems around the world, and SlothBot will help us find new and exciting ways to advance our research and conservation goals.”

“SlothBot could do some of our research remotely and help us understand what's happening with pollinators（传粉者），interactions between plants and animals， and other phenomena that are difficult to observe otherwise," Coffey adds.

32.What do the researchers expect SlothBot to do?

A.Guard the garden.

B.Attract visitors.

C.Protect real sloths.

D.Help endangered species.

C.Protect real sloths.

33. What does the underlined word “That" in paragraph 4 probably refer to?

A.SlothBot.

B.Slowness

C. A design principle.

D.A low-energy style.

C. A design principle.

34.What can we know about SlothBot?

A.It always stays still.

C.Its shell provides protection for itself.

B. It can pollinate the plants.

D.Its design will be used to study the ocean.

35.What may be the best title for the text?

A.A Slow-moving Sloth Begins Life in a Garden

B.A New Robot Helps Raise Endangered Animals

C.A New Study Aids Conservation Efforts in Atlanta

D.A Conservation Robot Slowly Monitors Endangered Species

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。

Do books unite us? Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander thinks so. 36. Millions of young people around the world have read and loved his novels and poems.

On September 3, I spoke with Alexander at the National Book Festival. I asked about his new novel. The Door of No Return, which is due out on September 27 for young readers. 37.

Did any experiences inspire you to write The Door of No Return?

38. Going there so much, tasting the food, meeting the people, and putting my feet in the ocean, I felt some type of warmness. I felt like I was connected to Ghana. I wanted to write a story that was based there. Those trips inspired me.

In the book, the character of Kofi is faced with an unexpected challenge. How do you think challenges can bring us together?

We can't figure everything out on our own. 39. We realize that we have others around us who can support us, give us ideas and help us. That makes us a stronger family and community, and stronger, better people.

Characters in your books look and act like kids I know. Why do you think it's important to make your characters real and relatable?

Kids can tell if a character is fake, or if it's not real, and they get turned off. They don't want to read the book. I hope kids like not only the beginnings of my books but the ends of my books. 40

A.I went to Ghana, in West Africa, 11 times

B.Truly appreciate people spreading the word

C.Sometimes, we need help from other people.

D.Alexander is the author of several best-selling titles

E. Here are highlights from my conversation with the author

F.In order to do that, I need to make the characters believable

G.The author spent much of his childhood and teenage years in Virginia

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。

My daughter Beth's and my love of butterflies goes back many years. After a long 41 against cancer, my mom passed away when I was only 25 years old. Beth was only a baby at that time and 42 had any memories of her grandma. I tried to 43 it by telling her 44 of my mom.

One day when she was only seven or so and we were outside at the playground, Beth suddenly said how much she missed her grandma and how 45 it would be if she could play with her． I went to 46 her， saying that maybe she was hitching（搭便车）a ride on the back of a 47 to look at us and 48 what we were doing.

At that very moment, a butterfly 49 and flew around Beth's face and then flew away. We both laughed with our hearts full of love and 50.

Since that moment all of those years ago, both Beth and I seem to 51 butterflies like flowers. Whenever we are outside, they seem to fly down, circle around us, take a(n) 52 look, and then fly away. And we are 53 of my mom's love in that case. The only time this doesn't 54 is during the coldest months of the year when there are no 55 of any kind.

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。

A group of around 20 students from the University of Malta took part in a Chinese tea tasting event on the campus on Wednesday, 56 aimed to add a special flavor to their Chinese language course.

For most of the students, it was the first time 57 (receive) an expert introduction to the rich Chinese tea culture and the traditional ways of making tea, with special attention to 58(choose) the right water temperature for the various Chinese tea.

The event 59(host) by the Confucius Institute at the University of Malta. The master of the event was Sun Yi, a teacher at the institute. She started the event with 60 brief introduction to Chinese tea culture, 61 (follow) by a practical demonstration of handling different kinds of tea 62(leaf).

She described the 63( centre ) role of tea in the daily life of Chinese people and taught students how to 64 (pronunciation)“drink”, “tea” and “good” in Mandarin. Then students were put to a test by being asked to form three different sentences with just the three words in different orders in Mandarin.

“I love Chinese tea very much,” said Lexuri Vazquez, who is a third-year student majoring 65 international relations. She said that she hadn't really appreciated the differences between black and green tea before. Thanks to the tea tasting, however, this will change now, she added.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

假定你是李华，你校英语报新开设了Science Fiction Stories栏目。作为编辑，请给你的英国朋友Chris写封邮件邀请他投稿。内容包括：

1．新栏目介绍；

2．欢迎他投稿。

注意：1．写作词数应为80左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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。

For my fourteenth birthday, my mom offered to take me and several friends to the city nearest our small town to visit a mall, go shopping, eat pizza and then watch a movie. All the friends I'd invited showed up except Nora. I felt confused and angry.

So, as soon as I returned to my house, I gave her a call. “It's my birthday! You're not coming, and you didn't even let me know. What kind of friend are you? How could you do this to me?”

Then Nora explained she had to stay at home because she had gotten sick. “OK, so you're sick... But how was I supposed to know if you didn't tell me?” I answered. It only grew worse from there, and Nora cried as we hung up the phone moments later. Immediately, her mother called back. Angrily, she told me how much I'd hurt her daughter, how much Nora had wanted to join us, and that she had been the one to change Nora's plan. Still thinking only of myself, I ended the call with Nora's mom and still felt angry.

At school on Monday, I found it easy to avoid Nora since she and I had no classes together. For the rest of the school year, we hardly spoke.

The next year I entered a senior high school, with twice as many students as my junior high school. I made some new friends and kept 'some old ones. But my friendship with Nora had been in the past.

Years later-just over twenty, to be specific-I discovered Facebook had suggested Nora as an online friend. We'd attended the same school and had many Facebook friends in common; it made sense. So, I reached out and sent the friend request. Nora accepted.

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。

After several days of polite online communication, I began to reflect on that phone conversation with Nora years ago.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Immediately, she responded with a message of her heartfelt forgiveness.