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泸县一中2023年春期高二第二学月考试

英语试题

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时

间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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。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．What will the man do next

A．Change some money. B．Take the food home. C．Sit and eat his

meal.

2．Where does the conversation probably take place

A．At a zoo. B．In a library. C．In a drugstore.

3．Where does the conversation probably take place

A．At a store. B．At a bank. C．At an office.

4．What are the speakers mainly discussing

A．A fire. B．Some firefighters. C．A new building.

5．How did the man find his trip

A．Boring. B．Tired. C．Good.

第二节（共15小题，每小题15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。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段长对话，回答第6、7题。

6．Who is the newcomer

A．David Cook. B．Joe Sanders. C．Li am Neeson.

7．What is the newcomer’s position in the company

A．He is a film director. B．He is a program manager. C．He is a

department head.

听第7段长对话，回答第8至9题。

8．How does the man feel when he sees the woman

A．Surprised. B．Disappointed. C．Annoyed.

9．What is the woman going to do next weekend

A．Work a half day. B．Go to the beach. C．Stay at home.

听第8段长对话，回答第10至12题。

10．What is the probable relationship between the speakers

A．Business partners. B．Boss and clerk. C．Husband and wife.

11．What is the woman complaining about

A．Her work. B．Her pay. C．Her life.

12．What do we know about the man

A．He refuses to change. B．He will hire a servant. C．He helps the

woman a lot.

听第9段长对话，回答第13至16题。

13．When did the man’s boss call Jeff

A．In the morning. B．In the afternoon. C．In the evening.

14．How did Jeff explain everything

A．Over the phone. B．By e-mail. C．In person.

15．Why did Jeff fail to come to the office on Tuesday

A．He was sick. B．He was off the day. C．He was working

somewhere else.

16．How does the woman sound in the end

A．Excited. B．Angry. C．Surprised.

听下面一段独白，回答第17至20题。

17．What does the speaker do

A．He is an engineer. B．He is a scientist. C．He is a businessman.

18．What was the speaker’s major in college

A．Business. B．Computer. C．Marketing.

19．Where did the speaker get the idea of starting his career in AI

A．From his teacher. B．From Apple’s Siri. C．From a famous scientist.

20．How do people feel about the development of AI according to

the speaker

A．Glad. B．Worried. C．Unconcerned.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从

每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

With the new semester about to start, our school is welcoming a

group of new international students. We have some apps here with

an English version that will make your life easier. We hope you will

have a wonderful life here.

★WeChat

WeChat is now the most popular social media app in China. Almost

everyone is using WeChat. You can send both text and voice

messages on WeChat. You can also make voice and video calls.

You can also post texts, pictures and video clips. If your friends in

your home country have this app, you can also chat with them

through voice or video. WeChat is also widely used now as a form

of payment which can be used in stores, online, and in other

shopping apps.

★Alipay

Alipay is a similar app to PayPal. It was first used on Taobao and

now people can use it as a mobile payment option. You can even

use mobile payment at street vendors, so if you have this app, you

can leave your wallet at home.

★Didi

Now Didi seems to be the smartest way to travel around. With one

tap, a car comes directly to you. Didi is a Chinese car-hailing service

app. It has a function called “ride sharing”, which saves a lot of

money for passengers, but it does not have an English version, so if

you want to use it, you will have to learn some Chinese.

★Pleco

This is one of the top Chinese/English dictionary apps and it covers

130,000 Chinese words and includes 20,000 example sentences

with pinyin. It is perfect for those who want to learn Chinese, and

also for tourists who need to translate words or phrases from

English to Chinese.

21．Alipay was originally developed to ________.

A．pay for a car-hailing service B．compete with WeChat in

payments

C．be used on online shopping website Taobao D．be convenient

for people who leave their wallet at home

22．If a foreign friend wants to use Didi, he should________

A．learn some Chinese B．know how to use WeChat

C．have a passenger to ride with D．download an English version

app

23．Which app is helpful for learning Chinese

A．Didi. B．Pleco. C．WeChat. D．Alipay.

B

The health of millions could be at risk because supplies of

medicinal plants are being used up. These plants are used to make

traditional medicine, including drugs to fight cancer. “The loss of

medicinal plants is a quiet disaster,” says Sara Oldfield, secretary

general of the NGO Botanic Gardens Conservation International.

Most people worldwide rely on herbal (药草的) medicines which

are got mostly from wild plants. But some 15,000 of the 50,000

medicinal species are under threat of dying out, according to a

report from the international conservation group Plantlife.

Shortages have been reported in China, India, Kenya, Nepal,

Tanzania and Uganda.

Over-harvesting does the most harm, though pollution and

competition from invasive species (入侵物种) and habitat

destruction all contribute. “Businessmen generally harvest

medicinal plants, not caring about sustainability (可持续性),” the

Plantlife report says, “Damage is serious partly because they have

no idea about it, but it is mainly because such collection is

unorganized.” Medicinal trees at risk include the Himalayan yew

and the African cherry, which are used to treat some cancers.

The solution, says the report’s author, Alan Hamilton, is to

encourage local people to protect these plants. Ten projects ran by

Plantlife in India, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Uganda and Kenya

showed this method can succeed. In Uganda, the project has kept

a sustainable supply of low-cost cancer treatments, and in China a

public-run medicinal plant project has been created for the first

time.

“Improving health, earning an income and keeping cultural

traditions are important in encouraging people to protect

medicinal plants,” says Hamilton, “You have to pay attention to

what people are interested in.”

Ghillean Prance, the former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens

in London, agrees that medicinal plants are in need of protection.

“Not nearly enough is being done. We are destroying the very

plants that are of most use to us.”

24．From the first two paragraphs, we can learn that ________.

A．millions of people are threatened with cancer

B．most countries see a shortage of herbal medicines

C．about two thirds of medicinal species will disappear

D．a number of medicinal species are in danger of extinction

25．The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.

A．pollution B．sustainability

C．over-harvesting D．other species’ invasion

26．What can be inferred from the passage

A．Protecting medicinal plants has a long way to go.

B．Local people don’t know how to protect medicinal plants.

C．Ghillean Prance is optimistic about medicinal plants’ future.

D．China has made great progress in protecting medicinal plants.

27．Which of the following is the best title of the passage

A．Low-cost Cancer Treatment B．The Importance of Sustainability

C．Medicinal Plants Facing Extinction D．Sustainable Development

of the Environment

C

The first time I used the TV to distract my daughter, I felt like a bad

parent; I convinced myself I was a “bad” mom—these days I believe

the opposite to be true. Screen time makes me a better mom.

Now I know what most of you might be thinking: That's ridiculous.

Only crappy parents rely on the screen to care for their kids. Then

again, experts suggest parents limit media use. And while I do not

doubt experts, there are things they fail to consider.

Like most 6-year-olds, my daughter gets worked up and excited

easily and watching a cartoon gives her a chance to shut off her

mind. And there are other reasons— more selfish reasons. I am a

work-from-work mom, and giving her screen time gives me “me”

time. I'm able to write while she watches TV. And while this may

sound bad, I believe I am helping my daughter realize she should

rely on herself. When Mommy works, she gets her own snacks,

drinks and toys.

There are other benefits, too. TV has also taught my daughter.

Thanks to “super Why”, she knew her alphabet at 2, and thanks to

“Sesame Street”, she was able to count to 20 by age 3. And I use

the screen as a great incentive. My daughter earns “tablet time”

when she completes tasks, e. g. , making her bed earns 15minutes

while doing her homework gets her 30.

Of course, I have a few rules. During meals, the TV is off; all

programs must be supervised; on weekdays, she is limited to two

hours maximum. So remember: It doesn’t matter what our kids

watch; it matters what they do, what they say, what they feel and

how they act, and only you know what is best for them.

28．What can be learned about the author’s opinion about screen

time

A．It differs from a popular belief. B．It is welcome by most crappy

parents.

C．It fails to take kids into consideration. D．It is the same with

experts.

29．How can screen time be good for kids whose mothers work at

home

A．It gives them topics to discuss with friends. B．It enables them to

keep their spirits up.

C．It helps them become independent. D．It gives them some

continuous time.

30．How many reasons are given by the author for letting her

daughter watch TV in the third paragraph

A．Two B．Three C．Four D．Five

31．Which of the following might the author agree with

A．Nothing can be accomplished without rules.

B．A man is good-for-nothing (无用之人)until he is educated.

C．Science and technology are primary productive forces.

D．Each coin has two sides.

D

Green skin is common in science fiction, but what if green skin

were not just for aliens It humans had green skin, what if it granted

us the ability to perform photosynthesis (光合作用), which plants

use to live off of sunlight

Let's analyze what science says about it and ask award-winning

science-fiction author John Scalzi what he thinks.

Plants can live off of photosynthesis because they grow broad, flat

leaves to harvest as much light as possible, They also need less

energy because they are far less active than animals.

According to Lindsay Turnbull, a plant ecologist at the University of

Oxford, if the skin of a woman were photosynthetic like a leaf, the

amount of surface area she had would satisfy only 1% of her daily

energy requirements to survive. For a photosynthesizing woman to

meet her energy demands, she would need a lot more skin-about a

tennis courts worth, Turnbull estimated.

In addition, photosynthesis requires carbon dioxide. Plants have

pores(毛孔)that they use to supply the gas to their cells. If

photosynthetic humans had chloroplasts(叶绿体), they might need

porous skin to let in carbon dioxide, but such pores might let other

things leak in or out-for instance, moisture(水分)-in ways that

might prove harmful to the human body.

One might wonder if photosynthetic people might prefer moving

to sunny climates. Although such people might receive a small

increase from photosynthesis if they moved to a desert area, they

would likely base other resource issues to deal with, such as a lack

of water. Scalzi said. “There's always going to be trade-offs(平衡).”

he noted.

And would photosynthetic humans prefer hole or no clothing to

absorb all those rays In some photosynthetic societies, clothing

might become a symbol of the elite- a sign they get enough

energy from food and do not need photosynthesis. You can

imagine them saying. "I'm rich, so I can cover up." Scalzi said.

So would Scalzi want photosynthetic skin for himself "Probably not.”