2023江苏省淮宿七校高一下学期期中英语试卷含解析

2022-2023学年下学期高一年级期中考试

英语试卷

试卷满分：150分  考试时间：120分钟

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 does the man do most weekends?

A. He goes shopping.

B. He visits museums.

C. He watches matches.

2. What does the man suggest the woman do?

A. Report to the police.

B. Go back to look for it.

C. Buy a new one.

3. What will the woman do first?

A. Go to the library.

B. Go to the classroom.

C. Go to the teachers’ office.

4. How many languages can the woman speak up to now?

A. Two.    B. Three.    C. Four.

5. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Teacher and student.    B. Manager and employee.    C. Classmates.

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，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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

6. What is the man asking the woman for?

A.Help with his research.

B. Advice on his job interview.

C. Advice on the company’s products.

7. What is the woman always ready to do?

A. Wear casual clothes.

B. Learn more about the company.

C. Go shopping with the man.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

8. What does the woman want to borrow?

A. A notebook.    B. A dictionary.    C. Some money.

9. How long does the woman work every evening?

A. For two hours.    B. For three hours.    C. For four hours.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

10. How long has the man lived in this area?

A. For 5 years.    B. For 10 years.    C. For 20 years.

11. How far is the gas station from the place where the two speakers are?

A. About half a mile.    B. About two miles.    C. About two and a half miles.

12. What can be known about the gas station?

A. It has a red roof.    B. It is very large.    C. It is very small.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

13. What does the woman suggest the man do?

A. Buy a sports car.    B. Buy a small family car.       C. Sell his family car.

14. What season is it at the moment?

A. It is spring.    B. It is autumn.    C. It is winter.

15. What’s the possible relationship between the speakers?

A. Husband and wife.    B. Father and daughter.    C. Friends.

16. Why doesn’t the man want to get a new car?

A. Because of the high price.

B. Because of the season.

C. Because of his feeling to the old one.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

17. Why did the lady want the pianist to sing?

A. She knew he could sing well.

B. She was tired of listening to the piano.

C. She wanted to make him famous.

18. When did the pianist know he had a talent for singing?

A. That night after his first singing.

B. Long before he played the piano in the bar.

C. After he became a famous pianist.

19. What happened to the pianist at last?

A. He had his own piano bar.

B. He continued to play the piano in the bar.

C. He became a well-known singer in America.

20. Which of the following will the author of the passage agree on?

A. Everyone should make full use of his talent.

B. Few people have real talent.

C. People will succeed if they have talent.

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

A

Walking Festivals in Britain

The Isle of Wight Walking Festival

The Isle of Wight Walking Festival has almost 70 walks to choose from,ranging from Nature’s Table, a guided short walk and talk around a nature reserve, exploring food sources for wildlife, to a three-day trip to the island. The most important event is a fund-raising walk for the island’s hospice (临终安养院) the coast-to-coast Mountbatten Walk the Wight.

Time:7-15 May

Website:www.isleofwightwalkingfestival.co.uk

The Lincolnshire Wolds Outdoor Festival

This new festival is a successor (接替者) to the Lincolnshire Wolds Walking Festival. There are coast , countryside, and town walks, themed walks covering wildlife and literature, and full moon walks. The non-walking activities range from mountain biking to well-being classes. Child-friendly options include deer watching and beach workshops.

Time:30 April to 5 June

Website: www.woldsoutdoorfestival.com

The Alton Walking Festival

This festival is now in its 11th year and has a program of 113 walks throughout May. For children, there are short buggy strolls (马车散步) and ghost walks. What are aimed firmly at adults are well-being walks, short trips to vineyards (葡萄园) and the 20-mile journey.

Time :1-31 May

Website : www.alton.gov.uk

The Herefordshire Walking Festival

The annual Kington Walks Spring Weekend features 14 walks in and around the historic Herefordshire drovers’ town, including a pub walk, a dawn bird-watching walk and a tour of Hergest Croft Gardens to see the spring blooms. It’s a good warm-up for the Herefordshire Walking Festival,which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. It includes a themed walk and several challenging hikes.

Time :18-26 June

Website :www.herefordshirewalkingfestival.co.uk

1. Which of the following websites will people wanting to walk for charity visit ?

A. www.alton.gov.uk.

B. www.woldsoutdoorfestival.com

C. www.isleofwightwalkingfestival.co.uk.

D. www.herefordshirewalkingfestival.co.uk.

2. What do the walking festivals in Lincolnshire and Alton have in common ?

A. They provide fun activities for children.

B. They include non-walking activities.

C. They have a long history.

D. They last for two months.

3. What can visitors do during the Kington Walks Spring Weekend ?

A. See birds and flowers.

B. Go on guided hikes.

C. Tour around the vineyards.

D. Gain knowledge about literature.

B

My sister Alice and I have been trying to get people to stop dropping cigarette (香烟) butts (烟头) for seven years. One day, we were walking in our hometown and saw hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground. They made the town look so ugly that we decided to start a group to make people stop dropping butts. We called it “No Butts About It”.

At first, we drew pictures with “The Earth is not your ashtray (烟灰缸)” written on them. We put the pictures around our hometown—in parks, by beaches, and along roads. We wanted to make people understand that dropping butts hurts the environment. Most smokers don’t think that dropping butts hurts the Earth. But it does, and all rubbish does!

Later we wrote to companies and asked them for money to help us. We used the money to buy ashtrays to give to smokers. We wanted smokers to carry the ashtrays with them so they didn’t have to drop butts.

At the moment, we are trying to get cigarette companies to put an ashtray in each pack of cigarettes. Some companies want to do it. Many people have started to join our group since it began. Today there are 45 other “No Butts About It” groups in America.

Now there even groups in England, Australia, and India! Many newspapers have written about my sister and me over the last seven years. And we have won many prizes for what we do. But we are not interested in prizes. We just want to make the Earth a better and cleaner place for animals, plants and people.

One day, it will be.

4. What did the writer think about the cigarette butts in the first place?

A. They made the town smelly. B. They made the town unhealthy.

C. They made the town dirty. D. They made the town poor.

5. What does the writer do with the cigarette butts?

A. Give ashtrays to the smokers. B. Stop people buying cigarettes.

C. Pick up the cigarette butts. D. Win prizes for starting groups.

6. From the passage we can know that _____.

A. no companies wanted to give money to them

B. the writer believes that the Earth will be a better and cleaner place

C. there are only 45 “No Butts About It”

D. the writer likes to be on newspapers and win prizes

7. Which is the best tittle for the passage?

A. Save our Town From Cigarette Butts. B. Buy Yourself An Ashtray.

C. Cigarette Butts Also Destroy Other Countries. D. No Butts Prize.

C

Eggs are a common ingredient. They’re at the center of the age-old question, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” and the classic idiom, “Egg someone on.” And, most fascinatingly, they’re the subjects of art, film and fashion.

From Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s painting “Broken Eggs” and Claude Monet’s painting “Still Life with Eggs” to Giovanni Battista Recco’s “Still Life with Chickens and Eggs”, there’s no shortage of egg illustrations. Within the field of art, eggs are a complex theme due to their significance in Christian cultures and mythology.

Simply put, an egg is more than just food—it is “a symbol and a shape-shifter.. . an industry and an inspiration, a cross-cultural expression of rebirth and potential,” according to a book called “The Gourmand’s Egg. A Collection of Stories and Recipes”.

Written by David Lane and Marina Tweed of the contemporary food and culture journal “The Gourmand”, the latest publication explores this phenomenon through a collection of images, stories and recipes focused on eggs. There’s also a section devoted to egg accessories, further illustrating how the egg became so remarkable in culture.

Perhaps the earliest mythological subject of eggs is the world egg, which thinks that the universe came into existence via a hatched (孵化) egg. Eggs then became a symbol of celebration. This eventually became the basis of classic Easter traditions.

Eggs were first showcased in art during the Renaissance. Take for example Piero della Francesca’s Breru Madonna, in which the hanging egg is a symbol of both creation and purity. There’s also Hieronymous Bosch’s oil painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, which shows yet another floating unhatched egg that is “a symbol of unrealized hope, or hidden power.”

As “The Gourmand’s Egg” wrote, “The egg is a cinematic chameleon(变色龙). It has been a symbol of brotherly love, a Freudian red flag, a symbol of life. ”

Additionally, “as in so many pictures, the egg often features not only as an everyday foodstuff but as a container of countless meanings.”

8. Why does the author list some paintings in paragraph 2?

A. To appeal to the readers’ attention.

B. To give examples of best painted eggs.

C. To prove there are many paintings about eggs.

D. To show the egg subject makes many famous paintings.

9. What is covered in David Lane and Marina Tweed’s new book?

A. The culture of eggs.

B. Skills of egg hatching.

C. The kinds of eggs.

D. Types of egg containers.

10. What does the egg stand for in Bosch’s painting?

A. Life. B. Potential. C. Love. D. Purity.

11. What is the author’s purpose of writing this text?

A. To sell a newly-published book.

B. To discuss famous paintings about eggs.

C. To introduce different egg cooking techniques.

D. To show the complex meaning of eggs in works of art.

D

For years, you’ve been told that stress can be deadly and is something to be avoided. Therefore, an anxious situation is often accompanied by a sense of fear. However, recent studies suggest that stress-related harmful effects on your health are not unavoidable.

One study followed 30,000 people over eight years and measured their stress levels. Those who believed that stress is harmful died at a higher rate than those who were under stress but didn’t acknowledge the so-called negative effects. The latter group was healthier, and many of them lived long, happy lives.

Stressful feelings start out in a small region of the brain that affects how people feel emotions, especially fear. The small region is very sensitive to possible threats. When it senses danger, it alerts the brain, and feelings of fear or stress can result. These feelings give people a warning message when they need to pay attention and when they need to take action. For instance, when the sight of a speeding car triggers (触发) the region to release a lightning-fast message, we know immediately to move out of the way!

Another study carried by Health psychologist Dr. McGonigal found a link between stress and the amount of sympathy people showed to others. Researchers tracked 1,000 adults, their descriptions of the level of stress in their lives and the amount of time spent helping others. With each major stressful event, such as a family tragedy or financial crisis, the risk of dying increased by 30 percent. But for the group who spent time helping others, there was no increase in stress-related deaths, even for those who had faced their own personal tragedies. According to Dr. McGonigal, “Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.”

12. What does the study in paragraph 2 suggest?

A. Stress caused many deaths over eight years.

B. Stress won’t hurt you if you don’t acknowledge its presence.

C. It is not the stress but our response to it that creates problems.

D. Those without stress usually live long and happy lives.

13. What do we know about stress from paragraph 3?

A. Stress is harmful to the brain.

B. Stress can cause danger.

C. Stress can be a threat to us.

D. Stress can lead to timely action.

14. What can we learn from Dr. McGonigal’s study?

A. People without stress spend more time caring others.

B. Stress often causes a family tragedy or financial crisis.

C. Stress can be avoided by helping others.

D. People chasing meaning in life suffer less from stress.

15. Which may be the best title for the text?

A Stress Is Not Your Enemy B. Man Can Conquer Stress

C. We Need Remove Stress D. Stress Is Nearly Harmless

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。

It’s always exciting to begin a new job. But among the frenzy (激动) of meeting new colleagues, starting new projects, and building new skills, there can be a stressful pressure to succeed. A big part of your success is determined by how quickly you are able to digest lots of information, which can be very hard. ____16____.

* Manage yourself

When you notice information overload, don’t ignore it and don’t panic. Say to yourself, “I’m in a new job and there is plenty to learn here. It’s okay to feel this way.” ____17____. Remember that emotions can help you better understand yourself and your values.

* Sort your information

____18____. It keeps what it needs more immediately in our short-term memory, and it mixes together information we may need to use in the future to store in our long-term memory. For the information that’s not needed, our brain acts like a garbage management, recycling, and deleting it.

* ____19____

Organizations often have digital knowledge management systems to store and take important information. You can do the same to reduce brain burden. I recommend creating a Word or Google document in which you write down information that your brain doesn’t need to remember or store.

* Reduce task-switching

Multi-tasking isn’t good for you physically or mentally and is worse for your productivity and cognition (认知). ____20____.  You can go for longer than that, but be sure to take a break. Focused activity is less taxing than multitasking, but you can’t keep working endlessly.

A. Respond positively

B. Use technology to help

C. That problem is much easier to understand and solve

D. Here are some methods to deal with the information overload

E. For greater results, focus on one task for around 25 minutes

F. Our brain is like a clever piece of equipment that “takes in information”

G. This self-talk helps normalize the situation and makes the emotions easier to handle

第三部分 语言运用(共三节，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。

Nearly 20 years after ____21____ themselves to their studies together, a mother Carolyn and her son Immanuel Patton both ____22____ to obtain their university degrees from the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC).

Carolyn, a single mother, shared that although she’d always been ____23____ to earn her bachelor’s degree, the demands of daily life had ____24____ her doing so. It was her son who helped her ____25____ her dream. And the road to graduation wasn’t always ____26____ because of her daily work.

It was sometimes difficult for Carolyn to ____27____ her studies after working an eight-hour shift. Sometimes, she just seemed too tired, and she told her son she wanted to ____28____. However, he encouraged her not to abandon. When Patton once encountered ____29____ in his studies, Carolyn also gave him _____30_____.

The mother and son supported one another and _____31_____ finished their degrees. “Patton’s mother is a(n) _____32_____ to us. We should learn from her,” on graduation day, Gregory Fowler, the president of UMGC said. There were many _____33_____ tears flowing when Carolyn and her son received their diplomas(毕业文凭). Carolyn’s mother was among the audience members _____34_____. Carolyn intends to use her bachelor’s degree to get a rise at work. She said, “I want a better life. Don’t let anything get you off _____35_____ you really want in life.”

21. A. devoting B. permitting C. requesting D. admitting

22. A. promised B. intended C. managed D. attempted

23. A. motivated B. urged C. convinced D. reminded

24. A. opposed B. noticed C. pictured D. prevented

25. A. roll B. access C. realize D. apply

26. A. broad B. smooth C. beneficial D. aware

27 A. focus on B. agree on C. rely on D. decide on

28. A. retire B. resign C. decline D. quit

29. A. threats B. conflicts C. difficulties D. mysteries

30. A. fear B. support C. belief D. doubt

31. A. besides B. eventually C. therefore D. however

32. A. surprise B. beauty C. ideal D. inspiration

33. A. joyful B. silent C. fresh D. bitter

34. A. behaving B. moving C. cheering D. shinning

35. A. angle B. track C. pace D. rule

第二节 (共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Aral Sea, ____36____( locate ) between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan , was once the world’s fourth-largest inland waterbody. It has shrunk(缩小)____37____( remarkable ) since 1960, with ____38____ ( it ) surface area reducing from 67,000 square kilometers in 1960 to just 6,000 square kilometers in 2020.

Most findings considered farmland____39____( expand ) as the main cause behind the reduction of the Aral Sea，____40____ the farmland in the Aral Sea basin ____41____ ( stop ) expanding since 2000. The latest research showed that rising temperatures , a lack of water-saving technology in farmlands , and wetland extension had all speeded up the reduction of the Aral Sea in the past two decades. The dried shores produce salt dust ,____42____( pose ) a serious threat to the local ecological environment and people’s health.

Scientists from China and Uzbekistan put____43____ a roadmap for the ecological restoration of the dried lake areas. They divided the Aral Sea into various sections , which will ____44____ ( treat ) with tailored measures.

They said that water-saving technology is one of the important ways to solve ecological difficulties in Central Asian countries. Efficient water-saving technologies can save 8 to 10 billion cubic meters of water for Uzbekistan each year _____45_____can be used for the restoration of the Aral Sea.

第三节 选单词填空(共5小题;每空1分，总分5分)

根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

46. Have you ever heard of any information or reports on organic ________.

47. Exercise is highly ________ to health.

48. Do yourself a ________ and make sure  you get some time to yourself.

49. Please ________ the cream evenly to your face and neck.

50. He is going to work ________.

第四节 选短语填空(共5小题;每空1分，总分5分)

根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空

51. They ________ that I should pick him up on the way home.

52. The children called out their names ________.

53. Mr. White can ________ in any emergency ; he is never likely to panic.

54. How to go to that little island is ________.

55. Try and ________ your visitors before I get there.

第五节 课文单句语法填空(共5小题;每空1分，总分5分)

56. With eyes no longer ________(fix) on our phones, we had a chance to really enjoy each other’s company. （所给词的适当形式填空）

57. The crowd looked upwards, and saw, with unspeakable fear, a huge cloud ________ (shoot) from the top of the volcano. （所给词的适当形式填空）

58. ________(inspire) by an over 1600-year-old text, Tu redesigned the experiment. （所给词的适当形式填空）

59. The details of screen were revealed in front of me: the soft sunlight, a bird ________(sing) from a high tree branch. （所给词的适当形式填空）

60. To speed up the process, Tu and her team volunteered ________(test) qinghao extract on themselves. （所给词的适当形式填空）

第四部分 写作(共一节;满分25分)

61. 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。

My pillow was wet because of tears that night before the winter holiday. An e-mail from my college’s financial aid office was still showing on my computer screen. I didn’t have the money to return the next semester(学期).

My roommates were comparing their new class schedules, and planning how to share textbooks. They were another step closer to their dreams.

I was packing my dreams into boxes , along with blankets, pillows and towels. My dad helped carry my belongings into his old blue pickup truck and I hugged my friends and said goodbye. There were a mixture of best wishes and hopes for my return, but I knew my departure was probably permanent.

As the New Year passed, my social networks were filled with my classmates’ hopes for the new school season. They were returning to school and I was at home. I didn’t realize how lonely it would feel.

It was the first official day of school. I woke to the ring of the phone downstairs. As my father talked on the phone, I started searching for jobs in my area. Now that I wasn’t in school, I would need to start paying back my school loans.

The fact that I wouldn’t be returning to school became real. Ever since I had packed my things in my suitcase, there had been this small hope that maybe a miracle(奇迹)would happen. And I thought , “If someone helps me remain in college, I won’t disappoint him / her. I’ll study harder and repay his / her kindness someday!’’ But as I searched the job listings, I knew I had given up hope. No hero was going to come and save me.

The sound of the phone being hurriedly placed into the receiver and the thundering of my dad’s footsteps pulled me from my self-pity. “Son , pack up your stuff ; you’re heading back to school!” my father shouted. “The call was from the financial(财政的，金融的) aid office. The clerk on the phone said someone unknown had secretly donated money and paid all the rest of your college tuition.”

注意：

1．续写词数应为150左右;

2．请按如下格式作答。

His eyes lit up as he took my empty suitcase.

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Taking my pen and notebook，I started attending my first class.

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