高中试卷答案网厦门海沧实验中学2023-2024学年高二上学期期中考试
英语
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 do
A. Reserve a cheap hotel. B. Go to Mexico on business. C. Relax and enjoy himself.
2. What will the woman get
A. A paper towel. B. Carpet cleaner. C. A glass of wine.
3. Who is the woman
A. She’s a teacher. B. She’s a student. C. She’s an assistant.
4. Where are the speakers headed
A. To a swimming pool. B. To the beach. C. To a restaurant.
5. Why is the museum of great significance
A. It’s a museum for old art. B. It will be built on a small island. C. It’s the first of its kind in Indonesia.
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. How much does an entrance ticket cost
A. Two dollars. B. Five dollars. C. Seven dollars.
7. How does the woman pay
A. In cash. B. By cheque, C. By credit card.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where did the tomato sauce come from
A. A local farm. B. A store only five miles away. C. The man’s own yard.
9. What does the woman think of cooking
A. She enjoys it.
B. It makes her feel creative.
C. She doesn’t have the patience for it.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is the relationship between the speakers
A. Interviewer and interviewee. B. Husband and wife. C. Neighbors.
11. Where did the man go to college
A. In Washington. B. In Texas. C. In Nebraska.
12. What is the woman’s job
A. She is an artist. B. She is a banker. C. She is a computer programmer.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What did Fitbit say about the recent study
A. It was false. B. It hurt their business. C. They made no comment.
14. When does the man use his Fitbit
A. Only when he’s exercising. B. During the daytime. C. All the time.
15. What does the man think of his Fitbit
A. It’s of little use.
B. It’s of good value.
C. It’s sometimes uncomfortable to wear.
16. How does the woman sound
A. Interested. B. Bored. C. Upset.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the speaker mainly talking about
A. A search engine. B. A language program. C. An online dictionary.
18. How many people use Duolingo currently
A. Over one hundred million. B. A few hundred thousand. C. Several thousand.
19. Where is Luis von Ahn from
A. Switzerland. B. Guatemala. C. Costa Rica.
20. How was Duolingo originally funded
A. By big websites. B. By an actor. C. By school.
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
There isn’t a more British way to spend a summer afternoon than enjoying the sun in our many parks.
Holyrood Park, Edinburgh
The dramatic landscape of Holyrood Park, with steep pathways and volcanic cliff faces, offers unparalleled views over the city of Edinburgh. A royal park since the 12th century, the beautiful Holyrood Palace remains one of the Queen’s primary residences.
Take a moment to relax beside one of the many mini lakes, enjoy a walk along the yellow-flowered hillocks, set off for the iconic Arthur’s Seat or explore the wind-whipped hillside ruins of the 15th century St Andrew’s Chapel.
Stanley Park, Blackpool
This seriously stylish park won the prestigious Fields in Trust ”Best Park” award in 2017, and deservedly so. With an Art Deco cafe, Italian marble fountain, pretty bandstand and picturesque boating lake, it’s an elegant space to enjoy a summer’s afternoon.
Visitors can spend the day rowing on the lake and exploring the woodland and formal gardens. There’s also a 5000-seat cricket ground, 18-hole golf course and model village within the park, making it well worth a repeat visit.
Platt Fields Park, Manchester
Centred around a beautiful lake where enthusiastic fishermen catch carp and tench, Platt Fields has been enjoyed by the public for over 100 years. Platt Fields were envisioned as the “green lungs of the city”, providing Mancunians with an escape from the pollution and smog of the workhouses in Manchester.
Sports fans can enjoy bowling greens, basketball courts, football pitches, roller hockey, tennis courts, cycle paths and a skate park as well as a BMX track.
Bute Park, Cardiff
Described as the “green heart of the city”, Cardiff’s Bute Park is an urban oasis. Indeed, surrounded by towering trees, award-winning horticulture, a calming lake and thriving wildlife, it’s easy to forget you’re in the city at all.
Formerly the grounds of the statuesque Cardiff Castle, Bute Park is one of the largest parks in Wales, and there are several football pitches, attracting over a million visits every year.
21. Where are the sports activities unavailable
A. In Holyrood Park. B. In Stanley Park. C. In Platt Fields Park. D. In Bute Park.
22. What do the four parks have in common
A. A palace. B. A lake. C. A fountain. D. A golf course.
23. From which is the text probably taken
A. A magazine only for Mancunicans. B. A report on national parks.
C. A website introducing parks in Autumn. D. A brochure for British parks.
B
It takes Sanduk Ruit about five minutes to change someone’s life. The Nepalese doctor can make a small incision (切口) in his patient’s eye, remove the cataract (白内障) damaging the patient’s vision and replace it with an inexpensive artificial lens. He said, “Some of our younger doctors even do it faster than that.”
in the past decades, Ruit has personally restored the sight of more than 100,000 people across Asia and Africa, and taught his rapid-fire technique to countless other eye doctors in parts of the world. His patients suffer from eye conditions that are mostly preventable. But because of poverty and limited access to public health services, they have been unable to seek treatment. Their stories are all too common in the developing world.
Driven by a belief that the world’s poorest people deserve safe, affordable and high-quality eye care just as much as anyone else, Ruit has made it his mission to root out avoidable blindness.
In 1994, he joined the late Australian eye doctor Fred Hollows, who was his mentor and close friend, in establishing Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology-an eye hospital in Kathmandu devoted to providing world-class eyecare for the people of Nepal. The hospital makes the state-of-the-art lens that is commonly used in treating cataracts or myopia, and exports it to more than 30 countries worldwide.
For the patients who cannot reach urban areas, Ruit and his team conduct mobile eye camps in remote parts of Nepal and neighboring countries. They often trek for days to those areas and clean out structures like tents, classrooms or even stables for use as temporary operating rooms. When the eyepatches (眼罩) come off the day after an operation, it’s an extremely moving moment for all relevant persons. Ruit said that he was so grateful that he could make a difference in so many people’s lives.
24. What do we know about Ruit
A. He refused to do operations for the rich.
B. He was willing to share his excellent technique.
C. He joined Fred Hollows in the nineteenth century.
D. He restored more than a million people’s sight in person.
25. What inspires Ruit to fight against avoidable blindness
A. Making a lot of money.
B. Obtaining relevant data to write scientific papers.
C. The desire to make his technique well-known.
D. The idea that all sick people should get proper treatment.
26 Which of the following could best describe Ruit
A. Kind-hearted and responsible. B. Friendly and energetic.
C. Open-minded and outgoing. D. Clever and brave.
27. In which section of a newspaper can we find the text
A. Science. B. Sports. C. Education. D. Figures.
C
Could the next Ernest Hemingway or Jane Austen be a well-engineered Al software program It’s a question becoming increasingly pressing as machine language-learning software continues to evolve.
Much of this is just nerves. Today’s AI creative writing programs are not yet at a stage of development where they pose a serious threat to Colleen Hoover or Charles Dickens, But while attention continues to focus on the possibility of a blanket takeover of human literature by Al, far less consideration has been given to the prospect of AI co-working with humans.
Earlier this month, American sci-fi writer Ken Liu, who had been awarded Hugo and Nebula to his name, joined 12 other professional authors for a writing workshop on Google’s Wordcraft. This AI tool, a language generating model, is not yet publicly available but is advertised as an AI-powered writing assistant that can, when given the right instruction from the writer, provide helpful descriptions, create lists of objects or emotional states, and even brainstorm ideas.
The writers at the workshop, however, emerged with mixed reports. “Wordcraft is too sensible. Wow!” Robin Sloan wrote. “But ‘sensible’ is another word for predictable, overused and boring. My intention here is to produce something unexpected.”
I’m unconvinced that writers awarded the Nobel Prize have much to fear from AI. Their work, and that of countless other novelists, short story writers, dramatists and poets, is too particular, too beautifully unique. Even if a model learned what they had done in the past, it would not be able to predict where their creativity might take them in the future. But for authors who write following a pattern, Al might step in, first as assistants before some day to authorship.
Production-line novels are nothing new. In the 1970s, Barbara Cartland, who wrote more than 723 books in her lifetime, many of which are romance bestsellers, would read her novels for her secretary to type up at the remarkable rate of roughly seven chapters a week. But already machine has replaced the secretary’s role. Perhaps creative writing software isn’t that far from replacing the Mrs. Cartlands of today.
28. Which aspect of AI calls for more attention
A. Its damage to our nerves. B. Its progress in literary studies.
C. Its cooperation with humans. D. Its influence on human literature.
29. What can we learn about Wordcraft from the text
A. It generates novels automatically. B. It outperforms professional writers.
C. Its works receive praises from the public. D. Its works bear similarity to existing ones.
30. What can writers do to avoid the threat from AI
A. Increase writing speed. B. Use diverse resources.
C. Produce creative works. D. Follow the latest patterns.
31. Which of the following is the best title for the text
A. Will AI Replace Human Writers B. AI Warns Mrs. Cartlands of Today
C. Is Writing Running into a New Era D. Word craft Lies at the Center of Debate
D
To communicate with others, we, the people, have different languages. But what about other animals and plants Well, according to a scientist, plants talk to each other using language.
Jim Westwood, a Virginia Tech scientist, made this discovery by looking at the interactions between a parasitic (生的) plant called a dodder and two types of host plants, a small flowering plant and a tomato plant. Dodders use a root-like part to enter their host plants and feed on their nutrients.
In previous studies, Westwood had discovered that during this interaction, RNA molecules (分子), which play a crucial role in translating information passed down from DNA, were being passed between the two species.
And recently, Westwood looked into the possibility that a special type of RNA molecules, mRNA or Messenger RNA, were also being exchanged between the parasitic and host plants, mRNA molecules send messages within cells, instructing them on which actions to take and when. Through this exchange, the parasitic plant may be instructing its host to lower its defenses so that the parasitic plant can more easily attack it.
Besides giving us a much deeper insight into the behaviour of plants, this information could help scientists come up with better solutions to fight the parasitic weeds that threaten food crops. Parasitic plants are serious problems for crops that help feed some of the poorest regions in Africa and elsewhere. In addition, it has exciting implications for the design of novel control strategies based on interrupting the mRNA information that the parasite (寄生虫) uses to reprogram the host.
“The beauty of this discovery is that this mRNA could be the Achilles’ heel for parasites,” Westwood said. “This is all really exciting because there are so many potential implications surrounding this new information. Now that we have found that they are sharing all this information, the next question is, ‘What exactly are they telling each other ’.”
32. What’s Westwood’s new discovery
A. RNA can translate DNA information. B. Parasite plants can control their hosts.
C. Plants can use language to communicate. D. Plants can talk to each other via the roots.
33. What can we learn about mRNA molecules
A. They issue instructions to the plants. B. They translate information from RNA.
C. They defend the plants against attacks. D. They are exchanged between the plants.
34. In what aspect could Westwood’s findings help
A. Solve the issues of food shortage. B. Build the host-parasite relationship.
C. Identify the genes of the host plants. D. Study the connection between plants.
35. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph probably mean
A. A big deal. B. A weak point. C. An opportunity. D. An achievement.
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。
Over the past years, countless studies conducted have shown the positive effects that laughing has on one’s physical and mental health. Are you ready to laugh more Below you’ll find five ways to bring more laughter into your life.
Smile more. Smiling is not laughing. 36 When you smile, happy changes begin to take place naturally, both internally and externally. In addition, you can think of smiling as a warm-up for laughing.
Learn to laugh at yourself. Most of us take ourselves too seriously. 37 Learning to laugh at yourself takes some of the pressure off. You can look for the funny side of things. When you’re upset about something, ask yourself “How is this situation funny ” Humor can even turn a negative into a positive.
Share stories from the past. Do you remember one time in high school that you and your best friend wore false hair and matching clothes around your neighborhood Or, how about when your best friend sat on a painted bench by accident 38
Take up something new. When you try something new—whether it’s to draw or learn to roller skate—your original attempts will likely be clumsy (笨拙的) and even ridiculous (荒谬的). 39 So taking up something new is likely to result in laughs.
40 We are heavily influenced by the people we are with, so by hanging out with funny people, we can add more laughter into our days. That positive and silly energy will immediately rub off on (感染) us and it can cause us to want to feel happier and sillier throughout our days.
A. That is funny.
B. It has a lot of benefits.
C. Follow funny people on Twitter.
D. Surround yourself with funny people.
E. These reminders can make us feel silly and childlike.
F. For better results, think of a funny moment from the past.
G. So our ability to find the humor in difficult situations can be limited.
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)
Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood—The Rolling Stones—have played together for more than 50 years. However, they still recognize the 41 of practicing together.
They understand that for excellence to become a habit, you need to define a 42 approach to working together. You need to practice it over and over until it becomes second 43 . Before every tour, the band typically spends two months in rehearsing (排练). They 44 the opportunity to reconnect with their collective rhythm. The 45 enables the band to perform with almost telepathic communication. Richards says that he knows exactly what’s happening by 46 watching Watts’ left hand. If the rhythm ever slows, one glance from Richards to Wood speaks volumes. Together they will then 47 the pace.
The Stones’ 48 comes from each member having a distinctive yet complementary 49 . Richards is their spiritual leader, Watts the band’s backbone, Wood the mediator, and Jagger is 50 everything he can be—a chief executive in many ways.
Each of the band’s members is a (n) 51 in his own right, but it is the chemistry the band has on each of them that works best. Being part of the Rolling Stones remains the best way for each member to achieve their 52 goals. The best teams are those who 53 individual drive with understanding the importance and 54 of the team.
This is the secret to becoming an excellent team: There is no 55 to the ongoing devotion and intentional practice required to build better teams.
41. A. circumstance B. mode C. importance D. prospect
42. A. secure B. shared C. reliable D. independent
43. A. interest B. time C. nature D. preference
44. A. appreciate B. find C. expect D. use
45. A. work B. difference C. career D. practice
46. A. barely B. merely C. possibly D. secretly
47. A. step up B. slow down C. hold on D. break down
48. A. appeal B. idea C. commitment D. success
49. A. tendency B. role C. characteristic D. view
50. A. in case of B. in favour of C. in control of D. in need of
51. A. witness B. genius C. educator D. player
52. A. accurate B. visible C. appropriate D. individual
53. A. combine B. mix C. help D. push
54. A. consequence B. objective C. potential D. power
55. A. ban B. way C. alternative D. key
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。
Despite strict laws and heavy fines. traffic in Greece still remains dangerous. This is particularly the case in large cities 56 traffic is greatly affected by many factors. Here is some advice for drivers in Greece.
Road planning is 57 (enormous) complex (复杂的) in large Greek cities. There are many dangerous junctions (交叉路口). Athens is known 58 the most difficult city for drivers. It is hard to find the right way, so new drivers may easily get 59 (confuse) there.
In many large cities, drivers can feel the lack of usual road signs. Such signs as “winding road” are quite rare. When 60 (approach) a crossroads, drivers should always slow down.
Crossroads 61 (equip) with traffic lights are another dangerous place. Do not start moving immediately after the green light appears.
Parking space should be selected with 62 (careful). Drivers should also consider that parking 63 (prevent) in the central part of some large cities.
Roads in the country are the most terrible roads for foreign drivers. In spite of the speed limit of 80 km/h, local drivers rarely move at 64 speed below 120 km/h.
While moving, drivers are not allowed 65 (speak) on the phone as they need to monitor traffic and other drivers.
第四部分 写作
第一节 (满分15 分)
假定你是李华，你的新西兰朋友Terry将去中国朋友家做客，发邮件向你询问有关中国的社交习俗，请你回复邮件。内容包括：
1. 见面时的问候方式；
2. 合适的礼物；
3. 餐桌礼仪。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
I used to be very active in sports and games when I was in primary school. I won the B Division long jump and was a good sprinter (短跑运动员). As a result, I was chosen to represent the school in the long jump and relay (接力) events at the District Sports Meet. Before the sports meet, I had put in a lot of hard work and dedication during the training sessions. I woke up early every morning to go for runs and did countless drills (训练) to improve my technique. My teammates and I supported and encouraged each other during training, pushing ourselves to do better and achieve our goals.
The meet lasted two days. I had no events scheduled for the first day. So I kept myself busy by watching the others compete. Large tents were provided for the young competitors on one side of the track. Despite being assigned the last tent that was furthest from the track, I made the best of the situation by decorating it with our school colors and creating a supportive atmosphere.
The next day, I was getting ready for my events. The long jump was scheduled for the early afternoon, followed by the 8*50m relay later in the afternoon. I thought I was a pretty good jumper, but as the competition began, I realized I was vastly outclassed (超过). We finished our jumps, and I came in fourth place, just missing out on a medal.
That was disappointing, but I reminded myself that we still had a chance in the 8*50m relay, for which I was assigned to run the fifth leg. The race date arrived. We filed into our assigned spots and prepared for the race. After a tense minute or so, I heard the starter’s gun go off. When the first runners took off, I watched nervously and excitedly as my team runners kept up with the others. As they got closer, I realized we were at least in second place.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答愿卡的相应位置作答。
My turn arrived and I took the baton (接力棒) cleanly and began my run.
As a result, I left the meet empty-handed.
厦门海沧实验中学2023-2024学年高二上学期期中考试
英语
参考答案
第一部分: 听力
1-5: CAABC 6-10: BACCC 11-15: ABACB 16-20: ABABA
第二部分: 阅读理解:
21-25: ABDBD 26-30: ADCDC 31-35: ACAAB 36-40: BGEAD
第三部分: 语言运用
41-45: CCCDD 46-50: BBDBC 51-55: BDADC
56. where 57. enormously 58. as 59. confused 60. approaching
61. equipped 62. carefulness 63. is prevented 64. a 65. to speak
第四部分: 写作 (略)
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