吉林省白城市通榆县第一中学2024-2024学年高二英语下学期期末考
试试题
考试时间：120分钟；
1.本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题，100分）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题，50分）两部分，共150分； 2.本试卷各试题答案必须在答题纸上规定的答题区域内作答，否则无效。考试结束后，将答题纸交回。
第I卷（选择题）
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. How did the man go to the local shop during his holiday？ A. By car.
B. By bike.
C. By boat.
2. What will the man do on Sunday?
A. Meet his aunt. B. Write the diary. C. Visit Sarah. 3. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Colleagues.
B. Classmates. C. Neighbors.
4. What does the man want to see least? A. The horses.
B. The tigers. C. The deer.
5. What are the speakers talking about? A. What questions to ask. B. When to attend the quiz. C. How to prepare for the quiz.
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。 听第五段材料，回答第6和第7两个小题。 6. What did the woman think of the film?
A. Disappointing. B. Surprising. C. Encouraging. 7.What does the man think the film failed to do?
A. Make the audience laugh. B. Show Tania’s acting ability. C. Include more old actors.
听第7段材料，回答第8和第9两个小题。 8. What has the woman been doing?
A. Shopping online. B. Making a shopping list. C. Decorating the kitchen. 9. What did the man’s brother break? A. A juicer.
B. A mixer. C. A coffee maker.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题 10. Who will join the speakers?
A. Peter and Maria. B. David and Allie. C. David and Jennifer. 11. Where is Walter?
A. In London. B. In Paris. C. In New York. 12. What will Michael probably do during the holiday?
A. Stay at home. B. Visit his relatives. C. Go to the desert. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13.How long has the man been singing on stage?
A. For two years. B. For three years. C. For four years. 14. Where did the company know the man?
A. From a music festival. TV program.
15.How does the man feel when he sees his performance videos?
A. Proud. B. Nervous. C. Embarrassed. 16.What does the man find it difficult to do?
A. Travel alone.
B. Leave his mother. C. Talk to strangers.
B. From a talent competition.
C. From a
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How much is a family ticket if it’s bought ahead of time?
A. ￡35.
B.￡40. C.￡48.
18.Which film is unavailable to see at the museum now?
A. The Stars. B. Long Journey. C. On the Moon. 19.What can visitors do in the Blue Room?
A. Attend a lecture. B. See a model spaceship.
C. Learn about the universe online. 20.When does the café stop serving snacks?
A. At 2 pm. B. At 4 pm. C. At 5 pm. 第二部分:阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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FOUR BEST BOOKSHOPS IN LONDON
Looking for something to read while in London? If so, you’re in luck: the British capital happens to have an incredible collection of bookshops.
Daunt Books
Are you going on a trip and want to read a novel or nonfiction book set in the place you’re headed? This bookshop arranges books by country, so it’s easy to find anything by place. (83 Marylebone High Street. Monday-Saturday: 09:00-19:30; Sunday: 11:00-18:00.)
Foyles Books
Dig, if you will, the picture: four miles of shelves holding up to 200,000 books. This legendary (传奇的) bookshop is impossible to leave empty-handed. It was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest bookshop on the planet. (107 Charing Cross Road. Monday-Saturday: 9:00-21:00; Sunday: 11:30-18:00.)
Hatchards
In the year 1797, this London bookshop—the oldest in the city today—first flicked on its lights. It stocks an excellent selection of fiction, nonfiction, history and other genres. (187 Piccadilly Street. Monday-Saturday: 09:30-20:00; Sunday: 12:00-18:30.)
London Review Bookshop
There’s an excellent selection of history, philosophy, politics, new fiction and many other genres here. Plus, there’s a nice cafe in which you can crack open that tome (巨著) for the first time and start reading. (14 Bury Place. Monday-Saturday
10:00-18:30; Sunday 12:00-18:00.)
21. Which bookstore was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records? A. Daunt Books. C. Hatchards.
22. What is special about Hatchards? A. It has a long history. C. It has a cafe.
B. It has 200,000 books.
D. It has both fiction and nonfiction books. B. Foyles Books.
D. London Review Bookshop.
23. Which place should you go to if you want to enjoy reading with a coffee? A. 83 Marylebone High Street. C. 187 Piccadilly Street.
B. 107 Charing Cross Road. D. 14 Bury Place. B
Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.
“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生),” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate(保守的估计).”
At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what was possible in the past. “There is a great effort so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”
However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.” 24.By saying “we are knocking at the door of immortality”, Michael Zey means _________.
A. they have got some ideas about living forever B. they believe that there is no limit of living
C. they are able to make people live past the present life span D. they are sure to find the truth about long living
25. Donald Louria’s attitude towards long living is that ________.
A. the human body is designed to last past about 120 years B. it is possible for humans to live longer in the future C. it is still doubtful how long humans can live D. people can live from 120 to 180
26. The underlined word “it” (in Paragraph 4) refers to ________.
A. a great effort
B. the conservative estimate
C. the idea of living from 200 to 300 years D. the idea of living beyond the present life span 27. What would be the best title for this text?
A. No Limit for Human Life B. Living Longer or not
C. Science, Technology and Long Living D. Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living
C
Plastic-Eating Worms
Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic every year. Almost half of that winds up in landfills(垃圾填埋场), and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans. So far there has been no effective way to get rid of it, but a new study suggests an answer may lie in the stomachs of some hungry worms.
Researchers in Spain and England recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene(聚乙烯), which accounts for 40% of plastics. The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it. To confirm that the worms’ chewing alone was not responsible for the polyethylene breakdown, the researchers made some worms into paste(糊状物) and applied it to plastic films. 14 hours later the films had lost 13% of their mass--apparently broken down by enzymes(酶) from the worms’ stomachs. Their findings were published in Current Biology in 2017.
吉林省白城市通榆县第一中学2024_2024学年高二英语下学期末考试题
