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庆市璧山来凤中学校高2024届高二上期期中考试
英语试题卷
考试时间：120分钟 满分：150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 does the woman do?
A. She’s a coffee shop owner. B. She’s a photographer. C. She’s a tour guide.
2. What will the man do next?
A. Book a hotel. B. Take a plane. C. Make a business plan.
3. What does the man want to order at first?
A.A mango juice. B.A chicken burger. C.A cheese burger.
4. What time does the woman usually pick up the boy?
A. At about 6:00 p. m. B. At about 5:30 p.m. C. At about 6:30 p.m.
5. What does the woman think of the boy?
A. He’s noisy. B. He’s upset. C. He’s quiet.
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 is the man doing now?
A. Having an interview. B. Ordering a coffee. C. Reporting for duty.
7.How many years has the woman worked for the company?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.
听第 7段材料,回答第 8至 10题。
8. What does the man try hard to do?
A. Have more fruit. B. Learn to cook. C. Get rid of a bad habit.
9. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Try Japanese food. B. Do yoga. C. Have a regular check-up.
10. What is the woman planning to do on Sunday?
A. Do voluntary work. B. Attend yoga classes. C. Make fish dishes.
听第 8段材料,回答第 11至 13题。
11.What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Police officer and citizen. B. Husband and wife. C. Neighbors.
12.What happened to the woman?
A. Her finger was cut. B. Her house was on fire. C. Her jewelry was stolen.
13. Where does the woman live?
A. On Clifton Street. B. On Waterford Street. C. On Elm Street.
听第 9段材料,回答第 14至 17题。
14.Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. On a plane. B. On a train. C. In an office.
15.Who is Susan?
A. The man’s friend. B. The man’s sister. C. The man’s wife.
16.What is the woman going to do in Paris?
A. Conduct an interview. B. Deal with business. C. Visit an exhibition.
17. How long does the woman spend on her study each day?
A. One hour. B. Three hours. C. Five hours.
听第 10段材料,回答第18至 20题。
18.Where might this talk be heard?
A. In a classroom. B. On the Internet. C. On the radio.
19. Who might the speaker be?
A. A student. B. A teacher. C. A host.
20. What does the speaker suggest doing as to listening?
A. Learning a word by writing rather than listening.
B. Neglecting unfamiliar words while listening.
C. Writing down the important messages.
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
Hands-on basketball
The boy was only nine years old when he designed a “hands-on basketball”. Chris Haas had the
idea when he saw his friends miss lots of baskets. His basketball has painted hands on it. The hands
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show you where to put your hands when you throw the ball. Today people use his invention around the world.
Wristies
At age 10, Kathryn Gregory was playing outside one day in the cold. Her wrists (手腕) began
to hurt from the cold so she decided to find a way to keep both her hands and wrists warm during the winter. In 1994, she invented Wristies: fuzzy sleeves (毛绒袖子) that can be worn underneath
gloves to protect your wrists from the cold. She worked with her mom to get the idea off the ground
and now the product is sold worldwide.
Makin’Bacon
Abbey Fleck was 8 years old when she noticed how much time her parents spent soaking up
bacon fat (吸干培根油脂) after cooking. She realized that it might be easier to hang bacon while it cooks. That way you wouldn't need paper towels and it would even make the bacon healthier. She then worked with her father to design a dish that hangs bacon while it cooks. Now people can see her invention in many supermarkets.
Braille
Louis Braille had an accident when he was three. The accident left him blind. At that time, it
was hard for blind children to read. They had to touch raised letters. But it was difficult to tell a Q from an O, an R from a B, and so on. When he was fifteen, Louis invented an alphabet (字母表) that
used raised dots. The Braille alphabet was a big success!
21. Whose invention is related to sports?
A. Chris Haas'.
B. Kathryn Gregory's.
C. Abbey Fleck's.
D. Louis Braille's.
22. What can we learn about Makin' Bacon?
A. It was invented in 1994.
B. It was named after its inventor.
C. It helps people eat more healthily.
D. It reduces the cases of cooking accidents.
23. What do the four inventions have in common?
A. They were invented by kids.
B. They came into being by chance.
C. They were designed to help others.
D. They brought wealth to their inventors.
B
what we’re trying to accomplish.” He was really saying she didn’t have the intelligence. I got mad because I knew she was smart, just as my father had known I was smart when I was failing in school. We had her tested. I decided to get myself tested as well, and found that the troubles she was having were exactly what I had had — dyslexia. By then I was a successful television writer, and had won an Emmy Award for “The Rockford Files.”
If I had known earlier that something beyond my control could explain why I was a low
achiever, I may not have worked so hard in my late 20s and early 30s. I was writing and writing. I was working for no other reason than to hear people praise me, because I did badly in all my courses.
I once asked a friend who had always gotten an A, “How long did you study for this?” He said,
“I didn’t. I just glanced at it.” So he must be smarter. I began to ask, “What will happen to me when I’m not good at anything?” Despite my doubts, I did become successful, and people now say to me, “So you’ve overcome dyslexia.”
No. You don’t overcome it, you learn to compensate for it. Some easy things are very hard for
me. Most people who go through college read twice as fast as I do. I avoid dialing a phone if I can, because I sometimes have to try three times to get the number right.
Despite my weaknesses I view dyslexia as a gift, not a curse (诅咒). Many dyslexics are good
at right-brain, abstract thought, and that’s what my kind of creative writing is. And I can write quickly, and can get up to 15 pages a day. Writing is my strength.
The real fear I have for dyslexic children is not they have to struggle in school, but that they
will quit on themselves before they get out of school. Parents have to create victories for them, whether it’s music, sports or art. You can make your dyslexic child able to say, “Yeah, reading is hard. But I have other things I can do.”
24. The writer decided to get himself tested as well because he________.
A. wanted to know if they had the same problem
B. didn’t believe his daughter had the problem
C. had to take a regular medical examination
D. accepted that his daughter was not smart
25. We can learn from the second paragraph that the writer________.
A. struggled and got better grades
B. didn’t work hard when he was young
C. was praised for overcoming dyslexia
D. was thankful not knowing of dyslexia earlier
26. According to the passage, a dyslexic person________.
A. is less intelligent B. always fails in school
C. reads more slowly than normal people D. performs worse in left-brain activities
My daughter was being thrown out of the sixth grade. The teacher said, “She may not be up to
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27. What can we learn from the story?
A. Clumsy birds have to start flying early.
B. God shuts one door but opens another.
C. Never judge a person by his appearance.
D. No one can make a good coat with bad cloth.
C
A study of violinists found that merely good players practised as much as better players, leaving other factors such as quality of education, learning skills and perhaps natural talent to account for the difference.
This finding challenges the 10, 000-hour rule promoted in Malcolm Gladwell’s 1993 study of
violinists and pianists. Gladwell states that enough practice will make an expert of anyone. “The idea has been popular and entrenched in our culture for years. It’s not an idiom but an overstatement,” said Brooke Macnamara, the lead author. “When it comes to human skill, a complex combination of environmental factors and genetic factors explains the performance differences across people.”
Macnamara and her colleagues set out to repeat part of the 1993 study to see whether they
reached the same conclusion. They interviewed three groups of 13 violinists regarded as best, good, or less accomplished about their practice habits, before having them complete daily diaries of their activities over a week. While the less skillful violinists reached an average of about 6,000 hours of practice by the age of 20, there was little to separate the good from the best, with each reaching an average of about 11,000 hours. In all, the number of hours spent practising accounted for about a quarter of the skill difference across the three groups.
Macnamara believes practice is less of a driver. “Once you get to the highly skilled groups,
practice stops accounting for the difference. Everyone has practised a lot and other factors are at play in determining who goes on to a higher level,” she said. “The factors depend on the skill being learned: in chess it could be intelligence or working memory; in sport it may be how efficiently a person uses oxygen. To complicate matters further, one factor can drive another. Children who enjoy playing the violin, for example, may be happy to practise because they do not see it as a trouble.”
The authors of the 1993 study are unimpressed. Macnamara said it was important for people to
understand the limits of practice, though. “Practice makes you better than you were yesterday, most of the time,” she said. “But it might not make you better than your neighhour or the other kid in your violin class.”
28. What does the underlined word “entrenched” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Rooted. B. Advanced. C. Changed. D. Unconfirmed.
29. What can we learn about Macnamara’s study?
A. It convinced Malcolm Gladwell.
B. It involved violinists and pianists.
C. Its process was similar to the 1993 study.
D. Its result is consistent with the 1993 study.
30. What does Macnamara find about highly skilled people?
A. Practicing for 11,000 hours is their main driver.
B. They enjoy keeping diaries about their progress.
C. Environmental factors have little relation to their success.
D. More practice makes little difference to their further progress.
31. What is the best title for the text?
A. What makes an expert? B. Does practice make perfect?
C. The early bird catches the worm D. Enthusiasm is the key to success
D
This week, Parisians have been treated to the sight of ecotaxis, transporting people up and down the river Seine. They are called SeaBubbles and are being tested ahead of the decision to introduce them into the Parisian transport network. The SeaBubble is still in its early testing period, using technological know-how from several industries. The boat sits in the water as the passengers get on and off but once the door is closed the boat starts moving at 12 kmh (7.5 mph) along the surface. It is 100% electric.
The foils (箔) they use are not new technology; they date back to 1898 and an Italian engineer
called Enrico Forlanini. The Germans tested foil boats in the 1940s, the first hydrofoil ferry
(水翼渡船) was used between Switzerland and Italy in the 1950s and by 1965, a hydrofoil boat was good enough for the James Bond baddie in Thunderball. What has changed, however, is the technology, which has improved to the point where it can now succeed in dealing with some of the shortcomings which prevented their widespread use.
The company has big goals; it wants to use the world's waterways — and not roads — to
transport people from A to B, and it wants to do so with “zero wave, zero emission (排放), zero noise.” The SeaBubbles would travel at the same speed as cars and the goal is to provide these at the same cost as a taxi, with customers ordering them through an app as they would an Uber.
Anders Bringdal, SeaBubbles CEO, told Associated Press that he hopes to change the way
people move about cities. SeaBubbles are one more example of how shared public transport can change the mobility of large cities, much like shared bikes are now doing. People are increasingly looking to rivers as a means of moving around large cities to compete with the subway or buses — in London, travel cards are now accepted on river boats.
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32. What do we know about the SeaBubble?
A. It has been used in Paris.
B. It moves as fast as a car.
C. It is under water when it moves.
D. It uses knowledge from other industries.
33. Why did the author list the events about foils in paragraph 2?
A. To give special importance to the breakthrough of foils.
B. To explain the reasons for creating the SeaBubble.
C. To point out the disadvantages of foils.
D. To show how the SeaBubble works.
34. What is the company's future plan?
A. To put traditional taxis out of business.
B. To work with Uber to transport more people.
C. To transport people on waterways worldwide.
D. To make environment-friendly inventions at low prices.
35. What can we infer about the SeaBubble from the last paragraph?
A. It may have an important place in public transport.
B. It has been widely accepted by many countries.
C. It will make the company world-famous.
D. It still needs more tests.
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。
What Are the Roots of Your Self-Esteem?
Self-esteem is a person's subjective assessment of his or her worth to himself or herself. Self- esteem covers various beliefs about oneself (such as I'm a failure" and "I'm beautiful") as well as physiological states, including sadness, joy, and shame. When we don't believe that we are worthy of these things, our ability to enjoy them can suffer. ____36____ The more we believe that we are worthy of happiness and good things in life, the more self-fulfilled we will be.
Healthy self-esteem as an adult can be a gift given in your childhood. It is a blessing that most
people overlook. There are so many ways adults with high self-esteem were supported as children that resulted in them having high self-esteem. For instance, they were praised for what they had achieved.
____37____They likely experienced affection and were given enough attention. It is also
possible that they excelled in studies or in sports and were admired for it by peers.
____38____As children, many of these people were criticized, yelled at, or abused in one way
or another. There is also a high chance that they were given no attention by the adults who were supposed to care for them. In some cases, adults with poor self-esteem were often ridiculed for their shortcomings or bullied by peers.
It is common that these adults also believe that in order to be appreciated they need to be
perfect.____39____There are people who are obsessed with their careers or hobbies because in their mind they need to tie their worthiness to something concrete. Oftentimes these people have to pretend to be something they are not just to get approval.
How you feel about yourself impacts how you live your life. People with high self-esteem tend to
have better relationships than those with low self-esteem. High self-esteem enables you to ask for help and support from the people around you when you need it.____40____
A. There is also a good chance that they were spoken to respectfully.
B. When we start to doubt what's important in life, we tend to do less of it.
C. Since self-esteem is connected to how we perform, it is important to work on it.
D. People with poor self-esteem, on the other hand, often experienced the opposite.
E. This creates an image in their mind that without accomplishment they are worthless.
F. They face failure too, but they understand that failure or success doesn't define them.
G. So if you struggle to reach out for assistance, it could be rooted in your low self-esteem.
第三部分 语言知识应用（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，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
January 23, 2007 became a nightmare for Jessica Bachus. Her second daughter Kenzi ____41____ at just 24 weeks. “When Kenzi passed away, all my hopes went away, too,” Jessica says. The Colorado-based mother was overcome with emotion, ____42____ she eventually decided to channel her grief into the ____43____ of Kenzi.
Jessica knew that even if she couldn’t give dolls to both of her daughters that year, she could
still make the holidays ____44____ for another girl. With the help of her husband, Kyle, and their daughter, Bailey, she ____45____ 150 dolls to gift underprivileged girls in the community.
“When I saw a family ____46____ a doll we donated, I cried tears of joy for the first time in
almost a year,” Jessica says. So, she ____47____ to collect dolls and founded the Dolls for Daughters, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ____48____ financially-strapped families in Colorado with toys, food, school supplies, and more.
Now going into its ninth annual ____49____, the Dolls for Daughters operates five toy shops
in Colorado on the first Saturday in December. Parents are able to choose at least one new gift for each of their children free of charge.
“Most families in our _____50_____ make less than $15,000 a year,” Jessica says. “Many
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children are used to getting hand-me-downs — this is one time we guarantee that what they get is _____51_____.” Since the establishment of the Dolls for Daughters, more than 48,000 children have been _____52_____ and more than 323,400 items have been gifted to the families.
Jessica and her husband now have four children — Bailey, Kam, Karson, and Kenzi. “We
talk about Kenzi all the time. Last year our goal was to serve 10,000 kids since she would have been ten. It was a big _____53_____ and we surpassed it,” Jessica says. “For our living children, volunteering is a great way for them to _____54_____ back, honor their sister, and learn that even from the greatest tragedy can come something _____55_____.”
41．A．died B．left C．talked D．returned
42．A．so B．for C．and D．but
43．A．recovery B．rescue C．memory D．appearance
44．A．simple B．fresh C．special D．sensible
45．A．bought B．collected C．possessed D．exchanged
46．A．pick up B．turn down C．come across D．break up
47．A．failed B．agreed C．offered D．continued
48．A．finding B．choosing C．supporting D．appreciating
49．A．check B．celebration C．competition D．donation
50．A．world B．schedule C．opinion D．program
51．A．new B．useful C．strange D．expensive
52．A．treated B．served C．greeted D．honored
53．A．reward B．number C．surprise D．success
54．A．give B．push C．come D．turn
55．A．normal B．various C．beautiful D．unique
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1个适当的单词或者括号内单词的正确形式。
Good sleep habits can make a huge difference in ____62____ you feel every day. It’s important to establish a good bedtime routine. If you have trouble ____63____ (fall) asleep at night, try going to bed at the same time every night and waking up at the same time each day. This will make it ____64____ (easy) for you to fall asleep. ____65____ (Similar), try not to oversleep during the day as this can impact your usual sleep schedule.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40分）
第一节 （满分15分）
假如你是李华，你的美国笔友 Jack给你发来email，想在暑假到北京参观旅游，请你根据下列提示，给Jack回复邮件。
1.介绍北京（位于中国北部，常住人口约2153万，历史悠久，有许多旅游景点）；
2.向他推荐若干景点并提出可以帮助他预订宾馆；
3.表达对他到北京旅游的期盼。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使内容充实、行文连贯。
参考词汇：故宫the Imperial Palace天安门广场Tian'anmen Square
Dear Jack，_______________________________________________________________________________
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Sleep is essential for the proper functioning of all your body systems, from your nerve system to your immune system. Getting enough sleep is the foundation of good health. If you don’t get enough sleep, your health, both physical and mental, ____56____ (suffer).
第二节 （满分25分）
Yours,
Li Hua
Fatigue (疲惫) is the most obvious and immediate consequence of lack of sleep. It slows
down ____57____ (react) time and prevents you from making quick decisions. In addition, not getting enough sleep also ____58____ (have) long-term effects on your health.
You’ve likely heard that you need to get at least eight hours of sleep per night but there isn’t
____59____ exact amount of sleep which applies to everyone. Your ideal sleep duration depends ____60____ your age. For example, although teenagers need around 8 to 10 hours of sleep every day ____61____ (support) their development, as they grow into young adults, they need less and less.
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一个完整的短文。
On our way to California, my husband Lee and I stopped at a restaurant to have lunch and stretch our legs a bit with our kids Jack and Jenny.
As we walked toward the entrance, an ugly looking doorman jumped up from a nearby bench
and opened the door for us. “Good afternoon and welcome to Denny’s,” he said in a very joyful voice. In his hand he held a cup full of steaming coffee, which was inviting on such a cold day, but from the looks of the rest of him, it appeared that he hadn’t had a good meal or a shower in a long time. Obviously he was homeless. But regardless of his appearance, he greeted us as if we were

his best friends, adding as we entered, “Today’s soup and sandwich special is a great deal.”
Once inside, my kids whispered to me, “Mom, he smells.” After we ordered our lunch, Lee
and I explained the best we could, telling the kids to look beyond the dirt to the person underneath
and within. As we explained, the four of us watched other customers approach the restaurant. They
appeared unsure of the homeless man and many ignored him.
Seeing this rudeness truly frustrated me. When we were almost finished, I excused myself
from the meal and went to the truck for my purse.
As I neared the front door, the doorman was opening it for a couple and welcoming them to
the restaurant. They rushed past him and didn’t even acknowledge his presence. I let the couple
come through first and then said a loud, and polite “thank you” to the doorman as I exited.
When I came back, we talked a lot. The doorman told me that the restaurant’s manager
wouldn’t let him inside unless he purchased food. All he could afford was coffee which, he said,
didn’t count as “food” according to the manager, so he had to stay outside.
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。
Seated myself, I signaled the waiter to come and decided to do something before leaving. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
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Hearing the waiter’s words, the doorman approached me excitedly and thanked me for the
hot meal._______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
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