广东省东莞市五校2024-2025学年高二上学期第一次联考英语试题

2024-2025学年度第一学期五校第一次联考

高二英语

 说明：本试卷共四大部分，满分150分；考试时间120分钟

 

第一部分  听力（共两节；满分20分）

第一节  听力理解（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

共两小段，每段播放两遍；请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题，在5秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

听第1段对话，回答第1~2题。

1. Who solves mysteries with a dog?

A. Mary

B. Tintin

C. Asterix

2. Where does Asterix live?

A. In Belgium

B. In France

C. In Italy

听第2段对话，回答第3~5题。

3. How does Sarah feel?

A. Sad

B. Excited

C. Surprised

4. Why can’t Sarah take so many toys?

A. The box is hard to carry

B. Many of them look broken

C. The new house is too small

5. How many toys can Sarah take?

A. Three

B. Five

C. Eight

 

第二节 听取信息 (共5小题; 每小题2分, 满分10分)

听下面一段独白。请从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡标号为6~10的空格中。听录音前，你将有10秒钟的阅题时间，录音读两遍。

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第二部分  阅读理解（共两节；满分37.5分）

第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

There is a famous story about how Walt Disney was inspired to build Disneyland. The story goes that during an afternoon visit to Griffith Pack located near the Burbank Studios, Walt took a walk while his two young daughters rode the merry-go-round. Walt thought there should be a place where both children and their parents could enjoy spending some time together in an environment that would be both entertaining and pleasing to the eye, so with this thought came the idea for Disneyland.

Walt’s original plan was to build an eight-acre park located near the Burbank Studios that would be a place for his employees and their families. Those plans were put on hold because of the start of World War Ⅱ. By 1952, Walt had created a special department to build the park.

Finally in 1953, the first steps in building the park happened when Walt hired the Stanford Research Institute to make a survey to determine the best possible location for the future park. Considering population growth and the future freeway construction, they finally found a location in Anaheim and 160 acres of land were bought for the site of the new park.

The building of the park was very expensive. To create funding for the project, Walt developed the idea of the “Walt Disney’s Disneyland” television show. It turned out to be a marvelous idea, not only gaining the money to build the park but also presenting the park to the American public.

Construction officially began on July 21, 1954, and it was an ambitious building schedule of less than one year to complete the new park for the projected opening day. Walt watched over the park’s construction and progress continued with just a few minor hold-ups. Finally, the park was ready for the Opening Day on July 17, 1955.

 

11. What inspired Walt Disney to build Disneyland?

A. The special design of Griffith Park. 

B. Requests from his family and employees.

C. A trip to a park with his daughters. 

D. The idea to build a park for his daughters.

12. What is mainly considered in choosing the location of Disneyland?

A. Local traffic. 

B. The natural environment.

C. The advice of the public. 

D. Walt Disney’s personal preference.

13. What can we learn about the construction process?

A. It was influenced by a shortage of money. 

B. It was affected by World War Ⅱ.

C. It was completed later than expected. 

D. It was smooth generally.

B

Last month, a study was published that examined climate change’s direct effects on the Earth’s seasons. Scientists found a connection between climate change and the temperature and duration of the summer season. Summers in the Northern hemisphere (北半球) could last nearly six months by the year 2100 if global warming continues, according to the study. With the seasons off-balance, there will be harmful effects on human health and agriculture.

Yuping Guan, a physical oceanographer at the State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his colleagues combined daily climate data from 1952 to 2011 to get a sense of the start and end of each season in the Northern hemisphere. Over the nearly 60-year period, they discovered that, on average, summers grew from 78 to 95 days, while winters shortened from 76 to 73 days. The spring and autumn seasons also shortened. Guan and his team used the findings from the data to create a model to hypothesize (假设) about how the seasons would possibly change in the future. They found that if left untouched, summers in the Northern hemisphere could last nearly six months, while winters could contract to less than two months.

If the Earth’s seasons continue to shift, it will bring negative effects to human health and agriculture. Longer and hotter summers, for example, can cause mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects to potentially expand their scope and land in places where they’re usually not found. “Because seasons influence the life cycles of plants and animals, climate change could disturb species’ ability to adapt,” said Scott Sheridan, a climate scientist “If seasons continue to change, everything isn’t going to change perfectly as they should. If we take the example of flowers coming out of the ground, those flowers could come out, but bees aren’t there to pollinate (授粉) them yet or they’re already past their peak.” With negative effects like these, human health and agriculture will face hardship while moving forward.

This study further proves how cruel climate change is to humans, plants and animals, reminding us how much we are all connected with the environment we share.

 

14. What did scientists find according to the study?

A. Some seasons will disappear in their tracks.

B. Climate change affects the days of summers.

C. Human heath remains unharmed by climate change.

D. Global warming will be at its worst in 2100.

15. What’s the purpose of the examples in paragraph 3?

A. To make a comparison.

B. To arouse readers’ interest.

C. To give a recommendation.

D. To explain the author’s opinion.

16. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A. Is summer taking the place of all other seasons? 

B. Is climate change bringing hardship?

C. Is mankind to blame for longer summers? 

D. Is the Earth getting warmer?