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（北京）股份有限公司 嘉峪关、张掖、甘南三地2022-2023 学年第一学期期末试 题 高二英语 第Ⅰ卷（选择题） 第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分50 分） 第一节（共14 小题；每小题2.5 分，满分35 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 It's 2035. You have a job，a family and you're about 40 years old! Welcome to your future life. Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. “T urn red ，” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red.Tiny preprogrammed electronics ( 智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you're 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old.You're not even middleaged! As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear, “T o lose weight, you shouldn't eat that ！” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code(电子源码)on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen，what can I have for breakfast？”A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies. “Ready for your trip to space ？” you ask your son and daughter. In 2015 only specially trained astronauts went into space—and very few of them. T oday anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space.Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor says you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain special vaccines. With the strawberries in their mouths ，the kids head for the front door. It's time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office.Autopilot ，” you command.Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway.You sit back and unroll your enewspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it. 1．What changes the color of your shirt? A．The mirror. B．The preprogrammed electronics. C．The sunlight. D．The medicine. 2．How do the shoes know that you shouldn't eat the breakfast cereal? A．By pouring the breakfast into a bowl. B．By getting the doctor's advice. C．By testing the food supplies in the kitchen. D．By checking the nutrition details of the food. 3．The strawberries the children eat serve as ________． A．breakfast B．lunch （北京）股份有限公司 C．vaccines D．nutrition 4．How is the text organized? A．In order of time. B．In order of space. （北京）股份有限公司 C．In order of preference. D．In order of importance. B “Dad, I need your help. Come here ！” My 5yearold girl pulled me towards the computer. “Dad, please buy everything I have in the Amazon shopping cart(购物车). Here, take this cash from my savings！” The shopping cart showed ten items for a total of about 130 dollars. “Wait ！” I replied.“That's too much money! Why do you need all these things？”“Please, Dad！These items will get here before Christmas. I have a surprise for everyone.No peeking(偷看)！” she explained, and I bought everything. A couple of days later, she got everything.I saw her then wrapping(包装) all her gifts. “Can I help you？” I asked.“No, Dad.I told you these are special surprises. No peeking！” she replied.Her excitement was obvious. The day came.She was all around her gifts, planning, protecting, arranging. Everything had to be perfect. As soon as dinner was over, she jumped from her chair and took her gifts. She went around giving each one of us her piece of love.These were small items, but it was the meaning of giving her heart that we were really feeling.As she gave the gift to each person, she watched the expression on our faces. Our smiles were her greatest reward.Her last gift was for my 2yearold boy—a toy car. It was hard to describe my little boy's delight at getting this gift! For several minutes, everyone's attention was focused on watching him go all around the house happily. Seeing these acts of my 5yearold helped me understand the power of giving—giving from the heart. Later that day, my girl received some gifts, but she didn't need them. She focused on others, not on herself.It was clear that she was the one feeling true joy. 5．Why did the girl ask her father for help? A．She didn't have enough money. B．She needed him to keep the secret. C．She wanted to get his opinions on gifts. D．She couldn't make the online payment. 6．How did the girl feel when wrapping the gifts? A．She felt proud. B．She felt delighted. C．She felt cautious. D．She felt satisfied. 7．What did other family members think of the girl's acts? A．Pleasant. B．Creative. C．Reasonable. D．Surprising. 8．What is the author's purpose in writing the text? A．T o praise his daughter for her generosity. B．T o share his experience of raising his kids. C．T o discuss how to find happiness in daily life. D．T o share the lesson learned from his daughter. C My husband and I had been married nearly twentytwo years when I acquired Stevens­ Johnson syndrome, a disorder where my immune system(免疫系统) responded to a virus by producing painful blisters( 水疱). Although my longterm evaluation was good, I, who had been so fiercely independent, rapidly became absolutely helpless. My husband, Scott, stepped up to the plate, taking care of kids and cooking dinners. He also became my personal caretaker, applying the medicine to all of my blisters because my hands couldn't do the job.Needless to say ，I had negative emotions, bouncing from embarrassment to shame caused by total reliance on someone other than myself. At one point when I had mentally and physically hit bottoms I remember thinking that （北京）股份有限公司 Scott （北京）股份有限公司 must somehow love me more than I could ever love him. With my illness ，he had become the stronger one, and I the weaker one.And this disturbed me. I recovered from my illness, but I couldn't seem to recover from the thought that I loved my husband less than he loved me.This seeming distinction in our love continued to annoy me for the year following my illness. Then recently Scott and I went on a long bike ride.He's an experienced cyclist; I'm quite the green hand.At one point with a strong headwind and sharp pain building in my tired legs, I really thought I couldn't go any further. Seeing me struggle, Scott pulled in front of me and yelled over his shoulder，“Stay close behind me.”As I fell into the draft of his sixfootthreeinch frame and followed his steps, I discovered that my legs quit burning and I was able to catch my breath. My husband was pulling me along again. At this very moment I woke up to what I now believe: during these and other tough times ，love has the opportunity to become stronger when one partner learns to lean on the other. I pray my husband will always be strong and healthy.But if he should ever become the struggling one, whether on a bike ride or with an illness, I trust I'll be ready to call out to him: Stay close behind me—my turn to pull you along. 9．What made the author feel helpless? A．Her treatment's failure. B．Her husband's caring for her too much. C．Her losing the previous independence. D．Her suffering from illness and mental disorder. 10．Which of the following can best describe the author's husband? A．Familycentered. B．Not good at taking action. C．Careercentered. D．Independent but tired of negative emotions. 11．What did the author's husband do when going on the long bike ride? A．Followed her closely. B．Gave in to her depression. C．Backed her up all the way. D．Stopped to take care of her. 12 ．Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase “stepped up to the plate” in Paragraph 2? A．Moved into batting position. B．Began to take the responsibility. C．Walked to the kitchen. D．Began to wash the plates. D Lise Meitner was born in Vienna, Austria on November 7, 1878. She was the third child of eight children in the family. Her father Philipp, who was a lawyer, hired personal teachers to teach the children, and she learned mathematics very well. Music was