2023德州高二上学期期中考试英语试题含答案

高二英语试题

2022.11

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。

注意事项：

1．答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号框。

3．全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在试卷上无效。

第I卷（满分95分）

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。

1.What color of hair does the man prefer?

A.Red.

B.Brown.

C.Black.

2.Why does the man want some special clothes?

A. For a film festival.

B.For a book signing.

C.For a friend's party.

3.When did the woman realize she left her ticket at home?

A.When she was on the train.

B.When she was at the station.

C.When she was at the concert.

4.Where does the conversation probably take place?

A.In a store.

B.In a bank.

C.At the bus stop.

5.What method is the woman sharing with the man?

A.Recording lectures.

B.Turning to teachers.

C.Organizing notes after class.

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 mainly discussing?

A. An order of a cake.

B.The date of a party.

C.The location of a bakery.

7.What does the man offer for the woman?

A.A discount.

B.A big fridge.

C.A delivery for her.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What does the job include?

A.Helping to feed fish.

B.Arriving at work early.

C.Attending many meetings.

9.What does the woman think about taking business trips?

A.It's boring.

B.It's acceptable.

C. It's challenging.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What's the probable relationship between the speakers?

A.Host and guest.

B.Husband and wife.

C.Salesman and customer.

11.How long did the journey to the supermarket take?

A.15 minutes.

B.30 minutes.

C.45 minutes.

12.What did the man receive this week?

A.Some extra money.

B.A new electric car.

C.A Christmas gift.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.What is the apartment like?

A.Noisy.

B.Cheap.

C.Big.

14. How much does the man plan to spend on housing per month?

A.$2500.

B.$5000.

C.$10,000.

15.Why is the man moving downtown?

A.To be closer to his working place.

B. To live in a better neighborhood.

C.To have more space for his family.

16.What will the woman likely do next?

A.Discuss prices with the man.

B.Help the man sell the apartment.

C.Show the man another apartment.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.Which region is Eva reporting from?

A.Indonesia.

B.Singapore.

C.The Philippines.

18.What type of weather is Eva mainly talking about?

A.Rainfalls.

B.Extreme heat.

C.Pretty cold.

19.When will the weather improve?

A. Within a few days.

B.In late November.

C.In early Decembe

20.What topic will the following report cover?

A. The city's events.

B.International news.

C.Live entertainment.

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

Welcome to Smith College. Founded in 1871,Smith College is now among the largest women's colleges in the United States, with students from 48 states and 78 countries. As an independent college, Smith remains strongly committed to the higher education of women.

Fall Arrival Information

Central Check-In (CCI) is for students entering in the fall of 2022, which will be held on September 1,2022 from 8:00-11:00 a. m. in the Indoor Track and Tennis Facility (ITTF). Returning students check-in will be held on September 4 and September 5 from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.in the Wilson Atrium, located on the second level of the Campus Center.

Early Arrivals

Students who are pre-approved for early arrival will receive email communication from Residence Life in early August. Any student may return to campus on Friday, September 2 from 10:30 a. m.-2:30 p. m. for an early arrival fee of $ 150 to be charged to their student account. Students are not required to pre-register for this early arrival date. Financial assistance is not available for early arrival fees.

Trunk Room Storage & Summer Storage

All house trunk rooms will open on Sunday, August 21 for the fall semester. As the JMG storage space is currently full, fall JMG storage hours will not be available until early August. If you need to store items this summer, seek off-campus storage options. Smith College's preferred company for storage is Boomerang Storage. Sorry for this inconvenience.

Petition（请求）to Live Off-Campus （Deadline Extension）

Residence Life will continue to accept off-campus housing requests after the June 1 deadline. Any student who wishes to move off-campus may petition to do so by completing the Petition to Live Off-Campus via Residence Life Self-Service.

21.What is special about Smith College?

A.It's a large state-run college.

C.It merely accepts native students.

B. It's intended for female students.

D.It's the oldest college for women.

22. What does a student first have to do to arrive early?

A. Ask for permission ahead of time.

C.Get adequate financial assistance.

B.Pay extra expenses through e-mail.

D.Inform Residence Life of her account.

23.How can students store things before the fall term?

A. Applying for an extra space on campus.

B.Putting them in the house trunk rooms.

C.Turning to Boomerang Storage for help.

D. Requesting to move off-campus online.

B

Jane Fonda,a legendary Hollywood actress, is 84 now, but the successful actress and activist has clearly not let age fade her. She starred in a string of classics, from kitsch Barbarella to dramas Klute and Coming Home,which both won her Best Actress Oscars.

“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. ” The way Fonda sees it, you must be prepared, which is the key to moving forward. “How can I be a more stable individual? How do I turn myself into somebody desiring to learn? All of these you don't necessarily start off with, but you develop them as you go through life.”

Put simply, acting is in her bones. Her father was the famous Henry Fonda,known for classics The Grapes of Wrath and 12 Angry Men. Her brother,Peter Fonda,starred in Easy Rider. Born in New York,when Fonda was 12, her mother died. Then Fonda suffered from bulimia, a condition that later affected her a lot. During her lifetime, she's been through it all-illness, divorce, grief-and survived. She once said, “I've spent my life trying to be better and to be everything I can be. That's what I've tried to do in life, and it involves being intentional and staying curious. ”

Recently Fonda has put her energy into environmentalism. Inspired by an eco-activist, she founded Fire Drill Fridays-protests in Washington D.C.She was arrested three times for weeks on end. Grandchildren Malcom and Viva joined her for a campaign of civil disobedience. A year later she published a book-What Can I Do:The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix It.

This overwhelming desire to put something good back into the world is a self-help mechanism. “If you do something good, it'll come back to you and make you feel better. ”

24.What makes Jane Fonda successful?

A.Her perfect looks.

C.Her original family.

B.Her continuous efforts.

D.Her endless curiosity

25.How did Jane Fonda react to her sufferings?

A. She made her own films.

C.She consulted her father.

B.She paid no attention.

D.She found a way out.

26.What is the purpose of “Fire Drill Fridays”?

A. To protest the arrests.

C.To protect the eco-environment.

B.To recommend a book.

D.To train Fonda's grandchildren.2

7.Which of the following best describes Jane Fonda?

A.Helpful and generous.

C.Confident and efficient.

B.Energeticand creative.

D.Optimistic and ambitious.

C

Tired of a life controlled by their mobile phones, many young people are appealing to extreme measures to kick the bug.

A discussion group called the Screen-Free Project on Douban, now has more than 33,000 members, who promise to “quit” their mobile phone. That generally does not mean they will abandon their phone, but means they will seek to cut down their use of it greatly.

That is a very hard thing to do, particularly when cashless payments are everywhere in China. One way to cut your mobile phone screen time is the mobile phone isolation box. Users simply put their mobile phone in the box and set a time lock that will ban them from having access to the phone for a set time.

Lin Tianqi, a student at Beijing Technology and Business University, bought an isolation box recently online. She has attached several eye-catching stickers to the box: “Happiness will find you when you are working” and “The harder you work, the luckier you are". The stickers help remind her of the need to face up to reality.

This summer, Lin says, she will be busy preparing for autumn career recruiting （招聘）and the postgraduate entrance exam. With so much to do， if her mobile phone took up most of her time, it would influence her prospects largely.

Though using a physical box to reduce mobile phone use may not seem so useful, it appears a good thing to the market. However, Liang Wenyu, another college student, looked down at these “useless” attempts. “It is meaningless to use the isolation box, you might as well lock yourself up, as simple as that.” he says,“I can understand why they attach these inspiring stickers on the box-because they lack discipline. Self-disciplined people will succeed without such tricks.”

28.What do the members of the Screen-Free Project intend to do?

A.Get rid of their mobile phones.

B. Buy a mobile phone isolation box.

C.Lock their mobile phones in a box.

D.Reduce their use of the mobile phones.

29.Why did Lin Tianqi attach the eye-catching stickers to the box?

A. To warn herself to discipline.

B.To remind herself to launch a career.

C.To start her business on isolation boxs.

D. To apply for a job in Xianfeng Technology.

30.What is the author's attitude to the mobile phone isolation box?

A.Positive.

B.Neutral.

C.Negative.

D.Indifferent.

31.What is the best title for the text?

A.All boxed in and free at last

C.A good choice-the isolation box

B.Kick the bug and dream high

D.Perfect measures-inspiring stickers

D

Growing up, Cassie Holmes was known as“Little Miss Happiness”. A cheerful outlook seemed to come naturally to her-or at least nothing in her life suggested that the world was anything but a sunny place.

Then, just a week before she was to marry her childhood sweetheart, her cellphone rang: her fiancé had abruptly decided to call things off. The experience left her ashamed and depressed. “I was confronted with the harsh reality that bad things happened,” Ms. Holmes writes. “Feeling this depth of unhappiness forced me to realize that I shouldn't rely on my preference to experience happiness going forward.”

Ms. Holmes, a social psychologist at UCLA's Anderson School, was studying exactly how people can make themselves feel better and get through tough situations. In “Happier Hour: Focus on What Matters Most”, she vividly conveys what she has learned from her study. Happiness is a well-covered topic, and so Ms. Holmes has focused her research on how people can spend their time to boost well-being.

One of the first misconceptions she tackles is that more free time is always better. Her analysis of time-use data and well-being finds that people are the happiest with 2 to 5 hours of free time per day-a nice reality check for anyone fantasizing（幻想）about quitting a job to move to a tropical island. It is also a comforting statistic for those who, like Ms. Holmes, are raising young kids. Two hours is achievable if 10 is not, and 10, it turns out, may not be better anyway.

Life will always include episodes and events that almost seem to lower our spirits. “Happiness is a choice,” she writes. “How we decide to approach our hours and spend our days determines the happiness we get to enjoy in life.”

32.What are the first two paragraphs intended for?

A.Displaying Holmes' happy childhood.

B.Describing Holmes' failed marriage.

C.Showing what sparked Holmes' study.

D.Making Holmes' experience known.

33.What does Holmes' study concentrate on?

A.Physical and mental well-being.

C.The general concept of happiness.

B.The harsh reality a person faces.

D.A person's time-related happiness.

34.How does Holmes rate the idea of “quitting a job to move to a tropical island”?

A.Unbelievable.

C.Appealing.

B.Unacceptable.

D.Practical.

35. What does the author try to tell us in the last paragraph?

A.Our life is full of ups and downs.

B.Happiness is hard for us to seek.

C.We are the masters of our happiness.

D.Determination is the key to happiness.

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。

Some people put their bicycles away once they learn how to drive a car, while some others don't._36 _Serious cyclists often arrange to take part in races.

One kind of race is the time trial. Each racer leaves the starting line at a different time and heads hard for the finish line. The cyclist who covers the distance in the shortest amount of time wins the race. A time trial is a very safe race for beginners. 37

Another kind of race is more difficult. A few city blocks are closed to traffic. Then all the racers line up in a tight pack and begin racing at the same time. They cover many laps（一圈），going around and around the city blocks.              38 It also requires skillful handling of the bicycle as it runs at full speed around other bicycles. The racer who completes all the laps first is the winner.

39  Racers have to cover anywhere from 35 miles to almost 3,000 miles. The race course may be a straight stretch of road or a long series of roads across the country. The prize goes to the first person who crosses the finish line.

Between races cyclists stay in good condition by doing exercise that builds up their strength so that they can keep riding for long periods of time. As cyclists become more experienced, they often join bicycling groups and become licensed racers.              40              If you're a cyclist, keep practicing. You could become a star.

A.The race requires more than speed.

B. Only experienced cyclists can enter the race.

C.For them, bicycling is actually an exciting sport.

D.Road races are usually the longest cycling contests.

E.Then they can enter special races all over the country.

F.Cyclists still need to build themselves up for those races.

G. The bicycles are spread out and are not likely to run into each other.

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。

My computer was everything to me until I received three sets of stationery（信纸）as a gift. The touching 41 of real stationery in my hands took me back years to when paper was really a(n) 42 . Right then and there, I decided to_43 a letter. I was going to compose letters that would be read throughout history.

I carefully 44 a sheet of the beautiful paper, and picked up a pen-and something amazing happened. I was afraid to begin writing-because if I_45_it, I'd have to start again. There was no backspace to delete mistakes. However, I decided that I was not going to let a task as simple as writing a letter leave me_46.

On a piece of scratch paper I outlined my thoughts. I 47 them out and outlined them again. I wrote down childhood memories. For about 45 minutes, I explored my own 48.When I finished, I took a sheet of the beautiful stationery and  49 my first handwritten letter in over 20 years. And while it wasn't the_50 I was hoping for, I got a call from my sister saying how much she enjoyed reading it. In fact, she was even 51 to write back.

That was over a year ago. Today, I have a shelf of stationery and writing a letter is no longer a source of  52_. I don't need scratch paper, and I can 53 a well-crafted letter in 30 minutes.              54 , now I receive letters in the mail again, and that alone is 55 of the price of stationery.

第II卷（满分55分）

第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在题后空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Sugar painting reviewed as both sugar and painting to view or eat can be seen in temple fairs, market fairs or in parks. Sugar painting is a kind of folk traditional handicraft,_56_ is especially popular in northern China.

Boil brown sugar in a fire until a wire can  57 (draw) from it. Then the artists scoops up（舀）a spoon of the＿58 （melt） sugar mix， casting it quickly back and forth on a slab of stone 59 (create) a shape. The sculptures of characters and animals such as dragons and Zhang Fei are among the favorites of children. They scoop up the sugar painting with a wide flat blade and attach_60 to a bamboo stick, finishing the shape.

The history of sugar painting_61 (date) back to the royal court during the Ming Dynasty. The handicraft then spread and 62 (gradual) developed among the common folk. The technique matured with_63_(vary) patterns emerging. As one symbol of Chinese culture nowadays, sugar painting has been getting more and more attention and 64 (recognize). Chengdu Sugar Painting has been listed in the “Second batch of national intangible cultural heritage”.Cai Shuquan,65 artist of sugar painting, has performed sugar painting shows even in foreign countries such as Japan, Spain, and Singapore.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

上周末你校组织了阳光果园（Sunshine Orchard）采摘活动。请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括：

1．参加人员；

2．活动内容；

3．个人感受。

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。

第二节（满分25分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使其构成一篇完整的短文。

Screen Saver

Rene Compean had hiked the park near his home in Southern California numerous times． But after venturing（敢于去）along a new path last April， the 45-year-old mechanic was lost.

As the day faded into dusk, following several hours of aimless wandering, his concern turned to fear. With no flashlight, only a liter of water and a power bar in his backpack, and less than ten percent battery remaining on his cell phone, Compean was unprepared for anything more than the two-hour journey he'd planned.

Compean climbed to a spot, some 7,000 feet above sea level, where he found at least one bar of signal. “SOS. My phone is going to die. I'm lost,” he texted a friend, attaching a photo showing where he was. The shot showed his legs hanging over rocks.

All Compean could do then was wait and hope. The temperature was dropping fast, and the winds were blowing. And he wouldn't sleep. After spotting two mountain lions and a bear, he spent the night on high alert, keeping a big stick and some sharp rocks beside him in case an animal came close.

Sixty miles away in Ventura County,Ben Kuo was working at home when he read a tweet from the police station， showing a blurry（模糊的）image of a man＇s legs. The police search-and-rescue teams had spent the previous night unsuccessfully looking for Compean,so they released the photo to the public, hoping someone might know the location

Kuo has an unusual hobby. “I have always loved looking for where photos are taken,” he says. He frequently tries to identify where movie scenes, television shows, or commercials were filmed. He's often successful.

注意：1．续写词数应为150左右；

2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Seeing the blurry image, Kuo pulled up a satellite map on his laptop.

The police of Ventura County arrived on the spot immediately.