福建省厦门第一中学2024～2025学年高二上学期11月期中英语试题

福建省厦门第一中学2024——2025 学年度 第一学期期中考试 高二年英语试卷 命题教师 审核教师 2024.11 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 does the man want to get? A. A tennis ball. B. A table. C. Tap water. 2. What are the speakers talking about? A. Buying materials. B. Painting a picture. C. Preparing for an art lesson. 3. How much will the man pay? A. Three dollars. B. Five dollars. C. Seven dollars. 4. What does the man say about the restaurant? A. The waiters were noisy. B. The food was not his thing. C. The atmosphere was friendly. 5. Where are the speakers? A. In a hotel. B. In the public house. C. In a supermarket. 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. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Manager and secretary. 7. What does the woman suggest adding to the presentation? A. More facts. B. More figures. C. More pictures. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. What are the speakers discussing? A. The man's house. B. The effects of global warming. C. The man's job. 9. What is always nice according to the man? A. Animals can get more food. B. Green can be seen all year round. C. He lives by the sea. 10. What could farmers grow before? A. Grass. B. Vegetables. C. Trees. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. When will Singing with Guitar finish tonight? A. At 8:00. B. At 9:00. C. At 10:00. 12. What will the man do on Wednesday? A. Sing folk songs. B. Watch a performance. C. Meet a journalist. 13. Where will the man probably go next? A. The student services office. B. The school hall. C. The lecture room. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14. What is the aim of the campaign? A. To remind people of Earth Day. B. To encourage people to reduce garbage. C. To warn people of the bad effects of pollution. 15. What will be the task on the second day? A. Planting trees. B. Designing posters. C. Collecting garbage. 16. What does the man expect the teachers to do? A. Paint paper. B. Stop driving cars. C. Decorate classrooms. 17. How does Sara find the man's ideas? A. Ridiculous. B. Confusing. C. Wonderful. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. What did the speaker persuade the school to do to raise money? A. Organize a concert. B. Collect the rubbish. C. Sell second-hand books. 19. How much more did the action group need after collecting money for six months? A. £15,000. B. £10,000. C. £5,000. 20. What was most community members' attitude towards using Xcite? A. Concerned.. B. Uncaring. C. Approving. 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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Giant Panda Center Join GoEco on a 7-day volunteer program in China to help wildlife at a giant panda center! Your schedule Day 1: Arrive at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. The local team will be waiting to pick you up and transfer you to the hotel in Chengdu. Day 2: Walk around Chengdu, visit Panda Breeding Center and enjoy delicious hot pot dinner. Day 3-6: Transfer to Panda Base in the mountains and take part in rewarding volunteer work! Each day, volunteers will work for 4-6 hours and in the evenings, volunteers will take part in cultural activities ranging from dumpling making to Chinese language lessons. Day 7: Take a bus to either the airport or Chengdu City Center if extending stay. Some of your tasks include · Preparing food for the pandas · Cutting down and carrying bamboos · Cleaning panda enclosures · Occasionally participating in observation and research Requirements · Ages 18-50( This project may accept volunteers who are under 18 with a letter of consent(同意) from a parent) · Basic English and/ or Chinese · Motivation to work with animals Total project cost:$1200 · What's included Room: Shared hotel room Food: Three meals a day Airport transfers: Airport transfers upon arrival and departure · What's not included Flights, travel health insurance, personal expenses Important note: Please apply for this program 1-2 months in advance. Families upgrading to private accommodations must pay an additional charge. 21. What might volunteers do on the sixth day? A. Visit Panda Breeding Center. B. Clean panda enclosures. C. Travel around Chengdu. D. Depart from Panda Base. 22. What does the project cost include? A. Accommodations. B. Personal expenses. C. Travel insurance. D. The air ticket. 23. What is required of applicants? A. Being fluent in both English and Chinese. B. Having experience of working with animals. C. Applying for the program in advance. D. Being at least 18 years old. B Anxiety has followed me around like a lost dog looking for a bone for years. I feel it the most strongly when I'm worried about my health or my daughter's health. I feel an unusual sensation and all of a sudden: panic! My worries are not limited to health concerns though, and they go in the direction of anxiety about the future of the world, worries about my finances, and fears that I'm not good enough. Let me go back a few decades, back to when anxiety wasn't part of my life. When I was a child, I loved art. I drew and I colored because that's what I enjoyed. I went to college to become an art teacher. When I finished school in May of 2001,I had a part-time design job, and after the event of September 11th,2001,I knew I needed to travel, to get out of the safe life I was living in my hometown. That's when my creative practices fell by the wayside. Luckily, after the birth of my daughter in 2014, the desire to create came back. At first, I was using a tiny corner of a bedroom in our rental house to paint. Eventually we bought a house, and I had the space to spread out, ready to paint whenever the urge struck. That's when I started noticing something important: Painting stilled me in a way that nothing else did. It eased my fears and anxieties in a way other practice ( deep breathing, etc) did not, at least not as consistently. When anxious thoughts start, I know what to do. I head into my studio, grab some materials, and start creating. Soon enough, the worries are gone and instead my mind is quiet. I think the reason why painting is so helpful for my anxiety is that, in order for me to be anxious, I have to be worrying about the future and what it holds. When I'm doing an activity that requires my full concentration, I have to be in the moment. It doesn't matter if you' re artistic. The only thing that matters is finding a way to be here, in the now, instead of in the unknowable future. 24. Which word can best describe the writer in paragraph 1? A. Cautious. B. Insecure. C. Considerate. D. Impatient. 25. When did the writer give up on art temporarily? A. After her daughter was born. B. When she studied in college. C. When she was still a little child. D. After a big event happened. 26. How does painting relieve the writer's anxiety? A. Painting makes her stay in a place. B. Colors of painting calm her down. C. Painting is a very creative activity. D. Painting makes less room for worries. 27. What can we learn from the story? A. What is important is to seize the moment. B. Anxiety may sometimes be beneficial to life. C. It is necessary to learn some art in childhood. D. Painting is the best way to ease people's minds. C Imagine you' re out for an evening walk in a foreign city, looking to find a restaurant for dinner. If you' re like most people, you will look for the busiest restaurant with the most diners because its popularity is bound to reflect on the quality of food and service. But is this true? In tourist areas, early diners have no meaningful clues as to which restaurant to choose, so they may have picked their evening eatery on a whim (一时兴起). Following passers-by may have misinterpreted their restaurant choice as a well-informed decision and blindly followed their example. This could have resulted in a snow-balling effect, whereby ever-increasing numbers of customers were attracted to the restaurant in question, creating a false impression of approval. Therefore, following the example of others could have led to a suboptimal(次优的) dinner choice in an overcrowded restaurant. Blindly copying other people's thoughts or choices or simply going with the crowd is often referred to as “herd behavior(从众行为).” It is a frequent occurrence among humans as well as many other animals. Herding can appear to make a lot of sense. Average judgments of large groups of people often outperform individual choices. Furthermore, following the crowd appears to offer protection and comfort—— after all, there’s “ safety in numbers”----while helping to maintain a favorable fame. Finally, following the herd reduces the effort needed to make a personal or unique decision; it is therefore an easy option. Herd behaviors, while common and easy to explain, hold significant dangers. Contrary to the so-called “wisdom of crowds”, which emerges when the judgments of individual group members are independently collected to produce an average opinion, herd behaviors typically rely on so-called “information cascades”, where people take on others’ beliefs or copy their choices without critically evaluating the underlying reasons. As a result, herding can have many undesirable outcomes, including negative influences on consumer choices, like in the restaurant example above. 28. What likely causes a restaurant's popularity in tourist areas according to Para.2? A. Early diners choose it based on its high quality and reputation. B. Passers-by may assume that the early diners made an informed choice. C. The restaurant is recommended by locals familiar with the area. D. The restaurant is advertised as having high-quality food and service. 29. What is one reason why people tend to follow the crowd? A. It leads to average judgments. B. It brings a sense of security. C. It challenges a favorable reputation. D. It allows for better decision-making. 30. What does the underlined “ information cascades” mean in Para.5? A. Adopting others' beliefs or choices without evaluation. B. Critical evaluation of underlying reasons for choices. C. Average judgments formed by large groups of people. D. Independent collection of individual opinions and judgments. 31. What is the author's attitude towards “herd behavior”? A. Neutral B. Favorable C. Critical D. Indifferent D Want to know what is coming soon to a cinema near you? Probably not a 1.5-hour-long movie, as in the old days. On October 20th comes Killers of the Flower Moon. At nearly three and a half hours, its length is nearly double that of the average film last year. Even movie fans struggle to concentrate for that long and some viewers even nod off. Afterwards there is a mad dash for the toilets. When does watching a film become such a slog? The Economist analyzed over 100,000 feature films released internationally since the 1930s, the start of Hollywood's golden age, using data from IMDb, a movie database. The average length of productions rose by around 24%, from one hour and 21 minutes in the 1930s to one hour and 47 minutes in 2022. For the ten most-popular titles, the average length grew to around two and a half hours in 2022, nearly 50% higher than in the 1930s. Franchises(特许经营权) are one driver of this trend. Studios want to squeeze the most out of their costly intellectual property(知识产权), but they are competing with streaming platforms for eyeballs. The hope is that a spectacular, drawn-out “event” movie will draw audiences away from the small screen and into cinemas. This approach has often paid off :“Avengers: Endgame”, Marvel's three-hour superhero masterpieces, was the highest-grossing(票房最高的) film in2019. Last year long movies series made up most of the highest-grossing films in America. Another explanation for longer films has to do with directors’ growing influence. Who would dare tell the likes of Mr. Nolan to trim his masterpieces? Moreover, streaming platforms, which do not have to worry as much about the length because viewers can pause whenever they like, may attract big names by promising them sufficient fund and creative freedom. Netflix funded and released three-hour The Irishman in 2019, a film that would have benefited from a decisive editor, Irish or otherwise. 32. The underlined part“ a slog” in paragraph 1 refers to a(n) . A. pleasure B. effort C. conflict D. feast 33. What can be inferred from paragraph 2? A. The average length affects the popularity of films. B. Great advances have been made in the film industry. C. Hollywood starts a golden age of feature films. D. The average duration of movies has stretched. 34. What sets the trend of longer movies? A. Competition for the target audience. B. Thirst for more classic productions. C. Influence of streaming platforms. D. Preference for decisive editors. 35. What is probably the best title for the passage? A. Movie Enthusiasts B. Movie Marathons C. Movie Production D. Movie Influence 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填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Tennis is a particularly rewarding sport. 36 Perhaps the most obvious benefits tennis offers are the physical ones. However, it is also an incredibly mental sport. If there is one key aspect of the mental side of tennis, it's that tennis is a game of problem solving. It is very easy to self-destruct(自我毁灭) when playing tennis if you let your expectations and ego get the better of you. So, simply playing the ball that is in front of you is the simplest way to approach the game, along with taking each point at a time. That being said, it is much easier said than done. 37 Even if it is as simple as playing to your opponent's backhand as much as possible, or aiming to hit as many cross court(对角线球) balls as you can, it is important to have a plan of attack if you want to be successful on the court. 38 You may have the best plan in the world, but if you aren't performing well enough to execute it or your opponent cottons on(领悟) what you' re trying to do, you'll need to adapt, improvise(临时做) and overcome. Adapting to new conditions, court surfaces, balls and playing styles is all part of becoming a better tennis player! 39 This means you need to be incredibly tough to play good tennis and overcome hardship. Don't be too much bothered by some points you lose. Just learn from your mistakes but not let them get you down. Tennis is also about playing the big points well and understanding that not all points hold the same weight across the course of a match. Putting disappointment behind you and trying to play the next point with a positive attitude can be very difficult to do. 40 A. However, being flexible is also important. B. You will always have to have some form of strategy. C. However, it is a key part of becoming a better tennis player. D. It can bring with it a whole host of physical and mental benefits. E. Every backhand shot you hit is what you throw at your opponent. F. Mastering the game of tennis takes a lot of mental and physical dedication. G. The scoring system in tennis means you can win more points and still lose a match! 第三部分 语言运用(共四节，满分30分) 第一节 完型填空(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。 As light snow began to fall, the principal kept a close watch on the approaching storm. It soon took on the characteristics of something more terrible. By midday he called the school buses back so the kids could get home safely 41 it was too late. My students gathered their belongings, and felt 42 to be going home early. Then the buses arrived. 43 , the storm suddenly became heavier and it was quickly clear that nobody was going anywhere any time soon. The original plan 44 . Over 300 children got 45 inside the school. As night approached and the storm showed no signs of stopping, we began to feel 46 . What would we feed several hundred children for dinner? Where would they sleep? After every parent was 47 that their children were safe, people who lived close enough to 48 the bad weather were called and asked if they could help. Soon, a handful of people 49 to travel through the blinding snow, bringing bags of food and blankets. There wasn't much food, but everything was shared, nobody got hungry and nobody 50 . When night fell, we worked out sleeping arrangements for the kids. 51 by the tension of the day, most of them fell asleep soon on the carpeted floors. 52 , the next morning we awoke to find the storm had stopped. With the roads now clear of snow, our students were soon safely on their way home, and all the staff breathed a sigh of 53 . What might have been a(n) 54 had instead resulted in strengthened 55 between the community and our school. 41. A. as B. when C. before D. after 42. A. disappointed B. honored C. astonished D. thrilled 43. A. Therefore B. Moreover C. However D. Otherwise 44. A. broke down B. broke through C. broke out D. broke in 45. A. engaged B. stuck C. caught D. abandoned 46. A. concerned B. confused C. annoyed D. bored 47. A. convinced B. promised C. informed D. reminded 48. A. avoid B. brave C. escape D. ignore 49. A. attempted B. tended C. managed D. happened 50. A. failed B. waited C. opposed D. complained 51. A. Exhausted B. Frightened C. Threatened D. Challenged 52. A. Surely B. Hopefully C. Thankfully D. Strangely 53. A. impatience B. relief C. regret D. surprise 54. A. accident B. intervention C. disaster D. adventure 55. A. feedbacks B. communications C. frictions D. bonds 第二节 语法填空(共10小题； 每题1.5分，满分15分) 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(一个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。 Sayram Lake lies on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. Although it is less than one fifth the size of Taihu Lake in East China, its water volume is five times 56 ( great). Standing by the lake, one can hardly tell the lake from the sky, for the blue sky 57 ( reflect) on the calm lake surface, while the sky in 58 distance resembles a body of calm water. Sayram lake shore area is also home to abundant cultural remains 59 ( leave) by ancestral inhabitants. The scenic area was thus established to preserve the lake's charms. It is easy 60 ( access) for travelers. This tourist destination is recommended as an addition 61 your west-route travel plan, and is best visited in June and July---the high summer 62 the thick ice on the lake is thawed(解冻) and wild flowers dominate the surrounding grassland. The scenic area's management committee 63 ( make) great efforts over the past decade to improve the lake's water quality and protect the area's biological diversity. Today, Sayram Lake attracts travelers back home but also 64 ( global). Statistics reveal that the average number of daily 65 ( visit) to the Sayram Lake scenic area has exceeded 20,000 since July this year. 第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (满分15分) 近年来，“口袋公园” 逐渐在许多城市流行起来，曾经的社区边角地摇身一变，成了家门口高颜值的小公园。假定你是李华，你校英文报社正在组织以“Pocket Parks in My Eyes”为主题的征文活动， 请你撰写一篇短文投稿， 内容包括： 1. 简要介绍“口袋公园”； 2. 阐述“口袋公园的”的好处； 3. 号召绿色生活方式。 注意: 1. 词数80左右; 2. 可适当增加细节使行文流畅。Pocket Parks in My Eyes 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一段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 She was the prettiest puppy we had ever seen, and the whole family immediately fell in love with her. We named her Onyx because of her black, shiny black coat. She spent her first vacation with us when she was only ten weeks old and had her first bath and swim in the St. Lawrence River. We had no clue that this amazing little ball of fur would end up being our hero. As she grew older, Onyx became more and more involved in our family activities. On hot summer days, Onyx enjoyed floating on the river with us in her own rubber tube(橡皮圈). Amazingly standing on the top of the tube, she smiled while showing off her perfect balance. Resting her front legs and paws over the edge of the rubber tube, she kept her eyes shut as she floated until she'd had enough of the warm sun on her black coat. One day, our eighteen-year-old daughter, Margie, announced she was going to swim across the bay. No one in the family was free to go swimming with her. The unwritten rule, regardless of swimming ability, was to have a companion in the water with you, especially when swimming the width of the bay. I was not a good swimmer, so I said to Margie, “Take Onyx with you.” Having heard her name, Onyx woke up from a nap and was ready for action. Margie signed the dog to follow her. Onyx ran to the water next to her. They entered the freezing river together and swam side by side across the bay. I watched from the bank as they reached the sandbar(沙洲) on the far shore. They rested a few minutes before diving into the water for the return trip. I felt uneasy for some reason and continued to watch the pair swim side by side. 注意： 1.词数150左右: 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Suddenly I heard Margie calling out, “I have a cramp(痉挛) in the leg!” Seeing the pair approaching the riverbank, I breathed a sigh of relief. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$