广西壮族自治区玉林市博白县中学2024-2025学年高二上学期11月期中考试英语试题(无答案)

博白县中学2024年秋季期高二期中考试
英语试题
（考试时间：120分钟满分：150分）
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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。

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 did the woman buy for her father?
A. A coat.
B. A sweater.
C. A watch.
2. What do we know about Kevin?
A. He wants to buy a new car.
B. He will have his car repaired.
C. He doesn't like tidying his room.
3. How does the woman feel now?
A. Tired.
B. Excited.
C. Relaxed.
4. Where will the speakers go next?
A. To a restaurant.
B. To the playground.
C. To the classroom.
5. What can we say about Cindy?
A. She is helpful.
B. She is hard-working.
C. She is generous.
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。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. When did the sale of tickets for the match start?
A. On Friday.
B. On Tuesday.
C. On Monday.
7. What is the man going to do?
A. Ask Tom for help.
B. Go to a gym.
C. Cook a meal.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. At a university.
B. On the train.
C. In a hospital.
9. What does the man go to Marseille for?
A. Traveling.
B. Studying.
C. Working.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Colleagues.
B. Close friends.
C. Husband and wife.
11. What is the main reason for the woman's toothache?
A. Spicy food.
B. Lack of sleep.
C. Cold water.
12. What does the man advise the woman to do in the end?
A. Take a rest.
B. Go to the hospital.
C. Talk to the manager.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What does the man dislike about the first dress?
A. The color.
B. The price.
C. The size.
14. What will the man buy to match the dress?
A. A scarf.
B. A hat.
C. A belt.
15. What will the man do next?
A. Go home.
B. Go to another store.
C. Go to work.
16. What does the man probably do?
A. He is a designer.
B. He is a deliveryman.
C. He is a lawyer.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A. How to deal with e-waste.
B. How to produce electronic products.
C. How to protect the oceanic environment.
18. What does the Royal Mint do for the UK?
A. Keep the country clean.
B. Make electronic items.
C. Produce coins.
19. How long will the brown powder be heated?
A. 20 minutes.
B. 30 minutes.
C. 50 minutes.
20. How many tons of e-waste is produced worldwide every year?
A. More than 50 million.
B. Nearly 10 million.
C. About 7 million.
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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite is all about restoration this year. This month the park's main hallway is being repaired. The park's gallery reopened to the public in April after remodeling to allow full accessibility for the disabled. Even John Muir, known as the father of the national parks, is being revived（使复活）by the actor Lee Stetson, who will answer audience’s questions about the park and its history at the Yosemite Theatre.
Petrified Forest National Park
Inst Petrified Forest National Park is now mapping self-guided hikes to its more remote destinations, in part to remind visitors that the parks are theirs to wander. In August, a new field institute will begin offering classes led by geologists, photographers and other experts. And next year, look for electric vehicle charging stations to appear at the north and south entrances of the park.
Acadia National Park
Acadia National Park is to begin managing a new campground on Maine's Schoodic Peninsula this fall. The site will offer almost 100 R. V. and tent sites, as well as new hiking and biking trails connecting to Gouldsboro Village and existing park trails leading to the peninsula’ s tip.
Wetherill Mesa
Wetherill Mesa will have an extended season this year （through mid-October）, giving cyclists much time to enjoy new access to the park's six-mile Long House Loop, a paved path formerly used for tram service, and the backcountry routes on the park's most popular hike. Naturally, plans are in the works to open an on-site bike rental operation within the year.
21. What do we know about Yosemite National Park?
A. It will be closed for repairs all the year.
B. Its gallery is accessible to the disabled.
C. Lee Stetson is well-known as its founder.
D. It will offer almost 100 R. V. and tent.
22. In which national park will you be able to rent bikes?
A. Wetherill Mesa.
B. Acadia National Park.
C. Yosemite National Park.
D. Petrified Forest National Park.
23. What is the purpose of this passage?
A. To appeal to people to preserve the national parks.
B. To share his own discoveries at the national parks.
C. To introduce something new at the national parks.
D. To describe the natural scenery of the national parks.
B
When Wayne Mix was a child in the 1930s, his family sent him to a school for the deaf and blind. He learned American Sign Language. With American Sign Language, deaf people use their hands to communicate. They can spell words with their fingers or they can use signs for whole words. Wayne communicated with teachers and friends in sign language. He graduated at the age of 20. In those days people who were deaf did not get jobs and were not part of the. community, so Wayne went back to the family farm. His family did not know sign language, so Wayne communicated a little by making simple motions with his hands. He was never able to tell them his thoughts and feelings.
Wayne's father died in 1971. There was no place for Wayne to live, so they sent him to Mountain Meadows nursing home. He was only 51 and much younger and healthier than the other people in the nursing home, but he was treated like the 80-and 90-year-old people because he did not hear or speak. No one knew that Wayne was able to use sign language..
Twenty-nine years passed slowly and silently for Wayne. Then one day he saw a visitor using sign language with
her deaf mother during a visit to the nursing home. He walked up to them and signed “I’ m Wayne Mix”. Suddenly everything changed for Wayne. He found many people who knew sign language. These people communicated through sign language, e-mail, television with subtitles and a special telephone that prints the words that are spoken. It was a whole new world for Wayne. Now he could tell people his feelings, his needs and his thoughts.
The people in Wayne's town were sad about the thousands of days in Wayne's life when no one knew that he could communicate. They wanted to help Wayne to do some of the things he always wanted to do. The workers at the nursing home found out that as a young man he loved to swim and he loved to see pictures of dolphins swimming. When he started signing again they asked him where he wanted to go. “Water,” Wayne signed.
Mountain Meadows’ workers had an idea. “Let’s send Wayne to Sea World in San Diego.” They told other people in town about their idea. Many people in Wayne's town and in other states gave money to help Wayne make the trip. The people at Sea World were very kind to Wayne. They let him swim with the dolphins and help them feed all the sea animals. Newspapers wrote about Wayne, and so many people gave money to buy him a special TV and a telephone set.
24. How did Wayne Mix communicate with his teachers in the school?
A. In American Sign Language.
B. By drawing pictures.
C. By spelling words on their hands.
D. By making simple motions.
25. Why did Wayne Mix go to live in the nursing home?
A. His family moved to another town.
B. Nobody in his family knew sign language.
C. His family was not able to provide him with a room to live in.
D. He liked to talk with the old people living in the nursing home.
26. How did Wayne's life change after he met a visitor using sign language in the nursing home?
A. He told the visitor who he was.
B. His life stayed the same as before.
C. He could send e-mails and make telephones to his new friends.
D. He could “talk” with people telling them his needs and feelings.
27. Why did people feel sad after Wayne began to communicate with others again?
A. He was sent to the nursing home at a young age.
B. He failed to communicate with his family for such a long time.
C. He was not able to communicate with others while he could.
D. They were not sure how to look after Wayne later on.
C
The climate change has become an issue that no one can escape from. If the world wants to limit climate change, water shortage and pollution, we all need to choose “flexitarian（弹性素食）” diets, say scientists.
This means eating mainly plant-based food, which is one of the three key steps towards a sustainable future for all in 2050, they say. Food waste will need to be halved and farming practices will also have to improve, according to the study. Without action, the impacts of the food system could increase by up to 90%. Fast on the heels of the landmark report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change （IPCC）comes this new study on how food
production and consumption impact major threats to the planet.
The authors say that the food system has a number of significant environmental impacts including being a major driver of climate change, providing freshwater and reducing pollution through over use of nitrogen（氮）and phosphorus（磷）.
The study says that thanks to the population and income growth expected between 2010 and 2050, these impacts could grow between 50%~90%. This could push our world beyond its geographic boundaries. So when it comes to climate change, the authors looked at what they called a “flexitarian diet”.
“We can eat a range of healthy diets but what they all have in common, according to the latest scientific evidence, is that they are all relatively plant-based, ” said lead author Dr. Marco Springmann from the University of Oxford.
“You can go from a diet that has small amounts of animal products; some might call it a Mediterranean-based diet; we call it a flexitarian diet. We tried to stay with the most conservative one of these which in our view is the flexitarian one, but even this has only one serving of red meat per week,” he added.
If the world moved to this type of diet, the study found that greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would be reduced by more than half.
28. What benefit will the new diets bring to the world?
A. The animals will be saved.
B. People will need more water.
C. The climate change will stop.
D. The pollution will be controlled.
29. What can be called a “flexitarian” diet?
A. Eat animal products every meal.
B. Eat plant-based vegetables every meal.
C. Eat mainly vegetables and never eat animal products.
D. Eat plant-based meal mainly and animal products sometimes.
30. What will happen if the new diet is popular globally?
A. The climate will become warmer.
B. The food consumption will increase.
C. People will have less greenhouse gas.
D. People will produce more food waste.
31. What is the attitude of the author to the new diet?
A. Doubtful.
B. Supportive.
C. Opposed.
D. Indifferent.
D
A new Magic Bench designed by Disney Research lets you interact with lovely animated（动画的）character and no special glasses or earphones are required. Instead, the complete environment—the seat, the sitter and the cartoon characters—is mirrored on a screen opposite the bench making it possible for others to watch the scene unfold.
So how does the illusion work? A camera and sensor catch images and gather depth information about physical objects--the bench and the person. And then computer translates them into the 3D animations. Meanwhile sensors of touch built into the bench deliver shaking that is happening at the same time and speed to animated actions on the screen, creating the illusion that the animated figures are occupying real-world space next to the user.
“Our goal for this project was: hear a character coming, see them enter the space, and feel them sit next to you,”
said Moshe Mahler, principal digital artist at Disney Research. Unlike the traditional mobile technology, one of whose limitations is that only a single user can see its illusion, the Magic Bench allows groups of people to gather in a single environment and collectively participate in an augmented-reality（增强现实）experience, all at the same time.
In a video show, a small cartoon donkey runs into view and kicks the bench, causing sharp sound and making the seated person jump in surprise. Another test shows two people on the bench, reacting as they feel an animated rabbit skip up beside them and jump up and down. When a user passes his hand over the rabbit, a shadow moves across its head, as though it were occupying the same physical space as the person next to it.
32. What does the Magic Bench need to work properly?
A. Special glasses.
B. A screen.
C. Earphones.
D. A mirror.
33. What does the underlined word “illusion” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The shaking that is happening.
B. The 3D animations on the screen.
C. The figures about physical objects.
D. The interaction with animated figures.
34. How's the Magic Bench different from the traditional technology?
A. Its fantasy can be seen only by a single user.
B. It is designed to create more animated characters.
C. It allows many people to experience the fantasy together.
D. Its user and the animated character occupy the same space.
35. Which is the best title of the text?
A. Magic Bench Puts You in the Picture.
B. Audience Become Cartoon Characters.
C. Entertainment Industry Enters a New Stage.
D. Disney's Cartoon Figures Come into Reality
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。

Do you think studying in a different country is something that sounds very exciting? Certainly, it is a new experience, which brings the opportunity of discovering fascinating things and a feeling of freedom. 36 You will experience culture shock. Evidently, at least four essential stages of culture-shock adjustment occur.
The first stage is called “the honeymoon”. In this stage, you feel excited about living in a different place, and everything seems to be wonderful. 37
Eventually, however, the second stage of culture shock appears. This is the “hostility stage”. 38 You become tired of many things about the new culture. Moreover, people don't treat you like a guest anymore. Everything that seemed to be so wonderful at first is now awful, and everything makes you feel distressed and tired.
39 You start feeling more positive, and you try to develop comprehension of everything you don't understand. The whole situation starts to become more favorable. You recover from the symptoms of the first two stages.
The last stage of culture shock is called “adjustment”. 40 The things that initially made you feel uncomfortable or strange are now things that you understand. Now you feel comfortable; you have adjusted to the new culture.
A. Then you come to the third stage called “recovery”.
B. You like everything, and everybody seems to be so nice to you.
C. You begin to notice that not everything is as good as you had originally thought it was.
D. However, when you have completely adjusted to a new culture you can more fully enjoy it.
E. Actually, culture shock is something you cannot avoid when studying in a foreign country.
F. In spite of these advantages, however, there are also some challenges you will encounter.
G. You have reached a point where you feel good because you have learned enough to understand the new culture.
第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节完形填空（共15 小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

There will be some people who question or judge our motives （动机）. But that shouldn't stop us from being friendly, generous and 41 to others. Sometimes we are the giver of an act of kindness. Other times, we are the 42 . It doesn't matter. Kindness makes everyone feel 43 .
My daughter 44 this story. Many years ago a man who lived in New York City decided to 45 his parents two hours north. As he approached their small town, his car 46 . A woman stopped to 47 him a ride to a mechanic（修理工）in town, and as they 48 on the way, he learned that she was a local realtor（房地产经纪人）. He shared that he was from the city visiting his 49 . They went their separate ways, but he never 50 her kindness.
Forty years later, his parents died, and the son needed to 51 their house. He remembered the realtor who had helped him many years ago and called her office. 52 , the woman had passed away. Her daughter and granddaughter were running the 53 and ended up being his realtors. As it turns out, they sold the man's parents' house to my daughter and son-in-law! A simple act of kindness had a（n）54 decades later.
In most 55 , we don't know the long-term effect of our acts of kindness. But the receiver often never forgets.
41. A. sensitive B. intelligent C. kind D. devoted
42. A. professor B. employer C. educator D. receiver
43. A. special B. great C. intense D. frustrated
44. A. persuaded B. opposed C. shared D. advocated
45. A. visit. B. find C. serve D. choose
46. A. subscribe to B. break out C. set out D. broke down
47. A. send B. select C. offer D. adopt
48. A. danced B. chatted C. drank D. sang
49. A. parents B. son C. mechanics D. daughter
50. A. honored B. lost C. remembered D. forgot
51. A. repair B. destroy C. sell D. rebuild
52. A. Ultimately B. Unfortunately C. Potentially D. Barely
53. A. business B. house C. car D. store
54. A. conflict B. alternative C. comment D. effect
55. A. conclusions B. findings C. assumptions D. cases.
第二节语法填空（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。

As the saying goes, “Laughter is the best medicine.” In troubling times, good humour is in need more than ever. Doctors and medical staff are including it in 56.__________ （they）care treatments. One product of this kind is the healthcare clown（小丑）.57. __________ （devote）to bringing moments of happiness to people with illness or special needs, healthcare clowns are becoming increasingly popular around the globe. There is even 58.
__________ organization that sets standards. The European Federation of Healthcare Clown Organization 59.
__________ （found）in 2011.
After a ward（病房）during the epidemic opened in Jerusalem, one healthcare clown decided to help patients by 60. __________ （use）her humour. She wanted to reduce the patients’ 61. __________ （anxious）and improve their health. She enjoyed working alongside doctors and said, “It is obvious 62. __________ the doctors take care of the body and we come in and take care of the soul.”
Healthcare clowns are carefully chosen. Professional performers have to receive special training before working with children in the healthcare environment, 63. __________ is a necessary requirement. “I can see the effect the clowns have 64. __________ sick children. It's necessary for the public 65. __________ （realize）the role of healthcare clowns,” a doctor said.
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：应用文写作（满分15分）
假设你是李华，你的英国笔友Peter即将到中国留学，他写信向你征询建议：如何更好适应中国的语言和环境。

请你用英语给他回信，内容包括：
1. 表达欢迎；
2. 提出建议，
注意: （1）词数在80字左右；
（2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter,
__________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua 第二节读后续写（满分25分）
阅读下面的材料，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。

Lily and Susan had been the best of friends since kindergarten. They shared everything— from secrets to lunches— and were inseparable. One sunny afternoon, as they walked in the nearby park, chatting about their plans for the future, they saw an injured dog.
Without hesitation, Lily and Susan decided to help the poor little dog. They carefully held it and rushed to the nearest vet（兽医）clinic. The vet assured them that the dog would be fine with some rest and medicine. Relieved, they decided to name the dog Lucky and take turns to care for it until it recovered.
Their act of kindness brought them even closer, and they spent many joyful hours playing with Lucky in the
park. However, as high school progressed, their interests started to diverge （出现分歧）. Lily became passionate about painting, spending hours in the art room perfecting her art works, while Susan developed a deep interest in science, joining the school's science club and taking part in various competitions.
As time passed, they found themselves with less and less in common. One day, a misunderstanding occurred when Lily blamed Susan for ignoring Lucky because of her busy schedule. Susan felt hurt and believed that Lily didn't understand the pressure she was under with her studies and extra-curricular activities. They argued, and for the first time, their friendship seemed strained.
Feeling disheartened, both girls went their separate ways. But despite their differences, they couldn't shake off the memories of better times and the close relationship they once shared.
One evening, as Lily walked home from an art class, she noticed Susan sitting alone on the side of the road, looking deep in thought. She hesitated but then gathered up the courage to approach her. “Mind if I sit down?” she asked softly. Susan looked up, surprised but not unwelcoming. “I was just thinking about old times,” she admitted. “Me too,” Lily said quietly.
注意：
1. 续写词数为150词左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

They sat in silence for a while, both lost in their thoughts. ________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________ After talking, they came up with a plan to rebuild their relationship._________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________。