高二英语期中模拟卷（考试版A3）测试范围：选择性必修一Units1~4（上海专用）_2024-2025高二（7-7月题库）_2024年10月试卷

……………… ○ ……………… 内 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… ……………… ○ ……………… 外 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… … 学 校 ： ______________ 姓 名 ： _____________ 班 级 ： _______________ 考 号 ： ______________________ 绝密★考试结束前 8． A．David should invest more in stocks. B．It’s unwise to make such an investment. 2024-2025 学年高二英语上学期期中模拟卷 C．It’s better for him to take out his savings. D．David has the last say in decision-making. （考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：140分） 9． 注意事项： A．She noticed that the students didn’t do their homework. 1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 B．She didn’t teach any class today. 2．回答选择题时，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。如需改动， C．She usually assigns homework. 用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。 D．She usually talks quietly. 3．测试范围：选择性必修一 Units 1~4（2020上教版+上外版）。 10． 4．难度系数：0.65。 A．She should do more careful work. 5．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 B．George does not care about her. I. Listening Comprehension （25分） C．She is not concerned about George's remarks. Section A D．George shouldn't have said much about her. Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each Section B conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken Directions: In Section B. you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and conversation will be read twice, but the and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and 1． decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. A．A cook. B．A waitress. C．A saleswoman. D．A shop assistant. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 2． 11．A．Future researchers. B．College students. A．7:00. B．7:10. C．9:10. D．9:00. C．Company employees. D．Successful artists. 3． 12．A．To teach the listeners how to work hard. A．Excited. B．Exhausted. C．Bored. D．Dissatisfied. B．To enable the listeners to get better salaries. 4． C．To prepare the listeners to get better jobs. A．A hairdresser. B．A waitress. C．A police officer. D．An insurance agent. D．To encourage the listeners to seize opportunities. 5． 13．A．Kindness. B．Diligence. C．Willingness. D．Interest. A．To a bank. B．To Macao. C．To a travel agency. D．To a gymnasium. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage 6． 14．A．The benefits of walking. B．The importance of keeping fit. A．At an art gallery. B．In a work shop. C．The way of forming a habit. D．The possibility of excising regularly. C．At a gas station. D．In a department store. 15．A．Because it needs much thinking. 7． B．Because people needn’t concentrate on it. A．Playing tennis. B．Writing a term paper. C．Because it is suitable for everyone. C．Holding a meeting. D．Gathering materials. D．Because people can improve their memory. 试题 第19页（共612页） 试题 第110页（共612页） 学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司……………… ○ ……………… 外 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… ……………… ○ ……………… 内 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… 16．A．It is the easiest way to lose weight. B．It can be made part of people’s life. people throughout the world are not just fun and surprising but reveal more about 26 the language is really C．It prevents people suffering from cancers. D．It can make people’s hearts stronger. used. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. Livemocha is now experimenting with many ways that resemble the games 27 (find) on other social 17．A．He has just been back from South America. websites to motivate people. Besides, each person can set up a profile 28 includes a short self-description 此 B．He has been burnt for a few hours. and what language he or she would like to learn. Therefore, if you want to learn one language, you will easily find 卷 C．He has been doing school work all night. many people fluent in this language. And it becomes 29 (challenging) to find a study partner. An email or D．He has been surfing the Internet for long. two is all it takes. 只 18．A．To look for information for his project. There are more and more companies like Livemocha offering online language learning to students throughout 装 B．To meet new friends in the net chatroom. the world. 30 merely helping people practice different languages, they also enable people to share C．To release pressure from heavy work. 订 interests and make new friends D．To look for something interesting for pleasure. Section B 不 19．A．Quite a few sites are just old event calendars. Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that B．It’s a waste of time to surf the Internet. 密 there is one word more than you need. C．A lot of information can be found. A．literally B．innovations C． eventually D．professional E. examine 封 D．A lot of friends can be made on the Internet. F. features G. barrier H. mean I. please J. impressive K. well-positioned 20．A．It takes long to find things because of many useless sites. The Best Company to Work For B．It’s hardly the best source of information available. Every year, Fortune magazine publishes a list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For”. Howdoes the C．It is hard to start chatting with others in the chatroom. magazine choose the companies? Firstly, it uses a survey: 350 employees answer 57 questions about their company. D．People spend much time talking about other interests. Secondly, Fortune looks at important 31 of companies: for example, pay, benefits, and communication II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20分) between workers and management. Finally, the magazine must 32 the results to find its Top 100. Section A Wegmans Food Markets, which ranks No. 1 on the list, has a motto (座右铭) , “Employees first, customers Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically second”, and it is also one of the 50 largest private companies in the US, with annual sales of $3. 6 billion, according 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. to Forbes magazine. Apparently, being good to your employees is no 33 to making money. A New Way to Learn Languages How much of Wegmans’ success is due to the company’s policies? “Up to a point, the success is because of the Nowadays, the Internet is changing the way people learn languages. There is still no way to avoid the hard work freedom they give us,” says one employee. “On the other hand, no company gets rich just by not being 34 to through vocabulary lists and grammar rules, but since the birth of the Internet, books, tapes and even CDs 21 its employees. Wegmans has great marketing strategies and it’s 35 within the community. I’ve been here for (replace) by email, video chat and social networks. 15 years. Looking back, I’d say that the company’s 36 for customers’ benefits, such as the Shoppers’ Club Livemocha, a Seattle-based company, has created a website helping people learn more than 38 languages by electronic discount programme in the 1990s, have been just as important as the benefits to staff.” exchanging messages over the Internet and then 22 (correct) each other’s messages. The lessons, 23 But the employee benefits are 37 . Fundamentally, Wegmans believes in 38 development. As form they are in, are delivered online. well as scholarships, the company gives its employees business opportunities. For years, one employee made The CEO of Livemocha says the website’s advantage is the context 24 you may practice speaking with delicious cookies for her colleagues. She 39 started selling the cookies in Wegmans. ‘I just asked the a real person. “The great irony is that even if you have learned a foreign language in the classroom for years, you are manager,’ she says. ‘While looking back, I think I should have asked earlier. I could have made more money!’ not confident 25 (go) into a restaurant, striking up a conversation,” he said. The casual connections with real The staff’s freedom to make decisions is another thing you won’t find everywhere. Essentially, Wegmans wants 试题 第211页（共612页） 试题 第212页（共612页）……………… ○ ……………… 内 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… ……………… ○ ……………… 外 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… … 学 校 ： ______________ 姓 名 ： _____________ 班 级 ： _______________ 考 号 ： ______________________ its workers to do almost anything to 40 the customers. Believe it or not, an employee once cooked a 44．A．worsened B．measured C．improved D．affected Thanksgiving turkey in the store for a customer because the woman’s turkey, bought in Wegmans, was too big for 45．A．maintaining B．comprehending C．questioning D．sharing her oven. 46．A．working B．sleeping C．opening D．waking III. Reading Comprehension (45分) 47．A．replay B．pattern C．reality D．experience Section A 48．A．normally B．especially C．infrequently D．possibly Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A. B.C and D. 49．A．researchers B．subjects C．psychologists D．walkers Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context 50．A．reflected on B．forgot about C．engaged in D．referred to It’s late in the evening: time to close the book and turn off the computer. You’re done for the day. What you 51．A．in peace B．at rest C．in operation D．at work 52．A．store B．majority C．range D．collection may not realize, 41 , is that the learning process actually continues - in your dreams. 53．A．willingness B．ability C．desire D．tendency It might sound like science fiction, but researchers are increasingly 42 the relationship between the 54．A．benefits B．risks C．difficulties D．potential knowledge and skills our brains absorb during the day and the fragmented, often bizarre imaginings they 43 55．A．hits B．imagines C．leaves D．punches at night. Scientists have found that dreaming about a task we’ve learned is associated with 44 performance Section B in that activity (suggesting that there’s some truth to the popular notion that we’re “getting” a foreign language once Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished we begin dreaming in it). What’s more, researchers are coming to recognize that dreaming is an essential part of statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to understanding, organizing and 45 what we learn. While we sleep, research indicates, the brain replays the the information given in the passage you have just read. patterns of activity it experienced during 46 hours, allowing us to enter what one psychologist calls a neural A virtual reality. A vivid example of such 47 can be seen in a video researchers made recently about sleep When I first picked up Michelle Zauner’s memoir (自传) “Crying in H Mart”, I was attracted by the familiar disorders. They taught a series of dance moves to a group of patients with conditions like sleepwalking, in which the name of the local Korean market 10 minutes away from my house. Looking through its pages was no different from sleeper performs the kind of physical movement that does not 48 occur during sleep. They then videotaped looking through an old photo album (相册), reminding me of my old memories. And I wanted to look at each and the 49 as they slept. Lying in bed, eyes closed, one female patient on the tape 50 the dance every photo, up close. moves she learned earlier. Despite being a struggling artist making up for lost time with a sick mother, Zauner somehow made her This shows that while our bodies are 51 , our brains are drawing what’s important from the unique experiences relatable to her audience. One of the factors that helped make this possible was food. Every food information and events we’ve recently encountered, then integrating that data into the vast 52 of what and every aspect of Korean culture she described seemed so familiar to me, as I’m a Korean American. Not only we already know. this, we have similar experiences, and have common feelings of being torn apart by two cultures that seem to refuse In a 2010 study, researchers at Harvard Medical School reported that college students who dreamed about a to accept us just for being who we are. Zauner shone a new light on my attitude to my own identity. computer maze(迷宫)task they had learned showed a 10-fold improvement in their 53 to find their way In other ways, this relatability to such a specific target audience can become a weakness. This memoir was through the maze compared with the participants who did not dream about the task. obviously meant for a Korean, specifically a Korean American audience. With such a small audience of 0.6% of the Robert Stick-gold, one of the Harvard researchers, suggests that studying right before bedtime or taking a nap United States population in 2019, the story that Zauner wanted to tell would not be received by many. following a study session in the afternoon might increase the 54 of dreaming about the material. Think An avoidable point of the memoir that caused confusion could have been the organization of the timeline. about that as your head 55 the pillow tonight. Looking at the book as a whole, there was no specific order in which Zauner organized the events of her life. The 41．A．therefore B．otherwise C．instead D．however most effective way to do this would have been to progress through the book starting with her earliest memories with 42．A．focusing on B．experimenting with C．building up D．inquiring about her mother and ending with her moments of grieving (悲痛). 43．A．conceal B．generate C．dissolve D．remove 试题 第39页（共612页） 试题 第310页（共612页） 学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司……………… ○ ……………… 外 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… ……………… ○ ……………… 内 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… I felt thankful that I was able to discover such a novel that made me feel understood for the first time in years. Q4: What are your strengths? (The interviewer simply wants a straightforward answer as to what you are And most of all, I felt inspired that there are people like Zauner who make mistakes but try again. Even when the good at.) world tells them it’s too late, they try again Even when they feel lost, they try again and find a way. And there was A4: This is the one question that you are definitely going to get, so there is no excuse for being unprepared. one thing I was sure of after I read the book: I will try again. Concentrate on discussing your main strengths. List three or four explanations of how they could benefit the 此 56．Which factor of the book attracted the author? employer. Strengths to consider include technical proficiency; ability to learn quickly; determination to succeed; 卷 A．Korean audience. B．Korean families. positive attitude; your ability to relate to people and achieve a common goal. You may be asked to give examples of C．American culture. D．Similar experience. the above, so be prepared. 只 57．Which aspect of the book is discussed in paragraph 3? Q5: Tell me about the most difficult situation you’ve had to face and how you handled it. 装 A．Its small readership. B．Its difficult languages. (The interview is really trying to find out your definition of “difficult” and whether you can show a logical C．Its weak market in Korea. D．Its sales in America in 2019. approach to problem solving using your initiative.) 订 58．What is the author’s purpose in writing paragraph 4? A5: This can be a trap! To avoid it, select a difficult work situation that was not caused by you and which can 不 A．To point out one limitation of the book. be quickly explained in a few sentences. Explain how you defined the problem, what the options were, why you B．To describe Zauner’s life in order of time. 密 selected the one you did and what the outcome was. Always end on a positive note. C．To explain why he falls in love with the book. 60．The passage is mainly intended to ________. 封 D．To introduce an effective way to write a memoir. A．highlight the importance of looking positive in an interview 59．What did the author learn from reading “Crying in H Mart”? B．give suggestions on how to answer interview questions A．To be thankful. B．To stay positive. C．provide some sample answers to interview questions C．To understand others. D．To avoid making mistakes. D．illustrate how to look confident in an interview B 61．When asked about what you think of your present job, you’d better ________. Many questions can be expected in advance and it’s wise to have some well-constructed answers that you can A．talk about what you dislike about it tailor more closely on the day. It’s sensible to have a number of key phrases to use. Remember to always try and B．comment positively on your colleagues make your answers positive. C．relates it to the job you are applying for Q1: Tell me about yourself. (The interviewer is really saying “I want to hear you talk.”) D．describe how interesting it is as far as possible A1: This is just to get things started, but it is a very common question. Write a script, and practice it so that it 62．If an interviewer wants to know whether you can solve a problem properly, what will he ask? sounds natural. Spend a maximum of four minutes describing your qualifications, career history and your range of A．Tell me about yourself? skills. Emphasize those skills that are relevant to the job on offer. B．Tell me about your strengths? Q2: What have been your achievements to date? (The interviewer is saying “Are you an achiever?”) C．What have been your achievements to date? A2: Again, this is a common question, so be prepared. Select an achievement that is experience-related and D．How did you handle the most difficult situation? fairly recent. Identify skills you used in this achievement and say what the results were. Q3: What do you like about your present job? (The interviewer is really trying to find out whether you will C enjoy the things the new job has to offer.) While more and more scientists are working on nonfiction science books for the general reader, I think we A3: This is a straightforward question. All you have to make sure is that your ‘likes’ correspond to the skills etc. also need a change. required for the job on offer. Be positive, describe your job as interesting and diverse, but do not overdo it. After all, The typical expert-voiced monologues ( 独白) that scientists write are a wonderful component of the you are leaving? engagement effort, but the form is limited. Such books are largely ready people already willing to pick up a science 试题 第411页（共612页） 试题 第412页（共612页）……………… ○ ……………… 内 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… ……………… ○ ……………… 外 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… … 学 校 ： ______________ 姓 名 ： _____________ 班 级 ： _______________ 考 号 ： ______________________ book, or who are open to the authoritative academic’s voice telling them how to think. There are plenty of people 66．What is passage mainly about? who can engage with science but who find those kinds of books a sometimes unwelcome reminder of the classroom. A．A well-known writer who writes to promote science among the public. Following from my belief that science is for everyone, I suggest that publishers need to work with scientists to B．A possible way to get nonfiction science books to appeal to the public. expand the kinds of books on offer, assured that there is an audience for them. Progress is possible. Many years ago, C．A new approach to have the public get interested in new scientific ideas. I realized it is hard to find books on the nonfiction science shelf that let readers see themselves as part of the D．An easy access for the public to have a general idea of what science is. Section C conversation about science. So I thought about an entire book of conversations about science taking place between Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence ordinary people. While “overhearing” those conversations, readers learn some science ideas. It’s a resurrection of can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. the dialogue form, known to the ancient Greeks, and to Galileo, as a device for exchanging ideas, but with Soil conservation methods help farmers protect their land from the damage caused by farming and the forces contemporary settings: cafes, restaurants, trains and so on. of nature. One method of soil conservation is the use of windbreaks. Windbreaks are barriers formed by trees and I decided it would be engaging for the reader to actually see who’s having those conversations, and where, other plants. 67 instead of describing them in words. This led me to realize that I was thinking about a powerful form of visual Windbreaks help prevent the loss of soil. They stop the wind from blowing soil away. They also keep the wind storytelling: Graphic novels for adults have matured and exploded in popularity in recent years. Spiegelman’s from damaging or destroying crops. Windbreaks can be highly valuable for protecting grain crops. For example, “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” and Bechdel’s “Fun Home” are just two well-known examples. studies have been done on windbreaks in parts of West Africa. These studies found that grain harvests were as much But the storytelling tools of the graphic book have been little used to convey nonfiction science ideas to a as twenty percent higher in fields protected by windbreaks compared to fields without them. general adult audience. The vast majority of contemporary graphic books with a science focus are presented instead 68 They seem to work best when they allow some wind to pass through the barrier of trees or plants as “explainer/adventure comics” for younger audiences. This is an important genre, but graphic books about science around a field. If not, then the movement of air close to the ground will lift the soil. Then the soil will be blown should not be limited to that. away. And while there are several excellent graphic books for adults that include science, they typically focus For this reason, a windbreak works best if it contains only sixty to eighty percent of the trees and plants that instead on the lives of famous scientists, with discussion of the science itself as a secondary goal. Some excellent would be needed to make a solid line. An easy rule to remember is that windbreaks can protect areas up to ten times recent examples that balance the two aspects well include Ottaviani arid Myrick’s “Feyrunan” and Doxiadis and the height of the tallest trees in the windbreak. Papadimitriou’s “Logicomix”. The scarcity of science-focused non-biographical (非自传体的) graphic books for There should be at least two lines in each windbreak. 69 The second line, right next to it, can be adults is especially true in my field of physics. So I decided that here was an opportunity to broaden the kinds of shorter trees and other plants with leaves. Locally grown trees and plants are considered the best choices for nonfiction science book available to engage the public. windbreaks. 63．It can be inferred from Para.2 that the expert-voiced monologues don’t appeal to _________. Windbreaks not only protect land and crops from the wind. Surplus trees can be cut down and used or sold for A．those who are interested in scientific ideas wood. B．those who have no talents for scientific research Trees reduce the damaging effects of wind and rain. Their roots help protect soil from being washed away. C．those who would like to know how scientists think And trees can provide another valuable service for agriculture. 70 D．those who think science classes in school are uninteresting A．Crops in fields can be protected by windbreaks. 64．The word “resurrection” (in paragraph 3) most probably means _________. B．Farmers plant these barriers around their fields. A．announcement B．comeback C．explanation D．representation C．One line should be large trees. 65．According to the writer, which might be the best form of nonfiction science books for general readers? D．But here is something interesting about windbreaks. A．A collection of scientists’ life stories. B．A book written by a Nobel Prize winner. E．Then the soil will be washed away. C．An adventure novel focusing on science.D．A comic book conveying scientific ideas. 试题 第59页（共612页） 试题 第510页（共612页） 学学科科网网（（北北京京））股股份份有有限限公公司司……………… ○ ……………… 外 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… ……………… ○ ……………… 内 ……………… ○ ……………… 装 ……………… ○ ……………… 订 ……………… ○ ……………… 线 ……………… ○ ……………… F．They can provide grazing animals with shade from the sun Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72．缺乏配合是昨天我们比赛失利的原因吗？(blame) IV. Summary Writing （10分） Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in NO 73．山顶矗立着一座始建于唐朝的古寺庙。(stand) 此 MORE THAN 60 WORDS. Use your own words as far as possible. Is fruit getting sweeter? 74．也许了解西方艺术的最好方法是看看西方绘画几个世纪以来的发展。(approach) 卷 Is modern fruit bred to be sweeter than in the past? The short answer is yes, though the longer answer is more 只 complicated. Some of the most powerful evidence that fruit is sweeter than before comes from zoos. In 2018, it was 75．断网意味着与电子设备保持距离，腾出时间去冥想，在大自然中敞开心扉，这已成为一些当代人的生 装 reported that Melbourne Zoo in Australia had stopped giving fruit to most of its animals because cultivated fruit was 存工具。（involve） now so sweet. 订 Among fruit breeders, the word “quality” is now routinely used as a synonym for “high in sugar”. In 2010, a VI. Guided Writing （25分） 不 group of scientists wrote in an article that “in general, the sugar content” of many fruits is now higher than before Direction: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. “owing to continuous selection and breeding.” Modern apple varieties, the scientists noted, were on average sweeter 假如你是明启中学的高二学生王磊，学校计划在期中考试之后组织学生秋游，有两个目的地可以选择：上 密 海博物馆或世纪公园。学校委托学生会就秋游的目的地选择征询全年级学生的意见，请你写一封信，表达 than older cultivars. 封 With the rise in sweeter fruit, our expectations of how fruit should taste have also changed. Whether we are 自己的想法，你的信中应包括： 1．你的选择； talking about apples or peaches, Europeans and Americans tend to favor fruit that is both acid and sweet, whereas in 2．你的理由。 Asia, the most popular fruit is intensely sweet with hardly any acidity. In Asian countries, the “honey” flavors of _____________________________________________________________________________________________ low-acid peaches are much appreciated, while European consumers prefer peaches that are slightly acidic. All around the world, the common thread in what people want from fruit is sweetness. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ But the excessive sweetness of modern fruit is not without its problems, especially for people with diabetes, _____________________________________________________________________________________________ who have to be careful to moderate their intake of higher-sugar fruits such as pineapple. Health aside, maybe the real _____________________________________________________________________________________________ problem with modern fruit is that it has become yet another sweet thing in a world full of sugar. Even grapefruit, which used to be encouragingly bitter, is sometimes now as sweet as oranges. Fruit that is bred for one-dimensional _____________________________________________________________________________________________ sweetness, as opposed to aroma or texture, denies us some of the contrast and variety of life. If you have never tasted _____________________________________________________________________________________________ a sour cherry, how can you fully appreciate a sweet one? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 71.___________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ V. Translation （15分） 试题 第611页（共612页） 试题 第612页（共612页）