陕西省西安市铁一中学2023-2024学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题

2023一2024一2高二年级期末考试 英语试题 时间：120分钟 第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分） 满分：150分 第一节（共5小题：每小题15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。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。 例：How much is the shirt? A.￡19.15. B.￡9.18. 答案是C. C.￡9.15. 1.Which colour of a carpet does the man like best? A.Blue. B.Red. C.Grey. 2.Why does the woman probably like the new style of writing? A.She is better at this style. B.She likes trying new styles. C.She finds the normal stvle hard. 3.What did the woman nse to torget to do? A.Write down the calories.B.Count the calories. C.Read the calories. 4 What's the probable relationship between the speakers? A usband and wife.B.Nurse and patient. G Co-workers. 5.What arethe speakers talking about? A.What to study at college.B.How to selecpcourses online.C.Where to leamn foreign languages. 第二节（共15小题：每小题.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。听每段对话或独白前，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.What did the woman order at las:? A.A beef sandwich. B.A hot dog C.Chicken breast. .7.Nhere is the woman? A.In her car B.At the cashier's desk. C.In her office. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8.What kind of housework does the man usually do? A Take out the garbage.B.Water the plants. C.Clear the dining table. 9.Whry is the man unwilling to load and unload the dishwasher? A.He has no free time.B.He is not careful enough. C.Ne has no one to share the work. 10.How does the man-react to the new/tasks initially. A.Agreeably. 8.Jappily. C.Unwillingly. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11.What are the sneakers doing? A.Judging an artist. B.Hanging a picture. C.Visiting a museum. 12.How did the man know the name of the painting? 第1页共8页 A.By searching on the Internet. B.By reading the label bclow it. C.By checking the brochure in advance. 13 How does the man feol about muscums now? A.Instructive. B Boring. C.Fancy. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14.Whv did the man uuit his job? A.He felt stressed. B.He felt bored. C.He felt tired out. 15.How long should the bank manager work on workdays? A.For nine hours. B.For nine and a half hours. C.For eight and a half hours. 16.What does the man care about most when looking for a job? A.The benefitsn B.The salary. C.The working hours. 17.What would the man do first? A.Conract the bank. -B.Apply for the job. C.Send an application letter. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18.How long do Chinstrao penguins sleep at a time? A.For about four seconds.B.For around eleven hours. C.For a week. 19.What makes Niels neet surprised? Penguins have no ability to fly. B.Chinstrap penguins make it with micro-sleeps. L.Female penguins go off fishing for family meals. 20.What does the speaker mainly talk about? &」Varieties of pengums. B.Research into sleep. C.Chinstrap penguins'lifestyle. 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。 A While Alice has her adventures in the Wonderland,you can have your own as well this summer.British contemporary artist Philip Colbert has created a Lobstar()Wonderland in Changsha,Hunan Province. Date:July 15 Location:Changsba International Finance Square(Changsha IFS) About Philip Colbert His gobally welcomned lobster series has won the hearts of a large number of followers.The artist,with a master's in philosophy,takes lobster as his second personality. Through large installations(装置艺术)，public art theme exhibition and new media art,the artist has introduced works from galleries and created a surreal art scenery in city's public space with a combination of pop art and local culture. Features In Changsha IFS,Colbert's exhibition,which is the London bused artist's first carge-scale ontdoor public art installations,has three major sectors,showcasing his large installations,sculptures and new media arts as weal as the special works created for the event. The opening ceremony,an art camival,saw a 12-meter-long Lobster Taikonaut specially made by Colbert showcased for the first time.His Lobster Flower and Lobster Shark also found their.way.in the parado.At the 第2页共8页 southwest square,people can find Lobster Founfain towering 12 meters and enjoy two major theme sectors. Lobster Island and Lobster Skate Park.Lobster Ranbow,a lobster breaking through a roof with a rainbow behind it,is the artist's brand-new work for Changsha IFS.In his works,such as Daydreamer,Colbert also expresses his wish of narrowing the distance between art pieces and people. 21.What is Philip Colbert well known fot? A.Alice Wonderland.B.Shark experience.C.Rainbow story. D.Lobster series. 22 What can we learn about the exhihition according to the text? A It took place in the open air.. B.There was no special works for the event. C.The Lobster Takonaut has been displayed somewhcre before. D.Lobster /sland is the artist's brand-new work for Changsha IFS. 23.Where can the text probably be foumd? A.A shopping brochure.B.An art magazine. C.A science report. D.A fashion advertisement. 0 I fell in love with rhinos when I worked in a zoo in the 80s,and spent much of the next 20 years as the keeper of the largest captive(圈养的)group of rare black rhinos There's a popular misconception that rhinos are aggressive and stupid,but I found them sensitive and affectionate animals.Weighing over a ton,black rhinas are unexpectedly agile and have an unpredictable nature-bu,given reassurance,they tend to believe people.In the past few decades,their numbers have dropped dramatically.In recent years,I've helped look after rhinos being moved to the reserve so they can form new populations in countries that have few left.Last year,I helped on a project to fly five black rhinos from a private reserve in South Africa to the Serengeti National Park.Once there,the animals had to be kept captive for a few weeks to adapt to the new environment,in which time they lived in "bomas"-wooden enciosures with “bedrooms'”,designed to create a calm space. A couple of weeks before their planned release,the sky was filled with smoke.Watching the flames rushing through the bush toward the bomas,I froze.Terrified that it would catch fire,my instinct was to release the rhinos, but they hadn't yet been fitted with transmitters )If I let them out into a bushfire and they were injured, we'd have great difficulty tracking them pown.So I dashed back to the bomas and eeled the rhinos to the bedrooms.Sensing the fear in my voices,they moved without hesitation and remained astonishingly calm.It was crucial the rhinos didn't panic-they can easily hurt each other if they do. Meanwhile,the rangers managed to beat the closest flames away.At last,after half an hour,the wind changed direction and the fire began to recede.That we and the rhinos had escaped uninjured was a miracle.The teamwork of everybody there played a large part,and the rhinos were very much a part of that team.The relationships we'd built with them had provea crucial-naa they or we panicked,all our work would have been in vain.Instead,two weeks later,they were released into the wild,ready to found part of a new population in the Serengeti. 24 What kind of animals does the author think rhinos are? A.Unfriendly. B.Cruel.: C.Mild. D.Curious. 25.Why were bomas set up? A.To assist rhinos to settle in. B.To boost tourism in the reserve. C.To avoid rhinos'aggressive behavior. D.To stop rhinos from fleeing. 26.Why didn't the author let the rhinos out in the bushfire? A.3ney would panic and hurt each other. B.It could be difficult to locate and find them. C.They showed signs of anger and aggression. D They might fail to adapt to new environments. 27.What is the last paragraph mainly about? A Why protecting rhinos is important B.How the rhinos were released to the wild. C.What enabled the rhinos to.ramam calm. D.What helped the rhinos and people escape. A new study has found that smiling at London bus drivers increases happiness.The finding feels obvious and anexpected at the same time.The authors of the research,which was conducted by the University of Sussex and others.hope it will lead to"more interaction and kindness on buses".On the Number 24 bus to Hampstead Heath, Londoners are sceptical."Bus drivers,"says Liz Hands,a passenger,"are generally annoying." It might seem improbable that a report on London's buses could change behaviour.But it has happened before. London's buses have an underappreciated role in the history of medical science.In the 1940s,a single study of London's transport workers transtormed epidemiology(t行病学)，medicine and the way we live now.Eve町time you go on a run,check your step-count,or take the stairs instead of the lif,you are following a path pioneered by the feet of the workers on London's buses. In the late 1940s,doctors were worried.Britain,like many rich countries,was suffering from an "epidemic"of heart disease and no one knew why Various hypotheses(),such as stress,were suggested;but one thing that was not exercising researchers was exercise.The idea that health and exercise were linked "wasn't the aeepted fact that we know today",says Nick Wareham,a proressor of epidemiology at Cambridge University.Some even felt that"too much physical activity was a bad thing for your health".Miners and farmers who did physical exercise also suffered from various diseases and died young. At this time a young doctor called Jerry Morris started to suspect that the increasing deaths from heart disease might be linked to occupation.He began studying the medical records of 31,000 London mransport workers.His findings were breathtaking:conductors,who spent their time running up and down stairs,had an approximately 30%lower possibility of disease than drivers,who sat down all day.Exercise was keeping people alive. Morris's research was eventually published in 1953,just three years after a study by Richard Doll proving the Imk between smoking and lung cancer.Morris's work had consequences both big and small.Morris now also took up exercise,handing his jacket to his daughter and just running."People thought I was bananas."Slowly,the rest of the world took off its jacket and followed. 28.What can we leamn from the first two paragraphs? A The former study made much difference. B.Running was regarded as harmful behavior. C.Smiling at drivers can cure passengers'diseases. London passengers can understand bus drivers well. 19.What does the underlined part"exercising researchers"in Paragraph 3 probably mean? 6.Encouraging researchers to work out. B.Helping with researchers'inguiry. C.Holding back researchers'progress. D Drawing researchers'attention. 30.How did Morris conduct his study on the transport employees? A.By carrying out survey. By observing their routines. C.By doing medical examinations. D.By analyzing the medical data. 31.What is the best title for the text? A.Smiling and Its Effects on London Bus Drivers. B.The Evolution of London's Transportation System. C.ITow London Bus Drivers Led the world to exercise. B.What Londoners Think about Studies on Bus Drivers. D Like many people over the past few years,I have found myself turning to audiobooks as my main means of reading literature.After a day of squinting(at my laptop,I find it far more comfortable to "read with my ears"while my eyes are resting.My consumption of new books has doubled as a result-but a recent-paper makes me wonder if this will come at the price of my comprehension The study comes from Boaz Keysar and Janet Geipel,both at the University of Chicago,and it draws from the "dual process model"of mental processing.According to this view,we have two ways of assessing information. SystemI】is intuitive(直觉的)，relying on natural ability and feeling.It is quick,but likely exposed to misinformation.System 2 is analytical involving the use of logic reasoning.It is mentally demanding.When it is engaged,we think our way through the material step by step.For decades,psychologists have designed various tests to determine which of these two systems a person is using.As one example.consider the following question: How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark()If you answered two,you were probably only considering the core of the question,which is System I thinking.To get to the right answer-zero,you need to think more caefully about the wording,which would allow you to remember it was Noah who built the Ark,not Moses.That is the kind of analytical process. Keysar and Geipel's brilliant idea was to investigate whether the sensory form-seeing vs.hearing-of the formation would make a difference.They found that it did:when answering these kinds of simple qucstions, participants were more likely to make errors when the sentences were spoken out loud,rather than written. A greater reliance on our feelings could be a problem if we are consuming information that needs logical study. For this reason,I will retumn to reading non-fiction with my eyes rather than my ears.But I won't stop listening to novels.I am quite happy to go.with the flow of my emetions while my critical mind takes a break. 32.What does the author think of listenng to audiobooks? A.It slows his reading progress. B.It is me only means of reading books for him. It consumes much time when listening to a book. D It gives his eyes a break before screens. 33 Which of the following best describes System 2 model? A.Fairly reliable. B Fully automatic. C.Question-centered. B.Emotion-involved. 34 Why is the Ark mentioned in paragraph 2? lu 2 A.To present a fact B.To illustrate a view. C lo introduce a topic. To draw a conclusion. 35.What does the author intend to tell us? A.Listening to books comes at a price. B.Reading non-fiction books benefits. C.Critical thinking is a must in reading. D.Ways of processing information differ. 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。选项中有两项为多余选预。 Friends are incredibly important people in our lives.Some are with us for decades.36Here are some tips to remember if you're processing the loss of a friend. Sometimes things just don't work out. 37 In fact,people,on average,lose about half of their friends every seven years.One of the most common reasons those relationships end is that they just fell through the cracks.Things didn't work out.Nobody really wanted the friendship to end,but people got busy and didn't intentionally maintain the friendship. Make the unsaid said. Sometimes,in friendship,people don't make the unsaid said.38 And because they're never directly addresscd,pcople get to a point where they want to end the friendship before actually addressing the 第5页共8页 problem.Actually,if they had intervened sooner,they might have been able to save the friendship It's normal to feel grief. When a friendship ends,there is a grieving process.Allow yourself to feel those emotions and be patient. Instead of pushig yourself to cheer up,try thinking like this,"Of course I'm upset.I lost someone I'm very close to. 39This is a natural part of closeness and loss." 40 It's important not to blame yourself and be mean to yourself for not getting over the loss of a friendship.Just because this happened like this docsn't mean more friendships will happen like this.Allow yourself to have a fresh eerspective when you enter new friendships.You don't want to go into a new connection fearfully. A.That means I love my friend deeply. B.Be kind te yourself along the way. Find ways to enter a new friendship. D.Small things can kind of accumulate. E.Losing friends is a regutar part of life. F.But not all ot them can stand the test of time. GWhen a close friendship ends,the reasons are complicated. 第三部分语言运用（共三节，满分30分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） I found a brown bag outside after our move."Grass Seed,"it said in big letters.My husband and I 41 the seeds all over the dirty yard in tront of our new house."I have no idca if they will 42,"I told him,"but it's wortb a shot."Just like our 43 to move to the nral Arizona. Near our new house sat a charmning cottage,which was 44 to tourists.I got a job offer to 45 the cottage.I'd worked in hotels for years,so when offered the chance,I 46 it.Still,it was a big change.I 47 that it would be a right move. While we waited for our grass to grow-or not-we 48 settled into our new house through our efforts. We made it a cozy home,despite the 49 in the front yard,which was still bare now.Meanwhile,many of the cottage guests became 50,and I got to know them well.I felt 51 to make their stays memorable. Perhaps I was better at that than 52 But after a monsoon (swept through,I woke up to a beautiful moming and looked out the window. There was no grass growing in the sunlight._S3 our yard was covered in a rainbow of zimias(百日菊)！The front yard turned out even better than I could have 54,just like our new life.And it remains a powerful53 of the beauty that awaits us in our new chapter. 41 A.spread B.sought C.collected D.removed 12A.remain B.last S POOL 'D.dry 43.A.need B.decision C.intention D.agreement 44.A.given B.introduced C.sold D.rented 45.A.explore B.tend G.advertise D.ecorate 46.A.put forward B.tried out C.jumped at D.turned down '47 A.prayed B.decided C.pretended D.understood t48.A.naturally B.gradually C.hardly D temporarily 49A.danger B.potential C.uncertainty E.untidiness 50.A.locals B.employers C.gardeners D.regulars 第6页共8页 51.A.curious B.grateful C.stressed D.proud 52.A.house renting B.yard cleaning C grass growing D.house keeping 53.A.Instead B.Otherwise C.Besides D.Therefore 54 A.remembered B.imagincd C.designed D.appreciated 55 A.reminder B.niemory C.test D.choice 第二节（共10小题：每水题1分，满分10分） 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词成括号内单词的正确形式 China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe has officially roturned the firat samples 56(collect)from the far side of the Moon to scientists here on Earth,a majen achicvement57highlight)the country's rapidly advancing space ambitions.The probe58 (touch)down in Inner Mongola on Tuesday,aelivering the incredibly rare package,59is expected to mclude 2.5-million-year-old volcanic rock.The mission launched in early May and landed 60 (rough)a month later.Within just over 48 hours,the prober scooped up some samples asing a drilk 61 Ltaunched back into space to embark on its weeks long return journey.It even had time 62(drop)off several scientific pavloads on the lunar service,including an instrument that immediately detected the presence of negative ions.Chind.became the first to touch down on the far side of the Moon in April 2019 and 63.remain)the only country so rar to have ever tinished the mission-let alone twice.The Moon's far side,which permanently faces away from Earth,remains far less explored than its much better-understood near side.Its difficult terrain,which includes tall craters and massive boulders,makes 64an extremely challenging place to explore.Scientists are hoping to confirm the65(available)of reseurces there,including water ice, which future explorers could use as a source of water,oxygen,and hydrogen. 第三节基础知识（共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分） 根据下列各句句意和空白后的提示词，在横线上写出对应单词的正确形式，每空一词。 66.This book deals with the social,economic and (政治的issues of the period 67.The chance of winning is remote because the numbers are (随机)selected by computer. 68.The press was ,(指控)of being subservient to the govemment. 69.Education should be a universal right and not a (特权). 70.The audience warmly (鼓举)when the performance came to the end. 71.We should learn to appreciate what we have instead of taking things forgrant). 72.Repairing our _(possess)and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish. 73.In a socicty that tends to mcasure everything in terms of money,we learn form a young age to consider the costs of our decisions in (finance)terms. 74.After the accident,he realized the significance of health, (dedicate)most of his spare time to the pursuit of fitness. 75.Fatal road accidents have decreased in (trequent)over recent years. 第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 假定你是李华，你班训与新西兰姊妹学校某班级在线共上一堂介绍“传统体育项日”的交流课。 请你代表班级写封邮件给对方学生负责人Hs,内容包括：L.告知相关事宜；2.征求意见。 第7贞共8页 注意：1.写作词数应为80左右： 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear Hans, Yours, LiHua 第二节（满分25分） 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。 The Words of Kindness Last week,I was shopping in the local supermarket.My 24-year-old daughter happened to be with me as she had just arrived home for a much-mecded visit because she was going to work abroad for six months.As we were walking through the aisles (and picking things she needed,we heard a child's crying that would last more than fifteen minutes.I wanted to walk over to investigate the situation,already picturing the scene in my mind.No doubt,the cries of the young boy could be heard clearly across the store. My daughter came up to me and said,"Mom!Is that what I sounded like when I was little?" "Yes,Rach,you sounded just like that,"I replied. We tried to continue our shopping,but the loud cries made by the boy who was asking his mom for something continued for what felt like no ending.Several more minutes went by,and the boy just wouldn't stop.I felt it necessary to fallow the crtes.As I approached the aisle,I could see several pcople watching us at the other end of the aisle,talking to cach other and shaking their heads.They would walk away aed then turn around with their carts (购物车)to continue their talks and figure out what was happening. I arrived at the aisle to find a twenty-something mother standing in the middle of the aisle calmly telling the boy,"No."She was not going to.get whatever the boy wanted.He was holding his mother's arms,crying,trying to get her to move.His face turned red with tears.He remained seated on the floor and beat at his mom's legs with his arms while crying at the top of his voice. 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。 I walked over to the mom and touched her arm At that moment,I could see relief wash over her. 第8页供8页