2021-2022學年廣東省佛山一中高二（上）期中英語試卷
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第一部分 聽力（共兩節(jié)，滿分12分）第一節(jié) 聽力理解 （共3小題；每小題4分，滿分12分）材料及問題播放兩遍。每段后有兩個小題， 各段播放前有5秒鐘的閱題時間。請根據(jù)各段播放內(nèi)容及其相關小題的問題， 在5秒鐘內(nèi)從題中所給的A、B、C項中， 選出最佳選項， 并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
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1．（1）A.Walk straight.
B.Go left.
C.Go right.
（2）A.To a museum.
B.To a bank.
C.To a post office.組卷：0引用：1難度：0.9 -
2．（1）A.The monthly reports.
B.The weekly tests.
C.The term paper.
（2）A.By looking through the books.
B.By reading the magazines.
C.By doing the interviews.組卷：0引用：1難度：0.9 -
3．（1）A.Around 12 at noon.
B.Around 1：00 pm.
C.Around 2：00 pm.
（2）A.Its model.
B.Its color.
C.Its number.組卷：0引用：1難度：0.9
第二節(jié) 回答問題 （共1小題；每小題8分，滿分8分）
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4．聽下面一段材料，然后回答問題．材料及問題讀兩遍．
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（4）組卷：3引用：4難度：0.9
第二部分 閱讀（共兩節(jié)，滿分37.5分）第一節(jié) 閱讀理解（共4小題；每小題2.5分，滿分37.5分）閱讀下列短文， 從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中， 選出最佳選項， 并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
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AQUILA works as a superb learning extension to current primary （or KS2 and KS3）curriculum （課程），but it is much more than that!Entertaining and always surprising，AQUILA is recommended because it widens children's interest and understanding，rather than encouraging them to concentrate only on their favourite subjects.It gives children a well-rounded understanding of the world，in all its complexity.
The concepts in AQUILA can be challenging，requiring good comprehension and reading skills.Eight years is usually a good age to start.Some gentle interest from an adult is often helpful at the start.
In 2021 AQUILA will have been in publication for 29 years，but it has never appeared in newsstands or shops.We are subscription only.
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（1）What is special about AQUILA？
A．It is available in shops.
B．It is for kids of all ages.
C．It prints readers' artwork.
D．It has no advertisements.
（2）What does AQUILA offer its readers？
A．Articles on modern art.
B．Family reading materials.
C．Knowledge beyond school subjects.
D．Ideas on improving reading skills.
（3）Who are the target readers of AQUILA？
A．Foreign language learners.
B．Children with learning difficulties.
C．Parent-child reading lovers.
D．Curious kids with good comprehension.組卷：3引用：2難度：0.5 -
6．Author Walter Dean Myers died at the age of 76 after a brief illness.Walter Dean Myers was the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults and received many top awards.
The prolific author was loved for his vivid description of the lives of African American children，and for writing books for young people that covered different subjects. "Myers has written about all those subjects with deep understanding and a hardwon，qualified sense of hope， " said Leonard S.Marcus in 2008.
He was born in 1937 and was adopted by Florence Dean and Herbert after his mother died while giving birth to his younger sister.They loved him very much and his mother read to him from a very young age.Reading pushed him to discover worlds beyond his landscape.
He began writing at an early age.He wrote well in high school and an English teacher recognized this and advised him to keep on writing no matter what happened to him. "It's what you do， " she said.
He dropped out of high school at 17 and joined the army.After finishing his service，he entered a dark period in his life.Myers began writing at night to pull himself through that miserable time.In an essay published in The New York Times earlier this year，Myers described how a short story by James Arthur Baldwin helped change the course of his life. "I didn't love the story，but I was lifted by it， " he wrote， "for it took place in Harlem，and it was a story concerned with black people like those I knew.By humanizing the people who were like me，Baldwin's story also humanized me.The story gave me a permission that I didn't know I needed，the permission to write about my own landscape，my own map."
"I write books for the troubled boy I once was， " he wrote， "and for the boy who lives within me still."
（1）What does the second paragraph mainly talk about？
A．How popular Myers was.
B．How Myers became successful.
C．What makes Myers' works popular.
D．What people think of Myers' works.
（2）What does the underlined word "prolific" in Paragraph 2 probably mean？
A．Productive.
B．Wealthy.
C．Conservative.
D．Humorous.
（3）Who discovered Myers' writing talent？
A．James Arthur Baldwin.
B．His mother.
C．Leonard S.Marcus.
D．One of his teachers.
（4）Why was the short story by James Arthur Baldwin so important for Myers？
A．It helped him survive the dark period.
B．It inspired him to pursue his writing career.
C．He learned many writing techniques from it.
D．The author of the story permitted him to write.組卷：2引用：2難度：0.5 -
7．During a decline in tourism，one national park in Thailand has seen a dramatic rise in "visitors" recently.So many are the hermit crabs （寄居蟹） flooding into the otherwise empty beaches of Koh Lanta that shells （貝殼） for them to live in have become in short supply.
The Thai government moved quickly to ease the housing shortage，launching a public appeal for empty shells that netted over 200 kg.On December 5 these were distributed around the park in a ceremony.
Hermit crabs rely on shells to protect their soft bodies，moving to larger shells as they grow.On Koh Lanta and the surrounding smaller islands，their rapid increase seems to be a natural phenomenon，rather than directly related to the absence of tourists.But the shortage of shells may be man-made：pretty ones have long been gathered to be sold as goods.Crabs had begun to make do with potential death-traps such as plastic caps and bottles.
The shell drive was part of a government initiative to "regain the balance of nature". "I have instructed all national parks to do whatever it takes，" says Varawut Silpa-archa，the minister for natural resources.His inspiration comes from the pause in tourism brought on by COVID-19.A ban on international visitors and the closure of national parks have helped nature recover，bringing endangered leatherback turtles back onto Thai beaches.In the coastal provinces of Phang Nga and Phuket，turtles have laid the largest number of eggs for 20 years.
The government has decided to try to copy the short break forced on it by COVID-19 in future.From now on，all national parks will be required to close for a short period during the off-season and to limit the number of tourists through a reservation system when they are open.Although such restrictions mean reduced earnings from tourism in the short term，in the longer run more parks may help to keep the tourists coming.
（1）What happened to the beaches of Koh Lanta recently？
A．They got flooded by seawater.
B．They became completely empty.
C．They were packed with hermit crabs.
D．They saw a constant stream of tourists.
（2）What contributed to the housing shortage for hermit crabs？
A．Natural disasters.
B．Human activities.
C．Their preference for bottles.
D．The government's involvement.
（3）Why are turtles mentioned in Paragraph 4？
A．To warn turtles are dying out.
B．To prove beaches are their ideal habitats.
C．To stress ecological diversity of Thailand.
D．To show the birth of Varawut's inspiration.
（4）Which of the following can be the best title for the text？
A．Keeping the Balance of Nature
B．COVID-19 Helping Nature Recover
C．Finding Shelters for Homeless Hermit Crabs
D．Closing National Parks or Drawing More Visitors組卷：3引用：3難度：0.5 -
8．Artificial intelligence （AI） still can't see the future，but a new algorithm （算法） may come close：using nothing but written movie summaries，the AI can consistently tell which films will play well-or awfully-to critics and audiences.If the model can be further improved，it could one day help producers predict whether a movie will be a failure at the box office，before it's even made.
To test several models，researchers used plot summaries of 42，306 movies from all over the world，many collected from Wikipedia.The models broke the summaries by sentence and used something called sentiment （情感） analysis to analyze each one.Sentences considered "positive"，such as "Thor loves his hammer"，would receive a rating closer to positive one.And sentences that were considered "negative"，like "Thor gets in a fight" would be rated closer to negative one.
Generally，successful movies such as 1951's Alice in Wonderland-which scored 80% on the movie-rating website Rotten Tomatoes-have frequent waves in sentiment；unsuccessful ones，such as 2009's The Limits of Control，vary less.It's not important whether the films begin or end happily，the researchers say.What's important is that the sentiments change frequently.
The sentiment ratings in each summary were then simplified into a single score to reflect how often the sentiment changed.The researchers tested three different methods of arriving at a final score.All three could predict fairly accurately whether a movie would be unpopular，and one method worked especially well for guessing which thrillers and comedies reviewers would hate.
The methods were not as efficient at guessing which movies would succeed，but they still predicted the results more accurately than random chance.In the future，the researchers say their methods could be bettered to predict the amount a movie could earn at the box office and help producers decide which movies to invest in.The system's fair judgment might give an advantage to less well-known writers，the researchers add.It could also potentially save the public from having to sit through films like Jaws：The Revenge，which online critics and audience alike rate as terrible.
（1）How can AI help foresee the future of movies？
A．By testing plot models.
B．By using sentiment analysis.
C．By writing summaries.
D．By consulting critics and audiences.
（2）What is the key factor for a successful movie according to the researchers？
A．A happy ending.
B．Famous movie stars.
C．A well-known producer.
D．Frequent sentiment changes.
（3）What benefit will the methods possibly bring？
A．Helping producers invest wisely.
B．Assessing a movie's quality accurately.
C．Increasing box office earnings.
D．Providing written summaries for critics.
（4）What's the researchers' attitude to the model？
A．Doubtful.
B．Cautious.
C．Optimistic.
D．Ambiguous.組卷：4引用：5難度：0.5
第二節(jié) 選句填空（共1小題；每小題2.5分， 滿分12.5分）
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9．Handwritten thank-you letters are such a simple way of making other people feel good，it is strange that so few people write them anymore.At work，a thank-you letter to employees is unbelievably effective.It costs little and has no side effects.The effort involved in writing letters is very low.The pleasure on receiving them is very high. （1）
Doug Conant，manager of Campbell's Soup Company since 2001，knows the power of thank you letters.He said that every day he works with an assistant，searching the company for people deserving thanks. （2）Over the past 10 years he has sent 30，000 thank-you letters to his employees — more than 10 each day.The reward is huge：his company has remained one of the most successful in its field for years.
（3）There seem to be three reasons.Firstly，chief executives （主管） running companies think their own work is more valuable than that of others.（4）Secondly，they aren't close enough to the business to know who deserves thanks.Thirdly，they have forgotten the strange human truth that almost everyone would do almost anything in return for a few words of appreciation.
In these days of such busy schedules and people running all over the place and trying to get ahead，sometimes we forget the simplest things in life are the most powerful and rewarding.You need to think to yourself about a time someone sent you a thank-you and how much it meant to you. （5）
A.He then writes them a thank-you letter.
B.Why are thank-you letters so important？
C.You may ask what side effects exactly mean.
D.This makes them an excellent way to reward and motivate staff.
E.But if these letters are so inspiring，why don't more managers write them？
F.Always remember to "Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you!"
G.Since no one ever writes them thank-you letters，they don't write any themselves.組卷：4引用：4難度：0.5
第三部分 語言知識及應用（共兩節(jié)，滿分15分）第一節(jié) 完形填空 （共1小題；每小題15分，滿分15分）閱讀下面短文， 從短文后各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C、D）中， 選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項， 并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
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10．Nolan Barry，8，and Thomas MacKeen，9，were on their way home from school in Atkinson，N.H.，with three other students on Tuesday when their ride took a scary turn.The driver （1）
a medical emergency and （2），but the bus was still moving.
Nolan usually sits at the front of the bus，where he can see the driver.Because of Nolan's （3），he was somewhat familiar with the bus （4）.Although he forgot which button to press，he figured it out in time.Fortunately，Nolan （5）the emergency braking （剎車） system which also turns on the flashing red lights，putting the （6）sign and safety bar out.
But they weren't out of the woods yet；and they couldn't（7）how to open the doors.Thomas was the oldest students on the bus （in the fourth grade） and he was able to （8）the other students down and get them back into their seats.
Another student，8-year-old David Silva，was also on the bus.Luckily，David's father，Jesse Silva，was just down the road waiting for the school bus to deliver his child，and he noticed the kids （9）the windshield （擋風玻璃） and saying "help".
The father ran over to the bus and （10）to get in.He saw the driver on the floor and the students were all shaken up.He tried unsuccessfully to（11）the driver — her eyes opened but she wasn't communicating.But that's when the paramedics （護理人員） arrived.The bus driver was （12），but the cause of the collapse is still unclear.It is clear that she was very（13）to have the boys on board when this all happened.
And they do feel like （14）， "kind of，" Nolan said when interviewed.But they're not letting it get to their （15）. "Not like Superman.Not like that."（1） A．received B．suffered C．discovered D．broadcast （2） A．passed out B．went mad C．threw up D．broke down （3） A．talents B．interactions C．observations D．judgments （4） A．structure B．functions C．controls D．route （5） A．destroyed B．fixed C．checked D．started （6） A．danger B．stop C．road D．position （7） A．make out B．explain C．figure out D．imagine （8） A．pull B．let C．put D．calm （9） A．beating B．wiping C．painting D．watching （10） A．meant B．hesitated C．failed D．managed （11） A．wake B．inform C．feed D．comfort （12） A．a(chǎn)rrested B．interviewed C．treated D．a(chǎn)ccused （13） A．sorry B．confused C．clever D．lucky （14） A．fools B．heroes C．experts D．drivers （15） A．heads B．eyes C．hands D．feet 組卷：2引用：2難度：0.5
第二節(jié) 完成句子（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）閱讀下列各小題，根據(jù)括號內(nèi)的漢語提示，用句末括號內(nèi)英語單詞完成句子，并把答案填寫在答題卷相應的位置上。
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31．So far，lots of people
（抱怨） the noise around the residential area. （about）組卷：1引用：1難度：0.6
第三節(jié)書面表達（滿分25分）
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32．假定你是李華，下周將參加主題為 "I'm growing up" 的英語演講比賽。請結合自己的高中生活，寫一篇英文演講稿，反思得失（可以從學業(yè)表現(xiàn)、人際交往、身體鍛煉、情緒管理等方面中選取兩到三個角度考慮），并展望自己未來的高中生活。
注意：1.詞數(shù)120左右；
2.文中不得出現(xiàn)學校及自己的真實名稱等信息；
3.開頭和結尾已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)。
Good morning，ladies and gentlemen!
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Thank you for listening!組卷：3引用：3難度：0.3