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学科网（北京）股份有限公司 1 四川省安岳中学高 2023级示范班高二下期开学考试 英语 时间：100分钟 满分：150分 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) 1. Where is the woman probably now? A. At school. B. In a hospital. C. At home. 2. Why does the man make the call? A. To reschedule a meeting. B. To confirm an interview. C. To cancel an appointment. 3. What does the man advise the woman to do? A. Stick to her weekly schedule. B. Work at the community part-time. C. Balance study and voluntary work. 4. What will the woman probably do tomorrow afternoon? A. See a doctor. B. Meet her brother. C. Watch a film. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. The differences in diet. B. The man’s accent. C. The woman’s favorite food. 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。 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。 听下面一段对话，回答 6、7小题。 6. What did the man do when he met Claire? A. He bought her something. B. He stopped to talk to her. C. He waved his hand to her. 7. Where is Claire probably working now? A. In a supermarket. B. In a school. C. In a bank. 听下面一段对话，回答 8、9题。 8. What kind of game are the speakers watching? A. Basketball. B. Badminton. C. Football. 9. What happened just now? A. The competition finished. B. Someone almost made a score. C. The woman’s team won the game. 听下面一段对话，回答 10至 12题。 10. Why does the man make the call? A. To track a booking. B. To make a reservation. C. To postpone an appointment. 2 11. When does the man want the party to end? A. At 9:30 p. m. B. At 10:30 p. m. C. At 11:30 p. m. 12. What can the man enjoy on Saturday night? A. Welcome drinks. B. A meal discount. C. A free tour of the park. 听下面一段对话，回答 13至 16题。 13. What was the man doing before the conversation? A. Listening to music. B. Sending a message. C. Watching a documentary. 14. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Classmates. B. Fellow workers. C. Family members. 15. What will Robert prepare for the party? A. Food. B. Flowers. C. Juice 16. What is the man likely to do next? A. Go to the airport. B. Share great news. C. Make a phone call. 听下面一段独白，回答 17到 20题。 17. What is the speaker doing? A. Leaving a message. B. Giving a speech. C. Writing a note. 18. Why does the speaker come to David’s town? A. To visit David’s family. B. To attend a meeting. C. To spend his holiday. 19. Where is the speaker looking forward to going? A. To his school. B. To Italy. C. To the airport. 20. Who could Catherine probably be? A. Tim’s daughter. B. Tim’s wife. C. David’s wife. 第二部分 阅读（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 Cruising (乘船游览) the Rhine; a family trip Create family memories during our popular Rhine River cruise! Days 1& 2 — Leave for Zurich, Switzerland Depart from the US on a flight to Zurich and transfer to Basel to get on MS Amadeus Queens, where each adult and child will receive a special Welcome Package with general information about the cruise. The travel director will be on board to offer suggestions on independent activities. Then the ship will depart from Basel for Strasbourg and the passengers will gather for a welcome party and dinner on the ship. Day 3 — Strasbourg 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 3 Choice 1— Strasbourg Panoramic Tour This tour shows the most important city of France’s Alsace Region and the capital of the European Union. After the tour, you can enjoy a guided walk through Strasbourg’s historic center and visit Notre Dame Cathedral. Choice 2 — Culinary Strasbourg It offers insight into the city’s culinary heritage. Strasbourg is famous for its cooking throughout France. In “Winstubs”, small wine bars, typical of Strasbourg, traditional dishes can be enjoyed. Day 4 — Speyer/Heidelberg Choice 1—Technic Museum in Speyer Explore inside an original huge plane and study the inner workings of a sea rescue boat. You’ll find the largest space flight exhibition in Europe, showing the Russian spacecraft Buran, a real moonstone, spacesuits as well as classic cars, fire trucks, motorcycles, and other exhibits. Choice 2 — Heidelberg Castle and Town Explore historic Heidelberg and visit the red-walled castle. See beautiful views of the Neckar Valley and the city below. Choice 3 — Hike Heidelberg’s Philosopher’s Way Hike the famous “Philosopher’s Way” for impressive views of Heidelberg Castle and the old town. Take a rest in Philosopher’s Garden while enjoying the view along with snacks and drinks. 21. What does the Welcome Package provide? A. Tips on independent activities. B. A guide to MS Amadeus Queens. C. The introduction to the river cruise. D. Information about the welcome party. 22. Which route may a food lover enjoy most? A. Culinary Strasbourg. B. Strasbourg Panoramic Tour. C. Technic Museum in Speyer. D. Heidelberg Castle and Town. 23. What can tourists do during the tour of Speyer? A. Travel in classic motor vehicles. B. Get some knowledge of space. C. Go hiking on a well-known path. D. Explore the historic castle and town. B In July 2020, over two nights and three days, with my wife, three kids and another family of camping friends, we enjoyed views of St. Vincent Gulf and a time made even more memorable by a ring. My father had died four months earlier and I had been wearing a gold ring of his that was gifted to me. On the second day of our hike, as the rest of our group set off after lunch, I was walking at the back with my wife when I looked down at my hand where my dad’s ring usually was. It was gone. I spent the next few minutes and hours being comforted by my friends and family and regretting how I could lose something so precious on a hiking trip. My friend encouraged me to search for my ring in my pack, which I did when we stopped for a drink. There was no ring. We set up camp and settled in at Kingfisher Flat, the most beautiful campsite, sitting beside a flowing creek. That night I went to sleep and eventually reconciled that my ring was gone for good. Finishing the hike the following day, back at Mambray Creek, my mate said we should have one last look for the 4 ring at the campsite before setting off. I went along with the idea, especially given there were toilets nearby and it was a four-hour drive back to our home on the Fleurieu Peninsula. As we approached our campsite our friends started searching around the grounds for the ring. I inspected our fuel gauge completely, while my eldest daughter walked to the fire ring where we’d been chatting and laughing. Seconds later I heard my daughter say “I’ve found it!” I seriously could not believe what she’d said until she presented me with my dad’s ring. I accepted the ring, hugged my daughter and to this day find it hard to believe my dad’s ring was found. This precious chapter made the two nights hiking something I will never forget. 24. What happened after the author losing his father’s ring during the hike? A. The author decided to buy a new ring. B. The group decided to end the trip early. C. The author received comfort from friends and family. D. The author immediately found the ring in his sleeping bag. 25. What does the underlined word “reconciled” in paragraph 4 mean? A. Felt angry and frustrated. B. Argued about the situation. C. Made peace with the situation. D. Found a solution to the problem. 26. Why did the author agree to have one last look for the ring at the campsite? A. Because his friends insisted on searching again. B. Because he was still hopeful of finding the ring. C. Because he wanted to spend more time with his family. D. Because there were toilets nearby, making it a convenient stop. 27. What’s the purpose of the story? A. to describe the natural beauty of St. Vincent Gulf and its surroundings. B. to promote the benefits of family camping trips and outdoor activities. C. to provide a detailed account of hiking techniques and outdoor survival tips. D. to share the emotional journey of losing and finding a cherished family treasure. C It’s the start of a new era of AI at Google, says CEO Sundar Pichai: the Gemini era. Gemini is Google’s latest large language model, which Pichai first mentioned at the I/O developer conference in June and is now releasing to the public. This significant advance in AI will ultimately impact almost all of Google’s products. Gemini is more than a single AI model. There’s a lighter version called Gemini Nano meant for offline Android devices, a more powerful version called Gemini Pro that will power many Google AI services, and an even more capable model called Gemini Ultra — the most powerful LLM (大语言模型 ) Google has yet created. It seems to be mostly designed for data centers and enterprise applications. OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022. Now Google is ready to fight back. “We’ve done a very thorough analysis of the systems side by side,” says CEO Sundar Pichai. Google ran 32 well-established criteria comparing the two models, from overall tests to the Python code generation. “I think we’re substantially (大量地) ahead on 30 out of 32 of those 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 5 criteria.” he adds. Gemini’s clearest advantage comes from its ability to understand and interact with video and audio. This was by design: multi-modality has been part of the plan from the beginning. Google built one multi-sensory model from the beginning, unlike OpenAI’s separate models for images and voice. Right now, Gemini’s most basic models are text-based , but more advanced models like Gemini Ultra can work with images, video, and audio. “Over time,” Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says, “Gemini will gain more senses, become more aware, accurate, and grounded. These models just sort of understand better about the world around them.” These models still have other problems, but Hassabis says they will improve as they learn more. 28. What is Gemini according to the text? A. A new language model in development. B. A light AI model designed for offline use. C. A new language model developed by Google. D. A light AI model created for specific enterprise applications. 29. What does Gemini Nano specialize in? A. Generating Python code. B. Running on offline Android devices. C. Powering Google AI services. D. Training separate models for images and voice. 30. What is a key advantage of Gemini over OpenAI’s ChatGPT? A. The ability to write Pyth on code. B. The ability to work with video and audio. C. The understanding and interaction with textual data. D. The ability to create separate models for images and voice. 31. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. Google will bring the most advanced models. B. Gemini models outperform OpenAI’s ChatGPT. C. Google will still work on the perfection of Gemini models. D. Gemini models are launched without even a slight imperfection. D Oranges, reds, yellows…a kaleidoscope of colour. “It was like walking in the Alps in autumn. Truly amazing!” Israeli geologist BoazLangford is describing one of the vast caverns in Dark Star --- a huge cave system tucked inside the Baisun-Tau mountain range in an isolated region of Uzbekistan. Langford was part of the international team of scientists and cavers who explored the system in 2014. “In another branch there are frozen lakes; elsewhere, huge waterfalls. The variety of sights is incredible. Every area is different. Dark Star is like no other. Totally unusual. I’m a scientist, and not very religious, but there is something spiritual about that place.” Political instability and its remote location have kept the depths of Dark Star (named after a 1974 sci-fi comedy film) hidden from human eyes. But in 1990, a British team managed to reach one of the entrances and so exploration of this dark underworld began. Around 17km of passages, along with additional entrances, have since been discovered, but all of the openings sit halfway up a 200m-high limestone cliff. And just getting to the base camp at its foot is a long and treacherous journey. 6 Why are scientists bothering to traipse for days across inhospitable terrain (地貌 ) to reach a remote comer of Uzbekistan? What could possibly be lying in the depths of the cave to make all this hardship worthwhile? Information about Earth’s past and future climate is captured in cave mineral deposits. These are made from flowing or dripping water laden with minerals --- calcite, aragonite and gypsum. Over time, the minerals build up to create rock formations called stalagmites and stalactites. “By analysing such cave mineral deposits, I can go into the past and learn more about how the local climate evolves, and how that reflects regional or global changes,” says Dr Sebastian Breitenbach, a palaeoclimatologist at Northumbria University, who’s currently working on samples from Dark Star. The usual ‘radiocarbon clock’ only works back to about 40-50,000 years and then it's over because there’s no radioactive carbon left to count. Beyond 40,000 years, we have very little information about past climate in terms of chronology. But the great advantage of using cave deposits is that we can use other radioisotopes (放射性同位素), such as uranium, which have a longer decay chain. This basically means that we can track the time accurately to about half a million years. “Both uranium and lead can be present in stalagmites. And we can leap even further back if we use uranium-lead, because lead is stable --- theoretically, we could date back to the Big Bang. And once you have the dating, you have a chronology, and can use climate proxies to look into how the climate --- and environment --- evolved.” In short, stalagmites are great climate archives or historical climate records in other words, because they grow in caves all over the world, relatively undisturbed for millions of years, isolated from external factors, such as extreme weather and human or animal interference. But getting a good sample from such remote settings back to the lab can be challenging --- if the stalagmite breaks, it’s a long, long journey back to get another one. 32. What does Dark Star feature? A. Unique mountains with vegetation of diverse colors. B. A remote location free from political instability. C. Popular places of interest ideal for a spiritual journey. D. Limestone caves with varied terrains. 33. What’s the purpose of venturing into Dark Star? A. To explore cave mineral deposits by means of stalagmites. B. To harvest stalagmite samples for climate research. C. To study rock formation of stalagmites and stalactites. D. To prove the effectiveness of uranium as a radioisotope. 34. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of stalagmites in climatic chronology research? A. Both uranium and lead can be present in stalagmites. B. They are less affected by factors because they are sheltered in the cave. C. They are readily available despite their being fragile. D. Their diverse mineral deposits carry archives of Earth. 35. Which can be the best title for this passage? A. Unlock Earth’s Mystery Underground B. Venture into Dark Star 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 7 C. Climate Chronology, a Mystery To Solve D. Stalagmites, Earth’s Climate Archives 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。 Medicine is a degree that consists of an endless number of exams, and recently I received my first year results. Waiting for those results was one of the most anxiety-generating experiences. 36 Failing brings judgement from others, a topic of discussion for people, and the right for others to say you are not capable. The stress associated with failing is created by others around you, rather than by the event itself. I have recently been reading The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, which clarifies that failure has a strong presence among those who have achieved success. People will always focus on Warren Buffett’s success as an investor. 37 The process of achieving success has often involved setbacks and “failures” along the way. I received a “pass” grade on an important research paper during my master’s, which put my final grade in a dangerous situation. I was rejected from medical schools which I’d spent time and effort applying to and preparing for. 38 I also began studying Medicine last year. 39 But you should know that with each failure you are closer to success, building further layers to the foundations you started. Behind every successful person are more obstacles and setbacks, but these are not as interesting to focus on or as enviable. The noise around you, whether it be from co-workers, friends or parents, should not shake your belief in your abilities. 40 Learn what you need and correct your approach until you reach your success. A. Failure is your platform to success. B. You are guaranteed a lifetime of success. C. I was turned down by countless graduate schemes. D. You may not be successful the first, second or however many times. E. Upon reflection I believe that this is partly as a result of the failure itself. F. Despite all of this, I ended up getting a distinction in my master’s degree. G. However, rarely will they see how many times his investments have failed. 第 II卷（非选择题） 第三部分 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，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 I have had no interest in football for as long as I can remember. While my classmates played, I 41 to stay in the library. I never 42 the passion for the game and would throw away the sports section of the newspaper, as if it 43 the rest of it. As I grew up, I proudly wore my 44 . But occasionally, whether in a taxi or when meeting a friend's father, I found myself faced with a 45 opener like, “Terrible season we’re having, eh?” or simply, “Who do you support?” My heart sank, knowing my response would unavoidably 46 them, despite their good intentions. 8 I realized that my 47 had closed off many conversations, outings, and even potential friendships I might have 48 enjoyed. Although I couldn’t change the fact that I found football boring, I began to regret being a(n) 49 . Then I became a father. I didn’t want my boy to 50 this valuable social experience, so I took him to watch the Lions play. During those matches, we sat close to the field, surrounded by families who had a genuine 51 with the players. My kid’s questions kept me somewhat 52 in the game. Slowly, I started to 53 for the Lions. During one victorious match, we even met David, the Captain, who happily 54 for a photo with my son. 55 , I had an answer to the question,“Who do you support?” 41. A. preferred B. intended C. wished D. pretended 42. A. believed B. understood C. noticed D. hid 43. A. confused B. poisoned C. defended D. preserved 44. A. doubt B. smile C. confidence D. dislike 45. A. well-informed B. well-prepared C. well-meant D. well-presented 46. A. challenge B. disturb C. amuse D. disappoint 47. A. attitude B. personality C. interest D. habit 48. A. otherwise B. ever C. still D. therefore 49. A. loser B. fan C. outsider D. passer-by 50. A. go wild for B. turn away from C. get the hang of D. miss out on 51. A. agreement B. conversation C. competition D. connection 52. A. stressed B. engaged C. successful D. busy 53. A. cheer B. change C. vote D. play 54. A. danced B. waved C. posed D. clapped 55. A. Gradually B. Finally C. Unexpectedly D. Luckily 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 9 姓名： 得分： 二、非选择题（每空 1分，共 55分） 56-65. optimize guideline visa-free expertise landscape approachable integrate shortage stagnate interact 66-75. rehearsal innovation marine scuba habitat evaluate standard purchase lunar teleoperate 10 76-85. presence nectar lick tap into calendar uplift 社交媒体平台账户 噩梦 博物馆 reservation 86-95. fictional brown alongside sedentary ecological assume 噪声 vibration 回忆、记起 envy 96-105. launch 京剧 flame 员工 insight ribbon warmer potential 自我修养、自我改善 compliant 106-110. extraordinary 观众 technique subconscious 侵略性的