2022-2023学年江西省九江市第一中学高一下学期期中考试英语试题含答案

2022-2023学年高一下学期期中考试

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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. How much does each ticket cost?

A.10 yuan.                   B.20 yuan.

C. 30 yuan.

2. Who will get the stamp?

A. The man's sister.            B.The woman's cousin

C. The woman's sister.

3. What was the woman doing when the man called her?

A. Watching TV.              B. Taking a shower.

C. Drying her hair.

4. Whom did the woman see yesterday?

A.Jack's uncle.                B. Jack's father.

C.Jack's brother.

5. How will the man go to London?

A. By boat.                   B. By plane.      

C. By car.

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。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. Who is probably the woman?

A.A waitress.                B. The man's friend.

C. The man's wife.

7. What doesn't the man order?

A.A ham sandwich.           B.A cup of tea.

C.A bowl of tomato soup.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What is Peter going to do this year?

A.Give up smoking.          B. Find a good job.

C.Join a photograph club.

9. Where may Judy go to visit her friends?

A. To Tibet.                 B. To Chongqing.

C.To Kunming. 

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What will the weather be like tomorrow?

A.Cloudy.                  B. Windy.

C.Sunny.

11. Where does the girl suggest going?

A.To Forest Park.            B. To the museum.  

C.To the zoo.

12. How will they get there?

A.On foot.                  B. By bus.

C.By bike.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What can we learn about Kate?

A. She hardly watches TV.        B. She is in Japan now.

C.She prefers English programs.

14. Which can Kate understand well?

A.A Japanese drama.            B.A Japanese talk show.

C.A Japanese film.

15. What does the man think of watching TV?

A. It is relaxing.               B. It is bad.

C. It is helpful.

16. What are they mainly talking about?

A.Kate's hobby.               B. Life in Japan.

C. Watching television.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When was Jacob born?

A.In 1849.                    B.In 1861  

C.In 1870.

18.For whom was Jacob’s life work?

A. Children.                  B. Poor people.

C. Old people.

19. What were the poor houses changed into?

A.A park.                   B.A tall building.

C.A farm.

20. What did Jacob do in 1889?

A. He learned some laws.      B. He set up a center.

C.He published his book.

第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2.5分，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，从每題所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

The New York Times Best Fiction Books of the Year are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon, com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book. Click the buy from Amazon, com link to be taken to the Amazon, com website where you can purchase the book from the online bookseller. (The former price is for a paperback version while the latter price is for a hardback version.)

The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

★★★★★ 4310 reviews (816p)

The 2020 NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this National Book Award-longlisted, magisterial epic — an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the force of Homegoing.

Price: US$13.99 US$18.40

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

★★★★★ 2587 reviews (192p)

When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction.

Price: US$15.99 US$54.37

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

★★★★ 3037 reviews (224p)

Fragmentary and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.

Price: US$11.94 US$12.68

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

★★★★ 1244 reviews (256p)

Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped — and unexpected new ones are forged — in moments of crisis.

Price: US$12.56 US$19.74

21. Which book gains the most popularity?

A. The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois     

B. When We Cease to Understand the World

C. No One Is Talking About This 

D. Leave the World Behind

22. If we want to buy a paperback version of When We Cease to Understand the World and a hardback version of No One Is Talking About This, how much should we pay?

A. US$28.79 B. US$32 C. US$28.67   D. US$66.31

23. What’s the purpose of this text?

A. To persuade people to buy these books.

B. To present the popularity of these books.

C. To emphasize the importance of reading books.

D. To introduce readers’ reviews about these books.

B

Dad loved basketball and hoped that one day I would play the game. He taught me a lot, and I was pretty good until the accident. We were on the highway. Our little car spun off the road. Then everything was suddenly dark. The next thing I remembered was being told I wasn’t going to be walking again.

Mom and I learned to live with it Dad took it hard “Sometimes I think he blames himself,” Mom said.

One day Mr. Evans, an elder in our neighborhood, asked me if I wanted to join a wheelchair basketball team he was starting. When I told Mom, she was all for it, but Dad just looked at me and mumbled (嘟哝) something. I didn’t know what to make of Dad’s reaction, but I knew I wanted to play.

I began my first practice on a Friday afternoon. What surprised me most was that I found Dad sitting in the stands and watching us go through our drills. We finished our regular practice, and Mr. Evans motioned for my father to come down to the court.

“Jim, I happen to know that you played pro ball,” Mr. Evans said. “I think you can show the kids some fundamentals.” Dad agreed he would like to give it a try.

We practiced the whole summer. Dad came every day. “I thought you were terrible at first,” he said one afternoon. “But I think you can play with Madison (a very good teen wheelchair basketball team) now.”

Dad only comes to practice once in a while now, but he comes to the games when they’re on the weekend. I didn’t want to push him though I liked him coming to practice, but I know he believes I can do well without him now.

24. How did the boy lose the ability to walk?

A. He got injured in a basketball game.

B. He had a violent quarrel with his dad.

C. He was hurt by a wheelchair of the neighbour.

D. He experienced a serious accident on the highway.

25. What did Mr. Evans ask Jim to do?

A. Lift his son’s spirits. 

B. Help the team get better.

C. Pick up his old hobbies. 

D. Act as a judge for the team.

26. What can be used to best describe the boy?

A. Talented and positive. B. Responsible and brave.

C. Independent and selfless. D. Courageous and polite.

27. What is the best title for this text?

A. Experience Is Better Gained Through Practice

B. Parents Learn A Lot From Educating Their Children

C. Children Cannot Succeed Without the Support of Their Family

D. Difficulties in Life Cannot Block the Path to Achieving Dreams

C

The climate change may lead humans to shrink in size. Steve Brusatte, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh, believed that the way that other mammals have previously responded to periods of climate change could offer an insight into humans’ future. He compared the possible difficult situation of people to that of early horses. Those horses became smaller in body size as temperatures rose around 55 million years ago.

In his book, Brusatte mentions that animals in warmer parts of the world today are often smaller than those in colder areas. “Becoming smaller was a common way that mammals deal with climate change.” Brusatte told The Guardian, “That’s not to say every species of mammal would get smaller, but it seems to be a common survival trick of mammals when temperatures rise very quickly.”

In a recent study, researchers studying human remains over the past million years have also suggested that temperature is a main predictor of body size change, while scientists studying red deer have said that warmer winters in northern Europe and Scandinavia may lead to the body size of these animals becoming smaller.

However, not all experts agree that rising temperature causes mammals to shrink. Adrian Lister, an expert from the Natural History Museum in London, said, “The relationship shown by the recent human remains study is weak. I prefer to believe that the strong connections between temperature and mammal body size may often depend on the availability of food and resources.”

Lister has also expressed doubts about the idea that humans will shrink as the climate heats. “We are not really controlled by natural selection,” he said. “We wear clothes. We have got heating. We have got air conditioning if it is too hot.”

28. What is Steve Brusatte’s belief expressed in his book?

A. Humans are responsible for climate change.

B. Humans and horses share similar qualities.

C. Animals are wiser than humans when responding to climate change.

D. Mammals may become smaller when experiencing warmer climate.

29. Which of the following might Steve agree with?

A. Smaller-sized animals in warmer winters in northern Europe.

B. Smaller-sized animals in periods when it is hard to get food.

C. Bigger-sized animals in colder winters in areas of Scandinavia.

D. Bigger-sized animals in periods when it is hard to find shelter.

30. What can we infer from Adrian Lister’s words?

A. Natural selection doesn’t have an effect on human beings.

B. Use of air conditioning contributes to humans becoming smaller.

C. Humans take measures to reduce the control of hot temperature.

D. Study about recent human remains differs from that in the distant past.

31. In which part of a newspaper can you probably find the text?

A. History. B. Science. C. Education.   D. Lifestyles.

D

For years, the Colorado State Fair has held its fine art competition under little media coverage. But when its judges picked an artificial intelligence-generated work “Théȃtre D’opéra Spatial” as a winner in August, 2022, this event immediately received different comments.

“Théȃtre D’opéra Spatial” is an example of AI-generated content (AIGC), created with a text-to-art generator program. Several other AI-driven art-generating programs have also appeared in 2022, and the variety reflects a wide range of artistic styles. Stable Diffusion, for instance, is focused on western-style artwork, while Baidu’s ERNIE-ViLG produces images influenced by Chinese art. Meanwhile, AIGC can also include articles, videos, and various other media offerings such as voice synthesis, which can be applied in voice navigation for digital maps.

As AIGC becomes increasingly common, it could make content creation more efficient by getting rid of repetitive tasks for creators. For instance, filmmakers have long had to pay money for countless hours of video editing. AIGC may soon make that unnecessary.

Besides increasing efficiency, AIGC could also increase business growth in content creation and demand for personalized digital content. Insight SLICE forecasts that the global digital creation market will on average grow 12% annually between 2020 and 2030. AI has the potential to meet this massive demand at a tenth of the cost.

AIGC can also serve as an educational tool by helping children develop their creativity. StoryDrawer, for instance, is an AI-driven program designed to improve children’s creative thinking. When a child describes an imaginary picture to the system, it then generates an image while providing prompts to inspire the child to expand on the image.

As with every new technology, it’s anybody’s guess how AIGC will develop. But just as past technologies have helped expand art, AIGC is set to put the power of creativity into the hands of more people.

32. Why does the author mention the Colorado State Fair?

A. To advertise the art competition event. 

B. To introduce the artificial intelligence painting.

C. To help present the concept of AIGC. 

D. To criticize the unfair result of this year’s contest.

33. Which is an advantage of AIGC?

A. Doing all the work of traditional filmmakers. 

B. Enriching the variety of art styles.

C. Increasing the demand for digital content. 

D. Helping develop children’s creativity.

34. What does the underlined word “prompts” mean in paragraph 5?

A. clues B. methods C. images D. platforms

35. What is the author’s attitude toward the future of AIGC?

A. Hopeful. B. Worried. C. Critical. D. Cautious.

第二节（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10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。

Don’t Get Lost in the Term of Eco-tourism

Given that tourism produces harmful emissions, the term “green travel” can seem contradictory. Green travel will not solve the climate crisis, but knowing what to look for can allow you to make choices that do less harm and more good if you do choose to travel. ____36____

Don’t get hung up on the terms.

The key to better understanding and identifying sustainable travel options is recognizing that it’s actually actions—not words—that matter. Definitions can vary from person to person. ____37____

Ask questions.

Before you book a tour or hotel, prepare questions. For example: Do they support the local economy? Are they ensuring the preservation of the natural environment? ____38____ However, if you can’t find answers on the website, contact the property or tour operator directly.

____39____

You don’t have to plan a responsible travel and the ever-changing term alone. Contact organizations that provide training, accreditation and transparent standards. You can also join responsible travel communities on social media, where you can ask questions, share resources and learn alongside other travelers who share your values.

Start now.

You can’t do everything at once right away. Decide what you can do. Maybe it’s contributing to a conservation or community project. ____40____ Anyway, when you know better, do better.

A. Lean on and learn from others.

B. Find an operator who shares your personal values.

C. But it’s the truth behind the term that really matters.

D. Ask what the local government can provide you with.

E. Search for the answers such as data and policies on a company’s website.

F. Here are some expert tips on how to understand the vocabulary of green travel.

G. Maybe it’s immersing yourself in one destination rather than rushing around to see three.

第三部分 英语知识应用（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）

For long, a question disturbed a little boy. He couldn’t understand why his next-desk-pal (同伴) could rank 1st whenever he wanted to, while he himself ___41___ to.

At home, he asked his Mom, “Mom, am I more ___42___ than others? I feel I study as hard as him, but why do I ___43___ lay behind?” Staring at him, she went ___44___, not knowing how to explain.

She felt an impulse (冲动) to say, “You are too ___45___. You are not really as hard-working as others...” but she stopped ___46___ she knew her son was suffering from the pains of ___47___ grades and rankings. She thought it cruel to add any additional burden to his son and was trying to find out a ___48___ answer.

Time went by quickly, the son finished primary school. Despite studying harder and better, he was still unable to ___49___ his pal. To show her pride of him, Mom decided to take him to the sea. During the trip, she managed to give out an answer.

Now, the son no longer ____50____ his rankings, because, with the 1st ranking, he was ____51____ to Harvard University.

Back home in winter vacation, he was invited to give a speech to the students and parents in his high school. In the speech, he mentioned a(n) ____52____ experience in his childhood. “When my mother and I were lying on the beach, she pointed to the front and said, ‘Do you see the seabirds flying for food over there? When the ____53____ come near, little birds can escape quickly ____54____ “clumsy” seagulls would take more time to complete the process (过程). However, have you noticed birds that ____55____ fly across the endless ocean are none other than “clumsy” (笨拙的) seagulls?’”

41. A. Refused   B.decided   C.failed   D.afforded
42. A.troublesome  B. stupid   C.naughty   D.careless
43. A.always   B.never   C.hardly   D.even
44. A.wrong   B.worried   C.crazy   D.wordless
45. A.young   B.lazy    C.clever   D.energetic
46. A.although   B.before   C.because   D. unless
47. A. Worrying  B.surprising  C. doubting  D.unsatisfying
48. A. Natural   B. harmonious  C.perfect   D.ordinary
49. A. get through  B. come across C.compare with D.keep up with
50. A.cares about  B.doubts about C.wonders about D. worries about
51. A.invited   B. admitted  C.welcomed  D. dismissed
52. A.private   B. valuable  C.interesting  D. unexpected
53. A. Wave   B. food   C. wind   D. time
54. A. And    B. since   C. until   D.while
55. A. Suddenly  B. immediately C.finally   D.gradually

第二节 语法填空 (共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面一段对话材料，在空白处填入括号内单词的正确形式。

China, which takes pride in four inventions in ancient times, has once again shown its ability _56_ (change) the world with its new four great inventions : high-speed railways, electronic payment, shared bicycles and online shopping.

Recently, the “new four great inventions” _57_ (improve) the quality of people’s lives. Thanks to online shopping and mobile payment, people can buy what they want _58_(simple) with a tap on the phone indoors. High-speed trains have shortened _59_ journey from Beijing to the coastal city Tianjin to half an hour. As for the bikes, they themselves are not new. It is the operating model of bike-sharing _60_ (base) on the satellite navigation (导航) system, mobile payment as well as big data _61_ has surprised the world. Shared bicycles are bringing cycling back _62_ people’s lives and they are making public transport more _63_ (attract).

It is increasingly clear that China is no longer _64_ (copy) western ideas and is leading in many new ways. A growing number of foreign _65_ (company) hope to promote the development in their home country by highlighting the need for technological achievements like that of China.

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）

66.假定你是李华, 今年刚上高一, 在班主任老师的帮助下你认识到手机的危害, 不再在学校玩手机, 因而生活和学习大有改变。请你给外国朋友Chris写封信, 向他介绍你的变化。要点如下：

1. 个人近况；

2. 手机的危害；

3. 不用手机后的变化。

注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；  2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。

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第二节  读后续写 (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。

Jack's world was falling down and breaking into pieces and waking up early and going to work was the last thing he desired to do. On Wednesday he came out of his small discouraging room and walked into the crowded and hot bus, and leaned against a seat, started closing his eyes and dreamed up.

All of a sudden, his dream was stopped by the hissing of the bus door. It was his stop and in a rush, he hurried out of the bus. He started coughing since exhaust hit him and he thought to himself not the finest start of the day···oh well, as usual.

Jack still had time, since his working day would only start in half an hour, so to gather his thoughts and to put himself in another annoying work day. Despite what it may seem his life was not that bad. He was a normal guy with some hobbies and friends, a good job, and a bright future. Yet incidentally this August was tough on him and it threw him1 off track.

While walking he met a couple. He could hear them talking in a foreign language and concluded that the language was Russian. He thought that they are probably tourists and are going to simply pass by, yet to his surprise in a broken English the woman asked him.

“Excuse me! Please, could you help?”

"Yes, sure, what can I do for you?”

“We tourist and we lost. Red Tree hotel. Where is it? You know?”

Although knowing where exactly the hotel was and although he wasn't in a hurry, because of being so involved in his own hardships and his bad mood he mechanically （机械地）lied saying “I have no idea. I＇m sorry···I' m in a hurry. ” and moved off. He walked about 100 feet and a wave of shame and guilt covered him. Then he imagined how horrifying and difficult it could be staying in a huge city as New York without being able to properly communicate.

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。

Paragraph 1:

He turned back and fortunately the couple was still there.

___________________________________________________________________Paragraph 2:

Yet seeing the confused look on the couple, he realized what he should do next.

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