2023-2024学年江苏省苏州市高二上学期11月英语摸底调研卷含答案

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一、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2.5分，共37.5分）
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1. What d we knw abut this year’s Museum Day?
A. Sme cultural institutins cntribute t it.B. Visitr scan get free tickets every Saturday.
C Mre museums will participate than befre.D. Smithsnian magazine hsts it t raise funds.
2. Yu can get a Museum Day ticket by ________
A. writing an emailB. signing up n the Internet
C. visiting the nearest museumD. dwnlading a Smithsnian magazine
3. Hw can Museum Day help participating museums?
A. Recver the financial lses.B. Remve the ptential f clsure
C. Increase the future attendanceD. Imprve the museum peratin.
B
Keeping a busy scial life amng lts f friends may keep peple thinner than spending hurs ding sme exercises, accrding t scientists. They say that scialising and meeting with friends help increase levels f brwn fat in the bdy which burns calries(卡路里)t prduce heat.
Living in an exciting scial envirnment was fund t reduce fat in mice's belly by half ver fur weeks, even if they ate mre. US researchers say that scial excitement aids weight lss by turning white fat int brwn. White fat stres calries and makes us fatter, while brwn burns energy t prduce heat. Turning white fat int brwn is extremely difficult，nrmally requiring lng- term stay in cld cnditins r exciting part f the bdy's nervus system.
Hwever, scientists frm Ohi State University nw think that having a busy scial life is an even mre effective way f changing white fat int brwn. The team came up with their thery by studying the effects f varius living envirnments n mice. Thse, wh lived alngside a greater number f mice, had mre space and tys t excite themselves and then lst far mre weight ver the curse f the study than their “cuch ptat" fellws.
Study authr, Dr Matthew During, whse team's findings appear in the jurnal Cell Metablism, said, "I'm still amazed at the degree f fat lss that ccurs." Explaining hw new technlgy had threatened face-t-face scialising, he added, "It's nt just a sedentary(久坐 的)lifestyle and high calrie fds, but an increasing lack f scial activities." C-authr Dr Lei Ca said，"Lneliness is a ptential factr fr cancer and death; it's equal t cigarette smking t a certain extent. Scial activities are very vital.，，
4. What infrmatin can we get frm the first tw paragraphs?
A. Brwn fat stres calries and makes us fatter.
B. It desn't take lng t turn white fat int brwn.
C. Scial excitement helps gain mre weight.
D. Brwn fat can burn energy t prduce heat.
5. Which f the fllwing statement des the text supprt?
A. Levels f brwn fat can be increased by scialising.
B. The mice lacking scial life lse mre weight.
C. The research findings haven't been published s far.
D. Dr Matthew During wasn't cnvinced f the result.
6. We can cnclude frm the text that _______.
A. the fat in mice's belly was reduced because f the relaxing envirnment
B. a sedentary lifestyle and high calries fds influence peple's scial life
C surfing the Internet may influence peple's face-t-face cmmunicatin
D. cancer and death are mainly caused fr lack f scial life
7. What’s the main idea f the text?
A. Brwn fat is beneficial t peple's health.
B. Scialising is unnecessarily imprtant in peple's daily life.
C. White fat can be changed int brwn fat.
D. Scialising cntributes t peple's lsing weight.
C
Glass bttles have lng cnveyed (传递) a high-quality image fr the wine they carry, but their carbn ftprint is sizable. Fssil fuels are used t prduce and recycle them. And when it cmes t transprt, they are als heavy and waste space.
“But Packamama an Australian packaging start up, has launched a range f flat wine-bttles, the first fr the cuntry, prmting them as an envirnment ally-friendly alternative t traditinal glass. The bttles are made frm 100 % recycled PET plastic. The slim, flat prfile (外形) is 83 % lighter, and allws twice as many bttles t fit int a standard case. “Australia is hme t the tw mst significant successful wine packaging innvatins f the last century. Bag-in-bx and screw cap (螺旋瓶盖), bth frm the mid-1960 s,” says Santiag Navarr, Packamama’s c-funder.
Three mnths after the first bttles hit the shelves, the data suggests flat-bttled wines are becming ppular with drinkers. Packamarna’s first prductin rder was fr 65,000 units, a figure that has risen t 90,000. The demand was s strng that they were sld ut after the first prductin. Questins remain, hwever, abut the flat-prfile bttle’s suit ability fr high-quality wines. The wine maker Nicle Esdaile, f Cent are Vineyard in Victria’s Yarra Valley, applauds the mve but says it is nt a wrkable ptin fr her business, given its fcus n classic, cllectible wines typically exprted t China. “Critically, they are nt suitable fr string wine, with the recmmended shelf life being n mre than tw years. The bttles are perfect fr quick ‘drink-nw’ style.”
The wine maker Tm Wallace wants t see hw flat-bttled wines perfrm ver the years ahead. “The pririty fr us is the quality f the wine ging in, s the packaging has t reflect that and allw thse wines t mature (酿成) in the best way pssible. We will wait and see hw the trials and research g befre we jump n bard.”
8. What advantage d the flat wine-bttles have ver glass bttles?
A. They can be recycled.B. They ffer zer carbn ftprint.
C. They save space in transprt.D. They indicate gd wine quality.
9. Why des Santiag Navarr mentin the tw innvatins f the last century?
A. T express his pride in his cuntry.B. T explain his interest in innvatins.
C. T shw his cnfidence in his prducts.D. T display his knwledge in packaging.
10. What is the weakness f the flat wine-bttles?
A. They have a shrt shelf life.B. They are hard t prduce in mass.
C. They fail t meet Chinese standards.D. They are prhibited frm being exprted.
11. What des the underlined phrase “jump n bard” mean in the last paragraph?
A. Ship bttled wines.B. Use the new packaging.
C. Quicken the prcess f maturing.D. Prduce flat wine-bttles.
D
Fr my secnd career, as a weather frecaster (预报员), I jerked n the Canadian Plains, which is the secnd-best place t chase (追逐) severe weather, after Trnad Alley. I was als studying fr a degree in Meterlgy s I culd interpret weather data and make my wn frecasts. I didn’t want t be lked at as smene silly wh didn’t knw what she was talking abut. Arund that time, a phtgrapher friend invited me t chase with him in the Alley fr a mnth. I said sure; I wanted t learn everything I culd.
During my secnd rund in 2013, I gt t see the largest trnad in recrded histry—n the very fat day f the chase seasn. We were waiting in this dark and dirty gas-statin parking lt in El Ren, Oklahma. Chasers d that a lt. We sit arund in grups waiting and eating junk fd. The frecast called it a high-risk day, and finally, a trnad rlled in arund 5: 30 p. m.
It started ut as a little clud and then turned int a 60,000-ft thunderstrm in maybe 20 minutes. We jumped in ur car and raced tward it. A few minutes later I was lking ut the windw, filming this massive wall f what seemed like rain. We thught the trnad was hidden inside. But then I saw it taking shape and felt it sucking in wind. That’s when I realized that wall was the trnad itself it was arund 2.6 miles acrss with winds nearly 300 miles per hur. It was explsive.
We hurried t be ut f there. Cars packed the rads. All we culd see were brake lights. We feared we’d be stuck. But in a few minutes, it was ver.
Three strm chasers died that day just up the rad frm where we’d been stuck. That had never happened befre, S yeah, I wndered why I wuld risk ging ut again. But then the next chase seasn called me back.
12. Why did the authr agree t chase trnades with her phtgrapher friend?
A. T earn credits fr her degree.B. T frecast the weather n site.
C. T interpret weather data fr the friend.D. T imprve her prfessin perfrmance.
13. What can we learn frm paragraphs 2 and 3?
A. trnades ccur nce in a chase seasn.B. trnades are hidden behind a wall f rain.
C. Chasing trnades require time and patience.D. Chasing trnades invlves grup cmpetitin.
14. Which f the fllwing wrds can best describe the authr?
A. Efficient and cmmitted.B. Enthusiastic and brave.
C. Traditinal and ambitius.D. Determined and talented.
15. What is the best title fr the text?
A. On the mveB. Nt a weather girlC. Seasn f chaseD. A narrw escape
二、七选五（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
Variety makes things fresh and interesting; it keeps yur brain sharp and yur bdy alive-part f the reasn why we feel refreshed after a hliday is the break frm rutine. ___16___ S ding things differently might take a bit f effrt at first, but yu'll sn feel the benefits. Whether it's learning a skill, r visiting smewhere new, these all require different ways f thinking.
“Lifelng learning requires us t have a grwth mind set, t up size ur knwledge f the wrld,” says health cach Susan sanders. “ ___17___ It's the learning that makes the difference, firing up ur curisity and engaging ur minds.”
Many peple decide that the best way t keep their minds feeling yunger is t really change up their life and train fr a new jb. “As humans, we are meant t grw, stretch, and expand,” says Francesca Kastelanides, directr and funder f Beam Academy. “ ___18___ Althugh it will mst likely be challenging at times, if yur reasn why is strng enugh, yu will always gain the benefits.”
___19___ “When starting a new jurney, ask yurself what yu hpe t gain, why yu want t make this mve, and what yu expect t get ut f it at the end.”
Learning smething new will nt nly imprve yur skill set but it will bst yur wellbeing. Frm a physical pint f view, when yu exercise yur brain, the mind reshapes itself, because the physical brain can grw and change. But, mentally, a new skill als prvides yu with mtivatin and increase yur cnfidence. ___20___ And, f curse, learning will pen new pprtunities in life that will bst yur happiness. And wh desn't want t be happier?
A. We’re naturally creatures f habit.
B. But learning t grw is n easy task.
C. And it desn't matter what we learn.
D. Thus yu can vercme any fears and anxieties yu have.
E. Learning a new skill r re training fr a different career can nly be psitive.
F. T have the desired result, yu shuld make sme preparatins in the first place.
G. She explains that the mst imprtant thing is t make use f yur central mtivatin.
三、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，共15分）
When ur three kids were yung, we had days that went n fr life times, As I watched my husband Crag leave every mrning, I felt ___21___ t have s much time alne with my babies. When Craig ___22___ each evening, he wuld smile and ask, “S! Hw was yur day?”
This questin shwed the ___23___ between his experience f a “day” and mine. Hw was my day? I ___24___ Craig as the kids screamed ludly arund. Then I lked dwn at my dirty T-shirt and the tys littering the flr.
I wanted t say, “Tday has been a ___25___ There were mments when I was s fed up with the mess that I thught I might ___26___. I was bth lnely and ___27___ t be alne.” But busy with s much husewrk, I was t tired t ___28___. S I just said, “Fine.” But I felt sad because ___29___ is abut being seen and knwn.
S we decided t ____30____ help. We learned frm the cunselr（咨询师） that lve is ____31____ and we shuldn't ask the same empty questins like: “Hw was yur day?” ____32____ , we can ask questins like: When did yu feel lved r lnely tday? A ____33____ questin is a key that will unlck a rm inside the persn yu lve.
Questins are like gifts. It's the ____34____ behind them that the receiver feels. The mre ____35____ yu give t yur questins, the mre beautiful the answers becme.
21. A. relaxedB. scaredC. excitedD. surprised
22. A. calledB. awkeC. returnedD. withdrew
23. A. cmbinatinB. gapC. wrestleD. linked
24. A. stared atB. brke withC. lied tD. drve away
25. A. miracleB. flashC. lifetimeD. discvery
26. A. jumpB. regretC. hesitateD. explde
27. A. ptimisticB. desperateC. secureD. thankful
28. A. mveB. listenC. quarrelD. answer
29. A. lveB. respectC. trustD. help
30. A. fferB. receiveC. refuseD. seek
31. A. specificB. preciusC. fundamentalD. plain
32. A. HweverB. InsteadC. CnsequentlyD. Besides
33. A. caringB. curiusC. pintedD. direct
34. A. secretB. respnseC. thughtD. inspiratin
35. A. clueB. explanatinsC. supprtD. attentin
四、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
I graduated frm the Shaanxi University f Chinese Medicine in 1994, and ___36___ (wrk) in rthpedics(骨科) fr 26 years by the time I tk part in ___37___ Chinese Medical Vlunteers tur in Yushu, Qinghai prvince in August 2020.
Then, I used Traditinal Chinese Medicine(TCM) t treat a variety f health prblems, including severe pains, bld pressure issue and kneed ___38___ (injure). These cnditins are ___39___ (primary) caused by the lcal peple’s herding practice and the tugh envirnment ___40___ they live, and are als assciated with sme f their unhealthy living habits.
TCM methds can nly relieve the pain fr a shrt time, and smetimes they are unable t address the fundamental causes. S, I suggested that Chinese Medical Vlunteers perfrm surgeries lcally ___41___ bring the patients t better develped regins. We successfully cmpleted surgeries n 21 patients. One surgery had t ___42___ (cancel) because the patient had severe heart failure.
As the head f the surgical team, I was ___43___ a lt f pressure because we were respnsible fr ensuring the safety f every patient, ___44___ (rid) them f their pain and imprving their quality f life. Anther gal f ur actin was ___45___ (prvide) lcal medical wrkers with hands-n training, s lcal villagers wuld still be able t access quality treatment cnveniently after we left.
五、读后续写（共20分）
46. 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。
Alex rde his bike n his way hme, and Jhnsn’s Pnd came int view.
Smetimes his dad tk him caneing(划独木舟) there, and Alex lved it. The pnd was always alive with activity, and smetimes Alex discvered turtles(乌龟) sunbathing n suing rcks Alex as curius abut turtles. When it was t rainy t g caneing, he ften went t the library t check ut bks n turtles,
Nw it lked like tmrrw might be anther sunny day. He decided t ask Dad if they culd g caneing and lk fr turtles again. Suddenly Alex saw smething in the rad up ahead. It lked like a big gray rck. But it was a funny place fr a rck t be. He jumped ff t have a lk.
And then, the rck started t mve! It was actually a large turtle slwly making its way acrss the rad! Alex knew right away it was a snapping turtle.
Out f the crner f his eye, he saw a car appraching The turtle was still nly halfway acrss the rad Alex knew he culdn’t pick it up because snapping turtles have a pwerful bite and they culd even bite ff smene’s finger! What culd he d?
Thinking fast, he started waving bth hands wildly. “Stp! Stp!” he cried. The car slwed t a stp.
“Are yu alight, Alex?” It was his neighbr, Mrs. Rams.
“I’m fine, Mrs. Ram’s.” said Alex. “I’m just trying t save a turtle. It’s prbably ging t lay egg.”
“Oh, yeah. It’s spring.” said Mrs. Ram’s. “S, I guess a lt f turtles need t lay their eggs in the grass acrss the rad.” Then she waved gdbye and drve ff.
Alex thught abut what Mrs. Ram’s had said. “There wuld prbably be mre turtles trying t crss the rad at this spt!” he realized. But he culdn’t stand there all day trying t stp cars. He lked arund and a rad sign caught his eye. And then his face brightened.
He jumped n his bike and raced hme t find Dad.
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The next mrning, Dad and Alex drve t the pnd with the wden sign in the car.
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Museum Day is here fr ne day and ne day nly—s yu'll need t hurry if yu want t grasp the chance t get free Saturday admissin t ne f the hundreds f participating museums. The yearly event is hsted by Smithsnian magazine and invlves museums and cultural institutins(机构) cming tgether t ffer free admissin fr visitrs wh wuld therwise have t pay fr entry.
Yu just need an email address t get a ticket
T get a ticket. yu'll need t g t the Smithsnian magazine website and pick which museum yu want t g t. Yu'll be able t search t see which museums near yu are participating, and frm there yu just have t put in yur email address and name. After that, yu can dwnlad yur ticket and head ut fr sme fun. Each Museum Day ticket is gd fr tw peple, s if yu're in a grup larger than that, a few peple might need t sign up.
A lt f mu sums are still feeling financial stress frm the pandemic
The event is happening as museums are still struggling frm the hits they tk during the first few years f the pandemic The American Alliance f Museums (AAM) estimated it will take years fr museums t fully recver.
AAM president and CEO aura lts nted that federal relief helped remve the ptential f clsure that many institutins were facing, but “2021 prved t be anther painful year in which perating in g me drpped further and attendance was dwn nearly 40% fr many f ur natin’s mu scams.” But there’s hpe that a free day at the museums might stimulate fllwing visits.
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