重庆市巴蜀中学校2022-2023学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

注意事项： 高 2024 届高二（上）期中考试 英语试卷 1.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、班级、学校在答题卡上填写清楚。 2.每小题选出答案后，用2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用 橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。在试卷上作答无效。 3.考试结束后，请将答题卡交回，试卷自行保存。满分150 分，考试用时120 分钟。 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。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. How did the man get here? A. By taxi. B. By car. C. On foot. 2. What will the woman do next? A. Call a taxi. B. Get her luggage. C. Go to another airport. 3. How many people escaped from the accident? A. 4. B. 5. C. 6. 4. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In the man’s house. B. On a boat. C. In a restaurant. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A book. B. A movie. C. A song. 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。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. Why did the man refuse the job? A. He couldn’t handle it. B. It wasn’t special enough. C. His wife didn’t want him to take it. 7. What does the woman offer to do at the end? A. Look after the children. B. Ask around for a babysitter. C. Help the man find another job. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。 8. Why did the man stop going to the gym? A. He was too busy. B. He disliked the exercise machines. C. He found it more convenient to exercise at home. 9. How does the man make himself run faster? A. By timing himself. B. By reading magazines. C. By watching great videos. 10. How often does the man run? A. Daily. B. Twice a week. C. Three times a week. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。 11. Who knocked over the vase? A. The man. B. The woman. C. The cat. 12. Who did the vase belong to at first? A. The woman’s mother. B. The woman’s grandma. C. The woman’s friend. 13. What did the speakers decide to do? A. Fix the vase themselves. B. Buy a new vase at an antique store. C. Have the vase repaired somewhere. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。 14. What does the man learn to do in his spare time? A. Write songs. B. Play the guitar. C. Study three languages. 15. Who inspires the woman to have a hobby? A. Her friend. B. Her cousin. C. Her teacher. 16. How will the woman get green paint? A. She will buy it. B. She will create it. C. She will borrow it from school. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. When did Google come out with Google Home? A. In 2014. B. In 2016. C. In 2017. 18. How many songs does Google’s product have? A. 35 million. B. 2 million. C. 2.5 million. 19. Which product is aimed at young children? A. Amazon Echo. B. Google Home. C. Mattel’s Aristotle. 20. Why might someone buy the Mattel’s Aristotle? A. It’s the cheapest one. B. It was the first one in the market. C. It’s best for playing games. 第二部分 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 Welcome to Greyhound Lines! Feel free to explore the bus features. We want you to feel at home when you travel with us. So our buses have plenty of features to help you relax, like comfy leather seats and lots of legroom (plus free Wi-Fi, onboard entertainment and power outlets so you can still be an armchair surfer). Free Wi-Fi Wi-Fi is free on all our buses, for all passengers. We see it as a must-have these days, not a premium( 高级的) feature. So go ahead, check your emails or Instagram window scenery from the road (we'd love if you tag it). Please don't stream video during your journey, though - we've all got to share the bandwidth(宽带)! Personal Power Outlets Nearly every seat has its own standard power outlet, so you can keep your devices charged all the way to your destination. Getting off with a fully charged phone is extra handy if you're navigating around a new place. Extra Legroom When designing our new and updated buses, we actually removed a whole row of seats rather than trying to squeeze more in. So there's always space to stretch out when you ride with Greyhound. (Our bus designers must have been really tall.) Eco-friendly Every Greyhound bus is fully equipped with the latest technology to burn fuel cleanly, reducing our impact on the environment. Check out the Going Green page for more of our eco-efforts, and techy facts on things like low-sulfur fuel. 21. Why does the company offer free Wi-Fi on the bus? A. Because passengers are encouraged to post photos online. B. Because the company considers it necessary. C. Because passengers need to check their emails. D. Because the company wants to earn extra money. 22. Which is available on the bus? A. A fully charged phone. B. Eco-friendly equipment. C. Standard power outlets. D. A new design of the bus. 23. What kind of company is Greyhound Lines? A. A bus operator. B. A bus producer. C. An entertainment company. D. A ticket company. B Long, long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged mother. They owned a bit of land which supplied them with food, and they were humble, peaceful, and happy. The land was governed by a dictatorial( 独裁的) leader who, once a warrior, hated anything suggestive of failing health and strength. This caused him to send out a cruel announcement that ordered the entire province to immediately put to death all aged people. The poor farmer loved his mother, and the order filled his heart with sorrow. But he was determined to save his old mother from this unreasonable order. He found a little hut in the valley. Beneath the kitchen floor was a walled closet for food, which was covered and hidden from view. There the son hid his mother, supplying her with everything she needed, continually watching and fearing she would be discovered. Time passed, and he was beginning to feel safe when again the governor announced an unreasonable order, demanding that his subjects should present him with a rope of ashes. The entire province trembled with dread. The order must be obeyed yet who could make a rope of ashes? One night, in great distress, the son came to visit his hidden mother and whispered the news to her. “Wait!” she said. “I will think.” On the second day she told him what to do. “Make rope of twisted straw,” she said. “Then stretch it upon a row of flat stones and burn it on a windless night.” He called the people together and did as she said and when the flames died down, there upon the stones, with every twist and fiber showing perfectly, lay a rope of ashes. The governor was pleased and praised the young man greatly, but he demanded to know where he had obtained his wisdom. With deep bows he told his story. The governor listened and then meditated( 沉思) in silence. Finally he lifted his head. “The land needs more than strength of youth,” he said. “Ah, that I should have forgotten the well-known saying, “with the crown of snow, there cometh wisdom! ” That very hour the cruel law was abolished. 24. Why did the leader put to death all the old people? A. Because he was afraid of growing old. B. Because he related old age to weakness. C. Because old people didn’t work hard. D. Because the province was poor. 25. How did the young man save his mother? A. By moving to another province. B. By hiding her in their kitchen. C. By taking her to the mountain. D. By hiding her in a hut in the valley. 26. What did the governor try to express with the underlined sentence? A. People get wiser when it snows. B. Old age brings wisdom to people. C. People learn better when it is cold. D. Wise people usually grow grey hair. 27. Which is the best title for the story? A. A Son and His Aged Mother. B. A Governor and His Order. C. An Old Woman and Her Wisdom. D. A Young Man and His Courage. C The Blue Eye of the Sahara is a geological formation in the Sahara Desert that resembles an enormous bullseye. The formation stretches across a 40-kilometer- wide region of the desert in the nation of Mauritania. For centuries, only a few local tribes knew about the formation. It was first photographed in the 1960s by astronauts who used it as a landmark to track the progress of their landing. Lat