湖北省鄂东南省级示范高中教育教学改革联盟学校2024-2024学年高二英语上学期期中
联考试题
考试时间：2024 年 11 月 13 日下午 14:30—16:30
试卷满分：150 分
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第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到 答题卡上。
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．Where are they most probably talking? A．In the office.
B．In a phone box.
C．At home. 2．What does the man want to do? A．To get a camera.
B．To buy batteries.
C．To go to the cinema.
3．When will the man go to the cinema? A．On Sunday morning.
B．On Sunday afternoon. C．On Sunday evening.
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4．What do you know from the man’s replies? A．He lost Lily’s book.
B．He was badly pressed with his work. C．He was sure that the book could be found. 5．What does the man like to collect? A．Magazines. B．Coins. C．Paintings.
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，每小题将
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．Who was ill last week? A．Mr. Hudson.
B．Mr. Hudson’s mother.
C．Mr. Hudson’s son.
7．What kind of person is Mr. Hudson according to the dialogue? A．A very good worker. B．A person who often gets angry. C．A
person who cares nothing. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。
8．Where does the conversation probably take place? A．At home.
B．At the doctor’s.
C．At the restaurant.
9．Why does the man feel stressful? A．He struck his head on a cupboard door. B．He found it difficult to sleep. C．He is
going to attend an important examination. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10．Where does Mike work? A．In a grocery.
B．In a language school.
C．In an art school.
11．What does the woman want to do for a change? A．Learn to dance.
B．Learn to sing.
C．Learn to paint.
12．What is most difficult for the woman about learning Arabic? A．Pronunciation. B．Grammar. C．Idioms.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13．What is Mr. Li’s class about? A．How to learn English well. B．How to prepare for a speech. C．How to
get ready for an interview.
14．When will the woman have an interview? A．Next Friday.
B．Next day.
C．Next Monday.
15．What is the most important thing in an interview? A．Friendliness. B．Honesty. C．Quickness.
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16．Where are they speaking? A．On the phone.
B．In the street.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17．What will be held in the Twin Cities this year? A．Winter Olympics.
B．Summer Olympics.
18．How many sports are there in the games? A．8. B．18. 19．How long will the games last? A．Seven days.
B．Ten days.
20．How often is the event held? A．Every two years.
B．Every four years.
C．In the classroom.
C．Senior Olympics.
C．80.
C．Fourteen days.
C．Every five years.
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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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Volunteer Organizer Volunteers for Wildlife 194 – A Bayville Road Locust Valley, NY 11560
Animal Care & Education
Volunteers for Wildlife provides protection for over 30 animals with disabilities that prevent their returning to the wild. Our Animal Care & Education volunteers help us to provide the highest level of care for these animals.
Volunteers will care for animals including turtles, snakes, ducks, doves, squirrels, and so on. Animal care is never light work! Duties include cage cleaning, general hospital upkeep and cleaning, diet preparation, feeding, and cage maintenance（维护）．
In addition to animal care, volunteers help us educate the public about Long Island’s wildlife, the many challenges they face, and what action can be taken to help these animals. Volunteers assist staff in education programs by handing out brochures or other items and handling animals during programs. Requirements: ※18 years old or above
※Extremely dependable and work on time
※One weekly shift (轮班) of either 8 am – 12 pm or 12 pm – 4 pm (the same shift each week) ※Promise to work for at least 6 months
※Ability to work on your feet and do some heavy lifting ※Excitement and willingness to learn about local wildlife ※Comfort speaking to the public about our work
※Willingness to attend education programs and assist as needed
Volunteers help support the wonderful work we do. If you have a special skill or talent, we would love to hear from you! Please direct all questions to our volunteer organizer at info @ volunteersforwildlife. org. Click here to apply for an Animal Care & Education volunteer position. Completed Volunteer Applications can be sent to:
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21．How do volunteers help the animals? A．Help the animals return to the wild. B．Donate food to the animals. C．Call on the public to take part.
D．Build shelters for the animals.
22．Which is required to be a volunteer? A．Having a quality of working hard.
B．Volunteering for at most 6 months. C．Speaking to make the public comfortable. D．Working full-time. 23．What’s the purpose of the writing? A．To raise concern about the wildlife. B．To absorb new members. C．To introduce the coming events.
D．To advertise programs.
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After her car ran out of gas on a dark New Jersey highway last month, Kate McClure pulled over and tried to walk to the nearest gas station on foot. But a nearby homeless man didn’t let her go far, telling her to go back in the car and lock the doors while he went instead. McClure said the man, Johnny, spent his last $20 on a can of gas for her.
While she didn’t have cash to give him at the time, she and her boyfriend returned to Johnny’s spot along the side of the road the next day to return the money. Over the following weeks, she kept stopping by to chat with Johnny and give him a few dollars. Finally she decided to set up a GoFundMe page for him earlier this month, intending to raise $10,000. “I wish that I could do more for this selfless man, who went out of his way just to help me that day,” McClure wrote on the page. “He is such a great guy, and talking to him each time I see him makes me want to help him more and more.”
To date, the campaign has raised over $300,000 — outstripping its goal. Many of the 10,400 donors
（捐赠者）contributed $10 or $20. McClure originally intended to use the funds to set Johnny up in his own apartment with some necessities and enough money to last him a few months while he looked for employment.
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As support kept pouring in, McClure briefly stopped the campaign earlier this week on the request of Johnny, who didn’t want to take advantage of the kindness of strangers. She restarted it, however, by popular demand.
Faced with a huge surplus（过剩）of the funding（捐款）, McClure said, “Johnny has more than a few ideas
of where this money can go and how it will be used for meaningful purposes.” “It will be his decision and his decision only on what organizations or private parties he decides to help!” she wrote.
24．Why did McClure start the campaign? A．To show her pity for Johnny. B．To respond to people’s demand. C．To repay Johnny’s kindness to her. D．To raise people’s awareness of the
homeless.
25．What does the underlined word “outstripping” mean in Paragraph 3? A．Achieving. B．Topping. C．Backing D．Changing.
26．How will Johnny probably spend the extra funds? A．Return them to the donors . B．Buy himself an apartment. C．Set up an organization.
D．Help those in need.
27．Which of the following words can best describe Johnny? A．Honest and admirable. B．Brave and considerate. C．Generous and enthusiastic.
D．Determined and responsible.
C
Ants are truly amazing creatures. In addition to gifts like predicting earthquakes and saving themselves from drowning during floods, the hardworking insects go all out to protect their own members, often carrying the wounded back to the nest to recover. Now, researchers have discovered ants who explode and
sacrifice（牺牲）themselves to save their nests from attackers.
Although scientists have known about the existence of exploding ants since 1916, they were first found in the rainforests of Borneo in Southeast Asia by an international team of researchers led by Alice Laciny, a graduate student at the Natural History Museum, Vienna.
The researchers noticed that during the day, when the ants went outside to look for food, they would be closely monitored by a small army of “guards”, who touched each member as it went in and out of the nest.
Upon running into an attacker, the guard ant would move its back part towards the attacking creature and shrink（缩小）its stomach. This caused the ant’s body to explode and release a yellow,
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deadly goo（粘状物）, which instantly killed the attacker.
The ability to explode, however, was not universal among the species and appeared to be unique to minor worker ants, usually the smallest ants of the nest. Even more interesting was that while the minor members were blowing themselves up, the large worker ants with oversized heads, placed barriers at the nest’s entrance to prevent other possible enemies from entering.
While the protective measure may sound extreme, Tomer Czazkes believes it is necessary. The behavioral ecologist at Germany’s University of Regensburg says since the insects live in large groups, they
are a natural and easy source of food for ant eaters. They, therefore, have to find ways to protect themselves. Ants are not the only insects known to conduct this type of voluntary self-sacrifice. Older termites（白蚁）,
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