高二 Test|洋泾中学2023学年度第一学期高二英语期中考试试卷

上海市洋泾中学2023学年度第一学期

高二英语期中考试试卷

命题：施珏清审题：殷琴终审：刘力

本卷卷面总分100分，考试时间为90分钟。

I. Listening Comprehension (20)

Section A (10)

Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1. A. Interesting. B. Exciting. C. Disappointing D. Touching

2. A. $9. B. $6. C. $4. D. $8.

3. A. Mother and child. B. Manager and customer.

C. Nurse and child. D. Boss and clerk.

4. A. Mike has changed his schedule. B. The plane has already landed.

C. Mike is unlikely to come. D. The plane will probably arrive late.

5. A. Attend a lecture. B. Visit her sister. C. Go skating. D. Go to the library.

6. A. A pleasant holiday. B. A bad accident

C. The man's luck. D. The man's attitude.

7. A. He overdid his part. B. He played his part quite well.

C. He was not dramatic enough. D. He performed better than the secretary.

8. A. Heavy traffic. B. Leaving home a bit late.

C. Giving help to an old man. D. A car accident.

9. A. She is at an interview for a job. B. She has applied for a scholarship.

C. She works as an engineer. D. She graduated from university with honors.

10. A. Teaching her son by herself. B. Asking the teacher for extra help.

C. Having confidence in her son. D. Telling her son not to worry.

Section B (10)

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. Because people need fresh vegetables all year round

B. Because vegetable farms do good to the environment

C. Because it does not cost much to set up vegetable farms

D. Because vegetable farms make money quickly.

12. A. In soil. B. On trees. C. In water. D. On the ground.

13. A. The gourds (葫芦) are different in size and taste.

B. The gourds are different in taste and shape.

C. The gourds are different in shape and color.

D. The gourds are different in size and shape.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. It has been popular in London.

B. The goods in the shop are free for everyone in London.

C. Customers can try it once a month.

D. Customers can get about E250 worth of goods every month.

15. A. They need to pay E250 for their annual membership.

B. They need to conduct surveys among friends for the shop.

C. They need to help promote the products.

D. They need to complete a 10-point questionnaire.

16. A. To help improve the products and build brand loyalty.

B. To raise people's living standards.

C. To sell goods at a low price but in large quantities.

D. To draw the attention of government officials.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. His health is getting worse. B. He can no longer work at sea.

C. His wife passed away last year. D. He isn't qualified as a model.

18. A. She has made lots of money as a doctor B. She is going to take care of her old dad.

C. She has never got on with her father. D. She is kind and generous by nature.

19. A. A doctor. B. A physicist. C. A model. D. A teacher.

20. A. He dines out with his wife every weekend.

B. He is excellent but looks bad-tempered.

C. He does not care about his appearance.

D. He is a little careless and lazy in his work.

Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary (20)

Section A (10)

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

A police training academy in Liaoning province is looking for permanent homes for over 50 canines (警犬) that failed the exam to join the official canine team.

The 54 dogs, most of (21) ________ did not qualify to work with the police team, will be auctioned (拍卖) on July 7. The animals were considered unfit for the force (22) _______ _______ not meeting the police's strict size, strength, personality, or age requirements.

According to the auction's rules, the starting bid for each dog is 200 yuan but participants (23) _______ first watch a video about their favoured animal before being able to bid (出价) . They are also required to take them home the same day and sign a written commitment (24) _______ (state) that they will follow the local regulations and will not resell the dogs or transfer ownership.

“The owner must treat the adopted dog kindly and feed and manage it properly (25) _______ its natural death, and shoulder full responsibility (26) _______ they fail to fulfill this promise,” the announcement reads.

On its website, details of the animals (27) _______ (download) over 60, 000 times, while the web page has attracted over 150, 000 views.

Following the attention (28) _______ (draw) online, a police officer reminds people (29) _______ (follow) local guidelines on raising these breeds. He says some cities do not allow people to keep large-sized dogs, while (30) _______ require dogs to be micro chipped for “civilized dog-raising”. In short, do not be hot-headed. Think carefully before you bid.

Section B (10)

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

The Best Company to Work For

Every year, Fortune magazine publishes a list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For”. Howdoes the magazine choose the companies? Firstly, it uses a survey: 350 employees answer 57 questions about their company. Secondly, Fortune looks t important 31of companies: for example, pay, benefits, and communication between workers and management. Finally, the magazine must 32the results to find its Top 100.

Wegmans Food Markets, which ranks No. 1 on the list, has a motto (座右铭) , “Employees first, customers second”, and it is also one of the 50 largest private companies in the US, with annual sales of $3. 6 billion, according to Forbes magazine. Apparently, being good to your employees is no 33to making money.

How much of Wegmans' success is due to the company's policies? “Up to a point, the success is because of the freedom they give us,” says one employee. “On the other hand, no company gets rich just by not being 34to its employees. Wegmans has great marketing strategies and it's 35within the community. I've been here for 15 years. Looking back, I'd say that the company's 36for customers' benefits, such as the Shoppers' Club electronic discount programme in the 1990s, have been just as important as the benefits to staff.”

But the employee benefits are 37. Fundamentally, Wegmans believes in 38development. As well as scholarships, the company gives its employees business opportunities. For years, one employee made delicious cookies for her colleagues. She 39started selling the cookies in Wegmans. ‘I just asked the manager,’ she says. ‘While looking back, I think I should have asked earlier. I could have made more money!’

The staff's freedom to make decisions is another thing you won't find everywhere. Essentially, Wegmans wants its workers to do almost anything to 40the customers. Believe it or not, an employee once cooked a Thanksgiving turkey in the store for a customer because the woman's turkey, bought in Wegmans, was too big for her oven.

Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension (37)

Section A (15)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

“Look both ways before you cross the street! Look left, right and left again!” These classic childhood 41lessons are passed on from generation to generation. Yet traffic accidents remain one of the most common 42of injuries and deaths for children around the world.

Past studies have found that youngsters are less good at 43road dangers than adults, but Anat Meir, a lecturer in industrial engineering and management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negeve and the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel, wanted to decide exactly which behaviors lead to accidents, with the goal of finding ways to 44them.

To do that without putting anyone in danger, she turned to virtual reality. In 2019 Meir and her colleagues simulated (模拟) 18 streets in Israel and used an eye-tracking device to study how 46 adults and children (ranging in age from seven to 13) evaluated when it was safe to cross. Children aged seven to nine, they found, exhibited the least 45when crossing, typically deciding to step into the virtual road with little or no hesitation, even when their field of vision was limited. “We had parents looking on who were saying, 'Wow, I cannot believe my child just crossed there!” Meir says.” It caused them to 46their child's road-crossing abilities.” The older children did not perform much 47, though for different reasons. They often stayed on the curb (路缘) for an improper amount of time— a (n) 48that they are less able to distinguish between safe and dangerous situations than adults— and in interviews did not express an understanding of how 49such as car speed and field of vision affect crossing safety.

Some 50do seem to improve crossing success. In Meir's most recent study, described in Accident Analysis & Prevention, two dozen seven- to nine-year-olds experienced 40 minutes of danger-detection training. Afterward, Meir and her colleagues 51trainees' and control kids' performances in the virtual road-crossing task. The children who 52safety instructions were significantly better at crossing than the control subjects.

Next, Meir and policy makers aim to figure out how to 53these findings to the real world. “These results are important because you cannot find solutions without a (n) 54of the problem,” says Joseph Kearney, a professor of computer science at the University of Iowa. “Now it's up to people to determine how they can develop 55programs for children and for parents about good road-crossing habits.”

41. A. vision B. science C. safety D. education

42. A. sources B. conclusions C. levels D. results

43. A. simplifying B. identifying C. presenting D. designing

44. A. perform B. ignore C. correct D. define

45. A. caution B. interest C. emotion D. relief

46. A. remove B. recall C. reinventD. Reassess

47. A. worse B. better C. more quickly D. more slowly

48. A. decisionB. indication C. prediction D. instruction

49. A. examples B. ideas C. factors D. insights

50. A. suspicionsB. observations C. permissions D. measures

51. A. combined B. limited C. compared D. separated

52. A. designed B. revealed C. emphasized D. received

53. A. predict B. question C. apply D. declare

54. A. preventing B. developing C. imagining D. understanding

55. A. testing B. learning C. training D. selling

Section B (14)

Directions: Read the following two passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

I used to think my little corner of urban England was somewhere I could get away from the stress and strain of modern-day life — until they moved in next door. There are two of them. They are white, woolly and probably have sharp teeth as well as loud bark. But every time their constant barking interrupts my sleep, I remind myself that, in many respects, I am lucky. The neighbors don't hold all-night parties, nor do they shout or throw crockery at each other, and though their dogs may bark, they don't bite.

According to a recent consumer magazine report on "nightmare neighbors", dogs are the fifth most common source of bad relations between neighbors. Noise of any description heads the list of complaints, followed by DIY enthusiasts, parking quarrelling, and arguments over house extensions.

So what alternatives are there? One is to take legal action. But this can be time-consuming and expensive and does nothing to improve already difficult relationships. The other alternatives are to sell up and go, or to try to reach a solution with the help of someone neutral. Mediation UK— the United Nations equivalent of garden fence conflicts — was set in 1984 to help resolve community disagreements.

In most cases, the lack of communication is found the main cause of conflict. David Nation of Plymouth Mediation points to poor public housing and widespread unemployment as additional factors. He also reports more cases of complaints from people who live in flats. Large houses built in the nineteenth century and designed as single-occupation family homes have, he says, been changed into flats with little or no attention to sound insulation. Dividing walls are paper thin and hardly block out sound at all.

Buyers can also be put off by the external appearance of neighboring houses. Anything from wild, uncared for gardens to unusual external color schemes can put off buyers — even though the offending property is next door. But it could be worse. John Gladden, of Norbury in Surrey upset his neighbors in St Oswald's Road by mounting a huge fish in fiberglass (玻璃纤维) and putting it on the roof of his house. The local council argued that he should have got planning permission; residents thought the fish did nothing to improve the appearance of the neighborhood, and war broke out. Sightseers poured in and homes near the suburban property can now be hard to sell.

56. Why doesn't the writer like her next-door neighbor's dogs?

A. They wake her up. B. They sometimes bark.

C. They are aggressive. D. They remind her of sheep.

57. What does “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. the color scheme B. the garden C. the situation D. the house

58. The purpose of this passage is to _______.

A. inform people what to do if they have problems with their neighbors

B. describe the writer's own problems with her neighbors.

C. illustrate the types and causes of problems between neighbors

D. explain the activities of the organization Mediation UK

(B)

Visitors to HENN-NA, a restaurant outside Nagasaki, Japan, are greeted by an odd sight: their food being prepared by a row of humanoid robots that look like the Terminator. H. I. S. , the company that runs the restaurant, as well as a nearby hotel where robots check guests into their rooms and help with their luggage, turned to automation partly out of necessity. Japan's population is shrinking. and its economy is booming; the unemployment rate is only 2. 8 percent. “Using robots makes a lot of sense in a country like Japan,” said CEO Hideo Sawada.

Sawada predicts that 70 percent of the jobs at Japan's hotels will be automated in the next five years. “t takes about a year to two to get your money back,” he said. “But since you can work them 24 hours a day, and they don't need vacation, eventually it's more cost-efficient to use the robot.”

This may seem like a vision of the future best suited— perhaps only suited— to Japan. But according to Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, many tasks in the food-service and accommodation industry are exactly the kind that are easily automated. Chui's latest research estimates that 54 percent of the tasks workers perform in American restaurants and hotels could be automated using currently available technologies.

The robots, in fact, are already here. Chowbotics, a company in Redwood City, California, manufactures Sally, a boxy robot that prepares salads ordered on a touch screen. Botlr, a robot butler, now brings guests extra towels and toiletries in dozens of hotels around the country.

This seems to be worrying. America's economy isn't developing nearly as smoothly as Japan's, and one of the few bright spots in recent years has been employment in restaurants and hotels, which have added more jobs than almost any other industry. That growth, in fact, has helped to reduce the pressure that automation has caused to other industries. The food-service and accommodation industry now employs 13. 7 million Americans. Since 2013, it has accounted for more jobs than manufacturing.

These new positions once seemed safe from robots because they required a human touch in a way that manufacturing or mining jobs did not. When ordering a coffee or checking into a hotel, human beings want to interact with other human beings— or so we thought. The companies bringing robots into the service industry are betting that we'll be happy to trade our relationship with robotic waiters or clerks for greater efficiency. They're also confident that adding robots won't necessarily mean cutting human jobs.

59. According to the writer, why was it partly out of necessity that H. I. S. turned to automation?

A. It's hard to find employees in Japan.

B. The Japanese are used to using robots.

C. Robotic technology is advanced in Japan.

D. Japan's economy develops less fast than expected.

60. According to Michael Chui, which of the following statements is true?

A. It is no easy job to automate tasks in the hotel industry.

B. Restaurant workers can be easily replaced by robots.

C. Technologies need upgrading to pave the way for robotic waiters.

D. Robots now perform 54%of the tasks in American restaurants and hotels.

61. Why does the automation in American restaurants and hotels seem worrying?

A. The manufacturing industry is waiting to be automated.

B. America's economy is developing at an unexpected rate.

C. Automation has already had a negative effect on the service industry.

D. These two industries contribute much to America's employment rate.

62. It can be inferred that companies bringing robots into the service industry think that _______.

A. the human touch may not matter that much

B. profit is more important than customer satisfaction

C. manufacturing or mining jobs require human interaction

D. robots will rob humans of their jobs at the cost of efficiency

Section C (8)

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Despite the fact that American companies have been “global” for a very long time now, many people today inside companies still misunderstand cultural differences. They misperceive potential foreign-born workers, for example, as too “shy” or not “confident” enough. (63) _________

In many cultures, it is just not appropriate to make small talk with someone you don't know, especially someone above you in the corporate level. (64) _________ For example, if you express your loyalty to a particular team without knowing that of your colleagues, you might put them in the uncomfortable position of having to either conceal their own preference or express something that conflicts with yours. So, you can imagine how challenging it can be for someone from a non-small talk culture to try to fit into a US corporate setting.

In addition, the US is basically a “straight--shooter (坦率的人)” style culture, where it is cultural valued to tell it like it is. But this isn't necessarily true worldwide. For example, in Japan, people prefer to communicate indirectly, especially when it comes to a sensitive topic. To avoid accidentally damaging a relationship, people approach problems through subtle hints or general statements. If someone were to directly state a problem, it would make them look ungraceful, immature, and untrustworthy. (65) _________

Americans tend to be relatively informal in a business context. (66) _________ Many cultures are quite formal, especially when interacting with superiors. In general, Indian culture, for example, is very formal. Indians typically greet their elders and superiors by title (Sir, Mr. , Dr. , Professor) and never by their first name. This is also the case at the university, where students act with extreme levels of respect towards their professors.

The above discussion just hits the tip of the iceberg of the different cultural misinterpretations in corporate America. For American employers to succeed in selecting, training, inspiring and keeping their top foreign-born talent, it is high time that they started taking account of these cultural differences in their leadership selection process.

IV. Translation (3+3+3+4=13)

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

67. 因为缺乏资金，这个投资项目可能要推迟了。 (likely)

68. 理解一部小说，是需要些背景知识以及耐心的。 (involve)

69. 很多学生直到高中毕业了才意识到没有好好利用学校的图书馆。 (It)

70. 成天看短视频不但占据我们的宝贵时间还会让我们接触到很多负面新闻，这对我们的心理健康是有害的。 (not only... )

V. Guided Writing (10)

Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

71. 明启中学将举办一次校园摄影展，拟采用线下布展（校图书馆）或者线上布展（校园网站）的方式。请谈谈你的选择，说明做此选择的理由。（提示：可从体验感、互动性、影响力等方面进行分析）