西藏拉萨市第二高级中学2024-2025学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

绝密 ★ 启用前 2024-2025学年第一学期拉萨市第二高级中学期中考试 高二英语试卷 注意事项： 1．本试卷满分150分，考试时间为150 分钟。 2．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号码写在答题卡相应的位置上。 3． 所有答案必须在答题卡上作答。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 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.What's the man? A.A taxi driver. B.A hotel waiter. C.A traffic policeman. 2.Where is the man's brother now? A.In London. B.In New York. C.In Sydney. 3. What did Grace think of the town? A.She liked it in winter. B.She liked it all year round. C.She liked it most of the time. 4.What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A.Doctor and patient. B.Husband and wife. C.Mother and son. 5.How will the woman go downtown? A.By taxi. B.By car. C.By bus. 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 has the woman had the sleeping problem? A.About two months. B.About two weeks. C.About ten days. 7.What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Drink milk before going to sleep. B. Slow down and have a vacation. C.Do more exercise every day. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. Where did the speakers go after leaving the coffee shop? A.A bank. B.A library. C.A bookstore. 9. What happened to the woman's purse? A.It was left at home. B.It was left in the library. C.It was stolen by a thief. 10.Where are the two speakers now? A.In a bus. B.On the street. C.In a taxi. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11.What does the man want to do this Sunday? A.To go to a concert. B. To study Chinese with Ann. C.To see a movie. 12.Where may Ann be at noon this Sunday? A.At home. B.At her dentist's. C.At Jim's home. 13.What can we know from the conversation? A. The man will help Ann with the cleaning. B. Ann will take a test at the end of this month. C. Ann is not free this Sunday. 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。 14.Where are the speakers? A.In the store. B.In the bank. C.At the airport. 15.What is the woman? A.A teacher. B.A tourist. C.A translator. 16.What did the woman come here for? A.To pick someone up. B.To see her sister off. C.To help others. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What do people usually talk about when meeting “we were classmates”friends? A.Former teachers. B.Shared interests. C.New friends. 18. What can we learn about “common interests”friends? A.They were in the same school as you. B. They may like the same kind of music as you. C. It is difficult to have them in your life. 19.Which type of friends can also be called closest friends? A.The“we were classmates” friends. B.The “common interests” friends. C. “Best”friends. 20. How many close friends do you need to have to be considered very lucky? A.One. B.Two. C.Three. 第二部分 阅读理解（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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A A Take a view, the Landscape(风景)Photographer of the Year Award, was the idea of Charlie Waite, one of today’s most respected landscape photographers.Each year, the high standard of entries has shown that the Awards are the perfect platform to showcase the very best photography of the British landscape.Take a view is a desirable annual competition for photographers from all comers of the UK and beyond. Mike Shepherd(2011) Skiddaw in Winter Cumbria, England It was an extremely cold winter’s evening and freezing fog hung in the air. I climbed to the top of a small rise and realised that the mist was little more than a few feet deep, and though it was only a short climb, I found myself completely above it and looking at a wonderfully clear view of Skiddaw with the sun setting in the west. I used classical techniques, translated from my college days spent in the darkroom into Photoshop, to achieve the black—and—white image(图像). Timothy Smith(2014) Macclesfield Forest Cheshire, England I was back in my home town of Macclesfield to take some winter images. Walking up a path through the forest towards Shutlingsloe. a local high point, I came across a small clearing and immediately noticed the dead yellow grasses set against the fresh snow. The small pine added to the interest and I placed it centrally to take the view from the foreground right through into the forest. 21．Who would most probably enter for Take a view? A．Writers. B．Photographers. C．Painters. D．Tourists. 22．What do the works by Shepherd and Smith have in common? A．They are winter images. B．They are in black and white. C．They show mountainous scenes. D．They focus on snow—covered forests. 23．Where can the text be found? A．In a history book. B．In a novel. C．In an art magazine. D．In a biography. B The teacher who did the most to encourage me was, as it happened, my aunt. She was Myrtle C．Manigault, the wife of my mother’s brother Bill. She taught in second grade at all-black Summer School in Camden, New Jersey. During my childhood and youth, Aunt Myrtle encouraged me to develop every aspect of my potential, without regard for what was considered practical or possible for black females. I liked to sing; she listened to my voice and pronounced it good. I couldn’t dance; she taught me the basic dancing steps. She took me to the theatre—not just children’s theatre but adult comedies and dramas—and her faith that I could appreciate adult plays was not disappointed. My aunt also took down books from her extensive library and shared them with me. I had books at home, but they were all serious classics. Even as a child I had a strong liking for humor, and I’ll never forget the joy of discovering Don Marquis’s Archy & Mehitabel through her. Most important, perhaps, Aunt Myrtle provided my first opportunity to write for publication. A writer herself for one of the black newspapers, she suggested my name to the editor as a “youth columnist”. My column, begun when I was fourteen, was supposed to cover teenage social activities—and it did—but it also gave me the freedom to write on many other subjects as well as the habit of gathering material, the discipline of meeting deadlines, and, after graduation from college six years later, a solid collection of published material that carried my name and was my passport to a series of writing jobs. Today Aunt myrtle is still an enthusiastic of the “favorite niece”. Like a diamond, she has reflected a bright, multifaceted (多面的) image of possibilities to every pupil who has crossed her path. 24．Which of the following did Aunt Myrtle do to the author during her childhood and youth? A．She lent her some serious classics. B．She introduced her to adult plays. C．She discovered her talent for dancing. D．She cultivated her taste for music. 25．What does Archy and Mehitable in Paragraph 3 probably refer to? A．A serious masterpiece. B．A writer of high fame. C．A book of great fun. D．A heartbreaking play. 26．Aunt Myrtle recommended the author to a newspaper editor mainly to ________. A．develop her capabilities for writing B．give her a chance to collect material C．involve her in teenage social activities D．offer her a series of writing jobs 27．We can conclude from the passage that Aunt Myrtle was a teacher who ________. A．trained pupils to be diligent and well-disciplined B．helped pupils overcome difficulties in learning C．emphasized what was practical or possible for pupils D．gave pupils confidence in exploiting their potential C Marie Curie, born in Sklodovka, Poland in 1876, led a hard life as a girl. Her parents, both teachers, had small salaries and were quite poor, especially after her mother stopped teaching to raise five children and take care of her poor health. Marie’s mother suffered from tuberculosis (肺结核) and died of it when Marie was ten. When Marie was small, she showed great interest in science. She loved to study and hoped to become a scientist when she grew up. Her parents encouraged her interest in science. Excellent as she was in her studies, she couldn’t go on with the advanced education she needed because Poland was then ruled by Russia and women were not permitted to go to college. In order to continue her education, she smoothed away many difficulties and entered Paris University, where she lived a simple life and studied hard, so she graduated with the highest grades in her class. After graduation she was engaged in scientific research in Paris University. There she met Pierre Curie, whom she married. Pierre joined her in her research into an unknown phenomenon “radiation”, which a certain scientist had declared that uranium gave off. The Curie spent several years trying their best to find the element that produced radiation.Finally they succeeded in 1902. Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes, one for physics in 1906, together with her husband and another scientist; the other for chemistry herself in 1911. Madame Curie was a scientist of great achievement, and the first woman ever to be honored in the Nobel Prize history. 28．When Marie was young,her family became poorer because________. A．the family had five children B．Marie’s mother gave up her job C．Marie’s father had a small salary D．the family was cruelly taxed by the Russians 29．Marie couldn’t continue the advanced education because_______. A．she wanted to help her father to support the family B．her father couldn’t afford to send her to college C．colleges in Poland would not take women as students then D．her grades were very poor 30．What proves Marie was the best student in her class is that________. A．her grades were the highest in her class B．she smoothed away many difficulties and entered Paris University C．she did research work after her graduation D．she won the Nobel Prize finally 31．The best title for this passage is _______. A．Madame Curie’s Interest in Science B．Madame Curie and Radiation C．Marie Curie’s Childhood D．A Brief Introduction of Madame Curie’s Life D Scientists can’t predict earthquakes. But toads(蟾蜍)might be able to. In the spring of 2010, Rachel Grant, a researcher in life sciences, was studying a population of toads in a large dry lake in central Italy. Common toads reproduce once a year, sometimes traveling great distances to gather at their breeding(繁殖)grounds, and Grant was looking at whether her subjects were using the cycles of the moon to coordinate their romantic encounters. In the previous three years, she had watched the toads increase in number when the moon grew from new to full. But that year was different. The moon became almost full, and suddenly the toads were gone. “It went from there being 90 to 100 toads down to six, and then to one, and then zero,” says Grant. “I was at a loss. Did somebody come and disturb them? Did somebody run through with a tractor? But that didn’t seem right. Toads get run over by cars all the time, and that doesn’t make them run away,” she says. Five days after the toads disappeared, she had a possible answer: an earthquake struck in the middle of the night. The 6. 3-magnitude quake was the deadliest to hit Italy in nearly 30 years, killing roughly 300 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. Grant stayed to count her toads in spite of the aftershocks. When a full moon rose three days after the quake, a few toads risked a return. But then their numbers dropped again, remaining low until two days after the last aftershock-a full 10 days after the first quake. “It’s never been reported to have happened before,” says Grant. “Once they’re breeding, then they’re breeding. That’s it. “ The question now, says Grant, is whether seismologists(地震学家)can do anything with her research to try to predict the next big one. “A lot of people are asking, “Can we use them as a kind of monitoring tool, keep one at home and watch to see if they run away? “ says Grant. “That’s obviously not going to work. “ But she’s hoping something might. 32．What was Grant’s main purpose in going to the large dry lake in Italy? A．To use toads to predict earthquakes. B．To study toads during an earthquake. C．To check the number of toads there. D．To study toads’ breeding activities. 33．What was unusual about the toads before the earthquake? A．Their number increased when a new moon rose. B．Their number increased when the moon became full. C．They disappeared just before the moon became full. D．They disappeared when a new moon rose. 34．What does Grant really mean by stating “I was at a loss”？ A．She felt sorry for the toads. B．She felt puzzled at what she saw. C．She felt fearful about the earthquake. D．She felt sad about what somebody had done. 35．When did the number of toads begin to increase after the earthquake? A．When the moon began to rise. B．After the aftershocks stopped. C．Two days after the earthquake. D．Three days after the moon became full. 第二节 （共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Eyesight plays a very important role in our daily life. Every waking moment, the eyes are working to see the world around us. Over forty percent of Americans worry about losing eyesight, but it's easy to include steps into our daily life to ensure healthy eyes. Here are five suggestions for a lifetime of healthy eyesight: Schedule yearly exams. 36 Experts advise parents to bring babies 6 to 12 months of age to the doctor for a careful check. The good news is that millions of children now can have yearly eye exams and following treatment, including eyeglasses. Protect against UV rays . Long-term stay in the sun creates risk to your eyes. No matter what the season is, it’s extremely important to wear sunglasses. 37 Give your eyes a break. Two-thirds of Americans spend up to seven hours a day using computers or other digital products. 38 Experts recommend that people practice the 20/20/20 rule: every 20 minutes, take a 20-second break and look at something 20 feet away. 39 . As part of a healthy diet, eat more fruits and vegetables each day. Vitamins C and E help protect eyesight and promote eye health. Practice safe wear and care of contact lenses. Many Americans use contact lenses to improve their eyesight. While some follow the medical guidance for wearing contact lenses, many are breaking the rules and putting their eyesight at risk. 40 Otherwise: you may have problems such as red eyes, pain in the eyes, or a more serious condition. A．Eat your greens. B．Eye care should begin early in life. C．They can properly protect your eyes. D．Stay in good shape by taking more vitamins. E．Parents usually don’t care about their own eyesight. F．Always follow the doctor’s advice for appropriate wear. G．This frequent eye activity increases the risk for eye tiredness. 第三部分 语言知识运用（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，从短文后所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Misty Copeland spends most days twisting (扭动), spinning (旋转) and 41 . She practices and 42 the graceful movements of her art. When she isn’t performing she is practicing. When she isn’t practicing, she is stretching. She takes classes almost every day. She takes care of her body so she doesn’t 43 it when she goes to work in a ballet theatre (芭蕾舞剧院). “I treat my body with the respect that any musician would to their 44 ,”says Misty. “I love my body, ”she adds. Was she 45 confident? Actually, she was a 46 girl and avoided the spotlight. But Misty loved music and movement. When she was thirteen, Misty’s teacher suggested she 47 a free ballet class at the Boys&Girls Club, For two weeks, Misty sat on the gym bench watching the class, afraid to 48 Finally, she gave it a 49 At first, she felt 50 in the class. She didn’t know anything about ballet, and she was 51 than most of the students. Over time, 52 she began to enjoy the lessons. She discovered that her body-especially her long legs and flexible muscles -was just 53 for ballet. After the class season ended, Misty received a scholarship to a nearby dance studio. Most ballerinas (女舞者) start their training much younger than thirteen. But Misty’s natural abilities and hard work made her improve quickly. Over the next five years, ballet was Misty’s 54 . She practiced, performed, competed and attended ballet programs. “Performing was my favourite part because I felt 55 and open onstage, she says. “For the first time in my life, I felt like I belonged. ” 41．A．wandering B．leaping C．exercising D．dancing 42．A．perfects B．conquers C．examines D．describes 43．A．hurt B．injure C．spoil D．abuse 44．A．appearance B．voice C．techniques D．instruments 45．A．found B．made C．born D．trained 46．A．humble B．quiet C．cautious D．shy 47．A．attend B．register C．learn D．watch 48．A．stand up B．catch up C．cut in D．join in 49．A．rest B．chance C．try D．thought 50．A．out of place B．out of order C．out of mind D．out of control 51．A．younger B．older C．taller D．shorter 52．A．meanwhile B．however C．moreover D．thus 53．A．ready B．good C．right D．qualified 54．A．life B．major C．prospect D．stage 55．A．improved B．calm C．free D．secure 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。 The Gansu Jiandu (简牍) Museum in northwest China’s Gansu Province on Sunday launched four online exhibitions related to the ancient Jiandu culture. “Jiandu” refers to the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote 56 (use) ink and brushes before the invention of paper. Since 1907, over 80,000 slips 57 (unearth), in Gansu province, 58 is particularly abundant in bamboo and wooden slips, contributing to our understanding of ancient Chinese culture and knowledge. These artifacts hold significant historical, scientific, and 59 (art) value. Additionally, the exhibitions feature high-resolution 60 (image) of the museum’s cultural artifacts, accompanied by detailed text and voice explanations 61 (help) audiences gain a deeper understanding of the items 62 display, said Xu Rui, the museum’s deputy curator. The digital exhibitions also include interactive experiences such as riddle challenges and Jiandu-making games, aiming to attract young visitors, Xu said. Distinguished as China’s only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips, the Gansu Jiandu Museum boasts 63 collection of nearly 40,000 such slips 64 (date) back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B．C．) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317). In addition, it 65 (house) more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware (漆器) and ironware. 第四部分 书信写作（满分15分） 假定你是高二学生李华，最近几次英语考试，作文成绩不理想，为此感到十分苦恼。请你给外教Mike写一封邮件，向他寻求帮助，内容包括：1. 阐明写信事由；2. 征求建议；3. 表示感谢。 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 Mike, I’m Li Hua, one of your students from Senior Two. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, 第五部分 读后续写（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。 It was the day of the big cross-country run. Students from seven different primary schools in and around the small town were warming up and walking the route(路线)through thick evergreen forest. I looked around and finally spotted David, who was standing by himself off to the side by a fence. He was small for ten years old. His usual big toothy smile was absent today. I walked over and asked him why he wasn’t with the other children. He hesitated and then said he had decided not to run. What was wrong? He had worked so hard for this event! I quickly searched the crowd for the school’s coach and asked him what had happened. “I was afraid that kids from other schools would laugh at him,” he explained uncomfortably. “I gave him the choice to run or not, and let him decide.” I bit back my frustration(懊恼). I knew the coach meant well—he thought he was doing the right thing. After making sure that David could run if he wanted, I turned to find him coming towards me, his small body rocking from side to side as he swung his feet forward. David had a brain disease which prevented him from walking or running like other children, but at school his classmates thought of him as a regular kid. He always participated to the best of his ability in whatever they were doing. That was why none of the children thought it unusual that David had decided to join the cross-country team. It just took him longer—that’s all. David had not missed a single practice, and although he always finished his run long after the other children, he did always finish. As a special education teacher at the school, I was familiar with the challenges David faced and was proud of his strong determination. 注意： 1. 续写词数应为150左右; 2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答. We sat down next to each other, but David wouldn’t look at me. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I watched as David moved up to the starting line with the other runners. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ( 第 2 页 共 5 页 ) ( 第 1 页 共 5 页 ) 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$