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1、2023年湖北省孝感市高二1月期末考试高二英语试卷考试时间：2023年1月8日上午8: 00-10: 00试卷满分：150分注意事项：I、答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定的位置上。2、回答选择题时，选出每题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动， 先用橡皮擦干净后，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，写在试卷 上无效。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
2、题和阅读下一小题。每段对 话仅读一遍。1. Where docs the conversation probably take place?C. On a bus.C. Folk.C. Give her a lift.C. Go to a movie.A. In a library.B. In a dining hall.2. What docs the woman say about her job?A. It has proper working hours.B. It has too many women workers.C. It has too few female workers.
3、3. What kind of music do the speakers both like?A. Jazz.B. Classical.4. What does Alex offer to do for the woman?A. Take her to a meeting. B. Lend her his car.5. What will the girl do tomorrow?A. Watch TV.B. Take a test.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
4、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. What does the man suggest doing?C. Going outdoors.C. October 24th.A. Mailing a letter.B. Having a cup of tea.7. What does the woman ask the man to do?A. Go to the park first.B. Look for her at the tea house.C. Finish the letter
5、 for her.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What is the date today?A. October 22nd.B. October 23rd.9. How old was the United Nations in 2020?A. 80 years old.B. 75 years old.C. 45 years old.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.Who helped the woman check the car this morning?A. Jack.B. The man.C. A mechanic.11.What is the salesman goi
6、ng to do?A. Stick to a high price.B. Give a discount.C. Ask for cash payment.12.What does the man offer to do for the woman?A. Lend money to her.B. Take care of her car.C. Drive her car home.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。What is the relationship between the speakers?C. Husband and wife.C. Angry.C. Near Buckingha
7、m Palace.A. Neighbors.B. Colleagues.13. What did the man do this afternoon?A. He did his work.B. He fixed his computer.C. He look some exercise.14. What does the woman want the man to do?A. Stop playing a musical instrument.B. Go out somewhere.C. Help her with the paper.15. How does the man feel abo
8、ut the womans request?A. Embarrassed.B. Astonished.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。16. Where is the finish line?A. Outside London.B. At Greenwich.17. What was last years record time?A. 2 hours 17 minutes 16 seconds.B. 2 hours 18 minutes 16 seconds.C. 2 hours 22 minutes 16 seconds.18. Who was the youngest person t
9、o finish the race so far?A. Betty Omary.B. Shelly Mortimer.C. Ian Britton.19. When will the detailed report about the event be broadcast?A. At 7:15 p.m.B. Al 7:50 p.m.C. At 7:55 p.m.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。AConservation Volunteers for Endangered Animals OverviewThe prog
10、ram in Australia is meant for all those animal lovers who want to volunteer abroad for a meaningful cause and contribute effectively towards the well-being of the native animals. Being a volunteer, youll get to work at a rescue center or a shelter, which has lots of animals in care al any given time
11、. Program RequirementsVolunteers must be 18 years or older, with an open mind and a flexible attitude for working in a new and different environment. The program is open to all and you do not need any necessary qualifications to join it. Participants should be prepared to work outdoors and should be
12、 fit and healthy. Volunteers must note that this is a hands-off project and you are not allowed to touch animals unless given specific permission. Volunteer Roles & ResponsibilitiesAs a volunteer for this program, your daily activities may consist of: preparing food for （he animals cleaning the anim
13、al enclosures （围场） keeping the project grounds clean and tidy During Your Free TimeVolunteers can choose to spend time in Gladstone or explore sonic of the interesting things to do in the surrounding areas. The Great Barrier Reef is a good choice for volunteers to do a dive course or a liveaboard （船
14、宿）.Only minutes from the project location is Gladstones famous natural landmark Mount Larcom. 1（ is commonly referred to as the “lion mountairT because it looks like a lion and a lioness which arc facing each other. At the heart of the city is Goondoon Street, where volunteers can explore the Librar
15、y Square, the site of the citys monthly produce and arts and crafts market.20. What is required for the participants of the program?A. Having related volunteer experience.B. Being brave to touch rare animals.C. Being in good physical condition.D. Working effectively under varied situations.21. What
16、arc volunteers expected to do every day?A. Join the animal rescue directly.B. Provide animals with food.C. Build the animal enclosures.D. Raise money fbr endangered animals.22. People often refer to Mount Larcom as the “lion mountain because.A. it looks like a pair of lions.B. it is a habitat for li
17、ons.C. it shows respect to lions.D. it protects endangered lion species.BA year ago, I decided to create a more environmentally friendly kitchen, focusing on reducing the single-use products such as plastic bags and paper towels. Im not going to sugarcoat my experience. It takes commitment and willi
18、ngness to change long-held habits. In creating my kitchen. I tried a lot of different alternative products and some old common sense and the result, has been worth the effort. Im recycling more and relying less on single-use products and Im saving money, too.Im not kidding when I say that I used to
19、really love plastic storage bags, so this was, perhaps, the biggest challenge for me. Switching to reusable storage bags is a financial investment, but the cost is reasonable considering （hat I previously spent al least $100 annually on single-use plastic bags and wrap. I will check online regularly
20、 for recycling updates, where a zero-waste box for kitchen items is offered, from party supplies to mixed-material food containers.Im a clean freak （狂热爱好者）and used to go through an amount of paper towels on a daily basis, but its easy enough to cut up some old T-shirts or towels to wipe down surface
21、s. Im also a fan of bamboo paper towels, which have the look and feel of traditional paper towels. They are made from a highly renewable source and also break down in just 45 days. Belter yet, they can be reused up to 100 times. As for kitchen sponges （海绵擦），I keep an eye out for those made with natu
22、ral and recyclable materials.When purchasing household items online from companies like Amazon or Jet, I will ask to have them shipped in as few boxes as possible or as small a box as possible if a single item is to be sent. Til let the company know that they should pay more attention to how to pack
23、age items for delivery.23. What is the authors main purpose of creating her kitchen?A. To save as much money as possible.B. To change her long-held habits.C. To reduce waste and recycle more.D. To make it cleaner and more practical.24. What does the underlined word “sugarcoat” in Paragraph 1 mean?A.
24、 Pay attention to.B. Get rid of.C. Get interested in something.D. Make something attractive.25. What docs the author do in the process of creating her kitchen?A. She begins to recycle more single-use plastic bags.B. She checks online regularly to buy zero-wasle boxes.C. She chooses to use the recycl
25、able or reusable kitchen items.D. She uses a large amount of paper towels on a daily basis.26. What can we learn about ihe author from （he text?A. She is accustomed to using traditional paper towels.B. She has strong environmental awareness.C. She has a good knowledge of financial investment.D. She
26、prefers to have her purchases packed in small boxes.CBees arent the only insects pollinating （给授粉）red clover. Moths （飞蛾）do about athird of the flower visits after dark, new research suggests. The discovery stresses what researchers may be missing in researching into the night shift of plant pollinat
27、ion, including a previously unknown benefit of the moth pollination to the clovera boost in seed production.This work may help deepen scientists understanding of the pollination services provided by nighttime moths. For about a century, the general understanding of clover pollination has been that b
28、ees -and bees alonearc the key insect players. uClovcr is a valuable agricultural plant and has received a lot of studies/* says Jamie Alison, a pollinator ecologist at Aarhus University in Denmark. Yet, none of those studies have said anything about the possibility of moth pollination.Alison and hi
29、s colleagues discovered moths pollination role while studying how plants and their insect pollinators would respond to climate change by moving uphill. To record the exact pollinators that would go to grassland plants, the team set up 15 time-lapse （延时）cameras in the Swiss Alps. The method allowed A
30、lison and his colleagues to investigate nighttime visitors. In all, the team collected more than 164.000 photos of red clover flowers, with 44 of these images capturing visits by insect pollinators.Most of Ihese flower honey seekerssome 61%were bumblebees. But a substantial proportion （比例）一34%were m
31、oths, mostly large yellow underwings, visiting in the early morning hours. Butterflies and either a wasp or another bee species finished the other 5 percent of the visits.“Moths are well-known as regular pollinators of many other plants, but their role in clover pollination seems to have been overlo
32、oked. Alison says. He and his colleagues also investigated how many seeds the clover flowers produced, and they had a happy surprise.“Its clear that the role of nighttime moths as pollinators of crops has largely been ignored/ Funamoto, a pollination biologist at【he University of Tokyo, says. T thin
33、k future studies will reveal many plant species that are thought to be dependent on pollination by daytime insects are actually pollinated by nighttime moths, to some extent.”What was deeply rooted in scientists mind about clover pollination?A. It posed risks to other plants.B. It merely depended on
34、 bees.C. It ruined the production of clover seeds.D. It failed to be carried out al night.27. Why did the researchers use the 15 time-lapse cameras?A. To record pollinators visiting grassland plants.B. To study the effect of climate change on insect pollinators.C. To record （he changeable conditions
35、 in the Swiss Alps.D. To capture more images of different insects.28. What did ihe researchers think of their research result?A. They felt astonished at that.B. They thought it was disappointing.C. They believed it needed further confirmation.D. They thought it was influenced by many factors.29. Wha
36、t would be the best title for the text?A. Moths Draw the Attention of ResearchersB. Scientists Are Looking for Night PollinatorsC. Scientists Find a Way to Help Clover FlowersD. Moths Are Found to Pollinate Clover Flowers at NightDMusic is a part of every culture around the world. In fact, the abili
37、ty to appreciate music is built into our brains. Music makes us feel good. Many music studies look at the long-term benefits of being a music listener or participating in a music program as a child. But can listening to music help us connect and empathize （产生共鸣）with someone right at the moment? A ne
38、w study aims to find it out.In this study, 60 university students were asked to watch several 15-second videos in which a person describes an autobiographical （自传体的）experience. In some cases, people in the video talk about a relatively ordinary event, like moving into a new apartment, while other st
39、ories contain strong emotional content, like recalling a terrible accident or a loved ones death.While students watched these videos, the researchers randomly played either emotionally neutral （中立的）“ music or very sad music in the background. After watching each video, the students expressed how muc
40、h sympathy they had for the person in the video, and how much they wanted to help that person. They were also tested on their social reasoning skills-how well they understood the persons thinking method in the video. All of these could be signs of empathic connection （同感沟通）.Results showed that peopl
41、e watching the sad videos fell more sadness themselves and more sympathy for the other person than those watching the neutral videos-not a big surprise. But these empathic feelings were strengthened by listening to sad music. The music had no effect, however, on whether or not the students could rea
42、son out the other person k experience and understand what they might be thinking or feeling.While music is not the only way other art forms, like fiction and dancing, have also been shown to increase empathy, for examplemusic could be a powerful tool. *Itd be very interesting to extend our finding f
43、urther, to see if listening to music in a social context can improve our real-world ability to empathize with and feel sympathy for others in the long term J says the lead researcher Brennan McDonald.30. What does the new study want to find out?A. Whether music can benefit us.B. Whether music can ar
44、ouse genuine emotions.C. Whether music can improve the social effect.D. Whether music programs can increase our confidence.31. What were the participants required to do during the study?A. To film a short autobiographical video.B. To share one of their miserable experiences.C. To think up ways lo he
45、lp the person in need.D. To watch videos while listening to different background music.32. Which of the following belongs to the opinion of （he researchers?A. We can increase our sympathy by using some music.B. Music helps us understand others5 thinking processes.C. Most adults are much more emotion
46、al than children.D. Music can influence us both emotionally and intellectually.33. What will the researcher Brennan probably do next?A. Study different types of music.B. Test the long-term effect of music on people.C. Find more ways to make people more caring.D. Compare the effect of music with that
47、 of other art forms.第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选 项。Trust is the basic foundation of any relationship in both professional and personal capacity. Here are some ways to build trust and be truslwonhy.Be always honest. Honesty is a virtue that must be cultivated （培养
48、）fully if you desire to establish trust with others. Half-truths and white lies are a recipe for disaster. 36Communicate effectively. Poor communication is one of the main reasons why trust is unable to be sustained （维持）in any environment. The failure to clarify your stand may lead to unpleasant assumption. 37 If you want to avoid any issues, its important to communicate openly and freely with other involved parlies in the beginning. Promises are not meant to be broken. Once you make a