2022-2023学年福建省莆田市名校高二下学期第二学段（期中）考试英语试题含答案

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 莆田名校2022－2023学年度下学期第一学段考试试卷
高二 英语选择性必修3
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. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. At home. B. In a bakery. C. In a restaurant.
2. What was the weather like when the man was in Melbourne?
A. Cloudy. B. Sunny. C. Rainy.
3. What does the man think of the exam?
A. Quite easy. B. Just so-so. C. Very difficult.
4. What is the man invited to do this evening?
A. Go to the cinema. B. See an art show. C. Watch a basketball game.
5. What did the woman use to forget to do?
A. Write down the calories. B. Count the calories. C. Read the calories.
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 are the speakers discussing?
A. A neighborhood recycling project.
B. An environment-friendly material.
C. A garbage separating job in a school.
7. What does the man decide to do?
A. Ask the school children for help.
B. Hire someone to do the separating job.
C. Have separate containers clearly marked.
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听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8.What kind of music does Sally like?
A. Pop music. B. Rock music. C. Folk music.
9.When will the concert finish?
A. At 9:00 p.m. B. At 10:00 p.m. C. At 11:00 p.m.
10.Where will the speakers meet tomorrow night?
A. At Rose Restaurant. B. At Victorian Arts Center. C. At Forest Park.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11.What is the man doing ?
A. Conducting a job interview.
B. Introducing an agency.
C. Showing the woman around.
12.Where is the woman from?
A. Britain. B. France. C. Germany.
13.What does then man promise the woman?
A. Life insurance. B. Office supplies. C. A fixed annual bonus.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14.What day is it today ?
A. Friday. B. Saturday. C. Sunday.
15.What does Claire think helped her get the letter from Harvard ?
A. Forming good learning habits.
B. Attending extra courses.
C. Staying up late to study.
16.Why did Claire choose Harvard University ?
A. Her aunt was studying there.
B. She has won a scholarship to it.
C. She wants to be Madelyn’s schoolmate.
17.What does Claire plan to do before September ?
A. Visit her aunt. B. Travel abroad. C. Visit some colleges.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18.Why is Mr. Fidick upset?
A. His son is very sick.
B. Thieves are targeting children.
C. The hospital is too expensive.
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19.Where did the toys originally come from?
A. The hospital. B. The children’s parents. C. The city of Glasgow.
20.What did the hospital spokesman advise parents to do?
A. Be careful. B. Limit visitors. C. Add extra security.
第二部分 阅读理解（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 和 D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
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The Junction Campground
The Junction Campground is a great spot for river-based camping along one of Australia’s best-known rivers, near Grafton. Paddling the beautiful Nymboida River is a great way to explore the rainforest-lined riverbanks and rocky cliffs of Nymboi-Binderay National Park.
Craigmhor Mountain Retreat
Set in 1, 000 acres of wilderness, Craigmhor is a perfect base for bush walking, mountain biking, fishing, and bird watching. Within easy driving distance of Sydney, Craigmhor is the ideal location for overseas visitors or urban people to experience the Australian bush.
The Stone Cottage
Said to be Albury’s oldest house, the Stone Cottage warmly welcomes visitors with its exposed stone walls and an open fireplace. Set well back from the street in a spacious enclosed garden (ideal for pets), the two-bedroom self-contained house is perfect for small families and couples.
Located behind the main home, the Stone Cottage’s Kitchen Cottage turns on the charm
as much as the larger house. Private from the main house, the one-bedroom self-contained
cottage has a veranda（游廊）which looks out over an established herb garden, ideal for couples.
Instead of asking guests to wake at a certain time for a prepared breakfast, guests of both
cottages receive a selection of breakfast cuisines as they like, allowing sleep-ins and lazy mornings.
Pets are welcome.
Country Barn Retreat
Situated in a peaceful location and perfect for short stays, Elaine and John offer this
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amazing self-contained two-bedroom Country Barn Retreat, overlooking rural views and surrounded by lovely gardens.
Sleeping up to four adults in this comfortable cottage where you can relax by the cosy
wood fire in winter.
Fully equipped kitchen. Lounge and dining area with air-conditioning and fans to keep it cool in summer. Pet friendly, however, you would need to make arrangements with Elaine or John first.
21. Where will you go if you're a bird lover?
A. The Stone Cottage. B. Craigmhor Mountain Retreat.
C. The Junction Campground. D. Country Barn Retreat.
22. What can be learned about the Stone Cottage?
A. It lacks an open fireplace. B. It’s building a herb garden.
C. It has three bedrooms in all. D. It provides a well-prepared breakfast.
23. What’s special about the last two destinations?
A. Pets are allowed. B. Fires are forbidden.
C. Both have a veranda. D. Both are near rivers.
B
The Mustard Seed Project is getting closer to one of its initiatives－building affordable senior housing on the Key Peninsula, Washington.
The Nonprofit carries out the project so that people don’t have to leave the Key
Peninsula as they age and have home care needs. “We hope to build in Key Center, a good, central location for our community. Our vision is to have a campus with a cafe and meeting
spaces, 10 independent living cottages that have one or two bedrooms with laundry,
housekeeping and one meal a day provided, and then assisted living for 30 residents,” said board president Sara Thompson. “We want this to be a place that draws the entire community in, rather than a setting that sets elders aside in an isolated environment.”
More than a year ago, a longtime supporter of the organization made a major gift to
undertake a long-desired study to understand both the needs of the community and the
financial feasibility (可行性) for senior housing. As a result, The Mustard Seed Project had a meeting in November at the Key Peninsula Civic Center to explain the results of the study and to plan for the next steps.
“We’ll be applying for a predevelopment loan to do all the necessary planning,” The
Mustard Seed Project Executive Director Edie Morgan said. “We’re aware of affordable loans for the assisted living section of the project, and can get standard financing for the other buildings. But there will be a funding gap, and we expect to need to raise nearly $3
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million to make this happen. I believe we can do it.”
The entire project, once the project manager is identified, is expected to take about two years.
24. Why is the organization building affordable senior housing?
A. To offer free assistance to seniors.
B. To create job opportunities for residents.
C. To provide access to aging in place.
D. To improve facilities for the community.
25. What do we learn about the organization from Paragraph 3?
A. It holds meetings regularly.
B. It prepares holiday gifts for elders.
C. It adapts to sponsors’ needs.
D. It takes the housing project seriously.
26. What is Morgan mainly talking about?
A. Sources of funds. B. Application for loans.
C. Costs for construction. D. Distribution of donations.
27. Why is the text written?
A. To attract more visitors. B. To introduce an organization.
C. To report on a project. D. To entertain the seniors.
C
In May 1987 the Golden Gate Bridge had a 50th birthday party. The bridge was closed
to motor traffic so people could enjoy a walk across it. Organizers expected perhaps 50,000 people to show up. Instead, as many as 800,000 crowded the roads to the bridge. By the time 250,000 were on the bridge, engineers noticed something terrible: the roadway was flattening under what turned out to be the heaviest load it had ever been asked to carry.
Worse, it was beginning to sway(晃动). The authorities closed access to the bridge and tens
of thousands of people made their way back to land. A disaster was avoided.
The story is one of scores in To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, a book that is
at once a love letter to engineering and a paean(赞歌) to its breakdowns. Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about disasters. In this book, he includes the loss of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, and the sinking of the Titanic.
Though he acknowledges that engineering works can fail because the person who
thought them up or engineered them simply got things wrong, in this book Dr. Petroski widens his view to consider the larger context in which such failures occur. Sometimes
devices fail because a good design is constructed with low quality materials incompetently
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applied. Or perhaps a design works so well that it is adopted elsewhere again and again, with seemingly harmless improvements, until, suddenly, it does not work at all anymore.
Readers will encounter not only stories they have heard before, but some new stories
and a moving discussion of the responsibility of the engineer to the public and the ways young engineers can be helped to grasp them.
“Success is success but that is all that it is,” Dr. Petroski writes. It is failure that brings
improvement.
28. What happened to the Golden Gate Bridge on its 50th birthday?
A. It carried more weight than it could.
B. It swayed violently in a strong wind.
C. Its roadway was damaged by vehicles.
D. Its access was blocked by many people.
29. Which of the following is Dr. Petroski’s idea according to paragraph 3?
A. No design is well received everywhere.
B. Construction is more important than design.
C. Not all disasters are caused by engineering design.
D. Improvements on engineering works are necessary.
30. What does the last paragraph suggest?
A. Failure can lead to progress. B. Success results in overconfidence.
C. Failure should be avoided. D. Success comes from joint efforts.
31. What is the text?
A. A news report. B. A short story.
C. A book review. D. A research article.
D
Today, poetry and science are often considered to be mutually exclusively career paths.
But that wasn’t always the case. The mathematician Ada Lovelace and the physicist James
Clerk Maxwell were both accomplished poets. The poet John Keats was a licensed surgeon. Combining the two practices fell out of favor in the 1800s. But translating research into lyrics, haiku, and other poetic forms is resurging (再现) among scientists as they look for
alternative ways to inspire others with their findings.
“Poetry is a great tool for interrogating and questioning the world,” says Sam Illingworth, a poet and a geoscientist who currently works as a lecturer in science
communication at the University of Western Australia. Through workshops and a new
science-poetry journal, called Consilience, Illingworth is helping scientists to translate their latest results into poems that can attract appreciation from those outside of their immediate
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scientific field .
Stephany Mazon, a scientist from the University of Helsinki in Finland, joined one of Illingworth’s workshops. In the workshop, she was grouped with other scientists and tasked
with writing a a haiku, a 17-syllable-long poem that spotlighted water, a fluid that featured in
all of the group members’ research projects. “It was a lot of fun, and surprisingly easy to
write the poem,” Mazon says. She plans to continue writing. “We do a disservice (伤害) to ourselves to think that scientists can’t be artistic and that art can’t be used to communicate scientific ideas,” Mazon says.
That viewpoint is echoed by Illingworth, who thinks science communication initiatives
are too often dominated by public lectures with their hands-off PowerPoint slides. “ Actually, when science communication involves writing and sharing poems, it invites a two-way
dialogue between experts and nonexperts,” he says. Scientist-poet Manjula Silva, an
educator at Imperial College London, agrees. Poetry provides a way to translate complex scientific concepts into a language everyone can understand, Silva says.
Scientists and poets are both trying to understand the world and communicate that
understanding with others. The distinction between scientists and the poets is less than
people might think. We’re all just people with—hopefully—really interesting things to say and to share.
32. What is the purpose of mentioning the celebrities in paragraph1?
A. To display they were talented.
B. To show poetry and science can be combined.
C. To encourage different career paths.
D. To confirm they were out of favor.
33. What are Illingworth’s workshops aimed to do?
A. Promote a new science -poetry journal.
B. Inspire outsiders to pursue their career in science.
C. Get scientists to exchange ideas about the latest research.
D. Encourage science communication through poems.
34. What does Illingworth think of the dominant way of science communication?
A. Conventional. B. Effective. C. Innovative. D. Complex.
35. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Scientists Take on Poetry
B. Scientists and Poets Think Alike
C. Poetry: A Great Tool to Question the World
D. Science Communication: A Two-way Dialogue
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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。
Home gardens produce delicious food. But that’s not their main virtue.
Imagine a plate holding two strawberries, identical in appearance. One came out of a
super-market box, probably harvested unripe. 36 The other was picked from a
garden minutes before being eaten. The first one will probably taste like a slightly sour grape while the second is likely to be sweet and rich in flavour.
Supermarket strawberries are not entirely without advantages. They are convenient and
available in the northern globe even in February. But the two berries differ from each other in the same way that hearing Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata in a concert hall differs from
listening to it on an old tape. 37
Other people, however, believe gardening a waste of time. But the same could be said
of cooking. There are cheap and decent restaurants around, so why bother to make your own
meals? 38 They mistake the product for the purpose.
Actually, a garden, especially in the early years, can produce little but frustration(挫败 感). New gardeners may plant the wrong crops for their soil. Rabbits have an annoying habit
of taking single bites of vegetable, then leaving the rest to go bad. 39 No matter.
The real joy of gardening is the time spent doing it. The deepest pleasure — as with cooking, writing, bringing up children or almost anything worthwhile — is in the work itself. A gardener’s memories revolve not around the food produced, but around long afternoons with
hands in the dirt. 40
A. No one can ever avoid this hard stage.
B. So why don’t we start home gardening for delicious food?
C. This might explain why many people desire a home garden.
D. These people misunderstand the ultimate appeal of gardening.
E. By the time it reached the plate it may have been off the plant for days.
F. To garden is to patiently and lovingly help life grow, in the ground and above it.
G. And even expert gardeners can lose a season’s harvest to uncooperative weather.
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，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
My 34-year-old son Zack was diagnosed with autism (自闭症) at age two. It has been
a long road, filled with many 41 . The fact that Zack is nonverbal 42 matters
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greatly. However, we have always found a way to get our message across.
Autism involves continuous obstacles in social 43 . Many parents like me, long
for spontaneous (自发的) signs of 44 from their child. I was 45 to get one.
At snack time, I started to 46 to Zack with a favorite chant that I often use.
“Mommy loves you; Mommy loves you, yes, I do, yes, I do.” In the middle of my song, I
47 that Zack was attentively observing me. 48 , he took a step toward me and
held his arms out. Another step 49 and he wrapped his arms around me in a big bear
hug. A feather could have knocked me over as I realized that, for the very first time, my son
was 50 me!
For a moment I stood there 51 . This magical hug ended as 52 as it had
started, but the 53 it had on me will be permanent. On an ordinary day, the
extraordinary 54 . It belongs to me, making me believe miracles exist and 55
me with joy every day.
41. A. priorities B. mysteries C. challenges D. opportunities
42. A. complicates B. settles C. helps D. explains
43. A. support B. responsibility C. communication D. security
44. A. affection B. growth C. success D. recovery
45. A. amused B. blessed C. determined D. honored
46. A. sing B. apologize C. respond D. complain
47. A. agreed B. mentioned C. announced D. noticed
48. A. Eventually B. Suddenly C. Naturally D. Apparently
49. A. formed B. counted C. paused D. followed
50. A. calling B. encouraging C. hugging D. protecting
51. A. in comfort B. in shock C. with confidence D. with awe
52. A. quickly B. early C. perfectly D. differently
53. A. burden B. focus C. hope D. impact
54. A. revived B. worked C. occurred D. varied
55. A. welcoming B. shaping C. filling D. approaching
第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）
ChatGPT is high-tech progress, not a revolution
ChatGPT is a powerful chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022.
56 (build) on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models, it engages in
human-like dialogue egged by prompting. It 57 (design) to respond in a natural,
intuitive way and has numerous potential uses.
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From a scientific point of view, there is a need to closely watch the development of
such 58 (technology) before reaching a conclusion about their efficacy and helpful
nature. Technology progresses step by step. So we should not panic thinking ChatGPT will
take up jobs 59 till now need humans to fulfill.
ChatGPT is an example of high-tech progress, not a revolution.
First, ChatGPT 60 (make) quite some progress in natural language processing
since it was developed, yet it still has a long way to go to completely understand the human mind and language faculty, because when it comes to professional writing, ChatGPT at times
writes plausible-sounding but 61 (correct) or nonsensical answers. It might give
some good answers to most of the general questions, 62 it is no substitute for
professional advice, such as medical prognosis and prescriptions, or legal advice.
Second, ChatGPT is still a product 63 very limited application. It has the
potential to be used for enhancing search engine functionality but, as a pre-trained language model, it will have limited use.
Due to these limitations, investors should not 64 (blind) invest huge amounts to
further develop ChatGPT and should not expect quick returns on investment. Yet as a 65
(promise) AI development, ChatGPT is likely to advance in the medium, if not the short term.
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分 40分）
第一节：应用文写作（满分 15分）
假定你是学校官网英语版学生编辑李华，校学生会将举行“送你一朵花（AFlower for You)” 活动，请你写一则倡议，内容包括：
1. 活动目的
2. 活动内容
3. 呼吁参加
注意：1.写作词数应为80左右。 2. 请按如下格式在答题卷的相应位置作答。
Dear fellow students, __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________
The Students’ Union
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第二节 （满分 22分）
阅读下面短文,根据所给情节进行续写,使之构成一个完整的故事。
“How can I buy a present without any money?” he thought.
Jim picked up the newspaper that was lying on the couch. He noticed a large advertisement on the front page. The local department store was sponsoring a contest. “Tell us why your mom is special and win a shopping spree (狂欢购物）for her, ” said the ad.
“This is perfect!” thought Jim. He ran to his room with the newspaper. Taking a pencil and a blank piece of paper from his desk, he started to write.
“My mom is the best mother in the world. She always makes a lunch for me to take to
school and she never forgets my dessert. She reads as many books to me before bed as I want. She always remembers to check under the bed for monster. And she gives the best hugs, but never in front of my friends, who would laugh at me for hugging my mum.”
Jim liked what he had written. He copied it neatly and got an envelope and a stamp
from his dad. He ran to the mailbox with his entry. “Mom will love having a shopping spree, ” he thought.
Jim checked the mailbox every day for his prize. Days passed by, and then weeks.
Soon it was the day before Mother’s Day. Jim still had not heard anything about the contest. With time going by, the mixed feeling of disappointment and anxiety was growing in his heart.
注意:
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右;
2.续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好.
Para1: “What am I going to do now?” he wondered.
Para2: The next morning, Jim handed his present to his mom.
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莆田名校2022－2023学年度下学期第一学段考试试卷
高二 英语选择性必修 3答案
听力1-5 BCCBC 6-10 ACCBA 11-15 AABCA 16-20 CBBAA
阅读理解
（A）BCA （B） CDAC （C）ACAC （D）BDAA 七选五 ECDGF
完形填空
41-45 CACAB 46-50 ADBDC 51-55 BADCC
语法填空
56. Built 57. is designed 58. technologies 59. that/which 60. has made
61. incorrect 62. but/yet 63. with 64. blindly 65. promising
应用文
参考范文:
Dear fellow students,
To spread joy and kindness, we plan to launch an initiative — A Flower for You.
You can give flowers to whoever you believe deserves them — a friend, a family member, a
teacher, or even a stranger. Your gesture can brighten their day and remind them that they are appreciated. You may either buy a bunch of flowers or just make artificial flowers yourself. Small gesture as it is, it can make a difference to the person who receives your heartfelt gift. Come and join us! Let’s make the world a little bit brighter with flowers! (95 words)
The Student Union
读后续写1
Paragraph1:
What am I going to do now?” he wondered. Suddenly he had an idea. He fumbled in his drawers and fortunately found a piece of delicate and fragrant paper. He sat down straight on his chair, and began to write a letter in his best handwriting as a Mother’s Day present. “Dear
mom, I’m writing this to tell you that you are the best mother in the world...” With a sincere
heart, Jim finished the letter and sealed it in an envelope, his lips curving into a smile. Paragraph2:
The next morning Jim handed his present to his mom. Finishing reading the letter, his
mom swept him into her arms with her eyes wet as if she wanted to squeeze the breath out of him. “Thank you, my dear!” She sniffed, hugging Jim more tightly. Leaning against his mother’s shoulder, Eric slowly explained why he chose to write a letter as a gift. After hearing the reason, his mom gently combed her fingers through his hair, saying, “To me, your letter is better than a thousand shopping sprees.” Hugging each other, they felt blissful
as if they were in possession of everything. Indeed, love should be made known to loved
ones.
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