2023-2024学年浙江省A9协作体高二上学期期中联考英语试题

2023-2024学年浙江省A9协作体高二上学期期中联考英语试题1. What did the boy do last night?
A．He competed in a match.
B．He went to the stadium with Lucy.
C．He met his favorite athlete.
2. Why does the woman speak highly of the boy?
A．He is a modest student.
B．He tries to protect the Earth.
C．He has done well in a presentation.
3. What does the man complain about?
A．He received many messages. B．He couldn’t contact
Mona.
C．He lost his computer.
4. How much should the man pay?
A．$10. B．$20. C．$30.
5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A．Mother and son. B．Boss and employee. C．Teacher and student. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

6. What does the man plan to do on Sunday?
A．Buy household
appliances.
B．Move house. C．Wash clothes.
7. What does the woman think of buying a new refrigerator?
A．It’s a pure luxury.B．It’s a real bargain.C．It’s a basic necessity.听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

8. Where does the conversation take place?
A．In a bank. B．In the street. C．In the post office. 9. What will the man do next?
A．Take money out. B．Get his accounts. C．Post a letter.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

10. Which city is the woman’s destination?
A．Detroit. B．Toronto. C．Shanghai.
11. What will the woman do on Tuesday?
A．Fetch her luggage. B．Attend a meeting. C．Catch a flight.
12. How does the woman sound in the end?
A．Grateful. B．Worried. C．Encouraged.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

13. Why does the woman call the man?
A．To apply for a job. B．To discuss his schedule. C．To make an appointment.
14. Who is the man?
A．A professor. B．A doctor. C．A clinic clerk.
15. What do we know about Mrs. Anderson?
A．She is off duty.
B．She is occupied now.
C．She has cancelled the booking.
16. When will the woman see Mrs. Anderson?
A．On August 20th. B．On August 30th. C．On September 20th.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

17. What do we know about the speaker?
A．He moved to Poland. B．He is an expert in math. C．He majored in English.
18. What did the speaker do to learn English at first?
A．He studied in the library. B．He learned from his
father. C．He listened to English songs.
19. At what age did the speaker start to read books in English?
A．6. B．13. C．15.
20. What does the speaker think of reading math materials in English now?
A．Easy. B．Challenging. C．Boring.
Hong Kong is the gastronomical capital of the Asian mainland with about 69 Michelin starred restaurants in 2023. Here are some recommended for travelers.
Super Luxurious Lung King Heen Restaurant
If you can afford the best Cantonese cuisine and service, then this one in the Four Seasons Hotel might be the best in the world and has excellent scenery too.
Price per person: 1,200 to 2,000 HKD
Tel: 3196 8888
Ming Court Restaurant
It was selected as a Michelin 2-star restaurant for 2010, and retained the rating in 2016. It is a luxury Chinese restaurant featuring Cantonese cuisine in the 5-star Cordis Hotel.
Price per person: HKD 700
Tel: 3552 3028
Tim Ho Wan
It is internationally distinguished as one of the cheapest 1-Michelin star restaurants in the world. It is ideal for most tourists and backpackers who want to taste excellent Cantonese food, but pay less. Price per person: HKD 75
Tel: 2332 3078
Bo Innovation
Bo Innovation is surprising because the food isn’t traditional Chinese, but it is rated 3-Michelin stars. Some diners give low marks perhaps because their meal didn’t fit their expectations about what Cantonese Chinese food should be like. But experts rate the “extreme cuisine” highly for the creativity, surprises, and fun as well as for the delicious, sometimes novel, flavors.
Price per person: above 800 HKD
Tel: 2850 8371
21. If you are on a low budget, which number should you call while visiting Hong Kong?
A．3196 8888 B．3552 3028 C．2332 3078 D．2850 8371
22. Why does Bo Innovation receive low marks?
A．The price is too high. B．The location is surprisingly far.
C．The food is too novel for traditional style. D．The experts are not fond of the extreme cuisine.
23. What do the four restaurants have in common?
A．They are located in hotels. B．They provide Cantonese food.
C．They are rated 3-Michelin stars. D．They charge extra tip for service.
As we know, Benjamin Franklin made groundbreaking discoveries in the field of electronics. He invented both battery (the word) and batteries (the thing) and came up with the concept of “positive” and “negative” charges. But this comes second to Franklin’s true electrical vocation: practical jokes.
Picture the scene: It’s summer 1749 and you’ve been invited to a party at your good pal Ben’s house. You sit down, pick up your wine glass to take a sip ... and are hit with an electric shock straight to the mouth. This was a typical risk of being friends with Benjamin Franklin. Not only did his guests put up with electrified wine glasses, but they were also frightened by dancing spiders made from wood and string, and invited to send sparks of electricity between one another through air kisses.
The father of electricity first encountered its wonders after witnessing an experiment-slash-vaudeville show in 1743, and was electrified by the experi ence, to say the least. “I never was before engaged in any study that so totally engrossed my attention and my time as this,” he wrote to fellow electrician Peter Collinson.
Collinson had just sent Franklin an exciting gift: a Leyden jar. Physicists had been able to generate electricity. But the Leyden jar allowed them to store and use it on demand. It would take nearly 7 trillion jars to store the amount of electricity in a single AA battery today. But for physicists of the time, a whole new world of experiments had opened up. Exactly what those experiments were, Franklin left to the imagination.
24. What can we know about Franklin?
A．He discovered the field of electronics. B．He designed some new terms in
electronics.
C．He separated positive charge from negative one. D．He invented the concept of practical jokes.
25. What happened to the people at the party?
A．They couldn’t put up with the electric
shock.
B．They witnessed three tricks at the party.
C．They tasted the wine made from real spiders. D．They didn’t appreciate Franklin’ sense of humor.
26. Why is a single AA battery mentioned in paragraph 4?
A．To introduce Franklin’s great
achievement.
B．To illustrate the functions of Leyden jars.
C．To explain the store amount of Leyden
jars.
D．To show Franklin’s creative imagination.
27. What kind of person is Franklin according to the text?
A．Playful and curious. B．Friendly and humorous.
C．Intelligent and reliable. D．Committed and helpful.
A growing number of psychologists are getting out the message that anxiety has a positive role to play in our lives. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, who recently published Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad), thinks our culture goes too far in demonizing (妖魔化) the difficult emotion.
Psychologist Todd Kashdan, director of the Well-Being Lab at George Mason University in Virginia, is a critic of what he calls happyology. We don’t always have to be smiley and calm, or worry there’s something wrong with us. Sometimes, he says, worry itself is what is right. Fear of heights? Good, because you’re not going to be the person who falls off a cliff while taking a selfie. These experts wonder if the natural role that anxiety plays in our lives is somehow being forgotten. For example, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced in March 2022 that the prevalence of anxiety had increased globally by 25% over the previous year. The WHO called the finding “a wake-up call to all countries to step up mental health services and support”. Do we know for certain that this data represents a public health crisis? Or could it mean that millions of folks are quite rightly feeling uncertain, stressed out and afraid?
We can experience healthy, often completely valid periods of anxiety without being categorized as mentally ill, according to behavioral psychologists. Anxiety is an adaptive strategy in human evolution. It helps us to prepare for the uncertain future. Anxiety helps us solve unknowns by planning and imagining, by plotting out possible ways.
According to Alice Boyes, who has a PhD in clinical psychology, coping with anxiety by avoiding them just reinforces your insecurity, because you’re not getting better at solving the problem. “Over time, you will feel less and less capable,” she warns.
The key is to manage anxiety bef ore it overtakes us, like tending a garden so the weeds don’t spread. How do you do that? Solutions include meditation, exercise, compassionate connection such as volunteering, access to nature and mentally reframing what we’re experiencing.
28. Which stat ement is Kashdan’s opinion?
A．Fear may prevent you from taking dangerous actions.
B．Happyology is quite popular among the young nowadays.
C．Being smiley can stop us from worrying something wrong.
D．Difficult emotions such as anxiety should not be demonized.
29. What is the author’s attitude toward WHO’s announcement?
A．Unclear. B．Disapproving. C．Objective. D．Positive.
30. What does the underlined word “reinforces” in paragraph 5 mean?
A．Resists. B．Increases. C．Adjusts. D．Reveals.
31. What is the best title of the text?
A．The upside of anxiety. B．The key to manage anxiety.
C．The origin of difficult emotions. D．The right attitude to negative emotions.
Generative A.I., the software engine behind ChatGPT, is seen as an exciting new wave of technology. But companies in every industry are mainly trying out the technology and thinking through the economics. Widespread use of it at many companies could be years away.
Generative A.I., according to forecasts, could sharply boost productivity and add trillions of dollars to the global economy. Yet the lesson of history, from steam power to the Internet, is that there is a long lag between the arrival of major new technology and its broad adoption — which is what transforms industries and helps fuel the economy.
The investment craze is going on right now. In the first half of 2023, funding for generative A.I. start-ups reached $15.3 billion, nearly three times the total for last year. Company technology managers are sampling generative A.I. software from a host of suppliers and watching to see how the industry develops.
In November, when ChatGPT was made available to the public, it was a “Netscape moment” for generative A.I., said Rob Thomas, IBM’s chief commercial officer, referring to Netscape’s
intr oduction of the browser in 1994. “That brought the Internet alive,” Mr. Thomas said. But it was just a beginning, opening a door to new business opportunities that it took years to create.
In a recent report, a timeline for the widespread adoption of generative A.I. application was presented. It assumed steady improvement in currently known technology, but not future break-throughs. Its forecast for main-stream adoption was neither short nor precise, a range of 8 to 27 years. The broad range is explained by plugging in different assumptions about economic cycles, government regulation, company cultures and management decisions. “We’re not modeling the laws of physics here; we’re modeling economics and societies, and people and companies,” said Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute. “What happens is largely the result of human choices.”
32. How are the companies reacting after the introduction of generative A.I.?
A．Adopting the new technology widely. B．Making a high profit from the
technology.
C．Staying cautious about the new technology. D．Postponing generative A.I.’s wide adoption.
33. What will transform industries?
A．The arrival of major new technology. B．The broad adoption of new technology.
C．The lag between the major technologies. D．The invention of steam power in history.
34. What is the purpose of writing paragraph 4?
A．To show the Internet came alive in the 1990s.
B．To mention A.I. has brought important benefits.
C．To explain the present situation is just a beginning.
D．To prove the new business opportunities are enormous.
35. What do we learn about the wide adoption of generative A.I.?
A．It needs steady improvement instead of break-throughs.
B．It should model the laws of physics and economics.
C．It will be widely adopted in over 3 decades.
D．It is influenced mostly by human factors.
Being a good friend isn’t always easy. Nevertheless, taking the time to develop a lasting friendship is worth every ounce of effort. 36 Here are a few things you can do to be a good friend to others. Make time for each other
37 The mark of a good friend is someone who makes time for you and makes spending time with you a priority. A good friend will also look for opportunities to maximize the time you have together by seeking fun and unique experiences that strengthen and maintain your bond.
Open up and allow each other to be vulnerable
A good friend is someone genuine, someone with whom you can be yourself and they can be themselves around you. A good friend allows you to be vulnerable with them and vice versa, meaning you can expose your emotions and circumstances with each other and trust one another to listen, be supportive, and have each other’s best interests at heart. 38 If your friend hurt you, don’t be afraid to talk about it.
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It is one of the most important aspects of being a good friend. Your friend will need you for support, especially in hard times. Nobody wants to be friends with someone who actually isn’t interested i n them. It’s hard to rely on a person who doesn’t behave in a trustworthy way. We all know well-intentioned people who say, “Okay, I will...” but never follow through. If that’s you, be aware that you’re destroying your friends’ trust. Eventually, they’ll stop believing what you say.
Apologize when you’ve made a mistake.
If you want your friends to trust you, then you can’t act like you’re perfect. If you know you’ve made a mistake, own up to it instead of denying. Though your friends won’t be happy that yo u made a mistake, they’ll be very pleased that you’re mature enough to admit it instead of just pretending that nothing is wrong, or worse — blaming it on someone else. 40 Let your friends hear the sincerity in your voice.
33 years ago, I was on the early morning ride from the suburbs.
We were a crowd of silent passengers, one of whom was a small gray man to the centre for senior citizens regularly. He ______ the bus with a stoop (弯腰) and sat down alone behind the driver.
One day, a(n) ______ occurred. That morning, the elderly smiled ______ down through the bus and greeted the driver with a “good morning” ______ he sat down. The driver nodded cautiously. The next day, he smiled energetically and said in a ______ voice: “And a very good morning to you all!” Some of us looked up, astonishe d, and ______ “Good morning”.
The following days we began to nod and talk to each other. One morning he held a bunch of wild flowers. Smilingly, the driver ______, teasing “Have you got a girlfriend, Charlie?” He nodded shyly. The others ______ and clapped at him. Every morning after that, some of the women began to bring him ______. The men enjoyed light-hearted jokes and ______news.
The summer drifting away, autumn ______. However, one morning Charlie was absent. We started wondering if he was sick or ______, on holiday somewhere. Arriving at the centre, we held our breaths when one passenger went to the door to ask. The staff said one of his very close friends had died, so we anticipated his ______ on Monday.
The following Monday Charlie awaited us at the stop, his stoop more ______, and his hair grayer. Inside the bus was a ______ again. We sat with our eyes brimming with tears, bouquets of flowers in our hands.
41.
A．took B．checked C．rode D．boarded
42.
A．conversation B．change C．accident D．argument
43.
A．slightly B．unwillingly C．hardly D．constantly
44.
A．before B．after C．while D．since
45.
A．shy B．weak C．sad D．cheerful
46.
A．yelled B．smiled C．murmured D．mourned
47.
A．turned over B．turned up C．turned in D．turned around 48.
A．whistled B．applied C．bowed D．applauded
49.
A．money B．cards C．flowers D．newspapers
50.
A．read B．made C．shared D．announced
51.
A．approached B．drew C．dragged D．closed
52.
A．hopefully B．fortunately C．amazingly D．gratefully
53.
A．favor B．protest C．return D．entertainment 54.
A．crucial B．ugly C．different D．distinct
55.
A．loneliness B．silence C．hesitation D．security
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。

Cats meow more when they’re accustomed to staying with people. But does the cat feel friendly? Or is it 56 (anger)? Is something blocking its way? Is the cat afraid or distressed? Or , does it just want food ?
In a psychology study, professor Nick Nicastro recorded hundreds of cat meows in those five situations. Then humans listened to the sounds through headphones. Those 57 were more familiar with cats or often dealt with their own cats at home 58 (do) better at interpreting the meows, especially 59 cats made several meows in a row.
60 , even the cat-loving group got the right answers only about 30 percent of the time—slightly better than 61 20 percent they’d score if 62 (pick) answers at random. Nicastro thinks that people would 63 (probable) do better with video, because they’d have more clues. Indeed, individual cats vary 64 how they meow in different situations and they communicate a lot with postures, head positions and even tail 65 (move). “I think that we do miss a lot of cat communication because we don’t get all of that,” says McDaniel.
66. 假定你是Li Hua，你的美国朋友David在上一封信中得知你因为高考选科而纠结，很想知道你现在的选科情况，请你给他回信，分享你的近况。

要点包括：
1．对他的关心表示感谢；
2．你的选科情况以及选这些科目的原因；
3．表达对目前学习的信心
注意：
1．词数80左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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67. 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。

My father had been a sales trainer who taught presentation skills. He traveled across the world for work and competed in tennis tournaments on the weekends. “Life is good,” he would always say, with a twinkle in his eyes.
Everything changed during my second year of high school. A sudden stroke (中风) left my dad with severe physical and neurological deficits. He was unable to move the right side of his body. But the most serious problem, amidst so many others, was his loss of speech.
The stroke resulted in a disorder called aphasia, which damages someone’s ability to communicate and understand language. It was like my father was a prisoner in his own body, unable to do and say exactly what he wanted.
The aphasia also caused my dad to say things he did not mean. He would sometimes cry in the middle of a funny movie and laugh when something tragic happened. I found myself going through embarrassment whenever we were in public. My father would wave his cane like a weapon and shout incoherent yet harmless phrases at passersby. It upset me. I hated the stares and hushed comments, even though he did not notice.
One afternoon, I came home to find my dad watching an old video. It was a video of my father and me playing tennis. What used to be such a simple pleasure was now impossible. We watched in silence until I couldn’t hold my grief any longer. I found myself shaking and crying. At any time, he could have another stroke. There was no promise of tomorrow. I felt overcome by fear, both for my family and for my father.
Father’s lips moved while he watched me cry. He clearly wanted to say something, but was powerless. I wondered what he wanted to say to inspire me to face up to the darkness we were going through.
I finally found my answer when one day I took my dad to the park, rowing a boat as we did a few times before. “You …and… me!” he managed to say.
注意：
1．续写词数应为150左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1:
Shocked, I wanted to hear more.
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Paragraph 2:
“Yes. Life is good.” I whisper ed back, completing it for him.
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