山东省青岛第二中学2022-2023学年高二上学期12月月考英语试题

青岛二中教学质量检测 高二英语 第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分 50 分） 第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 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 Cave Exploring FEBRUARY 7, 8 AM-6 PM Come explore undeveloped caves without the use of built-in electricity, walkways, or stairs. Prepare to get muddy! On this trip, cavers will climb slowly through tight cave entrances that open into large caves, some of which have been forming for thousands of years. Do remember that there are delicate ecosystems you should protect well. Location: Vallecito Cost: Student $ 35 Public $ 75 ∣ Utah Spring Break Road Trip APRIL 15-20, 5 AM-6 PM Explore the southwest on this Utah Road Trip with Peak Adventures! See huge rock arches, sweeping desert views, and glowing sunsets reflecting off orange Utah sandstone. Daily activities will include camping, hiking, and sightseeing. Opportunities for higher adventure activities as determined by the group. Location: Utah Cost: Student $ 480 Public $ 700 ∣ Tahoe Day Hike DECEMBER 10, 7 AM-6 PM Experience the fresh air and grand Lake Tahoe views while hiking in D．L. Bliss State Park. Destinations may include Balancing Rock, Rubicon Point, and the highest lighthouse in the United States. If weather and snow pack permit, we may have the opportunity to try snowshoeing! Be sure to pack your camera! Location: Tahoe Cost: Student $ 35 Public $ 75 ∣ Full Moon Hike FEBRUARY 6, 4 PM-11 PM Come hike under the full moon! Experience nature in different views, first by the colorful sunset, then by the light of the full moon! This beginner adventure is a great way to make new friends. Location: Cronan Ranch Cost: Student $ 25 Public $ 40 ∣ 1．Which activity can you join in during spring? A．Cave Exploring. B．Tahoe Day Hike. C．Full Moon Hike. D．Utah Spring Break Road Trip. 2．What should you especially pay attention to in Cave Exploring? A．Proper equipment. B．Environmental protection. C．Safety items. D．Avoiding getting lost. 3．Which destination is best if you like night activities? A．Cronan Ranch. B．Vallecito. C．Utah. D．Tahoe. B I once met a young woman who had dreams of swimming for the U.S Olympic team. She had to get up every morning at 4 a.m. to swim for 3 hours before going to school. She did not party with her friends on Saturday night. She had to study and keep her grades up, just like everyone else. When I asked her what compelled her with such super-human ambition and sacrifice (牺 牲). She simply said, “I do it for myself and the people I love. It’s love that gets me over the hurdles and sacrifices.” A reason or a purpose is a combination of “wants” and “don’t wants”. When people ask me what my reason for wanting to be rich is, it is a combination of deep emotional “wants” and “don’t wants”. I will list a few. First the “don’t wants”, for they create the “wants”. I don’t want to work all my life. I don’t want what my parents aspired for, which was job security and a big house. I don’t like being an employee. I hated it that my dad always missed my football games because he was so busy working on his career. I hated it when my dad worked hard all his life and the government took most of what he worked for at his death. Now the “wants”. I want to be free to travel the world and live in the lifestyle I love. I want to be young when I do this. I want control over my time and my life. I want money to work for me. Those are my deep-seated, emotional reasons. What are yours? If they are not strong enough, the reality of the road ahead may be greater than your reasons. I have lost money and been set back many times, but it was the deep emotional reasons that kept me standing up and going forward. I wanted to be free by age 40, but it took me until I was 47 with many learning experiences along the way. I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn’t, but it wasn’t hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose anything in life is hard. 4．The passage is started by __________. A．giving an example B．explaining the causes C．pointing out similarities D．describing the differences 5．The underlined word “compelled” in Para. 2 probably means __________. A．committed B．inspired C．forced D．combined 6．We know from the passage that _________. A．the “wants” lead to the “don’t wants” B．the “wants” come from the “don’t wants” C．the “don’t wants” have little to do with the “wants” D．the “don’t wants” are more important than the “wants” 7．What can we learn from the underlined sentence in Para. 6? A．The reality is greater than the deep emotional reasons. B．With stronger emotional reasons, life must be much easier. C．With deeper emotional reasons, the road ahead is likely to be harder. D．In reality, we may meet many more obstacles without deeper emotional reasons. C The United States has about 475,000 school buses ---all painted yellow. Each day they carry more than 25,000,000 children, half of all schoolchildren in the country. But these buses, on average, use four liters of diesel （柴油） fuel to travel less than sixteen kilometers. When the school year began last fall, diesel averaged 55 cents a liter nationally. The price nearly doubled, to a dollar and 8 cents, by the end of school in June. Bob Riley speaks for the American School Bus Council. He says fuel prices for schools are not much lower than others have to pay. As a result, schools are looking for ways to reduce transportation costs. Bus routes are being redrawn or, in some cases, canceled. Some areas are buying buses that use natural gas or other alternative fuels. Other steps include fewer field trips and less travel by sports teams. And some school districts may end any bus service not required by law. Studies show that school buses are the safest form of transportation to and from school. The American School Bus Council says cuts in bus service are bad for children and possibly the environment. It says removing buses from the road will mean an increase in other vehicles transporting students. Spokesman Bob Riley says another concern is that reducing bus services might reduce attendance. But it could also get more children to walk or bicycle to school. And that would surely make people happy at the National Center for Safe Routes to School. More kids walking or biking safely to school is the aim of a three-year-old federal program, part of an international movement. The goal is to increase physical activity and reduce air pollution. The United States will celebrate Walk to School Day on October eighth this year. But for some students, high fuel prices could make every day a walk-to-school day. 8．What does this passage mainly tell us? A．High fuel prices’ influences on school buses. B．New measures to transport school students. C．The safest form of student transportation. D．The origin of Walk to School Day. 9．What can we learn from Paragraph 3? A．Cuts in bus service will have negative results. B．The US government is encouraging cuts in bus services. C．The US schools are searching for the safest transportation means. D．Reducing bus service will do a lot of good to the environment. 10．In order to cut down transportation cost, many schools take the following measures EXCEPT__. A．changing some bus routes B．stopping some bus routes C．asking parents to drive children to and from school D．using other types of fuels 11．The National Center for Safe Routes to School encourages more children to walk or bike to school in order to ____. A．save more fuels and diesel for the country B．keep the children safe on their way to school C．make the children live a simple life D．keep the children healthy and the environment clean D Every year, companies like GoPro manage to pack more and more functions into smaller and smaller action cameras that are less noticeable to wear. But a team of researchers from the University of Washington have managed to build a live-streaming wireless camera that’s so small that even an insect can wear it. It’s not quite small and light enough to be held to a fly, but at around 250 milligrams, the camera was successfully carried by a beetle. Al