江苏省扬州中学2022-2023学年高二上学期期中英语试题

1 （北京）股份有限公司 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） 注意事项： 1. 作答前，请考生务必将自己的姓名、考试证号等写在答题卡上并贴上条形码。 2. 将选择题答案填写在答题卡的指定位置上，非选择题一律在答题卡上作答，在试卷上 答题无效。 3. 考试结束后，请将机读卡和答题卡交监考人员。 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) 2 （北京）股份有限公司 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. C. On the Internet. 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. C. In winter. 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? 3 （北京）股份有限公司 A. By bus. B. By car. C. By train. 15. What was the woman two years ago? A. A city planner. B. A company's boss. C. A landscape gardener. 3 （北京）股份有限公司 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 takeoff. 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 4 （北京）股份有限公司 feel it's too late 4 （北京）股份有限公司 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. 5 （北京）股份有限公司 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 r