安徽省黄山市2023-2024学年高二上学期期末质量检测英语试题

安徽省黄山市2023-2024学年高二上学期期末质量检测
英语试题
一、阅读理解
Four Best Natural Parks in America
Everglades National Park, Florida
Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical (亚热带) wilderness reserve in America. This amazing destination is a 1.5-million-acre ocean of grass which flows gradually from central Florida all the way south to the sea. This makes it -an important habitat for numerous rare and endangered species like manatee, American crocodile, and Florida jaguar.
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Grand Canyon National Park is home to one of the largest canyons in the world. If you visit between mid-May and mid-October, you can see the Canyon from the North Rim. About 90% of all visitors see it from the “South Rim”, because it is open all year and has easy-to-get-to overlooks.
Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
The caves house 200 animals, most of them being invertebrate (无脊椎) species. 42 of these species live in total darkness. These caves are incredible enough to be featured in Planet Earth——a must-see BBC documentary series.
Olympic National Park, Washington
Olympic National Park has a little bit of everything rugged Pacific coastline, high mountain peaks, broad sandy beaches, clear lakes, rain forests. With such a wide variety of ecosystems, Olympic is one of the most diverse wilderness areas in the United States. The park is an important habitat for species like wild salmon (鲑鱼), northern spotted owls.
Olympic National Park is very large and there are no roads that cross the park. If you visit in April or May, you may see gray whales pass by on their way to Alaska.
1. What animals live in the Everglades National Park?
A．Northern spotted owls. B．Invertebrate animals.
C．Gray whales. D．American crocodiles.
2. Which of the following is featured in Planet Earth?
A．Grand Canyon National Park. B．Mammoth Cave National Park. C．Everglades National Park. D．Olympic National Park.
3. What can we know about Olympic National Park?
A．It is open all year.
B．It has a rich biodiversity.
C．It is located in the state of Kentucky.
D．It has easy roads for visitors to drive across the park.
As I look up at the hundreds of fireworks in the sky, I hear the bells ringing in a small temple welcoming the coming of the Chinese New Year. Though I may not believe in or understand many of the New Year traditions here, the similarities between the coming of this New Year and the beginning of my new life in China are not lost on a big boy like me.
My first few days in China were a cultural shock to say the least. Having arrived late in the semester, I immediately had to begin my beginners’ Chinese classes, along with the newest class of overseas students. Being surrounded b y a language that isn’t your own is unbelievably annoying. Due to the picture-based fashion of Chinese writing, it’s not like you can have a guess, or work it out through whatever knowledge you have from other Latin-originated languages. If you don’t know what it says, then that’s it. However, with time passing, I have found myself progressing, though painfully slowly. The first time I called a taxi by myself, the driver actually understood where I wanted to go, which is hugely rewarding. Still it is never long before my lack of language skill is exposed (暴露的) and I come crashing back to earth, usually immediately upon leaving the taxi.
Gaining a language is a huge valuable skill. However, it is not the only thing I will gain in China. After this year of lea rning Chinese, I aim to gain my master’s degree here
at University of Jinan. Opportunities do come around rather often: from being offered jobs teaching English, to being asked to appear on game-shows for Shandong TV. So, for now, I am just looking forward to expanding my cultural horizons (眼界) and enjoying my time here. I take some time to get used to everything, but that’s part of the adventure and, most of all, employment. So, much like the Chinese New Year that I am lucky enough to be part of, I am just looking forward to a fresh start and a new journey in China.
4. What can we know about the author from the first two paragraphs?
A．He has no interest in Chinese traditions.
B．He knows nothing about the Latin language.
C．His late arrival made him miss beginners’ Chinese classes.
D．The unique way of Chinese writing made him hard to understand Chinese.
5. What does the author want to show through his taxi experience?
A．He is poor at using public transport. B．He finds it easy to call a taxi in China.
C．He feels pleased to have made progress in Chinese. D．He is good at chatting with the taxi driver.
6. What is the author’s present expectation?
A．To settle down in China. B．To become a famous host on TV. C．To broaden his cultural horizons. D．To be an excellent teaching assistant.
7. Which can be the best title for the text?
A．Exploring Chinese: valuable skills mastered B．Learning Chinese; adventurous but enjoyable
C．Coming to China: more opportunities promised D．Studying in China: challenging but rewarding
According to a recent study, consuming three largely comparable meals each day to meet our energy demands may be the most effective method to prevent cognitive (认知的) deterioration. The study finds a link between skipping breakfast and a gradual failure in cognitive health. The study also reveals that eating more calories at one meal than another is not linked to a quick failure in cognitive function, but it does not improve cognition as much as eating balanced three meals daily.
With previous study focusing on how the quality of the food we consume can affect our health, there hasn’t been much research on how our daily energy intake is distributed and how it can affect our cognitive health over the long term, as well as if it might affect our risk of dementia (痴呆).
A recent study, in which the data from the 1997 — 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey were analyzed, examines the possible impact of various meal schedules on cognitive decline in order to better understand this.
The poll (民意调查) collected submissions from 3,342 persons in China during a
ten-year period, and their responses were included in the statistics. The average age was 62. 2, and people were at least 55 years old. The study did not include those who had severe cognitive deterioration.
Each participant underwent a dietary evaluation as well as a phone-based cognitive exam at the beginning of the study period. This test evaluated each person’s ability to recall words quickly and slowly, count backward, and subtract (减) quickly from given numbers.
The findings demonstrate that, in comparison to either less balanced ways of absorbing one’s total caloric intake or less equally distributed ways of ingesting one’s total energy intake, eating three balanced meals each day is related with superior cognitive function.
8. What does the underlined word “deterioration” mean in paragraph 1? A．Increase.
B．Decline.
C．Exchange.
D．Spread.
9. What is the main difference between the recent study and the previous one?
A．The contents.
B．The method.
C．The participants.
D．The process.
10. How did the researchers do the recent study?
A．By doing experiments.
B．By analyzing previous data.
C．By interviewing senior people.
D．By examining people with cognitive disease.
11. Which of the following may contribute to best cognition?
A．Skipping breakfast every day.
B．Three balanced meals per day.
C．Hunger-determined food time and amount.
D．A big lunch with a small breakfast and dinner.
In a lab in London, newborn chicks took the first steps of their life and might become part of solving one of the brain’s big puzzles. Elisabetta Versace, the lead author of the new study and head of the Prepared Minds Lab at Queen Mary, and her co-workers published their findings on Tuesday in Biology Letters.
In a simple test, researchers placed the downy animals, hatched after less than a day in complete darkness, one at a time into a special box. Two screens on the opposite sides of the box played videos of moving orange balls, one moving upward and the other downward. Over the course of 20 minutes, most of the chicks hesitantly walked over to the end of the box with the upward-moving ball.
Biologists call the mechanisms (生物机制) that assist animals in their earliest moments “evolutionary predisposition s (进化倾向)” or “priors”. “Studying how
predisposition s work in humans is difficult,” says Elisa Raffalla Ferre, co-author of the new study, as babies take time to develop complex skills. By the time human babies can easily move, they have already spent significant time learning. Chicks, however, can perform relatively complex actions very soon after hatching, which makes them ideal candidates for exploring how predispositions function.
Why this preference for objects that move against gravity exists at all remains unclear. “Going against gravity in a consistent way is associated with animate objects in the ecological world,” Versace says, “because usually you see that water flows down or a rock falls down.” Lifeless objects, on the other hand, are unlikely t o move consistently against gravity.
The newly released article is consistent with previous research, according to Orsola Rosa Salva, a comparative psychologist at the University of Trento. What Salva wants to see next in this field are experiments that begin to identify what areas of the brain are active when predispositions are launched, so scientists can better understand how the mechanisms work. Versace hopes that future research can offer insights into the way the brain is organized to make sense of the world.
12. What did the test find out about newborn chicks?
A．They liked bright colors. B．They had a poor sense of direction. C．They preferred rising objects. D．They picked up first steps with difficulty. 13. Why are newborn chicks better subjects for the test than human babies?
A．Their mechanisms are more complex.
B．They were already studied more in the past.
C．Their evolutionary predispositions work more effectively.
D．They can exhibit complex behaviors soon after birth.
14. What does Versace say about going against gravity?
A．It is common among species in nature. B．It is a natural behavior of living animals.
C．It contributes to the survival of animals. D．It helps newborn animals to learn quickly.
15. What does Salva expect of future experiments?
A．They’ll be carried out in the wild.B．They’ll offer detailed workings of the brain.
C．They’ll compare the brains of different species. D．They’ll apply to scientific research in related fields.
Cultural traditions shape who you are. Lear n more about your traditions and how you can preserve them by means of the followings.
Share your culture art.
Each culture is carried by different forms of art. Museums often house items like clothing, music instruments, and visual artworks. However, beyond these exhibits, there exist tools crafted by ancestors, which present the traditions through generations’ wisdom. 16
Attend or organize major events.
Your country, religious organizations, or immigrant ethnic groups almost certainly celebrate major holidays or cultural festivals. 17 If there aren’t any of those in your area, you can arrange your own events.
Cook family recipes.
Find some recipes from your grandmother’s cookbook. 18 As you knead dough (揉面) or follow the right amount of spices, you might remember meals from your childhood or holidays. Cooking your family recipes can help you inherit the family tradition and make it possibly passed down.
Promote your dialects (方言).
Language shapes culture to some degree. Therefore, promoting a dialect contributes to the protection of a certain culture. 19 So if you know one of them, help to spread it. With more and more people speaking, these dialects could be successfully preserved before they go extinct.
Spend time with other members of the community.
The best way to preserve your culture is to keep it alive. 20 Many aspects of culture are difficult to learn in books and museums, including body language, and humor. But you can get to the core (核心) of the cultural experience through daily communication.
A．Participate to get a broader view of your culture.
B．Culture helps people adapt to the world around them.
C．Smell and taste have powerful connections to memory.
D．Record your family tree with the help of family members.
E．Unfortunately, thousands of dialects are at risk of extinction.
F．Gather as a group not just for holidays, but for ordinary meals or just conversation. G．The skills involved in shaping a stone tool represent one of the earliest cultural practices.
二、完形填空
In the summer of 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife, Vanessa, had just moved to Santa Ana, California. One day, Peterson was reading the book Love Does, when his quiet was ________ by a homeless man. Encouraged by the book’s sympathetic message, Peterson made an conversation with him, and ________ that the man called Merda had moved here to ________ a career in music, but he ended up living on the street for years.
“It was the ________ thing to me,” Peterson recalled later on the podcast Top Artist. “I saw the ________ on the face of a man who hadn’t ________ or showered in probably a year. But his story, the life inside of him, ________ me.” And even tho ugh Peterson, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, hadn’t ________ a paintbrush in about 8 years, he ________ himself asking if he could paint Merda’s portrait．
Peterson painted Merda’s portraits, ________ his traits and life
experiences．________, the painting was sold for a few thousand dollars, and the money was put into a “love account” by Peterson for his model. Merda used the funds from his portrait to ________ an album, fulfilling his musical dreams.
Peterson’s ________ with Merda led him to form Faces of Santa Ana, a nonprofit organization focused on befriending and painting portraits of members of the community who are ________. Up till now, with 41 portraits painted and sold, Perterson has helped many people get back on their feet, and established the friendship with someone people might have ________.
21.
A．overthrown B．disturbed C．attracted D．tricked
22.
A．learnt B．thought C．proved D．achieved
23.
A．exchange B．receive C．pursue D．grab
24.
A．strangest B．best C．saddest D．brightest
25.
A．ugliness B．guilty C．pride D．beauty
26.
A．spoken B．smiled C．shaved D．slept
27.
A．defeated B．discouraged C．shocked D．inspired
28.
A．picked out B．picked up C．held up D．held out
29.
A．found B．saw C．stopped D．required
30.
A．rather than B．according to C．apart from D．along with 31.
A．Hurriedly B．Practically C．Hopelessly D．Fortunately 32.
A．order B．record C．play D．write
33.
A．struggle B．argument C．connection D．appointment
34.
A．unhoused B．uncovered C．uneducated D．unsettled 35.
A．valued B．overlooked C．recognized D．respected
三、语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Lust for Life (《渴望生活：梵高传》) is a biographical (传记的) novel about the life of the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh． 36 (write) by US author Irving Stone, this work of historical fiction provides a vivid description of the artist．
The novel traces Van Gogh’s life from his early years in the UK to his final days in France. Stone weaves together historical facts, and 37 (imagine) storytelling to create the artist’s journey. The title, Lust for Life, 38 (perfect) shows Van Gogh’s enthusiasm both in his art and his life.
39 impresses people most in this book is that, 40 (add) color to his paintings, Van Gogh would set aside the sketches (素描) to which he had devoted all his efforts and start over． 41 , among the Impressionist of the 19th century, this hardworking painter was still regarded as an abnormal person．
Another strength of Lust for Life lies 42 its ability to immerse the readers in the world of 19th century Europe．Its vivid descriptions of the landscapes and cities contribute to a sensory experience that 43 (help) the readers better understand the environment where Van Gogh lived．Stone mixes the social and cultural contexts of the era effectively into the book, 44 (offer) readers a broader perspective on the challenges faced by artists during that period．
In conclusion, this book is a well-deserved 45 (celebrate) of the artist and his spirit of creation．
四、书信写作
46. 假定你是李华，你们学校开设了中国传统文化实践课。

请给你的英国好友Peter 写一封邮件，分享你上课的感受，内容包括：
1．课程内容；
2．个人感受。

注意：1．词数80个左右；2．增加细节以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter,
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Yours,
Li Hua
五、书面表达
47. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容和所给段落开头续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Tom was a skilled teenage surfer. He had always been attracted by the ocean and the challenge of riding its waves. He had trained tirelessly for years, sharpening his skills and perfecting his technique. He had participated in many competitions and won several titles. But one day, his world was turned upside down.
It was a routine training day. While Tom was concentrating on his training in the sea, a shark came in through the broken shark-proof net and approached him. The animal knocked over Tom’s surfboard and bit his right leg, tearing through his flesh (肉体) and causing massive damage. Despite the seriousness of his injuries, Tom was lucky to
survive the attack. He was rushed to the hospital, where he received an emergency operation. With the efforts of doctors, his leg was saved.
Tom’s recovery was long and painful, but he refused to give up on his dream of surfing. At first, his progress was slow. He had to learn to walk again, and then to run, and then to jump. Every movement was a struggle. But with the help of his family and friends, as well as his own fierce determination, Tom gradually began to make progress. He spent hours every day in the gym, doing strength and balance exercises to rebuild his body.
Finally, after months of hard work, Tom was ready to get back into the water. His first training was incredibly difficult, as he struggled to overcome his fear of the ocean and the memory of the shark attack. But gradually, he began to regain his confidence and his love for surfing. As his strength and skills returned, Tom set his sights on competing once again. He trained tirelessly, working with a coach to perfect his technique and improve his performance. And finally, the day of the competition arrived.
注意：
1．所续写的短文词数应为150个左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Standing in front of the starting line again, Tom felt nervous．
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Tom fell into the sea．
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