2024年4月15日发(作者：中兴blade v2021)

江苏省扬州中学2022-2023学年度第二学期期中试题

高二英语

2022.11

（试卷满分：150分，考试时间：120分钟）

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第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节

(

共

5

小题；每小题

1.5

分，满分

7.5

分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出

最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关

小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. Why is the woman flying to New York?

A. To change her plane. B. To do business. C. To have a vacation.

2. What will the speakers do?

A. Relax on the beach. B. Go jet skiing. C. Ride horses.

3. What does the man invite the woman to do?

A. Go jogging. B. Have a drink. C. Have dinner.

4. What does the woman mean?

A. Ivy is incompetent.

B. Ivy thinks highly of others.

C. Ivy is brave enough to quit her job.

5. What does the man ask the woman to do?

A. Wake up Mary.

B. Ask Mary for some news.

C. Tell Mary to give him a phone call.

第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三

个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读

各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读

两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Watching TV. B. Reading magazines. C. Reading newspapers.

7. Where does the woman usually get the news?

A. On TV. B. In magazines.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What did the woman do last night?

A. She watched a game.

B. She attended a party.

C. She travelled to Madrid.

9. What does the man say about Barcelona?

A. They played well as usual.

B. They have a poor goalkeeper.

C. They could have played better.

10. What does the man ask the woman to do?

A. Make a plan on the games.

B. Watch the next game together.

C. Avoid getting injured in the game.

听第8段材料，回答第 11至13 题。

11. When does the conversation take place?

A. In spring. B. In summer.

12. What is the woman pleased about?

A. Collecting stamps.

B. Playing computer games.

C. Doing indoor sports.

13. Why won't the boy play table tennis?

A. He is afraid to lose.

B. He finds nobody to play with.

C. He thinks it boring.

听第9 段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. How does the woman go to work these days?

A. By bus. B. By car.

C. On the Internet.

C. In winter.

C. By train.

15. What was the woman two years ago?

A. A city planner. B. A company's boss. C. A landscape gardener.

16. Why did the woman change her job last year?

A. To work at home.

B. To start her own business.

C. To spend more time with her family.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Whom has the government promised to offer help to?

A. Some farmers. B. Some pilots. C. Some children.

18. Where are the transport workers going on strike?

A. In Sydney. B. In Melbourne. C. In Queensland.

19. How did the school children feel after the rescue?

A. Thankful. B. Angry. C. Sorry.

20. What can we learn about the school children?

A. They attended a musical concert.

B. They enjoyed themselves in the sea.

C. Their plane was forced to land shortly after take-off.

第二部分 阅读理解(共三节，满分45分)

第一节 单项选择(共11小题；每小题2.5分，满分27.5分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Perhaps you have ever heard the saying: Change is the only constant. Everyone, without

doubt, goes through changes in their life, whether it is a physical state of aging or a mental state of

emotional maturity. However, some are afraid to make the conscious decision to move or they

think it's too late to have a fresh start.

I have a friend named Jack. At the age of 37, he is a Senior Manager at one of the Big Four.

He has a great salary, owns his own apartment and enjoys the fine things in life, but not without the

heavy burdens that his job brings. On the surface, it looks like he has got life figured out. Yet when

I once asked if he was happy with his work, he answered that he sometimes wished to quit his job

to do something less stressful. But he’d become accustomed to this lifestyle and felt that it would

be too late to give it up to achieve a new ambition.

For him, the risks are too high, so whether he can't abide his present job or not, he has to

choose to suck it up. You might have come to a similar situation as Jack’s or you might be a Jack.

You're now facing a wall. No matter what it is—the stress of your job or the terrible feeling, it’s

time that you had to decide whether you'll tear down that wall or continue to let it enclose you. I

suggest pushing back the boundaries and breaking the fixed patterns. Why do you feel it's too late

to start over? That is simply because you're comparing yourself with others—younger or

more successful individuals. In fact, you should compare yourself with the older version of you.

Don't become that person who lets life pass by only to regret it when you are making your

way into old age. Don't let your life plateau

（停滞不前）

and waste away in the daily chores. Don't

give up the potential you still have hidden and be locked away by your current state. Now, you’d

better bravely start going after the things you want to do, without abandoning your dreams,

ambitions and responsibilities.

21. What kind of people does Jack represent according to the author?

A. Those leading a happy life.

B. Those feeling trapped in current career.

C. Those longing to make a change.

D. Those having a high ambition to work.

22. What does the underlined word “abide” in paragraph 3 mean?

A. expand. B. deserve. C. possess. D. tolerate.

23. What does the author advise us not to do?

A. Let life stand still.

B. Enjoy the present job.

C. Have a small goal in life.

D. Consider ourselves as a failure.

24. Which is the best title for the text?

A. Everyone Can Meet a Jack

B. Don't Try to Control Yourself

C. Never Think Change Is Too Late

D. You Should Make Alteration Earlier

B

The “little voice in your head” can be your worst critic and greatest supporter. It’s been

known to help with directions, give advice, and even remind you to put potatoes on the grocery

list.

But does everyone have an inner monologue? For a long time, it was assumed that an inner

voice was simply part of being human. But it turns out, that’s not the case

—

not everyone

processes life in words and sentences.

“By inner monologue, we mean that we can have private speech that’s addressed to ourselves

and that is carried out without any sound,” said Helene Loevenbruck, a senior neurolinguistics

researcher at CNRS.

With true inner speech, you almost “hear” your inner voice, she told Live Science. You’re

aware of its tone and intonation (

语调)

. For example, the voice can “sound” angry or worried.

This long-held assumption was first challenged in the late 1990s by Russell Hurlburt, a

psychologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Hurlburt studied participants’ inner speech

by asking them to wear a beeper. Whenever the device beeped, they had to write down what they

were thinking or experiencing in their mind just before the sound.

Perhaps the participant wrote down, “I need to buy some bread.” He would then ask if that’s

what they actually thought. “Or did you think ‘bread’? Or were you hungry?” Loevenbruck

explained. After several meetings, participants got better at articulating (

流利连贯地表达)

their

true thoughts, she said. Eventually, this method revealed that some people had inner speech every

time the device beeped. But others had less inner speech than usual, and some didn’t have inner

speech at all. They experienced images, sensations and emotions, but not a voice or words.

The lack of an inner monologue has been linked to a condition called aphantasia (

心盲

症)

sometimes called “blindness of the mind’s eye.” People who experience aphantasia can’t

mentally picture their bedroom or their mother’s face. Many times, those who don’t experience

visualizations don’t experience clear inner speech, either, Loevenbruck noted.

25. What was previously assumed about the inner monologue?

A. It rarely existed in humans. B. It could help solve all kinds of problems.

C. It was something everyone was born with.D. It was used mainly to criticize or support oneself.

26. What does Loevenbruck say about an inner monologue?

A. It lacks tone and intonation.

C. It can convey emotions.

27. What did Hurlburt do in his study?

A. He used a beeper to note down participants’ inner speech.

B. He required participants to describe their grocery lists.

C. He placed something in participants’ heads to record their inner speech.

D. He checked participants’ notes and asked about their true thoughts.

28. Why do some people never experience an inner monologue?

A. They suffer serious brain damage.

B. They cannot distinguish what they see.

C. They fail to mentally picture what they see.

D. They misunderstand their true thoughts.

C

Samsung Electronics America announced that Galaxy device owners can make their own

B. It is delivered in public.

D. It can be heard by others.

repairs to the Galaxy S20 and S21 family of products, as well as the Galaxy Tab S7+,

starting August 2nd.

Samsung is cooperating with iFixit, the leading online repair community, to deliver their

Self-Repair program. This program adds to Samsung’s continued expansions for convenient repair

for consumers and helps them with sustainable solutions to support a more circular economy by

extending the life of their devices, as well as minimizing e-waste.

Samsung consumers who wish to make their own repairs can now purchase real device parts

and convenient, easy-to-use repair tools, available through iFixit, Samsung retail and service

locations, at the same pricing offered to our repair providers. In addition, Galaxy device owners

will have full access to online repair guides that provide both visual and written step-by-step

instructions, and best of all, at no cost.

“Making replacement parts available is a key sustainability strategy. We’re excited to be

working directly with Samsung and their customers to extend the lifetime of their phones,” said

CEO of iFixit.

Starting today, Galaxy device owners can replace the phone screen, back glass, and charging

ports. In the future, Samsung plans to expand self-repair to include more devices and repair

options from the extensive product portfolio (

档案

).

Furthermore, the program makes it easy for consumers to return their thrown-away parts for

responsible recycling, as the new display kits will come with a return label to ship thrown-away

parts back to Samsung — at no cost to the consumer.

In addition to the convenience of these new self-repair options, Galaxy smartphone owners

have a choice on how they can extend the life of their devices across Samsung’s expansive care

options, including: Through Samsung’s perfect care network, customers have access to over

11,000 Samsung Mobile certified repair technicians in the U.S.

29. Who will do the repair work under the Self-Repair program?

A. The iFixit community.

C. Samsung Repair staff.

A. To promote a circular economy.

C. To enrich the life of the phone users.

31. Which of the following is free of charge?

A. The Samsung device parts.

C. The written repair instructions.

B. New Samsung products.

D. The easy-to-use repair tools.

B. The Galaxy consumers.

D. The device retailers.

B. To make full use of the old parts.

D. To ensure better service by iFixit.

30. What is the Samsung company aiming to do according to paragraph 2?

第二节（共

5

小题；每小题

2.5

分，满分

12.5

分）

阅读短文，从短文后选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。有两项为多余选

项。

As much as 80 percent of premature heart disease is preventable by making specific lifestyle

choices. Some strategies, such as exercising and managing weight, are well known. ___32___“A

small change in your everyday routine can potentially have a big impact in the 1ong run,” says

preventive cardiologist (

心脏病学家

) Dr. Beth Abramson, a spokesperson for the Heart and

Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Get eight hours of sleep. “When you’re not rested, everything that happens in your life is a lot

more stressful,” says Sharma, founder of the Canadian Obesity Network. If we’re short of

sleep, our bodies also have more difficulty controlling blood pressure, inflammation and blood

sugar levels.___33___

Engage in volunteer work.___34___ Research published in Psychosomatic Medicine in 2016

showed that a feeling of purpose in 1ife is linked to a lower likelihood of heart attack and stroke.

“We know that loneliness is a risk factor for heart health,” adds Sharma. “Volunteering gets you

out of the house and creates a social network.”

___35___ A recent study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that

healthy people who skipped breakfast were almost three times more likely to have heart disease

six years later than those who had a substantial morning meal. One possible reason: “If you’re

eating a proper breakfast, you’re less likely to be hungry later and make poor food choices,” says

Abramson. “We need to eat a balanced diet as part of a healthy lifestyle.”___36___

A. Eat breakfast.

B. But others may not have crossed your mind.

C. Volunteering might even increase your physical activity.

D. Choose whole-grain, low-fat breakfast foods and include fruit.

E. These factors can all have an impact on heart and blood health.

F. Eat healthy food rich in protein and fiber but low in fat and sugar

G. Doing good for others helps your self-esteem and relieves stress.

第三节 黑布林《了不起的盖茨比》阅读（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

根据《黑布林》小说内容，从每题所给的

A

、

B

、

C

、

D

四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

37. What impression of Gatsby is eim trying to give Nick?

A. Dangerous and should never be trusted.

B. On the verge of bankruptcy because of some bad investments.

C. Interested in politics.

D. Worthy of trust.

38. Why does Gatsby deliberately leave Nick’s house?

A. He doesn’t have the courage to meet Daisy.

B. He wants to create the impression that it is a casual meet.

C. He leaves something important at home and has to go back for it.

D. He doesn’t really want to see Daisy again.

39. What does Gatsby think about Daisy’s relationship with Tom?

A. He believes Daisy never loved Tom.

B. He thinks Daisy will do anything to hurt Tom because he has cheated on her.

C. He believes that she once loved Tom but doesn’t anymore.

D. He thinks Daisy loves Tom but Tom never loved her.

40. Which of these statements about the reactions to Myrtle’s death is true?

A. Wilson thinks she deserved it for cheating on him.

B. Tom’s first instinct is to protect himself. Later he cries.

C. Nick is not interested because he hardly knows her.

D. Gatsby thinks he can make up for it but paying Wilson a lot of money.

41. What happened between Nick and Jordan Baker?

A. Nick breaks off the relationship.

B. Nick proposes, but she tells him her golfing career is more important.

C. Nick leaves New York without contacting her.

D. Nick tries to break up, but she begs him to stay.

第三部分 语言运用(共三节，满分35分)

第一节 完形填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的

A

、

B

、

C

和

D

四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的

最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。

It was 7: and Gary Messina was on his morning run along New York City’s East River.

Suddenly something caught his eye — a man screamed for help ____42____ the current pulled

him away from the seawall.

David Blauzvern and John Green ____43____ their phones and keys on land and jumped in.

Messina, a police officer, also joined them in the river. Just as the man was ____44____, they

stabilized him, with Blauzvern ____45____ his back and Messina and Green holding him

____46____ from either side. After ten minutes, they managed to get to the river’s ____47____

and stayed as close to the seawall as they could.

Fifteen minutes later, a rescue boat turned____48____. As they approached the boat, there

came a new ____49____: The wave created by the current was sucking them under the boat.