2024绵阳南山中学高二上学期开学考试英语含答案（含听力）

2023年8月

绵阳南山中学2022级高二上入学考试题

英语

命题人：谢曦 邓芳芳      审题人：谢曦

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纸上

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，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。

例:  How much is the shirt?

A. £19.15.        B. £9.18.       C. £9.15.

答案是C

1.  What will the woman do?

A. Get the man’s salad.  B. Check the order again.  C. Find a table for the man.

2.  Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In an office.   B. In a restaurant.    C. In a clothing store.

3.  When did the man get his niece’s call?

A. At 5:30.    B. At 6:00.     C. At 6:20.

4.  What are the speakers probably doing?

A. Seeing a film.   B. Enjoying the scenery.  C. Commenting on a book.

5.  What does the man mean?

A. He missed the TV program.

B. He’d watched the program before.

C. He didn’t think the program funny.

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、7题。

6.  What does Robert think of electric cars?

A. They’re highly economical.

B. They’re environmentally friendly.

C. They’re quite expensive.

7.  What attracts Robert most about the latest Tesla?

A. The speed.     B. The price.     C. The design.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8.  What kind of book does the man want?

A. A biography.    B. An adventure story.   C. A fantasy book.

9.  Why does the woman buy books today?

A. To complete her paper.  

B. To prepare a birthday gift. 

C. To kill time at the weekend.

10.  Which series of books will the woman take?

A. Harry Potter.    B. The Lord of the Rings. C. The Hunger Games.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11.  What does the woman care most about the summer day camp?

A. Its history.     B. Its reputation.    C. Its location.

12.  What can campers benefit from taking part in the camp?

A. Improving their grades.  

B. Learning types of skills.  

C. Developing special interests.

13.  What is the relationship between the speakers?

A. Neighbors.    B. Teacher and parent.   C. Husband and wife.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14.  How did the man meet the tiger?

A. They met at the zoo.   

B. A friend introduced it to him. 

C. He was asked to take care of it.

15.  What is the feature of the tiger?

A. It weighs 180 kilograms.  B. It stands 2 meters tall.  C. It is 4 meters long.

16.  How much meat does the tiger eat every day?

A. About 6 kilograms.   B. About 12 kilograms.     C.About 18 kilograms.

17.  What is the woman?

A. A hostess.     B. A journalist.    C. A zookeeper.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18.  Who is the speech targeted for?

A. American private doctors. B. American college students. C. Overseas students.

19.  What is the standard form of medical care in America?

A. Public clinics.    B. Private clinics.    C. Private doctors.

20.  What are the listeners advised to do?

A. Travel with their family.

B. Take their personal health records.

C. Have a yearly medical examination.

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

If you’re planning on hitting up a festival this summer, make sure you check out the latest packing guide to camping music festivals.

Quebec City Summer Festival

When: July 4-14

Where: Toronto, Quebec

300 shows, 10 places and 11 days of music make this festival one of Canada’s biggest music festivals. Every year, this festival attracts over one million festivalgoers to Quebec City’s historic district for concerts by international superstars and top new talent.

Center of Gravity

When: July 28-30

Where: Kelowna, British Columbia

Canada’s hottest beach festival is back! Now in its 10th year, the biggest and exciting festival to hit the Okanagan includes three days packed with extreme sports, sandy beaches, and some of the biggest DJ names in the world.

Future Forest

When: August 5-7

Where: Fredericton, New Brunswick

Future Forest is an outdoor camping festival with a focus on electronic music. The festival originated in 2012 as a fundraiser for a brilliant DJ, Jay Hamilton, who was diagnosed with cancer. Future Forest proudly shows the idea that there are no audience at the event but rather participants who in some way contribute to the overall experience.

Shambhala Music Festival

When: August 9-10

Where: Salmo River Ranch, British Columbia

This is Canada’s earliest electronic music festival. Cutting edge talent, lights and sound come together to give life to this event. Seeing it for yourself is the only way to understand exactly what is Shambhala.

21. What can people do in the Quebec City Summer Festival?

A. Do some extreme sports.

B. Play on the sandy beaches.

C. Learn about Quebec City’s history.

D. Enjoy the performances of superstars.

22. What was Future Forest set up for at first?

A. To honor a brilliant DJ.

B. To promote electronic music.

C. To raise money for a cancer patient.

D. To provide outdoor camping activities.

23. Which festival is Canada’s earliest electronic music festival?

A. Quebec City Summer Festival.

B. Center of Gravity.

C. Future Forest.

D. Shambhala Music Festival.

B

It was not turning out to be the great fishing trip we had imagined. It certainly was not the one Father had promised. All day the rain beat against the roof of our cabin.

Father sat at the window, looking out over the lake. My older brother Jeremy, who had recently turned sixteen years old, lay on the bed, looking up at the ceiling. I paced the room, occasionally glancing toward Father to see if there was any sign that the rain would let up.

“I wish we’d never come out to this boring place,” Jeremy said.

I stopped pacing and looked at Father. He gave no sign that he had heard, and I hoped he hadn’t. This trip meant a lot to him. He used to come out here with own father.

I started pacing again.

“I mean, if we’d stayed home, at least I could watch TV, go out with my friends or play my guitar,” Jeremy continued.

Silence continued for some time. I kept pacing, imagining the trip I had dreamed of before the bad weather had set in. I saw us in the boat, anchor dropped in a calm bay casting our lines toward shore, the way Father had described it when he was trying to convince Jeremy to come along.

Father stood up and turned to face us. He smiled at me. “Come on, get up, Jeremy,” he said. “Let’s go fishing, boys.” He picked up his fishing rod and the tool box, opened the door, and walked out into the rain.

Jeremy and I watched Father walk down the pathway toward the dock (码头)，the wind whipping (打) at his hair,the rain wetting his clothes. Jeremy shook his head. “He's crazy if he thinks I’m going with him,” he said. “Maybe I would have when I was a little kid, but not now,” he said.

I waited for a while, unsure of what to do, looking out the open door at Father, who was walking onto the dock, facing against the storm. Jeremy couldn’t believe I picked up my rod and walked out into the storm after Father. I couldn’t quite hear what Jeremy said because of the wind in my ears, but I heard his footsteps behind me as he began to follow me out to the boat.

24. What does the underlined phrase “let up” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Stop. B. Continue. C. Hit. D. Arrive.

25. Why was the fishing trip important for the author’s father?

A. He had never fished in the rain.

B. It’s his son Jeremy’s first fishing trip.

C. He and his own father usually went fishing there.

D. He wanted to have a better relationship with his sons.

26. What can we know about Jeremy?

A. He doesn’t enjoy fishing.

B. He dislikes outdoor activities.

C. He is addicted to playing the guitar.

D. He showed no interest in the fishing trip.

27. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To express the fondness for a particular day.

B. To describe a fishing experience in the rain.

C. To reflect on the old family tradition of fishing.

D. To recall the generation gap between father and brother.

C

According to the statistics shared by UNESCO, at least 43% of the total languages being spoken across the world are in danger of extinction. Moreover, many languages around the world have less than 1,000 speakers now. Linguists (语言学家) and researchers believe that by the end of the century, at least half of the world’ s languages will have died.

Language activists and people who speak these endangered languages spare no effect to fight back. Scientists believe that digitalization might be our only hope to preserve some of these quickly disappearing languages in the online world.

For example, Oxford University Press launched Oxford Global Languages a few years ago, advocating “digitally underrepresented” languages. They are focused on promoting languages that might have close to a million speakers worldwide, but have little or no online presence. Therefore, they have been creating digital dictionaries as a fundamental building block to help preserve them.

There have been countless other projects like this with the same aim. Another is the Rosetta Project,which aims to create a handheld digital library that will carry more than 1,500 languages. It will be appropriately sized to fit nicely into our hands, and will come with around 13,000 pages of information. Projects like these have as their main goals to ensure the preservation of local languages long after their speakers have died.

Countless languages will continue to perish as the remaining speakers die. Of course we cannot only rely on digitization to deal with worldwide languages loss. However, it is a step in the right direction. These digital tools offer endangered languages many opportunities to bounce back and survive.

28. What does the data in paragraph 1 mainly show?

A. Many languages are endangered.

B. Culture determines language development.

C. Human activity has an influence on languages.

D. Many linguists attempt to protect threatened languages.

29. What does Oxford Global Languages try to do?

A. Promote online courses of local languages.

B. Publish paper dictionaries of global languages.

C. Increase dying language speakers to a million.

D. Make certain languages available in digital form.

30. What can we learn about the digital library to be created by the Rosetta Project?

A. It is portable but very expensive.

B. It is sponsored by Oxford University Press.

C. It provides protection for linguistic diversity.

D. It contains automatically updated information.

31. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “perish” in the last paragraph?

A. Be enriched.  B. Be lost.  C. Be acquired.  D. Be invented.

D

They say procrastination (拖延) is the thief of time — actually deadlines are. New research has found that if you want someone to help you out with something, it is best not to set a deadline at all. But if you do set a deadline, make it short.

Professor Stephen Knowles tested the effect of deadline length on task completion for their research.Participants were invited to complete an online survey concerning a charity donation. They were given either one week, one month, or no deadline to respond. Professor Knowles says although the topic of the survey is about charity, the results are true of any situation where someone asks another person for help.

The study found responses to the survey were lowest for the one-month deadline and highest when no deadline was specified. No deadline and the one-week deadline led to many early responses, while a long deadline appeared to give people permission to procrastinate, and then forget. Professor Knowles wasn’t surprised to find that specifying a shorter deadline increased the chances of receiving a response compared to a longer deadline. However, he did find it interesting that they received the most responses when no deadline was specified.

“We interpret this as evidence that specifying a longer deadline, as opposed to a short deadline or no deadline at all, removes the urgency to act,” he says. “People therefore put off undertaking the task, and since they are inattentive or forget, postponing it results in lower response rates.”

He says of the research that it is possible that not specifying a deadline might still have led participants to assume that there is an unspoken deadline. Professor Knowles hopes his research can help reduce the amount of procrastinating people do. “Many people procrastinate. They have the best intentions of helping someone out, but just do not get around to doing it.”

32. Why did Professor Knowles do the research?

A. To study the role a deadline plays in procrastination.

B. To find out whether people are interested in charity.

C. To attract public attention to the effects of procrastination.

D. To test the effect of procrastination on task completion.

33. What most likely leads to procrastination?

A. No deadlines.  B. Short deadlines.  C. Specific deadlines.   D. Long deadlines.

34. What’ s the attitude of Professor Knowles to the findings of the study?

A. Interested.     B. Conservative.    C. Confused.          D. Unsurprised.

35. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A. Procrastination — the Thief of Time 

B. Procrastination — the Urgent Problem to Solve

C. Deadline — the Key to Reducing Procrastination 

D. Deadline — a Result of Procrastination

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.

Group discussions are a way of expressing your thoughts and opinions with other people. It is an opportunity to learn more about other people and develop your own personality. You become better at group discussions because it will help you throughout your whole life. 36___________, then this blog is the right place for you. Here, we will share some things you can do to stand out at group discussions.

Learn about the subject

37____________. You cannot just walk into a group discussion without having any idea what it is about.

So, make sure that you do your research before stepping into the discussion.

Be confident when you speak

The best way to make your discussion go well is by being confident. When someone else is speaking, make sure that you consider their opinion and not simply wait for your turn to speak. 38____________, people are more interested in listening to you, and they'll respect you more as a person.

39_____________

One of the most important aspects of group discussions is to be a good listener. Active listening is one of the most important skills in life, which is why you need to practice using it.

Use group discussion to express yourself

Group discussions are a way of expressing yourself. It is not just about talking; it is more about putting your thoughts in front of other people. 40___________ but people prefer to hear your opinions in order to open their minds.

A. Be an active listener

B. Choose your words wisely

C. When there is a conflict in opinion

D. When you are confident while speaking

E. Speaking your heart out can be hard at times

F. If you are also struggling with such kinds of discussions

G. It is very important that you first collect information about the topic

第三部分  语言知识运用（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, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题上将该项涂黑。

The intelligence of dolphins is widely accepted. However, this story about a particularly 41 dolphin called Kelly at an ocean park in Mississippi is incredible.

The dolphins there are trained to keep their pools 42 . They collect litter that falls into the water and give it to the trainer and receive a fish as a reward for every piece of 43.

But when people dropped paper into the water, Kelly would hide the paper under a rock at the bottom of the pool, tear off a small piece and bring it to the trainer to 44 it for a fish. Then she would go back down, bring another piece of paper and get another fish. She 45 that a big piece of paper gets the same 46 as a small piece. So she 47 only small pieces to keep the extra food coming. 48 , Kelly took this task one step further.

She did not 49 there . One day a seagull flew into her pool. She 50 it and gave it to the trainers and got lots of fish. This gave Kelly a new 51 . The next time she was fed, 52 eating the last fish, she took it to the bottom of the pool and hid it under the rock. When no trainers were 53, she brought the fish to the surface and used it to attract 54, which she would catch to get even more fish.

From the 55 above, it seems that dolphins do deserve their reputation for being highly intelligent.

41. A. curious   B. friendly   C. clever   D. energetic

42. A. clean    B. safe    C. warm    D. empty

43. A. rock    B. garbage   C. food    D. equipment

44. A. change    B. expect   C. trade    D. prepare

45. A. realized   B. imagined   C. wondered   D. questioned

46. A. attention   B. reward   C. joy    D. position

47. A. selected   B. threw    C. delivered   D. packed

48. A. Regretfully   B. Fortunately  C. Confidently  D. Amazingly

49. A. exist    B. gather   C. interact   D. stop

50. A. caught    B. ate    C. attacked   D. hurt

51. A. response  B. experience  C. idea   D. power

52. A. apart from  B. instead of  C. due to   D. in spite of

53. A. absent   B. free   C. busy   D. present

54. A. people   B. seagulls  C. garbage  D. dolphins

55. A. belief   B. debate   C. progress  D. story

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。

“Look on the bright side” is one of those    56   (suggest) that people always consider inspiring but less helpful. However, new research shows that finding something    57    interest in a terrible situation makes people quickly stop complaining. Besides looking at a challenge with humor is a good method,    58    may even be helpful in preventing depressed people     59     feeling sad.

In a study    60   (publish) earlier this year, researchers gave the participants some photos that show negative situations. Then they would describe these photos according to     61     request of researchers. Those using humorous words to describe the photos    62   (find) to have fewer negative emotions and more possibilities to go through a hard time in their life than those who described the photos    63   (direct).

The conclusion from the study is that for those at higher risk of depression, humor can develop an ability     64    (control) negative emotions. What’s more, humor has an extra benefit of     65    (make) others around you smile. Therefore, when you feel stressed, find something that can make you laugh first.

第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节 (满分15分)

假定你是李华，你的外国朋友Jim听说你校暑假开展了阅读英语原著的活动，他对此很感兴趣，来信想要了解更多，请回信告知，内容包括：

1. 阅读的书名及内容简介。
2. 你的阅读感受。

注意：

1.词数80左右。

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

第二节（满分25分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整短文。

If you had to choose one word to describe Kevin, it might have been “slow”. He didn’t learn his ABCs as fast as other kids. He never came in first in the schoolyard races. However, his smile was brighter than the sun in June; his heart was bigger than the mountain sky. Kevin’s enthusiasm for life was quite infectious.

When Kevin joined the boys’ school basketball team, basketball became the center of his life. At practice, he worked so hard that you’d think he was preparing for the NBA．He liked to stand in a certain place near the free-throw line and shoot at the basket. Patiently, he stood there throwing ball after ball after ball. “Look at me, Coach!” he’d shout at Randy, jumping up and down with the excitement of shooting.

Kevin and his whole team truly loved basketball. But just loving the game didn’t help them win. More balls fell out of the basket than into it, and the boys lost every game that season, except one—the night when it snowed and the other team couldn’t make it to the game.

It was a cold snowing afternoon when their last game came. As the last-place team, they played against the first-place team. The game went pretty much the same as expected, and near the middle of the fourth quarter Kevin’s team stood nearly 30 points behind.

At that point, one of Kevin’s teammates called time-out. As he came to the side, Randy couldn’t imagine why the time-out had been called. “Coach,” said the boy. “This is our last game and I know that Kevin has played in every game, but he’s never made a basket. I think we should let Kevin make a basket.” With the game completely out of reach, the idea seemed reasonable, so the plan was made. When they had the ball again, they passed it to Kevin who was standing in his special place near the free-throw line.

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。

His first shot bounced around but missed._____________________________________________

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Finally, the ball took one bounce and went in unexpectedly.___________________________

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