2022-2023学年四川省成都石室中学高二下学期期中考试英语试题

2022-2023学年四川省成都石室中学高二下学期期中考试英语试题

1. You may have seen the term\"bullet journal\" floating around online, but what exactly is a bullet journal? This article will highlight the uses for a bullet journal and why they're great for people who wish to be more organized. What is a bullet journal?

A bullet journal is a planner system which allows you to plan for the future, track the past and keep your life organized with lists separated by bullet points. It is a place for you to create clear, yet simple to-do lists and a place to keep a note of your life goals and aspirations. What does it help with?

A bullet journal is perfect for people who like writing lists to keep themselves organized. They're great for doing as a hobby and you can get creative with the way you present your lists. They're also perfect for people who constantly write down to-do lists or make hand-written notes. Why is it important?

A bullet journal is important because we all feel better when our life is organized. Organization can reduce stress and make you happier. Having your life in order, you will know exacdy what you have to do every day so that you can remember all of your life goals. How to create a bullet journal?

The instructions will help you embark on your bullet journal. Step 1. Find or buy a blank notebook

Any notebook with blank pages will do because if you are someone who is creative and artistic, you can decorate the notebook any way you like. Step 2. Find or buy pens

It's best to start off simple and choose a pen that you find easy to use and that you would feel comfortable writing with every day. Step 3. Monthlies

In this section, you can put a list of important dates for that particular month. Step 4. Dailies and Weeklies

Put all of your daily or weekly tasks in this section so that you don't forget anything that you have to do during that day or week. Step 5. Life Goals

Keep a life goals section. This can include different collections of goals, such as career, relationships, places you wish to visit and so on. Now start your bullet journal!

1. Bullet journals are intended for those who hope to _______.

A．keep life in order C．highlight their progress

2. Keeping bullet journals helps people _______.

A．develop artistic taste C．build a better mood

B．get rid of stress D．give up a hobby B．lead a relaxing life D．reduce their workload

3. Which of the following is most likely to be included in a bullet journal?

A．Weekly expenses.

B．Appointments with a dentist. C．Weather forecasts.

D．Passwords to your computer.

2. Stuttering （口 吃）has nothing to do with intelligence. I know this because I stutter. If it takes me a while longer to say a word, it's not because I can't remember the word; it's because the neural(神经的） pathway that transforms words in my head into sounds in my mouth is wired differently. And differences, of course, are the best way to get negative attention in our society. Taking extra time to get my words out can surely be frustrating, but that's nothing compared to the misery of dealing with people's reactions.

Almost all children who stutter are discouraged from speaking in one way or another. It's usually not as direct as someone walking up to them and saying, “Hey, stuttering kid! Keep your mouth shut!” But when your voice causes adults and peers to snicker （窃笑）or roll their eyes, it's pretty discouraging.

Growing up, I learned to avoid speaking whenever possible. I hated what came out of my mouth, full of awkward breaks and pauses. I figured whatever future I had, it probably involved a vow of silence.

Today Fm a touring author and comedian. It took me 30-something years to get over stuttering. Did I stop stuttering? No! I couldn't stop if I wanted to. But I stopped wanting to stop. Instead of wasting all my time and energy trying to meet unattainable standards, I learned that it's OK to stutter. And I learned by example. I attended the National Stuttering Association conference and met all kinds of people who stutter—people who didn't hate themselves, who didn't silence themselves. They

stuttered, and they were OK with it! I remember watching them and thinking, \"That's who I want to be!\"

There's a popular saying in comedy: \"Your weakness is your strength.\" When I first entered my local open-mic scene, I was quickly met with some \"smart\" guys looking to score a cheap laugh at my

expense. I remember introducing myself to one comedian and stuttering on my name, as I usually do. Eager to demonstrate his smartness, he replied, \"Is that Nina with five Ns?\" \"No,\" I said, \"it's Nina with two Ns!\" Just like that, I had created a joke as the result of someone making fiin of my stutter. To this day, whenever I need inspiration for a new joke, I just think about all the ridiculous comments I get from non-stuttering people. It's a comedy gold mine!

1. It takes the author longer to say a word because she has _______.

A．a comparatively low IQ C．a relatively small brain

B．trouble in organizing ideas D．problems in her neural system

2. What annoys the author most about her stuttering is _______.

A．the unfriendly reactions of others B．the difficulty in memorising words C．her unpromising future as a stutterer D．her embarrassing pauses during talks 3. The author got over stuttering by _______.

A．adjusting her attitude towards it B．getting help from non-stutterers C．telling herself constantly to stop it D．silencing herself whenever possible 4. Paragraph 5 is mainly about the author's _______. A．success as a comedian B．respect for other comedians C．resistance to others' strength D．acceptance of her imperfection

3. No matter where they live in the world, in general, women are better at empathizing with other people than men, according to a study published in the journal PNAS.

Cognitive empathy is when a person is intellectually able to understand what someone else might be thinking or feeling. So if, for instance, a person is telling he had a bad time with his family over the holiday, a person with cognitive empathy would understand how that bad time makes the person feel by intellectually putting him/her in that other person’s shoes.

It’s different from emotional empathy: a person feels another person’s emotions and responds with an appropriate reaction or emotion. For instance, if someone is crying about a broken relationship, a person with emotional empathy would start to feel sad too, and feel compassion for that person. There’s a test on University of Cambridge’s website that tests both forms of empathy. To conduct this new study, researchers used the “Eyes Test”. The test asks participants to look at photos of the area around a person’s eyes. The person is making a particular kind of facial expression, and the study participant must identify what that person is thinking or feeling from a set of possibilities.

The authors of the study worked at University of Cambridge in Britain and Harvard University in the USA, Bar-Ilan University and Haifa University in Israel, as well as at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca in Italy. Mixing their results with large samples from different online platforms, the authors of the study captured results from nearly 306,000 people across 57 countries including Argentina, Croatia, Egypt, India, Japan and Norway.

In 36 countries, women scored on average significantly higher in their cognitive empathy scores than men did. In 21 of the countries, women’s and men’s scores were similar. There wasn’t a single country in which men scored better, on average, than women. The results held across eight languages and were consistent across the lifespan, from people aged 16 — 70 years old.

In some of the earlier studies, sex differences in empathy were sometimes attributed to biological and social factors. Understanding sex differences in empathy could help scientists better understand why certain mental health problems impact more men than women, the researchers said. 1. Which of the following can be classified as emotional empathy?

A．A person can understand the dilemma of another person. B．A nurse shows concern for the patient by many little attentions. C．A friend can help a girl control her feeling of missing her dead mother.

D．A student is crying about his failing test, and his classmate is crying too with him. 2. What was the researchers’ purpose in using the “Eyes Test”?

A．To inspire the participants to empathize. B．To differentiate the two forms of empathy. C．To recognize the participants’ visual sense. D．To measure the participants’ empathy levels. 3. What did the researchers do for their study?

A．They collected data from around the globe. B．They built many online platforms to collect data. C．They interviewed millions of people worldwide. D．They traveled globally to meet related experts.

4. What do we know about the sex differences in empathy from the study?

A．They will even increase with people aging. B．They are unrelated to the cultural differences. C．They are more obvious in developed countries. D．They are the causes of mental health problems.

4. Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of the use of clothing, with newly discovered cut marks on a cave bear’s paws suggesting the prehistoric animal was skinned for its fur some 300,000 years ago.

The discovery in Schöningen, northern Germany, is exciting because despite the written records of cave men and women covered in fur in some popular cultures, very little is truly known about how early humans clothed their bodies. Fur, leather and other organic materials typically can’t be preserved beyond 100,000 years.

“The study is significant because direct evidence of prehistoric clothing is scant and we know relatively little about how humans in the deep past were protecting themselves from cold winters. From this early time period, there are only a handful of sites that show evidence of bear skinning, with Schöningen providing the most complete picture,” said study author Ivo Verheijen from Tübingen University in Germany. Cave bears were large animals, about the size of polar bears, that went extinct about 25,000 years ago. The cave bear’s fur, which has long outer hairs that form an airy protective layer, and short, dense hairs that provide good insulation (隔离), was suitable for making simple clothing or bedding. The clothing in the site probably wrapped the human body without careful tailoring. The eyed

needles needed to sew more excellent designs didn’t emerge in the archaeological record until about 45,000 years ago.

“We found the cut marks on the cave bear’s hands and feet where very little meat or fat is present on the bones, which argues against the cut marks originating from the butchering of the animal,” Verheijen said. “In these locations, the skin is much closer to the bones, which makes marking the bones inevitable when an animal is being skinned.”

The Schöningen site in Germany is most famous for the discovery of the oldest known wooden weapons that were used to kill prey 300,000 years ago.

But it’s still challenging to figure out exactly when ancient humans began wearing clothing. Genetic studies of lice (跳蚤) indicate that clothing lice separated from their human head louse ancestors at least 83,000 years ago and possibly as early as 170,000 years ago, which suggests humans were wearing clothes before major migrations out of Africa. Bone tools found in what’s now Morocco suggest that humans were processing animal skins 90,000 to 120,000 years ago. 1. What did archaeologists find in Schöningen?

A．Fur of a cave bear.

C．Pieces of prehistoric clothing.

B．Bones with cut marks. D．Evidence of prehistoric hunting.

2. What does the word “scant” underlined in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Not correct. C．Not valuable.

3. What did Verheijen aim to do in paragraph 6?

A．To give an explanation.

B．To provide some examples. B．Not very much. D．Not clear enough.

C．To offer more details of the study. 4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．Previous studies on human clothing. B．The process of studying human clothing. C．Other new discoveries of human clothing. D．An unsolved mystery about human clothing.

5. Humans were made for walking. With our upright posture and strong leg muscles, our bodies were actually designed with walking in mind which makes it such perfect exercise. It’s kind to our bodies and great for our waistlines. 1 Maybe you already love to walk, but you’re getting tired of tracing the same old route day after day, or maybe you’re new to walking and aren’t sure how to get started. 2 Ask yourself, what do you want to get out of walking aside from the health benefits? Do you want to meet other people? See new places? Get out into the countryside or explore a new city? Knowing your goals will help you decide on the type of walk you want to do.

If making friends and socializing is your goal, call up your friends and schedule walks with them. 3 Many malls have groups that come every day, or every weekend, to “walk the mall.” These groups are always happy to include one more walker!

4 Many large cities have incredible gardens and parks that include quiet walking trails getting you off the beaten path. Thanks to the Rails to Trails program, railways across the country are being transformed into scenic walking paths that are a perfect way to seek calmness.

From the benefits to your heart to your overall happiness, walking is just plain good for you. 5 It’s a fantastic way to get to know a place by the power of your own two feet.

A．Headed to a new city? B．This month, pick up a map and start walking. C．Ask your friends where they like to walk and just go there. D．Either way, it's time to accept the idea of walking with a purpose. E．And best of all, it’s a great way to see new things and meet new people! F．Recently, science has proved that walking is good for your body shape. G．If you're after walking alone, ask about local hikes that get you out of town and into the countryside.

6. High school graduations are one of the most important moments in a teenager’s life. However, heading into the _________ on June 6th, David was stopped at the door by a gatekeeper. So you can

D．To show the importance of the study.

imagine how _________ David was. Although his sneakers were not extremely unacceptable, David learned they were in _________ of the school’s dress code and he was _________ entry.

David was about to _________ his chance to walk across the stage with his classmate when he caught sight of a _________ face. Butler, a famous local educator, came to the graduation as a

parent. Learning David’s unpleasant situation, he _________ the young man back to the entry to see if he could _________ the gatekeeper’s mind.

“I was hoping that she would let it go, but she _________ not letting this young man in, and I didn’t have time to __________ with her, ” Butler said. “I wasn’t going to let him miss the most

__________ moment in his life for anything. ”Without missing a beat, Butler simply changed his __________ with David. Just as the __________ closed, David made it inside the hall. Eventually he __________ David from ruining his graduation day.

Although firstly __________ by the last-minute substitution, Butler’s family were thrilled that his quick thinking turned a very __________ situation into a joyful celebration. “I wasn’t __________ because Mr. Butler is always helpful,” a __________ parent of David’s said.

It’s said that a truly __________ man will give the shirt off his back to someone in need. Now it seems, the saying also __________ to the shoes off his feet. 1.

A．festival 2.

A．eager 3.

A．violation 4.

A．envied 5.

A．destroy 6.

A．strange 7.

A．accompanied 8.

A．read 9.

B．draw

C．relax

D．change

B．invited

C．pushed

D．directed

B．happy

C．friendly

D．serious

B．miss

C．seize

D．abandon

B．guaranteed

C．allowed

D．refused

B．favor

C．honor

D．place

B．upset

C．thrilled

D．frightened

B．conference

C．ceremony

D．exhibition

A．agreed on 10.

A．reason 11.

A．decisive 12.

A．shirt 13.

A．event 14.

A．saved 15.

A．annoyed 16.

A．sensitive 17.

A．surprised 18.

A．considerate 19.

A．inspired 20.

A．contributes

B．refers

C．turns

D．applies

B．optimistic

C．generous

D．wealthy

B．grateful

C．loving

D．proud

B．excited

C．disappointed

D．annoyed

B．urgent

C．ridiculous

D．ugly

B．entertained

C．confused

D．worried

B．prevented

C．benefited

D．excused

B．doors .

C．school

D．curtains

B．gifts

C．role

D．shoes

B．unbelievable

C．important

D．appropriate

B．talk

C．quarrel

D．bargain

B．complained about C．insisted on

D．argued about

7. 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have followed the meal-time habits of more than 500 people for six years, 1 (find) weight change is most affected by the size and 2 (frequent) of meals rather than the interval from first to last meal. The study challenges the popular trend of intermittent fasting (禁食疗法) as a useful weight loss strategy.

Intermittent fasting, also referred to 3 time-restricted feeding, is a dietary strategy where all meals 4 (consume) during a short window of time each day. These windows can span anywhere from six to ten hours, resulting in a person essentially fasting for up to 18 hours each day.

Through tracking 5 (participant) daily meal times and sizes and correlating them with weight loss patterns over a six-year period, researchers revealed there was no link between the time of a person’s eating window each day and weight changes. “Timing of meals most likely doesn’t produce 6 immediate impact on weight loss,” said Bennett. “What does make a difference to weight, 7 , is the total number of meals a person eats over the day. Simply eating smaller meals, less frequently, is 8 ultimately leads to weight loss.

All of this, of course, doesn’t mean intermittent fasting strategies won’t help. But it seems increasingly clear that the weight loss 9 (occasion) seen with these eating strategies may be primarily driven by a 10 (reduce) caloric intake. 8. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

The car trunk shop is a special feature of the night market, provide an efficient and convenient

service for customers. According to an official in charge, customer flow increased dramatically since the Chinese Lunar New Year. Chang Jiaming reaches at the crowded night market, unlocks his beautifully decorated car trunk and kicks up his mobile lemon tea stall. Chang, a Macanese, along with his girlfriend, run the tea stall, there they also sell Hong Kong and Macao snacks. Chen Miao, the former yoga instructor, now runs a stall selling hand-made rice balls. “With the fitness industry hit hardly by the COVID-19, she was unemployed last year.” said Chen. She added that before considering numerous option, she finally decided to launch the rice ball stall at the night market. 9. 假定你是李华，作为一名交换生在伦敦学习，得知当地美术馆要举办中国画展，需要大量志愿者。请你根据以下要点写一封申请信： 1. 申请理由；

2. 个人优势(至少两条)； 3. 表达期望。 注意：

1. 词数应为100左右；

2. 可适当增添细节，使表达流畅。 Dear Sir /Madam,

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Yours, Li Hua