广东省佛山市禅城实验高级中学2022-2023学年下学期高二3月英语试题

广东省佛山市禅城实验高级中学2022-2023学年下学期高二
3月英语试题
学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
一、阅读理解
When my father then died in June 2019, despite not wanting to leave my mother living up there all by herself, I couldn’t imagine moving in.
And even when Ma was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2019, and I started splitting my weeks between my overpriced studio apartment in Brooklyn and the house upstate to help manage her care, I never considered giving up my city life to move to the suburbs. Absolutely not!
What spells failure more than a single woman in her 40s moving in with her mother near the small town she grew up in?
Then the pandemic hit. Suddenly, all the myths I had bought into about what success looks like and how we were supposed to live as adults began to break down. My mother was going through her final round of chemo, the last she needed to save her life, and yet I couldn’t be there.
And my mom needed me: She couldn’t go to the grocery store, physically deal with people coming to the door to make deliveries. She needed help getting to her appointments. That, after all, was why I’d been splitting my time between my place and hers to begin with.
So after a three-week quarantine, I went home to stay with Ma. The plan was to stay for a month at first-until things “got back to normal”. But, I’d already lost one parent; I wasn’t ready to face the potential loss of another
In months that I was living with Ma, something else had happened, too. Long riddled with anxiety issues, l was calmer, more in touch with nature and eating better. We were able to heal from the loss of my father.
1．Why did the author wish not to stay with her mom at first?
A．She was attached to her city life.
B．She was sad about her father’s death.
C．She realized that her mother could manage her life on her own.
D．She was terrified by the pandemic.
2．What does the underlined word “splitting” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A．Departing.B．Dividing.C．Settling.D．Packing. 3．Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A．The author wanted her mother to live alone.
B．The author had to keep her husband company in the city.
C．The author was desperately needed by her mom.
D．The author suffered greatly living in the countryside
Many early domestic (驯养的) dogs ate almost no meat. Dogs living around 3000 years ago in what is now Spain were instead fed cereals, such as millet (小米), by their owners.
Although the diet may reflect the fact that meat was relatively in lack among human societies at the time, feeding dogs with cereals could have been advantageous, says Silvia Albizuri at the University of Barcelona in Spain. It may have been a way to ensure the dogs had plenty of energy for the hard work of herding and guarding livestock (牧群), she says, particularly since these dogs “were not pets as we think of them nowadays”. Albizuri and her colleagues studied the remains of 36 dogs from Can Roqueta, an archaeological site near Barcelona. It lies on a plain near the coast and was inhabited from the Stone Age onwards. The dogs lived in the Bronze Age and Iron Age, between 1300 and 550 BC, and had been buried in pits. The researchers obtained protein from the dogs’ bones and focused on the carbon in the samples, which give an indication of what the animals ate.
The dogs’ diets differed considerably. While nine of them ate plenty of meat and 10 were omnivorous (杂食的), the rest ate mostly plants.
The finding adds to the evidence that many early domestic dogs ate little meat, says Albizuri. This trend is thought to have begun with the start of farming. “When human societies began to domesticate plants during the Neolithic period, hunting decreased and the human diet was based mainly on vegetables,” she says. “Dogs began to be fed on plants, mainly cereals.”
4．What can we know from the second paragraph?
A．The early human beings had nothing to eat.
B．The early dogs did not like meat at all.
C．There was not enough meat for early humans.
D．Dogs were eaten by the early human beings.
5．What do human beings regard dogs as nowadays?
A．Hunters.B．Pets.C．Food.D．Friends. 6．What did dogs mainly eat in the early times?
A．Bones.B．Plants.C．Normal dinners.D．Meat. 7．What caused dogs’ diet change?
A．Human’s habit.B．Dog’s development.
C．Productive forces.D．Social customs.
You watch a sad film and get caught up in your emotions. You cry your eyes out at the dramatic plot —you feel sad for the characters if they suffer, or happy for them when they are successful. It is only when the movie is over that you realize that what you were watching is not real.
But why couldn’t you accept that when you were so absorbed in the movie? It was reported in Science Daily this week that scientists at Case Western Reserve University, US, discovered that people simply cannot think emotionally and logically at the same time.
It has long been known that something different goes on in our brain when we use logic, rather than responding to something emotionally. Thinking logically is a step-by-step process, in which people make decisions through reasoning and find answers rationally. When we think emotionally or empathize (有同感) we look at things from someone else’s point of view and try to feel their pain.
Now scientists have found that thinking logically and emotionally are like the two ends of a seesaw (跷跷板)— when we’re busy empathizing, the part of the brain used for cold-hard analysis is suppressed (抑制). And it’s also true the other way round.
To come to this conclusion, scientists gathered 45 people — men and women — to take brain scans as they solved different kinds of puzzles. Some of the puzzles were tough and involved math and physics and others were social problems that required participants to put themselves in other people’s shoes.
Scientists found that when participants were doing a math problem, the region in their brain that is associated with logical thinking lit up, and when asked to make emotional decisions, the region for emotional thinking lit up. But the most interesting part is that when asked to solve problems that required both logical and emotional responses, the participants always used one of the regions at a time while the other one went dark.
“Empathetic and analytic thinking are... mutually (相互之间地) exclusive (排斥的)in
the brain,” said Anthony Jack, leader of the study. “You don’t have to favor one, but cycle efficiently between them, and employ the right network at the right time.”
However, people sometimes ended up using the wrong one. This explains why some people are good at solving complex math problems but have poor social skills. And why even the smartest people get taken in by fake but touching stories.
8．Why does the author mention watching movies at the beginning of the article?
A．To show that we are easily moved by things that are not real.
B．To show that sometimes we only use emotional thinking.
C．To prove that emotional thinking is powerful.
D．To introduce the research based on this kind of experiences.
9．Scientists at Case Western Reserve University proved through their recent tests that
______.
A．logical thinking works differently from emotional thinking
B．logical thinking and emotional thinking take turns to function independently
C．logical thinking is much more efficient than emotional thinking
D．logical thinking and emotional thinking could work together
10．We can conclude from the last two paragraphs that ______.
A．people have to frequently switch between different types of thinking
B．adopting the wrong thinking mode could have bad results
C．people could only either have excellent logical thinking or emotional thinking D．people who think logically could easily be controlled
二、其他
11．将下列几个部分(A、B、C、D和E)按题号排序，构成一个符合逻辑的完整语篇。

A．During the first couple of months, I had to face many deadlines when working on my articles. Every day that your work is late, the letter grade for the work goes down. This can make working stressful and I was always worried about my grade. Besides, interviewing people was my biggest headache.
B．Now that the school year is almost over, I believe that it is safe to say that journalism is a great class if you don’t slack off (松懈) and know what you’re doing.
C．When I started taking journalism, I had to face many challenges. As a freshman journalist,
I felt stressed and depressed.
D．In order to overcome my fears and challenges, I had to ask for a lot of help from my teachers. I also sought advice from experienced journalists.
E. As time went by, however, the difficulty of the class started to decrease. Interviewing became easier because I started learning where things were located and shortcuts to get to a specific place faster. I also got used to the process of making a proper article for our newspaper.
三、七选五
Can you change your luck?
Sometimes, everything seems to go wrong. 12 . Your back aches. Your cat keeps throwing up. Faced with difficulties large or small, you feel like your life is always taking a turn for the worse. You begin to wonder if you are just an unlucky person.
Don’t be upset. 13 . After studying people who consider themselves lucky or unlucky, he has found that the “lucky” ones make the best use of chance opportunities and have the courage to follow their intuition (直觉) to take them without hesitation.
“If you are relaxed and happy, your world view becomes bigger and you see more opportunities,” he says. “If you’re a flexible person, when those opportunities come in, you’ll make the most of them. 14 , but often they change the course depending on bow the wind is going.”
Lucky people also expect good things and can turn bad experiences into good. “They tend to be—no surprise—optimistic people, and they also recover from the bad things that happen,” Wiseman says.“If bad things happen, they think, ‘OK, it could have been worse’.”
15 “Each night before you go to bed, spend about 30 seconds writing down a good thing that’s happened that day, or a sense of appreciation for friends or family or health, or a negative thing that’s no longer happening,” Wiseman says.
Also, don’t be a person of habit. Take a different route when walking, watch a different TV programme, speak to different people. 16 And then keep your eyes open and get whatever opportunities might arise.
A．You’re passed over for a job
B．Even small changes can be effective
C．Lucky people know where they’re heading
D．The lucky ones regularly list things they are grateful to have
E．There are some methods you can follow to change your luck
F．Professor Wiseman believes there are steps to improve your luck
G．As for specific activities, you can focus on the positive by keeping a “luck diary”
四、完形填空
I will never forget one summer in my childhood. While walking in the attic (阁楼), I
under the floor!”
When Mama opened the door and 21 her head in, she 22 said, “Honey, that’s insulation (隔热材料). Now put it all back.”
I felt really disappointed. I had thought I made a real 23 .
When I 24 inside to put the fake gold back, my hand touched an old book: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.
I spent quite much time on it and found 25 in these pages. As I didn’t know how to express things clearly, I often 26 to talk about them. This book helped me 27 that I didn’t need to feel ashamed or 28 .
Over the years, I’ve kept my original 29 , which to this day I often refer to. Although it was a 30 to find the book, it liberated me in a way.
The book discovered under those floorboards was, 31 , gold.
17．A．slowed B．calmed C．looked D．fell 18．A．bent over B．showed up C．lay down D．broke in 19．A．stole B．produced C．seized D．hid 20．A．yelled B．sighed C．admitted D．complained 21．A．nodded B．stuck C．lowered D．lifted 22．A．simply B．thoughtfully C．honestly D．angrily 23．A．difference B．choice C．mistake D．discovery 24．A．sat B．slid C．reached D．walked 25．A．sympathy B．comfort C．honour D．doubt
26．A．tended B．offered C．managed D．hesitated 27．A．expect B．remember C．realize D．imagine 28．A．embarrassed B．satisfied C．astonished D．tired 29．A．mind B．copy C．plan D．file 30．A．dilemma B．disaster C．pity D．coincidence 31．A．still B．indeed C．normally D．hopefully
五、用单词的适当形式完成短文
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

When the starting signal sounded, Qian Hongyan pushed herself in the pool. She won the silver medal in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke (蛙泳) final in the 11th National Games for Persons with Disabilities 32 (hold) in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province.
Qian, from Luliang, Yunnan Province, lost both legs. 33 caused that was a traffic accident when she was 4 years old. Since then, she 34 (become) well-known for moving around while balanced on an orange ball, earning 35 (she) a nickname, basketball girl.
Qian’s enthusiasm for swimming dates back to 2007. At 11 years old, she 36 (invite) by the coach Zhang Honghu to join the swimming club for people with disabilities. However, without legs, Qian found it difficult to keep balance in water. “Swimming without legs is like handling a boat 37 a rudder (舵). I tended to sway (摇摆) due to a poor sense of direction,” she said.
To help her overcome 38 difficulty, her coach made a tailor-made training plan for her. Every day, she practiced swimming for at least four 39 (hour). She made intense efforts to strengthen her arm and balance, 40 helped her successfully get used to the water. “I like swimming. It changed my life and helped me see 41 (extreme) wonderful things,” she said in an interview.
六、单词释义
词义匹配
42．Ashley explained in her lecture the qualities that a good teacher must possess, and the
七、其他
八、根据首字母填写单词
52．All these outcomes are c______ with predictions made by the well-known scientist. (根据首字母单词拼写)
53．Parents often tell their kids to show s______ for those in need, and to provide help for them. (根据首字母单词拼写)
54．She was too p______ with the math question to notice anything else. (根据首字母单词拼写)
55．On the spot of the car accident, several passers-by w______ the tragic disaster. (根据首字母单词拼写)
56．A team of scientists strive for a b______ in cancer research, and eventually found out the way to fight against it. (根据首字母单词拼写)
九、根据汉语意思填写单词
57．While waiting for the opportunity to get _______________ (提拔), Henry did his best to perform his duty. (根据汉语意思单词拼写)
58．His views are grounded on the ______ (假设) that all people are equal. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
59．If you have any doubts about your health，you'd better________(咨询) your doctor at once.
60．The ______ (改编版) of the cartoon movie tells a story of the well-known Chinese heroine Hua Mulan. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
十、根据首字母填写单词
61．The students always b______ very differently when the teachers are not around; they should be more disciplined(根据首字母单词拼写)
十一、汉译英（整句）
62．要学习一门语言，至关重要的是要坚持练习，而不能轻易言弃。

(汉译英)
63．在国外留学，使他接触到了一种新的生活方式。

(汉译英)
64．她的父母不赞同她搬去乡村的决定。

(汉译英)
十二、图画作文
65．请你简要描述图片所展现的现象，结合自己的实际生活谈谈你的看法。

A Gathering At The Time Of Mobile Phones
注意：1.词数80左右;2.请务必将作文写在答题纸指定区域内。

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