1、2022 年春季鄂东南省级示范高中教育教学改革联盟学校期中联考高二英语试卷考试时间2022年4月19日上午0800-1000 试卷满分150分第一部分 听力（共两节, 满分 30分）做题时, 先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后, 你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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。例 How much is the shirt?A. 19. 15. B
2、. 9. 18. C. 9. 15. 答案是C。1. When will the lecture be given?A. On June 10th. B. On June 1llth. C. On June 12th. 2. What caused the company sales to rise?A. The online marketing campaign. B. The extra salespeople. C. The discount prices. 3. What is Jimmy doing?A. Reading a storybook. B. Doing his homew
3、ork. C. Playing computer games. 4. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Forgive the player. B. Kick the player out. C. Apologize to the player. 5. Where does the woman usually get the book?A. In the shop. C. On the Internet. B. In the supermarket. 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
4、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。听第六段材料, 回答第6、7题。6. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. The preparations for a camping. B. The changeable weather. C. Their favorite food. 7. What will the man take?A. Bread. B. Hamburgers. C. Card
5、s. 听下面一段对话, 回答第8至 10题。8. What is wrong with the woman?A. She has a fever. B. She has a headache. C. She has a sleeping problem. 9. What did the woman do last night?A. She prepared for a meeting. B. She attended a meeting. C. She went to bed early. 10. What does the man ask the woman to do?A. Quit th
6、e job. B. Take some medicine. C. Take a rest. 听下面一段对话, 回答第 11 至13题。11. Where does the conversation take place?A. At a theater. B. At a hotel. C. At a snack bar. 12. What would the man probably do at6:00 p. m. tomorrow?A. Celebrate their wedding anniversary. B. Attend a wedding ceremony. C. Spend his
7、 20th birthday. 13. How much should the man pay?A. $100. B. $200. C. $ 300. 听下面一段对话, 回答第14 至17题。14. What is the most probable relationship between the speakers?A. Colleagues. B. Schoolmates. C. Teacher and student. 15. What is the womans problem?A. Her brother is disturbing her. B. She has no dictio
8、nary to use. C. Her parents cant give her any advice. 16. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Tell her brother to stop. B. Go to the library to study. C. Ask her parents for help. 17. What is the woman embarrassed at?A. Remembering little from history. B. Reviewing by singing her notes. C. Wri
9、ting down what she has read. 听下面一段独白, 回答第 18至 20 题。18. What was the main meal for people in Prussia in the 18th century?A. Rice B. Potatoes. C. Bread. 19. How did people feel about the potatoes in the palace garden?A. Disappointed. B. Curious. C. Anxious. 20. What can we learn about the king?A. He w
10、as very smart. B. He liked making jokes. C. He was crazy about potatoes. 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和D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。AIts a good idea to buy from local nursery（苗圃）to get a variety of plants that grow well in your region. Heres our latest list o
11、f plant and garden events in the L. A. area in February. California Native Container Plants, a class about growing native plants in pots taught by Flora Ito, nursery sales manager at the Payne Foundation nursery, 10459 Tuxford St. in Sun Valley, from 9 to 10:15 a. m. Feb 4. Participants must have pr
12、oof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the class. Register online, $25, or $20 for members. Secrets of a Healthy Vegetable Garden, a free workshop sponsored by the Orange County Organic Gardening Club and taught by Julie Bawden-Davis, master
13、 gardener and author of Southern California Vegetable Gardening, at 7:30 p. m. Feb8 in the Orange County Fairgrounds Silo Building, 88 Fair Drive in Costa Mesa. Camellia Societys 49th Camellia Show at Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, from 1 to 5 p. m. Feb. 12. The show is free to vis
14、itors after $29 admission to the gardens($24 for seniors 65 and older, $13 ages 4-11. Members and children under age 4 enter free. ) Masks are required indoors. Payne Foundation Winter Plant Sale at the foundations nursery, 10459 Tuxford St. in Sun Valley, from 830 a. m. to 4 p. m. Feb. 15-19. The s
15、ale includes native seeds, books and other merchandise（货物）, as well as one of the regions largest selections of native plants. Members receive a 15% discount, and nonmembers get a 10% discount on all plants and seeds. 21. Who is the passage intended for?A. College students in Botany. B. Gardeners an
16、d plant lovers. C. Researchers on native plants. D. Nursery sales managers.22. How much will a nonmember who attends a lecture on container plants pay?A. $20 B. $24C. $25 D. $2923. Which place might a native plant shopper go to?A. 1151 Oxford RoadB. 88 Fair DriveC. the Organic Gardening Club D. the
17、Payne Foundation nurseryBWhen Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago Oak Park High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my least favorite subject to teach as a teacher, he says. I was terrible at it. So he asked a former stu
18、dent of his for help, who suggested the idea of a poetry slam a competition in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience. The student with the lowest grade in my class ended up winning it, says Kahn. And I realized this is something powerful. That was 1999. Inspired by the clubs
19、potential to engage students, Kahn created an after-school spoken word club at the high school. And for over 20 years, the club has created space for students to engage in storytelling. Many students have gone on to become award-winning poets, scholars, or even National Youth Poet Winners. Now a new
20、 poetry collection called Respect the Mic is showing a portion of that talent. The collection features 76 honest, powerful poems by the clubs students and alumni（校友）, with a foreword by Pulitzer-prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess. Over the years, Kahn has invited distinguished poets like National Book
21、 Award winner Terrance Hayes and National Poetry Slam champion Patricia Smith to visit his classroom. For Kahn, the collection and the club were all about helping students who just didnt like school, as well as students of color-Black students in particular -who, Kahn writes in the book, faced an op
22、portunity gapin classrooms. On average, they had a lower GPA(Grade Point Average) than white students. Ultimately, the editors and some critics hope the club will take this power of poetry and move it beyond the Oak Park classroom, so that teachers like Kahn, who were once afraid of poetry, will be
23、able to get themselves and their students excited about it. 24. What does Kahn think of the idea of a poetry competition?A. Effective. B. Nonsense. C. Disappointing. D. Demanding. 25. What do we know about the poetry collection Respect the Mic?A. Its a record of students life. B. Its about Kahns tea
24、ching experiences. C. It includes a poem by a Pulitzer-prize winning poet. D. It shows the students gift for writing poetry. 26. Kahns after-school spoken word club _. A. can wipe out color discrimination in the high schoolB. is helpful to the black studentsC. fails to fill the opportunity gap in th
25、e classroomD. has moved to classrooms of other schools27. What is the text mainly about?A. A reunion of Kahns outstanding students. B. An English teacher overcoming the fear of teaching. C. A high school spoken-word club changing students lives. D. A famous poem composed by a clubs students. CEvery
26、so often, a Chinese fashion symbol unknowingly turned the fashion landscape upside down. This time, we unearth the imperial tomb of Chinas Empress Dowager Cixi（慈禧）（1835-1908）and find her great passion for luxurious nails. Ancient Chinese nobles started growing long nails during the Warring States Pe
27、riod to show that they werent manual laborers, but it wasnt until the Ming Dynasty that long nails and nail guards became an important symbol of material prosperity. And the trend reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty, with Cixi as its poster woman. Cixi nurtured a nail length of roughly 20 cm on her
28、 ring and pinky fingers and took care of them in gem-laden（镶满宝石）, colorful nail guards. During the day, Cixi usually wore nail guards made of gold or silver. According to the memoirs of her maid, before bed, she would switch them into nail pockets made of bright yellow satin（缎子）, probably in a mothe
29、rly manner similar to covering her nail babies into their sleeping bags. The origins of nail guards began in the Han Dynasty more than 1000 years prior to their mainstream glory. At that time, they werent particularly decorative. It wasnt until the Qing Dynasty that they became as expensive and deli
30、cate as people today know them to have been. Common design patterns included plants, flowers, and calligraphy art. Cixi, on the other hand, had unique rights to dragon and phoenix（凤凰）carvings on her nail guards. Needless to say, she didnt skimp on exercising these rights. Long nails may no longer be
31、 front and center on the fashion stage today. Yet the period drama series like Empresses in the Palace (201l), Ruyi Royal Love in the Palace(2018), and Story of Yanxi Palace （2018） brought in the popularity of the Morandi color palette（莫兰迪调色盘）in Chinas nail art circle. Inspired by Italian painter Gi
32、orgio Morandi, the manicure（美甲）industry today also adopts a more softened color scheme that gives off a feeling of balance and elegance. 28. What does the writer mainly tell us?A. The legend of Chinas Empress Dowager Cixi. B. The history of long nails and nail guards. C. Long nails plays an importan
33、t role in period drama series. D. Women in ancient times should wear long nails and nail guards. 29. What can we learn from the text?A. Cixi took off nail guards when she went to bed. B. Nail guards can show the status on the royal ladder in the Han Dynasty. C. Ming and Qing Dynasties had lower degr
34、ee of acceptance of long nails. D. Cixi can only wear nail guards with dragon and phoenix carvings. 30. What do underlined words skimp on mean in the third paragraph?A. subscribe to B. delayC. be mean with D. practice31. What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. Fashion nail art will permanently
35、be on the fashion stage. B. The period drama series are very popular today. C. Morandi is a great master in period drama. D. There is still a market for nail art.DWhen faced with a problem, people tend to select solutions that involve adding new elements rather than taking existing components away.
36、Adams, a social psychologist at the university of Virginia and her colleagues wanted to figure out why this was the case. They wanted to investigate whether, and to what degree, people actually overlook subtraction（减法）when they are tasked with changing things. The researchers looked through a profil
37、e of ideas for improvement submitted to a university president, and found that only 1l percent of 651 proposals involved removing an existing rule or program. Similar results appeared across tasks about adjusting essays and plans. The vast majority of people chose to add rather than remove. The team
38、 dug deeper by conducting eight experiments with more than l, 500 participants. In one experiment, people were asked to stabilize（固定）the roof of a Lego structure held up by a single block that rested on top of a cube-shaped base. The reward for completing the task was $ 1, and participants could add
39、 new blocks for 10 cents a piece or get rid of blocks for free. One group was reminded, Each piece that you add costs ten cents but removing pieces is free, while another group was just told, Each piece that you add costs ten cents. Almost two thirds of people who had been reminded chose to get rid
40、of the single block rather than adding new ones, compared with 41 percent of those who had not been reminded. These findings were published in Nature, suggesting that additive solutions tend to come to mind quickly and easily. Subtractive solutions are not necessarily harder to consider, but they ta
41、ke more effort to find. While the tendency for businesses and organizations to choose for complexity rather than simplification was previously known, the novelty（新颖）of this paper is that it shows that people tend toward adding new features even when subtracting would clearly be better. The team hope
42、s that these findings will encourage more people to think about subtractive options that might often be overlooked. 32. What can we know about the researchersfindings in their researches?A. People added elements to deal with problems in any case. B. People tended to add elements to solve problems. C
43、. People preferred subtraction options to additive options. D. People refused to remove elements to avoid costs. 33. What is special about the experiment mentioned in Para4?A. The experiment was carried out in the most advanced way. B. The participants chose to add pieces whatever costs. C. It was h
44、ard to choose between adding and removing. D. The participants got rid of pieces when it was clearly to their advantage. 34. What is the purpose of the research team?A. To encourage more people to do further research. B. To get more participants involved in their next research.C. To inspire more peo
45、ple to consider subtraction choices. D. To get a handsome reward from businesses and organizations.35. What can be the best title for the text?A. Adding New Features Is More Effective B. Removing Features Is More Difficult C. Subtraction Outweighs AdditionD. Our Brain Typically Overlooks Subtraction
46、第二节（共5小题;每小题2. 5分, 满分12. 5分）根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Travel with a Green Conscience（良知）Travel is a form of consumption, from jet fuel to trash 36_. For me, seeing the world has been an education on the environment and the challenges we face. Witnessing other cultures has inspired me
47、 to reduce my carbon footprint. Ironically, travel has made megreener. Take public transport or carpool. Public buses or trains are an eco-friendly option for getting around your destination, Many youth hostels have carpool sing-ups for popular trips, which is an exciting way to meet fellow traveler
48、s. 37_ Exploring on foot is great exercise and offers excellent people watching opportunities. Be aware of food packaging and waste. As for packaging, to-go containers are made of Styrofoam, paper or plastic bags, which almost always end up in the garbage. Be conscious of your purchases. Street vendors（小商贩）sometimes offer delicious finger food, suc
