2023信阳高级中学高二上期1月月考英语试题含答案

2024届高二上期期末考试英语试题

第一部分基础知识运用（共两节，30分）

第一节单项选择（共20题，每小题1分，共20分）

1.     Not until very late that night her  ______ house was ______ from the terrible flood.

A. did she realize, under threat B. that she realized, under threat

C. when she realized, in decline D. had she realized, in decline

2.     Ifs most urgent that the all the shops in the U.S  ______ because of the increasingly confirmed

Covid-19 cases.

A. are closed B. should close C. be closed D. have been closed

3.     Every year, many graduates travel from one place to another, ______ for a well-paid job.

A. hunt B. hunting C. to hunt D. hunted

4.     New mothers can get  ______ in their baby without realizing it.（错题回顾）

A. picked up B. set up C. wrapped up D. put up

5.     The man wearing the black suit was the one  ______ for chopping down the old tree ______

around ninety meters tall in the botanic garden.

A. to be blamed, measured B. to blame, measuring

C. blaming, measuring D. being blamed, measured

6.     A large quantity of water  ______ polluted in the past twenty years across China.

A. is B. are C. has been D. have been

7.     With more and more birds, ______ some day some species will  ______ completely. In addition,

some of them have  ______ environmental pollution.

A. dying off; die out; died from B. dying away; die off; died from

C. dying down; die out; died of D. dying out; die away; died of

8. . Whatever the little girl said, her parents would not allow her ______  there alone at night.

A. risking to go B. to risk going C. for risk to go D. risk going

9.                                       ______ computer games is the reason leads to his being absent-minded in class.

A. Being addicted to; that B. Addicted to; why

C. Being addicted to; why D. Addicted to; that

10.    We didn't know you were in trouble at that time, otherwise we  ______ you a hand.

A. gave B. had given C. would give D. would have given

11.   Have you been aware  ______ under the tree  ______ two assistants.

A. that; are B. that; is C. of; are D. of; is

12.    It is no use ______  time ______  that matter.（错题回顾）

A. to waste; to discuss B. wasting; discussing

C wasting; to discuss D. to waste; discussing

13.    Only after he realized the significance of mastering two languages  ______ English carefully.

A. did he set about learning B. did he set out learning

C. had he set about learning D. had he set out learning

14.     A war is so cruel that it always causes great losses, ______ has happened in Ukraine and other countries,（错题回顾）

A. what B. which C. as D. where

15.    I will call you weekly and keep you  ______ of what is going on here.

A. informed B.informing C. inform D. to inform

16.    Whenever I  ______ difficulties, my parents always encourage me to my dreams.

A. was stuckby, stick with B. got stuck by,stick to

C . was stuck in, stick with D. got stuck in, stick to

17.    The coat ______  me perfectly. However, the color is too dark. Purple and blue are the colors that

______ me well. Do you have a purple one or a blue one?

A. fits; suit B. suits; fit C. fits; match D. matches; suit

18.    The Floreana tortoise（龟）,once considered to, ______  is being brought back from the dead with careful conservation.（错题回顾）

A. be wiped out B. have been wiped out

C wipe out D. have wiped out

19.    Researchers claim ______  the first proof that getting a regular eight-hour sleep every night

makes a real difference to our health.

A. finding B. having found C. to find D. to have found

20.    He found the problem was hard to ______.

A . get rid B. get rid of C. be got rid of D. be got rid

第二节单句语法填空（共10题，每小题1分）

1.     The church was a ______（memory） to the disaster victims.
2.     Before ______（call）, remain where you are.
3.     The success of a picnic usually turns the ______  weather.
4.     Having a bad boss is more than  ______ annoyance.（错题 回 顾）
5.     If you try to remember everything, you will end up ______（remember） nothing.
6.     None of these would have been possible ______  their help.（错题回顾）
7. It is important to keep yourself physically and mentally healthy, especially in such a competitive and ______（stress） society.
   
8.    We waited with great ______ (anxious) for more news about the accident.
9.    Masses of work ______ (do) to prevent the river from being polluted up to now.
10. Some books are to be tested, others ______ (swallow) and some few to be chewed and digested.(错题回顾)

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

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The National Gallery

Description:

The National Gallery is the British national art museum built on the north side of European art ranging from 13th-century religious paintings to more modem ones by Renoir and Van Gogh. The older collections of the gallery are reached through the main entrance while the more modem works in the East Wing are most easily reached from Trafalgar Square by a ground floor entrance.

Layout:

The modem Sainsbury Wing on the western side of the buileing houses 13th-to 15th-century paintings, and artists include Duccio, Uccello, Van Eyck, Lippi, Mantegna, Botticelli and Memling.

The main West Wing houses 16th-century paintings, and artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Cranach, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bruegel, Bronzino, Titan and Veronest.

The North Wing houses 17th-century paintings, and artists include Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Claude and Vermeer.

The East Wing houses 18th-to early 20th-century paintings, and artists include Canaletto, Goya, Turner, Constable, Renoir and Van Gogh.

Opening Hours:

The Gallery is open every day from 10am to 6pm(Fridays l0am to 9pm)and is free, but charges apply to some special exhibitions.

Getting There:

Nearest underground stations: Charing Cross (2-minute walk) , Leicester Square ( 3-minute walk) 9 Embankment (7-minute walk) , and Piccadilly Circus (8-minute walk).

21.    In which century's collection can you see religious paintings?

A. The 13th. B. The 17th. C. The 18th. D. The 20th.

22.    Where are Leonardo da Vinci's works shown?

A. In the East Wing. B. In the main West Wing.

C. In the Sainsbury Wing. D. In the North Wing.

23.    Which underground station is closest to the National Gallery?
    

A. Piccadilly Circus. B. Leicester Square. C. Embankment. D. Charing Cross.

B

For almost two months Dominic York, a 23-year-old hairdresser, wandered about hospitals all night, wearing a white coat and pretending he was a doctor. Yesterday he proudly claimed in court that despite his complete lack of medical experience or qualifications, he had saved several people's lives. He had even been allowed to assist a surgeon during an emergency operation on a patient who was about to die on something she had swallowed.

“I watched one of those TV dramas about a hospital and suddenly I felt like playing one of the roles myself. So I put on a white jacket and a stethoscope（听诊器）and walked around one of the biggest hospital in London. At first, I just watched. Once you learn how doctors talk to patients, nurses and other doctors, it's easy to take people in.” he said.

One of the patients he treated was Laura Kennan. She had been knocked down by a car and fainted. When she came into hospital, York was standing over her.

“He looked very professional. He told me his name was Doctor Simon. Then he gave me some sort of injection." she said. And then he suddenly cleared off when a nurse asked who he was. She didn't think there was anything wrong. "I would never have realized he was a fake if a policewoman hadn't showed me his photograph a week later. When the policewoman told me who he really was, I could hardly believe my ears.”

Judge Raymond Adams told York that he was "shocked and horrified,, that he got away with his deceiving（欺骗）for so long, and then sentenced him to eighteen months in a special prison for criminal with mental disorders.

“1 can only hope that this will not lead to further problems. After all, you will have considerable opportunities to study the behavior of the psychiatrists（精神科医生）who will look after you while you are there. If you try to persuade people that you yourself are a psychiatrist after you are set free, 1 shall make sure that you are given a much longer sentence.” Judge Adams warned York.

24.   York was proud of the fact that.

A. a surgeon let him watch an operation. B. he could perform some duties of a doctor

C. he had cheated doctors for so long D. people thought he could become a real doctor

25.   York learned how to behave like a doctor by.

A. watching other doctors work B. talking to doctors and nurses

C. getting some training and experience D. observing doctors while he was a patient

26.   Why was Laura Kennan in hospital?

1.   She had swallowed something and almost died.
2.   She had to have an emergency operation.
   
3.   She had been injured in a road accident.
4.   She had lost consciousness while driving.

27.    The judge's remark implied that York would be more severely punished if he.

A. pretended to be a psychiatrist B. tried to get away from prison

C. was proud of what he had done D. studied the behavior of the psychiatrist

C

The baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert （警觉）.Twenty centimeters from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it. She stares at it carefully. A researcher removes the card and replaces it by another, this time with the spots differently spaced. As the cards change from one to the other, her gaze （凝视）starts to lose its focus —until a third, with three black spots, is presented. Her gaze returns; she looks at it for twice as long as she did at the previous card. Can she tell that the number two is different from three, just 24 hours after coining into the world?

Or do newborns simply prefer more to fewer? The same experiment, but with three spots shown before two, shows the same return of interest when the number of spots changes. Perhaps it is just the newness? When slightly older babies were shown cards with pictures of objects （a comb, a key, an orange and so on）, changing the number of objects had an effect separate from changing the objects themselves. Could it be the pattern that two things make, as opposed to three? No again. Babies paid more attention to squares moving randomly on a screen when their number changed from two to three, or three to two. The effect even crosses between senses. Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots became more excited when they then heard three drumbeats than when they heard just two; likewise （同样地）when the researchers started with drumbeats and moved to spots.

28.    The experiment described in Paragraph 1 is related to the baby's ______.

A. sense of hearing B. sense of sight C. sense of touch D. sense of smell

29.    Babies are sensitive to the change in___.

A. the size of cards B. the color of pictures

C. the shape of patterns D. the number of objects

30.    Why did the researchers test the babies with drumbeats?

A. To reduce the difficulty of theexperiment. B. To see how babies recognize sounds.

C. To carry their experiment further. D. To keep the babies9 interest.

31.    Where does this text probably come from?

A. Science fiction. B. Children's literature.

C. An advertisement. D. A science report.

The word advertising refers to any kind of public announcement that brings products and services to the attention of people. Throughout history, advertising has been an effective way to promote the trading and selling of goods. In the Middle Ages, merchants employed “town criers” to read public messages aloud to promote their goods. When printing was invented in the fifteenth century, pages of advertisements （ads） could be printed easily and were either hung in public places or put in books.

By the end of the seventeenth century, when newspapers were beginning to be read by more people, printed materials became an important way to promote products and services. The London Gazette was the first newspaper to set aside a place just for advertising. This was so successful that by the end of the century several companies started businesses for the purpose of making newspaper ads for merchants.

Advertising spread quickly throughout the eighteenth century. Ad writers were starting to pay more attention to the design of the ad text. Everything, from clothes to drinks, was promoted with clever methods such as repetition of the firm's name or product, words organized in eye-catching patterns, the use of pretty pictures and expressions easy to remember.

Near the end of the nineteenth century, companies that were devoted to the production of ads came to be known as ""advertising agencies （广告商）The agencies developed new ways to get people to think of themselves as members of a group. Throughout the twentieth century, advertising agencies promoted consumerism （消费主义）as a way of life, spreading the belief that people could be happy only if they bought the "right“ products.

32.   What was advertising like in the Middle Ages?

1.   Merchants were employed to promote products.
2.   Ad messages were shouted out in public places.
3.   Product information was included in books.
4.   Ad signs were put up in towns.

33.   What does the word "This" in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. Advertising in newspapers. B. Including pictures in ads.

C. Selling goods in markets. D. Working with ad agencies.

34.   The 18th century advertising was special in its.

A. growing spending B. printing materials C. advertising companies D. attractive designs

35. Which of the following might be the best title for the text?

A. The Story of Advertising B. The Value of Advertising Designs

C. The Role of Newspaper Advertising D. The Development of Printing for Advertising

第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，全科试题免费下载公众号《高中僧课堂》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。

Kids' health: Four steps for fighting stress

Everybody gets stressed from time to time. 36 Some ways of dealing with stress --- like screaming or hitting someone ---don't solve （解决）much. But other ways, like talking to someone you trust, can lead you to solving your problem or at least feeling better.

Try taking these four steps the next time you are stressed:

（1）               Get support. When you need help, reach out to the people who care about you. Talk to a trusted adult, such as a parent or other relatives. 37 They might have had similar problems, such as dealing with a test, or the death of a beloved pet.

（2）               Don5t take it out on yourself. Sometimes when kids are stressed and upset, they take it out on themselves. Oh, dear, that's not a good idea. Remember that there are always people to help you. Don9t take it out on yourself. 38

（3）               Try to solve the problem. After you're calm and you have support from adults and friends, ifs time to get down to business. 39 Even if you can't solve it all, you can solve a piece of it.

（4）               Be positive. Most stress is temporary （暂时的）.Remember stress does go away, especially when you figure out the problem and start working on solving it.

These steps aren't magic, but they do work. And if you can stay positive as you make your way through a tough time, you'll help yourself feel better even faster. 40

1.    Ask for a helping hand to get you through the tough situation.
2.   Notice your friends5 feelings and find a way to help them.
3.    Different people feel stress in different ways.
4.    Ah, it feels so good when the stress is gone.
5.    You need to figure out what the problem is.
6.   And don't forget about your friends.
7.   Then, find a way to calm down.

第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）

阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和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。

Rachel had a healthy life both physically and mentally till one unfortunate winter evening. It was raining cats and dogs; everything was wet. Rachel's cat went outside in this cold weather. She 41 him to bring him back inside. He hid near a utility pole （电线杆）.Since it rained heavily the pole was charged and 42 to touch. Rachel, bent down to 43 her cat. She held the pole for support not 44 it was charged. The pole electrocuted her so badly that she was barely 45 seconds before her death. The electrocution resulted in 46 both her arms, which had to be cut off.

Rachel had to face such a (n) 47 accident. People get 48 about losing a finger, imagine losing both your arms. What would it be like? That's what Rachel was trying to digest. It wasn't easy at all. Rachel, slowly and gradually was accepting the 49 that she lost her arms and was 50 dependent on others for basic necessities that 51 the use of her arms. It upset her that she could not 52 her own duties herself.

Many people would lose hope. 53 , that was not the case with Rachel. She did not want to 54 her dream. She didn't let the slightest hopelessness bring her down and make her 55 her motivation. After recovery, Rachel 56 day and night to do most of her work with her feet. She emphasized mostly on 57 since she had no arms to do that with. She tried and tried. After many 58 and failures, she finally could write with her feet. She continued her school, 59 her examination and got a scholarship for law school.

Her optimism paved the way for a bright future. Her hard work 60 all because she never gave up.

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。

Koalas usually get the water they need from the eucalyptus (枝树)leaves they eat, 61 as drought and wildfires caused by climate change dry out their food 62 (supply), many koalas are starting to drink water.

Robert Frend, a fanner from New South Wales, Australia, 63 (notice ) how thirsty the

koalas got and helped researchers at the University of Sydney bring them water. Frend invented something called Blinky Drinkers, a water station 64 (attach ) to trees so that koalas can drink all they want.

In April 2016, researchers set up 10 of these water stations on the ground and up in the trees on a large piece of land 65 a sizable population of koalas. They also built up a surveillance (监视) system 66 (see) how much the koalas were using the Blinky Drinkers.

67 they found was surprising: The koalas drank a lot, even waking up during the day,

when they 68 (normal) sleep, to go to drink water from the stations on the ground. All of the Blinky Drinkers 69 (visit) 一193 times in total. And this was in the fall and winter seasons, when the heat isn't so severe.

Researchers were excited to find out something new about how animals change 70 （they） behavior based on climate change and worried about the future of the koalas.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分） 第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（△）,并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第II处起）不计分。

The summer holiday is coming. My classmates and I are talking about how to do during the holiday. We can chose between staying at home and take a trip. If we stay at home, it is comfortable but there is no need to spend money. But in that case, we will learn little about world. If we go on a trip abroad, we can broaden your view and gain knowledges we cannot get from books. Some

classmates suggest we can go to places of interest nearby. I thought that it is a good idea. It does not cost many, yet we can still learn a lot.

第二节书面表达（共25分）

假如你是校学生会主席，为了更好地保护环境，你代表学生会向全校学生发出倡议。请根据以 下内容，写一份倡议书：

1     .保护环境是我们的职责。

2      .我们要养成环保的习惯（例如绿色出行，不乱扔垃圾等）

3      .发出环保的号召。

注意：1.词数：120左右

2.开头结尾已给出，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

Dear friends,

As we can see, the environment around us is getting worse and worse.

Thank you!

The Students5 Union