2023-2024学年上学期高二英语第4次周测
命题人：杨清 2023-9-22
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题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Salesman and customer.
2. How did the man get here?
A. By taxi. B. By bus. C. By car.
3. What time is it now?
A.6:00 pm. B.7:00 pm. C.8:00 pm.
4. Who is the man?
A. Jack's boss. B. Jack's doctor. C. Jack's friend.
5. What does the man think of his new English teacher?
A. Serious. B. Good. C. Boring.
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. How long can the man's holiday last?
A. 5 days. B. 7 days. C. 9 days.
7. How does the woman feel now?
A. Excited. B. Tired. C. Disappointed.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题 。
8. What was the man doing?
A. Reading a book. B. Listening to a book. C. Enjoying some music.
9. What is Daniel Radcliffe?
A. An actor. B. A writer. C. A musician.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why is the woman really angry about the dormitory?
A. It is rather dirty. B. It is extremely small. C. It offers a broken key.
11. What is the man's attitude toward the woman's complaint?
A. Impatient. B. Angry. C. Understanding.
12. Where is the woman arranged to live for the time being?
A. In the dormitory. B. In a hotel nearby. C. In her roommate's house.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Where did the ship turn over?
A. In the open sea near Romania. B. In a port in Saudi Arabia. C. In Port of Midia.
14. What happened after the ship turned over?
A. Some crew members died. B. Most of the sheep died. C. 75 sheep were killed.
15. How did the man learn about some dying sheep last year?
A. From a newspaper. B. From an online video. C. From an article on the Internet.
16. What is the weather like today?
A. Foggy. B. Hot. C. Cold.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. When did the speaker's mother begin to teach her math?
A. At the age of four. B. At the age of five. C. At the age of six.
18. What did the speaker's mother often ask her to do?
A. Help with her work B. Go shopping by herself C. Practice math by doing the shopping.
19. What did the speaker find interesting?
A. Building things. B. Staying alone in a house. C. Collecting special materials.
20. What does the speaker mainly talk about?
A. The ways she gets along with her parents.
B. Her work as an engineer at Boeing.
C. Her childhood experience.
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)
第一节 (共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
In 1931, Francis Chichester tried to fly round the world but failed. Then he gave up flying and began sailing. Chichester was already 58 years old when he won the first solo（单人的）transatlantic sailing race.
After that, his old dream of going round the world came back, but this time he would sail. His friends and doctors did not think he could do it, as he had lung cancer. But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan, In August, 1966, at the age of nearly sixty-five, he began the greatest voyage of his life. Soon, he was away in his new 16-metre boat, Gipsy Moth.
After resting in Sydney for a few weeks, Chichester set off once more in spite of his friends' attempts to discourage him. The second half of his voyage was by far the more dangerous part. On 30 January, he experienced the blackest night he had ever known. The sea became so rough that the boat almost turned over. Food, clothes, and broken glass were all mixed together. Fortunately, the damage to the boat was not too serious, Chichester calmly got bed and went to sleep. When he woke up, the sea had become calm again.
Just before 9 o'clock on Sunday evening 28 May, 1967, he arrived back in England, where more than 250,000 people were waiting to welcome him. He was knighted（授爵）by Queen Elizabeth II. The whole voyage had taken him nine months, of which the sailing time was 226 days. He had done what he wanted to achieve.
Like many other adventurers, Chichester had experienced fear and conquered（克服）it. In doing so, he had undoubtedly learnt something about himself. Moreover, in the modern age when human beings depend so much on machines, he had given men throughout the world new pride.
21．What do we know about Chichester?
A．He sailed a across the Atlantic alone in 1958.
B．He sailed round the world to fight against cancer.
C．He was not defeated by the violent night of 30 January.
D．He had been sailing nonstop for 365 days in the Pacific Ocean.
22．What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A．The great meaning of Chichester's adventure.
B．The lesson Chichester learned from the journey.
C．The contributions machines made to the modern age.
D．The fears Chichester experienced in the adventure.
23．Which of the following can best describe Chichester?
A．Adventurous and determined. B．Independent and generous.
C．Energetic and gentle. D．Enthusiastic and kind.
B
Though thousands of adventurers have climbed up Mount Everest, the highest and most famous of the world’s 14 tallest mountains, only 40 climbers have conquered them all. Nepalese mountaineer Purja became one of them after he reached the 8,028-meter peak of China’s Mt. Shishapangma on October 29, 2019. Purja made the extraordinary achievement in just six months and six days, much faster than late South Korean climber Kim Chang-ho’s 2013 record of 7 years, ten months, and six days.
“I am incredibly excited and proud to have reached this final peak and achieved my goal of climbing the world’s 14 tallest mountains in record time,” Purja said. “It was extremely hard six months, and I hope to have proven that anything is possible with some determination, self-belief, and positivity.”
Purja’s “Project Possible” started becoming a reality on April 23, 2019, when he successfully peaked Nepal’s 8,091 meters tall Mt. Annapurna. The climber then rapidly completed the next five mountains, including Mt. Everest, within only four weeks! Five more peaks were conquered in July and the last three during September and October.
The adventurer, who was joined by teams of Nepalese climbers on each of his adventures, encountered many memorable and critical moments. On April 23, 2019, while going down Mt. Annapurna, Purja and his team heard about a Malaysian climber who had been separated from his group with no food, water, or oxygen for over 40 hours. They managed to find him and got him airlifted to a hospital. On May 15, 2019, Purja’s team similarly helped three trapped climbers on Mt. Kanchenjunga by giving them oxygen.
Purja said his primary purpose for undertaking this enormous task was to show the world that anyone can attain greatness if they put their minds to it. “By achieving this goal, I knew I could inspire people from all generations across the world,” he said.
24．Which was the last of the world’s 14 tallest mountains Purja peaked?
A．Mt. Everest. B．Mt. Annapurna.
C．Mt. Kanchenjunga. D．Mt. Shishapangma.
25．Which of the following best describes Purja?
A．Capable, worthy and honest. B．Brave, intelligent and traditional.
C．Determined, positive and caring. D．Creative, energetic and adventurous.
26．What does the author want to tell us by the examples in paragraph 4?
A．The number of climbers should be limited to ensure safety.
B．Purja and his team are willing to assist climbers in trouble.
C．It is impossible to rescue trapped climbers on high mountains.
D．Necessary preparations must be made before climbing mountains.
27．What might be the best title of the text?
A．Mountaineering: A Challenging but Popular Sport
B．Purja: A World-famous Nepalese Climbing Pioneer
C．Kim Chang-ho Succeeded in Climbing up Mt. Everest Alone
D．Nepalese Mountaineer Conquers World’s 14 Highest Peaks in Six Months
C
The mind is a wonderful thing. It's also excuse-making machine that frequently tries to convince us not to take action we know are good for us. If we hadn't learned about these excuses, or how to overcome them, we would never have succeeded in making these positive changes.
So why does the mind mess with us and make unreasonable excuses? Because the mind wants comfort, that's the reason. It's afraid of discomfort, pressure and change. The mind is absorbed in its comfort zone, and anytime we try to stretch that zone too far, for too long, the mind tries desperately to get back to “ground zero” at any cost. These damaging excuses, such as “I can't do it”, “It is too hard for me”, “It's too late now” and so on, are no strangers to our minds.
It seems too difficult at first, so you think you can't stick to the positive change you're making. This excuse can be countered (对抗)by looking at the fact that other people were no more capable than you thought you were. For example, my 60-year-old next-door neighbor finished running a marathon, so I told myself, “If she can do it, so can I!” Truth be told, the only person who tells you “I can't” is yourself. If you hear those words echoing in the back of your mind, tune them out.
I've witnessed people reinventing themselves at all ages 48-year-olds starting families, 57-year-olds graduating from college for the first time, 71-year-olds starting successful businesses, and so forth.
Another common excuse is that “I've already failed too much.” If you break down, it's fine, because you are only human. Just don't stay down; take a rest, and then pick yourself up so you can go to where you'd rather be. As Winston Churchill said, “Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage to continue that counts.”
Some people feel like quitting when they have almost reached their goal, while others attain goals through their efforts until the last second. So make some necessary adjustments to get rid of the bad habit of making excuses. Keep going! No excuses! Think, work, and climb, that's how you'll move your life forward.
28．What is the author's purpose in writing this passage?
A．To tell readers how to make a change.
B．To help readers develop a new view of life.
C．To encourage readers to leave their comfortable zone.
D．To tell readers to stop making excuses and keep fighting.
29．Knowing his neighbor finished the marathon made the author realize_________.
A．completing a marathon was not too difficult
B．people often neglect their abilities
C．looking down upon the others is wrong
D．people shouldn't let negative thoughts step in their way
30．Why does our mind make excuses?
A．It tends to seek comforts rather than suffering.
B．It needs rest and relaxation.
C．It is preparing for the difficult times.
D．It is the way it tries to find a solution.
31．What might “ground zero” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A．The lowest spot. B The safest place C．The original place D.The proper position
D
New York’s Central Park has a statue dedicated to him, and there’s even been a movie about him: a sled dog named Balto. Now he is the focus of a DNA study, 90 years after he died, to see what made the dog so famously tough (坚韧).
In 1925, this Siberian husky was part of an expedition in Alaska called the serum run, the goal of which was to bring life-saving medicine to young people that were threatened by a deadly disease in the remote town of Nome, over 600 miles away. Balto led the long-distance stretch, and wound up getting most of the honor.
After Balto’s death in 1933, his remains were preserved and put on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.“Balto’s fame and the fact that he was taxidermized gave us this cool opportunity 100 years later to see what that population of sled dogs would have looked like genetically and to compare him to modern dogs,” said Katherine Moon, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California.
Her team took skin samples from the dog’s belly and reconstructed its genome — the complete set of genes in an organism. They compared this genetic material with that of 680 contemporary dogs from 135 breeds.
Contrary to a legend that thought that Balto was half wolf — as suggested in an animated Universal Pictures film that came out in 1995 — this analysis found no evidence he had wolf blood. It turned out Balto shared ancestors with modern day Siberian Huskies and the sled dogs of Alaska and Greenland.
Moon’s team also compared Balto’s genes with the genomes of 240 other species of mammals.
This allowed researchers to determine which DNA fragments (片段) were common across all those species and have not therefore changed over the course of millions of years of evolution. This stability suggests that these fragments of DNA are associated with important functions in the animal, and that mutations (基因突变) there could be dangerous.
The bottom line from the research was that Balto had fewer potentially dangerous mutations than modern breeds of dogs did, suggesting he was healthier.
32．Why did Moon and her team study the DNA of Balto?
A．Balto saved the lives of many people. B．Balto achieved a long-distance transport.
C．Balto was a focus of the Central Park. D．Balto was amazingly tougher than others.
33．What does the underlined word “stability” in Paragraph 8 probably mean?
A．Gene. B．Evolution. C．Toughness. D．Changelessness.
34．What did the research into the gene of Balto suggest?
A．Balto had blood of wolves. B．Balto had fewer harmful mutations.
C．Balto was a modern husky. D．Balto was a special mammal species.
35．What is this passage mainly about?
A．A dog’s heroic act. B．A great honor to a dog.
C．A DNA study of a tough dog. D．A new research into DNA．
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分)
根据短文内容，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。
How to Be Strong-minded
Most successful people have one characteristic in common: they are strong-minded. Someone with a strong mind is mentally tough but they aren’t too stubborn to grow and adapt to new situations, either. 36 you can achieve it with some work and patience, just like you would train your body in a gym.
Quiet your mind. Practice letting go of unnecessary worries and distractions, so you can focus on more important things. If you want to regain focus in the moment, you can try writing down what keeps popping up in your head. When you get these thoughts out of your head, you’ll be able to focus better. 37 .
Discover what brings you joy. Ask yourself when you’ve felt happiest or most fulfilled and why. Then, identify the reasons why those experiences were so rewarding for you. Try to reproduce these experiences more often. Also, ask people who you’re close to about yourself. 38 . This can be a powerful tool in self-discovery.
39 Think about what drives you to achieve in your day-to-day life. If you often find yourself just trying to get through the day, ask yourself what you would do with your time if you didn’t have to worry about basic concerns like money.
Create actionable short-term goals. Now that you have a general understanding of where you want to go, break those long-term goals down. 40 . Try to set SMART. goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound.
A．If you want a stronger mind
B．Find out what motivates you
C．If you loved a past tutoring job
D．Take more opportunities to help others
E．Devote some time later to attending to these thoughts or ideas
F．This keeps you from getting overwhelmed and helps you stay on track
G．Ask them what characteristics describe you when you’re at your happiest
第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A 23-year-old woman just set a record for the fastest solo row across the Atlantic. Departing from the Canary Islands, Payne rowed 59 days, before arriving in Antigua. The 41 achievement was made for a charity. More than $14,200 was raised to help people 42 .The challenge was described as one of the hardest ones on Earth. No 43 was allowed—all necessities must be brought along. But she was 44 enough to keep going without extra help.
The last 8 miles was really 45 for Payne. It was that point where she knew she couldn’t give up and that she had to 46 it. Although 8 miles was 47 in the great plan of 3,000 miles, it felt like some of the longest for her. However, hunger, lack of sleep and the test of body and mind were 48 by sighting fantastic sea life and 49 the beauty of the sunrise and sunset. So the 50 was worthwhile.
Payne rowed 15 hours per day alone in the Atlantic Ocean with strong winds. “In the last week, I thought I wasn’t going to break a 51 at all because the wind dropped and I was going nowhere,” she said. “There was one day when I rowed 52 for 18 hours, but I only rowed less than 10 miles. That was pretty 53 . I could just feel the race record slipping away.”
But finally Payne 54 it with a strong will. She received the cheers of the crowd when approaching Antigua. She could hear the 55 from her family and friends waiting for her.
41．A．remarkable B．Artistic C．common D．industrial
42．A．for fun B．for sale C．in charge D．in need
43．A．error B．destination C．Support D．profit
44．A．strong B．tense C．Ordinary D．generous
45．A．free B．tough C．smooth D．brief
46．A．measure B．finish C．celebrate D．extend
47．A．something B．anything C．Everything D．nothing
48．A．interrupted B．matched C．balanced D．worsened
49．A．describing B．affecting C．imagining D．appreciating
50．A．Struggle B．failure C．Foundation D．tracking
51．A．container B．commitment C．reform D．record
52．A．globally B．carelessly C．determinedly D．instantly
53．A．disappointing B．rewarding C．harmless D．formal
54．A．lost B．deserted C．made D．refused
55．A．regret B．screams C．permission D．complaints
第二节 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
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。
Mount Everest is the 56 (high) mountain in the world. The mountain 57 (be) located in Asia. Asia is home to all five of the world’s highest mountains. Mount Everest’s peak is five and one-half miles above sea level. That is very high.
Many climbers have tried to climb to the top of Mount Everest’s approximately(大约) 29, 141-foot peak. The first people 58 reach the peak were Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Since then, about 900 people 59 (survive) the climb to Mount Everest’s top.
One of the successful 60 (climber) is Erik Weihenmayer. Like all 61 try to climb this high mountain, Eric faced strong winds, snow and avalanches. 62 , what really made Erik’s climb 63 (believable) is the fact that he is blind. After 64 (lose) his vision at age 13, Erik began climbing at age 16. He has climbed the tallest mountains on five continents. Erik became 65 first blind person to reach the peak of Mount Everest.
第三部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节 (满分15分)
假定你是李明，是校英语俱乐部的成员。英语俱乐部下次交流的话题是The admirable，请你写一篇英语发言稿，介绍你班身残志坚的同学——陈华。
内容包括：
1. 他不能正常地走路；
2. 他对待生活和学习的态度；
3. 你敬佩他的原因。
注意：
1. 词数80字左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear friends,
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第二节(满分25分)
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
“Go home and ask your mummy about your blind brother! I am surprised you didn’t know that he is as blind as a bat!” Hearing Nathan’s, I wanted to land a blow on him for making fun of my two-year-old brother, David, but I was more desperate to find out the truth.
With a misty vision, I ran home as fast I could. Still out of breath, I questioned, “Is David blind?” Mother turned to me with tears in her eyes. “Yes, he’s born blind.” It was a heartbreaking moment. Before I could continue any farther, mother hugged me and cried, “I’m sorry, Caleb. Dad and I just didn’t know how to tell you.”
Suddenly, it struck me that David was blind but he could still hear the while conversation. Not wanting him to be affected by it, I stopped crying and went forward and embraced him. “I love you so much, David.” Worry crept upon me: How hard life would be for him!
Little did I know that David was to inspire me so greatly.
As David grew up, he was fairly strong-willed. Despite the challenges that he faced, he continued to attend the school for visually impaired (损害) children. He insisted he would take the bus home on his own. Often, he would walk through the main door looking sheepish (怯弱的) and saying the same phrase, “Sorry Mum, I am late. I boarded the wrong bus again.”
Tough as life was, there was always silver lining of misfortune. Despite not being able to see, he could play a piece of music after listening to it being played once on the piano. He even dreamed of playing solo (独奏) one day on stage. Luckily for him, the school had discovered David’s extraordinary talent.
注意：
1．续写词数应为150左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
One day, David burst through the main door excitedly.
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Tapping the ground with his walking stick, David entered the stage.
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