河南省郑州市2023-2024学年高二下学期6月期末英语试题

郑州市2023-2024学年下期期末考试 高二英语试题卷 注意事项: 本试卷分四部分,考试时间120分钟,满分150分。考生应首先阅读答题卡 上的文字信息,然后在答题卡上作答,在试题卷上作答无效。 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卡上。 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 1. When did the man probably visit Guilin? B. Last July. A. This June. C. Last August. 2. What does the woman think of Kate? A. Quiet. B. Easy-going C. Talkative. 3. What will the man do this Tuesday? A. Attend an interview. B. Deliver a speech. C. Meet his lawyer. 4. Why did the man choose the cottage? A. Because of its price. B. Because of its comfort. C. Because of its location. 5. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. At Holiday Inn. B. In the office. C. At the airport. 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 高二英语试题卷第1页(共14页) CS扫描全能王 亿人在用韵扫描A 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. How long will Ann stay in Chicago? B. Five days. A. Four days. C. Nine days. 7. What does Ann plan to do in Chicago? A. Go biking. B. Explore some museums. C. Visit a theme park. 听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。 8. Why did Mike make the call A. To express his thanks. B. To make an invitation. C. To ask for information 9. What did Beth and her cousin mainly do? A. They had a chat. B. They played basketball. C. They went skateboarding 10. What is Beth's cousin good at? B. Cooking. A. Dancing. C. Reading. 听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。 11. What does the man say about Red Nose Day? A. It's a charity event. B. It's the most famous festival. C. It's held in March each year. 12. What do the students enjoy doing on Red Nose Day? A. Selling red noses. B. Watching TV shows. C. Wearing funny clothes. L3. How does the woman like Jessie's act? A. Silly. B. Admirable C. Interesting. 听第9段材料,回答第14至16题。 高二英语试题卷第2页(共14页) CS扫描全能王 亿人在用的扫描A 14. Why did the woman go to Lockwood Village last month? A. To see a relative. B. To do a support project. C. To conduct some research. 15. What did the woman do in Lockwood Village? A. She fed animals. B. She collected fruits. C. She organized houses. 16. How is the elderly's life? A. Relaxing. B. Difficult. C. Simple. 听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。 17. What might the speaker be? A. A tour guide. B. A teacher. C. A reporter. 18. What does the speaker say about the oldest cave painting? A. It was found in Spain. B. It's nearly 64,000 years old. C. It served as a decorative item. 19. What do scientists agree on? A. The cave paintings' values. B. The accuracy of carbon dating. C. The way of keeping the paintings 20. Which are common subjects of cave paintings? A. Wild plants. B. Human figures. C. Large animals. 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,并在 答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A A fascinating history and outstanding music scene have made Denton a North Texas cultural hotspot, but that's not all this town has to offer. 高二英语试题卷第3页(共14页) 表进 CS扫描全能王 亿人在用韵扫描A Bayless-Selby House Museum 22 Experience life as a well-to-do Texan in the 19th century at Bayless-Selby House Museum. The home features all the splendid styling of the Oueen Anne style of architecture, and its rooms are fumished with rare antiques from the time period. Bayless-Selby House Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday between April and October, and Wednesday through Saturday from November to March. ,.: 317 West Mulberry Street, Denton, TX 76201, (940) 349-2850 Campus Theatre Denton's Campus Theatre is a true part of the town's history. It began as a magnificent movie house in 1949, shut down in 1985, but returned 10 years later as a performing arts venue. Today, Campus Theatre, located in downtown Denton, is a place for film festivals, plays, and musicals. Tickets for these performances can be purchased on the theatre's website or booked. 214 West Hickory Street. Denton, TX 76209. (940) 382-1915 Ray Roberts Lake State Park Row a boat down a scenic creek(小溪), stay on a beautiful beach, try your luck at catching a fish, or set up a tent and sleep under the stars. You name it, you can do it at Ray Roberts Lake State Park. 20 miles of multi-use trails, a marina (小 船鸠) that sells and rents boats, and an attraction can be found within the park located just north of Denton. 100 P W4137. Pilot Point, TX 76258,(940) 686-2148 Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center offers lovers of the great outdoors the chance to experience some of the best birding and hiking in the Denton area. Travel the nearly 8 miles of nature trails that cover Clear Creek and the Elm Fork of the Trinity River through grasslands, wetlands and bottom land hardwood forests 3310 Collins Road. Denton, TX 76208, (940) 349-2883 21. Where can you appreciate the Oueen Anne style of architecture? A. At Campus Theatre B. At Ray Roberts Lake State Park C. At Bayless-Selby House Museum. D. At Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center. 高二英语试题卷第4页(共14页 CS扫描全能王 a亿人在用扫描Ap 22. What is Campus Theatre used to do now? A. To shoot films. B. To host art events. C. To train performers D. To demonstrate Denton's history. 23. What do the last two places have in common? A. They are friendly to bird lovers. B. They are good places for boating. C. They have a fascinating history and music D. They provide a chance to get close to nature. B I'm a 66-year-old harp(竖琴) student. Others in my class are 5,7,10,14... The next oldest is 3O. I fancy myself the sage elder, hoping that they see me as a source of inspiration -"You're never too old to learn."or"If she can do it, I can, too!" After 4 years of learning to play, it was time for our first in-person harp performance! Performers sat among the guests beforehand, chatting and drawing excitement and energy from the full-of-anticipation room. One by one, my fellow students went - each playing superbly. I was proud of them like they were my own kids. Then, it was my turn. I was still relaxed and confident. But I struggled from the start. I kept my fingers moving on the strings, but the melody(旋律) was all wrong. Luckily, the harp is a forgiving instrument. Even wrong notes can sound melodic. But if anyone knew how the songs were supposed to sound, they'd have known I was messing it up. Suddenly, glorious sunlight shone through the concert hall's windows. Now I couldn't see! But the show must go on, right? When I got totally lost in the middle of both of my pieces, I thought, "I don't know what this is anymore, but it sounds kind of nice!" Sometimes, wonderful creations can be born out of panicked improvisation(即兴创作). I kept thinking "Make a joyful noise, regardless!" The 8 minutes felt like 8 hours. 高二英语试题卷第5页(共14页) 表进 CS扫描全能王 亿人在用韵扫描A Being the eldest in the room often makes people assume you're the best or wisest. The truth, especially at that performance, was far different. But I would have awarded myself a gold star for the courage to start playing a new instrument at 62 and then perform in front of a large audience. Making music knows no age. Thinking back on my first performance, I realize that my lengthy life experience has taught me that the show must go on no matter what worrisome world politics, health scares, uncertain economic times, or difficult personal relationships are occurring. Life's music is playing! It's my job to show up and keep trying. 24. What does the underlined word "sage" in paragraph 1 probably mean? C. Joyful. B. Wise. A. Interesting. D. Demanding. 25. How did the author feel before her performance? A. Panicked and nervous. B. Thrilled and expectant. C. Calm and self-confident. D. Worried and unprepared 26. How did the author react when realizing she was messing up her performance? A. She stopped playing immediately. B. She didn't know what to do with it. C. She looked at the sunlight for comfort. D. She accepted the reality and carried on. 27. What leson does the author learn from the experience? A. Never stop moving on in spite of difficulty. B. Don't be afraid of making mistakes in learning C. Confidence is more important than preparation. D. Improvisation is necessary in musical performance. C In experiments involving bouncy balls, plastic bottles and a high-speed camera researchers in Chile discovered that it's possible to control the height of a container's bounce by swirling (旋动) the water inside. If this experiment sounds like something out of a social media challenge, that's 高二英语试题卷第6页(共14页) CS扫描全能王 a亿人在用的扫描A because it is. Pablo Gutiérrez, a physicist at Chile's O' Higgins University, became interested in bouncing containers after his son showed him the viral "bottle flip" challenge: throwing a half-full plastic bottle so it flies end over end and sticks the landing. "Pablo became very good at this challenge," laughs Gutiérrez's co-author Leonardo Gordillo, "He was throwing a lot of bottles." So the physicists and their research team took bottle flipping into the laboratory. They glued halves of rubber balls to the bottle's bottom to enhance their bounce. And they made a key observation: bottles they'd swirled before releasing bounced far less -- probably thanks to fluid dynamics(流体力学). To test this, the physicists built a device that could swirl and drop bottles with scientific precision. Indeed, the faster the water was swirled, the lower a bottle's bounce Like car passengers during a tight turn, swirling water inside a bottle gets x pushed to the sides of the container, forcing it upward evenly along the walls. When the bottle hits the ground, the water courses down toward a single point at the center of the bottle's base. All of the fluid tries to pass through that point but can't. With nowhere else to go, the water flies back upward. Most of the falling bottle's K momentum(动量) gets redirected into this vertical jet (垂直喷射流) rather than into a bounce, lowering the impact and explaining why swirled bottles tend to stick their landings when"flipped". Tadd Truscott, a fluid physicist in Saudi Arabia, says he'd be interested to see 而 whether the effect works for stickier fluids or for larger container sizes. Such findings could perhaps be useful for reducing crash damage to fluid-filled containers like fuel tanks. It could also make for an afternoon of fun at home. The researchers encourage readers to give a bottle a swirl and see the result for themselves 27 28. What did Pablo's son show him? A. How a container's bounce was controlled B. How plastic bottles were flipped in the air C. How bottles could be thrown as high as possible. D. How a half-filled water bottle made a good landing 29. What did the physicists do to carry out the experiment? A. They chose larger plastic containers. 高二英语试题卷第7页(共14页) CS扫描全能王 亿人在用的扫描A B. They replaced water with sticky fluids C. They poured more water into the bottles. D. They stuck something to the bottle's bottom. 30. How is paragraph 4 developed? A. By sharing a personal experiment. B. By comparing varieties of water bottles C. By describing a bounce-reducing process. D. By giving an example of a car's tight turn. 31. What would Tadd like to see? A. The publication of the findings B. The great fun of bottle flipping. C. The application of the experiment. D. The improvement of fluid-filled containers. I'm used to seeing small leaps in technological progress, but occasionally, there are things that will still shock me. In 2022, a company called OpenAI released a truly jaw-dropping demonstration of a new AI technology that feels almost like technology has skipped ahead by a few generations The AI technology is called ChatGPT, a computer program that can understand and respond to human language. It is trained on a lot of text, so it can understand what people are saying and respond in a way that sounds like a real person. What's even more amazing is that ChatGPT seems frighteningly human in its ability to understand questions and answer them competently. "Write a story about Leonardo da Vinci in the style of Roald Dahl," you can ask it, and it'll spin up a pretty good children's story. One area where I've found ChatGPT to be enormously useful is its ability to write computer code. This has particularly amazed me. When you write code, it has to be very precise and carefully structured. But when I asked it to write a program that would put some data into a database for me, in a particularly complex way, within seconds it generated something that would have taken me hours to do manually. ChatGPT is not really completely human, however. For example, it sometimes 高二英语试题卷第8页(共14页 CS扫描全能王 亿人在用鹤扫描A generates things that sound true, but are actually just nonsense. This is because of the way the AI learns through pattern recognition. There's no real intelligence operating there - it is just repeating something based on what it has "read" before. ChatGPT is better at some tasks than others: it can write a brilliant invitation email but its ability to rhvme leaves a lot to be desired And this is why I'm pretty convinced that ChatGPT is going to change the world. sooner rather than later. It's already hugely impressive,but what exists at the moment is just a demonstration. Once the same AI is built into other apps and can connect to the live internet to learn more, it will become even more sophisticated (复 杂巧妙的). Our computers will no longer be just our word processors, but our writing partners too. 32. What can we learn about ChatGPT from paragraph 2? A. It can understand people's emotions B. It reacts like a real person during talks. C. It is unable to generate original contents. D. It frightens people much in different ways. 33. What is particularly amazing about ChatGPT's ability to write a program? B. Its efficiency. A. Its diversity. C. Its structure. D. Its precision 34. What does paragraph 4 mainly talk about? A. ChatGPT has some limitations. B. There's no real intelligence in the world. C. ChatGPT learns through pattern recognition. D. AI thinks almost the same way as humans do. 35. What is the author's attitude toward ChatGPT? B. Opposed. A. Positive. C. Doubtful. D. Unclear. 第二节(共5小题;每小题2.5分,满分12.5分) 阅读下面短文,从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在 答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Many people share the assumption that material wealth and possessions bring happiness. This is why so many lottery tickets (彩票) are sold each week. 36. 高二英语试题卷第9页(共14页) CS扫描全能王 亿人在用鹤扫描A Life satisfaction in the United States has remained at the same level for half a century, even though its GDP is much higher than ever before. Many countries with the highest levels of well-being(幸福), such as several Latin American countries, have a comparatively low level of material wealth. People with a strong desire for wealth tend to have lower levels of well-being. In contrast, people who live a life of voluntary simplicity with few possessions have a higher level. 37. Certainly, money can lead to greater well-being if your basic needs aren't satisfied or you're worrying about your financial situation. 38 . I sometimes compare the materialist pursuit of happiness to eating when you're already full. You can eat as much as you like, but it doesn't satisfy you - in fact, it just makes you feel uncomfortable and sick The idea that wealth brings well-being also stops us from focusing on the real sources of happiness, like contact with nature, relationships, and inner harmony. These are much more reliable and productive sources of well-being. 39 , while materialism only offers short bursts of pleasure, which wear off fairly quickly. 40 . Possessions are produced using natural resources and create waste and pollution. The desire to own and build up possessions is destroying our ecology. Sooner or later, we will have to shift to a simpler lifestyle, whether we like it or not A. In a word, money doesn't mean everything B. They offer a stable and true sense of well-being C. Very few people are lucky enough to get wealthy D. But beyond a certain point, it makes little or no difference E. But research has shown little connection between wealth and well-being F. So, not taking material wealth too seriously is a good start for well-bein G. Moreover, we have to end our passion for possessions for the environmen 第三部分语言运用(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,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处 的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 高二英语试题卷第10页(共14页) CS扫描全能王 a亿人在用的扫描A