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邵阳市二中2024年下学期高二学科知识 英语·答题卡 姓名 班级 1,答邀前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚，并认气填对条形码上的 姓名、准考证号和科目： 注 2.选择思部分请按趣号用28铅笔填涂方框，修改时用橡皮擦干净，不留痕遵： 正确 贴条形码区 意 3非选择题部分请按遐号用0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔书写，香则作答无效： 填涂 事 4在草纸、试邀卷上容题无效： 示例 项 5请勿折叠答邀卡、保持字体工整、笔迹清晰、卡面清洁。 ←一 此方框为缺考考生标记，由监考员用2B铅笔填涂 1 IAJIBIICIIDI 6【A1 IB]IC1HDI 11 [AJB]ICID] 16 IAJIBIICIIDIIEIIFIIGI 2【A1 [B]ICIID] 7 IAJIBIICHIDI 12【A1IB1IC1ID1 17 IAJIBIICHID]IEJIFJIG] 3 [AJIB][C]ID] 8【AIIB1 ICHID1 13【A1 IBJIC1ID1 18 [AJIBIICJID]IE][FJIGI 4 IAJIBIICIIDI 9 [AJIBJICIID] 14【AIB]IC]ID] 19 IAJIBJICJID]IEJIFJIGI 5 [AJIBIICI[D] 10 [AJIB]ICI[D] 15 IAJ[BI[CID] 20 [AJIBJICIID]IEI[F][GI 21 IAlBIICUDI 26 [AJIBJICIID] 31 IAJIB]ICJID] 22 [AJIBJICI[D] 27 [AJIBJICIID] 32 IAI[BI[CI[D] 23 [AJIBJ[CIIDI 28 [AJ[B]ICI[D] 33【AJ[BIIC1D1 24 [AJIB]ICIDI 29【AJIBIICHID1 34【A1 IBJICJID] 25 [AJIBIICI[DI 30 [AI[B]ICIID] 35 [AJ[BI[CI[D] 非选择题（请在各试题的答题区内作答） 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 36 37. 38. 39 40 41 42 43 44 应用文写作(15分) Dear Jim, 请在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出黑色矩形边框限定区域的答案无效！ Yours, LiHua 读后续写(15分) The committee agreed to let Emily lead this effort. After days of negotiation,Emily finally got a positive reply. 请在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出黑色矩形边框限定区域的答案无效！ 邵阳市二中2024年下学期高二英语学科知识竞赛试题 考试时间：100分钟 试卷满分：120分 第一部分 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 Are you looking for your next great read? Whether it’s for personal growth, inspiration, or an escape into an imaginative world, these newly released books have something for everyone. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Charles Duhigg explores how habits shape our lives. Using real-life examples, he presents how understanding the “habit loop” can help improve health, productivity, and relationships. This book offers practical strategies for making lasting changes that lead to remarkable results. 503 pages, 4.47 out of 5 stars The Book of Joy by Emma Green and John Reynold In this delightful book, Emma Green, a respected life coach, and John Reynold, a renowned psychologist, share insights into finding lasting happiness. Their engaging conversations, filled with wisdom and humor, offer a road map to living a joyful life despite challenges. 291 pages, 4.11 out of 5 stars Educated by Tara Westover Educated is a powerful memoir that tells the story of Tara Westover, who was raised in a poor rural area and had no formal education until the age of 17. Her determination to educate herself and her journey to earning a PhD from Cambridge University are both inspiring and thought-provoking. 464 pages,4.19 out of 5 stars The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Nora Seed finds herself in a magical library where she has the chance to explore different lives she could have lived through each book, learning valuable lessons. This imaginative novel is perfect for readers who enjoy stories about second chances and self-discovery. 368 pages, 4.15 out of 5 stars 1. Which of the following receives the highest rating? A. Educated. B. The Book of Joy. C. The Midnight Library. D. The Power of Habit. 2. Whose book appeals to readers in favor of lively discussions? A. Matt Haig’s. B. Tara Westover’s. C. Emma Green and John Reynold’s. D. Charles Duhigg’s. 3. What is the writing purpose of this text? A. To advertise some classic books. B. To express the author’s preference. C. To recommend some quality books. D. To introduce different writing styles. B As a kid, I dreamed of becoming a marine biologist and I lived out this fantasy by setting up aquariums at home. Then, at 20, I was introduced to photographer David Liittschwager, who hired me to help him with a magazine assignment on marine life. David’s assignment was to document the amazing biodiversity found in the ocean. My role was to collect specimens for him to photograph. Every night, I would cast a floating lamp. Like moths drawn to a flame, mysterious creatures would emerge from the depths in search of this light. I’d then set up aquariums to house them as they waited for David to take their shot. Those evenings made me feel as if I were on another planet. I had never imagined such strange life-forms could exist in our oceans. But I didn’t grasp the true magic of what was in front of me until I saw the photographs David took. The biggest surprise was his image of a baby flounder. I caught this fish by accident. Only later did I notice its two tiny eyeballs staring back at me. But David’s photograph of this flounder revealed a universe of detail that even my eager eyes had missed. His macro lens magnified its ribs (肋骨). The lightning-fast exposure froze its motion. A precisely aimed light released the rainbow hidden in its skin. And the black background removed all distractions to focus our attention on the quiet beauty at hand. Years after that project, I was snorkeling (潜泳) on a shallow reef. Out of the darkness, another baby flounder emerged and settled on my mask. This time I knew what to look for. Before working for David, I had assumed the goal of photography was simply to reproduce an observation so that others could share the same experience. It had never occurred to me that photography could expand our visual perception and therefore teach us to look at the world from new perspectives. 4. What was the author’s role in the magazine assignment? A. Photographing the marine life. B. Documenting the amazing biodiversity. C. Building an aquarium for marine research. D. Attracting and gathering species of marine life. 5. What surprised the author about the image of a baby flounder? A. The advanced techniques of lighting. B. The strange appearance of the small fish. C. The accurate display of its comprehensive details. D. The unexpected effect of background processing. 6. What can we infer about the author from the text? A. He launched a local snorkeling project. B. He achieved his dream by taking up photography. C. The project motivated him to start ocean research. D. The experience changed his view of photography. 7. What is the true magic of photography? A. To record an observation result. B. To help people see the world anew. C. To share one’s specific experience. D. To reveal visible wonders of the world. C The farms of the future may look very different from that of today. That’s because farms do not have to be outside anymore. They also won’t have to be above ground. In London, 100 feet below the streets there was a huge empty space. Richard Ballard and Steven Dring, founders of the company Growing Underground, thought it would be an ideal spot to build a hydroponic (水栽) farm. After all, these types of farms are doing well in other indoor spaces. Founded in 2015, Growing Underground’s farm grows microgreens and salad leaves using hydroponic technology that grows plants in water but not soil. In fact, the company said that its hydroponic technology allows for the perfect pest-free growing environment. These methods use about 70 percent water less than traditional field agriculture and all the nutrients are kept within a closed circle system. They can grow the greens all year round because they are not affected by weather or growing seasons. But it is the LED lighting system that is the key to growing food underground. Ballard said, “Already, LEDs allow the growers to change the flavor of the greens, as their sugars and starches develop differently under different light spectrums (光谱).” Right now, the company only sells greens with a lot of leaves because they are the only crops that grow fast enough to be economically feasible but Ballard believes that will change. “As technologies improve, you’ll see soft fruits, cucumbers, peppers,” he said. The company’s goal is to keep food local. They say that all of the greens can be in your kitchen within four hours of being picked. They currently sell to local restaurants in London, but they hope to be entering the local groceries soon. 8. What makes the underground farm possible? A. The rich soil. B. The great demand for fruits. C. The hydroponic technology. D. The good weather condition. 9. What is the function of the LED lighting system? A. To get rid of pests. B. To increase the temperature of underground farm. C. To allow greens to grow rapidly. D. To provide various light spectrums. 10. What does the underlined word “feasible” in Paragraph 5 probably mean? A. Difficult. B. Challenged. C. Impossible. D. Achievable. 11. What does the company expect of the underground farm? A. It’ll benefit more customers. B. It’ll be environment-friendly. C. It’ll keep food fresher for longer. D. It’ll use the latest technology. D A theme at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Switzerland was the perceived need to “speed up breakthroughs in research and technology.” Some of this framing was motivated by the climate emergency, some by the opportunities and challenges presented by generative artificial intelligence. Yet in various conversations, it seemed to be taken for granted that to address the world’s problems, scientific research needs to move faster. The WEF mindset is similar to the Silicon Valley dictate—to move fast and break things. But what if the thing being broken is science? Or public trust? The WEF meeting took place just two weeks after Harvard University President Claudine Gay stepped down after complaints were made about her political science scholarship. In response, Gay requested corrections to several of her papers. Although it may be impossible to determine just how widespread such problems really are, it’s hard to imagine that the scene of high-profile scholars correcting and retracting papers has not had a negative impact on public trust in science and perhaps in experts broadly. In recent years we’ve seen important papers, written by outstanding scientists and published in celebrated journals, retracted because of questionable data or methods, hence a question: Are scholars at supercompetitive places such as Harvard and Stanford rushing to publish rather than taking the time to do their work right? It’s impossible to answer this question scientifically because there’s no scientific definition of what constitutes “rushing. ”But there’s little doubt that we live in a culture where academics at leading universities are under tremendous pressure to produce results—and a lot of them—quickly. The problem is not unique to the U. S. In Europe, formal research assessments—which are used to allocate (分配) future funding—have for years judged academic departments largely on the quantity of their output. A recent reform urging an emphasis on quality over quantity allowed that the existing system had created “counterincentives. ” Good science takes time. More than 50 years elapsed between the 1543 publication of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. And it took just about half a century for geologists and geophysicists to accept geophysicist Alfred Wegener’s idea of continental drift. There’s plenty of circumstantial evidence that scientists and other scholars are pushing results out far faster than they used to. Consider the sheer volume of academic papers being published these days. One recent study put the number at more than seven million a year, compared with fewer than a million as recently as 1980. Some of this growth is driven by more scientists and more co-authorship of papers, but the numbers also suggest that the research world has prioritized quantity over quality. Researchers may need to slow down if we are to produce knowledge worthy of trust. 12. WEF meeting in Switzerland advocated that ________. A. researchers need to achieve breakthroughs more rapidly B. public trust in science is not supposed to be easily broken C. WEF and Silicon Valley reach an agreement to move fast D. climate emergency and AI push scientific research hard 13. Which of the following examples fails to prove that good science takes time? A. Gay’s correction and retraction of papers. B. Publication of Copernicus’s theory. C. High-profile scholars’ tremendous output. D. Acceptance of the idea of continental drift. 14. The underlined word “counterincentives” in para. 5 probably means ________. A measures to increase quantities of output B. discouragements of high quality papers C. rewards for leading universities’ research D. contradictory motives for future funding 15. Which of the following is best title of the passage? A. WEF Coincides with Silicon Valley B. Collapse of Public Trust C. Dilemma between Quantity and Quality D. Trouble in the Fast Lane 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项。 Virtual internships (实习) are now a common occurrence as we adjust to the “new normal” when it comes to working. ____16____ Still, there are many positives that can come from virtual internships that you should consider. Use it for resume building ____17____ It showcases your ability to manage your time effectively and handle tasks on your own. Besides, securing glowing recommendations from a remote employer highlights skills you gained through remote work. Consider the cost savings Having a job can cost quite a bit when you take the commute (通勤) into consideration. With remote work, the costs are significantly lower, if they exist at all. ____18____ While being in person has a certain feel difficult to let go of, working from home is arguably one of the best ways to store up some money. Make the most of your time savings Additionally, without that commute, you gain some extra time to get things done that you otherwise wouldn’t have been able to. This includes many things, such as watching your favorite shows and cooking homemade meals on a nightly basis. ____19____ Treat it as experience Lastly, keep in mind that a virtual internship is still an internship. Experience is experience, no matter how you obtain it. ____20____ For that reason, understand that a virtual internship is still experience, and that it’s still a feasible option to include on your resume. A. That being said, it can be easily viewed as a negative. B. You get to work from comfort home, no commute required. C. It is the way of the future, at least, for the foreseeable future. D. Gas, parking fees, and even grabbing lunch can quickly add up. E. It doesn’t seem like much, but the extra time can be a real game-changer. F. While it’s easy to dismiss a virtual internship, you’d be missing an opportunity. G. As for building a professional profile, remote work can really sell your experience. 第二部分 语言运用(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，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 When the couple had to close their business, they ____21____ almost everything. With no work, home, car or food, and their young son, Henrique, ____22____ with his grandmother, they ____23____ to survive. They spent nights on the floor at the railway station and ____24____ found beds in a shelter. A housing program called Vila Reencontro ____25____ them to look through a list of potential homes ____26____ to rent, so they could choose what would be the best fit ____27____ their family. After seeing several ____28____, they decided to go with what they are now in. And they were provided with other opportunities, including ____29____ medical care and finding jobs. Lee Sousa was offered a(n) ____30____ in the city’s sanitation department (卫生部门) — which he still has today. The housing program will ____31____ their rent for the next two years. Their son is able to live with them again. And he has been doing exceptionally well at school, never wanting to ____32____ a day. Every morning he takes his time ____33____ his hair, making sure the curls (卷发) are just right, ____34____ his mom walks him to school. Having their own ____35____, the family is getting their life back on track. 21. A. lost B. desired C. pursued D. discussed 22. A. parked B. teamed C. placed D. connected 23. A. parted B. managed C. struggled D. promised 24. A. occasionally B. unexpectedly C. purposefully D. suddenly 25. A. persuaded B. required C. reminded D. allowed 26. A. available B. expensive C. convenient D. comfortable 27. A. with B. for C. in D. from 28. A. clients B. applicants C. programs D. options 29. A. reforming B. accessing C. performing D. offering 30. A. gift B. contract C. spot D. bonus 31. A. keep B. increase C. collect D. pay 32. A. miss B. celebrate C. spend D. save 33. A. observing B. cutting C. coloring D. doing 34. A. once B. while C. before D. since 35. A. privacy B. space C. time D. business 第二节(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 Zenghouyi Chimes are an enormous musical instrument dating from China’s Warring States Period. This set of chimes is ____36____ (particular) large. Its frame is 7. 48 metres long and 2. 65 metres high with 65 bells ____37____ (suspend) from it. One characteristic that sets these chimes apart from others is that they can play not only the five-tone scale, but also the seven-tone scale. Their unique oval design ____38____ (mean) that each bell can produce two different tones ____39____ (depend) on where it is struck. This was a groundbreaking ____40____ (discover) for the study of ancient Chinese music because before the appearance of this instrument, people thought that Greece was ____41____ the seven-tone scale first appeared. The Zenghouyi Chimes have been played three times ____42____ the set was unearthed. The first time was in Wuhan, the year it was discovered. The second was at the National Museum of China in Beijing in 1979 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the founding of our country. The third ____43____ (record) in 1997, which was then edited into a performance of symphonic music____44____ (mark) the return of Hong Kong to China. The Zenghouyi Chimes are _____45_____ genuine miracle not only because they inform us about the rituals and music of ancient China, but also because they demonstrate the highest level of bronze casting techniques. 第四部分 写作（共两小节，满分35分） 第一节 应用文写作 （满分15分） 46. 假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你和你校交换生Jim准备联合参加学校组织的校园文创设计大赛(Campus Cultural and Creative Design Competition), 请给Jim发邮件，内容包括： 1. 分享你的创意; 2. 询问Jim的建议。 注意：1. 词数100左右; 2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 Dear Jim, ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua 第二节（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。 The sun was setting over Springdale, casting shadows across the busy community center. A group of teenagers, the members of the Springdale Youth Committee, gathered at a table. They looked determined and worried. Among them was Emily, a smart but often unnoticed girl who loves helping others. For weeks they had been organizing a fundraising event for the local homeless shelter, as the shelter struggled to assist the increasing number of individuals seeking help. The big day was one week away, and everything was set — until they discovered another group had a similar charity event on the same day. This could divide the people who might come and the donations they hoped to get. “We can’t change the date now,” said Tom, a senior member, his voice filled with frustration. “We’ve already sent out invitations, and the place is booked.” Emily listened quietly to the discussion. She knew changing the date wasn’t possible, but she also realized competing with another worthy cause could hurt both sides. After the meeting ended without a solution, Emily decided to take action. She spent the next day looking into ways to work with the other group, hoping to find a way that would help both the homeless shelter and the other cause. The next day, she came to the committee with a suggestion. “What if we join our events?” she asked. “We could share resources, work together on promoting, and most importantly, make sure both causes are supported by the community.” The members looked at each other, some doubtful, others interested. “That’s a great idea, Emily, but how will we get them to agree?” Laura, another member, asked. Emily had already thought this through. “I’ll talk to their organizer and show them the benefits of a joint event.” She knew the path ahead would be challenging, but she was determined to make it happen for Springdale and its people. 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。 Para 1 The committee agreed to let Emily lead this effort. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Para 2 After days of negotiation, Emily finally got a positive reply. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$