上海市川沙中学2023-2024学年高二下学期五月月考英语试题

上海市川沙中学 2023学年度第二学期高二阶段考试英语试卷 考生注意： 1,本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分，试轡包括试题与答题要求，所有窖题必须豫（选择愿） 或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。 2.答卷前，务论用铜笔或圆珠笔在答题纸正面清楚填写班级、姓名、准考证号。 3.考试时间：120分钟，总分：140分。 第1卷 I.Listening Comprehension SectionA Directions:In Section A,you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers.At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said.The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a conversation and the question about it,read the four possible answers on your paper,and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1.A.Checking out of a hotel. B.Asking for information. C.Making a complaint. D.Paying for the damage. 2.A.The man sounds like a Canadian. B.The man doesn't speak with a Canadian accent. C.The woman also originally comes from Canada. D.The woman doesn't like people with an accent. 3.A.On the 17th. B.On the 18th. C.O加he19h. D.On the 20th. 4.A.The variety of graphs is the most important. B.The focus should be on the sales strategies. C.Clarity is the key to a good presentation. D.Different forms of presentation must be used. 5.A.Only the best of us can avoid making such a mistake. B.Everyone makes mistakes,so the woman should not worry too much. C.It happened long ago,so people might have forgotten about it D.The woman should have made better preparation for the speech 6.A.She is down with a serous virus. B.Her efforts will finally pay off. C.Her project is not going smoothly. D.She has missed the project deadline. 7.A.She enjoyed the concert. B.She messed up the band. C.The man was not serious. D.The man was to blame. 8.A.No one coughs as badly as the man. B.The man is showing symptoms of a cold. 扫描全能王创建 C.The man is surprised that so many people are ill. D.The woman warns the man not to attend the classes. 9.A.The woman doesn't need to go to work so early. B.The woman should take better care of her health. C.The woman is making up excuses for not exercising. D.The woman is losing good chances to save time. 10.A.Joanna is working here temporarily. B.Joanna is filling in an application. C.Jenny will be back in a day or two. D.Jenny will host a business conference. Section B Directions:In Section B,you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation,and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation.The passages and the conversation will be read twice,but the questions will be spoken only once.When you hear a question,read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11.A.Their keen landscaping skill. B.Their tough digestive system. C.Their strong pair of rear legs. D.Their sharp sense of taste. 12.A.By lowering the probability of wildfires occurring. B.By keeping the weather conditions wet and cool. C.By reducing human activities on the green vegetation. D.By passing through seeds into inaccessible spots. 13.A.Cost and safety. B.Coverage and procedure. C.Speed and health. D.Economy and habitat. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14.A.To learn even numbers by heart. B.To memorize complicated sums. C.To pass a basic memory test. D.To report their leamning experiences. 15.A.Those who woke up after 7:30 a.m. B.Those who slept for at least ten hours. C.Those who leamed sums in the morning. D.Those who learned sums before bed. 16.A.Sleep helps to strengthen memories. B.Sleep helps us to learn words better. C.Sleep makes numbers stick in our memory. D.Sleep makes us get confused with numbers. 扫描全能王创建 Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17.A.Three. B.Six. C Ten. D.Fourteen. 18.A.Children tend to arrive too early in the moming. B.He thinks children behave badly in the museum. C.The museum has a special exhibition on lately. D.The muscum can't accommodate so many children 19.A.A special talk on the Early Man exhibit. B.An hour-long guided tour of the museum. C.A video introducing the museum in detail. D.A fun-filled interactive educational program. 20.A.Positive. B.Worried. C.Interested.D.Hesitant. TI.Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions:After reading the passage below,fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct.For the blanks with a given word,fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word;for the other blanks,use one word that best fits each blank. Vertical Farms:Is the sky really the limit? At a hyper-controlled indoor farm in industrial South San Francisco,four robots carefully transfer seeds from barcoded trays into 4.5-meter towers that then are hung vertically ( inside a 445 sq metre grow room.Workers in branded jumpsuits 21(inspect)the greens for imperfect produce,but there is almost 22.Then the pesticide-free.product is packaged and put on a truck23(deliver)to a local market where the customer becomes the first person to touch it. With the world's population expected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050,most of 24 will be living in cities,experts say a 70%increase from current levels of global food production will be needed.But agricultural land is 25short supply thanks to the climate crisis and urbanization. Indoor farming raised more than $1 bn in 2021,exceeding the combined funding in 2018 and 2019.But critics say the massive energy costs 26(need)to run vertical farms and greenhouses make the practice far less eco-friendly than their branding suggests. Designed to produce yields hundreds of times larger than traditional outdoor farming,vertical farms occupy spaces such as buildings or shipping containers while using 70 to 95%less water 27 they can recapture and recycle rather than waste it due to poor irrigation (or evaporation.Products are fully traceable from seed to shelf,stay fresher longer and there's little risk of bacteria,infected animal facces()or 28(have)to transport them long distances in trucks and planes. Entrepreneurs like Irving Fain,CEO and founder of Manhattan-based Bowery Farming,say that they're gathering knowledge about plant growth and agronomy (that 29 take traditional farmers outdoors hundreds of years to accumulate.The possibilities raised by vertical farms have also captured the imagination of a number of large venture capitalists and private equality funds."While it is still too early to tell 30 these high-tech,high-rise growing machines will become a real estate asset class in their own right,some investors are starting to take a serious look at vertical farming as a possible new asset category."said Fain. 扫描全能王创建 Section B Directions:Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box.Each word can be used only once.Note that there is one word more than you need. A.means B previously Cmark D..interpreted E stretches F..sound G.resulting M.'absorb I presence J.initially mastered How and why,roughly 2 million years ago,early human ancestors evolved large brains and began fashioning relatively advanced stone tools,is one of the great mysteries of evolution.Some researchers argue these changes were brought about by the invention of cooking.They point out that our bite weakened around the same time as our larger brains evolved,and that it takes less energy to(31)nutrients from cooked food.As a result,once they had leamned the art,early chefs could invest less in their digestive systems and thus invest the(32)energy savings in building larger brains capable of complex thought.There is,however,a problem with the cooking theory.Most archaeologists believe the evidence of controlled fire (33)_back no more than 790,000 years. Roger Summons of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a solution.Together with his team,he analyzed 1.7 million-year-old sandstones that formed in an ancient river at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.The region is famous for the large number of buman fossils (that have been discovered there,alongside an impressive'assembly of stone tools.The sandstones themselves have (34)yielded some of the world's earliest complex hand axes-large tear-drop-shaped stone tools that are associated with Homo erectus ()Creating an axe by repeatedly knocking thin pieces off a raw stone in order to create two sharp cutting edges requires a significant amount of planning.Their appearance is therefore thought to(35) an important moment in intellectual evolution.During the process,the researchers found distinctive but unusual biological molecules()that are often (36)as biomarkers of heat-tolerant bacteria.Some of these live in water between 85C and 95C.The molecules'(37) suggests that an ancient river within the Gorge was once fed by one or more hot springs. Dr.Summons and his colleagues say the hot springs would have provided a convenient "pre-fire"(38)of cooking food.In New Zealand,the Maori have traditionally cooked food in hot springs,either by lowering it into the boiling water or fey digging a hole in the hot earth. Similar methods exist in Japan and Iceland,so it makes.(39)'sense,if difficult to prove, that early humans might have used hot springs to cook meat and roots.Richard Wrangham,who devised the cooking theory,is fascinated by the idea.Nonetheless,fire would have offered a distinct advantage to humans,once they had(40) the art of controlling it since,unlike a hot spring,it is a transportable resource. II.Reading Comprehension Section A Directions:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A.B. C and D.Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. In 1968 a grave dating from about 1100 was uncovered near Hattula,in Finland,Little remained of the occupant's skeleton,but the inhumation included two swords and a knife.Such grave goods would normally suggest said occupant was a man.The skeleton was,(41)also decorated with brooches (and woollen clothing of types more usually womn at the time by women.This (42) guess that the burial was actually of a powerful woman,possibly a local ▣ 扫描全能王创建 ruler in her own right rather than just the wife of a male king. This would be noteworthy enough.But a re-examination of the remains,just published in the European Joumal of Archacology by Ulla Moilanen of the University of Turku and Elina Salmela of the University of Helsinki,suggests the truth may be yet more(43).Ms.Moilanen and Dr Salmela suspect that the individual (44)may have had outward characteristics of both a man and a woman. In 1968 working out the (45)of a skeleton in an ancient grave was tricky.After years of deterioration,the bones of men and women look pretty much (46).But that was before the use of DNA became possible.So Ms.Moilanen and Dr Salmela thought it worth trying again. Most people have two sex chromosomes(染色体)：XX in women and XY in men,Find DNA from a Y-chromosome in a skeleton and the chances are the body was (47).And, looking at a fragment of femur brought to her by Ms.Moilanen,who is the archaeologist in the (48),Dr.Salmela,who is the geneticist,did indeed find such DNA.But not much of it. That led her to wonder about contamination ()but also to consider whether the individual in the grave hadhad a(n)(49)X-chromosome that was swamping the signal from the Y. Having an abnormal number of sex chromosomes is rare,but not vanishingly so.The particular(50)XXY leads to what is known as Klinefelter's syndrome.To determine the occupant's karyotype(染色体组型)from the tiny amount of DNA available,Dr.Salmela drew (51)with living people.The grave delivered 8,329 pieces,so she used a computer to draw samples of similar size from the genomes of living people with various karyotypes,including XXY,and also from mixtures of both sexes,to (52)contamination.She then compared these with the DNA from the grave and (53)it was 99.75%probable the individual concerned had indeed had Klinefelter's syndrome. While Dr Salmela was working all this out,Ms.Moilanen and her team had another look at the grave.They confirmed that it was a(54)burial.For instance,they found evidence of fine furs,probably from foxes.Clearly,this was a well-respected human being,but what led to that (55)in a world then dominated by male values is a matter of puzzle.Perhaps the person came from a family powerful enough for such things not to matter. 41.Atherefore B.what's more C.nevertheless D.for instance 42.A.intensified B.classified C.dismissed D.compared 43.A.dull B.engaging C.unpleasant D.frightening 44.A.in question B.at large C.by comparison D.with doubt 45.A.composition B.age C.sex D.origin D.broken 46.A.distinct B.unidentified C.alike 47.A.female B.old C.young D.male D.adventure 48.A.cooperation B.authority C.institute D.dominant 49.A.restored B.extra C.missing D.emphasis 50.A.requirement B.interest C.combination D.comparisons 51.A.inspirations B.lessons C.inferences C.imitate D.generate 52.A.eliminate B.monitor C.recalled D.confessed 53.A.rejected B.concluded D.peaceful 54.A.high-stat血s B.secret C.religious D.solution 55.A.conclusion B.evidence C.respect 扫描全能王创建 可h只 Section B Directions:Read the following three passages.Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A.B.C and D.Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A) Earlier this year I took a trip to England and France to go see some friends.It was a wonderful trip;I really loved it.But one thing that struck me was how different these cultures are from our own.I guess this would strike any traveler because that is the first thing you notice and it is what makes travel so exciting.Of course,these cultures are also similar to ours in many respects, but it's the differences that really stand out. One of the things that struck me in particular was the different attitudes towards smoking.As you know,there's a growing anti-smoking sentiment in Europe.However,when I went to England and France,I got a new perspective on this issue.People seem to smoke anywhere and everywhere,even though anti-smoking signs are all over public places.On the radio,I heard about a member of the World Cup soccer team who smoked.And people were actually saying,"Well,he should not be on the team because he's a bad example for our children."I think,if they want to look at bad examples for their children,they should just go out on the street,or go into the subways,or look in the mirror,even,because so many of them are smoking in very inappropriate places.I visited a restaurant buffet in London and saw an English woman scooping up the food with a lit cigarette in her hand.Smoke rising into the air.Actually,when I talked to English people later,they were pretty shocked too,and they said that smoking in a restaurant is rude even by British standards. This did not give me a bad impression of English people.It gave me,on the contrary,a positive feeling toward American smokers.There are a lot of American smokers who will proclaim their right to smoke whenever they want,but they will follow the rules,generally, because they have consideration for nonsmokers.So this experience in Europe gave me more of a respect for this kind of smoker. 56.What surprised the writer during his trip to England and France? A.The wonderful trip to England and France. B.Cultural differences that he noticed during his trip. C.Similarity between cultures stands out more than differences. D.Growing anti-smoking views in Europe. 57.What did the speaker find in England and France about the smoking issue? A.People discuss the smoking issue on the radio. B.Smokers are allowed to smoke anywhere and anytime. C.People are encouraged to smoke in inappropriate places. D.Many smokers pay no attention to the"No Smoking"signs. 58.The word "sentiment"in the second paragraph means A.feeling B.movement C.offense D.regulation 59.What kind of smokers does the speaker respect? A Those who are from America and Europe.B.Those who respect others'feelings. C.Those who defend the right to smoke. D.Those who set rules of smoking in public places. 扫描全能王创建 (B) IRELAND'S NUMBER ONE FOOD MAGAZINE The thing I love most about Trish people is our tolerance and acceptance of the fact we have no clear summertime.Sunshine hits our shores for the week here and there from April to October. So,we have adopted a"take it when we can get it"attitude and are ready to sunbathe and barbecue on a moment's notice,and if all else fails,we will do it anyway. This July/August issue is our summer special edition and it's brimming with summer eating ideas for any occasion when the sun peeks through the clouds--a family barbecue on when a whim,children's garden party,a picnic with friends on the beach or an ice-cream sitting on your doorstep,we've got it covered. Check out 5 ways with skewer p.42 so you can whip up something for the barbecue at a minute's notice,30 speedy salads and dressings p.46 will mean you won't arrive to a friend's house empty-handed. Cooking begins at home,and most of us leamed from one or both of our parents.Every junior cook should start their own collection of recipes,marking their favourites,tweaking them to their liking as they leamn how to enjoy new ingredients.This is why we have created Easy Juniors p.58-our new cut-out-and-kcep recipe page just for our younger readers. Speaking of cooking talent,I am delighted to say that the Easy Food Home-Cook Hero Award 2013 is officially open for entries!This cookery competition is our annual event in which we ask everyone to enter their favourite recipes across a variety of categories.The top three finalists,as chosen by us,in each category are asked to join us on Saturday,November 9th in Cooks Academy Cookery School in Dublin city centre to cook their dish.Each dish will be judged by our panel of judges and then winners are announced at a black-tie awards ceremony in the Shelboumne Hotel that evening.People of all ages can enter and there are lots of categories to choose from,so go to p.15 for full details on how to enter and best of luck. As always,I hope you enjoy reading. 60.According to the passage,which of the following statement is TRUE? A.What Irish people love most is sunbathing at the shore in summer. B.Salads and dressing seems like preferable gifts when visiting a friend. C.All the people learn to cook following one or both their parents'recipes. D.The winner of cookery competition will be announced at a formal ceremony. 61.This passage is mainly written to A.introduce the content covered in the magazine B.provide cut-out-and-keep recipe for junior cooks C.invite cooking talents to take part in a competition D.call on Irish people to enjoy precious summertime 62.Easy Food is most probably written for A.a food critic working for Michelin B.a tourist searching for exotic cuisine C.a student interested in cooking D.a chef full of experience Section C Directions:Read the passage carefully.Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. ▣ 扫描全能王创建 Each sentence can be used only once.Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A.So people feel like they are getting more done. B Ifyou do these or similar things,then you are one of many multitaskers. C.People are less able to filter out their knowledge of the previous task and look at things afresh. D.Some psychologists say that the buman brain just isn't good at concentrating on two things at the same time. Recent studies,however,show that Melissa and others like her are perhaps getting less.done than they think they are. F.Now,with numerous studies to refer to,the answer could not be more clear-multitasking isn't all it's supposed to be. Are you a multitasker? Do you watch TV and cook dinner at the same time?Do you often interrupt your work to check your email?Do you talk on your phone whilc you're driving?63_ According to a survey by the magazine Scientific American MIND,90 percent of American adults multitask regularly. Most people say they multitask because they are too busy,and multitasking saves time. Popular electronic devices like tablets and smart phones make it convenient to do several tasks at once.- 64 Melissa Brown of Evanston,Illinois,says she has no trouble listening to music,surfing the Intemet,and sending text messages to friends while she does her homework. 65 That's because with multitasking,there are actually many "micro-interruptions"in which people stop one task,start another,and eventually return to the first one.These stops and starts make it difficult to concentrate,and so multitaskers actually waste time, according to a study at Microsoft Corporation.In the study,workers who interrupted their work to answer an email or text message took an average of 15 minutes to return to the work they were doing before the interruption. 66 This doesn't matter if you're only preparing a salad and listening to the radio,they say.But if you're doing a difficult task that requires thinking,like writing a report, then multitasking can slow you down and cause mistakes.It can even be dangerous,as in the case of people who talk on the phone,eat,or even apply makeup while driving. V.Summary Writi恤g Directions:Read the following passage.Summarize the main idea and the main point(s)of the passage in no more than 60 words.Use your own words as far as possible. 67. A Wise Way to Make Families Rules All groups,of whatever size or nature,need standard operating procedures.Without them, groups may very well fall into confusion,chaos and conflict.The functions that rules can serve are indispensable.When it comes to parenting,making rules can make a big difference in our family as well.Actually,the issue is not whether our families need rules.We do need them.The real issue is how to motivate all family members to comply with()them. At some time in our lives we all have felt unmotivated to comply with some rule or policy that we had no voice in making.Denied the opportunity to participate in establishing a rule,most people feel imposed upon and resentful of the new rule.But when people actively participale in 扫描全能王创建 setting a rule or making a decision that will aftect them,thev are more highly motivated to comply with it.We call this the Principle of Participation,and it has.proven its effectiveness in families as well. When children are given the opportunity to participate in setting rules or making decisions that will affect them,several good things happen.Children feel better about themselves-having more self-estecm ()and self-confidence.Such a good effect is due to their feeling that they have gained more "fate control"over their own lives.They also feel they are equal members of the family with an equal voice in making decisions and establishing rules-they're part of a team,not second-class citizens.This means that families that function collaboratively and democratically will have closcr and warmer relationships than those in which the adults act as bosses or authorities expecting the children to obey the rules made for them. Another important reason for encouraging the full participation of family members in decision making is that it often produces higher-quality solutions to problems.Two heads (or three,or four)are better than one.Shared decisions will be based not only on the knowledge and expericnce of the adults but also on those of the children.The admonition()that father knows best should be challenged now. 第Ⅱ卷 I.Spelling Words 4% 1.原始的：远古的 2.短暂的：暂时的 3.许可证：执照 4标准；准则 5.最初的：开始的 6.申请人 7.比较n. 8.外科的：外科手术的 Phrases 4% 1.几乎不可能 2.去掉，清除 3.忍受某事物 4.做某事的尝试 Ⅱ.Translation(15分)(3+3+4+5 L.消息传来在网上随意发表恶意评论将被视为违法。(Word came) 2.无论他有多么不感意承认，凌乱的生活环境是他们家庭矛盾的根源。(however) 3.我们不能把他为我们所作出的贡献视为理所当然；相反的，我们应该给与重视。(aach) 4.他之所以能成为一名家喻户晓的体育明星，不仅仅是因为他在赛场上酣畅淋漓的表现， 更是因为他的努力和谦虚。(The reason why) IL Guided Writing(25分) Directions:Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions giver below in Chinese. 月前，很多家长在短视频(short vⅵideo)上秀自己未成年孩子的日常生活，点击量轻材 过百万。请就秀娃短视频走红现象，谈谈家长这种行为是否妥当，并说明理由。 扫描全能王创建