广东省深圳市龙城高级中学、深圳大学附属中学2023-2024学年高二下学期5月月考英语试题

2023-2024 学年度第二学期第二次段考 高二年级英语试题 试卷分值130分 考试时间120分钟 第一部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分50分，每小题2.5分） 一、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 The Master of Arts Program in the Humanities(MAPH)at the University of Chicago is designed to allow you the freedom to either focus on one academic discipline or explore interdisciplinary (跨学科的) interests that may not fit well within a traditional MA program. This advantage, combined with our strong support, can help you take the next step in your professional and academic life in a short amount of time — more than 90% of our students graduate in 9 months. The Value of This MA Program Master’s degrees obtained after finishing MA programs, have become increasingly common for admission to PhD programs and it is not unusual for an MA degree to serve as a requirement for entry into many professional fields. MAPH also allows students to complete intensive academic work and prepares them to continue into further graduate study or a career that much faster. Academic Support MAPH students are provided with academic guidance from the moment they arrive on campus. Most often this support comes from the following sources: ·All MAPH students take a required fall quarter course taught by the MAPH Director. ·Students are placed in groups of 10-12 and work closely with an assigned post-doctoral Instructional Professor or Teaching Fellow throughout the year ·Over the winter and spring quarters, MAPH students work closely with a faculty member who has agreed to serve as their thesis advisor. ·Three MAPH Mentors recent MAPH graduates who work as staff members, are available to meet with students to discuss course selection. 1. What is the highlight of the MAPH? A. Interest. B. Expertise. C. Discipline. D. Flexibility. 2. What is the potential use of obtaining the MAPH? A. Pursuing a profitable career. B. Applying for a PhD program. C. Publishing loads of paper work. D. Choosing undergraduate study. 3. What kind of support is available for all MAPH students? A. Course by the director of the program. B. Group work with the MAPH director. C. Advice on thesis writing in fall quarter. D. Help with course books from Mentors. B I’m a walker, logging an average of 9000 steps a day several times a week around my neighborhood. On recent trips to Copenhagen and Stockholm, I noticed tall, fit Scandinavians (斯堪法尼亚人) walking along on city streets with poles, as if they were cross-country skiing without any snow. It was a surprise to learn that the addition of the poles makes it a more vigorous, full-body exercise than simply walking – and, as a 76-year-old looking to stay healthy while enjoying the outdoors, I decided to give it a try. There’s plenty of help online for the new Nordic (北 欧的 ) walker: stand tall, swing your arms out as if to shake hands, and plant your poles with vigour. Then there’s the little matter of the strap (带子) on the pole. This allows the walker to grip the pole when thrusting forward and then relax that hand as the other hand pushes forward – a skill of coordination that builds stronger muscles. For a warm-up, I started slow: Nordic walking down the hall that extends from my front door to the deck. Keeping balance wasn’t my only problem. The novel use of my arms and upper body was surprisingly demanding. After half an hour, my heart was pounding and I was sweating, but I still wasn’t much good. Still I carried on because there’s no arguing with the exercise’s benefits. Nordic walkers’ upper-body exercise increases their heart rate significantly more than walking without poles. And according to cardiologist Dr Aaron Baggish, with poles “you’re engaging 80 to 90 per cent of your muscles.” It also helps people with Parkinson’s, says Burrill. “We put poles in their hands and it’s amazing because they start walking with real rhythm.” After a few clumsy days of being convinced I would never succeed, suddenly everything clicked. Not only was I able to coordinate the movements, I was aware that my heart, arms and core were getting a workout. Nordic walking is a form of exercise I expect to enjoy for years to come. 4. What inspired the writer to try Nordic walking? A. Enjoying the outdoor skiing. B. Observing Scandinavians walking. C. Getting tired of simple walking. D. Fancying a healthy lifestyle. 5. What was the main challenge for the author during the initial stages of Nordic walking? A. Building strong muscle in the arms. B. Using arms and upper body harmoniously. C. Sweating with heart pounding. D. Feeling discouraged for lack of progress. 6. What does the author want to show by mentioning people with Parkinson’s? A. The great benefits of Nordic walking. B. The wide practice of Nordic walking. C. The urgency to promote Nordic walking. D. The promising future of Nordic walking. 7. What is the author’s intention in writing this passage? A. To persuade readers to try Nordic walking for fun. B. To share the experience of trying a new fitness activity. C. To emphasize the great difficulties of Nordic walking. D. To compare Nordic walking with simple walking. C In the late 1970s, archaeologists (考古学家) uncovered the remains of a woman and a young dog, her hand resting on the puppy’s chest in a 12,000-year-old village. The find is some of the earliest evidence of the bond between humans and dogs. But even after years of study researchers are divided on how this bond began. Did it arise over thousands of years, as early dogs became tamer (驯服的) and more accustomed to human behaviors? Or was this fire already burning in the ancestors of dogs: the gray wolf? Christina Hansen Wheat, a behavioral ecologist at Stockholm University, and workmates hand-raised 10 gray wolves from the time they were 10 days old. When the animals were 23 weeks old, a caregiver led them one at a time into a mostly empty room. Over the course of several minutes, the caregiver exited and entered the room, sometimes leaving the wolf alone, sometimes leaving it with a complete stranger. The team repeated the experiment with 12 23-week-old Alaskan huskies (哈士奇), which they’d raised similarly since puppyhood. For the most part, the scientists saw few differences between the wolves and the dogs. When their caregiver entered the room, both species scored 4.6 on a five-point scale of “greeting behavior”—a desire to be around the human. When the stranger entered, dog greeting behavior dropped to 4.2 and wolf to 3.5, on average, suggesting both animals made a distinction between the person they knew and the one they didn’t. It’s this distinction that the team counts as a sign of attachment. In addition, dogs barely paced—a sign of stress—during the test, while wolves paced at least part of the time. However, the wolves stopped pacing almost entirely when a stranger left the room and their caretaker returned. Hansen Wheat says that’s never been seen before in wolves. It could be a sign, she says, that the animals view the humans who raised them as a “social buffer”. For her, that’s the most interesting part of the study. “If this is true, this sort of attachment is not what separates dogs from wolves,” she says. In other words, it didn’t have to be bred into them by humans, but could have been the seed we selected for, and then strengthened over thousands of years. 8. What’s the purpose of Hansen Wheat’s experiment? A. To find out what makes gray wolves and dogs different. B. To explain the reasons why humans raised dogs from ancient times. C. To argue gray wolves after being tamed are easier to keep than dogs. D. To prove whether gray wolves can make doglike attachment to people. 9. What do we know about Hansen Wheat’s experiment from paragraph 3 and 4? A. Researchers began to raise gray wolves from their birth. B. Researchers used equal numbers of gray wolves and dogs. C. Gray wolves felt more stressful than dogs when a stranger came. D. “Greeting behavior” of the two animals was significantly different. 10. What do the underlined words “social buffer” in paragraph 5 mean? A. A reminder of feeding. B. A sign of social attachment. C. A source of comfort and support. D. A warning of stopping pace. 11. What will Hansen Wheat probably agree with according to the last paragraph? A. Dogs are more attached to humans than gray wolves. B. It is the attachment to humans that sets gray wolves apart from dogs. C. The attachment between dogs and humans is the result of being tamed. D. The attachment to humans plays a role in the choice of dogs or gray wolves. D Genetic testing companies have a long history of creative attempts to reach the mainstream. An early example was the sequencing of rock star Ozzy Osbourne’s genes in 2010, with accompanying guess about how they might have influenced his drug habits. Lately, such projects have taken on a new, highly commercialized tendency. In 2017, we got the “Marmite (马麦酱) gene project,” run by London-based genetic testing start-up DNAfit. It claims to show that love or hate for Marmite was in our genes. The project turned into a full-blown marketing campaign, and even sold Marmite-branded DNA testing tools. DNAfit is now working with Mercedes-Benz to find out whether specific genetic traits are associated with business wisdom. AncestryDNA, the world’s largest consumer genetic testing company, last year teamed up with Spotify to promote “music tailored to your DNA.” Just a few weeks ago, 23andMe, the second largest, announced a partnership with Airbnb to provide genetically tailored travel experiences, also inspired by ancestral DNA. I have skin in this game. I run a genetic-testing start-up that connects people who want their genome sequenced with researchers who want data to improve their understanding of genetic disease. I believe that broadening access to DNA testing can be a powerful force for good, providing safer, more effective medicines and giving people more power over their healthcare. But these campaigns risk discrediting the industry, by giving a misleading impression of what genetics can and can't say and its role in determining behaviours and personal preferences. Take the Marmite study. It covered 261 people — tiny, by the standards of the field. It was published not in a journal, but online on bioRxiv, a server where scientists typically put results before peer-review. Shortly after, researchers looked at the genetic data of more than 500 times as many people in the UK Biobank and found no such correlation. A large peer-reviewed study in 2013 found no significant link between genes and business common sense. We need to inform the public about what this is all about: that is, the gathering of large amounts of genetic data. We need better regulation to ensure that consumers are clear that this may happen with this sensitive personal information. A checkbox on a 20-page web document full of legal terms should not be enough. Scientists too, need to start asking hard questions about whether the information they are using has been sourced ethically. DNA testing has a great future, but we can't build this future with data acquired by any means. 12. The author mentions DNAfit, AncestryDNA and 23andMe in order to __________. A. highlight the problems facing genetic testing B. illustrate the commercial applications of DNA C. compare what progress the companies have made D. reveal the link between DNA and a person's character 13. We can learn from “I have skin in this game” in Para. 4 that the author __________. A. is challenging the available treatment for skin disease B. has a personal investment in the genetic-testing business C. hopes to remove people's misunderstanding of the game rules D. believes that every individual should have access to DNA testing 14. What do the last two paragraphs mainly talk about? A. The disadvantages of genetic testing. B. The scientific value of genetic testing. C. The legal system genetic testing needs. D. The essentials for proper genetic testing. 15. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? A. DNA Is Anything but a Marketing Tool B. Genetic Testing Campaigns Aren't Legal C. Creative Marketing Is Key to Genetic Testing D. DNA Testing Has Become a Booming Industry 第二节 （共5题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5) 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。 The Decluttering Philosophy That Keeps Your Home Organized When you sit at your desk, you may constantly be confronted by chaos. ____16____ Here an expert shares about some useful strategies to keep our messes at bay and her decluttering philosophy — getting rid of unnecessary possessions and distractions. ____17____ “What becomes clutter and where your clutter collects can say a lot about what’s going on with you.” Thus the first thing you should keep in mind is to understand your clutter. When you understand the reasons behind your clutter, it’s a lot easier to know what to keep and what to get rid of. When it comes to organizing, don’t bite off more than you can chew. If you start off with too big a goal, you might get discouraged if the job takes too long. ____18____ Instead, start with something less challenging. You can also work within short time restrictions. All in all, setting realistic goals and breaking tasks up into manageable portions can really help. Once you’ve chosen an area to declutter, make a list of everything you have in that space. Then comes the hardest part: figuring out what to get rid of. At this stage, please look at your items with neutral eyes. ____19____ Admittedly, it’s easy to be organized the day after decluttering, when tidiness is still top of mind. But what happens when you come home from a trip and are too tired to unpack your luggage? Or when you get the flu and are too sick to clean up? ____20____ In other words, make a system that works for you even when you’ve got to work or when you’ve got a cold. A Everyone’s clutter tells a personal story. B. So don’t restore your entire garage in one afternoon. C. The key is to create practices that can be easily maintained. D. It can help you let go of things you don’t need but feel attached. E. Comparatively speaking, the job taking shorter time will be easier to finish. F. At this time you may wonder how to clean up your space and keep it that way. G. If you are worried about these situations, you can delay your decluttering schedule. 第二部分 语言运用 （共两节，满分30分） 第一节 完形填空 （共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） Never had a lovely sunflower been absent to my house on my birthday, since I turned 13. No cards or notes in it. Calls to the flower shop were always ___21___ — it was a cash purchase. I never stopped ___22___ who the mysterious giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful but too shy to disclose his or her ___23___. My mother even ___24___ my imaginations. She’d ask me if there was someone who I had done a special favor and then might be showing ___25___. As a teenager, ___26___, I had more fun assuming that it might be a boy I had a crush on. When I was 17, I failed ___27___ in a significant test. That night when the result came. I just ___28___ myself to sleep. When I awoke in the morning, my mother comforted, “Don’t be discouraged! It’s not a big deal!” Yet, I remember ___29___ out of the house at that time, yelling... “You just don’t understand!” One month before my graduation from high school, my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from pain to ___30___ so that I became completely uninterested in the upcoming ceremony. But my mother, in the midst of her own grief, would deny my ___31___ any of those things. Before my father died, we had shopped a party dress which made me feel like a (an) ___32___ Cinderella. But it was the wrong size. Later I totally forgot about the dress. My mother didn’t. The day before the dance, I found that dress, in the right size, ___33___ in the box to me — gracefully, and lovingly. She just wanted her child to feel loved and showed that there still existed magic and beauty even ___34___ hardships. Actually, my mother passed away one week after I got married, That year the adorable sunflower stopped ___35___. 21. A. in advance B. in vain C. in charge D. in private 22. A. declaring B. admiring C. calculating D. confirming 23. A. identity B. proof C. address D. presence 24. A. subscribed to B. referred to C. objected to D. contributed to 25. A. applause B. account C. appreciation D. assistance 26. A. though B. moreover C. therefore D. otherwise 27. A. particularly B. unexpectedly C. unavoidably D. sincerely 28. A. applied B. allowed C. forced D. devoted 29. A. wandering B. rushing C. pacing D. moving 30. A. astonishment B. annoyance C. tiredness D. abandonment 31. A. grasping B. interrupting C. accepting D. skipping 32. A. awesome B. original C. ordinary D. imaginative 33. A. awarded B. thrown C. delivered D. paid 34. A. in response to B. by means of C. in terms of D. in the face of 35. A. cheering up B. showing up C. lighting up D. warming up 第二节 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。 Short-form videos, which gained popularity on the Chinese platform Douyin, have given rise to a new trend in entertainment: ultra-short (超短) dramas. ____36____ (tailor) to our fast-paced lifestyles, ultra-short dramas are far more likely to attract people to try them out than traditional television series. In the past, committing ____37____ a show meant investing upwards of 40 minutes, but with ultra-short dramas, only a few minutes is enough for ____38____ taste. Despite the initial success of ultra-short dramas, Chinese authorities ____39____ (tighten) regulations and intensifying monitoring on them. Currently, most of these ultra-short dramas revolve around clichéd (陈词滥调的) romantic plots, often ____40____ (feature) a wealthy individual getting together with a poor person. This narrative trend bears the potential ____41____ (shape) young minds’ perceptions of reality and their approaches to real-life challenges. What’s equally concerning is ____42____ ultra-short dramas are designed to catch the viewers’ attention with bite-sized runtimes. In a world dominated by smartphones, ____43____ attention spans are already declining, frequent ____44____ (expose) to ultra-short videos can only worsen the issue. It’s natural for us to seek entertainment. But it’s also worth pausing to consider the consequences _____45_____ diving into ultra-short dramas. 第三部分 写作 （共两小节，满分40分） 46第一节 应用文写作 （满分15分） 46. 假定你是高三学生李华，在上周的读后续写练习中，你的续写得分为16分（满分25分），你认为此分数偏低，并感到困惑。请你用英语给你的英语老师Mr. Davis写一份邮件，内容包括： 1.说明问题并给出理由； 2.寻求老师的建议。 参考词汇：读后续写 continuation writing 注意：1.词数不少于80； 2.内容充实，行文连贯； 3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 Dear Mr. Davis, ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Li Hua 47 第二节 读后续写（共1题，满分 25分） 47. 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。 I was doing homework with my friend Ollie at his home when he randomly started scribbling (乱画) a fish. But not just any fish. This fish was riding a skateboard and blowing a bubble that said “I’d rather be skating!”I laughed and drew a sea star saying “Quit fooling around and get to work!” Just then, Ollie’s grandma Abuela and her friend Mr. Goldberg came into the kitchen. Mr. Goldberg was in charge of the local animal shelter. Abuela poured their tea and inquired about how things were going at the animal shelter. Mr. Goldberg sighed, shaking his head. He explained that not enough people were adopting pets, resulting in too many animals without homes. Overhearing the conversation, Ollie offered to adopt some excitedly. But Abuela said that one noisy parrot was plenty for this house. “Blue isn’t noisy,” defended Ollie. “He’s just musical.” “I’d have a whole farm full of animals if I could,” I said. “But my parents say two cats and a hamster (仓鼠) are enough.” Mr. Goldberg said he kept trying to attract people to adopt animals, but found it hard to get people’s attention these days. Ollie drew a sad whale, and I wrote the words “Please adopt me” in the shape of a whale spout (喷水). Mr. Goldberg took a look at our drawings and made favorable comments on them, saying that these clever talking animals just might grab people’s attention. And he asked us if we were willing to design a poster for his animal shelter, a proposal we happily accepted. We decided to draw some ideas on our own and meet up again the next afternoon. That night, when I was sitting in the living room brainstorming ideas for the poster, my little brother brought in our hamster, Mr. Nibbles, to give him a little run-around time. He made a hamster playground out of couch pillows and Mr. Nibbles began to run around merrily. Suddenly, an idea formed in my mind. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We decided to make both Mr. Nibbles and Blue the stars of the poster. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2023-2024 学年度第二学期第二次段考 高二年级英语试题 试卷分值130分 考试时间120分钟 第一部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分50分，每小题2.5分） 一、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 【1~3题答案】 【答案】1. D 2. B 3. A B 【4~7题答案】 【答案】4. B 5. B 6. A 7. B C 【8~11题答案】 【答案】8. D 9. C 10. C 11. D D 【12~15题答案】 【答案】12. B 13. B 14. D 15. A 第二节 （共5题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5) 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。 【16~20题答案】 【答案】16. F 17. A 18. B 19. D 20. C 第二部分 语言运用 （共两节，满分30分） 第一节 完形填空 （共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） 【21~35题答案】 【答案】21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. C 26. A 27. B 28. C 29. B 30. D 31. D 32. A 33. C 34. D 35. B 第二节 语法填空 （共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分） 【36~45题答案】 【答案】36. Tailored 37. to 38. a 39. are tightening 40. featuring 41. to shape 42. that 43. where 44. exposure 45. before##of 第三部分 写作 （共两小节，满分40分） 46第一节 应用文写作 （满分15分） 【46题答案】 【答案】 Dear Mr. Davis, In my continuation writing, I only got 16 points, which I thought was a low score, so I was confused. I’m writing, hoping that you can give me some suggestions. As for my writing, I feel that it fully meets the requirements of the composition. First of all, the structure of my composition is very clear, and the plot is reasonable. In addition, the words and sentences used are colorful. Finally, I end my article with a well-known proverb, which I think is the perfect highlight of the article. If you give me some advice, I will be very grateful. Li Hua 47 第二节 读后续写（共1题，满分 25分） 【47题答案】 【答案】 Suddenly, an idea formed in my mind. Why not put Mr. Nibbles on the poster? I eagerly sketched out a design featuring Mr. Nibbles in a playful pose, promoting the joy of pet adoption, "Want a pet to play with? Go get one in the local animal shelter." I admired my work with great satisfaction. The next afternoon, Ollie came over with his notebook. His design was centered on his parrot, Blue, who was singing beautifully "Oh! Be our hero! Give shelter pets a chance to be loved!" We exchanged a smile and engaged in a discussion about the final draft of the poster. We decided to make both Mr. Nibbles and Blue the stars of the poster. Combining my playful hamster and Ollie's melodious parrot, we created a vibrant and eye-catching design. After adding the final touches, we proudly presented our final creation to Mr. Goldberg. His faces lit up as he praised the creativity and heartfelt message behind our design. A couple of months later, Mr. Goldberg shared the exciting news that lots of people had come in after seeing the posters. And some of them decided to donate or adopt! We hadn't expected our poster would cause such a sensation, but we did know our small bit of help would create a meaningful ripple. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$