湘豫名校联考2023-2024学年高二上学期10月10月阶段考试（期中）英语试题

绝密★启用前 湘豫名校联考 2023—2024学年高二（上）10月阶段性考试 英 语 考生注意： 1．本试卷共12页。时间120分钟，满分120分。答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号填写在试卷和答题卡上的指定位置，然后认真核对条形码上的信息，并将条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。 2．作答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。作答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在本试卷上无效。 3．考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并收回。 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 Pre-College Summer Programs for Teens For high-achieving high school students looking for a new challenge or a chance to dive deeper into a subject they like, a pre-college summer program can be a life-changing opportunity. Here are a few programs students might consider. Camp Cronkite at Arizona State University This one-week media camp for potential reporters is held at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Students can select from one of three tracks (digital journalism, broadcast journalism or sports media), and leave with the start of their professional knowledge. Summer Scholars at Notre Dame Students spend two weeks on Notre Dame’s historic campus in South Bend, Indiana. Courses, taught by Notre Dame staff, range from archeology to world politics, and in the end, students earn one exchangeable college credit. The Summer Science Program Launched in 1959, the Summer Science Program is a nonprofit program run by program alumni (校友) and former staff. Teens complete immersive (身临其境的), team-based research projects in astrophysics, biochemistry or genomics at several host universities throughout the country, including Purdue University in Indiana, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and New Mexico State University. Yale Young Global Scholars This academic and leadership program at Yale University brings together more than 2,000 students from 150 countries and all 50 U. S. states to deal with topics across several subjects through international views. Syracuse University Pre-College Programs The university offers six different pre-college programs, including an on-campus residential program, hybrid and online options, and research immersion programs. 1. Which subject does Arizona State University offer? A. Archeology. B. Journalism. C. Astrophysics. D. Biochemistry. 2. Which program is a foreign student most likely to join in? A. Yale Young Global Scholars. B. The Summer Science Program. C. Summer Scholars at Notre Dame. D. Camp Cronkite at Arizona State University. 3. What is special for Syracuse University’s programs? A. It offers different programs. B. It has online programs. C. It gives students college credits. D. It accepts international students. B In 1979, Debra Dolan was 21 and on her first solo trip to Vancouver. She was immediately blown away by the city’s beauty. Dolan wanted to keep the joy she felt but she didn’t have time to write in her journal and she had no camera, so she sent her first postcard to herself after she went there. Some 10 days later, Dolan returned home to a pile of postcards from herself. Receiving them, recalls Dolan, was a great joy. She already sensed the postcards would serve as time capsules of a place and a moment. The trip to Vancouver awakened Dolan’s love of travel. She decided exploring the world was her first priority (优先) and went traveling for almost three years. On these adventures in the early 1980s, Dolan kept travel journals, but she also continued her habit of sending postcards to herself. Over 40 years later, Dolan is still a greedy traveler and keen postcard writer. Over the decades, she’s sent hundreds of postcards to herself from trips across the world. Amazingly, they’ve all arrived though sometimes over a year delayed. Dolan’s always enjoyed the process of choosing the postcards as much as she enjoys writing and receiving them. She explains she’s deliberate and considered with her postcard picks. Dolan’s noticed that postcards have a tendency to draw an imagined ideal (理想) of a destination, rather than its reality. That’s one of the reasons why Dolan sometimes chooses introduction cards. Sometimes Dolan will have a predetermined idea of what she wants her chosen postcard to look like, and will hunt around the destination until she finds the perfect realization of her vision. Other times, Dolan comes across the postcards when she least expects it. Today, Dolan is 64 and lives in Vancouver, the city which first awakened her love of travel. She spent her career working in administration, always saving up for her next adventure. 4. What can we learn about Dolan’s postcards? A. The first postcard was sent from Vancouver. B. Dolan has sent herself just a few postcards. C. Many of Dolan’s postcards were lost in the mail. D. Dolan’s postcards took the place of travel journals. 5. What might Dolan think of when she goes through the postcards? A. Fond memories of her travels. B. The meaning of traveling alone. C. Known content for her eyes only. D. The pressure to explore the world. 6. What is Dolan’s attitude to travel? A. Abnormal. B. Conservative. C. Enthusiastic. D. Dissatisfactory. 7. What is the best title for the text? A The Beauty on Postcards B. A Great Collection of Postcards C. A Hobby of Collecting Postcards D. A Traveler Sending Herself Postcards C Parents researching K-12 schools for their children may come across the term “progressive education”. While schools may vary in how they define this approach, progressive schools aim to engage students “as active participants in their learning and in society”. Whether public or private, these schools generally offer a project-based course with an emphasis on students’ agency in their learning. Progressive education is rooted in the ideas of early 20th-century education reformers like John Dewey. He called for an approach where children were placed at the center of their own learning, and believed education should be active and hands-on; that students should be thinking, doing and experimenting instead of sitting quietly and memorizing. Now known as “the father of progressive education”, Dewey’s vision continues to influence schools across the country today. With students empowered to take so much responsibility for their learning, a progressive classroom is likely to look different from a traditional one. Children solving problems together may create a louder environment than a room where they are listening to a teacher lecture. Projects are often immersive, cooperative and multidisciplinary. For example, kindergarten students do an annual project on maple syrup (枫糖) that combines science by looking at weather patterns and trees, social studies and history by learning about the local traditions of sugaring, and literacy (读写) as students read about the process and stories behind it. Each year, the approach to teaching the unit is also shaped by the interests of a particular class. Experts say that progressive schools can work well for almost any child since the model is so focused on the development of each individual student and even shy children can also succeed. Social-emotional learning is as important as academics in a progressive classroom. However, it requires teachers to have a lot of skills, as they should know each student as a “whole person” — including their cultures, their families and their strengths — to engage them in learning. 8. What do progressive schools have in common? A. Their form of ownership. B. Their education objective. C. Their course-based teaching. D. Their definition of progressive education. 9. What are students supposed to do in progressive classrooms? A. They should take the teacher as the center in class. B. They should strictly observe the classroom disciplines. C They should play the main role in their learning processes. D. They should remember as much of the textbook as possible. 10. What does the underlined word “multidisciplinary” in Paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Including two or more fields of study. B. Combining media of communication. C. Relating to or including several cultures. D. Using or knowing more than one language. 11. What does progressive education require from teachers? A. Giving a lot of direct instruction to students. B. Having a thorough awareness of each student. C. Meeting the different requirements of each student. D. Explaining the knowledge as detailedly as possible. D A study finds that creative people are more likely to productively use idle (空闲的) time by letting one idea lead to another. The study participants who were more creative felt less bored when they sat alone in a room. History is filled with stories of famous scientists, artists and philosophers who enjoyed being alone with their thoughts, and those people often came up with some of their best ideas during idle time. In psychology and medicine, most studies on human thoughts either prompt (提示) participants to think in a certain way or ask them to report on thoughts they experienced, but less is known about how thoughts naturally arise and unfold over time in unprompted contexts. This is where the study came in. The researchers divided the study into two parts. For the first experiment, the researchers asked each participant to sit alone in a room for 10 minutes without any access to digital devices. In the absence of any particular prompt, the participants were asked to voice their thoughts aloud in real time. The recorded files from 81 participants were then transcribed and analyzed (转录和分析). Researchers found that while many participants tended to jump between seemingly unrelated thoughts, creative individuals showed signs of thinking more associatively and they were more engaged in their thoughts when they were left alone without distractions, such as cell phones and Internet. To complement (补充) their initial findings, the researchers extended their study in the context of a much larger time, the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people were alone with their thoughts more often. For the second experiment, over 2,600 adults answered questions through a smartphone app. Participants who self-identified as being creative reported being less bored during the pandemic. “As we become more overworked, over-planned and addicted to our digital devices, I think we need to do a better job in our homes, our workplaces and our schools to spare time to simply relax with our thoughts,” Andrews Hanna, a researcher, said. “Understanding why different people think the way they do may lead to promising intervention (干预) to improve health and well-being.” 12. What did the study focus on? A. How thoughts naturally come into being. B. What people mainly think of in spare time. C Whether people can control their thoughts. D. When people offer their thoughts to the public. 13. What advantage do creative people have in thinking? A. They feel more bored when they stay alone. B. They tend to share their thoughts with others. C. They think more associatively and focusedly. D. They always jump between unrelated thoughts. 14. What does Andrews Hanna advise us to do with our life? A. Change a job closer to our homes and families. B. Become far more overworked and over-planned. C. Relax ourselves by thinking when overtired. D. Be used to our digital devices and smartphone apps. 15. What does the text mainly talk about? A. A study about the ways people think are controlled. B. A study on how people’s thoughts are fully reported. C. A study about why people should voice their thoughts. D. A study on why creative people can best use idle time. 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。 World Oceans Day World Oceans Day on 8 June every year is a special day for learning about oceans, why they’re in danger and how important it is to protect them. There are five oceans on Earth: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, of which the Pacific Ocean is the biggest and the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and is frozen for much of the year. ____16____ ____17____ Oceans are home to 50 to 80 percent of all species on Earth. Oceans hold about 97 percent of all the water on our planet and give us rainwater and drinking water through the water cycle. At least half the oxygen we breathe comes from the plants in the ocean. ____18____ A lot of our food comes from oceans and millions of people worldwide have jobs related to fishing and fish farming. Oceans also provide us with much of our energy. We can also use the power of waves and tides to produce electricity and many wind farms are located offshore. Sadly, our oceans are in danger. Billions and billions of pieces of plastic are floating around in our oceans. Plastic pollution is harming and killing sea creatures like fish, birds and turtles. ____19____ That’s because fish eat the tiny pieces of plastic and then humans eat the fish. For World Oceans Day you could join in many activities. ____20____ You could use social media platforms to share posts, photos or videos that show how important oceans are and why we need to protect them. You could take part in a photo, art or writing contest around the theme of the ocean or watch ocean-related films and documentaries. A. You could do a beach clean-up. B. Without oceans, life couldn’t exist. C. It’s also dangerous for our health too. D. Despite all its benefits, the ocean still needs support. E. But it is melting now because of global warming. F. Humans use the ocean in many different ways. G. We should work together to create a new relationship with oceans. 第二部分 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。 My small town has been spending Memorial Day with a ceremony since the 1800s. Eventually, by the mid-1990s, the ceremony had become boring and ____21____, primarily due to our speakers having difficulty appreciating the ____22____ of the day. Its ____23____ was suffering as well. ____24____ needed to be done, so I volunteered to give the next Memorial Day ____25____. I hoped to make it ____26____ a fact that the war dead were genuine heroes who once walked among us. To gather the necessary ____27____, I contacted family members, distant relatives and old friends. Everyone I contacted shared so many fond ____28____ of their loved ones that I began to feel as if I knew each soldier ____29____. As a result, it was a _____30_____, satisfying task to put all those memories into a speech. Moreover, relatives gave me old photos, newspaper clippings, letters, and in some cases, medals and other wartime _____31_____. The collected items were placed in glass displays and _____32_____ at the close of the Memorial Day ceremony. Many people attended the ceremony again, _____33_____ the displays for hours. My speech was so well _____34_____, and the displays had a historical and emotional effect. It was obvious that our townspeople were still patriotic (爱国的). They just needed to be _____35_____. 21. A. unnecessary B. uninspiring C. uncertain D. unusual 22. A. significance B. possibility C. responsibility D. potential 23. A. budget B. safety C. attendance D. entertainment 24. A. Anything B. Something C. Nothing D. Everything 25. A. ceremony B. lesson C. concert D. address 26. A. find out B. make up C. focus on D. pass down 27. A. money B. information C. advice D. support 28. A. stories B. possessions C. comments D. works 29. A. personally B. occasionally C. hardly D. mostly 30. A. strange B. boring C. simple D. tough 31. A. diaries B. reports C. agreements D. items 32. A. destroyed B. recognized C. distributed D. showed 33. A. cleaning B. arranging C. viewing D. decorating 34. A. received B. translated C. printed D. copied 35. A. informed B. reminded C. adopted D. comforted 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。 Traditional Yimeng Clay Whistles The rough yet fascinating Yimeng clay whistle (泥哨) was once one of the most popular ____36____ (toy) among the kids in the Yimeng Mountain area in East China’s Shandong province. People usually tie the clay whistle to them with five-colored threads and children wear it on their chests, ____37____ is a way of expressing good wishes. The traditional whistle is colourful with ____38____ (it) rough and outlandish (古怪的) shapes and simple yet smart form, ____39____ (make) it a typical symbol of Yimeng culture. Human figures and animals usually feature in the Yimeng clay whistles. The most ____40____ (common) used colors include red, green, brown, yellow, blue and purple. Chuzhuang, a village in Hedong district of Linyi city, ____41____ (produce) clay whistles for more than 340 years. They ____42____ (sell) in the provinces of Jiangsu and Hebei and used to be one of the main sources of income for the locals. Some of the fine Chuzhuang clay whistles have been kept by State-level museums and have won ____43____ (nation) awards. They have also become part of cultural exchanges between China ____44____ other countries. Nowadays, however, there are few craftsmen (手艺人) in the village, so the skill is _____45_____ urgent need of inheritance and protection. 第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 46. 很多同学认为现在已经是信息时代，没有必要浪费时间背诵古汉语诗词。请以“Reasons for Learning Chinese Classical Poetry”为题写一篇短文向学校英语报投稿。要点包括： 1．为什么要学习古诗词；2．说明学习古诗词的意义和好处。 注意： 1．词数为80左右；2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Reasons for Learning Chinese Classical Poetry ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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。 It was 1972, my family had taken a summer vacation from Kansas to Florida, with an exciting day planned at Disney World. My mother, father and two younger sisters, along with my sixty-seven-year-old Grandma Betty and myself, finally arrived at the holy grail (圣杯) of all amusement parks, and we girls were beside ourselves with expectation. To be honest, I thought my grandma was, too. She hadn’t traveled much in her life and certainly had never been anywhere as exciting as Disney World! After the second ride, we all got off and got ready to change to the next one when one of us looked around and noticed that Grandma Betty wasn’t with us. This was alarming for many reasons, the most important being that Grandma Betty had limited vision and couldn’t read signs well. She had also started to show some signs of confusion. She could easily find herself lost in her own hometown, not to mention “The Most Magical Place on Earth”! We looked everywhere for her but couldn’t see her, and obviously she could not see or hear us. Cellphones didn’t exist at that time, so there was no help there. Anyone who has been to Disney knows how crowded and busy the park is. It’s pretty easy for a child to get lost in there, but we didn’t think it would be that easy to misplace a grandma! My mother told us stay in that spot while she went to the “Missing Children” station to report her lost mother. We impatiently waited until she came back and said that she had given them a description, so we might as well move to the next destination. As the day came to an end, we struggled to Disney’s town square, hoping we might find her there while watching the Electrical Parade (游行), the beautiful parade of lights, music and Disney characters. I was sitting on the ground and watching the moving parade. Along came Mickey Mouse! And then Minnie Mouse! And then Daffy Duck and Cinderella! 注意：1．续写词数为150左右； 2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 And then along came Grandma Betty! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We asked her why she was in the parade. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 绝密★启用前 湘豫名校联考 2023—2024学年高二（上）10月阶段性考试 英 语 考生注意： 1．本试卷共12页。时间120分钟，满分120分。答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号填写在试卷和答题卡上的指定位置，然后认真核对条形码上的信息，并将条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。 2．作答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。作答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在本试卷上无效。 3．考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并收回。 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 【1~3题答案】 【答案】1. B 2. A 3. B B 【4~7题答案】 【答案】4. A 5. A 6. C 7. D C 【8~11题答案】 【答案】8. B 9. C 10. A 11. B D 【12~15题答案】 【答案】12. A 13. C 14. C 15. D 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。 【16~20题答案】 【答案】16. E 17. B 18. F 19. C 20. A 第二部分 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。 【21~35题答案】 【答案】21. B 22. A 23. C 24. B 25. D 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. A 30. C 31. D 32. D 33. C 34. A 35. B 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 【36~45题答案】 【答案】36. toys 37. which 38. its 39. making 40. commonly 41. has produced##has been producing 42. were sold 43 national 44. and 45. in 第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 【46题答案】 【答案】Reasons for Learning Chinese Classical Poetry It makes practical sense for us to study Chinese classical poetry nowadays. First of all, it carries forward the excellent Chinese culture and strengthens our cultural confidence. Secondly, it can bring us a lot of life inspiration and philosophy. For example, facing difficulties, we will think of Lu You’s “After endless mountains and rivers that leave doubt whether there is a path out, suddenly one encounters the shade of a willow, bright flowers and a lovely village.” Finally, the accumulation of poetry will give others a good impression. All things considered, Chinese classical poetry is still worth learning. 第二节（满分25分） 【47题答案】 【答案】 And then along came Grandma Betty! There she was in the middle of the Disney parade, literally marching in all her glory, keeping beat with the band. She was nodding and waving at the crowd, looking pleased with herself! I called out to my mom and pointed toward Grandma. My mom rushed into the middle of the parade group and caught my grandma’s arm. Grandma looked over, somewhat surprised to see a familiar face, and walked out of the line of Disney characters. We asked her why she was in the parade. “A parade?” she was surprised. She didn’t know that she was in a parade! When she saw the crowd of people all headed in one direction, she figured that if she walked with them, she could possibly find all of us! Everyone was waving at her, so she waved back, thinking people here were certainly friendly! She didn’t know she was one of the rare few who got to participate in that world-famous Disney parade, perhaps having the most magical time of us all! 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $