[英语]2023_2024学年河南焦作高二下学期期中英语试卷

这是一份[英语]2023_2024学年河南焦作高二下学期期中英语试卷，共6页。试卷主要包含了阅读理解，完形填空，语法填空，书信写作，书面表达等内容，欢迎下载使用。

2023~2024学年河南焦作高二下学期期中英语试卷
一、阅读理解
1.The Ark
Shanghai Internatinal Dance Center Theater will present“The Ark”this weekend, a tw-dance perfrmance by Chinese and freign female
chregraphers (编舞者).
“Build Beauty” by Chinese chregrapher Gng Xingxing and “Last Man Standing” by German chregrapher Sita Ostheimer, cmprise “The
Ark”. Artists frm Xiexin Dance Theater will perfrm bth wrks.
Time: December 23,7:30 pm
Admissin:180—580 yuan
Venue: Shanghai Internatinal Dance Center Theater
Belt and Rad Initiative
The exhibitin narrates the histry f the ancient Silk Rad and Shanghai ‘s mdern develpment. It features ver 250 dcuments, artifacts, phts
and vides. Abut 80 percent f the exhibits are n display in Shanghai fr the first time. Highlighted items include a tiny replica (模型) f the treasure
ship f Zheng He and sme histrical dcuments.
Time: Thrugh late April, 2024
Admissin: Free
Venue: Shanghai Archives
Live in Lve!
The Shanghai Rainbw Chamber Singers will lead audiences t welcme the New Year with a cncert “Live in Lve!”
Starting at 10 pm n Sunday, the cncert feature s RCS’s riginal cmpsitins cvering the themes f lve, memry, and farewells. The cncert
will end with the title sng “Live in Lve!” Audiences will be invited t stand up and set their emtins free tgether with the singers t welcme the
New Year.
Time: December 31, 10 pm
Admissin:180—1,080 yuan
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Inside N. 9
The ppular British TV series “Inside N. 9” has been adapted int an immersive (沉浸式的) live theater perfrmance. Three “Inside N. 9” stries
will be perfrmed live fr the audience. The specially designed seats and stages will prvide audiences with a ne-f-a-kind immersive theater
experience.
Time: Thrugh February 29,2:50 pm/7:30 pm/8:20 pm
Admissin:489—589 yuan
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater
【小题1】What is special abut “The Ark”?
A．It will cntain dances frm the East and the West.
B．It will be cmpsed all by German chregraphers.
C．It will prvide specially designed stages.
D．It will ffer an immersive theater experience.
【小题2】What can yu enjy at Shanghai Grand Theater?
A．Sme brilliant dances.
B．Sme peras with the theme f lve.
C．Sme perfrmances based n a TV play.
D．Sme vides abut the ancient Silk Rad.
【小题3】Which ne shuld yu chse t experience a festive celebratin?
A．The Ark.
B．Live in Lve!
C．Belt and Rad Initiative.
D．Inside N. 9.

2.This year, it was harder than ever t get int Harvard University. The prestigius cllege annunced their lwest acceptance rate ever, welcming
nly 1,968 f 57,435 first-year applicants int their hallwed halls. Thanks t Abigail Mack’s mving, insightful essay, she will be ne f the lucky
students t matriculate this fall.
The Massachusetts high schl senir used TikTk t share a part f the essay that made her ne f the 4 percent f applicants wh made the cut.
Her essay fcused n an unusual theme: the letter “S.”
“I hate the letter ‘S’,” she read alud n TikTk. “Of the 164,777 wrds with ‘S’, I nly struggle with ne. T cndemn an entire letter
because f its use 0.0006 percent f the time sunds statistically unreasnable, but that ne case changed 100 percent f my life. I used t have tw
parents, but nw I have ne, and the ‘S’ in ‘parents’ isn’t ging anywhere.”
“‘S’ fllws me,” she cntinued. “I can’t get thrugh a day withut being reminded that while my friends went ut t dinner with their
parents, I ate with my parent. As I write this essay, there is a blue line under the wrd ‘parent’ telling me t check my grammar; even Grammarly
assumes that I shuld have parents, but cancer desn’t listen t edit suggestins.”
She went n t explain that she fled that dreaded letter by thrwing herself int schl activities. She jined clubs, sprts, and perfrmed in
theatrical prductins, all in an effrt t lessen the pain f lsing her mm. Eventually, she realized she was hiding frm her pain and decided t face it
head-n. She tk ver the “S” fr her wn purpses. Nw, instead f thinking abut the “S” in parents, she cncentrates n the duble “S” in
passin.
Abigail’s essay earned her a spt at several tp clleges and she has fficially been accepted int the class f 2025 in Harvard. In the meantime, her
essay has gne viral (走红) with ver 16 millin views!
【小题1】What did the letter “S” mean t Abigail Mack?
A．A terrible failure.
B．An unfrtunate fact.
C．A special challenge.
D．A meaningful experience.
【小题2】What can we infer frm paragraph 4 abut Abigail Mack?
A．She isn’t gd at spelling.
B．She has pr grammar.
C．She has been struggling with cancer.
【小题3】Hw did Abigail Mack deal with her situatin?
A．By writing mre and mre essays.
D．She has lst ne f her parents.
B．By reading all kinds f bks.
C．By participating in varius activities.
【小题4】What wuld be the best title fr the text?
A．Teen’s Special Feeling fr the Letter “S”
C．Teen’s Secret t Achieving Academic Success
D．By cmpeting with thers secretly.
B．Teen’s Essay Wn Great Ppularity Online
D．Teen Gt Admitted t Harvard fr Her Essay
3.D yu believe that mst peple are greedy r generus? It is easy t cme up with examples f stries that culd supprt either cnclusin if we
are relying n ur memries r n ur guts (直觉).
Recently, a team f researchers sught t investigate this questin in partnership with the TED rganizatin. TED generusly gave away ＄10,000
each t 200 lucky individuals (yes, yu read that crrectly), which essentially means these participants wn a lttery. Besides, they were asked t spend all
the mney in three mnths rather than save it). These participants were frm three lw-incme cuntries (Indnesia, Brazil, Kenya) and fur high-incme
cuntries (Australia, Canada, UK, USA). Over the next three mnths, participants were asked t track their spending t examine hw generusly r
selfishly this mney was spent. They reprted their spending t the researchers a few mnths later.
Of the ＄10,000 participants received, they spent ＄6,431 n ther peple. T be clear, this als included certain behavirs in which the participants
themselves benefited persnally (such as taking their friends ut t dinner r paying fr a family vacatin). But still, peple are very generus.
Participants gave away ＄1,697 strictly t charity r nnprfit rganizatins.
The researchers expected that if peple publicly shared hw they spent their mney, they wuld be mre generus. T check if this was crrect, they
asked half f the participants t pst n Twitter abut hw they spent the mney. The ther half were asked t keep their spending “private”.
Surprisingly, the researchers saw that “generus spending was similar” between Twitter and private grups. The mini lttery winners were n mre
r less generus depending n whether they psted their spending n Twitter r kept it t themselves. The authrs admitted they expected the Twitter
grup t spend mre generusly, but this predictin was nt supprted by the data. Peple did nt need t have their spending shwn publicly t
behave generusly.
【小题1】What’s the purpse f the researchers?

A．T cnfirm a scientific thery.
B．T research int human nature.
C．T analyze peple’s ecnmic behaviur.
【小题2】What d we knw abut the study cnducted by the team?
A．It was divided int tw stages.
D．T classify peple’s spending habits.
B．It fcused n lw-incme peple.
C．The participants were required t reprt their spending.
D．The participants culd spend the mney withut restrictin.
【小题3】What des the underlined wrd “this” in paragraph 4 refer t?
A．Peple’s sharing hw they spent.
B．Peple’s keeping their spending private.
D．Peple’s being mre generus in public.
C．Peple’s spending habits in private.
【小题4】What des the authr intend t tell us?
A．Humans are fundamentally generus.
B．Mney that is easily gt will be spent sn.
C．Sharing spending nline makes peple generus.
D．Peple prefer t keep their spending t themselves.
4.Climate change causes tens f billins f dllars in ecnmic damage in the United States every year. Climate change is expensive, deadly but
preventable, accrding t the new Natinal Climate Assessment, the mst sweeping, sphisticated federal analysis f climate change cmpiled t date.
“Climate change affects us all, but it desn’t affect us all equally,” says climate scientist Katharine Hayhe, ne f the authrs f the assessment.
“The research indicates that peple with lwer incme have mre truble adapting t climate change, because adaptatin cmes at a cst,” says
Slmn Hsiang, a climate ecnmist at the University f Califrnia.
Fr example, ne f the simplest ways t adapt t severe heat waves is t run yur air cnditiner mre. But “if peple can’t pay fr it, then they
can’t prtect themselves,” explains Hsiang.
Weather-related disasters in the U. S. cause abut ＄150 billin each year in direct lsses, accrding t the reprt. That’s a lt f mney and it’s
nly expected t g up as the Earth gets htter. And the htter it gets, the mre prfund the ecnmic harm. Twice as much planetary warming leads
t mre than twice as much ecnmic harm, the assessment warns.
But it als pints ut many successful effrts underway t adapt t the new reality and t prevent wrse utcmes. “It’s nt the message that if
we dn’t hit 1.5 degrees, we’re all ging t die,” says Hayhe. “It’s the message that everything we d matters. Every 10th f a degree f warming
we avid, there’s a benefit t that.”
There’s been a slight shift in the reprt’s perspective since the last ne, says Candis Callisn, a scilgist and authr f the reprt. There’s nw
a clear acknwledgement, develpment, develped thrugh years f rigrus research, that the fssil fuel-pwered sciety the U. S. built ver
generatins was prfundly unjust. “Climate change actually prvides us with an pprtunity t address sme f thse inequities (不公平) and injustices
—and t respnd t these impacts,” Callisn says. “That’s really a pwerful thing.”
【小题1】What d Katharine Hayhe and Slmn Hsiang stress abut climate change?
A．It results in lwer incme.
C．It needs immediate actin.
B．It leads t new unfairness.
D．It causes ecnmic damage.
【小题2】What des the authr intend t shw by giving the example f the air cnditiner?
A．Heat waves can be easily defeated.
B．Climate change leads t serius heat.
C．Adapting t climate change is time-cnsuming.
【小题3】What des Katharine Hayhe fcus n in paragraph 6?
A．The ptential risks f the new reality.
D．Dealing with climate change is expensive.
B．The cnsequences f nt hitting 1.5 degrees.
D．The achievements we have made.
C．The value f each small effrt underway.
【小题4】What is Candis Callisn’s attitude twards climate change?
A．Optimistic.
B．Dubtful.
C．Wrried.
D．Uncaring.
5.Gratitude, which is a psitive emtinal state, can have a prfund impact n ur mental, emtinal, and physical well-being.
Gratitude ffers us a way f embracing (拥抱) all that makes ur lives what they are.
attentin s that we perceive mre f the gdness we are always receiving.
【小题1】
It includes the willingness t expand ur

Rbert Emmns is ne f the wrld’s leading experts n the science f gratitude.
can learn t wake up t the gd arund them and ntice the gifts they have received. The secnd part f gratitude is recgnizing that the surce f this
gdness rests utside f neself—we receive these gifts frm ther peple, and smetimes frm fate, r the natural wrld. 【小题3】
【小题2】
The first is an affirmatin f gdness: Peple
In ne study invlving nearly 300 adults seeking cunseling services at a university, ne grup wrte a gratitude letter each week fr three weeks.
The gratitude grup reprted significantly better mental health (cmpared t the cntrl grup), 12 weeks after the last writing exercise. 【小题
4】 A study f this practice fund that peple wh wrte dwn three things that had gne well in their day and identified the causes f thse gd
things were significantly happier and less depressed.
【小题5】 When yu practice gratitude, yu shift yur thughts away frm negative emtins and uncmfrtable sensatins. Instead, yu
begin t fcus n gd things that yu may have verlked. Rather than fcusing n the misfrtune f having a flat tire, fr example, yu cnsider
hw yur jb has made it pssible t pay fr repairs. Or yu shift yur fcus t hw frtunate yu are t have clse friends wh are willing t drive yu
hme.
A．He defines gratitude as having tw parts.
B．A little gratitude can d wnders fr yur md.
C．Gratitude isn’t just a happy feeling fr ur present lives.
D．Hwever, many peple dn’t realize the pwer f gratitude.
E．Anther type f written gratitude practice is cunting blessings.
F．Gratitude desn’t necessarily mean shwing appreciatin fr the things that are arund yu.
G．In ther wrds, gratitude helps realize they wuldn’t be where they are withut the help f thers.
二、完形填空
6.I was sitting in the dctr’s ffice waiting fr my annual check-up. The dctr threw in a(n)
that tk me ff guard.
like me?” he asked while writing n
“S Rbin, what are yu ging t d after high schl? Why dn’t yu g t cllege t becme a(n)
the file.
G t cllege t becme a dctr? Wh was this man kidding? I thught he was
fr even suggesting it. My grades were
enugh t be a dctr.”
and I
wasn’t cllege material. Embarrassed by his questin, I
The dctr immediately lked at me straight in the eyes when he said very
be persistent (坚持不懈的).”
t the dctr, “I’m nt
, “Yu dn’t have t be clever t be a dctr. Yu just have t
me. Three years later, I t a cllege clse t my hme and sn fund
Even thugh I wasn’t cllege material, what the dctr said
myself walking the campus as a new student.
I began
anything that seemed frightening. I put all my energy tward passing the assignments ne by ne. I
that when I was
persistent, I culd
things I never believed pssible.
I graduated with a master’s degree in September 2023, tw decades after that
“thank yu”. Smetimes even the smallest mments in time can have a life-changing
【小题1】
with my dctr. I
.
I culd shake his hand and tell him
A．present
【小题2】
A．teacher
【小题3】
A．crazy
B．request
C．questin
D．invitatin
B．expert
C．dctr
D．scientist
B．bring
C．strange
D．cnsiderate
【小题4】
A．stable
【小题5】
A．cmplained
【小题6】
A．smart
【小题7】
B．average
C．frmal
D．excellent
B．aplgized
C．lied
D．replied
B．careful
C．utging
D．patient

A．regretfully
【小题8】
B．prudly
B．disturbed
C．gratefully
C．limited
C．applied
D．seriusly
A．impressed
【小题9】
D．discuraged
A．pinted
【小题10】
A．taking ver
【小题11】
A．prmised
【小题12】
A．understand
【小题13】
A．cperatin
【小题14】
A．wish
B．returned
D．adapted
B．breaking dwn
B．annunced
C．setting aside
D．giving up
C．agreed
C．cntrl
D．discvered
D．achieve
B．avid
B．experiment
C．cnversatin
D．argument
B．think
C．insist
D．recall
【小题15】
A．purpse
B．influence
C．chance
D．chice
三、语法填空
7.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，并将答案填写在答题卡上。
Bai Tinggui, wh was brn in the 1990s, is 【小题1】 attendant fr the high-speed trains n the Chngqing sectin f China Railway Chengdu
Bureau Grup C Ltd. This
【小题2】
(year) Spring Festival travel rush marks a decade f her dedicated service.
【小题3】 traveled alne, she wuld think f her grandparents, which made her start t think abut
Every time she met elderly passengers
hw t prvide mre assistance fr the elderly.
Gradually, thrugh her wrk, Bai became familiar
【小题4】
mre public welfare wrk and was
【小题5】
(active) engaged in related
prjects. In the last three years, she
daily wrk, Bai als uses her time ff
【小题6】
【小题7】
(participate) in varius activities as a vlunteer, ffering help t thse in need. In additin t her
(help) key grups such as the elderly and children at the railway statin.
Bai Tinggui’s stry is a beacn(灯塔) f hpe
【小题8】
a reminder f the impact ne individual can make. Her dedicatin t service extends
【小题9】 (be) a testament t her belief in giving back t the
beynd her prfessinal respnsibilities. Her invlvement in vlunteer activities
cmmunity. And there surely will be a grwing trend amng individuals in the railway sectr t participate in scial welfare activities,
(cntribute) t a mre inclusive and supprtive sciety.
【小题10】
四、书信写作
8.2023 年12 月 22 日，第78 届联合国大会将中国春节（农历新年）确定为联合国假日。请你就此事向校英文报投稿，内容包括：
1.简述此事；
2.你的看法。
注意：1.写作词数应为80个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
参考词汇：第78 届联合国大会 the 78th Sessin f the United Natins General Assembly
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五、书面表达

9.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。
In July 1971, I was taking a summer class in literature n the campus f SUNY Onenta in upstate New Yrk. Prfessr James walked int the
classrm and annunced that he had invited a special guest t class, but his guest had been delayed.
“Wh’s cming?” smene asked.
“Alex Haley, wh is the authr f ne f the bks yu have read fr this class,” he said. “I need a vlunteer t meet him in the lbby f the
administratin building and accmpany him here.”
T my amazement, my right hand sht up as thugh it had a mind f its wn. What was I ding? I wndered. I never vlunteered fr anything.
“Thank yu, David,” Prfessr James said. “Yu’d better leave nw. He’ll be arriving any minute.”
As I walked acrss campus, my anxiety grew as the massive administratin building appeared ahead. I feared that I was abut t embarrass myself in
frnt f this famus gentleman by asking stupid questins. I reached the frnt steps and climbed them slwly.
As I pulled pen the heavy glass dr, I realized why I instinctively raised my hand t vlunteer fr this jb. This man was what I wanted t be: a
writer. He was living my dream. I culd learn frm him. I paced back and frth acrss the plished lbby flr until a black man with a briefcase entered
the building. He stpped and scanned the lbby. His gaze fell n me.
I apprached him and cnfirmed he was Mr. Haley. We shk hands and then began ur walk acrss campus. I was struck by hw apprachable this
man was. My fear was replaced by curisity and purpse.
“D yu mind if I ask yu a questin?” I said. “N. Nt at all,” he said.
“I’d like t becme a writer, but I dn’t knw if I have the talent,” I said. “Hw did yu discver that yu had a gift fr writing?”
注意；1.续写词数应为150个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Mr. Haley laughed and said, “I didn’t. And I dn’t.”
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After cmmunicating with Alex Haley, I n lnger cared whether I had the “gift”.
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