广东省江门市新会第一中学2022-2023学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题

2022-2023学年度第二学期期中考试

高二级英语科试题

命题人：李亦爱          审题人：罗燕红           考试时间:2023年4月14日

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第一部分   听说测试(共两节，满分20分)

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第二部分   阅读(共两节，满分40分)

第一节   (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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

Hunting for a new job? Thankfully, your perfect workplace may be just a quick search away. Online job sites are valuable resources you can use to find available positions in all types of industries, from hourly wage workers to freelance or work-from-home gigs, administrative roles, mid-level management, executive positions, and more.

Linked In

·Price to join:Free

·Vip:$19.99 monthly or $9.99/month, with a year commitment;one-month trial

·Ease of application:Medium

Linked In is, at its core, a business-centric social networking website. But this is precisely what gives it an advantage when it comes to searching for jobs. Your Linked In profile essentially acts as your resume, though you can also upload an actual resume as well or use the resume builder to create one to complement your profile..

Indeed

·Price to join:Free

·Ease of application:Easy

As the largest job site in the world, it’s no surprise that Indeed made this list. There are reportedly 10 new job listings added every second, with the site constantly being updated with new content and jobs across every industry and different lifestyles. From full-and part-time positions to freelance, work-from-home, and even internship opportunities, the options run the entire range.

Monster

·Price to join:Free

·Ease of application:Easy

Monster has become synonymous with job searches, with the company having been around since 1999 and the early days of the Internet. Today, Monster remains one of the top job search websites, with positions of all experience levels and work styles, from full-and part-time to freelance and temporary.

Career Builder

·Price to join:Free

·Ease of application:Medium

Career Builder isn’t as diverse as the others but offers jobs from a variety of companies and industries, all of which can be viewed by category in an alphabetized list. You can also see top searches to discover what types of jobs or companies candidates are most often looking at.

1. If you want to register a membership of Linked In annually, how much should you pay totally?

A.$19.99.          B.$119.88.         C.$9.99.        D:$109.89.

2. What do Indeed and Monster have in common?

A. They offer more flexible work.

B. They all focus on work experience.

C. They are constantly updated.

D. They were both set up in the 1990s.

3. Which one can help us discover the job candidates’ favorite?

A. Linked In.   B. Indeed.      C. Monster.    D. Career Builder.

B

At 74 James Patterson has sold more than 425 million copies of his 200 novels globally, making him one of the highest paid authors in the world. “I do not work for a living. I play for a living. I love doing it.” Patterson tells CNBC. But Patterson’s road to success didn’t happen overnight. He started writing as a side hustle and he faced a lot of rejection before getting his first book published.

Patterson grew up in the woods in Newburgh, New York with an insurance salesman father and a schoolteacher mother. Despite having dreams of being a writer, the idea “always seemed presumptuous”, Patterson says. But after reading books by James Joyce, “it really turned me on to reading, and then I started writing.” he says.

After college, Patterson got his first job as a junior copy writer at the advertising agency J.Walter Thompson. While climbing the corporate ladder, Patterson wrote his first book, The Thomas Berryman Number in the mid-70s. The book “got turned down by 31 publishers”, Patterson says. But after it was finally published in 1976,“then it won an Edgar Award for best first novel.” The Edgar Award, which is named after Edgar Alan Poe, honors the best writers in mystery fiction and non-fiction.

Despite publishing his first book at age 26, Patterson didn’t have a bestseller until he was 40.“It wasn’t like all of a sudden,” he says. In fact, Patterson kept his day job for decades and got promoted to CEO of J. Walter Thompson in 1988. During that time, Patterson says he would read well over 100 books a year to help spark his creativity. “I have a huge imagination and I’m constantly asking, what about this? What about that?” he says.

Despite his success, Patterson says he doesn’t like to give advice, especially about writing. But he credits his own success to his work ethic and passion. “I also don’t take myself too seriously,” he says.“Yeah, I sell a lot of books, so what?”

4. What do we know about James Patterson?

A. He produced a bestseller when he was 26.

B. He read a lot of books to get source of inspiration.

C. He worked as a full-time writer when he was young.

D. He got inspiration for his first book when climbing a ladder.

5. What does the underlined word “presumptuous” mean in paragraph 2?

A. Unrealistic.       B. Contradictory.    C. Imaginative.       D. Inspiring.

6. What can we infer about James Patterson from the last paragraph?

A. He has sold a lot of books.

B. He doesn’t take his job seriously.

C. He values positive attitudes to work.

D. He is unwilling to give advice to readers.

1. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A. An Edgar Award Winner.

B. A Not-to-be-missed Fiction.

C. The Secret to Career Success.

D. A Tough Road to a Bestseller Writer.

C

Everyone needs a buddy, even sharks. Sharks are often described as Hollywood monsters, the lone wolves hiding in the deep, hunting for prey. But that description of sharks is increasingly out of step with what scientists are learning about the animals. Instead, they say, some species of sharks are social creatures who return day after day to a group of the same fellow sharks.

Papastamatious’s team studied gray reef sharks living in the waters off Palmyra Atoll Island. They attached small location transmitters to track the animals’ movements around the reef. After tracking the sharks for four years, the researchers found that the same groups of sharks frequently returned to the same parts of the reef repeatedly. They also found that some of the groups stuck together longer than previous studies have observed.

The sharks might be motivated to stay together, Papastamatious says, because it makes hunting for food easier. “If we