2022-2023学年广东省广雅中学执信中学第二中学第六中学高二上学期期末联考英语试题

2022-2023学年广东省广雅中学执信中学第二中学第六中学高二上学期期末联考英语试题1. The form cannot be signed by anyone ________yourself.
A．rather than B．other than C．more than D．less than
2. Your presentation is very attractive and I do think your idea is well ________.
A．worth considering B．worthy considering
C．worthwhile of being considered D．worth being considered
3. I realized that he’s an easygoing person ________I met him.
A．for the first time B．by the first time
C．the first time D．first time
4. Considering his state, Bob’s doctor suggests ________for a few weeks.
A．him to rest B．he resting
C．he rest D．he must rest
5. According to the record, his sister left home in 2020, and ________since.
A．had not been heard of B．has not been heard of
C．had not heard of D．has not heard of
6. ________that it was already the fourth time that he _________abroad.
A．So lucky was he; traveled B．So lucky he was; traveled
C．So lucky was he; had traveled D．So lucky he was; had traveled
7. The day they had been looking forward to ________ at last and they were extremely delighted.
A．came B．come C．coming D．to come
8. When I got back home I saw a message pinned to the door ________ “Sorry to miss you; will call later.”
A．reading B．reads C．to read D．read
9. ________the invitations caused the party to be put off.
A．Tom delayed sending B．Tom delayed to send
C．Tom’s delaying to send D．Tom’s delaying sending
10. My friend was very unhappy for ________to the concert.
A．not having been invited B．having not been invited
C．not to be invited D．not having invited
11. Finding her car stolen, ________.
A．it was looked for everywhere
B．a policeman was asked to help
C．the area was searched thoroughly
D．she hurried to a policeman for help
12. Look out！Don’t get too close to the house roof is under repair.
A．whose B．which
C．of which D．that
13. No sooner ________ his talk ________he was surrounded by his fans.
A．had he finished; when B．had he finished; than
C．did he finish; when D．did he finish; than
14. Sarah hopes to become a friend of ______ shares her interests.
A．anyone B．whomever C．whoever D．no matter who 15. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of ________would be considered a very poor family.
A．which B．that C．who D．what
16. Cornell Precollege Summer Programs 2022: Updates
At this time, Cornell University Precollege Studies makes a plan to offer online and in-person, on-campus courses for high school students during summer 2022. Courses will be held during the following sessions:
Three-week Session 1 (June 1 — June 17, 2022): Online courses only
Three-week Session 2 (June 21 — July 9, 2022): Online and on-campus courses
Three-week Session 3 (July 12 — July 30, 2022): Online and on-campus courses
Six-week Session (June 21 — August 3, 2022): Online and on-campus courses
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Precollege on-campus summer courses and COVID-19
In the event, if we are not able to offer in-person, on-campus courses due to COVID-19 restrictions, as many courses as possible will be converted (改变) to online offerings and you’ll have the following options:
1. If your on-campus course is converted to an online course, you may automatically register for it at
a reduced charge that reflects only academic (per credit), not residential fees.
2. If you prefer, or if your on-campus course is not converted to an online offering, you may select a course from the list of previously scheduled online courses
3. You may contact us to withdraw and request a full refund (退款), minus the application fee. While we know there is no replacement for our on-campus, residential experience, the good news is
that all online courses are regular Cornell classes that give you a chance to study with Cornell faculty (学院), work alongside undergraduates, earn college credits, and get a head start on preparing for college applications.
1. Which session can you choose if you are only available in June?
A．Six-week Session. B．Three-week Session 1.
C．Three-week Session 2. D．Three-week Session 3
2. What can you do if the courses you choose are changed to online courses because of COVID-19?
A．You can get a discount on residential fees. B．You have to accept it owing to
restrictions.
C．You can quit the courses without any losses. D．You can choose other courses available on-line
3. Which of the following is true about on-line courses?
A．On-line courses can offer more updated information.
B．You will get effective guidance on college applications.
C．It is a good chance for you to learn with Cormell students.
D．On-line courses will make you know more about the campus.
17. One day when I was 12，my mother gave me an order：I was to walk to the public library，and borrow at least one book for the summer.This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem—inability to read.
In the library，I found my way into the“Children's Room”．I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random.The cover of a book caught my eye.It presented a picture of a beagle.I had recently had a beagle.the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child.He was my secret sharer，but one morning，he was gone，given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him.I never forgot my beagle.
There on the book's cover was a beagle which looked identical(相同的) to my dog.I ran my fingers over the picture of the dog on the cover.My eyes ran across the title，Amos，theBeaglewithaPlan.Unknowingly，I had read the title.Without opening the book，I borrowed it from the library for the summer.
Under the shade of a bush，I started to read about Amos.I read very，very slowly with difficulty.Though pages were turned slowly，I got the main idea of the story about a dog who，like mine，had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home.That dog was my dog，and I was the little boy in the book.At the end of the story，my mind continued the final scene of reunion，on and on，until my own lost dog and I were，in my mind，running together.
My mother's call returned me to the real world.I suddenly realized something：I had read a book，and I had loved reading that book.Everyone knew I could not read.But I had read it.Books could be incredibly wonderful and I was going to read them.
I never told my mother about my“miraculous(奇迹般的)”experience that summer，but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year.And years later，she was proud that her son had read thousands of books，was awarded a PhD in literature，and authored his own books，articles，poetry and fiction.The power of the words has held.
1. The author's mother told him to borrow a book in order to________．
A． encourage him to do more walking
B． let him spend a meaningful summer
C． help cure him of his reading problem
D． make him learn more about weapons
2. Why could the author manage to read the book through?
A． He was forced by his mother to read it.
B． He identified with the story in the book.
C． The book told the story of his pet dog.
D． The happy ending of the story attracted him.
3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A． The author has become a successful writer.
B． The author's mother read the same book.
C． The author's mother rewarded him with books.
D． The author has had happy summers ever since.
4. Which one could be the best title of the passage?
A． The Charm of a Book
B． Mum's Strict Order
C． Reunion with My Beagle
D． My Passion for Reading
18.
It’s common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room. But this common knowledge turns out wrong.
A new study finds that the woman in the painting is actually looking out at an angle that’s 15. 4 degrees off to the observer’s right-well outside of the range that people normally believe when they think someone is l ooking right at them. In other words, said the study author, Horstmann, “She’s not looking at you. “ This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a person’s gaze (凝视) in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the “Mona Lisa effect” . That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person’s gaze is no more than about 5 degrees off to either side, the Mona Lisa effect occurs.
This is important for human interaction with on-screen characters. If you want someone off to the right side of a room to feel that a person on-screen is looking at him or her, you don’t cut the gaze of the character to that side-surprisingly, doing so would make an observer feel like the character isn’t looking at anyone in the room at all. Instead, you keep the gaze straight ahead.
Horstmann and his co-author were studying this effect for its application in the creation of artificial-intelligence avatars(虚拟头像) when Horstmann took a long look at the “Mona Lisa” and realized she wasn’t looking at him.
To make sure it wasn’t just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the “Mona Lisa” on a computer screen. They set a ruler between the viewer and the screen and asked the participants to note which number on the ruler intersected(和……相交) Mona Lisa’s gaze. To calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze as she looked at the viewer, they moved the ruler farther from or closer to the screen during the study. Consistently, the researchers found, participants judged that the woman in the “Mona Lisa” portrait was not looking straight at them, but slightly off to their right.
So wh y do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isn’t sure. It’s possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them. Or maybe the people who first coined the term “Mona Lisa effect” just thought it was a cool name.
1. It is generally believed that the woman in the painting “Mona Lisa”___________.
A．attracts the viewers to look back
B．seems mysterious because of her eyes
C．fixes her eyes on the back of the viewers
D．looks at the viewers wherever they stand
2. What gaze range in a painting will cause the Mona Lisa effect?
A．B．C．D．
3. The experiment involving 24 people was conducted to______.
A．confirm Horstmann’s belief
B．create artificial-intelligence avatars
C．calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze
D．explain how the Mona Lisa effect can be applied
4. What can we learn from the passage?
A．Horstmann thinks it’s cool to coin the term “Mona Lisa effect”.
B．The Mona Lisa effect contributes to the creation of artificial intelligence.
C．Feeling being gazed at by Mona Lisa may be caused by the desire for attention.
D．The position of the ruler in the experiment will influence the viewers’ judgement.
19. One rainy evening, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote road in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path. That’s when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. Her Renault Clio was parked across a railway line. Seconds later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks.
Ceely’s near miss made the news because she blamed it on her GPS. She had never driven the route before. It was dark and raining heavily. Ceely was relying on her GPS, but it made no mention of the crossing. “I put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train,” she said.
Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely’s story in his book When Machines Fail Us, points the finger at the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he says, but our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems. And it’s not just
GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless keyboards.
The problem with his argument in the book is that it’s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. A map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the GPS equipment. But Stevenson doesn’t say.
It’s a problem that runs through the book. In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat computer-based locking systems for cars. He offers two independent sets of figures on car theft; both show a small rise in some parts of the country. He says that once again not all new locks have proved reliable. Perhaps, but maybe it’s also due to the shortage of policemen on the streets. Or changing social circumstances. Or some combination of these factors.
The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and complex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be a way for a wiser use of technology.
If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortcomings of our machines. After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. They have probably been fooling us for just as long.
1. The phrase “near miss” (Paragraph 2) can best be replaced by ________.
A．close hit B．heavy loss C．big mistake D．narrow escape 2. Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably agree with?
A．Modern technology is what we can’t live without.
B．GPS error is not the only cause for Ceely’s accident.
C．Digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.
D．Digital technology often falls short of our expectation.
3. In the writer’s opinion, Stevenson’s argument is ________.
A．one-sided B．reasonable C．puzzling D．well-founded 4. What is the real concern of the writer of this article?
A．The shortcomings of digital devices we use.
B．The human unawareness of technical problems.
C．The relationship between human and technology.
D．The major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.
20. Financial Education-Awareness Dilemma
When it comes to financial education, the majority of today's youth will regard it as a necessity for certain specific people who want to make their career in the financial world. 1 Actually, elementary financial education is a must for all, as money transaction is an essential part of our day-to-day life.
Suppose you have $100 in a saving account that pays simple interest at the rate of 2%per year. lf you leave the money in the account, how much will you have accumulated after 5 years: more than $102, exactly $102, or less than $102? The test might look simple, but only half of the people surveyed gave the correct answer.
2 The explanation goes as follows: People with low levels of financial literacy suffer from that lack of knowledge at every stage of their lives. Researchers on this subject say people with a high degree of financial literacy are more likely to plan for their retirement. 3
On the contrary, people who have a lower degree of financial literacy tend to borrow more, accumulate less wealth, and pay more in fees related financial products. They are less likely to invest, more likely to experience difficulty with debt, and less likely to know the terms of their mortgages and other loans. Thus, the cost of this financial ignorance is very high. 4
What is the solution? 5 Like reading and math, financial education must become part of the core curriculum in our schools. Likewise, parents should engage in regular, constructive conversations about money matters. This will give their kids a solid foundation for financial well-being, which will keep on giving returns throughout the course of their lives.
21. It was a cold, rainy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn’s house. But she_______that I come to see something at the top of the mountain. So here I was,_______ making the two-hour journey through thick fog. Nothing could be worth this,I thought as I_______ along the dangerous highway.
Turning down a narrow track, we___________and got out. We walked along a path that was thick with old pine needles. Huge black-green evergreens (常青树)_________over us.Gradually,the peace and silence of the place began to_________ my mind.
Then we turned a corner and stopped at the top of the mountain and I was entirely held in_______. There across fields and valleys were rivers of fully-opened yellow flowers from the light one to the most brilliant. It looked as though the sun had tipped over and_______ the mountainside in gold.
_______ occurred to my mind.Who created such beauty? How? When? As we approached the house that stoo d in the center of the property, we saw a________ that read: “Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking.” The first answer was: “One Woman-Two Hands, Two Feet and Very Little Brain.” The second was:“____________at a Time.” The third: “Started in 1958.”
As we drove home, I was so moved by what we had seen that I could________ speak.“She changed the world,” I finally said, “one small plant at a time. She started almost 40 years ago, probably just the ________ of an idea, but she kept at it.”
The wonder o f it would not let me go. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a dream and________it, just a little bit every day, what might I have accomplished?” Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. “Start tomorrow,” she said, “______________yet, start today.”
1.
A．asked B．commanded C．insisted D．predicted
2.
A．unwillingly B．undoubtedly C．unknowingly D．unexpectedly 3.
A．walked B．inched C．wandered D．fled
4.
A．pulled over B．stepped down C．looked up D．turned off
5.
A．greeted B．flowed C．reached D．towered
6.
A．admit B．fill C．control D．read
7.
A．amazement B．curiosity C．amusement D．confusion
8.
A．pushed B．moved C．swung D．bathed
9.
A．Doubts B．Ideas C．Questions D．Requests
10.
A．signal B．symbol C．symptom D．sign
11.
A．Each B．Some C．One D．That
12.
A．surely B．barely C．mostly D．instantly
13.
A．beginning B．intention C．ending D．absence
14.
A．set off B．worked out C．set down D．worked at
15.
A．Later B．Better C．Happier D．Harder
22. The effort put in by the team over the last several days has been e________(much greater or better than usual, especially in skill, intelligence, quality, etc.). （根据首字母单词拼写）
23. They are adopting a c________(always behaving in the same way, or having the same opinions, standards, etc.) approach to the problem. (根据首字母单词拼写)
24. As an a________(having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, or rich) young lawyer, he kept his goal in mind. （根据首字母单词拼写）
25. One of the h________(the best, most interesting or most exciting part of sth) of our trip to Tibet was seeing the graceful Tibetan antelopes. （根据首字母单词拼写）
26. An ill-designed and poorly constructed house c________(to fall down suddenly, often after breaking apart) last night, causing serious injuries and deaths. （根据首字母单词拼写）
27. We need to cut down on our fuel ________(consume) by having fewer cars on the road. （所给词的适当形式填空）
28. Even at low levels of ________(expose), lead can damage a child’s learning ability and cause behavioral problems. (所给词的适当形式填空)
29. It’s ________(practical) to buy things just because they’re on sale. (所给词的适当形式填空)
30. To their ________(astonish), the two patients soon started leading more active lives. (所给词的适当形式填空)
31. Some butterflies match their ________(surround) so that it’s hard to see them. （所给词的适当形式填空）
32. There were ________(真正地，确实地)hundreds of pages to read in the contract.（根据汉语提示单词拼写）
33. She tried to explain what had happened but he kept ________(打断，打扰)her. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
34. The school is based on the ________(基本的，基础的)principle that all children should reach their full potential. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
35. When the opportunity ________(产生，出现) he decided to take it. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
36. They had received no news of him since his____________(离开) from the island. (根据汉语提
示单词拼写)
37. Children can get a lot out of ________(参与) volunteer work. （根据汉语提示完成句子）
38. I ________(提高我的综合能力)since I joined the English Speech Club. （根据汉语提示完成
句子）
39. ________(在……之前)the Spring Festival, lots of activities will be well-prepared, such as making dumplings and setting off fireworks. （根据汉语提示完成句子）
40. She is determined to live a fulfilling life ________(不管) what the future holds. （根据汉语提
示完成句子）
41. Tents, food, clothes and medicine were sent to the villagers ________(毫不拖延)by the government.（根据汉语提示完成句子）
42. It is essential that we ________(不要陷入恐慌)when faced with emergencies.（根据汉语提示
完成句子）
43. Hardly had he spotted his sister choking when he ________(帮助她站起来)to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on her.（根据汉语提示完成句子）
44. The train ________(前往)New York is piled with goods. （根据汉语提示完成句子）
45. Jack wrote a letter to express his gratitude to his English teacher, ________(把他的成功归功于) her generous help.（根据汉语提示完成句子）
46. Children can ________ (增加他们的自信心)by having the responsibility of caring for a pet.
（根据汉语提示完成句子）
47. 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。

China’s double—reduction policies aimed at easing education—related pressure are 1 (effect), according to the figures based on the feedback from 108,000 primary and middle schools across the country about changes ever since the reforms.
2 the respondents, 96.3% said they are providing after—school services to benefit working parents. More than 77 million students have signed up for such services.
Fifty—seven million parents were also involved in a random survey. 99.6% said that thanks to the policies, they are bearing 3 (few) responsibilities such as checking their children’s h omework. As many as 97.5% expressed 4 (satisfy)with the policies.
As part of the reforms the government, has sought to greatly reduce the amount of time young students spend 5 (attend) extracurricular(课外的)courses, 6 source of concern for parents who feared their child would fall behind their peers if they didn’t take additional classes.
In another survey, jointly 7 (conduct) by the Communist Youth League and China Youth Daily, the majority of the parents said their various education—related 8 (anxiety) had all been eased.
Good news read from above is that double—reduction policies 9 (work)since they were rolled out, 10 meets people’s high expectations of education.
48. 《中学生学习报》的“文化与体验”栏目正在举办主题为“我的一次难忘的旅行经历”的征文比赛，请你写一篇文章参加比赛，内容如下：
1.时间、地点、人物；
2.旅途的见闻与你的感受；
3.你的收获与感悟。

【写作要求】
1.字数约120词，勿超出答题区域；
2.文章题目已给出，不算入总词数内。

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