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1、辽宁省沈阳市沈阳重点高中联合体2022-2023学年高二下学期5月期中英语试题学校:姓名：班级：考号：一、阅读理解A lot of people like movies and films. They can add thrill and imaginations to our lives. Find the latest movie reviews here.Family RomanceLove is a business at Family Romance-a company that offers the rental service. Founder Yuichi Ishii help
2、s fulfill the dreams of his clients. Mahiros mother will hire Ishii to play as her missing father. And reality will begin to be unclear.Critics Consensus （共识）：It is a fascinating exploration of human connection and follows an unconventional path.MulanThe fearless and spirited eldest daughter of an h
3、onoured warrior, Mulan is the apple of her fathers eye. To save her aging father from serving in the Imperial Army, clever Mulan disguises （乔装）herself as a man soldier named “Ping” to bravely take her fathers place in the Imperial Army to battle northern invaders in China.Critics Consensus: It could
4、 have told its classic story with greater depth, but the live-action Mulan is a visual improvement.GreenlandA family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet （彗星）races to Earth. John Garrity （Gerard Butler）, his wife Allison and young son Nathan make a dangerous journey to their only hope for r
5、efuge （避难）.Among terrifying news, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity while they battle the increasing panic and lawlessness surrounding them.Critics Consensus: Beware, comets of Greenland: Gerard Butler, is here to protect Earth and show audiences an improbably entertaining time.
6、Black BoxHaving lost his wife and his memory in a tragic car accident, the news photographer Nolan Wright is desperate. After losing his wife and memory, Nolan Wright, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.Critics Consensus: An interesting w
7、ork of writer-director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, suffering from heavy loss of water and heat exhaustion, lifting its head with great effort to lap （舔）up the water cupped in my boy*s hands.注意：1 .所续写短文的词数应为150左右；2 .请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答.Paragraph 1:When the water was gone, Billy jumped up to run back to the
8、house. I followed himback to the tap.Paragraph 2:This time I joined him, with a small pot of water from the kitchen.Black Box makes up for a lack of surprises with strong performances and an emotionally rewarding story.1. Which movie should have presented a better story according to critics?A. Famil
9、y Romance, B. Malan.C , Greenland.D. Black Box.2. If you like seeing science fictions, which one would you choose?A. Family Romance. B. Mulan.C Greenland.D. Black Box.3. . In which section of the newspaper can you read this text?A. Advertisement. B. Science.C. News Report. D. Entertainment.Since her
10、 first publication in 1968, Louise Cluck has been no stranger to awards over her long and well-known career. In 1993, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poems, The Wild Iris. And on October 8, she became the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature.Often said to be an autobiogra
11、phical （自 传体的）poet, drawing from the inner parts of her life, Gluck is not to be regarded as a selfreflecting poet, she seeks the universal； Nobel Committee Chair Anders Olsson said in a statement. Gluck, 77, the author of 12 poetry collections, has been able to turn her life experiences into univer
12、sal themes covering death, loss, and isolation. Because ofthis, readers have often found her poetry to be dark”.However, there is much more than darkness in her voice, as noted by Olsson. “It is straightforward and. also a voice full of humor and insight,“ said Olsson. In her poem Snowdrops, Gluck u
13、ses the coming of spring after winter to show rebirth of life after death. She leads readers down a depressing path only to reconnect with the light at the near end. At the conclusion of the poem, readers are left to feel the “raw wind of the new world as they watch a new spring. This is often the c
14、ase in Glucks poetry, being able to feel joy even after not having done so for a long time.Although shes already a well-known writer, experienced in exploring trauma （创伤）and healing, Gluck did feel honored to be given the Nobel award. However, when asked what the prize means to her, the lyric poet r
15、esponded by saying, Its too new. I dont know really what it means. My only hope is to preserve my daily liffe.”4. What does the underlined word this in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. Combining daily life with literature.B. Making individual existence universal.C , Deepening the meaning of being positive.D.
16、 Turning simple language into poetic voice.5. The third paragraph is mainly written toA. display the process of Glucks writingB. interpret what a poem can bring aboutC. illustrate Glucks unique writing styleD. show how Cluck keeps her own style6. What can be inferred about Cluck from the last paragr
17、aph?A. She is self-centered.C . She seeks for truth of life.7. What is the text mainly about?A. A woman9s fight fbr fame.C. What hard work can do.B. She is well-mannered.D. She has a low-key attitude.8. A famous poefs career.D. How a poet was shaped.You are just waking up in the spring of 2030. Your
18、 Internet of Things bedroom opens solar powered e-windows and plays gentle music while your smart lighting displays a montage （剪辑）of beachfront sunrises from your recent vacation.Your shower uses very little water or soap. It recycles your grey water and puts the extra heat back into your homes oper
19、ating system. While you dress, your artificial intelligence （AI） assistant shares your schedule for the day and plays your favorite tunes.You still start your day with a coffee but it comes from your refrigerator which is capable of providing a coffeehouse experience in your home. A hot breakfast ta
20、ilored to your specific nutritional needs based on chemical analysis from your trips to the smart toilet” is waiting for you in the kitchen.When its time to leave, an on-demand transport system has three cars waiting for you, your wife （or husband） and your kids. On the road, driverless cars and tru
21、cks move with mathematical accuracy, without traffic jams, routine maintenance or road rage （路怒）. Accident rates are near zero.On the way, you call your R&D team, who are enveloping a days work in Shanghai.Your life-sized image is projected （投射）into the China Innovation Centre and your colleague
22、s see you as if you were sitting in the room. Its a bit surreal fbr them to see you in the morning light given that its dark on the Bund, Shanghais waterfront, though the novelty disappears after a few uses.You review the days cloud-based data from your Shenzhen manufacturing centre, your pilot proj
23、ect in San Diego and your QA team in Melbourne. The large amounts of data sets were collected in real-time from every piece of equipment and have been beautifully summarised by your companys AL All these facilities are closely maintained and operated through an advanced predictive analytics （分析学）pla
24、tform.Pleased with the teams progress, you end the call and ease into a good book.This is the future and it will be here sooner than you think.8. How can we describe the life in the future?A. Artificial.B. Accurate.C. Intelligent.D. Individual.9. What can we do in the year 2030 according to the pass
25、age?A. There will be no accident on the street.B. We can have a bath without using water.C. We can deal with all our work without others help.D. We can enjoy the coffeehouse experience without going there.10. How does the author develop the passage?A.In logical order.B.In time order.C.By comparing.D
26、.By offering examples.11. Why does the writer write the passage?A.To introduce thelife inthe future.B.To attract us to use the AIsystem.C.To teach us howto usethe AI system.D.To encourage us to studyhardfor thefuture.War can be deadly for wildlife, too. A new study reports that war is the biggest th
27、reat to Africa elephants, rhinoceroses and other animals. Researchers examined how years of conflict in Africa have affected populations of large animals. More than 70 percent of Africa protected wildlife areas have been within a war zone at some point in the last 70 years. The more frequent the fig
28、hting, the greater the drop in animal populations/9 said Josh Daskin, an ecologist at Yale University. He was the lead author of the study, which was published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.“It takes very little conflict, as much as one conflict in about 20 years, for the average wildlife popul
29、ation to be declining J Daskin said. Areas with frequent fighting-but not necessarily the bloodiest fighting-lose 35 percent of their large animal populations during each year of war,“ he said.“Some animals get killed by weapons of war. Yet, many also die because of changes in social and economic co
30、nditions in an area as a result of war,“ said Rob Pringle. He is an ecologist at Princeton University and the study?s co-author. People in and around war zones are poor and hungry. So they may begin to illegally hunt animals for valuable tusks or hunt protected animals to eat/ Pringle said. And duri
31、ng wartime, animal conservation programs do not have as much money or power to protect wildlife.The new study examined the entire African continent over 65 years. The researchers looked at 10 different factors that could change population numbers. They included war, animal size, protected areas and
32、human population density. The number of wars had the biggest effect on wildlife population. The intensity of the wars-measured in the number of human deaths-had the least effect on animals.12. Which is the most dangerous to Africa animals?A. War.B. Society.C. Economy.D. Hunting.13. What can we know
33、about the animals in Africa?A. Little conflict has no effect to animals population.B More than 70 percent of animals live in a war zone.C. The more frequent the fighting is, the fewer the animals are.D. 35 percent of animals in the world died each year because of war.14. Which one is NOT the reason
34、why animals die in the war according to the passage?A. The extreme weather.B , Being killed by the weapons.C. Being killed by poor and hungry people.D. Lack of money or power to protect them.15. Which one has the least influence on wildlife population?A. Protected areas.B. The intensity of the wars.
35、C. The number of wars.D. Animal size.二、七选五Real policemen hardly recognize any resemblance between their lives and what they seeon TV.16 He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a professional lawyer, and
36、 what is more, he has to apply it on his feet, in the dark and rain, running down a street after someone he wants to talk to.17 He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty of stupid crimes.Most televis
37、ion crime drama is about finding the criminal: as soon as hes arrested, the story is over. 18 Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks, little effort is spent on searching.A third big difference between the drama detective and the real one is the unpleasant pressures: First, a
38、s members of a police force, they always have to behave absolutely in accordance with the law. 19 They can hardly ever do both. Most of the time some of them have to break the rules in small ways.If the detective has to deceive （欺骗）the world, the world often deceives him.20 And this separation the d
39、etective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simple-mindedness-as he sees it-of citizens, social workers, doctors, law-makers, and judges, who, instead of eliminating crime, punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform.A. He cant get a
40、ny evidence from the witnesses.B. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem.C. Little of his time is spent in chatting.D. Sometimes he can chat with others to relax himself.E. Second, as expensive public servants, they have to get results.F. The first difference is that a policeman
41、s real life revolves round criminal law.G. Hardly anyone he meets tells him the truth.三、完形填空In the 1860s, John Roebling, a creative engineer, launched the idea of building a bridge connecting Manhattan with Brooklyn, New York. However, other bridge building experts thought this was 21 and told Roebl
42、ing to forget the idea.John 22 about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He then 23 the dream with his son, Washington, an up-and-coming engineer. Working together, the father and the son made a 24 of how it could be done and studied the problems they might face.Afte
43、r these preparations, they hired their crew and began to build their 25 bridge. The project started well, but a(n) 26 on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of 27 damage. He wasnt able to move or even talk.28、Washington did not give up and s
44、till wanted to complete the bridge. Oneday, an idea 29 him. All he could do was to 30 one finger and hedecided to make the best use of it.He touched his wifes arm with that 3j, indicating to her that he wanted herto call the 32 again. Then he used the 33 method of touching her armto tell the enginee
45、rs what to do. Then the project was underway again. For 13 years, Washington tapped (敲打)out his instructions with his finger on his 34 arm, untilthe Brooklyn Bridge was finally completed.Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a never-give-up attitude that overcomes a terrible 35 disability and
46、achieves an impossible goal.21. A. impossibleB.perfectC. availableD. suitable22. A. spokeB.readC. thoughtD. wrote23. A. comparedB.sharedC. providedD. realized24. A. mapB.decisionC. wayD. plan25. A. dreamB.futureC. traditionalD. fashionable26. A. lessonB.accidentC. chanceD. fight27. A. eyeB.earC. bra
47、inD. stomach28. A. ThereforeB.EssentiallyC. HoweverD. Frequently29. A. happenedB.occurredC. beatD. hit30. A. moveB.evolveC. practiceD. change31. A. handB.footC. legD. finger32. A. teachersB.engineersC - doctorsD. neighbours33. A. sameB.usualC. otherD. different34. A. sonsB.mothersC. fathersD. wifes3
48、5. A. mentalB , physicalC - emotionalD. visual四、用单词的适当形式完成短文阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。Many people think Casablanca is one of the 36 (good) movies ever made. It is filmed in 1942, during the Second World War, and starred Humphrey Bogart as Rick and Ingrid Bergman as lisa. The movie 37 (set) in Casablanca, a place the Germans hope to take from the French. Rick owns a bar there.In the