2022-2023学年山西省忻州市高二下学期7月期末英语试题(含听力)

2022-2023学年山西省忻州市高二下学期7月期末英语试题（含听力）
1. What will the woman do first?
A．Take the No. 10 bus. B．Go across the street. C．Put up a sign at the bus
stop.
2. Why does Lily refuse to help David?
A．She has no free time. B．She is also poor at maths. C．She has to prepare for an
exam.
3. What is the woman going to do tomorrow evening?
A．Visit Bob in his home. B．Pick up Vicky. C．Go shopping with Bob.
4. How much should the man pay?
A．$5. B．$10. C．$20.
5. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A．In a gym. B．In a parking lot. C．In a dormitory building.
6. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What will the woman do in the evening?
A．Attend a festival. B．Cook at a restaurant. C．Go to her grandpare nts’
house.
2. How long will the man work today?
A．For 11 hours. B．For 4 hours. C．For 3 hours.
7. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What’s the matter with the man?
A．His stomach hurts. B．He is very hungry. C．He has a headache.
2. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A．Put soil in the salad. B．Have ice cream. C．See a doctor.
8. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. Where did Sue spend the nights in the countryside last weekend?
A．In a farmhouse. B．In the open air. C．In a hotel.
2. What does Sue think of the people in the countryside?
A．Busy. B．Rude. C．Great.
3. How did Tom spend his weekend?
A．By staying at home. B．By relaxing on the beach. C．By camping in the
mountains.
9. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What is the boy?
A．A director. B．A teacher. C．A student.
2. Where will the boy go first?
A．To a hall. B．To a meeting room. C．To a classroom.
3. What will the Director of the Studies talk about?
A．Working hours. B．Different courses. C．Social activities.
4. How does the boy feel about the test?
A．Glad. B．Surprised. C．Confident.
10. 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1. Which road will stay closed?
A．M16. B．M30. C．M43.
2. Why is North Street closed to all cars?
A．It is under repair. B．There is much snow. C．There is an accident.
3. How should passengers know the latest information about trains?
A．By visiting a website. B．By making a call. C．By reading a magazine.
4. What will the weather be like tonight?
A．Snowy. B．Windy. C．Sunny.
11. Works by George Balanchine, with the music of George Gershwin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Igor Stravinsky, the innovative genius of George Balanchine is brought to the forefront. The following is the introduction of the four artists.,
Artist 1:George Balanchine
It is difficult to overlook the influence of choreographer(舞蹈编剧)，George Balanchine. Called the Father of A merican Ballet, he combined the ‘classical training he received as a boy in St. Petersburg with originality to modernism. He transformed ballet into a 20th century art form.
Artist 2:George Gershwin
George Gershwin was amongst one of the most significant and popular music composers for Broadway musicals. He wrote music for both Broadway and classical pieces that connected him to the wider public.
Artist 3:Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer whose works had a revolutionary(革命性的)impact on musical thought. He was honored with the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal in 1954 and the Wihuri Sibelius Prize in 1963.
Artist 4: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is the very foundation of classical ballet. Russian-born Tchaikovsky＇s unforgettable melodies(旋律)and innovative harmonies make his music loveable. Ballet audiences are fortunate to hear not only the works he intended for dance, such as Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, but also a wide variety of pieces that have been created by great dance-makers.
1. Which of the following is the achievement of George Balanchine?
A．He made ballet an art form of the 20th century.
B．He was thought as the Father of World Ballet.
C．He was good at giving classical training.
D．He combined music with modernism.
2. What is special about Igor Stravinsky?
A．He was born in Russia.
B．He was a famous composer.
C．He influenced musical thought greatly.
D．He created music for Broadway musicals.
3. Whose music is the basis of classical ballet?
A．George Balanchine. B．George Gershwin.
C．Igor Stravinsky. D．Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
12. Lynda Doughty, a marine biologist, developed a passion for marine wildlife during her childhood. Growing up along the coast of Maine, she witnessed the impact of human activity on marine mammals and she made it her life’s work to protect them. “I feel this intense responsibility to help these animals,” Lynda said. “And, really, this is what I was put on this Earth to do.”
Harbor seals are among the most common mammals found along the East Coast, and they face various threats to their well-being, including fishing net s and illegal feeding, chemical pollutants, as well as boat and propeller (螺旋桨) injuries.
Earlier in her career, she worked for a marine mammal emergency response organization that eventually closed due to lack of funding. To fill the gap left by the group, Lynda started her own non-profit organization — Marine Mammals of Maine in 2011. It has since provided response and medical care for more than 3,000 marine mammals.
Lynda’s team operates a 24-hour hotline that responds to calls regarding marine mammals in danger. Their permit allows them to respond to mammals stranded (搁浅) within 2,500 miles of the coastline, and her team only offers help if the mammal is in critical condition. Critically ill mammals are transported to Lynda’s center and nursed back to health. Seals typically require three or more months of professional care treatment before they are released back into the ocean.
In addition to mammal rescues, Marine Mammals of Maine conducts important research to learn about marine mammal habitats and human impacts. Marine mammals can give us clues about the ocean’s health, which ultimately affects human well-being as well. The organization also helps promote marine conservation among youth and the local community. In addition, they instruct the public on what to do, and what not to do, when encountering wild species like harbor seals.
1. What do Lynda’s words mean?
A．She was born along the coast of Maine.
B．She ignored the impact of human activity.
C．She did her work with a sense of mission.
D．She protected marine wildlife at a young age.
2. Why did Lynda set up Marine Mammals of Maine in 2011?
A．To earn more money.
B．To replace the group.
C．To make the group a non-profit organization.
D．To restart marine mammal emergency response.
3. What can we learn about Lynda’s team from paragraph 4?
A．It only treats critically ill seals.
B．It rescues marine mammals in danger.
C．It protects all endangered marine mammals.
D．It stops people from fishing marine mammals.
4. What’s the purpose of paragraph 5?
A．To state younger generations need to be instructed.
B．To stress the severe situations that marine life faces.
C．To mention other social contributions of Lynda’s team.
D．To show humans have a great impact on marine mammals.
13. Whether your kid can count on a sizable inheritance (遗产) or your family is living pay period to pay period, a college degree is a must. Along with the invisible life skills you get from those formative years on campus, college comes with a bankable payout: A Georgetown University study found that, on average, college graduates make a million dollars more over a lifetime than people who stop at high school.
Recently, a Bronx nonprofit asked me to speak to a group of high schoolers whose families were struggling financially. The participants were (rightly) worried about taking on too much college debt. Here’s what I told them: Even when you subtract (扣除) tuition, lost earnings during the college years, and other factors, an average college grad will still take in $300,000 more than those without a college degree.
And while rising tuition fees are a serious worry, free college programs of one kind or another have sprung up in more than 20 states. My own home state, New York, boasts one of the most comprehensive efforts. The Excelsior Scholarship program guarantees that students at public institutions attend tuition-free if their family earns under $110,000 a year.
Even i n Silicon Valley, where there are many successful people who don’t own a college degree, I asked a group of parents there if it’s true that kids are giving up a college degree because they’re sure they’ll be rich people. The answer was a resounding, unapol ogetic no.
The truth is that in this STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-centric age, any form of home-schooling or social education can’t replace the formal school education. Especially in an age when many low-end careers are being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI), a college degree can give your kid an edge.
1. In writing paragraph 1, the author aims to ________.
A．propose a definition B．make a comparison
C．give an example D．present an argument
2. What can we infer from the text?
A．Free college programs are available all over the USA.
B．In the STEM-centric age, a college degree is essential.
C．In New York, all public school students are tuition-free.
D．Children from rich families don’t need a college degree.
3. What is happening to the low-end careers?
A．They are developing very rapidly.
B．They are all being engaged by AI.
C．They are all depending on a degree.
D．They are disappearing because of AI.
4. Which is the most suitable title for the text?
A．Why do you need a college degree?
B．Where can you enjoy free education?
C．What is a must in the STEM-centric age?
D．How much do people with a degree earn in US?
14. Asteroids (小行星) are believed to have formed early in our solar system’s history — about 4.5 billion years ago — when a cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula (太阳星云) collapsed and formed our sun and the planets. By visiting these near Earth objects to study the material that came from the solar nebula, we can look for answers to some of humankind’s most arrest ing questions, such as: How did the solar system form and where did the Earth’s water and other organic materials such as carbon come from? In addition to unlocking clues about our solar system, asteroids may provide clues about our Earth. By understanding more about asteroids, we may learn more about past Earth impacts and possibly find ways to reduce the threat of future impacts.
If we don’t want to go the way of the dinosaurs someday, we need to protect ourselves against the threat of being hit by a big asteroid. According to NASA, typically about once every 10,000 years, a rock y or iron asteroid the size of a football field could crash into our planet and possibly cause tidal waves big enough to flood coastal areas.
But what we really have to fear is asteroids about 328 feet across or bigger. Such an impact would cause a firestorm and fill the atmosphere with sun-blocking dust, which would wipe out forests and farm fields and starve the human and animal life that it didn’t immediately kill.
That’s why it’s vital to develop a way to neutralize such a threat to Earth. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, launched in late November 2021, was the first mission to demonstrate a technology called asteroid redirection by manmade impactor. A robotic spacecraft will be crashed into an asteroid named Didymos, in an effort to show that it’s possible to slightly change the path of an asteroid. That would enable NASA to redirect potential threats to miss Earth.
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A．How solar system came into being.
B．How long asteroids have existed.
C．Why asteroids are to be explored.
D．When asteroids will impact Earth.
2. Why does the author mention dinosaurs in paragraph 2?
A．To make the text more interesting.
B．To introduce the topic of the text.
C．To grab readers’ attention to asteroids.
D．To show the disaster from an asteroid impact.
3. Which can best replace “neutralize” underlined in paragraph 4?
A．strengthen B．avoid C．beautify D．realize
4. What can we know about asteroids?
A．Dinosaurs may live on some of them.
B．They were formed earlier than Earth.
C．Exploring them helps us know Earth.
D．NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test failed.
15. Household costs are rocketing. What cheaper choices can you make that will also benefit your health?
Go to bed an hour earlier
Lighting and electronics, including TVs and laptops account for around 30 percent of your electricity usage. 1 .Getting enough sleep makes you less stressed and puts you in a better mood, as well as improving your immune system.
Get fit on the cheap
2 . The Internet is a rich resource for videos on activities as varied as yoga, high intensity or low-impact workouts or dance, If you want to get more fresh air, then choose walking, running or cycling. Being outdoors in nature is also good for your mental health. 3
We don’t want anyone to be living in a cold home, but many of us still keep our thermostat(恒温器)higher than necessary. A room that＇s too hot can dry out our skin，and cause skin problems，dry eyes and dehydration(脱水)，which can eventually cause headaches. 4 .
Make smart food swaps(交换)
Meat is expensive, so substitute other cheaper forms of protein a couple of times a week. Canned fish and dried beans are inexpensive and nutritious. 5 . They usually have the nutrition you need. Skip highly processed foods, from biscuits to ready meals, as these are often high in fat and salt and choose simple, fresh ingredients you can cook yourself.
16. It’s not every day that someone goes out of their way to help a total stranger.
Dee Harkrider recently dropped by a ________. After loading her purchases into the car, she
________ left her wallet in the shopping cart and drove away. She wasn’t even ________ that she’d left the wallet behind.
It was her friend, Elaine Keown, that rang her up, ________ if she knew a young man named Delivontae Johnson.“I’ve never heard that ________,”Dee recalled.
It turned out that 19-year-old Delivontae visited the same supermarket and ________ her wallet in the shopping cart. He opened the wallet and found Dee’s driver’s license, but with no phone number to ________ her, so he turned to social platform. Once he ________ her profile picture with the one on her driver’s license, he sent her a message.
Dee didn’t reply, so Delivontae reached out to Elaine, who’d recently ________ with Dee on the platform. It certainly took some detective work to ________ the wallet’s owner!
Dee and Delivontae arranged to meet at a restaurant, where Delivontae returned the wallet and Dee pulled $ 20 to give him as a(n) ________. “He was like a hero,” said the ________ grandmother.
Delivontae says it felt “great” to help someone in need, and urged others to perform random acts of ________ to brighten someone’s day. “You’ve just got to be ________,”said Delivontae, “There’s no telling what the ________ might be. If you do good things, good things will follow.”
1.
A．supermarket B．farm C．park D．carelessly
2.
A．gradually B．suddenly C．merely D．annoyed
3.
A．aware B．afraid C．concerned D．analyzing
4.
A．imagining B．surveying C．inquiring D．story
5.
A．tree B．name C．house D．searched
6.
A．approached B．spotted C．removed D．contact
7.
A．interview B．distinguish C．discover D．hospital
8.
A．compared B．integrated C．matched D．mixed
9.
A．interacted B．consulted C．cooperated D．argued
10.
A．appeal to B．track down C．approve of D．decide on
11.
A．lecture B．honour C．reward D．medal
12.
A．enthusiastic B．fortunate C．genuine D．grateful
13.
A．kindness B．wisdom C．courage D．responsibility
14.
A．practical B．strong C．disciplined D．honest
15.
A．challenge B．outcome C．expectation D．plan
17. 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。

We all know that water is the source of life on Earth. No plant, insect, animal or human can survive 1 it, A new study from the National Institutes of Health highlights 2 important it is to our health. Researchers find that people drinking a lot of water every day tend to stay 3 (fit) and live longer than those who don’t. The research team say drinking enough water is helpful to people 4 (affect) by illnesses related to ages, like heart and lung diseases. They add that it is more likely for adults poorly hydrated(补充水分) to show signs of ageing and even die at 5 younger age.
The researchers look at the health data from 6 (rough) 12,000 adults over a 30-year period. They 7 (analyze) the information of patients who had visited a hospital five times in the past decades. The first three times were when the patients were in 8 (they) 50s,and the last two times were when they were between 70 and 90. Dr. Natalia Dmitrieva, lead researcher of the study, said, “The results suggest that proper hydration may slow down ageing and prolong a disease-free life,” She advocated 9 (consume) more fluids, like water and juice, and fruit and vegetables with high water content. She said that half of people worldwide didn’t drink enough in their daily life. According to her 10 (recommend),the average adult needs to drink at least 1. 5 liters of water every day.
18. 假定你是学生会主席李华，你校即将举办中国古诗词朗诵大赛(Classical Chinese Poetry Reciting Contest)。

为鼓励你校交换生参加比赛，请你代表学生会写一则通知发布到校英文网站，内容包括：
1. 比赛的目的;
2. 比赛的具体事项(时间、地点、准备工作和报名方式);
3. 欢迎参加。

注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

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19. 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。

Collette was born in 1990 with Down syndrome(唐氏综合征). Her mother, Rosemary, promised to never treat her daughter differently or stop her pursuing dreams. Rosemary always supported her daughter’s ambitious pursuits. “I never feel the need to tell her she’s different. To me, it is just a label, and we all have strengths and weaknesses,” explained Rosemary. Despite being treated no differently at home, Rosemary could not control how others would regard Collette in the outside world. In high school, Collette endured years of loneliness and didn’t have many friends. She found comfort and a sense of achievement in her favorite hobby, baking.
After graduating from Clemson University, at age 26, Collette confidently went out into the job market. She had finished the three-year program a year early and posted good grades. Despite her excellent academic records, several potential employers rejected her, saying she wasn’t “a good fit”. It was too sad and hard for Collette to face. Some people saw her as a labeled individual with disabilities and they would not give her a chance. Collette recalled of her disappointing job search, “To me, it felt like they didn’t like me at all because of who I am. No one would hire me, so I decided to open my own business.” Collette started to take matters into her own hands by focusing on her strengths and her passions for baking.
Collette used rejection as fuel to build her baking business. With no business experience, but inspired by her encouraging family, she started her own cookie business. Rosemary helped guide Collette in the opening of her first business. With Collette’s drive combined with the support of family, friends and the community, the business met with a good start.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Collette was determined to make a success of her new business.
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