2024武汉江岸区高二下学期7月期末英语试题含解析

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(考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分)
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。
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第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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。
例：Hw much is the shirt?
A. £19. 15. B. £9. 18. C. £9. 15.
答案是 C。
1. What did the wman d yesterday?
A. She played ftball. B. She watched a game. C. She wrked in the lab.
2. Where is Jhn’s father?
A. In the dining rm. B. In the living rm. C. In the garden.
3. What des the wman say abut the curse?
A. It is tugh, B. It is bad. C. It is easy.
4. When will the man leave fr the airprt?
A. At 2: 30 pm. B. At 4: 30 pm C. At 6: 30 pm.
5. Hw will the speakers g t the exhibitin?
A. By bicycle, B. By subway. C. By car.
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。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What are the speakers mainly talking abut?
A. An activity hliday. B. Their hbbies. C. The teamwrk spirit.
7. What did the wman get a prize fr?
A. Climbing. B. Walking. C. Sailing.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What des the wman think f the bk?
A. It is bring. B. It is stimulating. C. It is serius.
9. Wh wrte the bk?
A. Lri Gttlieb. B. Aarn Estersn. C. Erik Eriksn.
10. What will the man prbably d next?
A. Read the bk. B. Recmmend the bk. C. Find smene t cnsult.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What is the wman ding in Sydney?
A. Traveling. B. Studying. C. Teaching.
12. What is purpse f the curse?
A. T evaluate students reading difficulty.
B. T enhance teachers’ reading techniques.
C. T imprve teachers’ ability t teach reading.
13 Why des the wman chse the curse?
A. It is multi-task. B. It is cst-effective. C. It is time-cnsuming.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. What is the prbable relatinship between the speakers?
A. Trainer and trainee. B. Bss and advisr, C. Hst and guest.
15. Why des the wman mentin lsing weight?
A. T shw hw t achieve a gal.
B. T stress the imprtance f healthy fd.
C. T express her wish t imprve her health.
16. What can friends d t help in gal-setting?
A. Find prblems. B. Tell the truth. C. Give supprt.
17. What makes mst peple d badly at reaching gals?
A. Failing t keep fcused. B. Having many missins. C. Lsing their way.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What made Chai Lin get his first bike?
A. His wn effrts. B. His family’s help. C. His successful business.
19. What is the museum intended fr?
A. Educatin. B. Fame. C. Recreatin.
20. What des Chai Lin expect t d?
A. Cllect mre antiques. B. Prduce new brand bikes. C. Expand the exhibitin area.
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。
A
“The days that make us happy make us wise.” — Jhn Masefield
When I first read this line by England’s Pet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean? Withut thinking abut it much, I had always assumed that the ppsite was true. But his calm assurance was arresting. I culd nt frget it.
Finally, I seemed t grasp his meaning and realized that here was a prfund bservatin. The wisdm that happiness makes pssible lies in clear perceptin, nt fgged by anxiety nr dimmed by despair and bredm, and withut the blind spts caused by fear.
Active happiness-nt mre satisfactin r cntentment — ften cmes suddenly, like an April shwer r the unflding f a bud. Then yu discver what kind f wisdm has accmpanied it. The grass is greener; bird sngs are sweeter; the shrtcmings f yur friends are mre understandable and mre frgivable. Happiness is like a pair f, eyeglasses crrecting yur spiritual visin.
Nr are the insights f happiness limited t what is near arund yu. Unhappy, with yur thughts turned in upn yur emtinal sadness, yur visin is cut shrt as thugh by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
The lng vista (展望) is there fr the seeing. The grund at yur feet, the wrld abut yu-peple, thughts, emtins, pressures — are nw fitted int the larger scene. Everything assumes a fairer prprtin. And here is the beginning f wisdm.
1. What was the authr’s initial reactin t the line in the 1st paragraph?
A. Deep agreement.B. Casualness.C. Shck.D. Cmplete cnfusin.
2. What des the authr believe happiness brings in terms f wisdm?
A. A reductin in fear and anxiety.
B. Pessimistic expectatins fr the future.
C. Discntent and cmplaints abut life.
D. An unclear understanding f the surrunding wrld.
3. When the authr mentins “the wall crumbles,” what des he refer t?
A. A physical bstacle disappears.
B. Emtinal distress and trubles fade away.
C. Fears and wrries abut the future decrease.
D. The pursuit f happiness becmes easier.
B
I write this n a spring mrning, in the van I have called hme fr tw years nw.
Frm ne small windw, I have a view f jggers punding the sunny path by the Oxfrd Canal, and the ther lks nt the busy railway line alng which trains travel frm Suthamptn Dcks t Birmingham.
The wds where I’ve parked my van have grwn up between them. This ancient van a vehicle designed fr freedm and the pen rad, has prved a stable slutin fr surviving the current husing crisis.
I became a travel writer after my studies ended, cmmitting t brief “residencies” with museums and artcentres — where temprary accmmdatin is ften prvided in exchange fr prducing new wrk abut a cmmunity. Over the years that fllwed, living and wrking n lcatin in the plar regins r Scandinavia r the Alps, nt settling dwn fr very lng, meant wherever I landed was always “hme”.
During the pandemic it was necessary t adpt a mre permanent engagement with lcality. Oxfrd had ften drawn me back. It’s a crssrads f reality and the imaginatin, the perfect city fr a writer.
It takes a surprising amunt f wrk t keep a tiny hme in rder: buying a used van nline; ensuring the smth running f a gas cker and car batteries; fetching water and emptying the mbile tilet. I began t enjy taking care f my immediate surrundings. Over the summer, I wrked t turn waste-grund int a wild garden, replacing weeds with wild plants.
I made friends with the self-sufficient baters living nearby, always ready t share knwledge n the lw-carbn simplicity f life withut electricity. I’ve learnt that cmfrt can be fund away frm the bright infrastructure f urban life: in watching the birds that nest in the tree and the fxes playing in the wds at dawn, in making a cup f cffee n a spring mrning. My step away frm cnventinal husing has been a necessary act f persnal ecnmy, but the benefits include taking nthing fr granted, and unexpected delight.
4. What d the jggers and the railway line represent in the authr’s view?
A. Tw surces f inspiratin fr writing.
B. Tw bstacles t the authr’s daily life.
C. Tw places the authr visits regularly.
D. Tw ways the authr travels arund.
5. What des “immediate surrundings” in Paragraph 6 refer t?
A. a used vanB. a gas ckerC. a wild gardenD. a mbile tilet
6. What des the authr enjy mst abut his living style?
A. Driving his van arund different places.
B. Transfrming the waste-grund int a garden.
C. The pprtunity t meet new friends.
D. The sense f accmplishment and self-reliance.
7. Which f the fllwing is the main benefit f uncnventinal husing?
A. Prviding temprary shelter.B. Keeping a tiny hme in rder easily.
C. Embracing delightful surprises.D. Allwing fr mbility and flexibility.
C
Nt all birds sing, but several thusand species d. They sing t defend their territry and crn (柔声唱) t impress ptential mates. “Why birds sing is relatively well-answered,” says Iris Adam, a behaviral neurscientist. Hwever, the big questin fr her was why birds sing s much.
“As sn as yu sing, yu reveal yurself,” Adam says. “Like, where yu are and where yur territry is.” In a new study published in the jurnal Nature Cmmunicatins, Adam and her c-wrkers ffer a new explanatin fr why birds take that risk. They may have t sing a lt every day t give their vcal (发声的) muscles the regular exercise they need t prduce tp- quality sngs. T figure ut whether the muscles that prduce birdsngs require daily exercise, Adam designed an experiment n zebra finches-the little Australian sngbirds.
She prevented them frm singing fr a week by keeping them in the dark cage almst arund the clck. Light is what galvanizes the birds t sing, s she had t wrk t keep them frm warbling (鸣叫). “The first tw r three days, it’s quite easy,” she says. “But the lnger the experiment ges, the mre they are like, “I need t sing. ““. At that pint, she’d tap the cage and tell them t stp singing.
After a week, the birds’ singing muscles lst half their strength. But Adam wndered whether that impacted the quality f sngs. When she played a male’s sng befre and after the seven days f darkness, she culdn’t hear a difference. But when Adam played it t a grup f female birds, six ut f nine preferred the sng that came frm a male wh’d been using his singing muscles daily.
Adam’s cnclusin shws that “sngbirds need t exercise their vcal muscles t prduce tp-perfrmance sngs. If they dn’t sing, they lse perfrmance, and their sngs get less attractive t females.” This may help explain sngbirds’ cntinuus singing.
It’s a gd rule t live by, whether yu’re a bird r a human-practice makes perfect, at least when it cmes t singing ne’s heart ut.
8. Accrding t Iris Adam, birds sing s much t ____________.
A. warn ther birds f risksB. prduce mre sngs
C. perfrm perfectly in singingD. defend their territry
9. What des the underlined wrd “galvanizes” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Prepares.B. Stimulates.C. Frbids.D. Frightens.
10. Why did Adam cnduct an experiment n zebra finches?
A. T understand their mating behavir.
B. T study their singing patterns.
C. T test the effects f darkness n their singing muscles.
D. T analyze the quality f their sngs.
11. What is the verall message f the passage?
A. Singing is beneficial fr thse that d.
B Zebra finches are fr studying singing patterns.
C. Singing is a risk fr birds, but they have t.
D. Sngbirds need t sing regularly fr attractin.
D
We may weep fr the dd, but culd and shuld we bring this lvely bird back frm the dead? De-extinctin is the science f restring lst species and it has been in the news fr decades.
The stry in mdern times began in 1990 when Michael Crichtn published his science fictin nvel Jurassic Park, in which he imagined a wrld where scientists were able t bring dinsaurs back t life. Crichtn imagined that plymerase chain reactin (PCR) technlgy culd be a way t amplify (放大) tiny quantities f dinsaur DNA and thus build a living embry.
Sadly, bilgists sn realized that DNA in fact breaks dwn super-fast; even after 10 years, DNA frm museum skins f dds was decayed (腐烂) beynd repair. They culd be sequenced (测定序列) using massive cmputatinal pwer, but then nly with cnsiderable uncertainty. And even if yu capture a DNA sequence, there’s still the prblem f hw yu get living cells t read that sequence and express prteins that make the dinsaur r the dd.
But why wuld anyne want t see mammths, r smething like them, raming (漫游) present-day Siberia? Well, they were undubtedly amazing beasts. As well as hunting them, ur distant ancestrs painted their likenesses in caves acrss Eurpe. Fascinating as they may be, there’s sme eclgical justificatin fr the prject t.
It was this diversity f land surface, brken up by heavy limbs and randmly fertilized by faeces (排泄物), that supprted s much flra (植物群) . Withut the mammths, that diversity disappeared. Return them and landscapes wuld nce again be with a variety f species, including flwers and bushes.
True, it’s nt de-extinctin in the sense f bringing a lng-dead species back t life. Instead it’s mre like making a “dd” by engineering a mdern pigen, its clsest relative, t becme huge and flightless. The result wuld be a big, fatty pigen that, whether it lked like a dd r nt, wuld prbably fulfill sme f its eclgical rles.
As a palentlgist, I wuld f curse lve t see living dinsaurs, mammths and dds. In sme ways, thugh, I am relieved that the ptimistic claims fr clning and genetic technlgies have nt been brne ut. The slwdwn gives us time t cnsider the utcmes—and hpefully avid sme f Michael Crichtn’s mre fevered imaginings.
12. What is paragraph 2 f the text mainly abut?
A. A science fictin review.B. The develpment f DNA.
C. An inspired guess f de-extinctin.D. The applicatin f PCR technlgy.
13. Why are peple interested in clning extinct species?
A. They expect t seek hunt fun.B. They lack surces f mdern art.
C. They want t see bidiversity.D. They need them fr research.
14. What des the slwdwn in clning and genetic technlgies allw the authr t d?
A. Witness the birth f clned dinsaurs.
B. Avid Michael Crichtn’s imaginings,
C. Stp the prgress f genetic engineering.
D. Cnsider the ptential utcmes f these technlgies.
15. What’s the authr’s attitude tward clning extinct species?
A. Cautius.B. Unclear.C. Dismissive.D. Apprving.
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。
There are several ups and dwns in everyne’s life. N matter hw strng an individual is, there is usually a time when he finds the need f smene encuraging him t meet the challenges. ____16____That may make him feel the pwer and the energy t deal with all srts f negativity in life.
The pwer f mtivatin is beynd explanatin. Hwever, the persn, wh benefits frm it, understands its imprtance instantly he hears it. ____17____The fact is that there exists the gap between the speech f an expert and that f the average. And prbably the reasn is the experience f a life cach in dealing with the life f cuntless peple n the Earth in his entire career.
____18____Or rather, whatever he says r advises is nt nly the utput f the wrds n the page, but als what he has learned frm the lives f peple arund. It is his real life experience that he uses t imprve the lives f ther peple n the glbe. Having met cuntless peple thrughut the career, the life cach becmes used t the prblems. ____19____S, his every suggestin ges straight, tuches the heart and increases the energy f a listener, and eventually helps them address different prblems in life.
If yu think such speeches are mere wrds and sentences, yu are abslutely wrng. But actually they are the magical wrds that bring a great change in the life f disappinted and annyed peple n the glbe. With such speeches, life caches dig ut the prblems that the listener is facing in life. ____20____
A. Smetimes, it is nt difficult t define an expert.
B. In particular, a speech frm an expert is mtivatinal.
C. The knwledge f an expert is nt limited t the bks.
D. Especially when1 stuck in dilemma, yu really feel helpless.
E. Besides, he knws what kind f slutins will prve the best.
F. And they als find the rt cause t cme up with a final slutin.
G. If yu think anyne can deliver such a speech, yu might be wrng.
第三部分 语言运用 (共两节，满分30分)
第一节 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。
When Eugenie Gerge first heard that her friend passed a financial exam, her heart sank. She’d ___21___ the same test weeks earlier.
“Envy was eating me up,” recalls Gerge. But anyway she ___22___ her friend. “And I tld her I failed and admitted I was ___23___,” she says. Gerge knew that being ___24___ wuld ease her envy, but she was surprised that it als enabled her t ___25___ her friend’s happiness and experience her wn in turn.
Finding ___26___ in anther persn’s gd frtune is what scial scientists call freudenfreude, the great jy we feel when smene else succeeds, ___27___ it desn’t directly invlve us. Freudenfreude is like a kind f scial___28___, says Catherine Chambliss, a prfessr f psychlgy. It makes relatinships “clser and mre enjyable.”
T ften, we think ur friends ___29___ us mst during their hard times: a jb ___30___, getting divrced. In fact, hw friends ___31___ ur jy is even mre imprtant fr us than hw they respnd t ur ___32___. T ften, we think f jy passively. We see it as smething that cme t us, instead f smething we can ___33___. While it can be difficult in practice, freudenfreude can lift us up and ___34___ ur day. S celebrating ur friends’ ___35___ is a win-win t us all.
21. A. takenB. passedC. failedD. prepared
22. A. cngratulatedB. frgaveC. blamedD. ignred
23. A. badly-behavedB. ver-burdenedC. shrt-sightedD. green-eyed
24. A. tughB. hnestC. tlerantD. ptimistic
25. A. imagineB. understandC. shareD. increase
26. A. hpeB. passinC. cnfidenceD. pleasure
27. A. even ifB. as ifC. nw thatD. s that
28. A. platfrmB. glueC. bsterD. rutine
29. A. supprtB. annyC. upsetD. need
30. A. lssB. changeC. interviewD. applicatin
31. A. lk frward tB. cntribute tC. get used tD. react t
32. A. envyB. cmplaintsC. sufferingD. mistakes
33. A. predictB. prduceC. chseD. measure
34. A. fillB. startC. brightenD. balance
35. A. survivalB. successC. recveryD. genersity
第二节 短文填空 (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。
Desertificatin is a serius prblem ____36____ (face) numerus cuntries in the wrld. Shi Guangyin, an ec-warrir frm Shanxi Prvince, ____37____ (battle) desertificatin fr abut 40 years. Brn in a twn n the suthern edge f the Mu Us Desert, Shi remembers hw sandstrms easily destryed the crps the villagers had grwn and made their life ____38____ misery.
In 1984, the gvernment issued new plicies t encurage individuals t plant trees in cntracted sand lands. Despite the ____39____ (ppse) f his family, Shi resigned frm his leadership psitin at a state-wned farm and began his fight against desertificatin.
____40____ (initial), Shi met with the challenge f lacking funds. He managed t raise RMB 12,000 by selling all his sheep and brrwing mney frm dr t dr. ____41____ fllwed was tireless wrk by Shi and his team, planting several species f drught-enduring trees ver sand. Langwsha is an area f abut 400 hectares ____42____ strng winds blw hard all year rund. After failing ____43____ the first tw attempts, Shi realized scientific research was als imprtant. In 1988, Shi challenged Langwsha the third time. This time he ____44____ (equip) with a newly acquired technique, which enabled mst f the planted trees, well ver 80%, _____45_____ (survive).
“My fight cntinues as lng as my life cntinues. I shall nt stp planting trees until my last breath,” said Shi Guangyin.
第四部分 写作 (共两节，满分40分)
第一节 (满分15分)
46. 假定你是李华。你校图书馆计划布置一个英语读书角，需要一张图片作为背景。校方搜集了以下两张图片，向同学们征求意见。请你给图书馆馆长写封邮件，内容包括：
(1) 你的选择；
(2) 你的理由。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear the head librarian,
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Yurs,
Li Hua
第二节 (满分25分)
47. 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。
It was early spring and Nana was in the backyard with her grandchildren. Amy, Michael, and Justin were playing when Nana said, “I’m ging t start planting my garden. Wh wants t help me?”
“What are ging t plant, Nana?” asked Amy. “I like big, yellw sunflwers.”
“I’m ging t plant vegetables. That way we can have them t eat when they are ready,” said Nana.
“Hw lng des that take?” asked Michael. He liked vegetables smetimes, especially carrts.
“It will take a few mnths befre anything is ready t eat,” answered Nana. The children were surprised.
“Mnths? Why wuld yu d all that wrk and then have t wait s lng?” asked Amy. “Yu shuld just g t the stre and buy them.”
“Patience, my sweeties! Dn’t yu knw fd always tastes best when yu grw it yurself?” replied Nana. “And if all f yu cme t help, it wn’t be t much wrk.”
“I’ll help yu, Nana,” ffered Justin. He put dwn the sccer ball and went t lk at the gardening tls Nana had laid ut. “What d we d first?” Michael and Amy came ver t lk, t.
Nana taught Justin hw t use a trwel (小铲子) t dig small rws f hles fr the seeds. Next, Nana shwed Amy hw t pur the seeds int each hle. And it was Michael’s jb t cver up the hles with sil. Finally, Amy wrte the vegetable names n sticks that Justin pushed int the grund. “This way we can remember which vegetable seeds we have planted,” said Nana.
When they had planted everything, the children tk turns filling up the watering can s that Nana culd make the sil nice and wet fr the seeds t start t grw.
“Nw we just water them a little every day and with sme time and sunshine, we’ll have sme delicius things t eat in the summer,” said Nana.
注意:1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡相应位置作答。
Whenever the grandchildren came t visit, they wuld dash int the garden.
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Finally, Nana said it was time fr the first harvest.
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听力答案：1-5 CCABB 6-10 ABBAA 11-15 BCBCA 16-20 CABAC