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第1 页/共21 页 （北京）股份有限公司 2022-2023 学年第二学期期中检测 高二英语 (考试时间：120 分钟 试卷满分：150 分) 注意事项： 1．本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。 2．回答第Ⅰ卷时，选出每小题答案后，用2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。 3．回答第Ⅱ卷时，将答案写在答题卡上。 4．考试结束后，将答题卡交回。 第I 卷(选择题) 第一部分 听力(共两节，满分 30 分) 做题时，请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 colour was the woman’s shirt? A. Pink. B. White. C. Light yellow. 2. What does the man want? A. A one-dollar bill. B. Some coins. C. A parking place. 3. What is the man? 第2 页/共21 页 （北京）股份有限公司 A. A businessman. B. A teacher. C. A student. 4. What does the man mean? A. He has seen the movie. B. He is interested in the movie. C. He doesn’t want to see the movie. 5 What are the speakers talking about? A. When to go on a hike. B. Whether to go to the movie. C. What to do in the afternoon. 第2 页/共21 页 （北京）股份有限公司 第二节(共15 小题;每小题1.5 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，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。 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 6. What does the man think of the book? A. Surprising, B. Creative C. Encouraging. 7. What is the purpose of the project? A. To call on people to live a healthy life. B. To give people chance to write a book. C. To encourage teamwork among students. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 8. Where does the conversation take place? A. At a train station. B. At an airport. C. At a bus station. 9. How much should the woman pay for her ticket? A. £ 45 B. £ 35 C. £ 27 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 10. What did he woman’ lost handbag look like? A. It was made of cloth. B. It was brown. C. It was new 11. What was inside the handbag? A. Some money. B The address book C. The purse 12. What dos the man suggest the woman de? A. Go to the hotel again. B. Look for the handbag herself. C Ask the hotel about her handbag. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 第3 页/共21 页 （北京）股份有限公司 13. Why does the woman want to buy something for her husband? A. It’s Christmas. B. It’s his birthday. C. It’s an apology 14. What present did the woman give to her husband last Christmas? A. A coat. B. A sweater. C. A tie 15. What does the man say about the wallets? 第3 页/共21 页 （北京）股份有限公司 A. They have just arrived from Italy B. They are popular with famous people. C. They are especially designed for men. 16. What does the woman finally decide to give to her husband? A. A wallet. B. A shirt. C. Trousers 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。 17. What is the speech mainly about? A. How one open-air theatre was built B. What it’s like to work in an open-air theatre. C. How the open-air theaters developed in Britain. 18. What will the actors do when an animal suddenly appears on the stage? A. snore it. B. Cancel the play. C. Include it in their play 19. What will the audience usually react to bad weather? A. They’ll accept it and continue to sit. B. They’ll want to return their tickets. C. They’ll think it is fun. 20. What does John barrack say about outdoor theaters? A. They are just like clubs. B. They have advantaged over normal theaters. C. They create distance between actors and audience. 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、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A What would you think if someone suggested knocking down St Paul’s Cathedral to widen the road? Or pulling down Big Ben to make way for a car park? It would be ridiculous, right? But when it comes to devastation of the natural world, we aren’t so easily shocked. But we should be…or we’ll be in a lot of trouble. Nature is shrinking by the day. Ancient forests are destroyed. Wetlands are becoming dry. Woodland is disappearing, and all in the name of progress. This is bad in itself, but it’s devastating for biodiversity. 第4 页/共21 页 （北京）股份有限公司 Biodiversity refers to the variety of plants, animals and other living things that are all interconnected. The 第4 页/共21 页 （北京）股份有限公司 ecological services provided by biodiversity are vital to everyday life. The air we breathe is a product of photosynthesis by green plants. Insects, worms and bacteria break down waste and make soils rich. And tiny organisms clean the water in rivers and sea. In fact, all life on the earth exists thanks to the benefits of biodiversity. More than 90 percent of the calories consumed by people worldwide are produced from 80 plant species. And 30 percent of medicines are developed from plants and animals. Maintaining a wide diversity of species in each ecosystem is necessary to preserve all living things. The loss of biodiversity could be devastating. “It is wrong to think that biodiversity can be reduced indefinitely without threatening humans,” said Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson, known as the “father of biodiversity”. He warned, “We are about to reach a critical point beyond which biodiversity loss will become irreversible.” But what can we do? The present problem is that the concept of biodiversity is so vague. People might care about giant pandas, but it is much harder to excite them about the fate of tiny sea creatures which are being boiled to death in the cooling systems of power stations along coastlines. The Guardian newspaper is trying to help. It has launched the Biodiversity 100 campaign to try to convince governments around the world to take action to deal with the widespread concerns about biodiversity. This includes persuading the UK government to create a series of marine reserves to reserve the decrease in the sea-life caused by industrial fishing, stopping fishing sharks by the Japanese fishermen and banning the killing of dingoes in Australia, among many other things. There is a lot to do. And we’d better act quickly if we don’t want to end up with a planet that can’t sustain life! 1. The underlined sentence “Nature is shrinking by the day.” means that ________. A. nature is badly polluted by humans B. species are becoming fewer and fewer day by day C. rainforests are being cut down every day D. nature is full of mysteries 2. Edward O. Wilson thinks that ________. A. it doesn’t matter to reduce biodiversity B. people have done enough to preserve biodiversity C. the situation of biodiversity is very serious D. biodiversity loss has become irreversible 3. When it comes to biodiversity, the present problem is that ________. A. people might not clearly know what is biodiversity and what should be protected B. people are not aware that giant pandas are endangered 第5 页/共21 页 （北京）股份有限公司 C. people don’t realize that biodiversity is vital to everyday life D. people hunt sea creatures for food B Despite being used by 1.34 billion people each year, traveling on the Tube in London can actually be quite lonely. An unwritten rule encouraging silence, mixed with classic British reserve, means that even though you’re packed into an enclosed space with hundreds of other people, the morning commute (上下班的路程) can leave you feeling somewhat disconnected. An American living in London, however, is trying to change this. “You get on the Tube here and it’s completely silent and it feels a bit strange,” says Jonathan Dunne, 42, who has started a worldwide dialogue after giving out badges (证章；徽章) with the words “Tube chat?” last month, encouraging commuters in London to get talking to one another. “I handed out 500 badges during rush hours in a city of 8 million, expecting most of them to be thrown away, but after about 24 hours it completely snowballed,” he says. Dunne and his “Tube chat” campaign have been covered by media across the world since then, seeing TV interviews in Sweden, Brail and the UK, as well as a lot of website, newspaper and magazine appearances. Although Dunne says he’s received mostly positive feedback, not everyone agrees with his opinion. Londoner Brian Wilson started