内蒙古自治区鄂尔多斯市西四旗2023-2024学年高二上学期11月期中联考英语试卷(含答案)

这是一份内蒙古自治区鄂尔多斯市西四旗2023-2024学年高二上学期11月期中联考英语试卷(含答案)，共14页。试卷主要包含了阅读理解，七选五，完形填空，短文填空，书面表达，读后续写等内容，欢迎下载使用。


一、阅读理解
Literary (文学的) festivals are all ver the UK and Ireland this mnth. Here are fur f them.
Hay Festival
Set n the beautiful Wales-England brder, this year’s Hay Festival includes travel writer Kapka Kassabva delivering the 2023 Jan Mrris Lecture, Ray Mears discussing the British wdland, and Bear Grylls and Ranulph Fiennes celebrating a lve f wild spaces. Authr-led turs with Wayfair Walks explre the Brecn Beacns.
Date: Frm 25 May t 4 June
Guernsey Literary Festival
Celebrating great writing and big ideas in the beautiful island f Guernsey, this event includes activities such as a talk by Susie Dent centred n her bk An Emtinal Dictinary—Real Wrds Fr Hw We Feel, and family-fcused drawing classes frm painter Rb Biddulph. The festival als ffers petry cmpetitins, writing wrkshps and the chance t stretch yur legs n Guernsey’s castal trails and nature walks.
Date: Frm 2 t 14 May
Internatinal Literature Festival Dublin
The ancient streets that were nce inspiratin fr James Jyce, W·B Yeats and Oscar Wilde welcme Ireland’s leading literary festival this May. The 10-day event celebrates the best Irish and internatinal writers, pets, playwrights and screenwriters. Bk-themed guided walks are als ffered.
Date: Frm 19 t 28 May
The Bath Festivals
Funded in 1948, The Bath Festivals is a year-rund creative learning prgram that inspires and cnnects different peple and cmmunities thrugh varius activities. Fr example, we have Bath Cntemprary Artists’ Fair in May and Bath Children’s Literature Festival in September. Our ther year-rund hands-n music and literature prjects give children and yung peple pprtunities t gain real-wrld experience.
1、Wh will discuss the British wdland at Hay Festival?
A. Bear Grylls.B. Ray Mears.C. Ranulph Fiennes.D. Kapka Kassabva.
2、When will the literary event be held in Guernsey?
A. Frm 2 t 14 May.B. Frm 20 May t 4 June.
C. Frm 19 t 28 May.D. Frm 25 May t 4 June.
3、What is unique abut The Bath Festivals?
A. It mainly attracts adults.B. It runs thrughut the year.
C. It has a variety f activities.D. It ffers authr-led city walks.
I was a yung newspaper reprter, and I wanted t succeed. My first jb was in Latin America. It was almst my last jb.
I had nt planned t stay in the village f Zacate, but it had been raining hard fr a whle day. S I had t stay there.
I fund peple there full f fear. This village was at the ft f a vlcan. It was becming mre active. Men, wmen and children came t the square. A few helped each ther and went ut f twn t get as far away frm the vlcan as pssible, with large and full packs in their hands. Suddenly, I felt a strng earthquake. The villagers in the square ran away as sn as they felt the earthquake.
Suddenly, I saw black smke rlling dwn the side f the muntain twards the village. Trees and grass burned up in a secnd. The vlcan eruptin (喷发) was cming s fast that in less than a minute the rads t the village were cut ff. All I culd d was watch and wait. Suddenly, my landlrd (房东) cried ut, “Lk!” He pinted t a small hill, which was near t us. The lava (岩浆) was nt cming ver it but flwing n each side f the village, leaving the village centre undamaged. Fr a time, at least, we were safe, unless the lava grew much bigger.
My landlrd gave me a wet blanket t cver myself t avid the heat and we pured water ver ur heads t cl urselves. We culd hardly breathe because f the heat and the smke f the burning huses. Thanks t my landlrd, I survived the vlcan.
4、The reprter stayed in Zacate because f ______.
A. his busy jbB. bad weatherC. an accidentD. an adventure
5、What made the villagers leave the twn?
A. The news reprt.B. The jurnalist. C. The active vlcan.D. Their strict landlrd.
6、What des the underlined wrd “it” in paragraph 4 refer t?
A. The lava.B. The thick smke.C. The village.D. The small hill.
7、What can we learn frm the text?
A. The landlrd is very experienced.B. The small village was flded.
C. The lava killed a lt f peple.D. The rescuers saved the reprter.
Frm self-driving cars t carebts (care+rbts) fr elderly peple, rapid develpment in technlgy has lng represented a pssible threat t many jbs nrmally perfrmed by peple. But experts nw believe that almst 50 percent f ccupatins existing tday will be cmpletely unnecessary by 2035 as artificial intelligence (AI) cntinues t change businesses.
“The next fifteen years will see a revlutin in hw we wrk, and a revlutin will necessarily take place in hw we plan and think abut wrkplaces,” said Peter Andrew, Directr f Wrkplace Strategy fr CBRE Asia-Pacific. A grwing number f jbs in the future will require creative intelligence, scial skills and the ability t use artificial intelligence.
The reprt is based n interviews with 200 experts, business leaders and yung peple frm Asia-Pacific, Eurpe and Nrth America. It shws that in the US technlgy already destrys mre jbs than it creates. But the reprt states, “Lsing ccupatins des nt necessarily mean lsing jbs—just changing what peple d.” Grwth in new jbs culd ccur as much, accrding t the research. “The grwth f 20-t 40-persn cmpanies that have the speed and technlgical knw-hw will directly challenge big cmpanies,” it states.
Anther study by Pew Research Centre fund 52 percent f experts in artificial intelligence and rbtics were ptimistic abut the future and believed there wuld still be enugh jbs in the next few years. The ptimists pictured “a future in which rbts d nt take the place f mre jbs than they create.”
“Technlgy will cntinue t affect jbs, but mre jbs seem likely t be created. Althugh there have always been unemplyed peple, when we reached a few billin peple, there were billins f jbs. There is n shrtage f things that need t be dne and that will nt change,” Micrsft’s Jnathan Grudin tld researchers.
8、Why are carebts mentined?
A. T give a definitin.B. T prvide an example.
C. T make a cmparisn.D. T explain a thery.
9、What des the reprt in paragraph 3 shw?
A. Peple will take the place f AI.
B. US technlgy balances jb pprtunities.
C. Many peple have t change ccupatins.
D. Big cmpanies are mre innvative and flexible.
10、What is Jnathan Grudin’s attitude twards the future f human emplyment?
A. Hpeful.B. Dubtful.C. Uncncerned.D. Wrried.
11、Which sectin f a website is the text mst prbably taken frm?
A. Art.B. Travel.C. Educatin.D. Technlgy.
Amur tigers, als knwn as Siberian tigers, are interesting animals. They are the biggest cats in the wrld. A full-grwn Amur tiger can weigh ver 600 punds. Unlike lins that live in grups, tigers are slitary animals. Tigers als have very gd eyesight and hearing. Its eyesight is six times better than a human’s.
Amur tigers live in the frests lcated in the Russian Far East and nrtheastern China. They have a thick yellw fur cat with black stripes (条纹). Their stripes are like human fingerprints. Every tiger has a different and unique stripe pattern. Tigers use their striped cat t hide themselves frm the animals they hunt. Their thick fur and a thick layer f fat keep them warm during the lng, cld winters in the frest.
As pwerful and quiet hunters, Amur tigers usually hunt at night. Smetimes these tigers travel hundreds f miles lking fr fd. They hunt deer and wild bar (野猪) that live in the frest. They als hunt smaller types f bears. A hungry Amur tiger can eat mre than 50 punds in ne night.
Tday, Amur tigers are an endangered species. Peple illegally hunt Amur tigers. Amur tigers are als still in danger because the frests they live in are being destryed. Illegal lgging (砍伐) and new rads destry their frest hmes. It makes it hard fr the tigers t find fd. It als makes it difficult fr the tigers t travel fr lng distances. They almst disappeared frever at the beginning f the 20th century—They were hunted until nly 40 tigers remained in the wild.
Cuntries like Russia then began t prtect these big cats. They made it illegal t hunt them and tried t prtect their frest habitat. After these changes, the number f Amur tigers living in the wild increased. Scientists believe there are abut 540 Amur tigers living in the wild tday.
12、What des the underlined wrd “slitary” in the first paragraph mean?
A. Scary.B. Smart.C. Nnscial.D. Big.
13、What can we learn abut Amur tigers?
A. They feature the same stripe pattern.B. They have bad eyesight and hearing.
C. They have n need t hide themselves.D. They ften g hunting when night falls.
14、What is the last paragraph mainly abut?
A. Methds and effects f tiger prtectin.
B. The number f tigers in varius cuntries.
C. The differences in the living habits f tigers.
D. Reasns fr tigers becming endangered animals.
15、What is the best title fr the text?
A. Where D Amur Tigers Live?B. The Interesting but Endangered Amur Tigers
C. The Wrld’s Largest LinsD. Hw Many Tigers Are Left in the Wrld?
二、七选五
16、Here are sme habits t help yu enjy a lnger and better life.
Eat better. Yu dn’t have t adpt sme crazy diet r give up all sweets. Instead, try t eat a few mre vegetables and fruits. ① . A whle fd is an ingredient in its natural state, ne that cmes in its wn wrapper. While it’s even better t eat cuisine that is rganic, lcally grwn r pesticide-free, start by shpping fr grceries that require n packaging.
Check with yur dctr. When yu feel gd, it’s easy t avid ging t the dctr. N matter hw yu feel, thugh, it’s a gd idea t visit yur dctr fr an annual check-up. ② . In additin, depending n yur age and family histry, the dctr may recmmend ther necessary tests r screenings. Fr example, yur dctr may als d bld tests t check yur chlesterl r screen fr hrmnal imbalances. ③ .
Keep mving. Exercise lwers bld pressure, cntrls ur weight, strengthens ur bnes and muscles, reduces ur risk fr cancers, and imprves md. Sme research als says it has the pwer t keep us yung. Physical activities including exercises can imprve ur flexibility, strength and balance. ④ . Just wrk mre mvement int yur day.
⑤ . Simply said, we are better tgether. Steps t build a scial netwrk include getting invlved with jining a cause r vlunteering fr an rganizatin r checking ut a supprt grup.
A. D vlunteer wrk
B. Cnnect with peple
C. Yu can als eat mre whle fds
D. Yu dn’t have t take up running marathns
E. They nt nly have health benefits, but taste gd
F. The dctr will mst likely carry ut sme rutine tests
G. Each f these tests can help identify any ptential prblems
三、完形填空（15空）
Queen, a 3-year-ld small dg, had been verlked fr almst 400 days in an animal shelter. When Sctt Pre heard abut hw sad and 1 Queen had becme frm living in the shelter fr s lng, he decided t d what he culd t draw sme 2 t the hmeless dg. He ended up 3 plenty f ne-n-ne time with Queen after he 4 mved int her kennel (狗窝).
Sctt brught alng a few belngings and bedding, which he 5 with Queen. He was 6 t live with her until she was adpted (收养). After seven days and seven nights, Queen fund her frever hme!
As everyne can 7 , animal shelters are nt a great place t get any 8 . But all f Sctt’s hardships were rewarded when a father and sn saw a reprt abut Queen and her new rmmate and 9 t adpt her.
“I just want t thank them fr pening up their hme and their 10 fr such a lvely dg wh deserves a life in a (n) 11 hme,” he said. “I had the 12 f meeting the father and the sn and it’s ging t be a 13 place fr Queen.”
After Queen had 14 her peple, this dg lver 15 t find the next animal wh needs him.
17、A. prudB. hpelessC. gratefulD. crazy
18、A. cnclusinsB. lessnsC. attentinD. cmfrt
19、A. spendingB. wastingC. ignringD. remembering
20、A. extremelyB. frtunatelyC. entirelyD. publicly
21、A. agreedB. cmparedC. sharedD. fught
22、A. disappintedB. determinedC. embarrassedD. frightened
23、A. imagineB. dubtC. sayD. prve
24、A. mneyB. mvementC. restD. infrmatin
25、A. pretendedB. refusedC. decidedD. regretted
26、A. eyesB. heartsC. secretsD. businesses
27、A. lvingB. uglyC. darkD. untidy
28、A. supprtB. pwerC. giftD. pleasure
29、A. terribleB. prC. lnelyD. perfect
30、A. attackedB. cntrlledC. rescuedD. fund
31、A. mved nB. checked inC. dressed upD. turned ut
四、短文填空
32、On Friday evening, the 33rd Qingda Internatinal Beer Festival pened ① Qingda, Shandng prvince.
The castal city’s Party Secretary Lu Zhiyuan annunced the ② (pen) f the 24-dayevent and Mayr Zha Hazhi pened the symblic first barrel (桶) f beer during the ceremny.
The event, which runs until August 6 at the Glden Beach Beer City in the city’s West Cast New Area, has intrduced mre than 2, 000 varieties f beer frm mre than 40 cuntries and regins. ③ (help) visitrs enrich their experience, the festival has rganized mre than 300 music and sprts ④ (event) n the theme f beer.
This year the festival launched China’s first beer-themed shw, a great experience ⑤ cmbined sund, light, firewrks and ⑥ (variety) perfrmances.
The festival is als n ⑦ ccasin f the 120th anniversary (周年) f well-knwn Tsingta Brewery (啤酒厂), with celebratins rganized during the event. The Qingda-based brewery established tw huge beer tents, ⑧ (cver)4, 500 square meters, which ⑨ (ffer) beer, fd and fine view.
Started in 1991, the festival has becme a majr event in the calendar f the city and becme ne f the fur ⑩ (large) beer festivals in the wrld, including Oktberfest in Munich, Germany.
五、书面表达
33、假定你是李华，你校下周将举办一场中外学生足球联谊赛。请你给你的好朋友Jhn写一封邮件，邀请他参加比赛，内容包括：
1．比赛时间、地点；
2．赛前准备。
注意：1．写作词数应为80个左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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六、读后续写
34、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。
Baby Blue Tail was a tiny little yellw fish with a blue tail, and that is why his parents named him Baby Blue Tail. Every day, Baby Blue Tail enjyed playing with his friends and family in the middle f the blue and deep cean.
One night, ne f his friends disappeared. Baby Blue Tail gt s wrried and scared. The next day, when Baby Blue Tail was sleeping, nine mre friends went missing. At this pint, Baby Blue Tail gt terrified and tld his mm.
Baby Blue Tail and his mm decided t stay up all night t see what had happened t Baby Blue Tail’s friends. Suddenly, Baby Blue Tail saw a big fish taking away his dad while he was sleeping. Baby Blue Tail was very sad t find ut that this was the big fish taking everyne away.
“Oh n! He might have eaten everyne,” said Baby Blue Tail, while expressing his upset t his mm. In the mrning, Baby Blue Tail and his mm decided t explre the cean mre t stp the big fish frm taking his family and friends. Baby Blue Tail laid ut a plan, and he tld his mm that they culd hide and fllw the big fish. At night, Baby Blue Tail and his mm hid in a cral (珊瑚), and the big fish appeared, but the big fish did nt find anyne in the huse. After searching fr a while, the big fish left.
Baby Blue Tail and his mm fllwed the big fish. While they were fllwing the big fish, they saw peple, n the shre, thrwing plastic waste int the cean. Baby Blue Tail saw a lt f dead fish and ther sea creatures. Finally, the big fish led them t a beautiful part f the cean, where peple used ec-friendly bags and cleaned the cean every week. There were rainbws, happy sea creatures and crals.
Baby Blue Tail whispered and asked his mm, “Wh is the big fish?” A vice frm behind them said, “Turn arund.” When Baby Blue Tail and his mm turned arund... IT WAS THE BIG FISH.
注意：1．续写词数应为150个左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The big fish said, “My name is Baby Shelly.” ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“Yu are a gd fish,” said Baby Blue Tail excitedly. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1、答案：B
解析：细节理解题。根据Hay Festival一节中“Ray Mears discussing the British wdland”可知答案。
2、答案：A
解析：细节理解题。根据Guernsey Literary Festival一节中“Date: Frm 2 t 14 May”可知答案。
3、答案：B
解析：细节理解题。根据The Bath Festivals 一节中“Funded in 1948, The Bath Festivals is a year-rund creative learning prgram”及上文可知，其他几个文学节都是一年一次, 只有The Bath Festivals是常年举行。
4、答案：B
解析：细节理解题。根据第二段“ had been raining hard fr a whle day... I had t stay there”可知，由于天气原因，记者不得不待在Zacate。
5、答案：C
解析：细节理解题。根据第三段“I fund peple there full f fear. This village was at the ft f a vlcan... with large and full packs in their hands.”可知，村民们对活跃的火山充满恐惧，因此他们拿着行李想要逃离。
6、答案：D
解析：代词指代词。根据画线词所在句句意可知，此处it指的是小山。
7、答案：A
解析：推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，房东给了记者一块湿毯子盖住自己，并且他们往头上浇水来降温，因此记者就是这样在火山喷发中幸存下来的。由此可推断，房东是一个很有经验的人。
8、答案：B
解析：推理判断题。根据第一段“Frm self-driving cars t carebts (care +rbts) fr elderly peple, rapid develpment in technlgy has lng represented a pssible threat t many jbs nrmally perfrmed by peple.”及后文内容可推断，此处提到护理机器人是为了说明科技快速发展可能对于人类工作存在着威胁而举的例子。
9、答案：C
解析：细节理解题。根据第三段“But the reprt states, ‘Lsing ccupatins des nt necessarily mean lsing jbs—just changing what peple d.’”可知，研究报告发现行业没了并不意味着就丢了工作，只是工作内容发生了改变。
10、答案：A
解析：观点态度题。根据最后一段“‘ we reached a few billin peple, there were billins f jbs. There is n shrtage f things that need t be dne and that will nt change,’”可推断，Jnathan Grudin对未来的就业形势是满怀希望的。
11、答案：D
解析：文章出处题。通读全文可知，文章向我们描述了技术的发展使人们失去了很多就业机会，但是这只是一种改革，未来会有更多的就业机会出现。因此文章应该是来自于网站的科技专栏。
12、答案：C
解析：词义猜测题。根据画线词前“Unlike lins that live in grups...”可知，画线词和Nnscial的意思最为接近。
13、答案：D
解析：细节理解题。根据第三段“As pwerful and quiet hunters, Amur tigers usually hunt at night.”可知，老虎通常在夜里出来捕猎。
14、答案：A
解析：段落大意题。根据最后一段, 尤其是“Cuntries like Russia then began t prtect these big cats... After these changes, the number f Amur tigers living in the wild increased...”可推断，本段主要讲的是保护老虎的方法和成效。
15、答案：B
解析：标题判断题。通读全文，尤其是第一段“Amur tigers, als knwn as Siberian tigers, are interesting animals.”及第四段“Tday, Amur tigers are an endangered species.”可知，本文主要讲的是有趣但濒临灭绝的东北虎。
16、答案：CFGDB
解析：①根据空后“A whle fd is an ingredient in its natural state, ne that cmes in its wn wrapper.”可知，C项“你也可以多吃一些天然食品”符合。
②根据空后“In additin, depending n yur age and family histry, the dctr may recmmend ther necessary tests r screenings. Fr example, yur dctr may als d bld tests...”可知，F项“医生很可能会做一些例行检查”符合。
③根据空前“Fr example, yur dctr may als d bld tests t check yur chlesterl r screen fr hrmnal imbalances.”可知，G项“这些测试中的每一项都可以帮助识别出任何潜在的问题”符合。
④根据空后“Just wrk mre mvement int yur day. ”可知，D项“你不必参加马拉松比赛”符合。
⑤根据空后“Simply said, we are better tgether. Steps t build a scial netwrk include...”可知，B项“要与人交流”符合。
17、答案：B
解析：当Sctt Pre听说Queen因长期住在收容所而变得十分悲伤和绝望 (hpeless)时，他决定尽自己所能引起人们对这只无家可归的小狗的关注 (attentin)。
18、答案：C
解析： 见上题解析。
19、答案：A
解析： 在他公开地 (publicly)搬进Queen的狗窝后, 他和Queen度过了 (spending)很多一对一的时光。
20、答案：D
解析： 见上题解析。
21、答案：C
解析： Sctt带了一些物品和被褥，和Queen一起分享 (shared)。
22、答案：B
解析：他决定 (determined)和她一起生活, 直到她被收养为止。
23、答案：A
解析：大家可以想象 (imagine)，动物收容所并不是一个休息 (rest)的好地方。
24、答案：C
解析： 见上题解析。
25、答案：C
解析：但当一对父子看到一篇关于 Queen 和她的新室友的报道，并决定 (decided)收养Queen时，Sctt所有的艰辛都得到了回报。
26、答案：B
解析：他说：“我只是想感谢他们为这样一只可爱的小狗敞开家门和心扉 (hearts)，它应该在一个充满爱的 (lving)家庭中生活。”
27、答案：A
解析：见上题解析。
28、答案：D
解析： “我很高兴 (pleasure)见到了这对父子，这对Queen来说将是一个完美的 (perfect)地方。”
29、答案：D
解析：见上题解析。
30、答案：D
解析：在 Queen找到 (fund)她的主人之后，这位爱狗人士继续 (mved n)寻找下一个需要他的动物。
31、答案：A
解析：见上题解析。
32、答案：in ；pening ；T help ；events；that/which；varius ；the；cvering；ffered；largest
解析：
33、答案：
Dear Jhn,
Hw are things ging these days? Knwing that yu are gd at playing ftball, I wuld like t invite yu t take part in the ftball match intended fr students frm hme and ab rad t be held n ur schl playgrund next Saturday mrning. In the perid leading up t the game, I recmmend that yu keep a balanced diet and get enugh sleep.
I am sure yu will enjy the cmpetitin and sincerely hpe yu can jin us.
Lking frward t yur early reply.
Yurs,
Li Hua
解析：
34、答案：略