江苏省扬州中学2024-2024学年阶段测试
高二英语试题 2024.06
选择题部分（满分95分）
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，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. What does the man think of Sue? A. She is a competitive coworker. B. She is too young to be promoted. C. She is an experienced employee.
2. What does the doctor advise the woman to do?
A. Do the first test only. B. Give up the two tests. C. Do the tests tomorrow. 3. What is the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Waiter and guest. B. Colleagues. C. Neighbors. 4. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Wedding dress. B. Wedding hotel. C. Wedding preparation. 5. How far is the shop?
A. Two blocks away. B. Three blocks away. C. Four blocks away. 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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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至7题。 6. Why has the flight been canceled? A. The weather of the day is awful. B. Something is wrong with the plane. C. The airport is closed for emergency.
7. What does the man think of the woman's second option? A. Acceptable. B. Ambiguous. C. Unreasonable. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. Where does the conversation probably take place?
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A. In a library. B. In a bookshop. C. In a supermarket. 9. How can people find the books they want? A. By checking the online catalogue. B. By searching books on the phone. C. By putting in author names online. 10. In what situation will the man get charged? A. When he borrows the books without his ID card. B. When he doesn't have the membership card. C. When he keeps the books without renewing them. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. What does the man want to do?
A. Open a credit card account. B. Check his credit report. C. Pay off credit card debt. 12. How many valid credit cards does the man have now? A. None. B. One C. Five. 13. What caused the man's problem?
A. He had unpaid debts. B. He was unable to pay. C. He failed to pay on time. 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. What might be responsible for Alice's headache? A. Lack of sleep. B. Tiredness. C. Stress. 15. What does Alice probably do?
A. She's a student. B. She's a housewife. C. She's an employee. 16. What's the man's suggestion to the woman?
A. Changing her job. B. Forgetting her to-do-list. C. Relaxing herself with what she likes. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What has happened to South Howe Broch? A. It has completely disappeared. B. It has been falling into the sea. C. It has been protected by a sea wall.
18. Which of the following sites has been badly affected by severe weather events?
A. Midhowe Broch. B. The Orkney Islands. C. The University of the Highlands and Islands. 19. Which period does the Midhowe Broch belong to? A. The Iron Age. B. Viking rule. C. The Middle Ages. 20. What does the passage mainly talk about? A. Climate has greatly changed in Scotland.
B. Climate change threatens Scottish historical structures. C. Ancient British structures remain after severe climate change.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
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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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A When you throw something in the trash, soon a garbage truck will come to take it away. Then where does it go? That depends on where you live. Different towns deal with trash in different ways. Recycling A recycling truck picks up paper, cardboard, metal, plastic and glasses. These go to the recycling plant to be sorted and made into new things. Incinerator An incinerator is a huge stove that burns trash to make heat and electricity. The ash that is left gets buried in a landfill. Trash ash can be poisonous, so it has to be stored carefully. But it takes up a lot less room than just plain trash. Compost Food waste might go to a composter. In a compost heap (肥料堆), bacteria and worms break down dead plants and old food. They turn it into good, rich oil. Some people keep compost heaps in their gardens. Big commercial composters handle waste from restaurants and farms. Landfills Some trash gets buried in landfills. A landfill starts as a big hole. Trucks dump trash. Big earth movers push it into place and crush it down. They cover the trash with dirt to keep scavengers (食腐动物) away. The bottom of a landfill is lined with a barrier to keep bad things from leaking into the ground. Pipes drain away liquid. When the landfill is full, it's covered with earth. It might become a park or lawn. 21. What can we learn from the passage? A. Recycling helps to generate energy. 22. What's the purpose of the passage? A. To inform us of trash treatment.
B. To appeal for trash classification. D. To raise awareness of the harm of trash. B
In the famous musical My Fair Lady, Eliza Doolittle, the poor daughter of a dustman who speaks with a thick Cockney accent, becomes the unwitting (不知晓的）target for a bet between two phonetics scholars. By the end of the musical, Doolittle is able to pronounce all of her words like a member of the
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B. Bacteria and worms help handle food waste. D. Trash ash is carefully handled to save room.
C. The landfill is used to drive scavengers away.
C. To discuss solutions to trash pollution.
British elite, fooling everyone at an embassy ball about her true origins.
It's hard to imagine a version of My Fair Lady set in the U.S. because, unlike the British, Americans seem either unwilling or unable to honestly acknowledge their own social class. But a new set of scientific studies conducted by Michael Krauss and his colleagues at Yale University show that Americans find it easy to make distinctions about other people's social class just by listening to them speaking.
In one study, the researchers asked 229 people to listen to 27 different speakers who varied in terms of their age, race, gender and social class. The participants heard each speaker say a total of seven different words. Based on just this short audio, participants were able to correctly identify which speakers were college-educated 55 percent of the time more than what would be expected by chance. A major limitation of this study, however, was that it used college education as a criterion for social class.
Then in another experiment, 302 participants were asked to either listen to or read transcripts from 90 seconds of recorded speech in which the speakers talked about themselves without explicitly mentioning anything about their social class. Participants were asked to judge what they thought the social classes of the speakers were by using a 10-rung ascending (上升的）ladder of increasing income, education and occupation. They found that participants who heard the audio recordings were more accurate in judging where the speakers fell in terms of their social status.
To show whether these inferences have real-world consequences, Kraus and his colleagues ran another experiment. They recruited 274 participants, all of whom had past hiring experience, to either listen to the audio or read a transcript of the content. The findings showed that participants were able to accurately judge the social class of the candidates and that this effect was stronger for participants who had heard the audio recordings. In addition, participants judged the higher-class candidates as more competent, a better fit for the job and more likely to be hired.
Taken together, this research suggests that despite our discomfort about the topic, Americans are able to easily detect one another’s social class from small snippets of speech. Moreover, we use this information to discriminate against people who seem to be of a lower social class. This research identifies social class as another potential way that employers may discriminate against candidates, perhaps without even realizing it.
23.The author introduces his topic by______.
A. making a comparison B. justifying an assumption C. explaining a phenomenon D. relating the plot of a musical 24.What do the experiments suggest?
A. Participants tend to make objective judgments. B. The content rather than the speaking style is reliable. C. One's social class can be inferred from how they speak. D. Education and income are the main criteria for social status. 25.According to the passage, judgments about the way people talk_____.
A. disagree with the facts B. affect hiring decisions C. favour competent people D. hardly provide reference 26.What can be learned from the last paragraph?
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A. Americans are slow to judge social classes. B. People in a low social class lose jobs easily. C. Social-class discrimination is hard to address. D. Speech can create social-class discrimination.
C
Monday dawned warm and rainless. Aurelio Escovar, a dentist without a degree, opened his office at six. When he had a handful of is instruments arranged on the table, he sat down to polish the false teeth. He seemed not to be thinking about what he was doing, but worked steadily.
The sharp voice of his eleven-year-old son interrupted his concentration. \ \
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He was polishing a gold tooth. He held it at arm's length, and examined it with his eyes half closed. His son shouted again from the little waiting room.
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The dentist kept examining the tooth. Only when he had put it on the table with the finished work did he say, “So much the better.\the things he still had to do and began to polish the gold.
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Without hurrying, with an extremely calm movement, he stopped his work and pulled the lower drawer of the table all the way out. There was a revolver (左轮手枪).“OK,\and shoot me.\
The Mayor appeared at the door. He had shaved the left side of his face, but the other side, swollen and in pain, had a five-day-old beard.
The dentist saw many nights of desperation in his dull eyes. He closed the drawer with his fingertips and said softy, \
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While the instruments were boiling, the Mayor leaned his head on the headrest of the chair and felt better. His breath was icy. When he felt the dentist approach, the Mayor held his breath and opened his mouth.
Aurelio Escovar turned his bead toward the light. After inspecting the infected tooth, he closed the Mayor's jaw with a cautious pressure of his fingers. “It has to be without anesthesia (麻醉),\
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江苏省扬州中学2024-2024学年高二下学期6月月考试题 英语 Word版含答案
