广东省佛山市南海区2022-2023学年高二上学期11月期中英语试题

这是一份广东省佛山市南海区2022-2023学年高二上学期11月期中英语试题，共10页。
南海区2024届高二上学期学业水平测试
英语试卷
本试卷共10页，笔试部分满分130分，考试时间120分钟。
第一部分 听说考试（独立安排，满分20分）
第二部分 综合运用（共五节，满分65分）
第一节 课外阅读（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
When James Gordon was in school, one teacher wrote a comment on his report card that “James finishes his work first and then breaks classroom rules.” Back then, no one knew what the future would be for one of the funniest actors in Hollywood. Believe it or not, he had a tough time making friends in school, because of his reading disorder. Despite that, his ability to make his classmates laugh helped him make friends.
Unfortunately for Gordon, his life changed greatly after his father lost his job and his mother fell sick. These forced the family to live out of their camper van(野营车) tor a full eight months, parking in campgrounds. “When I was about 14 or 15, my father lost his job and I actually became homeless for quite some time, but of course, I grew up in Canada and I thought we’d gone camping,” James said in an interview.
The famous actor attended school until he was in 10th grade when he left to work 8-hour night shifts to help the family make money. Long hours of work made him very tired, especially from the lack of sleep, and he just couldn’t focus during class. When he turned 16, his mother became ill, he had to quit school to care for her and work full-time.
During the unfortunate times Gordon discovered his talent for stand-up comedy. His comedy career rocketed as he scored roles in various Hollywood TV shows and movies throughout the 1990s and 2000s. “I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation,” Gordon told CBS of his early success. “If you aren’t desperate at some point, you aren’t interesting.”
1. What do we know about James Gordon in school?
A. He was good at most subjects. B. He was interested in funny jokes.
C. He was often distracted in classrooms. D. He was talented in amusing his classmates.
2. What directly caused James Gordon to drop out of school?
A. His mother’s illness. B. His pressure of part-time job.
C. His bad behaviour in class. D. His father’s unemployment.
3. What does James Gordon think of suffering?
A. It is better than education. B. It stops one from trying.
C. It is helpful to one’s success. D. It makes people feel bored.
B
Gravy started working as a comfort dog at Grand Ledge High School in Michigan in September. She showed off tricks in the hallways with her handler(驯兽员), Capra, and made students laugh aloud. When students learned that Gravy’s first birthday fell just before Thanksgiving break, they asked Capra if they could throw a party. Capra said sure, thinking there wouldn’t be many people interested. However, on the big day, there were several hundred students in this gym.
The pandemic(大流行病) has been hard on students across the United States. Many young people experienced loneliness and the loss of loved ones. To solve the problem, schools have hired social workers and increased the number of their social-emotional learning classes. In some cases, they bought dogs.
Undoubtedly, the dogs make kids happy. “He’s kind of like a rock star; when the kids see him coming, they smile,” said Traci Souva, an art teacher at North Huron Schools who trains Chipper, another comfort dog. “A lot of times the kids will tell Chipper what’s wrong rather than adults, and that’s pretty amazing.”
There are possible blemishes of having dogs in school. These include cleanliness, and student fears. But school officials say these are all manageable. The dogs are highly trained and always with a handler, so no student is forced to communicate with the dogs if they don’t want to.
Since the pandemic, demand for trained dogs in schools “has just increased,” said Nikki Brown, a dog trainer and the director of Canines for Change, a nonprofit that trains dogs for work in schools. Over the last year, her organization has provided dogs to at least seven areas in Michigan, including Grand Ledge. “The dogs are highly trained to be in a school environment,” she added. “They are trained to work with kids with emotional problems. They sense stress. By the dogs’ behaviour they might warn a teacher of a kid who is struggling
emotionally”
4. Which of the following best describes Gravy as a comfort dog?
A. Tricky. B. Popular. C. Humorous. D. Caring.
5. What does the underlined word “blemishes” mean in paragraph 4?
A. Requirements. B. Disadvantages. C. Influences. D. Suggestions.
6. What can we infer from Nikki Brown’s words?
A. Working on campus brings a lot of pressure to dogs.
B. There is a high global market demand for trained dogs.
C. School environment can affect dogs’ behaviour greatly.
D. The dogs have the ability to notice students' mental illness.
7. What is the best title for the text?
A. How dogs relieve students’ mental problems
B. How dogs ensure students’ safety on campus
C. How dogs enrich students’ after-school activities
D. How dogs develop students’ sense of responsibility
C
The sighting of a new family of gray wolves in Oregon’s Cascade mountains has given wildlife protectors hope that the recovery of the endangered animal in the state is on the way. The state’s fish and wildlife department(部门) said a group of two adults and two babies was recorded by a track camera in August.
The wolves were found in the area of Warm Springs and officials have named it AKW—a new area of known wolf activity. If the group still has all four members surviving at the end of the year, the animals will be known as the Warm Springs group, the state’s third one in the northern Cascades. “Wolves will move to different places, but when we have resident wolves, like we know they’re sticking in that area, that’s when we create an AKWA to make sure the wolf count rise constantly.” the agency’s worker, Michelle Dennehy, told USA Today.
Many years of hunting of gray wolves almost made them die out across the nearby 48 US states by the middle of the last century. In Oregon at the end of 2009 only 14 wolves were known to exist. With protections from the Endangered Animals Act beginning in 1974, numbers have risen slowly since, to 175 in Oregon by the end of last year, living in more than 35 groups.
“I hope this will be an exciting new chapter in the story of wolf recovery in the state. Having more wolves establish families in western Oregon will be important for the long-term survival of these beautiful animals,” Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf protector at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.
8. How did people find the gray wolves?
A. By sighting their families. B. By taking their pictures.
C. By recording their voices. D. By observing their tracks.
9. What do we know about AKWA from the second paragraph?
A. It is created according to wolves’ species. B. It aims to prohibit wolves’ moving around.
C. It can help the increase of wolf population. D. It will warn people to watch out for wolves.
10. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 3?
A. Add some background information. B. Summarize the previous paragraphs.
C. Offer solutions to wildlife protectors. D. Show reasons of gray wolves’ hunting.
第二节 选句填空（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。
Can you change your luck?
Sometimes, everything seems to go wrong. 11 . Your back aches. Your cat keeps throwing up. Faced with difficulties large or small, you feel like your life is always taking a turn for the worse. You begin to wonder if you are just an unlucky person.
Don’t be upset. 12 . After studying people who consider themselves lucky or unlucky, he has found that the “lucky” ones make the best use of chance opportunities and have the courage to follow their intuition(直觉) to take them without hesitation.
“If you are relaxed and happy, your world view becomes bigger and you see more opportunities,” he says. “If you’re a flexible person, when those opportunities come in, you’ll make the most of them. 13 , but often they change the course depending on how the wind is going.”
Lucky people also expect good things and can turn bad experiences into good. “They tend to be—no surprise—optimistic people, and they also recover from the bad things that happen,” Wiseman says. “If bad things happen, they think, ‘OK, it could have been worse’.”
14 . “Bach night before you go to bed, spend about 30 seconds writing down a good thing that’s happened that day, or a sense of appreciation for friends or family or health, or a negative thing that's no longer happening”, Wiseman says.
Also, don’t be a person of habit. Take a different route when walking, watch a different TV programme, speak to different people. 15 . And then keep your eyes open and get whatever opportunities might arise.
A. You’re passed over for a job
B. Even small changes can be effective
C. Lucky people know where they’re heading
D. The lucky ones regularly list things they are grateful to have
E. There are some methods you can follow to change your luck
F. Professor Wiseman believes there are steps to improve your luck
G. As for specific activities, you can focus on the positive by keeping a “luck diary”
第三节 课内阅读（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
（一）阅读理解（共3小题；每小题2分，满分6分）
阅读下面两段课内节选文本，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
I live in a university dorm with a couple of great roommates. I have a never-ending flow of messages and updates from all the people I associate with online. Yet the truth of the matter is: I feel lonely.
I’m barely the only person who feels this way. According to research, over two-thirds of young people find it easier to make friends online than it is “in real life”. I’m way beyond a shy or reserved person, but I’m wired up every day, like most of my friends. On the surface, I have an active social life. I attend parties and play sports but I’m always distracted. They say that phones bring people closer together but in reality, my mind is always a million miles away. I obsess over exactly how many followers I have on my account, but I can’t remember the birthdays of some of my oldest mates.
16. From the passage, we know that the writer ______.
A. is a shy and reserved person
B. doesn’t have many friends in real life
C. cares too much about how many followers he has online
D. believes that attending parties and playing sports make him distracted
B
Most people assume that the human brain is set on “automatic”—that means it learns all by itself. But this isn’t always true. We need to train ourselves to be better learners—to actively take part in the learning process and to reflect on what we have learnt. These kinds of learning behaviours are called “active learning”. I suggest doing the following things to take an active role in your learning.
1. Listen to the outer voice
There are two kinds of voices: the inner voice and the outer voice. Your inner voice expresses your personal opinions, while the outer voice tells you about opinions from what you hear or read. Although your inner voice can be useful, it can also get in the way of learning. If you keep paying too much attention to it, you risk missing important information. Instead, active learners are open-minded and focus on what the speaker/writer is saying, not on what their brain is saying in the background. In this way, they are in a better position to make decisions.
2. Get to the truth
Active learners do not accept everything they learn. They attempt to find the truth at the heart of each idea. Even when an idea sounds entirely unlikely, there may be an aspect of it that is based on truth. So if someone says that dinosaurs still exist today, think about why they believe this. Where does the idea come from? Do they have enough data to support their views? If you try to find out the source of an idea, no matter how crazy it seems, you will increase your chance of learning something.
17. What do most people believe about the human brain?
A. It needs to be trained. B. It can learn in an automatic way.
C. It can’t help us reflect on what we have learnt. D. It can help us take part in the learning process actively.
18. Which of the following suggestions is for active learners?
A. Try hard to figure out the facts. B. Let the outer voice get in the way.
C. Pay no attention to what others say. D. Pay no attention to an idea that sounds impossible.
（二）语句排序（共2小题；每小题2分，满分4分）
根据所学课文，将下列两个文段重新排序，从A、B、C、D中选择一个最佳选项，构成一个符合逻辑的完整语篇。
A
① Today he lives in a small dormitory room with only second-hand furniture and he gets his clothes and a lot of other things from charity shops.
② He made the choice to give all his money away. And this, he said, brought him happiness and a sense of success in life.
③ Sixteen years ago, Jason was a college professor with a huge six-bedroom house and a fortune of two million dollars.
④ He was tired of being regarded as living a successful life, as a person who had everything while many people had nothing.
⑤ But Jason appreciates this change. He is pleased to give up the lifestyle of a rich man.
19. A. ①④③②⑤ B. ①⑤③④② C. ③②④①⑤ D. ③①⑤④②
B
① Students can do this by choosing their friends wisely: It’s a good idea for teens to surround themselves with positive role models.
② It’s also important for young people to think about the consequences of their actions.
③ If they give in to peer pressure and perhaps do something that they know deep down is wrong, what could be the result?
④ The most important thing for students to avoid peer pressure is to build up self-confidence so that it’s easy to say “no” to the peer group.
⑤ If they stop and think about the consequences, they might make a different decision.
20. A. ④②①③⑤ B. ④①②③⑤ C. ③④②①⑤ D. ⑤①④②③
第四节 完形填空（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四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
With the help of her mom, one little girl made an incredible gesture to a member of the local police force. What’s even more 21 is why she feels so connected to the people who 22 and serve the community.
It started when Mikayla and her mother, Mimi, were having dinner at a restaurant. Police officer Joseph Quinn stopped by to 23 a to-go order. Seeing the officer in blue, Mikayla’s eyes 24 with happiness. She said hello and had a 25 with Quinn. After the officer walked away, Mikayla asked her mother if they could pay for his order. “I wanted to because he deserves(值得) 26 and kindness,” said Mikayla.
When Officer Quinn went to pay the bill, the 27 told him someone paid for his lunch but wanted to remain unknown. He went back to work, 28 to find out who it was so he could say thank you.
Officer Quinn had quickly figured out who the 29 angel was. 30 , he later learned something incredible about little Mikayla. Mikayla’s father, Tommy, was also a police officer. He was 31 in the line of duty by a drunk driver about seven months before Mikayla was born. Mikayla once told her mother that if her dad was alive, she would want somebody to also 32 a lunch or dinner for him.
In order to pay back her act of kindness, the officers of the Jamesburg Police Office 33 her to march with them in this year’s Memorial Day celebration. 34 , they have started a GoFundMe page for Mikayla and it has already 35 more than $12,000 to help pay for her schooling.
21. A. touching B. interesting C. important D. fearful
22. A. protect B. build C. affect D. change
23. A. pick at B. pick up C. pick on D. pick out
24. A. closed B. watered C. dropped D. shone
25. A. meeting B. meal C. word D. walk
26. A. respect B. consideration C. success D. expectation
27. A. policeman B. waiter C. cook D. host
28. A. excited B. confident C. motivated D. determined
29. A. optimistic B. committed C. clever D. generous
30. A. Fortunately B. Amazingly C. Naturally D. Intentionally
31. A. killed B. injured C. blamed D. rejected
32. A. prepare B. make C. buy D. bring
33. A, advised B. reminded C. invited D. allowed
34. A. In reality B. In addition C. In general D. In contrast
35. A. spent B. carned C. raised D. borrowed
第五节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10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。
Each year, we take more than 100 billion tons of natural materials from the earth 36 (make) the products we buy. However, about two-thirds of them 37 (eventual) becomes waste, including almost 3 billion plastic bottles 38 end up in the ocean every year.
Since the 1860s, we 39 (follow) a common business model. Industries take natural materials, they make things, we use them, and then we throw them away. Environmentalists and economists warn that this model is not good for the environment, so they suggest 40 new choice: a circular economy(循环经济).
A circular economy 41 (base) on the idea of reducing waste by keeping the natural materials and products in use for much 42 (long). It works in a circle, very much the way nature docs. The circular economy uses a range of 43 (strategy), such as recycling and reusing. In a circular economy, products are designed to be long-lasting and easy to repair from the 44 (begin). In this way, we can keep the balance 45 human and nature.
第三部分 知识基础（共三节，满分35分）
第一节 单句语法填空（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
根据下列各句句意，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。
46. For more than 50 years, he has devoted his life ______ rice production.
47. For a lot of people, ______(be) a millionaire is a symbol of success.
48. I was ______ only girl in a rugby club of 250 boys.
49. Van Gogh painted ______ he saw from his window.
50. ______(inspire) by the message of the project, people felt that we should act now.
第二节 词义匹配（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请匹配单词及其英文解释。
第一组
51. complete
52. wealthy
53. polite
54. convince
55. sufficient
A. enough
B. to finish doing
C. difficult to deal with
D. a feeling of admiration
E. being rich, having a lot of money
F. having good manners and respect
G. to make others believe that sth. is true
第二组
56. ruin
57. retire
58. delay
59. guilty
60. academic
A. to harm sth. badly
B. feeling ashamed
C. a situation being frightened
D. involving reading and studying
E. not having done anything wrong
F. to make sth. happen at a later time
G. to stop doing the job because of the age
第三组
61. struggle
62. promising
63. rescue
64. impact
65. grateful
A. feeling thanks
B. to try very hard for sth.
C. to be in a suitable place
D. to save sb./sth. from danger
E. to have a powerful effect on
F. to be badly affected by a disease
G. showing signs of being good or successful
第三节 词汇运用（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下列文本，在空白处填入适当的单词（部分空有首字母或中文提示）。
Text 1
Christopher Reeve engaged in a wide range of exercises designed to rebuild muscle, and made remarkable (66)p______. Shortly after, he managed to return to his film (67)c______ by directing, producing and even starring in films. He also wrote a biography and returned to his charity work. Reeve became a (68)______(热爱的，具有强烈信念的) and energetic advocate for people with back injuries and (69)______(残疾), collecting millions of dollars in (70)______(支持) of medical research.
Text 2
I knew I had chosen a job with a lot of. (71)______(压力) but I love what I do. The thing about being a teacher is that you have (72)a______ to children’s minds when they are open and (73)e______ to learn. If what I do as a teacher can help turn a child like Graham into such a successful adult, then I know what I’m doing is (74)______(值得的). As John Dewey, the famous educationalist, said, “Education is not (75)______(准备) for life; education is life itself.”
Text 3
When you enter an unfamiliar environment, what do you feel? Do you second-guess yourself? Although confident people are not immune from self-doubt, they enjoy a strong (76)s______ of safety, clarity, and trust in themselves.
Studies indicate that confident people tend to be healthier and live longer. It could be due to the (77)______(积极的) effects of emotions associated with confidence—happiness and (78)______(满足，满意). People who. (79)l______ confidence often struggle with emotions like fear, (80)______(忧郁，沮丧), and anxiety, which will harm health. Confidence can also help you with fitness goals.
第四部分 书面表达（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 句子翻译（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
把下面句子翻译成英文。
81. 孩子们掩着耳朵，但脸上带着期待的表情。
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82. 听到这个词的那一刻，我恐惧至极。
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83. 观众都跳了起来，鼓掌、欢呼，挥舞着他们的帽子。
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84. 老师解释概念的时候，同学们全神贯注地听着。
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85. 如果你的梦想是成为冠军，你应该全身心投入到训练中。
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第二节 应用文写作（满分15分）
假定你是李华，你校将举办英语演讲比赛，主题为：我对成功的看法。请写一封邮件邀请你的外教Smith来当评委。内容包括：
1. 比赛的时间、地点；
2. 演讲的内容；
3. 表达期待。
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考答案
第一部分 听说考试（独立安排，满分20分）
略
第二部分 综合运用（共五节，满分65分）
第一节 课外阅读（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
1~3 D A C 4~7 B B D A 8~10 B C A
第二节 选句填空（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
11~15 A F C D B
第三节 课内阅读（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
16~20 C B A C B
第四节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
21~25 A A B D C 26~30 A B D D B 31~35 A C C B C
第五节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
36. to make; 37. eventually; 38. which; 39. have followed; 40. a
41. based; 42. longer; 43. strategies; 44. beginning; 45. between
第三部分 知识基础（共三节，满分35分）
第一节 单句语法填空（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
46. to; 47. being; 48. the; 49. what; 50. Inspired
第二节 词义匹配（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
51~55 B E F G A 56~60 A G F B D 61~65 B G D E A
第三节 词汇运用（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
66. progress; 67. career; 68. passionate; 69. disabilities; 70. support
71. stress; 72. access; 73. eager; 74. worthwhile; 75. preparation
76. sense; 77. positive; 78. satisfaction; 79. lack; 80. depression
第四部分 书面表达（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 句子翻译（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
81. The children covered their ears, but with expectant expressions on their faces.
82. The moment I heard the word, I was terrified.
83. The audience jumped to their feet, cheering, cheering, waving their hats.
84. The students were all ears as the teacher explained the concept.
85. If your dream is to become a champion, you should devote yourself to training.
第二节 应用文写作（满分15分）
略