2022常州八校高二下学期期中调研英语试卷含解析

2021-2022学年第二学期八校高二年级联合调研

英语试卷

本试卷分四个部分。满分150分，考试用时120分钟。

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。

1. What time is it now?

A. 5:15.    B. 5:30.    C. 5:45.

2. How does the man feel?

A. Frightened.   B. Proud.    C. Excited.

3 What is the man's phone number?

A. 560-1278.   B. 560-1287.   C. 650-1287.

4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. How long they haven't met.  B. How the woman went to college.  C. How the woman's life is going.

5. What does the woman think of French food?

A. It is delicious.   B. It is easy to make.   C. It is time-consuming.

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。

6. What will the woman do during the holiday?

A. Work on a report.   B. Travel to somewhere.  C. Have a rest.

7. Why does the woman refuse to lend her car to the man?

A. She lent it to other people. B. He broke it before.   C. She sold it out.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Colleagues.   B. Husband and wife.   C. Friends.

9. What do the speakers think of their future?

A. Promising.   B. Blank.    C. Unclear.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What are the speakers looking forward to?

A. Relaxing themselves.  B. Reuniting with parents. C. Finishing the remaining work.

11. What will the woman do during the Spring Festival?

A. Travel around Beijing.  B. Travel across the country.  C. Get together with her parents.

12. Where does the woman come from?

A. The countryside.   B. Beijing.    C. A city near Beijing.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why did Lina's family go to town at Halloween?

A. They had no neighbors.

B. They didn't have many neighbors.

C. The people in town were friendly.

14. What did Lina's parents do while the kids went to trick-or-treat?

A. They went with the kids.

B. They waited for the kids.

C. They wandered around the town.

15. What did Lina's dad once dress up as?

A. A policeman.   B. A passer-by.   C. Santa Claus.

16. How do you like Lina's parents?

A. They love life.   B. They are strange.   C. They are stubborn.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What did the speaker eat on the train to Paris?

A. A hamburger.   B. A steak.    C. A hot dog.

18. How did the speaker go to Rome?

A. By train.   B. By coach.   C. By plane.

19. Why does the speaker want to sit next to Maria?

A. To help her relax when flying.  B. To listen to music with her.  C. To learn from her.

20. What is the relationship between the speaker and Maggie?

A. Classmates.   B. Husband and wife.   C. Brother and sister.

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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

If you come to Vancouver, you can appreciate the magnificent mountain scenery or the beautiful coast. It has more than 100 parks, mainly in the style of Britain and North America, but also in the oriental style, typical of China. Vancouver has some of the mildest weather, making it an ideal destination to explore.

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden

The garden is to maintain and enhance the bridge of understanding between Chinese and western cultures as well as promote Chinese culture generally. Remember to bring some souvenirs back home at one of the Asian specialty stores!

VanDusen Botanical Garden

The garden is well kept with an amazing variety of trees and flowering plants. If you are visiting during the winter season, the light festival in December is a must see! The garden is transformed into a Christmas wonderland that will attract everyone, from child to adult.

Stanley Park

It is a massive green space on the northwest side of the city. It is also the perfect place to take a stroll or bike ride and take a horse and carriage ride. The 400-hectare park is a local's favorite and includes multiple dining outlets, swimming pools, ice rinks, golf courses, and more.

Capilano Suspension Park

Travelers who love the thrill of heights and gorgeous rainforest views are handsomely rewarded at the Capilano Suspension Park. The 450-foot-long bridge is definitely the main attraction, but it isn’t the only one. There’s also the Treetops Adventure, giving visitors a “squirrels eye view” of the forest.

1. What makes Vancouver an ideal place to visit?

A. The weather. B. The coast. C. The mountains. D. The parks.

2. Which feature is unique to VanDusen Botanical Garden?

A. It presents light show. B. It promotes Asian cultures.

C. It provides forest views. D. It offers leisure facilities.

3. Which spot suits adventurous people?

A. Stanley Park B. VanDusen Botanical Garden

C. Capilano Suspension Park D. Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden

B

A librarian in Indonesia's Java island is lending books to children in exchange for trash to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.

Each weekday Raden Roro Hendarti rides her three wheeler with books stacked up at the back for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other waste that she carries back.

She told Reuters the is helping promote reading in the kids as well make them aware of the environment. As soon as she shows up, little children, many accompanied by their mothers, surround her “Trash Library” and shout for the books. They are all carrying trash bags and Raden's three-wheeler quickly fills up with them as the books fly out. She's happy the kids are going to spend less time on online games as a result.

“Let us build a culture of literacy from young age to lessen the harm of the online world,” Raden said. “We should also take care of our waste in order to fight climate change and to save the earth from trash,” Raden said. She collects about 100 kg of waste each week, which is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for recycling or sold. She has a stock of 6,000 books to lend and wants to take the mobile service to neighboring areas as well.

Kevin Alamsyah, an 11-year-old book lover, search for waste lying in the village. “When there is too much trash, our environment will become dirty and it's not healthy. That's why I look for trash to borrow a book,” he says.

Jiah Palupi, the head of the main public library in the area, said Raden's work strengthened their efforts in a novel way to battle online gaming addiction among the youth and promote reading.

The literacy rate for above-15-year-olds in Indonesia is around 96 percent, but a September report by the World Bank warned that the pandemic will leave more than 80% of 15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency (阅读水平) level identified by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

4. What can we know about the “trash library”?

A. It is much welcomed by kids and their parents.

B. It mainly lend books about environment to kids.

C. Kids can buy books from it by donating collected trash.

D. It is a special library built with plastics and other waste.

5. What does the underlined word “novel” in Paragraph 6 probably mean?

A. Dramatic. B. Interesting. C. Creative. D. Strange.

6. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Indonesia’s environmental situation is worrying.

B. People in Indonesia has a very low literacy rate.

C. The trash library has been introduced to many other cities.

D. The pandemic has a negative effect on teenagers’ reading.

7. What is the best title of this passage?

A. Trash for Books. B. A Great Librarian.

C. Reading for Literacy. D. More Reading, Less Online Games.

C

Microsoft won't renew the contracts for dozens of news production contractors working at its MSN website and plans to use AI to replace them.

The roughly 50 employees were informed that their services would no longer be needed beyond June 30, but a team of full-time journalists will remain.

The Microsoft spokesman said in a statement, “Like all companies, we analyze and make judgments on our activities and services on a regular basis. This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time to time,rearrangement in others.These decisions are not the result of the current pandemic.”

MSN will use AI to replace the production work its journalists had been doing. That work includes using an automated system to identify trending news stories from dozens of publishing partners and to help improve the content by rewriting headlines or adding better accompanying photographs or slide shows.

“I spend all my time reading about how automation and AI are going to take all our jobs-now it's taken mine, one of the terminated contractors said. “But with fewer human beings to monitor the technology, AI may not be fully familiar with strict editorial guidelines and could end up letting through inappropriate stories."

MSN has undergone a number of changes since its Launch as Microsoft Network in 1995. Once ii offered original content and links to news, weather and sports. In 2013, it seduced original news content and began cutting employees. By 2014. it launched a redesigned version that partnered with other news sites - paying them to redistribute their content. Today, the news service relies entirely on those partnerships with no original news content of its own. Selecting and editing stories rather than actually generating them made it easier for MSN to increasingly rely on an automated editing system.

8. What is happening at Microsoft?

A. More people are being employed to develop .

B Some workers are being fired and replaced by Al.

C. Robots are being used to write news reports for MSN.

D. It is signing new contracts with some workers at MSN.

9. What does the Microsoft spokesman mean?

A. The will invest more in AI.

B. They frequently examine their business.

C. They provide the best services for Internet users.

D. They have been badly influenced by the pandemic.

10. The underlined word “terminated" in Paragraph 5 probably means ”？

A. scheduled

B. informed.

C. involved.

D. dismissed.

11. Which best describes how MSN works now?

A. All its news is produced by other news sites.

B. Other news websites pay it to use its content.

C. Original content is encouraged on its website.

D. Its partners help it select aid edit news stories.

D

When you walk on a sandy beach, it takes more energy than walking down a sidewalk—because the weight of your body pushes into the sand. It turns out that the same thing is true for vehicles driving on roads.

“The weight of the vehicles creates a very shallow indentation in the pavement—and it makes it such that it's continuously driving up a very shallow hill,” said Jeremy Gregory, a scientist at M. I. T...He modeled with his teammates how much energy could be saved-and greenhouse gases avoided—by simply hardening the nation's roads and highways.

And they found that hardening 10 percent of the nation's roads every year could prevent emissions equal to 440 megatons of carbon dioxide over the next 5 decades—that amount is equal to how much CO, you'd spare the planet by keeping a billion barrels of oil in the ground or by growing 7 billion trees for a decade. It reduces 0.5% of projected transportation emissions over that time period.

As for how to harden roads, Gregory says you could combine small amounts of certain fiber with high technology into paving materials. Or you could pave with specially-made concrete, which is harder than ordinary construction materials.

This system could also be a way to shave carbon emissions without some of the usual barriers. “Usually, when it comes to reducing emissions in the transportation department, you're talking about changing policies related to vehicles and also driver behavior, which involves millions and millions of people—as opposed to changing the way we design and preserve our pavements. That's just on the order of thousands of people who are working in transportation agencies.” And when it comes to improving our streets and highways-those agencies are where you might say the rubber meets the road.

12. How does the author develop Paragraph 3?

A. By giving examples. B. By making classification.

C. By listing figures D. By analyzing causes.

13. What does Gregory suggest for hardening roads?

A. Mixing fiber with special concrete. B. Changing regular paving materials.

C. Creating hi-tech computer models. D. Using ordinary building materials.

14. What is an advantage of the road-hardening system?

A. It reduces construction costs. B. It profits transportation agencies.

C. It regulates driver behavior. D. It avoids involving too many people.

15. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Walking Down Beaches or Sidewalks? B. Hardening Roads Helps Save Energy.

C. How to Cut Down Carbon Emissions D. A System of Hardening Roads.

第二节（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。

Passive readers read words, but active readers read ideas. A passive reader’s goal is to get finished.____16____Here are some tips to help you become more active readers.

● Start by identifying your purpose.

Before you start, think about why you're reading in the first place.____17____Keeping up on industry news? Learning about a software update? Recognizing your intention helps you to stay on track.

●____18____

While you read, think about the material and ask yourself questions. For example, how does this relate to the author’s standpoint? Is the author’s reasoning effective?

Note down your thoughts about each chapter you’ve finished. Imagine a stranger who’s never read the book will be borrowing your notes. How would you communicate the most important points?

● Make mental links.

____19____You need time to make mental links to consider how each concept or idea relates to your current mental library. These links make it easier to recall what you’ve read.

For example, if you’re reading a book about creative problem-solving, you’d better compare the methods with ideas gained from another author. This process of linking and analyzing helps to understand the new information.

● Reflect and make a summary.

Once you finish a book, give yourself time to reflect. You can even write a three-sentence summary of what you’ve learned and come back to it later.____20____

Robert Greene, author of The 3 Secrets That Help Me Write and Think, said, “After I’ve done reading I will often put it aside for up to a week and think deeply about the lessons and key stories that could be used for my book project. I then go back and put these important sections on notecards.”

A. Explore the material.

B. Read at the right level.

C. Are you preparing for a meeting?

D. Are you enjoying your English class?

E Here's where speed reading is bad for you.

F. An active reader’s goal is to learn something.

G. This forces you to think back to the most important points.

第三部分 语言运用（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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。

I could never imagine myself being in any other profession than teaching.

As a child, I often ____21____ I was teaching a classroom with my toy animals. However, it wasn't a ____22____ when I received a phone call about teaching a summer tennis camp to 3- to 5-year-old campers.

The first day of tennis camp arrived. I started the ____23____ by introducing myself and teaching the kids how to hold their tennis rackets(球拍)．Boom! They all ____24____ it right away. The next minute they were all doing it the wrong way. “Is this what it's like to be a____25____?”I thought. Instead of getting ____26____ or giving up, I found myself feeling encouraged to be patient and ____27____ my students until they understood certain concepts about the game.

The rest of the week reassured(使安心)me of my ____28____ to teach students the game of tennis and this ____29____ led me to an “aha” moment. I realized how much I____30____ working with younger children. And this is exactly what encouraged me to ____31____ teaching.

I'm in my fourth year of teaching kindergarten, and I'm often asked about my ____32____ to be teacher. People would make negative remarks about my____33____ . “You know you're not going to make any money, right?” was something I heard often. To me, teaching isn't about the money. It is about making a(n)____34____ to the lives of children. I knew I would encounter many challenges, but I also knew the positive would always____35____ the challenges I might face.

21. A. wondered B. dreamt C. pretended D. agreed

22. A. game B. chance C. promise D. plan

23. A. class B. show C. interview D. project

24. A. expected B. found C. forgot D. got

25. A. player B. teacher C. student D. monitor

26. A. sick B. sleepy C. upset D. afraid

27. A. respect B. remind C. protect D. accept

28. A. struggle B. turn C. abilities D. rights

29. A. service B. education C. experience D. example

30. A. tried B. regretted C. missed D. enjoyed

31. A. pursue B. practise C. postpone D. promote

32. A. guidance B. inspiration C. assistance D. position

33. A. preparation B. suggestion C. knowledge D. decision

34. A. impression B. influence C. difference D. profit

35. A. help B. outweigh C. enhance D. favour

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，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 ox has a significant place in Chinese culture. Centuries ago, most people earned their living through farming and the ox was used ____36____(help) farm and carry heavy goods. Ancient Chinese poets and writers ____37____(frequent) described the ox in literature. In the Classic of Poetry, the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, the animal ____38____(mention) several times.

The ox is considered a symbol of diligence and ____39____ (sincere). To this day, the phrase “the spirit of ox” still refers____40____ conquering anything that may present itself as an obstacle. The spirit is highly praised and many people follow it as their work ethic(准则). When ____41____ comes to someone who gains a great achievement through hard work, people often use “niu”, ____42____(mean) “awesome”, to describe him or her.

Oxen seldom bully the weak or fear ____43____ strong. They work hard and make sacrifices. This is reflected in a poem by Lu Xun: “Headbowed, like a willing ox, I serve the children.” The poem ____44____ (imply) that Lu Xun would serve the people heart and soul and would never give in to enemies, _____45_____ fully expresses the poet’s loyalty to the people.

第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 应用文写作（满分15分）

46. 假定你是李华，最近你与好友Jack就学习方面产生了分歧和争执，很苦恼，于是写信给Teenager Column求助。

1、分歧产生的原因；

2、想要获得什么帮助。

注意：1、写作词数应为80左右；2、请按如下格式作答。

Dear Teenager Column,

I’m Li Hua.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节 读后续写（满分25分）

47. 读后续写

The story between Mr. Jordan and me was the most amazing story I wanted to share. Mr. Jordan was one of the teachers who I would never forget.

When I was young at school, I loved talking, a characteristic not always appreciated by Mr. Jordan, my 10-grade English teacher.

Mr. Jordan was a teacher whom no one liked because he was too strict. He stood about 5-foot-five, was very thin and wore his hair pulled back in a way that gave him a horsy look. He wore those half-circular reading glasses. Whenever he got upset, he would lower his head and look at you over the top of his glasses.

One day in his class I was busy talking. I didn’t realize he had stopped teaching and staring straight at me. “Sam, I would like to see you after school.”

Later Mr. Jordan explained in a low, but very firm voice that showed he expected me to listen when he was talking. For punishment he told me to write a thousand-word essay on education and its effect on the society. He wanted it in by the following Wednesday.

Well I met my deadline. I was confident. It was a good paper. And I expected a sign of approval from him. The next day in class, however, he was looking at me over his glasses. He called me forward and returned my paper. “Go back and rewrite，” he said. “Remember, each paragraph is supported to begin with a topic sentence.” When he gave my paper back a second time, he corrected the grammar. The third time, the spelling. The fourth time, it was punctuation. The fifth, it wasn’t neat enough. I was sick!

The sixth time, I rewrote the whole paper slowly in ink, leaving generous space. When he saw it, he removed his glasses and smiled. He firmly accepted the paper. After that, I put the whole thing out of my mind.

注意：续写词数应为150左右。

Paragraph 1:

One day after two weeks, Mr. Jordan came into the class and said，

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Paragraph 2:

I was amazed, thrilled and grateful.

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