江苏省梅村高级中学空港分校2024-2025学年高二上学期11月期中英语试题(无答案)

江苏省梅村高级中学空港分校2024-2025学年秋学期期中检测
高二英语
（考试时间：120分钟；试卷满分：150分）
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
注意，听力部分答题时请先将答案标在试卷上，听力部分结束前你将有两分钟的时间将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。

1. What is the man’s main form of exercise now?
A. Running.
B. Cycling.
C. Swimming.
2. How will the man probably communicate with the company next week?
A. By making a call.
B. By writing a letter.
C. By sending an email.
3. What happened to the man?
A. He couldn’t find the way to the toilet.
B. His new phone got wet.
C. He lost some money.
4. What are the speakers doing?
A. Planning a journey.
B. Waiting for a plane.
C. Booking a hotel room
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Spring Festival plans.
B. The man’s new home.
C. A shopping list for the holiday.
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。

听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。

6. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a classroom.
B. In an office.
C. In a cafe.
7. What will the man do next week?
A. Graduate from university.
B. Attend a job interview.
C. Visit a factory.
听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。

8. How will the woman probably get home today?
A. By bus.
B. On foot.
C. By car.
9. What is the weather like right now?
A. Foggy.
B. Sunny.
C. Rainy.
10. Who is in the woman’s painting?
A. Her brother.
B. Her aunt.
C. Herself.
听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。

11. How does the man sound at first?
A. Excited.
B. Surprised.
C. Sad.
12. Why doesn’t the woman join the theater club?
A. She has no time for practice.
B. She is suffering from an illness.
C. She feels too nervous to perform.
13. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Try out for the school basketball team.
B. Write a play for the theater club.
C. Join the creative writing club.
听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。

14. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Friends.
B. Parent and child.
C. Sister and brother.
15. What event are the speakers planning to celebrate?
A. A wedding.
B. Their graduation party.
C. The woman’s birthday.
16. What does the woman think of celebrating by going out to dinner?
A. It costs too much money.
B. It isn’t special enough.
C. It is too crowded.
17. What kind of book would the woman probably prefer?
A. Historical books.
B. Science fiction.
C. Scary stories.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

18. When did the speaker graduate from university?
A. In 2012.
B. In 2014.
C. In 20116.
19. How did the speaker feel about her first job in the beginning?
A. Dissatisfied.
B. Excited.
C. Proud.
20. What is the speaker writing about now?
A. Serious news.
B. Environmental issues.
C. The latest clothes and music.
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
Four best beaches in Zanzibar
Nungwi Beach
This beach is located in the north of the island and is famous for its amazing sunsets and lively atmosphere. You will love the soft white sand and the crystal（水晶般的）clear water. It is one of the most beautiful beaches in Zanzibar. But, be careful with the tides, because they can rise very fast and catch you.
Paje Beach
Situated in the east of the island, Paje Beach is characterized by strong tides. Here you will find a relaxed atmosphere and a dream beach with crystal clear waters and silky soft sand. On top of that, you can practice water sports such as kitesurfing, because this beach is known as one of the best in the world for this activity. In addition, if you like the nightlife, here you will find a lot of bars and nightclubs to spend a fun night.
Jambiani Beach
Jambiani beach is one of the most remote beaches of Zanzibar and that is why it is one of our favorites. It has a length of 7 km and is located southeast of the island. It has hardly any rocks and the sand is very fine. It is a very quiet and uncrowded beach.
Matemwe Beach
Located on the east coast of Zanzibar, this beach is one of the longest on the island. During low tide, the water goes down 2 kilometers, and the locals take advantage of it to collect sea animals.
The beach is beautiful but yes, in this particular one, it is essential to enter the water with great care and even appropriate footwear, as there are a lot of sea urchins（海胆）.
21. What can visitors do when they choose Nungwi Beach?
A. Catch the tides.
B. Watch wonderful sunsets.
C. Enjoy a colorful nightlife.
D. Experience various water sports.
22. Which place is suitable for visitors to practice kitesurfing?
A. Nungwi Beach.
B. Paje Beach.
C. Jambiani Beach.
D. Matemwe Beach.
23. Who will probably be attracted to Matemwe Beach?
A. Sunrise lovers.
B. Brave surfers.
C. Sea animal collectors.
D. Nightclub frequenters.
B
Some little boys are addicted to Legos. Others can’t get enough of dinosaurs. But it is Blackpool Tower in England that has captured one 6-year-old’s imagination.
The Blackpool Tower was built in 1894. It is twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in NYC. Now Charlie Barratt has achieved his dream by becoming the voice of the attraction’s lift（电梯）. Charlie did a project about the tower at school, recording his own version of the lift’s existing speech. In the voice-over, Charlie welcomes visitors to the attraction. He also offers interesting facts about the tower. One of his teachers contacted Kenny Mew, the tower’s operation manager, and told him about Charlie’s love for the 518-foot（157 meter）structure.
Mew told BBC Radio Lancashire, “His school reached out to me and said they had this young boy who was passionate about Blackpool Tower and had actually recorded the lift speech and I was thinking to myself: how’s he done that? I played it back and he had the speech word for word that we’d had recorded already in the lift and it just sounded amazing. And we thought we were going to give Charlie the opportunity to do lit. He was absolutely brilliant. He’s done an amazing job, and we’re really proud of what he’s done.”
Charlie was then invited into a professional recording studio to perform his version and his mum, Wendy, is as thrilled as he is. She told the BBC, “He adores the tower.” Wendy first took Charlie to visit the tower when he was a baby. She said he loved it “from the minute he can walk”.
Now Charlie is the voice of the attraction’s lift. As well as the lift, there are plans in progress for Charlie to
lend his voice to other areas in the future.
24. Why does the author mention other boys in the first paragraph?
A. To imply that Blackpool Tower is better than Legos and dinosaurs.
B. To highlight that Charlie Barratt has a unique passion.
C. To indicate that Charlie Barratt cannot get along with other boys.
D. To criticize other boys who fail to achieve their dreams.
25. What can we know about Blackpool Tower?
A. It did not have a lift speech until Charlie made one.
B. Its manager attempted to find a boy to record lift speech.
C. It is now using Charlie’s remade recording in its lit.
D. It is the highest tower in England with interesting facts.
26. Why did Charlie record the voice-over for Blackpool Tower on his own?
A. His mother Wendy inspired him.
B. His teacher encouraged him to do so.
C. He had a strong interest in Blackpool Tower.
D. He decided to attract more tourists to it.
27. Which words can better describe Charlie?
A. Passionate and unselfish.
B. Hard-working and persuasive.
C. Promising and kind.
D. Enthusiastic and committed.
C
The idea of low material desire, low consumption and refusing to work, marry and have children, concluded as a “lying down” lifestyle, recently struck a chord with many young Chinese who are eager to take pause to breathe
in this fast-paced and highly-competitive society.
Many millennials（千禧一代）and generation Zs complained to the Global Times that burdens , including work stress, family disputes and financial strains, have pushed them “against the wall”. They said they hate the “involution（内卷）” joking that they would rather give up some of what they have than get trapped in an endless competition against peers.
“Instead of always following the ‘virtues’ of struggle, endure and sacrifice to bear the stresses, they prefer a temporary lying down as catharsis（宣泄）and adjustment,” said a scholar. “It is no wonder that some young people, under the growing pressures from child-raising to paying the mortgage（按揭）today, would try to live in a simple way and leave the worries behind.”
Interestingly, the majority of millennials and Gen Zs reached by the Global Times, who claim to be big fans of the lying down philosophy, acknowledged that they only accept a temporary lying down as a short rest It is true that with the great improvement of living conditions, some Chinese youth have partially lost the spirit of hardship and are not willing to bear too much hard work. But in fact, lying down is not entirely comfortable. Young people who lie down always feel guilty about their constant loss of morale（士气）far beyond their reach.
“Young people on campus have both aspirations and confusion about their future, but most of us have rejected setting ourselves up in chains to waste opportunities and challenges,” a postgraduate student told the Global Times. “It’s no use running away. I have to ‘stand up’ and face the reality sooner or later.”
28. Which of the following can be described as a “lying down” lifestyle?
A. Following the ‘virtues’ of struggle, endure and sacrifice.
B. Living in a simple way and leaving the worries behind.
C. Bearing lots of hard work to improve one’s living conditions.
D. Standing up and facing the reality consistently.
29. What might have caused the “lying down” lifestyle among the young?
A. Improvements in living conditions.
B. Growing pressure from family and social life.
C. Increasing material possessions from families.
D. Temporary adjustment to failure in competitions.
30. What’s the scholar’s attitude toward the “lying down” group?
A. Understanding.
B. Intolerant.
C. Supportive.
D. Unclear.
31. What can be inferred about the young generation from the text?
A. They never really drop their responsibilities.
B. They really enjoy the “lying down” lifestyle.
C. They find their dreams far beyond their reach.
D. They would rather escape than take challenges.
D
Digital reading appears to be destroying habits of “deep reading”. Astonishing numbers of people with years of schooling are in effect illiterate（文盲的）. This month’s Ljubljana Manifesto（宣言）explains: “The digital field may promote more reading than ever in history, but it also offers many temptations to read in a superficial and scattered（零散的）manner—or even not to read at all. This increasingly endangers higher-level reading.”
That’s frightening, because “higher-level reading” has been essential to civilization. It enabled the enlightenment and an international increase in empathy. Without it, we would suffer a lot. As the Ljubljana Manifesto notes, “as much as one-third of Europeans struggle even with lower-level reading skills.” More than one-fifth of adults in the US “fall into the illiterate/functionally illiterate category”. Separately, post-pandemic reading scores for American 13-year-olds are the lowest in decades! And the Washington-based Center for Global Development recently estimated that literacy（读写能力）in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa among those with five years of schooling has decreased by 10% this past half century.
Experts in the Ljubljana Manifesto record the demerits of digital reading: “Recent studies of various kinds indicate a decline of critical and conscious reading, slow reading, non-strategic reading and long-form reading-” When you read a book on paper, you can be entirely inside the experience, absorb hundreds of pages of details thoroughly and begin to capture the world’s complexity. Online, says Maryanne Wolf of UCLA, we are “skimming, scanning, scrolling”. The medium is the message: doing deep reading on your phone is as hard as playing tennis with your phone. Recently, a bright 1l-year-old told me I was wasting time on books: he absorbed
more information faster from Wikipedia. He had a point. But digital readers also absorb more misinformation and seldom absorb fine perspectives.
In short, as professors from Northwestern University foresaw in 2005, we are returning to the days when only an elite（精英）“reading class” consumes long texts, which is worrying.
32. What can we learn about digital reading from paragraph 1?
A. Digital reading has solved the problem of illiteracy.
B. Digital reading has lessened the practice of deep reading.
C. Digital reading has made deep reading accessible to wider readers.
D. Digital reading has aroused a greater appreciation for deep reading.
33. What is the purpose of the figures used in paragraph 2?
A. To display the popularity of digital reading.
B. To highlight the advantages of deep reading.
C. To present the unfavorable situation of literacy.
D. To stress the illiterate’s lower-level reading skills.
34. What does the underlined word “demerits” in paragraph 3 mean?
A. Effects.
B. Depths.
C. Features.
D. Drawbacks.
35. What might be talked about in the following paragraph?
A. Advantages of digital reading.
B. Benefits of higher-level reading.
C. Ways to encourage digital reading.
D. Measures to practice deep reading.
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。

How to be more organized
You’re in danger of missing a deadline, your important files are never where you thought they were, and it’s a lottery（彩票）whether you’ll even have clean clothes to wear tomorrow! Sound familiar? You can lose a great deal of time to disorganization. The more you can live and work in an organized way, the sooner you’ll change your habits for the better. 36
Celebrate small wins. For example, if you complete three things on your to-do list, treat yourself to a cup of coffee, or allow yourself 10 minutes of free time.
Use one calendar. If you record some things on your desk planner, and others on your email calendar, it’s going to be hard to organize everything. 37 . If you do it digitally, you’ll find that the technology can pull everything together for you.
Schedule small tasks. If a task or project requires action beforehand (like sending out an agenda before a meeting), make sure that you schedule those into your day, too. 38
Get organized at home. Don’t just restrict your organized approach to work. 39 . Declutter（简化）where you live to make mornings easier. Plan your whole day carefully. And talk to the people you live with, so that they know how they can help.
40 Whether you’re prioritizing your professional tasks for the week, or mapping out your family commitments, think about how to make every second count. Try to delete low-value tasks where you can to make
time for what’s really important.
A. Put a high value on your time.
B. Strike a balance between your work and life.
C. Here are five everyday strategies worth trying.
D. A chaotic home life will bring its own problems.
E. Instead, you should start putting it all in one place.
F. Missing small jobs can have big knock-on effects on everything else.
G. For some people, a paper notebook is still the best way to stay in control of plans.
第三部分语言知识运用（共三节，满分55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和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

After I graduated from the university, I got so pressured in finding a job. I did a lot of 41 both online and handing in person to a particular company. It occurred, one day I went to 42 my CV（履历）to a certain company and I wanted to meet the human resource manager in person because I believed it was a better
43 than leaving my CV at the reception.
Unfortunately, in this company the 44 did not allow me to see the human resource manager and
45 asked me to just leave the CV with her and that she would 46 it. I was really 47 since I knew she wouldn’t do that and my CV will just be thrown in the trash can, I thought so because it usually 48 a lot in some other companies. So I just left with my head 49 and never thought about it again since I knew I would never get any 50 from the company.
Weeks passed and one day I received a call from a(an) 51 number and guess what… it was the human resource manager of that same company. I was really shocked since I did not 52 it at all. So he said he received my CV and that he would 53 it.
I was so happy and felt bad at the same time for 54 the receptionist the other day. This humbled me and it was a 55 to believe in people and not assume things just because of the norm.
41. A. designs B. applications C. preparations D. examinations
42. A. hand in B. give up C. carry out D. take back
43. A. result B. chance C. position D. suggestion
44. A. lawyer B. president C. reporter D. receptionist
45. A. thus B. still C. instead D. therefore
46. A. create B. share C. deliver D. exchange
47. A. amazed B. frightened C. puzzled D. disappointed
48. A. fails B. works C. changes D. happens
49. A. up B. down C. aside D. forward
50. A. response B. suggestion C. project D. comment
51. A. familiar B. important C. unknown D. common
52. A. expect B. connect C. value D. confirm
53. A. agree on B. work on C. refer to D. search for
54. A. doubting B. scolding C. admiring D. punishing
55. A. decision B. conclusion C. reminder D. criterion
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，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The “Spring Fair”, featuring diverse Chinese cultural activities, 56 (hold)on Sunday at the Garden of Serenity, a traditional Chinese garden in Santa Lucija, Malta.
The fair, jointly 57 (organize)by the China Cultural Centre in Malta and the Santa Lucija local council, offered the guests the opportunity to indulge in Chinese tea and cuisine, experience the art of calligraphy, 58 even try on Han Chinese clothing.
The event’s highlight was the performances by members from the Malta School of Wushu-Longgui, 59 showcased amazing dragon dances and martial arts, attracting many audiences. Tai Chi performance, traditional Chinese folk music, and popular songs also gained loud cheers and 60 (applaud).
At the opening ceremony, Charmaine St John, mayor of Santa Lucija, said that the Garden of Serenity is
“ 61 symbol of friendship between Malta and China.” She noted that cultural integration has always been a proposition（主张）of the Maltese government, and that cooperation between the two sides should be based on
62 （equal）and mutual benefit in order to be sustainable.
One of the 63 (participate), 12-year-old Nathan Zammit, wrote his name in Chinese characters with a brush at the booth of the Confucius Institute at the University of Malta. He was excited 64
(experience)calligraphy and showed admiration for Chinese culture, 65 not having visited China.
第三节阅读下面的句子，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
66. It was the second time that Jim ______(annoy)his mother because of his rudeness.
67. ______(accuse)of giving away the secret of the company, the secretary will be fired.
68. The scientists, ______(commit)to exploring Mars, found no sign of life there.
69. He glanced briefly towards her but there was no sign of ______(recognize).
70. ______(equip)with advanced weapons, the army defeated their enemy.
71. Her parents often urge that she ______(set)strict demands on herself
72. Most teachers encourage personal examples because they are more ______(persuade)to readers.
73. Children can acquire these qualities through a variety of ______(demand)activities.
74. The urgent tasks should take ______(prioritize)over other less important tasks.
75. The hiker found himself ______(trap)in the forest, desperately searching for a way out.
76. Men who eat plenty of fresh vegetables are less likely to suffer ______(anxious)or depression.
77. Would thinking machines ______(threat)the existence of humans?
78. His stubborn ______(resist)to anything new eventually wore out the patience of his superiors.
79. ______(curious)is not always good. Most smokers start smoking out of it.
80. Don’t blame them. They provided wrong information ______(intention).
第四部分读后续写（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。

In my community, there is a little boy who suffered from congenital muscle disease. He always considered himself the most unfortunate person in the world. Although he looked no different from ordinary people, it’s difficult for him to do some delicate movements. He often lost control of his hands and dropped things on the ground. Even after a short run, he would easily get out of breath. Depression and inferiority made him almost always alone. All of these make his mother very worried.
Then one spring, the boy’s mother bought some saplings（树苗）from a nearby market. She intended to plant them in the forecourt. She told her children to plant a sapling each person. The mother said to her three children, “Whose seedling grows best, I will buy him or her a favorite gift.” The boy also wanted to get his mother’s gift. But seeing his brothers and sisters carrying water to water the trees happily, anyhow, an idea hit him: he hoped the tree he planted would die soon. So watering it once or twice, he never attended to it.
Several days later, when the little boy went to see his tree again, he was surprised to find it grew some fresh leaves instead of withering（枯萎）, and compared with the trees of his brother and sister, his appeared greener and more vital. He wondered what on earth had happened. As expected, his mother kept her promise, bought the little boy his favorite gift and said to him, “From the tree you plant, you will become an outstanding botanist（植物学家）when you grow up.”
Since then, the little boy slowly became optimistic. One day, the little boy lay on the bed but couldn’t sleep! Looking at the bright moonlight outside the window, he suddenly recalled what the biology teacher once said, plants generally grow at night.
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。

“Why not go to the forecourt and take a look at my tree?” he said to himself. ________________________
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__________________________________________________________________________________________ From that night on, he understood what his mother meant and decided to change himself. ______________
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