河北省石家庄二中教育集团2022_2023学年度高一年级下学期期末考试英语试题

河北省石家庄二中教育集团2022~2023学年度高一年级下学
期期末考试英语试题
学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
一、阅读理解
Tourist Guide to the National Gallery
Opening hours: Daily 10: 00 am--6: 00 pm; Friday 10: 00 am- 9: 00 pm
Closed: 2426 December
Reasons to visit:
With over 2, 300 paintings in the collection, there are hundreds of reasons to visit the Gallery. Here are some to get you started...
Get into great art. From Leonardo da Vinci to Vincent van Gogh: See priceless works of art for free.
Get creative. Brush up your skills, and create your own great works of art...
Learn about art. Discover more about paintings...
Regulations:
Talk in a low voice when you use your cellphone in the gallery
Please do not touch the paintings or other exhibits. Do not take pets in or cross the barriers.
Consume food and drink in designated areas only i.e. not in rooms that contain paintings.
Follow our no smoking policy in any part of the building.
Follow our no photograph policy in exhibitions where a sign is displayed.
Access:
The National Gallery aims to make access to the paintings enjoyable and welcoming to the widest possible public. There are a range of facilities to help you see the collection, visit exhibitions and come to events.
The Gallery offers British Sign Language-interpreted talks on paintings for visitors who are deaf, and special art sessions(展期) for visitors who can't see.
Address: The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square London WC2N 5DN
Click here to find more information.
1．What are visitors allowed to do in the National Gallery?
A．Make a phone call.B．Take a dog in.
C．Smoke a cigarette.D．Take photos.
2．Who are the special art sessions intended for?
A．Young visitors.B．Deaf visitors.
C．Blind visitors.D．Old visitors.
3．Where can we read the tourist guide?
A．In a newspaper.B．On a poster.
C．In a magazine.D．On the Internet.
Gray had great academic performance in high school and wanted to apply to Harvard and other top schools, but could not afford the application fees, let alone school fees. But with a passion for business, he dreamed of attending a college in the Northeast so he could be close to New York City and other major business centers.
In the process of his application, Gray was determined to deal with it by himself. He looked at hundreds of websites, checking scholarship requirements. Many scholarships had very specific qualifications that he didn’t meet. But Gray had 600 volunteer hours and started a nonprofit organization which organized volunteer opportunities for students when he was in high school. So he searched for scholarships that looked for excellent grades combined with leadership and community service.
Soon, he got the Gates Millennium Scholarship, which covers school fees from a bachelor’s to a doctor’s degree. A $20,000 scholarship from Coca-Cola followed. He also received a 820,000 Horatio Alger Scholarship and the $ 10,000 Axa Achievement Scholarship. And smaller awards just kept coming. In the end, he had amazing success, receiving 34 scholarships worth $1.3 million — enough to pay for years of school, plus cover his living expenses with some leftover to invest.
Gray has used the money for schooling, room and board, daily supplies, travel for interviews, and other needs. After appearing at national conferences and in the media, hundreds of students and parents have emailed and called for advice, which inspired Gray, now a business major at Drexel, to make a mobile-phone app called Scholly—short for “scholarships”— to help other teens get scholarship money.
Though the app had thousands of downloads, Gray and his colleagues decided to keep the price only at 99 cents because their purpose was more public service than profit. As for
his career plans, he has the goal of a true enterpriser: “Ideally not to have to get a job when I graduate.”
4．What did Gray do when he applied for scholarships?
A．He started a nonprofit organization.
B．He took part in community service.
C．He checked requirements with teammates.
D．He matched his strengths with the criteria.
5．Why does Gray develop Scholly?
A．To appeal for more downloads.
B．To help other teens make apps.
C．To facilitate scholarship application.
D．To raise funds for his own schooling.
6．Which of the following best describe Christopher Gray?
A．Tolerant and diligent.
B．Ambitious and generous.
C．Creative and humble.
D．Stubborn and adventurous.
7．What does Gray intend to do for his future career?
A．Starting his own business.
B．Working for a charity.
C．Maintaining his current job.
D．Getting a high paid job.
On January 7, David Bennett went into the operating room at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a surgical procedure never performed before on a human. The 57-year-old Maryland resident had been hospitalized for months due to a life threatening disease. His heart was failing him and he needed a new one.
Bennett’s condition left him unresponsive to treatment and ineligible (不合格) for the transplant list or an artificial heart pump. The physician-scientists at the center, however, had another-also risky- option: transplant (移植) a heart from a genetically-modified pig.
“It was either die or do this transplant,” Bennett had told surgeons a day before the operation. “I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s also my last choice.”
It took the medical team eight hours to finish the operation, making Bennett the first human to successfully receive a pig’s heart. “It’s working and it looks normal. We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,” Barkley Griffith, who led the transplant team, told the New York Times.
While it’s only been five days since the operation, the surgeons say that Bennett’s new pig heart was, so far, functioning as expected and his body wasn’t rejecting (排斥) the organ. They are still monitoring his condition closely.
“I think it’s extremely exciting,” says Robert Montgomery, transplant surgeon and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who was not involved in Bennett’s operation. The result of the procedure was also personally meaningful for Montgomery, who received a heart transplant in 2018 due to a genetic disease that may also affect members of his family in the future. “It’s still in the early days, but still the heart seems to be functioning. And that in and of itself is an extraordinary thing. Up to now most experimental heart transplant procedures have been done between pigs and other animals. This is the first time that surgeons have taken it into a living human.”
8．What do the words “a shot in the dark” underlined in Paragraph 3 mean?
A．Something that costs a fortune.
B．Something impossible to succeed.
C．Something drawing public attention.
D．Something with an uncertain outcome.
9．What is Barkley Griffith’s attitude to Bennett’s post-operation condition?
A．Negative.
B．Cautious.
C．Optimistic.
D．Uncaring.
10．What is the text mainly about?
A．The heated debate over the pig heart transplant.
B．David Bennett’s contribution to medical research.
C．The first experimental pig heart transplant in the world.
D．The first successful pig heart transplant into a living human.
11．In which section of a magazine may this text appear?
A．Political Affairs.
B．Global Entertainment.
C．Sci-Tech Front.
D．Financial Window.
If someone created a flying machine capable of tracking you down by listening for your voice, you might be terrified. But what if you were trapped in ruins after a natural disaster and first responders couldn’t locate you? Maybe then a human-seeking drone(无人机) wouldn’t be such a terrible idea. That concept is the focus for engineers at Germany’s Fraunhofer FKIE Institute, who’ve built a drone to find people by detecting(探测) human screams.
“The human-seeking drone would be ideal for post-disaster situations, such as earthquakes, hurricanes and wildfires,” said Macarena Varela, one of the lead engineers. “They could hover over an area that rescue crews have difficulty getting to and locate exactly where people may be trapped.”
Locating people by sound presents its share of challenges. An auditory(听觉的) system would need to distinguish human cries from sounds that often happen in nature, such as animal calls and wind. It might also need to recognize patterns associated with kicking, clapping or other ways people try to get the attention of rescue teams.
Engineers took those situations into account when building out their concept drone. They recorded themselves screaming, tapping and creating other noises that might be a sign of people in trouble. Then, they analyzed each sound frequency to find common signatures and used those to train artificial intelligence software. They also worked to remove the noise created by the drone and other environmental sounds.
Once the software part was complete, the team placed tiny digital microphones under the drone and used signal processing techniques that enabled them to track where human noises are coming from. The microphones also enhanced the volume and clarity of the speech. So far, they have conducted successful open field experiments, finding that the drone can estimate a victim’s location within a few seconds of picking up sound.
Next, they would like to add a higher frequency microphone to a drone to acquire more audio sound signals. The idea is to pick up noises from hundreds of meters away, Varela said. In the real world, victim’s location data might one day be sent wirelessly to emergency crews carrying a tablet.
12．What is the advantage of the human-seeking drone?
A．Its high speed of flying.B．Its long working hours.
C．Its quick response to screams.D．Its easy access to disaster scene. 13．What can the auditory system do?
A．Recognize human cries.
B．Pick up sounds from far away.
C．Send victim’s location data to a tablet.
D．Improve the quality of human screams.
14．What does the underlined word “signatures” in paragraph 4 refer to?
A．Effects.B．Features.C．Symbols.D．Situations. 15．Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．AI Enables Drones to Give Better Performance.
B．Human-seeking Drones Replace Rescue Crews.
C．Rescuers Use Drones to Locate Disaster Survivors.
D．Engineers Teach Drones to Hunt Human Screams.
二、七选五
Work from Anywhere Movement
For a lot of us, working from wherever we wanted was a bit of a dream. It would mean we’d be able to visit family and not take holiday days. But suddenly that “dream” of not working in the office became a reality for many. Working from home over the last years has proven that it isn’t always necessary for teams to physically be together and there is more flexibility. 16
An obvious benefit for many employers is reduced costs. With a widespread workforce, there’s no need to have an office big enough for everyone. They also save on travel costs, as meetings that once “needed” to be done face-to-face can now be done online. 17 With the work from anywhere movement, employers can hire global talents. They’re not restricted to people living nearby.
18 In an ever changing and developing working world, offering benefits like this could be what makes a company stand out from another for a specific candidate.
For many employees, working from anywhere supports mental health. 19
Imagine ending a particularly stressful meeting. Rather than going back to your office desk, you step out your door and have a coffee in the sun or walk along a beach. In Addition, working from anywhere allows you to have a better work-life balance. It lets you travel to see family, watch your daughter’s soccer game, and go to the little bakery—all while being paid.
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A．But it’s not only about money.
B．However, every coin has two sides.
C．It decreases stress and other concerns.
D．Your time is spent on the things that matter.
E．There are a lot of benefits for companies and workers.
F．Offering remote job positions makes a company more competitive.
G．Offices are increasingly where you go to put the company into company.
三、完形填空
A woman is volunteering in ashelter. It all started because she missed her own
marathon is being 33 for next September. The plan is to get kids in the neighborhood 34 in reading to the animals, with the added benefit of reading practice for the two-leggers, along with plenty of friendly 35 for the four-leggers.
21．A．husband B．kid C．dog D．animal 22．A．ready B．free C．sorry D．grateful 23．A．However B．Meanwhile C．Besides D．Therefore 24．A．comforting B．admiring C．missing D．helping 25．A．toy B．book C．camera D．photo 26．A．settling into B．stealing into C．heading for D．looking for 27．A．duty B．work C．good D．wrong 28．A．uneasy B．unsure C．unhappy D．unaware 29．A．reading B．attending C．waving D．whispering 30．A．content B．patient C．strict D．careful 31．A．interviewed B．trained C．petted D．photographed 32．A．teaching B．living C．thinking D．volunteering 33．A．accepted B．predicted C．recorded D．organized 34．A．involved B．experienced C．united D．relaxed 35．A．competition B．company C．service D．advice
四、用单词的适当形式完成短文
news. Now she is expected to learn such skills as computer programming and creating web pages at university, where she will find44 (she) among the most outstanding students in China. “We hope that she will master these basic skills 45 she finishes her coursed and later we intend her to seek breakthroughs in reasoning and feeling,” said Tang jie, the developer of Hua Zhibing.
五、邀请信
46．假如你是东方中学高一学生李华，你校将于下周六举办“中国传统美食节”。

请给你校外籍教师Eric写一封邮件，邀请他参加。

内容包括：
1. 活动目的；
2. 活动内容（美食制作、品尝、知识竞赛等）。

要求：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Eric,
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Yours,
Li Hua
六、读后续写
47．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。

Danilo hurried through the halls of the school for a ceremony. Ahead of him, his dad was emptying a litter bin. Danilo hoped his dad wouldn’t see him. He lowered his head, trying to get mixed in the other students. He felt embarrassed that his dad was the school cleaner.
“Good morning, son,” his dad said as Danilo passed. Danilo walked faster, pretending not to hear. But the other boys had already noticed.
“Hey, Danilo,” a boy called out. “There’s your dad, Santos, the school sweeper! Maybe he needs your help.” Another boy cut in, mentioning that Santos could do so much more than sweep. He could empty the litter. The boys all laughed.
Danilo couldn’t wait to go to middle school next year, where he would not be laughed at. He looked over his shoulder. His dad worked with a smile on his face. How could he ignore such unkind words?
Danilo ran into the meeting hall. Many people were seated, waiting for the school to announce the Teacher of the Year. His best friends, Nathaniel and Frances, had saved a seat for him. They made guesses about whose name was on the plaque(匾). They had many wonderful teachers. Danilo liked all of them. It would be hard for him to pick just one.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.开头已给出。

The time came for the headmaster to announce the Teacher of the Year.
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Danilo waited regretfully at the edge of the crowd, who were all cheering for Mr. Santos.
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