寧夏銀川一中2024-2024學年高二上學期期末考試英語試卷
銀川一中2024/2024學年度(上)高二期末考試
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（總分：10分；考試時間：120分鐘）
本試卷分第卷(選擇題)和第卷(非選擇題)兩部分。考生作答時, 將答案答在答題卡上, 在本試卷上答題無效。考試結束后, 將本試卷和答題卡一并交回。
注意事項：
1. 答題前, 考生務必先將自己的姓名、準考證號填寫在答題卡上, 認真核對條形碼上的姓名、準考證號, 并將條形碼粘貼在答題卡的指定位置上。
2. 選擇題答案使用2B鉛筆填涂,如需改動, 用橡皮擦干凈后, 再選涂其他答案的標號；非選擇題答案使用0.5毫米的黑色中性（簽字）筆或碳素筆書寫, 字體工整、筆跡清楚。
3. 請按照題號在各題的答題區域(黑色線框)內作答, 超出答題區域書寫的答案無效。
4. 保持卡面清潔, 不折疊, 不破損。
第一部分聽力（共兩節, 滿分0分）
第一節（共5小題;每小題1分, 滿分5分）
聽下面5段對話。每段對話后有一個小題, 從題中所給的A、B、C三個選項中選出最佳選項, 并標在試卷的相應位置。聽完每段對話后, 你都有10秒鐘的時間來回答有關小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍。
1. Where are the speakers going to meet?
A. In a cafe.
B. In the station.
C. At the post office.
2. Who was the last one to show up?
A. Mary.
B. Daniel.
C. Ann.
3. What does Miss Green think of Tom?
A. Stupid.
B. Naughty.
C. Lazy.
4. What does the woman want the man to do?
A. Give her a lift.
B. Carry the ladder for her.
C. Clean the windows.
5. What will the speakers do probably?
A. Go for a bike ride.
B. Run around the park.
C. Borrow another bike.
第二節（共15小題;每小題1分, 滿分15分）
聽下面5段對話或獨白。每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題, 從題中所給的A、B、C三個選項中選出最佳選項, 并標在試卷的相應位置。聽每段對話或獨白前, 你將有時間閱讀各個小題, 每小題5秒鐘；聽完后, 各個小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話或獨白讀兩遍。
聽第6段材料, 回答第6、7題。
6. What are the speakers probably doing?
A. Walking to school.
B. Studying in a classroom.
C. Exercising in a gym.
7. What does Charles look like?
A. He has big eyes and brown hair.
B. He has small eyes but big ears.
C. He has a big nose but small eyes.
聽第7段材料, 回答第8、9題。
8. What kind of tickets can be bought?
A. Standing tickets on August 29.B. Standing tickets on August 30.
C. Tickets for seats on August 30.
9. How will the speakers go to Beijing?
A. By car.
B. By train.
C. By air.
聽第8段材料, 回答第10至12題。
10. What’s the relationship between Grace and Teresa?
A. Roommates.
B. Colleagues.
C. Sisters.
11. Why did the woman come to London?
A. To travel.
B. To work.
C. To visit friends.
12. Where are the speakers?
A. In a class.
B. At a meeting.
C. At a party.
聽第9段材料, 回答第13至16題。
13. What happened in Pullman’s life in 1954?
A. His father died in a plane crash.
B. His father became a pilot.
C. His mother remarried.
14. What did Pullman decide to do after he moved to Australia?
A. Travel around the world.
B. Publish novels about Superman.
C. Write fantasy novels when he grew up.
15. What was Pullman’s university life like?
A. He was a top student.
B. He never took part in activities.
C. He didn’t like the English course.
16. When was Pullman’s first novel published?
A. In 1972.
B. In 1986.
C. In 1993.
聽第10段材料, 回答第17至20題。
17. When did the extreme heat wave strike Greenland in 2024?
A. In August.
B. In July.
C. In June.
18. What happened at one scientific research station?
A. Flags fell over.
B. The ice runway broke.
C. Supply planes crashed.
19. How much of the island’s surface ice melted for a short time this summer?
A. 79 percent
B. 90 percent
C. 97 percent
20. What is Marco Tedesco worried about?
A. Greenland may lose its ice forever.
B. Melts may occur in other seasons.
C. Greenland may become greener.
第二部分閱讀理解（共兩節, 滿分30分）
第一節（共10小題；每小題2分, 滿分20分）
閱讀下列短文, 從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中, 選出最佳選項。
A
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
21. The writer of this passage must be ______.
A. an American
B. a Chinese
C. a professor
D. a student
22. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be ______.
A. warmly welcomed at the airport
B. offered a ride to his home
C. treated hospitably at his home
D. treated to dinner in a restaurant
23. A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.
A. Friendships between Chinese
B. Friendships between Americans
C. Americans’ hospitality
D. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships
B
Londoners are great readers. They read and buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books – especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper and bound(裝訂) between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book–selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of (自夸) being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of books, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand books, the collectors must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. The booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small handcarts. And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for them. In places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many pounds.
24. “Londoners are great readers.” means that _________.
A. Londoners are great because they read a lot
B. There are a great number of readers in London
C. Londoners are readers who read only great books
D. Londoners read a lot
25. According to this passage, Charring Cross Road _________.
A. is in the suburbs of London
B. is famous for its bookshops
C. contains various kinds of shops
D. is the busiest street in London
26. In this passage, what does the underlined part “venture off the beaten track” mean?
A. move away from a busy street.
B. buy books in a most busy street.
C. waste time looking for books.
D. take a risk of losing one’s life.
27. On Farringdon Road, _________.
A. you can find fine books for the latest books
B. there are only small bookshops for the secondhand books
C. you can see booksellers selling books on handcarts
D. the same books as the ones in the bookshops of Charring Cross Road are sold
C
“When your mother scolds you, you can look elsewhere and think about other things. Just ignore her words. But remember: such a tough attitude cannot be used often.” These words are from a series of cartoons which outline skills for children to fight against their mothers. The images have created heated debate among Chinese netizens（網民）.
Regarded as “a book for children aged 6 to 12 who are always scolded by their parents”,
the cartoons, drawn by two 10-year-old Beijing girls, list over 20 skills which children can use to deal with their mothers’ anger such as crying, pretending to be ashamed, fleeing into the toilet and pleasing her afterwards. Each skill is described with vivid pictures and humorous notes. The creativity of the young girls has amazed netizens, the Yangtse Evening Post reported on Thursday.
According to one of the girls’ mothers, her daughter once received a poor mark in an exam, and the mother blamed her and compared her performance with another classmate. The daughter’s feelings led to her creating the cartoons. The girl’s father, who first posted the pictures on his Sohu Microblog on Monday, said he hopes parents pay close attention to the pictures, allow children to feel free to develop their own characteristics and try not to criticize them so often.
“The cartoons, although an individual case, reflect a modern phenomenon and some of the problems within Chinese family education,” said Yu Qinfang, an expert on family education. According to a survey of 104 children and their parents, Yu discovered that as many as 51.9 percent of primary school students hate being urged to do things by their mothers.“Not giving children enough time and hurrying them to do things seems to be a very tiny detail within family life, but it is potentially a huge problem which can easily be ignored by parents. A mother’s blame may lead to negative feelings within her child’s heart,” Yu said. “Parents should learn to blame less and be more patient.”
28.What do we know about the cartoon book according to the passage?
A. It is finished by children aged 6 to 12.
B. It tells us how to control mothers’ feelings.
C. It is intended for primary school teachers.
D. It includes a number of vivid pictures and humorous notes.
29. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Yu Qinfang found that primary school pupils disliked being forced to do things.
B. The father posted the cartoons on his microblog to show off his daughter’s cleverness.
C. Parents are advised to speak highly of their children frequently.
D. How to blame children needs parents’ further study of cartoons.
30. Where would you probably find this passage?
A. An advertisement.
B. A textbook.
C. A newspaper.
D. A novel.
第二節 (共5小題；每小題2分,滿分10分)
根據短文內容, 從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項,選項中有兩項為多余選項。
A major source of teen stress is school exams, and test anxiety is not uncommon. When you recognize your teen is under stress, how can parents help your teen stay calm before an exam?
Be involved.
Parents need to be involved in their teen’s work. 31
. What they look for is your presence — to talk, to cry, or simply to sit with them quietly. Communicate openly with your teen. Encourage your teen to express her worries and fears, but don’t let them focus on those fears.
Help them get organized. 32.________ . Together, you and your teen can work out a time-table in which she can study for what she knows will be on the test.
Provide a calm setting.
Help your teen set up a quiet place to study and protect his privacy. Give them a nutritious diet. It is important for your teen to eat a healthy, balanced diet during exam times to focus and do her best. 33
If this happens, encourage your teen to eat light meals or sandwiches. A healthy diet, rather than junk food, is best for reducing stress. 34.________ .
Persuade your teenager to get some sleep and /or do something active when she needs a real break from studying. Making time for relaxation, fun, and exercise are all important in reducing stress. Help your teen balance her time so that she will feel comfortable taking time out from studying to spend time with friends or rest.
Show a positive attitude.
___35
.Your panic, anxiety and blame contribute to your teen’s pressure. Make your teen feel accepted and valued for her efforts. Most importantly, reassure your teen that things will be all right, no matter what the results are.
A. A parent’s attitude will dictate their teen’s emotions.
B. Exam stress can make some teens lose their appetite.
C. They will only make the situation worse.
D. Encourage your teen to relax.
E. The best thing is simply to listen.
F. Help your teen think about what she has to study and plan accordingly.
G. Your teen may also make negative comments about themselves.
第三部分英語知識運用（共兩節,滿分55）
第一節完形填空（共20小題；每題1.5分, 滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文, 從短文后各題所給的四個選項（A, B, C和D）中, 選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項, 并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
