江苏省泰州中学2022-2023学年高一下学期期中考试英语试卷

第1 页/共13 页 （北京）股份有限公司 江苏省泰州中学2022—2023 学年度第二学期期中考试 高一英语试题 (考试时间：120 分钟;总分：150 分) 第一部分：听力(共20 小题，每小题1.5 分，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 到答题纸上。 第一节 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. What is the man offering the woman? A. Vegetables. B. Meat. C. Noodles. 2. What does the woman advise the man to keep as a pet? A. A dog. B. A cat. C. A goldfish. 3. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. On a bus. B.In a classroom. C. In a dining hall. 4. How is the weather today? A. Cloudy. B. Sunny. C. Rainy. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A bookstore. B. The ways of buying books. C. Newly-published books. 第二节 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 第2 页/共13 页 （北京）股份有限公司 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. How are the speakers going to the Great Wall? A. By car. B. By bus. C. By subway 7. When will the speakers get back from the Great Wall? A. On Saturday. B. On Sunday. C. On Monday. 听第7 段材料，回答第8 至9 题。 8. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Husband and wife. B. Boss and secretary. C. Travel agent and customer. 9. When will the meeting finish? A. At 3:00 p.m. B. At 5:00 p.m. C. At 6:30 p.m. 听第8 段材料，回答第10 至12 题。 10. How long did the woman study in Germany? A. For one year. B. For two years. C. For three years. 11. Which part of German is most difficult for the woman? A. Its grammar. B. Its pronunciation. C. Its vocabulary. 12. What is the man’s native language? A. English. B. German. C. French. 听第9 段材料，回答第13 至16 题。 13. Why did the woman get off the taxi after five minutes? A. The taxi broke down. B. The taxi was out of gas. C. The driver didn’t have much experience. 14. What time should the woman begin to work? A. At 8:00 a.m. B. At 8:20 a.m. C. At 8:40 a.m. 第3 页/共13 页 （北京）股份有限公司 15. Why does the man refuse the woman’s request? A. She is always late for work. B. There isn’t more space in the car. C. She doesn’t want to pay the parking fees. 16. How does the man suggest the woman go to work in the end? A. By bus. B. By car. C. By subway. 听第10 段材料，回答第17 至20 题。 17. What was Kelsey’s big dream? A. To study at university. B. To do well in high school. C. To visit different countries. 18. Why was Kelsey worried at the beginning of the story? A. She didn’t know which university to attend. B. She didn’t know what to do after high school. C. She didn’t know whether she would get into university. 19. Which university on the trip did Kelsey like? A. The first one. B. The second one. C. The fourth one. 20. How did Kelsey feel at the end of the story? A. She was disappointed with her choices. B. She didn’t enjoy her trip with her mother. C. She was excited to find a satisfying university. 第二部分：阅读(共两小节，满分42.5.分) 第一节(共12 小题，每小题2.5 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 Valerie L. Thomas is an African American scientist and inventor best known for her patented (专利的) illusion transmitter (幻觉发射器) and contributions to NASA research. Thomas was born in 1943 in Maryland. She was interested in science as a child. At the age of eight, her curiosity about how things worked inspired her to borrow a book called The Boy’s First Book of Radio and 第4 页/共13 页 （北京）股份有限公司 Electronics, which she took home hoping her father would help her take on some projects in it. However, he didn’t help her. She attended an all-girls high school that did not help her with hands on projects either. But this changed in college, when Thomas was admitted to Morgan State University as one of the only two women in her class to major in physics. Thomas excelled in her studies. She graduated with excellent results and accepted a position as a data analyst at NASA. In the 1970s, she managed the development of the image-processing systems for Landsat, the first satellite (人 造卫星) to send images to the Earth from space. In 1980, Thomas received a patent for an illusion transmitter. The device produces optical illusion images by means of two concave mirrors (凹面镜). Unlike flat mirrors, which produce images that appear to be inside, or behind the mirror, concave mirrors create images that appear to be real, or in front of the mirror itself. This technology was later used by NASA and has since been adapted for use in surgery (外科手术) as well as the production of television and video screens. Thomas continued to work for NASA until her retirement in 1995. Over the course of her career, Thomas contributed widely to the study of space. She helped develop computer program designs that supported research on Halley’s Comet, the ozone layer, and satellite technology. For her achievements, Thomas received a number of NASA awards including the Goddard Space Flight Center Award of Merit and the NASA Equal Opportunity Medal. 1. What do we know about Thomas’ early life? A. She was talented in science. B. She liked working with her father. C. She lacked support for her interest. D. She preferred to read boys’ books. 2. What does the underlined phrase “excelled in” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. Did well in. B. Had confidence in. C. Was curious about. D. Was concerned with. 3. What is the advantage of Thomas’ invention over flat mirrors? A. It takes pictures more clearly. B. It transmits images more quickly. C. It changes the position of the image. D. It can send images to the Earth from space. 4. What does the last paragraph focus on? A. Thomas’ future plans. B. Thomas’ retirement life. 第5 页/共13 页 （北京）股份有限公司 C. Thomas’ research theory. D. Thomas’ lifetime achievements. B A study of almost 2,700 children aged between seven and ten in 38 schools in Barceiona, Spain, first researches the impact of traffic noise on child cognitive (认知的) development over time. The children in the study are in a critical stage for the development of memory and attention skill, which are essential to learning. The research found that children exposed to about three times more traffic in the street than other children had memory development that was 23% slower and attention ability development 5% slower over a year. Noise is the second most damaging environmental factor to health, after air pollution, and, for example, was already known to increase heart attacks in adults. The UN said that urban noise pollution was growing into a global public health threat, leading to 12,000 early deaths a year in the EU alone and affecting many cities. But research on the impact of road noise on children was limited until now. “We do not know that noise can actually be toxic (有害的) from a physical point of view,” said Dr. Maria Foraster, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, who led the study. “We think that we adapt to it, but research has shown that we don’t completely— we still have a physiological (生理的) response. The research revealed that peaks of noise heard inside the classroom, such as the passing of loud trucks, had more impact than a higher average level of noise. It also found higher noise levels at school were more damaging than at home. Prof. Iroise Dumontheil, at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, said, “This carefully designed study provides convincing evidence. Considering that many European children living in large cities are exposed to high road- traffic noise levels, this study has implications for public policy to reduce road-traffic noise near schools.” The research follows previous work that showed higher levels of aircraft noise at school affected reading comprehension and cognitive development. Next, the authors said, they would like to see their findings replicated (复制) in different cities and towns, where schools may be built differently and windows opened more or less often. 5. What can we learn from Maria Foraster’s words? A. We are troubled by nose. B. We lack confidence in her study. C. We try hard to adapt to noise. D. We aren’t fully aware of the harm of noise to humans. 6. What is Iroise Dumontheil’s attitude tow