2022-2023学年广东省高二上学期期中考试英语试卷 Word版 听力

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高二级第二次段考（期中）英语试卷
（2022-2023学年度第一学期）
(考试时间：120分钟，满分：150分)

第一部分 听力 （共15小题，每小题1分，满分 15分）
第一节：
听下面4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1遍。
听第一段材料，回答第1题。
1. What will Kate do tonight?
A. Visit her cousin. B. Watch a movie. C. Go shopping.
听第二段材料，回答第2题。
2. Why was Linda late for the party?
A. She got caught in traffic. B. She took the wrong bus. C. She set off too late.
听第三段材料，回答第3题。
3. When will the class end?
A. At 10:00 am. B. At 10:30 am. C. At 11:00 am.
听第四段材料，回答第4题。
4. What are the speakers talking about?
A. What to read. B. How to get a book. C. When to borrow a book.
第二节：
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从所听到的内容中获取信息，回答相应小题。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。
听第五段材料，回答第5、6题。
5. How much will the speakers give the waitress as a tip?
A. $6. B. $8. C. $10.
6. What will the speakers do next?
A. Talk about the bill. B. Make a phone call. C. Wait for the waitress.
听第六段材料，回答第7至9题。
7. What will Mark do tomorrow morning?
A. Run in a race. B. Cook the breakfast. C. Quit the sports meet.
8. What does the woman usually do to make herself fall asleep faster?
A. She counts sheep. B. She listens to music. C. She reads short stories.
9. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A. In a bedroom. B. In a classroom. C. In a consulting room.
听第七段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why does Henry learn French?
A. To become a French teacher. B. To know more about France. C. To be admitted to college.
11. What does the Language Centre offer?
A. Face-to-face teaching. B. Free online courses. C. Level-based learning material.
12. What’s Henry’s attitude toward the Language Centre?
A. Disappointed. B. Interested. C. Surprised.
听第八段材料，回答第13至15题。
13. What’s Bob’s favorite sport?
A. Table tennis. B. Football. C. Tennis.
14. Whom does Emily usually play sports with?
A. Her family. B. Her classmates. C. Her friends.
15. Where does Emily usually spend her Saturday nights?
A. At the cinema. B. At a friend’s. C. At a club.

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节：阅读理解（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
Below you will find a profile of each gap year program. If there is a specific program you are interested in or a question you have regarding these programs, please feel free to contact them directly.
Youth International
Since 1997, Youth International has provided many people with the most exciting and educational experience of their life. It is a learning program that combines international travel, inter-cultural exchange, home stays, volunteer community service work and outdoor adventures.
Phone: 1-720-270-3323
Carpe Diem Education
Through volunteer service, travel and cultural exchange, students of Carpe Diem Education receive a personal insight into themselves and their cultures. We specialize in guiding summer and semester programs for high school students. Each course is carefully crafted to develop leadership and self-awareness within our students, who return home better prepared to be leaders in thought and action.
Phone: 503-285-1800
Center for Interim Programs
Founded in 1980, the Center for Interim Programs is the first independent gap year organization in America. Based on students’ interests and budget, our experienced teachers help make individual course choices including low cost volunteer options, language programs, research trips and so on. We are committed to helping students find more experiences of formal education and work.
Phone: 413-585-0980
EF Gap Year
An EF Gap Year offers students the ability to explore several countries where you will learn a language, volunteer for a good cause, gain international work experience. Choose between a 12-week semester or 25-week academic year. You can then personalize your program to meet your learning goals and interests by deciding where, when, and how you wish to study on your own. Our well-structured curriculum even allows you to have college-level classes and earn credits toward graduation.
Phone: 1-800-726-9746
16. Which phone number can you dial if you want to improve your leadership?
A.1-720-270-3323. B. 503-285-1800. C. 413-585-0980. D. 1-800-726-9746.
17. What is EF Gap Year’s unique feature?
A. Its reasonable fee. B. Its experienced teachers.
C. Its flexible study time. D. Its various curriculum choices.
18. What do the four programs have in common?
A. They pay attention to volunteer service work.
B. They combine education with home stays.
C. They mainly offer cross-cultural education.
D. They raise students’ interest in adventure.

B
Most kids can walk into a library or bookstore and find hundreds of books to read. But it’s not that simple for kids who are blind. They read in a different way. Jenny Lee and other braille (盲文) transcribers take the printed words of a book and change them into a code of raised dots. Blind people can read these dots with their fingers. To know what braille feels like, take a ballpoint pen and press hard onto a piece of paper. Now turn the paper over and touch the raised dot made by the pen point.
When Lee first saw the dots of the braille alphabet, she wondered if she’d ever be able to read and write them easily. She took a class and practised hard for about six months before she passed the final exam: she had to convert 35 pages of a book into braille. Today, Lee works for a publisher. One of her jobs is to change children’s books into braille.
To do this, Lee first types the story into a computer and then uses a computer program to translate it into the braille code. Next, she looks over the translation several times to make sure it’s mistake-free. After that, a copy of the braille story is printed with a special printer. Then Lee and a proofreader work together to find and correct any mistakes. When a book is ready, many copies of it are printed. Afterwards, some are sold through websites and others are sent to libraries.
Sometimes, going over a story again and again gets tiring. That’s when Lee takes a break. Several of Jenny Lee’s co-workers, who are blind, use guide dogs. When the animals aren’t working, Lee likes spending a few minutes with them. To her, playing with dogs is always a “pick-me-up” in the middle of the day.
“I love this mission,” Lee says. “Through my brain power and my fingers, I am putting the dots into some kid’s hands.”
19. How does the writer explain what braille feels like?
A. By explaining what braille words look like.
B. By describing how blind people read books.
C. By asking readers to experience it themselves.
D. By giving examples of different braille words.
20. What was Lee’s first reaction to braille?
A. She was excited to get a new skill.
B. She was amazed at the clever idea.
C. She realized she could teach it herself.
D. She believed it would be difficult to learn.
21. What does the underlined word “pick-me-up” in paragraph 4 most probably mean?
A. A discussion to release work stress.
B. Something to improve one’s appetite.
C. Something to help restore one’s spirit.
D.A free ride accompanied with a guide dog.
22. What does Lee think of her job?
A. Profitable and hopeful. B. Tiring but meaningful.
C. Relaxing and helpful. D. Boring but challenging.
C
Monkeys seem to have a way with numbers.
A team of researchers trained three Rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward. The researchers then tested how the monkeys combined—or added—the symbols to get the reward.
Here’s how Harvard Medical School scientist Margaret Livingstone, who led the team, described the experiment: In their cages the monkeys were provided with touch screens. On one part of the screen, a symbol would appear, and on the other side two symbols inside a circle were shown. For example, the number 7 would flash on one side of the screen and the other end would have 9 and 8. If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.
After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.
When the team examined the results of the experiment more closely, they noticed that the monkeys tended to underestimate（低估）a sum compared with a single symbol when the two were close in value—sometimes choosing, for example, a 13 over the sum of 8 and 6. The underestimation was systematic: When adding two numbers, the monkeys always paid attention to the larger of the two, and then added only a fraction（小部分）of the smaller number to it.
“This indicates that there is a certain way quantity is represented in their brains,” Dr. Livingstone says. “But in this experiment what they’re doing is paying more attention to the big number than the little one.”
23. What did the researchers do to the monkeys before testing them?
A. They fed them. B. They named them.
C. They trained them. D. They measured them.
24. How did the monkeys get their reward in the experiment?
A. By drawing a circle. B. By touching a screen.
C. By watching videos. D. By mixing two drinks.
25. What did Livingstone’s team find about the monkeys?
A. They could perform basic addition.
B. They could understand simple words.
C. They could memorize numbers easily.
D. They could hold their attention for long.
26. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?
A. Entertainment. B. Health. C. Education. D. Science.

D
With the young unable to afford to leave home and the old at risk of isolation (孤独), more families are choosing to live together.
The doorway to peace and quiet, for Nick Bright at least, leads straight to his mother-in-law: she lives on the ground floor, while he lives upstairs with his wife and their two daughters.
Four years ago they all moved into a three-storey Victorian house in Bristol - one of a growing number of multigenerational families in the UK living together under the same roof. They share a front door and a washing machine, but Rita Whitehead has her own kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room on the ground floor.
“We floated the idea to my mum of sharing a house,” says Kathryn Whitehead. Rita cuts in: “We spoke more with Nick because I think it’s a big thing for Nick to live with his mother-in-law.”
And what does Nick think? “From my standpoint, it all seems to work very well. Would I recommend it? Yes, I think I would.”
It’s hard to tell exactly how many people agree with him, but research indicates that the numbers have been rising for some time. Official reports suggest that the number of households with three generations living together had risen from 325,000 in 2001 to 419,000 in 2013.
Other varieties of multigenerational family are more common. Some people live with their elderly parents; many more adult children are returning to the family home, if they ever left. It is said that about 20% of 25-34-year-olds live with their parents, compared with 16% in 1991. The total number of all multigenerational households in Britain is thought to be about 1.8 million.
Stories like that are more common in parts of the world, where multigenerational living is more firmly rooted. In India, particularly outside cities, young women are expected to move in with their husband's family when they get married.
27. Who mainly uses the ground floor in the Victorian house in Bristol?
A. Nick. B. Rita. C. Kathryn. D. The daughters.
28. What is Nick’s attitude towards sharing the house with his mother-in-law?
A. Positive. B. Carefree. C. Tolerant. D. Unwilling.
29. What is the author’s statement about multigenerational family based on?
A. Family traditions. B. Financial reports.
C. Published statistics. D. Public opinions.
30. What is the text mainly about?
A. Lifestyles in different countries.
B. Conflicts between generations.
C. A housing problem in Britain.
D. A rising trend of living in the UK.

第二节：七选五（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。
Say Goodbye to Post-holiday Syndrome
You’ve spent countless days waking up late, enjoying watching your favorite TV shows and lying on the beach. 31 It’s time to go back to work. Here are some tips to make the shift from vacation to work smoother.
Tidy up your work-space first.
Chances are you’ll be greeted by piles of unopened mail, files, and other office items sitting on your desk. 32 The longer you wait, the more likely these items will be sitting around your desk later in the week.
33
You may feel the urge to work on three different things at the same time in order to catch up on work. However, this is not the most efficient approach. Instead, you should make a point to focus your mind and to only work on one item or task at a time.
Remove unnecessary distractions.
It’s incredibly important to get serious about cutting out obvious distractions. This way, you can catch up on things efficiently without being bothered every five minutes. 34
Make plans to enjoy yourself the first week back.
35 Scheduling a lunch date or two with friends can make the week back seem a bit less painful.
Treat yourself to your favorite drink at the local cafe during your coffee break.
It may take several days for you to finally get readjusted and that’s perfectly fine. Stay calm, focused and relaxed. You’ll be back to your old routine at work before you know it.
A．Do one thing at a time.
B．Make a list of tasks based on their importance.
C．Then you suddenly come to an uncomfortable realization.
D．So it’s a good idea to pay less attention to these items.
E. You’re back at work, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy yourself.
F. Rather than ignoring these items, take a few minutes to process them.
G. Switch off your cell phone, and close out of any social media accounts.

第三部分 语言知识及应用（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，从短文后各题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
For many, finding an unattended wallet filled with £400 in cash would be a source of temptation (诱惑). But the 36 would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money. All of this makes the actions of the homeless Tom Smith even more remarkable.
After spotting a 37 on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the 38 to return. After hours in the cold and wet, he 39 inside and pulled the wallet out, hoping to find some ID so he could contact the driver, only to 40 it contained £400 in notes, with another £50 in spare change beside it. He then took the wallet to a nearby police station after 41 a note behind to let the owner know it was safe. When the car’s owner John Anderson and his colleague Carol Lawrence returned to the car—which was itself worth £35, 000—in Glasgow city centre, they were 42 to find two policemen standing next to it. The policemen told them what Mr. Smith did and that the wallet was 43 .
The pair were later able to thank Mr. Smith for his 44 . Mr. Anderson said: “I couldn't believe that the guy never took a penny. To think he is sleeping on the streets tonight when he could have stolen the money and paid for a place to stay in. This guy has nothing and rather he didn’t take the wallet for himself; he thought about others instead. It’s unbelievable. It just proves there are 45 guys out there.”
Mr. Smith’s act 46 much of the public’s attention. He also won praise from social media users after Mr. Anderson 47 about the act of kindness on Facebook. Now Mr. Anderson has set up an online campaign to 48 money for Mr. Smith and other homeless people in the area, which by yesterday had received ￡8,000. “I think the faith that everyone has shown in him has touched him. People have been approaching him in the street; he’s had job 49 and all sorts,” Mr. Anderson commented. For Mr. Smith, this is a possible life-changing 50 . The story once again tells us that one good turn deserves another.
36. A. hope B. aim C. urge D. effort
37. A. wallet B. bag C. box D. parcel
38. A. partner B. colleague C. owner D. policeman
39. A. turned B. hid C. stepped D. reached
40. A. discover B. collect C. check D. believe
41. A. taking B. leaving C. reading D. writing
42. A. satisfied B. excited C. amused D. shocked
43. A. safe B. missing C. found D. seen
44. A. service B. support C. kindness D. encouragement
45. A. honest B. polite C. rich D. generous
46. A. gave B. paid C. cast D. drew
47. A. learned B. posted C. cared D. heard
48. A. borrow B. raise C. save D. earn
49. A. details B. changes C. offers D. applications
50. A. lesson B. adventure C. chance D. challenge

第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, globally known for developing the first hybrid rice strain in 1973 that rid countless people 51 hunger, passed away in 2021 at the age of 91.
The scientist spent over five decades researching and improving hybrid rice, 52 has reached its third generation, feeding 53 (near) one-fifth of the world’s population with less than 9 percent of the world's total land. In China, the annual planting area of hybrid rice has topped 16 million hectares, or 57 percent of 54 total planting area of rice. Its growth area overseas has reached 8 million hectares. His more recent achievements included developing 55 (vary) seawater rice, or saline-alkali(盐碱) tolerant rice. His team planned to use the rice 56 (transform) 6.7 million hectares of saline-alkali land in China over the next eight to 10 years.
Yuan once said he had two dreams -- to “enjoy the cool under the rice crops 57 (tall) than men” and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the global 58 (short) of food.
Yuan’s lifelong devotion to 59 (reduce) hunger has made him a national hero and household name in China. In 1999, an asteroid(小行星) discovered by the National Astronomical Observatories 60 (name) after Yuan. In 2019, he was awarded the Medal of the Republic, China’s highest state honor.

第四部分 基础知识（共35分）
第一节：根据中文提示或所给单词的恰当形式填空。(每空1分，共11分)
61. If you take up a challenge, you will find ______________ (难以置信的) joy in the process.
62. With the development of technology, we have a ______________(趋势) to lead a more convenient life.
63. I don’t think there’s enough information to make an ____________ (假设).
64. There were some disagreements between two drivers about who was to ____________ (责怪).
65. You need to ______________ (说服，使相信) the interviewers of your ability to do the job well.
66. The idea of humans’ walking on water is crazy and cannot become a (real).
67. They need a (rely) method to reduce the unemployment rate.
68. One way of (overcome) this problem is to study much harder than before.
69. The newscast covers topical events and ________________(entertain).
70. Many students with a large amount of pocket money may not know how to use it ________ (appropriate).
71. Keeping clean can help to decrease the risk of ___________(infect).
第二节：根据中文意思完成以下句子。（一个空填一个单词，每小题3分，共24分）
72. 这个新建的体育馆能容纳多达3000人。
The newly-built stadium can hold 3000 people.
73. 张桂梅献身于教育事业数十年，13年前创办了全国第一所全免费女子高中。
Zhang Guimei, who has herself education for ten years, founded the first all-free girls’ high school in China 13 years ago.
74. 一年由春、夏、秋、冬四个季节组成。
A year the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
75. 他们拒绝雇佣他。换句话说，他没得到那份工作。
They refused to employ him. , he didn’t get the job.
76. 我亲眼目睹了他们最终是如何打破隔阂，避免冲突的。
I witnessed how they ultimately the barriers and avoided the conflict.
77. 然而，他始终没有放弃彻底根除霍乱的愿望。
However, he never lost his desire to destroy cholera .
78. 它以其令人叹为观止的美吸引着来自世界各地的游客。
It tourists from all over the world with its breathtaking beauty.
79. 在内心深处，她支持丈夫参与该组织。
, she supported her husband’s involvement in the organization.

第五部分：写作 (满分20分包含5分书写分)
假如你是李华，你的外国笔友Jim对中国长城很感兴趣。请你给他根据以下要点给他写一封信， 简要介绍长城的一些情况。
历史：有两千多年的历史。
特点：世界上最长的城墙，长6000多千米;
建筑材料主要为石头、砖头，修建工作都是人工进行;
主要用于防御外来入侵者(invader)，沿墙每隔几百米就有烽火台(watchtower)。
现状：世界著名旅游景点之一，每年吸引许多国内外游客到长城观光旅游。

注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
Learning that you show great interest in the Great Wall, I’m writing to share some information with you.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
高二级第二次段考（期中）英语试卷答案
（2022-2023学年度第一学期）
听力
1-5：CABBB 6-10: CACAB 11-15: CBCBA
阅读理解
16-18 B C A 19-22 C D C B
23-26 C B A D 27-30 B A C D
七选五
31-35 C F A G E
完形填空
36-40 C A C D A 41-45 B D A C A 46-50 D B B C C
语法填空
51. of 52. which 53. nearly 54. the 55. various
56. to transform 57. taller 58. shortage 59. reducing 60. was named
基础知识
单词：
61. incredible/unbelievable 62. tendency 63. assumption
64. blame 65. convince 66. reality 67. reliable 68. overcoming 69. entertainments 70. appropriately
71. infection/being infected
短语：
72. up to
73. devoted....to / committed....to
74. is comprised of
75. In other words
76. broke down
77. once and for all
78. appeals to
79. Deep down
作文
Dear Jim,
Learning that you show great interest in the Great Wall, I’m writing to share some information with you.
The Great Wall, which is more than 6,000 kilometers long, is the longest wall in the world. With a history of over 2, 000 years, it was made of stones and bricks. Besides, almost all the construction was done by hand without any machine. As 
the wall was built to defend the country against foreign invaders, there were watchtowers every few hundred meters along the wall. Now, the Great wall is one of the most famous places of interest in China, attracting many tourists from home and abroad every year.
As is described above, I believe it is worthwhile to pay a visit to the Great Wall. 
                        Yours,
                      Li hua