2023德州一中高二上学期1月期末考试英语试题含解析

2021级期末线上测试

英语试题

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。

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Where does the man plan to go this year?

A. Europe. B. Asia. C. South America.

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What does the woman ask the man to do?

A. Clean the floor. B. Sit in Row 5. C. Drop glass bottles.

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What does the woman mean?

A. She wants to go swimming.

B. She is busy with her project.

C. She will have a test tomorrow.

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What will the man probably do next?

A. Get a spare key. B. Borrow some books. C. Help his neighbor.

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How many people will visit London for free?

A. 2. B. 3. C. 4.

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。

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

6. Where are the speakers?

A. In a shop. B. At an exhibition. C. At the man’s house.

7. Which picture was painted by George Anderson?

A. The Summer Flowers. B. The Swiss Mountains. C. The Lovely Windows.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

8. Why does the man feel sorry?

A. He didn’t keep an appointment.

B He can’t look after his mother.

C. He is too busy to go to hospital.

9. What’s the woman’s attitude toward the man?

A. Sorry. B. Understanding. C. Thankful.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

10. What is the problem with the woman’s watch?

A. It needs a new battery. B. It is ruined by water. C. It needs cleaning.

11. What does the store offer if one changes a battery there?

A. An extra battery. B. A one-year guarantee. C. Free cleaning service.

12. Why can’t the woman get her watch back right away?

A. The store will close soon.

B. She hasn’t got enough money.

C. The man is very busy now.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

13. Who might the speakers be?

A. Police officers. B. Observers. C. Passengers.

14. What did the old lady say?

A. She didn’t see anything.

B. The traffic lights broke down.

C. The red car was driving very fast.

15. What were the kids doing when the accident happened?

A. Crossing the street.

B. Playing in their front yard.

C. Standing on the street corner.

16. What caused the accident according to Mr. Bates?

A. The red car. B. The dog. C. The blue car.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

17. When does the volleyball club meet?

A. On Thursday evening. B. On Sunday morning. C. On Sunday evening.

18. At what time does the meeting finish?

A. 7:30. B. 9:30. C. 10:00.

19. What is the £30 used for?

A. Heating. B. Hall rental. C. Sweaters.

20. Why does the speaker leave this message?

A. To arrange a weekly meeting.

B. To recommend a sports programme.

C. To answer Marco Taylor’s questions.

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)

A

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21. What do we know about the MEL in Clean Energy Engineering program?

A. It offers lectures about traditional energy.

B. It provides both technical and business courses.

C. It is sponsored by forward-thinking organizations.

D. It centers on developing organizational leadership.

22. What is a benefit you can get from the program?

A. Gaining a lot of social experience. B. Becoming better at selling products.

C. Learning more about energy use. D. Acquiring the best learning resources.

23. What type of writing is this text?

A. An advertisement. B. An official report. C. An announcement. D. An exhibition guide.

B

To say that Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was a leader in Western art in the 20th century is to repeat an accepted fact, according to Time magazine. “No painter before him had enjoyed such a large following in his own lifetime.”

This year marks the 140th anniversary of Picasso’s birth. Born on Oct. 25, 1881, Picasso had created more than 20,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures and other pieces of art by the time he died at 91.

That’s a long time to paint! The result is not only a lot of art, but a lot of different phases in Picasso’s work. On its website, Christie’s auction (拍卖) house lists eight different periods in the course of his painting career.

Over a century ago, the painter once said that, “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” So the eight periods are all very different in their choice of subjects and yet unmistakably drawn by Picasso’s hands. Financial Express called his style unusual.

As his style changed over time, it became more simplistic. A common joke is that Picasso forgot how to paint. After all, he was classically trained at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona.

Now he is best known for leading an artistic movement known as “Cubism (立体派)”. It used geometric shapes to create human and animal figures. With this method, Picasso tried to show his figures from multiple perspectives (视角) in two-dimensional space. For example, a person’s left eye may be shown from straight ahead while his right eye and nose are shown from the side. The result is strange and beautiful, frightening and funny.

Picasso often said that he admired primitive art and drawings made by youngsters. “When I was the age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them,” he said. Maybe that’s why Picasso is still so popular. We look at his work and think, “Maybe I could do that!”

24. Which of the following best describes Pablo Picasso?

A. Productive. B. Optimistic. C. Traditional. D. Generous.

25. Why did Financial Express call Picasso’s style unusual?

A. His act of creation was destructive. B. He created a series of simple images.

C. His painting style remained unchanged. D. He drew different subjects in different periods.

26. What is special about a cubist painting according to the text?

A. It is rather difficult to understand. B. It shows figures from various perspectives.

C. It covers different subjects at the same time. D. It reflects the relationship between humans and animals.

27. What does the underlined word “them” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Raphael’s works. B. Artists. C. Drawings. D. Youngsters.

C

Some coffee shops in Norway are hoping to solve the problem of loneliness. They’ve come up with a clever idea to supply ceramic mugs (马克杯) labeled “Skravlekopp”. This translates roughly as “chatterbox” or, as a Norwegian friend explained to me, “someone who barely stops talking, but not in a negative sense”.

The idea is that you can choose to have your coffee served in a green Skravlekopp as a way of signaling to others nearby that you feel like chatting. Someone with a similar urge for companionship can sit down with you and you’ve suddenly got a friend, at least for a short while.

It might seem like a lot of extra effort just to strike up a conversation with a stranger, but the fact is that many people have lost that skill, especially younger generations that now have more contact with people over texting and social media than face-to-face. It can feel awkward and uncomfortable to approach someone, not knowing if they want to talk. But with Skravlekopp, a simple mug bridges that gap.

“It turns out that we up here in the north are a little shy and often afraid to disturb others. We need a little signal that we are available and that it is allowed to have a little talk. Maybe you can talk to someone you’ve never talked to before, maybe you can teach something you’re good at, maybe you know something you didn’t know, maybe you can meet again, maybe not. You can be the little human meeting someone needs today,” said a customer in his post on the Internet.

And people do need it more than ever. Ours has been called the “age of loneliness”, and in the United States about 20 to 30 percent of the population suffer from it. Last year it was reported that around 200,000 older people in the UK had not had a conversation with a friend or relative in more than a month.

So we need initiatives like this. I hope other towns and cities take note, realizing that it doesn’t take much to put a smile on someone’s face and make their day.

28. If a customer uses a Skravlekopp mug, it indicates that he or she ______.

A. is in trouble and needs help B. is sad and looking for comfort

C. hopes to have someone to talk with D. wants to drink coffee in a different way

29. Why do many young people have trouble with face-to-face communication?

A. They aren’t good at expressing themselves. B. They don’t feel like connecting with people.

C. They lack the chance of approaching people. D. They rely too much on phones and the Internet.

30. What does the author think of the initiative?

A. It is very effective. B. It is quite necessary. C. It will increase coffee sales. D. It has room for improvement.

31. What can be the best title for the text?

A. A coffee mug can find you a friend B. A coffee mug can get rid of your pressure

C. What a coffee mug means to your life D. How a coffee mug shapes your character

D

Metin Sitti at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, and his colleagues have developed tiny robots called “microrollers” that can carry cancer drugs and selectively target human breast cancer cells. The team drew inspiration for the design of the robots from white blood cells in the human body, which can move along the walls of blood vessels (血管) against the direction of blood flow.

The microrollers are round and made from glass microparticles. One half of the robot was coated with a thin magnetic nanofilm (磁性纳米膜) made from nickel and gold. The other half was coated with the cancer drug doxorubicin as well as molecules that recognize cancer cells.

The team tested the robots using mouse blood and artificial channels lined with human endothelial cells—the kind of cells that line the inner walls of our blood vessels. The robots were exposed to a mixture of cancerous and healthy tissue. The microrollers selectively attached to the cancer cells and were activated using UV light to release the doxorubicin.

By applying magnetic fields, the team was able to control the movement of the microrollers, both with and against the flow of blood. The microrollers can reach a speed of up to 600 micrometers per second. “If you come to a spot where you need to take the right path and if you miss it, then you could go back and go to the right one,” says Setti.

In future, the researchers want to use other methods to start the drug release, such as heat or near-infrared light. They also plan to try making microrollers out of materials that would break down in the body over a few weeks or months.

The team hopes to test the microrollers in animals soon. “The rollers need to carry enough cancer drugs, which is why we need to have them in large numbers,” says Setti. “But since we can locally take drugs to the right target, we don’t need huge dosages (剂量).”

32. What can the microrollers be used for?

A. Repairing blood cells. B. Delivering drugs. C. Improving blood flow. D. Performing operations.

33. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us about the microrollers?

A. Their shape. B. Their advantage. C. Their design. D. Their application.

34. What can we learn about the robots from Paragraph 4?

A. Their direction can be adjusted. B. They might miss the target cells.

C They might get stuck in the blood. D. Their speed can change automatically.

35. What will the scientists probably do next?

A. Put the microrollers to clinical use. B. Sell the microrollers in large quantities.

C. Tear the microrollers down in the body. D. Experiment with the microrollers further.

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。

How coming to China has changed my life and career

Hello, everyone. My name is Jonathan Lopez, and I am a dual(双重的) citizen from Colombia and Canada. ___36___， and how it has a potential to also change yours, if you allow it to have the opportunity to welcome you to China.

When I was 18 years old, I had the opportunity to leave Columbia for the first time to go to see my father in Canada. I studied in a university in Canada, during which I had a chance to go study abroad in universities in Netherlands and Australia, travelling to many countries. ___37___， because I got a scholarship to study at Tsinghua University as a choice for scholar.

When it came to China, I had so many ideas about what China was supposed to be about. The surprise is that it was nothing like I imagined in a more positive way than expected. When I come here, ___38___. All the development and how fast things move in China really allow me to quickly realize that this is the place where I needed to continue growing in my career professionally.

___39___. After I graduated from Tsinghua university, I got a job at Bytedance Internet Company first, and currently for Tiktok. But the most important thing is that I can be able to become an ambassador, and share my story about how being in China—my another home—impacted me and change my life so much.

It's been only three years in China and it's just the beginning. There is so much more that I can continue to learn in this place, and it's just an open invitation for people that are thinking to study abroad, work abroad or do things anywhere in the world, to also consider China. Hence, this is a place to be, and this is a place where you can learn and grow a lot. ___40___.

A. So I decided to stay

B. And then I was ready to come to China

C. Today I want to share why coming to China changed my life

D. And this is something that really can change your life as well

E. mobile payment was one of the things that struck me the most

F. By the time I graduated from university I had already traveled to 61 countries

G. I realize all the potential that this place has and all the things that I could learn about China

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 father had been a corporate sales trainer who taught presentation skills. He traveled across the world for___41___and competed in tennis tournaments on the weekends. “Life is good,” he would say, with a twinkle in his eye.

However, everything ___42___during my sophomore year of high school. A sudden stroke left him with a severe physical disability and loss of ___43___.

One afternoon, I came home to find my dad watching a(n) ___44___video of us playing tennis. What used to be such a ____45____pleasure was now impossible. I  ___46___us on the screen, fascinated by that ____47____memory.

We watched in silence until I couldn’t hold in my  ___48___any longer. I found myself shaking and ____49____while the video played in the background. My heart broke for us both and _____50_____for what we could no longer do together.

Moving his lips, my dad___51___wanted to say something, but he was powerless.  Although his movement was limited, he closed the gap between us and gave my hand a ___52___squeeze.

Later, on a family trip to Tahoe, my dad saw a group of people parasailing on the lake.

He and I had gone a few times___53___his stroke, but years had passed since then. “You and me!” he managed to___54___.

We floated high above the water, eyes fixed on the setting sun. Then, my dad looked at me with a familiar expression. “Life… good.”

After coming back home, my father worked ___55___to recover what he lost and regained a fair amount of his speech.

“Life is good.” Three simple words. But my dad injected true meaning into the phrase by refusing to let his sickness overshadow the days he had left.

41. A. adventure B. work C. competition D. pleasure

42. A. happened B. arrived C. changed D. started

43. A. speech B. confidence C. sight D. energy

44. A. old B. short C. live D. online

45 A. great B. rare C. personal D. simple

46. A. glanced over B. stared at C. looked into D. smiled to

47. A. shared B. bittersweet C. distant D. virtual

48. A. grief B. memory C. anger D. excitement

49. A. moving B. rocking C. dancing D. crying

50. A. sank B. melted C. ached D. skipped

51. A. eventually B. especially C. clearly D. merely

52. A. comforting B. strong C. quick D. friendly

53. A. after B. despite C. through D. before

54. A. squeeze B. create C. say D. achieve

55. A. independently B. tirelessly C. closely D. properly

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个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The trade routes are of great importance. In march, the Suez Canal, one of the world's most important sea trade routes, ____56____ (block) by a ship, causing an epic maritime traffic jam of nearly 300 ships between Europe and Asia. Besides the Suez Canal, China's ancient Silk Road also played ____57____ important role in trade and cultural exchanges between China and Europe.

In early history The Silk Road was the most important trade route, ____58____ (mark) the beginning of globalization. As the first route ____59____ introduced the Eastern world to the Western civilization, the Silk Road in China can date ____60____ the Han dynasty in ancient China. In the following years in history, many great figures had made significant ____61____ (contribute) to the development of the Silk Road.

Though the Silk Road was mainly a trading route, it was ____62____ (benefit) to each other in the first place. It ____63____ (actual) made great attraction to the development of the civilization of the world, opening long-distance political and economic communication between Europe and Asia. The ancient Silk Road is more like a historical textbook, enabling people from different cultures and regions ____64____ (comprehend) what happened during the ancient time. Up to now, the Silk Road in China _____65_____ (bring) great attraction to the tourism in China even in the world.

第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(满分15分)

66. 假定你是新华中学李华，你的外籍朋友Michael来信表示对中国文化很感兴趣，正巧这学期你校要开设“话说中国节(Festive China)”的线上课程，请你回信向他推荐此课程。内容包括：

1.开设时间；2.课程内容；3.报名方式。

注意：

1. 词数80左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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第二节(满分25分)

67. 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 the first week of Mia's middle school. The bell's ringing brought her out of her daydreaming. She nervously gathered her books, preparing to reach another classroom for the next new class.

Mia followed the other kids and rushed into the hallway. Others walked in groups, chatted, and laughed, using the break to socialize. Mia, instead, walked alone along the wall of the hallway, with her head down. She was a shy girl, afraid to speak in front of other kids, and didn't think others would like her.

Mia finally sat in Mr. Johnson's Language Arts class nervously. “Welcome to Language Arts,” said Mr. Johnson. He told jokes as he talked about English. Mia forgot to daydream and laughed along with the rest of the class. “We'll have some fun with language,” he said. “Just wait and see.”

Fun was far beyond what Mia desired. She just wanted to be like other kids—running with friends in the hallway, laughing and joking between classes. Reminded of her pimply（长粉刺的）face, she felt hopeless and disappointed.

“Take out a piece of paper,” the teacher continued, when pointing at words on the blackboard. “Write for the next thirty minutes on this topic.” Mia began writing crazily as idea after idea fought for recognition in her head. The final result was a short story about a beautiful beach house. As she wrote, she could smell the salty air, hear the crashing waves and feel the pull of the sand beneath her feet. For just a moment, she forgot where she was. She was lost in the story.

“OK, pass your papers forward,” said the teacher. “Let's see what we have.” For the rest of the class time, the teacher read each individual work aloud. Mia originally thought it would be awkward. However, she was gradually attracted by the excitement in the teacher's voice. “He's actually enjoying this,” she thought. When the class would be soon over, there were still fifteen students' papers not read, including Mia's paper. Then, Mr. Johnson announced his decision, asking these students to read their work themselves in front of the class next class.

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。

A week later, the bell rang and the Language Arts class began again.

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After Mia finished her reading. the clapping from her classmates continued for a long time.

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