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第1 页/共22 页 （北京）股份有限公司 2022-2023 学年度第一学期期末教学质量检查 高二英语 (本试卷共四大部分，满分150 分;考试时间120 分钟) 第一部分 听力(共两节;满分20 分) 第一节 听力理解(共5 小题;每小题2 分，满分10 分) 共两小段，每段播放两遍。请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题，在5 秒钟内从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 听第1 段对话，回答第1～2 题。 1.How old was Tom when he first started to play soccer? A.Four years old. B.Six years old. C.Seven years old. 2.What is Tom’s job now? A.A player. B.A coach. C.A reporter. 听第2 段对话，回答第3～5 题。 3.Whose birthday is coming this week? A.David. B.Cindy. C.Jane. 4. What will the speakers buy in the end? A.A new watch. B.Some chocolate. C.A grammar book. 第2 页/共22 页 （北京）股份有限公司 5.What’s the probable relationship between the speakers? A.Mother and son. B.Teacher and student. C.Salesman and customer. 第二节 听取信息(共5 小题;每小题2 分，满分10 分) 第2 页/共22 页 （北京）股份有限公司 听下面一段独白。请从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡标号为6～10 的空格中。 听录音前，你将有10 秒钟的阅题时间，录音读两遍。 The Ice Hotel in Russia How it began Born in 1989 in a(n) 6 held in a town. How it is built 1,000 tons of ice and 7 tons of snow. An area of over 5, 500 square meters. Preparations begin in 8 and it is open for business by mid-December. What it is like 36 rooms,including eight 9 Sleeping bags,gloves and winter hats. Visitors will 10 after a single night. 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节;满分37.5 分) 第一节(共10 小题;每小题2.5 分，满分25 分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将 该项涂黑。 A “Age is just a number” is a saying that some people might disagree with, but for healthy and fit great- grandmother Anne Sheppard, nothing could be more true. At 100 years old, Anne can kick, crunch and do full push-ups. And she is always exercising with other fitness fans who are almost 70 years her junior in the gym. South Melbourne-born Anne worked at the local clothing factory while her husband Max was away at work with the army. When the couple retired in 1981, they signed up to their local gym, where Anne is still a member 40 years later. “I feel stronger and fitter than before!” Anne says in an interview from her gym in Melbourne. She has just finished a rigorous training class — one of five group courses she attends throughout the week. “I just love it and I want to keep going as long as I can,” she smiles. “It’s part of my life now — my husband has passed away and now I’m on my own. The gym is my second family and I’d be lost without them.” “Anne is a superstar —no matter where she goes, everyone is attracted to her! I know she inspires us to do 第3 页/共22 页 （北京）股份有限公司 whatever we set our minds to. We’re all jealous because we want to get to 100 years old and be like her,” says Jan, a friend of Anne in the gym. Exercise has always been an important part of life for Anne. Despite going to the gym three days a week, Anne also keeps active in other ways, and regularly walks to and from the local supermarket. Life has now slowed 第3 页/共22 页 （北京）股份有限公司 a little bit for Anne. As for her next personal best, her goal is to keep going to the gym. That’s how Anne enjoys her life. 1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph? A. To summarize the passage. B. To introduce the main character. C. To explain the meaning of a saying. D. To ask for background information. 2. What can we learn about Anne in Paragraph 2? A. She used to work with her husband in the army. B. She takes exercise as an important part of her life. C. She became a member of the local gym 70 years ago. D. She stopped exercising after her husband passed away. 3. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage? A. Anne, Enjoying Her Slow Life B. Anne, an Attractive Gym Coach C. Anne, a 100-year-old Fitness Lover D. Anne, Coming to Her Next Personal Best B “Regrets, I’ve had a few. But still, I keep going forward with them,” a pop star sang in his song in 1969. The idea of the song is attractive: what’s done is done, so we should treat regrets properly and move on. Some people take a step further. They say they have no regrets at all and that life should be lived without looking back. It is easier said than done, though. In 2020, Professor Graham launched the World Regret Survey, the largest survey on the topic ever undertaken. With his research team, Graham asked more than 15,000 people in 105 countries, “How often do you look back on your life and wish you had done things differently?” 78 percent of them said that regrets are at least an occasional part of their life; roughly 21 percent said they feel regretful all the time. Only 1 percent said they never feel regretful. If you belong to the “no regrets” group, you might think that all regrets are the source of unhappiness. Although filling your life with regrets is indeed bad for you, going to the other extreme may be even worse. To get rid of your regrets doesn’t free you from shame or sorrow. Instead, it leads you to make the same mistakes again and again. 第4 页/共22 页 （北京）股份有限公司 To truly get over our guilt requires that we put regrets in their proper place. Your regrets can teach you to become smarter and more successful-if you let it. First, make a list of your regrets, note how you want to change your behavior, and outline your resolutions going forward. Next, list all the ways that you can invest in your own skills and get started right now. Life is a journey full of pleasures and pains. To live it well and fully means learning from every bit of it, including the mistakes, and moving forward. 4. What can we learn from the song in the first paragraph? A. The singer didn’t have any regret. B. The singer found regrets attractive. C. We should live a life without regrets. D. We should still move on with regrets. 5. What does the underlined part “going to the other extreme” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. Having no regrets at all. B. Making the same mistakes. C. Getting rid of unhappiness. D. Feeling regretful in your life. 6. What is the author’s attitude towards regrets? A. Unconcerned. B. Doubtful. C. Objective. D. Negative. C Since the 1920s, the sci-fi (科幻小说) writers have promised us that a self-driving car can go fast and take us to work while we read the news. But this vision has proved to be more challenging to perform in practice than in theory. The so-called advanced driver assistance system has been equipped in some electric cars. But it is not what would be considered self-driving. The present automatic pilot tool can help you stay in your lane on the highway. However, according to a driving standards organization, it’s just graded to be Level 2 on the five-stage system of automation. Level 5 would be a full self-driving experience with hands off the steering wheel(方向盘). We aren’t there yet. But that’s in the United States. Look farther and the future is closer. “If you look at China, the big cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen are testing self-driving cars in passengers transportation,” says George Simpson, director 第5 页/共22 页 （北京）股份有限公司 of the Center for Automotive Research in Duisburg, Germany. The self-driving taxis, which are run by Chinese auto and tech giants, are part of a countrywide plan to increase the sales of Level 4 vehicles to about 20 percent by 2030. They allow drivers to switch off mentally while still requiring them to keep their hands on or near the wheel. What works in China might not work elsewhere, because of differing attitudes towards how data should be used, admits Simpson. Chinese citizens might accept that the journeys of their vehicles are tracked and analyzed to improve traffic flows. But Americans are concerned about their privacy, so they are unwilling to agree with that tracking. Privacy concerns may delay the promise in the sci-fi that frees you from driving on your way home or to work. Self driving cars must constantly generate data from their sensors and software to make driving decisions, or they would crash. 7. What can we infer about advanced driver assistance system? A. It allows drivers’ hands off the wheel. B. It is considered to be full self-driving. C. It has been available in some electric cars. D. It is graded Level 5 on the automation system. 8. What is the present situation of self-driving in Chin